K424 of the Collapse World

Seeing this, Lan Feng's eyes immediately became sharp!

(This is...! Another energy gathering... long-range attack?!)

Sure enough, a crystal wrapped in black and purple flames slowly appeared in the mouth of the Honkai beast. From Lan Feng's perception, the compression rate of the Honkai energy of the crystal was getting stronger and stronger...

The next moment, this energy crystal flew out in a gust of wind, aiming directly at the jeep where Lan Feng was!

"North! Turn quickly...!"

"……no!"

Listening to Jera's exclamation in the passenger seat, North gritted his teeth, veins popping out on his forehead. Through the rearview mirror, he also saw the impending attack.

However, the road in this wasteland is very bumpy, and the current speed is extremely high. Years of driving experience tell me that if I force a sharp turn in this situation, the result will only be a car crash and death.

In fact, the attack of the Honkai Beast was approaching in an instant, smashing towards the jeep with a terrible sound of breaking wind! Mike stared at the strong purple light that was getting closer and closer, and his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

(…No! I don’t want to die!)

Not knowing what these people were thinking, Lan Feng instinctively raised her right hand, and just as the purple light in her hand lit up, she abruptly stopped her movements. (No... there's no need to reveal your strength yet!)

The hand that was stretched out paused for less than 0.1 seconds before changing its action midway, grabbing a wrench placed behind the seat, and throwing it the moment it was raised again! The whole set of actions was as smooth as flowing water, and ordinary people could not even notice the pause!

The wrench spun violently towards the Honkai beast's bombardment, and the sound of the jeep's engine drowned out the sound of the iron rod breaking through the wind under the huge force thrown...

----boom!

The moment the flying wrench collided with the energy crystal, time seemed to have stopped at this moment... After a brief pause, a dark purple flame shot up into the sky and swept across the area with a gust of wind!

The sudden strong wind pressure blew Lan Feng's long silver hair, and the smoke and dust that followed made others cover their mouths and noses, but Lan Feng simply condensed a layer of almost invisible Honkai energy crystals in front of him to block the incoming wind and sand.

In fact, Lan Feng controlled the collapse energy to compress it on the iron rod. After throwing the iron rod, the unstable collapse energy that was out of his control exploded! It detonated the bombardment of the collapse beast! Otherwise, relying solely on a strong iron rod, it would be completely decomposed by that high-intensity energy in an instant.

But the other people in the car didn't know this. In their eyes, they just saw the silver-haired girl throwing the wrench from the car, detonating the terrible light bomb from a distance, saving everyone in the car.

In the distance, the Honkai Beast seemed to have given up the chase. As the jeep went away, the huge Honkai Beast gradually disappeared on the horizon...

"This... young lady?"

Mike came back to his senses and tried to talk to Lan Feng, but he didn't know how to start... After all, Lan Feng's move just now amazed him, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration for her. It would be a bit rude to continue calling her a little girl.

However, thinking of the girl's clean and neat movements, Mike suddenly felt that this seemed reasonable.

How could a little girl who dares to stay in such a dangerous place not have any skills?

Mike still felt proud when he thought of this. The girl was so scared when she saw the monster that she dared not move. He saved her. Isn't that amazing?

Not only Mike, but also the middle-aged man North who was sitting in the front row was very interested in this mysterious girl. Originally, they thought she was just a child that Mike had rescued from the Honkai Beast, but now it seemed that she was probably a wanderer with rich survival experience...

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(But... such a young child? What on earth could have happened to him that he would wander alone in a forest like this...?)

Looking at the little girl's tattered clothes, the middle-aged man showed a trace of pity in his eyes. He already had a rough guess about the little girl's life experience.

Lan Feng suddenly discovered that the expressions of these people became a little strange.

(Forget it… I probably know what they are imagining. Soon… I will start to communicate with them, right? I am afraid… the first question I will be asked is about my own body.

The origin of the world. )

Lan Feng said he was used to it. Besides, it was normal for a child like him to appear in the forest alone, which was suspicious.

However... Lan Feng still felt very uncomfortable, because the way they looked at him was like the way they looked at an orphan in an orphanage...

Since they had escaped the pursuit of the Honkai beast, the tension of the few people gradually subsided and the speed of the car slowed down.

After hesitating for a long time, Mike next to him finally asked:

"Miss... this? May I ask who you are and why are you in a place like this?"

What is coming will eventually come! Lan Feng turned his gaze to the young man beside him, and his brain started to work rapidly.

(Put yourself in their shoes... If I saw a little girl like this in the forest... That's right, they looked at me with pain and pity... They must have thought I was a wolf boy. Should I pretend to be deaf and dumb...? No, I reacted to what this guy said before, so... What kind of people are they like who make a living alone in the forest?)

Very alert, sensitive, don't trust anyone...

(That's it!)

Thinking of this, Lan Feng decided to continue acting. She had to admit that she suddenly liked the feeling of role-playing...

In Mike's eyes, the little girl breathed a sigh of relief, as if she had escaped danger and relaxed. But the next moment, she seemed to be nervous again, her body tense, and she looked at him with vigilance...

"Ah...! Don't get excited. I have no ill intentions. I'm just asking..."

Mike hurriedly waved his hands to explain. At this time, another young man, Jera, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, finally came to his senses and turned to look at the girl in the back seat.

"Can you... understand what we are saying?"

He spoke as quietly as possible, for fear of startling the animal-like girl.

"……Um."

The faint mosquito-like answer was almost drowned out by the sound of the car engine. The girl nodded slightly, still looking at Jera with a somewhat evasive look.

"Um... We are not bad people, you don't have to be so scared..."

Mike spoke softly with some helplessness, but the girl just hugged her knees and huddled in the corner on the other side of the back seat of the car, staying away from him.

(What on earth has she been through... that makes her distrust her own kind?)

Mike suddenly felt sad. He thought that this girl must have been abandoned by someone, and that the person who abandoned her must have done many excessive things to her...

"Hey! Mike, be careful, don't scare her..."

On the other hand, seeing the cautious actions of the two young men, Lan Feng felt a little regretful.

(Am I overreacting? What if I lose their trust?)

But...it has come to this, I have to continue playing the role I created even if I cry.

In fact... Lan Feng's worries were completely unnecessary. Even though her judgment of the situation was somewhat flawed, her appearance was too deceptive, and it also raised her acting skills to a higher level. Who could have imagined that this little girl who looked less than ten years old was actually a thoughtful adult?

The middle-aged man holding the steering wheel smiled slightly as he listened to the two young men trying to communicate with the little girl. This time, being able to save this child was also a gain...

Moreover... North noticed that the girl's appearance was obviously not like that of an ordinary person, but rather like the offspring of an aristocrat with good genes. However, none of this mattered, as she was now just a homeless wanderer...

"Little girl...what's your name?"

Suddenly feeling that he understood this girl a little, Mike tried to ask, he thought that since he saved her life, she must like him more than Jera. (So...she shouldn't ignore me this time, right?)

After a while, the girl's eyes flickered and she uttered two tiny syllables.

"...Lan Feng."

"Lan Feng? This name...Are you from Shenzhou?"

After hearing the girl's answer, Mike lowered his head and thought for a while, then continued to ask.

"Yes, it is."

"Shenzhou is quite far from here... How did you get here?"

After asking this question, the two young men saw that the little girl's expression suddenly dimmed, her eyebrows were slightly frowned, and she lowered her head in silence.

"I...I don't know..."

After a long time, the girl spoke timidly, with a hint of tears in her voice.

(So ​​annoying... Is it fun to get to the bottom of things?)

Although she was thinking this in her heart, Lan Feng remained calm on the surface, trying her best to act like a homeless girl with a tragic life. In this case, instead of making up some lies that are easily exposed, it is better not to answer directly. Don't they all like to make up stories? Let them guess for themselves.

In Mike's eyes, the girl seemed to have finally let down her guard against him and the others. She took off her disguise and revealed her true, pitiful face.

"Hey, don't cry! If you can't remember it, don't think about it."

I secretly blame myself.

Mike felt that he shouldn't ask this young girl about the pain she had suffered in the past. It was really cruel to open up her scars.

"Anyway... Lan Feng, you probably have nowhere to stay. We will take you to a safe place."

At this time, the middle-aged man in charge of driving spoke up. In fact, he was a little suspicious of Lan Feng, but he quickly put it behind him.

No matter how bad the survivors' settlement was, it was better than wandering homeless like her...

027 Settlement in the Wasteland

Vienna, the headquarters of Heaven's Mandate...

"Colonel Claudia, the investigation team at the Anti-Entropy Base Ruins sent a message saying that there were reactions of Honkai Beasts in the forest to the east!"

Claudia, who had just returned from the battle, received an urgent communication from her subordinates.

"Why do you need to report this to me? Lieutenant Lucy, you should have the authority to handle this matter."

Claudia said, her tone still unchanged and indifferent. On the other side of the communication video, the young Valkyrie swallowed nervously and continued:

"No... Instructor Claudia..."

In her nervousness, she even unconsciously called out the name she had called Claudia during training, without realizing it. It was just because, in front of this strict boss, she seemed to have become the girl during the training period, instead of the independent lieutenant now...

"It's like this... According to the reaction of the energy detector, there are many energy reactions of Honkai beasts. According to the speculation of the non-combat Valkyrie at the scene, there may be multiple Honkai beasts above the Temple level... which may threaten the mission of the investigation team... Therefore, I have made a request in the name of the branch and requested support from the headquarters..."

Lucy said nervously, her mission was to investigate all areas around the Anti-Entropy Base, but the reaction of the Honkai Beast was unexpected. As an A-level Valkyrie, she should have the right to take the initiative to attack. However, unfortunately, she was not the Valkyrie responsible for the battle.

In Tianming, as the organization develops, the work content of modern Valkyries has also been greatly expanded, and tasks such as public security coordination, logistics supply, intelligence investigation and even infiltration and assassination have also become the work content of Valkyries. In short, as long as it involves maintaining the interests of Tianming and requires combat power, it is possible for Valkyries to perform.

Lucy was like this. As a Valkyrie in charge of surveying and commanding, she still obtained the qualification certificate of a special A-class Valkyrie. However, her combat strength was not as good as that of a B-class Valkyrie who was responsible for combat.

"Is that so... I understand. I will send the main battle Valkyrie from headquarters as support."

"Thank...thank you, instructor..."

Lucy in the video stammered her thanks, but Claudia didn't correct her mistake and simply cut off the call.

Then, Claudia turned around and leaned on the table. Her calm expression flashed a hint of annoyance.

"Humph! A mere Temple-level warrior... However, there are currently those at the headquarters who are free and qualified to fight..."

Because a reckless man had just caused a big disturbance at the headquarters of Tianming a few days ago, and a large number of Valkyries were injured, many spare B-level Valkyries were transferred to fill the vacancies. Claudia suddenly realized that she seemed to have no one to send out at the moment, except for the two guys who were suspended...

"I clearly wanted them to take a break, but who knew something like this would happen..."

She thought with some annoyance, feeling a little embarrassed. After all, she had just given them a "punishment", but now less than three days had passed, was she going to cancel the punishment?

"Forget it... It's an emergency now, so we can only let them fight again."

After making the decision, Claudia connected to a certain place...

Somewhere in the wilderness, a jeep was running at high speed on the road.

Lan Feng was still hugging her knees, curled up on the edge of the back seat. However, at this moment, she closed her eyes and did not move. Her slightly rising and falling chest showed that she had fallen asleep...

In fact, Lan Feng was annoyed by the two young men who came to talk to her, so she closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep due to excessive fatigue.

In fact, Lan Feng also regretted her choice a little bit. She was pretending to be a little girl with no common sense and in a disadvantaged position, which made her have no say and it was inconvenient for her to ask these people some questions.

(But... there's no point in regretting it now, and there are still some benefits to being like this now.)

First of all, he did not reveal his power of collapse. Although he showed a certain strength, he was still an ordinary person in the eyes of these people, so he did not have to worry about being targeted by anyone. After all, due to the habits he developed in his previous life, Lan Feng did not like to expose himself to the public.

Secondly, in the eyes of these people, I am a weak person. Then, they will certainly not be on guard against me, and I should not worry about attracting too much attention in my actions. It is relatively easy to collect information by using my deceptive appearance.

Speaking of which, Lan Feng still doesn't know.

Which country in Europe are you in?

"Hello...Lan Feng?"

"..."

Mike tried asking the quietly sleeping girl, but got no response.

Looking at the beautiful profile of the silver-haired girl, Mike was a little distracted. He couldn't help but raise his hand and wanted to touch her soft hair...

No! Why would I have such a thought?

Mike was startled and quickly retracted his hand. But the next moment, he hesitated...

Just a touch... shouldn't be a big deal, right? After all, this unspeakable feeling of mine... should just be my concern for the child, and there is absolutely no special meaning... Yes! That's it.

Finding a reason to convince himself, Mike reached out and gently stroked the girl's long hair. He touched it lightly, just twisting the ends of the girl's hair.

Cool and smooth...

Mike couldn't help but feel a little strange. Her clothes were so tattered, but her body was spotless, like an elf that was not of this world.