Collapse 3: The girl who chased the fire moth

Just as students are not in love with their teachers, Joyce was in a similar state of mind.

……

"...Sorry, I asked you to come out with me."

Melutina shrank back on the car, seemed to have calmed down, and said apologetically to Joyce.

"It's okay, I don't understand either."

Joyce tactfully did not ask why.

"What a kind young man, no wonder he can achieve such a miracle..."

Melutina smiled wryly,

"But kind people may not be treated kindly by the world."

"Dr. Linnaeus?"

"My real name is Melutina... Many years ago, it was just Melutina, without Karl, without Feng, and without Linnai."

Melutina leaned against the car window,

"That's my friend's."

"...That should be a relic."

Joyce faintly sensed something.

"Well, because it belonged to my...friend who died 5 years ago."

Melutina said softly,

"Did you hear it in the car before? Before this civilization, there was another civilization."

"Dr. Linnaeus is... from the last era of civilization?"

Joyce gasped.

"...It's unbelievable, right? I'm over 5 years old, although I actually have memories of thousands of years."

Melutina said with a wry smile,

"My time has perished for a long, long, long time..."

"...Why did you tell me? You didn't seem to tell Dr. Plank explicitly."

Joyce asked after a moment of silence, he had no doubts, because he knew that Melutina would not make such a joke.

"Because you are special, Walter Joyce, you know, the disaster called Honkai that happened in Berlin."

"Yes, I know, they thought I survived this, so I was special...or some kind of monster."

Joyce nodded. He has experienced many human experiments, and they always told him that for human beings...

Although Joyce just felt that those people were quite selfish, perhaps among them were scientists who acted for human beings, but Joyce couldn't see this from the eyes of most people.

"In the former civilization, this kind of disaster has been thoroughly studied. Because of this kind of disaster, a civilization that was at least hundreds of years more advanced than this civilization was destroyed."

Melutina looked at Joyce, seemingly hesitating, but she still made up her mind.

"According to the results of the research at the time, it was clear that Berlin was just the beginning. And they were not mistaken, you are indeed special, but they were too incompetent to understand what you were."

"Berlin... 10 dead in Berlin! Just the beginning?"

Joyce felt a chill hit him.

"Continents are burned, land sinks, mind control... I have seen everything you can imagine and unimaginable."

Melutina glanced at him,

"Every huge Houkai disaster will give birth to a special life form, called the Herrscher, who is the apostle of Houkai and the reason why Houkai happened.

Unfortunately, Walter Joyce, you are the First Herrscher.

"This is impossible!"

Joyce stuck his head inside the car, his hands gripping the window tightly,

"I am... I am the apostle of the collapse? I caused the tragedy in Berlin? This is impossible! I have no impression!"

"Calm down, Joyce, it's not your fault, I promise."

Melutina stretched out her hand and held his whitish fingertips,

"This is the fault of the Honkai. It chose you, and then let the Honkai explode. Every Herrscher is innocent at the beginning, I have always believed so.

Lawrence does not mean that she is a bad person, never! "

Melutina said these words firmly, it was the first time Joyce saw her speak like this, and...

Melutina used "she".

"Dr. Linnaeus, but I don't have the power, I obviously can't do anything."

Joyce was a little downcast.

"Your situation is very special, and it can even be said to be a miracle. Believe me, Joyce, you will not stand on the opposite side of human beings. It's just that the time has not come, and you will know everything about yourself."

Melutina shook her head,

"I am a scientist of the former civilization. I came to this era of civilization as a forerunner. I hold another key of the former civilization... Bishop of Destiny has already got one. He always wanted to get another one, but I didn't give it to him."

"Don't you believe him? The Catholic Bishop."

Joyce asked.

"No, I trust him, at least in the fight against Honkai. But he is not someone who can inherit our will. I am waiting...I am waiting for you, waiting for you. Joyce, you are the ones I want to entrust The candidate for the key."

Melutina looked at him with burning eyes,

"Yes, you, you, Einstein, Tesla, Planck, Schrödinger, Edison... you are my hope, my... hope!"

Chapter 4 God's Key

"Melutina, I want to write a song for you."

"Me? I think maybe Kevin is more suitable."

"No, you are more suitable."

"why?"

"It's just what I think, my friend."

……

"Eden, what's wrong?"

"Ah...Meddy, have you brought all the information about the Tinder Project?"

"Well, why do I need to back up? Isn't Eden enough?"

"Just in case, that's all."

"As far as Eden is concerned, it's really cautious."

"Meddy, go to sleep."

"Eden...I still think of her."

"...Me too, Meddy, no matter how much I drink, I always feel so heavy in my heart."

"She...she's my hero."

"So you have to live like her."

"It's us."

"Well, that's right, it's us."

"... Eden, have you finished writing your song?"

"When it's finished, you'll see it right away."

"Can Eden sing to me?"

"Yes, Meddy, I will... sing it to you."

.........

"You lie...you lie...you..."

"Hey, Melutina! Melutina!"

The familiar voice awakened the dazed Melutina in an instant.

"Fleur... Delica."

Melutina pressed her head with an indescribably weak tone.

"You have a fever, since last night."

Tesla sighed, handed her a cup of hot water,

"You can't be said to be in a bad state anymore. Did the soul steel product yesterday hit you like that?"

"..."

Melutina didn't answer, but turned her head,

"Fever? It really hasn't happened in many years."

"Well, it's fine if you don't want to talk about it, but you have talked a lot with Joyce, and I don't think his face is easy to see."

Tesla sighed,

"But it's not like you at all, so paranoid, so crazy, so angry... you know? I don't feel familiar with you just now."

"Would you find me annoying if I said that was the real me?"

Melutina turned her head, her pale and morbid face still looked pretty, with another unique sense of beauty, and it should not be Tesla's illusion, she felt that this morbid beauty was also very suitable for her.

"That's not the real you, maybe you think it is, but I don't think so. If you have to say it..."

Tesla thought for a while,

"That's you in the past, just like I hate myself when I was a bear kid."

"Frederica is so honest."

Melutina hugged her and buried her chest...although she didn't.

"You... just look at how weak you are today."

Dr. Tesla is like a deflated ball,

"So, are you going to tell us something?"

"That is the Ninth God's Key, Xinghai... No, the current name is the Star of Eden. It is a weapon against Houkai made by the previous civilization. As you know, it is made of soul steel."

After burying her chest, Melutina spoke honestly.

"Hey, what kind of weapon should be made of soul steel? It's too extravagant."

Dr. Tesla was taken aback.

"No, soul steel has become insignificant compared to what's inside it..."

Melutina said softly,

"You and Liesel should have learned something from Otto... The core component of this weapon is the Herrscher core."

"What did you say?!"

Dr. Tesla jumped up all of a sudden, his lips trembling,

"Then, that thing is not..."

"Sacred Judgment of Heavenly Fire, Judah's Oath, Black Abyss White Flower, and the three most powerful weapons of destiny are all made in this way, and they are all called God's Key."

Melutina continued,

"That is to say, the one you got is the same existence as the treasures passed down from generation to generation by destiny."

"The Ninth God's Key...how many pieces are there?"