The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Don't worry, I don't dare to say anything else, but the sound insulation effect of the things I designed must be great."

Having said that, Velvet still took out a radio without thinking. In terms of practicality, this thing is probably not as good as a portable stereo or computer, and in terms of retro, it is not as gorgeous as the ones commonly used in Eden. , phonographs and vinyl records made of exquisite materials.

But Velvet likes to do it, that's it, no other reason.

She took out a cassette tape and put it into the radio, then gently pressed the button on the top.

"Crack-"

The voice was crisp and clear, and Mei couldn't help but recall something... emotionally distant.

When she was a child, her father was busy with various scientific research tasks, so there were not many opportunities to come home on time to accompany her.

Therefore, when he takes a look at the schedule for the day and realizes that he might not be able to go home in time, he will leave a tape and hide it, leaving interlocking clues all over the house.

At that time, Mei, who could not reach the table even though she stood on tiptoe, had to find all the clues before the end of the day in order to get the tape left by her father and fall asleep listening to his voice.

It's a pity... along with the sound of tape pulling, there is only the noise that is extremely common in spiral workshops.

Mei shook her head, walked out of the laboratory, and passed through two more security doors before arriving at the fusion warrior's lounge.

There were only three figures in the huge lounge, and Mei's arrival didn't seem to cause much splash.

Yiwen Jielin and Hua reacted one after another, stood up, and were ready to accept the order - they also heard the alarm, and even if their ears could not hear it, they should still be able to see the blood-like light shining tirelessly above their heads.

However, Kevin...only Kevin didn't react at all.

Mei didn't seem to care much about his state. She didn't care about Hua and Yiwen Jielin, she just stood in front of Kevin step by step.

Kevin lowered his head and hugged Tianhuo tightly with his arms. If he hadn't closed his eyes, he could probably see Mei's toes.

Yet he still made no move.

"Two minutes ago, the flight formation escorted by Aldemir was attacked by a large number of Tenth Herrscher individuals. Now it has completely lost contact and formed an attack formation, heading in our direction."

"..."

"With the power of wind, this flying formation only needs twenty minutes to bring the P-21 into the attack range, so we need someone to build a peripheral defense line."

"I see."

Kevin's voice was as light as a dream, but it was undeniable that it was indeed a standard statement that could no longer be accurate.

The biting cold and the overwhelming heat filled the closed lounge at the same time. Mei felt fine beads of sweat forming on her back, but they froze in the blink of an eye.

The Skyfire Great Sword was also covered with thick frost. Under the influence of Honkai energy, the color of the ice gradually deepened from blue to almost black.

But inside it, the originally dim blade of the Heavenly Fire Sword gradually lit up until it burst into flames.

"I understand, I'll go."

Kevin stood up without saying any more goodbyes to May.

"The combat airship is in room A-300."

Mei looked at his back and reminded him calmly.

"I know."

Kevin kept repeating this sentence until his back disappeared from Mei's sight.

"snort……"

Mei blinked and said nothing more.

She turned her head, and Yiwen Jielin leaned against the wall with her mouth half-opened, expressionless, without making a sound.

And Hua stood a little helplessly between Mei and Evan Jielin. For some reason, she felt that since that birthday, Mikael, Kevin and Mei's attitudes towards Evan Jielin were a little subtle.

A... subtlety that doesn't quite capture the common ground -

Mikael seems to have become more enthusiastic about Evanjielin, and a lot of information between confidential and unconfidential will flow into Evanjielin's ears through his mouth.

Mei and Kevin's attitudes are completely opposite. In fact, if you think about it carefully, their attitudes seem to be like this originally, but... Hua's intuition still makes her feel a little weird.

Mei's footsteps were quiet, and she didn't know when she stood next to Hua. The two figures were intertwined. Mei looked at Yiwen Jielin and spoke slowly:

"Although it's too early to say this now, I still hope you can...be mentally prepared."

Yiwen Jielin's throat kept making soft sounds of "ho ho". Mei did not stay too long. As usual, she hurriedly left after explaining the cruelest reality in the coldest words.

This method is of course simple and crude, but she seems to have the same attitude towards Kevin just now, so there is nothing to blame.

Moreover, this also corresponds to what Hua has learned now - there are still more than sixty hours in which Mei and Weiwei need to complete the research and development of the Blank Key.

Time was tight in the first place, but now it seems that the Tenth Herrscher somehow knows the location of P-21, and the difficulty level suddenly soars, so Mei must save every second, even if this approach is difficult for everyone. It's a kind of harm...

But I don’t know if it was out of the same intuition, but Mr. Hua felt that something was still wrong.

Hua's thoughts ended here, and Mei's figure was no longer there.

The sobs in my ears were extremely suppressed and slight at first, but soon they erupted like a flood.

She turned around awkwardly and looked at Yiwen Jielin who was burying her head in tears, not knowing how to comfort her.

Just because you have experienced similar pain does not make you qualified to comfort others.

Because the pain borne by two different people is never exactly the same. In this case, the so-called "how did I do it when I first encountered this matter" is actually just a kind of self-righteous arrogance.

"Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock..."

Hua glanced at the clock on the wall. There were still forty-seven minutes until the Second Divine Key was fully charged.

She calmly found a seat and sat down again, clenching her fists and getting ready to fight.

Yiwen Jielin's crying seemed to never stop, which made it difficult for Hua to feel irritated.

But she also knew that this kind of irritation was wrong, and she had no right to deprive another person of the right to be sad.

In this case, she could only change her mind, close her eyes, and try to recall every punch she had made before, as if this could give her a moment of peace.

In fact, she did this every time she felt emotional problems in the past.

The effect is naturally obvious...

But only this time, amidst Yiwen Jielin's cries, her mind could not calm down, so much so that she even felt top-heavy and dizzy. But before she could open her eyes, a familiar yet unfamiliar call came. There was a sound in her ears:

"Girl? Girl?"

"..."

"Hey! This girl is so stupid, why don't you say anything?"

Hua snorted and took a deep breath quickly, feeling that his whole neck and chest began to tremble.

At this moment, she thought of countless possibilities, which all boiled down to one sentence——

"Could it be that...what I experienced all these years ago was just a dream?"

As long as she opens her eyes, as long as she opens her eyes, she will find that her experiences over the years, from her father's injury to going to Canghai City to study alone to the collapse, are all just a dream, right?

She knew this was impossible, but she felt like she was going crazy and couldn't stop thinking about it.

Fortunately...

"magnificent……"

There was another familiar and not unfamiliar voice, as if whispering in her ear, making her wake up instantly.

She opened her eyes and saw a hazy figure walking in front of her.

Hua narrowed her eyes and squeezed out the tears that blurred her eyes. As expected, the person standing in front of her was Yiwen Jielin.

"I...I'm sorry, I...I need to go to the bathroom..."

Yiwen Jielin covered her face and left the lounge as if she was running away after leaving these words.

Hua looked at the empty lounge and suddenly began to gasp again——

You can’t go wrong! You can’t go wrong!

The father's voice just now was an illusion, but it was not an illusion!

Just now, Yiwen Jielin used the ability of a fusion warrior with mental perception on her, and even stood in front of her... What exactly did she want to do?

A cold feeling spread on her back, and then all the strength in her body quickly disappeared... Could it be that she was...

But regardless of these considerations, Hua quickly found a point where logic was inconsistent -

If Yi Wenjie Lin is indeed one of the individuals of the Tenth Herrscher, and stands in front of her with that purpose...

What about Mikael's voice that suddenly woke her up at the end?

Where did that come from?

"Mikael?"

She shouted tentatively, then turned around and looked around, but there was no one else in the lounge except her. As for what happened to Evan Jielin, Hua wanted to verify it. She wanted to stand up, whether it was to go directly to the bathroom to find Evan Jielin, or to inform Mei and Weiwei in the laboratory... But for some reason, His legs softened and he slipped again.

She wanted to turn around to check the time, but the clock hung above her head.

"Damn it...at this time!"

She punched her thighs twice, but it was not that simple to let go of the physical fear.

The only good thing is that Mei should have expected this, and since the bathroom and laboratory are on both sides of the lounge, it is impossible for her to directly hurt Dr. Mei.

Of course, facing Velvet... she shouldn't have a chance of winning.

So what would she do, what would she want to do?

Time passed by, and after she felt her body regaining some strength, she stood up holding on to the wall, and immediately looked at the clock on the wall.

There are still thirty-one minutes left before the Second Divine Key is fully charged.

Yiwen Jielin has been gone for fifteen minutes.

It was only then that she discovered that there was a surveillance camera in the lounge, and her worries about the possibility that Dr. Mei had no knowledge of it disappeared.

But they didn't make any reaction, so what happened?

Hua became nervous again and continued to hold on to the wall, preparing to enter the laboratory to find out.

But she had just moved two steps when the alarm above her head sounded again. As she felt excited all over, doubts could not help but arise in her heart——

If I remember correctly, this should be a fire alarm, right?

Is she going to... set a fire?

But then, the alarm light in the lounge turned red. At the same time, the fire alarm on the ceiling automatically turned on, and the mist-like water vapor instantly chilled Hua.

"this……"

Is this the destruction that the Tenth Herrscher wants to cause?

That's not to say it's completely useless, but... isn't it a bit childish?

Because she was in a weak state of physical discomfort, she did not notice the abnormality at the first time...

Until...she found that the sprayed water seemed to have a fishy smell...

"This is--"

Before she could say that noun, the door that Yiwen Jielin ran out of suddenly opened.

Hua turned around and met countless pairs of blood-red eyes.

No matter how weak her body was, she still instinctively showed off her boxing skills.

However, the individuals of the Tenth Herrscher were not in a hurry to step into the lounge, after all, there was still "serum rain" falling there.

The scene fell into a strange stalemate for a while. Hua's mind was empty, there was no sound, she just looked coldly at Yiwen Jielin, who was standing at the front of all the individuals, and like her teammates, looked a little embarrassed—— If what was expected was true, then the wounds on their bodies should be the price of opening Velvet's "back door".

The rain of serum above the head gradually became smaller, and the noisy "clattering" sound was changing to a "tick-tock-tick" sound.

Hua swallowed, wondering why Dr. Mei hadn't made the final move yet since he was prepared.

"Gulu...Gulu..."

She swallowed twice more.

…………

"This is it! This is the serum!"

Velvet leaned back on the chair, feeling weak.

On the contrary, Mei, who was sitting opposite her, looked no different from usual except that her whole body was wet.

"I see."

Mei smiled bitterly.

She was still thinking, if she puts herself in his shoes and assumes that she is the Tenth Herrscher, no, to be precise, "Him", what method will He use to force her to wear the Blank Key?

The simplest and most direct method that popped into her mind was serum.

But it's still a bit alarming that the Tenth Herrscher can collect such a large amount.

Unlike soul steel, soul steel is something that is difficult to create even if you know the technical principles. The principle of serum is very simple. As long as you know the principle, you can easily make a sample.

Although the efficacy may be a little worse and the cost may be a little higher, it is useful.

The premise is that so many corpses that died of Honkai Disease can be collected... But in this era, the money on these corpses is really worthless.

Therefore, it does not seem unimaginable that the Tenth Herrscher raided the warehouses of some big families and obtained so much serum.

It's just too extravagant...

and……

"Does it really have the power of the Second Herrscher? Otherwise, it would be impossible to mix the serum in so covertly."

"It seems...it's my turn to appear..."

Mei stood up, gently took off her glasses in front of Velvet, then took off her clothes one by one, and finally walked to the Blank Key.

"Although it's a bit rude to say this, this dress is not easy to wear alone. Velvet, can you help me?"

She stretched out her hand and gestured left and right at the blank key, feeling somewhat regretful about designing it like this.

But Velvet didn't respond for a long time, which gave Mei an ominous premonition.

She turned around quickly. Fortunately, Velvet was just dozing weakly on the chair. When she noticed her turning her head, she suddenly smiled.

"Oh, Mei, haven't you noticed it yet?"

"What did you find?"

The strange feeling in Mei's heart arose again, but that feeling was no longer "unknown", but a... dramatic feeling of being tricked.

She reached out to touch the blank key hanging in front of her, but Velvet's weak laughter came from behind her:

"Hahahaha... How can the Blank Key be hung on a clothes hanger... Hahahaha!"

Mei's brows furrowed quickly, but she smoothed them over quickly.

She didn't believe that Velvet would be tricking her mind in this kind of thing. The greater possibility... no, the only possibility was...

All of this stems from Mikael's plan.

And how did the person who replaced her wear the Blank Key secretly come to P-21? Needless to say, it took Mei two hours to return to the headquarters base from the restraint barrier, which was exactly the time it took for the Second God Key to be charged once.

She stroked the imitation of the Blank Key and asked curiously:

"So, who did Mikael arrange for? He is so confident, can that person withstand this fate?"

"Tsk, in his own words, he is a [person whose destiny has been changed long ago]. Tsk, tsk, to be honest, I didn't expect it to be her..."

Velvet tilted her head and winked at Mei.

But honestly, in this situation, May didn't notice it at all.

She pulled the clothes hanger and pushed open the small door behind the clothes hanger. She saw a small laboratory inside, with a petri dish in the middle and a wrinkled old-fashioned combat uniform thrown on the ground.

…………

"Tick tock...tick tock...tick..."

The last drop of water fell, but the ripples of the water did not stop.

"Should we start? I..."

Without waiting for any reinforcements from Dr. Mei, Hua clenched her fists. She was very scared, indeed very scared, but after thinking about it, she seemed not to be so scared anymore.

I want to live because I want something I care about but can't get it. It's more or less an obsession. I'm not afraid because, since I know I can't get it, why bother too much?

But whether she was afraid or not, there seemed to be no other way besides fighting the Herrscher in front of her...until she heard a familiar voice coming from behind her:

"Yo! Did Mikael arrange you here?"

Before she could turn around and say anything, the man grabbed her by the back collar and threw her back.

"Sorry, I was a little rough this time."

There was obviously still a body on the ground that suppressed Honkai energy, but the purple Honkai energy in front of him was wrapped around the back like a ribbon.

Zaihua fell into the safety door, and the last thing he saw at the crack of the door that was about to close was——

Those flying ribbons were ignited like lines of fire, and then, the entire blank key burned into the same red as the woman.

Immediately afterwards, tongues of flame danced at the end of the pitch-black cloak, as if to announce the return of the torch-like woman.

team leader!