K424 of the Collapse World

Her left hand, which was holding the metal right arm, clenched tightly and even began to tremble slightly, with her finger joints turning white due to the pressure. But even so, the silver-white metal prosthesis did not show any damage.

But Elena's purpose was not to destroy the robotic arm. She just maintained this action and continued to rub the surface of the robotic arm with force... When she let go, the symbol of destiny printed on the surface of the robotic arm had become blurred.

"I will find those decision makers at the top of the Destiny hierarchy... and tear them apart one by one, using this hand they gave me!"

Unlike the Valkyrie who had been educated in ideology since childhood, Elena had lived freely for more than ten years before entering the Destiny. As a result, she was not very loyal to the Destiny. When she realized this, she changed her goal without hesitation.

From collapse to destiny...

"Alright! Elena, you should calm down a bit. I didn't expect that you didn't know the details of this matter... That's right, this is in line with destiny. They won't let you easily get in touch with things you shouldn't know."

Lan Feng looked at Elena, who had a gloomy face, and finally couldn't help but speak. She looked around with a headache, looking at the expressions of others. Sure enough, after Elena's declaration just now, the expressions of others became more or less complicated. Especially Lin, her eyebrows were slightly twitching, and her eyes became a little unfriendly.

"How could... such a thing..."

Her eyes suddenly became one of disbelief, and her voice became so soft that it was almost inaudible.

Seeing this, Lan Feng raised his eyebrows.

She felt that a pure Valkyrie like Lin obviously could not accept Elena's extreme behavior. Although she didn't say much, Lan Feng could roughly know what this Valkyrie was thinking through her eyes...

Maybe Lin was disgusted by Elena's decision, but she was not the one who bore the hatred, so she was in no position to stop Elena.

However, as far as Lan Feng knew, Lin did become a Valkyrie for the so-called "justice and faith", and Lan Feng had also seen how paranoid she was. Such a person would never let Elena destroy what she wanted to protect.

However, as partners, Lin and Elena have no choice but to fall out with each other...but no one wants to see this happen. It is unknown what Lin is going to do.

No matter what, there is no doubt that cracks have appeared in the internal unity of this team.

(This is really troublesome... It seems that leading this team that rebels against destiny is far from easy...)

Lan Feng thought silently, feeling suddenly irritated. He was not good at leadership to begin with, and was doomed to have no idea how to deal with the current situation...

It was obvious that if this continued, the relationship that this small group once had would no longer exist.

At some point, the room fell into pin-drop silence again.

Claire leaned against the wall, gently pinching her right shoulder, staring at Elena's profile, wondering what she was thinking.

165 Fluctuation>>

"Phew... Sorry, excuse me for a moment. I have to report my actions to Dr. Einstein."

Suddenly, Lin breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, picked up her backpack, and left the room without saying a word. Indeed, if she wanted to work, this crowded little room was not suitable.

Lan Feng lowered his head to hide his exhausted eyes.

(No matter what, after this operation is over, we must immediately resolve the issues within the team...)

Thinking this, she forced herself to cheer up and turned her gaze to the other people in the room.

"Okay, let's put this matter to an end for now. After Lin's work is done, we will then formulate the next action plan."

(That’s right… We should deal with more important things first, so let’s put Elena and Lin’s affairs aside for now…)

"For now, everyone should go back to your rooms and gather again later. Don't you feel uncomfortable staying in such a small space?"

Hearing Lan Feng's words of dismissal, Elena nodded slightly and left the room directly.

On the other side, Claire smiled bitterly and shook her head, subconsciously shrugging her shoulders... But the next moment, her face suddenly turned blue and her body trembled slightly. She almost forgot about her current physical condition...

However, the depressed crowd did not notice Claire's abnormal behavior. After hearing Lan Feng's words, they left one after another.

The room was opened. Claire's steps were a little stiff, but she still dragged her feet and forced herself to leave the room.

Lan Feng stood in front of Yuli's bed with her back to the door. She didn't care about the people who left, or rather, she had chosen to ignore them.

Lan Feng felt guilty about the Sixth Ruler of the previous civilization, but she also had a deep curiosity about her. She really wanted to know what that guy's purpose was? Why did he suddenly come to Xi'er? What was the connection between the two?

If I were acting alone this time, I would have been able to solve these problems long ago, instead of being so worried about other things like now...

Thinking of what happened just now, although Lan Feng's expression did not change, her hands on the edge of the bed trembled slightly. If she hadn't tried her best to control herself, the bed board would have been crushed to pieces.

The original purpose of teamwork was to increase operational efficiency and combat capability. But now, for me, these were of no use at all and instead became a nuisance...

(Each one will only cause trouble...if I'm alone...!)

Lan Feng couldn't help but think maliciously, but suddenly, she felt something behind her, so she turned her head slightly...

The next moment, she felt a warm sensation from behind, and a small white hand went around her neck and gently rested in front of her...

Kiana stood behind her, worry written in her blue eyes.

Although Kiana didn't say anything, Lan Feng could feel the girl's concern for him...

How did she know she was in a bad mood?

Lan Feng couldn't help but feel a little confused, but also a little amused. What a clumsy way of comforting...

"...You come here to rub shoulders with me when there's a disagreement. Where did you come from, little animal? Kiana..."

Kiana did not respond, or rather, she did not know how to respond. In fact, this behavior was just her instinct. Once upon a time, when she was upset, she would hug herself like this alone...

Although it was only a vague memory fragment, Kiana was sure that this person must exist...

At some point, the hand holding the wooden board stopped shaking, and Lan Feng still kept her head down. She thought for a moment, then raised her own hand and gently placed it on the back of Kiana's hand.

As his irritated heart gradually calmed down, Lan Feng took a deep breath, and his annoyed and resentful eyes regained their usual sharpness.

"Today was really tough. I had a fight due to a misunderstanding, and then I encountered that kind of thing again when I came back. Elena... I really couldn't have imagined that the shy little girl in the village would become like this... It's really fate."

If you are alone, you won’t be able to experience this warm feeling.

(If the price of acting alone is loneliness, then I am probably paying the price for getting rid of loneliness now...)

After all, the laughter along the way is not fake...

"Sister Shilis, there won't be any problems between them, right? I... I don't want them to have a quarrel..."

Kiana naturally noticed Lin's unnaturalness. As someone who knew Lin earlier, Kiana naturally knew what kind of personality that girl had.

"Don't worry, Kiana...Lin and Elena will be fine, and the same goes for everyone else...I won't let this group break up."

Lan Feng spoke softly, but his gentle tone carried a sonorous and firm determination.

"By the way, I still want to thank you for what happened just now, Kiana."

"...?"

"If you hadn't been there just now, I would have probably just given up on something..."

Cocolia Orphanage...

Although Cocolia has not come back for several days in a row, the children in the orphanage have become accustomed to this situation. Even in the absence of any manager, they can arrange their day's plans reasonably.

At this moment, in the orphanage's library, this originally quiet and solemn place, the sound of whispers was heard.

"Hey, have you heard? Last night, apartment b-18 was haunted!"

"Eh...! How is this possible? Have you read too many horror novels?"

"It's true. Many people know about this. It was near that person... Oh, by the way, near Xi'er's room, voices and some strange noises were heard in the middle of the night. I heard that someone also witnessed a ghost-like black fog..."

"Alright, alright, stop talking! This must be a rumor!"

"Not necessarily. By the way, Xier has no memory of what happened last night! Moreover, she is still a little dazed, very abnormal, it's almost as if..."

"That's enough! I don't believe in these things..."

……

The two girls' voices gradually lowered, and the library returned to silence again. But what the girls sitting inside didn't know was that in the corridor outside the door, a flash of black flashed by in an instant...

166

Meet

In the empty corridor, a girl with long black hair was strolling.

She passed through one room after another with the doors wide open. There was nothing inside except spider webs and dust. The girl did not even look at them. Because she knew that in this huge dormitory, only the second and third floors had signs of life.

She silently turned around the stairs and went up to the second floor.

In fact, despite the vast area of ​​the orphanage, there are not many children living in it. Most of the rooms in the dormitory building are still empty. Although Kokolia often takes orphans back, the rooms of the children who are "taken away" will be vacated every once in a while. Therefore, the number of children in Kokolia Orphanage has always been kept at a relatively low level.

However, these things had nothing to do with Hill. The desertedness of the orphanage only reduced the difficulty of her infiltration.

After sending out another detection wave to confirm the location of the target point, Hill turned from the stairwell on the second floor and walked straight towards a room not far away.

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At this time, in a room in the dormitory building, the girl who was sitting at the desk in a trance suddenly shivered, and then her eyes widened suddenly...

The book in her hand fell to the ground, but Xier had no time to care about it. She collapsed on the chair in disbelief, her eyes full of fear.

She once again felt that inexplicable strange feeling coming upon her, and it was closer and more real than ever before...

"How could it be...wasn't what happened yesterday a dream? Or...are these still all my hallucinations?"

She was talking to herself, her pure blue eyes slightly blurred. The abnormal feeling that had almost driven her crazy in the past few days came again. After the conversation with "herself" yesterday, her spirit was on the verge of collapse.

It was noon, and the sun was shining brightly outside the window, but the light did not bring her any sense of security.

Although Xier told herself again and again that all this was just an illusion and had no basis, the feeling that something was getting closer and closer became clearer and clearer as time went by. She could even feel that there was something outside the door...

"That's enough! Please... please don't come over here... wuwu... why... why do you have to put me through this?!"

Xier's sobbing voice could be heard faintly in the room, but her weak cry could not even break through the thin wooden door. No one could hear it except herself...

She stood up with the help of a chair, and stumbled towards something in the corner - it was a huge toy treasure chest. Xier opened the box and hid her petite body in it. She curled up into a ball, holding her head tightly with her trembling hands...

All this time, she had not been able to confide her pain and troubles to anyone, and had been enduring it all alone. And now, it was already the limit of her ability to bear.

At some point, tears had already covered Xier's broken eyes.

"Xi'er...what did you do wrong?"

The closed box blocked the midday sun and hid Xier's body in the darkness, as if she was isolated from that terrible world. But only the ray of light coming through the keyhole made her feel that she was still connected to the world...

"It doesn't matter who it is...save me..."

She closed her eyes tightly, tears flowing down her cheeks. A crystal clear flower bloomed in the darkness...

"well……"

An ethereal sigh, like an illusion, but it reached Xier's ears very clearly.

To be precise, this voice seemed to come directly from her heart and echoed in her mind. Xier had never experienced such a feeling before. She was frightened and her thoughts instantly froze...

However, this stagnation lasted for less than a second before disappearing, because Xier's eyes seemed to blur, as if she had sunk into the deep sea. The faint light coming through the keyhole slowly twisted and gradually became blurred, and the vision in front of her eyes gradually darkened...

(What… is…? What happened?!)

She felt as if her consciousness was sinking and her body's perception was gradually disappearing. Xier was very scared. She wanted to shout, but she couldn't make any sound. She couldn't feel her body either. She could only wait in fear for her consciousness to completely fall into darkness...

"Don't worry, it's just a dream..."

Suddenly, a gentle voice came to her ears. Xier tried her best to open her eyes, and saw a petite figure made of black shadows. Although she couldn't see her face clearly, Xier felt a strange sense of closeness when she looked at her...

The figure's illusory hand gently stroked Xier's face.

(Dream…? Really?)

"That's right, sleep well...everything will be fine when you wake up..."

Hearing those words that seemed to carry some kind of magic, Xier found that the fear she had just felt had completely disappeared, and her mind became more and more tired because of the peace of mind.

(That's great...thank you...)

Xierfang

Calm down and let your consciousness sink. At the same time, another completely different will emerged from the sea of ​​​​spirituality...

"Even if it's not a dream...I will protect you."

This time, the voice was no longer illusory, but was spoken directly through Xier's voice.

In the darkness, a blood-red light flashed.

Pushing the box away, Xier stood up again. There were still some tears in the corners of her eyes, but her pupils had turned red, and there was no trace of cowardice.

"It's time to face all this... I just don't know, will you respect my choice?"

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In the corridor, the black-haired girl continued to walk forward. She could feel that what she was looking for was behind the wooden door in the corner ahead...

The next moment, a look of surprise appeared on Hill's face. She suddenly received feedback from the detection wave, and its source... was exactly the direction she had sensed!