K424 of the Collapse World

At this moment, the changes in the space channel ahead suddenly diverted Xilin's attention.

The damaged chaotic space suddenly became clear, revealing the slightly thin body of the Ruler of Constraint.

She stopped and stood at the other end of the space, her eyes meeting those of the silver-haired girl.

"You finally came—"

Her voice penetrated the two realms of the different space and resounded in the ears of the two girls simultaneously.

"Lilith."

968 Blessing Curse

Lilith...

Whose name is that?

The silver-haired girl thought so but did not ask directly.

The name that the Herrscher called her was the name that another avatar of the Herrscher had casually given her when they were in the elemental body warehouse. It was only one syllable different from her real name "Shiris".

The girl didn't think that this Herrscher consciousness, which was close to the origin level of Honkai, would give itself an irrelevant name for no reason.

Even if that clone

No matter how eccentric an individual's personality is, his or her actions are still controlled by the Herrscher.

And...she just said "as expected"? Did she see through Xilin's plan?

It was right to think so. From the moment her clone noticed something unusual in the cell warehouse, her existence had already been exposed to the eyes of the Herrscher, and she was not completely unaware of it as Xilin had guessed.

With the operation of high-speed thinking ability, the girl's hesitant silence only lasted for a short moment, and she responded the next moment.

"…That's not my name."

Yes, that's not her name.

Even if she lost the reason to move forward and the essence of her soul, and lost the will to fight and the desire for redemption, she still remembered everything about being Shirley, and she could still recognize that she was "Shirley".

No matter what the reason was for the Ruler of Constraint to say this, she would not acknowledge the name he had given her.

"Really? You still can't remember it."

The voice of the Ruler of Constraint's response was very ordinary. It did not have the madness and arrogance that is unique to a Ruler, nor was it as indifferent and ethereal as that of a god. It was just like the tone of greeting between strangers who met for the first time.

There is no interference from consciousness, no telepathy, it is just ordinary speaking, simply conveying the message you want to express.

"Remember...what?"

"What a shame. The reversed position is disqualified, but my contract will continue to be executed."

The silver-haired girl frowned. She didn't understand what the other party was saying, but facing these weird incarnations of Honkai, she would probably not get the answer she wanted if she asked a direct question.

So......

"Until now, do you still think that you are the real Shilis? Forcibly taking on an identity that does not belong to you will leave a fatal hole in your mental world. You may be defeated by the Herrscher of the Heart and be unable to complete the responsibility of reset. Is this okay?"

Glancing at Sirin who looked desperate and had no other options, the girl tried to induce her, and in accordance with her plan to delay the collapse, she expressed her doubts to the Herrscher who did not take any action.

Talking to her, letting her speak, at least this lawgiver of the end-time restraints could stop...

"Yes, I am Shiris."

The woman answered directly without any hesitation.

"I'm Shiris."

She repeated it again.

"From the very beginning, I was Silis Kaslana, there is no doubt about that - but you are not. After the extra soul imprints were stripped off, you are no longer Silis."

Hearing this, the girl subconsciously wanted to refute, but when she opened her mouth, she found that she could not make any sound.

Obviously, the law enforcer in front of him would not allow his words to be interrupted, nor would he allow others to take control of the topic.

She was just willing to answer the question completely of her own accord.

"But, despite this, you still can't remember your true self. You lost everything you had, and you still can't get anything back."

The Herrscher spoke calmly, completely different from his previous state in the imaginary space. There were no more obvious emotional fluctuations and self-deceiving ideas, as if he was simply stating a fact.

"You have no thoughts or desires, and you seem to have returned to your original nature, but in fact you lack a soul. You are nothing now, like an empty shell without its contents, without any value."

The Law Constraint slowly raised one hand. After noticing her action, Xilin quickly activated the space energy to build a defense, grabbed the silver-haired girl's hand and dragged her into the space barrier. At the same time, the Law Constraint's words did not stop. Even though they had already hidden in the interlayer of the alien space, the woman's gentle and soft voice still echoed clearly in their ears.

"If it was Lilith, I would be happy to return those things that belonged to her to their original owner. But at this moment, you - an ignorant soul who is confused and hesitant about the meaning of existence, should continue to sleep in reincarnation. This is the best outcome for you."

The woman clenched her open palm.

The barrier of superimposed space was gently crushed by the invisible hand constructed of the void. The phantom giant hand, whose shape was vaguely composed of line shadows and light mist, grasped the superimposed space of infinite area geometric bodies in its palm like a piece of plasticine, completely ignoring the rules of the properties of space and the law of conservation of mass and energy, and firmly grasped the other-dimensional creation of the Ruler of the Void and pinched it into a flat transparent sphere.

"It's just that she might be disappointed - but that's all."

Xilin tried her best to maintain the shield of space. The feeling of being forcibly grabbed by the Herrscher's hand without paying attention to the rules of space was as absurd as being pressed down by the shadow cast by a building. In a completely incomprehensible way, her confident ability to save her life was completely shattered.

“Woo…!”

The visual sense of space began to become confused. Xilin felt as if she was really being held in the palm of the Ruler's hand, just like a small animal trapped in a hamster ball, being held in the palm of the hand of a huge Ruler woman. The woman's flawless face continued to expand in her eyes, gradually becoming like a mountain pressing down on her, occupying the entire range of her field of vision.

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Even myself

The body of the person was twisted as the space itself was crushed. In the next moment, it would be turned into energy dust along with the shattered space...

Finally, the fragile space light ball was crushed by the woman, and the two people trapped in the law barrier were destroyed along with the broken law, and their souls and bodies were annihilated in the palm of the law maker.

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In the darkness, the girl slowly opened her eyes.

A few milliseconds ago, the scene of the space collapse remained in her mind, like a slow-motion special effects movie, replaying the process of her and Xilin being torn apart by the laws of time and space clearly in her mind over and over again.

An extremely huge gap and an inevitable failure.

has it ended?

It's not a pity that this life like a walking corpse ended like this. It's just a pity for little Xilin. It's rare for her to break free from the control of Honkai and become an independent personality...

The girl was thinking quietly. She couldn't feel her body at all, nor could she sense her spirit, but somehow, she was able to keep thinking, even though she was as slow as thick mud, but she could still think like this.

She felt as if she was immersed in the abyss of the Styx, slowly sinking towards an unknown realm...

This is... a wall clock?

At some point, the darkness in front of her eyes was no longer dark, and the girl found that she was standing on a clock. Two huge hands, like collapsed pillars of heaven, were almost overlapping in front of her, infinitely close to each other, just like the last second of 11:59 on the clock.

Not far from the girl, a thin figure with purple and peach colors intertwined stood in the center of the clock with his back to her.

That back figure seemed so familiar to the girl, but her mind was almost stagnant, and she couldn't think of the name of that heartache for a moment...

The girl with long peach-purple hair, holding a deformed and twisted cane that looked like the minute hand of a high-end clock, gently stopped the pointer of the dial under her feet, making it stop at the last moment pointing to 0:00.

Your destination is not here, Sister Shiris...

Just like the soft and gentle voice in memory, the girl turned around gently, revealing her slightly childish and delicate face, and the completely stagnant clock pupil in her right eye.

apricot......

Am I... dreaming?

Why does my withered heart, which I thought would never be moved by emotions again, still want to throb like this? This... familiar yet strange emotion...

The silver-haired girl stretched out her hand, trying to touch the thin girl at the center of the clock, but the next moment, the clock under her feet suddenly burst into a dazzling light, and the imprisoned clock hands began to reverse backwards. The girl's raised hand was pulled back by an invisible force, and the figure of the girl in her vision also retreated farther and farther in the darkness...

No! Xing...at least, at least let me...!

But in response, the only thing she got was a fleeting smile from the girl.

(Goodbye, my dearest...)

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"enough."

As the space that was shattered by the heavy pressure suddenly became lighter, Xilin opened her eyes tremblingly, only to find that the giant hand that had just closed and the collapsed crack were nowhere to be found. She and the silver-haired girl were still standing in the space channel, facing the Ruler of Constraint at the end of the airspace.

The rules of time were disrupted by a tiny ripple.

"Thank you for your kindness, Ms. Herrscher, but please allow me to reject this option."

The girl's golden eyes slowly turned back to blue, and the scales and pointers formed by her pupils also disappeared.

"As you said, I don't have any desire to take any subjective action right now. Even if I force myself, I can't exert the power of my true self... It's quite appropriate to say that I'm an empty shell."

Looking at Xilin who was standing beside her with a dazed look, the girl seemed to be lost in a brief memory. After a moment, a gleam of light quietly emerged in her pale blue eyes.

"But that doesn't mean I will obey your orders and die. Even if it's just for this idiot who can't do anything right, I, an empty shell, will have to try harder. This is my first and probably last promise I will keep."

It doesn't make sense at first to be willing to act for the expectations of others when you have no dreams or desires of your own.

But making specious arguments and deceiving oneself and others is not something that this lady, the Herrscher, has exclusive rights to.

"..."

Looking at the girl who resolutely raised the condensed light spear, the Ruler of Constraint tilted his head in confusion.

It's not contempt or mockery. It's just like the subtle expression a normal person would make when seeing a talking ant waving its mandibles, which are less than one millimeter long, and shouting that it would break your neck.

But, something is slightly wrong.

The wreckage...should not be left with such power.

The Ruler looked directly into the silver-haired girl's eyes again, and when he saw the remaining starlight in her pupils, he sighed in understanding.

"I see. This time, she finally couldn't stand it anymore..."

The Ruler of Constraint showed a trace of confusion, but in an instant he regained his cold rationality.

"Well, let's just treat it as part of the trial. It really causes trouble for others... Even she can't interfere with the inevitable course of the world."

969 Xuanyuan Mystery

The detector on top of the mecha glowed with a faint red blood light, like the single eye of an ogre.

Dragging a mechanical arm with exposed cables and gears, the damaged Titan mecha smashed its fist into the slightly deformed steel plate, and the heavy and long echo of the impact resounded in the underground passage.

Dang... Dang...

......

The loud noise that echoed around completely covered up the sound of electronics operating in the metal room.

In front of the glass chamber of the sterile laboratory, Einstein operated the control terminal with an expressionless face, inserted the tiny micron robotic arm into the wound on a red-haired girl's head, and methodically performed the biochip repair operation.

The Herrscher of Corrosion has resurrected, and Sequence Collapse is raging across the globe. Right now, she doesn't care about these things at all, and is concentrating on the operation in front of her.

[Before the next collapse, repair my body to a state where I can continue to work]

The red-haired girl lying in the transparent experimental cabin made this request five hours ago, and Einstein accepted it.

But now it seems that no matter how quickly we treat him, we can't catch up with this disaster that has already broken out...

Even though her assistants and guards had retreated to the deeper shelters, she remained in this upper laboratory, completing the final steps of the repair surgery alone.

Even though the sound of Titan's heavy blows continued to be heard from behind the explosion-proof door less than a hundred meters away, the doctor's hands did not tremble with worry.

As one of the founders of the Far East Underground Laboratory, she was very clear about the actual strength of these isolation doors. It was almost impossible to break through this layer of energy-insulating metal made of soul-simulating steel with the autonomous armament of these Titan mechas alone.

Even with the energy of the Herrscher of Corrosion, it is impossible to do what is impossible. The isolation of soul steel to Honkai energy is like the water-repelling effect of rubber, and the molecular sequence of the slightly inferior imitation soul steel is about the same as the waterproofness of plastic, and it will not be penetrated by such a tiny Honkai energy.

Even if the corrosive collapse energy is integrated into the sound waves, after passing through this metal door, the energy will be isolated and only a simple harsh sound will remain.

Otherwise, the equipment here would have long become one of the toys of the Herrscher.

Drip...drip...drip...

"Ok?"

After an unknown amount of time, the prompt sound of the life support device sounded clearly in his ears. Einstein subconsciously looked at the screen of the display panel. The next moment, he thought of something and turned back to look at the isolation door at the exit that was constantly vibrating.

The attacks... stopped?

Just like hammering nails into a coffin, the out-of-control Titan, which had been tirelessly hitting the alloy door again and again, suddenly stopped raising its iron fist high and stood still like a statue.

Although the buzzing sound left in her ears from the deafening impact prevented her from hearing much of the feedback from the instruments, the long-lasting vibration sound had undoubtedly stopped.

Was it destroyed by a supporting Valkyrie team? Or has the Corrosion Sequence been destroyed?