Bengtie, I have a Collapse simulator

Gu Che felt relieved only after confirming that the things he had obtained with great difficulty were not lost.

It was not only a researcher's ID card, but also a hope for life. With this ID card, Gu Che had a lot of room for maneuver.

No one of the experimental subjects could survive more than a year in this laboratory, not even him who had the [Honkai Energy Adaptability].

Fortunately, he had the talent of [Perseverance] to persevere, otherwise Gu Che might have become like those children sleeping in the snow, and ended up as "waste" in the eyes of a researcher.

Gu Che slowly got out of bed and knocked on the adjacent wall with his knuckles.

"Boom, boom."

[Boom, boom, boom.] Feedback came from next door.

After hearing the sound, Gu Che felt relieved. This was the secret code between the brother and sister. After each experiment, he and Xilin would use this method to report to each other that they were safe.

Each room has two people living in it. When Xilin and Gu Che came in, they were unlucky. Although they were not assigned to the same room, they were at least next to each other. Gu Che's roommate had left forever in an experiment, and the tower had not assigned him a new roommate for the time being. Xilin's roommate was a girl named Bella, a nice girl.

"Brother, brother!" Gu Che heard a familiar voice coming from the door and hurried over.

He walked to the cage, stretched out his hand habitually, and grabbed the little hand stretched out from the other side.

He tried his best to stick his head out to see what the girl looked like, but he couldn't. The cage blocked him, he couldn't see Xilin, and Xilin couldn't see him either.

The only connection was a pair of hands held together and the sound transmitted in the air. A wall and two cages became an insurmountable barrier, making the wish of the brother and sister to meet a luxury.

"I'm here." Hearing Xilin's call, Gu Che said, "Xilin, how long have I been unconscious?"

"In one day, those researchers have only brought me food twice." Xilin said.

The test subjects in the tower can only eat two meals a day, and the portions are not much, just to maintain the normal body functions of the test subjects and prevent them from starving to death. Because they stay in the tower all the time and cannot see the sunlight, the test subjects use the number of meals to keep time.

Xilin's hands are so small that Gu Che could easily cover them with his open palm, which makes people want to protect her. However, the dense needle holes on her fair arms are so shocking, and each needle hole tells the story of a cruel experiment...

"Xilin, I..." Gu Che was about to speak, but was interrupted by Xilin's sobbing.

"Brother, Bella..." Xilin's voice was tearful, and she held Gu Che's hand even tighter, as if she was afraid that he would run away.

"What happened?" Gu Che was shocked and surprised. He had only been unconscious for a day, right?

"Not long after my brother was taken away by the researcher, Bella was also taken away, and then...then..." Xilin cried softly.

The Tower of Babylon has the world's third largest Honkai energy reactor. Apart from the weapons research related to the "Throne of the Gods" by the weapons department, the technology of combining Honkai energy with the human body that is being studied by the advanced system department alone requires a large number of experimental subjects.

As experimental subjects, the children were no longer treated as human beings since they entered the tower. They were just guinea pigs used for experiments. Their health didn't matter, their life or death didn't matter, if they broke down, they could just be replaced with new ones.

"Brother, Xilin is so scared..." Xilin held Gu Che's hand tightly.

"Brother, do you know? Those people also took Xilin away and asked Xilin to bury Bella's body. They also said that Bella was scrap and garbage!"

As she spoke, Xilin seemed to become more and more agitated, and she held Gu Che's hand more and more tightly, and Gu Che actually felt pain for a moment.

"Xilin," Gu Che shouted, "You're using too much force on your hands."

When did Xilin become so strong?

[You are surprised by Xilin's sudden increase in strength. You feel a little pain and remind the girl.]

[But this seems to have touched Xilin's now very sensitive heart. She is worried about gains and losses, she is afraid of losing, she is afraid of being hurt. She subconsciously wants to escape...]

[A coward is afraid of even happiness. He will get hurt even if he touches cotton. Sometimes he will even get hurt by happiness.]

Xilin hurriedly let go of Gu Che's hand and apologized quickly, "Brother, I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

After apologizing, Xilin's hand unconsciously moved towards Gu Che, wanting to hold his hand, but she was afraid of hurting Gu Che, so she was about to pull it back.

Gu Che thought of the rabbits he once raised. Those rabbits were very timid. At the slightest sound, they would stand up their ears and curl up their bodies, ready to run away, until the sound stopped, then they would return to normal. Once, when Gu Che was feeding them, he accidentally whistled, and they immediately dropped the food and quickly ran back to their nests, not showing their heads for a long time.

Gu Che always thought that Xilin was like a rabbit, cute and soft, smart and thoughtful, the type that easily makes people want to protect her. But the departure of her relatives and the death of her friends made the girl's heart begin to change.

She used the scars of her heart to form armor, her defensive gaze to forge a sword, and her strong heart to build a castle. Behind it, there is a lonely heart trembling, looking forward to happiness...

She became anxious and worried, fearing the departure of familiar things. She wanted to communicate and make new friends, but was afraid that what she would get was just a false joy.

Gu Che quickly pulled him back and said with a smile, "It's okay, Xilin, don't feel too guilty, brother is fine."

"Are you really okay?" Xilin asked cautiously.

"It's really okay." Gu Che smiled, "But Xilin did scare me. I just realized how strong Xilin is."

Sirin: "Σ(゜ロ゜;)"

"Haha, I don't mean to dislike Xilin." Gu Che seemed to have noticed the girl's little thoughts.

"Brother, you're such a jerk!" Xilin said coquettishly, then used her hand to open Gu Che's palm and wrote something in his palm.

"Baka?" Gu Che asked. He remembered that there was no such word in German?

"Idiot!" Xilin cursed. Although it was a curse, it was more like answering the meaning of the word.

"Where did you learn the Far Eastern language?" Gu Che was surprised.

"My brother taught me!" Xilin's voice was full of pride.

"I never thought that my stupid sister would steal my brother's skills."

"Hehe~ (＾～＾;)"

"Then Xilin, brother will teach you another word." As he said that, Gu Che started writing and drawing on Xilin's hand.

"a...ahu?"

"This is what an idiot means!" Gu Che laughed.

"elder brother!"

"Hahahaha!" Gu Che laughed. Seeing the girl's mood improve, he also felt much happier.

[The armor is cold, but you give it a warm hug. The sword is sharp, but you melt it with your fiery body and soul. The castle is solid, but you spread the sunshine of harmony.]

[You saw the girl's fragile and sensitive heart, and comforted her in your own way, with good results.]

[But this is not enough, you want girls to be more confident...]

"Xilin, can you still remember the story of "The Candy House" that your brother told you?" Gu Che asked.

"Yes, Xilin remembers." The girl replied, and then stopped talking, as if waiting for Gu Che to continue.

Gu Che continued to narrate in a leisurely tone:

.......

"The owner of the candy house is a cannibalistic witch. She locked Hansel up and forced Gretel to boil water in preparation for eating Hansel."

"When her brother Hansel was about to be eaten by the witch, the clever Gretel stepped forward."

"She asked the witch, 'How can I tell if the water is boiling?'"

"The witch was very surprised and said, 'What! A girl can't even check whether the water is boiling. Have you never cooked anything at home?'"

"Grete replied: 'No!'"

"So the witch approached the pot and looked carefully at the water."

"And the clever and brave Grete used all her strength and took the opportunity to push the man-eating witch into the hot pot, successfully saving herself and her brother."

Until Gu Che finished speaking, Xilin didn't say a word, as if she was lost in her memories.

This time when telling the story of "Hansel and Gretel", he deliberately downplayed some of Hansel's plot and strengthened the details about Gretel.

Hansel and Gretel in "Hansel and Gretel" are equally helpless and in danger, which is somewhat similar to the situation of Gu Che and Celine now.

He noticed the girl's lost and sad mood, and hoped to use this story to cheer her up.

"My brother hopes that Xilin can be like Grete, strong, smart and lively. No matter how big the difficulties are, she will face them bravely and overcome them, and then be happy every day." said Gu Che.

"Everything will be alright, I promise."

At this moment, the talent [A Promise Worth a Thousand Gold (Gold)] in the simulator panel silently emitted a faint light.

You assure the girl that everything will be fine.

["Talent: A Promise Worth a Thousand Gold (Gold)" has been activated. You have become an anchor point, using strong emotions as a medium, and have begun to establish a connection with the world itself in the dark. A golden and transparent thread connects you to the world itself. An unknown existence will guide you in the direction of progress until everything is settled. (Because the scope of the promise is too broad, the effect of the talent has been weakened to a certain extent)]

【Everything has its own destiny.】

Chapter 3: Method of Escape

It was night, and tonight it was snowing in the Siberian snowfields. The moon was high in the sky, and the pale white snowflakes were swaying in the wind, fluttering in the air. This wind came from afar, carrying the scent and color of pear blossoms, blowing into the towers of Babylon.

The Tower is cold, and it has no intention of understanding everything about the wind. No matter how much story the wind has, once it enters the Tower, it will only chill the hearts of children.

[The wind seems to have brought a revelation, a voice in the dark is telling you that it’s time to go up.]

Gu Che woke up from his sleep. He sat up carefully from the bed and looked around vigilantly with a puzzled look on his face.

What filial axe?

[It’s time to act.] The mumbling in the dream broke free from the dream, but it was a little different from the previous one.

Gu Che sat on the bed, his face alert. After waiting for a while, the sound did not appear again.

Gu Che flipped through the panel of the simulator and discovered the changes in his talent [A Promise Worth a Thousand Gold (Gold)].

[A promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold (gold): You take your promises very seriously, sometimes you even regard them as more important than your life. You will not break your promises, unless you fall.]

[Note 1: You serve as an anchor, using strong emotions as a medium. You begin to establish a connection with the world itself in the dark. A golden and transparent thread connects you to the world itself. An unknown existence will guide you in the direction of progress until everything is settled. (Because the scope of the commitment is too broad, the talent effect is weakened to a certain extent)]

Gu Che immediately understood the current situation.

This is the moment of birth! "Prison Break from the Tower of Babylon: Gu Che's Redemption" is now being serialized!

He knocked on the wall next door and waited for a while, but there was no response. The girl must have fallen asleep.

Gu Che took out his hidden ID card, carefully reached out his hand, and placed the card in front of the identification device on the wall.

"Click!" The door opened with a sound. The sound was not loud and it was unlikely to wake up other people.

Gu Che walked out of the room, went to Xilin's room, and repeated the above steps. After the door opened, he walked in slowly.

In the [Tower], two experimental subjects are usually arranged in one room, but due to Bella's recent departure, no new roommate has been arranged for Xilin yet.

Looking at the girl sleeping soundly on the bed, Gu Che couldn't help but smile and carefully woke Xilin up.

"Hmm..." the girl murmured in her sleep.

Gu Che pushed again, and Xilin finally woke up from her dream. She slowly opened her eyes and looked at Gu Che in confusion.

"Brother?" Xilin's voice was not loud, as if she had not woken up yet.

"It's time to get up." Gu Che rubbed Xilin's head and said so.

"Hmm..." Xilin murmured again, and then she came to her senses.

"Why is my brother here?"

"Xilin, let's talk about this issue later. We should leave now," said Gu Che.

"Huh?! Leaving?" Xilin asked in surprise.

Leave? How to leave? In Xilin's opinion, the whole [Tower] was like a prison, an airtight wall. For them, who were just children, it was simply a fantasy to want to leave here.

"Time is running out, Xilin, let's go first." Gu Che urged, "Follow me closely outside and don't make any noise."

Xilin nodded silently and was led outside by Gu Che.

Although she was full of doubts, Xilin did not resist and let Gu Che pull her away because she believed in her brother.

The lights in the corridor emitted a terrifyingly white light. The surroundings were quiet, and the sound of footsteps was infinitely amplified here. Xilin took every step carefully, fearing that the loud noise would attract the researcher.

She still felt a little confused. What was going on? Wasn't it forbidden to run around at night? Was my brother going to run away with me?

Xilin suddenly remembered the cold eyes of those researchers, the black muzzles of their guns, and the sharp needles that flashed with cold light. Her body began to tremble uncontrollably.

At this moment, a hand was placed on her head, touching her head in a familiar way. Xilin suddenly found that the uneasiness in her heart had disappeared a lot, and some strange feelings surged in her heart.

"I know you have a lot of questions, Xilin. I will tell you everything later. But now, please trust me."

"Yes, Xilin believes in her brother." Xilin understood that the feeling was called trust and dependence.

In this way, Gu Che and Xilin walked out of the corridor unhindered, and under the illumination of white light, they sneaked to the door of the main control room on this floor.

The full name of the Tower is Babylon Laboratory, but because of its appearance, it is also called the Tower of Babylon. The tower is divided into 50 floors, the bottom 20 floors are energy areas where reactors are placed, and the other 30 floors are divided into three research departments. From top to bottom, they are the advanced system department, the weapons department, and the energy department. Each floor has a main control room to manage the situation on each floor.

Logically, when Gu Che came out of the room, the main control room should have noticed it and immediately sent people to capture him. But along the way, Gu Che and Xilin did not see the researcher who came to capture them, and the [Tower] seemed to be unaware of it either.

This phenomenon is strange, but also normal.