Collapse City, Starting with the Production of an Animated Honkai

"Dr. Tesla, don't get so worked up." Einstein sipped her coffee, a stark contrast to the agitated Tesla.

"..." Ryoma watched the plot unfold, Anti-Entropy using his daughter for experiments. First came anger, then the realization that it was just a script, and he smiled wryly.

"Ryoma, don't be angry. It's all for the plot," Joyce said, trying to appease Ryoma. After all, Ryoma's ME Corporation was Anti-Entropy's cash cow, like Cocolia, one making money and the other managing it.

"I'm not angry, President. I'm just getting a little too immersed. The model looks too much like my daughter," Ryoma marveled at Destiny's modeling technology. Although it was animation, the level of detail was indistinguishable from a real person.

And whenever Yaqing saw the film's detailed modeling and explosive special effects, he would remember that day.

Late one night, he went back to the company to pick something up and saw Patrick and Cheng Lixue still working overtime in the office area. He sighed, watching a few strands of hair fall from their palms as they leaned back in their chairs, sighing alone.

Walter Yang, having read the script, sighed. He would never know how much he had paid to get Cocolia to agree to Yaqing's character design... money, even a significant amount of shares.

[Kiana and the others arrive at the designated location, only to find a sunny plaza with no Gem of Hopes, just a girl in a wheelchair. Mei wants to take the girl away from this dangerous place.

"Looks like you've found your target." Raiden Mei's communicator suddenly connects, and Himeko's image appears on the screen.

"Target?" Mei is surprised. She glances at the girl in the wheelchair and says uncertainly, "Isn't our target the Gem of Hopes? But we only found this girl."

"According to the latest news from the Oceania Branch, this young lady is the Gem of Hopes." Himeko's tone is surprisingly cold.

"Um... my name is Wendy."

The girl in the wheelchair looks up, her face pale, her expression gloomy, and her voice very weak.]

At the Oceania Branch, Wendy took a bite of an apple. The movie version of her matched the impression the old geezers at the Oceania Branch had of her when she first arrived. Now, if anyone still thought she was gentle and easily bullied, it would be fun.

"Dubbing is so troublesome, even more troublesome than arguing with those old geezers," Wendy said, stretching lazily, her slender waist revealed by her raised white shirt, making people want to get close.

Wendy picked up her phone, opened her chat history with Headmaster Theresa. The headmaster had arranged a helper for her, but she hadn't had time to add them. Today, she finally had time, and the friend request was sent.

Unexpectedly, it was accepted instantly.

A message came from the other side.

"Hello, I'm Ai-chan Hyperion. You can call me Ai-chan."

["Let me explain. Three years ago, during an experiment conducted at the Oceania Branch, the Gem of Hopes was transplanted into Miss Wendy's legs. The Honkai energy crystal was combined with her lower leg bones, hoping to obtain power equivalent to a Herrscher."

Mei, who also has a Gem inside her, asks in confusion, "So, Miss Wendy should have tremendous power? But she looks very weak right now."

"Wendy was the most outstanding Valkyrie at the Oceania Branch at the time, and was once considered to be the fourth S-Rank Valkyrie of this generation. But unfortunately, she failed to control its power."

Wendy lowered her head, and the camera shifted to her first-person perspective, looking at her paralyzed legs, her expression dejected, and said, "It's because I'm not strong enough... I can't control the power of the Gem of Hopes, and because of the crystal, my legs can't move."

The kind-hearted Mei, hearing that Wendy's legs were paralyzed because of the Gem, couldn't help but question Himeko, asking why she didn't remove the crystal!

But Himeko's answer was realistic and cruel.

The Gem of Hopes is extremely unstable in all mediums, and it will only stabilize inside Wendy's body. This is why Destiny has always regarded Wendy as a vessel for the Gem.

Mei couldn't accept this answer.

But Himeko believed that arguing about these things now was useless. The first thing they should do was bring Wendy back to the Hyperion.

Wendy agreed, but worried that she would be a burden to them. At this moment, Bronya suddenly stepped forward, and Project Bunny behind her started up, lifting Wendy along with her wheelchair.

The group planned to return to the Hyperion like this.]

In Siberia, at Cocolia's orphanage, just like in the previous movie, the children were watching the movie in the hall. Anzu, Seele, and the Arin sisters were taking care of the children.

"Seele, I want to eat this!"

A child pointed to the candy on the other side of the table.

But Seele didn't answer, her eyes fixed on the interaction between Bronya and Wendy on the screen. It wasn't until the iron spoon in her hand bent that she realized what was happening. She gently rubbed the child's head and took the candy over.

But the child was already trembling uncontrollably, crying out, "This isn't the usual Seele!"

Seele immediately started to try to comfort the child, flustered.

Chapter 74: I am the storm!

"To actually use people as containers, what does Destiny in the movie think life is? A tool?" Kevin, who had long been disgusted with Destiny in the movies, was indignant.

"The darkness of humanity is terrifying, and the people at the Oceania Branch are the most foolish," Mei said rationally. "They've already experienced three major Collapses and know that Herrschers are created by humans, yet they still dare to keep Herrscher Cores inside people's bodies. Are they really not afraid of creating a Herrscher?"

"Perhaps, the Fourth Herrscher has already been born." Mobius looked at Wendy in the movie, recalling that when the story came to the Oceania Branch, Himeko had said that the Oceania Branch had experienced a major Collapse the day before.

"They never learn," Su shook his head. They already had Sirin as a cautionary tale, yet Destiny's researchers were still so crazy, never caring about the mental state of their test subjects.

"Could this also be part of that Bishop Otto's plan?" Elysia guessed.

"Probably," Eden agreed.

Yaqing looked around. Sometimes watching a movie alone was quite helpless.

Wait, you all guessed it?

Why don't I just let the scriptwriters be you guys?

Yaqing made up his mind that he would never sit with them again next time. He would rather sit with Shigure Kira and the others.

[Bronya's unusually caring attitude towards Wendy aroused the curiosity of Mei and Kiana.

Amidst Kiana's teasing, Bronya explained that her legs had also been injured in an experiment in the past, and she had been in a wheelchair for a long time, eventually relying on this exoskeleton armor to regain her ability to walk.

"That's amazing! Bronya, are you saying that Wendy can recover someday?" Wendy looked at Bronya with admiration.]

Bronya reassured Wendy that everything would be alright.

"Bronya is so gentle."

Seele had just managed to soothe the child when she heard that line from the movie. Immediately, her second personality started stirring, saying in a sarcastic tone, "Bronya is so gentle~~"

Seele's hand holding the candy made a cracking sound.

The child, on the verge of tears again, cried out, "This isn't the usual Seele!"

Seele had to start soothing again.

[Bronya contacted Himeko, asking if there was any way to remove the Honkai energy crystal from Wendy after returning to St. Freya Academy.

Himeko replied that it wasn't possible. The Gem of Hopes could only remain stable inside Wendy's body; once removed, the crystal couldn't be preserved.

"Then just throw the crystal away!" Kiana naively believed that, in the eyes of Destiny researchers, a girl's happiness would be more important than the Gem of Hopes crystal.

Himeko retorted, asking Kiana if it would be okay if the Gem of Hopes crystal, containing immense Honkai energy, could destroy several cities in an instant if released.

"But..."

Kiana wanted to argue for Wendy, but Wendy interrupted her.

"Kiana, please don't say anymore. I've already accepted it."

Wendy's voice trembled.

"As a Valkyrie, my duty is to save more people with my life... This is my... duty..."

As they were about to board the Hyperion.

"Wendy, Bronya is very sorry..." Bronya's tone was somewhat lost.

"No, Bronya isn't wrong." Wendy slowly opened her eyes, her tone strangely relaxed, adding a touch of playfulness.

"The detector is picking up a Honkai energy reaction. Is it the Gem of Hopes inside Wendy?" Himeko asked.

The next second, Himeko's tone became urgent, "Wait, the intensity of the reaction is constantly increasing, 1500HW... 2000HW, what's happening!"

Wendy, sitting in her wheelchair, began to glow with a green light, her tone venomous, "2000HW, huh... That should be enough to destroy the Hyperion in one shot!"

"Wendy, what... what are you saying?!" Mei couldn't believe that the gentle Wendy from just moments ago could say such things.

"A bunch of hypocrites, I hate you, I hate all of you." Wendy's gentle demeanor vanished completely, replaced by a wildly insane smile, "I wish I could kill you all! Heh heh heh hahaha!!!"

Wendy was carried into the air by a gust of wind, her green glowing eyes looking down at Kiana, Mei, and Bronya. A pair of transparent green wings sprouted from her back, incomplete Herrscher attire adorning her body.

"This energy reaction, could it be... Wendy, you've unleashed the power of the Gem of Hopes. Or... are you being controlled by the Honkai will within the crystal?"

On the Hyperion, Himeko watched the images being transmitted back, nervously biting her right thumb, trying to keep her tone calm.]

"Not surprising." Mobius had already guessed it. Anyone who saw the movie poster could probably guess that Wendy would become the Herrscher of Wind.

"Your reactions are so bland." Yaqing ate a few mouthfuls of popcorn.

Mobius glanced at him and said, "What reaction do you want me to have? Wow, Wendy is actually a Herrscher, unbelievable! Or, gee, how did Wendy become a Herrscher?"

Mobius acted out two different emotions.

Elysia, who was beside them, had already started secretly recording.

"Forget it, it's better to be bland."

In the front row, Patrick sighed, "As expected of Wendy, she can produce two different vocal tones."

"What's so great about that? I can too!" Shub retorted.

"You? Get real."

"Patrick, don't look down on people!"

In the row behind them, Kiana looked at Bronya's slender legs, and as expected, Bronya glared at her, clearly annoyed.

In the last row, Mei suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "Dr. Mobius, based on what we've seen so far, Anti-Entropy injected the Herrscher of Thunder core into Raiden Mei, and Destiny injected the Herrscher of Wind core into Wendy. I think the possibility of the Herrscher of the Void core being inside Kiana is now much more certain."

"I'll say it again." Mobius waved her hand, stubbornly saying, "As long as the plot doesn't explicitly show the Herrscher of the Void core inside Kiana, I haven't lost!"

"Okay."

Mei looked at Kevin tenderly...

"Ah, Mei, this popcorn is pretty good. Here, have one." Kevin quickly grabbed a piece of popcorn and stuffed it into Mei's mouth, also blocking Mei's gaze towards Mobius.

Mei obediently ate it, but still looked at Kevin in confusion. He had already finished two buckets, and now he was saying it was delicious and wanted to feed her.

Chapter 75: Durandal is the Real Young Lady

[Perhaps because she had just unleashed the power of the Gem of Hopes, Wendy wasn't proficient in controlling the Herrscher core. As an apostle of the apocalypse, she was actually going back and forth with three B-Rank Valkyries, and in the end, she sensed something was wrong and simply flew away.

After Wendy left, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya immediately contacted Himeko to report. Himeko knew the seriousness of the situation and the terror of the Herrschers, so she needed to report the situation to headquarters as soon as possible and request the deployment of an S-Rank Valkyrie.

"Bronya doesn't think Wendy will hurt others." Bronya suddenly said.

But knowing the tragic events of the Second Honkai War, Himeko believed that Wendy's energy was already enough to rival a Herrscher, and her personality was likely to be distorted by the Honkai, so they couldn't take any risks.

"I'm willing to believe in Wendy too." Kiana stood up and used Mei as an example to prove that people controlled by the Honkai could overcome it with their own will.

Mei also agreed with Kiana.

Faced with her stubborn subordinates, Himeko was perhaps persuaded and relented, reminding Kiana and the others that it would take 30 minutes for headquarters to report the situation and for the S-Rank Valkyrie to arrive on the battlefield. Whatever they were going to do, they had to do it within 30 minutes.

"Wendy..."

Little Knowledge watched Wendy, who was going back and forth with Kiana and the three B-Rank Valkyries, feeling that her power level wasn't as high as the Herrscher of the Void from the previous episode. She said with a strange expression, "Can't be, right? In the previous episode, Sirin seriously injured an A-Rank Valkyrie as soon as she appeared. Wendy fought three B-Rank Valkyries and still ran away?"

"It may be because she just awakened, and she can't fully control the power of the Herrscher core yet," Fu Hua analyzed, stroking her chin.

"Wendy is?" Kiana was curious about Wendy's identity. After all, Yaqing's scripts were based on real-life prototypes. Her first reaction was to ask Mei, "Mei, do you know her?"

Mei shook her head.

Himeko, sitting in the front row, turned around and explained, "Wendy is considered your senior, four years ahead of you, so you haven't met her. After graduation, she joined the Destiny Group. I heard that Yaqing was the one who mentored her at Destiny."

"Oh, oh, oh."

Kiana thought about it. Four years ahead meant that Wendy had already graduated when they had just entered the school.

[While Kiana and the others were chasing Wendy's location based on the Hyperion's detectors, Himeko's communication brought three more bad news.

Destiny headquarters had identified Wendy as the Fourth Herrscher, and in order to successfully capture the Herrscher, Destiny's strongest S-Rank Valkyrie, Durandal, had already set off. The last bad news was that five Anti-Entropy airships had passed over the Pacific Ocean, and their current location was unknown.

"You three listen carefully. If you find Anti-Entropy's forces, abandon the search immediately. It's not worth it if you get caught up in it too," Himeko warned them.

Before Himeko could hang up, Theresa's communication cut in directly.

"Kiana-chan, let me give you a hand this time~" Theresa's laughter was a little malicious.]

"It's Auntie! Auntie is actually the strongest Valkyrie!" Kiana was stunned, not even noticing that the popcorn in her hand had fallen. First of all, she had never offended Yaqing, and secondly, she had never offended Yaqing.

Cecilia's three daughters.