The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Oh my, I wonder if there is any progress on my dear Mikael's side!"

Ellie tiptoed and walked into the situation room first, followed closely by Kevin and Mei. As for Sakura... Eden always needs someone to take care of him when he is so drunk at this time, right?

The entire war room was silent except for the typing sounds of keyboards and mice, and the only sound left was the breathing of people.

Therefore, the sound of the mechanical door sliding open on both sides cannot be said to be very harsh, but it is definitely eye-catching.

Mikael raised his head with a hint of surprise, and his eyes brightened for a moment. The time was so short that Alicia, who received the gaze, did not catch the abnormality at the first time.

But the action of lowering his head immediately afterward made it difficult not to give people a feeling of "guilty conscience".

"Dear Mikael! Your first reaction when you saw me was to lower your head. How sad!"

She did not lower her voice at all, so that her words filled the whole situation room. As a result, the other soldiers either turned their heads openly or looked sideways from the corner of their eyes. For a moment, almost everyone's eyes were on them. Focused on Mikael.

However, when he raised his head here, his eyes became dull again.

"The new clothes are nice."

He praised softly.

"Oh, you think it's good too, right? As expected, Alicia looks good on me no matter what I wear!"

Her hands touched here and scratched there, but what she wanted to deliberately highlight was not the curves of her body, but the hairpin on the right side of her hair, the headband holding a low ponytail, and the separate buttons on her neckline and chest. Wearing collar and chest badges.

Seeing this, Mikael couldn't suppress his smile after all. He smiled and praised:

"Yes, this dress is very suitable for the jewelry I bought before from the style to the color combination."

"Hey...hey! Hey!! Isn't it because I am beautiful!"

Mikael smiled helplessly. Of course he wouldn't be surprised. After all, this uniform had been buried in his memory for a long time.

Kevin was also grinning. For some reason, when he saw the interaction between the two people, he felt like laughing. Of course, what he didn't know was that others saw him and Mei doing the same.

Beside him, the corner of Mei's mouth had just been raised, but was pressed back again. She covered her forehead helplessly and explained:

"This is just the new anti-entropy team uniform designed by Eden, but the others are still in production."

It's okay that she didn't say this. As soon as she said this, Ellie immediately looked at Mikael and winked provocatively, "Oh! That's the point! This set of mine was prepared in advance by Eden himself. It's for me."

Seeing that Mikael's cheek muscles couldn't stop twitching and his expression became nervous, Alicia smiled slightly and let him go.

"Okay, okay! The Alicia brand atmosphere activator is off work! Now I invite dear Miss Mei to come on stage!"

"Wait a moment!"

Mikael raised his hand, looked at the soldiers who were gradually distracted from their work, and made a gesture - "Follow me."

He originally planned to take everyone to the command cubicle behind the situation room, but before he got anywhere, he saw Vasak sitting on the sofa with a beaming face through the glass, dancing and gesticulating.

He was not alone either. Behind him stood Yimer, and beside him were three middle-aged men shown in a stereoscopic projection. They were chatting with something heavy.

"Sorry, I forgot there is someone here..."

Mikael covered his face.

"What's going on with him? Why is he here?"

To be honest, compared to the late Lezren, Mei's impression of Vasak was not bad.

It can't be said to be good, but it's not bad. After all, although this guy is somewhat of a vegetarian, he has also made a lot of conveniences for Mikael and her. He can't be called helpful, but at least he hasn't hindered her.

However, since that incident, I haven't seen him move much for more than three years.

Of course, that is not actually true. Vassago's freedom is not very restricted. After losing his old friends, losing the Poison Chrysalis he had worked so hard to build, and later losing his hated opponent, he gradually became bored. According to Mikael's observation, there were still some signs of Alzheimer's.

In this state, Vasak actually often walks around in Fire Chaser's base - without leaving Ymer's sight.

He would go to the canteen on time every day to eat, and would quietly appear at the back of the situation room for every major combat meeting.

However, I don’t know whether it was because he himself had indeed kept a low profile, or because he did not hold real power, so both Mikael and Mei gradually forgot about him, giving rise to the illusion of “not seeing each other for three years.”

Perhaps this is the sadness of those who have lost their power...

But the Vasak in front of him was very high-spirited.

Mikael explained:

"It's not like those guys from [SEELE]. They didn't want to admit the Eighth Collapse, and they didn't want to explain the so-called 'sleeping sickness' to the media themselves, so they just passed the blame to the Fire Moth."

Mei nodded, roughly understanding what was going on. For this kind of thing, Vasak is more suitable in terms of status and qualifications. As for his ability, judging from his current situation, he should be competent.

What should I do if he talks nonsense? Mei glanced at Yimer who was standing behind him, staring intently at the back of his head, and was not worried about this.

I heard Mikael say again:

"It's not easy for him either. After attending a press conference for more than six hours, this was his third expert lecture. It's difficult for him because of his age. He talked for six hours without stopping. ”

Mei nodded and said nothing.

It was Mikael, who led a few people to the small cubicle on the other side of the war room while still chattering:

"Let me tell you, after this Honkai Impact is over, if [SEELE] is still unwilling to disclose information about the Honkai Impact, we might as well set up a Fire Chasing Moth strategic deception bureau and let Vasak have nothing to do all day long. Going up for interviews and fooling the public can somewhat soothe the emotions of ordinary people.”

"It will also allow him to live a fulfilling and meaningful old age, right?"

Mei asked softly, her pace quickened, and she reached the front unknowingly. Anyway, everyone is familiar with the structure of the base, so there is no question of who will lead whom.

Mikael couldn't figure out what she was thinking - was this a normal question? Or object? Or teasing? He simply didn't answer and turned to look at Kevin, hoping that the person who knew Mei best could give him some tips.

However, Kevin just turned his head and glared at him, letting him wink and give him various hints, but he just didn't understand what he meant.

Ellie, on the other hand, boldly stood next to Mikael and held his hand silently.

The meaning is self-evident.

"Although you have changed a lot in the past two years, you are still as kind as before and will repay every kindness of others."

Indeed, Mikael and Vasak had a lot of unpleasantness, and it could even be said that they were tit-for-tat. It was his plan that forced Mikael to leave the Fire Chaser Moth for a time. But Mikael was more or less back. At that time, he used the muzzle of the 280MM rail gun against Vasak, forcing the latter to facilitate their escape from the Fire Chaser.

And what happened next... The information and convenience he provided were not much, but they cannot be said to be insignificant. Although his motivation for providing this help was not pure, the convenience to the beneficiaries was also tangible.

What's more, the first half of his life, like Famas's, was more or less fighting for humanity.

I heard that he had previously offered a beautiful woman in a mansion for Famas' retirement. Naturally, Mikael couldn't give him these. He could only give him an old age where he could use his spare energy. I just didn't know whether Mei would agree or not.

But... to be honest, Mikael himself doesn't know very well. He really did this because of the kindness that Ellie said...

Or, contrary to Mei forcing himself to be rational in order to protect the sensibility in his heart, he has to occasionally do some soft-hearted things to make his determination stronger.

"All right."

Mei was silent for a moment and finally gave a clear attitude.

Entering another cubicle, she couldn't wait to ask:

"Any progress?"

Mikael did not answer, but opened the three-dimensional screen in the compartment, stretched out his finger and swiped twice, and five groups of seemingly scattered characters were displayed in front of Mei.

"This is?"

"This is how the Eighth Herrscher spreads narcolepsy. She uses her power to pollute specific characters. Anyone who sees these characters will fall into a dream."

Mei pushed up her glasses. Although Mikael did not reveal any more information, she analyzed it to herself:

"And I saw that these characters didn't fall into coma, and there are so many different sets of characters, is the Eighth Herrscher changing the tainted vocabulary all the time?"

Mikael couldn't even express his surprise at Mei's reasoning ability, and just nodded lightly.

"What's the purpose?"

"It's not clear yet, but Mei, does the Eighth Herrscher's behavior seem to you like someone frantically searching for information when writing a thesis..."

"Indeed, rather than the Herrscher deliberately choosing these words, the Herrscher contaminates some words in the process of looking for something, which sounds more logical. It's a pity that Prometheus is upgrading, otherwise through big data processing, there may be Opportunity to find the hiding place of the Eighth Herrscher."

Kevin and Ellie stood aside silently, their glasses turning as they talked.

Kevin: "Alicia, do you understand?"

"No... no! Well, I have a question..."

Mikael and Mei turned their heads at the same time: "What's the problem?"

"Both Kevin and Sakura fell into a dream. Doesn't the Herrscher have the most basic control over the dreams she constructed? If she has a certain degree of control, then she can rely on the dreams to follow the clues to find our location?"

"good question."

Mikael spread his hands.

"but?"

Ellie said tentatively.

"But the fact is, she couldn't do it, and I don't know why she couldn't do it, but she just couldn't do it."

"...It's really...a pretty good tongue twister..."

"that……"

At this time, Kevin on the side raised his hand again.

"I probably understand what's going on - probably because of Ellie's oppression at the time, Herrscher didn't have much time to target Sakura and me. She probably just issued an injunctive order... Well, that's it anyway. I mean..."

He pinched his chin with his thumb and index finger, and said with a mature look:

"So, the dreams that Sakura and I had were not made up by Herrscher, but were just in compliance with our inner desires. In this case, it should explain why Herrscher couldn't locate the Fire Chaser Moth based on our dreams."

Watching Kevin's talk, Mikael and Ellie's peripheral visions met in mid-air, and then they both bit their lips to suppress laughter.

Because, when Kevin said, "The dreams that Sakura and I had were not made up by the Herrscher, they were just in compliance with our inner desires." Mei's eyes visibly flickered twice, and then she glanced continuously. He looked at it several times.

Unfortunately, he didn't notice it at all.

I don’t know what kind of mood she had in mind, but Mei just replied calmly to Kevin’s explanation:

"Well, that makes sense."

But when she said this, she couldn't help but cast her eyes on Mikael - "So, you have already thought of the corresponding tactics, right?"

She didn't believe that during the eight hours of rest, Mikael only did so much as finding the characters.

Although if you think about it carefully...it's not completely impossible.

Fortunately, Mikael did not disappoint:

"Of course there is a battle plan, and it is very simple - since she wants to follow the clues, then we will invite you to the urn."

This is the power of language. Although Mikael just said an idiom, Mei understood his plan almost instantly——

Let the Herrscher take the initiative to notice the coveted Fire Moth's information. When she launches an attack on the base, the mentally perceptive fusion warriors in the base will find her location by actively entering the dreamland.

And once the hiding place is found and caught in a face-to-face fight, it will most likely mean the end of the collapse.

By the way, I would also like to thank the Herrscher for his previous gift - Mayuri. Its fusion factor is as adaptable as Garuda, and it has an obvious bias in spiritual perception. It can mass-produce spirits for the Fire Chaser Moth. Sentient fusion warriors created the conditions.

But this plan was not perfect, and even had big loopholes... Mei frowned slightly, but then she was relieved. It was just a necessary sacrifice. She had seen it countless times before.

Even though there were a lot of sacrifices...she couldn't stay out of it and not take some responsibility. She is like this herself, so naturally it is impossible, or in other words, she is not qualified to use this to question the plan.

But her expression naturally did not escape Mikael's eyes.

"Hey! What's that look in your eyes? Look at this!"

Mikael took out a small blue pill while imitating Ellie's tone.

"The little blue pill!"

"The little blue pill!"

"The little blue pill!"

Three exclamations sounded at the same time, and everyone was...ahem!

"Where are you thinking!"

Mikael couldn't laugh or cry, and lowered his voice to explain: "This is not an ordinary little blue pill..."

"It's a little blue medicine for men... Ugh! Cough cough cough!"

Kevin instinctively grabbed the words, but unexpectedly, Mikael saw the right moment and popped the pill directly into his mouth.

"Ahem! Huh? This is... why is this medicine sweet? No, this is not the candy I hid under the bed before... Uh, Mei, you heard wrong, how could I hide something as high in calories as sugar? Where are the things hahaha..."

Mikael sighed. He got this from Padu. The inside was filled with various candies, but the blue paint on the outside was applied the day after tomorrow.

Of course, he will not betray Padu:

"It's candy, but it's not the candy, it's the little blue pill."

"This... what kind of fallacy is this?"

"Tsk!"

Mikael clapped his hands and said, "The tactic of inviting you into the urn mentioned earlier is actually to actively spread the news about the Fire Chaser Moth to the outside world, so that the Eighth Herrscher can attack here after being aware of it."

Kevin was startled at first, and then lowered his head thoughtfully. He was not stupid, but he was used to listening to Mei's orders. Sometimes, his first reaction was not to think for himself, but to look at Mei.

Speaking of which, Mei and Mikael have completely different styles when it comes to combat deployment. The former will tell you the task simply and clearly. As for why, you don't need to know.

Mikael, on the other hand, likes to take the trouble to explain every step of his tactics, and even intentionally guides others to think.

For Kevin's smart head, he understood what Mikael meant with just a slight movement - of course, this also benefited from the fact that when he turned his eyes to look at the characters that originally existed on the three-dimensional screen, What I saw was a haze, like the white mist on the glass when taking a shower.

"You are saying that the biggest problem with this plan is that once the Herrscher invades the headquarters, tens of thousands of soldiers will fall into a dream, and this dream is not only a creation of the Herrscher's power, but also the subconscious guidance of the people who fall into the dream. If If left unchecked, many people will get lost in their dreams and never wake up until they die, and this little blue pill..."

"That's right!"

Mikael suddenly froze in the middle of stretching. A mysterious force made him snap his fingers, and then explained:

"What the Eighth Herrscher can do, Aponia can also do. After taking this little blue pill, within 72 hours, you will not be able to see all the characters clearly, and naturally you will not be dragged into the dream. . Of course, this is not safe, because the Herrscher can also directly cause people to fall into dreams, so Aponya will give everyone another commandment, but the effect will be..."

Kevin was a little dazed, not because of the power of the little blue pill, but...that's it?

The little blue pill that Mikael regarded as a treasure could only block the spread of one form of narcolepsy. In other words, many people would still die when facing the invasion of the Eighth Herrscher.

What Mikael did was more like a kind of psychological comfort. For the soldiers, on the battlefield, a piece of paper armor was more or less armor. For Mikael, he could also reduce it slightly. Some guilt in my heart.

Kevin instinctively wanted to ask: "Why can't we wait until Prometheus is upgraded and directly use big data algorithms to search for Herrscher's hiding place?"

This seems to be able to avoid the casualties of the Fire Chasing Moth warriors.

But he soon realized that Mikael's so-called inviting the king into the urn was not just a simple active attack, it was also a defensive posture.

Before Prometheus is upgraded and finds out where the Herrscher is hiding, it is very likely that the Herrscher will find the existence of the base on its own.

In particular, during the search for characters just now, some soldiers must have accidentally fallen into a dream.

What's more, he just glanced at the news headline of Vasak's program. The number of narcolepsy patients is increasing exponentially, and is currently close to 100,000... If it is because of fear of sacrifice, a few more hours or 100 people will be delayed. In a few hours, at least millions of people will inevitably fall into a dream. In that case, what is the significance of the existence of the Fire Chasing Moth?

Of course, these are just Kevin's own guesses, but if he were asked to make a decision, he would definitely say this:

"This is a necessary sacrifice. Although most of the victims cannot agree with this concept, their sacrifice is undoubtedly meaningful."

Mikael blinked. He seemed a little surprised by Kevin's statement, but not that surprised.

He quickly chuckled and added:

"What's more, as warriors of the Fire Chasing Moth, dying on the road against Honkai is what they have always wanted."

This is undoubtedly a cruel and ironic fact - the people who least deserve to die are often the people who are least afraid of death.

What's even more ironic is that both Mikael and May, or Kevin and Ellie, easily accepted an inescapable sacrifice.

Perhaps, this is what Himihu calls numbness.

"Okay! Next is the final preparation before the battle. Please come with me again."

Mikael opened the door of the cubicle, and the three of them followed him to the second laboratory, which had been transformed beyond recognition.

The entire laboratory is divided into two halves by a row of long tables. The half next to the first laboratory is Mebius' territory. The wall with the first laboratory has also been opened and placed everywhere. The super-changing surgical equipment that Mikael reproduced with his power.

At a glance, there were hundreds of culture chambers, with ice-blue culture fluid bubbling out of them.

At first glance, Kevin found Su, who was wearing special surgical clothes and floating in the training cabin. He excitedly wanted to rush forward, but unexpectedly a paintbrush shot out from the side. Kevin turned to avoid it, but saw the paintbrush in mid-air. An arc was drawn in the middle and flew back along the original path.

His eyes moved along with the brush, and he saw two figures, one gold and one gray, one tall and one short, one large and one small.

Graciu stared blankly at the paintbrush that was playing in her hands, then suddenly talked to herself and flew away, and finally magically returned to her hand, her expression gradually becoming confused.

"I'm sorry, Captain Kevin, but Dr. Mebius also told me that these qualified people are currently in the observation period after the operation and no one can get close to them!"

So Kevin could only watch Su rising and falling in the culture medium from a distance without saying a word.

His former friend also became a fusion warrior and then fought alongside him. Kevin had never thought about this possibility.

However, he did not expect that it would be in such a situation - the battle with the Eighth Herrscher was not so much the home field of spiritually aware fusion warriors, but rather a battle that only spiritually aware warriors could participate in.

"It's such a pity, Su. I wanted to show you what combat experience means when you go to the battlefield for the first time, but it turns out that I can't help you in the battle..."

But then he thought again, would Su also think the same way when he went to fight again and again?

The sudden sadness came and went quickly, and the "noise" made by Alicia soon reached my ears——

"Oh Destobia! Although using telekinesis is really cool, little Gratio will be shy if you snatch her paintbrush like this!"

Destobia spread her hands and was thinking about how to deal with Ellie, when she saw Ellie passing her and extending her sinful hands to Gratius.

"Ah - little Gratius, let me pinch your face!"

"Uh-uh!"

Gracie tried to resist, but failed.

Destobia smiled helplessly and looked at Blanca floating in the training cabin.

"Where's Kosma?"

Mikael asked.

"Of course he is helping the Hypothetical Observation Center over there!"

It seems that it’s not just Mikael who likes to imitate Alicia’s speech...

"Speaking of which, Captain Mikael, is it really okay to let Aunt Blanca go to the battlefield so hastily? Then when Uncle Dianhen comes back, he will also... If, I mean if, little Gratius loses his parents by then... …what to do?"

Mikael didn't answer.

Destobia shook her head boredly, took out a small box from her pocket, and handed it to Mikael.

"What's this?"

"It's just a customary gift. If I die this time and don't have a chance... just give this gift to Kosmo. It's not something expensive, just a watch. I saw him wearing a broken watch mirror before. The watch, just...well, that's it."

Mikael weighed the box in his hand a few times, "The gift I gave you was a harmonica the year before last, a Superman figure last year, and a watch this year... I always feel like you put extra thought into the gifts you gave Cosmo. But how is his harmonica practice? I remember that his musical talent was not very strong before. "

"As for music, just do whatever you want, as long as it can express your emotions."

Destobia shook her head indifferently, "But Captain, you haven't promised me anything yet. If you don't want to, I'm going to ask Sister Alicia!"

Destobia originally just said it as a joke, but to her surprise, Mikael nodded solemnly and motioned for her to give the things to Ellie for safekeeping.

"Team...Captain, what do you mean?"

"It's nothing. Didn't you notice that, including you and Hen, there is one more observation hub?"

"That's not Aponia... No, Aponia needs to deal with special circumstances and will not participate... then..."

"That's right, that observation hub was prepared for me."

Mikael smiled.

"But...but Captain, you are not a fusion warrior with mental perception, and you no longer have it..."

Mikael once did not answer her question directly. He just smiled meaningfully and answered the question:

"Stop talking about this, I wish you a happy birthday two days in advance, Destobia."

O sea, you are all water!