The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Relax, Miss Guinevere, please relax - now can you please tell us, about what time did you go to see Kiana last night?"

There was no silver bracelet to restrain her, but the iron chair seemed a little too hard, so Guinevere kept adjusting her sitting posture, and even ignored the questions of the [Interrogator] across the table.

So, Imer, who was reluctantly pulled out to make up the numbers, couldn't help but sip his coffee and glanced at Cang Xuan beside him without leaving a trace. The latter understood and repeated the question in a gentler tone:

"Ms. Guinevere, do you remember what time you knocked on Kiana Kaslana's door last night?"

Perhaps sensing the girl's nervousness, Cang Xuan turned the pen in his hand and continued to comfort her:

"Ms. Guinevere, you can see that we have not taken any compulsory measures against you, which means that you are not a suspect in this incident. It's just that the time of Miss Kiana's disappearance needs further confirmation. At this point, as the second to last person who may have contact with Kiana, we also need your help."

"Uh..."

Guinevere muttered softly twice, tilted her head to think for a while, and slowly gave an answer:

"Probably, around nine o'clock?"

The ballpoint pen between Cang Xuan's fingers stopped turning, and she pointed at [Time 】 and added a line of notes——[The time is consistent with the surveillance video at 21:17, which may rule out the possibility of mental manipulation]

"Can you describe the cause and effect to us?"

"Well... well! At that time, Senior Jizi had just returned and told us that he wanted to bring Kiana to play, so I volunteered to call Kiana..."

"But you are the only injured person among the four people. Logically, everyone should take care of you, right? Or do you have any reason to find Kiana?"

As soon as he said this, Cang Xuan felt that his tone was too harsh, and he always felt that the girl opposite would get nervous again...

But she was wrong in her expectation-the girl who was nervously adjusting the position of her buttocks on the chair a minute ago just raised her injured hand and scratched her head embarrassedly.

"Well... you see, it's not a serious injury that affects movement, it's just a bullet that just scratched the skin, there's no stitches. And the main thing is... uh, I lost ten games in a row playing cards, so I thought going out for a walk would help me get rid of my bad luck..."

"Losing ten games in a row is too miserable..."

Yimer huddled in the corner of the table and said quietly, his look clearly showed empathy, so much so that Cang Xuan had to step heavily on his instep with his high heels to make him sober again.

Having said that, it did not affect Cang Xuan's tick after the word [Process], and noted: [Consistent with the statements of Himeko, Bronya, and Seele]

"Then... Miss Guinevere, what happened after you knocked on the door?"

"Eh... After I knocked on the door, no one opened it. Then I knocked several times and called Kiana's name, but no one opened the door or responded. Then I turned the door handle casually, and I didn't expect the door was not locked, so I went in directly."

"I went in and took a look, and then found that Kiana was not there?"

"Yes, the lights and air conditioner were not on."

"Yeah."

Cang Xuan drew an unknown circle on the white paper, and then smiled and nodded:

"Thank you Miss Guinevere for your cooperation, it really helped us a lot, now you can go to rest, I am really grateful!"

Seeing the "interrogator" say goodbye so gently, and even bowed to her while sitting, Guinevere suddenly became embarrassed again.

"I can't help much... Kiana is also my friend, I also hope to find her back quickly..."

After saying hello twice, Guinevere left the dull room.

At the moment when the door closed gently, Cang Xuan sighed tiredly and slowly lay down on the table.

Turning around, she saw Yimer tapping the table with a ballpoint pen from time to time. She couldn't help but slide her upper body towards Yimer, raised her head and patted his arm, and whispered:

"How about it, do you think there is any problem with this girl?"

"Hmm?"

Yimer silently pulled away a little distance, even giving people the feeling that he was about to slide out of the table.

However, he still tried to answer the question:

"I feel... there should be no problem. She is just an ordinary girl, who is inferior, nervous, but energetic."

"But the more normal she is, the more I feel that she has some abnormal emotions hidden in her."

"So according to you, there are no normal people in this world?"

Ignoring Yimer's ridicule, Cang Xuan silently shrank back.

Yimer shook his head and laughed, habitually took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, pinched the cigarette box and threw it upward, and then held a cigarette between his lips.

However, before he took out the lighter, he felt the burning gaze from the side.

"Cough cough cough!"

With an awkward cough, he took back the cigarette and complained:

"Really, why do we have to do this kind of thing..."

"There is no way, the worst case, if it is really the Tenth Ruler, then compared to the humans of this era, we are more reliable."

"No, no, no, I'm not saying that, I'm saying...why not let Erwin come? I am a combatant, and my impression of this kind of life is still about the tiger bench, pepper water, and leather whip."

"Did you forget how big that guy's mouth is?"

"It's okay. Although he likes to brag everywhere, he has never leaked important information."

"It's always good to be careful, and he was quite reluctant when he was pulled out."

"All right……"

Ymer yawned incomprehensibly, then turned his head, looked at the black wall opposite to where Guinevere left just now, and waved his hand.

Then, he and Cang Xuan stopped lazily and sat upright again.

The next moment, the door to the room was opened, and a man with long hair came in and consciously sat on the chair opposite them.

"Mr. Kruger. May I call you that?"

"Um."

The man's silent and cold posture reminded Yimer of something, and his body couldn't help but tremble.

Seeing this, Cang Xuan couldn't help but sigh again, and then took up the conversation again:

"Mr. Kruger, you were the first to report Kiana's disappearance, but... may I ask, why did you go to find Kiana early in the morning? Logically speaking, you should not know Kiana, let alone It’s impossible to have such a good relationship that we can meet in private, right?”

"Yes, that's true, but I do have work matters that require Miss Kiana's cooperation."

"Work? You should be just an intern, right? And you participated in the operation in Salt Lake City during the day yesterday, so you should be on leave today."

The result of Cang Xuan's series of questions was the man's puzzled look:

"Miss, have you never been an intern?"

In an instant, some bad memories were brought up. Cang Xuan turned pale and kept nodding.

"Mr. Kruger, I understand what you mean..."

…………

"Click——"

The sound of the door opening fell into this dark and silent room, immediately attracting everyone's attention.

When the door was pushed inward, it was as if a small gap had been torn apart in the space. White light, which symbolized reality, entered along this gap and divided the entire darkness into two halves.

Then, a man's head popped in. He looked carefully for less than two seconds, and a slender hand stretched out from behind him. After groping randomly on the wall for a while, there was a "pop" and the light engulfed him mercilessly. the whole world.

"Has all the information been sorted out?"

Mei leaned on the back of the chair and asked calmly.

"Ah... um."

It's not that Yimer was unlucky, but the scene of so many big guys gathered in a circle, with a cup of green unknown liquid in front of everyone, was somewhat... absurd and shocking.

"Let's just say the conclusion, as concisely as possible."

"Ah... all the collected information has been uploaded to the terminal. As for the two suspects, Cang Xuan and I have the opinion that... we don't seem to have found anything wrong with those two people."

Following his words, from left to right, whether it was Mei and Hua, Theresa and Walter, or Einstein and Dr. Tesla, they all grabbed the tablet in front of them and lowered their heads to read through it.

"Both of them had their own reasons for appearing there. Guinevere was planning to call Kiana to play with them, while Kruger was an intern and should have enjoyed a vacation, but was arranged by the medical department to go there. See Kiana for your regular weekly check-up.”

"Well, what else?"

Mei asked expressionlessly.

"Uh... both of them mentioned that the door to Kiana's room was unlocked. They both opened the door and walked into Kiana's dormitory. The scenes in the dormitory they described were almost the same. That is to say, between For more than eleven hours, Kiana's dormitory has remained in its original state. That is to say..."

"Do you think that Kiana's disappearance happened before Guinevere opened her door, right?"

"Yes."

Under the familiar pressure, Yimer nodded vigorously as a habit, his chin barely touching his chest.

"When we were confirming whether Kiana Kaslana was really missing, we called up almost all the monitoring resources in the base. Based on this, we generated a schedule of Kiana Kaslana yesterday. surface."

Theresa turned the information to the corresponding page. When she saw the dense fonts, she couldn't help but hold her forehead and said softly:

"Let's talk about the conclusion first. We can look at these slowly."

"Yesterday at noon, uh... when Ms. Theresa went to chase Kiana, Kiana must have cleared the power of the Second Herrscher and went directly to the warehouse where Benares was restrained."

"Benares? Kiana probably doesn't know where it is kept. Could it be the Second Herrscher..."

"There is a possibility, but Kiana didn't seem to do anything extraordinary. After a brief contact with Benares, she entered the space rift again. If it were the Second Herrscher, she would probably choose to take him directly. Let Benares leave. However, from this moment on, Kiana completely disappeared from the range of the camera, but - we suspected that she returned to her bedroom."

"Doubt? In other words, there is no actual evidence."

"No...no, actually the evidence is there, but it's just not that clear - there has been no movement at the door of Kiana's dormitory since noon yesterday. Until 5:38 in the afternoon, the door of Kiana's dormitory The door suddenly opened. However, the camera angle did not capture the situation inside the house. "

Theresa sipped the bitter melon juice gently, the taste was familiar, but she could not relax her frown.

"Kiana didn't come out of it?"

"No, I didn't see anyone outside the door. It was just that the door suddenly opened and closed for a few seconds, and then closed gently. It wasn't so much that someone opened the door and wanted to come out, but it was more like opening the door for someone outside. ”

"Open the door for air?"

Theresa asked back, half angrily and half mockingly.

"Well... we don't know about this, we're just recounting the situation at the scene."

Yimer shrugged casually, and then looked at Mei.

"No fingerprints or genetic material were extracted from the door?"

Yimer shook his head.

"If there is, the suspects are not just the two just now."

After receiving the negative answer, Mei didn't seem to show much surprise. She just nodded with no meaning and then signaled to Yimer and Cang Xuan that they could leave first.

"Click——"

"Dr. Mei, judging from your appearance, I should have made some guesses."

Walter only felt that his lips were a little chapped. He held up the bitter melon juice out of habit and looked at the green color. After all, he still didn't have the courage to drink it.

His eyes immediately glanced at the light switch. Before he could do anything, Tesla coughed heavily.

"It seems that no one is too worried about Kiana."

Mei did not answer Walter’s question directly, but pursed her lips and smiled.

But her words were a bit sharp.

"Although, as Kiana's aunt, I really don't want to say this, but... no matter how much I worry, it will have no effect at all. The person who took Kiana away, whether it was the Second Herrscher or someone else, , will not send Kiana back just because we are too worried here. Moreover, Siegfried is already so anxious, so I have to calm down."

Even so, Theresa still drank the bitter melon juice in one gulp in her nervousness.

"Actually, there's a little more."

Walter pushed up his glasses, although this action seemed meaningless.

"I often observe Kiana's training. With her current strength, although she cannot fully exert the power of the Second Herrscher, coupled with the foundation of the Valkyrie, she is not an opponent that can be easily defeated. Moreover, whether it is silly or stubborn, this child has a strong will to fight. If someone thinks that everything will be fine if they catch her, they are a bit naive. Once she is given the opportunity, she will probably do it without hesitation. Let’s stab the opponent’s henchman.”

As for whether the person who kidnapped Kiana will kill her? It's hard to imagine who would choose to kill Kiana. If the target was really to kill, then Kiana should not have disappeared, but her body would have been found directly in the dormitory.

Therefore, no matter who kidnapped Kiana, at least now everyone still has enough time to organize a rescue operation.

"I think highly of her."

Mei sighed softly, but Walter nodded without hesitation.

"But, the fact that Kiana disappeared so silently means that her kidnapper has the ability to make her unable to resist, right?"

"Ai Yin, if you put it that way, I think there are only three people who can do this."

Walter pushed up his glasses again, and as expected, Tesla coughed in response.

"Mikael, the Second Herrscher, and the Herrscher of Knowledge."

He slowly read out the three names.

"Of course there is no need to say more about Michael. If the Second Herrscher can bypass Kiana and activate his power directly, he may take her away before she can react. The Herrscher of Knowledge has too special power..."

"I have confirmed it right away. Xiaoshi is fine in Taixu Mountain. It is definitely not her."

Hua suddenly spoke and interrupted Walter’s words.

The bright light shined on the lens, and with the help of this light, Mei glanced at Hua quickly, with a smile on her lips.

Walter over there picked up the bitter melon juice sheepishly and put it down gently:

"I'm just raising the possibility, not targeting the Herrscher of Knowledge. However, I can't rule out the possibility of a new Herrscher being born. I also checked the information of previous civilizations, and considering the previous mecha accident, is it possible? The so-called Ruler?"

"Joachim, are you saying that the mecha accident was a smoke bomb deliberately thrown by the Herrscher of Dominance to attract our attention? Well, in this way, the two suspects were involved in the accident yesterday. He was still present at the time.”

"This is just a possibility."

Walter held his chin up, which in a sense reflected a more scientific rigor than Tesla.

But in the end, everyone still focused on Mei.

Although she consciously sat in the corner and gave up the middle seat to Theresa and Walter, everyone sitting there understood her weight.

Maybe we can learn something from Hua's mouth, but she only defended the Herrscher of Consciousness from the beginning to the end, and it gradually became difficult to see what she was thinking.

"If the Herrschers appear in order, it can be predicted accurately... Unfortunately, since Xilin obtained the five Herrscher cores, the order of the Herrschers in this era has been unpredictable. However, judging from the performance alone, Qi Wu The penetrating ability of sound does not rule out the possibility of being the Herrscher of Dominance. After all, the Honkai energy detector does not show any abnormality... Well, this does not seem to be important, but there is one thing that makes me very concerned. If that point can be determined. If it’s conclusive, it’s almost certain to be the Ruler.”

"What?"

Mei placed the tablet gently on the table and then pushed it to the middle of the table.

The scene of Kiana's dormitory door opening and closing began to play on the video screen in a loop.

"The door is open, but no one comes out or goes in. There is no problem with the lock. What does this mean?"

"..."

No one answered, not because everyone here is not smart enough, but because the information gap prevented them from thinking about a certain possibility.

"Compared to the two answers of 'Kiana just opened the door suddenly', or 'the door opened automatically and closed by itself', I am more inclined to think that someone really entered this door. , or walk out of this door."

"Huh? But isn't there nothing on the surveillance screen? Is it possible that that person is just a ball of air and can't be seen at all?"

After Tesla finished speaking angrily, he was stunned at first - "Is it... an optical stealth system? Impossible. That kind of thing can only be installed on large mechas like Titan, and it needs to be done on the armor. Special processing, and a separate chip module. And even if it is an optical stealth system, it can actually see the outline of light refraction. This...can't be seen at all! Besides, Kiana can't see it anyway! Open the door to a puff of air?"

"Perhaps, opening the door directly without confirming the other party's identity through the peephole first... fits my stereotype of Kaslana."

It would be fine if someone else said this, but Theresa...

Mei glanced at her lightly, "Aren't you Kaslana too?"

"That's why I know that both people named Kaslana are so stupid..."

It wasn't until she finished speaking that Theresa realized something. She looked at Mei with her mouth open in vain, but when she thought of Kiana's whereabouts were unknown, she didn't even think about apologizing.

Mei just shook her head slightly, "These details don't really matter. There is a high probability that the person coming here is not using [technological means]."

"What's the meaning?"

"I know a Herrscher power that can achieve the effect of optical invisibility."

Mei didn't want to betray her, but Hua suddenly interrupted:

"It's the power of wind. In fact, the principle is the same as optical invisibility, but the Herrscher does not need to understand the principle to use the power."

Mei's eyes suddenly became a little playful, but she still nodded.

The Fourth Collapse of this era felt quite anticlimactic, and the Fourth Herrscher did not show much ability. Although the Fourth Herrscher himself did not do that in the previous era, they had it after all. Mikael.

"But isn't the core of the Fourth Herrscher in Kiana's body? Could it be that the Second Herrscher controlled Kiana's body again, and then exerted the power of the Fourth Herrscher on herself... No, that's not right, what if It was really the work of the Second Herrscher, she could just open the space rift and leave..."

"Um."

Mei nodded slowly.

"In the last era, part of the reason why the Tenth Herrscher was called the Herrscher of Dominance was because of its power to dominate the other Herrschers. The prerequisite is that [contact] is required."

"Literal contact?"

"Um."

The scene became a little quiet for a while.

In the end, Theresa, who was most worried about Kiana, had to break her silence:

"I heard from the people in the medical department that Wendy...has basically completed her rehabilitation training, right?"

"Dong dong dong!"

Before anyone had time to respond, there was a knock on the door, and without waiting for any response, Kevin pushed the door open.

"I'm sorry to interrupt everyone. But May...Wendy, the former Fourth Herrscher Eligible, is also missing."