The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Da-da-da-da-"

The crisp footsteps echoed in the dark and closed space.

Suddenly, footsteps were heard not far in front of him.

"Who?"

The soldier turned the muzzle of the gun vigilantly towards the darkness in front of him, and "snapped" to turn on the high-intensity flashlight loaded on the rail.

The strong light of the flashlight intertwined with the dim fluorescent light above his head, and everything in front of him became clearly visible, but unfortunately, there was no one in front of him.

"Huh? How is it possible?"

In order to detain the first public leader captured alive since the uprising, the coalition government built a small prison for him. The soldier walked through the narrow tunnel that was the only communication between the prison and the outside world. The tunnel was straight and there was no corner to avoid...

Was it an auditory hallucination?

Although he gave himself a possible explanation in his heart, his qualities as a soldier still made him keep his gun in a posture and not miss any movement in front of him.

Unfortunately, the movement does not necessarily come from the front.

When he smelled the fragrance coming from behind him, it was too late to turn back.

"Ugh!"

The neck hurt, and darkness swallowed everything in an instant.

But his body did not fall down. The attacker controlled his body from behind, and even the posture of holding the gun did not change.

"No. 3? No. 3? Is there anything wrong with you?"

Sakura calmly and quickly pressed a device in front of the camera on the soldier's chest, which automatically played a simulated animation, which was difficult to identify in the dim environment.

She took out another tuner and moved it to the soldier's microphone.

"No problem, I guess I was hallucinating, over."

"Okay, okay, pay attention to yourself, cheer up! There is still an hour before the shift changes!"

"Understood!"

After waiting for another two or three seconds and confirming that there was no problem, Sakura dragged the soldier's body to the side and injected another sedative into his vein.

This was the third sentry she had dealt with along the way. Since there were no corners or rooms in the tunnel, she could only simply lean the other party against the side of the tunnel.

That was why she had to speed up even more-she didn't have much time left.

Fortunately... She raised her head and gestured to the surveillance camera above her head. With her ability alone, it was somewhat difficult to complete such an operation without causing large-scale casualties and turmoil.

Weierwei's remote assistance and some small and easy-to-use equipment helped her a lot. Without her, these surveillance cameras alone would be a headache.

However, according to the information she gave in advance, this should be the last shift of manual sentry in the passage.

Going deeper inside, there is a high-tech locked security door, but this kind of thing is much simpler than dealing with sentinels when Weierwei takes action.

Sure enough, when Ying continued to go deeper for dozens of steps and walked to a round door shaped like a bank vault security door, she had not made any move, and the lock on the door was automatically released.

And there was no movement of the alarm.

But Ying was still very cautious. She naturally touched her waist, where two completely different long knives were hanging.

One was the Seven Purgatory Thunders, and the other was not an ice knife, but the ordinary standard long sword she had used as a poison pupa. If Mikael hadn't forced her, she wouldn't even bring the Seven Purgatory Thunders. After all, the purpose of such a mission was to conceal her identity, so it was better not to use the iconic weapon.

So she took off the standard long sword, used the back of the handle to hold the heavy door, and gently pushed it. The door opened backwards, revealing the wide space behind it.

There was no light behind the door, it was dim, and Ying's steps just stopped in mid-air.

It wasn't that she didn't trust Wei Wei's technological reconnaissance level. First, due to the special nature of the operation and the need for confidentiality, they didn't have the instant communication contact as in ordinary combat, and all actions could only rely on tacit understanding.

Second, Wei Wei warned her at the beginning that there were no surveillance cameras in the room where Tova was imprisoned.

In other words, she knew nothing about the situation inside the door.

But Sakura still took this step without hesitation. The Honkai energy fluctuations emitted by Towa during his speech had already involved the scope of work of the Fire Moth. Only by taking him back and letting the spiritual perception fusion warriors check him can we find out the enemy's situation.

But because of the fragile relationship between the Fire Moth and the United Government, the two sides could not make it clear about the extradition, even if... it would be too late.

Prison breakout became the best choice for a while, and it was also the only choice Sakura could think of. Besides...

Sakura shook her head slightly. For some reason, her thoughts were particularly disordered when she acted today, which was not in line with her usual style.

"Are you still affected by Towa's speech?"

This is unavoidable. Although the essence of that speech is nothing more than the mental turmoil caused by Honkai energy, the incitement and authenticity of the speech itself are also...

With this idea in mind, Sakura completely stepped into the room.

"Bang!"

The heavy door closed quickly. With Ying's speed, she could escape, but she just stared coldly at the darkness in front of her, and at the bright lights that suddenly lit up in the darkness. But the shape of the lights was a little weird?

Weird, that's right, it's not a simple "light", but the "eyes" of various types of combat mechas.

All these lights converged on Sakura. If she were an ordinary person, she would be blinded by the bright light. However, Sakura just lowered her head slightly and stared at Towa, who was lying on the bed motionless ten steps away from her - even if Under such loud noises and dazzling light, he still fell asleep quietly, letting his heavy breathing echo in the darkness.

Sakura turned her body sideways, unconsciously blocking the Third God Key at her waist. However, this is just an instinctive reaction and has little meaning. After all, the Key of the Third God has never appeared on the battlefield, and the appearance alone is not enough to reveal her identity.

"Stop resisting, put down your weapon, take off your camouflage hood, and stand against the wall with your hands raised. We will not kill you."

An arrogant male voice came from the mecha in the center.

"I'll give you thirty seconds to think, don't say I didn't predict what I said!"

Sakura made no move, neither resisted nor surrendered.

This thirty-second gap was enough for her to complete a backup retreat plan in her mind.

"Was this a trap from the beginning? To lure the snake out of its hole?"

She lowered her voice and calmly tried to stall for time.

"Of course, there was a second person shooting at the scene, trying to kill Mr. Tovar, so we naturally wouldn't be unprepared - what? Could it be that he and the entire riot were planned by you fire-chasing moths? You Are you here to kill someone, Miss Sakura? Wait, or should I call you...forget-me-not?"

"!"

Sakura narrowed her eyes slightly and pretended to be surprised: "Fire Chaser Moth? Isn't that an organization under your jurisdiction?"

She squeezed the scabbard with a little force, and the sounds of mechas deploying could be heard from all directions. Heavy troops were mobilized to guard both outside the door and above. It seemed impossible to avoid large-scale destruction...

However, now that the identity has been exposed, whether the level of conflict still needs to be controlled is open to question.

Unfortunately, she was unable to contact Velvet or even Mikael. It seemed that the current situation could only be decided by herself - to fight or not to fight? How to fight?

Under the Weizhuang mask, Sakura's breathing gradually became rapid. Although it was made of special fabric, covering her mouth and nose still made her breathing somewhat difficult, especially when she was highly stressed.

"Don't think that what you do is perfect, forget-me-not, or Sakura from Fire Chaser."

"!"

"It's a bit too far to mention those things now. Let's take this time as an example. We first obtained the bullet's warhead from Tova's elbow, then judged the pistol used based on the caliber, and then investigated the entire Demo... Yana Chino's list of people who own this kind of pistol quickly led to the shop owner who gave you the pistol... Now is the information society. Can you people who only think about killing and killing understand? Information society?”

The man's voice was extremely proud, as if this ambush perfectly demonstrated a kind of IQ crushing, making him feel proud.

But in Sakura's eyes, the more he talked, the more it showed his guilty conscience and his weakness - the initial thirty seconds had long passed, but he was still bragging. What did this mean?

It shows that he himself knows very well that the so-called heavy troops he mobilized cannot stop Sakura at all, and he never wanted to keep Sakura. All he wants is for Sakura to be in chaos under his exposure, and then expose her identity. .

Thinking of this, Sakura relaxed a little and prepared to deal with him boldly.

Who benefits from procrastination? Sakura couldn't say it, which meant she had to say more and make more mistakes, but delaying time also meant that Velvet could inform Mikael, and...

And she underestimated her teammates too much. Just when she opened her mouth slightly and thought about what she should say to deal with the opponent, a spatial rift opened around her.

For a moment, Sakura was stunned, and the voice relayed by the mecha on the other side was obviously stunned as well.

Brother! Are you too arrogant?

A burst of attraction came from the space rift, sucking the bodies of Sakura and Tova accurately, and then quickly closed, leaving only a bunch of mechas staring with big eyes.

Sakura dragged Towa's body out of the gap and immediately noticed that this was Velvet's workshop. She quickly took off her camouflage hood and took two deep breaths. But before she could thank Mikael, she saw him give a "see you later" gesture, and then he held Aponya's wrist beside him, and the two of them disappeared instantly.

"What...what's going on? Are we going to have a showdown with the coalition government, Velvet?"

Sakura first checked Fantova and saw that his breathing was steady and his wounds had been properly taken care of. He was probably just passed out. She turned to Velvet and asked in confusion.

"Wait a moment, I'll answer you later."

Velvet controlled three keyboards at the same time with both hands. After more than ten seconds, with the soft tapping of the Enter key, she stretched out and let gravity pull her down on the back of the chair. The force caused the chair to rotate until it faced Sakura.

The originally somewhat mechanical look suddenly melted away. She raised her head and her eyes became strange:

"Hey! It's not as serious as you think. To put it bluntly, strategies are only useful when they are beyond our capabilities. Even if you showed your flaws just now, the problem is not serious. Well - I just recorded the video that the coalition government just recorded , audio, and all backups, even some of the specious evidence you left behind as a forget-me-not have been cleaned up. "

"But...those people also have memories, right?"

"Memory? Do you mean that they will remember that you are forget-me-nots, or that they will remember that you just kidnapped this person? In any case, I only have one sentence to comment - so what?"

Velvet shook her head nonchalantly, her eyes changed again, this time into arrogance:

"Come on, let's analyze it. Judging from their words, they have long suspected the identity of Forget-Me-Not, but there has been no evidence. Including this time, they also have no evidence that the prison robber is Sakura. There is no conjecture. There is no evidence, so what? Ah, by the way, you did a good job just now. This is not what I said, it was Mikael who asked me to convey it to you..."

But instead of being happy, Sakura frowned even more tightly.

"Vilvi, you know that's not what I'm asking, it's not about me, it's about how directly Mikael showed the power of space just now..."

"Oh my! I'm so touched! You actually care about him so much! But... Sakura, you seem a little... extra clumsy today?"

"What?"

"What do you think he took Apponia to do?"

Sakura was stunned. It wasn't that she hadn't thought of this, but in her impression, Mikael had always been...

"He probably doesn't like doing things that break his principles."

It is precisely because she knows that Mikael adheres to a certain bottom line, and precisely because he does not like such darkness, that Sakura will take the initiative to take over this task of carrying darkness...

"Who knows."

Velvet's voice was calm again, somewhat similar to the first, but sounded wiser.

"Sometimes I suspect that he also has multiple personalities like me. Since that incident two years ago, he has changed in many places - you see, you are actually not that surprised, but not at the first time. Just thought of it.”

"..."

Sakura couldn't tell whether this change was good or bad. If cold-bloodedness was regarded as a kind of growth, and if defeating Honkai was the only absolute goal, under such rational thinking, Sakura would naturally feel that Mikael's Change is a good thing.

But if you think about it from another perspective, this so-called growth...

Sakura turned her head and stared at the oil-stained floor of the workshop, feeling something in her heart that she couldn't tell whether she was happy or sad.

In addition to Alicia, she was one of the earliest people among the fusion warriors who came into contact with Mikael. She also witnessed with her own eyes his growth from a shy and socially fearful boy to a mentally bipolar person who was extremely confident on one side. A young man who is high-spirited, yet has too much inferiority and vulnerability...

Of course, those were just him in Sakura's eyes, but now...she could no longer understand Mikael's thoughts.

…………

"I ** you big**!"

Tarot grabbed the microphone stand and waved it at the desk. However, both the stand and the desk were of very good quality. Apart from making his hand numb with pain, it did not cause any harm at all.

He was the one who just shouted to Sakura through the mecha.

Others in the command room looked at the furious Minister of Arms, wondering for a moment whether they should persuade him...

If you try to persuade someone, you're afraid of being reprimanded - no one dares to bet whether it's their forehead or the microphone's stand that's tough.

If you don't persuade them...if the chief suffers from high blood pressure and explodes, who will take them to eat empty wages?

Although even if the Minister unfortunately goes to Hexi, there will be new people to take over, which will not affect their continued "muddle", but it will also cost a lot of money to return to the dock.

What's more, if the new minister is a fool or a mysophobic... wouldn't everyone's good days come to an end?

So in just ten seconds, the group of people sitting there winked at each other hundreds of times. Finally, Tarot's assistant stood up.

But Tarot's own breathing suddenly became rapid. He pushed away the assistant who was trying to help him, staggered and shouted: "Quick, send the video just now to..."

His rapid breathing gradually became calmer, and everyone in the command room stared at him blankly, as if they didn't understand why he appeared here so well.

The scene went cold for half a minute before he regained his composure and shouted:

"Immediately adjust the surveillance everywhere. No matter who dares to kidnap a prisoner in front of me, I will kill him!"

…………

Mikael and Aponya walked out of the space rift one after another. Probably because the trouble was solved, their movements also seemed much calmer, and there was no longer the sense of urgency before.

"Is he that Tova?"

Sakura nodded.

Mikael frowned and looked at the man who had not responded at all. His left arm was amputated and half of his face was smashed. He looked very hideous and terrifying.

Logically speaking, for such a serious injury, if there was no analgesic stick, he would be in agony and whining by now.

But he didn't react.

If his chest hadn't been rising and falling regularly, Mikael would have even doubted whether he was alive.

This strange phenomenon made him feel something was wrong.

"Let me do it."

Aponia walked up to Tova, leaned down, and covered his forehead with her palms.

After a while, she shook her head, sighed, and retreated behind Mikael again.

"Vegetative state?"

Mikael asked.

"Almost, the consciousness is incomplete, as if it has been wiped out by someone, leaving only the most basic functions of the body still running... However, the reason why a vegetative person can survive is because the consciousness has only fallen into a deep sleep, and even has the ability to wake up. Hope. Even if this body is equipped with various life-support equipment, within a week, its various hormone secretions will be disordered, and then it will die completely. "

"Erase consciousness..."

Mikael held his chin up and looked at the body gradually approaching death without saying a word.

"Then, I can't feel how he spreads mental attacks?"

"It can't be done, but..."

Aponya's eyes suddenly became empty, and Mikael knew just from her tone that she had once again been involved in the long river of fate.

"He is not a fusion warrior, just a pure ordinary person."

Aponya seemed to have said something, but it seemed that he had not said anything.

But Mikael already understood what she meant.

And he believed that Sakura and Velvet should also understand.

Those who can perform mental attacks are at least emperor-level Honkaimon, so...

"Anti-entropy has entered the second-level alert state, and all spiritually aware fusion warriors have entered the first-level combat readiness state. I'm sorry to disturb Destobia's birthday, and Captain Hen. He just came back from the moon and hasn't met Gray yet. Xiu Duo will be waiting for you, but since the other party is a mental Honkaimon or even... then we naturally have to pay enough attention to it. Alicia's group vacation application has been postponed to summer, and Kevin's vacation tomorrow night will also be postponed. Cancellation - At the same time, Dr. Mei was notified that the entire Fire Chasing Moth will enter a level three alert state, and then all members of the Anti-Entropy Team will gather in the conference room in half an hour."

Sakura watched in stunned silence as Mikael spouted out one plan after another without any emotion.

This time, I was not surprised by his change, but...his attitude as if he was facing a powerful enemy...was he certain that the one who was attacking was the Herrscher?

Calculating the time, it seems that it is almost the same.

…………

De Moana Chino, urban area, the top floor of a building.

In fact, there are relatively few modern, square skyscrapers like this in the cities of Mu Continent. I don’t know where the saying came from that the occurrence of collapse depends on the degree of civilization, so humans have carried out changes to existing cities. Extensive renovations transformed most buildings into a more classical style.

"Really, do you believe this rumor? Besides, it is just a form of architecture and has nothing to do with the so-called [level of civilization], right?"

The girl moved her eyes away from the magnificent dome five hundred meters away, and instead focused on the colorful glass in the middle of the building and the meticulous reliefs on the wall.

She hates those reliefs and such buildings, not only because those reliefs are essentially descriptions of human civilization, but also because of the peculiar aesthetics of the Mu continent people - they actually burned the walls into aqua blue!

vomit!

The girl's face looked like that of a normal person. She lay on a rocking chair, shook her head in disappointment, and turned to look at the red sun rising in the mountains to the east.

Then she was even more disappointed.

"Tch, it's almost the same color as my eyes!"

She picked up a mirror and felt that compared to the sun, her eyes were more beautiful.

"I don't know how humans like this kind of thing, but these flowers and plants are nice."

She waved her hand again, and the showerhead automatically floated in the air as if it was lifted by an invisible person. With the movement of her index fingertips, all the green plants were watered with rain and dew.

"Um?"

A large peacock-like bird suddenly appeared beside her, stretched its neck, and rubbed her arm affectionately.

"Huh? You mean, you searched for a thousand kilometers and still couldn't find the guy named Tova? Could he be dead? But it's okay. As a human being, it is his blessing to die for us. ...Hey! It's another day, let's look for new candidates, male, female, male... Well, let's choose a woman this time... Haha, destroying human beings often does not require violent methods...

"You say so, my dear Moyuli..."