Chapter 488 Just a Little Further up Is Here!

Chapter 488 A little further up... it's here!

"Sister Kiana? What happened?"

"Ah... ha, nothing, I just got burned by accident."

"Is sister Kiana okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay..."

"Okay, let's continue looking for clothes... I accidentally forgot which locker to put my luggage in..."

The voice of the cat-eared girl gradually faded away, and another voice that would make people inexplicably think of hard cement rang again:

"Pado is still the same. But she looks more mature."

Kiana's cheek twitched slightly, she covered her vitals and took a step back silently, almost leaning against the wall of the bathroom. The water in the shower lost its target and fell straight down like a waterfall, and even the sound became louder...

But, that suddenly loud sound, is it from the screams of each drop of water in free fall when it disintegrated, or the cheers of finally being able to fall freely?

"Um... squad leader, how did you suddenly appear..."

"Ah, didn't I tell you before? I am now attached to you with a feather of the Eighth God Key · Yu Duchen as a carrier. Don't worry. Unless I take the initiative to show myself, only you can see me and hear my voice, so don't be afraid."

"...It doesn't seem to be a question of fear."

Kiana complained in a low voice. Although it is still unclear what the so-called Eighth God Key · Yu Duchen is, it doesn't matter. Anyway, just treat it as an ordinary noun that can be replaced at will.

"So, squad leader, do you know that Pado... uh, Padofi..."

"It's Padofilis."

Hua's lips opened and closed gently, spitting out the difficult name.

Of course, just like the previous Eighth God Key · Yu Duchen, the full name of Padofilis is actually not that important.

"She was my comrade-in-arms 50,000 years ago. Of course, so was Mikael. Well, so was the woman whose name sounded very similar to Meiyi that Padu mentioned to you before."

"Is that so?"

Kiana's brows furrowed for a moment, but were quickly flattened.

"Oh, yes! I remember she mentioned something called 'Ahua' before, could it be..."

"That's me."

Hua had a blank expression. As long as he wasn't embarrassed, others would be embarrassed.

"Squad leader, you just wanted to say that you didn't expect Mei to send Padu, right?"

"Hmm..."

Hua nodded slightly, just covering up the confusion in his eyes.

Her consciousness, which was originally based on human physiology, was repeatedly destroyed by Shenyin and Yu Duchen, so that she forgot too many things.

But when she used the zero rated power to transfer her consciousness to a feather of Yu Duchen before her death, the memories that were originally copied and stored in Yu Duchen began to gradually return.

That's right, her silence in the past few days was not because she consumed a lot of energy when she stopped Mikael in the end, but simply because the memory that originally belonged to her for 50,000 years began to flow back like water sucked up by a straw.

Although this speed is extremely slow according to the normal concept of time, and since it is a reflux, it is naturally from what just happened to the beginning of life. In just these few days, she has just picked up most of her memories from more than 500 years ago... Or you can understand it in another way. Now she is no longer the Fu Hua of Saint Freya, but is infinitely close to the immortal who looked at the sea of ​​clouds in Taixu Mountain more than 500 years ago...

Even so, the more distant things in the last era are also much clearer in her mind. Because of this, she found that... she seemed to have misunderstood something because of the loss of memory before.

But now that things have come to this, can the position be changed casually?

How to deal with Kiana's matter?

After a brief thought, Hua sighed.

"You should have some memories. I used Yu Duchen to control your body and opened a space rift. After all, I am not a real Herrscher of the Void. I can only input all the Houkai energy to roughly locate Shenzhou. I didn't expect that you would come to Tiankong City... That's good. Later, I also used the resonance between Yu Duchen's feathers to convey your location to Mei. Mei promised to send someone to protect you, take you to hide for a while, and then find a way to bring you back to the Hyperion. Don't worry, Mei's ideas and goals are different from Mikael's. At least you are safe now.

"This is also a helpless move. Tianming and Shenzhou have an alliance relationship for more than 500 years. It is impossible to tear each other apart for a "Hersher". Of course, I can force Su Shang to do this, but the people will not accept it... Uh, sorry, I don't mean that. The Herrscher who can control his own power is naturally different from the ordinary Herrscher, but the people have been educated like this for a long time, and there is no way to change it quickly. "

"Then... Where is the Hyperion now? Are Auntie, Himeko and Bronya okay? "

The girl's eyes suppressed a certain impulse. Hua knew the specific meaning of that emotion, but she didn't expect that Kiana would take the initiative to suppress it.

"According to the plan that Mei discussed with me before, they should be in the South China Sea now... Have you heard of the Mariana Trench?"

Kiana shook her head decisively.

As expected, Fu Hua covered her forehead.

"It doesn't matter. You just need to know the approximate location in the Pacific Ocean north of Oceania. There is an underwater site there. It was called Atla or Te Moana Kino in the pre-civilization, and it is called Haiyuan City in the modern era. To put it bluntly, for some unknown reason, it is the only place in the world that can stably connect to the Quantum Sea."

"Quantum Sea, what is that place?"

Kiana habitually scratched the hair on her head, and even forgot to cover her chest, but this was just a behavior she did when she was shy at the beginning, and it didn't matter.

"Alas... did you listen in class..."

When Hua made this sigh, Kiana had actually found the answer in her mind-that was the power corresponding to the imaginary side that the Herrscher relied on. Many times when performing tasks, the monsters that had the appearance of Honkai Beasts but were as dark as shadows were the products of the Quantum Sea.

Just as she had thought before, everything she had experienced in the past was actually completely and clearly stored in her mind, and she would always remember it when she needed it. But she still didn't say anything, just smiled and waited for Hua's answer.

"Uh... don't pretend, Kiana. The Eighth God Key is the Key of Consciousness. I can tell what you are thinking."

"Ah...ah!"

Kiana glanced to the side, aiming at the gap in the bathroom wall tiles, wishing she could get in directly.

"It doesn't matter. What you are going to ask next is why we are going there. In fact, it is very simple. It is for 'two people'. The first one is the leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance, Walter, who accidentally fell into the Quantum Sea during an experiment in Haiyuan City a few months ago. It is precisely because of their experiment that the door to the Quantum Sea was opened, which allowed Su Zhenzhen... Well, in short, we were able to find the exact location of another comrade in the Quantum Sea. How should I put it. If there must be someone in this world who can cause real harm to Mikael in battle, then that person can only be him."

"Is that so? In other words, if you want to defeat Mikael, you must find him, right?"

"Defeat Mikael..."

Hua closed her eyes, and the memories of the past quickly washed through her heart. She silently swallowed back the words that almost blurted out.

"That's understandable, so they have to wait a few days before they can come to you. Moreover, because of the alliance between Shenzhou and Tianming, we can only allow the Hyperion to stop briefly in Macau. If it takes too long, Tianming's pursuit force will appear. Of course, I have already said hello to Su Shang. Shenzhou will not take the initiative to arrest you, although... Tianming will apply to Shenzhou to share the public security intelligence network, and Su Shang can't refuse, so she can only delay it temporarily. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Yeah."

In other words, you still can't show off in public. But it doesn't matter.

"Oh, by the way, that person has something to do with you."

"Who?"

"My former comrade-in-arms, Kevin Kaslana, who was sealed in the Quantum Sea by Mikael."

"!"

Kiana was stunned for a moment.

"Is he also from the Kaslana family?"

"Well, to be precise, he is..."

Hua's voice stopped abruptly, and Kiana just blinked, and her figure disappeared.

"Bang, bang!"

"Sister Kiana, we're here to bring you some clothes!"

"Ah...oh!"

Kiana walked into the shower and turned her back to pretend to wash her hair.

The next moment, the bathroom door was pushed open. Padu first poked her head out and saw a hazy figure behind the misty glass door of the bathroom. Then she walked in without saying a word and put the basin of clothes on the table beside the sink.

But she didn't leave immediately, but walked to the bathroom door with cat steps.

Although her footsteps were as light as those of a real cat, it can only be said that people are really strange creatures. They don't have eyes behind their heads and don't hear any sounds, but they always seem to be able to feel that someone is approaching behind them with the most unreasonable feeling.

Perhaps there is a more "scientific" explanation, such as the breathing of another person approaching, the air flow caused by it, the heartbeat that can't be heard by the ears but can be felt, or the change of light and shadow under the light, which may all be used to explain, but...

Maybe.

But at least now, under the cover of the sound of water and the mist, Kiana felt that it was probably because of some kind of sixth sense that she realized that Pado was approaching.

"You want..."

She just turned her head and heard a "plop".

"Huh?"

"Ahahaha... Sister Kiana, I just want to ask you something."

Through the glass door blocked by water vapor, Kiana could vaguely recognize Pado's posture. She knelt on her knees and held a towel high.

"Pado... what are you... doing..."

"Ah... this... Sister Kiana, do you need a back rub service?"

"... Can I... refuse..."

"Oh! Sister Kiana, I won't lie to you, back rub is really comfortable!"

"It's not because of this..."

"Hey! Don't worry, our back rub service is cheap and affordable, as for the money, put it on the account first!"

Kiana was shocked when she saw Hua just now, and it was even more impossible for her to let Pado go at this time...

However, before she had time to refuse, and before she could figure out how to refuse without making the cat-eared girl "sad," the latter opened the glass door of the bathroom.

"No - want - ah!!!"

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"Ah... the left side is still itchy. Can you rub it harder?"

"receive!"

"Go...down a little..."

"here?"

"A little further down."

"Now?"

"More up there...yes! This is it!"

Two minutes later, Kiana held the wall with both hands, letting her back form an incline. Only a small amount of water molecules in the shower overflowed unwillingly from the pipe, gathered together, and then gathered into the size of a drop of water. Unknowingly, Falling asleep.

"Tick-tock——"

Naturally, there would be no such magical sound in reality. The water droplet just landed on Kiana's back. You don't have to think about it to know that the skin there is rising, and then the extremely motivated Pado used a wet towel to harden her. Wipe everything flat.

"Um...Pado, have you never rubbed someone's back before?"

"Hey, hehe... Sister Kiana is so observant..."

Although he did not admit it, it was regarded as acquiescence.

"His...it's nothing...his...I just think that a skilled hand...his...won't rub it so painfully..."

"Huh? Does it hurt?"

Padu stared at the coarse towel wrapped around his palm. In his impression...it didn't seem to hurt...

No, actually it was just because that memory was too beautiful, so it has been passed down to this day, and the brain automatically ignores the painful part of it.

Kiana's voice is still chattering:

"I think Miss Padu likes this... um..."

"You just want to say you like money!"

"Uh... yes, so it sounds a little strange that this is the first time that a job that can be paid in exchange for bathing is put into practice."

"Because it was just a whim..."

Padu muttered softly:

"We love money, but the work of rubbing my back is too tiring, and I don't want to risk my life. The main thing is... I remembered some things from the past... When I was a child, I was also in the dirty streets. He was homeless in the alley, collecting leftovers and keeping company with wild cats, until there was an old man, well, a homeless old man who was just as greedy for money as the old man downstairs. In the winter of his eight-year-old year, Ping. The old man who often shouted that he wanted to sell me left the last piece of bread to me and then died. Not long after, we were really lucky and was picked up by a brother and a sister. The sister was holding a towel at the time. He was rubbing my back like this in the bathroom. So from that moment on, I thought, if one day I could save a desperate person and give her a back rub, that would be it.”

Kiana didn't answer and didn't know how to answer.

"The sister she's talking about is Alicia, right?"

Fu Hua's voice sounded in her mind.

"Alicia? Is that also the squad leader's former comrade?"

Kiana's thoughts were directly transformed into sounds, resounding in her heart.

"yes."

In this regard, Hua once again showed his expertise in being concise and concise.

"By the way, monitor, you haven't told me just now, why is it... a surprise that Pado was sent here?"

"because……"

Probably shocked by the girl's intelligence that was completely inconsistent with her usual image, Hua didn't speak again for a long time.

"Because... the 'brother' she calls is Mikael."

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Kiana was leaning against the window sill. The size of her clothes seemed to fit her perfectly, but there was still a lot of room to spare. It seemed that the cat girl had a better figure than her.

From time to time, there is an itching feeling at the contact point between the skin and the fabric, but that is not because the clothes are not clean, but because of the static electricity that breaks out between the back and the clothes that have just been rubbed.

Outside the window, there was the noise of banging iron basins everywhere, and the sounds of hawkers arrogantly collecting rags and selling wine gradually started from the left ear, and then dissipated from the extreme distance that the right ear could catch. There was silence in the small rental house, with only a little bit of sunset filtering in from the window, like the yolk of a poached egg that was squeezed before being turned over.

Pado said hello to her and went down to buy dinner, leaving her alone in a daze at a loss.

She held her chin up, and with a "Pulling" sound, a dark shadow fell in front of her, staring at her through the thin window glass.

The girl's biology is not great, but it is not difficult to tell an owl apart.

The owl stood stupidly in front of her for half an hour. When the world continued to simmer in the pot and the skin of the poached eggs became charred, the owl turned its head, leaving Kiana with a strange expression, spread its wings and flew away. .

Kiana rubbed her eyes and thought it was her imagination.