Collapse 3: The girl who chased the fire moth

A familiar voice came from the communicator, and Teresa came back to her senses.

"Grandpa... I can hear you."

"What happened to you? Why was the connection lost? Where's Patrick?"

Otto asked.

"Patrick is missing, he may have been given by the Herrscher..."

Teresa pursed her lips,

"I was trapped just now, as if I saw the... past of this laboratory. Grandpa, are you here..."

"Theresa."

Otto's voice became a little cold,

"What you need is to report the situation, and I will listen to you about other trivial matters later."

"...Yes, after the Second Herrscher went out, a girl with horns appeared. She defeated the Second Herrscher, but she just disappeared for some reason."

Teresa resisted the desire to continue asking about her mood, and said.

"Disappear? Merlu... No, nothing. Teresa, did she say anything before she disappeared?"

Otto's tone seemed to have changed, and it seemed that this incident was beyond his expectations.

"She said... don't interfere with her memory... It seems that someone has interfered."

Teresa carefully recalled the intermittent words just now,

"Grandpa?! The Second Herrscher has recovered, we must hurry..."

"Siegfried is already there, you don't have to do anything, just wait for my rescue."

"But grandpa..."

"Beep beep..."

……

"Hey, what happened just now? Why is the Second Herrscher lying on the ground?"

Siegfried raised his two guns and said in a rather nonchalant manner.

"The girl just now..."

Salome frowned slightly,

"It's her? Why are you here..."

"Do you know her, Salome?"

asked Nicholas.

"We met in the snowy mountains a few years ago, when the Snow Wolf team was almost wiped out, she was the one who saved us."

Salome said while raising her weapon.

"No wonder the Second Herrscher was able to beat him to his knees begging for mercy... What should we do now?"

Nicholas whistled.

"The Second Herrscher didn't kneel down and beg for mercy. Also, we are surrounded by Honkai Beasts."

Salome obviously didn't have the leisure to talk to her.

"Attention, ladies."

Married. Has a daughter. Siegfried scratched his head with the butt of his gun,

"Don't let any of them go."

on the other side of the mountain

"Destiny fools, isn't this totally entangled?"

Tesla glanced at the few people on the ground and sighed.

"Hundreds of Houkai Beasts, are they really Herrscher?"

Walter Yang just casually glanced down. To him, the Honkai Beasts, which can cause headaches for Siegfried and the Valkyries, are just a bunch of rabble.

"Compared to this, I am more worried about my sister's situation, Dr. Tesla, will the situation just now affect my sister?"

"……what."

Tesla froze for a moment, and quickly calculated in his mind,

"It's broken, something must have happened to Melutina..."

"..."

Walter Yang resolutely dismissed the idea of ​​saving Siegfried and the others, turned around and left,

"Contact Ain and calculate, you must first ensure the safety of your sister."

"The Second Herrscher?"

"Get the atomic bomb ready, I'll try to be as fast as I can, hope..."

Walter glanced at Siegfried,

"He does his job well."

Coincidentally

At this time, on the other side of the mountain, Otto wore a mask and arrived here.

"Very good, now it's the turn of the anti-entropy friends, heh..."

Otto shook his head,

"It's such an easy-to-understand group of people. A meaningless sense of justice and conscience will destroy you. That's why you keep losing. The power of love will make a person, and it will also destroy a person.

I know that you will never let Siegfried and the others ignore them, after all... you are both heroes who dedicated their lives to defeating the Houkai. "

As he spoke, Otto turned his gaze to the battlefield.

10 minutes later

"Well, it's more than enough, the action of anti-entropy is really slow, so does this also claim to be the first in civilization and technology?"

Half an hour later

"Siegfried... can he still hold on? I didn't come here to deal with this mob."

after an hour

"..."

……

"here it is……"

"where?"

Lin Nai looked around blankly, seeing a piece of white, and the two, black and white past.

"Who are you?"

Chapter 4 Welcome back, Melutina

It is the cage of memory, the infinite corridor.

In this depth, only she is still tightly bound.

5 years unchanged.

If time never changes, if memory stays forever.

That unchanging eternity will eventually become scars.

deeply, deeply...

Engraved deep in the soul.

Losing has become a habit, but you will never get used to it.

A shadow is a shadow because its back is against the light

But who can give up?

Who can... accept it.

……

"This is the turning point of our memory, the fork in the memory corridor."

Melutina sat there, staring at her other self.

"Well, I remember."

Lin Nai stood with her back to the light, and her shadow enveloped the sitting Melutina.

"Long time no see, another me."

"Well, long time no see."

Simple greeting, but no follow-up.

"That's the trap she gave us, just like that... that person 5 years ago."

Melutina turned her face away, looking at the paintings in this corridor formed by memories, which recorded her whole life.

"That was the first time we had a strong disagreement, wasn't it?"

Lin Nai put his hands in his white coat, and looked at the painting leisurely and even a little chic.

From Melutina's point of view, that posture looked like...

"Is this a painting? The death of Wei Wei... maybe it should be named like this?"

Lin Nai looked at the painting and turned to look at Melutina

"Melutina stabbed her senior sister Weiwei to death with a gun... No matter what the process is, the result will not change."

"But we all know the process...I said no, you accepted."

Melutina stared at Linnai intently.

"Yes."

Lin Nai nodded, she walked past one painting and another,

"So many people died..."

"Melutina!"

Melutina finally couldn't help but strangled the woman's neck,

"You clearly know... You clearly know! I am your shadow... I am a life form formed from your memory! Why... I just want to be your shadow! But why, why must it be you! Betrayed them!"

"Really? I don't think so."

Lin Nai's eyes looked at the first painting,

"Remember? I told Adam that when my brother died, he shed a lot of blood and stained the entire fountain red."

"..."

Melutina stared at her intently without saying a word.

"Hangkai, it's really unreasonable. It appears suddenly and takes your life away."

Linnai took a step back and broke away from Melutina's grasp,

"My brother was an idiot who should have died before me because he was an older brother. Adam was also an idiot who died there because he wanted to be a hero."

"I won't allow you to say that about them! Especially you!"

"Okay, don't get excited, Melutina."

Lin Nai was unmoved, and there was a sense of familiarity in his tone, which made Melutina subconsciously put away her anger,

"You know her, um, Mebius. She is special to you and me."