The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Clang-clang-clang-"

As the white wrist shook slightly, the remaining alcohol surged in the tin-colored pot, making a continuous echo.

Spacy held the spout and naturally raised the flask to his lips, but as soon as he raised the flask, he put it down with a wry smile.

"Hey! There's going to be a war meeting soon, so you can't get drunk. Although young people like Mei and Mikael are polite enough, if they lose face in front of that snake, there's no telling what she will do in the future. laugh at me."

While complaining to himself, he manipulated his left hand to screw on the bottle cap. But when this movement was transmitted from his mind to his left arm, a heartbreaking pain suddenly came from the corresponding position. Along with the sound of the saw's motor, the sound of constant friction of flesh, bone and metal rang in his ears.

"Uh! Ah!"

"Dang-dang-dang!"

The wine bottle in their hands fell to the ground. Su and Bolong turned their heads when they heard the sound and quickly helped the pale Spaci up.

"Doctor, are you okay?"

"Teacher! You..."

Spacy's teeth were trembling. He stretched out his right index finger and shook it to indicate that he was fine.

When Mei and Mebius, who had arrived at the second laboratory earlier, heard the noise and rushed over, Spacy's strange behavior gradually dissipated.

His face was as pale as paper, and there were big beads of sweat on his face. He looked around and explained in a low voice:

"It's okay...it's just phantom limb pain."

He looked at the wine stains spilled on the ground at his feet, looked up at Bo Long, and said apologetically: "I'm going to trouble you again."

Bo Long wore sunglasses and nodded expressionlessly, while Su helped his teacher up and walked back to the console with Mei, who was walking a little sloppily.

"Teacher, why don't I let Mikael show it to you... With his current ability, it is not difficult to repair a broken arm."

"Ahem——"

Before Spacy could say anything, he heard another familiar voice behind him:

"Although it sounds magical, doctor, Su is not bragging for me."

There is no doubt that those are Mikael, Ellie and Aponya who have crossed the space rift and appeared directly in the laboratory.

"Of course I know the power of the First Herrscher... In the past two years, it has been rumored among the soldiers that the [god] who can revive people's severed limbs in invisible sleep is You."

"Actually, it's not that good. The newly constructed limbs often don't match the original body. Those with milder conditions can return to the battlefield after training, but most people can no longer reach the level of warriors."

Mikael explained a few words, his hand was covered with blue light, and he was about to reach out to Spacy's incomplete left arm.

But Spacey shook his head and refused.

"Sue tried to persuade me more than once, but there was no need."

"Teacher, this is different from ordinary medical treatment. It does not require any resources."

Su was still insisting, but Spacy just smiled in return.

"Of course I know this, but the meaning of scars has never been about pain or healing, but that it allows people to remember something..."

He raised his head and looked at the iron-gray ceiling at a forty-five-degree angle, as if that could stop the flashing ripples in his eyes from smoothing out.

Mikael shook his head helplessly at Su. If the target didn't cooperate, he wouldn't be able to successfully complete the reconstruction.

"Okay, let's stop chatting."

Mei, who stood aside without saying a word from beginning to end, interrupted several people at the right time.

"Speaking of which, are you calling us all here because of the Eighth Herrscher?"

Mikael secretly held Ellie's hand and squeezed it slightly.

"Where did a similar commotion break out again?"

"No, in the thirty-three hours since you ended your mission to now, most of the riots around the world have subsided - this is enough to reflect that although these commotions are not without practical reasons, the Eighth Herrscher must also be indispensable. As a hindrance, De Moana Chino is just the city she focuses on."

"Mei, let's be honest, what new situation has arisen?"

"..."

After so many years, everyone knows each other's words very well. As the saying goes, first affirm and then deny, Mikael knew that a new situation must have arisen, otherwise he would not have called them and Aponya. .

Mei pushed up her glasses and tried her best to answer the question in a calm tone: "Kai...Sakura and Kevin, how are their current conditions?"

Ellie rolled her eyes, took half a step forward calmly, and said exaggeratedly: "Oh! Dear Mei, Kevin's situation is not good!"

Mei crossed her arms and her breathing gradually became long and heavy.

Alicia reluctantly raised her chest to face her. Her tone was still so unconventional. Mei had already been mentally prepared for this. She was confident that she could even guess what Ali was going to say soon - she just wanted to He used Kevin's situation to induce him to show the girlish attitude he had not seen for a long time, and then had a good laugh to relieve the solemn atmosphere lingering over everyone.

But just when Mei was secretly thinking about whether she should cooperate with her once in a while or remain dignified and rational, Ai Li's words caught her off guard——

"wrong!"

Ai Li held her chin up and took a few steps in a pretentious manner, then sighed and spread her hands:

"I just said the opposite! Kevin's situation is very good now. The so-called not very good is for you, Mei."

"...What do you mean?"

Looking at Alicia's cunning eyes, Mei had a bad feeling.

"My dear Aponia said that Kevin was having a good time in his dream. He was being affectionate with Mei in his dream...Alas, it's a pity that you can't see him being forced into a deep sleep with a smile on his face. It's hard to say that he's in a bad state, right?"

"...Let's talk about serious topics."

Mikael silently pulled Ali back. After two interruptions, it was time to get down to business.

But he felt that things were not so urgent yet. He thought that his ability to read people's expressions was not as good as Ali's. Since Ali would jump out to ease the atmosphere and Mei didn't interrupt her, the matter was probably still stuck on the edge of "serious" and "not serious".

At least not urgent.

"Here's the thing."

In the awkward silence, Spasi spoke.

"Director Fal, well, that is, Su's mentor when he was an intern. After he joined the Fire Moth, he still focused on the topic of Honkai disease treatment. Later, ordinary hospitals no longer accepted Honkai disease patients, but sent them all to the branch hospital set up by the Fire Moth for treatment. Fal went to the branch hospital with the intention of getting close to the cases."

Spasi couldn't help but pause for a moment when he said this, not to spend time for everyone to digest the information, and the amount of information in this paragraph was not much.

This silence was just a kind of mourning-everyone present knew the nature of Honkai disease and its "incurable". Even from another perspective, the Fire Moth prohibited ordinary hospitals from accepting Honkai patients in order to concentrate the resources of these patients together to make... serum.

This serum is theoretically only supplied to the soldiers of the United Government for treatment. Of course, there must be a certain amount of stock in the hands of some people on the black market for those upper-class people to use. But for the Fire Moth itself, this thing is still in short supply.

In the final analysis, the serum can only neutralize the Honkai energy in the body once. If you continue to work with too much Honkai energy radiation after recovery, it is almost certain that you will be infected with Honkai disease again. There are more than 50,000 people in the Fire Moth Light Headquarters. If each person prepares a serum, it will require no less than 50 million bodies of Honkai patients...

But the focus today is not this. After everyone mourned for a while, they listened to Spasi continue to say:

"The first person to contact Fal was his former colleague, um, that is, Brindi City Hospital. They received 37 patients in five hours, all of whom fell into a long coma for unknown reasons. At first, no one took it seriously, but after the number of people increased, they knew there was a problem. They are doctors who know some inside information, so they called Fal to ask."

"And Fal naturally thought of you and Su."

Mikael followed his words and deduced.

"When Su heard about this symptom, he naturally thought of Kevin and Ying, and Mei... you were confirming the symptoms of those patients with Fal before, and expanding the search scope to explore the prevalence of this sleep phenomenon worldwide, right?"

Without waiting for Mei to nod to indicate that it was true, he asked first:

"What is the result?"

Indeed, if there was no result, how could Mei call him over.

"Let's call this symptom sleeping sickness for now. From the symptoms of the disease, it is extremely similar to Kevin and Ying's. After obtaining the consent of the family, Fal tried to wake up the patient by physical means, but failed. After I sent Hen to forcibly wake him up, four of the five samples showed dementia, and only one woke up, but cried and clamored to go back to the dream."

"A beautiful dream?"

"Well, that must be... a dream that is very obedient to people's wishes, which will make people neurotically think that the real world is fake after waking up from the dream, hehe..."

It was rare for Mei to say a long and gritted sentence, and I don't know who she was insinuating.

"At present, I can find more than 5,000 confirmed cases worldwide, most of which are concentrated in big cities... But considering the unnatural urbanization of the current population structure, and the fact that the situation in suburbs and towns is difficult to synchronize to the information network, this is understandable."

"Have you reported to the United Government?"

Mikael knew that what he was going to face next was a battle that was completely different from the previous collapse.

In the past, when facing the Herrscher, he only needed to rely on his fists to defeat and kill the opponent.

But due to the special nature of the power of the eighth Herrscher, her attack was like choking smoke, and it was difficult to tell where it came from for a while. After making people feel choked enough, they could still retreat unscathed. When humans recovered and wanted to fight back, they punched the smoke with their fists, causing no damage at all...

In fact, it was indeed a good opportunity to nip the disaster in the bud when they were in De Moana Chino. At that time, the Eighth Herrscher stirred up the situation but was not suspected for a while. It was probably because he was a little arrogant and chose to face the enemy head-on when the fusion warrior approached... Of course, it was probably because she did not guess that Ellie would be immune to her mental interference to a certain extent. Just like Mikael also ignored Ellie's state of mind. But speaking of it, he still thinks that he has more responsibility. If he was not so cautious at that time, or... did not care so much about the lives of those people, but directly relied on the power of space to quickly rush to the battlefield and kill the Herrscher... It is not impossible...

In short, the battle with the Eighth Herrscher will definitely not be resolved in a short period of time. It will definitely be a protracted battle. And it will no longer be a simple "wrestling", but a war of strategy and resource allocation.

At the very least, the Fire Moth has absolutely no time and resources to deal with these "sleeping syndrome" people, so the coalition government must take action.

Of course, the answer is obvious——

"As for the coalition government... they refused and said that they have not detected the Herrscher-level Honkai reaction, so they can only give us a little help."

"Okay, it's better than nothing."

Mikael cursed secretly in his heart, and couldn't help but wonder in his mind whether to use the power of the Eighth Herrscher to cooperate with Aponia to directly brainwash and transform those people after the eighth collapse.

But it is not easy to achieve. This is not something that can be solved by just controlling a few leaders, but Mikael has already archived this idea in his mind.

Returning his thoughts to the present, Mikael suddenly felt that something was wrong - he seemed to have discovered something "hua"!

"wrong!"

"What's wrong?"

Mikael's hands moved back and forth on his chest, quickly organizing words——

"Whether it was the initial riots or today's sleeping sickness, they all show a global distribution trend. So the question is - how does the Herrscher spread these mental attacks?"

Several people present fell into deep thought for a moment. Everyone was obsessed with the phenomenon, but tacitly forgot to investigate the cause and process.

Only Ellie asked stupidly:

"Huh? Do you need any special transmission method? Kevin and Sakura seemed to be directly affected by the spirit at that time?"

"That's different."

Mikael casually poked her cheek, causing her to puff out her mouth in dissatisfaction and instantly transform into a pufferfish.

Only then did he remember... Just like Ellie holding his arm before, this interactive action that had always existed since they were children seemed to have been missing in the past two years...

But now was not the time to think about this. After being stunned for a moment, he explained to Ellie:

"How close were Kevin and Sakura to the Herrscher at that time? It's a street, less than thirty meters. The Herrscher's mental interference can naturally affect them easily. But the Herrscher can really spread his mental attacks in a direct way Around the world? I don’t think so.”

Mikael turned to Mei, who had already realized something.

"Taking our actions in De Moana Chino as an example, Aponia's limit is to give discipline to more than 200,000 people concentrated in the city center at the same time. If the space is larger, or the number of people is larger, Anything more would be difficult to achieve.”

Aponya nodded silently to show that Mikael was not wrong.

"Hen and Destobia are no exception. Destobia's specialty is telekinesis. Not to mention, Mei, what you just said, asking Hen to forcefully wake up the patient, is probably not a remote operation, right?"

Mei nodded. It was precisely because of this that Hen, as the oldest warrior, did not appear here.

"Of course I'm not trying to compare Herrschers with the ability of fusion warriors. Kevin only fused the emperor-level Parfanti, but he could easily kill the fifth Herrscher. Qianjie was not even a fusion warrior, so he killed the fifth Herrscher instantly. The Four Herrschers. The fact that Aponia and Hen can't do it doesn't eliminate the possibility that the Herrscher can do it, but it at least means that the possibility of the Herrscher being able to do it is not high.

"And I have some evidence - if the Herrscher had a direct influence, it should be like Kevin and Sakura falling into dreams at the same time without distinction, rather than in this staged manner."

"Yes." Mei confirmed Mikael's guess, took over the conversation and continued to analyze: "If you think about it carefully, the Herrscher did not try to control everyone when he was in De Moana Chino, but instead controlled an individual As a transfer station for mental interference, this is still based on Mo Yuli's cooperation, but it may also be that she is lazy. "

Mikael blinked. Although Mei's last sentence sounded unreliable, his intuition felt that it might be more true...

Although this intuition should be even more unreliable...

"In short, we hypothesize...hypothesis! Her influence needs to be transmitted through some special channels, just like some infectious diseases. This can explain why humans around the world do not all fall asleep at the same time, but one after another. One, it keeps expanding.”

"So, if this transmission path can be found, then we can follow the clues to find the opponent's location, and even if it doesn't work, we can also take corresponding countermeasures."

Su rarely found an opportunity to interject.

"But the question is...what is the so-called Tujing?"

Ellie started to scratch her ears and cheeks, Su closed her eyes, Aponya lowered her eyes and prayed, Spacy had already hidden aside and secretly drank most of the bottle of wine, and Mebius had not paid much attention to this from the beginning. Instead, he held a stack of documents and kept thumbing through them.

As for Mei, she stood motionless, as if she had a plan in mind, but also as if she hadn't started thinking at all.

She is definitely the person who has the deepest thoughts at the moment, at least Mikael can't get the slightest trace of happiness, anger, sorrow or joy from her face.

But that unreliable intuition once again reminded him that Mei probably already had the answer in her heart, but she couldn't confirm it yet. She was waiting for someone to give the same answer as her.

Mikael took two deep breaths and began to meditate.

His first reaction was undoubtedly to search for memories about the eighth collapse of previous civilization, but that was a very long time ago after all. Even if time is only viewed as a linear concept, it can definitely be counted as That was twelve years ago.

What's more, an awkward sense of self-esteem came over me again - why do I have to rely on those memories?

Why can't we rely on existing information and our own analysis to deduce this approach?

What information is available?

faint?

No, it’s not the single layer of information that matters.

Just like the three-point positioning method used to locate the position of the Herrscher at the time of De Moana Kino, its essence is the intersection of lines. At this time, Mikael intertwined the descriptions of narcolepsy and turmoil in his mind, trying to find the intersection——

Global...Cities!

Whether it's riots or sleeping sickness, they basically happen in big cities.

Mei has explained this phenomenon before. Due to large-scale collapse disasters, the wilderness became unsuitable for survival, and a large number of people poured into the city, forming an abnormally high urbanization rate.

Even in the villages and towns that are still struggling, due to the backwardness of the medical system and the limitations of the Internet and news systems...

Yes!

Mikael gave a high-five excitedly, startling the people around him.

He opened his mouth, and just when others were wide-eyed and ready to listen to him, he rubbed the down on his chin and started thinking again.

"If all the rejections given by May are overturned, then the Internet is indeed the most likely way. The Internet is the fastest place for information transmission in modern society. Not counting water and air, it is indeed the fastest way to transmit the virus. Fast place.”

So, he raised his head confidently, just as Mei and Ellie also made the same move.

Three lines of sight collided in the air. After a few seconds, the three of them said in unison:

"Internet!"

"Internet!"

"Internet!"

"Pfft..." It was rare to see Aponya and Su laughing out loud at the same time. The former shook his head and said helplessly:

"As expected of Ellie, she always brings surprises."

"Although this is just a guess, it is not difficult to verify."

Mikael said immediately.

Mei Xin understood, and she didn't need Mikael to say specific "verification measures", so she dialed Farr's communication first.

"Director Fall, it's me, Mei. Could you please ask some family members of narcolepsy patients if they browsed the Internet before falling asleep?"

"This... I can only ask for help. The hospital's manpower is already a bit stretched..."

"Faster, half an hour at most, I need at least a hundred samples.\

,"Mei ignored Farr's complaints and did not understand the executor's difficulties. She just gave the order roughly and hung up the communication.

The waiting time was anxious and torturous. Fortunately, although Farr complained, he also sent the data in time——

"really!"

Mei was surprised and happy, and then quickly rubbed her face. She hadn't slept for about two or three days. Now that most of the problems have been solved, her body and mind are slightly relaxed, but she is more exhausted.

"Oops! Dear Mei, how about we go take a rest? The kind of rest that only belongs to girls!"

Ai Li helped her in time. She wanted to refuse, but she heard Ai Li continue to fool her: "Are you still worried about dealing with the Herrscher? Don't worry, Mikael is still here. Let's go, I Let me take you to see Kevin.”

Mei was just dragged away by Alison.

At the same time, Michael turned to Su and ordered:

"Three things. First, set a countdown alarm clock now for 168 hours."

"What does it mean?"

When Su was confused, Aponya helped explain:

“Once a person sleeps for too long, it is difficult to wake up, and seven days is a watershed moment, both physically and mentally, materially and consciously.

"Or to put it another way - we have to kill Herrscher within seven days, otherwise many people will die, including Kevin and Sakura."

After Mikael finished his explanation, he immediately continued:

"Second, let Erwin conduct further investigation. Since it is a spiritual influence spread through the Internet, what specific method is it? Is it a fixed website? Or a video? Or an audio? This is not difficult to check, just look for commonalities.

"Third..."

Mikael raised his head, looked at Mebius, and nodded.

"Use Moyuli's factor to transform all the remaining qualified candidates in the base into spiritually aware fusion warriors."

"Mikael, this..."

Mikael interrupted Su with just one sentence:

"You are also one of the qualified ones."

For a time, various emotions including determination, excitement, worry, and fear were mixed together, blocking Su's throat.

Finally, Mikael walked into the situation room, walked to the podium in full view of everyone, and lightly touched the microphone——

"I'm sorry to bother you all, but...the eighth collapse has officially begun!"