The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"What happened?"

Mei ignored Kevin's panic look. In other words, she had already accurately predicted what might happen next. Although the result might be difficult to accept, at least she was mentally prepared.

On the contrary, Kevin, who originally rushed in and wanted to say something, probably lost all the organized words in his mind while running just now. He pursed his lips again and again, and did not speak for a long time.

"Walk."

Mei didn't say anything more, but immediately took steps. Kevin quickly took two steps back. When Mei passed by him, he and Ellie followed closely behind Mei.

May's office was located next to the Situation Room, and it didn't even take a minute to get there.

Seeing Mei's arrival, Erwin, Cang Xuan, Danzhu and Blanca all stood up. They all gasped, and finally Erwin spoke:

"Doctor, you'd better take a look at this."

Erwin tremblingly handed over a tablet from the table, and Mei quickly stepped forward to take it. The tablet was obviously very thin, but it seemed to be of great weight in Erwin's hand. It could fall off at any time.

There was a paused video on the screen. Probably because he was afraid of disturbing other people's work, the volume had been turned to mute.

Mei raised her eyebrows. The picture when the video was still was very familiar to her. If she took a closer look, wasn't it the scene of the riot in Third New Paradise City not long ago?

She thought for a while, pulled the progress bar back to the beginning, and then clicked the triangular play button. Of course, in the process, she also saw the title of this video——

"The Fire Chaser Suppresses the Third New Paradise City Uprising?" 》

The video is not long, and is mainly composed of several clips. The first clip is from surveillance outside the tower and the factory, briefly recording the process of mass demonstrations and gatherings, and then the screen suddenly goes black with a subtitle:

Why do they do this?

Making a pun, Mei tapped the edge of the tablet with her fingers, and roughly guessed the direction of the plot. They were not referring to the masses, but maybe they were also alluding to other people.

Immediately afterwards, the screen turned back to the surveillance camera at the gate on the first floor of the tower. What was playing was the scene where Stanfa questioned Michael and Michael was speechless. In the lower right corner of the screen, the author of the video also posted: He heartily matched the unfavorable information about the Third New Paradise City Hall that was previously posted on the factory TV.

The screen went black again, and the subtitles attached this time were the same as before, but there was an exclamation mark before the question mark:

Why do they do this! ?

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Although mute was turned on, Mei, as a witness at the time, naturally dubbed the next scene in her mind.

It was a series of rapid and panicked gunshots, accompanied by violent camera shake. It was the recorder worn by the military and police at the time. They nervously pulled the trigger, fired an entire magazine in one go, and pointed at The bodies of two men in black who fell to the ground were shot.

Then the scene changed again, switching to the recorder worn by the military policeman holding a flail. From a first-person perspective, he watched him continuously swing his weapon, beating the crowd who came up to them, leaving blood and flesh flying everywhere, and even the flesh and blood were stained. The remaining flail tip was thrown away due to too much force. The scene was very bloody for a time, and the screen went black at this time.

finished? of course not!

The annoying white subtitles lit up again, this time reading:

Do they even treat us as enemies?

Mei's index finger, which had been gently clasping the edge of the tablet, suddenly clicked on the screen and paused the video.

She looked at the snow-white font for about ten seconds before clicking the play button again.

As expected, the next video played was the scene of Mikael using the power of death and the power of stigmata to forcefully separate the rioting crowd from the military and police with green vines.

But the editor was obviously thinking. It did not show the whole process. Instead, it switched to the next scene after the vines broke out and separated everyone——

Both the rioting crowd and the military police have retreated, and the dust in the air was dyed blood red by the dusk light, just like the ground.

Green vines stretched as far as the eye could see, many of them retaining the posture of imprisoning the human body. The ground was covered with blood. From the perspective of the person holding the mobile phone, the blood even covered the ankles.

This is obviously a video of cleaning up the scene after the chaos. The red "blood" on the ground is not actually pure blood, but the result of the military and police washing it with water.

But most people naturally can't tell the difference between blood and bloody water. Such a scene can only remind them of the idiom "blood flows and drifts".

The editor's intention in splicing the before and after videos is self-evident.

Although it said nothing, it used this editing technique to blame the large number of casualties in the riot on Mikael, even though the fact was that Mikael did not kill anyone. On the contrary, it was he who promptly Green vines were used to separate the crowd and restrain the activists, thus preventing further casualties...

But who cares about this video?

Next, as expected, there are several photos of Mikael standing high in the sky, opening space rifts. The photos themselves are very blurry, and the editor also blurred them, making it difficult to notice the blue-gray sky behind the space rifts. Even if you notice the white trail, the trail looks the same as ordinary white clouds at lower pixels.

And if you ignore those white tracks, although there are no subtitles, the feeling this photo wants to give people is——

The man in the sky wants to destroy the people on the ground.

After that, there were a few more photos, but they had nothing to do with Mikael. They were photos taken by others about the white tracks left by the missiles.

But is the editor contradicting himself?

Obviously not. It deliberately placed the result of this incident, that is, the result of Mikael opening a space rift over the city, in the front, and then placed the cause of this incident, the missile attack, in the back. Obviously the purpose is to split this complete thing into two parts.

Sure enough, the subtitles below are:

"The Fire Chaser fired a large number of ballistic missiles towards the Third New Paradise City. This is a photo taken by an eyewitness."

"According to internal information, the fuses of these missiles were forcibly turned off by a warrior inside the Fire Chaser. I wish him well, he is a hero."

"..."

The video ended here. Mei took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

Sure enough, she thought.

Being in a different place, if she were the Twelfth Herrscher, she would not resort to storming the headquarters.

Theoretically speaking, with the characteristics of the Twelfth Herrscher, humans can barely defend against its attacks again and again, but they can't do anything powerful to fight back. However, it can hide behind the scenes and only needs to succeed once. Do what the previous ten Herrschers could not do.

But this is not the optimal solution, and humans are not completely powerless to fight back.

In the past two hundred thousand years, humans have conquered fire, rivers, land, and thunder and lightning. If given enough time, it may not be unimaginable for humans to conquer the world of data.

Moreover, humans already have "Prometheus". The last time the Herrscher came fiercely, it seemed that Prometheus was defeated by the Herrscher, but she was caught off guard and still stopped the Herrscher's further invasion. , and turned off nearly half of the missile fuses, which may not be a success.

Prometheus is not a closed model. She is more powerful every day than the day before. After gaining preparation and experience, there is a question mark whether the Herrscher can successfully gain access to the headquarters again.

In such a situation, the war between Herrschers and humans will become a long-term tug of war.

Tug-of-war may seem unfavorable to humans, but it may not be a way to recuperate. The Herrscher's power is mainly concentrated in the data world. In reality, it is not as destructive as the previous ten.

Furthermore, it’s not that humans don’t have ways to deal with it——

Mei herself said before that if you want to completely kill the Herrscher, you must kill all its carriers, and this is impossible with the number of smart devices currently owned by humans.

But this sentence is actually biased. If civilization really reaches the point where it cannot defeat the Herrscher without this method, confiscating and destroying all smart devices, terminals, and servers may not be an option.

Even if there are still fish that slip through the net, Herrscher will not be able to expand its influence when most people in the world no longer own smart devices.

Therefore, if Mei were the Twelfth Herrscher, she felt that she would definitely focus outside the Fire Chaser headquarters.

That is to say, to draw fuel from the bottom of the cauldron and destroy the trust relationship between the fire-chasing moth and humans.

When humans can no longer trust the fire-chasing moths, the reason for the fire-chasing moths to fight will no longer exist.

Humanity will no longer be able to resist the ensuing end.

Thinking of this, Mei calmed down and asked:

"Has the intelligence team counterattacked with public opinion?"

"us……"

Erwin's face turned red and his words suddenly got stuck in his throat. It’s not that he doesn’t know the importance of the situation. The situation has become obvious by now. At least as the head of the Fire Chasing Moth Intelligence Department, he knows very well——

Unlike in the past, they only had to make soy sauce, this time, they will replace the fusion warriors and become the main force against Honkai.

In the past, ordinary people like them always complained about their powerlessness in front of Honkai and the Herrscher. Although they said it was so delicious, they might not be envious of those who could become fusion warriors.

But now, when civilization needs them most, they can do nothing.

"well……"

Blanca sighed and stood up to explain the situation for Erwin:

"Except for Fire Chaser's internal servers, the external Internet is almost completely out of control. We tried to compile the complete surveillance of the scene to refute, but those surveillance records have been deleted.

“Text responses made in the media are inherently weak, or cannot be posted at all, or are deleted the moment they are posted. Even if one is posted accidentally, it will be blocked by the algorithm, and few people will be able to see it.

"Doctor, is it possible to use the computing power of Prometheus to compete with the Herrscher? This is really not an option."

"no."

May flatly rejected Blanca's request.

Indeed, with the computing power of Prometheus, if it works with all its strength, it may not be impossible to preserve the voice of Fire Chaser Moth on the Internet.

But the risks are too great.

"All the computing power of Prometheus needs to be used to protect the headquarters base. If part of it is allocated to fight back, on the one hand it will increase the possibility of virus infection, and on the other hand it will also weaken the defense power of the headquarters. Doing so will only The gain will outweigh the loss.”

"But if we don't do that, we really...with all due respect, Dr. May, we don't know how to fight back online anymore."

"But if you do this, the headquarters will eventually be lost and the entire world will be destroyed. Don't forget that all nuclear weapons launch keys and fuze unlocking keys are currently kept by Prometheus."

Although putting all eggs in the same basket is extremely dangerous, there is no way around it. In a sense, the data world controlled by Prometheus may be the safest in the world for some time to come. Where, if these keys are distributed...

Well……

The firewall Herrscher at the headquarters can feel like he is in no one's land, and the branch...

But if you say this directly, it would be a bit demoralizing. Just as Mei was about to speak, she suddenly thought of something and waved. Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu sat down on their own initiative. Erwin, Blanca, plus Ai Li and Kevin, the four of them followed May silently into the cubicle behind the situation room.

All smart devices had been removed from the compartment. Only when Mei arrived here did she dare to lower her voice and say:

"There is no other way now. Velvet has begun to rebuild the servers on the 16th and 0th. As long as their reconstructed computing power can reach the level of the 17th, we will have room for counterattack. Now... only Can wait.”

"How long do I need to wait?"

Blanca wasn't polite either. After all, the situation was urgent and she didn't care about superiority or inferiority.

"It will take at least a month. The server on the 16th is in the North Pole, and the server on the 0th is in Europe. The migration work must be completed first, and then the virus scanning and killing of their servers on the 17th can be started. Basic work.”

"Then, if I'm to be blunt, one month later..."

"I know……"

In front of people close to her, Mei could also take off her mask a little. She took off her glasses, smoothed her hair tiredly, and said helplessly:

"I know all this, but...is there any other choice?"

"Well……"

Blanca suddenly choked.

Everyone will ask questions, but if the problem cannot be solved, then there is no point in asking the question.

At least at this moment, it makes no sense.

There was nothing but silence in the cubicle.

After about a few minutes, Mei put on her glasses, stood up again, and her expression became serious again.

"If there is no new situation, I will go back. There are still a lot of municipal officials to deal with in the American Division."

Except for Michael, who voluntarily walked into the crowd to die, all the city officials of the American branch ran away after the incident. It is not known whether they had received any news in advance, and no one responded. After arriving in their own territory, they disappeared uniformly.

Thinking back to Stanfa who appeared inexplicably, and the bodies of Levi and the driver found in the secret room of the city hall, I always felt that these people were inseparable from the Twelfth Herrscher.

Of course, even if they have nothing to do with the Twelfth Herrscher, these people cannot escape death penalty. Sakura has already led a team of fusion warriors to the American branch to find the location of those people. Once discovered, they will be killed without mercy.

But just as Mei reached the door, Danzhu rushed to open the door from the outside.

The two almost collided. Before Mei could ask a question, Danzhu spoke first again:

"Doctor, the TV station invites you and Mr. Vasak to participate in tonight's program..."

"Well?"

Rumors about the Fire Moth are flying all over the sky. The TV station will naturally not miss such good traffic, so it is reasonable to invite them to the show.

"I can not go."

Of course, Mei doesn't have time to participate in this kind of show, but thanks to the Twelfth Law, the whole world now knows that Vasak is just a puppet, and the real person in charge of the Fire Chasing Moth is Mei. If he continues to If Vassago appears on TV alone, there is a high probability that no one will buy it.

However, can this program really be released? The entire external data world is almost under the control of the Herrscher. If the direction of the program is unfavorable to the Fire Chasing Moth, the Herrscher is naturally willing to release it for everyone to see.

If the direction of the program is beneficial to the Fire Chaser, it will probably be cut off by the Herrscher and it will be impossible to release it.

But this is more or less an opportunity. It is the only weak counterattack that the fire-chasing moth can make under all the desperation. Of course, it is still necessary to go.

However, since Mei can't go, in addition to Vasak, it's best to have a powerful figure in the Fire Chaser, and it's best to have basic self-protection capabilities, otherwise wouldn't it be for nothing?

"Let Dr. Mebius accompany Vasak."