K424 of the Collapse World

“What the hell… you hate people who sacrifice themselves? Aren’t you one of those people yourself?! You idiot! Idiot…!”

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Somewhere in the sea of ​​consciousness, this chaotic space composed of black chaos and messy colors began to collapse rapidly with the disappearance of Lan Feng, slowly disintegrating from the root and completely returning to nothingness...

In the space, the few remaining blue light particles gathered together to form a faint human figure, standing in the chaos, looking down at the chaotic space on the brink of collapse.

The sound of space breaking apart was like the roar of a giant beast, and the sound of raging anger resounded throughout the space, as if expressing the anger of a certain existence. However, this devastating power could not affect anything outside of the space at all...

"Are you angry? That's right, your plan has completely failed, and it's all because of me... Hehe, being a traitor is really fun. No wonder those two Valkyries turned against you for the second time..."

“….......!”

"Don't dream. I have protected her for four years and watched her grow up to what she is now. How could I let you succeed? Now, as long as she gives up wanting to die, you may not be able to influence her will. I believe that child Shirley..."

"..."

"Oh... promise? Haha, are you stupid? Don't forget that my soul is also a human being in essence. Why should I keep your shitty promise and go destroy my own kind?"

"......"

“Hmph, indeed, although this other world has nothing to do with me, why do you think I will definitely destroy it? Human civilization... in your eyes it is indeed filthy, but I’m sorry, I cannot agree with you... Do you really think that showing me those things is enough to brainwash me? Of course, all those things before were lies~”

“……….!!”

"Well, whatever you say. The soul is immortal... This is what you taught me. The so-called punishment is probably just exiling me a second time... Do you think that after what I've been through, I can still be scared to this extent?"

"......"

Amid the sneer of the blue figure, the roar of a certain existence became more intense. The next moment, this space began to completely collapse, and all the chaos disappeared. The next moment, this space was filled with pure white, and became empty...

241 Shiris

"So, you didn't listen to me and take a good rest. Instead, you took Claire and the others away from house arrest without permission and ran out to kidnap girls? Dr. Tesla, please start your excuses."

In the upper office of me company, Einstein asked expressionlessly, holding a cotton swab coated with medicine in his hand and gently applying it on the blue and black marks on the red-haired girl's shoulder.

"I'm not! I didn't! Don't talk nonsense, Ain... Wait! I'm not making excuses. I did that just to get information about Shirley, so I acted that way. And... the girl I kidnapped wasn't an ordinary girl. My target was the clone!"

The red-haired girl cried out with tears in her eyes and accidentally touched her arm. She gasped in pain and sat down obediently, allowing Einstein to play with her arm.

"In other words, you admit that you are the kidnapper, Dr. Tesla?"

Einstein said calmly, put down the cotton swab in his hand, wrapped the wound of the red-haired girl with a bandage, and tied a knot tightly.

"Hiss...! No, I've said before that the clone is indeed suspicious. Although its strength is not at the same level as Shilis, it is definitely beyond the level of ordinary people! Anyway, if we don't care, what if..."

"hehe......"

Tesla's explanation was interrupted by a burst of mature laughter. The laughter came not from Einstein, but from an intellectual woman with long brown hair sitting in the next chair. She sipped her tea and looked at Tesla with interest, with a smile in her emerald eyes, and shook her head gently.

"What's so funny? Darwen! I'm talking to Ain now, can you please stop interrupting?"

"Haha... my guess was correct. It seems that the rumors about Ms. Tesla are not groundless...

..kidnapping a girl? Oh...I wonder how many times you have done something like this?"

"What did you say?! Old woman you %#@......"

Tesla gritted his teeth at the mocking words of the brown-haired woman. He was about to retort fiercely, but the next moment, Einstein quickly covered her mouth and smiled apologetically at Darwin.

"I'm so sorry, Dr. Darwen. This fool of ours may have drunk some fake wine just now and is now ill. Please don't argue with her."

"It's okay, Liesel, I don't mind. A few years ago, I saw what kind of person Dr. Tesla is. Since he can attack underage girls, it's not surprising that he would do something worse than an animal. Am I right, Dr. Lolita?"

“Mmmmm…!”

Tesla understood Kiana's feelings at this moment. He could not make a sound. He could only look at Einstein with resentment, and then glared at the brown-haired woman, almost killing her with his eyes.

In fact, Tesla was in tears at the moment. In order to hide her injury, she deliberately did not go to the infirmary, and came to the office to discuss with Einstein despite the pain. However, she suddenly forgot that Einstein was talking to a biologist at the moment...

So, when she opened the door, what awaited her was a look of gaze between Einstein and Darwin. The next moment, Darwin saw the injury on her shoulder, and then the above-mentioned incident happened...

"So, you took action on your own and took the Valkyrie to capture that girl, but because of Raiden Mei's intervention, the action failed?"

"This...what can we do about this? That's Mei Raiden! How dare I touch Ryoma Raiden's precious daughter? This operation is really terrible..."

Tesla answered helplessly, forcing himself to ignore Darwen's mocking smile, snorted lightly, and turned his head away.

Einstein remained silent. She didn't know what to say at this moment. She had already criticized the red-haired girl, and it would be a bit long-winded to continue. But should she just put this matter aside, ignore Tesla beside her, and return to the discussion with Darwen just now?

"Wait a minute, Ms. Tesla. I am a little interested in the 'Ciris' you just mentioned..."

At this time, Darwen, who was sitting opposite, suddenly spoke, breaking the awkward silence.

"I remember that the girl you brought back from Russia a few years ago seemed to be called Shirley, right? And at the same time, Kokolia also lost an adopted daughter, a girl with purple hair... That girl looked very similar to the little girl adjutant you had later..."

"..."

Darwen said this, looked at Tesla with a strange expression, smiled and waved his hand.

"Don't let your imagination run wild, Miss Lolita. I have no intention of snatching the girl from you. I am just a little curious. What is so special about that girl named Shilis that you are willing to use force to snatch her from Cocolia... Moreover, the girl adopted by that crazy woman Cocolia should not be an ordinary child, right? Dr. Tesla, can you satisfy my curiosity?"

Darwin put her hands under her chin and smiled kindly, but Tesla thought it was a little ironic. As a neutral, Darwin had no intention of participating in the struggle between conservatives and radicals. As she said, she was just curious.

In response, Tesla remained silent for a moment, then took a deep breath, raised his head resolutely, and his red eyes were full of seriousness.

"She may indeed be different from ordinary people, but to me, those special things about her don't matter... Believe it or not, I just treat her as a friend, nothing more!"

Darwen sneered at this, frowned, and was about to say something. But the next moment, seeing the look in the eyes of the red-haired girl in front of her, she was slightly stunned, and she couldn't help but give up the words she was about to say, and then fell silent.

"Oh, really... If you don't want to tell me, forget it. Anyway, your business has nothing to do with me, so let's do it this way. Okay, Liesel, where were we just now?"

She stopped looking at Tesla and turned directly to Einstein next to her and asked. Without waiting for the other party to answer, she picked up the glass container in front of her and looked at the dark blue hair stored inside, her expression gradually calmed down.

"It's easy for me to use these genes to create a mindless 'doll'. However, as a condition for helping you, it wouldn't be too much for me to ask for a small reward, right?"

Hearing this, Einstein's eyes moved slightly, and then he nodded calmly.

"Of course. Even if you don't tell me, I will pay you a reward that matches your status."

"No, I don't want money. I have enough research funds. It's useless to have too much of this kind of thing."

Darwen smiled and heard her reply.

Einstein tilted his head.

"You don't need money? As for items... I don't think I have anything that would interest you, right?"

A trace of doubt appeared on Einstein's face, but Darwin seemed to suddenly think of something, gave a wicked smile, then suddenly stood up, lowered his body, and slowly approached Einstein.

"You are too self-deprecating, Liesel. You have a lot of things that can interest me... Well, for example, your petite and cute body, it should be fun to play with it~?......"

"...?!"

Einstein's expression suddenly became stiff. The next moment, her half-closed glass-colored eyes opened wider and wider, and finally turned into a very cute look with her eyes wide open. The lazy look on her face was instantly swept away. She opened her mouth slightly and looked at the brown-haired woman in front of her with surprise, as if she was looking at some rare animal...

"Hey! You..."

Tesla's expression was equally interesting at the side, but she quickly reacted and stood up. Just as she was about to rebuke this guy who only allowed officials to set fires but not ordinary people to light lamps, Darwen in front of her suddenly smiled and sat back in her chair, clapping her hands gently.

"Relax~ I was just joking, Liesel. I'm not the lolita girl next to you. If it were her, she would have really thought about such a thing... But judging from your reaction, you probably didn't go along with that guy. That's great, Liesel, otherwise Danielle would probably be very sad..." (See Chapter 077 for details)

She said with a smile, her temperament restored to its previous intellectuality and elegance, as if nothing had happened just now. Tesla's face suddenly turned blue and red at Darwen's reaction, and the words of accusation were choked in his throat, and he had no chance to say them again...

241 Hillis >>

Einstein breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed her forehead with her hand, and gradually came back to her senses from the shock just now. She had a headache, although she knew before that this old friend's personality was like this, and she liked to be naughty suddenly in seriousness. This was nothing, but this way of joking was really hard for her to get used to.

"Well, your way of joking is very interesting, Dr. Darwin. If my teacher Planck were still alive, you would have a lot in common. So, what do you need?"

Darwen put down the glass container in his hand, and his expression slowly became serious again.

"It's just a little information. I want to know...what is the relationship between you conservatives and the leader of our entire Anti-Entropy Organization, Mr. Walter?"

The headquarters of Destiny, Helheim Laboratory...

In the high-tech metal space, a blond man stood alone in front of a transparent cylindrical container, looking at the silver-haired girl floating in it with her eyes closed, his eyes gloomy and uncertain.

“What are the results of the test?”

Suddenly, he raised his head and asked in a low voice with a serious look. However, since there was no one around except the unconscious girl, from the perspective of an outsider, his question was just like talking to himself.

?; However, this was not the case. The next moment, an emotionless mechanical synthesized sound suddenly rang out in the empty laboratory.

"Test completed. The target test subject's internal Houkai energy concentration index is 3568hw, and it is in a runaway state. It is expected to be out of control within 6 minutes. Judgment: Extremely dangerous. Recommendation: Destroy its consciousness and stop the energy runaway."

Without paying attention to the second half of the AI's suggestion, Otto walked forward slowly, gently pressed his hand on the glass, and looked at the girl sleeping quietly in the floating container, as if hesitating about something. After a while, his brows relaxed slightly, and he called out the laboratory's intelligent system again.

"That's not necessary. Just strip away the Houkai energy in her body and control it to around 1000 hw. It doesn't matter if her power is weakened. As long as you know that she controls the power of creation, the Houkai energy can be restored for her at any time. In addition, compared to her power as a Herrscher, I am more interested in the 'knowledge' she possesses, or in other words, her strange memories. So, protect her consciousness and isolate her from the erosion of Houkai."

Otto gave the order calmly, looking at the two sharp mechanical arms that pierced into the girl's back, his expression slightly moved, and he pinched his chin thoughtfully.

The red marks covering the entire back of the girl were constantly emitting a faint light. The strange dark red lines were like spells from the abyss, slowly extending outwards and constantly eroding the girl's body.

(k424... No, Shirley. What else do you know? If the novel you mentioned, "The Origin of the Purple Kite", is really the early work of that girl that has not yet been circulated, then at least, the events of five hundred years ago are related to you.

Inseparable! You must know Shakespeare... Then, who does your 'soul' come from? On this basis, someone who is related to Destiny... Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci? No, I'm afraid it's not just Shakespeare's friends, but also members of Destiny... Selena, Otto Vera...? No, the scope is too large, and there is no point in guessing. I can only ask her to find out the truth...)

As the huge device behind the container began to operate, the mechanical arm that pierced the girl's back began to glow with a faint purple light. The comatose silver-haired girl frowned slightly, seeming to feel a little uncomfortable.

Otto took two steps back, looked at the girl who brought him countless mysteries, and couldn't help but sigh.

"If she doesn't cooperate, the memory diving device is meaningless, and torture is not very realistic. I don't really want to use this method on her... So, is the only choice I can make is to trust her?"

Otto was talking to himself when suddenly, the indicator light behind the container turned red, and a piercing alarm sounded! With a burst of electric sparks coming out from the upper part of the mechanical arm, the Honkai energy absorption device was forced to stop working.

Otto was not at all flustered by this, but there was a hint of amusement in his eyes, and then he smiled and took a step back.

"Since a resistance consciousness appeared during the process of absorbing Honkai energy, it means that you have woken up now, Shilis..."

As soon as the voice fell, the girl in the container suddenly opened her eyes! A purple light flashed in her pupils. The next moment, as a strong purple light burst out, the transparent container wall was instantly covered with cracks, and immediately collapsed with a loud bang, and the light blue solution mixed with transparent fragments poured out and quickly spread on the ground.

——Boom!

After the outer wall broke, the solution was instantly drained and the girl fell to the base of the container, half-knelt on the platform, and stood up shakily.

"Huh...huh..."

The girl panted softly, and opened her eyes again. Her slightly confused and sad blue pupils were now clear and lucid.

Suddenly remembering something, she raised her head sharply and looked around this strange metal laboratory. Her throbbing heart slowly calmed down...

My heart was empty. The warm feeling of being watched that had accompanied me all along had completely disappeared. The cold air surrounded my body, as if my heart was completely frozen by it.

"Really... it disappeared..."

She muttered to herself, and her slightly raised hand fell down weakly. Even her body swayed as if she lost balance, and she almost fell off the base of the container and fell into the solution mixed with sharp fragments.

The girl stood up, her wet hair gathered together, sticking to her forehead and back. Water droplets slowly fell from the ends of her hair, interweaving with the water stains on the ground.

However, what was dripped into it was not just the experimental solution, but also something else...

A drop of crystal clear water, different from other solutions, flowed out from the corner of the girl's eye, ran across her cheek, mixed with the solution beads on her face, dripped down from her chin, and disappeared into the puddle of water on the ground.

The next moment, as the figure standing next to her appeared in her field of vision, the girl frowned slightly, then turned her head and looked at the blond man with a playful look on his face.

"Mr. Otto."

"Good morning, Ms. Shilis... It seems that you were a little grumpy when you woke up. You destroyed the extraction device and even smashed the experimental container. But, it's understandable. Judging from your expression just now, this is probably not an experience worth sharing... Is it painful? It feels like being swallowed by Honkai."

Otto nodded slightly to the girl, not caring that the girl standing on the platform was looking down at him, and asked directly. Because the girl's face was covered with water droplets, he did not notice the tear that fell with it...

Hearing this, the girl lowered her head and closed her eyes again. She raised her hand and gently placed it on her left breast. The confusion and sadness between her brows were concealed by her hair.

"Yes, it really hurts..."

She tightly grasped the collar of her shirt, clenched her teeth, and her body trembled slightly. Pain? If the phantom pain of the "heart" can be considered pain, then this is not a lie...

She raised her head and her expression returned to indifference.

"...Mr. Otto."

"Ok?"

The girl looked at the blond man in front of her calmly, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, outlining a beautiful arc. But it seemed that this peaceful smile was so sad. Indistinctly, Otto seemed to read the sadness under the girl's smile...

Just like him, I feel the same sadness that comes from losing someone important...

In Otto's brief trance, the girl raised her wet

She lowered her skirt, crossed her legs, and bent down slightly. She once again made Otto bend her knees in the same way. This time, her movements were more perfect according to Otto's previous corrections, just like a real noble girl...

She raised her head slightly, her eyes full of solemnity...

"Sorry, it seems a little late, but please allow me to introduce myself, Mr. Otto. My name is... Silis Kaslana!"

242 Changing Attitudes