Chapter 288

"Even without charging," Li Pu said, glancing at the worried Kiana, "It can still last for five days on standby."

"Unless they're a chatterbox who's constantly on the phone with a walkie-talkie."

Even so, the walkie-talkie can still be used for eight hours.

"We checked everything before we left."

"The walkie-talkies are all powered!"

How could it have stopped because of a power outage?

"Then..." Kiana was also puzzled and said, "Could it be that we encountered Honkai Beast and can't get away?"

"That's impossible, if it were nearby..."

"How could there not be the slightest sound?"

"If we've encountered Honkai Beast," Li Pu said, adjusting the walkie-talkie channel. "Then I think this matter is simple."

"There is another situation where the walkie-talkie may become unreachable."

"What's going on?" Kiana asked curiously.

"The Honkai Index is abnormal," Li Pu explained. "The Honkai Energy concentration is rising, and when it reaches a certain level, it will affect all radio communication methods. Under normal circumstances, we cannot directly detect this."

"Furthermore, when the concentration of Honkai Energy reaches a level that can affect radio communications..."

"This is the prelude to an impending Honkai."

Li Pu finished explaining and just then adjusted the channel.

"This is St. Freya patrol vehicle D4001." Li Pu immediately contacted. "Calling the Collapse Response Team Command."

"This is St. Freya patrol car D4001."

"Calling the Collapse Response Team Command!"

"Sizzle sizzle..."

Chapter 307 Honkai Eruption

The thing Li Pu feared most has happened.

The Honkai did not occur as he initially predicted, with multiple Honkai in various locations causing a chain reaction that led to an abnormal rise in the Honkai index of the entire city.

Ultimately, this led to a Honkai explosion.

It looks like a domino effect; once the first domino falls, it starts falling from the smallest to the largest domino.

Of course, this situation is not guaranteed to occur.

Because if some dominoes are removed, the fallen domino will not be able to knock down the next domino.

The chain reaction will end there.

Deploying troops to conduct a thorough search is an attempt to remove a few dominoes from the chain reaction and bring it to an abrupt end.

The goal of a thorough search is to find as many Honkai Crystal as possible.

It's not necessary to find them all at once.

All that's needed is to identify a portion of it and disrupt this chain reaction as much as possible to stop this Honkai.

However...

However, although the country's response was very swift this time, both in evacuating personnel and deploying troops, it was swift and decisive, yet the Honkai did not occur as expected.

Even after the state intervened, a large number of Honkai Crystal were still found.

However, no small-scale artificial Honkai occurred.

At this moment, the anticipated massive Honkai seemed to have come to an end. It had only just begun, and the resources needed to cause the Honkai had been gathered, but it was forced to stop due to an accident or the rapid intervention of national power.

Can...

But is that really how it is?

Li Pu doesn't think so.

MEI's research on Honkai means that these small-scale Honkai won't suddenly stop because of your intervention.

The Honkai will continue to erupt, but the difference is that because of the timely intervention of external forces, the Honkai will continue to erupt and gradually reach a peak over a period of time.

Then...

Then things started to go downhill.

It's like someone catching a domino as it falls; it can't stop the rest of the dominoes from falling immediately.

However, with continuous intervention, the seemingly endless dominoes will eventually stop collapsing on one of them as the accumulated energy gradually dissipates, and the chain will break.

But this time it was completely different.

There was no continuous Honkai that reached its peak at a certain point in time.

This is exactly what Li Pu is most worried about.

It's not only through a domino effect, a series of Honkai, that a Great Honkai can ultimately be triggered. Theoretically, as long as enough Honkai Energy accumulated...

If it suddenly erupts in an instant.

It can also instantly trigger a Honkai!

However, the latter is only theoretically feasible.

Because unless there is a kind of Honkai Crystal with extremely large energy.

The massive Honkai Crystal themselves are enormous, roughly equivalent to sneaking a launch vehicle into a city of 30 million people. Well, while that's not the most accurate description, it's certainly quite fitting.

To do something like that, the entire city would have to be blind to see it.

There's simply no way to keep it a secret.

But then again, although it seems ridiculously difficult.

But didn't the instructor say something like that?

Nothing is impossible for a willing heart; what if someone actually manages to accomplish this?

It's not entirely impossible.

Now...

It really looks like that now!

"Get in the car!" Li Pu started the engine, turned the car around, pointed it at the pedestrian street, and said, "Hurry up, Kiana!"

"Huh?" Kiana seemed a little startled when she saw this and said, "Like this? Is this okay? Shouldn't we wait for Mei?"

"We can't wait any longer," Li Pu said. "Let's go find Mei!"

Now, Li Pu thought of something else.

So who says that a sufficient number of Honkai Crystal are needed to trigger a Honkai? Can't we just use a Herrscher? As long as we can artificially create a Herrscher.

Theoretically, it could also cause a Honkai.

And this Herrscher...

It could be Mei!

"I understand." Kiana got into the car.

Kiana didn't understand what went wrong, but seeing Li Pu's condition, she knew the situation might be very critical.

"Let's go!"

Li Pu stepped on the gas.

The modified patrol car easily smashed through the stone roadblocks placed there.

We drove into this pedestrian street.

"Where did you part ways?" Li Pu asked with concern.

Which way is Mei heading?

"Look ahead! Turn left at that intersection." Kiana said, "There used to be a convenience store there, and I wanted to buy some potato chips. But it's closed down."

"And then they parted ways right there."

"Um..." Kiana said cautiously, "Um..."

"Is it alright for us to do this?"

"Here..."

"This is..."

A pedestrian street!

Although most people have evacuated, what if you happen to encounter one or two civilians?

All of this could...

But what?

Kiana hadn't finished speaking, nor could she finish! A crimson mist gradually drifted over from the sky, devouring the city like a ravenous beast, and was about to engulf the two small patrol cars as well.

This red mist is something that has never appeared here before.

But no matter how you look at it, this London seem like a good thing!

And this thing appeared here.

I reckon there's only one possibility!

Honkai erupts!

The Honkai erupted, just as Li Pu had feared, the worst possible outcome. This Honkai erupted suddenly! The red mist that began to appear in the city center started to spread outwards and gradually enveloped the entire Changkong City.

St. Freya's last remaining strength is about to be withdrawn.

Otto, the leader of Schicksal, gazed from the highest point of the academy at the red mist that slowly advanced like an iron curtain.

The city has begun the final evacuation procedures.

Or perhaps the city government anticipated this unusual situation from the very beginning.

Each search team received instructions in advance.

If you encounter a radio communication failure, you can choose this option first. If there is a radio communication failure and abnormal phenomena occur, you must immediately abandon the task at hand.

Evacuate directly, but of course, you should take all the personnel with you!

However, Otto did not convey this order to his Valkyrie squad.

"Artificial Herrscher".

Otto held his coffee cup in his hand.

"Perhaps this is the only way to fight against the Honkai..."

"Key!"

Chapter 308 Searching for Mei Duck

"Honkai!"

Li Pu slammed on the brakes and stopped the car here.

The blood-red mist devoured the streets like a monstrous beast swallowing the heavens and earth.

"This thing is Honkai Crystal!"

Li Pu finally understood how the mastermind behind it all turned what was theoretically possible into reality.

He immediately recognized that the blood-mist-like substance was actually Honkai Crystal, and not large Honkai Crystal, but very small Honkai Crystal.

These tiny, dust-like fragments of Honkai Crystal not only spread rapidly with the atmosphere.