Collapse 3: The girl who chased the fire moth

"...No, it should have worked, but not for that Herrscher brat."

Melutina understood as soon as she heard it, she looked at the data on the screen with an ugly expression,

"But at least twice we had a chance to finish her off. What happened?"

"The guess is..."

Dr. Einstein smiled wryly,

"Otto did it."

"...Trying to wrest power from the gods? Or gain knowledge? What a mistake."

Melutina's expression was ugly from the beginning,

"There is a problem with Hua's memory. No, Hua doesn't know much about that will... Is this inevitable? Or..."

"Like we're all Mulls on stage following a cycloid, it's so off-putting."

Dr. Einstein's expression was not much better.

"...how about sacrifice?"

"Civilian casualties are huge. Because of the use of mechas and Yang's hard work on Anti-Entropy's side, except for Yang who has been fatally injured many times, there are not many casualties, but Destiny's side..."

Dr. Einstein hesitated for a moment and said,

"Destiny's ace Valkyrie unit, the Snow Wolf Squad, is completely wiped out."

"...All gone? Where's Cheng Lixue?"

Melutina's expression became even uglier.

"It seems that in order to cover Ms. Fu Hua, she died in battle."

Dr. Einstein sighed.

"Where's Patrick? I think that's Yang's spy on Destiny."

"She was the first to be sacrificed. In addition, Salome was confirmed dead, and Nicholas and Shi Yuqiluo's whereabouts are unknown. It is speculated that they may have also encountered an accident."

Dr. Tesla simply told the bad news together,

"Also, even that Cecilia... died from the Honkai fission bomb fired by the Tianming headquarters."

"That bastard Otto..."

Melutina bit her thumb, blood streamed down the back of her hand,

"For Karen alone, how many innocent people does he have to sacrifice?"

"Siegfried survived first, and kept in touch with us, it seems..."

Dr. Einstein gave a barely good news,

"He seems to have given up on Destiny and Otto."

"Anyway..."

Melutina put her hands on the transparent core, and her gloomy expression eased a bit,

"Yang is better than anything alive...at least for me."

"Yes."

Dr. Tesla lowered his head and said softly, with some uncontrollable sobs in his tone.

"After all, we don't want to see... the man with Walter's name sacrificed."

Dr. Einstein turned his head,

"This collapse is a huge scar to the world, but your return gives us a new deterrent."

"No organization keeps its original intention forever. We must try our best to keep the anti-entropy as our original anti-entropy."

Melutina was noncommittal about this,

"Compared to fighting against destiny, perhaps this is the most important thing."

"Crisis will intensify darkness, just as you have experienced in pre-civilizations."

Dr. Einstein nodded,

"But for anti-entropy, as long as the leader of this organization is still a person named Walter, then at least I firmly believe that all darkness can be overcome."

.........

quantum sea

"...the darkness is inevitable, and the sacrifice is engraved in the hearts of the survivors."

Kevin is standing under the Bodhi tree, that is the place where he fell and stayed, and it is also the man's favorite scenery,

"Su, you and they all believe that darkness will be overcome, and that goodwill will eventually overcome reason. I can't be like you, but..."

Kevin sat down slowly, leaning against the bodhi tree, just like the enlightened one.

"Among the countless roads, is there the only one you hope for?

Time will prove everything. If there is such a day, the fallacy only belongs to the times and belongs to me.

I am willing to bear all my sins to pay for my evil deeds.Please also, inherit their will.Melutina, you and I... are the last light and shadow of the old era. "

.........

"Are you busy?"

"……kindness."

Fu Hua kneaded the dough with his hands, with an indescribably sad expression on his face,

"I stay away from her because I don't want her to get hurt. Am I doing something wrong?"

"You've been clumsy before, and you're not bad this time."

Melutina sat on the table behind and looked at the familiar room layout, but...

"I haven't seen Cheng Lixue very much."

She flipped through some calligraphy, the handwriting was immature, obviously not from Fu Hua's hand,

"But I think, that's a good kid."

"But I'm not a good teacher."

Fu Hua's hand paused,

"I heard that you fell into the sea of ​​quantum? What happened?"

"Su is dead."

"..."

There was a brief silence between the two, and no one said a word for about a few minutes.

"yes."

Finally, Hua lowered his head, took his hand out of the dough, walked to the door, and looked at the scenery outside the window.

"This world is neither gentle nor reasonable."

Melutina was leaning on the chair, and on the painting in the room were two girls, one red and one blue.

"Sorry, Melutina."

Hua looked at the sun that was about to set,

"I may...can't comfort you anymore."

"They're all the same."

Chapter of Kiyana

With her back against the shadows, Qiyana curled up in the abandoned building in Canghai City with her legs crossed.

The Houkai energy on her body had eroded into her body, but she just stared blankly at the puddle in front of her, wondering what she was thinking.

Perhaps, thinking about this matter itself is painful enough.

Only in this kind of place where no one was around would Qiyana, who was wearing a coat, show such a cowardly and helpless expression.

That is not a cat abandoned by people... but a deer walking in the wilderness, because it has no way to retreat, and can only be turned into food for others.

"It's too far away from giving up on yourself now."

A sandwich was placed in front of Kiana, along with a can of hot coffee.

"...Why do you want to help me? Are all the people in this city so kind-hearted."

Kiyana raised her head and looked at the woman who was always delivering food to her these days.

"Kindness? Well, I think human beings are far from kindness."

Melutina put her hands behind her back,

"Well, one of the anti-entropy executors... Melutina Carl von Linnaeus, if you have studied biology well, you should know me."

"...Are you here to hunt me down too?"

"No, it's not. I haven't been out of here for a long time."

Melutina spread her hands, then pointed to her white coat,

"As you can see, I am a researcher with no power to restrain the chicken. I met you by chance, and I did not report to my old friends. However, it will be a matter of time before they find this place."

"Why not? You should feel..."

Kiyana lowered her head,

"Should I die?"

"Language is a cheap thing, and it doesn't really make people feel empathetic."

Melutina stretched out her hand, stroked the lines on the girl's body that had been eroded by Houkai, and took out some medicine from her pocket,

"If you believe me, you can take some of this drug, and it will make you feel better."

"..."

"Then, as a gift of thanks, please come and visit with me tomorrow."

Melutina held up her umbrella and looked at the raindrops outside,

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. What I just said was just my identity on the surface.

I'm Melutina, a scientist who holds the face of "Heaven" in the former civilization, I hope you can like me.Kiana Kaslana. "

……

the next morning

"What can you see when you walk on the street?"

Qiyana said a little irritably that she didn't want to agree to this strange woman at first, but the medicine she gave was indeed okay, and now Qiyana is feeling much better than a few days ago.

"civilization."

"what?"

"If the civilization built by humans does not understand this kind of thing, whether it is a Valkyrie or a Herrscher, it is unqualified from the very beginning."

Melutina shrugged,

"Pre-civilizations have experienced far more than you, and the same is true for previous medicines. Honkai strengthens with civilization, and civilization relies on Honkai to develop... This world is so contradictory. So, how can we save the world?"

"……I have no idea."

"The greatest scientist of the former civilization told her ideal. But this ideal was regarded as a means by her companions."

Melutina looked at the people coming and going, they were all living beings on the ground, but Qiyana was too young, she was still trapped in a cage, she couldn't see anything,

"Do you know... Kevin Kaslana?"

"I've heard the squad leader mention this name."

Kiana nodded.