K424 of the Collapse World

"My Lord Bishop, have you secretly cultivated some powerful Valkyrie? You actually asked me to make such a weapon... Who is it custom made for..."

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"Oops, I forgot to visit Cecilia... Sorry, Cecilia..."

Suddenly thinking of this, Theresa felt a little upset, but she did not regret her conversation with Changguang.

"It's been a while since I've been able to put everything aside and chat with people in a relaxed manner like this at the Destiny headquarters."

Through this incident, Theresa also realized that not all of the top leaders of SkyMing were cold-blooded and heartless people.

"Nagamitsu... Although we were together for a short time, it was really nice to be able to chat with someone like you..."

Theresa was tired of working with those scheming and deceitful high-level executives of the Mandate of Heaven.

The application to leave the Mission headquarters was finally approved, and Theresa immediately went to complete the formalities and head to the Far East Branch.

Soon, what happened at the headquarters in the future would have nothing to do with him.

Okhotsk, Russia...

"The terrain around here... is a bit troublesome."

In the library on the first floor of the Cocolia Orphanage, a girl with long purple hair was holding a huge encyclopedia atlas and awkwardly flipping through the book, which seemed too big for her.

"Forget it... There are many differences between the map and reality, so there shouldn't be any problem."

Closing the heavy metal cover of the book, the girl stretched, stood up, picked up the book, walked to a bookshelf, stood on tiptoe with some difficulty, and put it back to the empty space on the shelf.

"It has to be as soon as possible. Who knows what will happen if we delay any longer..."

The girl muttered to herself, opened the door of the library, and walked out...

067 In the Mirror

Cocolia Orphanage...

"Wait a minute, Sister Shilis!"

Lan Feng, who had just opened the door of the library and was about to leave, suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from behind him.

"apricot?"

Lan Feng looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was indeed the girl with long pink hair.

(What’s going on? It looks like… is she waiting for me here?)

Xing folded her hands in front of her chest, stood straight, and looked at Lan Feng with a serious face. However, her slightly fluctuating eyes showed that she was not actually calm inside.

"What's wrong? Xing, is there something wrong?"

Lan Feng's expression softened and she asked softly. She only smiled gently in front of Xi'er and Xing. As for the other children, although Lan Feng would treat them gently, she no longer had any extra affection for others.

"Sister Shilis, Xing...did I do something wrong recently?"

"No, why do you ask suddenly?"

"It's just because Sister Shilisi has been ignoring me lately. She only goes to see Xi'er and doesn't care about me like before..."

As soon as Xing opened her mouth, Lan Feng realized what was going on. Recently, Lan Feng had reduced communication with Xing as much as possible. It was not that she deliberately distanced herself from Xing, but she wanted this girl to communicate with more people of the same age and become normal.

It has been confirmed that her ability can be turned off, so there is no need to worry about her being frightened by seeing strange things. Xing is very obedient and will not use it casually.

"That's not the case, Xing. You have to know that one day, you will grow up, and by that time, even if you have no one to rely on, you must live independently. After all, I can't always be by your side to take care of you. You must learn to take care of yourself."

"Sister... won't you stay with Xing? Is sister going to abandon Xing?"

After listening to Lan Feng's words,

Xing's eyes slowly widened, and a faint black mist vaguely appeared around her...

Lan Feng hadn't noticed this yet. She looked at Xing with a headache, who had obviously misunderstood something. She held her forehead with one hand, thinking about how to comfort this girl.

"Alas... When did I ever say I would abandon you? It's just..."

“No… No! Sister! It wasn’t originally like this!!”

"apricot?"

Lan Feng had not expected that the well-behaved Xing would interrupt her. She was confused as to why this girl suddenly became so excited. Lan Feng had originally thought that she had gotten over the psychological trauma of her parents' murder and had become a normal girl, but now it seemed that this was not the case...

"Sister...are you lying to me? You clearly promised me that you would stay by my side and protect me...but now you are abandoning me? Liar!"

"Xing, calm down..."

"No! Sister is just like Mom and Dad. They said they would always be with me, but now none of them are here! Sister Shilis...you will be the same as them in the future, right? Liar! You are all liars!!"

Xing's expression collapsed. She avoided the hand that Lan Feng extended, shook her head, and slowly backed away, screaming hoarsely.

At this time, there was a rustling sound outside the library. Apparently, Xing's shouting had been heard by other children.

When Lan Feng clearly sensed that several children were chattering nearby, she couldn't help but start to feel a little anxious.

No one knew whether they would come in to check. It was best not to let others know what happened here. Otherwise, if Cocolia was alarmed, who knows what kind of trouble he would get into...

Lan Feng took a step forward, grabbed Xing's shoulders and forced her to face him.

"Xing! Listen to me first..."

"I won't listen!!"

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Suddenly, a solid black mist erupted! Lan Feng's pupils dilated at this moment...

A bright red color appeared between Xing's palms, slowly condensed and fell...

Tick-tick…

Xing stared blankly at her right hand. She raised her arm and stretched her right fingertips straight forward to the second joint, disappearing into the chest of the purple-haired girl in front of her. To be more precise, it sank into her chest.

As the blood slowly gushed out, the scarlet color covered Xing's little hands. Feeling the warmth of the sticky blood between her fingers, Xing suddenly woke up, her eyes wide open with unbelievable fear...

"I...I'm sorry! Sister Shilis...I..."

The anger from before could no longer be seen on Xing's face. Instead, she was panicked. She tried to pull her hand out in a panic, but as she moved, more blood flowed out of the wound. She was so scared that she dared not move for a moment...

"I'm sorry...I'm really sorry..."

"It's fine."

"……Eh?"

Hearing the soft whisper in her ear, Xing was stunned. She raised her head slightly and saw Lan Feng's face with a wry smile.

She gently held Xing's wrist and slowly pulled her hand away from her chest.

The feeling of sticky flesh and blood at her fingertips was so terrible that Xing closed her eyes, not daring to look at the terrible injuries she had caused to Lan Feng.

"Xing, this is not right."

Lan Feng's voice rang in her ears. Xing still had her eyes closed, her heart in a mess.

"Sister Shilis...I..."

She spoke incoherently, overwhelmed by guilt.

——? !

At this moment, Xing suddenly felt a softness surrounding her. She looked up in astonishment, but only saw purple hair gently swaying.

Lan Feng didn't care about the bloody chest. He pulled his open coat tighter and covered the wound to block the blood. He took a step forward and hugged Xing in his arms.

"I know, Xing definitely didn't do it on purpose. After all, Xing is a gentle and good child, right?"

"Um……"

Xing curled up in Lan Feng's arms, trembling slightly, tears filling her eyes, unable to speak. Her heart was filled with regret and guilt, as well as a strange feeling...

"But, you must never do this again, understand? ... Especially to other children..."

"Um……"

Hearing the nasal voice with a crying tone, Lan Feng looked at the trembling girl who was not much taller than him, smiled bitterly and shook his head. It was obviously him who was hurt, but in the end, it seemed that Xing was the one who was hurt.

"Okay, okay, stop crying."

"But, Sister Shilis, I was the one who put you..."

Xing was still crying and didn't dare to look into Lan Feng's eyes.

"Ah... I told you I'm fine. Look, the bleeding has stopped."

Lan Feng sighed, and the faint purple light on her body disappeared in an instant. She opened her coat and showed Xing the blood scab that had solidified under the hole in her clothes.

"I'm sorry... Sister Shilis, does this wound... hurt?"

However, after seeing the wound, Xing became even more guilty.

She felt guilty. She was not the one injured, but the hideous blood clots in her eyes made her feel like a needle was stabbing her heart.

Hearing the girl's words, Lan Feng was stunned. Suddenly he remembered a scene one day, when the silver-haired girl was stroking her wound and whispering...

"Are you... in pain?"

The image of Xing in front of me slowly overlapped with that of a certain silver-haired girl...

I seem to have heard similar words before.

Lan Feng thought about it, and his smile gradually softened.

"No, it won't hurt me."

Lan Feng breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, releasing the arm that was holding Xing. She noticed that there was no blood on Xing's body.

However, his white shirt on his chest was completely stained red with blood.

Lan Feng took two steps back and looked at the uneasy pink-haired girl. Thinking of how she lost control just now, Lan Feng's expression became serious.

"But you have to know that other children will be in pain, or even die from it! I don't want to see you do this again, do you understand?"

"Xing...I heard it clearly!"

"Here we go again... Remember, you should call yourself 'I' now. Calling yourself by your name is a habit of children under two years old. Also, some malicious people who act cute will do so, but I don't want you to be that kind of person."

"Well... I understand, Sister Shilis."

Lan Feng looked at Xing's eyes, which were filled with tears, but she answered seriously, and nodded, breathing a sigh of relief. It seemed that this trouble had finally been temporarily solved.

067 Mirror>>

"Xing, that's all I want to say. By the way, why don't you play with Annie and the others recently? Don't hide in your room by yourself like Xier. You should play with children of your own age more often."

When Xier was mentioned, Xing's eyebrows raised slightly, and the next moment she returned to normal without any expression.

"Yeah...I will."

"Well, let's leave it at that for now. It's getting late. Go back and get some rest. Xing... remember to take good care of yourself."

Turning around and waving goodbye to Xing, Lan Feng took the lead and walked towards the other side of the corridor, towards the dormitory area. Xing stood there, thinking.

(Why, I feel like Sissy-nee is going to leave? No, how can that be? I should listen to her carefully...)

She couldn't figure out where this feeling came from, and after a while, she had to return to her bedroom.

"Alas... this naughty child..."

In front of the dressing table, Lan Feng pouted and looked helplessly at the large blood scab in the center of his chest. However, although it looked serious, the wound was not very deep. Just now, Lan Feng only mobilized the Honkai energy for a moment, which was enough to stop the bleeding and form a scab.

"If I get hurt here...will it affect my growth? Tsk...why should I care about this kind of thing?"

Sighing, Lan Feng concentrated again, and the Honkai energy condensed at the wound. The purple fluorescence flickered slightly, and in a moment, the blood scab completely fell off, leaving only a brown scar. But Lan Feng did not stop there, but continued to manipulate the Honkai energy to repair it. Until this scar also completely disappeared, the skin became white and smooth. She breathed a sigh of relief and pulled down the rolled-up clothes.

As for the other scars on his body, since they had been seen by Cocolia, in order to avoid exposing himself, Lan Feng left them as they were and did not repair them.

If Lan Feng was in perfect condition, it would be quite easy for him to repair just one wound.

"Trouble, my clothes are torn, what should I do..."

Seeing the hole on the chest of the bloodstained shirt, Lan Feng muttered to himself in distress. Although there were spare clothes in the closet, it was still very troublesome to hide the damage of the clothes from Cocolia.

"Forget it... Looks like the plan needs to be advanced."

This was her original plan, so she did not have time to clean up the bloodstains in front of the library door, and just left them on the ground. I'm afraid that by now, some children have already discovered them.

As he thought about it, Lan Feng took off his coat and the shirt that was damaged by Xing, exposing his petite body covered with old wounds.

Fortunately, the only thing stained with blood was the shirt, and there were only traces of blood on the brown skirt, which was not obvious, so there was no need to change it deliberately.