The Fire Chaser of the Collapsing World

Harris wiped away his tears, stood up slowly, and added in a hoarse voice:

"Of course, there is actually one more thing, that is... we have always had a faint hope, what if the coalition government can find out what's going on here? What if they send people to investigate? We have to live, count the days to live Go on, live to the last person, live to the last moment... We are not eager to be saved, and it is impossible to be saved, we just want to tell the whole world what happened here!"

"Well...this is actually an idealistic statement-the fact is that we are already walking dead, and we don't even know why we have to force ourselves to continue living..."

The chandelier above the head flickered, and even the light and shadow in the entire confined space began to dance.Mikael took a deep breath to try to calm down, just at this time the elevator stopped at the 39th floor, the doors opened to both sides, Mikael and Sakura rushed out as if fleeing.

There were not many survivors left, so Harris simply gathered them all on the 39th floor.

Water and electricity were cut off in the neighborhood. They collected a lot of mineral water and bottled water from supermarkets, but it was not easy for these fresh water to sustain life, and it was absolutely impossible to wash.

Therefore, it is conceivable what kind of taste there can be in a small and closed space.

Most of the survivors are still on the first floor, and they will go up after a period of rest.As for the people who stayed here, Mikael took a rough look. The purple lines on their bodies had spread to their chests and cheeks, and even rushed into their eye sockets like backflowing tears...

With such a condition, it seems that it will not be long before he dies...

Aldemir knelt on one knee in front of a thin, mummy-like woman, dipped his finger in a little drinking water, and smeared it on her pale and warped lips.

The woman closed her eyes, as if she had lost the strength to open them.

Water slipped from the corner of her mouth, and washed a pale river along the dirt on her cheeks. Her lips were slightly opened, making a whine as thin as a mosquito.The tongue is caught between the two teeth, but it can't lick the water stains on the lips.

"That's his mother," Harris said quietly.

The woman didn't know whether she heard Harris' words, or felt her son's body temperature. She raised her head with all her strength, and her eyes opened with an almost imperceptible slit.

Mikael saw something flicker in her eyes, but it was just wet eyelashes.

Perhaps, the water in her body couldn't even squeeze out the last drop of tears.

The next moment, her head slowly fell on the tan pillow.

Aldemeer did not cry.

In other words, in such an environment, he tried his best to control himself, not to cry out, and not to affect other people.

Mikael stood there dumbfounded.

It is not that he has not witnessed death.

The collapse of Irkune City resulted in no one surviving in the entire city, and it is roughly estimated that the death toll is above 30.

But in the face of a cold corpse, or a dead man who is hostile to him.

It is a completely different state of mind than watching a person who was still warm a second ago go to death in a hopeless and irreversible way.

A weight as heavy as a mountain squeezed his body everywhere from his shoulders, chest and abdomen, from all directions, making it difficult for him to even breathe lightly.

As a Herrscher, he thought he could do something to change this era.

Just like he once swore - no longer a witness, but a person who can actually change the fate of all.

But he didn't realize until just now: In fact, he can't do anything.

The so-called Herrscher is actually not a fart in the face of death and Honkai.

"Saving the world is not easy. Sometimes we can't even save one person."

The man's words echoed in his head.

As for the so-called serum, Mikael can naturally condemn those dignitaries who use serum to extend their lives, but he cannot condemn Dr. Spaci and Alfred who developed this serum, because this serum is not only used on dignitaries.

The big head that is really consumed is the moth that chases the fire...

His captain, Himiko, temporarily left the team for recuperation due to Houkai disease after the end of the second Houkai, but now that she returns to the fifth team, there is no trace of Houkai disease on her body.

And she went to the treatment at the same time as seven veterans from the other four teams.

Counting the time, it is hard to say that the eight tubes of serum that cured these soldiers did not contain the antibodies of the victims here.

This is a trolley problem. Sacrificing one life to save a thousand people is an endlessly quarreling topic, let alone sacrificing a thousand people to save one person?

But what if the rescued person is a warrior like Captain Himiko?

Their survival may one day save a thousand lives, or more...

But then again, is it really the answer that rationalism can come up with by sacrificing the few to save the many?

No, in everyone's heart, there are always some minority, their weight far exceeds the so-called majority, or even everything.

How to measure the weight of this?

cannot be measured.

Because at the moment this problem was born, it was doomed to have no solution.

The person who makes the choice, no matter what the choice is, is undeniably guilty when he makes the decision.

As for Harris saying that the Honkai disease was spread intentionally by the city hall... Mikael subconsciously felt that it was unlikely. After all, the Honkai disease was similar to a natural phenomenon, and it might just happen to break out here.

As for the hospital, there is nothing wrong with the hospital. What they can provide these patients is nothing but amputation and saline glucose.

Is that the fault of Harris and others?How could they be wrong.

A numbness spread from the back to the scalp, everyone was right, but the result was wrong.

"This damn powerlessness..."

Mikael's drooping hand turned cold, it turned out that Sakura grabbed his hand at a loss.

Soon, the other hand closed, and her whole body weight seemed to rest on it.

Only then did Mikael suddenly realize: Maybe this girl is not as strong as she thought.Maybe the dark side she saw in the poisonous chrysalis was not dark enough, so that she was so dazed and powerless at this moment.

He quickly changed his position, took Sakura's arm, and let her petite body lean against her.

But suddenly, he realized another problem:

Since entering the tower, in order for Himiko to know what happened, he has not turned off the communication.

"Oops!"

Mikael thinks differently. For an ordinary person, if she knows that her life was bought with another thousand lives, it is difficult not to crush her under such a weight.

"Excuse me, I have to go upstairs."

Harris glanced at Mikael and Sakura, who was already half paralyzed in his arms, and taunted involuntarily:

"It seems that the so-called fighters who survived in Irkune City are nothing more than that."

Mikael ignored him, and half dragged and half hugged Sakura to the top floor.

Yimer's drone landed here.

Mikael leaned against the railing, and the wind from the tall building messed up his thoughts and the hair on his forehead.

"Captain, Captain? Are you listening?"

There was no response for a long time in the communication.

"Chirp Chirp", a few birdsongs came from my ears, Mikael looked up, and saw two birds that strayed into the building like petrels and just flew over the roof of the building. They flapped their wings vigorously, wanting to fly further Gao was quicker, as if he could escape from this dead place by doing so.

Suddenly, one of the wings stopped waving, its paws kicked straight, and its whole body twitched twice. After that, it couldn't even maintain the gliding state, and fell weakly towards the bottom.

And the other bird whined and beat its wings faster.It quickly became a black spot in Mikael's sight.

But at the moment Mikael thought it escaped successfully, the little black spot fell straight down.

Honkai is very fair, regardless of whether it is an ordinary animal or a human being who claims to be a primate, it is treated equally.

There was finally a response in the communication, but it was not Himiko's voice.

Alicia's voice was full of confusion and unspeakable weight, "Mikael, the captain said...she knows."

Chapter 38 What's Under the Sea?

"Then... the battle plan against Yasha..." Mikael asked a little out of place.

The other end of the communication was silent for a moment, but this time it was Himiko's resolute voice: "The plan to lure the enemy remains unchanged, and I'm not that vulnerable."

Michelle breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that whether this relief comes from Himiko's strength, or from the fact that the battle plan against Yasha remains unchanged...even he himself can't say.

He turned his head to look at Sakura who was curled up in the shadow of the corner, and wanted to say a few words of relief, but he suddenly heard her ask: "Squad leader, tell me, did the collapse of these three blocks really happen by accident? "

Her voice was neither too loud nor too slow, coming from the shadows faintly, but it was like a thunderbolt exploding in Mikael's mind——

He fell into the inherent concept, and always felt that the collapse was a natural phenomenon from a certain scientific point of view, but what if it was not a natural disaster, but man-made?

Mikael closed his eyes, and countless details went back in his mind again. He felt that he must have missed some important clues.

Is it the strange magistrate?No, no, there was a lot about his behavior that Mikael still couldn't understand, but that was irrelevant.What's more, his attitude seems to be inconsistent with the city hall. His behavior of coming to meet the plane seems to be covering up something, but because he did it too deliberately, he deliberately guides the fifth team to dig deeper.

Is it possible that he himself is stupid?It is not impossible, but Mikael believes that he is the assistant who invented the serum. It is not impossible for such a person to make such a low-level mistake, but the possibility is too small.

The attitude of the city hall is obvious. Himiko wanted to contact the people who had withdrawn from the block, but they immediately refused.

Could that be the order of the city magistrate?

The more Mikael thought about it, the bigger his head became. He simply abandoned all inferences and re-analyzed all objective phenomena:

[The anomaly in the three blocks occurred about one and a half months ago, and it swept through the three blocks in less than a week. The Luluye City Hall responded immediately, and it took another week to evacuate tens of thousands of people. According to Harris, almost all of them are infected with Honkai disease...]

While pacing around, Mikael took out his mobile phone and searched for reports of similar tasks on the intranet of Flaming Moth.

[The small-scale collapse that occurred in the Rockford area two years ago originated in a small suburban town, and expanded to one-third of the urban area within half a month. Finally, the coalition government announced that Rockford would be abandoned.Rockford City had a total of 13 residents, about 3.4 of whom died of Honkai disease in the following year and a half. 】

[The small-scale collapse that occurred in Piling City thirteen months ago began in the Bell Tower District. The local city hall quickly sealed off the Bell Tower District, but less than a month later, the Houkai disease spread to two adjacent districts In the end, the coalition government decided to abandon half of Piling City. Out of the 120 million people in the city, 17.4 people were infected with Honkai disease in the following six months. The collapse of the collapse, the number of casualties is almost double that of Vostok six years ago. The huge casualties made the coalition government spend a lot of energy to cover up the truth of the collapse. 】

【………】

Mikael's fists were clenched tightly, and the nails that hadn't been trimmed for a while were deeply embedded in the palm of his hand, and blood dripped like lines.

"So... First of all, Piling City has already proved that it is useless to block the block to deal with the Honkai. It started to spread rapidly in half a month to a month. On Luluye's side, the Honkai spread to three blocks from its appearance, and there is no problem with this part."

"But the strange thing is that the spread of Honkai was contained in the next month, and the rest of the blocks didn't seem to be affected at all!"

"According to what Harris said, almost all of them were infected with Honkai disease within a week, which is not the same as the situation of Lockfu and Piling..."

"Squad leader!" Sakura reminded in a low voice.

Mikael turned around, just in time to see Harris walking up the stairs while leaning on the wall.

It was only then that he remembered what he had overlooked, and quickly said in the communication: "Captain, can I apply for a batch of water and daily necessities?"

"Yes, the city hall may not be able to get through, but we also have a small base in Luluye, and I will transfer directly from there. I have also reported the situation here to the headquarters. If they are willing, we can send it to the headquarters. They took it out..."

Before she could finish her sentence, she stopped in the middle, and finally reduced to a sigh.

"Harris, we will send a batch of supplies by drone soon... Although it can't relieve the pain...but..."

"I understand." Harris shrugged, "Your organization is a little better than I imagined... You know, I just heard that you came here yesterday, but I was so scared that I couldn't sleep, for fear that you would take me back But I thought again, it doesn’t really matter, it’s just like what you said, it’s just a pity that we can’t tell the whole world what happened here.”

"Don't be sorry!" Mikael said suddenly and seriously: "We will let the whole world know about this, I promise you."

"Forget it, this is all my wishful thinking. Your department also belongs to the coalition government, so your superiors have no contact with the mayor of Luluye?"

Mikael was silent.

"But it doesn't matter, at least someone already knows about it now. Child, I beg you, remember this matter, and remember it decades later. At that time, maybe no one will care about it anymore. By then You have to write it out and tell the world, okay?"

Harris squeezed Mikael's shoulder tightly with one hand, and the latter nodded quickly and asked at the same time:

"Harris, you should have seen that our fire moths are different from Luluye City Hall, and...they don't have much time... let's accept the treatment of our fire moths, although It can't cure the Houkai disease, but it can be more or less at the end..."

"I understand..." Harris nodded, "If they agree, I have no problem...Actually, the fact is that most of us are on the verge of collapse. In two days, most of them will walk out of the block and hand over their bodies to the city hall...”

Mikael breathed a sigh of relief. "

"I won't say too much, you guys are going to kill that monster that looks like a moth... Oh, Honkai Beast, right? We have encountered it once, maybe we can provide you with some information."

"You say!"

Mentioning Yasha, Mikael quickly focused.

"It was the night 26 days ago. We were about to retreat to the tower after we had collected the supplies. Suddenly, a white line was drawn around me, and the person beside me disappeared. When we followed the trace, that person had already been killed by the collapsing bird. The bad beast dragged and flew out for 300 meters... At that time, I didn’t know why, but I actually realized it, but I just couldn’t move, hehe, maybe I was scared stupid at that time.”

"But at that time, the Honkai Beast wasn't very strong. At first we were 50 people, and then more and more people gathered after hearing the movement. There were more than [-] men in total... Our bullets were also, almost It was all shot in that battle, and we lost one eye at that time."

Mikael was taken aback for a moment—could more than 50 Honkai patients be able to match Yasha?

And at least Harris survived.This is impossible!He, Ellie, and Sakura were somewhat dangerous last night!

He quickly asked: "You guys, have you killed it once?"