Collapse: Lady Herrscher is a bit too lazy

"Okay, let me make it short. The girl lying on the bed is your friend, right?"

"Friend... count... count..." Hina nodded calmly, silently praying that Kiana would not wake up suddenly at this time, otherwise... the scene would become very embarrassing.

"Child, do you want to protect your companions?" Maki put his hand heavily on Hina's shoulder and said solemnly.

Uh, it has come to this point, can I still say I don't want to...

Hina's mouth twitched slightly, and she nodded and answered Maki: "I want..."

"Then wait for your friend to wake up and convince her to leave Tianming with me!"

"You...", Hina almost spit out a mouthful of Honkai energy solution out of anger. She resisted the urge to tie the old man to a chair and torture him about the whereabouts of the gem, squeezed out two drops of crocodile tears, and began to play the victim.

"Okay, I admit that I lied to you just now. I know what the mission goal is, but I didn't tell the truth." Hina lowered her head and began to make up a more logical story.

"So... what did you hide?" Maki looked at Hina in front of him in confusion, as if waiting for her answer.

"The order I received was that someone planned to use the Serenity Gem to create a large-scale collapse and directly select a suitable owner for the Serenity Gem, that is, artificially create collapse." Hina expressionlessly put the blame on others for her purpose, intending to use this to force Maki to make a decision.

From the long conversation just now, she had roughly figured out Maki's character, and was just waiting for Maki to fall into the trap and expose the location of the Serenity Gem.

As expected, when Hina broke such a heavyweight news, Maki couldn't sit still. He looked at Hina seriously and asked, "Child, is your news reliable?"

"Although... those guys are not very authentic in some things, they are indeed experts in intelligence..."

"Damn it!!" Maki turned around and fiddled with the computer on the table. Soon, a picture similar to real-time monitoring appeared on the computer screen.

In the picture, a blue-purple gem suspended in a glass container was emitting a long light in the dim environment. Around it, a group of people wearing special Honkai protective suits were busy in this almost closed space.

They kept taking out purple crystals from special containers and piled them on the periphery of the Quiet Gem container.

"This is... Honkai crystals! Why do they put these things here!"

Ziziziziz...

After a few seconds, the monitoring seemed to be disturbed by something, and it kept flashing until Maki's computer screen was full of snowflakes.

"I understand! I understand!" Maki covered his face, beads of sweat dripping down his cheeks. He looked at the surveillance screen full of snowflakes and beat his chest and stamped his feet:

"Cocolia, that female fox! So this is her real plan! She didn't want to analyze the gems at all..."

"She wants to soak the gems in high-concentration collapse energy crystals to produce a chain reaction!"

"Your information is correct. Cocolia plans to create artificial collapse here directly and select new gem-qualified people!"

"Then is it too late for us to stop them?" asked Hina.

"Stop..." Maki raised his head and looked at the thin girl standing next to him, and glanced at the time on his watch: "If we go now, it should be in time, but..."

"But what? Now the safety of the entire city depends on the two of us. Even if there is any danger, I will go."

Hina's fingers pinched the corners of her clothes tightly, and her tone couldn't help but be anxious.

Who would have thought that the woman named Cocolia was even worse than her? I don't know what kind of brain circuit this kind of person has!

"You are the only one here, are you going to die!?"

"So what?", Hina stared at Maki angrily, and said word by word: "I can't just watch the new Herrscher appear anyway.", because I must get this gem!

When the word Herrscher came out, the pain and hesitation on Maki's face disappeared, replaced by firmness and determination: "Yes! Herrscher..., if this kind of thing appears..."

"You stay here to take care of your friends, I'll try it, if I fail, you go and contact your superiors and let them deal with this kind of thing!"

"You? Can you do it with your old arms and legs? How about we go together? If there is any problem, I'll run?!", Hina made way and tentatively proposed a suggestion.

"Okay, come with me!"

After saying that, Maki pulled out a chair and strode out the door.

For a moment, Hina was shocked by this vicissitude.The vitality that only belongs to young people can be vaguely seen in the old man.

It's really not easy! Finally I was fooled!

Hina breathed a sigh of relief. After Maki walked out of the room, she pressed her hand on the computer and destroyed the computer that could replay the surveillance in a simple and crude way.

Then, she followed Maki slowly and walked towards the storage point of the quiet gem.

In front of the metal door on the first floor of the basement, Maki, who was dragged by his old body, was leaning against the wall and breathing heavily. He looked at the password input device in front of him nervously, praying in his heart, and pressing the password he knew.

8 0 8 8!

'Ding--The password is correct! '

Looking at the tightly closed metal door opening in front of him, Maki finally breathed a sigh of relief. It was still too early and everything could be remedied.

But for some reason, he always felt that something was not right. Since the female vixen Kokolia did not trust him, why didn't she even change the password of the safe room...

Just as he was thinking, several soldiers wearing special Honkai protective suits came out of the secret room.

Each of them was carrying a weapon. They were busy at first, but when they saw the closed door of the secret room being opened from the outside, they stood in front of the door of the secret room with guns to see what was going on.

The leader walked out of the secret room and looked at Maki in confusion: "Dr. Maki, what are you doing here?"

Even though he was facing several black gun muzzles, Maki was still fearless. He looked at the anti-entropy soldiers with his chest puffed out, and questioned them neither servilely nor arrogantly: "What I want to ask is, what do you want to do! Do you know that you are artificially creating a disaster!"

"We only know to obey orders, regardless of other things!" The anti-entropy soldier waved his hand nonchalantly and pushed Maki back: "If you have any opinions, you can contact my superior Cocolia."

"What nonsense is this! This is the life of a city of people! Don't you guys even have the most basic humanity?" Maki saw the number on the collapse strength detector next to the gem container from the gap between the anti-entropy soldiers. He rushed to the wide-open metal door desperately, wanting to do something.

"Old man, if you want to die, just say so. Don't interfere with our work!" The anti-entropy soldier knocked Maki to the ground with a rifle butt, kicked Maki in the abdomen, and impatiently urged his companions in the secret room:

"Are you guys done? It won't be long before this place is unsuitable for human survival. Let's finish it soon so we can hurry up and leave this damn place."

"Damn it! Whether it's Otto... or Cocolia... those big guys... have they never valued the lives of others?" Maki lay on the ground, covering his chest and abdomen, staring blankly at the ceiling. The butt of the rifle just now was not light. He could clearly feel that two of his ribs were broken, and the broken bones had even pierced into his internal organs.

The massive bleeding from the internal organs quickly drained Maki's already limited vitality. He felt his eyelids getting heavier and heavier, and his consciousness became more and more blurred. In the haze, he seemed to see his granddaughter standing beside him and looking at him quietly.

"That girl didn't come, which means that someone has been called to deal with this matter. I have tried everything I should and can do. Lin, grandpa is here to see you..."

Mumbling to himself, Maki slowly closed his eyes, a line of turbid tears flowed down from the corners of his eyes, it passed by his ears, passed through his hair, and finally fell to the ground, condensing into a gorgeous ice flower.

"Ah! What the hell is that!!"

The sharp screams and hurried footsteps called back Maki's scattered consciousness. He opened his eyes in confusion. Before death came, he saw a scene that was enough to completely subvert his cognition.

Those anti-entropy soldiers who had just been bossing him around in front of the secret room were frozen into ice sculptures during their escape, but he was still lying on the ground unharmed.

The young girl who he regarded as the Valkyrie of Destiny was standing in front of the door of the secret room holding a pile of high-concentration Honkai energy crystals as snacks.

Crack, crack...

Xina just swallowed a high-concentration Honkai crystal and took another one and put it in her mouth.

The intensity of the exercise just now was a bit high, and she needed to replenish some energy to support her next action.

"Who... who are you..." Maki raised his right hand with difficulty, pointed at Xina and stuttered a few words.

"Me?" Xina stuffed the Honkai crystal into her mouth while organizing her words, preparing to answer the last question in the life of the old man who helped her find the Serenity Gem.

"Didn't I tell you? The Serenity Gem will catalyze a gem-qualified person, guess what?Who is the gem-qualified person?"

"...", Maki did not answer, but stared at the Honkai energy crystal in Hina's arms.

Seeing that no one was there to help her, Hina had to warm up for herself: "Yes, that's right, it's me, Hina..."

"To thank you for leading me, I will allow you to witness the birth of the Apostle of God at the last moment of your life!", Hina took out the blue-purple Serenity Gem from the small metal box in her pocket and pressed it tightly against her chest.