K424 of the Collapse World

Looking at the red-haired woman whose skin was gradually turning grayer, Lan Feng fell silent.

She remembered that Jizi's qualifications as a Valkyrie were not good. Her body was on the verge of collapse due to the collapse. At the beginning of the story, her life span was less than a year. And now, because of this variable, she had experienced a battle that should not have existed. I am afraid that now, her life span has come to an end...

(She will soon become a dead person... Is it because of my existence... No! Absolutely not! Now is not the time to feel sorry for myself. How can I let this happen!)

"The Honkai energy eroding Jizi's body is because the artificial stigmata's ability to control Honkai energy is insufficient. So, there is another way..."

Lan Feng shook her head vigorously to dispel the distracting thoughts in her mind. She looked at the red-haired woman whose expression gradually became painful, bit her lips lightly, and put her hand on her chest.

"Yes... Theoretically, it is feasible. My physique has changed, and I can completely suppress the Houkai energy in my body by myself. So, there shouldn't be any problem if I do this..."

Lan Feng muttered to herself, and after a brief hesitation, her expression returned to calm. She looked at Ji Zi lying beside her tenderly and exhaled softly.

"I'm sorry... Ji Lin, I should be able to give the gift you gave me to someone else, right?"

The End of Operation 231

"Oh...you want to know?"

Looking at Lin, who was scared but still stubborn, Sora narrowed his eyes slightly. On the other side, Wraith tilted her head, but didn't say much. She just stood there holding the purple-haired girl in her arms and looked at the two companions. Although she really wanted to return to the headquarters as soon as possible, she could see that Sora, as a colleague, seemed to have discovered something...

"Yes, Lord Heather, I am really curious... I remember that Kiana is very strong, comparable to Shilis, or even stronger. If it weren't for your order, I would never dare to attack her. But why... was she defeated so easily?"

Lin expressed her doubts pertinently. Sora thought about it for a moment and a smile appeared on his face.

"As I recall, the mission of the Valkyrie is to obey orders absolutely, right? Well... after all, we are partners in action, so it doesn't matter if I tell you. The one in front of you is not Kiana Kaslana, but just an experiment, just like Miss Shirley over there, with the number K423. By the way, you should know the identity of Miss Shirley, right?"

"k424..."

Lin opened her eyes wide and looked back and forth between the silver-haired girl and the purple-haired girl, her expression full of surprise and uncertainty.

"It's a bit difficult to explain these, but you can basically guess what they are. That's about it, Miss Lin. Are you satisfied with my explanation?"

"Ah? Yes... no problem, thank you, Sora...sama."

Lin lowered her head and responded softly, without saying anything more. However, Sora, who was standing in front of her, spoke again.

"Lin, since you no longer have any questions, let me hand it over to you.

A mission."

As he spoke, Sora pointed at the three unconscious Valkyries not far away, with a sneer on his face.

"In fact, our operation this time is a confidential operation authorized by the Bishop himself. Even colleagues in the Far East Branch have no right to interfere. For an operation like this, leaving no trace is the most basic of all. Lin, as you can see, Wraith and I are not very good at fighting, so the job of dealing with the traces will be left to you."

"Traces processing work...?"

"Go ahead and kill them."

"what?!"

At this moment, Lin suspected that she had heard it wrong. She looked at Sora blankly, hoping to hear a different answer.

"I say, kill them. Their existence may lead to leaks, so getting rid of them completely is the safest way."

Sora said calmly, with no trace of emotion in her pure black pupils. Lin stared at her blankly, unable to utter a word for a long time.

"How can this be allowed?! Killing your companions? Why would you do this?"

"I have explained the reasons. Now, are you willing to accept my orders?"

Sora said softly, her cute face full of frost and majesty. It was only at this moment that Lin realized that the girl in front of her was serious about what she said!

However, even so...

"No...! I can't do this! Aren't Valkyries... people who fight against Houkai and protect the weak? Why do you have to do something like this?"

"Haha... Such an innocent and cute Valkyrie is really rare. It seems that you don't even know the 'cleaner' in the Valkyrie system."

"What? Cleaner...? What is that...?"

Looking at Lin's confused and puzzled eyes, Sora sighed and shook his head slightly.

"Nothing, just boring things you don't need to know. Now, you should have heard my orders, right?"

"No...I can't, I..."

Looking at Lin whose expression was gradually breaking down, Sora's brows slightly frowned, but they relaxed again in the next moment, and the solemnity between his brows disappeared.

(As expected...)

“Pfft…Hahahaha…!”

Suddenly, Sora laughed out loud, a silver bell-like laugh that stunned Lin. Sora raised his hand and gently patted Lin's shoulder.

"What are you thinking about? I was just joking, but I didn't expect you to take it seriously? Hahaha... As expected, your reaction is really interesting, Miss Lin..."

"Eh? R-really?"

"Of course, how could the Destiny Organization have such an inhumane order? Besides, didn't you see? They have all fainted and know nothing, so how could there be any possibility of leaking secrets?"

Sora smiled, as if she had become the lively and lovely girl she once was. Lin slowly came back to her senses and glanced at Sora with a bit of reproach.

"Really?! Sora, you...are still like this!"

With the sudden intimacy, Lin immediately forgot Sora's identity and immediately returned to her previous attitude towards Sora, and went over to rub the black-haired girl's head vigorously. Sora didn't care about anything, just kept smiling, gestured to Wraith who was standing next to her thoughtfully, and took the lead to walk to the other side of the alley.

"Oh! By the way, the bishop has specifically instructed that we are not allowed to attack K423. This is troublesome...Lin, you are faster, quickly throw this white-haired girl to another block in the distance, and don't let her mix with the Valkyries of the Far East Branch. We will meet at the agreed place later. Okay, hurry up and act."

"oh, I understand now."

Lin had no objection to this order. She swiftly picked up the unconscious silver-haired girl and ran away from another path.

As Lin's figure gradually moved away, the smile on Sora's face gradually disappeared. She sneered, glanced at the expressionless Wraith with the corner of her eye, and spoke softly.

"This is really unexpected... Have you forgotten all the rules of the Valkyries? I won't let you kill them, but your reaction is really disappointing... Lin, if that's the case, don't resent me in the future."

"That's right. She is no longer suitable to stay in the headquarters. Perhaps the short principal of the school, St. Freya Academy, is more suitable for her, hehe..."

Wraith also chuckled and said, with a sarcastic smile on her face. Suddenly she remembered something, she lowered her head, and forgot to glance at Ji Zi who was covered in blood.

It was strange that the woman's entire shirt was almost stained with blood, which looked quite creepy. However, her breathing was steady and her face was ruddy, not like a seriously injured person who had lost a lot of blood...

Soon, she shook her head slightly. She stopped thinking about these things and casually removed the mechanical device on the purple-haired girl's other hand.

After a few operations, he put it into his pocket.

Although the Third Herrscher seemed to have done something to the red-haired woman just now, this kind of thing was not something she needed to care about, and she could leave it to the Far East Branch. Anyway, the Third Herrscher had fallen into her hands, and her mission had been completed.

"What's wrong, wraith? What's wrong with that red-haired woman?"

"Nothing, let's go. The terminal shows that several teams of Valkyries are already heading this way. We need to leave quickly. Anti-Entropy also has a strong presence in the Far East. If we wait any longer, we will definitely get into trouble."

The End of Operation 231>>

"okay."

Sora tilted her head. She was standing too far away, so she couldn't see anything unusual about Himeko. Her instinct told her that the woman in front of her must be hiding something, but without enough information, she couldn't guess what happened, so she had to give up for now.

Taking one last look at the Valkyries lying on the ground, Sora shook his head and chuckled.

"Although the kind-hearted Lady Cecilia may have shown mercy to you, you are lucky to have survived the battle with the Herrscher."

Sora muttered to himself as he walked deeper into the alley with Wraith. In the arms of this tall woman, the purple-haired girl with her eyes closed remained motionless. However, what no one noticed was that her waist-length purple hair began to fade from the tip...

me company, headquarters building......

"The system still can't connect? Tesla, I've activated the backup transmitter just now, right? How's the reception status of the external signal?"

Standing in front of a flashing light screen, Einstein frowned slightly, quickly inputting some code while distractedly asking Tesla.

"It still doesn't work...! I can't find Shirley's location. I could clearly receive messages before, which means that her terminal was properly worn. But now..."

Tesla said, her eyes gradually filled with anxiety. She took a deep breath and her expression became serious.

"No......! How could those half-baked female warriors from the Far East Branch threaten her? However, if the Destiny Organization really took other measures... Shiris is an extremely unique individual. If she falls into their hands, she will definitely be..."

"Dr. Tesla, please calm down. It is still too early to make a conclusion."

Einstein comforted her, but even so, she had already made a certain assumption in her heart...

It had been confirmed before that Tianming's action was aimed at the girl, and now that her communication had lost response, it was self-evident what would happen in this situation.

"I know... I'm calm now. Being anxious won't solve anything. I'm not like before... But if nothing happened to her, why can't I contact her now?"

Tesla gritted his teeth and said. As she said, she was not at a loss this time, but she was a little helpless about the current situation.

"Damn it! The communication is destroyed... We can't start the search directly now. Any rash action will only expose our organization to the Destiny Organization. However, Shiris... She shouldn't be defeated by those small soldiers of Destiny, right? Her power is truly Herrscher-level... Just like Mr. Walter..."

Tesla took a deep breath as if to comfort herself. As if she suddenly thought of something, she raised her head and looked at Einstein with a slightly tired look.

"Ain... I'll leave Kiana to you. After hearing this news, I'm afraid she won't be able to control herself like I did..."

--drop!

Before he finished speaking, with the sound of the electronic door opening, a girl with long silver-white hair rushed into the communication room with an anxious look on her face. She was barefoot and had not even changed out of her pajamas. It was obvious that she was extremely anxious.

"Dr. Tesla! Dr. Einstein! What happened to that explosion just now? And why can't I find Sister Shilis? Did something happen to her?"

"..."

Looking at the anxious Kiana, Einstein opened his mouth, and suddenly he was a little speechless, not knowing how to explain the news to this anxious girl. In the end, Tesla sighed, walked over and gently patted Kiana on the shoulder.

"...About this, Kiana. I hope you can calm down and listen to us. Regarding Shilis's situation..."

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After the most important detectors and communication relay stations were destroyed, ME was doomed to be unable to launch any effective actions, and this was also what Sora had planned long ago.

At this point, although they didn't know what follow-up actions Anti-Entropy would take, at least now

Now, their mission has been successful...

Honkai is the mortal enemy of all creatures and civilizations. For humans, it is the most deadly poison. Even if they can use external forces to seize this power from Honkai, they will have to pay a price...

Only the owners of the real stigmata know what they are carrying, but it is by no means an easy task. However, for ordinary Valkyries, the price they pay for mastering power is everything they have. Implanted with artificial stigmata full of defects, the moment they become Valkyries, their remaining youth can only be spent in fighting and killing, and the future, from the beginning, they never had it...

The average life span of a normal Valkyrie is only around 25 years old. Most of them died not in battle, but from the erosion of Honkai energy...

This is the price of mastering the power of Honkai. So, what would happen if the Valkyrie directly lost the stigma that suppressed Honkai?

Standing in a dead silent pure white space, the silver-haired girl blinked her eyes, and her empty blue pupils gradually regained their luster...

"What...is going on?"

She shook her head slightly in confusion, raised her arm and looked at her fair and soft palm, trying hard to recover her cloudy brain.

"Where am I? I remember that I was planning to go to Changkong City to relax. After that..."

As his confused thoughts gradually became clear, Lan Feng's slightly dilated pupils suddenly shrank, and as his eyes regained focus, he froze in place.

"That's right! I encountered the Valkyrie of Destiny, and Himeko... I accidentally injured her severely. In order to make amends for this, I..."

Recalling what happened before, Lan Feng's expression suddenly became awkward. She sighed softly and touched her back with her backhand. Although she couldn't see it, she knew that a certain mark on her back had completely disappeared...

"But then again, where exactly is this place? And I..."

Suddenly, with a sharp pain in her brain, Lan Feng's eyes widened! In her vision, the pure white suddenly turned into a burning land. She seemed to be standing under a blood-red sky, in the illusory and looming cracks of space, overlooking the land ravaged by war...

In front of him was a silver-haired woman holding a pure white lance. As Lan Feng was shocked, the woman suddenly rushed forward, swung the huge lance, and stabbed it fiercely into her chest...

"ah------!!"

232 "Homecoming" Four Years Later

The Far East Branch of the Destiny, the lobby...

With the sound of the electronic door, before the door was fully raised, a short, silver-haired girl rushed out of the door of the conference room, ignoring the shouts of the congressmen behind her and rushed straight to the emergency center in the branch.

——Bang!

She pushed the door open and looked anxiously at the three figures lying on the beds. She glanced at them briefly and ran to one of the beds. Looking at the red-haired woman sleeping quietly, her expression became full of worry.

"Himeko...How's Himeko doing?!"

"Eh? Principal..."

Looking at Theresa who suddenly rushed in, the nurse who stayed in the room stood up slightly in surprise, looking a little at a loss. She was about to say something when a calm female voice suddenly came from behind her.

"Lady Theresa, even you shouldn't yell in the infirmary. This is against the rules."

Seeing the appearance of the person coming, the young nurse stepped aside and stopped talking. This person was the attending doctor in charge of the emergency treatment of Jizi's team. She explained to the principal, so there was no need for her to say anything more...

Hearing the other party's voice, Theresa covered her mouth in embarrassment, but still cast an anxious look at the doctor who came in.

"I'm sorry, but doctor, what on earth is Himeko...?"

"Come out and tell me, the patient needs to rest. Your behavior is inappropriate. I hope you can be more careful next time."