K424 of the Collapse World

At this time, Kiana, who was walking beside the wheelchair, spoke up. She raised her hand and pointed at

Directions to St. Freya's Medical Center.

"Little Xi'er's sister... Miss Hill, who has the same name as her, has a much stronger power of creation than Sister Shilis. If she helps, she should be able to heal Wendy's leg, right?"

"Ah! If you hadn't said it, I would have almost forgotten that there was such a person in our school... But that girl can't even cure herself. The last time she came back with Sister Shirley, she had been looking sick. She stayed in the treatment center for several months, but she didn't recover..."

After being reminded by Kiana of a certain regular visitor to the medical clinic, Diana curled her lips, obviously disdainful of the healer who couldn't heal himself.

"Don't say that, Diana. The withering and creation of the Herrscher of Death increase and decrease at the same time. Hill consumed a lot of the power of creation because of some things before, which caused a huge surge in the withering energy. In order not to threaten other people around her, she used her body to bear these dangerous corrosive energies. The impact caused by these withering forces cannot be repaired by the same source of creative power."

At this time, Shirley explained softly. Thinking of everything that girl had done for her, she couldn't help but feel guilty. The smooth transaction between her and Otto was entirely due to her efforts. But she, after using Hill, threw it aside and ignored it. She was just like a scumbag...

"Sister Shilis, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing. But it just so happens that after lunch, let's go visit Hill, shall we? Wendy, the Miss Hill I mentioned to you before is your predecessor as a Herrscher. After she recovers from her weakness, her perfect power of creation should be able to heal you... Here we are."

After crossing the path, Shiris took Wendy's wheelchair from Diana and pushed her into the door of the restaurant area.

"So, what are we going to eat?"

"Ah~ About this, Sister Shiris, I have a very good recommendation... Hehe, Sister, you should know what Sister Yaezakura's part-time job is at Saint Freya, right?"

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However, at the strong recommendation of her two younger sisters, Shiris came to a window in a corner, but did not see the pink-haired girl selling rice balls.

"Huh? No one's here... Miss Sakura isn't at work today?"

"Ugh...Nothing to eat?"

Wendy covered her stomach with a look of disappointment. Because of the incident in New Zealand yesterday, she hadn't eaten for a whole day and a half. When Jizi was leveling her up just now, she was too shy to ask Jizi for food, and only when she met Shilis did she stammer and make this request.

Although Wendy no longer needs to eat after becoming a Honkai creature, it is not so easy to change her long-standing habits. Her hunger is not real hunger, but just the habitual movement of the stomach and psychological effects. However, even if it is just this, this feeling of hunger is very uncomfortable.

"Oh no! I actually forgot! Yae Sakura and Bella went to Changkong City today. It seems that they were helping their uncle... No, they were helping Uncle Raiden Ryoma to do some weapon testing. They went out with Miss Lillian since yesterday! I actually forgot such an important thing..."

Diana slapped her forehead, and her originally expectant expression gradually turned into disappointment. For some reason, both she and Kiana had a special liking for the big rice balls made by Yae Sakura. Even though there was no seasoning added, they subconsciously felt that they were delicious, as if it was some kind of instinct left in their blood...

Hearing this, Shirley shook her head with a little regret.

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"So, she just skipped her job here? Uh... well, to be honest, the term 'going to work' isn't quite right for her. It seems that Yaesakura didn't join St. Freya's catering team. She just did it out of interest. I asked Theresa to prepare a position for her here."

Talking about Yaezakura, Shiris remembered that she had seldom had any interactions with her since she brought her back to St. Freya Academy from Changkong City. She had originally wanted to take the opportunity of dinner to say hello to this long-lost friend, but now it seems that there will be no chance.

However, as long as they can live happily in Saint Freya, there is no need to worry about anything.

Patting Wendy's shoulder gently, Hillary looked at the girl's confused look and couldn't help feeling a little funny.

"Don't worry, Wendy. Even if Miss Sakura isn't here, we can still eat something else. We definitely won't let you go hungry..."

As she spoke, she pushed Wendy towards another store. The restaurant area of ​​Saint Freya was more than just a building. After all, Saint Freya was a Valkyrie Academy reformed by Theresa. Naturally, it was not completely militarized like other departments of the Sky Mandate, and even the food was completely standardized. Here, all types of

You can find delicious food basically...

"Come on, Wendy. Order whatever you want! The bill will be on Theresa's head anyway, so you can eat as much as you want~"

Shirley smiled and handed a menu she had just received to Wendy, then sat back on the chair on the other side, looked at the girls surrounding Wendy, smiled slightly, and then fell into deep thought.

She had really been away for too long. In the more than a month in New Zealand, she had basically not contacted Saint Freya and Anti-Entropy, so she knew almost nothing about the fortification of the ME Society.

It seems that I have to take some time to go to ME Club and talk to Raiden Ryoma in person in the few days before Kiana's birthday.

After a while, the girls ordered what they wanted to eat and handed the menu back to Shilis. After taking it, the latter thought for a while, and finally ordered a cup of Theresa's favorite bitter melon juice on a whim, and handed the order to the waiter beside her.

"Ah?! Sister Shilis, you... do you really want to drink that? I've tried that drink from my aunt before, and it's not something for humans to drink!"

"It's okay, it's okay. No matter how strange it tastes, at least it's non-toxic and harmless to the human body. Besides, since Theresa likes to drink it so much, it must have some unique taste."

Smiling at Diana's astonishment, Shirley stretched and gently closed her eyes.

I'll leave all the annoying work to be dealt with later. As for now... it's enough to just quietly enjoy this rare moment of happiness.

"Little brother, do you really not need our help in the inspection of area C-11?"

"I do not need it, thank you."

"Are you sure? I received an order from above to assist you in your work. And I heard that all your original team members, except you, have been transferred to other areas, right? Do you want to complete the team's workload alone?"

In the underground experimental area of ​​the former ME company, the man in the worker's uniform repeatedly confirmed with the young man in front of him with a helpless expression. However, no matter what he said, he was still rejected without hesitation by the other party.

"Yes, that's true, but your team doesn't need to help with this work, uncle. As I said just now, in the past few months, the inspection of the C-11 area of ​​the institute has always been done by me alone."

The young man shook his head, a brief struggle flashed in his eyes, and his tone was once again full of determination. As for his insistence, the man opposite him sighed with a wry smile, touched his head in confusion, and still couldn't understand the young man's decision.

They came to help the young man complete the work, not out of enthusiasm, but because of a special order from their superiors. For this purpose, they also specially adjusted their team's working hours to ensure that the workload would not exceed the standard. But now, this young man who was supposed to be assisted by them has rejected their team's assistance?

However, even if this task was assigned by the higher-ups, if the person involved refused to assist, it seemed unnecessary for them to take responsibility? Who among these natives of the Collapse Zone who had no choice but to join the Anti-Entropy would not want to work less and have more time to rest?

"Okay, Brother Suzuki, if you insist on making this arrangement, then we'll go back first, okay?"

"Well, please go back, uncle. I am the only one who can handle the work here."

After saying this, the young man turned around, used his ID card to open the metal door of the C-11 containment area, and walked in. In response, the man shrugged helplessly, and turned away without saying anything more. He was still a little scared of the C-11 restricted area that was said to contain countless Honkai creatures, so it would be best if he could avoid going there...

On the other side, after entering the isolation area, the young man did not go to the controller in front of each row of cubicles. He ignored the instruments that needed to be checked for work and went straight to the innermost c-11-r area, using his authority as a worker to activate the soul-simulating steel prison door.

Walking into the door made of particle metal, the young man's eyes fluctuated and he walked towards the extremely familiar transparent isolation layer with heavy steps.

"As expected... you are alone today too, little brother~"

The moment he entered the room, Charlotte's smiling voice reached his ears. Looking at her through the glass, the young man saw the confidence and pride of the wolf-eared girl, who seemed to know everything.

She had already guessed that she would do this...

"Ah."

It doesn’t matter… As long as I can get what I want, what does it matter even if I know I’m being used?

He walked to the glass layer without paying attention to the surveillance device that was automatically turned on. Having made such a decision, why should he care about these violations?

"I've brought what you asked for! Now, it's time for you to fulfill your promise, Charlotte!"

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In a city shrouded in the disaster of collapse, what is the most important thing?

Is it weapons that can repel monsters, or food and water that can help you survive? Or a safe shelter? Perhaps in a sense, for certain people, these are all necessary. However, for some ordinary people, all they want is to live with their family and friends.

However, this simple and pure wish is impossible for Suzuki Fumi, an ordinary survivor of Changkong City. He witnessed his classmates and teachers turned into zombie-like bloodthirsty monsters, and also witnessed his home turned into ruins in the invasion of Honkai Beast.

He had also fantasized that his family had happened to escape somewhere else. But after being rescued by the fighters of the ME Society and taken to a temporary shelter, he gave up this ridiculous hope and completely closed his mind when he saw that there were only about a thousand survivors left in Changkong City, which once had a population of one million.

I am completely alone...

Later, the ME company, which called itself the anti-Honkai organization "Anti-Entropy", was willing to protect their safety and arranged for survivors like them to change their names and move to other places. However, Suzuki Fumi refused all these conditions. His final choice was to join the so-called Anti-Entropy organization and become a member of the combat force. As a young man who has not yet gotten rid of adolescent fantasies, after witnessing a silver-haired girl easily killing a monster, his yearning for that magical power has become his only pursuit now.

If I had that kind of power, I wouldn't have to be afraid of those monsters anymore, but could hunt them like the silver-haired girl I met at the beginning, and prevent more victims from suffering the same fate as me! So, whether it's for revenge or to live better in this broken world, power is a necessary thing...!

However, despite the wish, the reality is cruel. Although Anti-Entropy allows survivors of the Honkai like him to join, after a physical examination, his body's so-called Honkai adaptability is not enough to support Suzuki Fumi to become such a strengthened warrior. Having signed the agreement, he no longer has the option of withdrawing. So, the job he was eventually assigned to was the current patrolman in the experimental area.

After losing everything and even his last dream, he just kept doing these repetitive tasks like a zombie. Even the bullying and exclusion from his teammates rarely caused him to have emotional fluctuations. After becoming a member of Anti-Entropy, if he leaves again, he will also lose the protection of ME Club. How far can a powerless ordinary person like him go in the ruined and ravaged land of Changkong City?

Everything is over, whether it is my life or my hope for the future. As expected, fantasy is just fantasy after all. I am not the protagonist of a comic book, but just an ordinary person. It is only natural that I have such an ending.

He kept this thought in mind day after day. However, he thought he would spend his life in a muddle, but a chance opportunity gave him a chance to turn things around...

That was a girl imprisoned in the Honkai Isolation Zone, right in the inspection area that Suzuki Fumi was in charge of. People imprisoned in such a place were naturally not normal humans. As long as you look at the wolf ears on the top of the red-haired girl's head and the big tail extending from her coccyx, you can easily know this fact.

In addition to the red-haired girl, there was also a relatively silent purple-haired girl. Like the red-haired girl, the vines growing on her back were enough to show that she was abnormal.

Obviously, they were all Honkai creatures, but for some reason they retained their sanity and ability to think. As a low-level worker, Suzuki was naturally not qualified to know these things.

Suzuki Fumi completely cut off contact with those middle-aged men after seeing through the true nature of his group members a long time ago. In the few months since he joined the ME Club, that girl was the only one who took the initiative to talk to him. However, due to the rules of the containment area, he could not respond to anything the girl said. Therefore, every time he came to check this area, Suzuki could hear the girl's one-sided chatter. Suzuki did not dislike this, but gradually became more and more curious about this girl. In particular, some of the girl's words seemed to have seen through his thoughts, which made him resonate and agree with them, but because of the restrictions of the rules, he could not easily open his mouth to talk to her...

From those words, Suzuki gradually felt that this girl was not a Honkai beast who only knew how to kill. She had her own values ​​and worldview, and had a wonderful and unique understanding of some things. Obviously, although her body had changed, her soul was still a real human being.

Since she is a Honkai creature with humanity and intelligence, why is she imprisoned?

As these doubts fermented in his heart, Suzuki began to realize something. Why was this girl imprisoned in the deepest part of the containment area, and in such an extremely high-tech cell? In addition, there were so many energy suppression devices set up, and even a collar made of "Soul Steel" metal was shackled around her neck. Why was this?

Suzuki could think of only one answer, that is, because she was very strong and had the power to control even those powerful

That's the strength that even the anti-entropy fighters are afraid of! That's why he was imprisoned in such a place, and he was not even allowed to talk to irrelevant people.

However, judging from the high-end daily necessities placed in the girl's cell, she was obviously not a Honkai creature that was simply captured and taken in. Such treatment was more like the treatment that a powerful person would suffer after being captured...

There are more than one anti-Honkai organizations in the world, and there are also human warriors who have mastered the power of Honkai. This is the knowledge that Suzuki was instilled with on the first day he joined Anti-Entropy. Living in a modern democratic country with freedom of speech, Suzuki, like many young people, knows that those formal organizations and the government of his country are not as bright as they seem. Under the subtle influence of these conspiracy theories, and thinking back to the strange expression of the Kerry executive when he talked about Charlotte, he began to identify himself with the Anti-Entropy organization he is in now.

Since there is more than one anti-Honkai organization in the world, and they are constantly fighting each other, then, could this Miss Charlotte who is imprisoned by Anti-Entropy be a member of another anti-Honkai organization, imprisoned by the hostile Anti-Entropy for some complicated reasons?

In these messy speculations, Suzuki's perception of this wolf-eared girl gradually changed from a rational Honkai creature to a being closer to humans. Under this premise, when the girl proposed a "trade" condition to him, Suzuki fell into a fierce ideological struggle...

The last time they met, the girl used the mist created by the heat through the glass to write a line of words in front of him.

"I can give you the power you desire! As long as you are willing to do one thing for me..."

Suzuki was not surprised that the wise red wolf could see through his thoughts. What made him hesitate was the conditions proposed by the girl. Helping her would give him a chance to rekindle his dream, but this would also mean betraying Anti-Entropy, betraying the organization that saved him from the collapse and provided him with shelter. However, Anti-Entropy was also the place where his ideals were shattered and he fell into despair.

What to do was all up to Suzuki Fumi. However, after a long conversation, he realized that Charlotte might not be the evil side of Honkai, and the balance in his heart tilted slightly...

Since humans can use the power of Honkai to become powerful warriors, then do I also have the opportunity to become as powerful as her?

"I've brought what you asked for! Now, it's time for you to fulfill your promise, Charlotte!"

Suzuki slightly opened his hands, showing a piece of tender green sapling in front of the wolf-eared girl, and said loudly. At this moment, the monitoring area device that automatically turned on in the isolation room recorded all his actions and sounds! At this moment, before the shocked staff in the monitoring room could press the alarm button, in the C-11-R isolation area, the purple-haired girl opposite Charlotte's compartment slowly opened her eyes.

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"Go ahead, Yuno!"

"You don't need to tell me."

As Charlotte shouted, the purple-haired girl on the opposite side instantly raised her hand and aimed at the tender green seedling in Suzuki's palm. As the Honkai energy was released, the indicator light of the metal collar on Yuno's neck instantly turned red! Then, the soul steel fluctuations and strong electric shocks automatically released by the collar made her kneel on the ground with her eyes wide open in pain...

"Uhh—!!"

However, although the collar's restriction was triggered, her goal had been achieved. In the blink of an eye, the green seedling in Suzuki's hand expanded and mutated, forming dense, twisted vines that stabbed out in all directions like an explosion, piercing through the mainframe of each console with incredible precision.

Honkai energy is a type of energy whose true nature is unknown. It can corrode more than just living organisms. Even inorganic matter without life, or even electronic networks, will produce some unpredictable results after coming into contact with certain forms of Honkai energy...

The next moment, the flashing warning lights in the isolation room stopped quietly, Yuno's neck collar also stopped emitting waves, and everything around fell into dead silence.

Looking at the intertwined vines in front of him, although Suzuki was not hurt, he was frightened by the sharp vines that brushed past him and broke into a cold sweat. He raised his head stiffly and stared blankly at the wolf-eared girl behind the glass, only to find that she was also looking at him with a smile on her face.

"It looks like you've made your decision, bro."

“What…what exactly is this…?”

"These vines? This is Yuno's ability. Although this special glass material is composed of ultra-high-density crystal layers, atomic-level particles cannot pass through it. However, there are large gaps between it and the metal plate. The spores produced by Yuno can go out from these places and spread to the space on the other side."

Seeing the young man's incredulous expression, Charlotte explained with a smile. Then, she gently moved her wrists, and a sharp little canine tooth was revealed at the corner of her slightly raised mouth.

"Using the plants you brought as a medium, Yuno activated all the spores in the air and created this through the blocking crystal layer.

"They used the corrosiveness of the collapse to destroy the control system and paralyze the alarm in the monitoring area. This way, the collar cannot be activated normally and they cannot take measures in the first place."

As she spoke, Charlotte's red hair glowed like a flame. Strands of bright red lines began to spread across Charlotte's arms, and sharp hooked nails slowly extended from her pink fingertips. As the red lines filled in, they turned into a bright blood red...

"Humph... How pathetic! Even though there have been so many lessons learned from the past, humans today are still completely ignorant of the horror of Honkai!"

——Swish!!

The blood-red light tore through the space! With the crisp sound of glass breaking, the composite crystal layer in front of Suzuki, which was as strong as superalloy, was completely torn apart by Charlotte's nails! The glittering crystal fragments splashed out, accurately avoiding Suzuki standing outside, and scattered all around.

"Although I just want to use you to escape, I made a promise to you after all... Now, are you ready, brother? The price to pay for obtaining the power of Honkai is not small, and the success rate is not very high for men..."

Charlotte leaned out from behind the broken crystal layer, looked at the young man in front of her with a complicated expression, and smiled and gently brushed his cheek with her fingertips. Suzuki could feel the extremely terrifying energy attached to the girl's nails, and the extreme sense of crisis that came from biological instinct almost suffocated him. However, in contrast to the danger, this overwhelming power made him yearn for it.

This is... the power of collapse!

"I... I already have no way out! After doing this, the Anti-Entropy people will definitely not forgive me. Even if I didn't betray Anti-Entropy, I would still make this choice! Rather than rotting like garbage in a place like this, I would rather take this chance!"

Suzuki's voice was trembling, but the fear in his violently fluctuating pupils began to slowly dissipate...

"At this point, I have nothing to worry about. Miss Charlotte, I am willing to accept this power. No matter what the cost, no matter what I become, I will become as strong as you, and then hunt down those monsters that destroyed our home with my own hands!"

Seeing the genuine awareness in Suzuki's eyes, Charlotte was stunned for a moment, then a look of approval began to emerge in her eyes, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise...

"No matter what the cost, no matter what you become, you must become stronger...? Haha... hehe~ You're so bold to say that. Most of those bored young people living in peacetime can say such things lightly, but for someone like you who has witnessed the collapse with your own eyes, it is rare to have the courage to face such a monster..."

"Hey! Charlotte, what do you want to do?! Do you really want to fulfill that inexplicable promise? Those guys will take action soon, and we don't have much time!"

Looking at her companion's actions, Yuno, who was still trapped in the cell, lay on the crystal layer and shouted anxiously. Although she was a pseudo-hersr, she was not as powerful as Charlotte to break such a composite crystal layer. She could only urge this cellmate to rescue her.

"Ahhh~ Yuno-chan, don't worry. The efficiency of those miscellaneous guards is not that high. In addition, the alarm system is paralyzed now. It will take them at least ten minutes to gather. This time is more than enough for us to escape."