Honkai Impact: You still owe me a dance

Two weeks later, Salt Lake Base.

Kiana, who received Einstein's notice, came to the conference room of the Salt Lake Base.

"Doctor, you are looking for me."

"Please sit down."

Because he was reading the document, Einstein simply replied.

"Kiana, are you feeling better?"

"Ah, Xi'er is here too. Thank you for your concern. Everything is fine now."

Although Kiana felt a little strange, she only noticed Xier who was holding documents next to Einstein.

"The physical examination also showed that there is no abnormality in your body. How has your appetite been lately?"

After Einstein signed the last document and handed it to Xi'er, he indicated that she could put the document aside first.

"It's pretty good. I eat four normal meals a day, and I can add a hamburger on training days. Maybe the incident has been resolved, and the food tastes a lot better."

"Now everyone eats with Kiana every day. The puppet incident has come to an end, so everyone is relieved. Kiana's wonderful performance has been witnessed by everyone. More and more people in the base are talking to Kiana. That’s a lot.”

Now Xi'er is still happy for Kiana's current situation.

"Haha, I was scolded by the cafeteria aunt and asked me to go earlier in the future. She said that everyone was waiting for me and the freshly cooked dishes were cold."

When Xi'er said this, Kiana scratched her head in embarrassment.

"By the way, Doctor, what's going on with Herrscher of Domination?"

"All the cores have been recovered. In the past two weeks, there has been no response from the Herrscher of Dominance in the world."

After receiving Einstein's affirmation, Kiana also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Anti-Entropy has also synchronized the results of the battle with Destiny, Finale, Saint Freya, and some countries. Although it cannot be said that the crisis has been completely resolved, the matter has finally come to an end for the time being. It was just affected by the puppet incident that the destroyed Social order will take time to repair, and some major wounds may be difficult to heal. There is still a lot to do."

Einstein walked up to Kiana and expressed his gratitude.

"But thanks to you, Kiana, we achieved a beautiful victory."

"No, it's all thanks to everyone."

Facing Einstein's compliments, Kiana felt even more embarrassed.

"I know you will say that. If you have any thoughts, please leave it until tonight."

"Forgot? The reason why I called you here."

Seeing Kiana's confused look, Einstein smiled instead.

"It's the dinner for the 60th anniversary of the founding of Counter-Entropy! Although the originally postponed date has been postponed again, Dr. Einstein feels that it is still necessary to hold a make-up dinner."

After Xi'er put down the documents in her hands, she ran to Kiana and hugged her arm.

"Didn't we go shopping together last time? Now we can finally take them out and decorate them."

"Ah, that's right. Hehe, it feels like it was a long time ago. The sixtieth anniversary, that is, the sixty-first founding... Anti-Entropy has gone through so many years of ups and downs."

Kiana scratched her head, feeling a little embarrassed that she had forgotten this matter.

"Yes, a lot of things happened during this period, but fortunately they are all resolved now."

"Let's take this opportunity tonight, let's all relax. Maybe we can see Dr. Tesla perform on stage."

After Einstein patted the two of them on the shoulders, he picked up the document that Xier had put down earlier.

"Huh? Does Dr. Tesla know it?"

"Normally not, but if I sneak some wine into her coffee, the result might be different."

Einstein showed an expression that said, "Just wait," which made Kiana and Xi'er look forward to it.

"Then I'll have to look forward to it."

At night, while Anti-Entropy was celebrating at the Salt Lake Base, four people were making preparations in the Finale Base far away in the North Pole.

"Himeko, how are you? Your body isn't rusty, is it?"

Ragna, who had put on the Valkyrie armor for the first time in a long time, looked at Himeko, who was also wearing armor next to him.

"Of course not. My condition is much better now. But you, Ragnar, don't hold me back when the time comes."

After Jizi adjusted the position of the Valkyrie armor, she and Ragna entered the training ground for warm-up training.

"Okay, you two 'seniors', please pay attention. Don't get too carried away in training. You will soon lock in the position of dominating the theater. Just warm up."

Danzhu, who was monitoring the physical condition of the two Valkyrie armors, appropriately reminded the two 'elderly people' to pay attention to their health.

"Okay, okay, I'm only thirty, still very young."

Himeko rolled her eyes and continued her sparring session with Ragnar.

"Celine, aren't you going to warm up?"

"Don't go."

Lying on the sofa, Xilin turned over with her game console in her arms, and continued to play the copy of the game.

"Okay. After all, the next mission is not dangerous for you."

Danzhu didn't care much about Xilin's strength. After all, Xilin's strength was considered to be the strongest person in the Arctic base.

"Sir Siren, you want juice and potato chips."

After a while, Bella arrived at the base carrying a bunch of drinks and snacks and handed the snacks in her hand to her.

"Thanks Bella."

After Xilin took the snacks handed over by Bella, she started eating and playing games at the same time.

"Celine, tell me, what would happen to you if I sent you like this to Cecilia?"

Regarding Danzhu's words, Xilin glared directly at her.

"you dare!"

You know, although Cecilia cares about Sirin very much, she still has some objections to the behavior of a homebody like Sirin.

"Then just give me a good training session."

Danzhu waved the communicator in his hand, and the picture on the screen showed Xilin drinking drinks, eating snacks and playing games.

Faced with Danzhu's threat, Xilin could only put down the things in her hands obediently, and took Bella with her to another training ground.

After training until early in the morning, Xilin, who was just about to finish training, suddenly felt a very special feeling.

"That guy...is feeling my past memories? "Ich liebe dich", this sentence, for me at that time, was my future. "

Siren muttered incomprehensible words to herself as if she was answering Kiana's question in the Salt Lake base.

"Lord Siren, towel."

"Thank you, Bella."

After taking the towel from Bella's hand and wiping her sweat, Sirin cleaned her body a little, then hugged Bella and fell asleep deeply.

It was another peaceful day. Today, Danzhu still had not locked the specific coordinates of the Domination Theater, but for the other three, the daily training had to be the same as before, because they knew that the battle with the Herrscher of Domination was going to happen. It's not over.

Time came to the afternoon of this day in a blink of an eye.

In the conference room of the Salt Lake Base, Counter-Entropy and his team were holding a meeting for the day.

"Ahhhhh! I'm so annoyed!"

As soon as Kiana entered the door, Tesla's angry voice echoed in the conference room.

"Calm down, Dr. Tesla, the progress of the investigation will not increase as the decibel level of your voice rises."

"what happened?"

Kiana didn't know what happened before because she had just arrived.

"Just some aftermath of the puppet incident."

"What do you mean?"

Kiana was a little confused about Einstein's words.

"Let me tell you. After we successfully eliminated a thousand puppet individuals, the hosts that did not die because of those puppets gradually returned to normal. They themselves did not establish close contact with the Herrscher, and we did not have many Good means of tracking these people can only be speculated through investigation.”

After Tesla handed the report to Kiana, he then added.

"Reports of disappearances in the past two months, eyewitness testimonies of sudden changes in the person's temperament, and voluntary declarations of being aware of changes in themselves... these are probably the ways. When we put together the results of these reports, we were surprised The total was found to be well over a thousand.”

"What? The total number of dolls is more than a thousand!?"

Kiana immediately exclaimed.

"Don't be impatient yet, there's no need to make a conclusion so quickly."

"We were shocked at first, but during in-depth investigation, we found that things were different from what we thought. The disappearance reports and eyewitness testimonies covered some independent incidents that had nothing to do with the dolls, and these were still in our estimation. within range.”

Tesla sat back in his chair with a headache.

"And the self-declaration part is much more suspicious. Some people's self-reports are inconsistent, and when they went to verify it, they said they had written it wrong. The most outrageous one, I asked him three times in person, and he gave completely different answers three times. The same version!”

"That means...someone is lying here?"

Kiana also realized what was going on immediately.

"That's right! I don't know where they got the news - they heard that the troubles caused by the influence of abnormal power can be exempted from liability, so they thought of taking the opportunity to take the blame for their dirty deeds."

Tesla punched his palm angrily.

"They don't know about the dolls, so they make up random stories about being abducted by aliens, eating poisonous mushrooms, being possessed by evil spirits, etc. But people who are really affected by the dolls often He was distracted, his logic was confused, and he couldn't explain what happened to him."

"While we have to work hard to reconstruct their experiences from these people's chaotic narratives, we also have to work hard to identify the guys who fish in troubled waters. It's all because of these bastards that have caused serious obstacles to the investigation of anti-entropy. Until now, we There is no way to confirm the true victimization situation!”

In this regard, Tesla could only rub his temples with a headache.

"Based on the above facts, we have decided to continue to maintain the conclusion that there are only a thousand dolls and their hosts."

Einstein also came to a conclusion.

"Well...but in a sense, it's a good thing."

"Where is it?"

"The number of real victims has not increased. The disaster caused by the Herrscher of Dominance has ended here. I feel relieved when I think of this."

Listening to Tesla's irritable complaints, Kiana was quite optimistic and felt that it was not a big problem.

After everyone chatted for a while, not long after Kiana left the conference room, Xi'er and Fu Hua came to the conference room together.

After Xi'er handed over her body to 'Xier', 'Xier' also revealed her guess, and Fu Hua also told Einstein and Tesla what Su had told him before. PhD.

After learning about their speculations, Einstein and Tesla decided on the spot that they would not know the specific situation until they continued to conduct in-depth investigations.

Late at night, when Kiana was getting ready to go to bed, a sudden sound from outside the door woke her up from her half-asleep state.

In this base deep underground, everything is always quiet during rest periods, which highlights the unnaturalness of the sound.

"Strange, everyone should be asleep at this time. Did something fall?"

Kiana, who noticed something strange, walked to the door to check what was going on outside.

"GuluGulu——"

Something was rolling on the floor. The monotonous and mechanical voice exudes an out-of-place weirdness.

In response to this, Kiana couldn't help but become alert, slowly moved her steps, and silently moved to the door.

‘I can’t feel the breath outside the door, and there’s no hostility. However, this cannot be taken lightly. Once a hazard is confirmed, everyone should be notified immediately. ’

Kiana subconsciously took out the pocket watch that Shigure Kirara had given her before. After getting the approval earlier, Kiana also approached Xi'er and Bronya to ask how to use this. In order to maintain communication, the three People's pocket watches are basically carried with them.

She was ready to attack, and the moment she opened the door suddenly, a dazzling white light appeared in front of her.

"What...this, this is...Domination Theater?!"

This familiar situation and the familiarity of the situation undoubtedly prove that the place in front of them is the Domination Theater that should be destroyed.