The Fire Chaser of the Collapsing World

"What kind of power is this?"

Hua looked at Mikael suspiciously, the longer he spent with him, the more foggy he was.

Not to mention anything else, as far as these endless abilities are concerned, at least she has not seen anyone else in the world possessing them. Even the equally mysterious Alicia cannot be compared with Mikael in terms of the breadth of abilities. of.

And Mikael didn't seem to have the slightest desire to explain to her. He let go of his hand, stood up with support, and pulled Hua Ye up again, "Let's go, you can go in and rest now."

Hua glanced at the erratic blue smoke again, and as the setting sun irretrievably sank into the horizon, this blue color gradually merged into the vast night, and could no longer be clearly captured.

In fact, dinner should have been served at this time, but the village head suddenly said that the snow stopped and the wind was calm, which is a good time for the village to hold a bonfire party. Of course, it can also be understood as a welcome for foreign guests.

So he asked his wife to make more pies, said to himself to get some wine, and rummaged through the storage room to find the rusty grill... Anyway, he asked Mikael and Hua Take a rest first, and when everything is ready, someone will come to notify them.

"Is it really possible to make impromptu preparations for this kind of thing..." Mikael inevitably felt strange in his heart.

He sat by the oven, the heat of the fire caressed his body, he unscrewed the kettle with one hand and took a sip, suppressing the hot feeling in his heart.

I took out my phone, and as expected, there was no signal at all.

The room was quiet for a while, only the crackling of the fire from time to time.

This kind of quiet made Mikael very uncomfortable. Thinking about it carefully, what he was not used to was not the quiet, but the life without Ellie chirping in his ears.

"Speaking of which, what is Ellie doing now? She should have contacted Yin Dian, right?"

Yes, as Hua thought, this trip is not a vacation at all, but the largest scale since the establishment of an organization that has not yet been named by Mikael... Oh, no, it should be the first member recruitment plan .

The whole organization is divided into three groups. Ai Li and Patuo are one group. The task is to find Fu... The task is to persuade Yin Dian to invest in the organization. Of course, the best result is to directly develop Yin Dian into a member of the organization.

The other group is the scientific research group, two women who dislike each other, one is fighting the key of God, and the other is fighting super-transformation surgery... Of course, there is also a guard named Sakura who is actually with a child...

The third group, of course, is Mikael and Hua, and the actual mission goal is to recruit a man with an American buttocks.

There is also a last resort reason why it took half a year to start taking action.

When Flamemoth discovered that Mebius and the three Herrscher cores had disappeared, and Alicia and Sakura from the fifth team had also left one after another, leaving a letter accusing Lezren of perverse actions. next morning.

For this extremely bad defection, the reaction of the fire moth is to play dead.

They did not issue arrest warrants for several people, and even published high-profile papers in major magazines in the name of Mebius from time to time—although Mebius could tell at a glance that it was a one-armed man who represented them. written works.

However, according to an unknown new leader of Flame Chasing Moths, Lezren, who has always boasted of being personable, abruptly sent a clerk named Dao Shi Lao Ba into the headquarters hospital at noon that day. The energy of the coalition government issued an internal arrest warrant.

The arrest of the coalition government and the arrest of the fire moths are completely two concepts. The fire moths are only military organizations so far, but the coalition government can mobilize all resources, especially network and communication resources, which makes them very happy. I didn't even dare to use my cell phone for a long time.

So, in the past six months, everyone actually only did three things: run away, run away, or fuck and run away.

Oh no, Wei Wei did the fourth thing: anyway, Mikael couldn't figure out how to stay away, anyway, they can use most of the electronic devices normally now.

As long as you don't pay with your face, you're fine.

After Mikael went through the events of the past six months in his mind again, he realized that he had inadvertently entered a series of numbers, and he could dial out as long as he pressed the dial key.

Although there is no network signal, Wei Wei's modified mobile phone can use satellite communication, so it is still no problem to make calls.

But Mikael glanced at the fire, then at the girl staring blankly at the fire, and finally silently deleted the long string of numbers.

He suddenly spread his five fingers and waved in front of Hua's eyes: "Hey, hey! What are you thinking?"

"what--"

Hua let out a short exclamation.

Seeing this, Mikael understood...

"Still thinking about that question?"

"..."

Hua took a deep breath, but was unable to speak.

Mikael stared at her blankly. The girl was obviously much younger than him, but her frowning expression was the same as his.

The eyes are empty and out of focus, which is quite similar to the wife of the village chief just now.

"magnificent……"

Mikael had just uttered a syllable before being interrupted, "Mikael, actually I think... I'm not grieving for my father, for the destruction of the town I was born in... no, not so much , or rather, I'm just feeling the truth about what I just said..."

"Overwhelmed? Can't even forgive myself?" Mikael asked.

Hua nodded slightly.

Of course, she was not without sorrow, but that negligible sorrow was completely inconsistent with the hysterical pain and crying of losing her family and hometown that she had expected.

She thought that the only sadness she felt was two tears that slipped quietly in the middle of the night.

"Hua, have I never told you about the hometown of Ellie and I?"

"what?"

"Alicia and I are both orphans taken in by the orphanage in the small town of Vostok-51."

"Hmm..." Hua first hummed habitually as usual, and then she was stunned—she felt that the place name Vostok was quite familiar, and she found the relevant information almost effortlessly after thinking about it carefully.

[The city of Vostok was destroyed by the silver bullets fired by Herrscher during the third collapse, and hundreds of small towns around it were also within the radiation range, all of which were destroyed, with almost no survivors. 】

"..."

"So, the things that bother you may not stop bothering me and Alicia. I sometimes think of the gentle mother Seria, and the other children in the orphanage. But maybe I left very early... Ha , isn't this also an excuse? In short, it just can't be that sad. "

"I often wonder, what is the biggest disaster that Honkai brings to people? Is it death? No, death is never the scariest thing. The scariest thing is that we are so used to death that we become numb. "

Hua lowered his head silently.

Maybe, maybe she became numb the moment she witnessed the destruction of the entire Canghai City and witnessed only a few hundred survivors out of more than 2000 million people.

"However, Hua, the reason why you feel that your sadness has not met your expectations, I don't think it's all due to this kind of numbness. I think the greater possibility is that you are too introverted, and you are not so introverted. People can come into your heart and become your property."

"Or to put it more simply: People who grieve abnormally have lost a lot. You have very little to begin with, and that's why your grief is so flat."

Hua let out a long breath lightly, and asked back: "Then you are the same, Mikael?"

"It should, yes?"

"However, I feel that you are not very confused...I'm sorry, I don't know how to describe it. I can feel that you are confused many times, but you can always cheer up quickly...I feel that you have always had a goal Being motivated to do something is very different from me."

"Oh, this one."

The temperature of the fire was a bit too high, Mikael took off his coat, and let it slide to the ground, Hua raised his eyebrows, picked up the coat calmly, and hung it on the hook on the wall.

"I really don't have much, but Hua, in everyone's heart, there are always a few people who mean more or even everything. For example, Alicia, if there is something wrong with her, I think I will go crazy Yes! So, for her, for these few people, I will have the motivation to overcome my confusion time and time again... And Hua, you just haven't found them yet."

"..."

"Dongdongdong!"

There was a knock on the wooden door.

The wife of the village chief pushed the door open and entered.

Two streaks of bright red blood were smeared on her forehead.

Chapter 4 This is a sacrifice

When Hua followed Mikael to the square in the dark, she could hardly connect the scene in front of her with what she saw in the evening——

The low stone wall, as well as the snow on the entire square, have long been cleared away. A torch has been planted on the low wall every two or three steps. People in the village, men, women, young and old, are forming a circle at this moment, holding hands, Silently doing weird dances.

No, it's not so much weird as it is weird.

The wife of the village chief who brought them over soon joined the dance, and Mikael discovered that all the villagers had two bloodstains on their foreheads.

Their dancing posture was very strange, as if they were convulsing violently, and they danced without saying a word, as if they didn't even breathe.

The wind passed through the gaps between the houses, making a horrible whimper, and the torches behind them crackled. When the flames danced, whether it was the dense and strange totems on the low wall or the shadows of villagers dancing under the reflection of the fire, it seemed to become They twisted, twitched, flaunted, and waved their cold and sticky tentacles, as if an indescribable existence behind them would break through the barriers that ordinary people could not reach and come to the world in the next moment.

Hua Ang raised his head, not daring to make more drastic movements, but lightly glanced at Mikael's profile from the corner of his eye. He was as calm as ever.

Suddenly, there was a tightness at the wrist, which frightened her. When she gradually regained her senses, she realized that it was Mikael who gently held her wrist.

She suddenly gasped for breath, and the bone-chilling air poured into her lungs, bringing a strong sense of discomfort, which made people want to retch.

Mikael gently stroked her back, and he himself raised his head and met the eyes of the man tied to the totem pole.

The flaming eyes reflected the flaming flames.

Mikael squinted his eyes. For some reason, there was a burning sensation in his eyes, as if he rubbed his eyes without washing his hands after cutting millet pepper.

"whispering sound!"

He gritted his teeth, and when he looked at the hot man again, he saw an ugly arc at the corner of his mouth, and the ice edge hanging on his cheek, which was constantly melting the low water, was pulled away.

Mikael pursed his lips, "Thousands of calamities..."

He muttered his name silently.

And the man whose name was chanted laughed more and more recklessly for some reason, his whole body was shaking, and even the snow on his head and shoulders rustled down.

But there was no laughter.

He obviously laughed so wanton, but he didn't make a sound.

Just like those villagers, their dancing didn't make any sound.

The only thing left in the world is heavy silence.

The silence brought an extremely ominous premonition, shrouded in my heart, lingering.

They say they want to hold a bonfire party, they say they want to welcome outsiders...

Say something turned out the grill, say something baked more pies...

But none of these.

The only thing it has is the fire that keeps burning in the long dark night, and the name of the village that dances strangely without saying a word.

There is also a beast that is honestly tied to a post.

Mikael took a step to the side silently, covering half of Hua's body behind him, but he didn't let go of the hand holding her wrist.

He wasn't worried about himself. Before the next Herrscher was born, he was confident that he was the most powerful person in the world.

But Hua is not.

"what!

!

"

The aged village chief suddenly raised his head and screamed at the waning moon in the night sky.

As the sound soared into the sky, everyone stopped moving.

The village chief's wife got a sack from no one knew where, and there was a sound of wood clinking in the bag while walking.

"What are they doing?"

Hua finally couldn't help asking.

"I don't know, prepare for battle."

Mikael responded habitually, and then remembered that the person next to him was Hua, not Ellie.Hua was just an ordinary little girl who couldn't be more ordinary, maybe he shouldn't have said the phrase about preparing for battle.

So he added another sentence in a superfluous way:

"Don't worry, no matter what happens, I will protect you."

Hua didn't respond, but Mikael could feel her muscles tense, and her five fingers clenched into fists.

"Relax, relax, don't be too tense."

Mikael gently persuaded that recruits are always prone to lose a lot of energy due to tension before the battle, which is not a good phenomenon.

When he spoke, he also did not look away, only to see that the village chief himself pushed out a large vat from nowhere, and several men who looked extremely thin helped push it under the totem pole.

The rest of the people lit a bonfire on the other side of the totem pole, and then...except for the wife of the village chief, the rest of them remained silent...one of them took out a dagger.

"what!"

Hua let out a slight exclamation.