The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

It was not long after the formation of the earth. A planet now called "Theia" collided with the earth. It left many elements necessary for the formation of life on the earth, and its broken remains were outside the earth. The orbits regrouped, forming the silver-gray rock that humans can see today, hanging alone in the sky.

That's the moon.

Long before the birth of human beings, the moon had been hanging lonely in the sky, coldly observing every move on the earth with an indifferent and godless attitude.

He watched as the temperature of the earth gradually dropped, water vapor quietly condensed, and finally fell to the earth in the form of raindrops.

The earth itself may have forgotten time, but the moon records it - the rain fell for 50 million years, until the trickles merged into the ocean.

At this time, we still have to wait another 3.8 billion years before humans appear.

The moon has no meaning to this. It just stubbornly reflects the light captured from the sun, allowing the barren earth to have a negligible light even in the dark night.

Although... there was no life on the ground at that time.

So all He could do was wait in vain.

But...why does He have to wait like this?

Some people say that it is because the moon cannot escape the gravitational pull of the earth, but this is too callous. Moreover, the moon is indeed moving away from the earth in an irresistible manner.

It's just that... it took Him more than four billion years to complete the 380,000-kilometer journey.

The fact is that the moon wants to wait, because it knows that its waiting is meaningful.

He knew that billions of years later, there would be two-legged beasts with enlightened intelligence looking up at Him from the entrance of the cave.

They survive in the dark night through His light, and they create the concept of time through His shadows...

At the same time, He is also looking forward to the life created by the elements He brought to the earth to step onto His body again and reunite with Him billions of years later.

This is the memory of the moon.

…………

"Hua, I'm still looking at the moon."

"Uh! Ah..."

Hua's shoulder was lightly tapped. She quickly turned her head and saw that the person coming was Eden, and she couldn't help but relax.

"Today seems to be your Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, right? Unfortunately, we can no longer go to the surface to admire the moon."

Eden looked at the screen in front of Hua. The night sky captured by the camera left on the surface was playing on the screen.

Hua pursed her lips, not knowing how to answer.

The image transmitted by the camera is a bit strange. It is not blurry, but it always feels unreal.

There are small white dots evenly distributed in the picture, which are noise caused by excessive ionizing radiation bombarding the camera sensor.

"Hua, let me watch here for a while, okay?"

Hua Mo nodded, and Eden found a stool and sat next to her, looking at the dead planet in the sky with her.

"It's been more than three months, will they come back?"

Eden didn't think Hua was asking her a question. Maybe she was just used to talking to herself, or maybe she just wanted to get a false but comforting answer from others.

But anyway, apart from her, there was only Eden here, so not answering... seemed a bit rude.

Although this kind of "politeness" has lost all meaning in the current situation, Eden also has things that she thinks should be followed...

However, it does not include giving others false hope.

"As far as my personal expectations are concerned, I certainly want to believe that they will definitely come back, even if it is not now, it may be thousands of years later, when we wake up from the God Key, they will be waiting for us outside.

"The first words he said when he saw us were - 'Oh! Where did you go to sleep? We had such a hard time waiting!'

"Perhaps he will also wave behind him and bring a group of grey-haired humans: 'Look, Mikael and I have given birth to a lot of children. Come on, children, please call them uncle and aunt!'"

"Pfft!"

Hua shrugged. This was the first time she knew Eden was so good at telling jokes.

"But this is an uncertain future, Hua. All we can be sure of is the past and the present. Hua, let's go, it's time to go to the fifth divine key."

Hua frowned, not very petitioning.

"So, why did Dr. Mei order us all to enter the God Key hibernation? Most of the people who stayed at the headquarters were 'blessed' by Mikael with the Black Abyss White Flower, and gained thousands of years of life. And our fusion warriors The lifespan is close to infinite, so you can definitely do more, right?”

"But that doesn't make sense."

Eden shook his head.

"In addition to the underground city and the golden courtyard where the Paradise of the Past is located, there are also a few strongholds. Most of the places outside are either affected by Honkai energy radiation or nuclear radiation. Even fusion warriors may not be able to reach that level of dose. Withstand...well, if you can adapt to the Honkai that is close to the Herrscher, it's not that you can't try it, but what can you do on your own?"

"No! Don't we still have mechas? The Twelfth Herrscher is dead. We can unlock a lot of smart devices, right?"

Eden did not speak, but turned his head and stared into Hua's eyes with sad eyes.

"Hua, I understand your thoughts. You don't really want to do something, but you feel that you should do something. After all, they are indeed doing something in places unknown to us, and even helped us defeat the Twelfth Law. So you feel that even if you can’t help them, you can’t do nothing.”

Hua lowered his head and did not answer, which was actually equivalent to acquiescence.

"From a subjective point of view, everyone thinks so. But we must succumb to reality - there is nothing we can do. Except for the two of them, none of us has a way to enter the world of imaginary numbers, let alone Entering the world of imaginary numbers, we cannot find their unknowns. Of course, the worst case scenario..."

Eden paused and did not resort to the worst possibility.

If she could, she still didn't want to completely shatter the hope of the girl in front of her, but the fact was that almost a week had passed since the 12th Herrscher was killed, and they still haven't come back. There is a high probability that...

"What about Eden...what about you? If I remember correctly, Velvet said before that there is a lot of information in the Past World that you need to process. You should be in the Golden Courtyard now."

Hua keenly discovered the anomaly, Eden, she may also...

"Hmm? Is there such a thing? I may have forgotten."

Eden spread her hands, and Hua couldn't see any unnecessary expression on her face. She was still as lazy as yesterday, but there was a sad look in her eyes from time to time. But Hua always felt that there was something "different" about her.

"To be honest, for a civilization like ours that has been destroyed, is there really any point in organizing data? I can't say. But after all, this is what they want, and I will do it, but not now... There will be a lot of boring time in the future. If I finish all the work now, haha.”

Eden chuckled twice, but there was no trace of relaxation in his laughter.

Hua finally knew what was "different" about the Eden in front of her - she was not carrying that gorgeous wine glass, and there was no smell of alcohol on her body. She was sober as never before.

"Eden... you said... we have obviously won ten times before, why did we lose to the Twelfth Herrscher?"

Just like at the beginning, she was not looking for a real answer, she was just talking to herself... Or maybe Eden felt that she was treating herself as another person. Whenever she asked this question, that person could always Give the corresponding answer.

Unfortunately, there is no news from that person now.

So the task of answering is back in Eden's hands:

"It's a long story. It can be said that the power of the Twelfth Herrscher is too targeted. An endless number of individuals, a pervasive presence, able to possess humans, and able to cause collapse with the help of its own terminal clone. If we fight openly, it has no chance of winning, but it never gives us a chance to fight."

Hua closed his eyes in pain and remembered the last battle two months ago——

Hundreds of dead soldiers suddenly appeared in the Fire Chasing Moth headquarters, shocking everyone, and every one of them had a familiar face.

This was also the second time Hua had taken action against an "acquaintance". She immediately used Yu Duchen to protect everyone's consciousness. But not everyone is as decisive as her. Moreover, the 'erosion' of the Twelfth Herrscher is not just spread through consciousness.

Even now, the Twelfth God's Key has been completed and has become the hub of the Paradise of the Past, but its designer, Velvet, cannot explain the principle of erosion and can only summarize it as excessive Honkai energy. transfer.

But Hua Mingming had fought against the consciousness corroded by the Twelfth Herrscher in the consciousness space... Ordinary dead soldiers would not have this kind of consciousness. She thought she was protecting something at that time...

But the fact is that while the headquarters suffered heavy losses and attracted attention, the rebels sneaked into the nuclear bomb base in North America, where more than 3,000 nuclear warheads were stored.

Although all fuses require the password of the headquarters to be unlocked, this does not trouble the Herrscher of Corrosion at all.

When the rebels cheered and fired all the nuclear bombs in the base towards the "headquarters", they were horrified to find that the last few warheads that had lifted off exploded above their heads.

The remaining more than 3,000 warheads were fired at the few dozen remaining human settlements around the world.

Half an hour later, the wave of dead soldiers inside the Fire Chasing Moth was quelled, and the incoming nuclear bomb was diverted by the Second God's Key, but for the rest of the world...

They could only watch as gorgeous mushroom clouds rose one after another on the horizon. The aftermath of the explosion had not dissipated until the next morning.

Half a month later, Sakura and she found the last Herrscher Terminal in the ruins of North America. It was already dying. It had died before it was brought back to the headquarters, leaving only a black and purple core.

Mei told everyone that that was what Mikael and Alicia did in the world of imaginary numbers.

But unfortunately, it was half a month late.

But no one would blame them, because according to Mei, their ultimate goal is to prevent the coming of the end, and that is something only they can do...

"But if you want, you can also think that we have not lost - because before this, the world has already been in trouble and there is no possibility of salvation."

"I do not understand……"

"Based on your experience, it's normal not to understand. In fact, if, if there were no Twelfth Herrscher, the resistance would still appear, the trust between humans and the Fire Chaser would still collapse, and the development of the story would be accidental. Inevitably, these are all things that are bound to happen.

The so-called coincidence is that people were bewitched by the Twelfth Herrscher and formed a resistance army. With good wishes, they used the nuclear weapons that humans had created with the original intention of "ending the war" to help Honkai give human civilization the last chance. hit. "

"..."

"Some people may say that it was too late for Mei to take over the power of the entire world. But I don't think so. Honkai is always more than a simple disaster, or in other words, every disaster in the world is a test of human nature, regardless of Neither May nor Mikael, nor even Aponya, have the possibility to change human nature.

"However, if I have to find someone in the Fire Chasing Moth to hold her responsible for this matter, I think it would be myself."

"You? Eden, you did nothing wrong."

"No, Hua, the problem is that I didn't do anything - I once arbitrarily believed that art could no longer save the world, so I joined the Fire Chasing Moth and became a fusion warrior. But the fact is, I It is still of no use in battle. And if I had not given up on art, but used art to protect the beautiful part of human nature, maybe the relationship between humans and the Fire Chaser Moth would not be so fragile."

"No, Eden, this has nothing to do with you. Not to mention, it's not that you can't do anything. The people here grew up listening to your singing. As long as you are here, they can guarantee a certain level of success. Morale. Soldiers without morale cannot fight."

Now, it was Eden who was supposed to answer Hua's doubts, but instead turned into Hua to comfort Eden, which made Eden himself dumbfounded.

"Okay, I know everything you said, but..."

Eden sighed softly:

"Hua, tell me, after the disaster happened, would you rather hope that you did something wrong at that moment and that you couldn't save anything, or that you couldn't do anything in the first place?"

Before Hua could process her words, she answered on her own:

"At least for me, I would rather feel that it was my mistake that caused the disaster than admit that I was powerless in the face of the disaster. But in fact, this is meaningless, because our world has been destroyed."

"The world...is destroyed!"

Hua opened his mouth wide and his voice rose unconsciously.

She couldn't believe that she was still waiting for them to come back and see the world that was still alive, but her comrades told her that the world had been destroyed!

"We still have the 30,000 people at the headquarters, and we... Dr. Mei is also still there. When the Fourth God's Key completes the restoration of the earth's ecology, we can still revive our civilization, right?"

"maybe."

Eden shook his head noncommittally:

"We do still have 30,000 people. From a biological point of view, it is not easy to conclude that humans have become extinct. But to borrow the words of Mebius - you will leave one with only a brain and a torso. , Is something that no longer exists called a human being?”

Hua didn't know how to answer, and Eden said again:

"Perhaps, for you young people, there is still hope of rebuilding civilization. But for people of my age, the era I was familiar with is gone forever."

She took a deep look at Hua, stood up, and stretched:

"Okay, I'll go back to sleep first, and you should come quickly. In three hours, the God Key will be activated. After that, we will dream for a long time, and maybe we will be woken up halfway - that's The worst case scenario means that the two of them have completely failed, and that means there is no need to dream anymore, right?"

Eden turned around and left gracefully without making a sound of footsteps.

Hua watched her leave and suddenly felt a little cold. She turned around and saw that she was the only one in the huge war room.

"..."

But soon she rubbed her eyes again and rushed out of the war room. The lights in the corridor were dim, which was in sharp contrast to the bright daylight in her original impression, so Eden's back was also changing as he walked away. It was so blurry that I could only see a black hole.

"Eden!"

Hearing her cry, Eden stopped but did not turn around.

"Eden, you...have gone against the grain..."

Hua's voice trembled, but he still said firmly:

"That's the passage to the outside, you should go back."

"oh oh……"

Eden lengthened his tone, sighed twice, and then stood still.

Just when Hua was wondering whether he should stop her if she continued walking out, Eden spoke again:

"Hua, you just said that many people in this era grew up listening to my singing. Now that they are gone, my era is over."

"Eden...I know you are in a hurry, but don't be anxious yet..."

Hua became a little incoherent in her excitement, but she finally found a way to persuade Eden:

"At the very least... at least we wait! What if Mikael and Ellie come back? Ellie will be very sad if she hears that you left without saying goodbye..."

"Ah...that's right..."

In the dim light, Eden nodded heavily, then she turned around, smiled apologetically, and walked past Hua again, but this time, she was heading towards the dormant cabin.

It wasn't until her figure disappeared that Hua let out a long sigh of relief.

Then she pursed her lips, and complex emotions accumulated in her heart.

Three hours left...

Can we really wait until they come back?

Suddenly, she heard some noise in the corridor and couldn't help but squint her eyes——

"Who is there?"

She wanted to shout, but stopped abruptly.

She was also curious, who would do something sneaky at a time like this?

So she stood on tiptoes and touched towards the source of the sound.

She quickly realized that the voice was coming from Mikael's office, and a light of surprise flashed in her eyes for the first time... but then dimmed quickly - if it was Mikael who really came back, I will definitely show up in a dignified manner...

But she wasn't sure, what if it was really Mikael? She didn't want to kill that glimmer of hope.

So she gently held the door handle, and then pushed it open with a bang.

In the darkness, she found those sparkling eyes effortlessly.

"Pado?"

"Ah...ah...Ah Hua, hello!"

"What are you doing here?"

Even if you want to get something along, you should go somewhere else. Mikael has been gone for three months, what else can be found in the office?

Paduo was not in a hurry to answer. Instead, he leaned back on the chair and stretched himself, and then replied in a nonchalant tone:

"Hey! Didn't we bury the treasure we had saved for a long time in Twilight Street earlier? I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to find it when I came out, so I drew a treasure map and the key to the treasure box... but I just went to the sleep cabin, They said you could only wear close-fitting clothes, so I just thought of finding a good place to hide the treasure map and keys!”

"But... aren't there lockers in the dormant cabin?"

"Oh, you don't understand! I can open that locker with my eyes closed. It's so unsafe."

"...Pado..."

"ha?"

"Why are you guarding yourself?"

"..."

The two people stared at each other in the darkness.

Padu wanted to jump up and shout "Yes", but felt that it would make him look too stupid...

Fortunately, at this time, someone turned on the light, which relieved...

wrong!

Hua raised his head in horror, with blood-red lights flashing above his head. If what he expected was true, what would happen next would be...

"Woo-wu-wu-"

The siren blared three times quickly and sharply, and unmistakably, the Herrscher appeared...

Moreover, if the alarm is sounded at this time, there can only be one result - the last Herrscher, the Herrscher of the End, has arrived.