"Mecha!" Walter Yang's eyes lit up.
[Next, the screen began to flash with figures of people fighting. A blue and white dragon flew into the sky, stirring up the white clouds. The title of the movie appeared. Collapse: Second Eruption]
"In the character shots that just flashed by, did I see Class Monitor?" Kiana belatedly asked, looking at Fu Hua, who was sitting not far away.
"Old fossil, when did you do the voice acting?" Not only did Kiana not know, but even Fu Hua's own younger sister, Fuhua Shishi, was staring wide-eyed, looking at her sister in surprise.
Fu Hua's tone was as calm as ever, "It was in the courtyard, in Eden's recording studio."
"Damn it, Yaqing didn't even ask me to do voice acting!"
"Xiao Shi..."
"Hmm~, what is it?"
"Don't swear."
"Oh..."
(Seating:
Row 1: Sakura, Ling, Pardo, Kalpas, Void, Kosma.
Row 2: Void, Elysia, Yaqing, Kevin, Mei.
Row 3: Su, Vill-V, Mobius, Void, Void.
Row 4: All empty.
Row 5: All empty.)
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Chapter 12 Does the Soul Exist?
[Babylon Tower Experimental Lab in the Siberian Snowfield... Theresa, on Destiny's seventh-generation fighter jet, was browsing the data sent by Bishop Otto. When she saw that 322 people in the research lab had suddenly disappeared overnight, her hand trembled. "Wilderness... late at night... and mysterious disappearances... could it be haunted?" Theresa's fair face became even paler, but after touching the photo of her and little Kiana in her pocket, she became firm again. The plane landed on the snowfield. The still-spinning propellers stirred up a strong wind, messing up Theresa's hair. Theresa looked at the person who came to greet her with surprise. "You are... Patrick! Long time no see!" "Yo."]
"Auntie, I didn't expect you to be afraid of ghosts?! Hahahaha."
The daring Kiana began to tease the headmaster.
Amidst Kiana's unceremonious laughter and the crowd's good-natured chuckles, Theresa's face turned red, and she raised her head and roared, "Shut up! You stinky Yaqing, Theresa and you are irreconcilable!"
"Hahahahaha."
On the other side, inside the premiere theater, Patrick looked at the meticulously crafted model that they had worked on for several nights, and couldn't help but nod in satisfaction. But then, thinking of the upcoming plot, their face darkened again.
Shub rolled her eyes at them. It was good to have a plot at all. Unlike her and Salome, they were killed off as soon as they appeared.
Seemingly seeing Shub's gaze, Salome nodded in agreement.
Cheng Lixue didn't have much to say. It could be said that in this movie, the most memorable character in the Snow Wolf Squad was their own.
Inside the Golden Courtyard, Elysia's eyes sparkled as she covered her cheeks and muttered, "So cute, Yaqing, my dear Yaqing, is Theresa so petite and exquisite in reality too?"
Looking at Elysia shaking Yaqing's arm and acting coquettishly, Mobius rolled her eyes unhappily, wishing she could sit between the two of them.
"Alright, Elysia, let me think. Theresa, although she is also petite and cute in reality, she is not as exaggerated as in the anime," Yaqing said helplessly, "As far as I can remember, Theresa has always been that tall..."
"As far as you can remember?" Elysia's eyes turned into beans as she looked puzzled.
Yaqing smiled, "That's right, I remember it was fifteen years ago that Theresa was already her current height."
Mei leaned on Kevin's shoulder.
Mobius leaned on the back of Yaqing's seat.
But Yaqing was chatting happily with Elysia.
Su pinched his brow and shook his head with a smile.
[After Theresa and Patrick met, they went to the Babylon Tower's surveillance room. Looking at the white ghostly figure on the monitor, Theresa shuddered in fear. Patrick's expression became serious, and their slender, beautiful hands danced on the keyboard. "Could it be... really a ghost?!" "No, there are no ghosts in this world." Patrick pulled up the Babylon Tower's Honkai energy reactor's historical records and said confidently, "Almost all mysterious phenomena in this world are caused by Honkai energy. This time is no exception." The Honkai energy reactor's historical records showed an abnormal pause last night, but the monitoring permissions were blocked. A dense amount of Honkai energy had accumulated in the reactor area, so only she and Theresa could go down to investigate. "Just... the two of us?!" Theresa pointed at Patrick with one hand and at herself with the other, feeling unconfident.
"Yes, just the two of us." Unlike the panicked Theresa, Patrick wore a gentle smile.
"Souls? Interesting." Mobius suddenly became intrigued.
Vill-V excitedly patted Yaqing on the shoulder and asked, "Yaqing, do you think souls really exist?"
As soon as Vill-V asked the question, everyone else looked at Yaqing with curiosity.
What is a soul? Does it exist? The debate has never stopped. Some people believe that souls are real, firmly believing in the immortality of the soul, the ascension of the spirit, and the so-called afterlife. Others do not believe in the existence of souls, believing that the death of the body is the dissipation of consciousness, and only the spirit is passed down.
Yaqing had also asked himself whether souls really existed. He had experienced everything in a dream as if he were God, when he looked at Earth from the moon and heard them shout, "Fight for all that is beautiful in the world!"
"The world allows consciousness to match new containers, but it does not allow containers to collect dissipated consciousness." Yaqing used a quote from the Fool to express his thoughts.
An unusual light shone in the eyes of Mobius, Mei, and Vill-V at the same time.
"Is this your new theory? It's a completely new direction, but it seems you don't believe in the so-called soul. That's right, your movie also mentioned that there are no ghosts in the world." Vill-V seemed to be having another episode, constantly talking to herself.
"This is not my theory," Yaqing said calmly.
"Whose is it then?" Greed flashed in Mobius's eyes, the look of a snake eyeing its prey.
"Bishop Otto's."
Yaqing lowered his head slightly, expressing his high respect to that person.
Everyone was puzzled, never having seen Yaqing show such respect when mentioning Destiny's Overseer Otto.
[Theresa and Patrick arrived at the Babylon Tower Experimental Lab reactor area. Patrick was the first to discover slight Honkai energy residue on the ground. In this even darker scene, Theresa was afraid that something unknown would suddenly pop out from somewhere, and she began to stutter.
Patrick couldn't help but chuckle at this scene. She had defeated even Emperor-class Honkai beasts, yet she was so scared of ghosts. He especially remembered the last time Theresa screamed when she was frightened by a carousel.
"Help... Help me, is anyone there? Come... Save us..."
A faint cry for help echoed in the empty area. The two of them changed their expressions. Patrick looked seriously in the direction of the sound, while Theresa screamed in fright, "Ghosts... Ghosts are coming out!"
"No, that's the voice of a human girl!"
Patrick and Theresa jogged towards the direction of the voice. Next to the Honkai energy reactor was an extremely empty large factory building, like a prison. Theresa was wondering why there was such a place in the research institute.
Patrick had already grabbed the hand reaching out from the iron fence. The dim light shone on the girl's thin face, which was covered with many scars. Her eyes were filled with tears as she looked at the people who had come.
"Save... Save us..."
Patrick lowered her head, her brown and white hair covering her eyes.]
"Why? Why is there a prison in the research institute? And..." Pardo looked at Yaqing, who was sitting in the back row, in disbelief.
Kevin, who was originally smiling, instantly turned gloomy.
Su frowned.
Mei uttered a few words: "Human experimentation."
"Bastard!" Kalpas punched and broke the armrest of the seat, panting heavily as he looked at Yaqing, his eyes as if he would attack if Yaqing said a word of confirmation.
Elysia became uncharacteristically serious.
"I knew you would ask that." Yaqing sighed and smiled, "Don't worry, if anyone in Destiny's research institute dares to engage in human experimentation against my orders, they won't see the sun the next day."
The reason why Yaqing dared to be so sure was because the research direction of Destiny was previously controlled by him, and he had once tied forty-seven researchers with hundreds of pounds of stones and threw them into the center of the Pacific Ocean in one day.
Yaqing didn't care whether filming Destiny's past mistakes would cause Destiny's stock to plummet, and Otto certainly didn't care either.
However, Otto was worried that Kallen would take all of this upon herself.
Sure enough, Kallen, who was still happily eating potato chips, fell silent.
"Otto, Destiny wouldn't..."
Otto quickly put his arm around Kallen's slender waist, letting her bury her head in his chest, and gently comforted her, "It's okay, Kallen, the things in the movie won't happen to Destiny, because the person who actually controls the research direction is Yaqing."
"Mm..."
Otto smiled wryly, Kallen couldn't bear just this little bit, what if all the content behind it was released...
(First setting, Golden Courtyard age:
Heng: Age 38, Griseo's father, office worker.
Blanca: Age 35, Griseo's mother, Mobius's assistant.
Aponia: Age 31, orphanage director.
Eden: Age 30, world superstar.
Mobius: Age 29, World Serpent doctor.
Vill-V: Age 29, World Serpent doctor.
Kevin: Age 28, office worker.
Yaqing: Age 28, Destiny Far East Branch President.
Su: Age 28, Class A hospital chief surgeon.
Kalpas: Age 28, five-star top chef.
Mei: Age 27, World Serpent doctor.
Sakura: Age 26, office worker.
Elysia: Age 25, streamer.
Pardo: Age 23, unemployed.
Fu Hua: Age 20, junior in college.
Fuhua Shishi: Age 20, junior in college.
Kosma: Age 17, high school junior.
Ling: Age 14, middle school 8th grader.
Griseo: Age 12, elementary school 6th grader.
Chapter 13: Revenge, Against the Valkyries, Against Destiny
Theresa gripped the iron bars, her small hands pulling outward with all her might. With a snap, the nearly two-meter-high steel bars were torn free by Theresa. Facing these children, their faces still wrapped in bandages, Theresa felt a mixture of heartache and anger.
Heartache for the inhuman treatment these children had endured, and anger at her own inability to stop the darkness within Destiny, despite knowing it existed.
Theresa reached out to the children, offering a gentle smile.
"Come out, you're all safe now."
The children cautiously emerged. A brown-haired girl, looking about the same size as Theresa, bowed gratefully. Theresa quickly waved her hand.
Patrick leaned against the wall, introducing the girls' situation. It turned out they were just experimental subjects, orphans recruited by Destiny to undergo experiments on adapting to Honkai energy. There were at least several thousand more experimental subjects like them within Destiny, and no one cared whether they lived or died.
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