"I think you can do it, but what happens next? Fu Hua, I believe that with the strength that allowed you to survive the war of the Last Law, the role you play while you are alive will be much more important than if you fought with all your might right now."
Fu Hua remained silent for a long time, then slowly shook her head: "Indeed, if I still retained my strength from back then, I could play a pivotal role. But, unfortunately, my body is battered and weakened. I'd rather place that hope in you than continue to prolong my life. Besides, in the end, even at my best, I was nothing more than a defeated opponent of the Herrscher of the End. If I were to start over and face the arrival of the End, the result would be the same. But you are different; you possess infinite potential."
At that moment, Fu Hua was mentally reviewing the rooftop battle between Kiana and Mei that she had seen earlier in the video.
Undoubtedly, this time, a Herrscher has taken the side of humanity.
What the Thirteen Heroes of Chasing Fire could not do, could the Thirteen Crusaders do?
Fu Hua did not know, but at least it was a glimmer of hope.
"Prometheus, tell me the alternative. I know you must have one."
However, Theresa was not convinced by Fu Hua.
She would never sacrifice Fu Hua, and she has no right to do
Prometheus looked around, observing everyone in the Q&A room.
Bronya, of course, knows perfectly well the attitude of her host.
Judging by Ji Lin's tense expression as she looks at Fu Hua, she is definitely on Theresa's side.
As for Mei and Kiana...
The two were hugging and whispering to each other, completely oblivious to everything else around them.
Of course, based on her analysis of both people's personalities, even if she approached them for their opinion, the only response she would get was that two other people, along with Theresa, were asking her for alternative solutions.
So, what is the history of the people of this era of civilization?
Although Prometheus had no work records of the previous civilization, she still retained the vague feeling that the people and organizations who created her in that civilization must have acted in a manner very consistent with her calculation method for maximizing profits.
After all, if her creators were also that emotional, she would not act as she does now.
Advanced artificial intelligence is capable of establishing principles for action.
Thus, when Prometheus was forced to do something that did not conform to her own principles, she only felt one thing: discomfort.
"Alternative solutions exist, but they carry certain risks..."
With no other option, Prometheus revealed her plan.
In fact, the alternative solution still requires the use of Fu Hua's Feather Dust, but the timing is no longer optimal for using it within the Q&A space. Now it is used after leaving the said space and once Fu Hua's physical condition has improved to some extent.
The reason Fu Hua's strength was diminished was simply because the super-mutant factor technology she was using back then had flaws.
The side effects of using Feather Dust will be observable later.
And, coincidentally, one of the rewards offered by the Q&A space was a flawless copy of the super-mutant factor technology data.
To fully comprehend that information, Prometheus calculated that if Bronya forced her to execute it for forty minutes every day, it would take almost half a year.
However, that involves reaching the level where you can create perfect fusion warriors from scratch.
However, for someone like Fu Hua, who is already a fusion warrior, it is not necessary to fully comprehend the information to perform repairs, maintenance, or fixes.
If you take a slight risk, three days will be enough.
If we take a refrigerator as an analogy, creating a fusion warrior from scratch is like creating a refrigerator from scratch; there is a lot of information to fully comprehend.
Repairing a fusion warrior's injuries is similar to repairing a refrigerator; it basically involves following the product's repair instructions step-by-step.
Of course, this type of repair is rudimentary and low-quality, and only guarantees that there will be no short-term problems. The root cause of the failure cannot be solved.
However, as an alternative, as long as Fu Hua's physical condition does not worsen, it will be considered a success.
The greatest risk of this plan lies in whether the people in the Q&A section can use their acting skills to perfectly get through the three days without Yu Duchen's protection.
Another question is: how will Prometheus, having devised a repair plan, inform Theresa and Fu Hua, who are at St. Freya, three days later?
It is highly likely that Otto is monitoring St. Freya's communicator, so it is not safe.
Three days? It should be enough.
Theresa turned her gaze to Himeko.
After leaving the Q&A room, I will take Fu Hua with me to the Nine Underworlds Secret Realm, located at the bottom of the sea. We will use the excuse that the Valkyrie squad, led by Major Himeko, had an accident in the Nine Underworlds. I believe Otto will not suspect anything. As long as we go in person, there will be no communication problems.
When Theresa was about to give further instructions, she suddenly saw the scene in front of her blur, and she and Fu Hua were expelled from the Q&A space and returned to St. Freya Academy.
Theresa and Fu Hua exchanged glances and then looked at the time on their communicators; only one second had passed since they left.
On the other hand, Bronya, Ji Lin, the unconscious Himeko, and Kiana and Mei, who were huddled together, were also rejected by the Q&A Space at the same time and returned to the Chi You Heart Space.
Bronya's eyes flashed, and Prometheus uttered one last sentence before falling silent.
Theresa has reached the 40 minutes of daily run time allocated.
And that sentence is—
"Q&A Space Update. Known Ability 6: One cannot stay in the Q&A Space for long periods of time; rather, it will serve as a confidential environment to provide assistance to the examinees for a short period of time."
At the same time, everyone who left the Q&A room had a sudden realization.
The next opening of the Q&A space depends on whether they successfully apply the rewards granted by the said space to real life.
In other words, the Q&A space will only reopen once they have used the Super-Transformation Factor Technology (Flawless Version) to create the Fusion Warrior, used the Schariac Sacred Blood to formulate the reactant to neutralize Honkai energy, and successfully created the Lunar Throne.
That's bad news.
This means that the Q&A room will not reopen in the short term.
But there is also good news.
The completion rate of the Q&A space is not strictly determined.
For example, the concept of a Fusion Warrior can be successfully applied to reality by using the Super-Transformation Factor Technology (Flawless Version) to repair Fu Hua's body and restore her maximum potential. It does not require creating a Fusion Warrior from scratch.
The same applies to Schariac Sacred Blood. As long as a reactant capable of neutralizing the damage caused by Honkai energy erosion in Himeko's body is prepared, it is not necessary to reach the level of neutralizing Herrscher-level Honkai energy from the start.
The Moon Throne is the most difficult.
Creating a Lunar Throne from scratch, even at a laboratory level, would require an unpredictable amount of time.
It could take as little as six months, but if there are technical or material bottlenecks, it could take two or three years.
If the Q&A space truly does not open for two or three years, then it will be too late.
Of course, Prometheus already had a solution.
For example, Anti-Entropy.
Prometheus learned quite a bit about Anti-Entropy from Bronya.
The Moonlight Throne has one already prepared in Anti-Entropy, but it is currently turned off.
Therefore, as long as we can get hold of the Lunar Throne and find a way to successfully activate it, it will be the opportune moment to return to the Q&A Space.
Establishing contact with Anti-Entropy and joining forces when necessary was one of the action plans that Prometheus devised.
After Prometheus' silence, Bronya regained control of the body.
Bronya, upon regaining control of her body, immediately used Heavy Bunny to check the time.
June 7, 2016, 14:08:31.
The last time she checked the time before entering the Q&A room was 14:07:56, which is a difference of approximately half a minute from the last time she checked it. This matches the time interval between when she checked the time and when she entered the Q&A room.
In other words, time inside the Q&A space is practically frozen with respect to the outside world.
It would be great if we could stay in the Q&A section for as long as we wanted.
In that case, they could stay in the Q&A room until Prometheus had fully analyzed the rewards before leaving, and then create the physical objects as soon as they returned to St. Freya Academy.
Bronya shook her head to drive away those unrealistic thoughts and turned her gaze to Ji Lin, who had followed them in and out of the Q&A space.
At that moment, Ji Lin's expression was also somewhat subtle.
Observing Bronya's gaze, Ji Lin's expression was somewhat complex and difficult to understand: "I thought... I would automatically vanish after leaving the Q&A space."
At that moment, Ji Lin's tone conveyed not only the relief of having survived a disaster but also an extraordinary sense of bewilderment and a deep sadness.
She once fought Chi You with the determination to die.
Just as she had predicted, she sacrificed her life to join forces with Cangxuan and Danzhu and successfully seal Chi You.
She should have died like Cangxuan and Danzhu, but before she died, she was corrupted by the Honkai energy released by Chi You and became a kind of death warrior.
And so, she was tormented by Honkai energy within the Chi You Heart Space for countless years.
At first, she still had the strength to resist.
But as the Honkai energy continued to erode her will, in the end, her consciousness turned into chaos.
Just when she thought she would continue fighting that endless pain, someone broke into the Underworld.
In fact, Himeko and her group were not the first visitors to the Nine Underworlds.
Among those chaotic memories, Ji Lin found a fragment: the Jiuli tribe had once come to this place and undertook a large-scale sacrifice, attempting to break Chi You's seal at the cost of their tribe's life.
However, this reckless plan was ultimately frustrated.
That person... if she was not mistaken, it must have been Chi Yuan.
Unlike the Jiuli tribe, which had been previously suppressed, Himeko and her group, after entering the Nine Underworlds Secret Realm, first activated the Xuanyuan Sword, which had once dealt a fatal blow to Chi You, and then broke the seal established by Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu.
This time, no Crimson Iris Immortal stood in their way.
Even the Red-Robed Immortal, who had lost her memory, was still a good ally to Himeko and the others in their actions.
Due to the involuntary actions of Himeko and others, Chi You's power was released from the seal and is about to break free.
Without the emergence of the Q&A space, Himeko and the others might have eliminated her; of course, it is also possible that she would defeat Himeko and the others, and then follow Chi You's will to return to the land of Shenzhou, bringing boundless calamity to the land she once loved.
However, due to the Q&A space, the Honkai energy that had tormented her for countless years was forcibly taken away.
Furthermore, after leaving the Q&A room, she did not disappear from the world like those killers after being stripped of their Honkai energy.
So, has she been given a new chance at life?
But...
Countless years have passed, and even Chi Yuan has forgotten her. Her former friends and lovers must have passed away long ago.
Facing this changing world, Ji Lin inevitably felt lost regarding her future.
At that moment, Ji Lin's gaze also sparked Bronya's thoughts.
When Seele completely disappeared from her world after being transformed into a quantum state during the experiment, wasn't she just like Ji Lin now, as if she had lost everything?
Later, the belief in going to the Sea of Quanta to rescue Seele was what sustained her. Because of this, she even helped Cocolia launch the Third Honkai Impact, turning the innocent Mei into the Third Herrscher of Thunder.
During her two years at St. Freya Academy, Bronya rediscovered the feelings she had when she was with Seele at the Cocolia Orphanage.
She had forgotten her identity and mission until she entered the Q&A room and the video ruthlessly reminded her of what the future held; only then did she realize that a bad start would only lead to a bad outcome.
Whether because of Ji Lin's status as a heroine who protected the land, or because she once empathized with Ji Lin in this situation, Bronya could not abandon her in that state.
"Major Ji Lin, perhaps you do not know this, but I first learned of you not in the Nine Underworlds, but in a classroom at St. Freya Academy. Your name was inscribed in the first chapter of the new era's Honkai history. As a hero who destroyed the Judgment-class Honkai Beast, Chi You, and thus protected the land of China, you are revered by people all over the world who know the truth about Honkai. Your deeds have inspired generations of Valkyries to fight on the front lines against Honkai, and we have all inherited the determination you displayed when facing Chi You. You are not alone in this world; we have all inherited your spirit."
Bronya rarely speaks so much at once, but she had to say it to Ji Lin, and she truly wanted to say it.
Ji Lin stared at Bronya.
Although she was already the leader of a tribe before the decisive battle with Chi You, and she enjoyed the trust and admiration of many people.
But that is because she was the best warrior of the tribe; and also because she had excellent adaptability to Honkai energy and received the Xuanyuan Sword from the Crimson Iris Immortal, thus obtaining the power to guide the tribe to survive in the dangerous and devastated land of China, ravaged by Honkai.
Bronya, however, is different.
Although they lived in different eras spanning countless millennia, an invisible bond has formed between them because her deeds were recorded and transmitted to the present day.
The confusion in Ji Lin's eyes was gradually replaced by determination. She smiled at Bronya and said: "Since I have returned to life by a twist of fate, I will continue to fulfill the oath I made when I received the Xuanyuan Sword from the Crimson Phoenix Immortal, and I will fight against Honkai until the end of my days!"
Bronya breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Ji Lin's words, and a faint smile appeared on her face: "Miss Ji Lin, welcome to join us."
The two people, who were originally separated by thousands of years, now completed a handshake that transcended the limitations of time.
"Tell me how much time has passed since my time."