The Artifact Forger from the Beginning of Collapse

"Snap!" Mebius snapped his fingers, and a mecha-like figure with a snake tail darted out from the shadows behind him.

"Why do you have a clone that resembles your original self in a state of artificial collapse after you fuse with the Snake game?" Chen Li asked in surprise.

“Perhaps people like us who have no future need to undergo fusion surgery to have Stands from the future like Greta and Kevin? I’m not sure.” Mebius shook his head.

"Thwack!" Velvi seized the opportunity and threw a Poké Ball at Mebius's substitute.

Then the Poké Ball fell to the ground.

“It seems I can’t subdue the Stand…” Velvi stroked her chin.

"Vilvi!"

"Möbius, calm down. You're a scientist too. You should know that practice makes perfect... Hey, don't hit me!" Velvi was chased all over the lab by Möbius's stand-in.

“I think we could keep this cat as a pet for Pado. Although it’s really dangerous, it can be caught with a Poké Ball,” Chen Li suggested.

"It doesn't matter." Möbius's gluttonous snake isn't like Chen Li's gourmet cells, which require eating rare items to gain significant enhancements.

“I have a question. If Chen Li summons your projection, can your projection kill you?” Alicia asked.

“A very insightful question. By the way, Möbius, where is your projection? I remember it shouldn’t be time for it to disappear yet.” Chen Li looked around but didn’t find Möbius’s projection.

"After seeing the three of you arrive at the lab, it was so scared that it automatically disintegrated," Möbius said irritably.

Then only Mebius himself is left here to suffer.

"..." Chen Li and Alicia exchanged a glance, and tacitly did not discuss the topic any further.

"How about... we give it a try? I can lend you my revival match," Chen Li suggested.

"We can give it a try," Mebius said, somewhat tempted.

There's a resurrection item that means you don't need to use a resurrection card when you die and need to revive; you just need to watch a 30-second ad.

After obtaining Mebius's permission, Chen Li threw a star stone onto the ground in front of him, summoning a magic circle, and at the same time transferred the right to use the resurrected Scythe to Mebius.

After Mebius's projection emerged from the magic circle, it reached out its hand directly towards Mebius's mouth without uttering a single word.

Experiencing death is something that the original body would naturally do—that's what both the projection and the original body think.

……

"What happened? Mebius's Stand suddenly disappeared? Was it out of range?" Velvet, who had been chased to another area by Mebius's Stand, ran back breathlessly.

But when Vilvie entered the laboratory and saw the scene before her, she couldn't help but gape.

"Who is this little thing? Has Mebius's memory left the Paradise of the Past?" Looking at the girl standing in front of Mebius, who was no different from a 12-year-old loli, with a petite figure and long green hair, Velvi was very surprised.

"You should be able to guess. Speak your mind boldly." Chen Li shook his head.

"Could this be Möbius? And the Möbius on the other side is her projection?" Looking at the pink dress that was obviously several sizes too big for her own body, Velvi faced this absurd situation head-on.

“That’s right. Wow, little Mebius is cute too. Watch me make your pink dress fit better.” Alicia snapped her fingers, activating her magical girl privilege, making Mebius’s previously loose pink dress fit better again.

"How did Möbius do that?"

"Mebius's mouth was touched by her projection, which is [another gluttonous snake], and that's how he ended up like this," Chen Li explained.

not dead.

Perhaps it's because they are essentially the same gluttonous snake.

But it got smaller.

It's probably because the snake in the game gets punished even if it touches its own body.

"Don't panic. As long as I eat these green cubes scattered on the ground again, I should be able to return to my original size... Wait, Chen Li! You're not allowed to eat this one!" Before Mebius could finish speaking, she saw that all the apple-sized green cubes that had been scattered on the ground after she turned into a little girl had been picked up by Chen Li.

"I don't eat everything. I just think Dr. Mebius is quite cute. Can I play with him for a little while? I'll return these green cubes to you later."

"No! Now! Give it back! To me!" Mebius, now a loli, stood on tiptoe, trying to snatch the pile of green cubes that Chen Li had put in the bag, but she couldn't reach Chen Li's raised hand no matter what she did.

Just as Mebius's projection was about to go up and help, Chen Li dismissed it.

Mebius grew increasingly terrified.

Mebius felt a chill coming from behind him.

Something bad is chasing me!

“Dr. Mebius,” Alicia’s melodious voice rang out behind Mebius, and a pair of hands landed on his shoulders.

"..." The thing Mebius feared most still happened.

"Buzz!" Just when Mebius was in despair, an alarm suddenly blared throughout the entire Moth of Fire.

Alicia, who had originally intended to toy with Mebius, suddenly became serious.

"This voice is..." Chen Li, who was the head of the Fire Chaser Engineering Department, was somewhat puzzled because he hadn't actually spent much time with Fire Chaser.

“This is… an alarm signaling the impending Great Collapse.” Mebius’s voice was icy.

Mebius's double sprang out from Mebius's shadow and took the bag from Chen Li's hand.

Mebius shrank after being touched by another Mebius, but his Stand seemed unaffected.

The reason why Chen Li didn't summon a Stand at first was because the Stand was also the result of Mebius's experiment. Therefore, Mebius's Stand also belonged to Chen Li, and this Stand was suppressed by Chen Li from the beginning.

Mebius always felt that he lost more than he had imagined when he signed that clause.

—What else is included in all the experimental subjects whose ownership can be decided by Möbius himself?

It’s so hard to guess.

"According to the mini-program that detects the collapse, the estimated impact of this major collapse is the entire East Asia. This means that if it is not stopped in time, the entire East Asia will suffer." Mebius's matter had long been put aside by Velvi, who quickly checked the data on her WeChat Moments terminal.

This is also thanks to the large amount of funding injected by the United Nations leadership, which enabled Velvet to have the money to deploy the most sophisticated and sensitive Honkai energy detection devices across the entire Earth through the Fire Moth.

"The concentration of Honkai energy in the entire East Asian region is rising rapidly and is about to exceed the limit of human tolerance..."

"Wait, Vilvi, you mean we're about to exceed the limits of human endurance, meaning we haven't exceeded them yet, right?" Chen Li suddenly asked.

“That’s right, but in half a minute at most, it will be enough to completely turn the humans in the core area of ​​the Honkai outbreak into zombies, and some humans with weak resistance may already be turning into zombies. Such a short time is simply not enough to evacuate the crowd.”

"Enough, enough, let me see who the group member closest to the core area of ​​the Honkai outbreak is... Great, it's Yakumo Yukari. I'm going over there first, you guys hurry up and come." After Chen Li finished speaking, he disappeared instantly.

As long as the person is still alive, Chen Li has a chance to resolve this massive collapse.

The Great Collapse has already occurred, and it is no longer feasible to have Sirin suppress the Third Collapse once again.

but……

"Let the Cocoon of the End see... just how many uses the 'Cute Body' has!" Chen Li sneered.

Although Chen Li didn't know how long it would take for the third Herrscher to appear after the Herrscher of the Void appeared in the original storyline, it certainly wouldn't be as fast as it is now.

It has been less than a month since the Herrscher of the Void appeared.

This only proves one thing: the Cocoon of the End is desperate and resorting to desperate measures.

Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that the pace of development of the pre-civilization had reached a point where the Cocoon of the End believed it was time to prepare new challenges for civilization.

You little bastard! Just you wait!

Next time I use you as a server, I'll smash your head in!

……

"How did it go? Did Chen Li successfully stop the Great Collapse?" After Mebius, Velvet, and Alicia used the Moments terminal to teleport to the disaster area through Yakumo Yukari, the three of them quickly asked Yakumo Yukari.

"Uh, Chen Li didn't try to stop the Great Collapse at all. He... uh... you can see for yourselves." Yukari Yakumo didn't know how to explain this situation.

The three looked around and finally saw Chen Li, who was confronting the Herrscher of Thunder, whose body was surrounded by purple lightning, at the highest point of the city.

I also witnessed the devastation in this city...

"嘤嘤嘤!"

"嘤嘤嘤!"

"嘤嘤嘤!"

Countless whimpering monsters completely ignored the Honkai energy within the city, which was so concentrated that it could instantly turn people into zombies, and ran rampant throughout the city.

Countless Honkai Beasts, created by the Honkai energy eruption, were chasing and attacking these whimpering monsters. However, their attacks were meaningless to the whimpering monsters. Even if they were flattened, the whimpering monsters would instantly revert to their original form, then pull out a hammer and smash Honkai Beasts ten or a hundred times their size into the air. The entire city was a chaotic mess of whimpering monsters.

"Uh... what's going on?" Seeing this, Velvi also began to stammer.

Not buddy.

What's going on?

"Becoming a 'Crybaby' can alleviate psychological burdens, allowing you to transform them into snacks to distribute to others. While transformed into a 'Crybaby Monster,' you are immune to all damage, including but not limited to the erosion of Honkai energy," Chen Li's voice reached their ears, providing an explanation.

It was Yukari Yakumo who set up a barely perceptible gap next to Chen Li as a conduit.

"Chen Li, you're a genius! But I remember there are limitations to using the Meng Ying Body, right?"

"As a one-star rare item, I added all the restrictions to the Cute Body, such as it not affecting people who are currently working. The effect of the Cute Body is to turn everyone illuminated by the pink light into a whining monster. Moreover, this time when I activated the Cute Body, I set a time limit for it: the infected person will not return to a normal person within ten days," Chen Li said.

Chen Li spent a crystal to activate the true power of Meng Ying's body, making it impossible for people who have become Ying Ying monsters to turn back to normal within ten days, even after all the snacks have been distributed.

Chen Li originally thought he would never need to use this function...

If a gun appears in the first act, then the gun must fire in the third act—classics never go out of style!

"Unfortunately, some people who were very close to the Herrscher of Thunder have completely become assassins, and Moth can't solve their problem. However, these people always have relatives or friends. Let Moth Chaser find their relatives, and then send them the resurrection card link so they can watch the advertisement to revive their relatives," Chen Li said.