K424 of the Collapse World

Looking at the severely overloaded damaged machinery under Sora's feet, Latil's pupils shrank slightly, and he recalled what happened just now. After he held Sora's hand, his vision seemed to be distorted by something, as if the space was folded. When his vision returned to normal, he was already in another place...

"What on earth was that just now......"

"What do you mean? I don't know anything about what happened to Kiana, but if you're asking how we escaped... Well, it's just the Space-Time Fracture System and Phase Shift. Although they are prototypes with no guarantee of effectiveness, for cannon fodder like us who were born out of experiments, it's perfect for us to serve as test subjects for these things."

As he spoke, Sora wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, kicked the pile of "scrap metal" that had melted and then cooled and solidified under his feet, and sat down next to Latil, leaning against the wall.

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"Hmph... This piece of junk will probably be a useless special combat tool in the future... Not to mention that the core device broke down after just one use, the physical load when it is activated is so overwhelming that only a true elite Valkyrie can bear it for two or three seconds..."

Sora said while breathing heavily, spitting out a mouthful of bloody saliva, looking at Latil beside him with tired eyes, and spoke again.

"How does it feel to be defeated? K424-01, I don't deny your strength, because you do have the Houkai energy strength of the Herrscher level. However, this power does not make you invincible! In addition, I remember that the intelligence has clearly stated that K-0's combat ability is higher than K424, and the order also mentioned that we don't need to have a head-on conflict with her, but you actually... Phew, I hope you can observe carefully before taking action next time... If we have a next cooperation."

Sora said to the girl beside her with a headache, and rubbed her new legs. Previously, with the help of Latil's creative power, her legs that were destroyed by Kiana's power were restored to their original state. However, thinking of that terrifying destructive energy still made her back cold.

Looking at the girl sitting next to him who was still silent, Sora hesitated slightly and tried to pat her arm.

"Hey, Miss Latier, although you have always wanted to kill K424, I still don't understand what kind of deep hatred there is between you and her?"

Hearing this, the girl, who had not reacted for a long time, trembled slightly, and her eyes once again revealed the crazy hatred she once had. When Sora saw this scene, he recalled the fleeting sadness in the girl's eyes when he mentioned this matter before, and Sora reaffirmed his thoughts.

"Sure enough... the reason you told me at the beginning was a lie. There must be some story behind this, right?"

"..."

"If possible, can you satisfy my curiosity a little? Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't want to tell me, I'm just asking casually anyway..."

Hearing this, Latil breathed a sigh of relief, temporarily suppressed the anger in his eyes, looked at Sora beside him with seemingly calm eyes, and raised an intriguing smile at the corner of his mouth.

"It's okay to tell you... But before I answer, what do you think the reason is?"

"As far as I know, you were originally a man... an experimenter at the A-E Institute. In an experiment called 'Project Xilin EX', you were responsible for the spinal cord testing of subject K424. Later, due to illegal operation, subject K424 escaped from the culture tank and was killed by it. The above is all I know about the intersection between you and her."

"Hehehe... If that's all, I should thank her, right? She allowed me to have such an extremely powerful body and to get in touch with the core leaders of the Tianming Organization..."

Latier sneered, and a hint of mockery flashed through her eyes. She subconsciously reached for the outside of her thigh, but didn't touch the trouser pocket that was supposed to be there. She was slightly stunned and couldn't help but look away.

"Although I worked in a confidential research institute before, I was just an ordinary employee of Tianming. I worked in the laboratory day after day, and only had the opportunity to go back to my home in the UK on the last few days of each month to accompany my wife and daughter..."

"Wait...you have a family?"

"What's so surprising about this? I'm not an orphan like you who was taken in and raised by the Destiny Organization. Before I joined the Destiny Organization, I had my own family. I worked as a researcher just for the salary, but I don't have the great mission that you Valkyries have..."

Latier said lightly, and the next moment, her eyes slightly fluctuated, and the thing that had been suppressed by her seemed to be about to burst out...

"Although this kind of life is very tiring and I have done many things that go against my conscience, I have no complaints about it. Every time I go home and see my one-year-old daughter calling me dad with slurred words, I feel that everything I have done is meaningful... But this kind of life was ruined by that guy...!"

Hearing this, Sora seemed to understand something and patted the girl's back with a complicated expression.

"Does your wife and daughter no longer recognize you? But even if that's the case, as long as you tell them the truth, it may not..."

“No…it’s not like that!!”

As she roared out of control, Latier's body began to tremble slightly, and in her bloodshot eyes, crazy rage rose again.

Seeing this, Sora's eyes paused slightly.

"Could it be that......"

"That's right! It's just as you thought. It was K424... that bitch who killed them! My wife and daughter... were killed by 25 electro-sensing detectors used in spinal cord testing experiments that were pierced into the gaps between the spines and then passed high voltage electricity! Spinal cord testing was the project I was responsible for during K424's experiment... Although this experiment was extremely painful, it was an indispensable part of the research on Honkai creatures... It must have been her who did it! She was resentful of the pain I inflicted on her in the experiment, and after killing me, she wanted to kill them... I will not let this bitch go! Absolutely not!"

"..."

Hearing this, Sora narrowed her eyes slightly and then fell silent. She remembered very clearly what happened that day. After K424 fled the headquarters of the Destiny in a panic, she fled eastward along the forest outside Austria. Later, her traces were found in Ukraine and Russia.

(After escaping under such circumstances, she couldn't have gone to England, which is west of Austria. She couldn't have been the murderer that Latier mentioned... I see, if it was that lady, then this wouldn't be strange, right? But... It's really pitiful, both of them...)

Sora thought silently, with a hint of gloom on his face. When he first started experimenting with Shirley, Otto had this idea - the power of emotion can break the boundaries of human beings. In order to prove this, he even staged a farce with Shirley's friend Noni, trying to awaken Shirley's emotions, but it ended in failure...

(So ​​you haven't given up on that guess, Lord Otto. This poor guy... I think Latil's hatred for Shiris has reached its limit. However, although this hatred has allowed her to master the power of K424, that's all...)

As he thought, Sora looked at the girl with a hint of pity in his eyes, but it disappeared in an instant. At this moment, Latil, who lowered his head, did not see her strange expression, but clenched his teeth, and his tightly clenched fists creaked.

"She killed the person most important to me... Then what's wrong with me using the same method against her?! Even though I failed this time... But I won't give up. That girl... must pay for what she did!"

Hearing Latil's hateful declaration, Sora pursed his lips slightly, and finally just sighed and said nothing.

Now, what can she say?

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With the pull

After Tiel fell silent, the cave they were in fell into a deathly silence. Although Sora knew that there must be something hidden in the facts Latil had just described, it was no longer important.

Everyone would deliberately beautify their own image when slandering someone, so even if Latil didn't say it, it would not be difficult for Sora to guess why the relatively gentle Shiris deliberately killed an "innocent" researcher while escaping.

Perhaps, she (he) is not as innocent as she (he) says.

After thinking for a while, Sora turned his head with an inexplicable smile in his eyes.

"So, have you really decided? Using the same method to take revenge means that you have to become the person you hate the most. Is that okay?"

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, what's wrong with that? Since she dared to do such a thing, what's wrong with suffering the same revenge? Since the mission says that she can't be killed, then I want to let her also feel what it feels like to see her loved ones die tragically in front of her..."

"Okay... You can do whatever you want with this matter. But you have to promise me that you won't provoke other irrelevant people until you capture K424!"

"That is to say, as long as I succeed in catching her, I can do whatever I want, right?"

Sora frowned when Latil's cold voice reached his ears, but in the end he just sighed softly and didn't say much.

"We have to catch her...Okay, let's get going. We've rested long enough. For now, we don't have to worry about K-0 catching up. Even if she still has some hidden power, the liquid soul steel invading her body is enough to hold her back for a while. That's about it. How much Honkai energy do you have left?"

"Don't worry. Although it consumes a lot of energy, it is more than enough to deal with that bitch! I have already figured out her details. Apart from some monkey tricks, her current strength is not as good as that of a slightly stronger assassin. The next time we meet, it will be her doom!"

Hearing this, Sora smiled, then slowly stood up with the help of the wall, took out the spare terminal on his body, and activated the special Honkai energy search mode.

"Hmm?! There are still residual K424 Honkai waves around. It seems that she came here not long ago... Latil, we should speed up. If we are lucky, we will have a chance to catch up with her before she reunites with other members of Anti-Entropy!"

As she spoke, she turned around and rushed to the passage deep in the cave. Latil also stood up quickly and ran after Sora.

Looking at the black-haired girl who was only slightly taller than herself, Latil pondered for a moment, revealing a slightly puzzled expression. She slightly quickened her pace to match Sora's, and spoke in a low voice.

"Hey, Sora Hazel... I told you my story, but to be honest, I'm also a little curious. Who are you? You look like you're only twelve or thirteen years old, but you know so many things, and your behavior is totally unlike that of a little girl... But your intelligence power doesn't seem like that of Mr. Otto's confidant. Who are you?"

Hearing this, Sora frowned and spoke lightly, without any warmth in his tone.

"Except for those blood feuds, my experience is similar to yours. Do you understand me?"

"Same as me? Does that mean your body is also...? Wait, were you originally...?"

"Don't get me wrong. I wasn't a man before. I was a Valkyrie of destiny. Of course, it's the same now. I just changed my name and body. It's not an interesting experience."

"..."

Hearing Sora's tone that he didn't want to talk about this matter, Latil fell silent and just jogged behind Sora without asking any more questions. But Sora's sudden re-opening made her slightly stunned, and her pace couldn't help but slow down...

"Do you think... the body-changing experiment can really perfectly transfer our consciousness? Is the current you really your original consciousness? Have you ever thought that we are just experimental subjects with 'our' memories?"

"...So what? Even if I'm a fake, so what? No matter what happens, I just want that bitch to pay the price. Apart from that, nothing else matters!"

"Then...what if your hatred is also false? If so, what will you do..."

Hearing this, Latier was startled, and a flash of inspiration seemed to flash through her mind, but she slowed down her thinking and failed to successfully capture this light. She could only turn her solemn gaze to the black-haired girl beside her...

"What do you want to say? Wait, about me... do you know something?!"

"Nothing... I just said it out of inspiration. In the final analysis, what we are doing now is just to make use of our value as pawns. Whether it is my mission or your 'hatred', they are all just tools used by that person to achieve his goal..."

"Oh......

You are not as loyal as ordinary Valkyries. I can see that you must have a lot of stories..."

"...Isn't that a problem? The things that happened in the past are meaningless now. No matter what the reason or the truth is, you and I only have one goal in mind now..."

That's right, even if she knew the truth, her mission and Latier's revenge would not change. Because she couldn't tell the truth to the girl next to her. Although she failed once, it didn't matter, there was still one chance.

Even if I fail later, there will still be someone to clean up the mess for me, but at that time, I will lose my usefulness to that person because I failed the mission, and there will be no need for me to exist...

"Don't worry about anything else. Let's go, catch K424 and complete your revenge. No matter what the reason is, isn't this what you expect now?"

Just as he said this, a quick reminder sounded from the backup terminal on Sora's wrist...

Due to the complete collapse of the entrance, more than two-thirds of the vast interior space of the ruins has been submerged by the flooding seawater. The lower-lying cave terrain has been destroyed by the strong pressure of the seawater. No one will ever know whether there are holy relics in those places...

Inside the ruins, although it is surrounded by a completely enclosed underwater space, these stone walls seem to be natural light sources themselves. Even without any artificial lighting, the ruins space is bright under the effect of these natural fluorescent lights.

"Ah... why is this place flooded too? Could it be that someone has done the same thing as me?"

Standing on a towering stone pillar, Shirley looked at the still rising water level around her, and couldn't help but sigh softly, and put the terminal in her hand back under the wrist armor.

The expression on her face had recovered from the shock she had just experienced and returned to its initial indifference.

"What an unexpected development... Come to think of it, what on earth could that be? Although the energy fluctuations are very similar to that thing... But if that kind of existence appears in front of me now, it would be a waste of time to worry about it. It is better to be optimistic... Ji Xuanyuan's location should be the center of the upper level of the ruins. As long as we can find her, what happened just now can probably be explained..."

She talked to herself, scanned the surrounding terrain with her electronic eyepiece, and found a more suitable passage based on the residual energy in the terrain.

"Then what happens next..."

The girl thought about it, and then used the biochip to issue a command to her exoskeleton armor. The next moment, as the back armor slightly expanded outward, blue light wings composed of the armor's backup energy appeared behind her. After the girl set a target point with the photon eyepiece, her body soared into the air under the effect of energy, flexibly passing through the intricate cave, and moving almost in a straight line towards the direction where she sensed a high-energy reaction...

"Hmm?! That thing...?"

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Suddenly, Shilis seemed to have discovered something, and she paused in her high-speed flight, her body then hovering in mid-air. She looked around, and suddenly extended her right hand, releasing the pulse vortex of the Star Ring Vortex towards the water below her.

The next moment, a small water tornado rose up from the water surface affected by the energy of Shirley, and was directly pulled over by the girl's outstretched right hand, hanging in front of her palm, and formed a water ball under the control of energy, becoming larger as it absorbed more seawater. But what Shirley was concerned about at the moment was not the water ball in her hand that was getting bigger and bigger, but something hidden under the water that was pulled by the energy...

——Plop!

Along with the huge splash of water, a huge metal object flew out of the water and, pulled by the pulse vortex, flew quickly towards Shirley.

Throwing the smooth water ball in her hand away, Shilis raised her hand and grabbed the metal debris that was being pulled in. As soon as she got it, the heaviness in her hand made her subconsciously activate the power assistance of the exoskeleton armor, and then she held it firmly in her hand.

“This…what is this?!”

Looking at the piece of metal that barely looked like a cross, Shirley's pupils shrank immediately, and she could not conceal the astonishment in her eyes at all.

"Kiana......."

This is the throne weapon used by Kiana, made entirely of soul steel, a cross-shaped heavy tactical turret called Eleudnir... Even after she was separated from her destiny, she still kept this weapon with her. Now, the cross held by Shiris has been damaged in a large area, and the soul steel shell on the surface has been smoothly cut open by something, revealing the complex precision mechanical parts inside. It has obviously been damaged to the point of being unusable...

"What happened...

....Are they in danger? No... not necessarily. If the enemy is really strong enough to destroy even Soul Steel, then there can't be only one destroyed weapon at the scene... Damn it! What on earth happened..."

Unconsciously, Shiris's calm mind became uneasy again. Looking at the damage on the surface of Elyudnir, she frowned tightly. It can be seen that the damaged soul steel on the surface of the cross did not have any traces of impact, but seemed to have been directly wiped out...

"The power that can even evaporate soul steel... even the most powerful being in this relic in theory - Ji Xuanyuan - may not be able to do it! Could it be that... the energy fluctuation I just sensed, that guy really woke up early?!"

Shiris gritted her teeth, her mind completely disturbed by the safety of her companions. Now, whether it was the ruins of Jiuyou, or the competitors of the Destiny Organization and the radicals, she no longer cared. The girl's only goal now was to find the lost girls and take them away from this unknown ruins...

Taking out her terminal with her free left hand, Silis thought for a moment before connecting the terminal directly to the armor's energy core. The next moment, the girl activated the terminal directly to overload mode, no longer hiding the communication fluctuations, and sent out an ultra-wide-area search and detection energy wave!

(The interior space of the ruins is an irregular circular space with a maximum length of no more than thirteen kilometers... For this range, the terminal's extreme search mode is sufficient!)

As she thought about it, the girl didn't care about the terminal in her hand that was beginning to heat up. She raised the frequency of detecting fluctuations by one level again, anxiously waiting for feedback...

For Shiris now, it doesn't matter if her whereabouts are exposed. Her only goal now is to find the girls as soon as possible and reunite with them. Other than that, everything else is unimportant! Let's leave the holy relics to those guys who don't care about their lives!

After Shiris stopped hiding her location, the tracker lingering nearby immediately locked onto her coordinates. Within thirty seconds, he passed through the complex terrain nearby and approached the location of the silver-haired girl...

“I found you…!”

--boom! !

Suddenly, with an almost inaudible sound, the stone wall not far to the right of Shirley suddenly exploded! A small black shadow rushed out like an arrow, carrying a dot of purple particles, and pounced directly towards the silver-haired girl suspended in the air! Almost without a pause, she swung her right fist forward, and with the sound of a sonic boom, it blasted towards Shirley's right brain!

However, her fist did not smash the girl's head directly as expected, but fell into a piece of tough metal. Before her attack landed, Shirley slightly shifted the remains of the cross in her right hand and used it as a shield to block the girl's straight punch. Apart from that, she did nothing but her eyes fluctuated with the slightly glowing data stream, and in her left hand, she still tightly held the terminal that emitted the detection wave...

The fist collided with the cross, and the heavy high-frequency impact sounded layers of sound waves, accompanied by the teeth-grinding sound of metal twisting. Latil's fist sank slightly into the Eludnir, which had lost its outer shell protection, and destroyed a large number of mechanical components inside. The energy light wings behind Cialis spread out violently, offsetting the impact of the heavy punch, and still stayed steadily in the air.

"This time, I won't let you escape again...k424!!"

With a high-pitched angry shout, Latil swung the arm that was stuck in the cross with all her strength, and shook off the remains of Eleudnir that Silis was holding in her hand! Then, she stretched out her other hand, and a strong purple light quickly condensed in her palm...

It is completely feasible to use the palm of your hand as the release medium for the gamma particle beam of "pseudo light wings deployment".

The essence of gamma rays is just electromagnetic waves with a wavelength less than 0.01 angstroms. It is theoretically possible to simulate the energy of the Herrscher of Thunder using the changed Houkai energy. This kind of thing was something that Shiris could control freely a few years ago, so it would not be difficult for K424-01 either...

"go to hell!!"

The next moment, a dazzling purple beam suddenly burst out from Latil's palm, and in an instant it hit Shirley's chest. But the silver-haired girl seemed to have foreseen it, and when she lost the cross, she raised her free right hand in advance, blocking the path of the beam. The vortex energy of the star ring vortex completely filled the armor on her hand...

The particle flow energy fluctuations emitted by Latil were dozens of times stronger than the star ring vortex in Shirley's hand. At the moment when the unstable gamma particle flow came into contact with the star ring vortex, it was only delayed for a moment by the traction of the vortex energy. However, the silver-haired girl accurately seized the opportunity in milliseconds and swung her right arm violently! These moments were pulled