K424 of the Collapse World

(Purple hair? Looks like me... Could it be?! Is it the "Miss Kaslana" I met at the port?!)

"Where is that person you mentioned now?"

"Eh...?! Yes, she should have gone to the outer ring of the city... probably..."

Suddenly being grabbed by the shoulders, Asakura Miyuki looked a little surprised, but still told what she knew with a happy face. In school, due to some bad rumors, no one wanted to associate with her, or even get close to her. But at this time, this silver-haired girl did not despise her...

"She's been gone for a while, but it turns out you two really know each other..."

"I see... I see. Thank you very much."

The silver-haired girl thanked him softly and ran in the direction she pointed. She ran so fast that before Asakura Miyuki could react, the silver-haired girl had already disappeared at the other end of the alley with a gust of wind...

"Wait! Um... where are you going? Class is about to start?"

Looking at the empty alley, Asakura Miyuki put down her hand with a feeling of unfulfilled desire. Although she did not get a response, she smiled brightly. However, this smile, combined with the environment here and her shabby clothes, seemed a little weird...

"Today... I'm really lucky. I met someone who is willing to save me, and someone who doesn't despise me... Moreover, we know each other..."

She muttered to herself, with a strange light flashing in her eyes. Grayish-white particles appeared on the surface of her skin, slowly expanding, and in the blink of an eye, they had covered half of her body...

"No! It's not the right time yet... Before that, I must find them! Especially the purple-haired girl who saved me... I must find her! And then..."

She muttered to herself, and the graying part of her skin began to fade rapidly, returning to its previous normal fair white skin.

Asakura Miyuki could feel that no matter whether it was the purple-haired girl who saved her or the silver-haired girl who came after her, they all had something that attracted her...

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Not knowing what happened to Asakura Miyuki, the silver-haired girl ran at high speed in the alley. While sprinting, she nervously scanned the surroundings, trying to find the purple-haired figure.

(...Where on earth have you been?! That guy... I finally found you, but don't think you can get rid of me so easily!)

She thought silently, her eyes full of anxiety. The reason why she came all the way from Western Europe to the Far East was to find her father. At this moment, the clues of the Kaslana family were in front of her, and she would not let it go easily.

After passing through the alley, she returned to the main street again. However, looking at the hustle and bustle, Kiana was a little dazed, followed by an uncontrollable irritation...

226 Betrayer>>

(No... I must find a way to find her! Otherwise... what was the point of all the efforts I made before?!)

She flashed back to the alley, took a deep breath, and a golden line appeared in her blue eyes...

(Since it is a crowd...directly from above

It will be much easier to find! Then...! )

The next moment, as the girl activated her ability, her figure disappeared from the spot, leaving only dots of purple light, which slowly dissipated in the wind...

me club, internal accommodation area......

At noon, Claire walked out of the empty room, leaned against the door thoughtfully, and frowned slightly.

"That's weird... where did they go?"

She held her chin with her hand and talked to herself with a serious face. If someone who knew her saw this, they would be shocked, because this serious expression was very different from her usual carefree look.

The next moment, as the door of the next room slowly opened, Claire stopped thinking and the expression on her face immediately became relaxed.

Her friend and team member Lillian walked out the door and was slightly stunned when she saw Claire leaning against the door.

"What are you doing standing here? Claire, are you daydreaming?"

"Ah... Lillian, you're just in time. Have you seen Sora and Lin?"

Hearing this, Lillian was a little confused. She just thought about it for a moment and then shook her head slightly.

"Sora and... Lin? No, I went to help out in the development department and just came back. So, are they missing? Did something happen to them?"

"I don't know... They were still here in the morning, but in the blink of an eye, both of them were gone. Anyway, how could there be any accidents inside the me company? They must have acted on their own! Besides, our observation period hasn't ended yet, right? They ran around without permission like this, and they will be held responsible later!"

Claire said with a headache, and her calm expression was a little off. As she said, although they were brought into the ME Club of Anti-Entropy two years ago, it was not easy for them to gain trust here because of their former status as Valkyries. However, after two years, they went from being monitored and restricted in their actions at the beginning to being basically free now.

However, this does not mean that they can now run around the me club without restraint. Regarding the two people who disappeared inexplicably, Claire not only felt a little disappointed, but also had an inexplicable sense of crisis. It was as if something big was going to happen in the near future...

"This is terrible! It's understandable that Sora is still young, but why did Lin accompany her in her mischief? This is a bit troublesome... How should I explain it to the person in charge later?"

Claire sighed, thinking of the troubles that would come later, and rubbed her forehead in annoyance.

Seeing her friend so upset, Lillian came over and patted her shoulder gently to comfort her.

"Don't worry too much, Claire... The lady in charge is quite reasonable. As long as they admit their mistakes, there won't be any problems, right?"

After hearing Lillian's comfort, Claire was silent for a moment, then she took a long breath and a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, as if she had let the matter go for the time being.

"...You're right, Lillian. It's obviously useless to worry like this. But it's still really annoying. They just disappeared without saying a word. It's not like them to act so recklessly..."

"Well...it would be nice if they could be like Elena, reliable and serious, and never cause trouble to others."

"Forget about Elena, she's just as rigid as Lin...Anyway, when they come back, they'll be punished!"

Claire said with a smile, and waved her fist gently. However, despite her playful appearance, her eyes were still as deep as before...

(But the premise is... they have to be willing to come back. Lin... do you really want to do something stupid? You even took Sora away with you. I really don't understand. Even if you return to the destiny, what can you get?)

Claire thought silently, her smiling expression becoming stiff. She hoped very much that her guess was wrong...

--boom! !

Suddenly, accompanied by the roar of an explosion, a faint tremor came from the ground beneath his feet. Claire was startled on the spot and immediately turned his head to look at a building in the distance that was on fire. His expression became dull...

Not only Claire and the other person, but everyone in the accommodation area also saw the huge explosion at the same time and fell into panic.

"what happened?!"

"...what happened?"

"Over there... I remember that was the power supply area of ​​the central detector? Why did it explode?!"

"Anyway, contact the fire department as soon as possible..."

Claire gritted her teeth as she watched the chaotic ME employees. She ignored Lillian who was also panicking and stared at the black smoke rising from the flames.

There is a little bit of haze in it...

"This kind of thing... could it really be you?"

"Ok?"

In a remote neighborhood of Changkong City, a woman with long fiery red hair frowned slightly. She stopped and turned her head to look at the sky beside her. Her expression became uncertain...

"Major Himeko, did you find anything?"

A girl in ordinary modern clothes turned around and looked at the red-haired woman standing there, and asked with a little confusion.

"No... It's nothing. It must be an illusion. There is no Houkai energy reaction detected over there. It's my own feeling. It can't be more sensitive than a mechanical detector, right?"

Ji Zi said helplessly, waved her hand gently, and quickly followed, returning to the two students who were traveling with her.

"Okay, let's get back to work... We found Honkai creatures in the city. This is a serious matter. Once there is a large-scale leak of Honkai energy, the disaster it causes is unpredictable! And... For a secret search in the city, we can only carry these light weapons, so we must take it seriously."

"Yes!"

Touching the hilt of the sword fixed at her waist, Ji Zi said seriously, and then put the strange feeling behind her for the time being. She looked at the detector in her hand, trying to concentrate and search for energy reactions nearby.

After returning from the operation to encircle and suppress the Third Herrscher, even though she was using the extremely burdensome Nexus Fusion Armor, she did not rest at all. Despite Theresa's dissuasion, she returned to her work again and began to search for the abnormal Honkai reaction found in Changkong City as ordered.

In response to this abnormal situation, the Valkyries of the Far East Branch formed several teams, disguised as ordinary people, and searched in Changkong City. Jizi was one of them. However, what surprised her was that after a large-scale search on the edge of the city, not to mention the Honkai creatures, even the weak Honkai energy particles were not detected. Even Jizi couldn't help but wonder, in the absence of any Honkai reaction, where did the high-level dead man found before come from...?

However, the next moment she had this thought, the detector in her hand suddenly issued a series of urgent prompt sounds, and then vibrated slightly, and a location not far from here was marked on the screen...

“Wait! What is…?!”

227 Encounter

In a remote alley, a girl with long purple hair wearing thin clothes strolled in this narrow alley. ?;

Although it was noon and the sun was shining brightly, the high walls on both sides blocked the sunlight, making it feel eerie in broad daylight. As we moved forward, the cold and humid air came over us. No matter who we were, we probably wouldn't want to stay in such a place for even a second.

However, the girl walked forward without wavering. To her, the uncomfortable damp and cold air was not even half as painful as the "pain" caused by the Honkai Limiter.

Suddenly, a metallic collision sound came from the trash can next to her, which was extremely loud in the quiet alley. The girl was slightly startled, and immediately stopped and turned around to look. She saw a dirty black cat crawling out from under the trash can lid, looking at the purple-haired girl with its sharp vertical pupils, hunched over, and its fur all over its body stood up. The next moment, it let out a shrill howl, turned around and ran to the other end of the alley, as if the girl was some kind of monster...

For the Honkai creatures that serve as killing tools, it is normal for their inherent hostility to cause oppression to other creatures.

In response to this, the girl sighed helplessly, and her slightly tense heart relaxed again.

"I just wanted to relax, but why do I feel more and more irritated? But then again, it's really strange... I couldn't even find a cat. Has my perception ability been weakened to this extent under the suppression of soul steel? Even that incident was just a coincidence..."

Lan Feng raised her hand and gently brushed the hair in front of her eyes. Thinking of what happened not long ago, she couldn't help but smiled bitterly and shook her head.

In an alley near Qianyu College, she ran into a group of hooligans bullying a female student. In response, Lan Feng naturally took action directly, controlling his strength to beat up the hooligans, then comforted the girl a little and left.

Lan Feng didn't know why he suddenly wanted to go to Qianyu College at that time. However, when people wander around unconsciously, who knows where they will end up?

"But I didn't expect that I would encounter such a thing as soon as I went out... Or is this kind of thing actually very common in the Far East City?"

Lan Feng muttered to herself as she continued walking along the alley. Although this place was cold and depressing, she didn't care.

, under some psychological effect, Lan Feng now does not want to go to those bustling places. Now, she just wants to find a place where no one will disturb her, empty her mind, and reflect on what she has done...

(Sure enough... No matter how I think about it, I really failed... Not only did I abandon Ciel, but I also confronted Saint Freya's forces head-on. After that, my pessimism also made Kiana disappointed in me. How can I make up for these things... It's really a headache)

Lan Feng thought silently as she walked into the depths of the alley. On her left wrist, on the soul steel limiter, the pale yellow metal ring flickered with a faint fluorescence...

"Have you thought about it? Lynn Lawrence."

At the edge of the street outside me agency, the black-haired girl looked at the black smoke slowly rising from the flames in the distance, exhaled lightly, and turned her gaze to Lin who had a complicated expression beside her.

"..."

Although Lin responded with silence, the black-haired girl didn't care much. She chuckled, raised her hand to touch Lin's cheek, and tiptoed to her ear.

"If you regret it, it's not too late to go back now~~ Although I don't know about other people, but Claire will definitely forgive you."

The black-haired girl spoke softly, her gentle voice seemed to have some kind of magic, and Lin's expression could not help but become ferocious. She looked at the black-haired girl beside her, with a complex expression of anger, sadness, and... a hint of madness.

"We've already done something this far, something so outrageous... Now that things have come to this, how can we possibly go back?"

She yelled, stretched out her hand to grab the black-haired girl's collar and lifted her up slightly. This action attracted the attention of passers-by around. Seeing this, Lin quickly let go of her hand and looked around at the people around her in a panic, with a complicated look in her eyes.

"That's right. Since you already know that it's impossible to go back there, then the choice is clear enough, right?"

The black-haired girl smiled, stretched out her hand, and pulled Lin away from the crowd quickly. They walked through the intricate alleys and came to a sparsely populated neighborhood, where they stopped.

"I know this is hard for you to accept. But you are actually longing to return to Tianming in your heart, right? So, you agreed to my proposal without thinking. But now, after doing this, you suddenly lost your temper. Are you doing this for yourself? To show that you are very regretful and helpless?"

"..."

"Haha... Don't mind, I was just saying this. I don't actually hate this kind of behavior. Self-deception is always a good catalyst for decision-making. Now, are you a little calmer?"

"Well... you're right. I... won't regret it, because I was the Valkyrie of destiny from the beginning! The real betrayers are them!"

Lin squeezed out these few words from between her teeth, her body trembling slightly, and she forced herself to stand straight in front of the black-haired girl, as if this could show her determination.

The black-haired girl smiled and turned on the terminal in her hand. After some operations, the interface of the anti-entropy terminal suddenly changed. The facilities of the me company that were originally marked with blue marks on the map on the light screen turned red, representing the enemy! At the same time, many blue dots appeared in various places in the city, slowly moving on the map...

"This is......?!"

Seeing this, Lin was suddenly shocked, and looked at the black-haired girl with a hint of doubt.

"It's no big deal. I just completely deleted the system of this anti-entropy terminal and loaded the system program of the destiny terminal that I prepared in advance. By the way, throw away the terminal in your hand as soon as possible. Although the information system of the ME company has been paralyzed and the internal situation is in chaos, it is not ruled out that they still have a backup device."

As she spoke, she entered a name on the terminal. The next moment, the map screen jumped to a distant place, with a red light spot with a special symbol in the center...

"Loading complete... Let's go, Lin... Let's go defeat that fake Lady Cecilia."

The black-haired girl said with a smile, as if she was talking about something insignificant, raised a small mechanical device in her hand, and walked towards the front of the alley first.

Lin stared blankly at the back of the black-haired girl. When she reached the alley, she suddenly woke up and hurriedly chased after her.

"...Sora Hazel, who are you?"

"Hehe...what do you think?"

"Tell me! I want to know...was this what you planned from the beginning?"

Lin clenched her fists and trembled, her face full of gloom. At this point, even she could see that this girl's sophisticated behavior could not be a rookie Valkyrie like herself!

What kind of person is she actually under the appearance of a 12-year-old girl?

Recalling this

As the girl spent a day together, Lin couldn't help but feel shocked. She had never realized that this little sister-like team member would be such a hidden person...

227 Encounter >>

"Don't worry, I will tell you... But I have to wait until this operation is over. Also, please don't have too many questions during the operation. A-rank Valkyrie, Lynn Lawrence."