K424 of the Collapse World

(Why did I suddenly change my story…? Damn it, my previous explanation was more reasonable. It was a lie anyway, so why would I tell another lie? It seems that I am such a fool…)

But deep down, she didn't want to see Tesla's expectations being dashed...

Fenrir lowered his head and saw out of the corner of his eye that Tesla, who was sitting opposite him, stood up.

(Alas... She must be angry. In her eyes, I must have already thought that I was a liar... But it doesn't matter, I am indeed a liar anyway...)

To her surprise, Tesla came up to her and gently placed his hand on her head.

"Huh... That's great... Thank you, Fenrir, for bringing me this news."

"Eh……?"

Actually...believed it?

Fenrir looked up in disbelief, and saw the young man's relaxed and relieved expression...

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"you……?"

Fenrir stared at Tesla blankly, his beautiful amber pupils slightly dilated with surprise.

Why did she believe it so easily? No... this should be self-consolation...

Suddenly, Fenrir understood the reason. A person who falls into the water will regard even a small straw as hope for survival.

In the same way, Tesla was in a state of nervousness and anxiety at the moment because of his concern for the important people. Even if the news he brought was as small as a straw, it could still make the girl feel at ease.

How pitiful...

Fenrir thought blankly, and there was a hint of guilt in his eyes when he looked at Tesla.

It seems that the rumors are true. This Tesla is indeed a lolita complex. Moreover, it seems that she has some feelings for Siegfried's daughter...

Just like myself and Lucia.

(She is indeed safe and sound... But the person who will hurt her in the future is me...)

Indeed, just as Fenrir thought. Hearing the news that Cecilia was safe, the girl with red twin ponytails completely relaxed.

He let out a long sigh, but suddenly saw Fenrir with his head down in thought.

"Ah... I'm sorry, Fenrir, I almost forgot. I'm really sorry about your friend..."

Tesla suddenly remembered that the girl in front of him was crying so sadly, she must have lost her friend and was in grief. He shouldn't show joy in front of her.

"No, I'm fine... (Of course I'm fine, I just made it up anyway) By the way, Frey, I'm really tired now, so I'm going to go back and rest... If you want to find that girl, um... you can try to look for her around the village..."

Anyway, I'm sure I won't find anything...

She would not tell Tesla that the girl was with Siegfried. Rather than adding another rival, it would be better to get along well like this, right? Even if it was just fake...

Fenrir shook her head, stood up, and walked straight to the door. Thinking of the decision she had made, she felt embarrassed to stay here any longer.

(What hypocrisy... But for Lucia, even if I have to bear more sins and no one understands me, I will continue to move forward...)

She thought about it and smiled at herself, but her behavior seemed intriguing to Tesla.

The female scientist looked at Fenrir's distraught back as he left and suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Wait, Fenrir!"

"what happened?"

Fenrir turned around with some confusion, and saw Tesla walking up to her and gently holding her hand with a caring expression.

"You need to rest well and don't do anything stupid."

"……what?"

Fenrir was stunned for a moment, and then she realized what Tesla meant. The corners of her mouth twitched a little. She never expected that Tesla would think of this aspect...

With so many thoughts, can you say he is truly a scientist?

"You misunderstood... I really just want to take a break... Besides, I have to return to the headquarters before this afternoon. By the way, thank you for supporting me with that aircraft."

Fenrir said helplessly, with a look of despair on her face. She began to regret talking to this lolita control. It was really hard to describe the feeling of being misunderstood like this...

"Ah... is that so...? Sorry, I may have worried too much."

Tesla touched his hair awkwardly and was about to say goodbye to Fenrir, but suddenly remembered something.

Not long ago, when I was communicating with her through video communication, I seemed to see that she was accompanied by a little boy...

She was about to ask about this matter, but before she opened her mouth, she saw Fenrir's depressed look and gave up the idea.

(Forget it, there’s no need to ask about such trivial matters. Maybe it’s just a child she rescued from that village…)

Tesla shook his head and stopped thinking about this trivial matter.

"See you next time, Miss Fenrir. By the way...are you really not considering joining us? Cocolia's actions have violated the principle of anti-entropy. Our conservative code of conduct is actually what the leader had in mind at the beginning."

After this conversation, Tesla felt that the distance between himself and Fenrir seemed to have shrunk a lot, so he invited her again.

"I'm sorry... I don't plan to get involved in these matters right now. I will probably return to the Antarctic branch in a few days..."

"Well, if you have an idea, you are always welcome to join us."

Tesla was a little disappointed that her request was rejected again, but she didn't care much. The colleague in front of her had always been a mysterious person.

(Fenrir... who are you?)

She had thought about this question more than once, but there were many other characters in Anti-Entropy, including Fenrir, whose details she didn't know.

With Fenrir's departure, Tesla was the only one left in the room. Without any pause, she connected directly to Einstein's communication.

“Chicken Coop Head! Are you done with the investigation you asked me to do?”

A girl with blue curly hair appeared in the image. Because he was in a good mood, Tesla regained his arrogant look in front of people he was familiar with.

"Ah... According to the information I intercepted from the Skymanage Intelligence Database, the Houkai did break out at that location... Moreover, the method adopted by Skymanage was to directly drop a micro-nuclear bomb at that location... Speaking of which, Tesla, have you already talked to Fenrir?"

Speaking of Fenrir, Einstein frowned slightly.

"That's right! And, she has already told me Cecilia's information!"

Tesla said excitedly that with Einstein's information, she did not doubt the truth of what Fenrir said. Moreover, she had no reason to deceive herself...

On the other side of the video, Einstein looked at Tesla's excitement, hesitated to speak, and finally sighed. No more words...

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St. 7308 Institute...

The research institutes under the Destiny Organization represent the world's most advanced technology. The Saint 7308 Research Institute can be traced back to the early days of the Destiny Organization. In the process of continuous advancement, it has collected the most abundant research materials on the collapse, and its historical background is unmatched.

They can always discover the huge energy in some seemingly ordinary ancient artifacts. Whether it is soul steel, holy relics or holy marks, these things with unique power are something that Anti-Entropy can never understand. The Holy 7308 Research Institute is beyond the world level in scientific and technological research, and the new weapons they designed played a vital role in the fight against Anti-Entropy.

At this moment, in this research institute...

"Master Otto...what is this?"

Standing in front of a reinforced glass, Claudia frowned and looked through the glass at the huge steel room inside and asked.

Inside, there was a room with pure white metal floors and walls. In the center of the room, a little girl in simple white clothes sat quietly hugging her knees, motionless, with silver-white hair cascading down and spreading on the ground. If you ignore the environment she is in, she looks like an elf who is not affected by the mundane world...

Claudia knew this girl. To be more precise, she had seen her many times.

“Hehe… Claudia, you must have seen quite a few test subjects in the Second Herrscher’s resurrection experiment…”

"Yes……"

Claudia responded in a low voice, already having a vague guess in her mind.

"And the girl in front of you is the genetic source of all the experimental subjects, the descendant of the marriage between the Kaslana family and the Shaniyat family, Kiana Kaslana! But, for now, just call her K-Zero."

"That is to say, she is not a clone..."

Claudia murmured to herself, but Otto ignored her reaction, his mouth corners raised as he stared at the girl trapped inside.

This layer of glass can only be seen from the outside, and the girl inside cannot see the environment outside the glass.

"Mr. Dean, please explain it to my adjutant."

"As you command, Lord Bishop."

The old researcher standing in the back came forward and bowed slightly to Otto. Claudia's pupils shrank slightly, she knew this old man.

The director of the Saint 7308 Research Institute...

He is a weapons research and development expert of the Destiny Organization. The main reason why the Saint 7308 Research Institute has become the most famous research institute of the Destiny Organization is because of this person. Among the weapons of the Destiny Organization that have been awarded the title of "Throne of the Gods", most of them were made by him...

The old man glanced at the girl in the metal room, a hint of fanaticism in his eyes, and then turned to Claudia.

"I'm the director of this institute, Dean. Nice to meet you, Miss Claudia."

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"I've heard a lot about you, Mr. Dean. My name is Claudia, Lord Otto's adjutant."

Claudia gently shook hands with Dean, acting neither humble nor overbearing. After the two briefly introduced themselves, Dean quickly got to the point.

"Regarding Kiana Kaslana, at the beginning, she only showed the Kaslana family's resistance to Honkai energy, but never showed the Shaniyat family's ability to manipulate Honkai energy. At that time, we thought she was just a failure, so we just extracted her genes..."

"Moreover, her identity is quite sensitive. Her mother, Cecilia, was the only S-rank Valkyrie in the Skylanders at the time. Her father, Siegfried Kaslana, is also the current head of the Kaslana family and the holder of the Key of God - Holy Fire Judgement. Due to the status of these two people in the Skylanders, it is difficult for us to conduct further research on her..."

At this moment, Otto suddenly raised his hand with a smile on his face.

"However, Cecilia died in the battle, and Siegfried has already defected, so there is nothing to worry about. I allowed Mr. Dean to transform Kiana into a Valkyrie, and conducted a Honkai fusion experiment. As for the result..."

Having said that, Otto snapped his fingers lightly.

The side wall of the huge metal room suddenly opened, revealing a layer of beam barrier behind it. As the beam slowly disappeared, a huge creature crawled out of the cage...

It was a purple-white Honkai creature that was four meters tall, with degenerate hind limbs and two huge forelimbs supporting the weight of its entire body.

Tank-class Honkai beast...

In the process of fighting against Honkai, in order to study Honkai, the Destiny Organization also captured a large number of Honkai beasts as research materials. At the same time, sometimes they would also use them as test subjects for testing weapons.

After leaving the cage, the single eye on the Honkai beast's head turned slightly, scanning the surroundings, and finally locked onto the girl in the center of the room.

"Lord Otto, are you planning to...?"

Seeing this, Claudia was somewhat puzzled. Although it was just an ordinary small tank-level Honkai beast, any Honkai beast would be fatal to ordinary people. Moreover, even if the girl had been transformed by a Valkyrie, she would not be able to resist it.

What kind of weapons should we use, and how should we deal with them?

"Don't worry, just watch."

Claudia stopped talking when Otto looked calm. After all, Otto would definitely not let his precious body be destroyed like this.

Except for its own kind, the Honkai Beast has a killing instinct towards all living things. After discovering the girl, the Honkai Beast moved its huge forelimbs and faced the girl...

——Bang!

Suddenly! The front legs slammed into the ground, and with a loud bang, the body of the Honkai Beast bounced high and pounced towards the girl! This is a common trick of the tank-class Honkai Beast, using its huge body weight to completely crush the target!

Generally speaking, facing such an attack, even a true Valkyrie would easily die under this simple and crude crushing attack if she didn't evade it seriously...

However, since Otto brought Claudia here personally, he certainly didn't want her to watch such a boring scene.

The body of the Honkai Beast quickly fell from midair towards the girl. Even Claudia, who was standing outside the reinforced glass, could clearly feel the heaviness of the chariot... The next moment, she seemed to see the bloody body of the girl...

————Buzz! !

The moment the Honkai beast pounced, a visible strong blast of wind shook out, covering the entire metal warehouse and was blocked by the reinforced glass. However, despite this shocking scene, the expressions of the three people standing outside did not change at all. However, except for Otto and Dean, Claudia was not moved either, but her slightly fluctuating eyes revealed her surprise...

There was no smoke or dust in the metal warehouse. It was clear that the body of the Honkai Beast paused for a moment before being thrown out fiercely! It flew dozens of meters like a broken rag doll and hit the wall on the other side directly!

The girl sat on the ground without any movement. However, in front of her, a golden hexagonal light wall instantly appeared before the Honkai Beast attacked, easily blocking the attack of the heavy chariot-class Honkai Beast and even repelling it far away!

The hexagonal light wall seemed to be flowing with a faint golden light on its surface. A few seconds after the Honkai Beast popped out, it disappeared into the air.

"what is that……?"

"Don't worry, it's not over yet."

Otto interrupted Claudia's question and smiled as he looked at the scene inside the glass. The Honkai Beast turned over awkwardly and shook its head, seemingly not understanding what had just happened. But it had no more ability to think, and after regaining some mobility, it crawled towards the girl who was sitting motionless on the ground again...

This time, the girl finally took action.

She turned her head, her bright but lifeless blue eyes focused on the rushing Honkai beast...