The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

On the second day, on the central avenue of De Moana Chino, people seemed to have forgotten yesterday’s bloody scene and gathered together desperately again.

Their expressions became more and more ferocious, not even human-like. That was not just because of the terrifying expressions. The people's hair was disheveled, their eyes were red, and their skin was aging rapidly, showing a wrinkled blue-gray color. At first glance, they looked... I thought it was a reversion to the ancestors and became an ape.

Amid their cries, a woman with a shaved head climbed onto the roof of a car.

This time, there was no square, podium, nor microphone or speech script. She just mechanically raised her hands into fists above her head over and over again, and people just followed her and shouted at the top of their lungs:

"For freedom!"

"For freedom!"

"For humanity!"

"For humanity!"

"Come and try your best!"

"Come and try your best!"

"..."

Mikael leaned on the railing on the roof and looked at the street in the distance. The so-called Central Avenue was over a hundred meters wide and had eighteen lanes, but it was packed with people. Many people had no place to stay, so they uprooted shrubs and other green plants in the green belts beside the road and threw them into the air. On the one hand, they satisfied their violent needs, and on the other hand, they did make space.

He turned his head and glanced at Sakura, and it was not difficult to see a hint of worry in her eyes.

"Although the coalition government did not open fire yesterday, according to rough statistics, at least 2,800 people died from trampling and suffocation, and more than 13,000 people were seriously injured. Due to the shutdown of hospitals, most people were unable to..."

Sakura seemed to have misunderstood what Mikael meant, and reported the casualty data to herself. Then she became even more worried - the streets today were even more crowded than yesterday, and in just a few dozen minutes, she had already seen people on the street. Hundreds of people were drowned in the sea of ​​​​people, and they remained extremely excited before dying.

But they can't take any action, just to - euphemistically call it, save more people.

"Aponia."

Mikael called Aponya's name seemingly calmly, but in fact it was an out-and-out urging.

Aponya, who had been standing on the top of the building with his hands clasped and his head bowed in prayer, opened his indifferent eyes, stretched out his only index finger, and drew a red line on the satellite map displayed on the tablet held by Sakura.

"Alicia, Kevin, how is the situation over there?"

Of course, Mikael was not asking about the riot.

"Wait a moment! Give Destobia some time, okay?"

The corners of Mikael's mouth twitched, but luckily Kevin took care of it.

"I am Hen, and I am drawing a route on the map."

Mikael looked at the map, and sure enough there was a blue line on it.

Half a minute later, the golden line symbolizing Destobia's detection results also appeared on the map. Three lines of different colors started and extended from three different points in the city of De Moana Chino, forming a Three intersection points.

If the errors are ignored and the three mentally perceptive fusion warriors explore in the direction of Honkai energy interference, the last three lines will converge at one point, which is the location of Honkaimon or Herrscher behind the scenes. But reality cannot be error-free, which is why three lines give three intersection points.

In other words, the three lines inevitably surrounded a small triangle, and according to the previous derivation, Honkaimon or Herrscher behind the scenes was obviously hiding in this triangular area formed by the error.

Spending so much effort is actually a helpless move. No matter whether the opponent is Honkaimon or Herrscher, there will not be a strong Honkai energy reaction before using all the strength. Coupled with the fact that the global concentration of Honkai energy continues to increase, even emperor-level Honkaimon cannot be directly identified by reaction magnitude...

"Okay, Kevin will go from the north, Alicia from the south, and Sakura from the east. Don't fight to the death immediately when you find the target. Try to drive the opponent to the western coastal beach."

"clear."

Not to mention Kevin and Ellie's responses, Sakura glanced at the still restless crowd, then at Aponya, and finally nodded to Mikael:

"I'll take the first step."

Mikael bit his lip, not looking at Sakura's retreating back, but staring at Aponya again:

"Can you cut off the spiritual connection with her?"

Aponia shook his head, "It's easy to cut off, but it's almost impossible to achieve the effect you want... not to mention, doing so will alert the snake."

Mikael said no more, he switched to the communication channel and asked:

"Pado, are there any actions by the coalition government's armed forces?"

"Four helicopters are preparing to take off. They're here...wait a minute, I-I'll look through my notes, um! It will take about two hundred and ninety seconds to get to the destination."

It's two hundred and sixty seconds - Mikael silently corrected himself in his mind. Two hundred and ninety seconds is the distance from when the helicopter is launched to the sky above Mikael's position. According to the sound of the helicopter's rotor rotation in Pado's communication, it has been launched for a while. In addition, the helicopter does not need to fly over the target. You can use machine guns and rockets to suppress it forcibly within a few hundred meters or even one or two kilometers...

"Hua, kill that woman."

"boom!"

Before he could finish his words, a gunshot rang out, the woman's bald head exploded into pieces in the reverberating sound, and the screams of the crowd stopped abruptly at this moment.

Then there were sudden screams and trampling sounds. People further away didn't know what was happening, they could only feel that the people in front were being squeezed back.

As for the mental pollution hidden in the woman's voice, it disappeared without a trace at the moment of her death. The excitement and anger she brought to everyone turned into fear at the moment of death.

"Apponia!"

The woman whose name was called sighed softly, and made a praying posture again. Her lips wriggled, and then she opened her arms, spreading a little golden light.

"[Please], go home."

After saying this, Aponya took off the clothes in one breath, she was so exhausted that she almost fell down - fortunately, Mikael constructed a recliner behind her in time.

"Is it still too difficult for you to give out more than 200,000 precepts at one time?"

"Yes... Only when a person tries to exert his full strength... can he feel the insignificance of his own strength."

"It doesn't matter, not to mention that what you just did is like a miracle, not to mention that the power of the fusion warrior is growing and will reach its peak two to three years after the operation as the body and fusion factors deeply integrate. ”

For the first time, he felt real depression from Aponya. Mikael was slightly stunned, and then softly comforted him.

But he seemed to have overlooked one thing.

Apponia glanced at him strangely, "Mikael, your concept of time..."

"What's wrong?"

"It's been three years since I had super-transformation surgery."

"..."

Mikael closed his mouth and turned his gaze downward again, and the dense crowd suddenly calmed down.

There was no more noise or fear, they just stood there confused.

Even those who had fallen to the ground due to trampling and squeezing mostly gasped and stood up.

Then, the same look appeared on their faces - confused?

who I am? Where am I?

Why should I come here?

Before the more than 200,000 people gathered here could think clearly about the first question, "Who am I?", the scenes of the bloody crackdowns in the past month were played in everyone's minds almost at the same time.

Without any further guidance, after the excitement aroused by mental pollution subsides, facing such a bloody scene, and hearing the roaring helicopter motor not far away, "survival", the most primitive instinct of mankind, The moment was overwhelming.

But just when the crowd was about to cause chaos again out of fear, two other spiritual forces swept through the audience, keeping everyone's mood at the zero point of fear but not too much fear.

Then, just like what is said in the commandments of Aponia - [Please], go home.

People began to disperse in confusion. In order to prevent the recurrence of the previous stampede incident, Aponia, Hen, and Destobia must use their three brains to bear more than 200,000 consciousnesses to keep them in a neutral mental state. , relying on instinct to move towards home.

But Mikael looked up at the eastern sky. Four armed helicopters with the logo of the coalition government were deployed in a battle formation. They only needed to pull the trigger, and the cannons mounted on the nose and cabin were enough to clear the central avenue. Cleanse with blood rain.

But when the leading squadron leader and weapons operator saw the scene on the street below, they looked at each other silently and did not fire immediately.

"Attention all units, the crowd on the ground is being evacuated. Stay alert, do not open fire, and wait for me to request instructions from the ground again."

Just like that, four helicopters flew quickly over the street, then made a long circle in the distance, and finally hovered in mid-air.

"Mike, what are you doing? Why don't you fire?"

"Sir, I think the airborne camera shows clearly enough that the mob is evacuating on its own, and we don't seem to need to use force..."

"Where did you get all this nonsense! You even called them the mob! To deal with the mob, you should put bullets in his anus, ring the primer, and then put their ashes into the barrel and shoot them out - you still What are you hesitating about?”

"..."

Mike licked his lips, feeling the salty taste on his tongue. He wiped his face, and before he knew it, he was sweating profusely.

He looked back at the weapon operator again, and this familiar partner just shook his head slightly at him.

He didn't understand, no, he couldn't accurately judge the meaning of his partner who had been with him for nearly ten years shaking his head.

Are you telling yourself not to shoot at unarmed people?

I still warned myself not to disobey the orders of my superiors and ruin my bright future.

He swallowed, and this middle-aged man, who in a sense had the same name as Mikael, chose to refuse.

"I'm sorry, sir, but I can't fire into a crowd beyond my target."

"How can there be a crowd outside the target? The target crowd is right under your feet!"

"..."

Mike took two deep breaths. He was originally unwilling to perform this mission. It was just his squadron's turn to dispatch according to the rotation system - but now he was glad that it was his turn. If it had been anyone else...

"Everyone is returning temporarily and waiting for new orders."

"Okay! Mike! Captain! You're screwed! Your promotion next month is screwed! Your vacation is screwed too! Your pension and your brother's job are screwed! And everyone else in your squadron is screwed! Members, it’s all over! Unless you stop returning now and turn around and shoot him!”

Mike closed the communication neatly and smiled apologetically at his old partner behind him.

The other party turned off the weapon sighting device, smiled bitterly, patted his shoulder, and shook his head, but then, as his head swayed and the perspective changed, his eyes became terrified--"Mike, look at Unit 2!"

"F**king Joan, stop it!"

But he forgot that he had just turned off the communication.

So his words turned into a roar of incompetence and despair.

He watched the deputy squadron leader Jones command Unit 2 to make a beautiful turn, aiming the three 23mm machine guns on the course at the street below.

But one second passed, two seconds passed, three seconds passed...

The machine guns quietly pointed at the sluggish and slowly evacuating people below, and did not spit out flames.

Unnoticed by them, on the top of the building next to them, Mikael breathed a sigh of relief and dispersed the arc between his fingers-using the power of the third Herrscher to disrupt weapons that rely on electronic equipment is just a basic operation.

It was not just this point that used the power of the Third Herrscher. The conversation between the helicopter squadron leader with the same name and the ground commander was also captured by him in the form of electromagnetic waves. If not, he would have disturbed the electromagnetic field at the first time, making these helicopters unable to work.

Unit 2 turned its head and stalemated for a full half minute. Finally, it was confirmed that the weapon could not be fired. It could only turn the fuselage reluctantly and follow the formation to fly to the base - the heads of the villagers walking on the ground were not the heads of the villagers, but military merits!

Unfortunately, ill-gotten gains cannot be taken, and ill-gotten merits should not be taken.

…………

"If you do this, they will send a second wave of helicopter formations later."

Aponia's voice was extremely weak.

"It doesn't matter. I will stay here until all the people are evacuated."

Although Mikael's words were plain, he still raised his hand to construct three cups of steaming coffee, handed one cup to Aponia, and the other two cups were sent into the space rift and given to Hen and Desdobia.

After taking a sip, Aponya looked much better.

"You can add more sugar next time, thank you."

"... Sorry, I didn't expect you to like sweet drinks, so I deliberately didn't put sugar."

"Hehe, if it's not necessary, who would choose bitter melon juice and abandon coconut milk? Or... who would refuse the paved road and insist on walking on the thorny path?"

Hearing such weird words, Mikael turned his head away.

Since you can't tell whether it's normal words or prophecies, don't take it to heart.

Anyway, what is coming will come, and Mikael knows what may happen next.

"But are you really just waiting here? Are you so confident in leaving the Honkai beasts... or the Herrschers to Ellie, Kevin, and Sakura?"

"Why, do you think that the three of them can't deal with a Honkai beast together, or a Herrscher?"

"That's different."

Aponia shook her head, "Even if their combat power is strong, whether they can stick to their original intentions in the face of mental attacks... This is still unknown. Besides..."

Aponia didn't say the second half of the sentence - Mikael could obviously find a more comfortable posture, such as sitting like Aponia, so why should he stand with his muscles tensed? Isn't this ready to rush to help at any time?

The roar of the helicopter came again. This time, they flew directly in front of Mikael and Aponia, but they couldn't even bring up a trace of wind - with the cover of the double-layer imaginary barrier, they couldn't even detect the two from an optical perspective.

This helicopter squadron, like the previous one, aimed its machine guns at the sparse crowd below, but unfortunately, the muzzle still couldn't spit out flames.

They circled over the central street for five full circles, and finally returned reluctantly.

"How long will it take?"

Mikael, who was calm just now, suddenly came out to urge.

"At the current speed, it will take at least half an hour."

Mikael exhaled heavily - the armed forces of the coalition government are not fools. If they still insist on continuing the mission, they will have to change the obstruction method next time, such as the space corridor?

Also, they may use ground troops...

Of course, Mikael thinks it is unlikely. After all, these so-called "mobs" have no deep hatred with the soldiers. The only reason they opened fire is the order of their superiors.

And now that the "mobs" have clearly shown a trend of going back to their own homes, will the orders of their superiors be adjusted?

There will definitely be!

But no matter what, Mikael still has to wait here for a while, and only after confirming that everything is correct can he go to support Ellie.

He can't help but feel a little worried. That's not a worry about their strength. As Mikael just said, the strength of these three people is enough to deal with possible enemies.

Even if we take into account Aponia's concern - the enemy's mental attack.

Then Kevin and Sakura might have problems, but Ellie wouldn't.

Mikael was sure of this because he knew that Ellie's crystal had the function of isolating mental attacks.

So, at this time, Mikael was a little speechless - even he himself couldn't explain clearly, what exactly was his worry about?

After a while, he suddenly realized that what he was worried about was never an illusory possibility, but came from a fact -

Why haven't they heard any news yet? According to their speed, they should be able to find the opponent's hiding place by now.

…………

In fact, they did encounter some problems.

Kevin took a sudden step forward, and he could already see the green plants on the roof of the building not far away, as well as the very conspicuous big peacock and girl among the green plants.

There is no doubt that that is the goal of this trip, and the two of them have never concealed the Honkai energy emanating from their bodies.

He pinched the microphone on his collar. Before launching an attack, he should report to his superiors and inform his cooperating comrades. Kevin was already familiar with these rules.

But his action failed to go as expected - the collar he pinched was empty, where was the microphone?

Wait a moment……

Kevin blinked and seemed to feel dizzy just now?

His hand that stopped in mid-air naturally straightened his collar, making the already straight collar of his school uniform even more straight.

And as he moved like this, a series of girl's screams suddenly sounded in his ears.

He looked around for a moment at the excited classmates. He was in the center of the field, and he was very familiar with this. He was so familiar that it couldn't even distract him in the slightest.

It's natural that his body is a little tired, after all, he had been fighting fiercely for so long - Kevin thought to himself.

"Kevin!"

Suddenly, a familiar call came from the right side - it was familiar, but it was indeed very familiar, but Kevin couldn't immediately identify the name of the person who made the sound.

He stretched out his arm to the right. Rather than consciously catching the ball, he felt that his actions at this moment were more like an instinctive reaction by his body.

When I put the basketball in my hand, my fingertips immediately felt the hardness of the shell and the slipperiness of sweat into my central nervous system - "When did my hands become so sensitive?"

He stepped forward, but there was a slight sense of unfamiliarity, as if he had not touched a basketball for many years, but this was impossible. From his own feeling, his skills had obviously improved, and he connected with four people in just two or three seconds. , rushed into the penalty area and faced the opponent's last line of defense - a black man who was a full head taller than him.

"big shark?"

The man's nickname popped up in Kevin's mind. For some reason, in such a simple nickname, he actually got a sense of the vicissitudes of time.

It's like the two have been going head-to-head on the court a long time ago - wait, have they? There's none?

Have you ever?

There's none?

When Kevin's mind was still filled with these contradictory questions, his body reacted first again - a fake move, and then instantly twisted his waist and scored a layup.

The moment the ball entered the frame, the whistle sounded to stop the game. The sharp sound pierced Kevin's brain and made him freeze on the spot.

"Kevin! Kevin!"

Along with the shouting, a group of familiar and unfamiliar people gathered around Kevin.

They hugged him one by one, although his own reaction was very dull - these people in front of him looked so familiar... He could easily recall their names now.

But... they were obviously classmates and teammates, but Kevin suddenly felt that he was alienated from these people, unilaterally alienated.

In short, there is an indescribable feeling of strangeness.

But just when he was about to make some kind of resistance, the classmates and teammates around him retreated to both sides like separate waves.

So Kevin naturally turned his attention to the straight line they gave way to.

I also saw the girl who looked a little hesitant...

"plum!"

At this moment, any sense of disharmony and strangeness were all forgotten by Kevin.

All he wanted now was to step forward and hold Mei in his arms.

But Mei retreated slightly with a hint of greenness, then stretched out her hands and handed a bottle of soda to him.

"I bought this..."

Kevin took the soda without hesitation and drank it in one gulp.

A smile soon filled Mei's face, and Kevin stared at her blankly, somehow being pulled out of the gym by her.

"By the way...Kevin, I often see you playing basketball, but I rarely see you playing baseball, but why do you always carry a baseball bat?"

Facing Mei's curious gaze, Kevin felt a little embarrassed. He couldn't say that his baseball bat was actually used for...

At this time, his eyes caught a glimpse of a gray figure.

"Su!"

He waved, but Su shook his head with a smile and retreated into the sea of ​​people - he didn't want to be a light bulb.

"What's wrong?"

May followed Kevin's gaze curiously.

"Ah...ah! That's the Su Ma I always mentioned to you before."

Kevin scratched his head. His muscles relaxed and his tone became natural, as if he was intoxicated by this...

He was enjoying everything now. He could no longer distinguish between enjoyment and nostalgia, but he still had a strange feeling in his heart, as if something important would happen soon.

"By the way Mei...you pulled me out because..."

He suddenly remembered that he should be celebrating with his teammates now.

"Ah - I'm sorry, it's mainly because the teacher asked me to receive two transfer students...I, I thought I'm alone...it's better for us to be together..."

Mei turned her head away like a little girl, but the corners of Kevin's mouth turned up.

"Okay, okay!"

He waved his hand.

"What are the names of those two transfer students?"

"A boy and a girl. Their names are very interesting. One is named Mikael and the other is named Alicia."

"etc!"

Kevin paused.

"Mikael...Alicia..."

He muttered these two names and squatted down holding his head in pain.

It was precisely because he was holding his head that he didn't notice that everything around him, including the campus and Mei, had become an illusion of nothingness.

Before he could raise his head to realize all this, he suddenly began to fall and fell into another world.

I'm a little stuck, so I'll write some dreams in the past two days.