Collapse: The World I Live In

"Ding! Authentication successful. Welcome, Dr. Yi." This was the voice made by the intelligent AI at the door of Mebius.

Yi, who had just walked into the lab, couldn't help but complain, "Doctor, why did you install a smart door lock? There are only a few people coming to our lab, and you can count them on one hand. To be honest, it's really unnecessary to install a door lock."

"What do you know? I installed this mainly to prevent Alicia from using my lab to hold a party! I don't want to see my lab full of cakes anymore." Mebius said lightly.

"..." Yi had nothing to say and observed three minutes of silence for Alicia. It would not be so easy to enter the Mobius laboratory in the future.

"Hello, Uncle Yi!" Grace, who was at the Mobius Laboratory again because of her parents' work, said again when she saw Yi coming in, but her eyes never left the drawing board in front of her.

"Hello, Grayxiu." Yi came to Grayxiu's side and looked at Grayxiu's painting. He was shocked and asked, "Grayxiu, what is your painting..."

"It's Aunt Mobius." Gresh bit her finger and replied, "It's just that it's not finished yet."

"I told you to call Mebius sister, little Grayshu." Mebius corrected Grayshu after hearing her name.

"Okay, Aunt Mobius." Grayshu still did not change the way she addressed Mobius.

"…"Mebius was speechless.

"Okay, Mobius, don't worry about it. Besides, we are old enough to be called uncle and aunt." Yi is different from Mobius. He doesn't care that much about his age.

"What do you know? Do you know her name is Alicia?" Mebius said.

"What?" Yi really didn't know.

"Alishia...sister..." said Mebius.

"Sister?" Yi suspected that he had heard it wrong.

“That’s right, sister!” Mobius said gritting his teeth, “You are almost the same age as us, but you are still pretending to be young…” From Mobius’s face, it can be seen how much she cares about the fact that Grayshu calls her aunt and Alicia calls sister.

"..." Yi didn't know how to comfort Mebius's hurt heart.

"Well! The painting is done!" While Yi and Mobius were communicating, Grayshu finished her work.

Mebius, Yi, and Klein, the invisible man in the laboratory, came behind Grayshu and looked at her paintings.

I have to say that Grayshu's painting skills are really good, which is really not what she should have at her age.

What did she draw?

In the painting, Mebius has his hands crossed in front of his stomach, a kind smile on his face, and his eyes are extremely gentle. The background is still warm in color, and his whole body is full of gentleness, kindness, and goodness.

However, although the painting is good, it has nothing to do with the actual character of Mobius. Mobius would never show such a kind expression, and that look, and the dark circles under his eyes caused by staying up late. Mobius would never show such an extremely gentle expression, because she is not Alicia.

"This painting is called..." Yi glanced at Mebius who had a gloomy face and Klein who was trying not to laugh and asked.

"It's called 'Aunt Mobius's Smile' and it's a gift for Aunt Mobius." Gresh said in a childlike voice, "Aunt Mobius, do you like it?"

“I like it… Of course I like it. But why is there an aunt in the title of the painting…” Mobius, who was named, touched Grayshu’s head and said.

"Because Aunt Mobius sounds more intimate." Grace tilted her head and thought for a moment before saying.

"Pfft..." Yi almost laughed out loud, but after being stared at by Mobius with extremely cold eyes, he held back his smile. Yi felt very unfair and looked at Klein who turned his head away. He wondered why he was only looking at me when he was obviously trying not to laugh.

"Then why doesn't this painting look like the one you gave me before?" asked Mebius. Grayshu had also given Mebius a painting before, and that painting was called "Touch".

The difference between this painting... "Aunt Mobius's Smile" is that that painting is more... how should I describe it, more profound.

The content of the painting is that among some entangled colors, there is a hand trying to grab something. No one knows whether the painting depicts a starry sky, an ocean, or... something else.

Perhaps, it was just to get the answer that she used her own hands to touch the unspeakable mystery.

Back to the present, when asked by Mobius, Grayshu lowered her head and thought for a while, then pointed at Yi and said, "Because Uncle Yi took me to see a painting before, I thought that the painting was very good, so I also wanted to imitate it, so I used Aunt Mobius as a template."

When he heard that Grace painted this painting... "The Smile of Mobius" because he had taken her to see "Mona Lisa" before, he felt a little scared, fearing that Mobius would come to settle the score with him.

Mebius looked at Yi's expression and said nothing to him. He then said to Grace in a gentle voice that Yi had never felt before, "That's a good painting, Grace. Keep up the good work."

"Yes! I will!" said Grayshu.

Mobius smiled at Grayshu, and Yi was stunned. Was Mobius' maternal instinct bursting out? Why did she become so... kind?

"I will draw a picture for Uncle Yi in the future," Grayxiu said again.

"Me?" Yi heard that Grayshu wanted to draw a picture for him, so he came to Grayshu's side and stood on Grayshu's left and right with Mebius. He also touched Grayshu's head and said, "Thank you Grayshu then."

Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart that children are indeed the most precious things in the world.

Looking at Dr. Mobius, Yi Qi, and Grayshue together, Klein suddenly felt a little redundant. They looked like a warm family. If the three of them hadn't had different hair styles, others would have thought they were a family. After all, the father in that family had black hair, the mother had green hair, and the children had blue hair.

Just when Klein felt that he was redundant, the doorbell of the laboratory rang, interrupting Klein's thoughts.

"Doc? Do you want to open the door?" Klein asked.

"Don't be in a hurry, check who it is first." Mebius said, turning the computer to the surveillance camera at the door to see who came.

Upon looking, I saw a pink-haired girl jumping out and combing her bangs in front of the camera.

"Alicia..." Looking at the person in the surveillance video, Mobius' face darkened again. He turned on the call function of the camera and said to Alicia, "Alicia! What are you doing here again?" Why did Mobius hate Alicia coming to his laboratory so much? Besides the fact that Alicia liked to have parties in Mobius' laboratory, every time Alicia came, his work had to be postponed and he had to stay up late to finish it. He no longer wanted to taste instant coffee.

"Oh~ Dear Mobius, I'm here to play with you again. Are you happy?" Alicia said with a smile when she heard Mobius' voice.

"I see you are idle. Alicia, Hen and Kevin are all running around the world to clear the Honkai. You have time to come to me." Mebius said.

"Okay, okay, Dr. Mobius, let me in first and talk. It's freezing outside, and I'm here to give you the information that Mei gave me~." Alicia said as she took out a stack of reports from behind.

Mebius had no choice but to open the door of the laboratory to let Alicia in.

As soon as Alicia came in, she sighed, "It's still warm in the room. It's freezing outside. It's almost spring, why is it still so cold and snowing?"

"Stop talking nonsense and give me the information." Mebius stretched out his hand to Alicia and motioned Alicia to hand over the information to her.

Alicia didn't say much. After handing the information to Mebius, she came to Grayshu and started playing with him.

Mebius frowned after reading the information. Seeing this, Yi came to Mebius and asked, "What's wrong, Doctor?"

Handing the information to Yi, Mebius said, "According to the information provided by Mei, the temperature is not only low here in the world, but the whole world is cooling down. In some places, hail and blizzards are blowing. This is obviously not a normal reaction."

"So what do you mean?" Yi said as he looked at the information.

"...The fifth collapse...may be coming." said Mebius.