K424 of the Collapse World

Lan Feng used her own Honkai energy to suppress the Honkai will in Kerry's body to the limit. At this moment, she felt that the Honkai will that was eroding Kerry had completely subsided.

(Now... I think it's a success...?)

"You must... wake up for me, otherwise, my efforts... will be in vain..."

In Kerry's ears, Lan Feng's voice had become intermittent, weak, and full of weariness, as if it would completely disappear in the next moment.

Kerry's heart couldn't help but be moved. This girl had obviously paid a great price to help him.

(Lan Feng...why on earth would she go to such lengths for me...?)

After receiving such a great favor, Chris felt a little uneasy. How could he repay her?

But soon, Kerry had to stop thinking because his consciousness began to fade out of this completely collapsed space...

035 Contrast

“…a familiar ceiling.”

When he opened his eyes, he saw the shabby wooden ceiling that had been repaired countless times. Kerry was sure that this was the room that belonged to him.

"What's going on? I feel so uncomfortable. It seems like I've slept for a long time..."

My back felt numb, obviously from lying on the hard bed for a long time. But why did I sleep for so long?

"Forget it... Let's get up first. I feel like I had a very strange dream..."

Kerry raised one hand and tried to rub his hazy eyes, then got up and started his daily labor, including fetching water, picking vegetables, chopping firewood, etc. Although Kerry was only ten years old, even children younger than him would participate in the labor. In this settlement, no one was idle.

"When did I fall asleep? Why don't I remember it?"

He muttered, smoothing his messy hair with his left hand. When he put his hand down, he suddenly found something strange. The color of his left hand seemed a little wrong?

“Huh?! What is this…?!”

Raising his left hand again and taking a closer look, Clee was immediately shocked.

For some reason, my left arm completely turned dark purple! It extended to the part below the shoulder, and the color gradually faded until the upper part of the left shoulder turned into normal skin color.

Not only that, this strange arm also has purple veins like blood vessels spreading across it, as if they are still flowing slowly...

"What is this?! My hand... why did it become like this...?"

As he was thinking about it, he suddenly felt a wake-up call, and the memories buried deep in his mind suddenly emerged.

"That's right...all that...was not a dream!"

The next moment, Kerry remembered the cause and effect of everything...

Purple crystal...hostility from villagers...nightmare space...

And...the girl with the clear voice...

"Lan Feng?"

Thinking of this, Chris sat up suddenly without having time to check his arm carefully. It can be said that his life was completely saved by that girl.

Kerry had no doubt that Lan Feng's existence was an illusion or something. Since she knew her sister Elena, she must exist in reality!

"Lan Feng? Sister Lan Feng? Where are you..."

Kerry began to call Lan Feng's name, trying to find the person who gave him hope. However, the moment he turned his head, his voice stopped abruptly.

——The petite silver-haired girl was lying on the bed, sleeping quietly, her body rising and falling slightly with her breathing. Even Kerry's loud noise just now could not wake her up.

Kerry looked at the girl sleeping on the edge of his bed in surprise. Her appearance and temperament were far from being someone who lived in this place. If his guess was correct, the girl who was guarding him at this moment was the owner of the clear voice and the person who saved him, Lan Feng.

"How could...such a young girl...?"

Kerry never imagined that the person who comforted and encouraged him in the consciousness space was a girl who looked younger than him!

Although Lan Feng's voice was a little soft, the tenacity and maturity in her tone completely concealed the immaturity. Kerry subconsciously thought that Lan Feng was a big sister older than Elena.

However, no matter how surprised Kerry was, the fact was already here. This girl was the benefactor who brought him out of the abyss, Lan Feng.

Chris finally came back to his senses from his shock. He looked at the sleeping girl with a smile on his face.

smile.

"No wonder she didn't let me call her sister. It turns out she's a little sister younger than me..."

Kerry lowered his head and looked at his mutated left arm, his eyes dimmed again.

"This...what's going on?"

"...At that time, I really didn't expect that the Houkai beast as tall as a building would rush out and chase us. To be honest! I have never seen such a terrifying Houkai beast! After that... Hey, Elena, are you listening?"

In an open space, Mike was recounting yesterday's adventure with great interest. Elena was responding to him intermittently, her attention almost entirely focused on the house not far away.

Just now, Mike was talking about something exciting, and wanted to see Elena's reaction, so he paid attention to her expression. It turned out that the girl was obviously distracted. So Mike felt a little dissatisfied.

"Ah? Sorry... Mr. Mike, what did you say?"

Suddenly awakened, Elena said quickly, lowering her head in embarrassment.

"By the way... Elena, you have been peeking at your room repeatedly since a while ago. What are you paying attention to?"

Mike asked casually, but he began to guess what happened. He and Elena had been chatting for more than an hour, but Elena didn't say anything. Mike couldn't help but start to make some guesses.

"This... Miss Lan Feng is doing something very important..."

"So, what's going on? There shouldn't be anything worth hiding, right? Tell me what's bothering you, I might be able to help."

This time, in the face of Elena's evasion, Mike did not choose to give in, but pressed on, intending to find out the truth of the matter. He took a step forward and looked down at the girl whose height only reached his chest.

Elena, on the other hand, was about to cry when she saw Mike's serious expression. She didn't know how to explain the current situation. She was always afraid that others would guess that her brother was infected with Honkai. The behavior of the villagers yesterday had left her with a psychological shadow.

Elena didn't even dare to tell Mike that Lan Feng was treating Kerry. What if he asked what disease Kerry had? How would she answer?

"...Yes, it's about Kerry, it's really important... Mr. Mike, please don't ask any more questions..."

After all, the introverted Elena was not good at lying, so she could only speak in a crying voice and intermittently, even though she knew that this method would not convince Mike at all.

"Ugh……"

To Elena's surprise, Mike was stunned after hearing these words. Then he sighed, took a step back, and resumed the distance they had before the conversation. Instead, he did not get angry as Elena thought.

"I understand... Elena. But, there is one thing I must say..."

Mike's face was full of bitterness. He had just heard Elena mention Kerry. After a little speculation, a terrible guess came into his mind.

"I know that our living environment is very harsh now. No one knows whether we can survive the next day."

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Elena looked at Mike, who had suddenly become depressed, in confusion, and was a little unsure of what was going on with him.

"Indeed, the most important thing we can do now is to reproduce, fill the gaps left by our dead companions, and make this settlement stronger as soon as possible. But... Elena, don't you think that they are still too young?"

"Eh……?"

"Let's not talk about how Kerry is doing now, but Lan Feng...she may not even be ten years old! What's more...she may have been subjected to many excessive things before she met us! I promised to give her a safe home, but how can she trust us if you treat her like this?!"

Elena looked at Mike's distressed expression and was still a little confused.

This Mr. Mike... seems to have misunderstood something?

The corners of Elena's mouth twitched as she was thinking about how to explain to Mike. Suddenly, Kerry's voice came from a small house not far from them.

"Lan Feng? Sister Lan Feng...?"

Elena's pupils suddenly contracted, and the words she had originally thought of to fool Mike were instantly forgotten.

"Kerry...! Kerry is awake!"

Mike also heard Kerry's voice. He looked at Elena's expression of joy and tears, and he was confused again about the current situation. Mike raised his eyebrows slightly, and when he wanted to ask Elena, he found that the girl had passed him and ran towards her own wooden house.

"Hey! What's going on? Didn't Kerry faint from overwork yesterday?"

Mike hurriedly grabbed Elena's wrist and asked. Elena, who was running towards the house in a hurry, was suddenly pulled. She struggled hard to break free, but Mike's strength was beyond her reach. His rough palm held her wrist like iron, and it seemed that he would not let go without an explanation.

"What are you doing? Let go!"

"I want you to tell me first, what happened? What's going on with them?"

Facing Mike's stubborn questioning, Elena felt that there was no need to hide it any longer after learning that Kerry had regained consciousness. Since Kerry had woken up, that meant he had fully recovered, right?

"Kerry is sick! He has been in a coma. It was Lan Feng who cured him! Let me go...!"

"This kind of thing...why didn't you tell me earlier!"

Mike's face got hot when he thought of his inexplicable guess. He quickly let go of her hand and ran to the room behind Elena.

"Kerry! Kerry, how are you!"

"Ah...Sister Elena?"

Elena pushed the door open violently and saw the boy looking up, with joy on his familiar face.

Their eyes met, and Elena couldn't help but rush over and suddenly hugged the boy into her arms...

"Woo woo... That's great!... Kerry..."

The long period of anxious waiting had already tortured the girl to the point of collapse. At this point, her tear glands could no longer be controlled, and she immediately vented all the stress and fear of the past two days...

"Ah... why are you crying again? Look, I'm fine, right?"

Holding Elena, who was crying her heart out, Kerry said with both heartache and amusement. Oftentimes, this sister who was five years older than him was more like a child...

At the door, Mike looked at the brother and sister hugging each other, smiled bitterly and shook his head. He also saw Lan Feng sleeping on the edge of the bed. Looking at this situation, Elena did not lie to him. Lan Feng did use some method to save her brother...

Just when Mike was about to say something, he suddenly noticed the ominous black and purple color on Kerry's abnormal left arm!

Mike's eyes widened in shock. The strange and ferocious arm gave him an indescribable sense of danger, just like the feeling he had when the spider-shaped Honkai beast gave him in the forest the day before...

(What is that?! And, his hair...)

Mike discovered again that the color of the boy's light blue hair, a small part of the hair on the left side of his forehead, suddenly became the same color as Lan Feng's hair, dyed a silver-white!

Mike refused to believe that this was something that had stained him. Something must have happened to Kerry!

"Hey! Chris..."

Mike couldn't help but speak, wanting to find out the reason behind the incident.

But suddenly, a pulling force came from the side of the belt and dragged him out of the room.

"Ah! Who is it?"

Mike turned around in surprise, only to see Lan Feng, who had woken up at some point, grabbing his belt with an irresistible force in his hand, forcing him to leave Elena's house.

"Eh...?! Hey! Lan Feng, what are you doing?"

Mike was a bit confused as to why a 1.8-meter-tall strong man like him was easily and forcefully dragged away by a 1.3-meter-tall little girl. Putting this aside, he also didn't understand why Lan Feng suddenly dragged him away?

"I know you have a lot of questions, but at least for now, please don't bother them... I should be able to answer your questions."

Lan Feng yawned as she walked. After they were far away from the wooden house, she suddenly let go of her hand. Mike, who was being dragged along, was caught off guard and stumbled, almost falling.

"Okay, if you have any questions, just ask."

"Lan Feng...you...?"

Mike's face was full of disbelief. He stared at the impatient silver-haired girl with wide eyes, as if he was looking at some unknown creature...

Lan Feng didn't care what Mike was thinking. Ever since North exposed her disguise, she thought North had made her actions public, and she had no mood to continue acting in this small settlement.

Mike's heart was in a state of confusion... How come Lan Feng had completely changed after just one day? Looking at Lan Feng's indifferent and proud look, Mike's eyes twitched. (Where did that cute girl who was as sensitive and shy as a baby animal go? Could this Lan Feng be a fake...?)

In his shock, he even forgot about Kerry's arm and looked at Lan Feng in doubt.

"Hey... stop imagining things, this is my true personality. Also, I'm sorry... I lied to you, everything along the way was just an act."

Seeing Mike's unnatural expression, Lan Feng thought he was angry, so he repeated the incident and apologized. Lan Feng thought that it would be best if he could forgive him.

(And even if he feels he can’t forgive me…he can’t do anything about it.)

"……what?"

However, after hearing Lan Feng's weak voice, Mike's brain froze again...

(What the hell is going on here…?! Maybe I was just dreaming…Is everything going to be fine after I wake up?)

036 Broken Relationship

"This...Lan Feng, what's going on?"

After Mike recovered from his daze, he asked this question again.