Chapter 4: Collapse

"What? We are on standby again?" The order from the headquarters was passed down, and soon there was a wave of complaints from the fifth squad.

Himiko was about to say a few words to encourage everyone, but felt that it was unnecessary.

"You will complain about being on standby. With such morale, there is no need to say more, right?"

She was a little worried about the two recruits. She looked at the end of the row and saw that the two little guys were whispering together as if no one was around.

This violation of the queue regulations should have been severely criticized, but for some reason, the girl named Alicia seemed to have some magic. As long as she saw her flawless smile, many scolding words could not be said.

"Forget it... It's a good thing that the recruits still have the mind to whisper before the battle..."

"That's it, stay alert at all times, you can move freely in a small area, but you can't leave the camp, and make sure you can assemble fully armed within five minutes at any time! Disband!"

The soldiers dispersed.

Himiko stopped Mikael and Ellie.

"You..." The next words were a bit cruel to the recruits, but as a routine procedure, Himiko had to say it. She took out two envelopes and an iron box, "You, each leave a suicide note."

When ordinary recruits heard such words, they would either swear excitedly that they would be fine, or recall the fear and trembled and couldn't write a word.

But to her surprise, the two recruits in front of her had no emotional fluctuations at all.

Alicia pouted, obviously not wanting to write such things.

Mikael picked up a pen and scribbled a few words on Ellie's letter, and then scribbled a few strokes on his own envelope, and then locked it in the iron box.

"You two have a really good relationship..." Himiko's mouth twitched slightly, and she immediately remembered that these two recruits seemed to have come out of Vostok-51 Orphanage...

Even if they left a suicide note seriously, no one would read it, right?

For a moment, the captain, who was always straightforward and decisive, did not dare to stay in front of the two underage recruits for too long. She left as if she was escaping.

After confirming that she had gone far away, Alicia turned around and smiled softly, "Hehe! Start moving, start moving!"

"It's already this time, it's better not to run around everywhere, right? Wouldn't it be better to wait until the collapse is dealt with before doing this?" Mikael wanted to say this.

Besides, he didn't really want to see Mobius. If she became interested in him, or if she discovered his identity as a Herrscher...

But he also knew Ali's answer: "This is my first battle in the Fire Moth Chaser, so I must face it in the best condition! How can the best condition be without a unique medal?"

After a while, two fully armed weirdos with gas masks on their heads appeared in the base, with no inch of skin exposed to the air.

Some soldiers wanted to interrogate him, but Mikael said directly: "We are going to Dr. Mobius's laboratory..."

Before he could think of what to say about going to Dr. Mobius's laboratory, the soldiers hurriedly stepped aside and gave them a look of pity and admiration.

"Is Dr. Mobius so scary? It seems that everyone in the base is afraid of her?"

"You...Alicia, don't you even know what kind of person you are about to deal with?"

"Oh, that's true! I only heard Hen talk about the rumors about the doctor. After all, we joined late..."

Arriving at the gate of the experimental area, under the eyes of two guards, Mikael and Alicia each took out a card from their pockets and inserted it into the machine beside them.

"Identity verification: The captain and chief instructor of the first Honkai team, Hen, has been authenticated."

"Identity verification: The captain of the fifth Honkai team, Himiko, has been authenticated."

The two took the cards back, and then in the pockets that the guards could not see, the identity cards gradually turned into blue light spots and dissipated - this was of course a replica made by Mikael using the power of the Herrscher of Reason, at least enough to deceive the security system of the base.

"Hey, do you think that Instructor Hen and Captain Himiko seem to be a little shorter than normal?"

"Huh? Is that so? I didn't notice!" Hearing the whispers of the guards behind him, Mikael couldn't help but smile proudly.

Products made by the Herrscher of Reason must be top-notch.

The next step was a long search. After all, the experimental area was too large, and it was really difficult to find Mobius's laboratory.

"Hmm! Found it!"

But the next second, Alysia's smile froze.

The red lights of the base began to flash, and the harsh alarm sounded continuously.

"Members of the fifth team, please assemble immediately!"

"This... this... what is that!"

In the combat command room, the most conspicuous blue light screen was transcribing the real-time images sent back by the frontline soldiers.

The radio still echoed with Hen's shouting: "Headquarters, request to retreat! Headquarters, request to retreat!"

The disaster broke out almost in an instant. The entire Irkuene City no longer existed. All creatures, if not turned into dead soldiers and Honkai beasts, were...

Hen led four teams to the battlefield as soon as possible, but they could no longer establish a defense line in the remote and narrow urban area. To be precise, they were targeted by a terrible creature at the very beginning.

In the recorders worn by the soldiers, it was clearly a humanoid creature, but it possessed a power that mortals could not master.

The bullets fired by the soldiers could not get close to the human in front of them.

She manipulated the power of space at will, swallowed all the bullets and shells, and returned everything that humans gave her.

With a thought, she could tear the void with her bare hands, and countless collapsed beasts came out of it.

With a thought, she took a light step and crossed a distance of dozens of meters to a soldier.

"Click", the screen of the combat command room was dark, and Erwin, who was responsible for the broadcast, immediately typed a string of codes, and the screen was connected to Hen's perspective again.

In just a few seconds, there were two more mecha wreckages around the human, and there was a fighter plane that lost its tail in the sky in the distance, spinning and rolling down.

But FAMAS, who was in charge of the headquarters, was sitting in the dark room behind the command room, watching the battle situation coldly through the one-way glass.

"Command!" Himiko walked in.

"I have different ideas from Dr. Mobius, but it is obvious that her conjecture about the Herrscher has been confirmed once again." FAMAS said without thinking.

"Commander, I don't understand what you mean."

FAMAS shrugged his shoulders and stopped talking about this topic.

"You should know, right? There is a former military base of Country R under Irkune City. It is called a military base, but it is actually a base for studying Honkai energy, which stores thousands of HW of Honkai energy."

Himiko stood up straight in an instant. FAMAS had made it very clear that she understood her mission.

"Well, the current situation of the war... Hen and the others have led the Herrscher... the humanoid creature out of the city of Irkune City. The fifth team must quickly enter the underground base of Irkune City."

"Your mission is to protect these Honkai energy storage tanks, and then..."

As FAMAS's last words were spoken silently, Himiko's pupils shrank slightly.

A quarrel soon broke out in the dark, and the soldiers in the combat command room looked sideways.

"I admit that this plan is a gamble, but I only offer two options. Either the Fifth Squadron carries out the mission as planned, or the Fire Moth will release the silver bullet (HWQ)!"

"I..."

"Be rational, Captain Himiko." Famas sighed, "I know this is cruel to the Fifth Squadron and to you, but this is the most feasible plan that I and my staff can think of. And the silver bullet... To be honest, given the opponent's control of space power, we cannot guarantee that the silver bullets we release will explode smoothly at the predetermined location."

"No... Command, can I complete this mission alone..."

"Captain Himiko, I know you are very powerful, but you are a mortal after all! Do I need to remind you! Irkuene City has been occupied by the Dead Warriors and Honkai Beasts. You alone cannot successfully enter the underground base!"

Himiko's fists suddenly clenched, and then slowly loosened, with only the white knuckles recording her confusion at that moment.