Honkai Simulator: I conquered Kiana of Finality

Chapter 42: The Evolver's Aloneness

All the audience were very curious about Dr. Mobius in the video.

After all, most people have only seen Dr. Mobius in a girlish appearance during press conferences in the past and have never seen her as a child.

[Wow, Dr. Mobius was so cute when she was a child.]

[Yeah, but even though she's just a little kid, she looks very serious… or should I say, rational? I feel like she can see through everything…]

[Yes, her eyes are very sharp, not at all as soft as a child's.]

[Speaking of which, what about Mo Chen? This story takes place in the pre-civilization. Could it be that Mo Chen also traveled directly to the pre-civilization world?]

[I really look forward to what interesting interactions will occur between him and Dr. Mobius.]

Various comments flashed across the screen.

At the same time, in a laboratory in Nagazora.

Mobius frowned when she saw Klein running in panic.

She wanted to scold her loudly for being late, but when she saw the breakfast in her hand, her expression softened slightly.

"Did you go out of your way to buy me breakfast? Thank you so much, Klein."

As she spoke, Mobius pretended to be calm as she took the thing from the other person, only to find that Klein suddenly grabbed her hand in a panic, motioning her to look at her phone.

"…"

This scene confused Mobius.

She had never seen her assistant so panicked.

"What? Did aliens post a video online announcing their plan to invade our planet?"

Telling a joke that was not funny at all, Mobius took the phone nonchalantly and looked at the video inside.

Then, her expression suddenly froze.

Seeing her younger self on the screen and the large number of comments flashing across the screen, the Infinite Serpent instinctively pinched Klein's face.

"It hurts... it hurts, Doctor..."

Hearing Klein's scream, Mobius finally realized that all of this was real. She frowned and said in a panic, "Why were my past videos uploaded to the Internet? Who did this? What's the purpose? What's the intention? Is it to discredit me..."

A lot of speculations flashed through Mobius' mind.

As a top scientist, her rationality enabled her to make a large number of judgments in an instant, but almost none of them could perfectly explain the current situation.

At the same time, Klein pointed at the uploader of the video and said, "I have been following this uploader named Void Archives for the past two days. He has been posting some very strange secrets and exposing many things that ordinary people don't know. I was just watching it as an entertainment video, but I didn't expect that he would post something about you today, so I came to you as soon as possible to tell you about this matter..."

"Void Archives?"

Hearing the familiar name of the First Divine Key, the confusion on Mobius's face became more obvious.

She silently looked at the video, which was almost identical to her real past, and even had more detailed aspects. For a moment, she didn't even know what to do.

Could it be that this really means exposing her past?

But what good would this do? What's the point?

'Could it be that Void Archives wanted to use this to break my defense?'

'Haha, how could such a thing happen...'

"…"

Shaking her head, Mobius gradually calmed down.

As the Infinite Serpent, she has always been more rational than emotional and believes that constant thinking can help her grasp all the truths in the world and explore all the laws.

Therefore, she wouldn't have any emotional fluctuations due to a mere exposed video but would think about the deeper meaning behind it.

If this video was simply intended to discredit her by exposing her past, she could only say that it was too foolish.

Snakes are not easily shaken by anything.

At the same time, Mobius was secretly planning in her heart that she must find the poster of this video and let him understand what the cost would be for provoking her!

…

In the video, the story about the pre-civilization is officially revealed to everyone.

Although the previous civilization showed signs of Honkai due to the rapid development of science and technology, this still hadn't attracted much attention.

People calmly thought that it was just another natural disaster, like "floods, tsunamis, earthquakes"...

As a result, the world continued moving forward in a seemingly peaceful manner.

In this environment, Mobius' life underwent a dramatic change.

The cause of the upheaval was the death of her mother.

Due to the frailty of the human body, she quickly became ill after giving birth and died before the age of fifty.

Afterward, her father also contracted a special illness.

Like all those suffering from illness, her father, who used to be gentle and kind, gradually became extreme and violent under the effects of drugs, even beginning to commit frequent domestic violence.

Mobius grew up little by little in this environment, without any happiness in her childhood, devoid of kindness and warmth.

But she did not suffer like other children.

The pain itself became her nourishment, driving her forward, pushing her to grow and emerge as something more.

On her ninth birthday.

As usual, she delivered painkillers to her father that could not relieve his pain but only distorted his mind.

She looked at him quietly, with an expression almost like pity, waiting for him to swallow the white pills one by one.

"Pah—"

Suddenly, a loud slap came out of nowhere.

But the girl did not cover her face.

She was analyzing silently.

Where did the blood in her mouth come from? Was it her gums or the inner wall of her mouth that was injured?

She didn't wonder why the man had done this; she was just thinking about questions like that.

A white pill looks so clean and flawless, yet it can easily destroy all of a person's emotions and personality, turning them into someone else.

'Humans... are such ridiculously fragile creatures.'

'How absurd... How amusing... How ugly...'

Thinking this, she looked at her father's furious face and sneered:

"You look really ugly."

"I... will never become someone like you."

"I will... help humanity evolve."

"No matter what kind of disaster, no matter what kind of medicine... I will never let them humiliate 'humanity' like this again."

"I will never... let them become as disgusting as you..."

"Monster."

The girl endured the pain and took a deep breath.

After saying this, she turned around and left the room decisively, ignoring her red face and bleeding mouth.

With her fragile and petite body, Mobius, only nine years old, left the home where she had lived for nine years, alone in the cold wind of early winter.

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