K424 of the Collapse World

"No...I just fell for no apparent reason."

The fallen team member got up with some confusion, recalled the feeling just now, and finally shook his head.

"Sorry, Captain. It was a moment of carelessness."

"...Keep going, I'll settle with you later."

Just like that, after a small episode, the troops moved up again. Until they left the area, they did not notice that three girls had been standing at a higher point in the ruins, looking down at the army that was gradually leaving...

"As expected of you, Master Fu Hua."

Rita exclaimed sincerely. Fu Hua did not answer, but just glanced at Hill who was standing next to her.

"You shouldn't do that kind of unnecessary stuff, Miss Hill."

"Sorry, sorry~ I just want to know what your 'Yu Du Chen' can do. It seems that it is indeed a true key of God, which can even modify human cognition... Hey?! Chi Yuan, are you okay?"

Under Hill's worried gaze, Fu Hua wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth as if nothing had happened, with her expression unchanged.

"It's okay... It's just the aftereffect of activating the Key of God. Let's start the action quickly. We need to find the gem as soon as possible before they finish their raid. If possible, try to avoid any direct conflict..."

390 Disruptor

The eighth God's Key "Yu Duchen" is the only God's Key that can control consciousness. When activated, it will pull the affected target into the illusion created by the user. Moreover, if necessary, the target's consciousness can be directly wiped out in the illusion, turning it into a "corpse" that can only breathe.

However, she naturally didn't need to do this for these ordinary soldiers in charge of the search. Although the Key of God might fail to activate, not everyone has the terrifying mental power of the Second Herrscher. For Fu Hua, invading the minds of these ordinary people and affecting more than a dozen people at a time would not take much effort. If Hill hadn't messed with her just now, the little power she activated would not even backfire on her body.

"Well... do you think the gems have been recovered by the troops of this country?"

"Impossible. If the gem is still sealed, there is no reason for them to notice the inconspicuous little box. But if the gem has left the isolation box, there may have been a small-scale collapse here. Therefore, the Serenity Gem should still be somewhere in this building..."

After clearly answering Hill's question, Fu Hua took the lead and walked towards the stairwell leading to the next step.

Although the energy reaction was blocked by the dedicated container, the energy fluctuations in the Herrscher's core could not be completely eliminated so easily. Even if it was suppressed to a very small level, as long as Hill, the former Herrscher, was around, even a trace of leaked death energy would not escape her perception.

Rita followed him, thought for a moment, and then expressed her opinion.

"I think they would not put the core in an obvious place... Since it is not in their area near the roof, then the gem is likely to be stored in some special place, such as the basement..."

"Don't say these useless things! This is just your guess, right? If we miss it, we will have no chance.

...The speed of those troops' actions is not much slower than ours. I don't think they will stop searching after reaching the rooftop."

Hill naturally scoffed at Rita's opinion. Regardless of whether it was reasonable or not, she would definitely refute it. However, the girl was not slow, and she followed the steps of the two people in front of her steadily, walking down the damaged stairwell. Relying on Fu Hua's ability, they easily slipped out from under the noses of the special forces and came to the next floor of the hotel.

Just as she was about to push open the door of the stairwell, Fu Hua's movements paused slightly and she put her hand down.

"Be careful, those guys installed an alarm behind the door."

"Oh? It seems that those useless soldiers are still somewhat capable. However, these things are meaningless!"

Hill chuckled, and with a faint light, a crystal blue sickle appeared in her hand. The next moment, the wall next to the door shattered, and a triangular hole was opened by the three-stage slash of the sickle.

"Let's go quickly. We don't know when those troops will come back... By the way, Chi Yuan, is your Yu Du Chen still usable?"

"Don't worry, if the target is an ordinary person, it won't be a problem to use it a few more times."

"Don't push yourself."

After hearing Fu Hua's answer, Hill nodded. He no longer worried about the special forces he might encounter and focused all his attention on searching for the fluctuations of the Serenity Gem.

After expanding the range of her spiritual perception, she soon reaped rewards.

"We found the source of the Serenity Gem's energy! It should be... somewhere further down!"

(This feeling...! Strange, if the gem is still sealed, this fluctuation is a bit too obvious... However, this level is indeed a trace amount of energy that cannot be sensed by machines. And... it seems to be far away from here? Are you kidding, could it be that this stalker maid is right?)

"Are you sure, Ciel?"

"Hmm... the energy fluctuations have overflowed. Although it is an extremely small amount of Houkai energy, it is still within the range that I can capture! In short, it is definitely not on the nearby floors. We should search at the bottom floor... no, below the tenth floor of the building!"

I really don't want to admit that Rita's guess is correct, but there is nothing I can do. No matter how she searches, the true location of the gem will not change.

Of course, if someone else takes action before her, that would be a different matter...

Queen's Hotel, B5F......

In the underground warehouse at the bottom, it was pitch dark.

In such a long-unused storage room, perhaps there was normal lighting equipment in the past, and so much dust would not have accumulated inside. But after this floor was completely acquired by the Anti-Entropy Organization, it was no longer the responsibility of the hotel's property staff.

However, due to lack of cleanliness, a faint smell of desolation filled the surroundings. This relatively large room became extremely messy and crowded after being filled with messy sundries. The shelves stacked with storage items were so narrow that only one person could pass through.

Under the influence of something, the corrupt atmosphere in the warehouse gradually became more oppressive.

——Squeak…

The slightly dragging footsteps made a subtle and strange friction sound on the ground. A human-shaped black shadow staggered between the narrow shelves, making meaningless dry sounds from his mouth, as if he was drunk, and occasionally bumped into the shelves on both sides, making extremely clear and loud noises in the darkness.

If the surroundings were a little brighter, one could see that the skin of the man in the security uniform was pale and bluish, and his pupils were unnaturally dilated, almost spreading to the entire surface of the sclera. It was obvious that this humanoid creature was no longer a human being, but a puppet called a dead soldier that had been destroyed.

Without a target to attack, the low-level assassins who had no independent thinking ability seemed to be in standby mode, and they instinctively paced around the shelves in the warehouse. Apart from destroying the target designated by the collapse, everything around them seemed to have nothing to do with it.

However, this low-level assassin who still relied on vision and hearing to search for prey failed to notice that at the bottom of the shelf at his feet, a slender figure was lying tightly on the ground under the shelf. Although his body was trembling slightly, it did not attract the assassin's attention.

"..."

Although she couldn't see anything in the darkness, she could hear the sluggish footsteps sliding in her ears. She knew that the bodyguard who had become a dead man was right beside her...

With her trembling hands tightly covering her mouth, Noni could not see the terrifying appearance of the assassin, but the deep darkness aroused a deeper fear. In this pitch-dark environment, that is, even if the assassin's face was close to her, she could not see it at all.

Noni was so frightened by her own thoughts that she broke into a cold sweat. She remained in her original position, lying on the ground without daring to move. At this moment, she could not regret anything.

When she entered the building, she didn't have any identification documents, so she couldn't go out through the main entrance. Therefore, she was smart enough to go to the underground floor where the gems were stored, hoping to avoid the army's search here.

However, this place was not the safe haven she had imagined, but a real hell...

God knows why the box containing the gems was opened, releasing the Herrscher Core's Honkai Energy! The two security guards here were turned into dead soldiers! And she only discovered all this after entering the depths of the warehouse. Therefore, when she sensed the danger, she had no way out.

390 Disruptors>>

If I had known this earlier, even if I was imprisoned by the military, it would be better than going through this...

As a former Honkai researcher of the Destiny Organization, Noni had artificial stigmata antibodies implanted in her body. This allowed her to be immune to Honkai to a certain extent, so that she would not become a dead soldier in an environment with a slightly higher concentration of Honkai. However, the artificial stigmata antibodies could not allow her to fight like a Valkyrie.

Yes, low concentrations of Honkai energy cannot easily infect her, which means that being attacked by low-level Death Warriors will not cause her to be eroded by Honkai. The most likely scenario is that she will be bitten to death by the Death Warriors.

(I have to do something...! If I keep going like this, I will be discovered by the assassins sooner or later, and then...)

Her breathing became increasingly disordered, and her motionless body began to feel numb. Noni knew she couldn't wait any longer, and as the sound of footsteps faded away, she moved her hands and quietly climbed out from the bottom shelf.

Tsk...

The crawling made extremely tiny sounds, but they sounded like loud noises in Nonie's ears. However, she had no other choice at the moment. She had already left the shelter. Even if the wandering assassin was not far away, she could only bite the bullet and crawl out.

Fortunately, the assassin did not return until she stood up in the aisle, which made Noni breathe a sigh of relief. The next moment, she did not go to the exit, but carefully moved deeper into the warehouse.

Noni didn't come out to escape. She didn't forget her real purpose. Since the old man entrusted her with the Serenity Gem, she had the obligation to do it to the end. Having witnessed the fate of the Valkyries who had merged with the Serenity Gem, she also agreed with Maki's point of view. No matter who got the gem, it was better than leaving it in the hands of the Destiny Organization!

(The chaos just now was probably caused by the pursuit team of the Destiny Organization. These guys are really lingering around... I will never let you take back the Serenity Gem!)

Without it, there wouldn't be those cruel experiments, and those innocent girls wouldn't have died, including the girl he saved at the beginning...

As far as Noni knew, after the girl went through the fusion experiment, 80% of her cells were completely necrotic. In this situation, there was no possibility for her to survive. The girl I saw just now was just the original body of the girl named Kiana Kaslana. Cocolia also said that the girl was not Shiris.

(It has come to this point, I can’t give up so easily...! Just two assassins, as long as I can bypass them...)

Even if they have no combat ability, ordinary people don't have the basic Honkai resistance that Noni has. Therefore, whether it is due to Maki's commission or her own sense of responsibility, she will not allow the Serenity Gem to be exposed to the air and emit the fluctuations of the Herrscher Core!

Carefully taking out the small pistol from her pocket, and being careful not to step on anything that made noise, she came to the deepest part of the warehouse without any danger. Here was the safe that Walter had mentioned before, and the Serenity Gem should be placed here.

Just after leaving the narrow shelf, she saw a glass container emitting faint light from afar, which attracted her attention. However, when she saw the surrounding situation clearly, Noni was as if she had received an electric shock and was stunned on the spot...

In the middle of a huge unknown container, a blue gem floated inside, emitting a faint blue light. Around the container, there were densely packed figures, with pale hands tinged with green in the dim light, reaching out to the gem in the container.

"How... is this possible? How can there be so many...?!"

Originally, Noni planned to force a breakthrough after getting the gem and kill the low-level assassin outside with a pistol. However, she didn't expect that there would be so many assassins in the Serenity Gem. Looking at the assassins who formed a small group, there were at least a dozen or twenty of them.

“Hoo…Gah…!”

As one of the dead soldiers suddenly turned back, the cloudy pupils of the dead soldiers all turned towards Noni. Obviously, as the instinct of the Honkai creatures, they valued the killing of prey more than the pursuit of power...

Under the dim light of the gem, the dead soldier's pale cheek was covered with a strange black bruise, like a vengeful spirit from hell, gradually setting his sights on the dazed Noni.

Noni was startled, and she had already imagined the scene of the assassins rushing towards her in the next moment.

She turned and fled, but before she could turn her head completely, she caught a glimpse from the corner of her eye. A dark shadow appeared in front of her at some point. A purple-black deformed hand stretched out from behind and slowly grabbed her shoulder...

On this day, the night was not as peaceful as usual. The unidentified spectacle attracted the attention of the government and shocked ordinary residents in the city. While excited people rushed to the streets to take photos and send tweets, the people in power at the meeting table in the government hall were all worried.

"Have you investigated clearly? The source of that beam of light..."

"Absolutely nothing! Sir, there is nothing there! To be honest, apart from the meteorite crash more than a decade ago, I have never seen such a damn strange thing!"

A younger investigator was cursing. With the city in chaos, he didn't have the time to display his usual etiquette. His superiors were in no mood to criticize his complaints, even if it would make the atmosphere at the conference table even more depressing.

The next moment, the investigator added another sentence.

"But, I can be sure...! This series of events is closely related to those two damn organizations! Although the light column was not found in the end, the search team will definitely be able to give us a reasonable explanation for the explosion at the Queen's Hotel!"

"I hope so..."

In response, the middle-aged man sitting on the other side sighed and spread out a stack of documents on the table. The photon screen in the center of the conference table then displayed the contents of the documents.

"However, the United Nations headquarters rejected our application for investigation six minutes ago, and also stated that Destiny and Anti-Entropy could not violate international conventions. Hmph... Regardless of why these guys were able to collude with each other, since the Council and those bastard representatives can make such a certain statement in unison, they are sure that we will not be able to find evidence."

"Not necessarily. Maybe it's just a blank check issued by those two organizations to the UN. After all, even if something goes wrong, it is the prestige of the United Nations that is damaged. As the defaulting party, Destiny and Anti-Entropy only need to pay liquidated damages to our country. Organizations like them who are always causing trouble may not care about this little money at all..."

Amid the discussion, the conference room began to get noisy. An old man in a suit slapped the table with an angry look on his face.

"No matter what, we must not compromise! As a neutral country, we can't just let those chaotic forces mess around here. If necessary, we have to blockade the whole city to force those terrorists out!"

"The price is too high, Mr. Speaker. Doing so will inevitably further affect our international status. Moreover, this may completely offend those two organizations. If they completely fall out, we will definitely suffer..."

"It's because of your thinking! Those white monkeys dare to be so arrogant! Anyway, I don't intend to let it go this time. Even if those guys think it's just a small fight, I have to teach them a lesson..."

391 Her Choice

"Stay out of the way."

The moment she was touched by the dark blue palm, she heard these whispers. Before Noni could react, a black shadow rushed past her at a speed that was difficult to see with the naked eye, and her vision began to retreat rapidly. It was not until a clang sounded in her ears and a slight stinging pain came from her back that she realized what had just happened.

Was I...thrown backwards by that person?

She naturally thought that the black shadow that just passed by was a human being. After all, the dead soldiers could not speak. Before she could observe the situation in front of her, Noni was about to prop herself up, but when she reached out her hand, she touched a pool of soft mucus.

"This?! Ugh...!"

Subconsciously looking down, she saw a disemboweled warrior lying beside her. Inside his violently torn chest, his internal organs, which had turned white due to the erosion of the collapse, were still basically clearly visible, and the purple-black blood in his chest solidified and turned into a sticky semi-liquid...

The hand that Nonie was trying to support herself on the ground reached into the corpse's broken chest cavity, and she grabbed a handful of sticky internal organs.

“…Hmm!”

A strong nausea churned in her stomach, but she didn't scream. However, after seeing this scene, it was not difficult for Noni to think that this corpse should have been a dead man standing behind her not long ago. But why did it become like this...

(Could it be the one from before...?)

After she was frightened by the group of assassins in front of her, if what happened just now happened again, she would probably run into the assassins when she tried to escape. For her, such a thing was simply unimaginable...

(But, what exactly is it?)

This kind of extraordinary physical strength was something Noni had only seen in the Valkyrie of Destiny.

The voice that was talking to me was obviously a young male voice...!

——Bang! !

The brief thought was suddenly interrupted by a loud noise in front of her. Noni looked up blankly and saw a dead man flying out in response, with blood splashing in the air and leaving a trail, and then crashing into a wall behind him. The huge force of the impact crushed the dead man directly, and suddenly squeezed out a radial deep red blood stain on the wall.

At this time, all the assassins standing around the container just now disappeared, leaving only the blue-clothed figure standing next to the Serenity Gem Container, and a pool of blood at his feet, and the broken limbs soaked in it...

In less than five seconds, she wiped out more than a dozen assassins with her bare hands? In Noni's impression, only a Valkyrie of destiny could do this!

"The blood hasn't coagulated yet. It looks like the dead warrior was just transformed... How disgusting."

He murmured to himself, making a clear voice that sounded a little youthful. He shook his right hand, which was stained with bright red blood, and after shaking off the blood stains on his hand, the alienated palm covered with purple lines appeared in front of Noni again...

"Are you Nonnie Tesla who carries the Serenity Stone?"

At this time, he finally turned around and cast his eyes on Noni who was still in a daze. At this moment, Noni also saw the appearance of this uninvited guest. He was a young man with blue hair. Although his eyes were sharp, he still had a childish look on his face. Obviously, he was not an adult...

"What? Are you scared?"

Hearing the question again, Nonie came back to her senses. Although she was surprised at the youth of the person in front of her, she quickly stood up, wiped her hands on the shelf behind her, and looked at the young man in front of her with some uneasiness.

The standard armed forces of the Destiny are the Valkyries. Although the person in front of him is very close to the average Valkyrie in age, he is obviously not a woman.