K424 of the Collapse World

In the past, he would never have dared to think about completing these delicate tasks in front of the pale zombies. But now, no matter how scared he was, he had to go through these psychologically torturous tasks again and again in order to survive...

In the final analysis, everything was the fault of Honkai. But now, what was the other reason that led to his current situation?

According to the young people's own thinking, this matter is clear enough...

“Those bastards…”

Cursing the few people who were supposed to be traveling with him, he took a few breaths, gently wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, raised his head, and slowly calmed his breathing.

Why was Changkong the only city to suffer such a disaster? Why did it happen to me?

If I had the ability to join a combat unit, why would I suffer such humiliation in a place like this?

He had thought about this more than once. The disaster of collapse created monsters of slaughter, but in contrast, there were heroes with superhuman strength. He had witnessed with his own eyes a girl who called herself a Valkyrie breaking the wing shell of a collapse beast with her bare hands, and then using the sharp wing shell to cut the collapse beast in half.

Later, the young man learned that the girl was a member of the armed forces of the ME Society. He had also dreamed of receiving training and becoming such a strong person, but that was just a fantasy after all...

Turning our attention back to the task at hand, only the final area remains.

At the deepest part of this metal space, there is an additional metal wall. Its material is obviously different from the ordinary metal walls outside. The young man knows that this super-era artificial metal called "imitation soul steel" has strength and toughness dozens of times that of tungsten steel alloy. From the beginning, he was told that the most dangerous collapsed creatures in area C-11 were contained in this space...

Of course, that is also included in the inspection work.

However, the young man's expression was a little subtle when he was about to face the so-called most dangerous Honkai creature. This was not his first time here, so he naturally knew what kind of existence was there.

481 Whisper in the Dark>>

He walked forward, picked up his ID card, and gently placed it on the sensor which was different from the previous one.

"Didi...Authentication passed, c-11-r has entered access mode, default alert level activated - has entered level alert state"

In the center of the light golden metal wall, it slowly turned into particles and spread outwards like floating quicksand. After the authority authentication was completed, a door opened on this flat wall.

Such technology could only be seen in science fiction movies in the past. But now, young people are not interested in these things.

The impact of the new concept has subtly changed the basic concepts of the survivors in Changkong City.

Behind the door opened by the particle metal was a space completely different from the previous area. Behind the integrated precision instruments and cables was a small building made of metal and glass-like transparent crystals.

On the first floor, you can see ordinary household furniture placed inside. Compared with the isolation room for Honkai creatures, this place is more like a special detention room built for humans.

A transparent crystal layer of unknown material divides the detention room in half. In the compartment on the left is a petite figure with long red hair, wearing a simple white lab uniform and a delicate metal collar around her neck. At this moment, she is sitting on a chair with bare feet, holding a thick book in her hands.

Although on the surface, the figure in the compartment is just a human girl of about fourteen years old, but there are still some parts of her that do not belong to humans...

On top of her head, there was a pair of pointed red wolf ears, the same color as her fiery red hair. In addition, there was a furry tail extending from her tailbone, hanging softly on the chair, swaying slowly and rhythmically.

"I win, Yuno. This time, that guy came to check alone."

Before the young man walked in completely, the red-haired girl spoke softly, slammed the thick book with "Hamlet" on the cover in her hand, put it back on the bookshelf next to her, then turned her head and cast her gaze to the other side of the transparent isolation layer.

On the other side of the cubicle was a purple-haired girl who looked about 16 or 17 years old. She was wearing the same lab uniform as the wolf-eared girl, and had the same metal ring around her neck. Several green vines extended from her lower back, as if they were part of her body, and were controlled by her to coil around the ground, supporting the girl's body in a semi-lying position.

"Long-winded."

She frowned at the red-haired girl's laughter, muttered in response, and threw the pile of strangely shaped knitted fabrics in her hand back into the basket at her feet. The next moment, the coiled vines under her body quickly unfolded flexibly, and the purple-haired girl fell back to the ground.

The girl with wolf ears smiled, not caring about her cellmate's indifference. She gently jumped off the chair and walked towards the isolation layer in the direction of the metal wall. Looking at the young man who was slowly approaching, she raised her hand and gently knocked on the glass layer.

"Hey~ Are you here to check the equipment today too, bro?"

"..."

Ignoring the red-haired girl behind the glass layer, the young man remembered the training content when he first entered the ME company. For such intelligent Honkai creatures, you must never listen to anything they say, and it is best not to talk to them at all. These beings have the memory and wisdom of the human period, but they are completely obedient to the will of Honkai, and they are completely enemies of human civilization...

Yes, this existence with powerful strength is the enemy of mankind.

In fact, inspectors like them were also explicitly forbidden to talk to Honkai creatures. Moreover, during the access mode of C-11-R, the system in the isolation room would automatically turn on the video and audio recording functions. If they rashly talked to the other party or did something bad, they would definitely be punished.

"Hey~ This is already our third meeting, right? My name is Charlotte. Until now, I still don't know your name~"

(The Honkai alarm system is normal, the energy sensing field is operating, and the soul steel confinement device is functioning normally...)

Silently reciting the progress of his work in his mind, the young man ignored the cute girl with wolf ears. He just mechanically confirmed the status of the instruments, pretending not to hear the refreshing and gentle voice.

(They are just monsters with human appearance. They are no different from those Honkai beasts!)

On the other side, Yuno sneered, and looking at Charlotte who was trying her best to attract the young man's attention, she couldn't help but reveal a mocking look.

"Little fox, don't waste your energy. Even if you can seduce someone and they pay attention to you, there's no point, right?"

"I'm free anyway, why not do something fun? Besides... I've told you so many times, Fenrir is not a fox. With those furry ears and tail, he looks like a wolf!"

Charlotte smiled bitterly, no longer paying attention to Yuno on the other side, and turned again to the young man who was about to finish his work not far away.

"Brother, you don't seem to like talking. People who are usually taciturn seem to be more likely to be isolated and excluded. I wonder if you have ever encountered something similar?"

"...!"

The young man's body trembled, but he remained calm and pretended to continue working. However, his clumsy cover-up naturally did not escape the eyes of the judge-level strongman.

The red-haired girl raised a smile, she slowly approached the glass crystal layer, opened her pink lips slightly, exhaled, and a layer of mist covered the crystal clear layer.

This is perfectly normal in the cold December in the Far East.

"Haha~ Humans are really complicated creatures. They fight and hurt each other for no reason. Even if they have a common enemy, they can never unite. Since you are also a member of me, you should know the relationship between destiny and anti-entropy, right? The crisis of the survival of the race is imminent, but the two major organizations are still fighting each other. Do you know why?"

"..."

The young man still stared down.

Although he was not looking at the display screen of the instrument, his interest had been aroused unconsciously. He began to hold his breath and listen carefully to every word Charlotte said.

At this moment, the young man's simple and easy-to-understand expression had already exposed his thoughts in front of the red-haired girl.

"That's because... the existence of some individuals among humans affects the overall relationship. Those people can be called scum and scum, who destroy the harmony and order of the whole for their own personal interests. Whether it's the top leaders or the grassroots workers, as long as there are such people, the human race will never be harmonious... In this regard, you should have a deep understanding, right?"

"..."

The basis for establishing the desire to communicate is emotional resonance. In this regard, Charlotte has already achieved half of her success.

"The equipment inspection should have been done by a team, right? I used to be a member of Anti-Entropy, so I know this. But you came here alone twice in a row... Based on your personality, it's not hard to guess what happened here~"

The girl spoke softly, not caring about the young man's silence. She casually ran her fingertips across the mist left on the glass, leaving a blurry wet mark...

"How pitiful... At such a young age, you are forced to face the dark side of society. The collapse has already taken away many important things from you, right? Such a thing has happened to you again. But in the final analysis, this is also related to your own cowardice, right?"

"Bastard! What did you say?!"

The moment his sore spot was touched, the young man's eyes suddenly widened and he roared subconsciously!

As a prisoner of Honkai creatures, how dare you mock me in such a tone?

He turned around and ran forward, punching the glass with all his might! The young man didn't realize that his current position just blocked the camera behind him that was monitoring the red-haired girl. He just gritted his teeth and glared directly at the red-haired girl's amber pupils that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

"you......"

The young man was about to speak, but he seemed to have discovered something and raised his eyebrows. He looked at Charlotte, whose lips moved slightly behind the mist, and lowered his head slightly following the girl's gaze.

The next moment, his pupils contracted instantly...

482 Theresa's "Crisis"

"Hey, man, something's up."

In a dim room full of display screens, the man sitting in front of the integrated light screen suddenly frowned, stared at a large image panel on the screen, and patted his companion on the shoulder.

"what happens?"

"Inside the C-11 area warehouse, the inspection staff violated the rules and communicated with the containment subject."

Looking at the young man who was throwing himself against the glass wall in the picture, the man answered calmly. Although he discovered the obvious violation of the rules by the lower-level staff, there was no panic on his face.

Another man pulled out a chip from the terminal and put it into the controller in front of him, and soon connected to the monitor in area C-11-R. However, looking at the picture on the light screen, he frowned and tapped his earphones.

"No sound?"

"It's not the equipment, it's just that they're not talking right now."

The man next to him sneered and raised his hand to adjust the real-time surveillance recording of area C-11 to external speaker mode. But as he said, apart from the faint noise, the only sound was the young man's slightly heavy breathing.

"That's right, the monitoring device is turned on by default. So what did they just talk about? That kid looked really angry."

"Nothing. Miss Fenrir was instilling those meaningless poisonous chicken soup into the boy again, and he got angry for no reason today. So far, they haven't had any formal communication. This is the recording just now. Do you want to listen to it?"

"No, wait a minute."

Looking at the two people standing inside and outside the glass in the video, the man who put down his headphones signaled his companions to stop arguing and looked carefully at the girl with red hair and wolf ears. According to the explanation of the upper management, the former executor who was dismissed, Fenrir, was the most dangerous person who needed to be guarded against in the C-11 area.

As a middle-level member of Anti-Entropy, he had naturally heard of this famous neutral executor. Fenrir was a mysterious member stationed at the Antarctic base, and was said to be one of the early veterans of the Anti-Entropy organization. But now, she has been imprisoned in the ME Society by the leader of Anti-Entropy for treason. What happened here, he was not qualified to know with his authority.

The man narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the girl who had partially transformed into a beast due to the Houkai energy mutation. Because of the special existences such as Tesla and Einstein in the organization, he did not dare to underestimate this Lord Fenrir because of his petite and weak appearance.

(So, what exactly do you want to do?)

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The young man's fist landed on the crystal layer, making only a dull sound.

The maximum punching force of an average adult is about 100-150 kilograms. This force can break some ordinary glass, but for this special "glass" that can theoretically block the Judgment-level Honkai beast, this force cannot even reach the minimum error value of the impact when calculating.

Moreover, like him

The force of a young man who was not yet an adult and did not exercise often would be much lower than this value. When he punched the glass wall with anger, the impact force caused was not enough to trigger even the lowest level of false alarm in the alarm system.

However, to the young man, none of this mattered. At this moment, his eyes were fixed on the small area slightly below the glass wall, which was covered with a light mist. On it, there were a few tiny but easily recognizable words written by the girl with her fingertips...

"this......"

"Ah~ Are you angry already? In other words, my guess just now was actually correct?"

The thin mist left by the exhaled breath disappeared in a flash. Looking at the dazed young man, Charlotte smiled and blinked. Her furry ears trembled quickly, and a hint of contemptuous mockery appeared on her sweet and lovely little face.

"Isn't it? You are facing unfair treatment but you don't have the courage to resist. You are doing four times the workload. The adjective 'cowardly' should be the most suitable for you, right?"

"..."

"Haha... a 'weakling' like you who is truly the same inside and out, deserves to be at the bottom no matter what environment you are in. Unless you can get some small opportunities..."

Having said this, she paused for a moment, looked at the young man's increasingly complicated eyes behind the glass, sighed, turned her head as if she had lost interest, and left the glass wall that blocked the exit.

"Well... but opportunities are not available to everyone, let alone a pathetic person like you. If you don't have enough awareness, even if you get an opportunity, you will just let it slip away, right? However, when you are free, it is allowed to daydream like this~"

"Hey you......"

"Let's stop chatting here. I have lost interest in you as you are now, little brother."

Charlotte waved her hand slightly with her back to the young man, then sat back on a chair not far away and took out the thick book she was reading from the bookshelf behind her.

"..."

After a brief silence, the young man closed his eyes, turned around, returned to the equipment placement area where he was working, and continued his inspection work absent-mindedly.

The few small words that just came into his sight kept circling in his mind, unable to dissipate for a long time.

For a frustrated young man like him, it was an irresistible temptation...

After hastily finishing the remaining inspection work, he could not help but look back at the red-haired girl sitting in front of the desk. Although the other party no longer turned her head to look at him, the young man knew that the strange words the girl just said were a hint to him.

(Seize the opportunity...? But...)

In confusion, he slowly walked towards the exit of the C-11-R isolation area and left the cell built for the Herrscher.

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Elsewhere in the base, two men sitting in the surveillance area witnessed everything that had just happened.

"How do you think we should deal with this incident?"

As the young man left the isolation room, the alert status of Area C-11 was lifted. Looking at the terminal monitoring screen that had returned to silence, one of the men broke the silence.

"Although employee number n412t0047 had an illegal exchange with the subject, their conversation doesn't seem to constitute the concept of communication, right? Although Fenrir said a lot, the guy just knocked on the isolation layer and yelled."

"Um......"

Hearing his companion's laughing voice, the other man rubbed his temples. He could tell that his colleague was trying to make a big deal out of a small matter. But indeed, putting aside those rigid rules, judging only by the scene they just saw, the young man's violation did not constitute a serious act that endangered the organization, but was just a small mistake...

"No, it's better to just report it briefly. Although it's not a big deal, it still triggered our alarm. If there's a surprise inspection before the record expires... you understand, right?"

The man said seriously, and his companions nodded and showed expressions of approval when they heard his words.

"That's true. According to the regulations, this is the most appropriate way to deal with it. It's up to you. It's the same to me anyway."

He shook his head, put away his terminal, looked at the wolf-eared girl sitting quietly on the chair on the surveillance screen, and suddenly a smile that all men could understand appeared on his face.

"But, speaking of that boy, he was staring at Miss Fenrir from the glass just now. Do you think he has any evil intentions? Although Miss Fenrir is a Honkai infected body, her young and cute appearance is still lethal enough to young people like that..."

"..."