Collapse: The World I Live In

Yi and Ying concealed their tracks and came to the roof of the sanatorium, where they quietly watched everyone inside.

Yi opened his Sharingan to observe that almost all the people in this sanatorium were suffering from Honkai disease, whether they were adults or children. And judging from the way their purple lines were spreading, they would not live long. What should be done with these people? Yi thought that it was obviously unrealistic to bring them back to the Fire Moth. The Fire Moth was not a charity organization. The Fire Moth would not care about these people who were useless to them.

Just when Yi was struggling over how to deal with these patients, Ying beside him made a decision for him. She stood up and put the mask on her waist back on her face. She made a decision for Yi because Yi, a researcher, had very little exposure to darkness. Unlike herself, she had been in the poison pupa for several years. So, for this operation, Ying was ready to shoulder the burden alone. So she said, "I will deal with these Honkai patients, and you go find the owner of this sanatorium."

"Wait..." Yi wanted to stop Ying from doing that, but Ying left the roof at an extremely fast speed, leaving Yi no chance to speak.

Yi looked at the direction where Ying left and gritted his teeth. He understood what Ying meant. He couldn't bear to kill Wilson before, let alone these patients. So Ying also saw Yi's entanglement and was ready to bear the crime of killing innocent people. Although to Ying, she was a killer and had enough blood on her hands, Yi was still unwilling to give up. He felt that he was still too naive...

But Yi had no choice. He couldn't have the best of both worlds, so he had to leave the roof and sneak into the sanatorium.

……

Yi was very lucky. He didn't meet anyone when he sneaked into the sanatorium. He didn't know if Ying attracted other people's attention or for some other reason.

Just as Yi arrived at a place that looked like an office, he was looking through some information inside, trying to find something useful.

At this moment, an ethereal voice sounded in Yi's ears, "Excuse me, who are you?" The person who came was the nun from the sanatorium, Aponia.

Yi quickly turned around and looked at the person who came over cautiously. This woman was no ordinary person. She could get close to him without him noticing.

"If possible, [please] tell me your name..." Aponya said softly.

"Yi..." After saying that, Yi felt something was wrong, and quickly covered his mouth, looking at the woman opposite cautiously and said, "What did you do?"

"What?" Aponiya tilted her head, seemingly not understanding what Yi said, and said, "Mr. Yi, you can call me Aponiya... Then may I ask, what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to investigate why there are so many Honkai patients in this sanatorium..." Yi heard the name Aponya and thought, is this the sister Nia that Padu mentioned? However, Yi didn't intend to answer Aponya's question, and couldn't control himself and said his purpose. Even covering his mouth couldn't stop it from happening. He quickly opened his Sharingan and looked at the nun opposite him. This woman was very dangerous.

"Hmm? These eyes..." When Abonya saw these eyes, he narrowed his eyes and slowly walked towards Yi.

'Is it going to attack?' Yi thought so, but the attack did not come as Yi expected. The nun came to him, held his right hand, pulled it to her chest, closed her eyes, and said, "These eyes... Such a poor child..." She held Yi's right hand tightly, tears still flowing from her eyes.

"Eh?" Yi was confused. It's ok for this woman to hold my hand, but why is she crying? Yi didn't know what to do for a moment. He wanted to pull his right hand out, but he found that he couldn't pull his right hand out. How could this be possible? How could a nun be so strong?

Perhaps sensing Yi's struggle, Aponiya loosened her grip on Yi's hands and wiped the tears from her eyes.

Seeing Aponiya loosen her hand, Yi looked at the nun in front of him and said, "Miss... Aponiya, can you explain why you want to take in people with Honkai disease and keep them in the sanatorium?"

"Because they are pitiful, aren't they?" Aponya replied.

"Then do you know what will happen if we gather them together?" Yi asked.

"I also know that if people with this disease gather together, a disaster will occur," Aponya added.

"You knew that, but why did you still do this?" Yi said speechlessly. This woman might have some problems.

"Because... fate will always have the same outcome in the end... no matter how we change, fate will always come." Aponya said.

What is destiny?

Just like what Mr. Shi Tiesheng wrote——

"If you were in your childhood and looked into the future, you would say

Your future is uncertain, you will say that you have a bright future; but if you stand

Looking at the trajectory of your life at the end, you see only one path.

You can only see one destined path.

You don’t know what fate is until you know what destiny is.”

……

"Fate? Do you believe in that kind of thing? Now we are a nun in a scientific society. Your theology is not applicable to you." Yi said. For Yi, he does not believe in fate.

"No, fate has already determined everything. Fate is mysterious. Fate is like an invisible snake, and we are just its tools." Aponiya said with a little sadness, and looked at Yi again, "It's the same with you. Your eyes will bring you disaster... Your fate and the fate of the people around you have already been determined, just like I met you here, this is the guidance of fate..."

In Aponia's eyes, the world is different from that of others. The deep blue sky is full of silk threads, each of which connects everything in the world, whether it is human or anything else. We are like puppets of fate, living a life that is unknown but already destined.

These threads above people's heads are transparent, and sometimes reflect light under the sunlight. Some of them stay where they are, some intertwine in the sky, or spread far away, with no end in sight.

Even though I can see it, I can't touch it. I can only feel the restraint of the silk thread entangled around me...

Ordinary people might collapse under such circumstances, but Aponya withstood such pressure, and now her own thread has crossed with the thread where Yi was...

"..." Yi didn't say anything, because he didn't know what to say, so he chose to throw the woman's question to the Fire-Chasing Moth, "You should tell the Fire-Chasing Moth about these things."

"Really? Come on, I'm ready... Fate has already foreseen this happening..." After saying this, Aponiya stretched out his hands towards Yi.

Seeing Abonya being so honest and not resisting, Yi felt a little uncomfortable. He initially thought that he would fight with this woman, and couldn't help but said, "I thought you were going to fight with me?"

"Why? This is the result of fate, I can't resist it." Aponiya still attributed everything to fate.

"..." Yi had nothing to say, so he could only project a pair of handcuffs and symbolically put them on Aponiya.

boom!

At this moment, an explosion was heard outside the sanatorium.

'Is there something wrong with Ying? Or...' Yi couldn't help but think so, and looked at Abonya opposite, who still had that compassionate look on his face, 'It shouldn't be this woman who did it.'

"Stay here and don't move. I'll go check out the situation." After saying that, he left Abonya standing there alone, while Yi rushed out of the sanatorium.

Aponia looked at the handcuffs on his hands and applied a little force.

With a click, the handcuffs turned into powder and disappeared into the air.

So Aponya walked out.

……

As soon as Yi arrived outside the sanatorium, he was stunned, "What on earth is going on?" There were flames burning all around, and the original sanatorium compound had become a ruin...

"This... should be done by Qianjie." At this time, Abonia's voice sounded behind Yi.

"Qianjie?" Yi heard what Aponiya said and looked at the flames around him. Could it be that Qianjie was the alien that Mebius mentioned? If so, Sakura would be in danger. He ignored Aponiya who came to his side and prayed and defended, and walked towards the depths of the ruins. The main thing now was to find Sakura.