The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Hmm? It's over?"

Su breathed a sigh of relief when he sensed that Mikael had walked out of the ward.

"Hmm, it went much more smoothly than expected."

As Mikael answered, he raised his hands and rubbed his temples vigorously.

"No collapse, no loss of control, just a little confusion. Just a little guidance will be fine."

After listening to Mikael's words, Su shook his head.

"It's not that simple. If the person who went in was not you... After all, Hua is now also a monitoring target of the Fire Chaser Moth."

"Hmm?"

Mikael raised his eyebrows.

The monitoring target does not mean that it is judged as an enemy, but that there is a possibility of loss of control and must be vigilant.

For example, Mikael himself is the highest-level monitoring target of the Fire Chaser Moth.

In any case, this kind of vigilance means a kind of distrust. Mikael himself is fine. He is a Herrscher himself, and the seventh collapse is not far away. Even if the core members of the entire organization have never reduced their trust in him, after all, it cannot be used to demand the hundreds of thousands of people in the entire organization. Mei also has to be responsible for more people.

But what about Hua?

"Su, you might as well explain it clearly. I just told her: You just saved the world. Is the world going to question her now?"

"No, no, no, Mikael, you may have some misunderstandings."

Su also rubbed his eyebrows like Mikael, and then explained:

"From my own perspective, I certainly don't want to have any doubts about Hua. But she does have the possibility of causing great damage."

"Which fusion warrior has no possibility of causing great damage?"

Su shook his head again, signaling the man in front of him to calm down, although the other party's tone was not yet angry, but it made the temperature much colder.

"So, Kevin and I, as well as Velvet, Mobius, Kosmo, etc., are all special monitoring targets of the Fire Moth, and the defense level is only lower than you."

"In other words, the attack on P-21 Island allowed Hua to successfully advance and reach this power threshold, right?"

After all, before this, although Hua was also one of the earliest fusion warriors, he never had any outstanding achievements and never showed his strength.

As for the attack she made with the God Key, only two people in the Fire Chaser can take it at present - Mikael is one, Alicia and Kevin are half each.

This is indeed a soaring growth, and it is understandable that people are cautious.

Su shook his head and denied it:

"Not only that, Hua... Mikael, you should not have seen the report about Hua's collapse and loss of control, right?"

Mikael frowned and did not answer.

After Hua used the first rated power of the eighth God Key to kill the Tenth Herrscher Collective, he did fall into a short period of out of control, but before any result was caused, it was forcibly interrupted by Mikael's consciousness left in the God Key.

It is not surprising that the eighth God Key recorded this section.

"But... since she is going to fall into the state of [artificial collapse], it is normal for her to lose control due to the breakdown of her sanity, right?"

"Mikael, don't deceive yourself. The purpose of performing a second operation on a fusion warrior is to keep her sanity in the state of [artificial collapse]. In other words, it is abnormal for Hua to lose control so easily."

"...Shenyin?"

"Yes, because of Shenyin."

Su was somewhat insensitive to Mikael's sharpness, but since he could guess, Su felt that there was no need to spend the effort to explain. He just added something that might be called a conclusion:

"She may never fall into [artificial collapse] again in the future."

"Maybe it's a blessing in disguise."

Speaking of this topic, Su closed his eyes again and murmured:

"It should be said that one never knows what good and bad things are..."

For those who have experienced the extreme pain from consciousness to body of [artificial collapse], never falling into [artificial collapse] again may be something to be envied.

But in certain circumstances, being unable to fall into artificial collapse means that when you need it most, you lack the power to change everything, and in the end you can only return to the starting point of "I can't do anything".

So, good and bad are interdependent, and who can tell whether it is a blessing or a curse.

Mikael shook his head and took the initiative to change the subject:

"What about the captain? How is she now?"

He vaguely heard that Himiko's condition was not good, but Su did not say how bad it was.

But it was definitely not the case that he had to give up treatment, so Mikael came to see Hua first.

"How to say this..."

Su spread his hands rarely:

"In five days, we have used six serums on Captain Himiko."

"Six!"

Mikael was shocked himself.

"Why so many?"

Due to cost reasons, no one had ever enjoyed such treatment before. After all, six serums meant six thousand suffering Honkai patients.

Moreover, according to experience, one serum is enough to clear all the Honkai energy in a person's body. What does it mean to take six serums in just five days? It means that in such a short period of time, he has fallen into the late stage of Honkai disease six times in a row...

"What is going on?"

"..."

Su pondered for a long time, not knowing whether he really put a lot of effort into choosing his words carefully, or whether he just didn't know how to express them.

Mikael considers himself a relatively patient person, but patience is never a set value that is constant. It will fluctuate depending on the mood, time and the person it corresponds to, such as now. , the silence only lasted for half a minute, and Mikael already had an irresistible impulse.

"Mikael, the principle of the serum... is to extract the very small amount of antibodies remaining in the corpses of each Honkai Impaction patient to break down the remaining Honkai Impact energy radiation in the body. You should understand this very well."

"Similar to a vaccine."

"Well, it's similar to a (vaccine) vaccine."

Since the principles are exactly the same, the final results are also the same. Although Honkai energy radiation will not cause any upgrading and evolution of antibodies like viruses, the human body will develop corresponding adaptations, so the effect of the serum will actually decrease at a geometric level.

"Has Captain's body reached this point?"

"Well, the connection to the Seventh Herrscher's core, even though it was only half of the core, still caused irreversible damage to her body. Her internal organs have been burned and scorched. Of course, the most troublesome thing is that it cannot be removed no matter what. Honkai energy radiation, ordinary medical staff are not allowed to come near her ward now."

"And the therapeutic effect brought by the serum has reached its limit. After all, she has used the serum twice before, and once during the battle. There are already nine tubes... The effect of the serum is better than nothing, right?"

Su opened her mouth, but in the blink of an eye she quickly woke up and swallowed back the words she was about to blurt out——

"The serum stocks are bottoming out."

He couldn't control it for a moment and almost asked the question.

It is understandable that starting from Vostok, this is at least the twelfth year that humans have been fighting Honkai Impact, and there are still less than two billion people alive today, so there is a certain amount of Honkai energy radiation itself. The adaptability is not as easy to be infected as before.

Correspondingly, the number of corpses of Honkai Disease patients has also dropped sharply, and even with such pitiful corpses, Fire Chaser cannot fully accept them - after all, the principle of serum is not very complicated, and privately manufactured serums have been repeatedly banned, and these The "Local Snake" is much faster than the Fire Chaser in collecting corpses.

In fact, Su could guess without investigating that most of the patient corpses under official control were sold by local bureaucrats to local private serum manufacturers at high prices.

If the quantity of serum is enough, then Himihu's problem will not be a problem. If one tube a day is not enough, then ten tubes a day. If ten tubes are not enough, then a hundred tubes. If all the remaining two billion people in the world are made into serum, it will be enough. Two million sticks are definitely enough to keep Himihu alive until the end.

But in the end, he did not tell Mikael about this problem. This was the consensus between him, May and Mebius. After all, even if he says it, what can Mikael solve?

The power of the Sixth Herrscher can solve other problems in Himiko besides Honkai Disease, but this is something that humans can do.

And Mikael couldn't cure Honkai Disease no matter what. Even when he walked into Himihu's ward, it was a kind of fuel for her condition. This is what Su had repeatedly described Himihu's condition in an optimistic direction before. reason.

He was afraid that Mikael would phase-travel to Himihu's ward without understanding the situation, and then be exposed to the Honkai energy radiation of the Herrscher...

As for the serum issue, if the place needs to be rectified, that is something that Mikael needs to "avoid suspicion". Moreover, there is no time - if he intervenes directly, it will make humans' originally unrevealed feelings towards the Herrscher and Fusion The warrior's distrust is revealed.

And if you talk about using power to squeeze the serum... that's just an idealized result. The Lawyer of Reason can only permanently reproduce things that he fully understands. It is not difficult to fully understand simple mechanical creations, and it is not difficult to fully understand water and coffee. His own body, because it is his own body, can barely understand it. Yes, but serums that involve a lot of biochemical knowledge are naturally not included in this list.

Mikael guessed something from Su's expression, but he didn't ask any more questions.

Although he didn't know what Su wanted to say specifically, but since he didn't verbalize it in the end, it was something he thought Mikael shouldn't know, or it would be useless if he knew it.

But it doesn't matter, Mikael is not without any guesses about Himihu's situation. In fact, he conducted some trivial experiments on possible situations a few days ago. He is sure of saving Himihu in the worst case scenario. But it requires some cooperation from Mebius.

And Mebius refuses no one who comes.

Therefore, facing Su's concealment, he just shook his head, didn't ask anything, and disappeared instantly.

…………

"team leader?"

Hearing this title, Mikael couldn't help but pause. After all, in his heart, this title only belongs to Himihu, and he happened to have a conversation with Su about Himihu not long ago, so he has not been able to wrap his mind around this title.

It seemed that it took him a long time to realize this change in identity. When he turned around, he saw that it was Yimer who had just returned to his original world.

Mikael looked at the "Poison Chrysalis" logo on the side door frame and couldn't help but joked:

"You should have a day off. Why don't you go find Qianjie? Come to work directly?"

"Don't mention it. I was originally going to find Qianjie, but Erwin stopped me. Dr. Mebius seemed to have done some experiments on Qianjie. His mood has not been very stable these days. I heard that three simulation training grounds had been dismantled, and then Kevin took them to the surface for 'exercise training'."

Mikael nodded. He had heard about this, but he did not stop it, nor did he go to Mebius to ask for an explanation.

As for the battle between Kevin and Qianjie, he will not interfere. For the two at this moment, fighting happily for days and nights until both sides are exhausted may be the most appropriate way to vent their emotions.

He just said without any end:

"Maybe you should actually go find him."

Yimer's answer was to shrug and said helplessly:

"Of course I understand, but with the intensity of their fighting, I can't even get close... Let's not talk about this anymore. Captain, are you here to find Sakura?"

"Um."

"Poison Chrysalis has recently opened again. I heard from other people that Sakura left the base last night because she had field work. But if we contact you urgently, she can come back tomorrow. If it is a very important matter, Dr. Mei and the captain will approve it. Under such circumstances, can we use the power of the Herrscher to bring her back now, right?"

"...After a while, Dr. Mei will have an order to transfer Ying back to the headquarters. It's not a particularly urgent situation. Just ask her to come back tomorrow."

Mikael blinked, his mind was still hesitating before the words came out of his mouth.

In a sense, this is a very dangerous decision - judging from the intervals between recent Honkai outbreaks, there is no "safe period" to speak of now.

Perhaps it was because of his decision that the Twelfth Herrscher was born tonight before Sakura came back. The best situation for humans who had no choice but to do so was to be able to achieve the original Twelfth Time. The degree of collapse.

But... isn't this what Mikael is secretly looking forward to?

Anyway, the twelfth God's Key can also become the cornerstone of the "Palace of the Past", allowing Suzu to become the "Herrscher of Man" at the expense of her original consciousness. This is not only to advance the plan of the Paradise of the Past, but also to reduce the number of people in the past. Casualties caused by twelve collapses.

Two billion to one, Mikael watched the balance in his heart shake. Even if the weights on both sides were two billion to one, his sensibility still could not give an obvious judgment of which one was more important.

Or maybe, when he started thinking like this, his inner tendency was already obvious.

It's like a person wants to help himself make a decision by tossing a coin. Heads is the result he vaguely wants, tails is the result he doesn't want. If heads are thrown, everyone will be happy, but what if it is tails?

He will definitely think like this: "It doesn't count this time, let's throw it again!"

Then he will not be content to accept the decision given by the coin toss until it comes up heads.

Mikael felt that his psychology at this time was no different from this kind of person. The difference was that he did not have a chance to toss the coin a second time.

He has only one chance, and the person who tosses the coin is not him, not even a human being.

Therefore, all he could do was delay the time for making a decision by such an insignificant dozen hours.

If the Twelfth Herrscher was born during this time period, it would be "what a pity."

If the twelfth Herrscher was not born within this period, then he would come and talk to Sakura about Ling.

But it wasn't easy for him, even though it sounded like a passing of the buck.

No matter which decision is made half-heartedly, the guilt to be shouldered will not be reduced by half.

But it doesn't matter anymore. Before that, let's go back and sleep for a dozen hours.

…………

The original dormitory had long been destroyed by the seventh collapse, but Mikael later added a little creative spirit when constructing it.

Although today's dormitories still bear the name of dormitories, it may be more appropriate to call them apartments - after all, there is no shortage of space. They were only built into dormitories to save costs, but the later reconstruction was Mikael's "own expense" , then it doesn’t matter.

The structure and decoration of Mikael's apartment are no different from Kevin and May's. After all, it is a mass-produced product made by himself.

But as soon as he stepped into the door, Mikael noticed something unusual.

It is not a change that requires efforts to perceive through multiple powers. The fragrance in the air, the roaring sound of the range hood and the gas stove, the collision of the pot and the spatula, the sawing of the steam and the pot lid, as long as one is not blind and has a nose, Normal people who are not blocked or deaf can detect abnormalities, right?

"Ah! Are you back so early today?"

Ellie was wearing an apron, holding a spatula, and leaned half out of the kitchen.

Mikael was speechless for a moment, just looking at her blankly.

"Huh? Why are you so stunned?"

Ellie wiped her hands on her white apron, then walked up to Mikael on tiptoe, stretched out two fingers and waved them in front of Mikael's eyes:

"Look! What is this? Three, two, one, answer quickly!"

"three……"

Mikael deliberately reported the wrong number, and received a slight shock on his forehead. The movement was so fast that he didn't even have time to hide. Of course, he wouldn't hide, but at this speed, it was as if the person who did it was here. I could have guessed before that he would deliberately report an error.

"What? I come to your place once in a while and borrow the kitchen. Are you so surprised?"

"It's not surprising..."

"Then what are you thinking about? Are you thinking about...wanting to eat something else?"

Alicia blinked at him and showed a narrow smile.

If it were the former Mikael, he would probably be blushing and at a loss to speak for a long time - Ellie liked to see her like this the most.

But she was going to be disappointed. Like many times before, Mikael just smiled imperceptibly, replacing the tiredness on his face with this indifferent expression, then he folded his arms, leaned gently against the door and said:

"Alicia, I'm confused."

"Huh? What? Louder, you can't hear me!"

"...the food is burnt."