The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Wow!"

Mikael threw a large bundle of firewood on the ground and waved his hand gently. The firewood was split open by an invisible force, and then sent into the fireplace by an invisible hand...

Okay, so Mikael doesn't really know how to use a fireplace, but all in all, it's just about letting the wood burn, right?

Under Hua's expectant gaze, Mikael snapped his fingers, and flames quickly jumped on the firewood that had been dipped in oil at some point, and then...

Then the choking smoke instantly filled the entire room. Hua kicked open the door in the darkness. The two of them coughed while holding up the snow and wiping the black ash on their faces.

"It seems... it went wrong..."

Mikael touched his nose guiltily and met Shang Hua's slightly speechless eyes, which made him a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, there was still a chance to remedy everything. When he raised his head again, he had already grasped a golden gem in his palm, and at the same time muttered something:

"The demons and ghosts leave quickly, the demons and ghosts leave quickly..."

Hua pursed his lips, but the corners of his lips finally turned up uncontrollably and silently.

But then her eyes widened, and her upper and lower lips naturally opened into an O shape.

Following Mikael's thoughts, the black smoke that occupied the entire room and tried to spurt out along the door was suddenly gathered together by an invisible force and slowly shrank back. Not long after, The chimney at the top of the wooden roof began to spit out a steady stream of green smoke.

"What kind of power is this?"

Hua looked at Mikael in confusion. The longer he spent with him, the thicker and thicker the fog became on him.

Not to mention anything else, at least she has not seen anyone else possess these endless abilities in the world. Even the equally mysterious Alicia cannot compare with Mikael in terms of 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 his body propped up, and pulled Hua up again, "Let's go, you can go in and rest now."

Hua glanced at the fluttering blue smoke again. As the setting sun sank irrevocably into the horizon, this touch of blue gradually merged into the vast night, and could no longer be captured clearly.

In fact, dinner should have been served at this time, but the village chief suddenly said that the snow had stopped and the wind was calm, which was a good time for the villagers to hold a bonfire party. Of course, it could also be understood as welcoming the guests from outside.

So he asked his wife to make more pies, and said to himself that he would get some wine. He also rummaged through the storage room and found a rusty barbecue grill... In short, he asked Mikael and Hua Let's rest first, and when everything is ready, someone will naturally notify them.

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

He sat by the oven, and the heat of the fire caressed his body. He turned on 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, except for the crackling sound of the fire from time to time.

This kind of silence made Mikael very unaccustomed. If he thought about it carefully, it was not the silence that he was unaccustomed to, but the life without Ellie chirping in his ears.

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

Yes, as Hua thought, this trip is not a vacation at all, but the largest one 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 entire organization was divided into three groups. Ai Li and Pado were in one group. The task was to find rich people... The task was to fool (cross out) to convince Eden to invest in the organization. Of course, the best result would be to directly develop Eden. Become an organization member.

The other group is the scientific research team. Two women who dislike each other are working on the God Key, and the other is working on super-transformation surgery... Of course, there is also a guard named Sakura who is actually taking care of the child (Suzuki). …

The third group, naturally, is Mikael and Hua. The actual mission goal is to recruit a man with an American-style butt.

There was a last resort reason why we took action only half a year later.

It was already when the Fire Chaser discovered that Mebius and the three Herrscher cores had disappeared, and Alicia and Sakura of the fifth team had also left one after another, leaving behind a letter accusing Lezren of his perverse behavior. The next morning.

Regarding this extremely heinous defection, Fire Chaser's reaction was to pretend to be dead.

They did not issue arrest warrants for a few people, and even published high-profile papers in major magazines in the name of Mebius from time to time - although Mebius could be seen at a glance as a one-armed man. Works written.

But according to an unknown new leader of the Fire Chasing Moth, Lezlen, who has always prided himself on being elegant and elegant, forced a clerk named Dao Shilaoba into the headquarters hospital at noon that day, and then used his own The energy issued an internal wanted notice through the coalition government.

Wanted by the coalition government and wanted by the Fire Moth are completely different concepts. So far, the Fire Moth is only a military organization, but the coalition government can mobilize all resources, especially network and communication resources, which makes them very important. I didn’t even dare to use my mobile phone for a long time.

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

Oh no, Velvet did the fourth thing: Mikael couldn't understand how to stay away anyway. In short, they can now use most electronic devices normally.

As long as you don't have to pay with your face, you'll be fine.

When Mikael replayed the events of the past six months in his mind, he realized that he had inadvertently entered a series of numbers, which could be dialed by just pressing the dial button.

Although there is no network signal, Velvet's modified mobile phone can use satellite communication, so making calls is still no problem.

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

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

"ah--"

Hua let out a short exclamation.

Seeing this, Mikael understood...

"Still thinking about that question?"

"..."

Hua took a deep breath, but couldn't speak.

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

The eyes were hollow and unfocused, which was quite similar to the village chief's wife just now.

"magnificent……"

Mikael was interrupted after he uttered only one syllable, "Mikael, actually I feel... I'm not sad for my father or the destruction of the town where I was born... No, it's not so much that , rather, I am just feeling the fact that I just said..."

"At a loss? Can't even forgive yourself?" Mikael asked.

Hua nodded slightly.

Of course, she was not entirely without sadness, but that insignificant sadness was completely inconsistent with the hysterical pain and howling she had expected... of losing her loved ones and her hometown.

She thought her only sadness was just two tears she shed quietly in the middle of the night.

"Hua, have I never told you about Aili and I's hometown?"

"ah?"

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

"Hmm..." Hua hummed as usual, and then froze - she felt that the place name Vostok was quite familiar, and after careful recall, she found the relevant information almost effortlessly.

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

"..."

"So, the things that bother you may not stop bothering Alicia and I. Sometimes I also think of the gentle mother Celia and the other children in the orphanage. But maybe I left very early... ha , isn’t this also an excuse? In short, I 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 most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that we have become accustomed to death, so accustomed to it that we are numb. "

Hua lowered his head in silence.

Maybe, maybe she became numb the moment she witnessed the destruction of the entire Canghai City, with only a few hundred survivors left among more than 20 million people.

"But, Hua, the reason why you feel that your sadness is not as good as you expected, I don't think it's all due to this kind of numbness. I think the greater possibility is that you are too introverted, so introverted that you don't have much People can enter your heart and become your possessions.”

"Or to put it simply: Those who are extremely sad have lost a lot of things. But you are different. You have very little from the beginning, so your sadness is so dull."

Hua let out a long breath and asked, "Is that the same for you, Mikael?"

"Probably, right?"

"But, 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 at many times, but you can always cheer up quickly... I feel that you have always had a goal. Being motivated to do something is totally different from me.”

"Oh, this."

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 and calmly picked up the coat and hung it on the hook on the wall.

"It is true that I don't have much, but, Hua, in everyone's heart, there are always a few people whose weight means more or even everything. For example, Alicia, if there is anything wrong with her, I think I will go crazy. So, for her, for these few people, I have the motivation to overcome my confusion again and again... And Hua, you just haven't found them yet."

"..."

"Dong dong dong!"

There was a knock on the wooden door.

The village chief's wife pushed open the door and entered.

There were two streaks of bright red blood on her forehead.