Time in a collapsing world

While Cecilia and Siegfried were flirting, on the snowy plains of Siberia, a black crystal emitting dazzling black light was buried under thick snow. A young man named Amethyst found this place according to the instructions of the instrument.

After clearing the snow, Zijing saw the black crystal. The surrounding Honkai energy was very faint, and it was just a "small target", so he took it out easily.

Beside him were two Valkyries sent by Otto to assist him, skillfully placing the black crystals into sealed containers.

"Next target."

"Yes."

Amethyst finished speaking and the two Valkyries responded at the same time.

The concentration of Honkai energy in Siberia has reached dangerous levels in several places, indicating that there are many undiscovered black crystals here. In addition to the three of them, other Valkyrie teams were sent here to conduct a comprehensive "clean-up" of Siberia.

After walking a few steps, Amethyst and the two Valkyries felt the snow around them suddenly shake violently, as if some giant creature was about to break out of the ground.

The three of them jumped away immediately.

In an instant, a huge Honkai beast emerged from the ground and rushed straight towards the two Valkyries. Even though Amethyst was very close to it, it was completely ignored.

But Zijing would not let the two innocent Valkyries die in front of her in vain. Even if they were ready for battle, facing a Temple-level Honkai Beast at such a close distance, the two of them would not be able to withstand more than a few moves.

Then Zijing pulled out a sword-shaped weapon she was carrying and stabbed it at the Honkai Beast. It easily pierced through its body and pierced its core.

The two Valkyries were a little stunned when they saw this, then they restrained their expressions and put away the weapons they had just taken out.

"Let's go." Zijing said again.

"Yes."

The group didn't encounter any trouble along the way, and the two Valkyries began to whisper. Amethyst had sensitive ears and heard them talking about her, but they were all words of praise and admiration. For most Valkyries, it was rare to find a man who was so good at fighting.

Arriving at the next location indicated by the instrument, the hidden black crystal was still underfoot. The sensed Honkai energy was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and it even moved after the few people arrived.

Amethyst exchanged glances with the two Valkyries, and soon one of them began to contact other teams around them to call on heavy detection and excavation equipment.

However, the guy with the black crystal below suddenly started to run away at an extremely fast speed, and soon he had distanced himself from the others.

Amethyst quickly caught up, and the two Valkyries followed, but the latter were nowhere near as fast as Amethyst and the thing escaping underground, and were soon left far behind.

Amethyst noticed this and did not stop, but instead quickened her pace as no one else was watching.

The black crystal seems to be extremely important to Otto, but sorry, Amethyst is also working for another organization now.

Amethyst caught up with the thing that was fleeing madly underground, and even surpassed it, unleashing the power of the Herrscher in the direction it was heading.

In an instant, all the ice, snow and land around disappeared, revealing a mole-like Honkai beast that was still digging the soil below.

It had no hostility towards Amethyst and even wanted to avoid it. The boy noticed a black crystal stuck in the gap of its shell, so he rushed over and punched it on the forehead, knocking it unconscious, then took the black crystal off its body and kept it safe.

No longer paying attention to the unconscious Honkai Beast, Amethyst found a fallen tree trunk nearby, used her ability to hollow out the middle without damaging the outer shell, and then placed the black crystal inside.

Someone should come to take it away soon afterwards, after all, I have been under the surveillance of those people.

Zijing went back to reunite with the two Valkyries, and expressed regret for not catching up. The naive Valkyries did not suspect him and consoled him with a few words. Then they contacted other teams to cancel the call for heavy machinery and continued their journey to find crystals.

……

This is...where?

I was born into this world with a vague consciousness, and it happened to be on the Siberian plains.

He had just adapted to this body when the first thing he felt was an endless sense of squeezing, followed by difficulty breathing. When he opened his eyes, all he saw was darkness.

I feel like dying...

So he moved his body, trying to push away the hard mud that was wrapping him.

However, he seemed to be buried too deep, unable to move even a finger.

You have to save yourself, but how?

In the darkness, he opened his eyes, revealing black and white pupils. A strange power lingered on his fingers, and everything he touched was easily transformed into something else.

The soil that was squeezing him disappeared, and even the ice and snow covering the surface of the soil disappeared.

He just lay on his back in a huge pit hundreds of meters deep. After the feeling of being squeezed and suffocated disappeared, he felt a biting cold.

He was naked, with every part of his body exposed, and the low temperatures in Siberia made him completely conscious.

He stood up with difficulty, looked up at the sky, and then slowly climbed up along the edge of the pit.

The distance of several hundred meters was enough to exhaust him, and the ability to make the soil disappear just now also drained away the limited strength he already had.

As a result, he rolled down countless times during his climbs, leaving himself covered in bruises. There was even one time when he almost touched the ground, but his foot slipped and he rolled down from a height of hundreds of meters again.

He could never get up again.

After resting for a while, he turned his head to look to the side as if resigned to his fate, only to find a strange sphere that was out of tune with the surroundings lying in front of him.

As if possessed by a ghost, he managed to lie his blood-covered body on the sphere and then touched it with his fingers.

The disappeared mud and ice returned, filling up the pits hundreds of meters deep, and he was pushed back to the ground and sank into the deep snow.

The cold suppressed his pain, but he just couldn't get up. He closed his eyes, intending to wait quietly for death to come.

After an unknown amount of time, his consciousness was finally about to fall into a deep sleep due to being too weak.

But perhaps there is always a way out. Just before he was about to lose consciousness, he seemed to hear the sound of an engine, followed by the sound of a vehicle driving quickly, and finally stopped.

Right next to him, there was the sound of a car door opening, and then two people came in.

They were all wearing snow boots, and the sound of them stepping on the snow made a "crunching" sound, which sounded so crisp to him in the dark.