Collapse City: Starting by Making an Anime Version of Honkai

The three girls were waiting for the elevator.

"What a pity, if Shigure Kira had gone a few days earlier, she could have met Director Cecilia. If she goes to Shenzhou today, Director Cecilia is about to return to the European headquarters. I guess she's already boarded the plane."

Shenzhou, Canghai International Airport.

Cecilia hooked her arm through Ziegfried's. She was wearing a white shirt with loose jeans, her long hair tied into a high ponytail, looking very capable, listening to the boarding announcement on the loudspeaker.

"Honey, we're about to board. Did you bring the gifts for little Sirin and the president?" Cecilia reminded him.

Ziegfried replied, "I definitely won't forget. Otherwise, Sirin will cry and make a fuss again."

"Mmm~"

After boarding, Ziegfried and Cecilia put their phones on airplane mode.

Half an hour later, the plane from Changkong Third Airport to Canghai International Airport had just landed. Shigure Kira, without any luggage, hurried to the waiting hall.

"Sorry, the number you dialed is switched off..."

Listening to the emotionless female voice from her phone, Shigure Kira was stunned. Still, she didn't give up and went to the ticket hall to inquire.

"Excuse me, has the plane from Canghai Airport to Munich already taken off?"

The girl at the ticket hall counter gave a polite smile and said, "Yes, ma'am, the plane to Munich that departed at 12:48 has already taken off. Would you like me to reschedule you to the next flight at 1:36?"

Hearing this answer, Shigure Kira felt as if all the strength had been drained from her body. Dark energy seemed to emanate from her as she muttered to herself, "Why... why again and again... why... why."

The girl at the front desk was frightened, thinking she had encountered a mental patient.

"Yaqing, I swear I won't let you get away with this!!!"

Shigure Kira could no longer restrain her emotions and roared at the sky.

The people waiting for boarding announcements in the waiting hall were startled and looked at Shigure Kira with strange eyes, silently moving away from her.

Chapter 83: Talking to Walter Yang Again

"Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!"

Yaqing sneezed several times in a row, rubbed his sore and itchy nose, and said unhappily, "Who is cursing me behind my back? It must be Kevin, that damned Kevin!"

Kevin, who was coding at World Serpent, sneezed and muttered to himself, "Could it be Su talking about me again?"

In an office on the third floor of a Grade A hospital, Su sneezed a few times and wondered if Yaqing and Kevin were cursing him.

"Achoo!"

Yaqing pulled out a tissue and blew his nose.

"Lord Yaqing, do you have a cold?" Rita asked with concern, the tray in her hand holding delicate pastries and a cup of coffee with sugar and milk.

"Maybe, I just feel like someone is cursing me."

Rita smiled, but thought to herself: There are many people cursing you, the internet is full of them.

As the perfect secretary, Rita naturally didn't say it out loud.

"Lord Yaqing, if you need anything, Rita can buy you some cold medicine." Rita put down Yaqing's afternoon tea and left Yaqing's office.

Only Yaqing was left in the office.

Yaqing looked at the phone on the table, feeling a little conflicted. As Shub said, he did have the idea of letting Walter continue to take the blame, but as Patrick said, he had no choice.

After a strong ideological struggle, Yaqing picked up the phone and called Walter Yang.

"Mr. Walter, I'm sorry to bother you on this beautiful afternoon. I hope I'm not interrupting your afternoon tea."

In a cafe in a North American city, Walter Yang listened to Yaqing's light-hearted voice on the other end of the phone, his forehead veins bulging, and said coldly, "Yaqing, if you don't learn to speak properly, I'm hanging up."

The red lobster-headed doctor sitting across from Walter Yang curiously asked silently, "Who is it?"

Walter Yang covered the phone's microphone and mouthed: Yaqing Schariac.

Tesla nodded, indicating she understood.

"Sorry, sorry, Walter, I forgot you don't like that kind of attitude."

Walter Yang didn't give Yaqing any good looks for his unapologetic reply, still as cold as ever: "Let's be frank, you wouldn't call me if you didn't have something to ask me."

"Heh, as expected, you understand me." Yaqing chuckled, stood up, looked at the traffic below, and continued, "I think Dr. Tesla is also listening to our call, Dr. Tesla, I've admired you for a long time."

"How did you..." Walter was shocked. Tesla hadn't made a sound, how did Yaqing know Tesla was sitting across from him?

"Huh?" Tesla was also dumbfounded.

"I just so happen to have something I want to ask Dr. Tesla and Dr. Einstein."

"What do you want to do?" Walter Yang became vigilant.

"I just want to ask the two doctors to dub a character in a movie."

"What character?"

Tesla didn't agree immediately. After all, with Cocolia as a precedent, she was worried that Yaqing would arrange a villainous character that would be hated to the bone.

"Please rest assured, Dr. Tesla, in terms of directing, the two doctors are my mentors in life. I grew up watching Dr. Tesla's direction of Ahalato."

"What do you mean you also watched me direct Ahalato growing up? Are you saying I'm old!"

"If I have offended Dr. Tesla in any way, please forgive me." Yaqing apologized without any backbone.

His apology stunned Tesla, who was deliberately trying to pick a fight. She had been planning to overwhelm him with her momentum, but her offensive was defused by his one move.

Walter Yang helplessly took the phone back from Tesla and said, "If you want them to do the voice acting, first send over the script and let them choose whether they want to do it or not."

"A perfect suggestion, I am very willing to oblige." Yaqing agreed immediately.

"Is there anything else?" Walter Yang was unwilling to communicate with Yaqing any further and just wanted to hang up the phone and enjoy his afternoon tea.

"Of course, there is still a question." Yaqing smiled, "Mr. Walter, you don't seem to have sent me the Anti-Entropy script and character settings, so how am I supposed to find the corresponding actors for you?"

"I didn't send it to you?" Walter Yang asked doubtfully.

"Naturally not, Mr. Walter. I'm not so old that I'm suffering from Alzheimer's at such a young age." Yaqing was implying, showing that he wasn't without a temper.

Walter Yang understood, but he didn't bother to argue. It wasn't because he was magnanimous, but because he didn't want to continue haggling with Yaqing and wanted to spend his time with Tesla as soon as possible.

"I'll send it to you when I get to work this afternoon."

Walter Yang hung up the phone after speaking, not giving Yaqing any room to reply.

Yaqing looked at the hung-up phone. He didn't understand this kind of emotion, or rather, he didn't understand love. In Yaqing's heart, there was only fun, no women.

"What should I do next?"

The Salary Thief, who considered his work done, left the company building in the helpless gazes of the others, driving his luxury car directly to the suburbs and returning to the Golden Courtyard.

In the Golden Courtyard, those who had to go to work went to work, and those who had to go to school went to school. Only a few people who didn't have jobs, or rather, worked from home, were left. Yaqing happened to meet Pardo when he came back.

"Pardo, are you going out?"

Pardo, who was about to go out, wasn't wearing her cat pajamas but a fitted shirt and black sports pants, with a baseball cap and a small cloth bag, looking very girlish.

"Brother Yaqing, you're back? Nia asked me to buy something and send it to the orphanage." Pardo replied while putting on her shoes.

"Do you need me to drive you?" Yaqing twirled the car keys in his hand.

"No need, the orphanage isn't far from here. I can just ride my bike." Pardo refused, took the key to the bicycle lock from the shoe cabinet, and prepared to go out.

Yaqing entered the door and went straight to the refrigerator.

Taking a sip of ice-cold cola in the middle of winter was instantly refreshing.

"Eh? Yaqing, you're back so early again~?"

Without turning his head, Yaqing knew who it was and said, "Elysia, what do you mean 'so early again'? I'm always this early!"

"Then your job must be very easy~"

"My job is different from Kevin's. He relies on his body, I rely on my brain." Yaqing sat on the sofa, picked up the TV remote, and prepared to watch Collapse I: Ode to Wind Colors again.

"Oh, don't watch it. If you don't have anything to do this afternoon, just stream with me~"

Elysia was afraid that Yaqing would be stimulated again, so she prepared to pull him into a livestream with her.

"What?"

Chapter 84: Livestreaming with Elysia

Yaqing, who was being dragged into a livestream with Elysia, looked like he had lost all hope in life.

Because she was going to livestream with Yaqing, Elysia had to take the laptop out of the bedroom and put it on the coffee table in the living room, while Elysia and Yaqing sat on the sofa together.

As soon as the livestream started, a large wave of people poured in.

Starting from zero, it only took a few seconds for the number of viewers in the livestream to exceed ten thousand.

Fairy Miss's Dog: ["First!"]

Leaf and Dog: ["Second! I'm Fairy Miss's dog!"]

["Third!"]

Since the camera was only pointed at Elysia, it was difficult for the viewers entering the livestream to see Yaqing, but some careful viewers still noticed a piece of clothing appearing in the frame.

["Is there someone next to Fairy Miss? I've already seen it!"]

["I'm here too! Familiar black, I guess it's Eden!"]

["No, I guess it's Kevin!"]

["Doesn't Kevin usually fill in? I've never seen Kevin and Fairy Miss on the same screen before."]

["I really want to hear Kevin scold me again~"]

["The person upstairs is a pervert!"]

Elysia saw the comments on the screen and turned her head to look. Yaqing was almost shrinking under the sofa. She couldn't help but laugh.

Elysia knew that Yaqing was socially awkward, but she had always heard him say that he was mildly socially awkward. Looking at him now, he didn't look mildly socially awkward at all. He was clearly a severe social anxiety patient.

"Yaqing, stop hiding, come over and say hello to the viewers in the livestream!" Elysia pulled Yaqing over.

Looking at himself appearing on the screen, Yaqing's originally stiff smile instantly relaxed. As soon as he was on camera, he seemed to switch personalities, and his temperament changed from a socially awkward otaku to a Destiny board member.

Elysia looked at him strangely. The difference before and after was too great, and coupled with the others in the Golden Courtyard, she couldn't help but suspect that Yaqing also had multiple personalities.

["Damn, it's Director Yaqing. Hasn't Director Yaqing brought Walter back yet? /smirk"]

["Director Yaqing, that Ode to Wind Colors movie was such a disappointment! How could you do this to us?!"]

["Fucking hell, give us our money back!"]

"Alright, everyone! Yaqing has already tried his best. I hope you can all be more understanding. And for those overly excited viewers, Miss Pink Fairy has already taken care of them! Please be civil," Elysia said, sounding upset.

Looking at the crude language from some viewers in the comments, with some even starting to insult Yaqing's family, even Elysia couldn't help but get angry, despite her personality.

Elysia started to wonder if it was the right choice to have Yaqing join her for the livestream.

Elysia glanced at Yaqing.

She noticed that Yaqing was still smiling, as if he didn't see the offensive comments on the screen. That smile was so gentle, but his eyes were so cold, as if he could see the people behind the screen.

If Mobius were here, she would know that, in Yaqing's eyes, he no longer saw the viewers in the livestream as people, but as a bunch of monkeys dancing around.

Out of sight of the livestream camera, Yaqing had already opened a chat window with someone.

"Froglay, check who hired the internet trolls, and find the IP addresses of the people in Miss Pink Fairy's livestream who made comments about my family. Then... let Butterfly Bee handle them."

On the other end of the chat, Froglay quickly replied with just three simple words.

"Yes, Master."

Yaqing knew that the plot of this movie would definitely be criticized, but certainly not with this kind of inflammatory abuse directed at him personally. The only possibility was that someone was fueling the flames from behind the scenes.

Yaqing did have one suspect in mind.