K424 of the Collapse World

——Tianming Far East Research Department.

722 First Encounter

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Another source of the law of time stopping... is actually the Far East Research Department?)

Looking at the huge steel forest-like buildings in the distance, Xing's eyes were filled with doubt. She couldn't tell whether the sense of crisis she felt when she sensed the law was a real crisis or just an overreaction.

There is no direct evidence that the existence of another law is the enemy. Since the response came from the research department, could it be that a scientist invented a machine that interferes with time and conducted an experiment to stop time?

Could it be that the abnormalities happening to me are also related to those things?

Xing stared at the building of the Law Weaving Point with some concern, and conjectures kept pouring out of her mind...

"Ahh... Look Lilia, Xing's dementia is acting up again."

Looking at Xing who didn't respond to her for a long time, Rosalia poked her sister beside her and spoke helplessly into her ear.

"That's true, and he seems to be even dumber than a few days ago..."

Lilia nodded in agreement, also turning her gaze towards Xing, and whispered in her sister's ear.

Although they looked like they were whispering, in fact, their conversation was so clear that even Bronya, who was some distance away, could hear it clearly.

"Xing, what happened? Forgive me for being blunt, Bronya, but you're not in a good state today..."

Bronya stepped forward and pulled Seele, who also looked worried, in front of Xing.

Although she maintains the body shape of a little loli, Bronya is actually a 16-year-old girl. Coupled with her good emotional intelligence and EQ, it is easy for her to see some things.

"If there's anything you need, maybe we can help you."

"Yes, Xing, if you have any troubles, not only Sister Bronya, but Seele is also willing to help..."

Looking at the two girls who offered to help, Xing felt a little embarrassed. Although her power was no secret among her comrades, she didn't know whether she should tell these girls about the other law of time.

What if the time-space experiment was a secret of the branch? If I did this, I would undoubtedly harm my friends...

"Eh? So Xing isn't suffering from dementia..."

"Silly Rosalia, stop talking."

At this moment, with the sound of "whispering" coming to her ears, Xing finally stopped being silent. She gave a slap to the pink-haired girl who was seeking death, and smiled as she looked at Bronya in front of her.

"You're right. I did remember something important. I'm afraid I have to make a trip now."

"So what is going on..."

"It's confidential. There may be some confidential information in it, which is not convenient to disclose."

Xing said with a relaxed expression, her seemingly casual attitude was filled with unquestionable determination. In response, Bronya frowned slightly, but just nodded.

She could tell that the girl wasn't going to reveal any information.

"Does that mean I can't go on the tour with you?"

"......Sorry, I guess it won't work today."

Xing shrugged and answered. Looking at Xier with tears in her eyes and a lost look, she subconsciously raised her hand and wanted to ruffle the girl's hair, but the next moment she came to her senses, she immediately extinguished the inexplicable thought in her mind.

That doesn't suit me. Neither the intimate gestures nor the words of comfort are what Xing Maer would do in everyone's eyes...

Moreover, she couldn't imagine how embarrassing it would be to touch Seele's head in front of Bronya.

"Mmmmm..."

Rosalia puffed up her cheeks, with a hint of dissatisfaction in her eyes. She opened her mouth, as if she was organizing her words, thinking about how to keep Xing; Lilia also had a complicated look, as if her long-lost interest in playing had been lost by half.

Xing saw it all, but could do nothing.

Although she felt a little sorry for them, Xing had to confirm the source of the law of time. If she didn't find out the truth of all these things, she was afraid that she would no longer be able to spend every night in peace.

"Okay! There's nothing I can do about this emergency. This is really an important matter, and I have to go...

She blinked slightly and explained to Sister Arlene beside her, her eyes once again looking towards the research department in the distance.

"That's right. I have to take care of some 'official business' now. Don't mind me, just go to visit the military training ground as planned. After all, it's a rare vacation, isn't it?"

Putting on her usual doting look of having the final say, Xing turned around, leaving her back to her friends, and walked to the other side of the fork in the road.

Rosalia looked at Lilia beside her, then looked at Bronya, and suddenly her eyes froze.

"In that case, let's also..."

"Don't think about it, Rosalia."

Before she could hear what Rosaria was going to say, Bronya rejected the girl's proposal.

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"Xing just said that the matter she is going to deal with involves the branch's confidential information. If you follow her like this, not only will it cause a lot of trouble for everyone, but Cocolia's mother may also be implicated."

"But, we are all so busy, it's rare to get together like this..."

"Well, there will definitely be another chance in the future."

Gently comforting the lost girl, Bronya looked at the path that was getting farther and farther away, and the girl's back was reflected in her flickering pupils...

"Bronya...sister?"

Noticing Bronya's strange look, Seele was stunned for a moment, but soon she turned her head away and pretended she saw nothing...

"It's a pity that Xing can't come with us, but we can't let our previous plan go to waste. Right, Rosalia?"

The Far East Research Department of Tianming, the industrial and scientific research center of the Far East branch, mixes the official duties of design and research such as biotechnology and mechanical manufacturing to form the building complex of this research department.

In the early days when Cocolia joined the Far East Branch, Xing had been a frequent visitor here, cooperating with the special department for stigmata research and providing information about his own stigmata as a reference sample for the next batch of artificial stigmata.

After walking in this familiar building for the first time in a long time, Xing could still remember the layout and route of the partitions, which would undoubtedly help her find the source faster...

Avoiding the experimental areas at work as much as possible, Xing quickly bypassed the complex criss-crossing passages and came to the place closest to the source that was sensed before.

L-N0207 Division, formerly the Strategic Weapons and Gamma Particle Research Center, was closed in 2015 due to branch funding issues. The idle equipment and resources inside were temporarily used by foreign scientist Liesel Albert Einstein.

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In other words, this is Einstein's private research institute.

Standing at the entrance of the research area, Xing looked at the abandoned studios in the outer circle, then turned his gaze to the depths of the passage.

"...Dr. Einstein is studying the laws of time? I see. Cocolia's mother also said that if it was that doctor, it wouldn't be surprising if he could come up with the product of the x-10 experiment."

Xing nodded while talking to herself, and walked along the passage into the depths of the scientific research area.

She remembered that Einstein's studio was the second door next to a certain unit cubicle...

However, just as she was thinking, the girl discovered a laboratory with lights on. It was a half-open metal door, with a few rays of light coming through the crack, and it was obvious that someone was inside.

Ah...it seems I found it.

In the entire closed experimental area, apart from the warehouse manager's office, the only room with lights on was Dr. Einstein's laboratory.

Moreover, this location is almost exactly the same as the one in Xing's memory.

"Um?!"

However, just as Xing was thinking about how to greet the unfamiliar Dr. Einstein, she suddenly smelled a very familiar smell...

The girl's eyes sharpened.

Xing was familiar with this smell, not only because of the sharp senses brought by the stigmata. Before she was sent into the battlefield as an anti-entropy executor, when she was still the eldest daughter of the Mal family, what happened on that thunderstorm night made her remember this smell forever...

The smell of blood.

Just as Xing turned from relaxed to alert, a dark golden light quietly spread out from behind the door, and the instinctive sense of crisis once again filled her mind, urging her to activate her own time field.

This time, Xing followed her instinct without hesitation and unleashed her own power as the light curtain descended...

The two golden light curtains merged together, turning the entire world into solidified dark gold.

BANG———!!

Then, the steel-cast electronic door shattered with a bang, and the golden spike hidden behind it pierced out, with an extreme force that exceeded the speed of sound, and hit Xing's face directly...

The girl's silver-gray left eye quietly turned scarlet.

The twisted black pointer sword hit the long spike, deflecting it by a millimeter. The long spike grazed the girl's shoulder and pierced into the wall behind her. The alloy wall of the passage cracked like fragile sand.

The metal fragments slowly spread out with the impact, flying in all directions. After being a certain distance away from the long nail, the fragments sank into the dark golden light curtain again and stopped in mid-air again...

But Xing had no time to enjoy the interesting scene. The long nail that was blocked suddenly swept to the left, and the smooth blunt surface easily tore through the pierced metal and hit the side of the girl's head.

When she blocked the first blow of the spike, Xing's right hand almost lost consciousness. It was not a direct hit, but she used the pointer sword to deflect it from the side, but this alone cost her so much.

It was as if what had just collided with the pointer sword was not a two-inch-thick spike, but a

A speeding train hits...

The gap in basic physical fitness is an unbridgeable gap. Once this is confirmed, the response tactics must be changed.

As Xing dodged the long spikes, she felt as if she had brushed shoulders with death. Facing an attack that was enough to numb her arm with a slight touch, Xing's eyes were tightly focused, and she did not dare to slack off. Under the threat of death, she had no time to think about the situation in front of her. She could only concentrate and do her best to block the deadly long spike attack in front of her.

But now one thing is certain, the one who unleashed the power of the law was definitely not Dr. Einstein, but this powerful and terrifying mysterious attacker...

After the sweeping attack, the long spikes that protruded from the room, contrary to their previous relentless pursuit, were stuck in the wall, not moving for two seconds.

Xing's pupils suddenly shrank.

The next moment, the passage directly above her head exploded without warning, and a dark figure swooped down like a bird of prey, holding a long nail upside down and stabbed the girl's crown mercilessly.

As the metal fragments scattered, Xing had already jumped to the side with all her strength. However, although she avoided the piercing attack of the long nails, Xing's limited vision made it impossible to guard against the attacker's second pursuit.

——Shua

Seeing that Xing had already escaped the range of the falling attack, the black shadow swung his hand back and swung the long spike out like a sharp sword, compensating for the lack of attack range at the cost of destructive power. The sharp tip scratched Xing's back lightly, but the violent air storm tore the wound further, revealing the pale spine under the flesh. The thin girl was thrown directly out and hit the wall of the compartment heavily.

"Ahem——"

Enduring the severe pain, Xing fell to the ground, clenched her teeth, held the wall with her left hand, and used the pointer sword to support her body, insisting on not falling down.

Fighting in stagnant time, neither side will have any external help unless there is a third person who masters the laws of time...but Xing knows very well that she has no friends with the same abilities.

It's fair, falling down means complete failure.

Gripping the pointer sword tightly with trembling hands, Xing looked at the hooded figure standing in the wreckage not far away and once again assumed a fighting stance.

"hehe......"

The woman in the hooded coat sneered softly, walked through the passage where debris was floating and stagnant, raised the golden spikes in her hand, and rushed towards the injured girl again!

In response, Xing stepped forward, without any intention of defending or dodging, and simply thrust the pitch-black pointer sword forward, aiming at the woman's eyes under her hood, with a posture of charging and thrusting, as if to pierce her brain through the eyes...

Xing was very clear about her choice.

There was no room for begging or compromise, the other party's goal was simply to kill him. In this case, since he was at an absolute disadvantage, he had to hold the idea of ​​dying together and try to deliver the final blow to the other party!

This is the only way to reverse the situation...

With the ruthlessness and determination to risk her life, Xing accurately stabbed the sharp sword into the opponent's eyes at the moment of contact. As Xing expected, before the long nail pierced her heart, he quickly turned back to defend and blocked the sharp sword stabbing her eyes.

However, the hooded woman was slightly stunned. The moment she deflected the attack, she found that the pointer sword stabbing at her eyes had almost no strength...

The next moment, Xing's expression suddenly became ferocious.

"Go to hell, bastard!"

In her left hand, a dark blue heavy pistol appeared, and the muzzle was pointed at the woman's heart...

723 Survival Battle

Whether it was a shattered door or metal fragments in the wall, they were impacted and destroyed while time was still, all because of the close contact of the Rule Releaser.

Whether it was Xing or another attacker who mastered the rules, the time-stopping barrier they deployed would not affect themselves and restrict their actions. Of course, it was not enough to just keep their own time flowing. If they wanted to move freely in a world where time was still, they had to block the contact time of matter within a certain range around them. Otherwise, the completely solidified air within the time-stopping range could suffocate the initiator of the time-stopping to death.

It's hard to say what will happen to the attacker with the Herrscher's physique, but Xing will definitely be suffocated to death by her own ability. So naturally, this time-stopping ability, which is not a defective ability, also has the function of controlling the flow of time within a certain range.

If Xing drew his gun and shot from a few meters away, the bullet would inevitably stagnate in the field of the law of time after flying out more than ten centimeters, and stop in the air covered by dark golden energy.

Before this, Xing had never fought against an opponent with the same ability. Her previous tactics of using firearms to assist in the time-stop ability were simply to leave dense rain of solidified bullets around the opponent in the field of time-stop, and then to remove the barrier of time-stop, so that the bullets left in the air could regain their attached kinetic energy and shoot the opponent into a hornet's nest.

However, now, facing an opponent who can also move in time stop, the bullets that stop in the air after being fired are useless, and her stacking bullet tactics are completely ineffective.

However, Xing, who has more than five years of combat experience,

The nature of the ability has a very deep understanding.

Since keeping distance is not possible, the only option is to actively approach the opponent. In a space where time stops, only zero-distance contact can allow the destructive power of firearms to be exerted in an instant!