Collapse, I'll Transform and Punch You

Collapse, I'll transform and punch you directly. Author: Bai Hui Zi Yu

Synopsis:

Bai Chen was still bragging with his best friends on the road, but the next moment he lost consciousness.

"I think I'm dead? How did I die?! This is too strange!"

As Bai Chen was still confused by his sudden death, he found himself in a dilapidated city. Where is this...

"Kiana! You've caused trouble again!"

"It wasn't me, Mei! I wasn't even in the dorm yesterday!"

"Captain Qin, someone reported that Klee's explosions yesterday afternoon affected some crops."

"But Klee was in solitary confinement all day yesterday?"

"This morning, I think I saw two Lady White Dews rescuing injured civilians."

"Has Lady Dragon learned the Clone Technique to treat the injured faster?"

Chapter 1: This Is Actually Collapse

"Stocking up two major version stones, plus filling in constellations, I'm ready to max out Raiden Shogun in the next update." Bai Chen muttered to himself as he looked at the official news on his phone. "Luo Hui, what are you playing?"

Luo Hui, who was beside him, was stunned and replied, "I'm waiting for the next fire greatsword; my lineup needs to be replaced."

"Tch, you only care about strength," Bai Chen scoffed.

"You son of a bitch, you're proud of being controlled by Second Brother, aren't you?" Luo Hui returned the gesture with an international friendly sign.

Bai Chen was about to retort, arguing that drawing cards for his waifu couldn't be called being controlled by Second Brother, and that it was a normal human desire to yearn for beautiful young girls, but before he could speak, his vision was filled with a blinding flash of light, followed by a numbness that spread through his body, and he lost consciousness.

He didn't know how long had passed, maybe only thirty seconds, maybe thirty years. In Bai Chen's muddled consciousness, he seemed to hear someone.

"I'm sorry... for implicating you..."

"It's only now that I... can revive you..."

"Take... it... and go... I hope you will come in the future... to help me, to help everyone..."

Although Bai Chen couldn't hear everything the person was saying, he could feel that their voice was filled with guilt.

At first, Bai Chen didn't react, but as his consciousness gradually cleared, he felt something was wrong. Revive me? I'm dead?! Died suddenly? A flesh and blood body is too fragile.

As his consciousness returned, Bai Chen also regained control of his body and perception of the outside world. He opened his eyes and found himself standing in a city. Although he came from darkness to a place of light, his eyes were not stimulated by the sunlight.

"Transmigration? Rebirth? Did something like this happen to me?" Bai Chen looked at the unfamiliar scenery around him and said uncertainly. Then he stomped his foot in frustration, "My family! If I transmigrate, will my sister be the only one to take care of our parents?!"

Anxiously, as Bai Chen was wondering what to do, he suddenly saw a large screen hanging on a building in the distance.

[March 2014...]

Bai Chen didn't finish reading these words, he just felt his heart tighten. Although this was a city, there was not a single person in sight. Coupled with the familiar time and incomprehensible text above the screen, his bad feeling grew stronger.

Calming himself, Bai Chen felt that staying put wouldn't solve anything, so he began to cautiously feel his way along the wall to explore the surroundings.

To avoid encountering anything unpleasant, Bai Chen specifically found a shop that looked like a clothing store and sneaked in, preparing to steal some mirrors to check for dangers around corners.

As expected, when he entered the clothing store, he found the interior in disarray, as if a fierce battle had taken place. Fortunately, Bai Chen didn't see any obvious dangers, and the items within the mirrors were all shattered on the ground, so Bai Chen didn't need to risk smashing them further.

Bai Chen squatted down to pick up a mirror and leave, but he froze. There was a small child in the mirror! Bai Chen was shocked and quickly pulled the mirror from the ground, holding it in front of him. There was indeed a child in the mirror, and it was him! Fourteen years old!

After a brief moment of surprise, Bai Chen was amused. It made sense, since it was 2014 in this world, he must have returned to his 2014 self.

Looking closely at the mirror, he seemed a little different. His original brown eyes had turned into a gradient of purple to pink. Other than that, there were no other differences.

Holding the mirror in his hand, Bai Chen prepared to leave. This was not the world he belonged to, and given the atmosphere, something bad must have happened. It would be best to find a vehicle to leave. As for going home, he had to survive first.

Things didn't go as planned. As soon as Bai Chen walked out of the store, he felt a distinct tremor, accompanied by the sound of buildings collapsing violently.

Without even looking in the direction of the sound, Bai Chen instinctively fled in the opposite direction. He wasn't going to watch the show! The last time he watched a show, those people who didn't run were pierced by vines and became nutrients for the Pavar Fruit!

He valued his life and wouldn't go to see what was happening. It was good that he had returned to his fourteen-year-old body; his legs ran incredibly fast. If he had his adult body, he wouldn't be able to run so smoothly.

Although Bai Chen was the first to run, he soon found himself about to be caught by something behind him because he could hear conversations coming from behind.

"Get out of the way! Don't block my path!" a sharp voice called out from behind.

Familiar voices: Sun Shangxiang ×, Talia ×, Hu Tao ×, Kiana's voice!

"Stupid Kiana, the unit ahead has a 90% probability of being a normal male according to the monitoring. If Kiana shoots, there's an 80% chance she'll be convicted of intentional homicide." A cold voice came from the same direction, successfully preventing a bloody incident.

Bai Chen, who was fleeing, was sweating profusely. What was going on? Hadn't he just appeared at the gates of hell?

Before Bai Chen could react, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya rushed past him. Kiana didn't say much and directly grabbed Bai Chen, tucking him under her arm, and continued to flee. Exhausted like a dog, Bai Chen could finally rest and take a look at the commotion behind him.

It was a creature that was entirely white with streaks of purple, its shell textured like an insect's carapace.

Although he had played many games, this was his first time seeing it in reality... The size difference from the game was too great! That's right, the monster in front of him was a Temple-class Honkai Beast, an enemy monster from the game Honkai Impact 3rd that Bai Chen used to play in his previous life.

But in the game, they were at most three to four meters tall, and now they were over twenty meters?! Was it a special individual caused by the recent Collapse outbreak?

"Little brother, are you a local resident? Do you know if there's a place nearby where we can shake off the guy behind us?" Mei asked Bai Chen while clearing out the zombies that were attracted by the noise.

"I, I don't know either. I just arrived here not long ago," Bai Chen replied casually. He couldn't exactly tell her he had transmigrated from another place, could he?

Suddenly, Bai Chen noticed a purple light glowing around Kiana, but the others seemed not to have noticed at all.

Chapter 2: Transformation

"A ball of light, it has a strange attraction to me."

Bai Chen, held under Kiana's arm, reached out twice towards the ball of light. Unexpectedly, the ball of light surged directly into Bai Chen's body.

"Huh?"

Kiana felt Bai Chen suddenly stiffen as if he'd been startled. Her gaze lowered slightly; after all, she had almost accidentally killed him just now.

Bai Chen, meanwhile, felt completely fine. He suddenly felt a surge of power enter his body, as if awakening some kind of ability. Now, it seemed he could transform into Kiana? Like forgotten memories suddenly returning, Bai Chen knew how to use this power.

During their escape, Kiana and the others had to constantly clear out other Honkai creatures and beasts drawn to them. Even though Mei and Bronya did their best to eliminate them, their pace was gradually being slowed down.

"Damn it, can't you guys stop blocking the way!"

Kiana, while protecting Bai Chen, raised her gun and shot a lunging Honkai creature in the head.

"Hah!"

Mei raised her katana, deflecting an attack from a Honkai creature. Then, seizing the opening, she unleashed several swift slashes, her blade a blur as she cut down the creature.

The sound of artillery fire continued unabated from the side. Bronya was directing a machine named Heavy Tank Rabbit 19c, continuously bombarding monsters approaching from a distance.

Gradually, Honkai creatures and small Honkai beasts began to surround them. At this rate, it wouldn't take two minutes for the monsters behind them to catch up. At that point, the situation would be difficult for even someone who hadn't undergone proper Valkyrie training to handle easily.

"Why? Kiana and the others should have been able to get through this safely?"

Bai Chen nervously watched the monsters continuously appearing around them. Suddenly, he noticed Kiana and the others were intentionally or unintentionally protecting him.

In the original storyline, they wouldn't have needed to protect a civilian around fourteen years old. It seemed he was dragging them down.

Seeing these characters, whom he had liked since middle school for their tragic fates, struggling to fend off attacks while protecting him, Bai Chen felt a pang of discomfort.

Surrounded by monsters, Kiana and the others were forced to stop. Rather than continuing to flee and deplete their stamina, they decided to make a desperate stand.

"Damn it! You big brute, don't think you can get away with pushing your luck just because I let you have your way for a bit!"

Kiana put Bai Chen down, shielding him with her body, and quickly fired several shots at the Temple-class Honkai Beast. However, the bullets only sparked upon impact with the beast, not even leaving a scratch.

Damn, this pistol is garbage! My fists are better!

Kiana mentally cursed the useless firearm in her hand before gripping it and charging towards the Temple-class Honkai Beast, intending to see if it was as powerful as it looked.

The Temple-class Honkai Beast, seeing the insect that had been hunting it charging towards it, unhesitatingly drew its massive knight's lance and thrust it towards Kiana's position.

With a ground-shattering roar, the Temple-class Honkai Beast successfully... missed.

Dodging before the attack landed, Kiana immediately taunted, "What's wrong, big guy? Do you only have one eye, so you can't aim properly?"

The Temple-class Honkai Beast, naturally unable to understand Kiana's taunts, acted solely on instinct to eliminate the target before it. Just as it prepared to strike again, it stumbled. Its lance had become stuck in the ground, and it couldn't pull it out easily.

As the Temple-class Honkai Beast prepared to exert all its strength to pull out its lance, several shells suddenly exploded on its face, successfully halting its actions.

Bronya tightly hugged her Mr. Huggy plush toy, extending one hand and opening it as if aiming at the Temple-class Honkai Beast. The Heavy Tank Rabbit 19c behind her also adopted an aiming posture, its massive cannon emitting wisps of hot air, clearly indicating it had fired the previous shells.

"Bronya won't let Kiana steal all the spotlight."

Bronya fired several more rounds at the Temple-class Honkai Beast.

Mei knew she couldn't engage in combat alone at this moment, so she didn't rush forward with Kiana immediately. She stayed back, protecting Bai Chen, who was about four years younger than her, and dealing with the surrounding weaker enemies.

Seeing that it couldn't hit Kiana immediately, the Temple-class Honkai Beast turned and forcefully slammed its shield against a nearby building. Instantly, the sturdy building shattered into pieces like a foam board.

Under the immense power of the Temple-class Honkai Beast, the massive building debris flew towards Kiana like shotgun pellets.

Bronya's eyes narrowed as she realized the situation was dire. She controlled the Heavy Tank Rabbit to immediately fire shells to intercept some of the debris, but it was only a small portion of the total.

Kiana stared nervously at the incoming debris, doing her best to dodge the larger pieces. However, she inevitably got hit by some smaller fragments.

"Ugh!"

Hit by the small fragments, Kiana's movements involuntarily slowed down. She didn't have the physique of the Kaslana family. If Bai Chen were hit, he might just fall asleep on the spot.

Seeing the three of them struggling, Bai Chen felt a surge of conflict within him. Should he use this newly acquired power?

Regardless of whether using this power would have irreversible consequences for him, he feared being targeted by Otto and the World Serpent if he did.

Bai Chen knew he was never a clever person. If he were targeted, he'd probably lose everything, down to his underwear.

At that moment, the Temple-class Honkai Beast, noticing Kiana's slowed movements, suddenly intensified the purple patterns glowing on its body. It instantly yanked its lance from the ground and thrust it towards Kiana.

If it successfully hit Kiana, the consequences would be irreversible.

"Kiana!"

Mei, unable to reach her in time, watched in horror towards Kiana's direction. There was a hint of loss of control. Even Bronya's artillery was temporarily unusable due to overheating. With Kiana seemingly facing certain death, "As if."

Bai Chen's purple-gradient pupils shone with a bright light. It didn't matter who they were, nor did he care about the outcome. If he had the ability to do something and chose to stand by, he would definitely regret it later.

It wasn't out of a sense of justice, but simply so he wouldn't have regrets.

[Rider Drive: Absolute Spacetime Fracture]

Chapter 3: Cheat Activated!

In an instant, all the monsters present were as if sliced by invisible wind blades. Even the previously invincible Temple-class Honkai Beast was cut in half from the middle.

It sounded like glass shattering, followed closely by a mechanical voice.

[Rider Loadout: Quenched Knight]

Snapping back to reality, Mei looked at everything on the battlefield in disbelief. What just happened? It was as if someone had stopped time, and in an instant, the situation around them had changed 180 degrees.

"What happened?"

Mei turned to look in Bronya's direction, only to find that the usually composed Bronya was also staring blankly in one direction.

Mei then followed Bronya's gaze. After seeing the scene before her, she gasped in surprise and covered her mouth, her katana falling to the ground with a crisp clatter.

"Two... Kianas?"

In Mei's eyes, there were two Kianas. One, a Kiana resembling a white knight, was holding the Kiana they knew in a princess carry.

The white knight Kiana exuded a reliable aura, as if she had been through much, yet it inexplicably pained Mei's heart.

Her sleek white armor and a cape that burned like an ember showcased the power of the Valkyrie before her, who looked identical to Kiana.

"!?

In a place Bai Chen was unaware of, a shadowy figure looked at Bai Chen's calm smile, mistaking it for their beloved. Their heart was filled with excitement and shock that was difficult to quell.

"Cecilia... No, Kiana, are you alive?"

That shadowy figure was Kiana's father, Sigfried Kaslana. If he hadn't been a cautious and reserved warrior, he would have rushed forward to get to the bottom of it.

With the outbreak of the third Honkai, anything that happened now was not unexpected. What if it was a Herrscher with replication or disguise abilities?

Bai Chen slowly lowered the Kiana he had carried in his mind. He was astonished by the power he now possessed. His current strength could not only deal with the Honkai Beasts but could also easily destroy the entire city.