I, the Rock King Emperor with 21 billion in power, have joined the chat group.

She looked at Rita with some confusion and asked, "So? Are you still going to fight?"

“Lord Thor.” Rita took a step back and bowed slightly to Thor. “I’m sorry, I was a little disrespectful just now. Please forgive me.”

“Bishop Otto, you only asked me to spar with you, but the fierce battle you fought just now was beyond my expectations.”

"I never imagined that I would be such a... well... idiot, whose brain was clouded by the desire to fight. I'm sorry for causing you trouble, Lord Thor."

"Uh." Thor's big eyes were filled with a hint of confusion, and his small blond head was full of question marks: "This...? Why should I apologize??"

Fu Hua frowned and walked over.

She came up to Thor and shook her head slightly.

"What's wrong? Do you know what happened?" Thor asked.

Fu Hua and Durandal, who was still in a daze, exchanged a glance, and then Fu Hua whispered to Thor, "The moment we came out of your black space, our memories were altered."

“No, using tampering is not intended... I should say…” Fu Hua carefully chose her words.

"It's been fixed," Durandal's voice suddenly came.

“Our memories have all been altered. I now have two sets of memories in my mind.” Durandal frowned strangely. “In my different memories, the trajectory of my life has many seemingly similar yet slightly different points. It’s very strange.”

“Yes.” Fu Hua nodded slightly and said, “My impression of Otto is divided into two very distinct ones.”

"One type is ruthless in achieving their goals, and the other is... well... hard to describe, maybe like... a rotten old man who isn't inherently bad?"

“Yes, and he’s an old man who’s particularly proud of his body. He loves to show off his full head of long, golden hair, and he’s even discussed hair care and maintenance with me.” Durandal said, frowning slightly in surprise.

“…”

Fu Hua nodded slightly with difficulty: "He would also tease me every day, calling me a 50,000-year-old nun who has never had a boyfriend... yes, an old nun."

“…” Yulandel didn’t know how to respond.

After a long pause, she said, "The image of that cold-hearted bishop Otto in my mind is gradually fading, as if he were just a figment of my imagination."

"Me too. My memories from 50,000 years ago are also changing. It seems that in the end, with the help of some technology, we defeated the Herrscher of the End, defeated the Honkai... Hmm?? We defeated the Herrscher of the End? We defeated the Honkai??"

Fu Hua was startled when she said this.

Then he quickly looked up.

Above the setting sun, the slowly changing phases of the moon seemed to be telling her that the moon was different from the one she remembered.

From her perspective, she could vaguely see that there was a lush green on the moon.

Why is this happening? Why are my memories changing?

----No, it shouldn't be said that memories have changed; it should be said that the world has been changed.

Why do people who should be dead live? Why do things that should be tragic end happily?

Why are some people's personalities completely different from those in another memory of hers?

In a daze, deep in Fu Hua's memory, she recalled the time before she became a Fusion Warrior, before she defeated the Herrscher of the End, before she received that crucial dose of nanomechanicals, and before she even knew that the Honkai existed.

She is a middle school student who came from the countryside and went to school in the city.

She lived in the boxing gym; although she wasn't gloomy, she wasn't outgoing or cheerful either.

I didn't even have many friends in high school.

That night, she had just left her boarding school and finished eating noodles when she suddenly saw one of her female classmates being attacked by assassins.

That female classmate was one of her best friends later on—Carol.

That very night, she witnessed the miracle of her life.

In search of their loved ones, these travelers crossed worlds from a distant realm to help humanity overcome the collapse of the world.

Zhongli!

Fu Hua suddenly understood everything.

"Hello, Hua." A familiar voice suddenly came from behind.

He felt a familiar and warm presence and patted her on the shoulder.

"We have met again. The last time was probably 500 years ago on Mount Taixu."

Zhongli's voice entered her ears slowly and deliberately.

Chapter 44 Epilogue

"Want to take a walk together and talk about what you've been up to?"

Fu Hua, no, Hua, smiled as she looked at her former best friend.

"Naturally."

Zhongli nodded slightly, then waved his hand, ignoring the strange looks from the others.

The next second, he and Fu Hua were standing on the streets of Changkong City.

This city, which had already experienced a collapse, was not fatally damaged.

Although many people have lost their loved ones, they have not lost hope of living.

Because they know that an organization called Destiny is doing its utmost to save the world, and that the world's war against the collapse holds hope.

Zhongli and Fu Hua strolled along the streets in the light rain.

It was already close to evening in this city.

The neon lights gradually came on.

The reflections of the rainwater deposits create a vibrant urban atmosphere.

"You should know where this is, right?" Zhongli asked Hua gently.

“Of course I know.” Hua narrowed his eyes slightly and pointed to a neon sign: “This is where we first met. Right there, under a building in ruins, Accelerator attacked me. He wanted to use me to gauge the fighting strength of this world.”

“No.” Zhongli shook his head slightly: “You know that’s not what I’m referring to. In the previous civilization era, this was Canghai City.”

"This is also the place where I met you and Carol. According to the timeline, this meeting is the true first meeting."

"A demon god who has transcended time, can do whatever he wants?" Hua laughed, her smile as if a flower forged from steel had just appeared.

“Of course, in your memory, it should be the same.” Zhongli also smiled slightly: “Generally speaking, the changes that demon gods bring to the world are that simple and brutal.”

"To fundamentally change history, and then make the world acknowledge it."

"The one that is wrong cannot be the demon god; it can only be the world."

Zhongli's voice made Fu Hua smile.

Her memories were not false; she could sense that the decades she and Zhongli spent together fighting against the Honkai were absolutely real.

She could recall every detail, even the feelings she had at certain moments.

So she extended her hand to him, inviting him, "Want to come together?"

“Of course, that is my wish,” Zhongli replied simply.

The two then strolled under the neon lights, which were covered in raindrops, a vibrant and colorful scene.

Modern neon lights, flashing with electronic light that doesn't exist in nature, illuminate this deep and extravagant world.

The rain was still dripping, drop by drop.

It dampened her hair, thinned her clothes, and soaked her skirt.

After a few minutes of silence, Zhongli spoke first: "The years I spent with you were not fake; they were things we experienced together."

“I know.” Hua nodded slightly, and even added, “I can see clearly. Don’t treat me like that little kid who can only run away when he encounters assassins.”

"You said the same thing back then. Right before we finally defeated the Herrscher of the End," Zhongli said with a smile. "It was during our conversation at the final testing base."

"That's interesting." Hua smiled again, she seemed to be smiling a lot more today: "I remembered too."

"Fifty thousand years is a long time indeed." She stopped and turned to look at Zhongli's quiet demeanor.

Hua's azure pupils held a certain ineffable thought.

For a long while, she just watched quietly without saying a word.

Zhongli's gaze, however, remained calm.

He and Hua stared at each other, waiting for the other to speak.

"Dr. Zhongli, this time, we have indeed defeated the Honkai, right?" Hua pondered for a long time before finally asking this question.

"Yes, the Herrscher of the End has appeared. The exam is over, and the answers on the test paper are almost perfect. Soon, the Honkai energy of this world will change." Zhongli breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

He answered quickly and accurately: "First, many patients infected with Honkai will gradually recover, and the people of this world will no longer be turned into Herrschers or Death Knights due to the contamination of Honkai energy; then, the concentration of Honkai energy will further increase, and it will greatly replace other energy sources. Compared to the energy obtained by boiling water, it will be more versatile and more magical."

"Finally, the lifespan of all human beings will be enhanced to varying degrees depending on the extent to which they are immersed in the pump's collapse energy. The same applies to the individual physical attributes of humans. Stronger bodies will become more adapted to life in the universe, and this planet will evolve more rapidly to at least the level of a star system civilization."

"Then, there will be a new round of tests of the Honkai will. This time, the star-level Honkai beasts that roam the cosmic starry sky will appear together with the Herrschers who once destroyed civilizations."

These words made Hua tense again. She frowned and asked, "How long until this time?"

"It will probably be nearly ten thousand years from now, or perhaps it will never come." Zhong Li showed a slightly thoughtful expression, crossed one arm over his chest and placed the other on his chin, and said softly, "Without the external enemy of the Honkai, the entire human world may fall into a vicious cycle of technological development."

"Civil wars, divisions—human thought is always divided and not unified. However, these things don't really concern us much."

“Yes, that’s true.” Hua thought for a moment and then nodded. In the past five thousand years, she had witnessed many dynastic changes and that human beings were always hostile to each other and killing each other.

Without external enemies causing chaos, such incidents will only increase, not decrease.

For some reason, the topic had veered off course to this point. Zhong Li paused for a moment, somewhat taken aback, before abruptly changing the subject.

"Fu Hua, I want to ask you something."

"Please ask," Hua gestured, "If it's something I know, I will naturally tell you the truth."

"Hua, have you ever been to Teyvat?" Zhongli finally asked the question he wanted to ask.

"Of course I've been there, and you even invited me," Hua replied immediately without hesitation.

“No, I’m not referring to that time, I’m referring to a story from much earlier times,” Zhongli explained immediately.

"During the time between when you were put into cryosleep and when you woke up, did you go to Teyvat?"

“Memories are always ambiguous, but this time, I can tell you that I haven’t recovered the memories from that period.” Fu Hua gently tapped the screen in the [Multiverse Chat Group] in front of her, changing it to a display mode that could be shown to other chat group owners, and then showed it to Zhong Li.