The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Okay, further ahead is Tianming's restricted area. Her and I have special identities and are not suitable to appear in Tianming's sight, so I will send you here."

At dusk, the sun was trying its best to burn the last bit of fire, illuminating the entire sky with a golden glow. Against this background, the holy tower of the church not far away appeared uncomfortable black under the interplay of light and shadow.

Otto stared blankly at the familiar tower, and Kallen beside him did the same. Only the young Vera still didn't understand what happened. Maybe it was the influence of the previous phase shuttle. She He was still dazed now, sleeping soundly with his head on Otto's shoulder.

He turned to look at the man who had hidden everything in the black robe. He still had many questions waiting for him to answer, and many conjectures waiting for him to confirm. He originally thought that this journey would take a few more months. , he has enough time to probe out part of the information...

But what he didn't expect was that such a distance could be reached in just an instant in Mikael's hands.

So he no longer had time to ask questions.

Mikael looked at him without trace and said in a deep voice:

"The issue of time may be a bit troublesome. Although you two have noble status, you will inevitably be interrogated. You need to come up with an excuse and discuss it in advance. Don't accuse me of colluding... Of course, if you find it difficult to explain, If so, it doesn’t matter if you just tell me about my existence, it won’t be a big problem, it will just be a little troublesome then.”

After saying these words, Mikael shook his head slightly, "Let's go, Pado."

The girl next to her who was also wearing a large black robe seemed unable to understand Mikael's complicated emotions towards the two of them. She waved her hand carelessly to say goodbye, but unexpectedly, the movement was too large, or maybe it was a certain part of her body. He was so disobedient that he lifted his black robe with his tail and exposed part of it outside. Fortunately, this was an alley near the Destiny Restricted Area, and no one would wander around in such a place.

Before Otto could say any words of farewell, the two of them turned around neatly and walked into the crowded downtown of Klosten.

The bricks under your feet are not as large as those in Taixu Mountain, but are made up of hand-sized stone bricks. There were two obvious dents on the pavement, and it goes without saying that they were the marks of carriage wheels. Pado stood on tiptoe, letting every step of his step fall into the dents made by the wheels.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

There were noisy sounds from the street corner not far away, and the sound of horse hooves on the bricks was soft and crisp, like fine raindrops. Mikael took Pado's hand, and the two retreated to the side of the street silently.

After a while, the young coachman waved his whip wantonly, and the pony, as thin as a donkey, walked at a fast pace, dragging a large carriage and appeared in front of the two of them.

Pado frowned and stared at the wheels of the carriage attentively. He saw that the wheels were embedded in the dents in the masonry road, almost to the point of a perfect fit. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the street itself is only as wide as a carriage - Pado thought.

Next to her, Mikael also lowered his head, but his eyes turned up strangely, spying on the passengers in the carriage in this way.

At this moment, a gust of evening wind swept along the narrow street. While bringing an unbearable stench, it also naturally lifted a corner of the carriage curtain.

Mikael's gaze penetrated into the car through this corner, and then quickly retracted. The next second, he held Padu's hand tightly and turned into the alley beside him.

Su in the carriage closed his eyes tightly as usual. Perhaps he felt that the weather had become warmer recently, making it a bit stuffy. He gracefully tugged on his wheel-like collar, and suddenly a stench came over him, and he felt something in his heart. He opened his eyes, but the curtains of the carriage fell gently, and he saw nothing.

Su drooped his eyelids and turned to look at the long wooden box in front of him.

He stroked it gently with his hand, and there was a hint of nostalgia in his eyes that would never open easily.

Over the past five thousand years, he has spent most of the time completing the Hengsha Project with the help of Xumi Mustard Seeds. However, due to changes in the situation, his focus during the implementation process has also been different.

According to the original plan, he should use countless parallel world bubbles to find the slight possibility of defeating the collapse of the original world, but after all, that was a plan made before the Moon War, and the situation could not keep up with the changes. Over the years, Su's observations have The focus was always on Mikael.

He tried to deduce Mikael's current plan through Mikael's choice in the parallel world bubble, but what was incomprehensible was that he could find countless world bubbles in which Mikael existed, but could not conduct smooth observations. , he could also find many world bubbles where Mikael and Alicia existed, but none of them had the ability to reach the end, and they had no reference value set by the Hengsha Plan.

But he was not discouraged, because the answer to a question often did not need to be found through direct means. Just as the real and original owner of the weapon he was caressing now could also guide him to find out about it. The answer to Mikael's question.

That's right, it's Xi'er who is traveling around the world. It took Su about a thousand years to reestablish contact with her not long ago, following the traces she left in the world bubble.

But she also knew nothing about everything that had happened before. She only knew that her connection with Mikael's stigmata was suddenly severed fifty thousand years ago, but she really knew nothing about what happened specifically.

However, it is not all without gain. As the consciousness bred in that stigmata, even if her connection with the stigmata itself has been severed, at least she still has questions about whether the stigmata itself still exists and whether the holder of the stigmata still exists. She can still feel it.

"Mikael, you are indeed still alive..."

Although Hua had already answered this question with silence before, getting the exact answer from Xi'er still made Su feel a little...not sure how to describe his feelings.

He didn't tell Kevin about it, and there seemed to be no need to tell him. Early this morning, there was an abnormal Honkai energy fluctuation in Australia. Judging from the magnitude of the response, at most it was a Judgment-level Honkai beast, which was not difficult to deal with.

But Kevin still chose to go in person, and Su didn't stop him. It just so happened that he also had something to do.

The carriage ran leisurely on the masonry road, and the wheels ran over the uneven masonry. The bumps brought to the passengers in the carriage were not much more comfortable than riding a horse directly, but Su didn't mind this. If there was a third person in the carriage, If the two exist, you can see his current state——

He seemed to be sitting on the only seat in the carriage, but his butt and the seat were always at a certain distance. Rather than saying that he was riding in a carriage, it was better to say that he was suspended at a fixed height in the vertical direction, while horizontally It just follows the movement of the carriage in the direction.

It's not that he used any space power. It is true that he can achieve this effect by borrowing the Second God's Key, but it is not necessary. This is just another ability of his as a spiritual fusion warrior - telekinesis.

The carriage gradually slowed down and stopped in place.

"Su, the Shaniyat family's orphanage has arrived."

"knew."

The coachman opened the door for Su Su, and saw that he had his eyes closed, but he stepped out of the carriage without any mistakes. Then he reached out and waved into the carriage, and the wooden box containing the white flowers of the black abyss flew slowly but steadily to his side, floating quietly. With.

Seeing this almost miraculous scene for the world, the coachman did not show any excitement. Instead, he persuaded with helplessness:

"Please, Su, although there are few people here, it is the territory of destiny after all, so there is no need to be so ostentatious... How about I do it instead?"

"Actually, it doesn't matter. This is the territory of the three major families. They all know something about Honkai Impact. They may be surprised, but they won't be overly surprised. However, if I really let you carry it, you will go back to Cang Xuan. , Danzhu said, 'Do you know? Last time Su asked me to go to Shaniyat's house to return Heiyuan Baihua, but I was asked to carry the gun the whole time without any overtime allowance! ' Right?"

"Uh...cough cough cough!"

Erwin instinctively wanted to quibble, but after thinking about it, he sighed feebly:

"There is no way, you also know that I am a big mouth... If you can't control your mouth, you don't have to say it if you have something. At my level, I have to find something to say even if I have nothing to say, but to be honest, I finally came out and didn’t do anything. What can I say to them when I go back? I’ve been telling them over and over again for thousands of years, don’t talk about me, they all know it by heart...

"Su, you are the Awakened One. You said, for you fusion warriors and those of us who have been 'blessed' by Mikael with the black abyss white flowers, this kind of longevity is actually the result of our being as fire chasers. The reward he deserves, or the excommunication he deserves as a person who goes against heaven?”

"Erwin, have you ever heard of Sisyphus pushing the boulder? In the eyes of others, he pushed the boulder to the top of the mountain, watched it roll down, then returned to the bottom of the mountain, pushed it to the top of the mountain, and then rolled down again. It must be unfortunate that Sisyphus must be imprisoned in this kind of meaningless labor all his life, right?

"But for Sisyphus himself, he was not happy, because everything he did was in vain, and the only way he could resist this futility was to feel happy. The same is true for us, as long as you think If you are happy, then immortality is a reward for you, not to mention, what we have to do is far more meaningful than pushing the boulder up the mountain over and over again. "

Su shook his head. His words were as obscure as ever, but for Erwin, who had thousands of years of experience, they were not difficult to understand.

But Erwin still had doubts:

"Su, I'm sorry. Of course I know that everything we have done is meaningful, but I still don't understand the full extent of Mei's plan, and... our era no longer exists. Defeat Honkai, That is also in this era, does it really mean anything to us?”

"You think it doesn't make sense, then it doesn't make sense."

"All right……"

Erwin scratched his hair and asked again a little irritably:

"Na Su, let me put it another way. How long will our futile behavior continue? I don't expect to know the full extent of Mei's plan, but you can describe it to me. Taking Sisyphus as an example, what we are doing What kind of work is it?”

"As a way for you to chat with them when you go back?"

"Uh, cough, cough, cough!"

Erwin coughed twice violently. In fact, he did not have no choice. In this era, there was no need for too many fire-chasing moths. There were 30,000 people left in the base, and most of them entered the paradise of the past. Steeped in a past that will never be destroyed.

But for Erwin, he is a person who must rely on freshness to survive. Even if he is immersed in the past every second, he cannot get new things to talk about. For him, it is a loss of value, and in a certain sense death.

However, after thousands of years, he really couldn't bear it anymore...

"Then I'll tell you, Erwin."

Su whispered, still closing his eyes tightly, and stepped step by step towards the slowly opening door with the "Shaniyat" sign.

"The first half of what we are doing is no different from Sisyphus. We are also pushing a huge boulder to the top of the mountain, and then watching it roll down. But we will grab a handful as we go down the mountain. If we dig out a piece of soil, one day the mountain will be flattened, and we can successfully push the boulder over.”

After spitting out the last syllable, and ignoring Erwin who was standing there meditating, Su walked into the rather lifeless orphanage with his head high.

The heavy iron door slowly closed behind him, and Su turned around, but did not open his eyes.

"Tsk, what a weirdo. Why do you keep your eyes closed everywhere? Are you blind? That's not right. You don't even bring a cane, and your servants don't follow you to serve you. You can obviously see the road."

"Miss Eleanor, you don't seem surprised at my arrival."

Su chuckled lightly. He had already heard this question a lot in the previous era, and he didn't bother to explain it. Only those who close their eyes know how comfortable it is to spend a day with them closed... Although he did not know anything when he closed his eyes. Can't see it.

"Why should you be surprised?"

Eleanor bolted the door and approached step by step. "The last time we were on the Kipchak grassland, the weapon in the hands of the man who could not be separated from Kaslana at first glance was familiar to me. Kallen's father at the time Using the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment, the Honkai Beast perished together. The God Key itself was also damaged and sent to an unknown place for repair. As a result, it has not been returned to the Kaslana family for so many years... Haha, of course, that woman is afraid too. I don’t dare to use this weapon. She is the first Kaslana I have ever seen who does not use heavenly fire but uses Judah..."

It was obviously not the time to say these words, but she still used a lot of space to ridicule Kallen, which was enough to show Kallen's special status in her heart - this was also consistent with Su's observations in other worlds.

But in this case, he also questioned whether coming here today... was the right thing to do? Among the countless results observed by the Hengsha Project, he once saw one, and this was the only one that was considered a good ending. This is why he came today.

The reason for hesitation is because it's not that good. In other words, it's not that good. Compared to letting Kevin directly execute the Stigma Project, this ending is much better, but it is also not a perfect ending. It still has to come at the cost of the tragic fate of countless people, but compared to the Stigma Project, it has to pay more The price is much lighter and can be obtained by human beings, unlike the Stigma Project, which is a real opportunity to transcend the end.

But no matter what, Su had no choice, because the parallel world he observed did not have the existence of Mikael, and correspondingly, too many "errors" inevitably appeared.

Fortunately, the world line will also close on its own, and there is still the possibility that everything will be led to that ending. He came here today to make some corrections.

Because judging from that ending, everything that is going to happen now can be regarded as the "beginning of tragedy."

So, can we place our hope on observing a perfect ending in the next five hundred years? Of course it is possible, but if we give up our efforts to lead everything to a not-so-good ending today, we are actually giving up on a result that is better than the Stigma Plan.

He doesn't want Kevin to implement the Stigmata plan, not only because that kind of ending is too cruel to human beings, but also because... carrying the power of the end, and enduring the heart-rending pain caused by the power of the end in endless time. Injury, and then repair it with its own powerful self-healing ability... This Promethean ending is too cruel for Kevin himself. It's not cruel like the ending Mei would choose for Kevin, but rationally like the ending Mei would choose for human beings.

Therefore, he must give his own choice. If he cannot achieve perfection, then settle for the second best, as long as it is better than the worst-case scenario - he is not an idealist or a perfectionist, he can do something. The compassion of a physician, but he also has the rationality of an awakened being.

Moreover, it is better than the worst case scenario... Haha, yes, that kind of ending may be the most realistic ending that the Tinder Plan can win...

Of course, even if all of the above were put aside, which could not be called a good or bad plan, he still had a reason to come to Shaniyat's house - based on his inference of the personality model established by Mikael, Mikael's view of Shaniyat Even if this crystallization of his and Alicia's bloodline is not very cherished, it should not be completely ignored. Maybe we can get some clues about Mikael from here? Even if things go against your wishes, nothing is lost.

Different from his brainstorming, Eleanor in front of him was still talking to himself:

"In short, I don't know what your relationship is with the people who repaired the God Key, but I think there is a high probability that my Black Abyss White Flower will pass through your hands... However, to say that I am surprised is really a little bit - only if you can do it yourself Send her here and don’t think too much!”

"Your Black Abyss White Flower?"

Su pursed her thin lips, a little speechless, and suddenly wanted to laugh. I have to say that this generation of Shaniyat, Kaslana, and Apokalis are all a little abnormal.

This Shaniyat girl has the unique arrogance of the Apokalis family, the boy from the Apokalis family has the gloominess of one of Shaniyat's ancestors, and Kaslana...

All right……

Su sighed inwardly.

You win, Kevin, at this point, you do win, and every one of your descendants will be just as stupid and as stubborn as you.

And just like Mei...can't cook.