K424 of the Collapse World

She originally had the ability to float with Houkai energy, but in water, this ability can help her move quickly. This is why she was able to catch up with the submarine before.

(However, even if I caught up, I still couldn’t figure out how to deal with it. How can I stop Xier from disappearing...)

She thought silently, letting the submarine take her to the depths of the ocean. If possible, she didn't want to meet Cocolia at all. Because it was not only dangerous, but also embarrassing...

The submarine slowly sank down. Gradually, the underwater building became clearer. The submarine approached the bottom of the underwater building. The next moment, a large hatch in the middle of the warehouse-like building slowly opened, revealing an opening large enough for the submarine to enter.

The submarine slowly sailed into the building through the opening. The next moment, the hatch closed and the seawater in the cabin was gradually drained out...

205 Invasion >>

Lan Feng quickly looked around. She was still at the tail wing. On the left side of the submarine was a metal platform with various mechanical arms and tools on top. In the distance were several metal doors of different sizes. The smaller ones were probably for people to pass through.

There was nothing on the right side of the submarine, and next to it was the metal wall of the warehouse. However, the submarine was still a little distance away from the wall. After the seawater was drained, Lan Feng immediately dodged and hid on the right side of the submarine, grabbing the raised part on the outside of the pressure hull and using the main body of the submarine to hide his body.

The black mist that Hill transformed into was still attached to her body surface. The dissipated mist was suppressed by her, and the whole mist surrounded Lan Feng more condensedly.

"(whispering) Ugh...you're holding me too tight!"

Lan Feng complained in a low voice, twisting her body in discomfort. But she only complained a little and didn't say much. Hill's actions were just what she wanted. The slightly fluctuating black mist was really conspicuous. After all, there was no sea water to cover them now. If they were not careful, they would be exposed and would have to face Cocolia, which was a situation she absolutely did not want to encounter...

Lan Feng slightly turned his body to the side.

He stuck his head out of the side of the submarine and observed the situation on the other side.

After the seawater in the warehouse was drained, the upper hatch of the submarine opened. Cocolia climbed up the ladder first and controlled the mechanical platform to lower the ladder. Xier followed closely behind. After she climbed up, she also looked around curiously, observing this place she had never been to before.

"This is the x-10 laboratory, which was completed two years ago. However, to this day, the experiment has not been completed..."

As Cocolia explained, she took Xier's hand and walked down the metal stairs to the platform. At this time, the submarine staff also came out and began to use the mechanical platform to perform basic maintenance on the submarine.

"Mom, this is where I conduct my experiments?"

"No, this is just a warehouse. It's still some distance from the laboratory. Let's go quickly. We have already wasted quite a bit of time."

"Um, sorry..."

Without paying any attention to the other people, Cocolia just said a few words to the person in charge of the submarine, then took Xier to the exit of the warehouse. After using the terminal to open the round explosion-proof metal door, she walked in, and the metal door closed the next moment.

Lan Feng saw this scene and her brows furrowed slightly.

(A door that requires identity verification...? This is so annoying, how can I get in?)

As she thought about it, Lan Feng simply let go of her hand and landed gently under the submarine. As she was barefoot, she made no sound. After arriving at the bottom of the dim warehouse, Hill also recovered from the mist and stood beside Lan Feng.

"Unexpected! You can actually reach the bottom of the sea without any equipment. I thought we would return empty-handed this time..."

"Shh...! You're too loud!"

Lan Feng hurriedly stopped her and pointed to the metal platform above where many submarine crew members were standing.

"Don't worry so much. Don't assume that everyone has enhanced hearing to the level of a soldier. At this distance, even if it's a little louder, the mechanical sounds of their maintenance tools are enough to cover up the sound of our voices."

Hill waved his hand nonchalantly, and then took the lead in exploring the bottom of the warehouse.

Lan Feng shook his head helplessly and started searching from the other end.

"But it's still hard to believe... We are actually at the bottom of the sea. I've never been to a place like this before..."

"Is it really that exaggerated? Can't you easily withstand the water pressure at the bottom of the sea?"

Lan Feng sighed, opened his eyes wide, and looked at the bottom of the square warehouse, trying to find other entrances.

"That's different. I was able to get here by relying on you. If I were alone, I wouldn't be able to get into the water. I don't have any means to fight against buoyancy."

"Yeah, that's right. It's a density issue. After all, you're in a gaseous state... By the way, can you be inflated into a balloon when you're in that state?"

"...If anyone dares to play like that, I will smash his head."

"So it's okay?"

"..."

Lan Feng chatted with Xi'er from time to time to relieve her irritability. Soon, she finished investigating the two corners of the warehouse. But except for some drainage holes on the ground, she could not find any entrance leading to the inside.

At this time, Hill also came back and shook his head slightly.

"There's no passage leading into the interior, only some drains leading to the sea outside. So what should we do now? It seems the only entrances are those doors above..."

After hearing Hill's words, Lan Feng thought for a moment, then raised his head and cast his gaze towards the metal platform above.

"The submarine leader's terminal should have permission to enter the laboratory."

"Oh...? Are you sure?"

Lan Feng shook his head.

"Not sure, but we don't have any other options now... right?"

As she spoke, Lan Feng moved her feet and rushed to the left side of the submarine! She stepped on the metal wall of the submarine and shot out two small crystals while in the air, accurately destroying the two cameras.

Then she landed on the metal platform and stepped heavily on the metal plate.

After hearing the noise, the submarine operators were surprised to find, before they had time to look at the camera, that a purple-haired girl had appeared on the platform at some point, looking at them calmly.

The staff present were all military veterans and they reacted quickly. However, they did not realize that the weak girl in front of them was an intruder.

This was a laboratory, and the girl was wearing simple white clothes and bare feet, looking like a child undergoing an experiment in the laboratory. Therefore, although these people were somewhat puzzled, no one was on guard against this.

In fact, even if they were alert for a moment, it wouldn't change anything...

"you......?"

As soon as one person opened his mouth, he saw the girl in front of him stamping her feet lightly. The next moment, a purple arc of electricity erupted without warning! It extended along the metal platform and instantly wrapped around everyone present!

The light of the electric current was fleeting, and all the people covered by the purple electric arc fell to the ground with convulsions and lost consciousness immediately.

A female researcher working on the mechanical platform above heard the sound and walked to the edge of the platform. Just as she lowered her head to look down, a round crystal ball hit her neck. The woman fell down without a sound, falling directly from the five-meter-high mechanical platform.

Before she landed on the ground, Lan Feng grabbed her belt and slowly put her on the ground. He then walked towards the person in charge who was lying not far away and took out his terminal from his pocket.

"It's amazing... It didn't trigger any alarms. But they will notice that the surveillance has been destroyed, right?"

Hill jumped onto the platform in the same way, glanced at the monitor flashing with sparks not far away, and shrugged slightly.

"This is better than being directly exposed. There is no time to worry about these things now. Who knows when the experiment will start..."

As he spoke, Lan Feng opened the person in charge's eyes, used his iris scan to activate the terminal, and walked towards the metal door on the side...

206 Out of Control

Picking up the terminal he had just seized, Lan Feng looked at the detection device on the metal door and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't let me down... If you, the person in charge, don't have permission to enter the laboratory, then I can only break in by force... Anyway, I have done something like this before, on a certain battleship..."

While talking to herself, she placed the terminal in her hand on the sensor device of the metal door. The next moment, as the indicator light on the door suddenly turned green, the metal door opened.

Seeing this, Lan Feng breathed a sigh of relief and was about to walk in, but Hill grabbed his wrist and pulled him back.

"What are you doing?! If you don't hurry up, Xier's experiment will begin..."

"I know, but I remember you didn't want to be exposed. Are you planning to just rush through like this?"

"...?"

As Lan Feng retreated, the electronic door did not sense any human body and slowly closed again. Lan Feng turned around and stared at Hill beside him, waiting for her explanation.

Being stared at by those crossed pupils that seemed to carry some kind of magic, Hill suddenly felt a little uneasy, but she quickly adjusted her state, coughed lightly twice, and her expression became serious.

"This is a large experimental base, with researchers everywhere. Do you want to knock out everyone you meet along the way?"

"Well... we can only take it one step at a time. Even if we don't take action immediately, we don't have any other options now..."

"Who said there is no other way?"

Hill smiled and pointed his finger at the female worker in a white coat lying on the ground.

"In such a large experimental base, it is impossible for internal staff to be familiar with every colleague. So, we can also use this to do something..."

As he spoke, Hill took off his dark blue windbreaker and threw it away, and the windbreaker turned into black mist and dissipated in the air.

"Eh... Are your clothes made of Honkai energy? What a convenient ability..."

Lan Feng said casually, and couldn't help curling her lips. She almost understood what the girl in front of her was going to do.

"Well, as long as it is clothing that I am extremely familiar with, I can use Honkai energy to construct it. I just don't know why you can't do such a simple thing when you are so strong. Using Honkai energy to construct clothing and the like, some high-level warriors can do it..."

As he spoke, Hill also smiled slightly.

"If I didn't have this ability, I would become naked every time I atomized..."

Having said that, Hill leaned over, straightened up the unconscious researcher, swiftly took off her white coat, and put it on himself.

"How about it, do you look like an employee here?"

Lan Feng looked at her with empty eyes and shook his head slowly. It was obvious that, not to mention the mismatched low-cut shirt and long boots under Hill's white coat, her temperament alone did not look like that of a researcher.

Hill also realized this and scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Well... but at least it's not so obvious now. Although it's impossible to conceal the truth, it's much better than being seen as an intruder at a glance like before... You don't have to change your clothes, you look like the uniform worn by the test subject. Well... if we walk together, even if someone who doesn't know the inside story sees us, they will think it's a researcher and an extracted test subject."

"That makes sense... But if I want to be used as a test subject, I am a little too tall compared to the children in the orphanage, right?"

"Don't worry about such small things. Not everyone pays attention to details like this."

"OK then......"

Lan Feng nodded, with a hint of anxiety in his eyes.

"Then don't waste time, let's go quickly. It's been so long, we've lost track of Cocolia, and it won't be easy to find the experiment site."

As he spoke, Lan Feng took the lead and walked towards the metal door, opened it with the terminal, and walked directly in.

Hill straightened his clothes and then chuckled.

"Don't underestimate the connection between us... I can easily find her current location. However, you are my experimental subject now, is it really okay for you to walk in front?"

"Then stop talking and hurry up and catch up."

Undersea experimental base, monitoring center......

A middle-aged man sat silently in his office. Suddenly, the electronic door of the office opened and a staff member walked in.

"Mr. Supervisor, there is a problem with the surveillance camera in warehouse No. 2. Do you need to inspect it?"

"Oh? Do you still need to ask me about this? What did the person in charge over there say?"

Hearing this, the man raised his head and asked calmly, but with a little displeasure in his eyes. The problem with the camera is not a big deal, usually the observer can repair it by himself, there is no need to find him here.

"In fact, Mr. Supervisor... we have been unable to contact the person in charge of the warehouse. So, we finally decided to tell you about this."

Hearing this, the man frowned slightly.

"This is such a coincidence... so coincidental that I can't help but wonder if something unexpected happened."

"So...should we report this to Lady Cocolia?"

The man pondered for a moment, then smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Forget it then. I heard that Miss Cocolia is in a bad mood today. It's better not to disturb her before we are sure."

Putting aside the work in his hands, the man stood up and his expression became serious.

"Take a few more security personnel with you to check the situation in the warehouse. If there is nothing wrong, repair the surveillance camera. If there is any special situation... you should know what to do."

"Yes."

The worker responded, silently adjusted his terminal to alert mode, and then left the administrator's office.

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In the silver-white metal corridor, a black-haired girl in a white coat walked briskly, her steps were vigorous, and she didn't look like an ordinary researcher at all. Behind her, a purple-haired girl who was slightly shorter than her followed closely, looking around vigilantly.

"Hey, Hill, haven't you arrived yet?"

"It's almost there. Although I know the direction, these passages are a bit troublesome and winding..."

While complaining under his breath, Hill looked at the fork in the road in front of him, and his expression became a little annoyed.

"So, why are the roads in these experimental bases so complicated? What on earth were the designers thinking? Is it because they have a hole in their brains that they need to take a detour?"

Hill muttered to himself as he covered his head and walked quickly to the side of the road.

"Ah, look ahead!"

In his distraction, Hill barely looked where he was going and bumped into a researcher coming around a corner.

"what!"