K424 of the Collapse World

Changguang's expression became somewhat surprised. She naturally knew what soul steel was...

Nanoparticle metal that can block Houkai energy is not only extremely strong, but also has a certain degree of self-repair ability. Moreover, the current level of technology in civilization is not yet able to analyze its internal composition. In other words, the Destiny Organization is currently unable to manufacture this metal. Soul steel can be said to be a relic of the previous generation that is used a little less. Changguang doesn't quite understand what Otto's intention is.

"This is the method we use to control her. When these restraints made of soul steel are fully activated, they can completely suppress the Houkai energy in her body."

Otto said, waving at the girl, motioning her to come over and stand in front of Changguang.

Changguang narrowed his eyes slightly, and when he thought of the fighting ability shown by this girl in the video, he couldn't help but become a little alert.

At this moment, seeing Nagamitsu slightly sideways, assuming a right natural position suitable for combat, Otto waved his hand to stop her action.

"Don't be nervous. Although her power is extremely dangerous, she is no longer capable of hurting people. Moreover, according to the researcher in charge of observation, she has a relatively gentle temperament and has no tendency to hurt humans."

Hearing this, Changguang stopped his movements. Looking at the approaching silver-haired girl, he glanced at the soul steel collar tightly wrapped around her neck, and his brows slightly frowned.

"Since she has no intention of hurting anyone, what's the point of all this soul steel?"

She asked, but Otto just shook his head slightly.

"Of course it's for safety reasons. You've seen how terrifying her combat abilities are. Well... although the possibility is small, if she loses control, the damage to the underground research institute will be unpredictable."

"But as long as we can control it..."

At this point, a light screen popped up in front of Otto again, and he gently placed his finger on a "lock" button below the operating surface. Seeing this, the girl's pupils shrank slightly and she shuddered, but she just closed her eyes and did not make any other movements...

At this time, Claudia turned her head inconspicuously.

——Beep!

The next moment, the girl's body suddenly lost its support and she fell to her knees. Her hands hung weakly on the ground, trembling slightly, as if she was trying to endure the pain...

"Woo..."

Seeing the girl's painful expression, Changguang's eyes narrowed and he looked at Otto with a frown.

"What did you do? You just suppressed the Honkai energy. Why is she in so much pain?"

Changguang said dissatisfiedly. She herself didn't realize that there was a hint of anger in her tone.

"About this... Strictly speaking, her body has become very similar to that of a Pseudo-Hermaphrodite. As Honkai creatures, Honkai energy is like blood in humans. Suppressing her Honkai energy, she would probably feel the intense pain of blood flowing backwards. But for the test subject, this is not a problem."

Seeing Changguang's look, Otto smiled and shook his head, still with an indifferent expression. As he spoke, he leaned down and looked at the silver-haired girl who was lying on the ground and trembling slightly.

"All of her abilities, including her physical strength, are based on her ability to control Honkai. As long as the Honkai energy in her body is suppressed, it will not only cause her pain, but also make her unable to move, let alone fight. As a high-density metal, the weight of the soul steel itself is enough to make her unable to move."

Otto reached out and pinched the girl's chin, forcing her to raise her head so that her misty blue eyes faced him.

"No matter how powerful she is, she will only be like this under the suppression of soul steel."

"Ugh... Bishop... why...? I... didn't make any mistakes before..."

Hearing the girl's weak voice full of doubt, Otto smiled disdainfully. He did not answer her question, nor did he intend to remove the soul steel limiter.

"Is it just this level that's all you can do? This only suppresses 90% of your Honkai energy. In theory, you should still have some mobility, right?"

Otto spoke lightly with a cold expression, and there was no trace of pity in his eyes when he looked at the girl.

"But... forget it, I'm not here for this today, so I'll let you go for now."

Otto said, and pressed the button on the screen again to disarm the device. The girl's tense body then collapsed, and she lay on the ground, panting slightly, with a layer of fine beads of sweat on her pale face.

Changguang, who witnessed everything that just happened, slowly walked towards Otto.

"She... shouldn't have been a clone, right? A descendant of the Kaslana family?"

She spoke softly, with a hint of nameless anger in her eyes.

"Oh? How did you know?"

"There will be some minor differences in the skin details between people who have been exposed to the outside air and clones who have only stayed in the laboratory."

Otto's expression was smiling, and his eyes were somewhat intriguing.

"That doesn't mean anything, does it? Why can't she be a replicant who has left the laboratory?"

"Hmph... just consider it my guess."

In response to Otto's question, Changguang just snorted lightly, ended the topic, thought about it, and spoke again.

"I say... Mr. Bishop, soul steel is a precious metal used specifically for making weapons. It's a bit of a waste for you to use it like this, isn't it?"

"Why waste it? Resources have more uses than one. Just like we can use nuclear energy to generate electricity, we can also use it to make weapons. In this respect, the same is true for soul steel. Wouldn't it be good to use it to control a powerful being close to a Herrscher?"

Otto kept his elegant smile and explained to Changguang. Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something and smiled again.

“But speaking of it, to Tianming, she is indeed a weapon. A ‘weapon’ made of soul steel, isn’t she? Hahahaha…”

Amid Otto's laughter, Changguang lowered his head and fell silent for a long time...

"Your Excellency the Bishop, then... can I have a face-to-face conversation with her? After all, in order to make weapons for her, I still need to understand her own ideas..."

"Well, of course there is no problem. You came here for this in the first place, right? I'll go find Mr. Dean first. After you're done here, Claudia will take you back."

After Otto finished speaking, he looked at the silver-haired girl at his feet, then turned around, walked towards the electronic door behind him, and left the metal warehouse.

Walking in the corridor, Otto's smile suddenly turned sarcastic.

(Hmph... unnecessary pity. But, this is a good opportunity for me to see how much "kindness" you have left, Changguang.)

Although he had noticed that Changguang's behavior was not right, with Claudia there, Otto was not worried that Changguang would do something he shouldn't do.

At this time, in the K-0 metal warehouse, Changguang looked at the little girl who was struggling to get up, took a breath, adjusted his suddenly depressed mood, and walked forward.

"First time meeting, little girl."

The girl raised her head with great effort and looked timidly at the black-haired girl in front of her. It could be seen that there was still some fluctuation in her eyes, and she had not recovered from the torture just now.

"Don't be nervous, I won't activate that thing on you..."

Changguang pointed at the girl's collar and said, but the girl seemed a little scared. She looked at Changguang who was reaching out to her and took two steps back. However, due to the weakness caused by the limiter just now, she suddenly stumbled and fell down.

——!

Changguang took a step forward, grabbed the girl's hand, and helped her up before she touched the metal ground. At this time, as if she felt Changguang's kindness, the girl's dilated pupils slowly focused.

"My name is Changguang."

In the girl's sight, the black-haired girl slowly leaned down and looked at her.

There was a gentleness in her eyes, completely devoid of the bishop's coldness.

“Nagamitsu…?”

"You can call me whatever you want, but…"

Changguang's tone slowed down.

"K-0 is your experimental number, right? Do you have a name?"

The girl's pupils shrank slightly, and suddenly, a picture flashed through her mind, but disappeared deep in her mind in an instant.

(k... kiana...? What does this word... mean? No... I have to answer the question quickly...)

"I... don't have a so-called name, instructor... She only said that I was the subject of the K-DTS experiment, and the experiment number was K-0..."

After a brief silence, the girl whispered. Changguang thought about it for a moment and then shook his head.

"It's too long to remember. K-0...? Well, if we use Shenzhou's language, I'll call you 'Lin', how about that?"

"Is this... an order?"

Changguang was about to deny it, but when he saw the girl's lifeless eyes, he swallowed the words.

"Hmm? If you think so, then take it as an order."

In Changguang's eyes, besides strong curiosity, all she had for this girl was sympathy.

In my memory, the white-haired stranger obviously had some connection with the girl in front of me.

(Kaslana... Never mind, let's just be as kind to this girl as possible...)

For Changguang, she has experienced thousands of years, but her human nature has not been erased by time.

……

Waking up from his memories, sitting in the Saint 7308 Research Institute, Changguang looked at the familiar metal warehouse in front of him. Thinking of the girl, Changguang couldn't help but clenched his fists.

(Otto

…Even I find it a little hard to bear…)

080Kiana

St. 7308 Institute...

A black-haired girl in a dark blue uniform sat on a chair in the hall of the institute, half tilting her head back and staring blankly at the ceiling. On another chair, a gray-haired old man sat next to the girl, closing his eyes and resting.

These two people were naturally the two most outstanding weapons research and development experts of Tianming, Changguang and Dean. After the initial tit-for-tat, the two stopped talking. In fact, as two people with completely different weapon concepts, there was really nothing to talk about between them. The previous negotiations were entirely because Dean wanted to prevent Changguang from entering the institute. Otherwise, even if these two people met by chance in the corridor, they would not say hello to each other.

It was a long wait, and the researchers who had been around before had now all returned to their posts. However, despite knowing that their director's mortal enemy was in the hall, no one dared to look at the girl twice.

However, a figure walked out from the electronic door, breaking the delicate atmosphere at the scene.

"Haha... Sorry for the long wait, Miss Changguang..."

At some point, Changguang recovered from his trance when he saw the blond man appearing in front of him.

After Otto appeared, Dean stood up immediately, which was the most basic courtesy to his boss. However, Changguang sat in the chair without moving.

"Your Excellency the Bishop, you are late. We clearly agreed to meet at that time, but it's been an hour and you haven't come out yet."

As Changguang was speaking, suddenly, a sarcastic smile appeared on her face, and she looked provocatively at the old man standing next to her.

"But, just when I wanted to go in to find you, I was stopped outside by this brat."

Hearing Changguang's words, Dean narrowed his eyes and twitched his beard. He seemed to want to say something, but he restrained himself in the end. Although it was very strange for a young girl to call an old man a "bastard", the three people present knew some of each other's background. Therefore, Otto and Dean knew that the girl in front of them was fully qualified to say such words.

"Ah... I'm so sorry, Miss Nagamitsu. Actually, I was just doing some interesting experiments on K-0 and I accidentally forgot the time."

Otto apologized, but because of the smile on his face, it was impossible to tell whether his apology was sincere or not.

However, this kind of thing doesn't matter at all. For Otto, who has completely mastered the power of destiny, no matter what he does, he only needs to care about his own mood.

After hearing Otto's apology, Changguang immediately stopped. She knew her position very well. With her status, Otto would not care about some small jokes like before, but she couldn't be too arrogant. Otherwise, the Siegfried incident not long ago was a vivid example.

"Well, Bishop, you can't guess the purpose of my visit this time, right?"

Q group: 6 Changguang chuckled, raised his wrist and shook his watch that looked somewhat retro.

This is not an ordinary watch, but a personal terminal that is deliberately designed to look like that. Although Tianming does not have the quantum leap technology to reverse entropy, it can still store small equipment in the personal terminals of Tianming members by transforming them into data, so that they can be materialized and put into use at any time. At the same time, this method can also be used to remotely send equipment to the personal terminals of Tianming members.

Changguang used this terminal to bring a work he had recently completed...

When Otto saw Changguang's action, he was slightly stunned, and then he immediately thought of what Changguang was referring to.

"Ah...? Miss Changguang, your work efficiency is amazing. It's been less than a month since I gave you the task, right?"

Otto exclaimed, but he looked at Changguang with some surprise as he maintained a polite smile, and felt a little strange in his heart.

According to past practice, Chang Guang, the knife maker of the Saint 1504 Research Institute, spent much more time than this to make weapons! Every weapon made by her would take several months or even years. But this time, in just a dozen days, she developed a weapon that met her requirements?

Otto was about to express his doubts, but Dean, who was standing next to him, suddenly looked at Changguang and sneered after Otto's words.

"Ms. Changguang, I heard that what Lord Otto wants you to make is a weapon that is as powerful as the Throne of the Gods, right? But, in such a short time, can what you make really meet the standards required by Lord Otto?"

Changguang raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Dean, and the polite smile on his face immediately became a little sarcastic.

"Mr. Dean, the 'Throne of the Gods' series of weapons that you are so proud of are really not much better than what I made hundreds of years ago."

Dean was about to retort when he heard this, but he didn't know where to start. The long sword "Gyuki-kiri" made by the black-haired girl in front of him several centuries ago using the remains of a special Honkai beast was obviously

There is no scientific principle behind it, but it retains some of the abilities of the Honkai beast, which is enough to produce energy fluctuations.

In fact, including this knife, many of Changguang's works from countless years ago are indeed not much worse than the highest-level weapons of their predecessors.

"So what? Can the thing you made in just a dozen days be comparable to the extremely expensive 'Throne of the Gods' series prototype weapons?"

"Then why didn't the Bishop ask you to make K-0's exclusive weapon instead of me?"

"mine……"

Dean wanted to say something, but Otto suddenly interrupted and stopped the quarrel between them.

"Alright! Stop arguing about these meaningless things. How about Miss Changguang's work? Why don't we come together to witness it? You are all the top weapons experts of Tianming. I personally still hope that you can get along well..."

Otto said, indeed as he said, Changguang and Dean are both indispensable talents for the Destiny Organization. Although the two of them have some incompatible personalities, Otto does not want them to fight each other. If they have any conflicts, the fight between the two large research institutes may damage the foundation of the Destiny Organization.

Thinking of this, Otto narrowed his eyes.