Honkai: It’s broken, I have become the Herrscher of Corrosion?

June 2002, Europe.

This is a secluded place with beautiful scenery. People living here can have close contact with nature anytime and anywhere.

The Valkyrie's sanatorium is located here. Next to the sanatorium, many Valkyries who were seriously injured in the Second Collapse were arranged to settle down here and enjoy their old age.

This is also the place where Mistlin is investigating this time. The World Serpent suspects that there is a secret laboratory of Destiny in this seemingly peaceful place, and Otto may be conducting research on the Herrscher of Ice here.

"Without using special means, it is not easy to reach the designated location quietly."

According to the World Serpent's arrangement, it is not the time to expose Mistrin to the vision of destiny and anti-entropy. At most, they only know that the World Serpent has an officer codenamed Yutu, and it is impossible to know that this officer is actually the first ideal form to come to the world.

But there is no doubt that the ordinary employees in the sanatorium and the injured B-level Valkyries together are obviously no match for Misterin in a head-on battle. If she really wants to get in, she can just use her Wushuang. Even if she doesn't kill them and just knocks them out, Misterin and the World Serpent's methods can do it with some effort.

But Cecilia had her concerns. Even if Misterin could make everyone around her unconscious, from the perspective of destiny, there was obviously still the fact that "there was an attack near the European sanatorium", which meant that Otto would definitely know about it.

In this case, if the experiment related to the Herrscher was really conducted in the secret experiment here, the Valkyries and other personnel here would be in trouble. After all, it was about the Herrscher, involving Otto's core secrets. Cecilia was worried that these people would be killed by Otto on the grounds that "maybe they saw something they shouldn't have seen".

Of course, Cecilia is now a memory, and even moving requires the help of Xilin or Enosia. Even if she wants to object, she has no power. Otherwise, the World Serpent would not let Misterlin share her actions with her. Cecilia stared at Misterlin's face for a while, and finally came up with a plan.

"If the Jackal was fully responsible for this mission, these people would most likely not survive. Cecilia is truly a beautiful and kind person."

Arriving at the designated location, Mistlin found a suitcase containing props prepared by Cecilia for her. According to her, the items inside would allow her to pass unhindered while also preventing irrelevant personnel from taking unnecessary risks.

She opened it and saw that there was no black technology inside: a mirror, a bra with a yellow collar, a pair of black tight shorts, a pair of black stockings with gold patterns, a pair of black shoes, two black and gold feathers as headdresses, a pair of gloves with gold patterns, and a box of... blue-green contact lenses.

"So this is her method..."

Seeing that there was no one around, Mistlin took off her clothes and changed into the clothes in the box one by one. After changing all her clothes, Mistlin opened her eyelids and put her blue-green contact lenses in.

After working for more than half an hour, she finally finished changing her clothes. She looked in the mirror and then turned on the communicator.

"Cecilia, are you sure... this is okay? The gap between us... should be more than this."

"It's okay. You don't have to say anything. Theresa and Siegfried are not here, and the others are not familiar with me. You can go in at night. There will be no problem."

Misterlin left here in doubt.

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As the sun was setting, next to the sanatorium, B-class Valkyrie Sok Lapes finished her rehabilitation training for the day and walked slowly towards her residence.

As a B-rank Valkyrie, she is not good at frontal combat, but her eyes are her specialty. When she shoots a target several hundred meters away with a rifle without a sniper scope, the bullet she shoots with her naked eyes is less accurate than the machine's error.

During the second collapse, her team had the bad luck to encounter the Herrscher of Ice who was fleeing to Lake Baikal, and all the members of the team were killed except her who was standing at the end.

She was lucky enough to survive, but her body functions were permanently damaged in the ultra-low temperature environment, and she was in a sanatorium for more than a year before she was discharged. She was originally a B-level Valkyrie, but now she feels exhausted and out of breath after running a thousand meters in 5 minutes.

She understood that it was impossible for her to return to the battlefield with her current physical condition, but fortunately she still had a skill. After completing her rehabilitation training, it should be no problem for her to be a D-class Valkyrie and do rear-line work.

By the time she reached the door of her house, it was already dark. A strange yet familiar figure appeared in her sight, and the vigilance she had developed through many actions made her follow him immediately.

However, the other party was obviously also coming this way, so with her eyesight, the other party's figure quickly appeared in her field of vision.

Under the moonlight, this kind of dress and this kind of face were very familiar to her as a Valkyrie from the former European branch.

"Lady Cecilia! How... is this possible!"

After encountering the Herrscher, Cecilia's admiration for her increased. Facing the Herrscher, she was dying after just one encounter, but she could fight the Herrscher head-on for a long time. How powerful is she!

But the news of Cecilia's death was known to everyone, and the person in front of him was...

For the first time in more than a decade, Rapace couldn't believe his eyes.

At this time, Misterine, dressed as Cecilia, tried to walk on deserted roads as much as possible, but she had gained nothing so far.

"Is the Jackal overly suspicious..." Mistherine, who was concentrating on her mission, saw the Valkyrie in front of her and her heart suddenly skipped a beat.

At this moment, Dimitri, who lived next door to Lapes, pushed his wheelchair to her side out of curiosity, and then showed the same expression as her.

The two looked at each other and pinched each other's face to confirm that they were not dreaming.

"Are you doubting whether you are hallucinating... Don't think too much, and don't say anything. Just pretend you didn't see it..."

Mistelline stopped, looked at the two of them, remembered the key points Cecilia taught her, and continued walking forward.

Cecilia never thought that after her "death" she would have the opportunity to teach others how to impersonate her ghost.

Sure enough, after Mistellin left, the two Valkyries said in unison: "Is it haunted?"

Lapez wanted to deny it the moment he said it. "But even in the moonlight..."

Dimitri interrupted immediately: "Lady Cecilia was such a kind and righteous person in her life, how could she become transparent just because of the moonlight?"

It was the first time for the two to see a "ghost", so naturally they could only rely on ghosts in legends and literary works.

"But... why did Lady Cecilia come here?"

Dimitri thought for a moment and said, "Rapes, you have good eyesight, can you see which way Lady Cecilia went?"

Rapace looked carefully and said, "Southeast, I remember there is an abandoned house there."

Dimitri clenched his left fist and tapped his right hand. "That's right. I heard that the abandoned house was once the residence of Lady Cecilia. I think she wants to go back there to take a look."

Anyway, the two of them managed to convince themselves, and Rapes stepped forward and pushed Dimitri back home.

But what Dimitri said was true. The abandoned house in the southeast direction was indeed Cecilia's former residence. She lived here for a period of time when she was about 8 years old.

Perhaps because she had lived there before, the house is still well protected even though it has been abandoned for more than ten years.

After a while, Mistrylin, who still found nothing, came to the door. The door was not locked, so she pushed it lightly and entered.

Although no one has lived in it for many years, the house is very clean and tidy, and it was cleaned not long ago.

Cecilia told her that if it was convenient, she could take the opportunity to take the things in the safe for her. As her "relics", the people of destiny would definitely not touch them.

Mistierine thought that since she had borrowed her identity after all, it was only right for her to help her fulfill her wish.

In this house that looks very quaint, this safe looks very high-tech. Rational knowledge tells me that the correct way to open it, unless you use great force, is through facial recognition.

After pressing a button, an infrared ray swept across, and the safe opened directly. Misterine, dressed as Cecilia, successfully deceived the recognition system.

There didn't seem to be anything expensive in the safe, just a book with yellowed pages. Misterlin put the book away, closed the door of the safe, and left the room.

Mistelline then walked past several Valkyries, all of whom had their eyes wide open, and some even shed tears of excitement.

Clearly, Cecilia was dead in the eyes of these people, but no one suspected that the person in front of them was someone else impersonating her.

Mistelline was undoubtedly very aware that she and Cecilia looked very similar. But she never thought that as Cecilia said, she could walk away in front of these Valkyries with a swagger as long as she dressed up like her.

"Do they really believe that the spirit of a dead person is immortal?"

Although in the eyes of others, Mistelline's actions tonight would become a laughing stock, but she felt that what she saw and felt while pretending to be Cecilia's ghost was very rewarding.

If a great person sacrifices herself for a great cause, she will become even greater in the hearts of everyone.

Kallen has been dead for 500 years. Although the Valkyries still respect her for her deeds, no one in the entire Destiny, except Otto, will regard her as their spiritual support. Because she is too far away, and the times and environment have changed.

Taking Shenzhou as an example, it is too difficult to expect young people to regard someone from the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty as their spiritual pillar and driving force in life.

But Cecilia is different, she is a person that everyone can see. What kind of person she is does not depend on historical records, but on personal observation; what she did does not come from the records in books, but from personal experience.

In many languages, people avoid mentioning the concept of death itself, the permanent disappearance of subjective will, and the concept of making existence itself become non-existent.

This is of course the eternal terror in the face of all wisdom - but when people turn a blind eye to death in order to resolve this terror... a kind of self-deception that is blatantly carried out comes into being. People always subconsciously believe that the people they love and respect are immortal and eternal. Although our reasoning knows that the other person is just a flesh and blood body, we are emotionally unwilling to accept it anyway.

Therefore, after Cecilia's sacrifice, most of the Valkyries of Destiny sincerely hoped that people like her would have immortal spirits after death and could survive in this world in another way.

This kind of emotional way of thinking is exactly what Misterine, as an ideal, lacks.

It turned out that the World Serpent's information was wrong. After searching for a whole night, Mistlin discovered that this was really just a place for injured Valkyries to receive treatment and nursing care, and the laboratory for studying the Herrscher was not here.

The next day, on his way to the sanatorium, Lapes was surprised to find that many Valkyries, like himself, claimed to have seen Lady Cecilia enter her former residence.

A few days later, Theresa flew over from the Far East in person. Under her instructions, the technicians of Tianming used technical means to open the safe.

"Has anyone else been here?" Seeing the empty safe, Theresa's expression changed instantly.

This was where she had first met Cecilia in 1984, when she was 12 years old and had just been told that her body would stop growing unless something unexpected happened.

Perhaps to help her relax, Otto asked her to come here to relax, and here she met 8-year-old Cecilia.

"Someone has been cleaning Lady Cecilia's former residence. But Lady Theresa, normally this safe can only be opened by facial recognition, and they don't have the ability to open it without leaving a trace. Lady Theresa?"

Theresa was moved by the scene and felt as if she had returned to the past, where she and Cecilia met and got to know each other. However, she did not know at that time how much influence Cecilia would have on her in the future.

"Ahem, sorry, what did the other Valkyries say?"

"Lady Theresa, 16 Valkyries, including Ms. Lapez who has the best eyesight, claimed that they clearly saw Cecilia and were convinced that they were not mistaken. Another 35 people claimed to have seen a blurry figure that looked very similar to Lady Cecilia in terms of figure and clothing. After multiple investigations, we found that there was no contradiction in their statements, and a blurry figure was also captured on surveillance."

Theresa took the videotape and checked it. Although the figure was very blurry, judging from the height, face shape, and clothing, it was undoubtedly exactly the same as Cecilia herself.

"Is it really haunted?"