K424 of the Collapse World

"I can't fight with this burden... In other words, I can only take care of him first. If it only takes a while, Lan Feng should be fine. After all, she is stronger than me... But, Sister Elena..."

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Lillian stood on a rock far away from the village, unable to hide the anxiety on her face.

She raised her head and looked towards the west. If her guess was correct, Claudia would come from that direction, and by then, she would definitely bring a detector to find Claire's trace...

Lillian just contacted the headquarters and heard that the warheads used in the launch had been changed to micro-nuclear warheads that were slightly less powerful but more harmful to the environment. In order to reduce pollution, the power of the warheads was controlled to destroy targets within a two-kilometer radius. Although this range was slightly smaller,

It was enough to completely cover the village. As for the radiation, under the protection of the Valkyrie armor, it should be within the tolerance range.

(As long as we find Claire and quickly get out of the explosion area, we can...)

Thinking of this, she glanced at the time displayed below the eyepiece and was immediately shocked.

The timer showed that it was already 58 minutes! And... the so-called one hour was only an approximate time, which meant that the missiles might arrive later, or they might turn that area into ashes right now!

“An hour is almost up…! What should I do?! Why hasn’t Colonel Claudia arrived yet…”

However, it was obvious that even if Claudia arrived now, they would not have enough time to search. Thinking of the companion she had spent many years with, tears welled up in Lillian's eyes.

"If this continues... Claire will..."

"Eh? What will happen to me?"

Suddenly, a familiar and careless voice came from behind. Lillian turned around in surprise, and what she saw was a figure that was exactly the same as the one in her mind.

Claire was holding a girl with a broken arm in her arms and looking at Lillian with a smile.

"Claire...?"

"Well! Mission accomplished, I'm back."

"Why are you……?"

Lillian had an expression of disbelief on her face. Suddenly, she felt tears in the corners of her eyes and turned her head quickly.

"We've successfully found the survivors, so there's no need to stay any longer... Hmm? Lillian, what's wrong with you?"

"Uh... nothing."

Seeing Lillian trying hard to hold back her tears, Claire smiled.

"Lillian, we haven't seen each other for just a few hours. Are you so worried about me? Hmm~ Lillian really likes me. How about marrying me..."

Just like before, Claire said wantonly. Suddenly, seeing Lillian walking towards him with her head down, Claire secretly thought that she had gone too far, and quickly shrank her body and lowered her head. Usually at this time, she would be beaten by Lillian in anger...

"Fool……"

The fist did not fall as expected. Claire opened her eyes and saw the girl in front of her crying...

048 Meeting under the Moon>>

"Okay... I'm back safely, right? So... we should be optimistic about everything..."

"Woooo..."

She wanted to reach out and wipe away Lillian's tears, but Claire found helplessly that she couldn't free her hands while holding the unconscious Elena. She could only rub her cheek against the girl's face gently.

"It's all right now. I can receive news while on the way. The missile attack will arrive soon. Although this place is far enough away, we should stay as far away as possible. Nuclear radiation is not so pleasant..."

"Um……"

At this moment, the roles of the two people seemed to have been reversed. Claire was the one giving orders, and Lillian just lowered her head and followed her.

In the distance, high in the sky, where the naked eye cannot see clearly, a dark purple fighter plane was suspended in mid-air. There was obvious damage on the wing, but it was still barely usable.

Through the screen on the fighter plane, Claudia silently looked at the two girls on the ground. She had arrived at Lillian's location a long time ago. But what she didn't expect was that Claire's reaction on the detector appeared not far away.

So, Claudia stopped where she was and witnessed the reunion of the two. If she hadn't seen Lillian's tears, which didn't seem fake, Claudia would have thought that the two guys were conspiring to deceive her...

"It seems that I have done unnecessary things..."

Claudia couldn't think of any other explanation for Claire's escape from the explosion range in advance, except that she had a keen intuition or was just lucky. However, these were no longer important. In Claudia's eyes, as long as the result was good, the process didn't matter at all.

Suddenly, a communication video frame popped up in front of her eyes, and Claudia raised her eyebrows.

There was only one person who had the authority to bypass the recipient's opinion and force the connection.

"Lord Otto."

As the communication connection was completed, the man who appeared in the image was indeed the blond young man, the supreme leader of the Mandate, Otto Apokalis.

"Claudia... huh? Are you outside the headquarters? Never mind, return to the headquarters immediately. I have a mission for you."

"As you command, Lord Otto."

Claudia looked at the two girls below, then controlled the fighter plane to return. Otto would not interfere in her personal affairs, but on the other hand, when Otto gave orders, she needed to obey them absolutely.

As Claudia's fighter plane took off again, Lillian suddenly realized something, raised her head, and looked towards the horizon thoughtfully.

"Colonel Claudia..."

"Hmm? Lillian, what are you waiting for?"

"No... nothing. Hurry up, Claire. Missiles will soon fall on that place. Although this place is far enough away, it is still far away.

Didn’t leave the radiation range…”

Lillian said calmly, and took the lead to walk forward. At this moment, she had returned to her previous state, and her face once again showed that serious and wise calm expression.

"All right……"

Seeing Claire's absent-minded look, Lillian didn't say anything, but in fact, she was extremely happy at the moment.

(Ms. Claudia... Claire must have been saved by you, right...?)

Behind her, Claire walked silently, looking at the girl in her arms, a trace of pity on her face.

(I’m sorry, your brother… No, not only that, I’m afraid you will lose everything you have… But, there’s nothing we can do about it…)

What happened next was no longer something they could participate in. So, with a guilty conscience, Claire could only turn her head slightly, take one last look at the village shrouded in darkness, and then resolutely followed Lillian's footsteps...

At the edge of the village, Lan Feng suddenly felt something strange. She immediately stopped, turned around, and narrowed her eyes slightly.

"What is that... a shooting star?"

Lan Feng looked at a bright spot in the distance, dragging a long tail. It was like a falling meteorite, slowly approaching...

The familiar sense of crisis once again hit his body like a cold current. Lan Feng's eyes widened suddenly, staring at the "shooting star" in astonishment...

“No…! No, this energy concentration… and… the target point is here?!”

As the "shooting star" gradually grew larger, the light it emitted became stronger and stronger. Under its illumination, the darkness that enveloped the village was dispelled, and it was slowly illuminated...

Lan Feng knew what these lights meant.

The light of destruction...

No matter what it was, Lan Feng vaguely sensed that the huge energy it carried could destroy everything around it in an instant...

Although Lan Feng didn't quite understand what was happening, it was obvious that if he stood still, he would be affected by the explosion of the extremely high concentration of energy!

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

Without time to think about it, Lan Feng rushed away immediately with a strong sense of crisis. With the fluctuation of the collapse energy in her body, Lan Feng's long hair turned purple in the next moment! She entered the previous state again.

The fatigue of her body was forcibly suppressed, and the purple light that burst out left a trail of afterimages, flashing across the wasteland. Instinctively for survival, she ran as fast as she could, intending to get as far away from the high-energy falling object as possible! At this moment, she had no time to think about anything else, and the strong tension made her focus on sprinting at high speed...

Looking back at the "shooting star", it seemed that it was still some time before it fell to the ground. Feeling that the perception of the energy behind him was gradually weakening, Lan Feng breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he continued to move forward, he would soon be out of the range of the energy explosion...!

As she was thinking, suddenly, while running, a silver-white light appeared in her peripheral vision...

(That is…?)

With some concern, Lan Feng slightly turned her sight and looked over there. But after she saw the target clearly, Lan Feng was stunned for a moment...

The moonlight-like hair moved in the wind, and Lan Feng saw a figure as petite as himself. The girl was slightly raising her head, looking at the "shooting star" in the distance with her deep blue eyes.

That familiar young face and silver-white hair was the face Lan Feng had seen in the mirror before...

In shock, Lan Feng even stopped running suddenly, his feet leaving two grooves on the ground. After stopping the inertia of running forward, he stopped in front of the girl.

At this moment, the girl suddenly noticed the sudden movement next to her. She turned her head in confusion, and the figure of the purple-haired girl not far away was reflected in her azure eyes. The two people's eyes intertwined...

049 Short

On the wasteland, two girls of the same height stared at each other. If you ignore their hair color and eye color, the two girls are exactly the same...

This was only natural. As two clones with the same genetic structure, their appearances were also exactly the same. However, the Houkai energy stimulated in Lan Feng's body filled her body and slightly overflowed from the fibers between her eyes and hair. Her hair and pupils were dyed purple by the Houkai energy. Therefore, they could be easily distinguished now.

At this moment, looking at the silver-haired girl not far in front of him, Lan Feng's eyes were filled with disbelief.

(Kiana...?! Why is she here?!)

Obviously, at this time, the only clone that would appear outside the Satori headquarters would be K423... that is, Kiana.

Lan Feng had never thought that she would meet Kiana in such a place and in such a way. For a moment, she was stunned and didn't know what to do.

(Kiana is here... does that mean Siegfried will be nearby too?)

Thinking of this, Lan Feng suddenly felt a little scared, and she couldn't explain why.

…She had once impersonated Cecilia, and even though Siegfried didn’t know about it, she still felt awkward and worried if she had to face Cecilia’s husband…

While Lan Feng was thinking, the girl was also observing her.

(Who is this girl… Why is she staring at me? And that light over there… Are they fireworks? Eh…? What are fireworks…?)

The girl looked at Lan Feng, thinking about these useless things. When they were created as clones, they were instilled with some so-called common sense knowledge. But without practice, this knowledge basically has no effect. If you insist on saying it, it can only make them understand communication and remember some nouns such as "fireworks";?;.

Not knowing what the girl was thinking, Lan Feng looked around and did not see Siegfried nearby. Just as she was about to concentrate and use her perception to detect the surroundings, suddenly, a light in the distance brought her back to her senses!

The "meteor" with a long tail had descended over the village. As Lan Feng watched, it quietly landed in the center of the settlement where she had lived for several days. Then, a brighter light burst out from the village, completely lighting up the night sky...

"Oops...now is not the time for this!"

Lan Feng wanted to take some action, but it was too late...

After the light completely engulfed the entire village, it expanded slightly outwards before dying down. But the catastrophe did not end there! Along with the huge smoke and dust that rose like waves, a devastating shock wave suddenly struck! Along the way, whether it was huge rocks or towering trees, they were instantly crushed and turned into dust...

"Damn it...! But this distance shouldn't be fatal...!"

Lan Feng looked at the shock wave that seemed to be slow, but in fact it was as fast as a hurricane, and hurriedly leaned over to hold her head, ready to meet the impact. At this moment, she suddenly remembered something and turned to look at the girl standing behind her...

(What should I do? Dad asked me to go to that place and wait for him, but... it has become like this, should I still go...?)

The little girl stood there blankly, looking at the mushroom cloud rising in the distance, and had not yet noticed the shock wave that was about to hit her...

Suddenly, she felt her arm being pulled, and her whole body fell over involuntarily. The girl turned around in surprise, and what she saw was the purple-haired little girl she had just met. She opened her arms very quickly, hugged her, and then turned around...

----boom!!

The next moment, accompanied by the sound of a sonic boom that tore through the air, the two were engulfed by the shockwave of the explosion...

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"What's going on...? Is this a nuclear bomb?"

In a forest far away, Fenrir saw the white light rising into the sky, and quickly squinted her eyes and turned her head. Her goggles had been damaged. Although the strong light produced by this high energy was not as strong as a complete nuclear weapon, it could still cause damage to vision. As a soldier who mainly fights by shooting, Fenrir subconsciously protected her eyes.

"What happened... I'm suddenly interested!"

While talking to herself, she couldn't help but walk towards that place, and the frustration of the defeat had been thrown behind her.

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Siegfried saw half of the sky suddenly light up in the distance, frowned, and quickened his pace.

In his memory, that direction was exactly the location of that village, and...the direction that Kiana was heading was also that direction!

"What happened...? However, only Destiny could use nuclear weapons so casually..."

"Otto, you bastard...what are you planning now?"

Thinking of the girl who had been with him these days, Siegfried couldn't help but clench his fists. Unconsciously, he had developed a deep affection for the girl that could not be ignored...

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"Okay, Mr. Injured, you are safe now... Hey, don't you have any response?"

Hanging Mike on a branch of a tree, Kerry climbed the trunk with his left hand, digging his alienated black and purple fingers directly into the hard bark. He spent a lot of time to settle the injured young man, and finally found this safe place.

"Next, we have to go back..."

Just as Kerry was about to jump down from the tree trunk and return to the village...

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