Collapse: The World I Live In

"Hey! Kid, why don't you sit down and talk?" Hen said to the boy while dodging the attack of the boy's giant axe. Although Hen knew that this boy was not an ordinary person and was most likely a fusion warrior like himself, but looking at his young face, Hen couldn't bear to attack this boy who was younger than Kosmo, and he had indeed seen this boy somewhere.

But what responded to Hen was a downward slash from the young man. At this time, the bracelet on Hen's wrist emitted a blue light and turned into a shield that stood upright in front of Hen to block the young man's attack.

"It's not good for you to be so murderous at such a young age..." Hen said slowly behind the shield.

"What do you know!" Hearing Hen's tone, the young man yelled at Hen unhappily, and at the same time swung his axe at Hen. Fortunately, Hen evacuated the surrounding troops in advance to help Kosmo and the others, otherwise the casualties might be difficult to estimate.

"Sure enough..." Hearing the boy's words, Hen knew that he had definitely met this boy before, but why did he have such a strong grudge against him? Hen looked at the boy in front of him, who was a head shorter than him and whose face was covered by long dark purple hair, and the blood-red axe in his hand that was much taller than him, and said, "Have we met before somewhere?"

"Do you remember?" The boy suddenly stopped attacking and looked at Hen and said, "It's because of you! I became like this now!" The violent aura spread out from the boy as the center, blowing up the boy's hair, and Hen also recognized the boy.

"How is this possible? Why..." Hen was very surprised. This young man was the survivor of the fifth collapse. He was the only young man who survived in the village where Qianjie lived. His name was Lingshi!

"Why are you here? Shouldn't you be in Fire Moth?" Hen asked doubtfully. He was deeply impressed by this young man. After all, in Hen's eyes, this young man was a boy who yearned for heroes just like Kosmo. Hen thought that in a few years he might fight side by side with this young man, but he didn't expect that they would be enemies when they met again.

"Why? It's all because of you! You sent me to such a hell! If it wasn't for Lord Dou who rescued me and gave me strength, I would have died long ago!" Lingshi said to Hen with gritted teeth, and told Hen everything that happened after he was rescued by Hen.

At the beginning, after Hen rescued Lingshi, due to the mission and the fact that Lingshi was too young to join Fire Moth like Kosmo, he was sent to an orphanage. However, that orphanage was an orphanage on the surface, but in fact it was a high-level laboratory of Fire Moth. Lingshi suffered inhuman torture experiments there. Not only did those idiots in the laboratory fail to figure out the cause, they also infected Lingshi with Honkai disease during the experiment. Lingshi hoped countless times that Hen, the person who rescued him, would come to save him again. Obviously, Lingshi did not wait for Hen, but he waited for another person - Dou!

"What a poor child... Look at this horrible environment, it's not a place for people to live..." Dou, who was wearing a red robe, clicked his tongue and said to Lingshi who was locked in a cage.

"Who are you..." Lingshi asked weakly. After all, he was very fragile now. He curled up against the wall, half of his body was eroded by the collapse, and even a part of his hand began to turn into a dead body.

"It doesn't matter who I am... What matters is whether you want to live?" Dou said with a smile, adjusting his glasses.

"Yes! I want to live!" Lingshi heard what Dou said and felt the strength from nowhere, so he quickly crawled to the side of the cell, grabbed the railing and said to Dou.

"Very good..." Kabuto smiled, and then a white snake came out from Kabuto's red robe, climbed onto Lingshi's neck, and bit Lingshi's neck.

Suddenly, Lingshi felt severe pain and could not help but screaming, "Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!" The sound was so loud that it echoed throughout the entire dungeon. Lingshi rolled on the ground in pain, one hand tightly grasping the place where he was bitten by the snake, and his eyes began to roll back.

"I'll wait for you outside...if you can survive..." Dou stood up and said to the boy rolling on the ground. This was an idea he had on a whim. He wanted to see if the boy could hold on. If he could, he would gain unparalleled power. Of course, his death would not affect the plan at all.

Five minutes after Kabuto left, the boy stopped screaming and stood up again. The traces of the original collapse and erosion on his body disappeared, red horns grew on both sides of his forehead, and his originally light blue hair turned dark purple. At this moment, he felt unprecedented strength. He stretched out his hand and gently pulled, and the cage that originally trapped him was easily destroyed like a piece of paper.

"Hahahahaha!" Lingshi laughed, and his laughter echoed throughout the entire dungeon. For Lingshi, this power represented freedom and of course it also meant that the time for revenge had come. He reached behind his back and pulled out an axe from his spine. The axe was the weapon formed from his own spine. He slowly walked out of the dungeon.

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"Wow~ I didn't expect you to actually survive." Dou said while standing on a high place while looking at the orphanage that was already on fire.

"Why did you save me..." Lingshi came behind Kabuto and asked.

"Save you? I'm not that kind. I'm also one of those scientists you hate, but unlike those idiots, I'm a winner while they're losers." Dou said without turning his head, "For me, what's important is not you as a person, but your power. I want you to do things for me..."

"Are you so sure that I will agree to you? What if I don't help you?" Lin Shi asked tentatively.

"No, no, no, you still don't understand your situation. The top leaders of Fire Moth are all vindictive people. Just based on your behavior of destroying the secret laboratory of the top leaders of Fire Moth today, you will never be able to join Fire Moth to realize your ridiculous heroic dream. If you want to survive, you can only follow me. You have no other choice. And if you still want to become stronger... only I can make you stronger!" Kabuto turned his head and looked at Reitoki. His snake eyes scared Reitoki a little. "This experiment on you is only the first generation. You will become stronger later."

"Then... I'll follow you..." Lin Shi said. He never wanted to go back to the time when he had no power and could only be slaughtered by others. He wanted stronger power!

"It's the right choice, so what else is there to do? If not, it's time to leave." Kabuto said to Lingshi.

Lingshi came to Dou's side, looked deeply at Hen who was directing the people to put out the fire, and said to Dou, "It's gone..."

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"I... am sorry..." Hen said guiltily. He really didn't expect Lingshi to go through this.

"Do you know? The most serious disease suffered by humans is not the incurable Honkai disease, but a disease called hope!" Lingshi shouted at Hen, "I believed in you so much at the beginning, and hoped that you would come to save me! But! As expected! It is best to kill people like you!" After saying that, the axe in Lingshi's hand grew bigger again, and he chopped towards Hen with unmatched force.

However, this fierce attack was easily dodged by Hen. Lingshi was very surprised to see this, as he had clearly hit it, so why was it dodged?

In fact, the truth is very simple. Ling Shi, who had not received any professional training, only had strength but no skills. His actions were directly seen through by Hen, who was a veteran in the battle.

Lingshi obviously didn't notice this, and he increased his attack speed, swinging the giant axe towards Hen, but Hen always dodged it at the last moment before the attack.

"Why! Why! Why!" Lingshi roared unwillingly, but still did not stop his attack.

"Ah... you are still too naive, young man..." Hen appeared in front of Ling Shi in an instant and kicked him in the abdomen, sending him flying into the ruins. "It's not too late to stop now!"

"What a joke!" Lingshi roared, "Baqiu! Attack!" Baqiu was the eight-headed giant beast on the floor.

Hearing their names being called, the eight heads of Baqiu opened their mouths at the same time, and the purple energy of collapse gathered in their mouths. Eight purple rays shot out in the surroundings, causing explosions and screams. Five of them hit the camp of Hen's troops, two shot towards Kosmo and Desdobia, and the last shot towards Hen.

Hen quickly turned the weapon in his hand into a shield, ready to block Baqiu's attack, but Hen did not expect Baqiu's attack power to be so high. Although it did not break Hen's shield, the force it carried directly knocked Hen into the air.

"Bah! Kid, I'm really angry!" Hen rolled over on the ground for a few times and spit out the dust in his mouth, then said to Lingshi. After all, he heard the scream just now, and that was his teammate!

"Alas, what can you do?" Lingshi tilted his head and said with a sick smile.

Hen turned the shield in his hand into a big sword and attacked Lingshi directly. This time he would show no mercy!

On the other side, Desdobia and Paddo looked at the beams of light that were about to hit them, hugged each other, and they both thought at the same time in their hearts: My life is over!

But just when the light beam was about to hit the two women, a black figure appeared in front of the two women and blocked the light beam with his body.

The person who saves the situation like a superhero is none other than Kosmo, who aspires to become a hero!