Collapse: The World I Live In

After Yi left, Alicia came to the battlefield where Yi and Ai fought.

She fanned her hands in front of her face to brush away the dust and looked at the mess around her. The originally white room was now full of cracks and holes, and the pillars inside were all broken. She believed that this place would break soon because there was no load-bearing support.

"Ahem..." At this moment, a cough sounded into Alicia's ears. Alicia, who heard the sound, walked towards the direction where the sound came from and saw a figure sitting against the wall. This figure was Ai! He survived Yi's previous attack, but his condition was not good at the moment. It could be said that he was in a very bad state. He only had one leg left, blood kept flowing out of his abdomen, and one of his eyes could not be opened.

"Um...are you okay..." Alicia came to Ai's side and asked. She didn't know that the man in front of her was the one who almost killed Yi.

"Allysia..." Ai looked at the woman in front of him with one eye. Although Allysia didn't know him, Ai recognized Allysia. Just as he was about to say something, "cough cough..." he spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Hey, wait, don't talk for now, I'll call for help." After saying that, Alicia took out her cell phone and prepared to make a call.

"No need..." Ai stopped Alicia and said with a smile on his face, "I am your enemy... You still want to save me. Erken is right, you are really a strange woman... cough cough..." After that, he spat out another mouthful of blood.

"... You'd better stop talking... You might die..." Alicia said after hearing what Ai said, "I'd better call for help..." Alicia still planned to save this person. Because of her special ability, Alicia could feel that the person in front of her was not a bad person...

"Hahahahahaha!" Hearing that Alicia was still planning to save him, Ai couldn't help but burst into laughter. The wound on his abdomen also oozed blood as he laughed wildly. Then he looked at Alicia seriously and said, "Your...kindness...is unique in the world today...it will bring you disaster sooner or later." As Ai spoke, his life breath became weaker and weaker.

Alicia wanted to interrupt him, but Ai suddenly shouted, "Alicia! You still have time to chase Yi now... Don't waste your time on me! I am your enemy! You should not have any extra kindness in front of the enemy! Ai has already lost this battle... Next, the Fire Moth belongs to you! It's time for us termites to die!" Ai was also certain at this moment that his first unit had been wiped out, and he and Aiken were about to die.

"Our First Team, including Alvin, will become the cornerstone of your side's control over the Fire Moths. You will stand on our corpses to stand on the top of the Fire Moths!" Ai looked deeply at Alishia and said, "So... it's time for you to go, girl named Alishia. You will start your own era from now on... that little girl back then has grown up..." After saying that, Ai's eyes lost their luster and her breath of life disappeared completely. This time, Ai died completely.

Alicia was stunned by Ai's last sentence. She looked carefully at the man in front of her and suddenly realized that this was the man who had come to the orphanage where she lived as a child to investigate. As for the previous bunch of words, Alicia was a little confused. She felt that it would be great if Mobius was here and he wouldn't have to be a riddler.

Looking at Ai's body, Alicia bit her lip, feeling a little sad. However, Yi was still waiting for her to bring him back. Mobius, Kevin, Hen and the others all placed their hopes of bringing Yi back on her, so she couldn't let them down!

So Alicia rushed in the direction where Yi left...

At this moment, Yi had already arrived at the door of Erken's office. He stretched out his hand to hold the doorknob, turned it, and opened the door. He saw Erken facing him inside, leaning on the office table, his eyes narrowed, a smile on his lips. When he saw Yi coming in, he clapped his hands, "Welcome, welcome. Our protagonist has finally come to the mastermind after going through all the difficulties and is about to avenge his sister."

Looking at the leisurely Erken, veins popped up on Yi's forehead, and he shouted at Erken, "Are you so happy?" After that, Yi instantly came in front of Erken, projected a sword in his right hand, slashed Erken's right arm with one sword, cut it off, and with another roundhouse kick, kicked Erken to the wall, put the sword against his neck and said, "Why? Why are you doing this!"

"Why?" Erken coughed up a mouthful of blood, but still had that smile on his face and said, "Yi, have you heard? In this world, everyone I know is the same."

As Erken spoke, figures appeared in Yi's mind.

"Some people do it for love..." Kevin's figure appeared in Yi's mind.

"Some people seek the truth of the world..." The figures of Mobius and Mei appeared in Yi's mind.

"Some people do it for their families..." This time, Hen and Ying appeared...

"Some people just want the uncertain answer in their hearts..." Finally, Long's figure appeared in Yi's mind, and Yi held the handle of the knife harder. The blade had slightly cut into the skin of Erken's neck, but Erken still said calmly,

"Of course, there are also people who do it for money, dreams, power, etc... Everyone is obsessed with something, otherwise they can't live... Everyone... is a slave to something..."

When Erken finished speaking, he looked up into Yi's eyes and said, "Originally I thought I was a slave to power, but since the emergence of Honkai, I found that power can no longer restrain me, so fighting Honkai has become a new cage that traps me."

"What does this have to do with me?" Yi said with a frown.

"Hmph, Long should have told you that I can do anything to fight against the collapse!" Erken chuckled and said, "After the appearance of the Herrscher, the collapse is no longer something that traditional technology can fight, especially when the second collapse broke out. No matter how powerful human nuclear bombs are, what is the result? It can't cause a single wave in front of the Herrscher. But just when I didn't know what to do, you appeared. The ability you showed had almost nothing to do with the collapse energy. It was a new energy that only appeared in you. I saw the possibility of defeating the collapse in you, but your ability is still too weak and must be evolved! But evolution also requires a way. Just when I was worried about how to make you evolve, the third collapse broke out. This time you showed new power in the collapse! Later, I learned about the situation of the third collapse and knew the reason for your evolution - that is emotion! It was then that I discovered, Yi, you are a slave to emotion. You care about emotions more than many people. Whether it is friends... family... or lovers, when they die, you will evolve! So I made a plan for you! To make you evolve completely, I set your next target on your sister. Now I see that the result is successful..."

"Why me?" Yi said with his head down and teeth gritted.

"Didn't I tell you? Because you are special. Your eyes are more outstanding than those geniuses like Mobius and Mei. You are the only one..." Just when Erken wanted to say that you are the only one so special, he suddenly remembered a pink figure, smiled and said, "You are not the only one so special. There is another person - that is Alicia..."

When Yi heard the name Alishiya, he was stunned at first, but when he thought about what he had seen of Alishiya in the past, he thought it was natural.

"Oh, aren't you surprised? It seems that you have already noticed that Alicia is special." Looking at Yi's expression, Alken said, "When I first met Alicia, I felt that girl's peculiarity. She is different from you. She knows how to hide her abilities and has never revealed them. But you revealed your peculiarity too early. So I chose you as the target of my plan, and used you to replace Alicia in the original plan..."

After hearing what Erken said, Yi opened his eyes wide and looked at Erken. He didn't believe what Erken said was true. He was the one who suffered all the conspiracies for Alicia...

"Why don't you believe it?" Erken said, looking at Yi's expression.

Yiye pushed Erken against the wall and shouted, "Aren't you afraid of death?"

"Death? Humph." With a light snort, Erken used his remaining hand to pull open the clothes covering his neck, and purple lines appeared on Erken's chest. This was the symbol of Honkai disease!