The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Yes, I'm sorry..."

Aldemir pointed the smoking muzzle at the ground. He didn't know if he was saying sorry to Hua or if he was saying, "I'm sorry, I couldn't leave anyone alive."

There was no chaos at the scene. Most of the people were warriors who had experienced life and death, and they basically made a fighting stance immediately - although it was somewhat unbelievable.

Kevin ignored the blood spreading on the ground. He stepped on the blood, and the cold air that unconsciously overflowed from his body made every step he took in the pool of blood make the sound of broken ice.

Naturally, the soles of the shoes were inevitably stained by some ice scum, and the footprints left on the ground emitted a deeper dark light, with fine cracks extending toward the snow surface around the footprints.

He stood silently in front of the only exit of the room. He didn't even have time to get the sky fire, but even so, he himself was an insurmountable Great Wall.

As Kevin's best friend, Su stood beside Mei without hesitation.

Alicia pursed her lips and looked around twice, then looked at Gracie who was holding her arms with her eyes covered by Hen in time, shaking her limbs somewhat at a loss, and finally stepped over Carol's shoulder without saying a word. The corpse walked to Hua, sat beside her with Mikael on the left and right, and each held one of the girl's hands.

The atmosphere was tense to the extreme for a moment - everyone sitting here was personally invited by Kevin, so there was no way there would be a problem, but why wasn't it "impossible that there would be a problem" with Carol?

So it's not that he doesn't believe it, but he is unwilling and afraid to gamble.

After all, the bet was the life of the person he loved most. It wasn't that he didn't dare to gamble, but that he couldn't tolerate such a gamble from the beginning.

"What should I do, Kevin, do you want me to use mental perception to check the memories of everyone present?"

Sue's voice rang directly into Kevin's head.

This is undoubtedly the simplest and most direct method.

Kevin pursed his lips, feeling a little moved.

But Mei suddenly raised her hand and patted Su's shoulder gently.

"plum?"

"This matter is temporarily classified as an SS-level secret. If anyone asks about Carol's whereabouts, just say that she was sent on a confidential mission. Is that okay?"

Everyone shook their heads hurriedly.

Only Kevin seemed to want to say something else:

"Mei, you..."

But Mei just shook her head slightly and rejected his idea:

"If there is no problem, for the sake of safety, except for Mikael, Alicia, Su and Mebius, everyone else should go back early - remember, nothing happened tonight except the birthday party. "

"Please keep your photo in mind when you leave, so we won't give it away."

Mikael added silently, and then motioned to Velvet with his eyes. He had some guesses in his mind, but he was not sure. He could only remind Velvet to pay more attention to others on the way back.

This birthday party has come to this point, ending in an anticlimax and ending hastily is the best ending.

Everyone filed out with their own thoughts, except Hua who sat motionless, probably because he had not yet recovered from the previous assassination.

After all, the assassin had been her friend for many years, and regardless of the truth behind it, her behavior was undoubtedly a betrayal of their friendship.

And her death must not be easily accepted by Hua...

Mikael felt her left hand tighten, and Hua held his hand, gradually exerting force with thoughts that only she understood.

Unconsciously, her grip was extremely strong. Fortunately, she was holding Mikael's hand in reverse. If it had been someone else, even a fusion warrior, the metacarpal bone might have been broken.

Even Mikael, beads of sweat quickly formed on his forehead - no one could have imagined that Hua, a girl who had always lacked a sense of presence and was never silent, would actually show up without even noticing it. With such a strong physical fitness...

Or is this the result of the original "Divine Sound" experiment? Unconsciously, a person's body develops in the direction suitable for collapse. Every breath will receive this kind of reinforcement, and then accumulate over time...

But only Mikael was still thinking about this kind of thing at this time. Kevin glanced at Hua twice, but Mei waved her hand and said it didn't matter - she could be here if she wanted... ...With her relationship with Carol, she couldn't ignore anyone who was living in a different place.

"Kevin, please calm down. If the others really had any malicious intent, they would have swarmed her as early as...as early as when she took action."

Mei thought for a while, but finally did not pronounce Carol's name. She did not want to cause a second blow to Hua.

"The key now is the cause of this assassination - who tried so hard to kill me?"

Mei raised her index finger and shook it.

"snort!"

Mebius shook his head disdainfully:

"If you ask me, you are too kind to those guys in the coalition government. If it were me, they would have become corpses on the operating table... Well, you can't say that. Some people even lie down for surgery. I don’t even have the qualifications to be in Taiwan, so it should have become part of the serum.”

Mei did not answer immediately, but lowered her head and pondered for a moment, then asked:

"Mebius, do you think it was someone from the coalition government who did it?"

"Otherwise, are there any forces that insist on killing you? Oh... there really is, that Lichtenstein family?"

Mei shook her head again, turned to look at Kevin and Su, and asked:

"What about you? You also think it was done by people from the coalition government?"

Kevin and Su nodded immediately, but then quickly shook their heads. Su shook his head because he thought it was not the case, and Kevin shook his head because he felt that since Mei asked, it must not be the case.

As for Mikael, he put a fist in front of his lips with one hand and did not express any opinions.

Ai Li caressed Hua's back with pity, repeating this meaningless comfort.

"Personally, I don't think this was an organized operation."

Mei pushed up her glasses and analyzed seriously:

"Didn't you notice? She chose what can be said to be the worst possible time - to assassinate in front of almost all the top combat forces of the entire human race. This is very unreasonable!"

Mebius snorted, grabbed his hair, and shouted angrily:

"How could someone's first reaction after being assassinated be to judge whether the timing of the attack was good or not?"

"Well... it's very simple, because I absolutely believe in your position and strength, so the moment I saw the dagger, I felt that she would definitely fail, and naturally I had the time to think about the rationality."

"..."

"Then, let's go back to the previous topic. To carry out an assassination at such an unfavorable time, there has only been one possibility since ancient times - we can't find a better time.

"After all, the timing like just now is indeed more unexpected, but it has no effect. Moreover, it is not that she, or the forces behind her, don't have better opportunities - to assassinate me on my way back alone, to snipe from a distance or to Wouldn't it be better to rush up with a pistol and shoot me twice than to try to assassinate me in front of a group of fusion warriors with a dagger? "

"hiss……"

Not sure if it was because of his oral addiction or because he bit a barb on his hand, Mebius narrowed his eyes and took a breath of cold air, and then he pondered:

"What you mean is that if it is an organized assassination, the best opportunity will be chosen and the best resources will be mobilized. It is precisely because there is no one to assist and resources such as firearms cannot be obtained that Carol takes Dagger... After all, this is the closest opportunity for her to get close to you..."

Although its predecessor was a purely military organization, compared to the God Key, which was used in various weird ways by a few people, the weapons control at the middle and lower levels of Fire Chaser Moth, especially firearms, is very strict. With Carol's authority, it is not possible at all. Possibly walking off base with a handgun.

"No! That's not the case!"

Hua stood up suddenly, and both Michael and Ai Li couldn't stop her even though they held her hand.

Her emotions were out of control, and she yelled at Mebius:

"Carol has joined the Fire Moth since the third Collapse. How could she be involved with people from the coalition government? She is definitely not that kind of person!"

"Hey! Childish!"

Mebius shook his head nonchalantly:

"You have only been with her for a month or two more than me. What kind of person is she? Why do you think you know better than me?"

"I...she and I have both been saved by Mikael several times, so it is impossible for us to do such a thing."

"In the adult world, you will always know people but not their hearts. How can you guarantee that you know all her thoughts? Besides, when it comes to being saved by Mikael, why are those in the coalition government not the same?"

"Well……"

Mei covered her forehead. She had been careful to replace Carol's name with "her" just to avoid irritating Hua, but this taboo was finally broken by Mebius.

In this case, there is no need to be cautious anymore, let her recognize the reality in time.

Mei cleared her throat and said in a deep voice:

"That's okay, Hua."

"Doctor! I..."

"No need to say it anymore, Hua. What happened has happened, and Carol is dead. This is an irreversible fact. In the face of this fact, what Carol thinks is simply insignificant. The important thing is that she did so. Yes, it has caused such consequences.”

Hua bit her lip tightly until the smell of blood spread between her lips and teeth.

Of course she knew that it was pointless to pursue Carol's idea at this point. Even if it turned out that she was not willing to commit the assassination, she would still be dead.

And he was killed because of such behavior.

But...but she just didn't want to accept it.

Carol was the first person who gave her warmth and opened her heart. She was her first real friend, even before Mikael.

She has always been so optimistic and cheerful, she will secretly complain about others, and she will be lazy and avoid training, but she is undoubtedly a kind-hearted person through and through, Hua firmly believes in this.

So she couldn't accept such betrayal, whether it was behavioral or psychological.

Moreover, because she chose to leave without saying goodbye after the third collapse and followed Mikael, she has always felt guilty - if she had talked to her at that time, could she have taken her with her? It must be possible, she has always admired Mikael and Alicia.

In this way, the relationship between the two people will not be so unfamiliar when they meet again after many years.

Although there was more time to rebuild the friendship after that, Carol was stationed in Mu Continent, and the two did not see each other for more than three years.

Now that the Mu Continent branch no longer exists, the two finally have time and the opportunity to rebuild the friendship they had many years ago...

But she died, in the most tragic and intolerable manner in front of Hua.

The severed hand flew into Hua's arms, and blood spread to Hua's feet.

He was even called a traitor.

And Hua felt that he should do something and could do something. She didn't know the true nature of the matter, but she believed that Carol was still the girl with a loud voice who was a little annoying on the surface, but actually faced the world with the kindest attitude.

At least...at least she shouldn't be a traitor!

"snort!"

Mebius pursed her lips. She felt that Hua was crazy - just like the young girl who was defrauded of money in online dating and continued to use various words to deceive herself, thinking that the other party also gave her sincerity...

But...it seems that she saw some familiar stubbornness in Hua's eyes. She finally compromised and gave a fairly self-explanatory explanation:

"Besides, even if Carol's wishes are as reliable as you judge, what about her family? Could it be that her family wants to assassinate Mei, or is it someone who uses her family as a threat, but those people don't have the skills to do so?" The ability to infiltrate the Fire Chaser Moth on a large scale only allowed Carol to act on her own, so she chose the most unlikely time to die. This can be explained. "

Hua opened her mouth. When her anger subsided a little, she didn't know how to object to Mebius' statement.

This statement certainly alleviated Carol's guilt (although this was inconsequential to a dead person, but it was very important in Hua's perception), but she still instinctively felt that something was wrong.

But at this moment, Mikael, who had been silent until now, stood up and spoke:

"There's no way that's possible."

He walked up to Carol's body in a few steps, kicked the eyeball with his toes, and watched it roll all the way to an unknown place.

"Carol knows our abilities. If that were the case, she would only find a way to tell us the difficulties. And..."

"Then what do you think is..."

"Mei, the people who want you dead most are not the people in the coalition government or those families, but..."

Mei closed her eyes, sighed softly, and continued what Mikael said:

"Instead, collapse."

Her eyes flickered twice, and she quickly understood what Mikael meant.

After all, she had read the script. Although the detailed process of the tenth collapse was not written in it, such an attack method...

And if it is really Honkai, the only ones who can control a single human being who are almost the same as ordinary people, apart from the Eighth Herrscher, are the so-called "Thousand Herrschers".

The questions and answers between the two people were like listening to heavenly scriptures in other people's ears. Mikael then turned around and said:

"Hua...Carol is not a betrayer."

He felt that he could understand Hua's mood.

That kind of sadness, anger and unwillingness to witness someone... die in front of you.

There is also helpless regret and self-blame.

and the anger of being unwilling to accept reality.

He has experienced it all firsthand.

As for the so-called betrayer, he also experienced the same thing, but not here, but in a place called Eternal Paradise, where he witnessed the grand end of a person who was also named a "betrayer".

He leaned down and put his hand into the chest of Carol's body, but it was not hindered, just like reaching into a pool of water.

He quickly pinched out a gem-like object——

"Obviously, she did not carry out the assassination mission voluntarily or out of coercion. Hua, Carol was dead long before this. As for the one who died in front of you just now, it was the Tenth Herrscher."

"boom--"

Hua felt that his brain was overloaded in just a few breaths, and finally couldn't maintain its operation and exploded.

It turns out that everything was just her own fault.

Two completely opposite emotions, more sadness and relief, spread at the same time——

Because she didn't even see Carol's last face, she naturally became even more sad.

And she was relieved because she had indeed seen Carol right, and she had never been a betrayer.

But...what's the point of all this?

Carol...she is dead!

When all the disputes came to an end, Hua Cai gradually noticed the truth that she had always known and been reminded of.

The first person who gave her warmth died, the first person who opened her closed heart died, and her first friend died.

"Ho...ho...ho..."

Her breathing suddenly became rapid and heavy, and she could even see white steam visible to the naked eye. She squatted down, as if she wanted to touch the blood that was still flowing and still warm, but her body trembled rapidly as the movements continued. Getting up - shaking, twitching, tense, then unable to breathe.

She stared closely at her feet, feeling herself getting closer and closer to the red, until she fell into it, like stepping into a swamp, and couldn't extricate herself for a while.

Then, lingering bugs began to appear in the sight, and densely packed colorful dots began to fill the field...

"Hua Hua!"

In a daze, she seemed to hear many people shouting her name.

But she had already fallen into darkness first.

…………

"Maybe...at this time, it would be better to let her faint."

Mikael held Hua's shoulders, and it was she who just used her power of consciousness to directly put the latter into sleep.

In the painful state of waking and the paralyzing sleep, Mikael temporarily made a choice for her.

Ellie looked on worriedly. Mikael simply left Hua in her care. He walked back to the table, picked up a ball of salad with his hands and stuffed it into his mouth to chew, while organizing his words. , because he had some other discoveries.

But before he could speak, the alarm suddenly sounded.

"Woo——"

A short, loud sound.

"Is this...a level three emergency?"

Everyone raised their eyebrows together, but didn't pay much attention to it.

"Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!"

The siren rang five times quickly, and everyone's expressions changed.

That does not mean that the situation level has deepened, but a classification - "emergency situation has nothing to do with collapse"!