K424 of the Collapse World

At this moment, a woman rolled and crawled out of a corner, her face full of fear, as if something was chasing her from behind...

"Hey you……!"

Lan Feng had just stretched out his hand to that person and had just spoken when he saw a "monster" rushing out from behind the corner, knocking the woman to the ground. Amid the woman's shrill screams, the monster opened its mouth and bit her throat...

Lan Feng looked at the humanoid "monster" and couldn't help but open his eyes wide...

(Is that... a zombie? No... it's a dead soldier!)

Lan Feng just raised her hand which was glowing purple, wanting to help the woman, but a flash of black light behind her forced her to stop her movements and dodge the attack of the assassin girl by turning sideways.

Turning back again, the woman's neck had been bitten to pieces...

"Don't disturb the sacred transformation ceremony... It is her honor to be a follower of the Lord God."

Lan Feng lowered his head, his hair covering his eyes. The scene from a few hours ago flashed through his mind, and the voices and smiles of the villagers flashed through his mind quickly. Many people's faces were blurry, but their every move was a sign of kindness to him...

"What on earth happened in this village...?"

The calm voice reached the ears of the dead girl, but was met with a laugh from her.

“Don’t play dumb… How could you not know? Humph… You clearly have such a powerful gift, but you gave up on becoming a divine messenger… Then give up this power!”

Not noticing Lan Feng's abnormality, the death girl shouted and rushed towards the standing Lan Feng, raising her sickle and slashing at the silver-haired girl's waist!

"...I thought before... since you have consciousness and can communicate with me, you might be someone like Yaezakura... maybe we can understand each other..."

The silver-haired girl lowered her head and spoke softly, not paying any attention to the sickle blade that was getting closer and closer to her...

----when!!

"Eh…?"

The assassin girl Aimiye looked at her sickle, somewhat confused. The blow that should have cut the girl in half was inexplicably blocked by something...

A small purple hexagonal crystal appeared in the air at some point, right where the sickle's blade passed. It was covered with cracks under the impact of the sickle, but it also held it tightly...

Lan Feng raised his head, and his bone-chilled pupils seemed to be burning with blue flames...

"But now... it doesn't matter. No matter what you are... I'm telling you, you're dead!"

Ai Miye looked at the girl in front of her with some surprise. She could feel that the Honkai energy reaction around this girl suddenly changed drastically!

Looking at the silver-haired girl's slowly raised right hand, Ai Miye raised his sickle again...

"I see... You suppressed your own power... But do you think that will help?!"

A fleeting black light flashed by, splitting the flying purple crystal into two! But the next moment, the silver-haired girl followed! The dagger held upside down in her hand reflected a chilling light in the moonlight...

041 Her Lies

On the wasteland, Claire looked at the houses in the distance with a look of surprise on her face.

"I never thought... there would be a human settlement in a place like this..."

"Don't be careless, Claire. The strange Houkai reaction that Lieutenant Lucy mentioned came from this place."

Claire and Lillian, the two Valkyries who were originally only responsible for clearing the forest, came to this place that was not originally their mission area for a promise.

"Damn it... There's no communication signal here?! In this case... How can I receive Lieutenant Lucy's instructions?"

Claire tapped the communication device on her wrist, but found that it could not receive any signal. Obviously, this place was an area where the satellite signal of Tianming could not reach.

"What should we do... Lillian, if we continue like this, we'll lose our direction... Should we..."

Claire had a worried look on her face, and when she turned to her companion to ask for her opinion, she was suddenly pulled by Lillian and squatted down.

"Eh? What...?"

"Shh...! Something's wrong!"

Under the cover of night, Lillian held her breath and looked at the settlement shrouded in darkness ahead.

It seems that there is nothing wrong, but...

"Hey...Lillian, what is that?"

Claire frowned and stared at the vague shadows in front of her. Looking at those things hidden in the darkness, Claire couldn't help but feel nervous.

"It seems... the situation is beyond our ability. Those things are all deadly warriors..."

Lillian said solemnly. She was good at using long-range weapons and had better eyesight than Claire. She could naturally see clearly what those distorted figures gradually spreading out from the settlement were.

"What! This... This number of assassins?! What should we do?"

Faced with this situation, Claire was obviously panicking. She was used to following instructions, and if she was asked to make her own judgment, she would never be able to do it.

"We must report this to the higher-ups...! But, there might be some important clues in some village... And there's no signal here..."

Lillian's ability to handle crises is obviously better than Claire's, but she is in a dilemma at the moment.

To report? Or to explore?

If they choose to report, they must leave the area where no signal is received. Then, they may miss some important clues...

(No... the mission must be completed! And we must report to the higher-ups!)

Thinking of the previous failed mission, Lillian bit her lip with obvious unwillingness on her face.

I am a Valkyrie who is about to get the A-level qualification. How can I give up my mission again? ! How will other colleagues laugh at me? !

This was one of the few times Lillian was impulsive, and she couldn't accept her second failure.

"Claire... I have an idea. Let's split up into two groups. You go back and find a place where you can receive the signal and report to your superiors, while I will go into the settlement to investigate..."

"No! How can you do such a dangerous thing..."

Before Lillian finished speaking, Claire suddenly interrupted her. At this moment, looking at Claire's serious expression, Lillian suddenly felt that her excited brain calmed down.

(Yes... it's too dangerous. Why did I have such a brave thought? It's because I don't

Mature... Never mind, I'll just report it to the higher-ups. The mission is important, but it's better not to lose your life for such a small matter...)

Thinking of this, Lillian exhaled and was about to turn around and explain her plan to Claire...

"How can I leave that to you? I'll explore the village, and Lillian will report! I'm better than you at breaking through the enemy lines!"

"……what?"

Seeing Claire's eager face, Lillian was confused. (Eh...? Aren't you going to give up the mission? Why...?)

"Anyway! Leave the exploration mission to me. Lillian, go find a place with a signal!"

After saying this, Claire rushed out in one step, holding the composite knife Suzaku in her hand. Lillian stretched out her hand and was about to say something, but Claire had already run directly towards the village ahead.

"Eh...? This... Claire... you... you idiot!"

At this point, she had no choice but to run in the opposite direction of the village as planned.

Her slightly trembling hands revealed her current emotions...

(Please don't let anything happen to you, Claire...)

Bang-!

“Damn it…! What the hell is going on?!”

Mike took a steel pipe and smashed a man who rushed towards him to the ground. Looking at the body that was constantly twitching, Mike couldn't imagine that the friend who was still chatting with him a few hours ago suddenly became like this...

"Feel sorry……"

Mike took a step forward and swung the steel pipe in his hand with all his might. With the disgusting sound of flesh being stirred, the assassin's head shattered like a rotten watermelon.

"Why... did it suddenly become like this?! Is this the disaster you brought about, Lan Feng?"

Mike, who was already troubled by Lan Feng's affairs, naturally associated the matter with the silver-haired girl.

This settlement had been peaceful for many years. But after that girl arrived, troubles continued... So! It must be her fault. It's all her fault!

Looking at the staggering figures in the distance, Mike gritted his teeth and ran in the opposite direction.

“Damn it…Damn it…!”

He could see several residents being chased by the assassins, and a child being caught by the assassins and about to die. However, Mike did not dare to go forward to help them, because he did not dare to face those assassins...

Mike was lucky. There weren't too many dead soldiers on the road he was running for. All he could see were burning houses and corpses everywhere. They couldn't be called corpses, because who knows when they will stand up again...

"K...Kerry...?"

In a wooden house, Elena huddled in the corner. She raised her head tremblingly and looked at Kerry in the middle of the room.

The boy's appearance hadn't changed much. But looking at his calm and indifferent eyes, Elena felt that her brother had become an extremely strange person...

At Kerry's feet, several torn bodies were thrown in all directions. The dirty black blood covered the floor. Elena tried to shrink in the corner, but she still couldn't avoid being stained with the horrifying smell of blood.

At this moment, Kerry was holding a dead boy's neck and lifting him up. Even though the child screamed crazily and tore at Kerry's arm, he couldn't leave the slightest mark on the purple-black left arm...

"Hogg, have you become like this too...? I'm sorry... I'll let you go now..."

Kerry looked at his "friend" who was struggling in his hands, muttering to himself. He slowly tightened his palm and dug his fingers deep into the dead man's gray throat...

——Bang!

After grabbing it, he threw the dead boy up and slammed him to the ground! The wooden floor shattered, and amid the flying wood chips, Kerry stepped hard on the dead boy's spine! With a crisp sound, the dead boy's head tilted in a strange direction and stopped moving completely.

"Huh... Sister, it's okay now."

With a sigh of relief, Kerry turned around and walked towards Elena as he spoke.

"Lan Feng told me to control my emotions... Sister, I succeeded! Even in a fight like this, I can stay calm!"

Kerry said happily, and stretched out his hand to Elena, who was squatting in the corner and trembling. At this moment, Elena's pupils were filled with fear...

041 Her Lies >>

"don't want--!"

The girl swung her delicate palm violently and slapped away Kerry's blood-stained arm!

--Snapped!

There was a slight sound, and as he looked at his left hand being pushed away, Kerry's smiling expression froze.

Elena's strength was very weak, and it was impossible for her to move Kerry's arm.

When Elena hit him, she seemed to lose her strength and let the weak force push her away...

"Sister... why...?"

Elena was startled when she heard Kerry's trembling voice. When she saw Kerry's outstretched hand, she saw Kerry slaughtering those assassins in her mind. She was struck by a speechless fear and subconsciously waved her hand...

"Sister...are you afraid of me?"

"No...it's not like that...Kerry! I just..."

Seeing Kerry's dimming eyes, Elena hurriedly explained, but after saying this, she was speechless.

Yes, wasn’t that fear I felt just now?

"I'm sorry... Kerry, I didn't mean it... It's okay now! It's really okay..."

"Sister, do you hate this kind of Keri? Then... can I just not fight...?"

Kerry's deep voice made Elena's eyes widen...

(Right...! If Chris returns to his innocent self, I won't be so scared, right...?)

But... in the situation just now, if Kerry hadn't fought back violently, the two of them would have been torn to pieces by those monsters immediately, right... ?

What should I do...?

Tears began to well up in her eyes, and Elena suddenly hated herself for being like this, crying all the time. This time was the same, as when Kerry was infected, she could do nothing but passively wait for everything to happen.

Elena opened her mouth but couldn't utter a word. The scene fell silent for a moment.

"elder sister……"

Suddenly, Kerry broke the silence.

"Sister Elena... I like you very much... I really want to become what you want me to be, and then live like before..."

Keri stroked his left wrist and touched the purple-black skin of his left arm with his right hand. It felt as hard and cold as steel. But his left arm had almost no feeling.

Putting his left arm behind his back, the boy's childish face suddenly became serious.

"But, I have something I have to do now!"

Hearing Kerry's sudden high voice, Elena raised her head in astonishment and looked into Kerry's eyes. Just now, she had not dared to look directly into Kerry's cold eyes after he got into the battle.