Honkai, why do you only play high-end games?

Chen Tianwu saw several "people" with gray bodies and white eyes staggering and roaring towards him. He felt a chill in his spine and hurriedly pulled his colleagues to escape from this terrible place.

But when he pulled, he found that it didn't move, and his colleague seemed unwilling to leave.

"Ok?"

Chen Tianwu looked back in confusion, and then his heart and lungs stopped suddenly.

That unkempt female colleague had become like one of those monsters, all gray and white, staring at him with a pair of defeated eyes that had lost their pupils, baring her fangs ferociously...

"what!!!"

Chen Tianwu screamed and fell to the ground, then suddenly woke up and crawled away from these monsters, but was finally blocked in a corner and saw that there was no way to escape.

"Dead……"

Chen Tianwu closed his eyes in despair, waiting for his tragic end.

"boom!"

There was another loud bang.

Chen Tianwu opened his eyes hurriedly and saw numbly a crab bigger than a container truck, waving its huge claws with the same gray-white skin as those monsters that were originally humans. It knocked down the already crumbling building effortlessly like tearing a piece of paper, burying all the brutal joy inside.

"What's wrong with this world?"

Before falling into coma, Chen Tianwu couldn't help but lament in his heart.

Even if it was a nightmare, this dream was too scary...

He didn't know how long it had been, but when he woke up, he found himself buried under the ruins of the buildings and unable to move.

"Hey! Is there anyone? Help!"

He first screamed in panic, but it did nothing except make his ears uncomfortable;

Then he began to try to lift up these hateful building debris, but he couldn't move them at all.

As his strength gradually ran out, he finally fell into despair.

"Am I going to die?"

Chen Tianwu, completely exhausted, lay helplessly on the ground, waiting for his oxygen to run out.

"Dad, Mom, and Wenwen, I'm sorry..."

He murmured to himself lonely and sadly that he could never go back to them.

Or maybe, only by dying like this can I truly return to them?

Chen Tianwu was thinking about all sorts of things while waiting for death silently.

After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly heard a sound in the distance.

First there was a short, violent collision sound similar to that in battle, and then the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground - the vibration even shook off some dust, which fell on Chen Tianwu's face, making him cough uncontrollably.

"There's a sound here!"

A girl's scream came from not far away. After a few seconds, a surprised voice called out,

"The direction the life detector is pointing to is here!"

"Am I dying already?"

Chen Tianwu, whose consciousness began to fade, murmured silently,

"Otherwise, why would I imagine that someone would come to save me?"

Chapter 184: Reunion

It was not difficult for Lin Wei to find this place in time.

Of course, even if the route is deliberately planned as a "retrograde return" starting from the central hospital, it is theoretically possible to do so; but turning "theory" into "reality" is often not that easy.

"Lin Wei, is this okay?"

Anna looked down at the Central Hospital, which was almost unrecognizable from the outside, and asked worriedly,

"The whole city has been completely transformed, with ruins and debris everywhere. Based solely on the memory of a child, and so high above the ground..."

This is a complete waste of time!

And by doing this, won’t it cause more harm to the little girl’s heart?

She would think that it was because she did not point the right way that led to the final failure!

"Don't worry, Anna, I know what I'm doing."

Lin Wei held a black feather in his hand and said something irrelevantly,

"Anna, do you know? For those who have lost their entire world, 'hope' is the thing they desire most in their hearts, yet they also question it the most constantly—especially when this ray of hope comes from someone else. This is even more true..."

Having said that, Lin Wei gently took the little girl's hand with the hand that was not holding the feather and asked softly,

"Wenwen, have you found the direction? Where should we go?"

"Well……"

The little girl struggled to lie on the edge of the aircraft, her eyes wide open, carefully looking at the messy ruins on the ground, trying to find the familiar shadow in her memory, but she couldn't do it. She was so anxious that she was about to cry.

Lin Wei smiled slightly, and the black feather gently held in his other hand glowed with an imperceptible light.

"Ah, I found it! Over there, in that direction!"

The little girl suddenly became excited, looking at Lin Wei with shining eyes. She pointed her little hand directly at another ruin vaguely visible in the distance and said in a complex tone mixed with sadness and joy,

"That's my home!"

Because I have lost everything, I am sad;

Even though it is beyond recognition, I have finally found my home, so I am excited.

And because of this vibrant joy, the sadness becomes even harder to let go...

"Wu...Brother Lin Wei, that...is my home..."

The little girl burst into tears again, but her little finger did not move at all, pointing steadily in the direction of her home that no longer existed.

"It's hard for a child who's been abandoned by the world to truly believe in hope, because they don't know when they'll lose it again—and hope that's not believed in or accepted is meaningless..."

Lin Wei gently stroked the little girl's head and explained to Anna in a relaxed but serious tone the reason for her actions.

"Unless she believes that this hard-earned 'hope' is the result of her own hard work—so this path must be found and pointed out by her own hands!"

Because of this, he did not use "reading memory", which seemed to be the most efficient but actually the most meaningless method.

"You and I can only save her temporarily, not forever. In the days to come, will she wake up from nightmares every night and cower in dark corners? Or will she wipe away her tears and bravely greet the sunrise the next day? The subtle yet crucial difference lies right now."

Because of this, he used slightly more complicated methods to help the little girl dig out her memories more efficiently, and then let her personally point out the path to redemption for herself.

Only by striving for and finally obtaining something can she feel truly at ease and secure, and fall asleep at night without worrying about being disturbed by those terrible nightmares...

Anna was thoughtful.

"Wenwen is awesome, let's go."

Lin Wei touched her head, wiped her tears again, and then controlled the aircraft and flew firmly in the direction she pointed.

Then, above another ruin, the same process was repeated, and finally it arrived at its current location.

"Lin Wei..."

The tragedy here is no less than that of other places. In fact, because this place has never been ravaged or contaminated by sea water, the ruins here are still covered with a layer of blood.

Could anyone really survive here? Anna began to worry again.

Even Lin Wei himself frowned. Could that guy really have died like that?

If that's the case, then everything I've done is really meaningless...

"elder brother!"

The little girl shouted anxiously, but her tender voice quickly dissipated in the wind and received no response from anyone.

"Let's go down and look for it."

Lin Wei patted the little girl comfortingly and said to Anna.

There are still many Honkai beasts and dead soldiers on the ground, so they cannot land directly.

Lin Wei drove the aircraft to a lower altitude, then flew around in a circle. While flying, he asked Anna to fire continuously to create noise and lure the Honkai beasts and assassins in the circle as far away as possible.

When the number of enemies in the target area decreased, Lin Wei landed on the ground with the little girl in his arms and signaled Anna with his eyes - "The rest is up to you."

As for what is “left”, it is naturally the Honkai beasts and dead soldiers who are still left in place and have not been lured away.

"Hey, then I'm on!"

Anna didn't care about it at all, but was eager to try it.

For a moment, it seemed as if he had returned to a familiar rhythm - this was how Lin Wei and he cooperated when they were on Coral Island.

He was responsible for solving puzzles and pointing out directions, while I was responsible for drawing the blade and clearing out the enemies that appeared...

For a moment, Anna even smiled with some nostalgia.

"Hey, what are you grinning for? The assassins are almost in your face!"

Lin Wei was so angry that he jumped up and down and cursed, what was wrong with this silly girl?

"Oh oh oh..."

Anna came back to her senses awkwardly, then with a red face, she angrily cleared out all the assassins who were gradually surrounding her.

The attack was extremely cruel and merciless, and it felt like he was just taking the opportunity to vent his anger...

"Tsk, girls are really scary when they get angry."

Lin Wei watched Anna's flying figure from a distance, and was amazed. Suddenly, a question came to his mind.

"What would Sakura look like if she got angry?"

Yaezakura didn't bother to pay attention to him.

"Oh!"

Without even turning his head, Lin Wei pulled out a black pistol and shot dead a Honkai beast that rushed out from the crevice of the ruins. Then he gently comforted the little girl in his arms.

"Don't be afraid. Take this thing and tell us when you see a light on the screen. It will tell us where your brother is right now."

Lin Wei stuffed the life detector into the little girl's arms, gave her such an important task, and used this method to divert her attention.

"Ok!"

The little girl nodded heavily, then stared at the constantly refreshing screen without blinking.

Anna heard the gunshots from Lin Wei and came back to support him in time. After that, she did not go too far away, but stayed active within a distance of more than 20 meters around Lin Wei, constantly clearing out the dead soldiers and collapsed beasts that would threaten this range.

"Oh!"

A crab of astonishing size fell to the ground with a loud bang.

"Damn it, the shell is so hard!"

Anna was exhausted and complained breathlessly.

"Thank you for your hard work, Anna."

Lin Wei smiled slightly, waved his hand, and the black cross dispersed. The chains that tightly bound the giant crab also disappeared without a trace.

"The God Key is so convenient..."

Anna couldn't help but grumble.

The monster was quite powerful. If Lin Wei hadn't helped, he might not have been able to defeat it.

"Cough cough..."

Suddenly, Anna stopped in her tracks. Her keen hearing quickly caught the slightest movement in the surrounding ruins.

"There's a sound here!"

She screamed and waved to Lin Wei, and her voice sounded like a living person!

Lin Wei, who was dozens of meters away, had an idea and walked over here.

"Drip drip..."