Collapse City: The Anime Version of Honkai Begins
Chapter 84

Meeting Tesla for the First Time / The Unrestrained Ryoma Gets Punched

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In Joyce's office, Schrödinger and Einstein were whispering to each other.

"Aiyin, based on your current appearances, you're being treated like a leading lady."

Einstein pushed away Schrödinger's approaching pretty face.

"Don't talk nonsense." Einstein's eyes darted around.

"I'm not making this up. Once the web series finishes airing, there will definitely be a ton of people online shipping you and Joyce as a couple," Schrödinger said with ill intent.

She had been shipping Einstein and Joyce as a couple since her university days.

Einstein did not reply, but instead glanced at Joyce.

Joyce, who was chatting with Raiden Ryoma, did not notice Einstein's gaze.

"President, the Anti-Entropy's quarterly revenue is already in a state of severe loss. Even ME Corporation's profits are hardly enough to cover this hole." Ryoma said with a troubled expression.

Joyce understood Raiden Ryoma's predicament, but didn't want to interrupt Dr. Tesla's enthusiasm.

"Ryoma..."

As soon as Joyce opened his mouth, Raiden Ryoma's alertness instantly rose to his throat, and he said, "ME Corporation is about to go bankrupt, President. Although I'm not old yet, I still have a daughter to support!"

"Alright, alright." Seeing that Ryoma was about to cry, Joyce said helplessly, "Let's do it your way and postpone Tesla's new script."

Raiden Ryoma finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Einstein led Joyce into the house, where bookshelves were filled with books. She pulled out a chair, sat down, and pointed to the sofa in the foyer, gesturing for Joyce to sit down as well.

"Doctor, Einstein — Liesel Albert Einstein."

She pointed to herself, then to Joyce.

"What is your name?" Einstein asked.

Joyce paused for a moment, then said in a low voice, "Ω1. It's in my file."

"Ω1 cannot be considered a human name."

"... Then I don't have a name."

"Inconvenient?" Einstein shook his head, and after a brief moment of thought, said, "Welt, I think that name suits you quite well."

Ω=W.

Welt=world.

After giving Welt a new name, Einstein gave him a simple physical examination, told him his room number, and informed him that he lived upstairs.

"Goodnight, you can forget about being a guinea pig now."

"So, it turns out that Einstein named Welt."

"Aren't you going to explain? If you don't explain, I'm going to start swearing."

"Taking things without thinking will only harm you."

"No, tapping on everything will only make me healthier."

Golden Courtyard.

"Looking at it this way, even though they're both PhDs, Dr. Einstein is much gentler than Sister Snake." Pardo hugged Canned Food, ate potato chips, and drank cola, looking blissful.

Unfortunately, the indulgent Kitty didn't notice Mei's strange expression, Elysia's smiling eyes, or Eden's suggestive glance.

Pardo seemed oblivious to the three women's hints, still engrossed in watching the web series and comparing Einstein and Mobius.

"Sister Snake's personality is just..." Pardo seemed to notice the strange expressions on the three women's faces, and her voice trailed off.

"Speak up, why did you stop talking?"

Mobius's "gentle" voice suddenly rang in Pardo's ears, but to Pardo it sounded like the whisper of a demon.

Pardo's face turned deathly pale, and she turned her head mechanically, step by step.

At the gate of the Golden Courtyard, Mobius held Yaqing's hand, his face showing a forced smile and a slight tilt of his head. What was originally an extremely cute gesture looked like a vengeful ghost from hell in Pardo's eyes.

"Snake... Sister Snake, when... when did you come back?" Pardo's voice trembled.

"Just now, while you were watching TV." Mobius's white shirt was wet at the shoulders, and two green shoulder straps were faintly visible.

Mobius sat down next to Pardo, reached out and stroked Pardo cheek, and said with a smile, "Little kitty, the lab is still missing one piece of experimental data, and I think you're pretty good."

"Ahhh, Sister Snake, I was wrong!" Pardo quickly shrank behind Elysia, only daring to peek out with her head.

"Didn't you just leave? Why are you back all of a sudden?" Eden asked.

"We were planning to walk into the city, but it started raining halfway there. We didn't bring umbrellas, so we had to hurry back," Yaqing explained.

Chapter 131 First Encounter with Tesla

Joyce stood there, stunned.

Looking back on those three years, he was taken to one laboratory after another, repeating the same things and enduring unbearable pain.

"Please cooperate with us."

"Think about humanity."

"This is an unavoidable side effect."

The researchers' grandiloquent voices and flashing images of their memories flashed by, but in Joyce's eyes, they were madmen, devils, and deceivers.

He had even considered ending his life...

"So alike, so incredibly alike."

"It's exactly the same experience as Her Queen."

"The Schicksal researchers deserve to die. Not only did they 'create' the Second Herrscher, but they also gave birth to the First Herrscher. They should be the real enemies of humanity."

After seeing that the First Herrscher's experience was equally tragic, Mei raised a question.

"Could the tragic experiences of Herrscher be one of the factors that lead to Herrscher creation?"

Faced with Mei's question, Yaqing, the only one who knew the answer, did not give a direct answer, but instead told her to keep watching, and perhaps the later plot would answer her question.

"Where's Kevin?" Yaqing asked, only then noticing that Kevin, who had been inseparable from Mei in the courtyard, was nowhere to be seen.

"He's still not awake," Mei said helplessly.

"But it's already afternoon?!"

Welt entered the room and saw the food and letter that Einstein had left for him on the table. He picked up the letter, which was sent by a code name, Alpha Clown, instead of his real name.

The letter was long; it was the twenty-second letter.

The story about the Saintess was already told in the previous letter, so the other party brought up Laboratory Nine and the matter of transferring Joyce, and then used psychological manipulation on Joyce again in the letter.

"Sigh, this guy. He makes it sound so easy." Joyce was clearly manipulated. "But he has his own difficulties. After all, he's just an anonymous pen pal assigned to me by some unknown person."

Joyce then went on to praise the story of Saintess Kallen.

After enjoying the delicious food left by Einstein, he fell into a deep sleep.

North America, Anti-Entropy Headquarters.

I paused the video playback and carefully read the letter.

Aside from Raiden Ryoma, the three of them frowned simultaneously. The tone of the letter was too familiar, and coupled with Joyce's mention of "Saintess Kallen" in the web series, they already had someone in mind.

"Is this Otto? The Clown Alpha? He's quite clear about his own identity." Schrödinger said lazily.

"He's brainwashing Joyce, and judging from Joyce's reaction, he's already largely succeeded," Einstein frowned.

"Don't worry, I believe in myself. I won't be brainwashed by him. Even if I am, I still have you all, right? Ai Yin..." Joyce laughed, not taking it seriously at all.

"Wait, how did you determine that it was Otto?" Ryoma was completely bewildered. He wasn't an original shareholder, nor did he resign from the Schicksal Group, so he wasn't familiar with Otto.

Central Europe, the Schicksal Headquarters.

"Indeed, the story of Saintess Kallen is indeed moving, old friend. On this point, I stand with you."

Otto praised it to himself, and even took out a bottle of red wine.

Completely unaware that Kallen's pretty face was already flushed red on the other end of the video call.

"Otto, you must have asked Yaqing to write this, right? Or, this plot is actually... something you wrote, right?!" Kallen blushed deeply, especially when she saw Theresa's amused gaze, she felt even more ashamed.

"Kallen, how could that be? This is clearly my old friend Joyce's heartfelt praise for the story of Saintess Kallen, and my student Yaqing's familiarity with me, Otto Apocalypse."

Kallen hung up the call out of embarrassment.

When Otto saw Kallen hang up the phone, he sighed deeply and, without even using a wine glass, picked up the bottle of red wine and drank it straight from the bottle.

Otto lay down on the sofa, half asleep.

Amber entered the office speechless, took off her orange goggles, and covered Otto with a blanket.

But the thought of the mountain of documents made her reluctantly cover his head with the blanket, sit down at the CEO's desk, and start reviewing the documents.

Joyce, waking from a deep sleep, drew back the curtains, and sunlight streamed down his body. He hadn't known how long it had been since he had enjoyed such peaceful tranquility, so much so that he neglected the woman behind him.

"Hey! I'm talking to you!!!"

Seeing Joyce still with his eyes closed, enjoying the morning breeze, the red-haired girl could no longer hold back and gave him a hard blow on the back of the head.

Joyce's vision went black.

The girl with red pigtails was furious and berated Joyce, who was sitting on the ground. She was also wearing a white lab coat.

The girl suddenly noticed the empty plates on the table and kept emphasizing the difference between truffles and those cheap snacks.

"I didn't expect that Dr. Tesla would be so irritable on his first appearance," Little Knowledge laughed loudly.

"Every time Dr. Tesla appears, I feel the atmosphere eases up considerably," Mei smile.

ba yi si jiu ling san qi ba jiu

"Mei ~, are you trying to say that Tesla is like a comedian?" Kiana leaned on Mei's shoulder. They no longer needed to carry each other in the dormitory area.

Kiana doesn't seem to have ever been seen hiding her face from anyone outside.

"Sorry, it suddenly started raining outside, so Little Knowledge and I had to disturb you." Fu Hua sat on the sofa.

"It's alright, class monitor. This used to be your dorm, didn't it?" Bronya said. "But, class monitor, Bronya... I'm a little curious, why did you suddenly decide to move out?"

Fu Hua looked troubled.

"Uh... it's best not to bring this up."

Tesla pulls up the card on the table.

Upon seeing this, Joyce suddenly screamed, and soon after, he surrendered, covering his head with his hands and curling himself into a ball.

Upon seeing Joyce's reaction, Tesla seemed to realize something.

"Then~ I~ opened~ it~ and~ looked~?"

Tesla deliberately adopted a pretentious tone, speaking as if reciting lines from a radio drama.

Joyce has given up completely.

"Dear Mr. Ω1: Hello. I apologize for addressing you as such since I do not know your name."

When Tesla read this opening, he couldn't help but complain, "Why have they never been this polite to me?"

She commented on the card's contents just like a jealous father-in-law.

What followed was not an introduction to the laboratory, and Tesla was somewhat doubtful. Could this seemingly dull young man really understand such advanced technical language?

Chapter 132 The Unruly Raiden Ryoma Suffers an Iron Fist Attack

"What you may not know is that I have been paying attention to you ever since the disaster that happened on the laptop three years ago."

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