The Fire Chaser of the Collapsing World

But she actually admires Alicia's character, she is happy no matter where she goes, and she is full of hope for the future... This is gradually getting used to death and despair, and then she only lives in the present, unwilling and afraid to look forward to the future Very rare among the flame moths.

So she forced a smile and responded casually: "Okay, besides the celebration held by Flame Chaser, I'll give you two tickets to Eden's concert, how about it?"

"Hey! Superstar Eden's concert ticket, the captain will bleed a lot!"

"Small sample!" Himiko raised his hand and gave Ellie a slap, "Two days ago you found someone to buy tickets for Eden's concert, but you got cheated of money, do you think I don't know?"

Alicia didn't expect Himiko to tell the truth in front of Mikael, she blushed instantly, mouthed angry, her eyes wandered, she looked left and right, trying to ease the embarrassment.

"So you really went to buy it..."

Mikael tried hard to hold back his laughter. He couldn't help but recall the first time Ellie was cheated by someone. It was a brown-haired thin girl who was a few years younger than them. She tricked Ellie into an apple candy, but that Ellie at the time didn't care.

By the time she was cheated for the second time, Ellie would already be lying on the ground, rolling, crying and fussing...

Perhaps this is the accumulation of human nature...

"Huh..." He exhaled a foul breath, and all the Houkai energy in the piggy bank was sucked into his body.

He couldn't help but think of the scene when he bragged with Ellie that he could drink three liters of water.

As if the body is a huge balloon, the embroidery needle will burst when poked.

"Are you ready, Alicia?"

"Well, of course!"

Mikael turned his head slightly, and looked at the dazed Himiko from the corner of his eye.

"Captain...that's right, I am the Herrscher, the Herrscher who fights for mankind, just like you, a moth chasing the flame!"

"boom!"

There was a loud bang above the head, and the ceiling was smashed by the Second Herrscher like paper.

The broken rock and soil seemed to bury everything, but the light curtain constructed by Mikael isolated it all.

Himiko looked up, and at a distance of tens of meters, he could only see a purple figure the size of a grain of rice in the night sky, giving people the illusion of a frog in a well.

The subsidence of the ground short-circuited a large piece of wires in the base, and the sparks spread along the hanging wires all the way to the feet of the self-proclaimed Herrscher.

It's really like...

Chasing the flame called the future.

"Headquarters, this is the frontline headquarters. It has been detected that the Honkai energy response in Irkune City has increased sharply, and the Honkai energy response has increased by more than 4000HW in a short period of time. Next, we will use drones to conduct battlefield reconnaissance."

"Headquarters, found that there are a large number of battle traces of mechs, rail guns, and space battleships around Irkune City. Please confirm the itinerary of our troops."

"Headquarters, no battle wreckage left by unknown forces has been found..."

"Headquarters, Herrscher's body has been found, as well as the fifth team, Captain Himiko... They seem to be still alive!"

Chapter 9 Equivalent exchange

Mikael struggled to open a slit of his eyes, but what he saw was not the real world.

In a trance, the ground he stepped on was stained from the pure white snow field to blood-red dust.

"Mikael..." came a familiar call from behind.

"Mother Selia!"

But when he turned his head, he saw only dry and cracked ground, or collapsed or pulverized houses.

Even so, he never forgot.

This is the city of Vostok.

The city he overlooked when he first became a Herrscher.

"How did this place become like this? I didn't... didn't I stop the Second Herrscher, didn't I... no!"

He thought he wouldn't be sad, at least not this sad.Because he never owned anything from the beginning, and what he wanted to save was only Alicia.

Therefore, people often don't realize what kind of weight these things they think they don't care about leave in their hearts until they lose them.

One drop, two drops...

Something wet his face.

Is it rain?

He raised his head, but the falling rain was dark in color.

It's like a sin that needs to be borne from birth.

"..." A strange perception came from behind again.

There was no sound, and no temperature could be felt, but Mikael felt that something was embracing him.

A voice planted a seed in his mind, and it seemed that he wanted to call him back to his embrace.

He suddenly had a strange premonition - at this time, he should and must look back, and then he could see...

But he was doomed to be disappointed, he just caught a glimpse of a golden vine, and started to fall rapidly in the darkness as if being pushed by someone.

But there was no wind in my ears.

Gradually, vague voices of conversation sounded in his ears:

"Dr. Spaci, what is the patient's condition now?"

It was a slimy, cold and damp sound.

"How should I put it... Maybe my metaphor is a little inappropriate. I can't find medical words to explain the patient's state. His brain is now like a... er, a CPU that is overloaded and almost burned?"

"What about other places? Is there anything in his body that is different from ordinary people?"

"No, his body structure is the same as that of a normal human being, except that the Houkai energy is highly adaptable. In addition, he contains a small amount of Houkai energy in his body, but considering his identity as a soldier and Captain Himiko's report, I Think it's normal."

"Space, you should know how to talk to 'them'?"

"Uh... Dr. Mebius, I don't understand what you mean..."

"Wait a minute, it looks like our patient has woken up."

The pale light made his eyes a little stinging, and he squinted involuntarily, but when this vision swept over the green-haired woman sitting by the hospital bed, he sincerely showed a loveless expression .

He quickly sorted out the situation he had to face.

He didn't know if Himiko finally guessed the identity of the Heroes, anyway, she did keep her promise and concealed the truth from Flame Chaser.Otherwise, Mikael felt that he would not be in such a ward - he should have been in prison, or on Mebius' dissecting table.

But the reason why a lie is a lie is that it is impossible to hide it from everyone—at least the one in front of me seems to be unable to hide it...

Mikael inspected his body, and his Herrscher core was gone.

Alicia should have done it, otherwise he would be on the dissecting bed by now with that core alone.

"Well, Spaci, you can take the report to them. I have something to say to this patient in private."

He said so, but Mebius did not let him leave immediately, but grabbed the case report from Spaci, revised it and threw it to him.

Spaci shrugged, as if he had expected this situation long ago, took the revised case, turned and left the ward.

Mebius knocked on the iron railing on the hospital bed, and said, "Okay, my lovely patient, there is no third party here now, and you must answer the following questions seriously!"

Mikael laughed dryly, as if he was answering what Mebius said.

"You should also know what I want to ask? And you should also know that they have asked those two people the same question a long time ago."

"In the battle against Herrscher, what happened to those last mechs, rail guns, and battleships?"

Mikael thought silently—if it was Ellie, what lame excuse would she use?

"Ahem, that was the last blow of the Herrscher after absorbing all the Honkai energy. She seems to want to use mimicry to construct the product of human civilization... Ha, as you know, the purpose of Honkai is to destroy civilization , so she manipulated these products of human civilization and suffered a backlash? Anyway, we don’t know what happened, but those things that were obviously created by her attacked her instead.”

After Mikael finished speaking, he saw Mebius biting his finger and looking at him with a half-smile.

"How should I put it? Without any communication, you can guess their answers exactly...it's amazing."

"Doctor, you know it's not a matter of guesswork, so it's the truth."

Mebius sneered, and Mikael couldn't figure out what she was thinking, so he simply stopped talking.

"Oh? Then how did you survive? Why didn't those mimic creations attack you? You know? This kind of lame excuse doesn't even believe the idiots of the flame moth, and the reason why they and you didn't accept further The investigation is only because I, who dissected Herrscher's body and studied her core, confirmed this statement, that's all. And if the case submitted by Spaci just now has not been revised by me, you should know the consequences."

"and……"

Mebius took out a player and placed it beside his bed. Mikael turned his head and saw that it was playing the scene of him pinching the rail gun when he just landed to face the Second Herrscher.

"You're actually a lawyer, aren't you?"

Mikael took a deep breath, he did not answer directly, but asked instead:

"Equivalent exchange, doctor, if you have any request, just ask."

Mebius was taken aback, she covered her mouth and laughed "squeaky", trembling along with her slightly loose white coat.

"I've never seen a mouse that cooperates so well with you... I'm more interested in you now."

"It's an honor for me."

"No, it's not an honor. You should feel lucky, because I'm interested in you, so in the subsequent experiments, I will take extra care of you. At least, I will let you live before I thoroughly study you... ..."

Mikael remained indifferent, Mebius saw this, and directly and roughly ripped off his salt water.

"I'm very reasonable. You can leave now and go to the celebration dance of the flame-chasing moths. But I will always wait for you in my laboratory. You shouldn't get lost, right?"

"Friendly reminder, Mebius' patience is very bad. I hate waiting for others, so if you want to come to me, you have to do it as soon as possible."

"I don't know when these 'truths' in my hand will appear on the table of the top executives of Flaming Moth."

Mikael put on his clothes silently and walked out of the ward.

Mebius bit his finger and looked at the boy's back as he walked out of the ward. He didn't know whether he was asking the other party or himself: "The Herrscher who fights for mankind... obtained authority from the gods and used it to resist the gods. Is such a thing really possible?"

Mikael's footsteps stopped at the door of the ward.

"Who knows? Maybe, we got the power from the gods just to pull him down from the throne."

Mebius narrowed her eyes, she was in a trance for a long time, until the figure disappeared, she sneered, "I seem to have found my direction, the goal of human evolution... oh, I'm a bit reluctant..."

Chapter 10 "The Winner's Ball"

Walking out of the ward, there are doctors and nurses in white coats coming and going, and the pink color dozing off on the bench not far away is particularly eye-catching.

Mikael pursed his lips, stood not far away, leaning against the corner of the wall, watching her head bit by bit with interest.

Ellie seemed to feel something, opened her eyes, her vision was still a little blurred, but she immediately saw Mikael who was wearing a hospital gown with a smile on his mouth.

"Hey! You got better so soon! Don't you need to rest for a while?"

She jumped up in an instant, took Mikael's arm very naturally, and slipped a cold blue gemstone into his hand by the way.

Mikael was taken aback for a moment, his lips moved, and finally turned into a sigh.

That moment just now... the beauty of that moment almost made him dizzy.

It wasn't until the moment he grasped the heartless Herrscher's core that he suddenly realized a fact: this is a collapsing world that is counting down, and the smile of the girl in front of him is a beauty that will eventually shatter and disappear.

And he...

But it is the enemy of mankind, the apostle of "God".

"Is it really possible to obtain authority from God and use it to rebel against God?"

Mebius' words kept echoing in his mind.

Humanity must have discovered the lack of the First Herrscher, how long can he hide it?

When humans discover the second Herrscher, the third Herrscher, the fourth, fifth, seventh...

When human beings find that all the other Herrschers have no human consciousness, how can they deal with themselves?

Or... won't Honkai really erode him again?

"Hey! What's wrong with you, Mikael?" Feeling the silence of the people around her, Alicia couldn't help wondering, "Is there something wrong? Do you want to rest for a while?"

"No, let's go."

Ellie tilted her head, and for a moment she didn't understand why Mikael suddenly became cold.

Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she quickly lowered her head to hide her disheartened expression, and after raising her head again, she regained her old smile.