K424 of the Collapse World

"Ha ha......"

Otto smiled, but quickly adjusted his expression and spoke again to the increasingly impatient purple-haired girl.

"By the way, what do you think about the trial of civilization that the Law Constrainer mentioned, Ms. Xilin?"

"I've made it very clear just now. This was a cover-up from the beginning. It was just an excuse for the Honkai personality to attack the civilization in order to bypass the remaining memory consciousness of Shiris. As for whether the 'trial' can make the civilization stronger, it doesn't matter at all."

Glancing sideways at Otto, Xilin narrowed her eyes slightly, and her free hands had already begun to fiddle with a crack in space, as if she could enlarge the gap at any time and disappear on the other side of the fault.

"Then... what about her? Ms. Xilin should have noticed that although her personality has been dominated by Honkai, her behavior is contrary to her desire to fight. I wonder about this..."

"This is not your concern. Anyway, I will handle all her affairs properly, and there is no need for you, Tianming, to interfere."

Otto's sharpness was within Xilin's expectations, but she would never provide more information. Regardless of whether their interests were aligned, Xilin would not let Otto have contact with the girl.

Not only Otto, but she would not trust anyone else when it came to Shirley.

"Oh, there's something I want to know too."

Suddenly thinking of something, Xilin looked at the blond man standing in front of her and felt a little curious.

"Why would you become an enemy of the Herrscher of the End? As far as I know, the great Bishop Otto has never really wanted to benefit civilization and eliminate Honkai. He only uses everything at hand according to his own ideas, and can even actively cause Honkai disasters for certain things. Logically, when you encounter an existence with the ultimate Honkai, you should try every means to reach a consensus with her and let her lend you her power. However, this time, Lord Otto chose to oppose her. I don't understand why?"

Ignoring Yulandel's angry look, Xilin did not hide the malicious speculation in her tone and directly questioned Otto's loyalty to civilization and all mankind.

But the man's answer the next moment was beyond her expectations.

"Although the Ruler of Constraints has said that it is impossible for humans to reach the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, I have not given up on exploring the Ocean of Quantum."

"Oh...?☆"

Listening to what Otto said, Xilin seemed to realize something and showed a slightly surprised expression.

"At the root of the Imaginary Number Tree, there must be the truth about the collapse and the nature of the world that I want to know! And in order to continue to study the method of crossing the void realm, the existence of Destiny Technology and the existence of the entire world are necessary. Therefore, I will not let this world be destroyed."

The silver-haired woman in the dress has freed herself from self-doubt. There is no trace of ripples in the solemn right pupil with the golden cross, and there is only some crazy and pure evil thoughts in the dark purple left eye.

Letting go of the fragments of Xilin's memory was not important to her. The void in her soul made her instinctively desire to possess the missing fragments, but her consciousness, which had long been corrupted, could no longer integrate the separated residues.

The will connected to her sea of ​​consciousness will not allow the soul of the Herrscher to fall into confusion.

"The final power has been recovered."

She whispered to herself, a faint dark red glow faintly appearing in the deepest part of her purple pupils.

"Here, the time has come—"

Female

Zi raised a finger, and some tiny black particles overflowed from her fingertips, floating forward with the flow of energy, as small and harmless as the ashes of burning embers.

However, these inconspicuous black particles are disasters that are unimaginable in another world!

The Herrscher Factor of Corrosion, which Anti-Entropy and the Far East Branch had gone through so much trouble to kill in the cradle, was simply pushed into the space crack by her, and slowly seeped towards the other end of the mirror...

942 The Echo of Disaster

Click...

Accompanied by some crisp cracking sounds, a ray of bright red light quietly fell from the cracks in the broken barrier and landed on the cross-section of the sword and shield statue of Saint Freya.

At this moment, the blue light curtain covering the sky completely fell apart and was completely dispersed by its initiator. The land covered by the eroded shadow also saw the light of day again, revealing the full picture of the island facing the setting sun.

Yes, it's all over.

The objects attached to the consciousness of the Apostle of God were all torn apart by the hurricane of another Ruler of Law; the remaining remnants of the corroded soul also turned into ashes under the glory of the cross of the Anti-God, and returned to nothingness together with the dust in the breeze.

The Ruler of Erosion no longer exists.

In the protracted war between the Herrscher and civilization, the remaining victor this time is still the indomitable human civilization.

only......

"..."

The silver-haired girl walked on the broken road, silently moving forward along the scarred brick pavement. She crossed the collapsed boulders, stepped over the winding cracks, and walked through the wreckage of the buildings at a slow and steady pace that almost blended into the background of the ruins.

The passion brought by the battle had long since cooled and frozen in the desolate silence. Now, she will witness the final outcome of this disaster...

After all, in an environment with a very high concentration of Honkai, only beings like them can act normally.

Survivors...are there really any?

Of the roadside food stall, only a few pieces of scratched metal with peeling paint remained amid the collapsed concrete debris.

The building corridors on both sides of the avenue are as incomplete and broken as wind-eroded rock layers.

At the top of the church in the outer hall, the cross sculpture, which is the landmark of Tianming, and the magnificent tower located below it, were once the places where she and Mei held hands and enjoyed the beautiful night. Now, only a bare brick and stone rubble remains...

The place that was once full of beautiful memories now only has a ruined scene left.

as well as......

Absolute silence.

A few hours ago, the island known as the base of the Far East Branch of Destiny was left with only these desolate remnants.

After all, this base city without its inhabitants was too quiet at the moment. It was like standing in a wasteland after the apocalypse, like the most eternal moment in the world.

In such an environment, even the girl's faint breathing seemed to become harsh.

Yes, the invading Herrscher has been defeated, and the people trapped on the island have been successfully rescued. It was a beautiful fight in which humanity once again fought back against the collapse. However, no matter how beautiful the words are, the outcome of a war is never a happy one...

——Tick-Tock

Suddenly, the sound of falling water drops gently dispelled the dead silence and echoed in the ears of the silver-haired girl.

The girl turned her head subconsciously, and saw a large area of ​​dark red solidified ruins, with almost unrecognizable limbs and minced meat, mixed with mecha fragments scattered around. Half-coagulated blood filled with the smell of rust accumulated on the edge of the wall.

The dull sound of dripping water just now was made by a drop of black and red liquid that had not yet dried up, falling lightly and shattering on the weeds in the cracks of the bricks.

A poet once said that weeds are the most tenacious creatures in the world. At this moment, like countless times in history, it has proved the correctness of this statement with its own existence.

It no longer matters which of the broken limbs and arms mixed in the ruins are the remains of comrades and which are the corpses of Honkai warriors.

They are all remnants of war anyway. No matter what they were, they are just a pile of dying carbon-based compounds.

These were not what she was looking for.

"..."

Diana walked past these cold skeletons expressionlessly without even looking at them again.

The Corrosion Ruler was destroyed, but the impact it caused will not be reversed.

Even if there is another Herrscher on the side of humanity, it won't work.

The power of the Herrscher is essentially destructive. It is very difficult to use this disordered destructive power for protection.

Wendy can crush the attacks of the Herrscher and defeat his body, but she cannot protect everyone from the shadow of disaster...

Now, the gathered survivors boarded Hyperion's transport ships in batches and returned to the refuge of the Far East Power. Only this land of death where countless lives had disappeared remained.

How many people died at the hands of the Corrosion Ruler?

The disaster statistics will be available soon, but Diana instinctively doesn't want to hear that string of numbers.

, just like she didn't want to look at those unrecognizable remains anymore.

Those weren't what she was looking for.

She moved forward slowly. Within the range of the spiritual energy of the Herrscher, the reaction of any life around her could not escape her perception. Thinking of the expression on Jizi's face when she gave them orders not long ago, perhaps even the commander did not have any hope for this search.

Thinking of this, the girl couldn't help but clench her teeth.

Please, don't let this search end in vain...

............

Diana gently pushed open the relatively intact door and walked into the teaching building of the temporary school campus.

What came into view was the dark and heavy ruined hall, which reflected strange shadows in the afterglow of the setting sun. The setting sun, which was getting closer and closer to the horizon, infinitely lengthened the girl's back, and cast it far in front of the collapsed stairs.

The girl hesitated slightly, and the golden energy ribbon behind her expanded slightly, flying quickly to the upper level.

Regardless, this is a task she must face, and a result that no one else can escape.

"Eh--!?"

The moment she expanded her perception again, Diana immediately felt the obvious life reaction two floors above!

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Survivors?! No, it was a more familiar aura...

In an instant, the power of the law of space penetrated the two points of different coordinates, directly erasing the distance, and instantly appeared at the location where the breath of life was.

As the light in front of her eyes faded, Diana saw the petite black-haired figure at the base of the wall in front of her.

"Claire?! Great! So you're okay."

Seeing this long-lost companion, Diana immediately recognized the girl's identity, shouted from a distance, and ran towards the girl.

Speaking of which, Claire, as the "artificial Herrscher prototype", would not easily die in the Honkai attack. However, Diana was very happy to see that her companion was safe and sound.

Hearing the girl's voice, the petite figure in the corner moved slightly, but did not turn around.

".....Diana?"

"Yeah! Aunt Jizi sent us in to search for survivors, but I didn't expect to run into you!"

The silver-haired girl responded briskly, not noticing the strangeness in the other person's tone, and just quickened her pace to Claire's side.

"Claire, you—"

However, when she got closer to the black-haired girl, Diana's words stopped abruptly.

In front of Claire, where she was kneeling, was a tall woman lying flat on the ground, sleeping quietly with her eyes closed.

"she......"

Diana naturally knew this brown-haired woman. Lillian Ochoa, a former member of the Reverse Tooth Team at the Destiny Headquarters, had followed Claire in rebelling against Destiny and entered Anti-Entropy through the introduction of Shilis, where she has been until today.

"Well, she died."

As Claire answered quietly and calmly, Kiana's eyes flickered slightly.

At this moment, the woman who had been inseparable from Claire had her soft brown short hair covered with burnt dust, and her bloodless gray face had no trace of warmth. It was obvious that she had lost her vital signs for a long time.

After realizing this, Diana stopped talking and stared blankly at Claire who was silent. The atmosphere became tense.

This black-haired girl lost her only best friend.

Diana's eyes darkened slightly. She found that on Lillian's chest, there was a long knife-shaped crystal blade, which pierced through her body, cut off her spine, and nailed straight into the ground.

This crystal blade was obviously formed by the condensation of Claire's energy...

"She became a dead person, wandering around this building, and I just laid her to rest."

As if she had noticed Kiana's confusion, Claire explained calmly, her eyes never leaving the brown-haired woman's face.

"...That's it."

In this atmosphere, Diana could only respond softly. It was normal for such a complete corpse to transform into a dead soldier in a high concentration of collapse environment after death.

Witnessing the death of the most important person in her life, and being forced to "kill" her best friend who had turned into a martyr with her own hands... Diana couldn't imagine that this black-haired girl with a calm face had just experienced such a cruel thing.

If it were her... No, she simply didn't have the courage to think about such a thing.

"Claire, I..."

"It's ok."

Claire shook her head and gently stopped the silver-haired girl from speaking clumsily to comfort him.

"From the day we swore to become Valkyries, I was ready for this day. But I didn't expect that she would get there before me... Haha, fate is such a joke, even though I already..."

He gently stroked Lillian's cheek. Although the place where he touched was already stiff and cold, she did not resist at all. Her heart-breaking and gentle expression appeared here for the first time.

On the face of a strong Valkyrie.

"When the Honkai broke out, she should have been teaching students in this teaching building. This is exactly the area where the followers of the Herrscher of Corrosion first arrived..."

Looking at the broken classroom walls, countless overturned desks and chairs, and the bullet holes and shrapnel embedded in the walls, Claire seemed to be able to see the classroom suddenly attacked, the horrified students in chaos, and the corroded mecha rushing directly into the little girl next to the brown-haired girl...

Claire's palm fell quietly and she slowly lowered her head.

"Lillian, she won't lose to a mere corrosion mecha! If she performs normally, those lightning mechas can't hurt her at all. If she wasn't here..."