K424 of the Collapse World

This man must be your father...poor child."

"..."

Lan Feng's expression still looked the same, still as cold as before. But if you look closely, you can see that the corners of her mouth are twitching slightly...

(What the hell… I was misunderstood again. However, this just makes this fake identity more credible. It’s just… I’m a little sorry, old North, I have to borrow your daughter’s name.)

"Are you really willing to work for the military? Look at you, why don't you treat yourself better? Come with me, I will let you have a childhood that belongs to an ordinary girl, just like when you were with your father."

As she spoke, Cocolia extended her hand to the girl in front of her...

058 Pretend to Compromise

Lan Feng looked at Cocolia's hand stretched out to him, his eyes fluctuating slightly.

(What should I do…should I agree to her right away? Or…?)

As she was thinking, the blade in her hand turned slightly unconsciously, and without her realizing it, the tip of the blade was pointed at Cocolia...

Cocolia's eyes narrowed, and she took Lan Feng's action as a hint of declaring war.

"Is that so... You are really loyal to those guys, Shirley. Hehe... It seems that those guys are really capable and can train you to this extent. However, I have already decided on this matter. Since you want to resist, I have no choice but to let you suffer a little first."

(Shiris?)

Oh, yes. She thought that was her name.

But the next moment, Lan Feng suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of crisis, and he came back to his senses. He saw Cocolia slightly bent down, shook his feet, and rushed over here!

(What’s going on?! She attacked me before I even said anything… What a crazy woman!)

In a hurry to deal with Cocolia's sudden attack, Lan Feng dodged to the side in a panic, avoiding the opponent's whip kick, and the attack landed on the cement wall next to him, directly smashing the solid wall! The flying gravel hit Lan Feng's body, although it did not cause any impact, it made Lan Feng's eyes shrink slightly.

(This kind of power... Could it be that Cocolia has also undergone the Valkyrie transformation? But I've never heard of it...)

Without giving Lan Feng time to think carefully, Kokolia missed the first blow and immediately turned around and punched Lan Feng diagonally from top to bottom. The action was as natural as flowing water, but concise and deadly! Obviously, Kokolia was a former captain of the special forces, and his reputation was not in vain.

There was no time to dodge, so Lan Feng had to quickly cross her arms in front of her, ready to withstand the blow. She had already thought about what to do next, as long as she pretended to be injured and submissive, she could make Cocolia stop attacking.

However, just before Cocolia's fist hit Lan Feng, her fist suddenly opened, turned into a palm and slapped Lan Feng's crossed arms. A huge force hit Lan Feng's arms, causing the dagger in her hand to fly out, and pushed the light-weight Lan Feng away, but she did not suffer any serious injuries.

Lan Feng was a little confused as she was not hit as hard as she had imagined, but her reaction was not slow. Before her back touched the ground, she relied on her excellent motor nerves, supported herself with one hand, and stood up again with a nimble somersault.

Although I don't know why Cocolia suddenly held back, it was obvious that she no longer intended to continue attacking.

"How about it, little Silis, do you want to try again? I have plenty of time to play with you before you give in."

Cocolia smiled and looked at the girl who was frowning in thought, waiting for her answer.

"I surrender. I can't beat you."

Lan Feng exhaled and said these words in a calm tone. On the other side, hearing the girl's inorganic and indifferent voice, Cocolia raised her eyebrows. (Is this her true character...?)

"Then come with me, along with that girl..."

As she spoke, Cocolia slowly walked towards Lan Feng, but suddenly! Her eyes suddenly widened, her feet moved, and she dodged to the side. The next moment, a huge black shadow fell where she had just stood!

--boom! !

The ground suddenly sank and then broke apart! Large and small pieces of rubble flew out, and even the heavy rain stopped for a moment.

In a cloud of smoke and dust, a small figure wrapped in black mist slowly stood up.

"Hey...what do you want to do to your sister?"

A voice that seemed to strike the soul came out of Xing's mouth. At this moment, the girl had a strange smile on her face. She turned her head slightly and turned her pupils, which turned into dark golden, to Cocolia beside her.

"This is...? Humph, I almost understand why they asked you to kill this girl's parents."

Cocolia was just slightly stunned, and the proud smile from before returned to her face. The second half of the sentence was said to Lan Feng.

However, Lan Feng did not have the time to respond to Cocolia's mocking voice at this moment.

(What is this...)

Looking at the girl surrounded by black mist, Lan Feng's face was filled with shock and he couldn't even maintain his cold expression.

(Is this Honkai? No... But, it does react very similarly to Honkai energy, but in essence it is completely different! What on earth is this?! An... Who are you?)

Lan Feng was completely unprepared for this, that this little girl whom he had carefully protected actually possessed such a strange power.

The energy surrounding Xing was not strong, but the ominous aura made Lan Feng feel a strange feeling...

What exactly is collapse?

Suddenly, this question appeared in the depths of her mind...

While Lan Feng was still immersed in astonishment, Xing's figure had already rushed towards Cocolia, flashing by without warning like a ghost. The black mist seemed to condense into a monster and pounced on Cocolia...

In response, Cocolia just looked at the huge black shadow slowly approaching with a sneer on her face, without a trace of fluctuation in her eyes.

"You have great momentum and power, but... your fighting awareness is too poor. You are not as strong as Shilis."

——Bang!

The dazed Lan Feng did not see how Cocolia made her move. The thick black fog was torn apart in an instant, slowly peeling away from the girl's surroundings, then gradually faded and finally dissipated into the air.

Lan Feng shook his head and forced himself to recover from his brief loss of consciousness.

(Now is not the time to think about that! There are more important things...)

At this time, Cocolia, holding the unconscious Xing in her arms, walked towards Lan Feng again.

"Do you know what's wrong with her?"

"I have no idea."

Lan Feng said that she was telling the truth, after all, it was the first time she saw Xing in that state.

"I don't think you know either. After all, in their eyes, you are just cannon fodder. She should be a confidential experiment somewhere..."

Cocolia guessed, but because there was something else going on, she didn't pay much attention to Xing's abnormal behavior. Instead, she was very interested in Lan Feng, a girl who looked very similar to her daughter, Xilin.

At this moment, Lan Feng's expression returned to its previous indifference. Based on her impression of Russian boy soldiers, this emotionless and cold-blooded look was what they should be like.

"How did you get this girl to trust you after you killed her parents?"

"…It's just a lie."

Lan Feng moved his mouth and whispered. Since Cocolia already thought so, it would be better to admit that she killed those people. The more Cocolia believed in her own guess, the safer her true identity would be.

"Oh~~? So your mission is to gain her trust and take her away secretly? That really fits in with the military's approach."

"..."

"Hmph... Well, that's not important anyway. Since you have caused her tragic fate, you should take responsibility and take good care of her. And I will fulfill my promise and give you a real home. That is the orphanage I set up in the north of this country, and you will become one of them."

(As expected...you want me to enter the Cocolia Orphanage.)

Lan Feng concentrated secretly and looked up at Cocolia.

058 Pretend to Compromise >>

"Why did you do that?"

She asked calmly. This was not just a show, but also what Lan Feng really wanted to know.

What was Cocolia thinking when she opened this orphanage named after herself? What was her purpose? Was it just a simple experiment? Why would she just arrest them by force?

"I just don't want you displaced children to be abandoned by fate again."

Is it really?

Lan Feng didn't know, and couldn't confirm it now. However, she wouldn't easily believe Cocolia's statement now.

Suddenly thinking of something, Lan Feng's mind moved, and a hint of teasing flashed secretly in his eyes.

"So... you want to be my master?"

She asked Cocolia in an emotionless voice.

Seeing the girl say this calmly, Cocolia raised her eyebrows and looked a little unnatural.

"How pathetic... What on earth did those guys do to you? Don't worry, I won't be your master, but I will be your mother."

Hearing the answer that was almost the same as in his memory, Lan Feng smiled secretly in his heart. Originally, three years later, the sentence Lan Feng said was originally asked by Bronya, and Cocolia's answer was the same. This was just a small test that Lan Feng came up with on a whim, just a little joke.

Lan Feng thought to himself, but he remained calm on the surface and continued to ask in a pretended emotionless voice.

"Mother?"

"You'll find out later. Well, let's go. We've been here too long."

As she spoke, Cocolia turned around and walked forward first. Seeing this, Lan Feng had to give up the idea of ​​continuing to ask questions and walked over to pick up the dagger that had fallen to the side.

"Don't pick up that defective product with depleted energy. I can give you something better. Besides, you will never go to the battlefield again."

(Yes... the child you adopted will no longer go to the battlefield, but there is a greater possibility that he will die in the laboratory. However, this is not my fate.)

Lan Feng secretly complained and reluctantly withdrew his hand. Indeed, the weapon had long since exhausted its energy and could only be used as an ordinary dagger. Lan Feng felt it was a pity to just throw away something that he had used for so long.

However, in order to gain Cocolia's trust, these things are not important.

So, following Cocolia, Lan Feng walked deeper into the alley.

"Oh... so that's how it is."

In an ordinary single room, Lan Feng stood in front of a large mirror, looking at his purple-haired and purple-eyed self in the mirror, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I almost know why Cocolia chose to take me away."

Cocolia's daughter, Silin, who was used as an experimental subject in the Babylonian Laboratory of Destiny, also has long purple hair.

Later, Silin's experiment succeeded, and she became the second Herrscher and went berserk and killed all the researchers. Later, she was surrounded and attacked by the Snow Wolf Squad sent by Tianming, and finally died together with Cecilia, the captain of the Snow Wolf Squad and the only S-level Valkyrie of Tianming at that time.

Cocolia likes children, Lan Feng guessed that it was very likely that she regarded those children as substitutes for her own daughter. It was not surprising that she liked herself the way she was now.

"It's troublesome...Does it have to stay like this forever?"

No matter what, there is no other way. Maintaining this state of pseudo-hermeneutics consumes a certain amount of energy, but as long as you don't use the power in your body, it won't have much impact.

Her current state is as if she has only slightly condensed a portion of the Honkai energy on her body surface. She does not have the same strength as when she fought against Aimiye. It is just an illusion.

However, even if it's just like this, it's still not as comfortable as the normal state...

Perhaps because the rainstorm did not seem to be stopping, Cocolia took Lan Feng and Xing to a nearby hotel.

When Lan Feng first arrived at the hotel, he saw several men in military uniforms greeting Cocolia. Moreover, the rooms of these men were very close to Cocolia's. It seemed that Cocolia did not come to this border town alone, and she obviously came here for some purpose.

What is she here to do?

This kind of thing is completely unknown to me, so I stopped thinking about these things that don't exist. Lan Feng shook his head. This wet coat has been sticking to my body. Although I shouldn't catch a cold based on my physique, it's still very uncomfortable to keep doing this.

He unbuttoned his coat and slowly took it off. He threw it aside, leaving only the oversized shirt on. However, it was completely soaked and transparent, exposing his washboard-like body.

However, the shirt was tattered, with traces of cuts and punctures everywhere. Lan Feng's skin, which was slightly scarred, was exposed through the numerous holes in the shirt.

"My body's ability to recover is lower than I thought..."

Lan Feng had no time to pay attention to some private parts of her body. She had already adapted to her current body. At this moment, she looked at the scars on her body that had become very faint, and her brows knitted slightly.

Lan Feng clearly remembered that in the fifth chapter of Honkai Impact 3rd, during the battle with the Second Herrscher, Theresa's arm was cut off by Sirin, but she regenerated it in a matter of minutes. In comparison, his own seemingly fast recovery ability seemed very poor.

Moreover, the healed wound, although very light, still left a scar...

Although Lan Feng herself didn't care about the scars and was even proud of them, these scars on a girl's delicate body looked a little pitiful. She herself felt a little uncomfortable looking at them.

"Let's try it, using Honkai energy..."

Lan Feng looked at the hideous scar on his abdomen. It was the wound caused by Aimiye's giant sickle. Although his pain was only information like data, Lan Feng could still know the specific situation of the injury. The injury at that time should have been extremely serious, so it left this rather conspicuous wound.

(Gathering Houkai energy... issuing instructions, referring to the surrounding tissues, and repairing the scars...)

A burst of purple light suddenly lit up from the center of the scar, and at a speed visible to the naked eye, the huge brown scar slowly faded...

(It’s a bit laborious… but it can be done! It suppresses the corrosive Houkai energy. It’s truly an almighty energy.)

Looking at his own achievements, Lan Feng smiled with satisfaction.

(Speaking of which, that pendant... It seems that my name has been determined by her, but it's okay. With my current Nordic appearance, a name like "Cilice" seems more normal than an Eastern name...

…

"Sister Sis Shilis...? Is that your name?"

A childish voice suddenly came from behind him. Lan Feng was slightly startled and stopped repairing the scar. The brown scar had become very light and almost invisible. Although it had not completely disappeared, it was still more blurred than other scars.

The repairs could be completed quickly, but now is not the time to do that...