K424 of the Collapse World

After receiving too much information at once, he was a little confused.

Wasn't Lan Feng the street kid he had rescued? Wasn't she homeless? Wasn't she abandoned and tortured?

Mike had guessed this before, and firmly believed in his own inference. Until just now, when he met Lan Feng again, her behavior directly shattered his inferences!

"What? Didn't North tell you?"

"Tell what...?"

Seeing Mike's confused expression, Lan Feng suddenly thought, maybe Morfinos didn't reveal his true identity at all?

(Did I say anything unnecessary? Never mind. I’m a little tired of it anyway…)

Giving up the performance, Lan Feng looked directly into Mike's eyes and said seriously.

"This matter shouldn't be that complicated, right? I should have explained it very clearly. If you just calm down and think about it carefully, you will understand it."

Hearing this, Mike calmed down. Based on what Lan Feng had just said, he began to think about this matter from the beginning...

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As time passed, the bright moon was covered by a dark cloud...

After a long moment, Mike lowered his head and spoke slowly.

"So...everything you've done since we met in the forest...was just acting?"

Looking at the young man's gloomy look, Lan Feng felt a little uncomfortable, but she still nodded slightly.

"Ah."

"When we met that Honkai Beast, if I didn't save you... no, take you away, what would you have done?"

"I will kill it."

Mike's pupils shrank and he was silent for a moment.

"…Then why did you let us take you away? If you really had the ability to defeat that monster, why did you follow us? And why did you pretend to be weak?"

Mike raised his voice. He did not doubt Lan Feng's words. Regardless of anything else, he had just experienced the girl's physical strength. He was just angry, angry at Lan Feng's deception of him and others.

"..."

Lan Feng couldn't answer. Following them was just a whim of hers. What seemed like a game to Lan Feng deeply hurt Mike's feelings. So, when she faced Mike's question now, she was completely speechless.

The scene fell silent, Mike frowned, as if he was having a fierce ideological struggle. Lan Feng was speechless for a moment. She had originally wanted to explain Kerry's matter to Mike, but Mike didn't ask anything about it. The atmosphere gradually solidified...

After a while, Mike let out a long sigh, and his tense body seemed to relax.

"Huh... now that things have come to this, even if I get angry, it won't solve any problems. Lan Feng... is this your real name?"

"Yes, that's my name..."

Lan Feng spoke in a low voice. Because of guilt, she lowered her head and her voice became much softer.

Mike looked at Lan Feng in surprise. In his eyes, the girl's current appearance seemed to overlap with the first time he met her in the forest...

He suddenly felt a pang of pity and was about to say something to comfort her, but suddenly he remembered something and swallowed the words he had prepared again.

(No... that's not right! This look... is fake! It's just an act...!)

But... is it really like this? From beginning to end, there was no trace of hypocrisy in her behavior. However, Mike was unwilling to believe his feelings anymore.

(Anyway... they are all lies...)

He closed his eyes tightly, and when he opened them again, the struggle in his eyes had disappeared, replaced by indifference.

"Okay... tell me, who are you? And what's going on with Kerry's hand?"

"My identity? That's not important. According to Kerry, he was indeed infected by Honkai. It's just..."

Without noticing the change in Mike's tone, Lan Feng heard him finally mention Kerry's matter, and immediately took out the speech he had prepared long ago.

"…That's it. I can heal the erosion of Houkai energy, but I can't use it too much."

Just kidding, just to help a little boy recover, he fainted due to excessive use of mental power. It seems that this kind of thing can't be done at will.

"The black spots on his hands... I don't know what they are, but they are related to Honkai. However, I can guarantee that he will not threaten anyone's safety!"

"...I can't believe that everything you said is correct. I will tell North about this matter and let him decide it."

After that, he didn't dare to look into the girl's eyes, turned around and walked away. Although there was always a voice in his heart telling him to stay with this girl, Mike always felt that he could not let go of the fact that he was deceived.

"...It's up to you then. Goodbye."

Lan Feng resisted the temptation to say goodbye to Mike, but she didn't hear any response. She didn't care about it. Anyone who found out they were cheated wouldn't be happy.

For Lan Feng, the most important thing now is to go back and rest, and get enough energy before dealing with other things.

"Can we go back now...? It's been so long, their time for a loving reunion should be over..."

Lan Feng teased Kerry and Elena in her heart, dragging her feet, sleepwalking towards the wooden house. She was too tired, and this time she had consumed much more energy than yesterday. She felt as if she was back in high school, listening to the teacher's chattering on the podium, and her consciousness became more and more drowsy...

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"Huh……?!"

Suddenly, Lan Feng tripped over something and fell forward uncontrollably! At this moment, the sudden stimulation made her consciousness clear, and she immediately realized that she was falling. Under her control, the foot that was tripped by the stone quickly moved forward, slightly adjusted her body shape, and easily regained balance, avoiding close contact with the ground.

(I always feel like... this scene is familiar.)

But last time, I seemed to have fallen directly and injured my wrist...

Thinking back on the changes he had undergone in just a few dozen days, Lan Feng couldn't help but sigh.

How could I still look weak now?

Looking at his fair and tender palms, Lan Feng knew that these seemingly weak hands could break down giant trees in the forest without much effort!

036 Broken Relationship >>

However, Lan Feng still didn't know what level she was at now. Without a suitable comparison, she had no way of knowing her own level of strength.

"Ms. Lan Feng?"

Lan Feng suddenly heard a call and came back to his senses. Elena had been standing at the door without him noticing. She looked at him with a little worry in her eyes.

"Just now, I saw Mr. Mike seemed a little angry when he left. Did something happen?"

"Don't worry... nothing happened. But... maybe I'm a burden to you."

Thinking of Mike's attitude towards him, Lan Feng felt a little gloomy again. Perhaps Mike didn't distrust Kerry, and his way of dealing with the matter was probably just a simple dissatisfaction with him.

"How could that be? Mr. Mac seems to care about you so much. Did you have an argument?"

"No... not really. Don't worry, he just went to tell Mr. North about it. I believe he can handle it."

(North... that old gentleman probably won't mind. After all, I've already explained this to him clearly.)

After thinking for a while, Lan Feng relaxed her expression and smiled. For some reason, she found that in this village, she could only laugh from the bottom of her heart when facing these two people.

What was the reason... Lan Feng didn't know either. But she had a vague feeling that this girl named Elena could give her a sense of trust.

Lan Feng half-closed her eyes, and after relaxing...drowsiness invaded her again. Her vision had blurred, and she looked at the girl in front of her, thought for a moment, and then leaned her tired body towards her...

(This should be okay, right? After all, I am a girl now...)

Elena was about to say something, but suddenly she found Lan Feng walking up to her, gently throwing himself into her arms, and then falling down the next moment. Elena hurriedly supported the girl who had lost her strength.

"Eh...? Miss Lan Feng?"

"Hmm...? Sorry... I'm too tired now... Can you please take me back?"

Lan Feng half opened his eyes and looked at Elena's face so close to him sleepily.

(This appearance... If placed in my society, it would be considered the level of a school beauty... It's a pity that you were born in such a world...)

Lan Feng was in a daze and was thinking wildly. To be honest, Lan Feng didn't like getting too close to people before, but now, she took the initiative to snuggle in Elena's arms, and she suddenly found that she didn't hate this feeling.

(Warmth... security... this is the feeling of a hug?)

Indeed, Lan Feng had almost never experienced such a feeling. The only people who could bring him such a sense of security were his relatives...

Suddenly thinking of his relatives, Lan Feng suddenly felt a little sad. He came to this world inexplicably, and he didn't know whether his original body had disappeared or died.

(If it is death... they will definitely be sad... but who knows if they can go back...)

Lan Feng gradually fell asleep amidst his chaotic thoughts...

"Ah... Lan Feng? She fell asleep already... But she also seems really exhausted..."

Elena didn't know how Lan Feng healed Kerry, but it was obvious that Lan Feng became exhausted because of this incident.

Elena looked at the haggard girl in her arms, her breathing slowly becoming steady, and she had obviously fallen asleep.

"Is this... all right?"

She slowed down her movements as much as possible and picked up the light girl by the waist.

Very light... Elena was a little surprised that Lan Feng's weight was lighter than she thought.

Even lighter.

As if holding something precious and fragile, Elena carefully carried Lan Feng back to the wooden house.

In the room, Kerry was looking at his left arm with a serious expression. When he saw Elena coming in holding Lan Feng, he immediately stood up and went to greet her.

"Sister...! What happened to Lan Feng?"

Noticing that Lan Feng had lost consciousness, Kerry hurriedly asked his sister.

Kerry's anxiety was fully reflected on his face. Elena saw it and smiled faintly. As a sister, how could she not understand what her brother was thinking.

"Don't be nervous, Miss Lan Feng is just overtired, let her have a good rest."

"Overtired? Because of saving me...?"

"That should be it..."

Thinking of how exhausted Lan Feng was last night, Elena nodded. Lan Feng was indeed exhausted because of trying to stop the collapse.

Elena gently placed Lan Feng on the wooden bed and tidied up her messy silver hair.

"Lan Feng..."

Kerry stared at the girl's sleeping face and his eyes softened.

I was so busy comforting my elder sister that I didn't notice Lan Feng's situation. As a result, I haven't even said a word to her in real life...

"Sister, what is Lan Feng's identity?"

Kerry asked Elena. Hearing this, the girl turned her head, looked at the boy with a complicated expression, and smiled.

"I don't know much about Miss Lan Feng. I just heard it from Mr. Mike."

While slowly combing Lan Feng's long hair, Elena began to retell the story she had heard from Mike to Kerry, not noticing the boy's gradually dimming eyes.

"That's about it. Miss Lan Feng... is also a pitiful person... Hey, Kerry, are you listening?"

Elena now knew why Mike was angry. When she was talking, he didn't listen seriously. This feeling was really irritating...

However, Kerry fell into deep thought halfway through listening.

(Has Lan Feng been wandering alone all this time?)

Kerry felt pity for Lan Feng. He had to admit that he had developed a special feeling for the girl who saved him. It was not a simple and easy-to-understand feeling of love or concern. He himself could not explain what kind of feeling it was. He just felt that he wanted to be close to her, wanted to be with her, and did not want her to get hurt...

"...Kerry? Kerry? What are you daydreaming about? Go wet the towel and give it to me."

"Ah? Um..."

The little boy came to his senses, took the towel and ran out of the house. Although he was no longer looking at Lan Feng, he found that his mind was already filled with the image of the silver-haired girl...

037 False Feelings

Since when, people in this settlement all knew that a cute silver-haired girl had entered the village.

The speed at which this matter spread was understandable. After all, when Lan Feng first arrived in this village, her extraordinary appearance and elegant temperament also caused quite a stir. And after the incident with the Norsia siblings, Lan Feng's arrival had become a topic of conversation among the people here after dinner.

However, what puzzled them was that no one had seen the rumored little girl in the past two days. However, even so, no one went to Elena's house to find out. After all, it was not an important matter for them.

On this day, as Lan Feng, Elena and Kerry appeared again on the village path, people who were busy nearby stopped what they were doing and looked at the three people who were traveling with Lan Feng.

"Look! That's the kid who lives at Elena's house!"

"I heard that she was a scavenger before she came here. She must be lying... such a young child?"

"But... she's so iconic and has such a nice temperament... she can't be some big shot, right?"