Collapse City, the beginning of the production of the anime version of Collapse 3

"Ji Zi, do you think Ya Qing did this on purpose?"

Theresa suddenly spoke.

Hearing this, Ji Zi was stunned.

"From your last lesson to Kiana-chan and Mei's Sinner's Lament, to now... me, everyone associated with Saint Freya, has been killed by the sword."

Ji Zi was stunned. She had never looked at this problem from this perspective.

"That must be the case."

Theresa was sure.

Hold your hands tightly.

"Yaqing, I will never coexist with you!"

Ji Zi smiled helplessly. Theresa had said this countless times.

In Joyce's office at Anti-Entropy headquarters in North America.

"Tesla, there is no role for you at all. The only possible role is Xiao Te, but he can't even unlock the dialogue function. You...are you lying to us?"

Edison looked at Tesla suspiciously.

Not only Edison, but even Schrödinger and Planck had some doubts.

Tesla was anxious.

"Really? They don't know, but Einstein, you don't know? Hurry up and stand up and say something for me! You're here to dub with me!"

Tesla shouted to Einstein.

Einstein nodded slightly.

Seeing Einstein nod, Edison and the others suppressed their emotions and continued watching the online drama.

[The captain didn’t know how many times he had gone through reincarnations before the screen suddenly went black.

[…TeslaZero is restarting…]

[…Warning, about to wake up, the dialogue module is recovering…]

The camera turned and showed a small river in the reed marsh. The surface of the river reflected the stars in the sky, and the originally sad background music became gentle.

Xiao Te walked quietly on the river.

The gentle voice reached the ears of every audience member.

"I have shared your future, but I have never known your past."

"You then, just like you are now, were responsible for the lives and deaths of others."

"As long as you are alive, you are constantly forced to reset the past."

The dim memory picture is about gazing at the stars and waving a feather fan in a strange drift.

"You are still in pain, but you have never forgotten your pain."

That is the stargazer sitting on the throne with indifference.

"And I finally came to your past, writing the beginning note of that long journey through the fragments of the world."

One scene after another appears, with Xiao Te's gentle comfort. She seems to be bringing affirmation and expectations to the captain on behalf of the audience, and she is also comforting the audience who are watching together, and they are also experiencing this pain.

"Cry, cry. If you feel pain, just cry like a child until you are exhausted."

“Pain is not terrible. What is terrible is that after you get used to pain, you can no longer feel it.”

"Because you no longer put yourself in the position of a witness, but become a bystander, just like me now, witnessing the tragedies you have experienced."

"But if you want to understand humans, you can't just watch from the sidelines. You have to stand with them and see what they are seeing. This is what you said to me in the distant future."

"Now I'm trying to stand by you, what are you doing?"

"If there are other bystanders, they must also be full of expectations for you at this moment, hoping that you will overcome more deaths and reach a happy ending where no one is injured."

All the audience were stunned when they heard this.

"They don't know, nor do they care what you've been through. Your experiences of loss and recovery are just a story to them."

"A story they thought they could see the end of."

“But is this really the case?”

“This story is not about saving or being saved. Its ending is constantly being patched up, with new cracks appearing. And you are the one who repeats, repeats, tries again and again, going through the pain.”

Xiao Te gradually walked to the lanterns on the river.

Guan Xing's death is also constantly flashed back in the camera.

“You can’t accomplish something just by persisting, and miracles won’t happen just by saying “I can do it”. I know, and you know, too, that even if you work hard enough, you don’t have the ability to do so now.”

"But I am here to try to provide you with an opportunity to break the impasse. This is the meaning of my existence."

Xiao Te finally faces the camera. 】

The knife fell.

Under Xiao Te's gentle comfort, even the audience who don't want to cry can't help but shed tears. The human spirit is very strange. They obviously don't feel wronged in their hearts, but when they are comforted, they feel that they have been greatly wronged.

"Woo woo... Xiao Te is finally going to take action. Guanxing can be saved, and the captain can be saved too... woo woo..."

Alicia burst into tears.

The two boxes of tissue paper on the table have been used up, and the table is filled with crumpled tissues.

Mei's eyes were red.

This is the famous sword technique in Honkai Impact 3rd. Even though people know there is a sword involved, they are still willing to watch it. The Last Lesson, Sky Meteor, Sinner's Elegy, etc. are all of this kind of sword technique. The sword is not the purpose, but the emotion it brings.

“It’s become art now.”

Sakura wiped her tears.

There has never been a similar plot before. They are bystanders in Xiaote’s words, and the sense of immersion they bring is unparalleled.

They have seen the captain's experiences and how he interacted with the stargazers, but they find it difficult to deeply understand the captain's inner pain.

"Who is singing this song? I really couldn't help myself when the song started."

The carefree Xiao Shi couldn't help himself under the attack of the knife.

"It sounds like the principal's voice."

Fu Hua supported her chin, not quite sure.

However, Theresa's voice was too familiar. People who knew her would recognize it at once. However, Fu Hua was still not sure. After all, the singing voice as background music was too soft and difficult to hear clearly.

[“This is simply art! Even more artistic than an explosion!”]

[“This part captures the emotions so well. First the captain keeps reincarnating to save her, and then Xiao Te comes out to comfort her. It’s so cruel, I can’t hide from her even if I want to. The words ‘Cry, cry’ really broke my defense!”]

The depression brought about by the captain's countless reincarnations was dispersed a lot when Xiaote appeared, and the slow-paced atmosphere added a bit of emotion.

"Old Antique, how many reincarnations do you think the Captain will have to go through?"

Xiao Shi raised her head with tears in her eyes.

"I don't know, probably no more than a hundred times."

Fu Hua's thoughts were still too tactful.

In Joyce's office, all the women were broken by this knife.

Tesla didn't even bother to proudly tell the girls that this was his voice.

Schrodinger sniffed.

"Is Dr. Tesla's voice really that gentle?"

Joyce scratched his head.

As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately attracted the angry glares from the women.

"Hold... Sorry, I won't talk anymore."

Joyce smiled awkwardly.

The girls then turned their attention back to the projection screen.

【"Ha ha……!"

The captain seemed to wake up from a dream and sat up suddenly. The number of reincarnations increased, and the time he was awake became less and less, just a little bit short each time, and his spirit was getting closer and closer to collapse.

"Why would you do such a thing? Why didn't you listen to me?"

"Wha...what?"

The captain was a little emotionally broken. He grabbed Guanxing's shoulders and yelled at her why she didn't listen to him and didn't need to worry about anything and just do what he said right now.

"Why……"

"Don't ask why! Just do as I say if you don't want to die!"

Guanxing didn't know why the captain had a breakdown, so he asked the maid to bring a basin of ice water, wet a towel with it, and wanted to wipe the captain's face.

The captain looked at Guanxing's worried eyes and subconsciously stepped back.

"Do not touch me."

"Don't look at me like that..."

"That kind of...look full of expectation."

"I……"

The captain lowered his head. He had been failing and repeating himself over and over again, and he had lost confidence.

"Mr. Assassin..."

Stargazing's face was filled with worry.

When the captain heard the words "Mr. Assassin", his defense was completely broken.

"I'm not Mr. Assassin! The Mr. Assassin in your memory can do anything, but I..."

The captain lowered his head, looking at his tightly clenched fists, and was filled with resentment at his own powerlessness. He was afraid that he would see Guanxing's face. He wanted to escape, but he didn't even have the choice to escape. 】

Seeing the captain on the verge of mental breakdown, the audience couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

"The Captain has done his best..."

Alicia felt distressed.

This is the captain. If it were someone else, he would have had a mental breakdown long ago. No one could accept watching Guanxing die tragically in front of him many times.

"Ugh."

Mei sighed.

"The captain has achieved the pinnacle of what a person can do. No one can do better than him."

Sakura also sighed.

[Guanxing comforted the captain softly, saying that the captain obviously had more choices. He could have given up on saving her, he could have forgotten her, and he could still live a good life in this world.

"It's you who saved me so many times."

Stargazing is certain that everything the captain does is meaningful and only he can do it.

At this moment, Xiao Te suddenly interrupted their conversation and reminded the captain if he remembered how many times he had mapped.

Then, seeing the abnormal number, Xiao Te couldn't help but be a little surprised. He felt that the threshold set by the future captain was too harsh. Only when the current captain's consciousness mapping reached the fixed threshold, he would wake up.

If the current captain gives up before reaching that threshold, he will just be a piece of scrap metal.

The captain was skeptical, and Xiao Te also gave an explanation. The future captain had fantasies and expected his past self to be different. Even if the possibility was small, he hoped to take a different path from his own. 】

"Ten million times?!"

Xiao Shi widened his eyes and wanted to get closer to the computer screen.

Fu Hua was also shocked.

She guessed it a thousand times but she didn't expect it to be an eight-digit number.

[“Damn, the future captain is really ruthless. He is really not afraid that the current captain will lose his mind and turn the table over and stop playing.”]