The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"A thousand! What a joke!"

This was the first time Mikael had seen Sakura angry. Her voice was not sharp, and even a little suppressed, but it was undoubtedly real anger. Standing next to her, you could even feel a slight chill.

But the anger was not directed at Harris.

"Are you shocked? Ha... Although when I first learned about this, my reaction was not much better than yours."

"How much serum can be provided by all the patients in the world? We seriously suspect that they are deliberately spreading collapsing disease among us ordinary people in order to obtain enough serum. The drugs they give us to treat us are basically Some placebos like saline and glucose, they are letting us die so that the so-called big shots can live longer!”

Harris suddenly turned around and grabbed Mikael by the collar. His hands were shaking violently, but he had no strength to lift Mikael. He could only push him weakly against the elevator wall.

Sakura instantly pulled out her pistol, pointing the gun directly at Harris and Aldemir. Aldemir also wanted to take out his pistol, but he suddenly realized that there were no bullets in the gun and it had no deterrent effect.

"Sakura! Don't be impulsive!"

Mikael quickly signaled Sakura to put down the gun, but Sakura remained unmoved.

Harris' hand on Mikael's collar gradually loosened, but the anger in his eyes did not diminish by half. While looking at each other, Mikael could clearly see the dense bloodshot eyes in the white of his one eye, as if these bloodshot eyes would turn into cracks at the next moment, and then the turbid eyeball would directly disintegrate.

He knew that the man in front of him had a broken mentality.

The huge blow of reality, the endless entanglement of the disease, the extreme lack of material, and the despair of watching one familiar person die after another for thirty days but being unable to do anything...

Sure enough, the next moment, this man who could be called a tough guy from any angle squatted down with his head in his hands and cried bitterly.

"Why……"

Mikael could only turn his gaze to the younger Aldemir, "So, Harris ran away from the official hospital? The 502nd Hospital of Dagon District?"

"Yes, there were still thousands of people in the neighborhood who had not evacuated at that time. He came back here and revealed the truth. In the end, we chose to stay here with him."

"Why bother... You should know that if you stay here, you will either die from the Honkai Disease or be killed by the Honkai Beast... In fact, the ending will be the same."

Mikael has never hated himself as much as he does now. He even doubted whether the person who spoke at that moment was himself? How mean and cold-blooded does he have to be to say that calmly and calmly: In fact, the ending is the same...

To the onlooker, the outcome is indeed the same, but to the person in front of him, it means hunger, death, and the end and dissolution of everything.

mean……

does not exist.

no longer exists.

means the end.

But Aldemir seemed to have expected that he would say this. He replied seriously: "Actually, at the beginning, everyone was just hot-headed and stayed without realizing the consequences. Afterwards, it was not that no one left to join the municipal government. Hall... But I still think, well, there was a movie before. I don’t know if you have seen it. The villain asked the protagonist why he still struggled and resisted when his fate had already been written. The protagonist’s lines were: Even if the final outcome is already determined, I still have to decide the way to get there.”

Mikael pursed his lips, and Sakura put down the gun silently.

Harris wiped away his tears, stood up slowly, and added in a hoarse voice:

"Of course, there is one more thing, that is... we have always had a faint hope. What if the coalition government can discover something strange here? What if they send people to investigate? We must survive and count the days. Go down, live to the last person, live to the last moment... We don’t desire salvation, and we can’t be saved. We just want to tell the world what happened here!”

"Okay...this is actually an idealistic statement - the fact is that we are already walking zombies, and even we don't know why we have to force ourselves to continue living..."

The chandelier above the head flickered, and the light and shadow in the entire confined space began to beat. Mikael took a deep breath to try to calm down. At this moment, the elevator stopped at the 39th floor, the doors opened to both sides, and Mikael and Sakura rushed out as if they were running away.

There were not many survivors left, so Harris simply gathered them all on the 39th floor.

The neighborhood was cut off from water and electricity. They collected a lot of mineral water and bottled water from supermarkets, but it was not easy to sustain life with this fresh water, and it was even more impossible to wash themselves.

Therefore, you can only imagine what kind of smell can be found in a small and enclosed space.

Most of the survivors are still on the first floor, and they will have to rest for a while before coming up. As for the people who stayed here, Mikael took a rough look and found that the purple lines on their bodies had spread to their chests and cheeks, and even ran into their eyes like lines of backward tears...

With such a condition, it seems that it won’t be long before I die...

Aldemir knelt on one knee in front of a woman as skinny as a mummy, dipped a little drinking water into her fingers, and applied it on her pale and curled lips.

The woman closed her eyes, as if she had no strength to open them.

The water slipped from the corners of her mouth and washed out a pale river along the dirt on her cheeks. Her lips were slightly open and she let out a moan as thin as a mosquito. His tongue was between his teeth, but he couldn't lick the water stains on his lips.

"That's his mother," Harris said quietly.

The woman didn't know whether she heard Harris' words or felt her son's body temperature. She raised her head with all her strength and opened her eyes through an almost imperceptible gap.

Mikael saw something twinkling in her eyes, but it only wetted her eyelashes.

Perhaps, the water in her body could not squeeze out even the last drop of tears.

The next moment, her head slowly fell on the tawny pillow.

Aldemir did not cry.

In other words, in such an environment, he tried hard to control himself and not let himself cry or affect other people.

Mikael stood stunned.

It's not like he hasn't witnessed death.

The collapse of Irkune City left no one alive in the entire city, and a rough estimate of the death toll was upwards of 300,000.

But facing a cold corpse, or a dead soldier who is hostile to him.

It is a completely different state of mind than watching a person who was still warm a second ago heading towards death hopelessly and irresistibly.

A weight as heavy as a mountain was squeezing his body from his shoulders, chest and abdomen, and from all directions, making it difficult for him to even breathe lightly.

As a Herrscher, he thought he could do something to change this era.

Just like he once vowed - no longer a witness, but a person who can actually change the fate of all.

But it wasn't until just now that he realized: In fact, he couldn't do anything.

The so-called Herrscher is actually nothing in the face of death and Honkai.

"Saving the world is not easy. Sometimes it is difficult for us to even save one person."

The man's words echoed in his mind.

As for the so-called serum, Mikael can naturally condemn the powerful people who use the serum to extend their lives, but he cannot condemn Dr. Spacey and Alfred who developed this serum, because this serum is not only used on the powerful.

The real consumption is the fire-chasing moth...

His captain, Himiko, temporarily left the team to recuperate due to Honkai Disease after the second Honkai Impact. But now that she has returned to the fifth team, there is no trace of Honkai Disease on her body.

There were seven veterans from four other teams who went for treatment at the same time as her.

Calculating time, it is difficult to say that the eight tubes of serum used to cure these soldiers did not contain the antibodies of the victims here.

This is a trolley problem. Sacrificing one person's life to save a thousand people is a topic that can cause endless quarrels, let alone sacrificing a thousand people to save one person?

But what if the person being saved is a warrior like Captain Himihu?

Their survival may one day save a thousand people, or even more...

But then again, is sacrificing the minority to save the majority really the answer that rationalism can come up with?

No, there are always some minorities in everyone's heart, and their weight far exceeds the so-called majority, or even everything.

How to measure the weight of this?

Impossible to measure.

Because the moment this problem was born, it was destined to have no solution.

The person who makes a choice, no matter what choice he makes, is unquestionably guilty at the time of making the decision.

As for Harris saying that Honkai Disease was deliberately spread by the city hall...Mikael subconsciously felt that it was unlikely. After all, Honkai Impact was similar to a natural phenomenon, and it might just have happened to break out here.

As for the hospital, the hospital is not wrong. It has nothing to offer these patients except amputation and saline glucose.

Is that the fault of Harris and others? How could they be wrong?

A numbness spread from the back to the scalp. Everyone was right, but the result was wrong.

"This damn feeling of powerlessness..."

Mikael's hanging hand went cold, and it turned out that Sakura was at a loss and grabbed his hand.

Soon, the other hand closed up, and her whole body weight seemed to be supported by it.

Only then did Mikael suddenly realize: Maybe this girl is not as strong as she thought. Perhaps the dark side she saw in Poison Chrysalis was not dark enough, so she was so distracted that she felt powerless at this moment.

He quickly changed his position, took Sakura's arm, and let her petite body lean closer.

But suddenly, he realized another problem:

From the moment he entered the tower, in order to let Himihu know what happened, he never turned off the communication.

"Oops!"

Thinking about it from Michael's perspective, for an ordinary person, if she knew that her life was exchanged for a thousand other lives, it would be difficult not to crush her with such weight.

"Sorry, I have to go to the top of the building."

Harris unexpectedly glanced at Mikael and Sakura, who was half paralyzed in his arms, and couldn't help but taunted:

"It seems that the so-called warriors who survived in Irkune City are nothing more than this."

Mikael ignored him and half dragged and half hugged Sakura to the top floor.

Ymer's drone landed here.

Mikael leaned against the guardrail, the wind from the tall building messing up his thoughts and the broken hair on his forehead.

"Captain, captain? Are you listening?"

There was no response in the communication for a long time.

"Chirp, chirp", there were several birdsong in his ears. Mikael looked up and saw two birds that were probably petrels that had strayed here just flying over the roof. They flapped their wings vigorously, trying to fly. Higher and faster, as if this way he could escape from this dead place.

Suddenly, one of the wings stopped flapping, its claws straightened, its whole body twitched twice, and then it couldn't even maintain its gliding state and fell feebly downwards.

And the other bird whined and flapped its wings faster. It quickly turned into a black dot in Mikael's sight.

But just when Mikael thought it had successfully escaped, the little black dot fell straight down.

Honkai is very fair, treating both ordinary animals and humans who claim to be primates equally.

There was finally a response in the communication, but the voice that came out was not Himihu's.

Alicia's voice was filled with confusion and unspeakable weight, "Mikael, the captain said...she knows."