K424 of the Collapse World

"This cyborg is... k455. Yes, the one whose emotions are the hardest to control. Haha... you can't even get angry after choking on water like this..."

Hanging on the reef, Shirley tried hard to synchronize the remote connection with her body, mobilized energy to repair the nervous system damaged by lack of oxygen, and slowly adjusted her body back to the best condition for fighting.

"I don't know what happened to the other disconnected prostheses. Tsk... I don't have time to check them one by one now. I just hope they won't be picked up by strange people..."

After dispelling some bad premonitions in her mind, Shirley controlled K455's body, took a deep breath, and slowly sat up.

The Herrscher-form outfit that had been removed when her consciousness was interrupted covered her body again. The black and gold binding dress isolated the seawater on her body surface, making it unable to penetrate the energy-state dress at all.

"A new Herrscher?... They should be strong enough to fight back, but we should hurry back as soon as possible. After all, Theresa will be sad if there are too many casualties..."

The girl muttered to herself, then patted her cheeks to cheer herself up. However, just as she was about to crush the rocks under her feet and rush into the sky, a

A familiar yet unfamiliar energy wave suddenly spread out behind her, causing Shirley to stop abruptly and turn her head with a vigilant look on her face.

"—?!"

"Nice to meet you, dear...'Shiris'."

Following the cold and gentle female voice, Hillary turned her head quickly and was shocked to find that there was another girl standing on the sea not far away. She had the same delicate face and hip-length silver hair as her. Her body was covered with a familiar red and black combat uniform, and her unconcealed fighting spirit was locked on Hillary.

"Or rather, sister number K455."

“Who…are you?!”

"What do you think~?"

Facing Shirley's angry questioning, the other silver-haired girl just shook her head expressionlessly. She slowly raised her hands and assumed a martial arts stance that both parties were very familiar with.

"Although it's a bit rude to ask for this kind of thing...but please dance with me! You have no right to refuse~"

922 Shilis VS??

"Dancing...?"

Shirley repeated in a murmur, but at this moment, as the gorgeous and dazzling light suddenly moved in, a touch of darkness deprived everything from the vision in the blink of an eye.

The shattered numbness quickly spread through her nerves, and was transmitted to the self in another world in the form of information signals; at the same time, the world that was rapidly retreating turned into simple fluid lines in front of her eyes, and the vast world that had escaped from the flash was once again stuffed into her eyes, and she was lost again in the chaotic and inverted blue and white waves...

It seemed that her thoughts could not keep up with the real rhythm of the prosthesis. When the world in front of Shirley's eyes stabilized again and turned into a cloudless blue sky, a strong pain signal ran through her whole body like a tear.

To put it simply, the whole process was that she was knocked away by the silver-haired girl in front of her, then skipped several times on the sea, and then lay flat on the sea.

"Uh...uh..."

He covered his aching face and sat up slowly. The sticky warmth in his hands proved that it was not an illusion. The opponent had indeed directly hit this clone, which was comparable to a Herrscher in the cocoon stage, while he was unconscious.

Yes, it was definitely an attack... and a merciless one at that.

As Hillarys was slowly adjusting herself on the sea, the girl who had not yet signed up did not take advantage of the opportunity to attack her. She just watched Hillarys wipe the blood off her cheek and kept punching indifferently.

"It was only after I really got in touch with you that I finally understood how wrong I was before."

Looking at Shirley, who was standing on the sea surface with the power of manipulation that had recovered her energy, the silver-haired girl shook her head lightly and stared at Shirley with a complicated and strange look, as if she was looking at something indescribable and strange.

"Ahem...what a rude way to greet someone. But before asking someone to dance, shouldn't you introduce yourself first?"

A cold voice sounded leisurely. Shiris did not panic after being attacked. She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and stared at the girl on the reef with a cold and suppressed anger. The high concentration of Honkai energy had already turned into a colorless aura around her body.

Unconsciously, the violent nature of the clone she was controlling, K455, quietly restarted and began to gradually affect the individual's own emotions...

"Anyway, tell me clearly... who exactly are you, this bastard who suddenly appeared? By the way, I remember the abnormal individual who escaped that day using spatial abilities, it seemed to be K440, right? Is that you?!"

"Humph......"

"It's okay if you don't want to talk. After all, I don't have time to chat with you! Now, get out of here immediately. The Herrscher of the Far East needs me to deal with him. If you want to..."

boom----! ! !

Shirley's voice suddenly stopped, and she instinctively raised her arms before the phantom light covered her vision again. Then, as expected, the violent impact hit her crossed arms hard, directly destroying Shirley's defense. The subsequent impact threw her body backwards, smashing into the huge glacier among the layers of cracks.

Wait…glaciers?

Looking at her body embedded in the ice in a daze, Shilis was shocked to find that the boundless ocean around her had instantly turned into a vast glacier after that blow! The huge radial waves created by the shock wave of the punch were frozen by the icy energy at the moment of the explosion and splashing, forming this fantastic and magnificent new terrain.

The special energy that changes the ambient temperature can be simulated by Shilis when needed. What surprised her was not the ice energy itself, but the fact that this thousand-meter-long tundra was undoubtedly at the Herrscher level...

Pulling her body out of the thick ice, pure white light of creation flashed across Shirley's arms, repairing the frostbite on her hands in an instant. Looking at the flawless silver-haired girl a few dozen meters away, Shirley's eyes finally became serious.

(A new Herrscher that was born from my artificial body? Could it be that it was to prevent me from returning to the Far East Branch and to buy time to further erode the Herrscher...)

"Don't be so self-indulgent there

I'm not here to corrupt the Herrscher."

——! !

The girl's sudden cold response startled Shirley, and there was a hint of horror in her solemn gaze.

922 Silis VS??>>

"You...can read my mind?!"

The only one who has the ability to read minds and control consciousness is the eighth Herrscher of the Heart. Her authority as a special Herrscher can also simulate this power, but why can she read thoughts?

"Look at yourself! Such a weak clone can't even defend against my casual attack. With this physical state, what can you do even if you return to the Far East Branch? Hmm!"

Without giving Shirley a chance to ask again, the silver-haired girl flashed and attacked again with a speed far exceeding that of Shirley's clone! And this time, Shirley no longer passively defended, and swung her fist covered with golden armor to meet the opponent's attack.

"Bounds... Ugh!!"

The golden chain phantom had not yet finished extending when it turned into light particles under the heavy blow of a sprinting punch, and then hit Shirley's chest without any hindrance, knocking her back, and her feet cut through the hard ice, leaving two grooves.

"At this point, are you still prepared for this game mentality?"

"—?!"

As the cold whisper was heard, the shadow of the silver-haired girl passed by her side. Shirley was startled and quickly leaned back without thinking. She immediately felt a sharp gust of wind sweeping across her cheek, missing her forehead by a hair's breadth.

Inch power - rock breaks!

Without hesitation, she aimed at the shadow and punched back with all her strength. However, the imbalance of the power and the scattered feathers of light made Shirley realize that what she saw was just an afterimage. After a very short gap, the ankle hammer slammed into Shirley's shoulder, and the force knocked her down directly, and she fell heavily on the ice.

No! The clone's strength was simply not enough to resist. The opponent's strength far exceeded that of a normal Herrscher. The judgment was wrong from the beginning!

Moreover... this strange feeling of disharmony, the opponent was obviously using the same moves as hers, like an enhanced version of her own mirror image, restraining her completely. When the gap in hard power could not be made up, this battle was almost certain to be a losing game...

No matter what her true identity is, there is no doubt that the other party possesses some of her abilities.

We can't continue fighting, we must get rid of this strange guy first. The most important thing now is the battlefield in the Far East!

Swish-!

Shilis's figure flashed and disappeared in the golden space waves, avoiding the opponent's pursuit to the ground. However, before she could escape the space travel layer, she was entangled by several golden chains and dragged out of the subspace, and thrown heavily on the ice layer on the ground.

Before she could struggle to stand up, a foot stepped on her back and pressed her back to the ground. Under the strong pressure of the restraining chain, Shirley completely lost the strength to resist.

“Ugh…!!”

"What's the point of letting you go? Just lie down in the ice and calm down, idiot."

Frowning and looking down at K455 Shiris who was struggling in vain, the silver-haired girl bent down and leaned close to the girl's ear.

"Well, I can't understand the logic of your behavior now. Based on this point, I can be sure that there is definitely something wrong with you."

Pointing to her forehead, the silver-haired girl looked at the angry Shilis with an irritated expression, as if she had confirmed something extremely bad.

"Let me go! The disaster in the Far East is still spreading, I must..."

"Shut up! The one closest to the Far East Base should be the one you left with Theresa. Why don't you just control that clone?"

"I......"

"Let me put it directly for you, because you can't do it - your mental chain can't penetrate the barrier set up by Iselin to block and erode the Herrscher. In this case, even if you control other cyborgs to return to the Far East, you can only actively enter the barrier if you want to interfere with the battlefield, and then lose the connection again. What's the point of this?"

"..."

"What are you worried about? My dear 'self', at this point, are you still not going to come out of the Imaginary Sea?"

923 Touching the Reality

The amethyst-like, glittering and deep void crystal was fiercely smashed by a slender white fist! The blasted energy fragments instantly turned into virtual pure energy, which was dispersed in this illusory overlapping space, like a planetary ring expanding in the boundless universe.

“Huff…!”

The tall, beautiful, silver-haired woman clenched her fists in frustration and snorted like a child. As a means of venting her anger, she could only angrily smash the energy crystals around her in this empty imaginary space, breaking these cube fragments that had been shattered in the previous battle into even smaller particles.

The clone that inherited 1% of her power would lose to such an inexplicable abnormal individual. This was a result that Shiris never expected.

The original plan was suddenly disrupted in this way. In addition to the shock of disbelief, a kind of humiliating anger also followed.

It gradually rushed into the girl's heart!

This was not a response from K455's personality traits, but was indeed the anger from Shirley herself.

Well, although it wasn't Shiris herself who failed, but just one of her mass-produced clones. However, even if it was a role-playing game, watching the protagonist you control being beaten to a pulp by the plot, and then being trampled and mocked by an unknown parachuted villain, directly declaring the mission a failure, who wouldn't have their blood pressure soar under normal circumstances?

What's more, through her mental connection, she can experience the pain all over K455's body and the feeling of having her back stepped on. This sense of self-immersion, comparable to full-sensory VR, further stimulates the girl's already unstable spirit.

Very good, defeated by a fake with his own prosthetic body? This is like telling Shilis directly that all the efforts she has made to develop the ability of clones so far are not as good as the puppets created by the Honkai Will in a snap!

Even when all the members of the ME Club acted with Raiden Ryoma to fool around, she wasn't this angry...

However, before this anger completely erupted, the last sentence spoken by the other party made Shirley sober up for a moment.

(What did she say just now? And, I can’t sense any malicious intent from Honkai energy…)

It seems that the opponent is probably not just a puppet of the Honkai Will.

Relying on her limited rationality to ponder for a while, Shilis felt that she still needed to calm down and figure out the information that the other party had just revealed...

The strange thought in my mind is definitely not an illusion. Before leaving the imaginary space, I must be extremely cautious!

"Damn thief...get your damn feet out of the way first!"

On the ice field that appeared out of nowhere in the Far East Sea, K455 Shirley growled in annoyance, clenched her fists with bulging veins, and finally let go of them helplessly.

"What... thief?"

"Isn't that so? You stole my K440 prosthesis and used it to ambush me, and now you are pretending to be innocent? How shameless!"

"..."

"Have you stepped on enough? Do you like stepping on others during a conversation? Take your foot away! Anyway, I can't beat you now, are you afraid that I will run away, you bastard?"

Hearing Shilis's gnashing growl, the girl hesitated for a moment, then with a subtle expression, she released her foot from the other's back, took a step back, and reached out her hand to the silver-haired girl on the ground.

"I never thought that I would be scolded by myself one day... Never mind, I'm glad that you still have the basic rationality as a human being. It seems that the thing I'm most worried about has not happened yet..."

"But the thing I was most worried about has already happened. That is, you, this damned Honkai spirit, not only stole my prosthetic body, but also stole my memory!"

Ignoring the hand the girl extended to her, Shiris turned over and climbed up, standing in front of the girl with her arms folded, coldly observing this silver-haired girl who was no different from herself.

923 Touch the Reality >>

The energy flow is stable and there is no flaw in the movement... The opponent's strength is indeed not an illusion. Even if he launches another sudden attack, the result will only repeat itself.

As she was assessing the strength of the girl in front of her, Shilis suddenly noticed something and her eyes narrowed.

"Wait... are you wearing the World Serpents' combat uniform?! Tell me, what is Kevin planning to do?"

"Don't rush to ask questions. Since you want to have a good conversation, why not start with the basics? After all... you seem to have some misunderstanding about my identity."

The girl sighed and gently rubbed her eyes. She said helplessly to Shirley's unfriendly gaze. Her suggestion only earned Shirley's mocking sneer.

"Misunderstanding? Humph... I used my own mind to build a link-driven clone, and it would move on its own for no apparent reason. No matter how I think about it, it must be the work of Honkai! Or, are you actually a Herrscher who lacks self-awareness and has been assimilated by my memories? Or...?"

"I take it back. There really is something wrong with your brain. It's like a sponge full of holes!"

The girl interrupted Shirley's voice directly, took a step forward with an annoyed expression, grabbed Shirley's dress collar and dragged her over.

"I will answer all your current questions one by one. Now... just shut up and listen to me!"

"..."

"First of all, I think it's necessary to tell you. The body in front of you is not K440 who ran away that day, but K438 who was once a part of you."

"What--?!"

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Diana stood above the sea, silently watching the scene below. This island, which was the base of the Far East Branch, was now like a half-eggshell attached to the water, completely covered by an elliptical barrier.

The blue-colored barrier of light completely blocked the view inside and outside the base. The barrier of laws that Iselin had built to block the Herrscher from corroding also blocked the

The attackers who tried to escape and the Valkyries who tried to rescue them seemed to have determined to carry out the "necessary sacrifice" to the end.

"Diana, is there anything you can do with your abilities?"