K424 of the Collapse World

Lan Feng turned around hastily and saw a black-haired girl in ancient costume with a golden headdress standing behind him. Her light golden dress fluttered gently in the breeze, and her red eyes looked at him tenderly.

"You are……?"

Lan Feng couldn't help but open his eyes wide. The girl in front of him was not only someone he knew, but someone who was quite familiar to him!

"My name? Ji Lin. However, you can just call me Ji Xuanyuan according to your familiar name."

(really……!)

Lan Feng was secretly shocked. As she was familiar with the plot of Honkai Impact 3, she naturally recognized the person in front of her.

In the previous generation, he was a warrior who inherited the divine sword - Xuan-Yuan Sword.

That is the girl named Ji Xuanyuan.

The moment she picked up the Xuan-Yuan Sword, the holy mark imprinted in her blood awakened.

He led the Yellow Emperor's clan and tens of millions of common people to fight against the collapse led by Chiyou of Jiuyou.

(But why... did I meet her?)

"Where exactly is this place? Why am I here?"

Lan Feng asked. She was really confused about the current situation.

"This is the stigmata space I built. Its existence is quite unstable and is only temporarily for your protection."

"protect me?"

"That's right... your body should have been artificially infused with a large amount of Honkai curse. If left unchecked, I'm afraid you will become the next Herrscher of the world."

"Uh...this..."

Ji Xuanyuan looked at the silver-haired girl in front of him with a bitter smile, and a trace of pity appeared on his face.

"You were probably used as a test subject for Honkai by your own people, right? Poor kid."

"Ah? Um... yes."

Hearing Ji Xuanyuan's words, Lan Feng hurriedly said, without denying it. She felt that it would be better not to tell others about her initiative to infuse Honkai energy...

"I am now just a remnant soul. I have lived in the Collapse for countless years. Meeting you today is also the instruction of fate."

"..."

"Also, this is the first time I've seen someone who can resist such a powerful Honkai. However, the Honkai is too powerful, and you will be controlled by its will sooner or later. So, I took the initiative to help you."

After hearing Ji Xuanyuan's words, Lan Feng didn't know what expression to use except a wry smile.

It turns out... what I did was really a suicide. However, being able to resist the erosion of Honkai energy, it seems that my guess was correct.

(But then again! Is Tesla an idiot? Why doesn’t she observe the dangerous value of Honkai energy? She herself said that if the energy value is too high, the connection will be terminated. She almost died...)

Lan Feng kept muttering to herself, but she did not hate the arrogant red-haired girl.

(After all... she definitely wouldn't hurt me on purpose. Did something unexpected happen?)

"Why... do you want to help me? We don't even know each other..."

"Didn't I tell you just now? This situation is better than having one more Herrscher in the world."

Watching Lan Feng's expression change several times, Ji Xuanyuan paused and spoke again.

"Child... I know that you must hate those who use you in your heart. But I still hope that you don't hate this whole world..."

(This is all my own fault... I can't blame anyone else.)

Lan Feng thought to himself, looking at Ji Xuanyuan, waiting

Her following.

"With my current ability, I can only give you a broken stigma. But the Honkai Impact in your body is too strong, and my stigma is already struggling to suppress it. So... the stigma cannot exert its original power..."

019Inheritance from the previous civilization>>

"What do you mean?"

"For you, this stigma can only exist as a seal. It will exhaust its power to suppress the Honkai in your body. However, I don't know what the specific situation will be."

After hearing these words, Lan Feng felt that he almost understood.

The Valkyrie's stigma is like a storage device for Honkai energy, which allows the Valkyrie to have Honkai energy in her body to transform her body while preventing it from being eroded by Honkai.

However, the stigmata that Lan Feng had just obtained was completely used to suppress the Honkai energy in his body and could not be used like an ordinary stigmata.

Could it be that... I still haven't become stronger, but just turned into a time bomb? Thinking of this, Lan Feng felt a little uncomfortable.

However, before Lan Feng had time to feel disappointed, Ji Xuanyuan suddenly threw out another piece of news!

"However, your bloodline... seems to be very unique. Even without using the stigmata, perhaps... you can still exert the power of Honkai to a certain extent!"

By the way, Shaniyat’s bloodline…

"Even if you don't want to fight to protect the world, I also hope that you don't seek revenge on the world..."

Ji Xuanyuan spoke again, but Lan Feng suddenly interrupted.

"I will protect you...as long as I am able...!"

For Lan Feng, what is the purpose of his existence?

Looking for the protagonists I like? No, it's more than that, right? If there is a bigger goal... then now, I have it.

Lan Feng's words made Ji Xuanyuan's pupils dilate slightly.

"Are you really willing to protect this world that treats you so cruelly?"

"I have not been treated unfairly. It is you, Ji Xuanyuan. You want to protect this world, right? Then I, who have been favored by you, am also willing to do so. After all, since I have inherited your stigmata, it is only natural for me to give something in return, right?"

After listening to Lan Feng's words, Ji Xuanyuan suddenly realized that he could not see through this girl's thoughts at all.

Why could she accept all this so easily? What was her wish? Why did she act? So many contradictions...

But...it doesn't matter anymore.

Looking at the girl's eyes, Ji Xuanyuan could see that what the girl said was indeed from the bottom of her heart.

"To be honest...you are the strangest person I have ever met."

Ji Xuanyuan said slowly, and Lan Feng smiled back. She also knew that her declaration just now was indeed a little unclear.

"But I'm serious!"

"Yeah...I can see it."

Suddenly, Ji Xuanyuan's voice became ethereal, his figure gradually became transparent, and the entire forest became illusory...

"Ah, is it time yet?"

Ji Xuanyuan looked at his hands, which slowly began to turn into tiny golden dots of light. As the golden particles continued to dissipate and were blown away into the distant sky by the wind, the girl's silhouette became increasingly faint...

"you……?"

Facing Lan Feng's surprised gaze, Ji Xuanyuan just smiled faintly.

"Didn't I tell you? This is just a remnant of my soul. It will dissipate sooner or later anyway, so why not do something meaningful now?"

Although it was an expected result, Lan Feng felt a little sad. Facing this girl, with whom he had only spent a few minutes, Lan Feng suddenly did not want her to disappear like this.

"Really... is there no way?"

"You feel reluctant? Haha... We didn't know each other before, why do you have such an expression?"

The particles floating in the air reflected the golden light, and correspondingly, the girl's body began to slowly disappear.

"By the way, at the end, I want to ask you a favor..."

Suddenly, a faint voice was heard from the figure that seemed to disappear completely in the next moment.

"My true body has been trapped in the ruins of Jiuyou... and has not been able to withstand the erosion of countless years. If possible... can you please... let my real soul be freed?"

"I promise you!"

Lan Feng stretched out his hand, wanting to hold the girl's hand, but the moment his fingers touched the girl, they passed through her...

"……Thanks."

The whispers faded away with the wind. After the last trace of golden particles disappeared, the entire space began to slowly break apart and collapse...

Lan Feng stared at his hands with a slightly confused look.

(Ji Xuanyuan... Why didn't I appear in that era? I got what I always dreamed of, but... why am I so unwilling...)

As the space gradually disintegrated, Lan Feng gradually calmed down.

"Forget it... You can't force these things. Just grasp what you have now and don't leave any regrets."

Lan Feng muttered to himself, just looking at the space in front of him

Completely collapsed, turned into nothingness...

End of 020

Destiny Headquarters...

Listening to Claudia's report, Otto raised his head sharply, unable to conceal the astonishment on his face.

"What? That Kokolia detonated the Houkai Reactor? What a lunatic!"

Even Otto was shocked when he heard the news. After all, this kind of thing was too crazy and could very likely cause the next Honkai disaster to break out!

Although, he didn't care much about this matter, he was just a little surprised by Cocolia's actions.

"So...what about K424? Has the recovery of K424 been completed?"

Otto asked hurriedly, suddenly remembering something.

Claudia hesitated for a moment, then opened her mouth and told him the whole story.

……

"Hmph... Missing? He must have been taken away. I don't believe that the anti-entropy rats won't leave a way out for themselves. By the way, what other news have you got about K424?"

Otto sneered, holding his forehead with his hand, and looked at the wreckage of the Houkai furnace explosion on the screen with interest.

(There was almost no Houkai energy leakage... As expected, the explosion was just a normal energy reactor?)

On the other side, after hearing Otto's question, Claudia thought for a moment and began to answer.

"Yes, according to the testimony of the captured anti-entropy personnel, the person who captured the experimental subject K424 was one of the executors of anti-entropy, Fredenia Nikola Tesla."

"Oh? It's that guy... It's been a long time since we last met."

After a little recollection, Otto remembered the genius girl who invented the turbine generator.

The former researcher of the North American branch has indeed joined Anti-Entropy.

"Do you know why she wanted to seize K424?"

However, Claudia's expression turned a little strange in response to this question.

"What's wrong? Don't you know the reason?"

Otto asked casually. He did not take this superficial information seriously at first, he just asked casually.

"No... the reason is known. In fact, according to those anti-entropy personnel, Nikola Tesla took K424 away just because of personal interest..."

"Interest? What exactly is it?"

Claudia's eyelids twitched slightly, and she organized her words and replied:

"...According to the captives' testimony, Nikola Tesla, the executor of anti-entropy, is a weirdo with a special fetish. The scientific name for this fetish seems to be... lolita control? It is said that she seized K424 to satisfy her sexual needs..."

————Crack!

Seeing Otto's gloomy face and the cracks appearing on the armrest of the chair he was holding, Claudia wisely closed her mouth and stopped talking.

"...Pass on my order, immediately issue a network-wide wanted notice for Nikola Tesla!...No, doing so will expose the experiment...Forget it, secretly issue a wanted notice for Nikola Tesla. In short, she must be found for me!"

"Yes, Lord Otto."

Otto squeezed out these words from between his teeth, and at the same time, he added another sentence in his heart.

(If K424 is really related to Kallen... you're dead! Asshole!)

"Master Otto, what should we do with the defected researcher Noni?"

"Don't ask me about such trivial matters. Ask her department to solve it. She is just a naive fool anyway. It's not worth mentioning."