Chapter 105: Fiercely Fanning the Flames
"Griseo is still alive." Irene looked at Kevin, speaking each word with deliberate emphasis. "However, her current situation is not very good. Of course, the person herself is still alive."
"But her predicament is somewhat worrying."
"Where is she?" Kevin looked at Irene, his expression turning cold in an instant. "You just said Griseo is in the Sea of Quanta, correct? I can find her, can't I?"
"Based on what I know, it should be possible." Irene nodded. "The spaceship you launched was ambushed and pulled into a Bubble Universe. It should be possible to find its counterpart within the Sea of Quanta."
"But the guy causing trouble is quite good at hiding, so finding the specific location will be extremely difficult."
"I understand." Kevin nodded. "Tell me the details. In this one year, I will do my utmost to search, as long as there is still a way."
"Wait a moment. Hmm, why don't we bring Vill-V online?" Elysia's face no longer held its usual playful expression. "With Vill-V's technology, she might be able to help locate the spaceship."
"Contacting her immediately." Irene nodded as well. Although Kevin was strong, the Sea of Quanta was simply too vast. In this place, worlds were nothing more than individual bubbles.
To say how many worlds were inside... it could almost be judged as infinite. Wanting to find a specific world within so many Bubble Universes was truly like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Even if you knew the name of the place, what else? Where was it? What were its characteristics? What did it look like from the outside? She didn't know any of that completely.
This was even more absurd than finding a needle in a haystack. It was like knowing a needle fell into the ocean, but having absolutely no idea of its length, material, or specific coordinates.
This difficulty went far beyond merely finding a needle in a haystack.
However, if Vill-V were here, perhaps there would be another way.
With this thought in mind, Irene opened the photo album again and tapped on Vill-V's photo. Very quickly, a message came from Vill-V's side. It seemed this Great Magician was currently quite free.
"My, my, lovely audience, is there a problem contacting me now? Could it be that Pardo's wrist guards are malfunctioning?"
"No, no, there's a tiny little problem right now." Irene raised her hand, making a gesture of the galaxy at her fingertips. "Miss Vill-V, is there any way to track the spaceship from Project Ark?"
"Project Ark?" Vill-V seemed somewhat puzzled. "What's wrong? Why do you want to find that spaceship? Is something the matter? Could it be...?"
Vill-V's voice sounded as if she had gradually discovered something worthy of interest. "That spaceship is still operating? Or rather, you know that she might still be operating it, and she is even still alive?"
"That's right." Irene nodded. "Griseo is still alive, but she is in a bad state. We want to find her within the Sea of Quanta."
Subsequently, Irene took the opportunity to relay everything she knew about Sa, Vita, and Griseo's current approximate state.
While speaking, Irene had the leisure to observe the expressions of Elysia and Kevin. Sure enough, the faces of both individuals could be said to have sunk instantly.
To be honest, it was expected of Kevin; his expression was rarely good to begin with. But for Elysia's face to sink to this degree was exceedingly rare.
"Kevin~" Elysia looked toward Kevin. "We must find Griseo quickly. Otherwise, letting Griseo stay in that kind of place would definitely be bad."
"I know." Kevin nodded forcefully, a rarely seen fierce glint appearing on his face. He really needed to find something to chop up right now. It seemed that for this one year, he indeed wouldn't have the spare time to trouble Welt.
As for the person who replaced Welt, they would probably suffer a calamity.
Griseo was their comrade-in-arms. As the youngest among them, in a certain sense, she could also be said to be the child they raised together.
Now that the child was being bullied, and even imprisoned, one couldn't blame these adults for going over to smash the place up.
"You aren't just ordinarily weak right now, take it easy." Irene offered a slight reminder. Although Kevin looked like a complete brute and his actions sometimes resembled one, he was absolutely not just a brute.
But no matter what, Sa could be considered to have stacked her stats very high. If it were Kevin in his prime, he could naturally knead this guy into any shape he wanted.
But the problem lay in the fact that the Kevin before them did not possess such powerful combat strength. After years of emptiness, the Honkai energy in his body had dropped to an almost zero level.
He didn't have a handy weapon either. Wanting to hack Sa to death might pose a bit of difficulty. However, if it was just finding the place where Griseo was and breaking the person out, it should still be very simple.
Of course, the biggest problem here wasn't how to break the person out or the fighting. In terms of combat power, Kevin was in a state of complete surplus.
The problem lay in how to find that place within the boundless Sea of Quanta. That was the biggest issue.
And quite obviously, Kevin couldn't solve this problem. One year sounded like a long time, but if it were used to explore this Sea of Quanta, the places one could explore would likely be few and far between.
Everyone's gaze turned to the photo album in Irene's hand, expecting Vill-V to be able to give them a better method.
After a while, Vill-V's voice finally came from inside: "Alright, my lovely audience really gave me an extremely difficult task right off the bat. But this cannot stump the omnipotent Vill-V."
"After some searching on my part, I finally found the blueprints for the construction of that Ark. If your luck is good enough, its navigation beacon might still be sending out a signal. You can receive it through this device."
"When will you come over to pick it up?"
"I'll go. I'll be right back." Upon hearing this, Rin immediately dived into the photo album. After a moment, she quickly popped back out. Upon emerging, she was already holding a display screen that looked like it had been rushed out temporarily.
"Ha, the Herrscher of Corruption is truly convenient in every sense." Vill-V laughed twice before continuing, "Anyway, this screen can display signals within a certain range."
"But I still have to pour a basin of cold water on you first. The premise for it to display anything is that the spaceship still has the ability to send out a signal."
"Although we extended its service life as much as possible back then, if it was truly destroyed or ambushed, expecting it to maintain full functionality is unrealistic."
If Vill-V were given enough time, she might be able to come up with a better method. But to be honest, the degree of improvement would be limited. The reason was simple.
The situation was too unclear. Plus, regarding a place like the Sea of Quanta, they didn't have much exploration of it back then. After all, facing the Honkai in the Proper World was already headache-inducing enough.
The manpower at hand was one less with every loss; where would they get so much energy to develop the Sea of Quanta? Many things related to the Sea of Quanta were only models without practical application.
Furthermore, where was that spaceship? Unknown. What was the situation? Unknown. Could it still send out signals? Unknown. Could their original design allow the spaceship's signal to penetrate Bubble Universes? Unknown.
All these unknowns and uncertainties left Vill-V with nowhere to start. Even the cleverest housewife cannot cook a meal without rice. Even Vill-V, facing this situation, could only be at her wit's end.
"It doesn't matter. I will do my best to search." Kevin shook his head. This kind of thing wasn't a problem for him. He took the tablet from Rin's hands.
"You'd better really be able to find it, oh," Vill-V said from her end, sounding like she was laughing mischievously. "Just now, when I was looking for things, I seem to have inadvertently leaked the matter here."
"So, you know."
Actually, this was Vill-V putting it mildly. Making this thing didn't actually take much time; after all, she only needed to make a receiving terminal capable of searching for signals.
She had simply informed the others of this information she just discovered. It was just a matter of sending a group chat message anyway; it didn't delay much time.
As for the replies given by the others... well, the attitude was basically that if he didn't bring Griseo back, Kevin had better not come back either.
Kevin's expression stiffened slightly, but he didn't say much. Following that, he saw Irene condensing something in her hands. Massive amounts of purple flowing light were extracted from Irene's body, gradually coagulating into a pile of crystals in her hands.
"Whoa... wow, this is much more tiring than I imagined." Irene looked at the crystals in her hand and handed them to Kevin. "This is the vast majority of my Honkai energy reserves."
"Don't worry, I am a Herrscher, and I have Master Hua's teachings. Once I return to the Proper World, my Honkai energy reserves will be fully replenished very quickly."
"These aren't much, but they should be enough for you to complete a wave of primitive accumulation."
"Thanks." Kevin didn't stand on ceremony. He took the crystals directly from Irene's hand, crushed them, and absorbed them into his body. With the replenishment of Honkai energy, the aura around Kevin became much more terrifying.
He then turned his head to look at Elysia. After opening his mouth, he still said nothing, turned around, and walked away.
One year's time was still very precious. If he couldn't find her within a year, Kevin could only say sorry to Griseo. After all, he still had to go back first to resolve the matter of the Honkai.
This was his promise to everyone. Even if he had to break an appointment now... he hoped that guy hadn't hidden too deeply.
But just as Kevin was preparing to leave, the photo album in Irene's hand suddenly began to erupt with a massive amount of light. Subsequently, some voices transmitted from within.
"Kevin!!!" Kalpas's cursing voice rang out from the photo album in Irene's hand. One could hear that the cursing was very dirty. "You stayed in that damn place for so long and didn't discover a single problem?!"
"Kalpas..." Kevin looked at the photo album in Irene's hand. That voice was simply too familiar. regarding Kalpas's angry rebuke, Kevin couldn't say anything.
Although it was possible that when the incident happened, he wasn't in the Sea of Quanta, and that guy hadn't appeared in front of him, so him not discovering it was actually justifiable.
"Kevin." Eden's voice also rang out from inside. "I don't want to say anything about not discovering this matter, but since we know now, I hope you can bring that child back."
"Hehe." Mobius's somewhat sickly sweet voice also rang out from the photo album. "Does Kevin need me to say anything more?"
"Kevin." Aponia's voice also rang out instantly. "[Please] bring Griseo back."
Although Aponia's Discipline did not activate due to the separation by the channel and the Herrscher of Corruption's transmission...
Kevin also knew that even though the others didn't speak, under these circumstances, he had to bring Griseo back no matter what.
"I will bring Griseo back." Kevin looked at that photo album, then hefted his blade and turned to leave.
At this moment, Rin watched Kevin's back, which could be said to be filled with killing intent, and spoke up: "Is it really okay? When Uncle Kevin went out, he was practically seething with murderous aura."
"It doesn't matter. It's been a long time since I've seen Kevin so full of motivation." Elysia gave a thumbs up towards Rin. "Let's leave this matter to Kevin."
"He will definitely be able to bring Griseo back."
"I don't doubt that." Irene shook her head. She understood how strong Kevin was. However, telling him this matter was merely to give Kevin something to do for this one year.
She just hadn't expected that by saying too much, it would seem a bit like she was stoking the fire. But seeing as the situation had already reached this point, she could only fiercely fan the flames.
But stoking the fire was one thing. Given Sa's attitude of being scared witless, plus the massive variety of Bubble Universes in the Sea of Quanta... forget one year, even if it were ten times that, the probability of finding it without guidance was truly, honestly low.
If Kevin could really find it and even break Griseo out, then Irene could only say one sentence: As expected of you, Kevin.
"Believe in Kevin." Elysia smiled. "Kevin will definitely bring Griseo back. And thank you, Irene. If not for you, we might not have even known Griseo was still alive."
"I only provided intelligence." Irene smiled. "It still depends on what Boss Kevin has to say. I hope he can find her."
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Seele looked outside, and somewhat uneasily turned her gaze to Welt beside her. "Uncle Welt, how long has it been now?"
"Just past 20 minutes." Welt looked outside through the Bubble Universe. "Rest assured, it should be fine. That Miss Irene has a lot of secrets."
"Judging from Irene's tone just now, she should know that warrior. If she still chose to go out despite that, she ought to have her own considerations."
"Is it really okay?" Seele looked outside with worry. "The words Elder Sister Irene said just now were very ominous, just like in those Homu comics I used to read."
"I roughly know what you're talking about, but rest assured, this isn't a comic book world." As the artist of the Homu comics, Welt naturally understood quickly what Seele wanted to express.
"But..." Just as Seele wanted to ask a few more questions, a figure rushed in from the edge of the Bubble Universe, bringing her inquiries to a halt.
"Aiya, the situation went quite smoothly." Irene rushed into the Bubble Universe and smiled at the two.
"Mm, I'm back. How was it? Did you worry about me?"
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