Disaster Simulator, global collapse begins.

"Something's wrong, Mr. Elke!"

Chen Jie suddenly received a call from his maid.

"Please, please come back quickly." Her voice was trembling with fear, as if she were terrified.

"A Valkyrie has come to your home, bringing news of your parents..."

"They...they are dead!"

Elke's mother was a Valkyrie, while his father was a researcher who married into the family.

Both of them are very busy, almost like workaholics.

Having a child felt like it was solely to fulfill a family mission. After giving birth, she immediately handed Chen Jie over to the family for care, without any hesitation.

We only get to see each other once or twice a year during family gatherings, as if we've completely forgotten about having a child as a burden.

Not to mention how deep his feelings were for his nominal parents; in fact, Chen Jie felt awkward every time he met them.

On the one hand, he couldn't feel his parents' love and care, and on the other hand, he had never called out those two words.

But they died just like that.

It was somewhat abrupt.

The message was delivered by a gray-haired girl.

"I'm sorry to tell you this," she apologized to Chen Jie.

Celia Shaniat, an apprentice Valkyrie who is learning from Elke's mother, seems to have a much closer relationship with Chen Jie than they have been apart for a long time.

She looked even sadder than Chen Jie.

She is only 12 years old, but probably because girls develop earlier, she is more than a head taller than Chen Jie and looks much older than her actual age.

I remember the Herrscher of Ice was called Ana Schariac...

As expected, the Schariac family has already usurped the Mandate of Heaven.

Chen Jie frowned upon hearing the news that Elke's parents had died in an experimental accident.

This sudden event reminded him of Tesla's warning.

Otto made his move.

A huge tremor broke my train of thought.

It was as if a tank had crashed through the wall downstairs, and the cold winter wind howled into the warm room, making the room a few degrees colder.

This was followed by screams that rose and fell.

"A monster!"

"Ah—what is this?"

Celia ran down immediately, and Chen Jie hesitated for a moment before following her.

Honkai Beasts Invade!

If his guess is correct, even if he runs away now, it won't help. Humans simply can't outrun Honkai Beasts. At this moment, the safest place in the entire mansion is actually next to the only apprentice Valkyrie who has combat power.

Standing on the stairs, Chen Jie saw...

A deep blue knight arrives through the wind and snow, like a vanguard of death.

Behind it was a road paved with blood, and the entire room had been reduced to ruins.

Lolis of similar age to Chen Jie were scattered and buried in the ruins. Most of them had lost their lives, their limbs broken, their internal organs mangled, like broken puppets or broken rag dolls.

Amidst scattered cries, at this most beautiful age, countless unbloomed flowers were crushed into the mud by the iron hooves of Honkai Beasts.

Knight-class Honkai Beast!

Ice Knight.

This is a massacre.

It swung its spear, and a corpse dressed as a maid slid down.

Chen Jie still remembers her; she was his nutritionist. Every time he ate, she would help him calculate what he ate and remind him to pay attention to nutritional balance.

Because she was always unhappy with the food, Chen Jie was somewhat unwilling to listen to the other person's nagging, and now she would never speak again...

The cold wind roared and poured in through the breach, tearing apart the warmth inside the room.

One by one, once relatively healthy bodies were buried under the snow, their blood staining the white snow like crimson flowers.

This is the heartland of the realm controlled by Heaven's Mandate!

How could a Honkai Beast possibly appear?

Otto!!!

He truly doesn't care at all about the lives or deaths of ordinary humans.

"Run!" Celia exclaimed as if facing a formidable enemy. "I'll hold it off."

She was no match for an ice knight to begin with, and the fact that she had no suitable weapon and only carried a short sword further weakened her combat power.

But she had to stop it.

I can't let my master, Karena's only bloodline, die here like this.

She was already prepared to make a sacrifice.

"I can't leave." Chen Jie said calmly. "You can't hold out for long. I'll still be caught by the Honkai Beasts."

It's not like the melodramatic scenes where you leave first and I don't.

We can't follow Otto's script!

Otherwise, the final outcome would be that Celia and everyone else in the mansion would perish, while she, who had escaped, would encounter a Valkyrie team that happened to be patrolling nearby.

Along with the deaths of his parents, the bloody scene was so shocking that it was deeply imprinted on Elke's heart.

Filled with hatred and fear of the Honkai, he resolutely joined Schicksal and began his research.

Otto, meanwhile, simply sat in headquarters, letting out a triumphant chuckle.

They traded the lives of nearly a hundred ordinary people for the life of a passionate researcher who would join their mission.

In Otto's view, this must be a worthwhile deal, because the former would not increase the probability of his plan's success by even a fraction, while the latter was something of value.

That wretched dog, Otto!

We need to do something.

What weapons are inside the dimensional rift?

Putting aside the issue of exposing dimensional gaps, those weapons that do not contain Honkai energy are unlikely to inflict any effective damage on Honkai Beasts.

"Listen to me, everyone who's still alive, go to the basement!" Chen Jie roared.

"Honkai Beast... This monster's size makes it difficult to descend."

Can the basement stop the Honkai Beasts?

The answer is definitely no.

Otherwise, if every household built a few underground caves, what would be there to fear about a collapse?

With the power of the Honkai Beasts, they could easily open the floor like a can and crush the little fleshy figures hidden underground one by one.

But at this moment, they must be given a goal; hiding inside the house will only lead to a slow death.

In addition, there is a secret passage in the basement to escape the manor.

But there wasn't time to explain all that; the priority was to coax those terrified surviving girls downstairs.

"Run!"

Fortunately, my imagination worked its magic.

There's nothing to be afraid of.

They were just caught off guard, but Lord Elke has already reacted. Now that he has spoken up, he must have a way to turn the tide!

No, we can't hold that person back.

……

Those girls who were already paralyzed and unable to move due to fear were filled with renewed courage the moment they heard Chen Jie's voice.

He stood up again and ran to the basement as Chen Jie had instructed.

“Ceria, I’m more familiar with the layout here. If you trust me, run to the door on the right and guide the Honkai Beast to smash through that wall.”

"I don't believe it!" she shouted, but her body had already started running as Chen Jie had instructed.

"But it seems there's no better way now."

Chen Jie's words seemed to have a magical power, making people unconsciously ponder their deeper meaning.

The more I think about it, the more correct it seems, and the more trustworthy it is.

"This Honkai Beast's most powerful ability is its charge, so we can't let it run. Even if the walls can't stop it, we can at least slow it down!"

……

Chapter 45 If you lack combat power, make up for it with intelligence.

From the moment he heard the loud bang of the impact to when Chen Jie and Celia went downstairs.

In such a short time, how could a Knight-class Honkai Beast cause such a massive carnage?

charge!

It began to gather momentum from the outside, like a chariot carrying enormous kinetic energy, charging towards the Shaniat mansion.

Coincidentally, a large number of maids and children were gathered in that room, and they were taking extra lessons because they couldn't keep up with Chen Jie's studies.

Tragedy struck at that very moment.

"Now turn left and enter the corridor!"

"Then we went into the second room."

"Quick, everyone else, now's the time! The monster has been temporarily lured away by Celia. You only have 60 seconds. There are two entrances to the basement: the kitchen and the study/storage room!"

Under Chen Jie's command, more than a dozen figures sprang into action.

As Elke, he has no fighting ability.

Therefore, one can only participate in the battle through one's own means.

At this moment, the Honkai Beasts and Celia disappeared from sight.

Chen Jie lay down on his side, pressing one ear against the ground.

Sound travels at different speeds in different media, such as air and solids!

Using that extremely minute difference, Chen Jie began to calculate in his mind and created a small map of the entire mansion.

Celia and the Honkai Beasts that were rampaging and chasing after her.

She's slower than the Ice Knight!

Even though she was relying on the opponent's large size and weak gate, and could only bump into walls everywhere, the distance between her and the Honkai Beast was still closing little by little.

Chen Jie knew that if he wanted to save the rest of the people, he couldn't follow Otto's script.

The other party must be paying attention to this place.

So as long as he doesn't run away, the rescue team of Valkyries will appear here.

Delay the time.

"Turn!"

"Take more turns, Celia. This Honkai Beast is slow at turning! Turn more turns when you're about to be caught."

"Where are you?" Celia called out in response, thinking Elke was nearby. "Get out of here quickly, it's dangerous near the combat zone."

"It's alright, I'm upstairs, quite far away. I used my hearing to pinpoint your location and the Honkai Beast's location."

"I have a plan."

"Let this Honkai Beast smash through the pillars and load-bearing walls, causing the entire mansion to collapse and bury it under the rubble."