The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"call--"

The wind blew across the street, picking up paper and garbage all over the ground and flying like snow.

Now is indeed the season when it should snow, but unfortunately, it won't snow here.

The reason is very simple. This is 11 degrees north latitude and 149 degrees east longitude. The Mu continent, entrenched near the equator of the Pacific Ocean, stretches out its right arm here, forming the largest peninsula in the world - Moana Peninsula.

On the westernmost side of the peninsula, here, humans built a huge city as the "Lighthouse in the Pacific" - Te Moana Kino.

Sakura held a knife in one hand and a wide-brimmed straw hat on her head with the other, walking on the deserted and silent streets - the order here was almost paralyzed, and the surveillance was destroyed last night, so she didn't need to cover up.

Snow-white flyers and beige evacuation manuals fell on her head and shoulders one after another, but they were shaken away by an invisible stance, and finally fell back to the wet asphalt road.

Everything looks gray on all sides, as if covered with dust, but in fact the air is fresh and cool, and the so-called gray is actually just the light in the early morning.

Sakura sniffed lightly, "Did you use a degradation agent? After just one night, you can no longer smell the smell of blood."

This is supposed to be a bustling commercial street, but because of the early morning or the bloodshed that happened here last night, the shops on the street are now either closing their doors tightly, hanging signs saying they are out of business, or putting up heavy curtains. The roller blinds and even the windows on the second floor were nailed and locked with iron plates.

The so-called answer is actually obvious. Sakura looked at the dense row of fist-sized bullet holes on the concrete wall, and a flash of ridicule flashed in her heart.

The ground shook slightly, and there was a faint noise in the distance. A group of pigeons flew around in panic among the high-rise buildings.

"Is it going to start again?"

Sakura held the scabbard with her left hand and pressed her thumb against the tangent to push out the purple long sword slightly. This posture ensured that she could perform Iai in the most comfortable and quickest posture in the battle that might come at any time.

Although...she herself was not sure whether her knife would be completely unsheathed today.

Seeing that there was no one on the street for the time being, she took off her straw hat with her right hand. The extra pair of slender fox ears on her head fluttered in the wind, and the movements around her also flowed into her mind along with the wind.

Only at this time can she feel that these ears are not all disadvantages.

Sakura silently put her hat back on and walked forward slowly - it seemed that the demonstrators had not yet completely gathered, so there was no need for her to go ahead and wait.

Turning the corner, you can see a pickup truck head-on. An uncle with half-white hair is stuffing things from his store into the back of the pickup truck.

Sakura could have just walked past him, but in order to truly understand what was happening in this city, she suddenly turned around and walked up to her uncle.

I woke up early in the morning to clean up, but unfortunately I bumped into someone. The uncle was a little panicked. When he saw the two long knives on Sakura's waist, cold sweat instantly wet his entire forehead.

"call--"

The wind swept across the street again, lifting Sakura's straw hat. Although she quickly put the hat back on her head, it was hard to say that the uncle didn't notice the ears on the top of her head.

For a moment, she hesitated, not knowing how to ask or whether she should insist on asking. After all, her uncle looks quite young. If something happens to him when he is frightened, should she carry out the mission or take care of him...

It seems like there is no one around him to take care of him...

But strangely, after seeing the ears on the top of her head, the uncle relaxed.

"uncle……"

"Oh! I know, I know, how do you young people say that word... hiss... why can't my brain remember it all of a sudden?"

"?"

"Cosplay, right? Hey, little girl, your knife is also a prop. How can a normal knife be so colorful?"

Sakura wanted to hold her forehead with her hands, but her uncle's misunderstanding was just right. She even thought that it would be good to use this identity as a cover in the future.

Seeing her in a daze, the uncle first threw a computer host into the trunk of the pickup truck, then held on to the car body and explained while breathing heavily:

"Hi! Even though I'm older, I was dragged by my son to participate in many activities for you young people... Hey, the texture of the girl's clothes, wig and props are really good. Where did I buy it? I always hear my son complain that the quality of the clothes is too poor... ugh..."

Looking at the old man who started talking and kept pouring out his words after Jiraiya, Sakura slightly twitched the corner of her mouth and replied: "This... I did it all myself."

"Oh! I'm telling you, you can make enough food and clothing by yourself... Hey, if it weren't for the current situation, I would have asked you for your contact information. My son said that their circle has been dissatisfied with inferior props for a long time... Ahaha, But the way things are now, activities such as comic exhibitions will become less and less in the future..."

The uncle's voice suddenly dropped, as if he finally remembered the plight of this city, no, this world.

"Speaking of which, uncle, are you leaving here? You just said you have a son, why doesn't he help you clean up?"

Sakura's initial instinctive reaction was that the uncle's son was left alone because he had collapsed or... was no longer alive. But from his subsequent words, it can be seen that his son is still alive, so why not help? he? Or did his son go to another city?

Or maybe... Sakura's thoughts were connected to the noise that was getting closer and closer.

"Why--"

The uncle sighed heavily.

"Stop talking about it, that brat has been crazy since he went to listen to Mr. Tovar's speech half a month ago, and he has been crazy since he came back... Oh! Tell me, why are you messing with this kind of thing! Protest? Parade? ? It’s weird that this kind of thing is useful! Let me say something unpleasant... I won’t say it.”

Seeing that the noise was getting closer and closer, the uncle gave in decisively and moved his hands a little faster. Sakura judged the distance of the parade crowd and took the initiative to help the uncle move his belongings.

The two of them chatted while moving——

"Fortunately, I sent my son to the countryside a few days ago. Otherwise, with his temperament, he would definitely participate in last night's... Oh, it's really funny. A lot of innocent people died, and that Mr. Tovar is still They weren't caught. But they were mentally ill, right? They just had blood last night, so they dared to hold a parade of this magnitude today? Hey, don't go if you can, my uncle. Yeah, that’s going to cost you your head!”

Sakura kept her head down and said nothing. She didn't want to explain, and she couldn't explain it without explaining. Anyway, this uncle's brainstorming ability was very strong, so she might as well let him use it freely.

But then again, public opinion all over the world is now like a pot of boiling water. The lid of the pot is fluttering, and it is about to be pushed open, but it is as stable as a mountain - the control power of the coalition government is still very strong.

In this turmoil sweeping the world, the reason why Sakura was sent to De Moana Chino by Mikael to investigate was because of the extremely unreasonable current situation in this city-despite the global turmoil, But it was the only place where mass bloodshed occurred. Also, the frequency of bleeding is a bit...

In just two months, this place experienced three...oh no, four bloody crackdowns, but after each crackdown, people would gather together again as if they had no long memory.

The same is true for the leaders. Mr. Tova, as the uncle said, is already the third leader. The character of each leader is the same as the one carved out of the mold. While he is not afraid of sacrifice, his speeches are also very inflammatory.

This phenomenon is absolutely abnormal. If it were spread across the world, it could be said to be a coincidence, but it is concentrated in one city...

Besides, De Moana Chino is not a special city.

If it happened in Luluye, it would seem normal. After all, Luluye is the capital of Mu Continent, which is currently the most populous and prosperous continent and has rarely suffered from collapse disasters. What's more, the coalition government also moved to Mu Continent three years ago. The headquarters moved here.

But De Moana Kino... has nothing outstanding in terms of population, size or strategic significance, which makes this thing very strange.

Unfortunately, the Fire Chaser Moth can't take care of this kind of thing, so all Mikael can do is send Sakura over to investigate on the spot.

Seeing that Sakura remained silent, the uncle thought that his warning just now reached her heart, so he took the last package from Sakura's hand, threw it on the passenger seat of the pickup truck, clapped his hands, and lit a cigarette. continued:

"Little girl, I am not telling you that when you are young, you always have all kinds of sweet dreams. You feel that you are unique in this world and have endless energy and ability to change the world... But, wait You will know after a few or more years of struggling in society...

"No, in fact, you have always known that 99.9% of this world are ordinary people, but you young people think you are the 0.1%. But people have to accept reality after all, no Speaking of other things, just from a probability perspective, which one is more likely to become 99.9% or 0.1%? I don’t think I need to say more, right?

"Individual power is so small, and each other is so dirty. In most cases, your so-called resistance is no match for the 0.1% suppression. There is no need to send your name... while this city is still allowed to come out No entry allowed, please leave immediately.”

The uncle returned to the store, opened the table under the store counter, and stared at the things inside.

Due to the angle of view, Sakura couldn't see clearly what it was. She was a little confused by what the uncle said.

And to be honest, as a middle-aged and elderly person, the egoism in his words was too sharp, and she couldn't agree with it.

"But resistance is meaningful, right? If you don't resist, I won't resist, and in the end everyone will just accept it."

Although from her position, she should not support this kind of resistance, from a conceptual point of view, she still needs to refute the other party.

"Why!"

The uncle sighed and finally stopped trying to persuade the girl in front of him.

"Maybe this is the difference between young people and old people. What you care about is ideas and beliefs, but all we care about is the lives and lives of ourselves and our families. However, the only thing in common is that we are all willing to fight for the things we care about. Give your life.”

Without saying any more, he took out a small pistol from the drawer, along with a box of bullets and two magazines, and stuffed them into Sakura's hands.

"Uncle, what are you..."

"Don't think too much. The checkpoints leaving the city are guarded by the troops of the United Government. In this case, carrying weapons with you is asking for trouble. What if they... Instead of that, it's better to leave it to you. Although it can only play a limited role in self-protection if something really happens, it is not for self-protection for a young and beautiful girl like you, understand?" Ying pulled the corner of her mouth and did not refuse. "Then uncle, you gave me too many bullets. In that case, only one bullet is enough." The uncle shook his head and stopped talking. He sat in the driver's seat of the pickup truck, regardless of the store with the door open and the full of goods in the store. He stepped on the accelerator and quickly disappeared from Ying's sight. "I hope you and your son can live well and see what we finally won... Forget it, Mikael said that we can't set a flag..." Ying didn't waste any more time. Relying on the physical fitness of a fusion warrior, she jumped directly to the roof of a 30-story building in a few jumps, and moved between the roofs several times, and soon found an excellent "viewing platform". Looking down at the square below, the crowd was so dense that it was impossible to count the number of people. All I knew was that the entire square, as well as the streets within my sight, were packed with people. The so-called sleeves spread out to form a shade, sweating like rain, and people were shoulder to shoulder.

The people at the front cheered around a man in a suit on the high platform: "Xi Hai!" - probably something like this. Ying didn't know what language it was, and could only guess that it was a unique way of greeting for this group of people.

Then the cheers spread out from the center to the surroundings like water waves.

Ying took off her straw hat, and her slender fox ears caught the cheers that came one after another. She counted silently - until the crowd at the front shouted "Xi Hai" for the 327th time, the people at the farthest distance shouted the first one belatedly.

"Tsk... This scale is definitely no less than 100,000 people! If this... the coalition government would not dare to do this!"

Ying couldn't guarantee it.

But whether to notify Mikael now is also a question.

In order to prevent exposure, she used the encrypted communication network established by Weierwei when performing this special mission. This is different from the encrypted communication in the early days of Anti-Entropy that could only protect the main terminal. It is a plus version that can protect both sides, and the price is that the communication time is short and the cost is high.

"Forget it..."

Ying is not afraid of spending money, but the problem is that even if the communication is turned on now... the communication time is not enough to describe a "thing that is happening".

There was a sound like a tsunami under her feet again, and it took nearly ten minutes to calm down.

At this time, Mr. Towa, who had a small side parting, patted the microphone in front of him, confirmed that there was no problem with the sound, and spoke--"Today we stand here, not for anything else, but for one thing-to decide how we live and how we die!"

This straightforward statement was like a spark, easily igniting the whole audience.

Nearly ten minutes later, people's cheers, shouts and even scolding gradually subsided, and Towa had the opportunity to continue his speech.

"Perhaps someone will ask me - isn't our original purpose to hope that the United Government can tell us the facts about the disaster and the collapse?

"Yes, this is indeed what we have been asking for all along, but is this matter just that simple? Of course not! Some people will say that what we are asking for is just the right to know. For such a right, so many people have been sacrificed - just before me, there was a great man and a great lady, and hundreds of citizens have shed blood for it. Is it really worth it?

"First of all, I want to say, of course it is worth it, definitely worth it, absolutely worth it! Then, I want to tell him that what we are pursuing is not [knowledge], but something more principled -

"In the past twelve years, mankind has experienced one catastrophe after another. At first, it was just a military exercise caused by accidental injuries, and then the explosion of the nuclear arsenal, and then what? The great earthquake and tsunami in the eastern part of Shenzhou..."

At this point, Tova pursed his lips and lowered his head, shrugged his shoulders, and then opened his hands and roared:

"What kind of plate movement can turn the entire eastern and far eastern Shenzhou into an uninhabited area, but the coastline and terrain have not changed at all? Could the reason they gave be any more outrageous? Do they think we haven't learned geography?"

"Good!"

"***!"

"Hundreds of millions of people died in confusion, their deaths were worthless and meaningless, and the United Government didn't even bother to count the numbers to the single digit! And what did the United Government and the organization called the Fire Moth do? We have no idea.

"Of course, I'm not denying their efforts. Many of them must have died fighting against this disaster called collapse, but because of their concealment, the sacrifices of these soldiers cannot be known to us, so in a sense, their sacrifices have become sacrifices that will not be missed...

"And the most important point is - why did the United Government do this! What's the benefit of hiding this from us? I can say responsibly - no! If they don't tell us the truth, we can't understand them, and if we don't understand them, we can't cooperate with them to take action. This is the reason why every collapse has huge casualties!"

Sakura stared at the man dancing and high-spirited on the podium in amazement, and then she silently covered her forehead.

"He seems to be right... No, no, no, why do I think that keeping people secret is just to prevent riots in despair... But he is right..."

Staggering, Sakura couldn't help but hold on to the railing on the roof.

Her head felt a little heavy, but she was also inexplicably excited, so she was caught between the spear and shield for a moment, unable to move.

"So, if there's no benefit, why do they do it?"

Tova spread his hands and clapped them again:

"It's nothing more than arrogance! They arrogantly believe that the decision of a small number of them can determine the common destiny of billions of human beings! They arrogantly believe that we don't need to think about how to live or die, we only need to Kill them when the collapse comes, or spend day after day in fear in a place where the collapse has not happened yet!

"If their decision is successful, they will feel proud that thanks to my decision, humans have been protected. If their decision is wrong, the dead humans are just numbers in their eyes. Yes, They think they are leading us, but in fact we are just captive pets in their minds! It is their gift that we can live, and they will not be sad if we die...

"No, it's okay not to be sad. What I'm most afraid of is that they will still cry hypocritically!"

"This...this...ah——"

Sakura screamed in pain, covered her head, and squatted down on the top of the building.

"No...no...this is definitely not a speech by a mere human being...no wonder it has such inflammatory power..."

Of course ordinary people would know nothing about it, but as a fusion warrior, she could naturally feel the Honkai energy contained in that voice.

She put on the headphones for herself tremblingly, and turned the music volume to the maximum, but she forgot that she still had a pair of ears——

The sound of Tova's speech penetrated the slender fox ears on her head without any hindrance, and then turned into brain waves that rushed wildly. If she were like ordinary people, she would be easily incited. But she was a fusion warrior, and her cells began to spontaneously respond to the invasion of external Honkai energy. Although it was effective, it would undoubtedly put a huge burden on the brain, and it also caused Sakura to temporarily lose the ability to move.

"Why are they unwilling to step down from the pyramid and communicate with us face to face as equals, without anyone being superior to the other? We are not just for the so-called right to know! Shouldn't all of us human beings be one family?

"As a family, we should face difficulties together and go through dangers together. If we really reach the point of hopelessness, should we embrace and die together? This is what we are really pursuing - —

"If Honkai is really the so-called doomsday as rumored, then we humans must face it together and endure it together. The most important thing is - we must decide for ourselves the path we decide to take! We don't need to be aloof. People choose how to live and how to die for us! Tell me, do you want to live in confusion or die in a clear way?”

"Don't live in confusion! Die with understanding!"

"I would rather die with understanding than live with confusion!"

Sakura was lying in front of the railing, looking at the crowd with cold eyes and shouting, "Oh, three points of falsehood and seven points of true words, coupled with mental control... It's a pity that I am not Aponia or Destobia, so I can't track that wave." The source of Honkai energy, but as long as Mr. Towa is captured, the snake should be able to be lured out of the hole, right? And with the leader gone, the coalition government has no reason to suppress..."

Sakura's mind raced, and countless ways of robbing someone on the spot and escaping unharmed flashed through her mind.

And at this moment when she was thinking, Tova on the stage raised his hands in the air and shouted:

"No, no, no! None of this is right! Let me tell you! We must understand both in life and in death!"

The noise of the crowd reached its peak. Sakura stepped on the railing with her left foot and was about to jump down, but suddenly stopped.

She looked up in shock. The cloud above her head was darker than the surrounding ones - and then, four small black dots fell from the sky. The impact directly tore the white clouds apart, revealing the huge aerial battleship on the clouds.

"that is!"

"boom--"

The small black dots quickly enlarged in mid-air and landed around the podium in the center of the square before the crowd could react.

"Ahhhhh!"

Hundreds of people were crushed to pulp the moment the four mechas landed, and blood mist and residual limbs were thrown hundreds of meters into the air. Sakura stretched out her hand and wiped her cheek, and as expected, it was stained with a thin layer of blood.

The flow of people began to push and surge in fear, and the previous excitement was gone. Many people fell headfirst as they walked, like the waves rising and falling on the sea surface - that's because they were crowded in this way. During the fight, the internal organs were directly crushed, or they were directly suffocated.

The mechas of the coalition government didn't care about the civilians. All they did was form a Honkai energy barrier and surrounded the podium.

And Tova, who had just spoken righteously on the podium, was now looking at the corpses on the ground expressionlessly.

Then, he took out a pistol from his arms and put the muzzle of the gun into his mouth.

"boom!"

"boom!"

The two gunshots almost overlapped, and a plume of smoke came out from the top of the building directly opposite Towa. The pistol bullet fired from there shattered the man's elbow, which also caused Towa's own gun to The mouth was slightly everted, and the bullet came out of half of the cheek.

Please do not take the position in this chapter, and it is also forbidden to use the topic in paragraph comments (the desire for survival is full, no words warning)

Also, on the last day of 2022, I wish you all a happy holiday.