Mei, You Don't Want Kiana to Get Hurt, Do You? / The Imaginary Tree Theory Amazes the Doctors
Sirin's wish is to live a life of leisure and idleness.
"Yaqing, tell me honestly, do you really not have any psychological trauma?" Mobius said seriously.
"I really don't, senior," Yaqing said helplessly.
Mobius felt it was necessary to have a premarital checkup before marriage, not because he was afraid that Yaqing had any physical problems, but because he was afraid that she might have mental ones.
On their return journey to the Helios, Kiana and Mei encountered Benares lying on the ground in agony.
Ignoring Mei's warning, Kiana cautiously walked towards Benares, gently touching the wound and using Honkai energy to heal Benares.
Benares offered no resistance throughout.
Kiana felt something strange; whenever she saw Benares, she always felt a strange sense of nostalgia.
With Kiana's help, Benares managed to stand up again, letting out a low groan. He then lowered his head and meekly nestled close to the two of them, showing none of the hostility he had displayed towards Mei earlier.
Sirin looked at Bella, who was feeding her, in disbelief.
Bella, have you betrayed me too?
Bella continued feeding Sirin without changing her expression.
Sirin quickly began to enjoy it.
Fine, betrayal is betrayal.
Kiana looked down on her sister, thinking she had no ambition and that a simple act of feeding her had made her fall for her.
If it were her, she definitely wouldn't...
"Kiana, do you want to eat this?" Mei asked curiously.
"Mei, I want her!"
Chapter 256 Mei, you don't want Kiana to get hurt either, do you?
"Kiana, it's been following you. I think it doesn't want to leave. Should we... take it back to Helios?"
Mei looked at Benares, who was following them closely, as if walking a docile puppy, and said hesitantly.
"Oh no... I didn't think of that. But that red-haired, twin-tailed professor... should be easy to talk to, right?"
The scene shifts, and Tesla looks at Mei and Kiana with a strange expression, complaining, "I mean, stray cats and dogs are one thing, but I've never heard of anyone going out and picking up Honkai Beasts to take home!"
"First it was the cybernetic cyborg, then the refugee little girl, and now a Judgment-class Honkai Beast... I bet next time they'll just bring a World Serpent executive to throw a party?"
"Dr. Tesla's expression is so funny." Kiana laughed so hard she almost fell over. "Sure enough, I'm always happy whenever Dr. Tesla appears."
"So, this counts as subjugation?"
Theresa asked curiously.
Theresa wasn't the only one with this question; many viewers also had doubts. Could it be that Kiana possessed the core of the Void Force, causing Benares to mistake Kiana for Sirin?
Mei suddenly had a bold idea.
Mobius also made some guesses.
Tesla brought Mei to the conference room, saying that Einstein had something to tell her personally.
Mei was excited and overjoyed, thinking that the other party had found a way to save Kiana, but she did not expect that Einstein just wanted to transfer Kiana.
Just as Raven said, Anti-Entropy has no way to deal with Kiana's condition, not even to alleviate it.
Just then, Little Void arrived.
"Well."
The audience had already anticipated the inability of Anti-Entropy; otherwise, Mei wouldn't have sought help from World Serpent in the post-credits scene of the previous movie.
The movie is halfway through.
Kiana and Mei seemed a bit off; they became quiet and withdrawn, as if they were thinking about what would happen next in the story.
Mei arrived outside the ship and met Little Void.
Little Void excitedly told her that Raven was preparing to take them away from Chang Kong, so she wanted to see Mei and Kiana before leaving.
Mei escorted Little Void back to her "nest" and noticed the worry on her face. Little Void recommended that Mei a curry for Kiana. With Mei's superb cooking skills, all unpleasantness would disappear.
Mei met the Raven at the "nest".
Raven saw the helplessness Anti-Entropy -Entropy was showing against Kiana on Mei's face. She leaned close to Mei's ear and whispered in a soft yet sharp voice, "Raiden Mei, World Serpent wants to make a deal with you..."
"Didn't you want to save that girl? Schicksal can't do it, and neither can Anti-Entropy —but World Serpent can."
"If you're interested in my proposal, come back here alone in two hours. I have some personal matters to attend to, so please excuse me."
Mei was in a state of confusion. "Wait! Explain yourself!"
The heavy iron gate was tightly shut, refusing Mei entry.
"Keep this a secret between us, and don't tell anyone else. The Lord of the World Serpent will be here waiting for your arrival."
"It gives me a sense of familiarity, like being back home," Sakura murmured.
"Really? I don't feel anything." Ling scratched her head.
"Kevin, you wouldn't..." Eden's expression was strange.
"Impossible!" Kevin was extremely excited when this was mentioned, after all, Mei was sitting right next to him. "I am devoted to Mei and have no other intentions. No matter how much she looks like her, it is impossible."
Mei blushed slightly.
"I haven't said anything yet, how do you know what I'm going to say?" Eden's expression became even stranger.
"Don't worry, Kevin would never be interested in Raiden Mei."
Yaqing stepped forward and spoke.
Seeing that the screenwriter had spoken, dispelling everyone's doubts, an even bigger question arose: why would Kevin, as a pioneer, invite a Herrscher, a Honkai Apostle in name only, to join his organization?
Kevin breathed a sigh of relief and gave Ya Xingqing a wink.
Brother, you understand me.
Yaqing just felt that although Mei and Mei looked almost exactly alike, their body charm was different. Kevin probably liked the mature and sophisticated type of older woman, and definitely wouldn't like the gentle type of young girl.
"Schicksal is corrupt, Anti-Entropy is powerless. It seems I must step in!"
Little Knowledge was extremely excited.
"Little Knowledge, come on, who knows when your character will even appear." Kiana waved her hand, her eyes lighting up. "You're not going to have to wait until the class monitor gets married and has a daughter before you make your appearance, are you?"
"Get lost! What time is that? And how could I possibly be a generation below that old relic? It's impossible!"
Little Knowledge became even more excited.
The camera pans to the Helios. Although several movies have been released, this is the first time Kiana has met Tesla and Einstein in the main storyline.
Tesla didn't know how to bring it up, but he didn't expect Kiana to know about his physical condition.
When Kiana heard about Einstein's plan to relocate, Kiana initially showed understanding and acceptance, but she still had one more thing to do: resolve the crisis in Changkong City.
"—I can absorb all the Honkai energy of Changkong City into my body before the disaster occurs, using the abilities of the Herrscher of the Void."
Einstein and Tesla both opposed this approach, but Kiana believed it was the last resort she could use if things were about to reach an irreversible point.
Furthermore, she wanted to distance herself from everyone at the St. Freya Academy and Mei, believing that she was responsible for the current situation and didn't want to see anyone around her get hurt because of her.
"Through countless cold nights and countless nightmares... I watched her chest being torn apart bit by bit, watched the blood-stained gem fall into my hands... watched her lose her breath and slowly collapse into a pool of blood... I... I..."
Kiana could no longer hide her sobs.
Tesla couldn't help but step forward to comfort her, saying that the root of the problem was the Herrscher of the Void, Mei and the others had never blamed Kiana.
"I know... and it's precisely because I know that I find it even more unacceptable...!"
"This is between Sirin and me, and I have to put an end to it with her! But I don't want them to get involved in all this anymore. I don't want... to see anyone around me get hurt again..."
Unbeknownst to Kiana, everything she said was heard clearly by Mei, who was just outside the infirmary, separated by a wall. Darkness enveloped Mei, obscuring her expression.
Only a single tear silently streamed down her face.
The once lively screening room instantly fell silent.
Chapter 257 The Imaginary Tree Theory Astounds the Doctors
The screening room fell silent. Little Knowledge and Kiana, who had been laughing and joking just moments before, quieted down. Little Knowledge was simply upset about the plot, while Kiana was crying because she remembered how she had successfully dubbed her own lines.
The emotional rendering and genuine feelings allowed the audience to better feel Kiana's inner struggles, entanglements, pain, and confusion. Even Kiana herself cried while dubbing this scene, let alone others.
"Really."
Theresa's eyes reddened. When she heard Kiana want to absorb all the Honkai energy in Changkong City, she felt a mix of emotions, including anger at Kiana's lack of ambition and helplessness. But when she heard the rest, all that remained in her heart was a pang of sadness.
"Kiana still wants to shoulder this alone." Himeko, Kiana's teacher, sighed.
"She wants to absorb the Honkai energy of Changkong City because she can no longer suppress the Herrscher of the Void. So she wants to use a mutual destruction method to not only stop World Serpent's Stigmata Project, but also eliminate herself, this hidden bomb."
Hearing Himeko's explanation, Theresa looked at Kiana on the screen with affection.
"My silly niece..."
"Aunt, I'm not stupid!" Kiana retorted, turning her ear to the wall.
When Elysia saw Mei shed a tear in the darkness from just a wall away, she could no longer hold back. She hugged Eden tightly, tears streaming down her face.
Eden hurriedly pulled out a tissue box that had been prepared on the armrest and took out several tissues in a row.
It is said that women are made of water, but Elysia seems to be made of the sea.
Women are more emotional than men.
Sakura wiped away her tears with a tissue and said, "Although no one died, this movie was much more brutal than the last one. It tore apart Kiana and Mei's inner pain and presented it to the audience."
Ling couldn't understand; she just felt uncomfortable.
Pardo cried her eyes out, unusually denouncing Yaqing as inhuman. Normally, Kitty would never have dared to say such a thing.
"This is a dead end."
Mei sighed.
"I wonder what kind of tricks that little lackey has up his sleeve." Mobius glanced at Kevin.
"That..."
Kevin was about to suggest that Mei become Herrscher when he saw Yaqing glare at him, and he obediently shut his mouth.
While the audience was still moved to tears by Kiana's suffering, the film's plot continued, but instead of focusing on Kiana and Mei, it shifted the focus to Otto's side.
What exactly is "Honkai"?
Otto Apocalypse has been searching for the answer to this question, but the more he knows, the less he truly knows—including, but not limited to, the birth, end, continuation, stagnation, eruption, and silence of the Honkai ...
To fulfill his long-cherished wish, he proposed countless hypotheses, but he himself overturned them.
"Now, let's imagine a tree, the Imaginary Tree."
Otto's voice was magnetic, like Divine Sound, making people involuntarily want to move in response to his voice.
Upon hearing Otto mention the imaginary number, at different times and in different places, the three doctors of the World Serpent, the doctors of Anti-Entropy, and even Otto himself sat up straight.
They wanted to know Otto's conclusions and conjectures, as well as his new theories on the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quanta.
He asked the audience to imagine that there was only a giant tree with branches that covered the sky and a vast, boundless sea between heaven and earth. The sea wanted to drown the tree, and the tree wanted to devour the sea.
Humanity's proud civilization exists only on inconspicuous branches of trees.
Otto has reached the end of science.
"Imagine that imaginary numbers are the starting point of humanity, the beginning of a new civilization."
Otto's understanding of the Imaginary Tree surpasses everyone else's; he is only one step away from the truth. His latest theory, Honkai, is merely a mechanism by which the tree, in its competition with the sea, selects and corrects the direction of its branch and leaf growth.
Otto understood that humanity could not escape the Honkai, but could only move forward, and the answer he sought and the long-cherished wish he wanted to fulfill must exist in the Imaginary Tree.