Regarding the question of whether one thousand lives are enough to beat Honkai Impact 3rd.

"It is fate that we met, so I will give it to you."

Time may pass, but immortals remain.

The passing of these past few years is like ripples in a river; it has no effect on his temperament. He still exudes a sacred and approachable aura.

"Thank you, brother."

The little girl took it, thanked him politely, and continued to stare at the person's flawless face, seemingly less interested in the toy in her hand. Her big, dark eyes seemed unable to look away, and she was quite lively.

Su Qing'an gently brushed the snowflakes from her hair, revealing a tender smile, and whispered:

"You're welcome."

And very soon after, the child was taken away by his somewhat embarrassed parents.

Su Qing'an glanced at the clear, bright sky and murmured to herself:

January 2000.

Several years ago, he used his destiny to search for a child named Sirin, with the initial screening point in Siberia.

After all, according to the previous timeline, the other party's mother was an ordinary woman in a small mountain village in Siberia, who died of illness. Afterwards, Sirin was captured by the Babylon Laboratory because she met the standards of Honkai, which indirectly led to the birth of the Second Herrscher.

So theoretically, as long as they search all of Siberia, they can pinpoint the other party's location in advance and allow Sirin's mother to change the original outcome.

The reality is that the search operation that began in Siberia from 1990 to 2000 yielded no results.

This once made Su Qing'an suspect that the change in the world line he caused had killed the future of Xilin, who should have been born, or that she would be born later than originally planned, or that the drastic change in cause and effect had caused an unexpected change in her birthplace.

So after the first year of fruitless searching, the targeted search was expanded to the whole world. Based on information such as gender, hair and eye color, Honkai energy literacy, and possibly unchanged names, the search successfully found some candidates who met the requirements.

Among them was a girl whose appearance matched perfectly and who also happened to be named Sirin.

Although Su Qing'an determined through soul testing that these people were most likely not Sirin, who would have become the Herrscher of the Void in the original timeline, they were still closely monitored and nurtured to prevent any unnecessary accidents.

As the time for the second Honkai Impact 3rd to erupt draws ever closer, all he can do now, besides strengthening surveillance of Siberia, the original eruption point, is to use a very rudimentary method of conducting soul detection across the world to find the target in advance.

However, this process has been going on for several years without any results, which is quite unusual.

Judging by normal logic, either the other person is truly still unborn, or this person has simply disappeared due to the butterfly effect.

However, Su Qing'an believed that the world's corrective power would not allow such a crucial node as Sirin to disappear at will. Considering that Bronya's parents were already pregnant, Raiden Mei was born on the original date, and the original Kiana was also born at Schicksal Headquarters, he thought that Sirin was probably the same.

Therefore, it is unreasonable that the search has yielded no results at this stage.

For this reason, Su Qing'an once made a hypothesis.

—The consciousness of collapse.

If He had experienced the world where Fuxi and He once existed, He might indeed have deliberately made different actions and choices than before.

After all, according to the fusion and development of the world lines, this world line has experienced the previous era in which he existed, as well as the ancient China during his wedding with Hua. In addition, he personally severed the link between Joyce and the Honkai consciousness last time, so the other party must know that Su Qing'an is still alive.

The purpose of Honkai is to test civilizations, to filter them, and to act as a cleansing mechanism. The possibility of Su Qing'an, who can ignore all factors with his personal power and clear the game with his original world, is not allowed by the other side.

Just like a game administrator wouldn't allow an overpowered bug to exist for a long time, or even crash the game itself, the game's "Honkai Impact 3rd" mentality wouldn't allow such a thing to happen.

But how to stop it is a very mysterious question.

After all, with no match for the End, the options available are limited. At the very least, individual Herrschers can no longer be used as disposable pawns. It is necessary to integrate all available resources and attempt to strengthen a Herrscher body to transcend its original limits.

The power of the Herrscher of the Void seems to have some strange connection with the way the End existed on the moon. If Sirin deliberately had her soul map obscured by the Honkai consciousness, and given her special birth environment, it is not incomprehensible that the search has been fruitless for so long, considering the vastness of the world.

Su Qing'an could only wait. Over the years, his gene awakening level had improved considerably, but even disregarding the risks involved, there were still many hurdles to overcome before he could advance to a higher dimension.

The so-called incomplete dimensional ascension is incomplete omnipotence. Even though we can still be barely defined as human, our abilities are ultimately limited.

However, considering that Sirin's life safety was fundamentally guaranteed regardless, his attitude was to do his best and leave the rest to fate.

On the other hand, the Honkai consciousness will most likely choose to unleash a second Honkai attack in the near future.

Furthermore, if He wants to nurture Sirin and allow her to absorb enough Honkai energy to become a qualified or even stronger Herrscher, then He will inevitably be unable to conceal the corresponding Honkai energy fluctuations.

"Tick, tick..."

Su Qing'an glanced at the watch on his wrist that was glowing red, and the coordinate system that lit up with it. He was slightly taken aback, but he understood the current situation from the information that kept popping up.

A Herrscher reaction has occurred in Siberia.

A second collapse is suspected to be imminent.

The military supply depot in front of the Tower of Babylon is in grave danger.

With mixed feelings, the boy put down the bamboo basket. His figure faded away like a bubble in the heavy snow, but in an instant, he rode the wind for thousands of miles, arriving at the boundless horizon and heading towards Siberia.

In every sense, he was not worried about anything happening to the soldiers there or to the Tower of Babel.

Conversely, Celine's safety is a serious concern.

After all... Mebius, who had returned to normal a few years ago and then started conducting strange experiments on his own body again, had always lived nearby. She was fully capable of receiving the Herrscher's reaction immediately and protecting her soldiers.

As for whether she will do it?

In Mebius's eyes, these soldiers who might volunteer to participate in the experiment were potential guinea pigs with some value, and it was indeed unnecessary to let them be directly killed by the Herrscher.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the other party might deliberately let these soldiers die, and then observe the process of Su Qing'an reviving them with the Black Abyss White Flower.

Whether this will actually happen remains to be seen, but at least she has no room to hold back against Sirin, who is a Herrscher.

Whether the newly born Herrscher of the Void can rival one of the heroes of the previous era is indeed a question worth considering.

...

...

Time has been put back on track.

The top of the Tower of Babylon.

Mebius sat on the sofa by the French windows. Her physical age seemed to be increasing due to the long period without using her molted snake skin. Her full breasts swayed with her breath through the thin fabric, while her waist became increasingly slender in her fitted carp skirt.

The girl's face still seemed to retain a touch of childish innocence, making her already taboo temperament appear even more erotic.

She crossed her well-proportioned legs, revealing only part of her snow-white feet, which swayed beautifully within her special black stockings, moving with casual movements that were quite alluring.

At this moment, the distant horizon was filled with pale, imaginary hands, and the spears of subspace that followed. The intense Honkai energy reaction, which affected the celestial phenomena within a radius of more than ten miles, foreshadowed the enemy's scale.

Mebius's serpentine eyes seemed to have spotted some interesting prey, curving into beautiful crescents. She snapped her fingers, and the monster hidden in the shadows behind her pierced through the reinforced transparent wall, arriving at the battlefield a step ahead of her.

The young girl stretched lazily, her mature figure swaying, and murmured:

"Herrscher, it's been a long time since I've tasted that flavor."

"But it looks quite immature. It's perfect for weighing the experimental sample."

Möbius lay back on the sofa, tilting her head slightly, glancing indifferently at the swirling snow in the distance. Her serpentine eyes were half-closed with drowsiness, a few drops of moisture appearing within them. Her long eyelashes fluttered, her lips parted, and she sighed:

"...If you accidentally break it, it's no fun at all."

Although he really wanted to watch the play nearby, his listless, hibernating state of mind made this plan fraught with difficulties.

Since regaining his past personality and memories, the doctor's mental state has been quite poor.

This is probably a side effect of being "brutally" restored to her original form. Now she is more afraid of mental attacks than before, and the methods she originally used to deal with this type of fusion warrior and Honkai Beast have become useless and meaningless.

The reason he resided in the Tower of Babel was largely to leverage the power and resources of that era to assist in experiments and find ways to accelerate his recovery.

On the other hand, she was also very interested in replicating Su Qing'an's dimensional ascension experiment, which led him to approach the "infinity" and even reach the "truth".

Of course, the reason why Mebius, as the founder of the World Serpent, did not directly return to that ancient organization to hide and conduct experiments in peace with the world is 90% due to Su Qing'an's operation of pulling her back from the brink of death.

Even someone with her personality couldn't remain unmoved by it.

In a sense, once he realized that the other person was still alive, Möbius was not surprised by his current situation and could guess the choice that person would make.

As for why...

It's not surprising because it's Su Qing'an.

The girl turned her head to look at the image that was gradually blurring in her slightly closed eyes.

The two artificial experimental monsters barely managed to maintain the battle, but the Herrscher's strength grew stronger over time. Her offensive not only encompassed the entire military supply station, but also extended an even larger imaginary hand toward the Tower of Babel.

The massive spatial layers were forcibly vibrated, thereby interfering with the wind and snow between heaven and earth, stirring up a surging, rushing blizzard, which also contained a large number of imaginary crystals. Once it touched the surface of the Tower of Babel, it would be enough to exercise control over space and cut it apart.

Sirin's control over her powers is increasing at a visible rate. She has only been born for less than ten minutes, but under the crazy strengthening of her collapsing consciousness, she has gained a far more terrifying destructive power than her six-core self.

Weight accuracy.

This criterion for measuring combat elements has demonstrated its weight and significance today.

The fact that the first Herrscher in that worldline was able to fight against the six-core Sirin single-handedly was also due to the difference in this variable.

This is the highest point of the Tower of Babylon, where even the wind and snow that affect the weather cannot block out the good light, but it was overwhelmed by the shadow of the approaching storm under Sirin's venting and violent onslaught.

But Mebius still showed no intention of making a move. Her lips curved slightly, a hint of mischief flashing in her eyes, before she gently closed them completely, as if intending to drift off to sleep, whispering as if in a dream:

"You'll come, won't you?"

“My…Father God.”

38. But... they are still there.

pale.

That was a pallor surpassing even the heaviest snow.

The power of imaginary numbers seems endless, drawing away the destructive energy of imaginary space. It displays an unreasonable tyranny and terror through the rules of space, manipulating natural phenomena to cause distant snow-capped mountains to collapse and natural wind and snow to gather, sweeping towards the military supply depot and even the Tower of Babel with a crushing force.

This is an extremely ingenious technique; this single, precise operation is enough to surpass 90% of the Herrscher individuals previously known.

At this moment, Sirin clearly possessed the power to destroy a country, yet she still chose to borrow the great power of heaven and earth. This wisdom, free from arrogance and pride, almost entirely came from the guidance and training of the Honkai consciousness.

If this individual Herrscher destroys the experimental crystallization of the Tower of Babel, and incidentally completes the chain of hatred, then her stance towards humanity will become completely irreversible.

The previous First Herald had already taught Him a lesson: to avoid repeating the same mistake, He must first establish the strongest ideological imprint.

This has led to the fact that the pledge of allegiance, which symbolizes being completely imprinted with the marks of collapse, has become His core objective.

Otherwise, guiding the apostles to the moon, obtaining the five lunar cores, and using this to prematurely project the end in an attempt to resist the complex plan of dimensional ascension could easily lead to various unexpected events.

After all, if a "betrayal" occurs, the subsequent war and trials could be prematurely ended.

Therefore, we must wipe out all life in this area with overwhelming force, then teleport directly to cause chaos around the world, or simply go to the moon immediately for an epic upgrade, and summon a few more powerful apostles to assist us and work together to figure out how to fight in a team.

Sirin's ego has been shrouded in darkness. Perhaps the hatred and anger that led to the destruction of the entire military supply station were caused by the death of her friend, but the distant Tower of Babel was clearly not connected to her in terms of a strong sense of revenge.