The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"I'm sorry, you guys came a little too soon. Take a good sleep and rest for a while. This is not meaningless, and it will also allow you to understand 'him' better. This world is not just a dream."

Before her consciousness fell into drowsiness, Xier heard such a voice.

"Chirp—chirp—"

"Uh...where is this?"

Her head seemed dizzy for a moment. When she woke up again, Xi'er found that she was in a place she had never seen before.

In front of him is a neat lake, surrounded by willow trees. The yellow bird is singing softly, spreading its wings, shuttles between the dry yellow willow branches, and then rushes across the lake. Such neat handwriting is obviously made by In man-made.

She raised her head, and half of the sky above her head was filled with the dazzling light of the morning sun, while the other half was dark and dark, the western sky that had not yet emerged from the night.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Xi'er always felt that the sky was a little weird.

After looking at the sky a few more times, she finally discovered the problem - the morning light and the night half separated the sky. One side was dazzling golden, the other side was deep dark blue. There should be a transition between fish belly white and light gray in the middle, but here. It's not obvious, so the whole sky becomes distinct.

Xi'er took a deep breath and felt that the air here was a little inexplicably dull, probably because there was no wind around. The lake in front of her was also unusually calm, with only shallow and sparse wrinkles.

"Other me, are you there?"

While observing her surroundings, she instinctively called "her". Unknowingly, she had taken her existence as a matter of course. It was also natural that she would rely on her unconsciously when encountering problems.

She could feel the presence of "her" in her body. She could even feel "her" breathing. This feeling was the same as feeling whether her heart was beating, but unexpectedly, "she" did not. Answer her call.

This made Xi'er feel nervous. Her relationship with her other self was not completely harmonious, and there had been cases where the other person suddenly became angry and then deliberately ignored her. But that was at least based on the situation where the two of them were in conflict. The way it was now, it was hard not to make her suspect that something was wrong with her other self.

Fortunately, the other party was still there, and after careful inspection, he didn't seem to be injured, so Xi'er relaxed and continued to observe her surroundings.

She wanted to shout the names of Sister Bronya, Sister Mei and Kiana, but considering the unfamiliar environment, she conservatively chose not to make a sound.

She looked to the right, where there were stacks of buildings. The row closest to her was relatively low and looked like an apartment building. But the shapes of all these buildings are slightly weird. The main materials may be the reinforced concrete that Xi'er is familiar with, or maybe not, because everything is tightly wrapped under a thick metal armor plate.

Even though the matte paint is deliberately applied, you can still feel the unique hardness and heaviness of the metal. Coupled with the sharp edges and corners of the building, this kind of chilling atmosphere makes Xier unable to bear it just by looking at it. He took a half step back, and then quickly turned his eyes to the left.

Then, she saw a huge pyramid.

To say it is a pyramid is actually just to describe the shape. Its surface is covered with light cyan crystals. The crystals reflect sunlight and cover up the inconspicuous gaps between the crystals so that they are almost invisible. Compared to the row of buildings on the right that are wrapped in thick armor plates, this pyramid looks both gorgeous and fragile.

"Sasha——"

There were branches and leaves whirling behind her. Xi'er quickly turned around and saw a familiar fiery red in the tender blue sunflower buds:

"Himeko-sensei!"

"Himeko? H-yawn, after leaving my hometown, few people still call me that...wait, you are-"

Himi woke up early in the morning. He was dozing off while watering his beloved sunflower seedlings. When he heard the call, he suddenly raised his head, and then his pupils shrank.

"Are you... Xi'er?"

She rubbed her eyes in disbelief, letting the blurry double images in her eyes dissipate, and thus truly confirmed the identity of the girl in front of her.

"Teacher Jizi, why are you here?"

Xi'er frowned. "Ji Zi's" reaction made her a little uncomfortable. That look was not hostile, but... she always felt like she was looking at a dead person.

"How... um... are you still alive?"

Xier was stunned by Himihu's words. She looked at herself, then at Himihu, and then pinched her face.

It hurt a little, but it also confirmed that she was not dead, she was still alive.

So what's going on now?

She suddenly thought of the worst possibility. Could it be... could this be the future? Something seemed to have happened in the middle that made everyone think she was dead?

Xi'er shook her head, but this was not to deny the conjecture in her mind, but to deny Himihu's words.

"Teacher Himeko, I'm fine. What's going on now? Where are Sister Mei, Sister Bronya and Sister Kiana? Where is Brother Mikael?"

Himihu's eyes became more and more weird. She opened her mouth but stopped talking. But then she thought of something again, and her amber eyes narrowed slightly.

"Mikael... ugh... Mei is a workaholic. Needless to say, he must be the same as before."

She deliberately made her words vague and ambiguous, not out of caution, but out of doubt and temptation.

Although the exchange between her and "Xie'er" was only a few words, as a commander who has experienced hundreds of battles, it is important to keep a clear head under any circumstances and quickly summarize and reason out the existing information. Essential qualities.

She first ruled out the possibility of the Sixth Herrscher coming back from the dead. The Sixth Herrscher was dead, there was no room for doubt. After all, the core has been made into the God's Key, and the body has been dissipated under Mikael's own eyes. Without the power, the Sixth Herrscher has no possibility of resurrection. If she had the power, with the power of the Sixth Herrscher, there would be no need to talk nonsense with her. She could completely destroy the entire base without knowing it, and exposing her own existence would be a waste. The next best choice.

To take a step back, assuming that this is really the Sixth Herrscher who has been resurrected from the dead, and her purpose is to regain the Herrscher's core, then exposing her own existence is the next best option. If she changes to an ordinary body, it will still have some advantages. In terms of concealment, using Xi'er's original body, wouldn't it be like looking directly at the head with the words "Come and catch me" written on it?

Of course, Himihu had interacted with the Herrscher many times, and he knew that it was wrong to measure the Herrscher's IQ by ordinary people's standards.

But what really made her rule out the possibility that Xier in front of her was the Sixth Herrscher was her title.

"Teacher Himeko? Teacher Himeko? What about Sister Bronya and Kiana?"

Seeing that Beimihu was in a daze, Xier waved her hand and called twice again.

Himihu smiled, yes, it was these names of the girl in front of her that made her realize something.

Her name is Himiko, not Himiko. Although the two names refer to the same pronunciation in her hometown, there are still subtle differences in common language.

She didn't have many interactions with Xi'er. She only met once during the fifth collapse. Later, she returned to the Fire Chaser against entropy, and she never saw Xi'er again. Now she knows that it was Mikael who sent her to a world called the Quantum Sea.

Under such circumstances, it is understandable that Xi'er called her by the wrong name, but it was too much of a coincidence that she called her a similar name as "Ji Zi".

What's more, she has never been Xi'er's teacher, so how can she be called a "teacher"? During the fifth collapse, Xi'er also called her "Captain Himiko" or "Sister Himiko" after Mikael. If the Herrist really inherited this memory, he shouldn't have made such a stupid mistake.

And finally, there were the other two names mentioned by Xi'er.

"Bronya, Kiana..."

Himihu silently recited these two names that he had never heard of before, already counting them in his mind.

"Xier, you..."

The words stopped suddenly, and Himihu suddenly raised his head. Just now... the sky above his head seemed to shake. And the trembling morning sun is undoubtedly the best proof.

"No way……"

She murmured softly. Although she found it unbelievable, she already had a premonition in her heart.

The next moment, the piercing sirens echoed throughout the underground city, and the sirens reverberated three times.

"hehe……"

Himihu shook his head and smiled, no longer paying attention to the overwhelmed Xi'er, but seizing the last moment to gently water the sunflower buds at hand.

"Is this... this alarm sound... another Herrscher appearing?"

Xi'er murmured softly, the shirt on her chest turned slightly red, and a white flower suddenly bloomed in her palm, then two, three, and more, until finally it condensed into a handful of white that didn't fit well with her petite figure. Giant scythe.

Himihu seemed to be watering the flowers wholeheartedly, but in fact, she was paying attention to Xi'er's movements. She couldn't help but look sideways slightly when she saw this. Of course, what surprised her most was Xi'er's words...

"Xie'er!"

Just at this moment, two childish shouts came from the side. Hearing the sound, Himihu turned his head and couldn't help but shrink his pupils.

Two girls came running from a short distance away from the headquarters base. The shorter one had silver-gray hair and eyes. Needless to say, who they looked like. The more mature one was the same as the one who had just joined the Fire Chaser a few years ago. The plum blossoms look almost exactly the same!

No need to use his brain to think, Himihu knew that this was sister "Mei" and sister Bronya in Xi'er's mouth. Because when the two girls saw her for the first time, they reacted exactly the same as Xi'er.

The two people stopped in a hurry, their eyes were filled with surprise, and then they said in unison:

"Himeko (teacher), why are you here?"

Himihu smiled, stopped watering the water, pulled back the fiery red hair that was scattered on his shoulders, shook his head helplessly and said:

"I'm sorry, I'm probably not the 'Himeko' you know."

Of course, Xi'er, Bronya and Mei Yi couldn't understand such words.

Of course, Himihu was unaware of their questions. She herself was a little confused about the current situation, but the appearance of the two new girls confirmed her suspicions.

So she smiled even more helplessly, but she still didn't forget to be the Riddler:

"You will soon understand."

Indeed, very quickly, as soon as she finished speaking, at the end of the road leading to the side that Xier had previously regarded as the "apartment", a figure that was no stranger to the three girls appeared in their sight.

The girl rushed forward, her eyes quickly passing over Himihu's face. She nodded to show respect, but when she rushed past Mei and Xi'er, she suddenly staggered to a stop, and then walked back.

She was breathing heavily, her flat chest rising and falling rapidly, so that her voice was a little unclear:

"Dr. Mei? And...Xie'er? No, you should be..."

The three girls were obviously as shocked as she was, and their words ended up being summed up in the same title:

"Monitor?"

"Um?"

Both sides were stunned at the same time.

Mei Yi and Hua stretched out their index fingers at the same time, then pointed back at themselves.

"Doctor? Are you talking about me?"

"Monitor? Are you talking about me?"

Hua frowned, and then unconsciously glanced at Himihu.

"Ahem!"

Himi cleared his throat and shook his head slightly:

"Hua, ignore them for now, you...just do what you should do first."

Hua glanced at Mei Yi again, looked at Xi'er with some caution, and finally looked at the road he ran on with some melancholy.

There was no one on that road. What was the figure she was looking forward to doing at this moment?

Also, "do what she has to do"...

Haha, for a useless fusion warrior like her, what difference does it make between what she does and what she doesn't do?

She hated this powerlessness.

She kept saying "I still have things I can do" all the way. It wasn't that she really thought she could do anything, but that apart from "doing something", she didn't know what else she could do.

It sounds a bit hard to pronounce, but it may be because a person is not good at expressing what he is thinking.

"I see."

She nodded and started running again towards the headquarters base.

So the three poor girls were left in place again, watching helplessly as another acquaintance whom they knew but did not recognize them disappeared from their sight.

"Are you confused?"

Himihu started watering the sunflower buds again.

"There are some..."

Mei Yi nodded consciously.

But Bronya looked around, and the piercing sirens still kept ringing, and there was only a little room for rest between three consecutive beeps. No soldiers were seen mobilizing, but some noisy voices could be heard from the buildings further away, probably organizing evacuation. But "Himeko" just stood here without any reaction, with no desire to take refuge or prepare for battle.

"You are not Himeko."

Bronya said firmly.

The corners of Himihu's mouth raised slightly, and he asked softly:

"When did I say that I was Ji Zi in your mouth?"

Bronya was speechless, but Xier and Meiyi were confused by what she said.

So, she added with a smile:

"The relationship between me and the Jizi you call me is probably the same as that between you and the Dr. Mei I know, and between you and the Xi'er who died two days ago. They are just peers in a parallel world. "

"parallel world?"

"Peer?"

"I am already dead?"

The three girls were each shocked.

Himihu raised his chin slightly. There are not so many fools in this world. Parallel world is a theory that is easily accepted by people and has become a bad idea. In addition, Kevin and Hua have mentioned more than once their experience of getting to know Aponnia in the intrinsic world in the world bubble before the fourth collapse. Therefore, regarding the existence of parallel worlds, and the relationship with the intrinsic world in the parallel world, Himihu himself has thought about the existence of the corresponding counterpart in the world more than once.

Of course she didn't act so indifferent in her heart, but surprise was not an emotion that had to be expressed through actions or words.

Of course, there was another reason, because the situation at that time did not allow her to be surprised. She had more worries and worries, things that worried her more than anything close to a scientific miracle.

She was silent for three seconds, expecting that person to appear within these three seconds, but unfortunately he didn't.

So she was as disappointed as Hua before.

"Forget it, although I don't know how you three little brats came here across the distance between worlds, let me explain the current situation to you first - did you hear the siren? Xi'er, you seemed to be aware just now. It’s here, isn’t it? It seems that there are Herrschers in your world.”

"The Herrscher?"

Meiyi was stunned, but Bronya was not surprised, but she replied coldly and proudly:

"We are humanoid weapons trained to fight against Honkai and the Herrscher."

"Really, but so are they."

Himihu replied with a smile.

"them?"

"Well...but what should he say..."

She ignored the girls' questions, but lowered her head in frustration, stroking the sunflower buds with her fingers.

Aren't you going to show up yet?

She was completely disappointed.

"It seems that all I can do today is watering."

Himihu smiled miserably and said words that the three girls could not understand.

But fate seems to like to play tricks on people. Just as she was disappointed, there was the sound of sunflower branches and leaves whirling, swaying, and even being trampled behind her.

Of course, there was also that familiar voice that sounded at the same time:

"team leader!"

Sorry, I overdid my argument again. This chapter should not have been so short.