K424 of the Collapse World

"Wait! I..."

After the extremely bland response, Kerry extended his right hand and instantly used a heavy hammer constructed from a tank-class Honkai beast to flatten the area above the leader's chest. The radiating blood slowly spread under the feet of the two people...

Elena slowly looked away, her eyes swept across the mutilated corpses all over the ground, looked at the girls hiding in the corner and secretly watching this side, and sighed.

"Isn't that a bit too much in front of a child?"

"It doesn't matter. They'll get used to it sooner or later."

"Are you going to let them...?"

"What else? At their current mental age, they know exactly what they saw. For a girl who witnessed the essence of Honkai, is there any other place to live besides that organization?"

"I just think that they may not all be suitable to be combatants..."

"Some logistical work also requires blood, so it's a good thing to adapt in advance."

Kerry shook his head and noticed the little girl's eager eyes without any fear, and felt a little more admiration for her in his heart.

It seems that the girl has come to her senses.

Without changing his expression, Kerry withdrew his right arm, which had turned into a sledgehammer, and never looked at the corpse on the ground again.

"So... sis, where are the clues?"

"Hey... follow me."

She gestured to the action team members standing by the door, signaling them to proceed with the follow-up. Elena then turned around and pulled Kerry to another place outside.

"This is......?!"

This was a rotten wooden shed with a broken lock. Standing in front of the open wooden door, Kerry looked at what was inside and showed a surprised expression for the first time.

"I see. As long as we investigate these things, the conclusions we get will definitely be more credible than interrogating those lunatics."

In this simple wooden shed, there are two rows of specially made culture tanks. These sophisticated scientific instruments appear on the backward island and are out of place with the surrounding wild mountains and wilderness. However, this alone is enough to prove that this cult organization has a manipulator behind the scenes...

Walking along the middle aisle into the wooden shed, Kerry looked at the pale-skinned female figures floating in the culture tanks, and his frown relaxed slightly.

"Great...They're still alive. Looks like these are the other girls that were captured."

"maybe."

Unlike Kerry who breathed a sigh of relief, Elena responded indifferently, with a heavy look in her eyes, without any joy of being a survivor.

"Before announcing the results of the investigation, I must first tell you about the conditions of these people, Kerry. I hope you can listen to me calmly."

"Sister, what happened?"

Seeing Elena's serious expression, Kerry's heart subconsciously shuddered. Sure enough, what Elena said next made him stare wide-eyed.

eye.

"The girls in these incubators are no different from the dead."

"What...! But their bodies still have life signs, why?"

"I have already investigated before bringing you here."

As she spoke, Elena pointed to a culture tank at the back of the wooden shed. The glass on its surface had been smashed, and the solution inside was scattered on the ground. The girl who was originally locked inside was lying quietly on the base, obviously no longer showing any signs of life.

"Their bodies are on the verge of collapse. If they are separated from the life-support fluid and exposed to air, they will die within seconds."

"how come......"

"In addition, the girl I examined had her eyes gouged out, her tongue cut off, her limb ligaments severed, her eardrum and cochlea punctured, and... there were many signs of abuse on her body. I simply cannot imagine what these children went through before being placed in these containers..."

Elena closed her eyes, unable to bear to look at these lives being maintained by machines.

"So that's how it is. The raw material for the Houkai Sarcoma... is all we need... just fresh cell tissue... Damn it!"

Kerry growled angrily, and after a moment's silence, a faint light flashed in his eyes.

"Wait a minute, as long as they stay alive, there must be a way to cure them...!"

"No, Kerry. Our transport ships cannot carry these culture tanks. Besides, how can you cure them here with such a degree of cell collapse?"

"It doesn't matter even if we can't move the culture tank! Miss Hill's power can even bring the dead back to life, so what's this?! And Lan Feng... No, Sister Shilis is the same, she should be able to do this kind of genetic repair, right?"

"..."

Listening to the method proposed by Kerry, Elena's breathing became heavier for a moment and she clenched her teeth.

"I have thought about using the power of those two to save these children. But is this realistic? You are not unaware of Miss Hill's physical condition. As for Shiris... She is the de facto leader of the two organizations' alliances. She is often too busy to even spend time with her family. How can you ask her to treat these children?"

"But, if it was Sister Shilis, she would definitely..."

"I know! As long as she knows what's going on here, she will definitely choose to help us. But, for these irrelevant little things, you let Miss Shilis put aside the official duties related to the future of the two organizations and cross half the world to help us deal with the mess? Have you ever thought about what would happen if a Honkai incident suddenly broke out somewhere during her absence, and the residents of the entire city were transformed into monsters by Honkai! Is it okay for such a thing to happen?!"

"But this... concerns the lives of so many children. This is no small matter..."

"Moreover, even if their bodies can be healed, can you guarantee that after experiencing such inhuman torture, their spirits can still recover from the collapse?"

"I......"

Kerry still seemed unwilling, but his gradually fading voice revealed that he had changed his mind.

It is true that Shiris has the ability to save these dying girls, but doesn't she have her own responsibilities in carrying two organizations? Letting others take on the responsibilities that she should bear, this kind of thing...

Elena reached out and gently held Kerry's clenched fist. How could this young man's current sad expression look like the slaughterer who just killed half a hundred people?

"You can't save everyone you meet. You should let go decisively when you should. Kerry, I believe you have also noticed that there is no fixed power supply on this deserted island. These culture tanks are all operated by batteries. Even if you want to wait until later to ask Shiris to deal with it, I'm afraid they don't have that much time to wait."

Elena's voice softened, and she felt that Kerry's fist had stopped shaking, so she stopped holding Kerry's wrist.

"I understand, sister."

As he spoke, Kerry raised his head and looked at the distribution box in the middle that was full of cables, his eyes no longer confused.

"But being completely dominated by pain and despair, without even the right to choose death... This shouldn't go on."

Taking the electromagnetic hand cannon from Elena, Kerry unlocked the safety of the hand cannon and aimed it at the battery that was transmitting energy in the distribution box.

"Since we can't save them, at least... we can help them put an end to it."

"I'll be waiting for you outside, Kerry...don't forget, our mission isn't over yet."

"Well, don't worry, sister."

......

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As the transport ship slowly sailed away, the isolated island used by the believers as a gathering place, where the construction area was, was left with only a sea of ​​burning fire...

The source of the fire was the remote wooden shed. The electromagnetic cannon bullet destroyed the battery.

At that instant, the out-of-control electromagnetic energy was instantly overloaded, and the violent explosion engulfed everything around it.

Kerry will never forget what happened here.

The wooden building soon collapsed in the burning fire. Now, no one would notice that in the blazing fire, among the ruins, a broken life-support device was emitting tiny dots of purple light...

563 Unnecessary Speculations

The girls rescued from the cult base were placed in the main cabin of the transport ship by Elena, together with other anti-entropy fighters. Among these agents, there are many careful and gentle people, so there is nothing to worry about.

Although the Anti-Entropy Organization's standard transport ship has a limited carrying capacity, it can still carry a few girls, so there is no need to request an additional rescue team from the headquarters.

And now, due to some special reasons, it is not convenient for them to contact the Anti-Entropy Headquarters in North America...

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"Those life-support devices are products of anti-entropy industry?!"

As Elena expected, Kerry, who saw the investigation report in the cockpit at the bow of the ship, showed an expression of disbelief and surprise.

"How is this possible! In other words... the one secretly supporting those evil cults in their activities is our Anti-Entropy Organization?!"

Looking at Elena who was indifferent beside him, Kerry asked as if to confirm, despite having ten thousand doubts in his heart. Indeed, he himself is now a member of Anti-Entropy, but Kerry's range of activities is mostly limited to the Far East. He cannot make a firm conclusion about the nature of the large organization "Anti-Entropy"...

"Well, the Anti-Entropy Organization, which is an alliance, is a mixed bag. In addition to the ME and RC Russian Heavy Industries Group that we know about, there are many small organizations inside. It's not surprising that there are all kinds of messy forces."

Elena continued, her eyes slightly sank. As long as you have a certain degree of understanding of Anti-Entropy, it is not difficult to come to this conclusion. Although the internal strength of Anti-Entropy is roughly divided into the conservative faction headed by Einstein and the radical faction headed by Cocolia, there are countless factions with other ideas within these two factions...

However, if these warlords and cult forces who secretly researched and developed Honkai were really insiders of Anti-Entropy, then Kerry would have to consider changing his code of conduct.

(If we want to eliminate them by legitimate means... we can only act in the name of the Destiny Organization, right? Should I ask Miss Theresa to re-assign me to the Far East Branch's Valkyrie Corps...)

After coming into contact with the other side of this world, he had no intention of letting these evil organizations go. Seeing those people suffering under the persecution of the Honkai Organization, he could directly associate it with his homeland destroyed by the Destiny Organization.

As if she noticed Kerry's worry, Elena sighed softly and shook her head expressionlessly.

"But this time, things may not be so simple."

"...?"

"Although those instruments are indeed the products of anti-entropy, after I investigated the production numbers of the life support devices, I found that those instruments were manufactured as commodities for export."

"Eh? In other words..."

"No, this kind of lower-level illegal cult organization is not qualified, nor does it have sufficient financial resources to purchase products manufactured by Anti-Entropy. In other words, the person who provided these instruments to the cult organization should not be the Anti-Entropy organization, but another Anti-Entropy cooperative organization."

"Is that so..."

Looking at Kerry who was starting to think, Elena thought for a moment and then threw out another important news.

"By the way, the final editor of this transaction information was the Russian branch, which is the department that Ms. Kokolia is in charge of. As far as I know, after ending the hostility with Dr. Tesla, Ms. Kokolia admitted that she had conducted technological exchanges with the 'World Serpent'."

"Sister, what do you mean to say...?"

"It's just a guess. We can't be sure of anything at the moment. Moreover, even if we are sure that the power behind the scenes is the so-called World Serpent, we can't take any action against an organization that has almost no intelligence."

As she spoke, Elena took a step forward, gently took away the terminal that Kerry was holding in his hand, and turned off the analysis report displayed on it.

"Okay, Chris, you were detained on the smuggling ship for nearly a week during this infiltration and pursuit. Now that the incident has come to an end for the time being, it's time for you to take a break."

"Well... it's okay. My current body can handle just energy and water for a month..."

"Then at least change your clothes. It's much colder in the Far East than here, and you'll catch a cold if you only wear a single dress. Or do you already like this dress?"

"No, I haven't..."

Reluctantly being forced to sit down by Elena, Kerry lowered his head, looked at his bloodstained dress, closed his eyes, sighed, and gently bit his lips.

He also knew that his irritability and anxiety were irrational. However, who could remain calm after making such a difficult decision?

"They didn't deserve this, those girls...their fate wasn't supposed to be like this..."

He murmured softly and lowered his head again, with self-blame and hatred lingering in his heart. If he could be stronger, if he had the power of Shirley, he wouldn't be completely helpless in the face of the situation just now. Even if he could only save one person, it would be enough to comfort his heart...

Seeing Kerry falling into depression again, Elena frowned slightly.

"Are you still thinking about what happened just now? I've already said that you can't perfectly handle all the problems you encounter. You're not a scientist who studies Honkai, nor a doctor. You're just a warrior. You'll never be able to do anything other than fighting!"

563 Unnecessary speculation >>

"But if it's Sister Shiris..."

"But you are not Miss Shilis! Besides, she has greater responsibilities and she doesn't have the time to deal with such trivial matters as Honkai crime! Kerry, even if you have the power of Miss Shilis, you won't have the opportunity to use your power to deal with these things!"

"..."

"Even if we can't do it perfectly, this kind of thing has to be handled by us. Okay, Kerry, don't put too much psychological pressure on yourself. What you need to do now is to adjust your spirit and prepare for the next mission!"

"I...I understand, sis."

The returning transport ship passed through the sea and sky on a moonlit night, leaving behind a vague black shadow. The eradication operation against illegal forces ended here, and the island would once again be marked as an uninhabited area on the map. No one would know what happened in the end of that burned-down settlement...

On the evening of the first day that Silis returned to Saint Freya, before she could return to her room, an uninvited guest arrived at the Hub Port...

——Bang! !

The exquisite wooden door of the reception room was pushed open roughly, hitting the wall with a loud noise. The short silver-haired girl stood at the door, holding the door frame with one hand, raised her head panting, and cast her eyes into the room.

"Theresa?"

Holding the terminal, Shilis raised her head and met the girl's blue eyes. Before she could ask anything, the girl rushed in impatiently.

“Huha… Shilis! I heard that Grandpa Otto came to Saint Freya. Is this true?!”

"Ah? Well, Otto's words did come out just now."

Looking at Theresa with a hint of anger in her eyes, Shilis tilted her head and responded calmly. She soon realized that it must be Ji Zi who left early who told the news to the principal of St. Freya's school.

As for the reason why Theresa was angry, it was not difficult for Hillis to guess. Otto, who had already had a bad relationship with Theresa, now ran into the other's territory without telling his granddaughter. It would be strange if the former was not angry.

"Where is that guy?"