Chapter 593 No One Remembers Miss Wendy Anymore

"Relax, Miss Guinevere, please relax - can you please tell us now, when did you go to find Kiana last night?"

There were no silver bracelets to restrain her, but the iron chair seemed a little too hard, so Guinevere kept adjusting her sitting posture, and even ignored the questions of the [Interrogator] across the table for a time.

So, Yimer, who was reluctantly pulled out to count, couldn't help but sip his coffee and glanced at Cang Xuan beside him without leaving any trace. The latter understood, and then repeated the question in a gentler tone:

"Miss Guinevere, do you remember about what time you knocked on Kiana Kaslana's door last night?"

Probably sensing the girl's nervousness, Cang Xuan turned the pen in his hand and continued to comfort him:

"Miss Guinevere, you have also seen that we have not taken any coercive measures against you, which means that you are not a suspect in this incident. It is just that the time of Miss Kiana's disappearance needs further confirmation. At this point, as the penultimate person who may have contact with Kiana, we also need your help."

"Well……"

Guinevere murmured softly twice, then tilted her head and thought for a while, then slowly gave her answer:

"Probably, around 9:10?"

The ball pen between Cang Xuan's fingers stopped spinning. She put a tick after pointing to the word [time], and then added a line of notes——

[It is consistent with the monitoring time of 21:17, which may rule out the possibility of mental manipulation]

"Can you describe to us the cause and effect?"

"Hmm... um! At that time, Hime-senpai had just come back and told us that he wanted to bring Kiana to play with him. Then I volunteered to ask Kiana to come..."

"But you are the only wounded person among the four. Logically speaking, everyone should take care of you, right? Or is there any reason why you have to look for Kiana?"

As soon as the words came out, Cang Xuan felt that his tone was too harsh. He always felt that the girl opposite would become nervous again...

But she unexpectedly expected it wrong - the girl who was nervously adjusting her butt position on the chair a minute ago just raised her injured hand and scratched her head in embarrassment.

"Well... you see, it's not a serious injury that affects my movements. It's just a scratch on my skin caused by a bullet. There are no sutures. And the main reason is... well, I lost ten games in a row at cards, so I thought Maybe going out for a walk can get rid of bad luck..."

"Losing ten games in a row would be too miserable..."

Yimer huddled at the corner of the table and said something faintly, his expression clearly showing empathy, so much so that Cang Xuan had to step heavily on his instep with high heels to make him regain consciousness.

Having said that, this does not affect Cang Xuan's check mark after the word "process" and a note: "Consistent with the confessions of Himeko, Bronya and Xi'er"

"Then...Miss Guinevere, what happened after you knocked on the door?"

"Eh... After I knocked on the door, no one opened the door. Then I knocked several times and called Kiana's name, but no one opened the door and no one responded. Then I turned around casually. The door handle, but I didn’t expect the door to be unlocked, so I went right in.”

"You went in and walked around, and then found that Kiana was not there?"

"Yeah, the lights and air conditioning aren't on either."

"Uh-huh."

Cang Xuan drew a circle with unknown meaning on the white paper, then smiled and nodded:

"Thank you Miss Guinevere for your cooperation. You have really helped us a lot. Now you can go and have a rest. I am really grateful!"

Seeing the "interrogator" saying goodbye so gently and even bowing to her while still sitting, Guinevere suddenly became embarrassed again.

"It won't be of much help... Kiana is also my friend, and I hope to get her back as soon as possible..."

After a few greetings, Guinevere left this dull room.

The moment the door closed softly, Cang Xuan sighed tiredly and slowly lay down on the table.

Turning her head, she saw Yimer tapping his ball pen on the table. She couldn't help but slide her upper body towards Yimer, raised her head, patted his arm, and asked softly. :

"How about it, do you think there's anything wrong with this girl?"

"Um?"

Yimer silently distanced himself a little, and it even seemed like he was about to slide out of the table.

However, he still tried his best to answer that question:

"I feel... there should be no problem. She is just a pretty ordinary girl, with low self-esteem and nervousness, but also very energetic."

"But the more normal she is, the more I feel that there are some abnormal emotions hidden in her."

"So, according to you, there are no normal people in this world?"

Ignoring Yimer's teasing, Cang Xuan silently retracted himself.

Yimer shook his head and laughed. He habitually took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, held the cigarette case and flicked it upwards, then held one in his lips.

However, before he could take out the lighter, he felt the burning gaze from his side.

"Cough cough cough!"

Amidst the awkward coughing sound, he put away the cigarette and complained instead:

"Really, why do we need to do this kind of thing..."

"There is no way. In the worst case scenario, if it is really the Tenth Herrscher, then we are more reliable than the humans of this era."

"No, no, no, I'm not talking about that, I'm saying...why not let Erwin come? I am a combatant, and my impression of this kind of life is still about the tiger bench, pepper water, and leather whip."

"Did you forget how big that guy's mouth is?"

"It's okay. Although he likes to brag everywhere, he has never leaked important information."

"It's always good to be careful, and he was quite reluctant when he was pulled out."

"All right……"

Ymer yawned incomprehensibly, then turned his head, looked at the black wall opposite to where Guinevere left just now, and waved his hand.

Then, he and Cang Xuan stopped lazily and sat upright again.

The next moment, the door to the room was opened, and a man with long hair came in and consciously sat on the chair opposite them.

"Mr. Kruger. May I call you that?"

"Um."

The man's silent and cold posture reminded Yimer of something, and his body couldn't help but tremble.

Seeing this, Cang Xuan couldn't help but sigh again, and then took up the conversation again:

"Mr. Kruger, you were the first to report Kiana's disappearance, but... may I ask, why did you go to find Kiana early in the morning? Logically speaking, you should not know Kiana, let alone It’s impossible to have such a good relationship that we can meet in private, right?”

"Yes, that's true, but I do have work matters that require Miss Kiana's cooperation."

"Work? You should be just an intern, right? And you participated in the operation in Salt Lake City during the day yesterday, so you should be on leave today."

The result of Cang Xuan's series of questions was the man's puzzled look:

"Miss, have you never been an intern?"

In an instant, some bad memories were brought up. Cang Xuan turned pale and kept nodding.

"Mr. Kruger, I understand what you mean..."

…………

"Click——"

The sound of the door opening fell into this dark and silent room, immediately attracting everyone's attention.

When the door was pushed inward, it was as if a small gap had been torn apart in the space. White light, which symbolized reality, entered along this gap and divided the entire darkness into two halves.

Then, a man's head popped in. After looking at him carefully for less than two seconds, another slender hand stretched out from behind him. After groping randomly on the wall for a while, there was a "pop" and the light mercilessly swallowed up the room. the whole world.

"Has all the information been sorted out?"

Mei leaned on the back of the chair and asked calmly.

"Ah... um."

It's not that Yimer was unlucky, but the scene of so many big guys gathered in a circle, with a cup of green unknown liquid in front of everyone, was somewhat... absurd and shocking.

"Let's just say the conclusion, as concisely as possible."

"Ah... all the collected information has been uploaded to the terminal. Regarding the two suspects, Cang Xuan and I have the opinion that... we don't seem to have found anything wrong with those two people."

Following his words, from left to right, whether it was Mei and Hua, Theresa and Walter, or Einstein and Dr. Tesla, they all grabbed the tablet in front of them and lowered their heads to read through it.

"Both of them had their own reasons for appearing there. Guinevere was planning to call Kiana to play with them, while Kruger was an intern and should have enjoyed a vacation, but was arranged by the medical department to go there. See Kiana for your regular weekly check-up.”

"Well, what else?"

Mei asked expressionlessly.

"Uh... both of them mentioned that the door to Kiana's room was unlocked. They both opened the door and walked into Kiana's dormitory. The scenes in the dormitory they described were almost the same. In other words, between For more than eleven hours, Kiana's dormitory has remained in its original state. That is to say..."

"Do you think that Kiana's disappearance happened before Guinevere opened her door, right?"

"Yes."

Under the familiar pressure, Yimer nodded vigorously as a habit, his chin barely touching his chest.

"When we were confirming whether Kiana Kaslana was really missing, we called up almost all the monitoring resources in the base. Based on this, we generated a schedule of Kiana Kaslana yesterday. surface."

Theresa turned the information to the corresponding page. When she saw the dense fonts, she couldn't help but hold her forehead and said softly:

"Let's talk about the conclusion first. We can look at these slowly."

"Yesterday at noon, uh... when Ms. Theresa went to chase Kiana, Kiana must have cleared the power of the Second Herrscher and went directly to the warehouse where Benares was restrained."

"Benares? Kiana probably doesn't know where it is kept. Could it be the Second Herrscher..."

"There is a possibility, but Kiana didn't seem to do anything extraordinary. After a brief contact with Benares, she entered the space rift again. If it were the Second Herrscher, she would probably choose to take him directly. Let Benares leave. However, from this moment on, Kiana completely disappeared from the range of the camera, but - we suspected that she returned to her bedroom."

"Doubt? In other words, there is no actual evidence."

"No...no, in fact, the evidence is still there, but it's not that clear - there has been no movement at the door of Kiana's dormitory since noon yesterday. Until 5:38 in the afternoon, the door of Kiana's dormitory The door suddenly opened. However, the camera angle did not capture the situation inside the house. "

Theresa sipped the bitter melon juice gently, the taste was familiar, but she could not relax her frown.

"Kiana didn't come out of it?"

"No, I didn't see anyone outside the door. It was just that the door suddenly opened and closed for a few seconds, and then closed gently. It wasn't so much that someone opened the door and wanted to come out, but it was more like opening the door for someone outside. ”

"Open the door for air?"

Theresa asked back, half angrily and half mockingly.

"Well... we don't know about this. We are just recounting the situation at the scene."

Yimer shrugged casually, and then looked at Mei.

"No fingerprints or genetic material were extracted from the door?"

Yimer shook his head.

"If there is, the suspects are not just the two just now."

After receiving a negative answer, Mei didn't seem to show much surprise. She just nodded with no meaning and then signaled to Yimer and Cang Xuan that they could leave first.

"Click——"

"Dr. Mei, judging from your appearance, I should have made some guesses."

Walter only felt that his lips were a little chapped. He held up the bitter melon juice out of habit and looked at the green color. After all, he still didn't have the courage to drink it.

His eyes immediately glanced at the light switch. Before he could do anything, Tesla coughed heavily.

"It seems that no one is too worried about Kiana."

Mei did not answer Walter’s question directly, but pursed her lips and smiled.

But her words were a bit sharp.

"Although, as Kiana's aunt, I really don't want to say this, but... no matter how much I worry, it will have no effect at all. The person who took Kiana away, whether it was the Second Herrscher or someone else, , will not send Kiana back just because we are too worried here. Moreover, Siegfried is already so anxious, so I have to calm down."

Even so, Theresa still drank the bitter melon juice in one gulp in her nervousness.

"Actually, there's a little more."

Walter pushed up his glasses, although this action seemed meaningless.

"I often observe Kiana's training. With her current strength, although she cannot fully exert the power of the Second Herrscher, coupled with the foundation of the Valkyrie, she is not an opponent that can be easily defeated. Moreover, whether it is stupid or stubborn, this child has a strong will to fight. If someone thinks that everything will be fine if they catch her, they are a bit naive. Once she is given the opportunity, she will probably do it without hesitation. Let’s stab the opponent’s henchman.”

As for whether the person who kidnapped Kiana will kill her? It's hard to imagine who would choose to kill Kiana. If the target was really to kill, then Kiana should not have disappeared, but her body would have been found directly in the dormitory.

Therefore, no matter who kidnapped Kiana, at least now everyone still has enough time to organize a rescue operation.

"I think highly of her."

Mei sighed softly, but Walter nodded without hesitation.

"But, the fact that Kiana disappeared so silently means that her kidnapper has the ability to make her unable to resist, right?"

"Ai Yin, if you put it that way, I think there are only three people who can do this."

Walter pushed up his glasses again, and as expected, Tesla coughed in response.

"Mikael, the Second Herrscher, and the Herrscher of Knowledge."

He slowly read out the three names.

"Of course there is no need to say more about Michael. If the Second Herrscher can bypass Kiana and activate his power directly, he may take her away before she can react. The Herrscher of Knowledge has too special power..."

"I have confirmed it right away. Xiaoshi is fine in Taixu Mountain. It is definitely not her."

Hua suddenly spoke and interrupted Walter’s words.

The bright light shined on the lens, and with the help of this light, Mei glanced at Hua quickly, with a smile on her lips.

Walter over there picked up the bitter melon juice sheepishly and put it down gently:

"I'm just raising the possibility, not targeting the Herrscher of Knowledge. However, I can't rule out the possibility of a new Herrscher being born. I also checked the information of previous civilizations, and considering the previous mecha accident, is it possible? The so-called Ruler?"

"Joachim, are you saying that the mecha accident was a smoke grenade deliberately thrown by the Herrscher of Dominance to attract our attention? Well, in this way, the two suspects were involved in the accident yesterday. He was still present at the time.”

"This is just a possibility."

Walter held his chin up, which in a sense reflected a more scientific rigor than Tesla.

But in the end, everyone still focused on Mei.

Although she consciously sat in the corner and gave up the middle seat to Theresa and Walter, everyone sitting there understood her weight.

Maybe we can learn something from Hua's mouth, but she only defended the Herrscher of Consciousness from the beginning to the end, and it gradually became difficult to see what she was thinking.

"If the Herrschers appeared in order, it would be possible to predict accurately... Unfortunately, since Sirin obtained the five Herrscher cores, the order in which the Herrschers of this era appear is unpredictable. However, judging from the performance alone, the silent infiltration ability does not rule out the possibility that it is the Herrscher of Domination. After all, the Honkai energy detector did not show any abnormality... Well, this does not seem to be important, but there is one thing that I am very concerned about. If that point can be concluded, it can almost be confirmed that it is the Herrscher of Domination."

"What?"

Mei gently placed the tablet on the table, and then pushed it to the middle of the table.

The screen began to loop the scene of Kiana's dormitory door opening and closing.

"The door is open, but no one comes out, and no one goes in. There is no problem with the lock. What does this mean?"

"..."

No one answered. It was not that the people present were not smart enough, but that the information gap made them never think about a certain possibility.

"Compared to the two answers of 'Kiana just suddenly opened the door' or 'the door opened and closed automatically', I am more inclined to believe that someone really entered this door or walked out of this door."

"Huh? But isn't there anything on the surveillance screen? Could it be that the person is a ball of air and can't be seen at all?"

Tesla said angrily, and he was the first to be stunned-"Could it be... an optical stealth system? Impossible, that kind of thing can only be installed on large mechas like Titan at present, and special treatment needs to be done on the armor, and there is also a separate chip module. And even if it is an optical stealth system, it can actually be seen The outline of the light refraction, this... is completely invisible!! Besides, no matter what, Kiana would not open the door to a ball of air, right? "

"Perhaps, not confirming the identity of the other party through the peephole first but opening the door directly... fits my stereotype of Kaslana."

If someone else said this, it would be fine, but Theresa...

Mei glanced at her lightly, "Aren't you also Kaslana?"

"So I know that people with the surname Kaslana are so stupid..."

Until she finished speaking, Theresa realized something. She looked at Mei with her mouth open in vain, but when she thought of Kiana who was missing, she didn't even have the heart to apologize.

Mei just shook her head slightly, "These details don't really matter, and the people who came here probably didn't use [technological means]."

"What do you mean?"

"I know a Herrscher power that can achieve the effect of optical invisibility."

Mei didn't want to keep it a secret, but Wu Naihua suddenly interrupted from the side:

"It's the power of wind. In fact, the principle is the same as optical invisibility, but the Herrscher doesn't need to understand the principle to exercise the power."

Mei's eyes suddenly became a little playful, but she still nodded.

The fourth collapse of this era has a kind of anticlimactic feeling, and the Fourth Herrscher has not shown too many abilities-although the Fourth Herrscher himself did not do so in the previous era, but they have Mikael after all.

"But isn't the core of the Fourth Herrscher in Kiana's body? Could it be that the Second Herrscher controlled Kiana's body again, and then applied the Fourth Herrscher power to herself... No, that's not right. If it was really the Second Herrscher who did it, she could just open the space rift and leave. Then..."

"Well."

Mei nodded slowly.

"In the last era, the Tenth Herrscher was called the Ruler of Domination, partly because he could rule over the other Herrschers. The prerequisite is that [contact] is required."

"Contact in the literal sense?"

"Yes."

The scene became a little quiet for a while.

Finally, Theresa, who was most worried about Kiana, had to break the silence:

"I heard from the medical department that Wendy...has basically completed the rehabilitation training, right?"

"Knock, knock!"

Before anyone could respond, there was a knock on the door, and then Kevin opened the door without waiting for any response.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you all. But Mei...the former Fourth Herrscher Qualified Wendy is also missing."