Collapse: Raising a Wife Since Childhood

52. Born in the quantum sea

The situation was at a stalemate. No matter how accurate what the two said was, Shen Yunie remained unmoved and kept his distance with a cold expression.

"Why would they guess that?" Leah frowned, her tone doubtful and sad, and soon she shook her head vigorously, "No, these things can be guessed by just checking. Yu Nie, do you want to know?"

Shen Yunie said lightly, "I don't want to know under such circumstances."

Even if the other party said something that was unimaginable, he didn't want to continue listening, but waited for an opportunity to leave. Now the situation between the two sides was not equal, and it would be easy for the other party to negotiate with him or kill him. He was not willing to take the risk just in case.

As Walter and Einstein said, they would not harm Shen Yunie, but it seemed that they were unwilling to give up this opportunity.

Einstein held her forehead with her hand, looking like she had a headache. She spoke, her voice only ringing in Walter's ears: "It looks like he will be able to escape if the stalemate continues. Just use it from a distance. You should be able to do it."

After hesitating for a moment, Walter nodded, "Okay."

He looked at the boy with a serious look, and his brown eyes began to fade like an old object, eventually turning into an iron-gray color that emitted an inorganic gray light. "My respected ally, I'm sorry to have offended you. Please forgive my rudeness. We are still the closest allies."

The bright light in Walter's eyes seemed like mist, gradually condensing into a vortex. He stood there and looked straight ahead. Shen Yunie was pulled by the vortex, and when he reacted and tried to avoid it, his black eyes began to fade like the other party.

"Yune?" Leah noticed that something was wrong with the boy. She called out in surprise, but he just stood there in a daze without responding. Thinking that Yune was going to be forced to accept all this, she couldn't help but curse, "Anti-entropy bastard!"

The sea that he had dreamed of many times reappeared in Shen Yunie's eyes. That was the sea under the sea. Its gray surface was the sky of another world.

The background of the world was pale yellow and hazy, like yellow sand flying all over the sky. Under his feet was a ruined city that was turned upside down. The highway intersection was broken into several sections without support but still suspended in the air. The houses in the city were all turned upside down, with the reinforced concrete foundation at the highest point. The magnificent building was broken into two sections and lay horizontally in front of him.

The spire-like building in the distance tilted at an incredible angle, but it still did not collapse. Through the window with remaining glass fragments, one could vaguely see the old tables and chairs in the room lying motionless against the floor.

The rubble and ruins floated at the highest point of this world, slowly moving forward. Shen Yunie did not feel the wind, as if there was no air here. This world seemed to be in some kind of parallel, with everything moving forward on a smooth track. When they began to move for unknown reasons, they would continue to move forward and forward, and would never stop.

This is the scene under the sea, another world.

Shen Yunie came from here. When he saw this world, his heart began to beat violently. A familiar feeling filled his body and even his blood became hot and boiling. Why was it this broken world? He did not belong to the real world?

He looked around blankly, standing quietly at the edge of the sky, without the feeling of a ruler or a king, he looked like a native of this world, the most ordinary one. But there was no life here, so where could he be born?

After a brief moment of confusion, the scene in front of Shen Yunie began to distort and become unreal. In a trance, he returned to the real world and stood in the coniferous forest, and his eyes regained their vitality.

Noticing that he had come to his senses, Leah loosened her tightly bitten lips, which already had deep teeth marks on them. With a worried look on her face, she asked tentatively, "Yune, what did you see?"

"It should be the place where I was born. It doesn't belong to this world... It's a dilapidated world." Shen Yunie's tone was indifferent, and the scene of the ruined city kept reappearing in his mind. He felt unfamiliar, but the sense of familiarity in his bones told him that it was the place where he was born.

Leah was stunned for a moment, she was still worried, "What about the others? Is there anything wrong with your body? Why did they let you see these?"

Why? This may be explained by Walter. Shen Yunie suddenly felt a sense of irritability and distress in his heart. It didn't matter to him whether he knew these things or not. Even if he didn't know, he still lived a good life. If he knew, he would not change because of it.

He slowly raised his eyelids and saw Walter, who had briefly pulled him into that world, in the distance. Blood was oozing from the cheeks and corners of his mouth, and his shirt had turned dark red. After he came to his senses, the other party was still too slow to come back.

"Sister Leah, you did this?"

"I really hate them, but I was afraid that something might happen to you, so I didn't move. What happened to him?" Leah just noticed that Walter looked a little miserable, but after just a few glances, she retracted her gaze and looked at Shen Yunie to see if there were any wounds.

"Alas, it has to be this way." Einstein, who was far away on the hillside, sighed. She stepped on the head of the Titan mecha and landed on the ground. She came to Walter's side and put the medicine that had been prepared long ago into his mouth. She turned around, her deep blue eyes revealed laziness and indifference, "If my guess is correct, you have seen it.

Shen Yunie, you are an alien creature, you come from the Quantum Sea. For some reason, we temporarily joined the Quantum Sea, and Walter is eager to find you, because sooner or later we will help each other. In the future, we will be allies. "

Unlike the accidental glimpse Shen Yunie had seen before, what he saw now was the real quantum sea. He was born there, but survived in this world.

Vines rose from the ground in front of both parties, quickly interweaving in the air to form a thick wall. Before the last gap was filled, Shen Yunie turned her gaze to her, "If you want to impose the so-called mission on me, then you should give up. I am living a good life now, and I don't need a new mission."

The wall was completely constructed successfully, and both sides could not see each other. Now Shen Yunie could leave here easily. He turned around and left without hesitation. The irritation in his heart was not because he was deprived of his human identity from the root, but because someone tried to interfere with his life.

Everyone around you will become the target of the other party.

Before Shen Yunie left, Einstein's indifferent and lazy voice came from behind him again, "It's not a mission. This world is very concerned about outsiders. Once it begins to establish your identity, it will naturally use various methods to eliminate you.

Our anti-entropy instruments captured the footage. In the Serenity Gem Infection incident, the Holy Blood Liberation was done by you. We can establish your identity, and so can the world.

When people around you start to encounter disasters and you don’t have enough strength, come to us. We are your allies and will help you.”

Shen Yunie paused for a few seconds, then walked forward. His phone screen lit up, and a message about the address popped up. He walked through the woods that were corroded by the collapse, completely walked out of the coniferous forest, and then walked calmly towards the direction of the town.

Someone else had already completed his task before he even started.

The cell phone vibrated. Shen Yunie took it out, deleted the message and answered the call.

"Yune, I heard that Wendy ran after you, are you okay?" Ji Zi's voice sounded with a hint of urgency from the other end.

Shen Yunie lowered his eyes and looked at Wendy in his arms. The girl just fainted because of too much pain. There were no scars on her body, and the Desire Gem showed no signs of being triggered. He replied: "It's okay, Wendy is not injured, and the Desire Gem is also quiet."

"I'm not asking that. I'm asking if you're okay. After all, she might be disturbing you." As soon as he finished speaking, Ji Zi on the other side immediately spoke, with even more worry in her tone.

Shen Yunie replied calmly, "I'm fine."

"But you don't sound well... Never mind, come back soon. I'll know if you're okay when I see you in person."

Shen Yunie raised his lips slightly and said "OK". He could say that to Ji Zi, but Lia couldn't feel at ease. She felt that it was a very serious matter. But Shen Yunie was still calm at this time, just like he had completed the task of cleaning up the Honkai beasts and returned as usual.

The boy walked forward, but the corner of his clothes was suddenly pulled, causing him to pause. Leah was standing behind him, with her head lowered and her expression invisible. After a long silence, she finally spoke: "Are you really okay? I think that's a serious matter."

Shen Yunie turned around with a faint smile on his face, "If I were not a human, would Sister Leah hate me?"

"No! You are an absolutely important person in my heart." Leah raised her head, with comforting thoughts on her delicate face, and she looked at the boy's smile. She was so worried that she forgot about Shen Yunie's character. If she thought about it carefully, he would not pretend to be fine.

"That's enough. So what if he's not human."

53. Do you have someone you like?

The things about Shen Yunie's birth and his meeting with the two people from Anti-Entropy were sealed in his heart, becoming an unspeakable secret just like Leah's.

Coming from the quantum sea, not a human, these are not important to him. As long as the people around him are safe, he can live well. Shen Yunie is no longer the person who wandered outside and had no place to live a few years ago. Now he not only wants to maintain a good living environment for himself, but also for the people around him.

Why did they come to this world if they were born in the Quantum Sea? Walter and Einstein's joining it makes the Quantum Sea seem like an organization, when it is obviously just an inverted, dilapidated, strange city.

Shen Yunie memorized the message and deleted it completely. He hoped that there would never be a day when it would be useful. So after a small episode, life returned to normal. He was just on a mission to clean up the Honkai beasts. Wendy fainted due to the shock.

……

The pungent smell of disinfectant brought Wendy back to her senses. She shuddered, her brain ached, and then she slowly recalled what happened before. She almost thought she was killed, but in fact, it was because she was overly stimulated by her desire for the gem that she fainted in pain.

The girl frowned and forced herself to open her eyes. What she saw was a pure white ceiling. She was lying on the hospital bed, and her limbs felt a little painful.

It's so strange. Shouldn't a normal ward have an air purifier running constantly? The disinfectant smells so bad that it almost covers all the air.

Suddenly, she heard a sound of movement. Wendy turned her head to look away. Not far away from the hospital window, Shen Yunie was sitting by the window, tidying up the wrinkled corners of his clothes. The sun was pouring in, and as he casually tidied and slowly raised his head, the light seemed to condense into a substantial mist, making him look hazy, and there were diamond-like lights in his obsidian eyes.

"Awake?" Shen Yunie looked up at her, withdrew his hand that had been tidying up the corner of his clothes, with a faint smile on his face.

The scene in front of her made Wendy's heart beat faster uncontrollably. She realized that the boy in front of her was very handsome, and the effect of Honkai energy also worked on him. For some reason, she said, "Shen Yunie, you are smiling. This is the first time I see you smiling. What's the reason?"

Shen Yunie blinked in confusion, and replied: "Because of the person I like, I was communicating with her just now."

It was indeed because of the person he liked. Just before Wendy woke up, he and Leah sat by the window to bask in the sun and chat. Just this was enough to make him smile, but when Wendy woke up, Leah had no choice but to return to the space.

"Do you have someone you like?" Wendy's eyes widened slightly, and it was hard to tell whether her tone was regretful or surprised. If you think about it carefully, how could such an outstanding boy be left alone? Being liked by others and falling in love with others are both normal things.

Inevitably, she felt a sense of regret after hearing the news. She decided not to discuss this topic anymore and asked, "Did you deal with the people from Anti-Entropy? Which ward am I in? The smell is terrible."

"Shen Ning's ward, didn't you want to stay with her? So I asked the logistics department to put a new bed here." Shen Yunie left the sunlight and explained calmly, "They were a little resistant, but they still did it."

So the origin of the smell of disinfectant is easy to explain. The logistics staff hated Wendy so much that they could only use more disinfectant to cover up the smell of Honkai energy.

Wendy turned sideways and lay on the newly moved iron bed, next to Shen Ning's bed. The girl's sick face regained some color under the sunlight, and her heartbeat rate on the monitor was very stable. Everything seemed to be getting better, but unfortunately she hadn't woken up yet.

"Thank you, Shen Yunie." Wendy smiled from the bottom of her heart. She suddenly felt that even though the boy already had someone he liked, it didn't seem to prevent her from liking him because of some of the things he did.

"I'm glad you can calm down. I'll go back first." Shen Yunie nodded, and after making sure the other person was fine, she walked towards the door. She left without stopping, leaving the ward silent.

Wendy took a long time to look away from the door of the ward because of her lack of hesitation. Then she turned to look at Shen Ning beside her. The two of them tacitly did not mention the matter of anti-entropy again. Wendy would not go out and talk about it, and no one could listen to her.

It was already dusk when Shen Yunie left the hospital. He didn't do much, but time passed quickly. On both sides of the road, the Valkyries who gradually lost their murderous aura looked like beautiful girls. They walked together, chatting about which restaurants in the town were delicious and where to have fun. The older ones also had their own circles, wearing bright makeup like ladies, and everyone looked like they were here for tourism.

He walked against the setting sun, his shadow becoming longer and longer.

Shen Yunie suddenly stopped in front of his house. When he was about to reach out, the door was opened from the inside.

Fu Hua, who opened the door, saw the boy was stunned for a moment, then stepped aside and said, "You're back just in time, so we don't have to look for you again."

Jizi's slightly angry voice came from the room, "Kiana, if you don't go find Yuune, I will write dereliction of duty on your resume report! You have been sitting on the sofa playing games with Bronya all day!"

"Aunt Himeko, this is a rare moment of free time for me. Besides, Bronya has been playing all day, why don't you say anything to her?" Then it was Kiana's voice, and the buttons on the controller made a sound. She used so much force that the controller became noisy.

"Who told you to yell for no reason? I don't accept it. Go now!"

Shen Yunie walked into the house and stood at the door of her room. Ji Zi, whose pajamas were not buttoned up and exposed an inch of her fair skin and shoulders, suddenly became weaker. She rubbed her eyes, as if she was relieved, "I'm glad you're back."

"I know, I know." Kiana pouted. She lost to Bronya again. She put down the controller helplessly and prepared to find her mission target. However, her target Shen Yunie was standing behind her. The girl blinked to make sure that it was not her imagination. "Shen Yunie? Great, come and eat. After dinner, I can continue playing!"

"Play less games." Shen Yunie said to her with a smile, "Although you have already gone to the battlefield, you can't hide at home all day, you still need to exercise."

"Why are you suddenly saying this to me?" Kiana tilted her head in confusion. This kind of words were only spoken by Theresa. She carefully looked at Shen Yunie's face and said thoughtfully, "It seems like there are a lot of secrets hidden in your words."

"No, I just think it feels good."

54. Choose one or the other: survive

The morning mist enveloped the town.

Shen Yunie was going to the hospital as usual to give Shen Ning some blood. Wendy's mood had been getting better and better in the past few days, and she was gradually able to control herself. As long as Shen Ning's condition improved, they would most likely pass this one-month dangerous assessment.

Shen Yunie walked forward, and suddenly stopped, grabbed a white and soft hand, and said softly: "Sister Leah, why are you looking at me like that?"

"I want to see what's different about you from us." Leah pinched his face, which was as soft and comfortable as Yae Sakura's. Everything was normal, so how could he be said to be not human? "Could it be that the anti-entropy people were lying?"

Shen Yunie smiled and held her hand tightly, "No need to comfort me."

"I'm telling the truth. In this chaotic world, Yu Nie is the most normal human being."

The hospital ward was still quiet. After the danger was temporarily lifted, most of the patients here were transferred to the city. Only those who didn't want to go and those who were left behind were left. There were only a few patients left in the huge hospital, which made it easier for Shen Yunie to do what she had to do every day.

He came to the ward of the two girls, pushed the door open and walked in, his eyes fell on the first bed. The black eyes cast across his gaze made him pause, and then he moved much more gently and slowly closed the door.

Shen Yunie gently explained the situation to the girl who had just woken up, "It's been the fourth day of your coma. If it weren't for the incurable Honkai virus, you would have been transferred to the most advanced hospital at the earliest opportunity."

"Is that so... No wonder my body and head hurt so much." Shen Ning nodded blankly. A faint blood color could be seen on his cheeks, which were frighteningly pale. And as time went by, the blood color would become lighter and lighter. In the end, even if the symptoms could be relieved, he would inevitably become a dead man.

Until all the memories came back to her, the girl raised the corner of her mouth, "But I don't regret it, I did a very honorable thing, this is what you taught me, Shen Yunie."

Shen Yunie looked at her face and said calmly after a long while: "Well, Wendy should be happy to see you wake up."

He wanted to wake Wendy up, but the girl was still fast asleep on the low-quality iron bed, with a very thin blanket covering her entire body. From her silhouette, she could vaguely see that she was curled up. This was a sign of a very insecure person, to the point where she subconsciously believed that a very thin blanket could protect her.

"Wait, please don't wake her up for now." Shen Ning stopped him and continued, "I have something I want to talk to you alone. Let's talk after you finish what you usually do."

Shen Yunie turned back to her bedside and used a knife to cut the wound above his wrist that had just scabbed over. He had cut himself so many times that scars remained after the wounds healed.

He often had to cover his sleeves, otherwise if Ji Zi saw him, she would definitely think that he had mental problems and hurt herself. "How did you know?"

Shen Ning saw the skilled look in her eyes, which made the girl's eyes sparkle with tears. She bit her lip and nodded vigorously, "I know, I was conscious in the next few days, but the collapse wouldn't let me wake up.

I can feel someone feeding me blood every day, and my body will feel better, and I can hear your voice. "

"I can't save you. Some words are cruel, and perhaps you can't accept or choose." Shen Yunie lowered his eyes and fed the seeping blood into the girl's mouth. The latter closed her eyes in pain, as if she couldn't bear the fact that she had to rely on other people's blood to survive.

The blood was quickly digested, and the girl's pale face barely regained its color with this little blood. Shen Yunie retracted her hand and slightly released the Collapse Energy to stop the bleeding. Shen Ning, who was in front of her, stood up from the bed with her hands after recovering. She stood on the floor, and her body functions had not yet recovered, and she almost fell to the ground.

Shen Ning turned around and smiled at Shen Yunie, "Let's go quickly. It will be troublesome if Sister Wendy wakes up."

"Yeah." Shen Yunie helped her out of the ward. The girl, who had not opened her eyes to see the world for a long time, was now very interested in seeing what the town looked like.

In the small town filled with morning mist, the breeze carried dewdrops floating in the air. Shen Ning hunched her shoulders in the cold wind and pulled at her loose hospital gown. She looked at the hazy outline of the building in the distance and said softly, "I didn't expect to come to the Oceania branch. At that time, I just wanted to contribute, but I didn't expect to do such a glorious thing. I protected a Valkyrie."

The girl still looked too weak, but her eyes were firm and smiling. "Sister Wendy is very pitiful, just like..."

"Like the old me?" Shen Yunie took over her words.

Shen Ning was stunned for a moment, and quickly put his hands together to apologize to him: "I'm sorry, Shen Yunie is living a good life now, and she doesn't need my pity at all. I just said it subconsciously at the time. Sister Wendy is really pitiful and lonely. I can't understand why people around her have malice towards her. It makes me feel very uncomfortable to hear it."

Shen Yunie pressed her hand down and said, "It's okay. Thank you for your kindness to me at that time."

"Sister Wendy once said that she didn't regret transplanting the gemstone, even if her life was completely ruined. If she didn't have to bear the pain, someone else would have to bear it, or even many people would have to bear it. I want to change her. This is the happiest thing I have ever done. I can be considered to have done something well.

But now I can't go on, I'm dying." Shen Ning looked at the sun rising in the distance, the orange light gradually dispelled the white mist, shining on her skin, which seemed transparent. She seemed to be like this layer of white mist that was about to dissipate. "Sister Wendy finally had some emotions. I don't want her to return to the same state after I die. She obviously has a better future."

They both fell silent. When passing by the vending machine, Shen Yunie bought two bottles of milk and handed them to Shen Ning. It was at this time that he said that thing, "I have a way to save you, but Wendy must die. It's cruel, but it's a feasible way."

Shen Ning's expression froze, and her smile turned bitter. She drank a sip of milk, but still couldn't taste the sweetness. She could only smile helplessly, "It's really cruel. By the way, I want to think of a place. I'll take you there."

She wanted to hold Shen Yunie's hand, and the boy did not refuse, but she still had to use a lot of strength to pull it, and the whole person seemed light and floating. After passing many inhabited houses and coming to a remote corner of the town, Shen Ning stopped in front of an old-looking room.

The girl stretched out her hand and pushed the door, but she didn't have the strength to do so. In the end, she could only look at Shen Yunie and beg her to open the door. The dust that had accumulated for a long time was blown up by the breeze. With the help of the sunlight, he could see the situation in the room clearly. This was the room where the two girls lived after they came to the town.

The furniture looked very old, there were almost no electrical appliances, there was a burnt-out kerosene lamp on the table, and there were many drawing boards in the empty space. Those paintings seemed to be from the hands of a master, the lines were perfectly drawn and there was no flaw to be found. Every time the painter started to paint, he was full of emotions, and just a glance could convey the emotions.