People are crumbling, they're vile strangers

"So why does Miss Ben listen to you!"

Baimao Tuanzi glared at the woman who stopped because of her questioning. If she didn't give a reasonable explanation, she didn't seem to move a single step.

"Because this is where your mother's life is buried, your father's past is buried, and your birth is also hidden..."

The hermit who gave the answer ignored the girl behind him and walked straight forward.

"What—! Hey! Wait for me, explain to Miss Ben!"

Kiyana heard the news about her mother and father, and excitedly chased after the woman who had gone away.

She wants to find the answers to the past, she wants to find the memories of the past, but the truth-often is cruel and unsatisfactory

"Huh, huh—hey, you know the story about stinky daddy and mommy? Tell me!"

This guy is obviously walking, why does this lady have to run for a long time to catch up!The girl caught up with the hermit panting, and eagerly asked the woman a question.

"Ask me? Son, why don't you go and see for yourself—"

Kiyana followed the gaze of the hermit and looked up. In the snow field in the distance, a sky-reaching tower stood in the center of a certain base.

"This is Siberia at midnight on February 2000, 2, and in front of us is the most important Honkai laboratory in the past - the Babylonian laboratory"

"And that tall tower also has an ironic name - the Tower of Babel, the Tower of Babylon."

"The germination place of the second collapse... let's go, don't you want to know what happened in that tower..."

The hermit's footsteps accelerated again, heading towards the tower, and Kiyana had to keep up with Omega's pace

"Hey! You can't walk slowly! Wait for this lady!!!"

The girl strode after the hermit, and the woman who heard the words finally slowed down her pace, letting the white-haired ball behind her trot to catch up with her

"Hoohoo—you're walking really fast... Hey, why didn't a single guard or researcher see this base?"

The two stood at the gate of the Babylon experiment, but Qiyana couldn't see a single guard or staff. The whole base was as quiet as a dead city

"Because they're all dead, what's the problem?"

The door was opened, and a researcher in a white robe fell face to face. The hermit turned sideways, and the man's body fell straight on the ground. His face was still twisted and frightened with pain, and his body was still soft. into a state of rigidity.There is still a trace of body temperature to the touch

The hermit took out a card from his body, stepped over the researcher's remains, and walked towards the freight elevator of the Tower of Babel

"Miss Hermit...you said they...are all dead?"

Qiyana looked at the dead body of the man in front of her in disbelief. The expression of fear and pain that remained when he was killed made Qiyana feel physically uncomfortable.

"At midnight on February 2000, 2, in Siberia's Destiny Babylon laboratory, a research team of 1 people in total and an A-level Valkyrie squad stationed in the laboratory—"

"Total annihilation, most of the remains of the members are missing, and the lucky guy at your feet didn't leave the whole body, his internal organs were pulled out."

"It's the red one on the snow."

"Ouch—" Kiyana finally vomited out

Chapter 66 They Don't Deserve Your Pity

The hermit quietly watched the girl in front of her vomit, but she couldn't vomit anything and shook her head.

"Stop retching here... After all, this is a dream after all, and I can't vomit anything."

The girl caressed her upper body vigorously, suppressing the discomfort in her stomach, and shouted to the hermit:

"Who is it! Why did she use such cruel means to abuse these ordinary people and Valkyrie?!"

The girl's blue eyes are full of anger, she is angry for these dead people, angry for the cruel treatment they received...

And the hermit just curled his lips boredly, and gave the girl an unexpected answer for her sympathy and anger——

"Perhaps only the Valkyrie team deserves your sympathy...but it's only worth it."

"As for most of the remaining 322 researchers, this is the retribution they must suffer—they deserve death."

The hermit's ruthless evaluation made Qiyana clenched her fists, as if she was ready to rush up and punch her at any moment.

"You're angry and dissatisfied - indeed, most people can accept that people die every second and every moment in this world for various reasons, but people often can't accept that someone dies in front of them... just because the death is by their own eyes see."

"It's no surprise...so you're angry at my right words...because I didn't show most of them the slightest bit of mercy."

"...Go ahead, boy, and I'll make it clear to you."

The hermit opened the elevator door leading to the Tower of Babel, and Qiyana followed her into the elevator silently. The door closed, and the elevator began to rise gradually, bringing a little weightlessness to the girl

"The Babylon laboratory located on the Siberian snowfield is the second largest Houkai energy research facility in Destiny, and in the Babylon Tower, there is the third largest Houkai energy reactor in the world at that time."

The hermit introduced the composition and history of this laboratory to the silent girl in the elevator

"The tower is divided into 50 floors, the bottom 20 floors are for the energy area of ​​the reactor, and the other 30 floors are the three research departments that were very important to the destiny at that time."

"The lowest-level energy department, they are mainly responsible for the basic theoretical research on Houkai energy, and provide support for the development of other projects. Although the researchers in this department are not evil, their hands are more or less stained with blood, which is not clean .”

"In the weapons department, they convert the Honkai energy into combat weapons based on the theory put forward by the energy department. The Armament of the Gods you see in the Destiny Arsenal was developed with the assistance of this department."

"And on the top floor of the tower...the artificial stigmata technology used by this generation of Valkyrie came from them."

"It's great, it's great, right? The artificial stigmata provided strong support and guarantee for countless Valkyries who fought on the battlefield of Honkai—"

"The advanced system department, the most staffed department in the Tower of Babel laboratory, and the largest proportion of researchers, mainly researches the technology of combining Honkai energy with the human body...that is - human experiments."

"Oh, don't expect anything from their morals, boy."

"The participants in those experiments were children up to the age of sixteen...and—"

"And...and what?!" Kiyana looked at the hermit beside her

"These children who participated in the experiment... all ended up being tortured to death by the overdose of Houkai on the test bench—no one survived."

"And their lives eventually turned into rows of cold data, which became a bargaining chip for researchers to ask for more funds and resources, and became their so-called honor and fame."

"Become—the capital they boast about."

"Now, do you still sympathize with them?"

"—they shall descend into the abyss, to the very depths—their names shall be spurned by all nations."

"Their evil deeds caused the gods of the highest heaven to cast their sights, and caused this rebellious tower to collapse since then...Let all beings on the ground cry helplessly in the catastrophe—"

...The elevator door opened, and the two men fled in front of them in a panic.

The sound of hurried footsteps gradually faded away, leaving only panicked words.

"Run faster! That monster is about to catch up!!!"

And at the corner they ran before, a pure white figure appeared, it was the figure of a little girl, the whole body was made of white light, and at this moment she was letting out a treacherous laugh full of joy, like an evil ghost in a horror movie generally.

"whee--!"

She chased the direction of the two researchers like a soul-locked impermanence, ignoring the two in the elevator.

"Who is she?" Kiyana looked at her narrator.

"She?...she is the sight cast by the gods, the bitter fruit they brewed, one of the few survivors of the human experiment in the Tower of Babel, the victim and perpetrator of the second collapse..."

"Second Herrscher Sirin."

"Sirin...I always feel that this name is very familiar..."

Kiyanas thought about the familiar name in her mind, but couldn't think of anything, as if something was preventing her from remembering.

"Keep reading..."

The hermit interrupted the girl's futile thinking, and led her to move forward. At this moment, the hurried footsteps of the two researchers could no longer be heard in the corridor, only the treacherous laughter remained, and then a human scream sounded.

"Don't... don't go, save me!!"

"My legs! I can't feel my legs!"

The researcher's wailing resounded through the entire passage, and Qiyana, who heard someone calling for help, subconsciously wanted to rush over, and was immediately caught by the hermit.

"What do you want to do?" There was a puzzled look from the black V-shaped mask under the hood.

"It's time to save him!"

Baimao Tuanzi struggled hard, trying to break free from the shackles of the hermit

"...This is what happened in history, we are just bystanders, what are you thinking..."

Confusion in the tone under the mask

"I don't care! My stinky old man told me! The people of Kaslana's family will never die!"

The girl struggled harder and harder, and the hermit had no choice but to loosen her restraint

"You can't save him..."

The girl turned a deaf ear, and rushed towards the white little girl figure and the researcher, and then the figure of Baimaotuanzi passed through their bodies, and hit the wall hard, causing her to cry out in pain.

"It's all said...everything here is a bubble phantom...just past history...."

The hermit who followed from behind looked at the girl covering her head and shook her head helplessly

"Aren't you able to touch the researcher's body, and get the key card from him?!"

Kiyana pointed to the woman in front of her, and said what she had just seen and done.

"That's just a special interactive behavior that can only be produced to conform to your cognitive logic... The normal situation is what you are doing now."

"I bumped my head against something... In reality, you probably fell off the bed by now..."

The hermit looked at the girl in front of him and shook his head, his body began to disappear gradually

"Wait, where are you going?!"

"What you did just now woke you up...and it's almost dawn, remember to get up and go to class, little girl, we'll see you next time—"

The illusion was shattered, and Qiyana was thrown out of the dreamland.

Chapter 67 She's Not You

"Wow——" Kiyana, who woke up from the floor, shivered and looked at the ceiling of her room. Just as the hermit in the dream said, she fell off her bed, and because of a bad night's sleep, Zi, now there is no place that is not sore.

And the tossing and tossing in the dream all night made her sleepy and drowsy now... Then the college's wake-up bell rang by coincidence.

"...Kiana got up!"