Collapse: The World I Live In

"Doctor, do you still want to continue? You have failed many times already..." Yi couldn't help but say as he looked at the failure results in the experimental report.

"What? Don't you believe me?" Mebius stared at Yi and said. She was very dissatisfied with what Yi said.

"No, Doctor..." Yi looked at the creatures on the experimental table whose original appearance could no longer be seen, and said, "It's just... since the result of the Honkai Beast gene on low-level animals is either death or Honkai transformation... So, should we raise the level of the experimental subjects to a higher level, such as... human experiments..."

When Mobius heard Yi say the words "human experiment", he looked at Yi and said, "I never thought you would say these four words."

"People grow up, don't they? Doctor, and there's nothing we can do about it. Your plan [Fusion Warriors] will eventually be tested on humans. Experiments on animals now have not yielded any results. So if we want the plan to succeed, human experiments should be our next step, right? This is just a job to increase the success rate in the future, Doctor." Yi said calmly. Mobius could clearly feel that Yi had become more and more rational since the third collapse, although he still talked and laughed with his friends. This was a good thing for the institute, as it would help him to be more clear about his goals in the pursuit of truth, but Mobius didn't want Yi to become a rational monster.

"Hey, you're right, Yi, I'll arrange it early..." Mobius sighed. She felt annoyed when she thought about having to talk to those top executives about applying for human experiments. "Then I'll give you a day off today. I'll go find the top executives..." After that, Mobius walked out of the laboratory.

Yi and Klein were the only ones left in the lab, staring at each other.

"Klein, what are you going to do?" Yi said to Klein, who had dark circles under his eyes.

“Me? I want to sleep. My body is already in tatters!” Klein said as he walked out of the laboratory and returned to his home to catch up on some sleep. After all, those dark circles under his eyes were no joke.

"It's okay anyway. I'll go and see how Himeko uses her weapons." Yi stretched and prepared to leave the laboratory.

……

Yi was walking on the way to the training room. When he turned a corner, a gray-haired woman suddenly came from the other side and bumped into Yi.

The two who bumped into each other took a few steps back but did not fall. Yi looked at the gray-haired woman in front of him. Isn't this Himeko's team member? Her name is Hua, right?

"Are you okay?" Yi asked first.

"No, it's okay." Hua replied quickly.

The two of them fell silent.

"Are you going somewhere, Hua?" Yi broke the silence and asked Hua.

"The captain wants to talk to me about something, Dr. Yi." Hua answered honestly.

"It just so happens that I also have something to ask Himeko, would you like to join us?" Yi asked.

"Oh, okay..." Hua said.

The two of them acted together like this, without any other conversation between them. Yi had never felt so awkward before.

"Hua, I heard from Himeko that you are good at boxing?" Yi couldn't stand the silence and took the initiative to bring up the topic.

"Yes, I have been learning martial arts with my father since I was a child." Hua replied.

"…Is that it?" Yi couldn't help but say.

"Then what else should there be?" Hua asked puzzledly.

"..." Yi didn't expect that Hua was really as dull as Himeko said. At first he thought Himeko was just joking, but he didn't expect it to be true.

"Hua, you should have been just a high school student before. How was your high school life?" Yi asked again.

"High school life?" Hua's eyes dimmed a little when he heard this, and Yi noticed this expression and quickly said, "It's okay if you don't want to talk about it. We can talk about other things, such as how you met Himeko?"

"It's not something I can't say. Like the captain said, I'm a rather dull person, so I could never fit in with my classmates. But one time, I saved a classmate from the hands of a assassin, and my high school life became more colorful. But the good times didn't last long... The third collapse came, and I wanted to save my friend, but... I found that I could do nothing. I could only keep avoiding the collapse beasts and waiting for rescue. In the end, I was rescued by the captain, because my hometown had been destroyed, so I followed the captain. The captain took great care of me and taught me, and I am very grateful to him." Hua told Yi about her experience. Yi didn't expect that this girl, who was not even twenty years old, had experienced so much.

……

With the sound of the training room door opening, Yi and Hua arrived at the training place of the fifth team, which is the Himeko team.

Himeko, who heard the voice, turned to look at the person who came and said with a bit of disgust, "Why are you here again?"

"..." Yi was speechless. How had he offended Himeko? "Are you so unwelcome to me? Himeko?"

"That's not the case. It's just that the last few times you came here you were for a physical check-up, and I was curious why you always came to me instead of your good brother Hen and Kevin. What? Are you interested in me, your sister?" Himeko said with a smile.

"Hen, that's because the weapon he chose doesn't cause much harm to himself, and you know Kevin's monstrous body. Just like the protagonist in the novel, the side effects of [Long Yan] don't seem to have any effect on him. But the weapon you chose, Himeko, although not as explosive as Kevin's, but the damage it causes to the body is not much less, and your body is not as monstrous as Kevin's. You have already reached the limit of what an ordinary person can achieve." Yi said to Himeko in a long speech.

"Got it, got it. Hua, you train with the others first. I'll accompany our Dr. Yi to do the physical examination." Himeko waved her hand at Hua and said.

……

"How is it? Is my body okay?" Himeko asked as she sat up from the laboratory table. Because it was just a physical examination, Himeko only wore a thin shirt, and the charm of a mature woman was revealed.

However, Yi's attention was not on Himeko. Instead, he frowned as he looked at Himeko's medical report in his hand and said, "Himeko... your physical ability has reached its peak, and you will have no chance to grow in the future. Your resistance to Honkai is not that outstanding, only slightly higher than that of ordinary people, and even worse than that of your teammate Hua. If you use [Red Lotus] frequently and repeatedly, you may suffer from Honkai disease."

"Really?" Himeko was silent for a while after hearing what Yi said, then smiled and said, "I'm already pretty good, right? With the efforts of an ordinary person, I became a captain of the Fire Moth."

"That's right." Yiye chuckled and said, he admired Himeko very much, being able to achieve this with the power of an ordinary person, "Himeko, if there is no collapse in the world, what would you do?"

"Me? Maybe I'll be a teacher." Himeko thought for a moment and answered.

"Why do you want to be a teacher?" Yi asked puzzled.

"Of course it's a great sense of accomplishment. Just think about the students you teach, who slowly grow up, become mature and sensible under your guidance, and finally reap the results of their own efforts. Isn't that a great sense of accomplishment?" Himeko said with a smile.

"Really? Then you will definitely be a good teacher in the future." Yi said.

"What about you? What do you want to do?" Himeko asked.

"Me? Actually, I don't have any goals. You know I learn a lot of different things. I was an art student in high school, but I chose to do experiments with Mebius in college. If there really were no collapsed paintings, I might want to be a novelist and write down everything in my head." Yi thought for a while and said.

"That's a nice wish..." Himeko said.

The two chatted casually, but the good times didn't last long. The alarm sounded again after more than a year. Yi and Himeko put away their smiles and looked at each other. They both knew very well at this moment -

The Fourth Collapse is coming!