K424 of the Collapse World

"Of course I have a way to get your information, Miss Raven. I hope you understand that I cannot disclose the specific details."

Facing the captured cadres of the hostile organization, Shilis did not want to expose her long-range prosthesis. Moreover, it was during the encounter with the Herrscher of Flame that she used the Space-Time Ripper to hide in Raven. I certainly cannot go into detail about the process of these things.

Raven nodded but said nothing.

It is indeed like that...That's right, with her status, there is really no need for her to explain such things to the prisoners.

"Your original name is Natasha. You worked as a mercenary in Asia and Europe, but you are essentially one of the early members of the World Serpent. Am I right?"

"......Um."

"You are one of the 'followers' of the World Serpent. Can I understand that your status is among the upper echelons of the World Serpent?"

Shilis continued to speak, but this time, the raven did not answer.

She had already guessed what the silver-haired girl was planning.

After thinking for a moment, Raven's eyes focused slightly.

"Ms. Shilis, let's talk it out."

"Oh?"

Seeing the gray-haired girl trying to suppress the trembling in her voice and pretending to be calm, Silis smiled slightly, revealing a friendly smile that said "I'd like to hear more about it."

Raven clenched his teeth and took a deep breath.

"...Please tell me directly, what do you want from me?"

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The silver-haired girl was stunned for a moment, and her slightly narrowed eyes began to show mischief.

"What do we want from you? That doesn't seem hard to guess. Or do you just want to hear it from my own mouth?"

It was great that Raven was willing to take the initiative and get to the point, in Shiris's opinion.

The girl changed her crossed legs and straightened her upper body slightly. Although the indifferent and kind smile on her face had never changed, it was subtly different from her usual appearance at this moment.

A vague sense of crisis loomed around Raven, and the pressure from the Herrmer was fully manifested on the silver-haired girl.

"Okay, I won't keep you in suspense. According to the information we got from the Far East, you are in charge of multiple branches of the World Serpent in the Shenzhou region. What I need is detailed information about these bases."

"..."

Shirley shrugged and looked at Raven, whose expression remained unchanged. She did not find his calmness strange. This level of information exchange was quite common between hostile organizations. With Raven's intelligence, it should be easy for him to guess this.

"You should know a lot, right? Tell me everything you know. This is our initial condition. How about it? Are you willing to accept it?"

Hearing this, Raven's eyes flickered, and after a moment, a hint of gloom appeared in them.

To hand over all the information...

This is just a preliminary condition. As far as Raven knows, organizations that would propose such trading conditions are basically aiming to squeeze out all the value of the captives.

When you encounter such a greedy guy, it is unknown whether you can escape alive in the end...

Thinking of this, she sneered coldly.

"Do I look like a traitor to the World Serpent?"

"picture."

Shirley answered without hesitation, not minding the hostility shown by the other party, and still looked relaxed.

"Perhaps you haven't noticed it yourself, little girl. There are too many little thoughts in your eyes. You don't look like a loyal person who is ready to sacrifice himself. I have seen too many people like this. Unless there are special circumstances, they will never tie their lives to a certain organization. This is also the nature of mercenaries.

A way to survive, right?"

Ruthlessly exposing Raven's false insistence, in the somewhat embarrassed expression of the gray-haired girl, Shilis on the opposite side tapped the glass table lightly with her fingertips. The clear and calm eyes were reflected in Raven's eyes, as if she had seen through her thoughts. Group: 543659 three 89.

"Ms. Raven, if you want to get this straight, then don't play these little tricks. From your perspective, I don't think a mercenary like you would want to spit out such unimportant information in the torture chamber."

"unimportant......?"

"Yeah, we will eventually wipe out those bases anyway, and it will never be too late. When what you know loses its validity, it will be completely worthless."

Looking at the gray-haired girl's uncertain expression, Shirley smiled and threw out another piece of bad news.

"By the way, don't think about resisting torture with willpower. Regardless of whether you are willing to risk your life or not, even if you are a loyal soldier to the World Serpent, our Herrscher of the Heart can easily break through the defenses of your mind and dig out all the memories stored in your spiritual sea."

Since they were able to secretly hack into the Far East branch's independent network, the news that Bronya had become the Herrscher of the Heart could naturally not be hidden from the World Serpent members. Moreover, Bronya had just fought with Kevin, and anyone who was not a heavy StarCraft player would definitely have seen the girl who launched the illusion attack.

There is no need to hide the combat power that has been exposed. It is better to just throw out this news as a deterrent.

"Think about it, mercenary. Do you want to use the information as a bargaining chip in exchange for your freedom, or wait to be tortured and 'plundered' by us, and then continue to be imprisoned here?"

"..."

"I only have two conditions. As long as you agree to share the intelligence of the subordinate branches, our deal will be halfway done."

"Tell me the second condition first."

"No, you have to meet the first condition first."

Rejecting in a light voice, Shirley looked at the girl who was once again in a dilemma with satisfaction.

There was no need to rush. She couldn't do anything else in her current state anyway. It wouldn't be a waste of time to spend a whole day like this until her body recovered its mobility.

Suddenly thinking of something, Raven frowned slightly.

"Agree to the conditions...even if it's just a verbal agreement?"

"Well, I just need a promise from you."

"......Why?"

"Because it can save a lot of trouble. Miss Mercenary, is it strange to be trusted by others?"

"Strange? I'm just a little confused..."

Seeing Raven's slightly wary eyes, Shilis smiled back at her. That's right, as a mercenary, trusting others easily is courting death, and Raven does have reason to doubt the generous conditions offered here.

However, she only needed to think about it a little to understand that this was just the margin of advantage for the stronger party.

Shiris could make her accept the conditions with a verbal promise, and she could also impose the most cruel punishment on her if she violated the contract. On the worst-case scenario, the Far East Branch could completely ignore her opinion and let the Herrscher of the Heart turn her into a puppet...

Raven didn't understand. The girl in front of her clearly held the power of life and death over her and could completely ignore her opinion, so why did she have to negotiate with her in such a relatively equal manner?

After hesitating for a long time, she finally made a decision.

"I agree to your first condition, Ms. Shilis."

The internal affairs of those subordinate branches are not confidential, so even if they are abandoned, it is an acceptable loss...

"Great! Let's move on to the next stage then."

Seeing the cautious girl finally nod, Shirley smiled with satisfaction.

"The second condition is actually very simple..."

As she spoke, the silver-haired girl's smile gradually became brighter and brighter, which made Raven feel more and more frightened, and an ominous premonition arose spontaneously.

“That’s the money.”

"money?"

After hearing what the silver-haired girl said, Raven couldn't help but repeat the question, feeling absurd.

Are you kidding me? Do Herrschers also need money?

But before she could organize her words to ask, Shirley directly gave the reason.

"It's just money. What's the problem? Or you can call it ransom or bail. First, the Far East branch had a school demolished by the Herrscher, and then a large number of electronic devices were hacked by your World Snake. You should ask for some compensation, right? The funds of the Destiny didn't come from the wind."

"......ah."

Raven came back to his senses from his daze and finally accepted this reason.

It sounds like it makes sense... Well, I already knew that the Herrscher K424 is unique, and so are the other Herrschers here. They are not the violent and crazy Sirin during the second collapse, but the Herrschers who stand on the side of civilization...

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From this point of view, the fact that the Herrscher of Restraint asks for money is already countless times better than the second Herrscher of Restraint. If all the Herrschers could take money to bribe

, I'm afraid that humans and the Honkai group: 54365九389 could have lived in harmony a long time ago.

Raven exhaled lightly and spoke in a deep voice.

"…Okay, how many do you need?"

"One price, 110 billion euros."

"puff--"

After hearing the silver-haired girl's offer without hesitation, Raven spurted out.

She gasped and coughed, her eyes wide open.

"Ahem...! 110 billion? And Euros?!"

Raven originally thought that the Far East Branch's main purpose was to obtain intelligence about the branch, and asking for money was just to take advantage of the intelligence. To redeem a small leader like her, it would probably be around a few hundred thousand dollars. Even if the other party was a little greedy and asked for a million, her savings would be enough to redeem her.

But what did she hear? A ransom of 110 billion euros! This figure is simply outrageous. I'm afraid that the presidents of many small countries are not worth this price...

"Are you kidding me? How can a mercenary like me get so much money?!"

Raven screamed and for a moment even forgot that he was a prisoner. He stood up and glared at the silver-haired girl in front of him and yelled.

110 billion. Not to mention his visible savings, even if he sold the island and villa that he bought with his savings of more than ten years...wait, it seems that it would be about the same if he sold them all?

As if he suddenly thought of something, the excited raven froze in place, looking at the still smiling silver-haired girl. With a chill in his heart, he had already vaguely realized the truth...

Shirley took out a personal terminal, slowly brought out a light screen, and opened the information obtained from somewhere.

"No money? But Miss Raven, under the name of 'Natasha Sciorra', owns an island and several properties."

"You...you want me to sell my island villa to pay the money?!"

"Yes, duck. Otherwise, why do you think we didn't go to Caroline next door, but came to you for money?"

"Can't you change the conditions? If you want to rebuild the academy, the World Snake's technology will also work..."

"No, I just like money~"

Shirley said with a smile, and used two fingers to enlarge the bird's-eye view of the island on the light screen, and displayed it in front of Raven in a deliberately stimulating manner.

"Such a beautiful island, it's no problem to sell it for tens of billions. The people of World Snake are unexpectedly wealthy... As the saying goes, money is only a thing outside of the body. Anyway, you are still young, even if you lose all your wealth, you still have the opportunity to struggle, right~?"

Originally, the raven had his head down, and his fists were clenched so hard that they made a crackling sound. However, after hearing these light words from Shirley, the raven, unable to endure it any longer, slammed the table and lost control of his emotions again.

"Young? Hahaha! People with a half-Honkai Impact physique can only live to thirty years old at most! Asshole Herrscher! I see through you. You might as well kill me! Don't even think about taking my island villa away! How can the reward for more than ten years of hard work be taken away by you just like that..."

At the end of the story, the mercenary girl's eyes even brimmed with tears, and she collapsed on the chair. The sound of her sobbing and her pitiful and helpless appearance were heartbreaking and tearful. This was the look of an adult in despair.

"That is to say, you are unwilling to accept the second condition."

"I'll pick you up (beep)!"

Shiris pulled the corner of her mouth, looked at the self-destructive Raven with a helpless smile, and breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

In the memories of different world lines, Shilis once knew Natasha, a mercenary girl of World Serpent, and knew that she saved money to buy a villa on the island. It seems that, like the development of other world lines, this girl who longed to stay away from struggle and live a peaceful life really cherished her future home...

Now that this has been confirmed, things will be easier.

"Okay, Miss Sioula. Since you really don't want to pay our ransom, I can change the terms."

"Humph......"

In response, Raven sneered. Considering the greed of the Herrscher who just asked for 110 billion, the new conditions he offered would probably not be much better than that.

However, even though she thought so, she did not refuse outright. After wiping her eyes with her hands, the girl raised her head again, staring straight at the silver-haired girl, silently waiting for her next words.

Shirley saw it, held back the curled-up corners of her mouth, and told him her original plan.

"Since you don't want to pay, let's try another approach. How about staying here and working for the Far East Branch, and exchanging your labor for the ransom?"

"Heh... working for you? Even if I spend the rest of my life working here and you guys squeeze every last drop of blood out of me, I can't possibly earn enough to earn 110 billion, right?"

Raven sneered, the hostility in his eyes becoming more intense.

She had seen through it all. The people of destiny probably had no intention of letting her go...

"Don't worry, that's another condition, forget about the 110 billion."

As Silis spoke, she slowly stood up with the help of crutches.

Come.