K424 of the Collapse World

At this moment, the Far East Branch's only floating warship, the Hyperion, has begun preparations for an attack for some reason. After all restrictions were lifted, the nuclear reactors that were originally used only to maintain suspension have been fully turned on. With just one command from the captain, its power reactor can propel this behemoth and allow it to start flying at a speed close to that of civil aviation...

Although Hyperion's attack was not approved by the headquarters, it was authorized by the head of the Far East Branch. In other words, it was the head of the Far East Branch who directly proposed this attack.

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"Hmm...? Theresa, it's rare to see you here. Are you going to join the airborne troops as well?"

In the Hyperion armory, Jizi was adjusting the fusion power sword in her hand. Suddenly, she saw a silver-haired girl fiddling with a folding spear not far away. She walked over and asked Theresa. However, looking down at the silver-haired girl's smooth and delicate neck, Jizi's face flushed...

For some reason, ever since she saw the principal dressed up a few days ago, every time she saw the silver-haired girl, her heartbeat would speed up a little. Even she herself was a little confused about what was going on with this strange feeling. The time when she had completely ignored Theresa suddenly became a little unbelievable...

Hearing this, Theresa turned around and saw Ji Zi with a puzzled look on her face, and shook her head subtly.

"Ah? Himeko, that's not the case... I'm not planning on entering that dark ruins, I'm just looking for a weapon that suits me... Although I'm currently the commander of Hyperion, I still feel more at ease with a weapon in my hand..."

Hearing this, Ji Zi had just come back to her senses from her confused mood. She was stunned again after hearing Theresa's words. She was about to ask something when she suddenly remembered what happened the day before. She immediately calmed down, and a hint of realization appeared in her eyes.

"By the way, your Judas seems to be..."

"Well, I'm not around for now."

Theresa responded calmly, and casually waved the spear in her hand. With a fierce sound of breaking wind, the heavy metal rod swung in the air, leaving white shadows. Feeling the spear that was not very smooth to wield, Theresa sighed and put it back on the display stand in front of her.

"Sure enough... After Judas got used to it, he found everything difficult to use. But never mind, I don't have to personally carry out this operation anyway, so let it be..."

Theresa casually took out a folding knife from the armory and stuffed it into the side of her knee-high socks under the hem of her nun's dress. She left the weapons box and walked towards the door.

"It's almost time... Jizi, are you ready? We can't leave the ruins of Jiuyou to others. There must be some holy relics left by the previous civilization! And there may be a way to delay the destruction of the Valkyrie!"

"...Yes, we will get it. The partners of Anti-Entropy have already set out. As long as we defeat those forces that come to fight for the ruins and search the interior of the ruins thoroughly, the holy relics of the ruins will eventually be ours!"

Jizi also responded with a smile, watching Theresa leave the armory and walk towards the bridge. But at this moment, Jizi lowered her head slightly, and a layer of haze covered her heart. She had tried her best to find the remains of Jiuyou, just to extend her life, which was almost gone under the erosion of the collapse. But now, the problem of her body was solved in an accident, and the reason for her struggle disappeared. In this situation, the expectations she once had for Jiuyou also faded a lot. Now, she almost just regarded it as an ordinary task.

Anyway, even if I fail to obtain Jiuyou's holy relic, it won't have any impact on me...

(No! How could I have such an idea?! This stigmata... after all, belongs to someone else. Since I promised to return it to Shiris, I must fulfill my promise! And... I am not the only Valkyrie who needs the original stigmata!)

In my heart, I secretly

After exerting all her strength, Ji Zi took a deep breath, then tightly grasped the fusion-powered sword in her hand, and used the terminal to connect to the communication module inside the battleship.

"Well, let's get started... Miss Jiuxiao, I'll leave the launch of the battleship up to you."

"I see. Then... the battle is about to begin."

A majestic voice came from the other end of the communication, and then the metal plate under his feet felt the backward force generated by the warship's acceleration. Obviously, the Hyperion had started sailing. Jizi smiled helplessly, put the big sword behind her back, and walked towards the battleship's airdrop cabin...

(This Captain Jiuxiao... although he was just an undercover agent sent by Anti-Entropy at the beginning, he is still somewhat useful... However, it is more reassuring to leave the regular combat command to Theresa...)

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"Kiana? Um...are you really okay? If you really feel uncomfortable, just tell Teacher Jizi. There's no need to force yourself to participate in this mission..."

"Well... it's okay, Mei! I just feel a little tired for no reason. I will be able to cheer up when the mission starts! Well... how can I let you participate in this mission alone, Mei? Don't worry at all, I will definitely protect you... well..."

Sitting in a row of seats at the back of the battleship's preparation room, Mei looked helplessly at the silver-haired girl who dozed off before she finished speaking, and sighed softly.

"It's touching that you said you wanted to protect me, but the way you look now is totally unconvincing..."

"zzzzz..."

Recalling the strange look of Kiana in the "biological experiment" that went out of control a few days ago, Mei frowned with some worry. However, looking at the silver-haired girl sleeping quietly, Mei's worried eyes gradually calmed down, and she revealed a gentle smile.

(Forget it. Although what happened before, Kiana is not injured at all, so there should be no problem... There is still more than an hour before arriving at the battle site. Let her rest for a while during this time, and she will probably be able to recover her energy...)

However, even though she thought so, Mei still felt a little embarrassed when she saw those serious and formal Valkyries in the airborne operations room. On the eve of a serious combat mission, she was still sleeping soundly without any tension. She was lucky not to attract other people's disdain...

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In the temporary maintenance room of the battleship, Fu Hua, who was originally planning to check her own weapons and configuration, unexpectedly met a girl traveling with her...

Looking at the black-haired girl standing in front of her, Fu Hua ignored her half-smile and frowned slightly. After a little thought, she recalled the identity of this girl.

"I remember... you seem to be a friend of Miss Hillis, your name is Hill, right? What can I do for you?"

She said neither servile nor overbearing. Fu Hua was quite patient with Shilis's companions. Therefore, she did not care about the black-haired girl's rude eyes looking at her, and still maintained a polite manner, waiting for the other party's response.

"Well, about this, it's actually nothing important. I just came to see my former comrade. I'm relieved to see that you haven't changed much...hua."

"......Comrade? Excuse me, who are you......?"

Seeing Xi'er's intriguing smile, Fu Hua's heart couldn't help but skip a beat. However, before she could recover from her shock, the black-haired girl in front of her walked up to her with a wicked smile, raised her hands quickly, and suddenly pressed them on Fu Hua's slightly raised chest...

330 Heart Knot >>

"..."

"Ah~ This familiar feeling, it's still the same feel as before, the size hasn't changed at all..."

Hill's discordant action brought Fu Hua back to her senses instantly. She raised her eyebrows and looked at Hill in front of her expressionlessly, but her eyes had turned cold. Just as she was considering whether to give this frivolous and rude woman a landslide attack, the other party's next words made her stunned, and her slightly raised right hand froze in mid-air.

"Great... I don't know anyone with such pitifully barren breasts. This way it's completely confirmed that it's really you, Hua. I didn't expect that we would meet again after more than 50,000 years..."

"Wait! What did you just say? Fifty thousand years? You... Could it be that you are...?"

Fu Hua opened her eyes wide in astonishment. She quickly slapped Xi'er's restless hands away, took a step forward, stood directly in front of Xi'er, and raised her head slightly.

Come, look at Hill who is slightly taller than him, and wait for her response.

In response, Hill had a faint smile on her face. She raised her right hand again and gently stroked the gray-haired girl's cheek. She raised her head slightly, and there was a hint of nostalgia in her eyes.

"Hehe...Hua, a former member of the fifth squad of the Fire Moths, numbered MSA-209, once served under Himeko. After the disbandment of the fifth squad, he conducted experiments on super-mutation factors. He completed the experiment as the only experimental subject who awakened the super-mutation factor, and was given a new codename 'Red Kite'. As one of the super soldiers, he joined the first combat unit led by Kevin Kaslana..."

"Hey! What you said, could it be..."

"Yes, these are your personal experiences~ How should I put it... I was also a member of the fifth team, and we got along well in the army, so we were naturally comrades-in-arms~ However, due to Dr. Mei's original stigmata plan, I joined Kevin's direct unit earlier, but the funny thing is that not long after that, I was selected as the sixth Herrscher by Honkai, and then... Then I was killed by Kevin, that old popsicle... As for you and Himeko, I learned about it after I woke up and shared information with my stigmata..."

Hill smiled and touched Fu Hua's shoulder. Looking at the gray-haired girl with a surprised and confused expression, the smile on her face slowly solidified. Finally, she seemed to have confirmed something completely, lowered her head slightly, and a trace of loneliness flashed in her eyes.

"As expected... you have completely lost all your memories. That's right, according to what Shiris said, you have survived in this civilized era for at least five thousand years. Even though the essence of your life is no longer human, the shelf life of the 'soul' of a carbon-based life form cannot be that long. If you don't delete those memories that are too old, your spirit will probably collapse early..."

As she spoke, Hill shook her head gently, her eyes becoming increasingly dim. Since her partner had chosen a new master, she would respect his choice. But now, she was out of tune with this world. She originally thought that she could have a good chat with this girl who was also a remnant of the former civilization, but she had obviously lost her memories...

"I'm sorry... I really can't remember anything about this, but..."

Seeing the sadness in Hill's eyes, Fu Hua was shocked. Just as she was about to say something, she was interrupted by Hill beside her.

"I am the one who should say sorry, Miss Fu Hua... Just treat what I just said as a boring story. When a person loses his memory, he is no longer the same person in every aspect. As expected, an old guy like me who is out of touch with the times deserves to be alone for the rest of his life... I am really sorry, just think of it as me recognizing the wrong person just now... That's it, bye~ this handsome little Valkyrie sister..."

As she spoke, Xier blinked and blew a kiss to Fu Hua as a farewell. However, just as she took a step, her wrist was tightly grasped by Fu Hua.

"Eh......?"

She turned around and saw the serious blue eyes of the gray-haired girl. Fu Hua held her wrist tightly.

"Please stay... Miss Hill. As you said, I really don't remember anything. However, even if I have lost my past memories, it doesn't mean that I am willing to easily give up those past ties! But you... obviously still remember everything, why do you say such frivolous and depressing words?! Are you going to live alone with your past memories?"

Hearing this, Hill tilted her head and asked back with a strange expression. There seemed to be some kind of light flashing in her eyes...

"Even so... you really don't remember anything, right?"

Facing Hill's question, Fu Hua's expression remained unmoved. Recalling what Hillis had done for her, she took a step forward and embraced the black-haired girl in her arms...

"I used to have the same idea as you, until I met her, and then I understood... Even if I don't remember those things, I am still Hua, still Chi Yuan...! My will has never changed, from the last era to now, it has always been like this. So, don't show that expression anymore, you are not alone..."

"......"

The girl in her arms didn't say anything, but Fu Hua could feel her body trembling slightly. She smiled, raised her right hand that was around the girl's waist, and gently stroked her hair that was scattered on her back...

"Hill...can I just call you that?"

"Um......"

The response with sobs echoed in the air like ripples of a clear spring. In this warm embrace, the gray world in front of the girl was dyed colorful again...

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Here, Hyperion arrived at the airborne combat position

, 1 hour 13 minutes 46 seconds left...

"You're really going too far...Latil-chan, just now at an altitude of thousands of meters, I could see beams of light that were brighter than the sun..."

Sitting on a piece of ship wreckage, Sora looked at the slightly rippled sea surface, smiled and shook her head. Not far behind her, the individual flying vehicle with its energy exhausted was thrown on the sea surface, slowly drifting away with the waves.

"Moreover, this level of Honkai energy fluctuation is even more severe than that of the Judgment-level Honkai beast a few days ago. How should I put it? It seems that you have no intention of operating in secret at all..."

"That's long-winded..."

The next moment, the voice of a girl who seemed to be suppressing something sounded faintly, interrupting Sora's chatter. In the direction Sora was facing, Latil stood on the sea with a frown on her face, and the haze on her face could not be concealed at all. On her body, the originally neat Valkyrie uniform had many holes and burn marks, obviously she had suffered a very fierce attack. However, under these holes, the girl's exposed skin was flawless and smooth, without any signs of injury...

"That bitch...how dare you play tricks on me...!"

The girl squeezed out these few words from between her teeth, her eyes full of bloodshot, like a bloodthirsty wolf...

"Very good! It seems that you all ran into the ruins... Then, using it as a hunting ground must be a very good game, right? Hehe... Is the girl who looks exactly like you called Kiana? If I take off the parts of her body and show them to you, something interesting should happen, right?"

331 The Second Confrontation

In a sea area not far from where the battle took place, a figure covered in black mechanical armor floated in the deep sea. She focused on the terminal in front of her, looking for the entrance marked by the map coordinates...

(Strange... It should be around here, right? According to Iselin, the entrance should be a very obvious stone door, why can't I find it...)

The girl thought silently, the photon eyepiece in front of her reflected a sharp light, accurately searching everything nearby. Not long ago, after using some means to temporarily repel the experimental subject, she quickly left the battlefield, used the electromagnetic waves released by the armor to interfere with the chaotic search signals, and then used the sea water to block the energy fluctuations of her own armor, and easily got rid of the pursuers and rushed to the gathering point.

(Come to think of it... that replica was probably created by Otto to target me, right? But can her hatred for me really be controlled by mind control? Let's put that aside! If I can't find Rukou, I'm afraid I'll be caught up soon...)

Looking at the messy gravel with seaweed growing on the seabed, Shirley began to get anxious. In the previous battle, although the girl did not gain any advantage, but Shirley had a slight advantage, after this brief confrontation, Shirley basically understood her true strength...

(He’s as powerful as I was at my peak… He’s quite a troublesome guy. But then again, that damn old bastard Otto… Since he can already create clones of this level, why is he still chasing me?)

While searching the seabed, Shirley frowned, wondering whether she should contact Kiana and the others. Although this would allow her to quickly find the location of the ruins, the electronic signals sent by the communication would likely expose her current location. This place was very close to the entrance of the ruins, and with a little time, she would definitely be able to find the entrance of the ruins and quickly catch up...

(I don’t know whether the clone’s goal is to kill me or seize the ruins… but if she catches up with me now, the search for the ruins will definitely become troublesome. In any case, this must be avoided as much as possible…!)

"Um......?"

Suddenly realizing something, the girl's slightly listless pupils shrank slightly, and then she quickly turned her head. The next moment, several huge strange creatures appeared in her field of vision. They had a jellyfish-like appearance, and their entire bodies were translucent. There were dangerous red lines on their sharp tentacles, and the red and white mixed on the surface of their bodies were enough to indicate their identity...

(Honkai beasts?...? It's really surprising that in this deep sea area, there are actually Honkai beasts at the current level of civilization evolution... In this place, there shouldn't be any external enemies that can make them evolve? But, it's not a big problem...)

After looking at the surrounding Honkai beasts calmly, Shilis released a trace of Honkai energy and released her own mental fluctuations. The next moment, the Honkai beasts stopped moving one after another, and the strong hostility just now disappeared instantly.

It lost itself and floated docilely around the girl. It also lowered its aggressive tentacles and took the glowing cold spikes into its body.

(That’s the best way to do it… Alas, although I don’t want to use Honkai like this, these remaining Herrscher powers are surprisingly useful…)

Satisfied with these Houkai beasts that stopped attacking, Shilis glanced thoughtfully at the cores of the Houkai beasts that were glowing purple, and stopped paying attention to these things that would no longer pose a threat to her. The Houkai energy fluctuations from these Houkai beasts operating on the seabed were not weaker than those of the Temple-level Houkai beasts on the ground. If a head-on conflict occurred, the girl would not be defeated with her strength, but the loss of the mecha's energy was doomed to be unavoidable.

Moreover, when she was dealing with the clone just now, she was not as glorious as she seemed. The biochip in extreme overload mode would cause great damage to her body. Completely detecting all energy reactions within a range of 500 meters around her body means that she needs to analyze everything in this range precisely to the quantum level, and at the same time exclude the natural energy in it and calculate the flow direction of those abnormal energies... Let alone the mental load in that calculation mode, the heat generated by the overload operation of the chip embedded in her brain almost cooked some of her brain cells. If it weren't for the protection of the Honkai energy in her body, she would probably have lost consciousness long ago...

The next moment, the blue pupils under the girl's eyepiece moved slightly, and suddenly her eyes locked on the surface of a broken boulder. With the help of supercomputer-level search capabilities, she keenly noticed that the cracks in the sea stones were uneven, and there were still fine stone particles mixed in the cracks, as if they had been destroyed by some violent means not long ago.

Seeing this, the girl hurriedly drove her armor to drift over there. After approaching the rubble, she clearly saw that there seemed to be some strange reliefs on the surface of these broken stones. Based on the remaining parts, Shilis saw that its overall appearance seemed to be a gate with the style of Shenzhou...

(Tsk! These guys...)

Seeing this, Shirley finally knew why she couldn't find the entrance to the ruins. She immediately shook her head, sighing softly, and spitting out a string of bubbles from her mouth that was not covered by armor. Obviously, after Kiana and the others found the entrance to the ruins, they directly smashed this stone door that had an unknown number of years of history and broke into the ancient civilization ruins of Shenzhou...

(This development reminds me of the Old Summer Palace incident in that world... Never mind. If it were me, I would also use this simple and quick method to open the door. Cultural relics and the like, they don't have any practical use anyway...)

Shiris raised her right hand and pointed her palm at the rubble that still had the shape of a giant gate. The energy of the star ring vortex was mobilized, and the reverse pulse vortex gathered on the palm surface of the arm armor. After changing the direction of the vortex, the star ring vortex can transform the pulling force into the opposite repulsive force, just like what the girl is doing now...

The next moment, with a wave that was almost visible to the naked eye, a powerful shock wave burst out from the girl's arm armor, pushing away all the seawater in front of her, and even forming a small vacuum area on the seabed. The next moment, the broken stone slabs that suffered such an impact were pierced through, and the exquisite reliefs that could barely be seen were completely reduced to dust. The light wings generated by the propulsion energy behind the girl shook slightly, and her figure rushed into the violently broken stone cave without stopping. The next moment, the broken stone slabs collapsed completely, instantly covering the hole that lasted only a few seconds.

At this moment, in the rubble not far from the collapse point, a small hand gently pushed aside the seaweed, its eyes with murderous intent locked onto the broken rock wall, and the corners of its mouth curled up in a ferocious arc...

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(As expected... This must be the entrance to 'Jiuyou'. Hehe~ The entrance is destroyed so thoroughly, it should be much more difficult for that guy to find this place...)

331 Second confrontation>>

After passing through the broken stone wall, Shilis continued to move forward in the water for dozens of meters and came to the end of the water. Above her head, she saw the boundary of the water surface. The girl tried to float up, and sure enough, her head poked out of the water. The next moment, what came into view was a continuous rock wall that stretched into the distance. From the slightly smooth surface of the stone wall, it can be seen that this is obviously not a naturally formed cave, but a man-made one...

"We've found the right place... Then, let's just keep exploring. Although there seems to be more than one road, their destinations must all lead to the seal... Kiana and the others will surely not choose to take the risk of splitting up, so either I can successfully reunite with all of them, or I can face Xuanyuan alone... Well, if I have to choose between these two, the latter seems to be more suitable for me. After all, I took on that commission alone..."

The girl muttered to herself, removed the photon eyepiece in front of her, and activated the energy detection function of the terminal.

Under the ruins of the deep sea, she no longer had to worry about the terminal's electrical signals being easily captured. Of course, the communication signal had also become much weaker. In this case, the terminal's quantization function would also be affected.

"Detect the direction of the highest energy fluctuation intensity in this area..."

After directly operating the terminal with her own biochip, the girl perked up again and stared at the detection light screen of the terminal.

"The direction with the highest relative energy intensity... huh? Behind me? Are you kidding me? Did I take the wrong road..."

Frowning and tapping her terminal, Shilis's expression became a little strange. Just as she subconsciously wanted to turn around and look behind her, a slightly cold breath quietly appeared beside her ears...