K424 of the Collapse World

Were they twin sisters who had turned against each other? Or were they artificial humans created through some kind of experiment? In an instant, the man thought a lot, but his guesses could not be confirmed...

"She is one of our team members. What nonsense are you talking about..."

Seeing the man pointing at the silver-haired girl and yelling, Claire frowned and was about to reprimand him for his behavior, but she suddenly thought of something and paused.

"Silver hair and blue eyes... looks very similar to K-0... Hey! Is that true...?"

Claire savored the man's words, and a flash of shock flashed across her face. At this moment, combined with a previous mission experience, she suddenly had a guess...

At the same time, Elena's expression became solemn. She once believed that the girl in front of her was indeed her good friend Lan Feng, but now...

"No way……"

Claire turned her head slowly and stared blankly at the silver-haired girl sitting next to her. Although she felt it was unbelievable, she already had an answer in her mind...

"Hey! What on earth is going on? What on earth is she...?"

"Okay... Captain, thank you for your cooperation. Your mission is over. Goodbye."

——Beep

Before the man could finish his words, the light screen displaying the image instantly disappeared into the air, and the sound coming from the communicator disappeared completely.

Claire slowly withdrew the finger that was pressing the communicator's off button, with a complicated expression.

(Is that really the case... But why is she in Anti-Entropy...?)

Southern Turkey, underground area...

Standing on a flat ground made of unknown material, several

The members of Anti-Entropy looked at their surroundings and couldn't help but widen their eyes.

"Amazing……"

"This is... the ruins of a former civilization..."

After entering the cave, passing through the narrow and long stone wall, as Lan Feng finally walked out of the narrow stone cave, what came into view was the wall that was slightly flashing with blue flares.

The dim fluorescence barely illuminated the surrounding environment. Through these dim light sources, it can be seen that this should be a rectangular space. The glowing lines covered the walls, and the extremely regular structure was obviously not naturally generated.

Looking at this unexpected environment, Lan Feng was also briefly surprised. Then, she looked at the dimly lit environment.

"This place should be spacious enough... Let's take out a mecha, it will also be easier to illuminate."

After hearing Lan Feng's order, one of the agents took out his personal terminal, but his expression suddenly became a little strange...

"Lady Shilis, there is no communication signal here!"

"What? Okay... I get it. But the preserved quantized mecha should be able to be taken out, right?"

Lan Feng frowned slightly, but she didn't care. Anyway, this was a straight passage, so she didn't have to worry about getting lost. The only trouble was that she couldn't ask Tesla questions at any time...

Seeing Lan Feng's nonchalant look, the agent felt relieved and performed some operations on the terminal to dequantize a mecha.

As a blue-black Titan mech appeared in the open space, the agent put away his communicator, entered the Titan's cockpit from the rear, and turned on the searchlight mounted on the mech.

——Wow!

As the bright lights came on, what finally appeared before Lan Feng and his group was a wide, all-metal space.

Completely different from the previous environment, this place is obviously not made up of naturally formed stone walls, but a man-made space.

"Lady Shilis, is this all right?"

"Hmm... It seems that the information is correct. There won't be such a thing in an ordinary cave... Let's go and take a closer look. Maybe here, we will have unexpected gains..."

As he spoke, Lan Feng looked at the metal wall in front of him, walked closer to the wall that was emitting a faint fluorescent light, placed his hand on it, and knocked gently.

"It should be some kind of metal, and very thick. Um... Mr. Katniss, what do you think?"

Lan Feng muttered to himself, and then asked the person behind him softly. At this time, a middle-aged man wearing glasses also came forward. He was one of the archaeologists who followed Lan Feng into the ruins, and he was also the most experienced person among them.

The middle-aged man walked forward, raised his hand, and gently touched the metal wall covered with some kind of patterns.

"This kind of metal... I have seen it before. It is a material with a structure similar to soul steel. It is extremely solid and not inferior to soul steel in strength, but it does not have the ability to resist collapse like soul steel. As a metal from a pre-civilization, we are also unable to analyze its structure..."

The middle-aged man spoke slowly, his eyes beginning to become somewhat worried.

"It's a bit tricky... Lady Shilis, there's no gate in this place. If we want to open it, we obviously need to trigger some mechanism, but the troops of destiny..."

Indeed, he had a way to crack these mechanisms, but it would take a lot of time, and he obviously didn't have that much spare time at the moment.

Looking at the silver-haired girl who was lost in thought, Katniss gritted his teeth and turned to Lan Feng again.

"Ah, but don't worry, Lady Shilis. As long as you can buy me some time, I can..."

"Wait, Mr. Katniss, you just said that this metal can't block Houkai energy, right?"

"Ah...? That's true, but..."

Katniss was a little confused by the girl's sudden question, but he still nodded and answered seriously. He was about to say something else, but the girl suddenly walked up to him and waved her hand gently.

"That's easy..."

Seeing the girl slowly raise the lance in her hand, the expressions of the surrounding agents suddenly became a little subtle.

"Lady Shilis? Are you planning to...?"

Without answering the question raised by someone, Lan Feng chuckled and raised the slightly shining lance, then released the Honkai energy in his body. This huge amount of Honkai energy passed through the conversion system inside the lance and turned into a surging electric current...

106 Wrong Decision

(Elena...)

Looking at the figure of the blue-haired girl, the girl suddenly began to worry. If the person who was important to Elena was not her, then...what would happen? Would she still treat her gently as before?

"Hmm...? Lan Feng, what happened?"

Noticing the girl's eyes, Elena turned around and asked the silver-haired girl with a smile.

"No...nothing..."

The girl bit her lip lightly, shook her head, and turned slightly.

She was suddenly afraid to endure such tenderness. What would happen if, in the end, she got used to this tenderness and suddenly lost it?

Although she had never experienced such a thing, the girl could realize that if such a thing happened, it would be very uncomfortable...

"Well……"

Suddenly, she felt a little breathless.

(Is it really good to indulge in false beauty...? No, it may not be false. Maybe I am really the so-called "Lan Feng"? But...how can I confirm this?)

After a brief silence, the girl looked again at Elena, who was standing beside her with her hands behind her back. She was about to say something, but suddenly, her eyes opened slightly, a hint of astonishment flashed in her blue pupils, and she suddenly turned her head and looked in a direction behind her.

"Lan Feng?"

Without paying attention to Elena's puzzled expression, the girl immediately turned around and looked at Claire beside her.

"Captain Claire...Excuse me, what is in that direction?"

"Eh?"

Claire, who was lost in thought, was interrupted by the girl's sudden question. She was stunned for a moment, then looked in the direction of the girl's finger with a puzzled expression.

"Any problem over there?"

In response to Claire's question, the girl exhaled, closed her eyes slightly, and continued.

"I just felt a strange Honkai energy fluctuation over there. Although the distance is too far and the perception is vague, it is completely different from ordinary Honkai beasts..."

(And... the form of that wave is somewhat similar to my energy...)

She didn't say the last sentence. But because of this, the girl's eyes gradually became sharper, and she suddenly became a little interested in the source of this energy...

The girl's serious look didn't seem fake, so Claire's eyes became a little serious. She turned her head slightly and looked at the purple-haired girl behind her.

"I remember that it's just an undeveloped wasteland over there... But, Lin, let's investigate it."

"Ok."

Upon hearing this, Lin immediately turned on her communicator and pulled up the satellite map to check the area south of here...

"Ah..."

As Lin looked at an area on the map, her expression suddenly became a little subtle. Seeing this, Claire also became interested.

"Did you find anything?"

"Claire, there is a town a hundred kilometers away... When was it built? Let me check the information..."

As Lin spoke, she zoomed out the page, reopened another screen, and pulled up a map of towns in Turkey...

“Eh?! No relevant information? Weird… Why isn’t a town of this size shown on Turkey’s official map?!”

“Oh…? Is that true…”

Claire, who was standing nearby, also looked a little surprised. Not to mention that a large-scale town appeared silently, the most important thing was that according to the known information, that was an area where Honkai beasts frequently moved around. How could a town be built in such a place?

"By the way, you just said... there was a special Houkai energy fluctuation over there? Could it be..."

Suddenly remembering something, Claire turned to the silver-haired girl next to her. Regardless of the origin of the town, if there is a reaction of Honkai energy, it means the existence of Honkai beasts...

"That means it might just be an abandoned town... However, judging from the images on the satellite map, the buildings are so well preserved... It's a bit suspicious."

Lin frowned and said, "It has to be said that she was also interested in this matter."

Hearing Lin's opinion, Claire's eyes slightly fluctuated, and she fell into deep thought again...

"Um, Captain..."

"...?"

"You haven't forgotten what we are going to do next?"

Suddenly, Lillian's helpless voice sounded behind her. Claire was startled and remembered that she and her group came here with a mission.

"Ah... yes! The ruins below..."

Claire patted her head and smiled a little embarrassedly. But Lillian was already used to her occasional off-line behavior, so she just rolled her eyes and continued speaking.

"Hurry up... Since the Anti-Entropy troops are guarding outside, it proves that their exploration team has entered the ruins. If we don't hurry up..."

"Yes! You're right... Let's go quickly and catch up with the Anti-Entropy exploration team! We can't let these thieves take the things inside...! Let's talk about that town... after the mission is completed!"

Claire said hurriedly, then turned around and walked towards the cave entrance. However, she began to think about another thing in her heart...

(By the way, speaking of which, why would K424 help Anti-Entropy? Could it be that they had reached some kind of consensus? No, when I talked to her, her mind was obviously immature. In other words, Anti-Entropy was most likely using deception, or brainwashing control!)

Thinking of this, her expression became serious...

(Also, she broke into the battleship alone and destroyed the Houkai Reactor... Why did her strength become so strong? When I first saw her, she obviously had no power. This was also the work of Anti-Entropy... She could actually turn a disabled clone into an existence that surpassed the A-level Valkyrie in two years. What secrets does Anti-Entropy... hide...)

Even though the victory just now gave Claire a little confidence, at this moment, she no longer dared to underestimate Anti-Entropy...

(Speaking of which, K424 or K-0, who is stronger? Also, if I meet her in the ruins next time, what should I do?)

Lin, who was standing at the back, couldn't see Claire's expression. She coughed twice awkwardly, closed the map, and then put away her personal terminal.

"Ah... I'm so sorry, Lillian. I unknowingly followed Claire's train of thought... Hehehe..."

Lin's face flushed slightly, and she apologized to Lillian with a wry smile, then followed Claire's footsteps and walked towards the ruins.

"It's really worrying..."

Putting the cannon on her back, Lillian sighed, but she smiled.

(Sure enough, she is still the same...)

Indeed, in Lillian's eyes, this silly look is more suitable for this girl with short beige hair...

"Lan Feng, what's wrong with you...?"

Elena looked at the silver-haired girl who was still in a daze, then walked up to her and patted her shoulder.

The girl came back to her senses, recalled the familiar fluctuations she had felt before, and looked at the distant sky again.

"nothing……"

"Do you really care?"

Elena touched the girl's head with concern in her eyes. Although she had doubted whether this girl was Lan Feng, she was surprised to find that she no longer cared about these things unconsciously, and her concern for this girl became natural...

"Yeah...but it's okay, Elena, don't worry..."

The girl lowered her head, as if suppressing something, and spoke softly. She adjusted the armor on her wrist, pretending nothing had happened, and turned around.