You asked for healing, but wrote Honkai Impact 3rd?

Su Nian, what has Su Nian written this time?!

Why... did he just see Mei's corpse?!

When Kevin witnessed that scene, he tasted the only despair of his life.

He had never been this desperate in his entire existence!

Chapter 41, The Previous Civilization Era Ends, The Torch of Civilization Passes On

Kevin's gaze turned terrified.

[But the sight before him immediately stirred a strong unease in Su.]

Before joining the Moth of the Fire, Su was a doctor researching Honkai Sickness.

Now, looking at Mei, he instantly detected... Honkai Sickness. He saw the purple streaks forming on the back of Mei's neck.

This was the outward sign of her erosion by Honkai.

[Due to prolonged research and exposure to Honkai Energy, Mei's body had long been eroded. Although Su's prescriptions had kept her going until now, at this moment she deeply knew her life was nearing its end.]

["Su, I need to entrust you with one task. Only you can accomplish what comes next."]

This plan was called the Overseer Project.

To monitor Kevin, who was executing the Stigmata Project, preventing him from destroying civilization and, if necessary, serving as a countermeasure against him.

Mei had long known her time was short. Perhaps Kevin had already sensed it... Mei's deception.

Her lie to Kevin that her illness had been cured...

As his partner, Mei understood Kevin.

He was a mighty warrior, but also a fragile ordinary person. When a person loses everything, wanton venting and destruction are among the options to ease the pain.

This plan was the final shackle to prevent Kevin from straying down the wrong path.

It was also Mei's entrustment, unwilling to see him lose himself.

[After Mei finished her final instructions, she passed away.]

Until the very end, the Previous Civilization could not conquer Honkai Sickness. There was only a treatment method with an enormous cost: extracting serum from the remains of a thousand people who had died from the sickness.

This method of curing one person's Honkai Sickness with a thousand lives was far too costly.

But now, it was no longer a matter of cost.

In Mei's case, it was already irreversible. The disease could save accidentally infected humans, but Mei had been in contact with Honkai Energy for a long time.

A cure was utterly impossible.

Compounded by accumulated exhaustion from overwork.

Her death... was inevitable.

Kevin saw Mei's corpse through this passage of text.

For now, he was just treating it like a VR movie, but Su Nian pulling out the knife was completely unsportsmanlike!

Stabbing Kevin was fine, but why stab Mei!

"Hey, Kevin, don't be sad. Mei is perfectly fine. In a little while, you'll go back home and she'll be waiting for you to cook dinner, right?" Elysia immediately noticed something was off with Kevin.

Even if his expression hadn't changed, Elysia could read Chijie's emotions from behind his mask. She knew exactly what Kevin was thinking right now.

"I'm fine, Elysia. I just... I just got a bit worked up for a moment."

This feeling of reality was really confusing Kevin.

The mental stimulation was a bit too intense.

Fortunately, Mei was always there, wasn't sick, and her workload wasn't heavy.

Su Nian still hadn't left the creation room.

Kevin now had an urge to block the door of Su Nian's studio with his greatsword...

"Kevin, the look on your face right now is adorable, you know?"

"Elysia, stop teasing me."

The meeting room instantly filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

"Ah, Mei should be off work by now, right? Kevin, why don't you go back and keep her company for a bit?"

Elysia shooed Kevin home.

Indirectly saving Su Nian's life.

Otherwise, the moment Su Nian opened the door, he would see Kevin standing there, striking a pose.

Then Su Nian might get to personally experience the IF route where the Herrscher of Erosion won the Paradise Werewolf game...

If the Herrscher won, they would run into Kevin on the way out of The Past's Paradise.

And be instantly obliterated by Kevin blocking the door.

If Kevin kept watching, there was a very high chance Su Nian would get cornered by him.

[On the front lines of the end, before departing, Kevin lingered there for a long time. He propped up the body of his fallen comrade, making him stand upright.]

[His reluctance to leave wasn't despair—this was far from over. They should leave standing.]

[But when Kevin returned to the base, he missed his last chance to see his beloved.]

[Mei left a letter, and a test-tube baby created from both their genes—he would become the human of the new era.]

Kevin had no time to stop and grieve for all of this. Crying counted as time, too.

Twelve hours left was still far too few.

[Kevin told Su to head to the shelter together, but the moment he turned his back... Kevin finally cried. Tears fell.]

[As the tears froze into crystals and dropped, the flames of vengeance blazed up.]

That's right. The war was far from over. In the next era, he would stop at nothing to grind the Honkai, that force looming over civilization, into dust.

[Now, for the Flame Chasers, only two choices remained. Either be buried in this dying age.]

[Or enter a hibernation pod, and when civilization restarted, step onto the path of fighting the Honkai once more.]

Writing up to this point, Su Nian edited the Fifth Divine Key—Slumber of All Things into the Divine Key chapter.

The hibernation pods had limited space. Only by coordinating with the satellite built from the Fourth Divine Key could they survive the End's cleansing of the surface.

It seemed only the authority of the Herrscher of Ice could freeze Kevin into slumber as well.

Reasonable. Very reasonable.

[Fifth Divine Key—[Key of Stagnation] Slumber of All Things]

[Originally a weapon of extreme cold built for combat, but after the Twelfth Herrscher—the Herrscher of Erosion incident—Vill-V, because the nuclear bomb she developed killed the last three cities of humanity, changed her original design intent. She chose to remodel this life-destroying weapon she created into a cryogenic hibernation device that extended life.]

This era was too cruel. Simply living... was a luxury.

And the only thing Kevin could do now was to carry on the unfinished journey of the departed, giving meaning to their sacrifices.

The so-called Brand of Salvation was nothing more than a wish pieced together from the wills of the fallen.

But they had done a lot for the future.

They created the current humans;

They left behind weapons and knowledge to protect humanity;

They wrested the hearts of the Herrschers back from the Honkai;

They planted an insider within the Will of Honkai;

They locked down the types of Herrschers that could appear and left behind records of all of them;

They also had a final plan to defeat the Honkai—one that would surely succeed...

All these preparations would turn into new hope.

Creating more possibilities in the next civilization.

The Previous Civilization era, end.

Time to get into the real story—The Past's Paradise.

"Ryomen Sukuna? The strongest sorcerer in history? Just a mortal born in an era without me."

Lin Qi stood opposite Ryomen Sukuna, looking at him with a playful expression.

"On my left is Koyuki Shimo—possessor of multiple techniques, wielding Limitless and Ten Shadows like it's nothing. On my right is Ooyuki Shimo—awakened a unique modern technique, talent no less than mine. And slashing techniques are just our basic attacks."

"I'm asking you—how would a fifteen-finger Sukuna even deal with this?"

Ryomen Sukuna stared at the black-haired youth before him, whose cursed energy nature was identical to his own, his four eyes wide with shock.

Chapter 42—It's The Past's Paradise time now!

Su Nian had finally finished laying out most of the backstory of the Previous Civilization from Kevin's perspective.

He had participated in all the major events. With this kind of organization, the story's background was already perfect. In miHoYo's story, Kevin was one of the Flame Chasers with the most screen time.

This gradually perfected the story framework he was building.

So Su Nian started writing from his experiences first.

The other small stories and the personalities of the Flame Chasers were like small puzzle pieces.

In other words, the content of The Past's Paradise.

The story of the Previous Civilization had already reached its end.

Since the conclusion was complete, Su Nian prepared to start writing the story of The Past's Paradise.

In other words... the real "main story."

The Past's Paradise was the true theme of the story Su Nian was writing—the real essence.

But the audience mistakenly believed Su Nian had already finished writing the entire story.

They even started spamming the barrage with "completed, scatter flowers."

[Ah, finishing a story in one day is honestly way too terrifying...]

[The neighboring contestant's creation is harder than a med student's graduation]

[The drafts they produce are worse than my thesis defense]

[The Past's Paradise is a facility that records the Flame-Chasers, so... what's the point of its existence?]

[An open ending, huh? Kevin must have won in the next civilization era, right?]

[Will he win? He will win!]

[If he keeps writing, won't the length get too long? In the competition, there might only be this much content.]

[Don't ask, the content can always be continued. Let's wait and see Su Nian's final result.]

[Contestant Su Nian... please, pick up your phone and go online!!! We're looking forward to working with you!]

[Wait, don't discuss the plot first. What the hell is Su Nian writing now??!]

[Holy crap! He's not Superman, he's the ancient Greek god of creation!]

After they discussed for a while, someone was astonished to discover that Su Nian still hadn't stopped his hands?

Viewers who had just left were now returning.

The sound of keyboard clicks remained the background noise of the livestream. Su Nian was still typing!

It was as if a match that was about to end had found room for a comeback.

If not for the host temporarily going off-duty, Su Nian's livestream might have turned into a commentary booth for some competitive sport.