Chapter 339: The Key to Stagnation: All Things Are Dormant
"This is...X2"
Opening their eyes again, Chen Tianwu and Anna looked around and found themselves in a pure white space.
Chen Tianwu: "Is this the world after death? It's not quite the same as I imagined..."
Anna: "We... died? That means no one will get hurt because of us anymore..."
Chen Tianwu: "Yeah, that's good... No one will get hurt because of us, and we don't have to go through that pain again, but..."
"I'm sorry, Anna... If it weren't for me, you would have a better future. I understand that you are the Valkyrie of destiny, the warrior against Honkai, but I forced you to join the Honkai side... You must hate me..."
Anna: "...It doesn't matter, Chen Tianwu. We are already like this. It's meaningless to think about those things. But I didn't expect that death is not as scary as I imagined. I don't feel anything. It's as if we are still alive."
"Of course you are still alive, at least for now." A voice came, and the captain appeared in front of them and told them a fact.
Captain: "Even I didn't expect that. I was going to kill you two with a knife, but I didn't expect that you two still had a trace of consciousness that was not destroyed."
"So, my strike with that knife had a little force, and it only temporarily disconnected the connection between the Herrscher core in your body and the imaginary space. If there was no Herrscher of Thunder, I might not be able to create that special electromagnetic field (the principle of the Yellow Spring Staff)."
"After that, I used the fifth God's Key, the Stasis Key - the first rated power of the Hibernation of All Things to freeze every structure, every cell, and even the things in your body that constantly devour your humanity, at that moment, except for your consciousness. (The plot seems to have not detailed the function of this God's Key other than hibernation, so the author made it up)"
Chen Tianwu: "What do you want to do?"
Captain: "The dormancy of all things is created by the core of the Herrscher of Ice, and you, Anna, are the Herrscher of Ice of this era. It is basically possible to break the dormancy of all things with the first rated power, so I will disconnect you from the imaginary space and prevent you from using the power of the Herrscher for the time being."
"Of course, this is only temporary. If you want to isolate each other permanently, you must stop your consciousness as well. Once your consciousness stops, then the two of you will stay completely at that moment."
"Your body will stop growing, your time will stagnate, your memory will remain here, you will not age, you will not decay, you will die but not completely die, you will be equivalent to having eternal life, as long as there is no external interference you will not be able to die."
Anna: "Captain, I understand that you want to trap Chen Tianwu and me at the same time point. Is that what you mean?"
Captain: "Almost. I didn't suspend your consciousness mainly because I wanted to listen to your opinions. If I completely suspend you, you won't die. I will hide your bodies so that they won't be disturbed by the outside world. If I can find a complete solution to your physical problems in the future, I can let you restart and continue to live in this world."
Now Anna and Chen Tianwu's consciousness is already badly damaged, and they can no longer accept even the slightest bit of destruction, so the method of saving Raiden Mei is no longer feasible.
"Of course, if you want to leave this world, I will personally send you off. It is up to you to decide whether to live or die!"
Chen Tianwu and Anna looked at each other, and it seemed that they had discussed it. They said to the captain together, "Well, we have decided. We want to..."
(It is up to the readers to decide here. If you want Chen Tianwu and Anna to survive, the author will arrange their scenes in the future. Otherwise, the author will just let them die.)
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The storm dissipated and the setting sun shone on the earth.
In the sea breeze, the rescue team of destiny is gathering.
The Herrscher of Thunder has returned to the body of Raiden Mei, and Raiden Mei herself has also woken up from her coma. She is physically fine and learned about the situation from other people.
The captain stood on the broken seawall and looked into the distance. The once prosperous coral island was now reduced to a barren base.
The rolling waves carry the souls of the dead far away and bring the remnants of civilization back to their homeland.
In the end, everything will only exist in history and become a page that future generations will not want to open.
Rosemary walked up to the captain and said, "Captain, you have worked hard."
The captain looked at the desolate scenery in front of him, then looked at the fragment of the Undead Totem in his hand and said lightly, "When the Question and Answer Space appeared in our lives, we enjoyed the benefits it brought. I thought our future would be bright, but I didn't know..."
"Opportunities are often accompanied by risks. I should have understood this truth, but I always ignored it. I thought I could save everyone, but I found that I could do nothing."
Rosemary: "Captain, you don't have to blame yourself. Sacrifices in disasters are inevitable. But... Captain, can you please ask Xiaobai clearly?"
Captain "I'm not in the mood to question Xiao Bai right now. I just want to take this place away and have some peace and quiet."
Midori stopped talking and gently patted the captain's shoulder. The two looked out to sea. The dusk faded away along with the setting sun, and a long dark night was about to come.
After a while, the captain came out of his thoughts and said, "Let's go back."
Rosemary: "Yes, Captain."
Afterwards, the two returned to the newly repaired Hyperion and returned to St. Freya's College with everyone else.
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At night, Ai Yi finally found traces of BBB, and following the traces she found its previous hiding place.
"I didn't expect there would be an alternate dimension here, but it looks like it's been abandoned by that guy."
Ai looked around at the place that was almost cleaned up and resembled a laboratory.
"Let's see if there are any useful clues nearby."
Ai Yi conducted a thorough search here, but found nothing except some meaningless experimental data.
Then Ai Yi tried to control the console, but it opened unexpectedly. There was no hacking technology to crack the password, which made Ai Yi start to suspect that this was a trap and she had to be alert.
As expected, alarms sounded all around and the self-destruction program here began to activate.
Ai Yi looked at the countdown that suddenly appeared on the screen next to her and saw that there were ten seconds left. When she was about to leave, the information displayed on the activated console made her stunned for a moment.
But Ai Yi knew that she couldn't stay here any longer, and she left this different dimension quickly without thinking too much.
With a loud bang, all the information was destroyed, Ai Yi successfully escaped, and the scene she had just seen appeared in her mind.
That's someone's overall data analysis.
"Is that guy studying the captain?"
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