Collapse Iron Live Broadcast Connects All Worlds, Scares Away Wuzhan at the Beginning

Li Xi was wiping dishes behind the bar: "So, will Xing tell Rocky the truth? I feel like he's quite stubborn. If he tells him everything——"

“Of course I have to tell him!” Aine unconsciously raised her voice a few degrees, biting hard on the straw inserted into the cup: “When I’m old, if I knew that I gave up true love because of a lie when I was young, I, I… will die with regret!”

"Heh." Su Shi, who was sitting opposite her, shook his head calmly.

"What if he finds out? Should I let him live his whole life with regret and melancholy?" She gently stirred the black tea in the cup, and the silver tea spoon made a crisp sound when it hit the porcelain cup.

"But..." Aiyin also knew that what Su Shi said made sense, but when she thought that Rocky's whole life might be affected by this lie, she was unwilling to accept it.

Su Shi looked up at Rocky, who was looking worried in the sky. "Sometimes, not knowing is actually a kind of happiness. Only a complete break can--"

He suddenly stopped talking in the middle of his words. Aiyin saw that Su Shi's brows were furrowed and he took a deep breath. His face turned ashen, as if he was recalling something unpleasant from the past.

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"Xing found Rocky, who was still revising his newly written love poem. Seeing Xing approaching, Rocky guessed that she had repaired the repeater."

"Xing finally made up her mind and handed him the Red Transcription Record."

"After thanking him, Rocky happily went to read the reply from his beloved girl. But as his fingers slid across the datapad, the smile on his lips froze before it could fully bloom."

“How could this happen… Leslie agreed to my confession, but the part about the starquake…” Rocky lowered his head in confusion. “I, I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this…”

"It seems the gravitational pull of the starquake is so strong that for every month she passes, decades pass by me. Doesn't that mean I'll be as old as Master by the time she returns? And won't the long hours I've spent missing her seem like fleeting moments to her?"

"...I never thought even time could be unfair to people," Rocky muttered to himself. "Spending a lifetime waiting for someone, enduring endless longing and loneliness... Honestly, buddy, you don't think I'm that naive, do you?"

He seemed to have figured something out and let out an ecstatic voice: "Haha! Of course I won't wait for her! I won't wait!"

"But I'm going to chase her. I'm going to chase time! Since her space-time curve has become a canyon, instead of waiting for her to come out, can't I just cross it?"

"In Rocky's opinion, spending ten years to find her, who had only lived for a month, but whose time would now flow at the same pace, was absolutely a wise move. With that, he decided to pack his bags and set off to find Leslie."

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Kaguya-sama: Love is War wants me to confess my love.

"Wow... so touching!"

In the student council, Fujiwara Chika was hugging a box of tissues, tears streaming down her face like a faucet, having not stopped since she learned the truth about Xingzhen. "Ten years! Wuuuuuuu... You must give me great happiness!"

"I'm willing to eat vegetarian food for three months in exchange for their safe togetherness!" Fujiwara Chika cried even louder, "And I'd also like Ishigami-san to be single for ten years!"

"Huh? Fujiwara-senpai, you're so generous! Thank you so much." Ishigami Yu looked up from the computer screen. "Senior, just be moved by it. Why are you paying for my happiness?"

"The main reason is that when I see such a pure-hearted boy, I also want to fall in love." Fujiwara Chika showed a shy expression.

Ishigami Yu took off his headphones. "Oh, that's great, but Fujiwara-senpai, I need to remind you that love... is always sweetest when you see others in it. If you're in it yourself, you might stop believing in love."

Chapter 291: Thousand Stars Chronicle: "The sound of the Ruan falls on the beautiful clothes, and the bloom of the plum blossoms is like applying makeup" (I)

"Hello, mother. It's as if I'm seeing you in person."

"The spring sun shines through the plum branches, casting dappled shadows on the letter."

"She sat on a stone bench, her indigo cheongsam wrapped around her porcelain-white figure, like a corner of sky cut out from an ancient painting."

"Her black hair was tied into a low bun, and a few red plum blossom petals drifted quietly, landing on her hair. She didn't even brush them away, letting the vibrant color embellish her hair. As her brushstrokes shifted, the silver bracelet on her wrist swayed gently with the movement of her brush, like a pool of clear water brushed by a spring breeze."

"The plum blossoms bloom and fade, and I occasionally smell loneliness in their fragrance. I think back to our childhood research with you in No Man's Land."

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Chainsaw Man.

“This, this…!”

The apple in Denci's mouth fell to the ground with a "pop".

That feeling… was like having one of the tentacles of a leech demon pierce his heart. In an instant, an icy chill washed over him, and he froze in place, unable to move. His pupils constricted violently, his mouth unconsciously parted slightly, and even his breathing stopped for a few seconds.

His eyes were already captivated, and his brain was completely occupied by this beautiful figure - the action of the woman in the simple cheongsam picking up the pen to write a letter was replaying in his mind every second: the slightly lowered eyes when holding the pen, the two long legs that were glowing white under the stone table, and the expressionless face... Denci suddenly felt dry in the mouth and swallowed unconsciously.

"Denci, can you please take your eyes off other people's legs?" Pava's voice came to my ears.

After staring for a long time, Dianci turned his neck slightly and found that Pava was watching even more intently than him, and he was almost holding a telescope.

"Tsk, aren't you enjoying watching it yourself..."

Pava snorted disdainfully. "I'm different from you. This woman looks very cultured. I wonder if she's ever won a Nobel Prize."

Hayakawa Qiu came out of the kitchen carrying two plates of macaroni and said calmly, "It's not hard to guess that this person should be the Ruan Mei that Ms. Heita often mentioned."

"Ruan Mei? She's the member of the genius club with that robot?" Pava said, "Oh!" "Then she must have won a Nobel Prize, right?"

"Even if they had, I'm afraid they wouldn't be interested in claiming it. Being glanced at by [Intelligence] is nothing compared to reaching the pinnacle of a particular field. In this world of geniuses, such an achievement is simply not worth mentioning."

Like Pava and Denji, Hayakawa Aki was also drawn to Ruan Mei. However, what struck him wasn't her beautiful appearance, but a feeling that was completely different from that of geniuses of the same level, such as Heita and Screw Gumu.

Her voice had an extremely indifferent tone, as if after going through thousands of experiences, something hot in human nature had been locked away forever in a laboratory.

"Is this an illusion?..."

Hayakawa Aki hoped that he had heard wrongly.

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“The warm little house, the boundless joy of species and life, the life at that time is unforgettable to me. I understood the vastness of the universe too early…”

"..."

"The scene shifts to a freezing cold land of ice and snow. The expedition team's searchlights cast pale beams of light through the blizzard, like trembling swords piercing deep into the snow."

"A faint white mist covered her oxygen mask, but the girl was oblivious. She stood behind her mother, tiptoeing, her pupils reflecting the eerie scene in the distance."

"The snowy mountain is wriggling."

"That's not an avalanche—it's some giant creature made of countless eyeballs, awakening. Each of its eyeballs is embedded in rotting tumors, a terrifying sight. Its torso is buried deep within the snowy mountain, and faintly visible are black branches resembling human skeletons. They slowly open and close in rhythm with their breathing, emitting a roar like the sound of ice breaking."

"Amidst the piercing screams of countless people, the girl's eyes danced with joy, like someone standing in front of a candy store window. It was as if the unspeakable creature wasn't a monster that had claimed the lives of countless team members, but a piece of candy waiting for her to unravel."

“Birth, growth, and withering… lamenting the process of life is the origin of my thinking. I began to realize that I long for something [pure].”

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Teyvat, Sumeru.

"purely……"

In the rainforest outside Huacheng, Kelai was pondering Ruan Mei's words. Suddenly, something struck her, and she looked up at Tinari. "Master, do you think Miss Ruan Mei wants to study the Star God? Honestly, I can't imagine anything purer in the universe than the Star God."

Having just experienced the entirety of the locust plague, Cole had a completely new understanding of the Star Gods. She had originally believed that all Star Gods were supreme and could do whatever they pleased, but now it seemed that some Star Gods might not even possess the same freedom as humans.

[Breeding] has been fulfilling his destiny from the beginning to the end, without stopping for a moment. Although it has brought countless disasters to the world, she really can't imagine anyone who can better represent the word "pure" than Him.

"I think there is such a possibility, but isn't it too crazy to study the [Star God]?" Tinari thought with his chin in his hand.

While the Genius Club members were not ordinary individuals, Miss Ruan Mei appeared to be mortal, completely different from ScrewGum. The power displayed by the Star God was truly extraordinary, and even the slightest misstep could potentially ripple through countless galaxies in the universe.

"I saw that Miss Ruan Mei staring at that monster without a trace of fear in her eyes. I'm afraid the Star God today is the same as she was when she looked at that monster as a child?"

A trace of confusion crossed Kelai's face. "But why does she want to study the [Star God]? Does she want to become an envoy of [Intelligence]? To possess extraordinary powers like Lady Black Tower?"

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“Attachment…is involved in the insular cortex, which controls anxiety and pain, and the nucleus accumbens, which produces craving.”

“The laws of emotion can be easily broken down. Children who receive random rewards will become more… well-behaved.”

Ruan Mei stood in the observation cabin, the boundless expanse of space stretching out before her. Stars scattered like shattered diamonds on the pitch-black curtain. Her gaze calmly gazed at a colorful, fairytale-like planet in the distance, as if the planet were reaching out a tiny hand, greeting her.

“When I discovered how easy it was to even cultivate a planet, I began to feel… empty.”

Chapter 292: Thousand Stars Chronicle: "The sound of the Ruan falls on a gorgeous dress, and the bloom of the plum blossoms is like applying makeup" (Part 2)

"I'm increasingly realizing my desire for some fundamental research."

"And recently, I've had some different thoughts."

"She walked along the bluestone path, the courtyard walls transformed into alloy cabins, the moss transformed into data streaming across the screen. Before she knew it, she had walked from her hometown to the space station. Different sounds also appeared around her: the argument between Black Tower and Screw Gum mingled in her ears, like two streams of stardust colliding, emitting dazzling sparks."

“At first, I was horrified by its presence—it emerged from the spectacle, without resistance or mourning. It was closest to the emotions that had arisen spontaneously in my childhood.”

"Ruan Mei lightly dipped into a curtain of shimmering water. As her skirts fluttered, the ground touched by her toes began to perform a dance of life—they rose and fell, climbing, shattering into stardust-like particles at the highest point, and then being reborn in new permutations and combinations the next moment, like countless experimental variables in the universe, weaving new poems between eternal collapse and reconstruction."

“It asked me, where is the end of research? The world is full of dazzling colors, but it has nothing to do with me.”

“I explore the mysteries of the universe, I seek answers deeper than human nature. I have nothing to lose, and nothing to gain. If I could cultivate, reorganize, and recreate life…”

““It can dissect [memory], regulate [balance], deconstruct [pure beauty], and recreate [immortality]…””

"Countless bright blue dots of data converged like stardust, swirling and intertwining above Ruan Mei's slender white palm. The vibrant particles collided and entangled with each other, gradually weaving into a spiral of light—a sequence of life, each segment shimmering with a unique color."

“I will understand [life], touch [concepts]. Perhaps I can also…”

““Become [▅ ▅].”

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Absolute Zone Zero.

"She, she's going to become... a Star God?!"

Ruan Mei's words were like a thunderclap, which frightened Qian Yuzhen so much that he accidentally dropped the red bean bun in his hand. Fortunately, Cang Jiao caught it with his mouth.

"So, her goal was different from Black Tower and the others from the very beginning. Black Tower and ScrewGum only wanted to study the Star Gods, while Ruan Mei wanted to become a Star God herself."

Asaba Yuzhen stared at the DNA sequence floating in Ruan Mei's hand. He really couldn't imagine that this gentle, elegant woman who loved pastries would have such a crazy idea.

"Not necessarily, Yuma." Yue Chengliu gently pushed up his glasses. "As a scholar and scientist... what do you think the Black Tower and the others are studying the Star Gods for? Black Tower has become the Emissary of [Intelligence]. I don't think she doesn't have any further aspirations."

"There aren't many geniuses of their level in the entire universe... I can understand why they think that way."

"Stop! Stop!" Asaba Yuzhen quickly made the sign of the cross on his chest. "Liu, you don't really think they can do it? That's a Star God! You've also witnessed the entire process of the Universal Locust Plague, right? The kind of power that can turn all the products on the factory assembly line into insects!"

"But Taiz Yulos was just an ordinary coleoptera before his ascension."

Yue Chengliu smiled faintly. "So, Yuma, the key is to figure out what exactly happened—that's why these geniuses have been so busy until now. And ever since I learned about the existence of [Star Gods] in the more distant universe through Tianmu, I've been wondering... could the 'Void' also be related to Star Gods."

"Liu, are you saying that the void disaster in our world might be caused by the star core?"

"...This is just my simple conjecture," Liu said, holding a teacup. "If Ruan Mei can one day decipher the secrets of the Star God, her findings will surely benefit the entire universe. It might even help us solve the void disaster."

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Teyvat.

In a palace somewhere in winter, looking up at the spiral light band in Ruan Mei's hand in the sky, Dotole's fingertips tightly clasped the edge of the table, his knuckles turned white from excessive force, and his breathing under the mask was heavy and rapid.

"Sure enough...Sure enough..." His voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, with suppressed excitement and trembling, "A mortal body can touch the realm of a star god. My thoughts are correct, ha...hahahaha!"

Alechino leaned against the doorframe, her crimson eyes flickering between the sky and her colleagues. She toyed with a Fatui badge, the metal making a cold, crisp sound as it turned between her fingers.

"Forget it," she suddenly said, her voice piercing her bones like winter snow. "What's the point of your speculation? How dare you, someone who can't even leave Teyvat, talk about studying the Star Gods? Don't you know that with your level, you're nothing but a clown in front of the true geniuses in the Black Tower?"

Dottore withdrew his gaze from the sky, and after taking a deep breath, his tone gradually became calmer: "Ever since Fontaine returned, Alechino...you've become more harsh in your words."

"It has nothing to do with Fontaine, but with the Sky Curtain." Alechino sneered. "Ever since the Sky Curtain appeared, I've learned that outside of Teyvat, there are scholars whose achievements far surpass yours. They don't have to despise the lives of ordinary people, yet they can still gain the recognition of [Intelligence]. Meanwhile, someone was expelled from the Council of Ecclesiastes, secretly murdered countless people, and despite all this, couldn't even attract the attention of a Star God... How pitiful."

"But it's this kind of person, so weak that he can't even obtain experimental samples in the universe, yet he has the audacity to want to study the Star God. Isn't that ridiculous... Dotore?"

Although he appeared calm on the outside, Alechino could sense that Dottore's aura suddenly changed.

……murderous look.

"Are you angry?" Alechino's dark fingers brushed the wall, leaving sharp marks. "I haven't seen your 'slices' in a long time since you came back from Xumi. I hope they're all right, huh?"

"That's nothing for you to worry about, Alechino."

The murderous aura immediately dissipated. Dotore groaned, as if with strong displeasure, and turned around and disappeared into the corridor of the palace.

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Ruan Mei's fingertips lightly touched the holographic screen, and a cold blue light rippled across her fingertips.

"In the image, Xing swings a baseball bat in a simulated universe, metal hitting the Zerg's carapace, sending up a shower of data sparks. Even facing a larger and stronger Zerg, Xing can't help but show signs of fatigue."

"Don't worry, my dear assistant, I will give you... [Reward]."

Chapter 293: Ordinary and the Crown of God (I)

"According to the Black Tower, Ruan Mei has already arrived at the space station. If you want to see her, you can go to the platform and look for her first."