Where is the third collapse? ! !

"Yes."

"No."

Mei sighed quietly: "The chaos here is only temporary. This little time is not enough for me to plan and classify these devices according to their functions while transferring them."

Changkong City had already become the target of public criticism, and what they had to do was to leave as quickly as possible, which would certainly be a hasty process.

The girl continued, "Then, somewhere you can't see from here, I've built a special place for you to rest."

Fu Li was deeply moved after hearing this. Integrating the workplace and home, what kind of ox-horse spirit is this?

Love it, love it, I will give my beloved Mei a salary increase right away!

"Humph."

Through the electromagnetic induction that was constantly unfolding, Mei was able to read some of the boy's surface thoughts. Even though she knew that he was just talking without restraint and joking mostly, her eyes were still curved.

(Author's note: Electromagnetic induction is only used by couples for daily flirting. It cannot read deep brain information, nor can it reveal everything like mind reading.)

"I want to see it, I want to see it!"

Qimaomao, who had already been circling the Super Electric Society, also came over to join in the fun: "Mei's boudoir, I can't wait to taste it!"

"There's a vacant wall in the northwest. Stand there and snap your fingers."

Kiana did as she was told, and the metal wall in front of her split open to the sides.

"Wow, so mysterious! I'm so excited!"

The girl couldn't wait to walk in and watch, and her pretty eyebrows couldn't help but be stunned.

"Mei, why don't you have any windows here?"

"The Super Electric Society holds Hyperion's most valuable assets. I can't possibly create a loophole that would allow the enemy to invade... Of course, I've set up the environmental monitor and the starry sky screen, so theoretically, opening the window or not won't make much of a difference. It doesn't matter to you, I'll come over later and help you open a ventilation window."

Noticing Kiana's hesitation, Mei smiled. "No need to align yourself with me. We just have different responsibilities. If we ever encounter an enemy, I'll have to rely on you, Kiana-sama, to clear the universe and protect a weak, pitiful, helpless researcher like me who doesn't have any real power."

Sure enough, even though her temperament has become colder than before, and her way of dealing with people is closer to her state after joining World Snake last week, Mei is still the gentle Mei at heart.

Fu Li thought.

"Yeah! I get it! The window needs to be the same size as the one in Ali's room!"

The enlightened Qi Maomao made a big circle in the air with her hands and became lively again.

She touched here and looked there, and swung her white silk legs on the bare chair: "Mei, why doesn't the stool here have a back? It's so uncomfortable to sit on."

"It's easier to run when there's an explosion."

"?"

The stupid hair on Kiana's head slowly curved into a question mark.

"Experiments always lead to unexpected events. In such cases, we must—"

Mei calmly walked to the corner and tapped it twice with her fingers.

The walls shed their disguise, revealing decorations and arrangements that were incredibly familiar to Fu Li.

He was dumbfounded: "This, this is my room?!"

The girl nodded: "Yes, it is also my escape route."

"Good job, bro."

Before, Bronya might have gossiped about whether Mei's purpose in doing this was to stage a night raid or something popular.

And now, she just slowly floated to Fu Li's side, and gently patted his shoulder with her small hand to comfort him.

ME Company is internationally renowned as an arms dealer, and Chodensha, which inherited its legacy, is of course no exception.

With the development aura bonus granted by Tiantai Shijie, and the treasure trove of knowledge from the Holy Mark of Thunder, Mei would occasionally tinker with some mysterious and powerful technologies from previous civilizations.

To round it off, this guy is sleeping next to a bomb that could explode at any moment!

"What are you laughing laughing!"

Fu Li was so frustrated by this gloating sister that he poked Bronya's forehead in anger: "We are all living on the same boat. If I blow up, you will also end up in the mouth of a great white shark and have to watch the Pacific Ocean grinning!"

"Nani?!!"

The news was like a bolt from the blue, hitting Bronya with a 'boom'. She stumbled back two steps, even blurting out words in Far Eastern dialect.

"Falling into the Pacific Ocean? No way."

Mei chuckled, suggesting that she was looking down on someone. "We're in a different dimension opened up by the Corrosion Key. If such an explosion were to occur, the worst that could happen would be that we'd be swept up in the spatial turbulence, and if we survived, we'd drift to some unknown bubble in the quantum ocean."

The Pacific Ocean is also an ocean, and the Quantum Ocean is also an ocean. If you round it up, it doesn’t sound much different, right?

Kiana thought blankly, scratched her braid, and asked again: "What if the disaster doesn't end?"

Mei didn't reply, but gave her a gentle smile that hadn't been seen for a long time.

If you can't escape death in a disaster, then you'll just die.

Bronya and Fury hugged each other.

"elder brother!"

"sister!"

"elder brother!"

"sister!"

"Brother, you must keep an eye on this crazy woman!"

Bronya gritted her teeth.

She can't die here! Xier is still waiting for her rescue in the Quantum Sea!

Eh?

Quantum Sea?

"Don't worry, sister, I will definitely--"

Just as Fu Li was about to agree to his adopted sister's request, he found that Bronya let go of him and floated behind Mei with her head lowered and her eyes submissive. She looked like a pretty young wife who was willing to give herself to a bully in order to ensure the safe return of her husband.

"traitor!"

Fu Li yelled.

"Humph!"

Duck Duck Proud (Part 2)

"What a proud traitor!"

"rest assured."

Mei said softly, "I will know how to handle this properly."

"Then why did you turn your head away when you said that? Look me in the eyes and repeat it again!"

"Anyway, we need to go to Nauru next."

Mei decisively changed the subject.

"Eh? Nauru? Why?"

Kiana took the bait immediately.

She had heard of this small island nation in the central Pacific Ocean, a series of strange small countries that were killed by the β station.

The land area is 21.1 square kilometers, with only one island in total and a population of about 1.3. It is known as the country living on guano.

"Because Nauru's government is lax and harmless, and it's poor, extremely poor. As long as they're paid, they're willing to officially endorse Hyperion and register it as a legal small organization under the United Nations' Honkai Management Department, the Natural Disaster Containment Agency."

Mei raised her hand as she spoke, projecting a three-dimensional model of the Earth in front of the three of them.

"Have you heard of slicing the world?"

"what is that?"

Qibao sat down and behaved like a good student.

"A world slice, as the word implies, is a world bubble that fits one side of the Earth. It can also be understood as the entrance to a world bubble fixed on the surface of the planet."

Fu Li said, "The Oceanus Sea, the Thirty-Six Caves and Seventy-Two Blessed Lands, Guixu, the Nine Realms of Northern Europe, Mount Xumi... These legendary immortal mountains and vast seas are essentially world bubbles that have 'floated up' and overlapped with a portion of the Earth's surface."

"like this."

Mei snapped her fingers, and another bubble the size of a ping-pong ball slowly approached the earth model in the center of the four people under the influence of gravity.

Soon, the two came into contact on the surface.

"Space, or the world bubble itself, cannot be observed by humans with the naked eye."

The girl said, "Even if the two surfaces were partially aligned, the Earth would still appear as the same oval shape when viewed from space. However, anyone standing where the two surfaces overlapped would be like stepping into a strange bubble."

"And this world bubble, captured by the gravity of the intrinsic world and partially overlapping with the Earth, is called a world bubble slice or a gap world slice in academia."

"For this reason, our Earth's surface area appears to be only 5.1 million square kilometers at first glance, but when the areas of these interstices are added in, the actual area is much larger."

Fu Li said, "Once we enter such a slice, satellite navigation and other methods that rely on external observation and feedback will become ineffective. The effectiveness of ultra-long-range attacks such as intercontinental missiles will also be greatly weakened."

The phenomenon of gap slicing was not widespread before the 20th century. At that time, the Earth's spatial structure was strong enough, and the world bubbles that could successfully integrate with it were definitely a minority among the minority. Otherwise, the Age of Exploration would not have developed.

It wasn't until the first Collapse occurred in Berlin in 1955 that the Great Collapse directly shook the spatial structure of the planet itself.

Coupled with the subsequent third collapse in Chapter 2, this process rapidly intensified.

This is the true meaning behind the Great Collapse being hailed as the greatest, most devastating event in history. Simply causing some damage to the surface and killing hundreds of millions of people? Honestly, it doesn't deserve the title.

"And within these world bubbles that only partially resemble Earth, there are also some indigenous people with ambiguous attitudes. And the relationship between the people of the original world and them...have you seen Hunter x Hunter? It's basically the relationship between the five major nations and the Dark Continent."

Bronya's example fits her Metal Gear Solid Bronya otaku identity perfectly: "To avoid any accidents, each country's air and sea routes are still strictly planned to avoid dangerous slices or inhuman beings, such as the Honkai derivatives that roam in groups."

"I see!"

Kiana clapped her hands vigorously and nodded seriously.

Ah, I love the feeling of knowledge passing through my mind without leaving any trace.

Seeing the three people's unfriendly expressions, Baimaotuanzi quickly asked: "But what does this have to do with our registration in Nauru?"

"The above explanations all prove that [it's not safe to operate a space battleship alone on the high seas.]"

Mei's mother doted on her child: "To drive safely and avoid the dangers lurking around, GPS, Beidou and other detection permissions are absolutely essential."

"This aerospace battleship is currently using an anti-entropy pass. If Cocolia decides to disconnect us on a whim, we'll become a headless ghost wandering the Pacific. However, once we register as a formal organization with the Disaster Suppression Agency, even if we're just a makeshift team, as long as we're willing to pay, we'll be able to access multi-location services provided by various countries and major organizations."

What? Didn't they say that satellites and other things would be useless if they entered the Gap Slice?

What we are afraid of is accidentally breaking into it, so we use satellites and other external conditions for comparison and positioning at all times.

After all, once you go in, your life and death are truly determined by fate.

"That's it..."

Kiana understood this time, and she raised her hand: "Teacher Ali!"

"uh-huh?"

"Then how big is the total area of ​​our planet, including those slices of the interstellar realm?"

"No one has yet calculated the exact number, but you should know that when Lord Youlandel of Tianming was young, he once entered a world bubble the size of Earth. World bubbles like that are not uncommon in the solar system. We certainly can't count them with our fingers."

"so……"

"Don't worry about not being able to move freely."

Fu Li smiled and said, "This stage called Collapse is big enough for us to mess around with those bigwigs."

……

"It's a small world."

In a bar in a corner of Changkong City, the legendary mercenary Natasha Xiora, codenamed "Raven", couldn't help but sigh.

Just now, the old undead gray snake who had taken her from Siberia when she was young and trained her to be what she is today sent a message, telling her to evacuate quickly, lest that little brat Theresa get a hold of her.

It’s not that they are afraid of others, but Kevin has not returned yet, and the World Snake is still in a state of hiding its strength.

After all, this organization is essentially the same as a religion. The reason why a bunch of monsters can gather together is entirely because they admire the glory of Kevin, the strongest hero in the previous era.

Without him, even Gray Snake, the true founder of the organization, would not be able to mobilize those mavericks.