Collapse Simulator: Raging at the Imaginary Tree

"Now... I have found you, Xiao Ling..." Aponiya caressed him lovingly, with indescribable love in her eyes.

"Sister Nia...it was just a dream." Ling blinked.

"Yeah, it was just a dream...right?" Aponya herself wasn't sure.

Because the Aponiya in the dream seemed to be her, and she seemed to have experienced it all herself.

The pain, despair, and collapse of faith upon learning of Ling's death.

Now she seems to have inherited the emotion in her dream, and she doesn't want to lose Ling again.

Suddenly, Aponya picked up Ling, and the next second, the place where they had just sat collapsed.

Aponia used her own power to avoid the disaster brought by Ling.

"...Sister Nia, can you put me down?" Ling, who was held in Aponya's arms like a doll, asked softly.

"Yeah." Aponya put down the feather.

"Huh...Since you are okay, Sister Nia, the next thing is to find a way to rescue Qianjie from the abyss." There was a hint of worry in Ling's eyes.

Regarding this matter, all we can do now is wait quietly.

Finally, half a month later, Ling received the news.

Alicia took Ling on an armed plane and flew towards the deepest place.

Everything around was sealed off, and only the main cab could see what was happening outside.

The pilot can only fly according to the predetermined route and needs to change several times in the middle before he can reach the deepest place.

This is to ensure the absolute secrecy of the "deepest place".

The so-called deepest place is on a small island, and the entire island has been transformed into a huge prison.

Looking at the huge prison in front of him, Ling's heart could no longer calm down, because Qianjie was inside...

"Okay, don't worry, you'll see him soon." Ellie comforted her.

The two men walked into the prison and after going through more than a dozen authentication procedures, they finally arrived at the deepest part of the prison.

And Qianjie was imprisoned here.

"Qianjie!" Ling ran up impatiently and called his name.

Hearing this voice, Qianjie turned around in disbelief.

"Why are you here?! They clearly promised me..." Qianjie's tone was filled with anger.

This prison cannot hold her. She stays here only because of Ling.

The Fire Moth did not harm Ling, and in exchange, she stayed in this prison.

But Ling's arrival made Qianjie immediately think that the Fire Moth had changed its mind.

"Let me explain." Alicia tucked her hair behind her ears.

"Actually, we're here to visit you. Ling is living well in the Fire Moth. Aside from asking when we can see you every day, he's usually either in the simulation training room or in the laboratory."

Qianjie looked at Ling.

Ling nodded at her, agreeing with what Alicia said.

"Then you should live a good life in Fire Moth." Qianjie's tone became much calmer. He lay on the bed again and turned his back to Ling.

"Qianjie, come with me, I need you." Ling spoke the touching words seriously.

Alicia gently covered her mouth with both hands, a gossipy look in her eyes.

"...You are living well now." Qianjie's tone became a little hesitant.

"It's not the same without Qianjie." Ling shook his head.

"Or... Qianjie, have you started to hate me who will bring disaster?" Tears were welling up in Ling's eyes.

For him, Qianjie is the most special person in his heart, a family member that no one can replace.

Interdependence and mutual reliance are the only way for two people to survive.

Qianjie slowly sat up and scratched his long gray hair which had begun to grow longer because it had not been trimmed for a long time.

She was a little distressed because she was the biggest disaster for Ling now.

Since Ling already has a new life of her own, Qianjie doesn't want to disturb her.

Although there will be loneliness and reluctance in the heart, isn't this the best outcome for Ling?

"You..." Qianjie didn't know how to answer.

The strange combination of the tsundere masked man and the honest boy made Ai Li start to breathe heavily.

"Ling thinks about you every day. Can you really bear to let him suffer this pain of missing you?" Ai Li stood up.

"You don't understand anything at all." Qianjie glanced at her.

"Ling told me about what happened between you two. When Ling was most helpless and lonely, you stood by him."

"So now, when you need him, he certainly won't run away. That's what Ling means, right?"

"Yeah!" Ling nodded.

He was not good at speaking and he really couldn't express what he really thought.

"Qianjie, it's very important." Ling emphasized again.

"Okay, okay, I'm so sick of hearing such corny words." Qianjie turned around and looked at Alicia.

"What is the price for me to get out?" Qianjie asked.

"Become a warrior of the Fire Moth."

"I promise you." Qianjie nodded.

"I'm not doing this for you. I'm just a little tired after lying here for so long and want to go out for a walk." Qianjie poured a basin of cold water on Ling who was full of joy.

"Are you going to leave me?" Ling had a sad face, thinking that Qianjie was going to leave him.

This made Qianjie a little panicked.

"...No, Qianjie actually came out just for Ling." Seeing this, Ai Li immediately tried to smooth things over.

"Tsk..." Qianjie curled his lips in pretended disdain, and his feelings towards Alicia improved a little.

"What do you want me to do?" Qianjie asked.

"Well, the top management wants you to join the 'Poison Pupa' and you will need to go on missions and fight regularly." Alicia replied.

"I want to join the Poison Pupa too! Go on missions with Qianjie!"

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Chapter 128: Do you want to take a hot spring bath together?

The Poison Pupa is a very special organization, a special operations force of the Fire Moth, specializing in carrying out some more special tasks.

Of course, the division of labor is also somewhat intriguing.

For example, "Forget Me Not", the missions she usually carries out are assassinations, while the missions carried out by "Qianjie" and "Lingyu" are mostly anti-Honkai types.

Inside the poisonous pupa, everyone has their own special code name, and they need to wear masks and special clothes to hide their identities when performing tasks.

'Forget-me-not' is Ying, 'Qianjie' is Qianjie, and 'Lingyu' is Ling.

When they first met, there was no tension as expected, and the relationship between the three seemed... not bad.

After all, both of them knew that the source of the disaster did not lie with any individual, but with "Honkai".

Ying also knew that Qianjie and Ling only chose to be her enemy in order to protect their families, so she would not bear any grudge against them.

During his time working at the Poison Pupa, Ling gained a deeper understanding of the world and gradually developed some ideas of his own.

Since the collapse has brought so many disasters, he must use his own hands to drive away the collapse.

Perhaps because he had been caught in the rain and injured before, Ling didn't want to see others caught in the rain and injured again.

This is the goodness in his heart.

Loneliness did not defeat him, nor did it twist his mind.

Because he is lucky, he has people around him who support him one after another.

Qianjie, the children in the sanatorium, Aponia, Alicia, and everyone in the laboratory.

They made Ling no longer lonely, and enabled her to face herself and her suffering with hope.

Since he will bring disaster, let’s make this world free of disaster!

Here Ling unexpectedly discovered a person - "Snake".

The "snake" was Mobius. Ling was a little unconfident at first, until she saw the long green hair and the undisguised desire for him, Ling was sure that the other party was Mobius.

Ling basically works all year round and works every day.

Because he enjoys fighting, and every battle makes him stronger.

He didn't want to compromise with fate anymore because of his weakness.

Unfortunately, Mebius didn't find out anything about his unfortunate physique, but instead found out why he became stronger in battle.

There is a strange birthmark on Ling's back, and Ling can become stronger because of it.

This thing was called "Stigmata" by Mebius.

However, this kind of thing has never appeared in previous studies, nor has it ever been heard of in anyone.

They even found Ling's biological father, but he was just an ordinary man.

In other words, the holy marks on Ling's body are most likely the "prototype of the holy marks".

It is the product of the selective expression of specific genes.

This holy mark not only gave Ling the talent of becoming stronger with each battle, but also gave him a resistance to collapse energy that was several times stronger than that of a normal person.

This also explains why he often appears in places with very high concentrations of Honkai energy, but there is no abnormality in his body.

From the village where the Herrscher of Ice descended to the sanatorium where the Honkai disease patients gathered, Ling's body was never eroded by the Honkai energy in the slightest.

This gave Mebius a lot of inspiration. Perhaps she could try to compile a gene library, then inject the gene library into the human body, and then selectively express it.

This will create a group of powerful "Stigma Warriors".

Furthermore, this gene pool will be passed down to the next generation! This means that if this plan succeeds, future humans will no longer fear the erosion of the Honkai Impact.

It is even possible that everyone is an extremely powerful "Stigma Warrior"!

By then, Honkai will no longer be a threat, and humanity may be able to achieve true victory.

This plan was also named "Stigmata Plan" by Mebius and was adopted by "Dr. Mei".

However, the implementation of this plan is destined to be extremely difficult.

The first is the issue of adaptability.

Mebius packed up Ling's gene library and injected it into the body of the death row prisoner.

There are often two results.

One is invalid, and the stigmata gene pool cannot be expressed in their bodies.

The other is death, where the gene pool is expressed but incompletely, resulting in significant defects.

Hundreds of people were tested, and no one was able to perfectly express this gene pool.

But both Mebius and Dr. May have high hopes for this plan.

Because this is a completely different way of becoming stronger than a "Fusion Warrior", and it can even be said to be a way to promote human evolution.

As for why so keen.

One is that the flaws in the "Fusion Warrior" plan are still huge, and the ratio of death to success is frighteningly high.

The other is the characteristics of the fusion warrior itself. The fusion warrior is a human embracing the Honkai beast, causing humans to continuously fall towards the Honkai beast.

Although they can obtain powerful strength, fusion warriors can no longer be called human beings at their core.

Their descendants will not be able to inherit the power of the "Fusion Warrior".