I am the savior, but I am being asked by Alicia and the others to pay me back.

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Even Xiao Shi closed his eyes and couldn't utter a word.

"Why...is this happening?"

Ling's body had been shaking uncontrollably since just now, but what broke her heart was not the way she died, but the way her sister "broke down".

"Is this... the truth that Miss Raven mentioned before?"

Ling used to comfort Ying, saying that although the ending had been decided, perhaps the process was not that bad.

But now it seems that this process is more devastating than the outcome of death.

[I naively thought that Honkai had turned over a new leaf. I was so stupid, really.]

[The Paradise was so joyful before, why?]

[And the animation of the Golden Garden is also a comedy, isn’t it?]

[Liar! All liars! ]

Has Aimen abandoned us?

After the hair-raising shock, the screen was filled with wailing.

Ling could no longer continue the game. The real feeling was seeping through her skin into every corner of her body.

At this point, she could no longer treat everything in the game as a fictional story.

"Hey, I say...why don't you go take a rest?" Xiao Shi couldn't bear to watch it anymore. "Anyway, I can broadcast by myself, and your presence doesn't matter."

"Do not……"

Although Ling's eyes were a little dull, she decided to persevere.

"My sister became like this because of me. I...can't run away..."

I used to just die like that, without any room to consider my sister's feelings.

This time, Ling felt obligated to empathize with Sakura.

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"Ling... She's still alive, right? Tell me where she is."

In the game, Sakura, who had completely lost her mind, was like a broken doll, constantly muttering about her sister.

"Ying, what do you want to do?" Kevin asked worriedly.

"I'm going to find her."

"Are you crazy!? She's not Ling anymore!"

"Ling must be very lonely now. She has always been a child who is afraid of loneliness."

Sakura's voice was hoarse and weak, sounding like the painful last words of a dying person.

"She needs me..."

The roar of artillery fire and the sound of alarms intertwined together, and Ying, who left here, embarked on a road from which she was destined to have no return.

When Kevin found Sakura again, she was lying in the metal rubble, her body in pieces.

The most treasured pendant in her hand was just like herself, a withered flower in the ruins.

602. Broken Ice PTSD

"I stayed with Ling... until the very end... until the very end... she was still my sister."

"I have kept... my pride as a sister..."

All these images and sounds from the past came into Sakura's mind in the paradise.

It was extremely detailed and realistic, giving Sakura the worst possible immersive experience.

"Hi... Sakura... What a coincidence..."

Alicia arrived a step late, and seeing Ying's desolate back, she could only greet her awkwardly, trying to ease the atmosphere.

"It seems that the day we said goodbye was also a moonlit night like this."

Even without Alicia's embarrassment, everyone understood that after such a tragic truth was poured into Sakura's mind, things began to get out of control.

And just when everyone was on suspense, looking forward to and fearing what would unfold next, Sakura's story came to an abrupt end.

The scene suddenly shifted from night to day, and it was already the time Mei and Alicia had agreed upon.

[Wow! Is this really a suspenseful thing?]

[I usually tolerate your interruptions, but you can also change the perspective? 】

[This is too much anyway]

"To be honest, this frequent change of perspective is your idea."

Seeing that he was being criticized again, Ye Ming seemed a little aggrieved. The entire change of perspective in Paradise was all due to Ai Lishia's intention.

"Because everyone in the Thirteen Heroes is indispensable. Since everyone has their own ideas, we can't focus on one person."

"..."

"Oh my~~ Why don't you pay attention to me? It seems that being too correct in theory is not a good thing. I can't continue the topic."

"Oh, sorry... Ying just contacted me and I was replying to her message."

"Eh? Did she say anything?"

"She said Ling looked sad and wanted to come and keep her company. She also said she'd come to see me."

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The game is still going on, Mei is standing alone in the garden, waiting for Alicia to come for the appointment.

But this time, Alicia was unusually late and failed to wait for her Mei, and met the fairy Ai on the way.

She is still as cute as she really is, and has a very "Alicia-style" conversation with Mei.

And when Mei asked, "Why are you here? As an archivist, is it really okay to leave your post?", Fairy Ai suddenly felt guilty.

"After you left yesterday, no one came to the archives room. I thought I had nothing to do anyway, so I went out to enjoy the scenery for a while."

"The afternoon sun was warm, and I fell asleep in a short while next to a soft kitten."

【Fairy Ai Li is so cute】

[That cat is a canned food, right?]

Both the fairy Airi herself and the scenes she describes are cute and healing.

Arranging such a small plot is probably to appease the players.

"When it got dark and I wanted to go back, I found the door was locked. I was locked out."

Mei was a little surprised. Fairy Ai Li said that she didn't lock the door, which means that someone else locked the door.

After that, Mei waited for a while, but still did not see Alicia.

You know, Alicia never breaks a promise, so Mei began to wonder if she remembered it wrong.

She searched for a long time in Paradise but still couldn't find any trace of Alicia. However, when she passed by the market, she saw several heroes discussing something.

"That's impossible." Kevin flatly denied a certain theory.

"I also think it's impossible, so I checked it again and again." Su was also confused.

Aponia: "Perhaps, there is a blind spot in our vision."

Mebius said unhappily, "Is it that hard to understand? Do you still think that she is hiding somewhere right now, looking at our expressions and laughing? She has never made such a joke before!"

Mei walked over and asked everyone about the whereabouts of Alicia, and Kevin asked seriously:

"What do you want from her?"

"She made an appointment to meet me but never showed up, so I'm looking for her."

Sue explained, "Sorry, visitor, Alicia...seems to have run into some trouble, she's temporarily...missing."

"Gone? What does gone mean? Did she hide, or…"

Before Mei could finish her words, Mebius added impatiently:

"Su's words are always hard to understand, let me translate for you--"

The picture suddenly turned dark and the light disappeared.

The sound of people's laughter and joy coming from afar reminded Mei of Alicia.

She always smiled like this, even when she said goodbye to me, eternal and flawless...

Yet it seems like a dream.

"The woman you are looking for..."

Mobius' voice pulled everyone back from their haze and confusion, but it also caused them to fall into a new maze.

"She's dead."

"..."

Silence once again spread like a virus.

This is true whether in the game or in real life.

It seemed as if everyone was stunned and for a moment they were unable to react to what this sentence meant.

After learning the literal meaning of "she is dead", the barrage of comments instantly exploded.

【？？？？？】←Comments like these are everywhere, and it’s reached the point where you can’t see anything unless you click to block them.

At the same time, the screen switched to Ying Jie's file list.

The photos of the thirteen heroes are arranged neatly like thirteen mirrors.

Alicia, who was in the center, was suddenly zoomed in for a close-up, and then...

With a "crack" sound, it shattered.

【broken】

【Finished】

All the players who saw this scene felt that something was wrong.

Deaths that only appear in the dialogue are likely to be frauds. After all, the characters are not omniscient and omnipotent, and misunderstandings may occur.

But the current file is a system built into the game, similar to the existence of the narration. If even Alicia here is broken...

Maybe she really is dead.

[How did Alicia die?]

[No, no, no, why did Alicia die before this?]

[The Yingjie file was designed to be like a mirror, just so you can hear a sound when it's shattered, right?]

[When Ye Ming erased Mei's memory, the past was also shattered in this way]

[You came here for PTSD, right? You're afraid we'd forget, right?]

"Is that right?"

When Alicia came up with this idea, Ye Ming actually didn't think about his past.

Because the motivation and the broken things are quite different.

After seeing the comments from the players, he thought of asking Alicia.

"Isn't it great?"