K424 of the Collapse World

This is too sudden. Civilization is suddenly on the verge of extinction... Isn't it said that the intensity of the collapse will only increase as civilization progresses? Just like the stronger the player group, the hotter the abyss will be. Suddenly, the disturbance amplitude is increased to one million. Who can withstand this?

946 Countdown >>

Of course, Mr. Observer has never played Bang Bang Bang, and he would not associate these strange metaphors with it. He is now like a prisoner who is about to finish his sentence but is suddenly dragged to the guillotine, feeling stunned and unbelievable.

As his heart palpitations became more and more intense, he even had a strange hallucination: the joystick he was holding in his hand was trembling slightly, as if the steel-bodied Titan mecha had also lost its fighting spirit because of the disaster that fell from that day.

It was really scared, right? It even activated the energy overload rampage mode.

Haha...Partner, so you are afraid too?

He thought to himself with self-mockery, as if this could divert some of his fear and allow him to crawl back from the brink of mental collapse.

No...that's not right...!

Even if he was confused enough to misoperate the controller, he would not enter the rampage state of command lock.

The man's pupils suddenly contracted.

It's not an illusion, the mecha... is really moving on its own!

Click——

The sharp tearing sound of metal twisting scraped across the cockpit of the mecha without warning. The sophisticated electronic screen and auxiliary machinery,

As if possessed by a soul, it tore open the outer casing of the metal device and stretched out its claws and fangs. The broken and twisted cables were like a venomous snake spitting out its core, and it kept approaching its prey from the ruined mechanical cabin.

It was like a nightmare.

He remembered the culprit behind the attacks on the Anti-Entropy Headquarters and the Far East Branch, the ultimate virus that could be spread by waves, a terrifying energy that could even ignore the boundaries between the dead and the living, and corrode and dominate all matter.

The mecha troops were connected to the command center's network. If they were attacked like this, it meant...

But hasn’t the Ruler of Erosion been destroyed?

This was the last wave of his mental nerves.

Solar system, Earth. This ancient world with a history of 260,000 epochs can only be regarded as a small leaf bud on the tip of an imaginary tree branch, tender and weak, and even unable to survive in the inherent ecological environment of this world tree compared to those external enemies of the same origin but different dimensions.

Collapse should not have come to this world. Even outside the boundaries of the four-dimensional universe, if the concepts of time and space are fully applied to the individual's high-dimensional world, there may not be an out-of-control civilization that needs to be checked by the rules of Collapse.

Be it a reset or a reincarnation, all disasters are caused by natural enemies from outside the domain.

Although higher-dimensional life cannot easily interfere with the lower-dimensional world, their dimensionality-reduced creations, which simulate the solar system collapse system implanted by the collapse system, can still bring about a world-destroying disaster to this fragile planetary civilization.

After all, the fighting and predation between advanced cosmic civilizations are too early for this immature civilization.

"But now that things have come to this, there is no reason for them to let us go."

The silver-haired Herrscher hummed, his heterochromatic eyes piercing through the reflection of the stars in the Endless Sea, taking in everything on the blue planet.

"So, you need a complete transformation, a metamorphosis of your essence."

Her steps were steady, neither hurried nor slow, neither hurried nor hurried. The space law only took milliseconds to travel through the space-time tunnel, and she just walked slowly along the plank road of void crystal.

The seeds of disaster are quietly sprouting, and the final judgment has entered the countdown.

At the beginning, there is no need to throw the spear of destruction with your own hands.

"This time, facing the completely out-of-control Herrscher of Corrosion, what are you going to do?"

947 The value of an empty shell

One day before the divine punishment came, in the temporary transfer cabin between Hyperion and the airport base.

Einstein's observation lasted only a dozen seconds, and then he stopped observing the perfectly behaved replicant girl. So, of course, she did not see Siegfried, who took the initiative to find Asakura Miyuki after the execution team of the Destiny Headquarters left, and an additional uninvited guest.

As for Asakura Miyuki, she was surprised by the sudden appearance of Benares and Yae Sakura. After all, these two companions disappeared mysteriously before the Great Collapse, which made it easy for people to think of some speculations that caused a crisis of trust.

However, before Asakura Miyuki could think of this, the purple-haired girl who never lowered her presence unknowingly attracted her attention again.

There is no doubt that she is the real leader of the four-member group, as can be guessed from the atmosphere.

Besides, when Siegfried mentioned talking just now, I'm afraid the person he was looking for wasn't him...

It was not difficult to draw this conclusion, because the strange purple-haired girl was staring at the experimental girl next to her and had even completely ignored her own existence.

Asakura Miyuki subconsciously became alert and immediately stood up and opened her arms to protect the silver-haired girl next to her. However, the purple-haired girl just turned her eyes and glanced at her, causing Asakura Miyuki to slump back down with a pale face.

To the half-beastial Honkai creatures, the Herrscher's sense of oppression is like that of a lion to a rabbit.

"Don't worry, Miyuki. We won't do anything."

Bella gently hugged the cat-eared girl who tried to resist, and pressed her body against Asakura Miyuki. It looked like an intimate gesture, but in fact, she had used her dragon-like strength to block any possible resistance from Asakura Miyuki in advance.

"Uh...Miyuki-nee?"

Suddenly, she was surrounded by a group of strangers, and her only guardian sister was pulled aside. Faced with this situation, the little girl panicked and curled up like a ball, almost squeezing herself into the seat.

However, the purple-haired figure did not stop because of her panic. He maintained that vague aura of danger around him and slowly came in front of her with soft steps.

"Who...who are you?"

She clenched her little hands tightly together and looked up timidly at the purple-haired girl who was not much taller than her. The natural fear of unknown events gradually crept up the girl's tender face, turning her complexion blue with fear.

"What do you think~?"

The purple-haired girl leaned over, and a thin shadow covered the girl's head. The increasingly obvious sense of oppression made her even more flustered, and her eyes even began to well up with tears. The ripples of water mist made her pupils seem to be

Shiver.

"Don't hurt her, that child is just a failed experiment, she knows nothing!"

Despite being controlled by Benares, Asakura Miyuki still tried to reach out to the two girls and shouted loudly to the purple-haired girl, trying to get her to let the poor girl go.

She is indeed a clone of Kiana in the K series, but unlike Shiris and Diana, she is incomplete and has no power of Honkai, nor any memories from her body. Her mind is like a pure white sheet of paper when she was born - the K476 that Asakura Miyuki knows is such a poor and innocent girl.

"But you know who I am, don't you?"

"I...I don't know you..."

"Oh~~ So you don't know me! Very good..."

The purple-haired girl slapped her forehead exaggeratedly as if she had suddenly realized something, but suddenly she slammed her palm on the edge of the K476 chair. With a terrible loud noise, the metal chair back was smashed by the side of her forehead!

"Eaaah——!!"

"You're pretending quite well, worthy of being the source soul of that drama queen. But at this point, this Herrscher is not interested in playing the whole show with you!"

"Woo..."

"You think I'm lying to you? Haha...Okay, then I'll help you recall it briefly - when Shiris's mind was corroded by the Honkai Will and she gradually lost herself, her last attempt at struggle was to use the method of self-suggestion to convince 'herself' to separate her mental power and use it as a remotely controlled clone to temporarily avoid being completely devoured. And her true soul also tried to blend in and escape from the corroded Herrscher body together to avoid being contaminated by the Honkai Will."

"At present, none of the artificial bodies carrying the fragments of Shirley's spirit has been confirmed dead. Among them, the only two abnormal individuals that cannot be controlled by her are here, K440 and K476, you and me. So, where is the real Shirley?"

As she spoke, the purple-haired girl's hand had slowly climbed up to the girl's throat, twisting the slender neck that could barely be grasped with her fingertips. As her story came to an end, the hand that was kneading the girl's neck began to lose its gentle disguise, and gradually applied lethal force to that fragile body...

"don't want......!"

Asakura Miyuki stared at Xilin's palm and was about to scream, but she didn't notice that the girl's pale little hand was no longer trembling.

"Ugh."

Yes, no longer trembling like a timid girl. With a sigh that seemed like an illusion, this delicate hand had clamped Xilin's wrist tightly, took it off from her neck, and pulled it outward without question. Xilin, who was standing, was easily pulled down by her and fell on a chair beside her with a look of astonishment.

"Are you really going to strangle me to death right here and then if I don't fight back?"

The girl sitting in her original position spoke, her cold and clear voice replacing the timid tone from before. She remained sitting, but her body, which had been curled up in a ball, had stretched out, and her feet, which had been suspended in the air, had landed on the ground again. The airline seat was too big for her body, and in her current sitting position, she actually had the elegant beauty of a queen sitting on a throne.

947 The value of an empty shell >>

No... this feeling is only fleeting, her true temperament is not like this.

"Ha! Anyway, the world is about to be destroyed, so I can just kill a piece of trash who is of no help to the current situation and vent my anger. I won't feel any psychological pressure~?"

Xilin smiled, supported herself on the armrest of the chair to stand up again, rubbed her wrist that was pinched so hard that it hurt, and snorted softly.

"Finally you've stopped pretending? Humph... You used the law of gravity to exert dimensional pressure, and the law of consciousness to block my will, and finally used space shackles to fix my nerves... You can drive at least three kinds of law energy with a simple throwing technique, and you still dare to say that you are not a soul?!"

"I've already surrendered, so please stop talking."

The girl's head drooped, and in front of Asakura Miyuki's jaw-dropping gaze, her domineering disguised temperament collapsed, revealing a hint of decadence of a otaku.

"I'm sorry, Miyuki. I didn't mean to lie to you. Although I'm hiding in this body, the one you were with before was a pseudo-personality of this body. It's okay to treat her as the real other person... probably."

Looking at Asakura Miyuki who was still in disbelief, the girl sighed helplessly.

"Never mind, it's my fault. I'll apologize properly later. But now...what do you want?"

"What else could it be? Since you are still alive, stop hiding away. Isn't the current situation obvious? The first thirteen Herrschers are all gone, and the next one to come is the End!"

"Ok, I know."

Hearing the girl's calm tone, Xilin couldn't help but frown.

"What kind of reaction is that? In my memory, didn't the Silis Kaslana immediately go after Honkai to fight after hearing the news? Could it be that... you are not her?"

"I am Shilis, but you should know that my consciousness is a fusion of multiple souls."

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As he explained, his fingers unconsciously ran through the ends of his hair.

"The components of Shilis' soul include but are not limited to Lan Feng and Xilin's consciousness, Kiana's memory, and countless overlapping branch world line imprints. Now, Lan Feng and Xilin's consciousness bodies are completely separated, and Kiana's memory has long been abandoned by her. Those chaotic branch memories have also been sealed deep in her mind. Do you think that the remaining me can still be considered 'Shilis'?"

Hearing the girl's depressed words, Xilin felt her anger rising.

"You've been schizophrenic for a few months, and suddenly you want to switch to a philosopher? Don't forget that Lan Feng is gone, and your mind was unified a few years ago, so there are no legacy issues! The one occupying the body of K424 now is just a collapsed personality that copied your memories. Although you are now K476, you are still the complete form of Shilis, understand?"

"Alas... How can I put it? Lan Feng has indeed left us a long time ago, but the influence he left behind is deeply rooted in Shirley's soul. So much so that... under certain conditions, it is enough to materialize the soul's personality and lose this part of the consciousness superposition without her noticing... The nature of your existence is the same."

"Are you trying to say that your current spirit... is equivalent to an empty shell with no desires or ambitions?"

Hearing this, Xilin also began to realize the problem.

"That's about right. When you separated, I also lost this part of my will. Although the memories are still there, the soul is no longer the same. Can you understand this statement?"

"..."

"How should I put it? Without your thoughts, the ambitions left by the time travelers, the strong feelings with the previous Herrscher, and even Kaslana's protective will, I feel confused. I suddenly feel that no matter what I do, I have no motivation..."

"You... huh, so you'd rather hide here and play house with the kittens than go back to the battlefield to fight Honkai?"

"Even if I join the battlefield, it's useless. The law energy that girl has accumulated can match half of the Herrscher of the End. Kevin's Infinite Destruction may not be able to break her shield. What can a useless Herrscher like me do? If you ask me, we should quickly build more hibernation chambers of the Fire Moth brand and hide underground. Maybe we can survive until the next era."

Looking at Xilin who showed no sign of retreating, the girl shook her head gently again.

"Come to think of it, she also gave me a name, I think it's... Lilith? Yes, the Lilith in the Bible who escaped from the Garden of Eden and turned from the first Virgin Mary into the original devil. Maybe she was teasing me for giving up the power of Honkai after my failure and having to rely on a prosthetic body to survive? She must have seen through my disguise a long time ago, but she just no longer sees me as a threat... Even if she said that, you won't change your mind, right?"

"Yes, because she did let you go. Even if it was a deliberate omission on her part, it can become an opportunity for us!"

"Okay, then tell me, what are you going to do?"

Shirley(?) turned her gaze and scanned the visitors in front of her one by one, touching her nose like the early Long Aotian-style protagonists and showing a polite and helpless smile.

"After all... Let's not talk about bringing Bella and Xiaoying, you brought that barbecue uncle along as well. You should have some kind of plan, right?"

948 Burning Snake Cave

The colorful night sky expanded rapidly in the sky of the blue planet, covering the empty and dim solar system universe, and gradually enveloped half of the earth, as if covered with a layer of special effects filled with galaxy starlight.

From the perspective beyond the lunar horizon, what you can see is this cosmic wonder.

"You've come this far."

The phantom figure of the girl fluctuated slightly, like a briefly distorted image of a signal, becoming vague in the dead moonlight.

Even if the order of fate is disrupted, the final result is still unchangeable...

She narrowed her eyes and bit her lips lightly - the Soul of the End, which had not yet completed the conditions for descent and was still a semi-energy body, would not make such obvious emotional movements.

"..."

An indescribable mental fluctuation suddenly sounded in the depths of her brain, ignoring her will. The girl, who was already accustomed to this kind of voice transmission, turned around without panic and looked solemnly at the empty white shadow on the throne of the ruined auditorium.

The observer's questioning turned into a voice that penetrated her will, copying the information directly onto her soul.

——Since your other half has awakened, why don’t you join this game of judgment?

The soul voice of the white figure just now, minus some obscure interjections from foreign civilizations that are difficult to translate directly, probably expressed this meaning.

In response to this, she also answered by removing the emotional factors from the information as usual for billions of years.

"She is not yet complete, and the separated soul fragments have not yet been fully recovered. In this case, my forced interference may make her abnormal state irreversible - for the sake of short-term pleasure.

, causing permanent damage to the execution system, do you really want to order me to do this?"

"........."