The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Woooooooooooo... Boss! One more bowl!" Kevin poured every noodle soup into his stomach and let out a long sigh of satisfaction.

We agreed to invite our comrades to have dinner together, but because he was new here and performed too well in the simulation training room, he distanced himself from the others for a while. In the end, only Hua and Carol accepted the invitation... ...This is just because we know Mikael and Ellie equally.

Besides, I clearly said I was inviting you to a meal...why did you end up at a noodle shop...

A noodle shop is a noodle shop... at least two of the four people were satisfied.

Hua picked up all the remaining noodles in the noodle soup, and then drank all the noodle soup. She really wanted to shout "one more bowl" like Kevin...

But after all, I’m not too embarrassed...

Although Kevin and Mei paid for it, a bowl of noodles didn't cost much... But I still felt embarrassed... Forget it, a bowl of noodles has enough calories. Let's go back to the cafeteria and see if there are any leftover steamed buns. …

But... what's even weirder than the above is: the four of them never had a good word with each other.

It was as if four people who had known each other happened to meet at this noodle shop in New Moth City, sat down together, said hello to each other, and settled down for dinner, that's all.

Kevin may not have been the first to notice this problem, but seeing that no one else spoke, he could only hold back his embarrassment, deliberately raised his voice, and said in an extremely exaggerated tone:

"Wow! Look at this New Moth City, how long has it been since? Two days ago? The entire main city has been rebuilt!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a shout from far away: "Please add a bowl of noodles to table No. 7! Come and get it yourself!"

"Noodles are important, noodles are important..." Kevin chuckled twice, then ran two steps quickly to get the noodles back...

But as soon as his words were interrupted, he no longer knew how to proceed.

He skillfully picked up half the bowl of noodles with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it, but it didn't taste good.

"Boss! Did you forget to add salt to this bowl of noodles?"

Kevin angrily went to argue with the store with a straight face.

"Huh? It's impossible, right? The salt is over there. If you want it, can you add more?"

Kevin sprinkled a spoonful of salt into the bowl and got several spoonfuls of chili oil. He took it back to his seat and tasted the noodle soup again...

This time it tastes bitter...

He was so miserable that he held his throat and coughed, even squeezing out tears.

He picked up the soda on the table and drank most of the bottle in one go before finally suppressing the bitter taste.

Then he looked at the other three people who had never moved:

Mei crossed her arms and muttered something, pushing up the glasses on the bridge of her nose from time to time, as if she was thinking about something.

Carol, who was originally the liveliest person, rested her head with her left hand and used her right hand to control the chopsticks to pick up the barely touched noodles one by one.

As for Hua, who was originally taciturn, she put her hands on her knees and stared down at the bare bottom of the bowl without saying a word.

"Uh... can't everyone just say a few words... it would be very embarrassing to remain silent like this..."

Kevin scratched his head. He thought he had found an excellent topic: "Hey! Hua, Carol, I heard that you were rescued twice by Mikael in Canghai City... Ah! Mei, why are you stepping on me? !”

"..."

"Hey..." Carol put down the chopsticks with her right hand, put her hands together to hold her cheeks, and sighed twice, "Hey..."

Kevin patted the leather boots that had been trampled by plum blossoms with his hand distressedly, and asked through gritted teeth.

"Why are you sighing!"

"Why else are you sighing...Brother Mikael was obviously so strong...why did he disappear without saying a word?"

"Let's go."

Hua suddenly jumped up from his stool.

Suddenly becoming the focus of the other three eyes, she unexpectedly did not feel embarrassed. Instead, she calmly pointed to the teacher's wall clock in the noodle shop and said:

"It's getting late, we should go back...Tomorrow, we will start to resume daily training..."

Kevin gasped when he mentioned this. His physique is indeed unreasonably strong, but training...

No one really likes training, right?

He even felt that...since his physique was so good, the physical training content was unnecessary, so he might as well take this time out to date Mei.

Uh, wait, there's another problem. Even if he can escape training, Mei doesn't seem to have much time to date him now... Even his boyfriend can't figure out what Mei is studying.

The group of people just walked in the streets of New Moth City in a daze.

There were still piles of fine cement slag on both sides of the street. There were only a few sparse street lamps along the street, and a faint light could be glimpsed from a long distance away.

The interior of the noodle shop just now is similar. From the outside, it looks like a complete rough-and-tumble building. There is no wall paint at all, and the tables and chairs are all simply cut thick metal plates...

These reminded the four of them all the time: a collapse occurred here not long ago.

Even though all the Honkai beasts in the city have been wiped out, and even though the city center was rebuilt in just a few days using modular construction technology, the traces that Honkai brought to the city are still there.

Just like the whole world.

Except for a few areas such as Tianqiong City, eastern China and the far east were basically destroyed. The coalition government did not even plan to rebuild this area. The reason was very simple - there was no population to fill it...

As they walked, the four people finally became clearly divided because of their closeness. Carol and Hua fell behind, while Mei and Kevin walked side by side in front.

"Hey! Hua! I've received news from my parents. I plan to let them live in Moth City. Come to our house on weekends!"

"..."

"Ah Hua, why don't you speak today? By the way, your father..."

Carol covered her mouth silently. She finally realized that she had made the same low-level mistake as Kevin just now.

"Oh...ah!"

Hua suddenly uttered two syllables in a startled manner, "I...I haven't contacted him yet..."

"Haven't contacted" means a lot of things. It may mean that it has...so it can't be contacted, or it may just be that the survivors lack communication equipment, plus the statistics are chaotic, so it can't be contacted for a while...

But it doesn't matter. The important thing is, which one does Hua want to express? Carol can't figure it out.

If it's the former, her emotional expression seems too gentle, and if it's the latter, her emotions seem too suppressed.

"Ahua..."

Carol wanted to say something, but Mei and Kevin, who were walking in front, suddenly stopped. Kevin took a step forward and stood in front of everyone, looking at the dark alley on the right with a hint of vigilance.

"Da... Da... Da... Da..."

The chaotic footsteps came from the alley. Kevin's vigilance was still necessary, because disasters often mean an increase in crime rates. No one knows what the purpose of the people coming out of the alley is... or maybe they are not people at all, but dead soldiers who have not been cleaned up.

There are no street lights on this section of the street. Hua squinted slightly, but he couldn't even catch the outline in the dark alley.

Kevin took two steps back silently, and the others followed suit - only Hua stayed there in a daze.

When she came to her senses from Carol's soft cry, she was the only one blocking the entrance of the alley, facing the thing that was about to come out.

Kevin just wanted to pull Hua back, but it was too late.

Hua saw clearly that there were four people in total, each wearing a thick and wide cloak and a hood to hide their bodies.

When they walked out of the alley, the cold moonlight fell from afar, coating everyone's body with a layer of silver.

Three figures of shorter stature, like girls, hurried past Hua. They lowered their heads, and Hua could not see anything clearly.

The last one was a man of the same height as Kevin. The hood only covered the upper half of his face, but not the outline of the lower half.

Hua glanced at them in a daze, and a familiar feeling came to her heart.

The other party seemed to feel her gaze and raised his head slightly. From Hua's perspective, the familiar face was imprinted in her eyes.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The sound of the heart suddenly came into her ears loudly and quickly, but Hua did nothing, letting the figure stay in front of her for half a step, and then quickly turned and left.

"Huh... Fortunately, there was no conflict."

"Yeah, yeah, they look really scary!"

Kevin and Carol's voices seemed to have traveled a long distance before reaching Hua's ears.

It was like crossing an ocean, or crossing the border between two different worlds - Hua thought so.

Until she found that the other three people's eyes were focused on her.

"Let's go, Hua, those four people have no ill intentions."

"Oh, oh."

Kevin and Mei were still walking in front, heading towards the moon.

Carol jumped and stepped on Kevin's shadow in the moonlight, and Hua's mind was full of the glimpse just now:

Who is that?

Is that really him?

No, no, no, I must have seen it wrong.

He's dead.

He can't be here.

But is he really dead?

Should I chase him and ask?

Just ask?

No, I can't act on my own...

At this time, Mei in front suddenly talked about philosophy with Kevin.

"Kevin, have you heard of the law of increasing entropy?"

"Uh...ah! I think I heard of it in physics class."

"Hmm..." Mei snorted without comment.

"What I want to say is not limited to the increase in entropy in the laws of thermodynamics, but a philosophical thinking. Entropy represents the degree of chaos in a closed space. The higher the entropy value, the higher the degree of chaos. The so-called law of increasing entropy means that in a closed space, entropy always tends to increase."

"Uh...just like my dormitory?"

"Oh! Are you very perceptive this time? But in the final analysis, the same is true for the earth and humans. Imagine that even if there is no collapse, due to the limitation of the speed of light, humans cannot escape the solar system or develop resources in the universe, so in the end humans will inevitably go to extinction-especially for a single person. So, Kevin, can you answer me now...what is the meaning of human existence? Why do people live?"

"Uh...Mei, can we change the question?"

However, Mei ignored Kevin's begging for mercy. She said to herself: "In fact, there is no meaning in life at all. Even if your life is 'meaningful', it will be just a handful of loess in the end. Even if you make No matter how outstanding the contribution is, it has sociological significance, but human beings will eventually perish, and this so-called meaning will ultimately be meaningless, even for the tens of thousands of years that human civilization itself has existed, and even the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years that will follow. , before the 13.8 billion years since the birth of the universe, it was just a fleeting moment.”

"Well……"

"But, Kevin...are you going to stop living because of these desperate facts?"

"No way?"

"Yes, no. Because the meaning of human existence is existence itself - the existence of civilization itself is a kind of negative entropy. What humans do from generation to generation is to fight against the increase of entropy and try to turn this world destined to collapse The world has become orderly again. This desperate resistance is like Sisyphus pushing the ball... Isn't this desperate resistance to the established destiny the only meaning of our human existence? Meaning that only we humans can achieve.”

"Uh... Mei, calm down. What do you want to say?"

"Oh! Sorry, actually what I want to say is - since our existence itself is the meaning we have been pursuing, then we are trapped in ourselves: just let go and do what you want to do, and be bold if you want to ask. Since the ending is doomed, let’s do what we want to do. In this way, when we reach the end, we can look back on our lives and save a lot of regrets, right?”

"Mei...I didn't understand..."

"..."

Kevin understood every word and could not understand an entire paragraph, but he accepted every bit of the helplessness and encouragement contained in it.

So he knew what to do, he silently held Mei's hand, and the latter did not resist, and even took the initiative to hold Kevin tightly.

But not long after, Carol, who was walking behind, suddenly screamed:

"Ah! Oh no, no no! Ah Hua is missing!"