The Fire Chaser of the Collapsing World

"Okay... I really wanted to borrow him from you for a while, but don't worry, as I said, the decision is in your hands."

Mei's tone could not hide her exhaustion, but she stood up forcefully, left Alicia with an inexplicable smile, turned and left the closed room.

Ellie took a deep breath, stroking the flying flowers on her knees with her fingers, and asked calmly:

"How long are you going to pretend?"

"Cough cough!"

Mikael sat up with one hand supported, his face was extremely pale, but half of his body had been necrotic and turned into the opposite black.

"Is this the power of the Sixth Herrscher..."

Mikael muttered to himself, not knowing whether he ignored Ellie intentionally or unintentionally.

"Hey! You...you...are actually Mikael, right?"

The person questioned did not answer.

"... Mikael?"

"Ah... oh! What did you say?"

Ellie bit her lip lightly, not knowing what to say for a moment.

For some reason, she felt that Mikael's attitude was completely different from before... as if he was deliberately avoiding her.

Forget it, let's ask all the questions that should be asked first.

But when she thought about it carefully, there were so many questions she wanted to ask, and she didn't even know which one to ask first.

As a result, an embarrassing and suffocating silence quickly filled the small ward.

In the end, Mikael was the first to ask:

"So, what's the situation in your world now?"

Alicia breathed a sigh of relief instinctively, and wanted to answer, but she was stunned immediately, and even her eyes became a little loose - although Mikael's words were simple, they revealed invisibly that A lot of information.

"Your world"...

So, he's really Mikael, just another world's Mikael...

She took two deep breaths, and replied sullenly: "All... gone..."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Literally...there are less than [-] healthy humans left in this base, excluding the Honkai disease patients. If you judge from a biological point of view, it can basically be concluded that human beings are already in a state of semi-extinction."

"hiss……"

Mikael sucked in a breath of cold air. Although he had expected it in his heart, the tragedy of this world was beyond his imagination.

"Besides this city, the more distant areas directly disappeared from the space... There is an invisible wall on the outskirts of the city, we can see the scene farther away, but as long as we enter it, it will disappear directly and cease to exist ..."

Mikael has the impression that this is the infiltration phenomenon of the quantum sea to the world bubble. If it is explained in a metaphorical way, those people or things that cross the invisible boundary have entered the sea water of the quantum sea. no longer exists.

"Then...Kevin, Mebius, Hua, Sakura, Captain Himiko, Captain Scar, Vivi..."

"All dead."

"Oh."

Mikael closed his eyes, breathing slowly and heavily.

"It's just a phantom in the world bubble, nothing to be sad about."

He comforted himself so deeply in his heart.

Those familiar people and things have become unfamiliar here, and even Alicia's personality is very different from his memory—maybe this is the heaviness brought by the end...

These are not important, the most important thing is to find the thousand calamities...

By the way, a thousand calamities!

Mikael's face was a little red, and he suddenly realized that he had made a very serious mistake before - because he wanted to escape from this world too urgently, and wanted to escape from Alicia, he actually forgot Find a thousand catastrophes in this world bubble!

"By the way, Ellie, among you survivors...is there a man with a very strange temper?"

"eccentric?"

"Uh...that's...the kind that keeps getting angry and cursing all the time."

Ellie tilted her head, poked her chin with her index finger and thought about it, then shook her head.

She wanted to say "no", but she just kept this posture and met Mikael's eyes...

The latter quickly looked away, wrinkling his nose.

"No...then...please bring me back, Ellie, but I...leave first."

"Is the injury okay?"

"It doesn't matter."

Don't look at that half of the body as if it is paralyzed, but the authority of the Sixth Herrscher is just like the whole world, it is just a bubble in water. As long as Mikael leaves this world bubble, his body will recover to some extent as ever.

Ellie bit her lips lightly, she knew that this time it might be a real parting.

To be honest, the memory of that "Mikael" has been a long time ago, although it will not be forgotten, but it should not leave such a strong emotion.

Perhaps, this is the entanglement of different worlds...

She still has a lot of things she wants to ask Mikael, such as how she was in that world, how those who have passed away in this world are like in Mikael's world... Also, Mikael Why can the lawyer have his own consciousness...

But she could see that Mikael had something urgent, something very important, she was not "that" Alicia, and she had no right to delay his steps.

"Then see you later!"

Ellie said goodbye with a smile, and, not knowing whether it was out of the same entanglement to stay away, she habitually raised her hand, wanting to poke Mikael's cheek.

Mikael snorted, and unconsciously turned his head to avoid it.

He knew it was a phantom, but the sadness and unwillingness actually rippled in his heart.

Ellie in this world bubble is obviously much more taciturn, but it is this kind of Ellie who still conceals the pain in her heart when she bids farewell to him, and bids farewell to him with that familiar lively gesture, as if... just like this It can encourage people to go on firmly.

Fool...the two have just met...

The golden light gradually enveloped Mikael's whole body. Due to the influence of the power of the Sixth Herrscher, Mikael's speed of invoking the Houkai power was a bit slow, but fortunately, he was already familiar with the use of space power.

The next process is very simple, since this World Bubble didn't open a door for him to leave, he just needs to find the window and turn it out.

The specific operation is not complicated, as long as one's own perception spreads to the entire world bubble with the power of space - this is not difficult for a world bubble with only one city left.

Then he found a large space gap on the fragile surface of the World Pao, which was as fragile as an egg shell, and he could leave here directly and continue to do... what he was supposed to do...

The power of space dissipated quickly, and Mikael opened his eyes, intending to take another look at Ellie in this world—yes, even if this world bubble will eventually be destroyed and shattered, I still want you Imprinted in my mind, so that the traces of this one you have existed will always exist, and will always exist in my mind.

"Ok?"

The power of space captured an individual that should not have been captured. At the same time, Mei violently opened the door of the ward.

"Alicia, the core of the Sixth Herrscher has disappeared!"

"Eh!"

Mikael who was paralyzed suddenly jumped out of the hospital bed, a golden light flashed, and the figures of the three disappeared in place.

The next moment, the surviving people in the base died almost instantly, and turned into fly ash and scattered.

Chapter 14 Sea of ​​Quantum: The Beginning and End of Ellie

"The Sixth Herrscher...why still can't be killed?"

May murmured incredulously.

"I was negligent..." Mikael was also a little speechless, this Sixth Herrscher was even more fleshy than a Yaksha.

However, he gradually came to his senses and understood how the Sixth Herrscher came back from the dead this time—just like what Mei did in Changkong City in the plot, the Herrscher actively cut off the connection with the core at the moment the core left the body. The connection between them formed a state of suspended animation, and then re-communicated with the tree of imaginary numbers, causing the original Herrscher core to disappear, and a new Herrscher core was directly generated in her body...

But it's meaningless to think about it now.

"Heh... Alicia... Now humans can indeed be defined as extinct biologically."

Mei leaned against the railing, her voice extremely hoarse, and along with her words, an emotion called despair spread uncontrollably.

Ellie didn't reply, but let the evening wind mess up her hair. The hair fluttered and struggled, like a desperate person trying to take off the sunset wrapped in the sunset, and use it as a torch to illuminate the whole world again. world.

But that's just the sunset.

Its light is but the last reflection.

"..."

Mikael didn't know what to say.

The injuries on his body were gone, it was because he directly reconstructed a body, which is easy for him now.

Yes, it's easy. He obviously has strong strength, and he can easily do things that he couldn't do before, but in the end, he still can't do anything.

Even if it's just an insignificant world bubble in the quantum sea, he can't save it.

"Thank you, Mikael." Ellie said softly.

She was thanking Mikael for saving her and May at the previous moment, but such a rescue was meaningless-the world had come to an end, and no one could save it.

"Think about it carefully, you have said goodbye to me so many times, but you still haven't made it every time... Then, it's my turn to say goodbye to you this time!"

But Mikael was unmoved, he closed his eyes, and leaned against the railing on the roof like Mei, thinking about something in his heart.

Suddenly, Mikael and May opened their eyes at the same time.

"I……"

Just as Mikael was about to speak, May interrupted forcefully:

"So, Mikael, since you claim to be from a similar world, can I ask you a question?"

She pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose, her eyes gleamed with extremely suppressed excitement and curiosity, as if the despair just now had never existed.

"what?"

"Is there something wrong with the world we live in?"

"..." Mikael turned his head to avoid Mei's sight, and was silent for a few seconds before nodding slightly: "That's right. How did you find out?"

"Ah... well..." She took two steps to Ellie's side, and took a miniature listening device from her back, "I heard all your conversations."

"Just based on that?"

"Yes, based on these. From your words, I can figure out a general idea. In your world, you should have a good relationship with Alicia, and Kevin, Mebius, Hua, Himiko, The same is true for Hen. Of course, I have never heard of the name Sakura, and I don’t know who it is. Generally speaking, you have always maintained a state of conflict between sensibility and rationality. Your rationality seems to tell you that the Everything has nothing to do with you, you don't have to pay too much attention to it, and your sensibility obviously failed to suppress this rationality."

"As expected of May..." Mikael touched his nose and asked, "But what does this mean? Maybe I'm just a cold and withdrawn character?"

"Perhaps. But if you are really 'cold', why didn't you leave immediately when reason obviously overwhelmed emotion? Why did you call it goodbye? In fact, you wanted to spend more time by Alicia's side. How about staying for a while? This reminds me... Let me use an inappropriate analogy: You are like looking at a photo left by a deceased person. This photo is very important to you because the image on it is The person you love, but it's not very important, because the person you really loved is gone."

"..."

"Okay, that's the end of the argument about how I found this out, and now... Mikael, I want to know the truth of everything, what's going on in our world?"

"Mei, is that all you want to know the truth?"

Mikael looked at the lifeless city in the afterglow of the setting sun.

"Since you want to know the truth, you must be prepared to bear the pain caused by the truth."

The sky gradually changed from dark blue to distant dark blue, leaving only a small smoldering fire in the west that glowed like blood.

Mei looked at Alicia, who nodded in response, so Mikael knew that the cruel truth could no longer be covered up, and it should not be covered up.

"Your world has already been destroyed."

Regardless of whether the other two can accept it or not, Mikael quickly said to himself: "This world, I call it a world bubble, you can understand that everything that happens here is left by a world that has died. Of course, this is just my own superficial understanding, which may not be correct, but I can be sure that the world bubble is just an unstable structure. One day, everything here will be called the "Quantum The sea's space soaks in as if beyond invisible boundaries."

"call……"

Mei caressed her chest lightly, and let out a long breath: "That is to say, no matter how we struggle, we can't change the fate that is doomed to perish, right?"

"Um……"

Mikael only uttered one syllable, and fell into silence a little at a loss.