K424 of the Collapse World

---laugh!

The next moment, his thoughts suddenly came to a standstill, and his vision fell into darkness.

Next to him, a tall black shadow swung the huge lance-like object slightly, throwing away the bloody corpse pierced by it, and used this blood-stained weapon to stab another person...

The roar of explosions, the screams of the wounded, the sound of buildings collapsing... these sounds replaced the original complicated voices and vehicle sirens on the streets and became the main theme of the city. A symphony of the destruction of civilization played by "collapse" gradually began...

As time went on, more and more people were transformed into monsters under the attacks and joined the ranks of perpetrators, killing their former compatriots... This chaos formed a sharp contrast with the previous order of the city.

The collapse intensified, and some surreal things gradually appeared. With the surge of light and shadow, huge deformed and twisted monsters appeared out of thin air on the streets, slaughtering those who had not yet become dead soldiers. Some monsters were as tall as buildings, and just a slight swing of their forelimbs was enough to crush a human body into pulp...

In addition, there were knight-like half-body monsters, pale humanoids holding sickles, humanoids floating with coffins, translucent ghosts... These monsters came from nowhere, although few in number, but they were like a well-trained army, slaughtering all the survivors along the way. After being killed by them, some of the bodies were transformed into dead soldiers again, and the other part died like normal people...

Those humans who are born with Honkai resistance, even if they can survive the outbreak of Honkai and not be eroded by Honkai energy, will still be slaughtered by those Honkai creatures.

In just a few hours, the city began to gradually quiet down, and the existence of life became less and less. The entire Changkong City was basically occupied by the collapse...

258 Unavoidable Disaster

“…Mei! Mei-senpai! Wake up!”

In the dimness, I felt as if someone was gently shaking my body and constantly calling a name...

Meiyi......

Oh, by the way...this seems to be my name?

As her thoughts began to waver, the girl's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes, looking blankly at the anxious silver-haired girl in front of her.

"Ah! Mei-senpai...you're finally awake!"

When she saw that she had opened her eyes, the silver-haired girl hesitated for a moment, but the next moment, as if she had confirmed something, her blue eyes, which were slightly alert, were filled with relief and surprise. The silver-haired girl leaned over and hugged Mei, who had just woken up, tightly into her arms...

"Eh...? Eh! Ki... Kiana, what are you doing? And what is going on now?"

Mei hurriedly pushed Kiana away and asked in confusion. But the next moment, she saw the alleys around her that had turned into ruins and the charred bodies lying around. Mei was startled, and when she saw the few scorch marks on Kiana's body, the memories of a few minutes ago suddenly emerged from the depths of her mind...

"what!!"

Mei screamed and shrank back suddenly, leaving Kiana's side, her expression instantly filled with fear.

"Just now! I.

.....I killed those people! And then, I almost killed you, Kiana..."

"Calm down, Mei-senpai..."

Seeing Mei's face full of fear, Kiana couldn't help but reach out her hand, wanting to comfort her, but the next moment, Mei's reaction became even more intense.

"No! Don't come over here! I...I killed someone! I became a murderer. And, I...turned into a monster!"

Mei shouted in despair. She had completely remembered that she had indeed turned into a terrible monster...

A monster that releases lightning and kills everything it sees...

Mei clearly remembers the whole process. She encountered an unknown attack on the road, and then the man with the syringe appeared. Afterwards, as something happened in her heart, her mind seemed to be disconnected from her body, but even in that state, she still had the memory of what happened afterwards...

Just before the needle pierced his neck, "I" released lightning with both hands, and used the electric current to beat the man with bad intentions into a particle state. Then, as if to vent, "I" once again erupted those strange powers, destroying everything around...

Afterwards, he directly attacked Kiana who came to look for him!

The memory was cut off at this moment. Thinking of this, Mei looked at the scars on Kiana's body with a complicated expression, and couldn't help clenching her teeth. She immediately got up and planned to escape.

(I'm a monster...! If I can't control my behavior... I'm sure I'll hurt her again!)

Although she didn't know what happened, Mei felt that she shouldn't stay with Kiana now.

However, before she could run two steps, her wrist was grabbed by another strong hand. Mei turned around and saw Kiana with an expressionless face.

"Let me go! Kiana, I..."

"Please calm down, Mei."

Kiana held Mei's wrist tightly with her right hand, and slowly waved her other hand, showing the object in her hand to Mei...

Seeing what Kiana was holding in her hand, Mei's pupils shrank slightly and her expression became surprised.

"Is this... a pistol? Hey, Kiana, what on earth are you...?!"

"As you can see, this world... has collapsed, Mei-senpai."

Kiana said softly, slowly raised her pistol, pointed the muzzle at a figure that suddenly appeared at the alley entrance, and pulled the trigger without hesitation...

--boom! !

The figure at the entrance of the alley fell down, and the head hit by the bullet was even missing more than half. As some kind of liquid gushed out, the ground and walls around seemed to be stained with a dark curtain...

Mei watched all this in amazement, and the look she gave Kiana was suddenly filled with shock, mixed with a bit of confusion and fear.

"Kiana! Why... do you want to kill someone? What exactly were you doing just now?"

Facing the dazed Mei, Kiana put away her gun with an indifferent expression and turned her gaze to the body lying at the entrance of the alley.

"Human? No... they are no longer human. Look carefully, Mei, these guys are now... all Houkai warriors!"

After hearing Kiana's words, Mei's face was still full of astonishment and confusion. But the next moment, when she saw the "crowd" pouring in from the alley, she instantly understood the meaning of the girl's words...

Seeing those "people" roaring and rushing towards her, Mei's heart trembled for a moment. At this moment, her mind was engulfed by fear and she had forgotten how to act.

Obviously, those twisted humanoid creatures can no longer be considered human. At least as far as Mei knows, there is no one in the world who can move so freely with half of his head missing...

"This... Kiana-san, what on earth is this...?!"

Fortunately, Kiana reacted quickly enough. Before Mei finished speaking, Kiana took her hand and turned around, rushing to the other end of the alley. The next moment, the people who had turned into dead soldiers also poured into the alley, scrambling to chase after the two girls, with their fangs and claws bared as if they were going to tear them into pieces...

Kiana and Mei swiftly shuttled through the alleys, using the complex terrain around them to avoid the attacks of the assassins. Hiding inside a damaged building, Kiana looked at the assassins who were wandering around after losing their target, and sighed softly.

"As I just said, this city has completely collapsed. Mei, now... there should be no normal people in this city anymore."

Kiana murmured in a low voice, looking at the man in front of her who still didn't understand the situation.

Mei patted her shoulder gently.

"Although I don't know what happened, we must survive now! Let's go, Mei. As long as I am here, I will definitely take you out of this place!"

After hearing Kiana's words, Mei was silent for a moment and nodded gently. At this moment, the ends of her pure black hair had been dyed purple by the Houkai energy, slowly climbing upwards...

In the ME building, which was far away from Qianyu College, the sound of gunfire and heavy objects hitting each other came from the building. The next moment, a dead man was thrown directly out of the window of the building! Amid the crisp sound of glass breaking, the dead man's body fell down along with the scattered glass fragments, and fell heavily to the ground, almost turning into a pool of flesh-like semi-liquid object.

Attracted by these sounds, more and more low-level dead soldiers nearby poured into the building. These resurrected dead followed the killing instinct given by the collapse, dragging their stiff feet and slowly moving towards the direction of the sound...

——Bang!

A dull crash echoed between the floors, and a figure in a suit and leather shoes was thrown out and hit heavily on a desk! The glass on the desk was shattered at the moment of impact, and the huge force that followed overturned the entire conjoined desk.

However, after being hit so hard, the figure twitched slightly all over his body, and then he got up again as if nothing had happened, and staggered towards the short-haired girl holding the wooden chair...

“Ah…Hoo…!”

———Bang! !

In response, the short-haired girl slapped him mercilessly. After failing to hit him, she obviously increased her strength. The dead man who was smashed into the wall broke through a thin wall, and his body was twisted unnaturally. This time, the dead man's body trembled slightly, and then there was no movement at all.

"Phew...this is so troublesome!"

The girl with short beige hair calmed down her breathing, threw away the chair that was about to fall apart, turned around and looked around. Looking at this shabby office, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, the exploration area C on the 13th floor has been cleared. The next step should be..."

--boom! !

Suddenly, the wall opposite her shattered, and a twisted figure covered in blood fell from the broken wall into the room and rolled in front of the girl. The girl raised her foot and stomped on the head of the assassin without hesitation, crushing the head directly, not caring about the blood splattered on her legs. Then she looked up at the hole in the wall, and smiled at the blue-haired girl on the other side of the hole.

258 Unavoidable Disaster >>

"It's over on your end too, Elena."

".......Um."

In response to Claire's greeting, Elena just nodded slightly and didn't say much. The next moment, with a chaotic sound of footsteps, all the security department members of the ME company arrived. Seeing this scene, Claire knew that all the enemies on this floor had been cleared.

"Hi~Lillian, we are here..."

Seeing the girl with a gun in the crowd, Claire raised her hand and shouted, and ran to her side with Elena, blending in.

Led by Raiden Ryoma, the security forces of ME Company quickly gathered on this floor and began to prepare to clean up the next floor.

"Rest here for five minutes, then start cleaning up the experimental area on the twelfth floor."

Hearing the sound of the Thunder Horse coming from far away, Claire stretched and leaned against the broken wall next to her. Like her, most of the people present also took the time to recover their strength and then began to clear the next area of ​​the building.

Claire secretly glanced at the Thunder Dragon Horse who was still standing upright, looked at his sheathed long sword leaning on the ground, and quietly leaned close to Lillian's ear.

"(whispering) Um...Lillian, is our president really that powerful?"

"(whispering) Well, I heard that Mr. Raiden Ryoma practices a sword technique from the Far East, and the name seems to be... Hokushin Ittoryu. And the sword in his hand is obviously not an ordinary weapon..."

"(whispering) Eh... It's like a blue light stick. But come to think of it, both the sword and the president are really amazing... I even wonder if the president has also undergone the transformation of a Valkyrie?"

"(whispering) I don't know..."

"..."

The girls' chattering was very noticeable in the silence, but Raiden Ryoma didn't pay attention to their discussion. He was taking this opportunity to use the electronic map attached to the terminal to survey the situation nearby. Due to the influence of Honkai energy, many high-level energy devices temporarily malfunctioned. Otherwise, they wouldn't have to clear out the dead soldiers inside the building floor by floor.

"The Far East branch of the Mandate of Heaven has also taken action. It seems that we need to act faster. Hmm? This is...

"

Looking at the survey results of a research building next door, the internal Houkai energy reaction has been completely exhausted. A trace of surprise flashed in Raiden Ryoma's eyes. There are several buildings in the construction area of ​​​​Me Company. The cleanup team led by himself has only advanced about three-quarters so far, but the other side has been completely cleaned up...

Remembering the results of the previous combat work assignment, Raiden Ryoma quickly remembered who was the combatant in charge of that building.

Thinking of the little girl he had just met a few days ago, Raiden Ryoma breathed a sigh of relief.

(It seems that there is no need to worry even if Kiana is not here... As expected, Miss Shirley's friends are all quite reliable.)

Qianyu College...

The school that was once full of laughter and joy was now dead silent. No sound of reading could be heard in the classrooms anymore, only the resurrected monsters wandering aimlessly around the campus.

On the path of the campus, unlike the other blood-stained assassins, a black-haired girl in a still neat uniform walked slowly on the road, slowly walking towards the school gate.

Obviously, she did not turn into a monster, the girl still had her rationality.

However, all the assassins along the way turned a blind eye to the girl, as if she was not a human being who was supposed to be attacked, but a creature just like them...

"Hehe...Everyone has become like me..."

Asakura Miyuki smiled slightly, her eyes sweeping over the pale human figures on the road that had turned into dead soldiers. Among them, she could still recognize those who had harmed her, laughed at her, and bullied her... Now, without exception, all of these people were eroded by Honkai energy and turned into irrational monsters, wandering aimlessly...

Asakura Miyuki could feel that her existence was obviously more advanced than theirs. At least, even though there was a certain voice in her mind, she could still think freely and act according to her own ideas, instead of being completely controlled by something and becoming a tool to kill her own people.

Asakura Miyuki casually grabbed a wandering girl who was a dead soldier, held her shoulders with both hands, and looked at the dead soldier's dilated pupils and dull expression. The corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up in a playful arc.

"Ah~ What's going on? My dear senior... you who were so high and mighty in the past, who slandered me as worthless, why did you become like this after being exposed to the same things as me and experiencing the same erosion as me?"

As she spoke, Asakura Miyuki slowly raised her right hand and placed her palm on the face of the dead man. The next moment, purple lines with a faint glow suddenly appeared on the dead man's body. Then, as some kind of energy was absorbed by Asakura Miyuki, the grayish white on its skin quickly disappeared and turned back into the original white color of an ordinary girl...

After doing all this, Asakura Miyuki loosened her grip and let the girl fall to the ground with a plop. Low-level dead soldiers were just corpses driven by the will of Honkai. After losing the Honkai energy, they would just return to their original form and become real corpses.

With a disdainful glance at the corpse at her feet, Asakura Miyuki sighed softly.

"You all have become like this one after another... You guys are so boring. As expected, this is the retribution from God, right? Humph... So you are all wrong! The misfortunes I have encountered are all caused by the sins committed by you guys!"

With a smile on her face, Asakura Miyuki looked at the gate of Chiba Academy. In her black pupils, something called "humanity" began to slowly disappear...

"Okay, Lord God, I can agree to your terms. Anyway, for me... this human civilization has only brought me countless pains and sorrows. However, before that, I must first find the lady who helped me when I was most desperate. She is the only human being worth existing in this world..."

She walked towards the gate of the academy while talking to herself, and tore open the bloodstained metal fence with her bare hands, and left Qianyu Academy without even glancing at the academy behind her...

Even if there are still survivors in the academy, what does it have to do with me?

At the same time, in the outer suburbs of Changkong City, a figure in a coat quickly passed through the emergency isolation zone, perfectly avoiding the special staff in uniforms, and came to the top of the high metal isolation wall, staring at the fragmented city.

"The third collapse... If it has reached this point, the city is obviously hopeless. But at least, we need to go back to that place and confirm their safety..."

She muttered to herself, and jumped down from the tall metal wall, entering the collapsed

In the city.

Looking at the various Honkai creatures, the girl paid no attention to them. The brutal creatures were the same, letting the girl pass by them without any intention of attacking. Instead, they all stopped their movements and saluted the girl who was walking by quickly, as if they were knights welcoming the princess...

An unknown amount of time had passed, but Shiris was still running quickly on the streets of Changkong City, looking at the intricate streets and alleys around her, frowning slightly.

Although she has lived in Far East for more than two years, Shilis, who has spent most of her time in the ME company, obviously doesn't know much about the city's environment. When she used to travel, she relied on the smart map attached to the terminal. Therefore, she had to admit that she couldn't easily find the location of the ME company...

"It seems that we have to take other measures. The outbreak of Honkai hasn't been too long. Logically, the humans in this city should not have died out yet."