The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

[On September 23, 2016, a pink-haired woman appeared for the first time in the Cavali Islands in the Northern District. 】

[The next day, the woman appeared in Whangarei, Northern District. 】

[On the same day, a silver-haired man appeared in Cornwall Park in Auckland District, distributed leaflets to the crowd and gave a speech. 】

[On October 2, the two appeared at Hamilton Park in Waikato District at the same time to give a speech. 】

[From October 2 to October 7, the two suspects traveled around various districts, giving speeches, distributing leaflets, and even giving out free tickets to leave New Zealand. 】

[On October 8, the National Security Bureau applied to Tianming for permission to search for identity files. Through comparative searches, it was confirmed that the identity of the pink-haired woman among them was Yae Sakura, from the Far East. The police system plans to arrest him for disturbing the peace. 】

[On October 9, a conflict broke out between the police and two suspects at the Wellington Botanic Gardens. The two suspects escaped police arrest and no citizens were injured. On the same day, it was confirmed that the identity files of the woman named Yae Sakura were all forged. 】

[On October 11, the arrest operation in Palmerston North failed again. More than one million people left the country that day, and entry and exit channels were urgently blocked. On the same day, I applied for assistance from Tianming, but was rejected. 】

[As of October 15, all entry and exit channels were closed, and the number of people leaving the country within 20 days reached more than 3.78 million. I once again applied for assistance from Tianming, but was rejected. 】

"Ying, Su, it's really you two..."

Mikael sighed softly, put down the file he got from Rita, weighed it on his knees, and then gently threw it on the bench.

He originally thought that with the official efficiency, the file might not be of much value, but now it seems that Mikael does not need to search for videos and other information circulating on the Internet at all. He only needs to use this file and combine it with yesterday's What happened can already determine the identities of those two people.

But he couldn't understand, what was the point of doing this?

If they really have a plan behind his back, they should keep a low profile and not let themselves notice it, so that they can have the greatest impact at the most critical moment, right?

Or is this just a warning? But what exactly does this warning tell him? And if it was really a warning, why not tell him in clearer words?

Also, how did they know that New Zealand would collapse soon...

Ah, yes.

Mikael can easily explain this - Su has been executing the Hengsha plan for so many years. There is no human-defined concept of time in the world of imaginary numbers and the quantum sea. The observed world may correspond to the past, the present, and of course the future.

When we summarize the observed possibilities of some future parallel worlds, we will always find that there are some events that are extremely likely to occur. This is the so-called world line convergence point.

So, could it be that they left traces in order to relocate as many people as possible before the disaster?

This is even more impossible, let alone if Mei was the mastermind behind all this, whether she would make such a choice. Even if it was just Ying and Su who acted on their own, with Su's ability, he could completely make everyone who saw him forget his appearance.

So what if it was filmed? Referring to the Eighth Herrscher back then, he could completely set his and Sakura's appearance as "keywords". Even if they were photographed or recorded on video, when the human eye sees their appearance in the photos and videos , and all I saw was a blank space.

Isn't this very simple?

Mikael's thoughts went around in a circle, and finally found that he had come back to where he started.

He held the bench with both hands, and a faint numbness spread in his palms along with the tingling sensation caused by the cold - in the winter, the ward may be warm, but the corridor is windy and extremely cold.

He leaned back on the chair little by little, raised his head, and stared at the round fluorescent lamp on the top of the corridor.

The lights were as pale as ever, and the entire corridor was the same color. Mikael shivered instinctively. This kind of light made people think of the bright white snow in winter when the sky finally cleared up. It seemed very warm, but in fact, as the snow sublimated, the chill became more and more intense. It's obvious.

What's more, such lighting...

One glance always reminds people of the dark night.

This world is so strange. The brighter the lights, the easier it is to think of the dark night. Especially in the corridor outside this ward, the fluorescent lamps are turned on almost all day long, and are only turned off late at night, leaving only a few lights. And once you find that the lights are brighter than before, it probably heralds the arrival of night.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the brightness of the lamp will not change, so if it looks brighter than before, it must be that the environment has become darker.

Mikael pursed his lips, then picked up the New Zealand government report and glanced at it twice. After confirming that there was no valid information, he tore up the paper files and seemingly stuffed them back into his pocket. In fact, it was thrown into the space rift.

Without the protection of His power, these fragile papers are torn into atoms the moment they enter the fissure.

Then, he stood up again and took two steps to the side. He could see the scene in the ward through the window on the wall.

Xi'er was still sleeping quietly, with salt water hanging next to the bed. Judging from the indexes on the instruments nearby, all vital indicators were extremely normal, but she showed no signs of waking up.

Bronya sat beside Xier's hospital bed, holding her hand and silently watching her sleeping face. One of Mei and Kiana was lying on the nursing bed on the other side, and the other was lying on the sofa on the other side of the ward. It seemed that the three girls were divided into three shifts after their own discussion, ensuring that someone would be with Xi'er 24 hours a day. Once Xier wakes up, she can respond immediately.

Of course, this kind of behavior is not necessary from an absolutely rational point of view. There are surveillance cameras in the ward, and critical medical departments like Xier will also have people watching in front of the surveillance cameras. There is no need for them to add such extravagance...

But human beings are called humans precisely because they are bound to do these superfluous things.

It was as if what he did was completely superfluous in relation to what he wanted to get.

Mikael blinked, and another figure appeared in the ward. Bronya seemed to feel something. She raised her head and saw Mikael looking in from outside the ward. Bronya blinked, not showing too many emotions, but quickly turned her gaze back to Xi'er.

But there is indeed an extra figure in the middle of the ward. It is dressed in white. Only the pair of eyes and the bangs on the forehead are dyed flaming red, which looks very much like Yu Duchen's blazing feathers - ah, yes , this was originally a piece of Yu Duchen's feather that Hua left on Xi'er, but now Hua has cast his consciousness on this feather.

She just stood in the middle of the ward, looking at Mikael coldly, but no one noticed her presence except Mikael.

The stare-down lasted for less than half a minute. Hua walked straight towards the window, and stood next to Mikael directly through the wall and window.

"How is Xi'er's condition?"

Mikael leaned down, propped his elbows on the window sill, put his fist against his chin, completely exposing his back to Hua.

As he expected, after seeing his gesture, Hua's attitude softened, and even his words were not so harsh:

"The situation is a bit weird, Mikael. Although it's a little bit to say so...but is it really not you who did this?"

Mikael shook his head without hesitation.

"Perhaps one day I will meet Mei Yi, Kiana, and Bronya Swordsman, but no matter what, I will not do anything detrimental to Seele."

Hua nodded. This was in line with her consistent understanding of Mikael. In other words, this was the Mikael she knew. Of course, more importantly, although Mikael also had the power of consciousness, through Yu Duchen, she could still tell whether Mikael was lying to a certain extent.

The good news is, Mikael wasn't lying. At least not this time.

Mikael did not lie, he just changed the concept secretly-Xie'er and Xie'er are both Xie'er, right?

In such a short period of time, and Hua only regarded the other Xi'er as Xi'er's second personality, it was natural that he could not discover the mystery in Mikael's words.

After eliminating Mikael as a suspect, she began to present her findings.

"Xie'er doesn't have any external injuries on her body. You should have confirmed this. I also used Yu Duchen to check her consciousness. Overall, there is no problem, but... the one that is still in her body Consciousness feels to me...like a phantom."

"phantom?"

"Yes, it's like a phantom... I can clearly feel that her consciousness exists in her body, and I can even feel that the state of consciousness is not injured. But when I want to touch her with Yu Duchen's power When I was conscious...I couldn't touch anything."

"Like Mebius' snake."

Mikael added sharply.

Hua was stunned for a moment, then nodded involuntarily:

"Yes, like Mebius' snake."

The two turned their heads in tacit understanding, and after their eyes met in mid-air, Hua quickly turned his head back, while Mikael smiled slightly.

This was a name unique to their era. In this era, the more familiar name with the same meaning is - "Schrödinger's cat".

"Is it really related to the Quantum Sea?"

Mikael thought to himself. No wonder Hua suspected that he did it at first. If there is only one person in the world who can regard the Quantum Sea as his own backyard, that person can only be Mikael.

Of course, this is not the case. "Xie'er" itself has a high affinity for the Quantum Sea. When Su executed the Hengsha Project, he also borrowed the Second God's Key to create a world bubble called Xumi Mustard Seed and sank into the Quantum Sea to observe the parallelism. world. Moreover, no one on Otto's side or on the Anti-Entropy side knows how far they have reached in their research on the Quantum Sea, but no matter what, if Xie'er's injury is related to the Quantum Sea, Mikael naturally has greater power. suspicion.

But this is also an extremely important clue for Mikael.

"Quantum Sea? Were the three of them dragged into the world bubble of the Quantum Sea earlier? No, it's impossible. Su didn't have time to judge whether their physiques were suitable for the Quantum Sea. To do so rashly was almost equivalent to Killing people. But Xi'er's current state...is she constructing a large environment based on the world bubble, and then pulling the consciousness of several people into it, without involving the physical body? "

Mikael's body had stood upright again at some point. He gently rubbed the stubble on his chin with his right hand, muttering something in his mouth, but his eyes were empty and unfocused.

"Do you have any guesses?"

Hua pursed her lips and interrupted him.

"There are some, but it probably needs to be confirmed."

Mikael did not turn his head. In the ward, Meiyi sat up from the nursing bed. She immediately saw Mikael standing in front of the window.

Mikael waved to her, Mei Yi did not hesitate, rubbed her eyes, turned around and said something to Bronya, and then hurried towards the door.

Hua glanced at him, and Mikael shrugged, as if to signify that the exchange between the two was over.

Hua did not insist, but just when she was about to return to Xi'er's body, Mikael suddenly spoke on his own initiative:

"Yesterday, I met Sakura."

Hua paused in her steps, and a feeling of palpitations exploded in her heart. If this body hadn't been transformed by Yu Duchen's power, her back would have been covered with cold sweat.

But when she turned her head again, all she saw was the back of Mikael's head.

"If they really want to do something, they will definitely contact you... No, maybe they have already contacted you. But Hua, this time, I will not interfere with your choice anymore, no matter what you do like countless times It is your own choice to continue to help me, stand behind me, or confront me tit for tat like Klosten did that time. But Hua, if you choose the latter, I hope that none of us will want it. Don’t be soft again.”

The door to the ward opened, and Mei slowly walked out. Mikael turned his body without leaving a trace, and Hua was no longer behind him.

…………

"drink--"

Hua's upper body jumped up from the bed, just as she expected, her back was completely wet with cold sweat, and even her bangs were firmly stuck to her forehead.

"Did you have a nightmare?"

There was a soft voice next to the bed, and I almost subconsciously raised my hand to punch the black figure, but fortunately she calmed down quickly enough, and raised her hand to move up, licking the long hair on her temples. The movements look extremely natural, especially under the cover of darkness.

She did not answer Cang Xuan's question, but asked directly:

"Aren't you ready to leave?"

Cang Xuan smiled lightly, but did not change anything because of Hua's blunt attitude.

Because from the moment he met her, Hua had always maintained such a cold attitude. Neither took the initiative to drive her away nor gave her a chance to speak.

But Cang Xuan didn't expect that Hua would take the initiative to ask:

"What do you want to do?"

The corners of Cang Xuan's mouth turned up slightly. She hid in Hua's dormitory for three days and three nights, and finally waited for a chance to speak. Even though her temperament was much more stable than her sister's, she couldn't help but be happy at this time.

But Hua seemed to regret it. Before she could open her mouth and utter a syllable, Hua shook her head vigorously in the darkness.

Only a rough outline could be seen in the darkness, but Cang Xuan could feel the air flow brought by the hair as it swayed like a rattle, and even the faint scent of shampoo became stronger.

She wanted to say something, but in the end she was a step too late and Hua beat her to it:

"No matter what you want to do specifically, the purpose of coming to me is simply to make me become his enemy when necessary, right?"

Cang Xuan was speechless and could only nodded, although she didn't know whether Hua could catch such an action in the dark.

But she quickly heard Hua's answer, and there was almost no room for hesitation:

"I agreed."

The task was completed, Cang Xuan felt that maybe he should be happy.

But she really couldn't bear this emotion in her heart. Maybe she also understood that this request... every time she made such a decision, it was a kind of pain for the girl in front of her.

She quickly left through the Second God's Key. Hua looked at the gradually closing space rift and shook his head slightly.

Hua Yu covered his face in the darkness, and tears quickly flowed from his fingers.

Her voice echoed faintly in the room, echoing those words that, for her who had lost too much memory, could not even understand:

"It turns out that I, who was once so helpless, was also a help to you?"

"So, have you always noticed me standing behind you..."

"But...I can't save you. This is really...sad..."

She knew that she made the right choice. For her, both Mikael and Ying Jie were just very familiar strangers. Putting aside these feelings, based on reason, she must defeat that equal. The ultimate man.

However, every cell in my body is crying...

She had the urge to look through all the memories stored in Yu Duchen, but she didn't even have the courage to uncover past memories.

She was afraid that those burdensome memories would make her change her decision.

…………

"So, Mei Yi, what happened when you were unconscious before?"

Mikael asked in a low voice while gently wiping Mei's nose.

The temperature difference between the inside and outside of the ward was too big. Mei Yi slept in a daze and didn't know how to put on an extra coat when she came out. Before Mikael could ask anything, she sneezed several times in a row, all the mucus coming out of her nose. .

Mei Yi silently enjoyed Mikael's concern, but after hearing his question, she hesitated and took the napkin in his hand.

"We... dreamed... maybe it was a dream, right? We dreamed of a very strange place."

"What a strange method?"

"Well... there's a big sister there who looks a lot like Himeko, the monitor, Mebius, and... there's you too."

Mikael's brows relaxed slightly. Sure enough, it was just as he suspected, was it World Bubble?

"Also, it seems that there are Herrschers in that world."

Mikael nodded, this was normal. Su had shown him a parallel world back then, and the conclusion was that the world with Alicia would definitely collapse. Because as the origin, Alicia is a part of the end, and Mikael is the end itself.

Now he also understands that those world bubbles with Ellie and him are all by-products of another Mikael's repeated time interference.

Therefore, it is not a surprise that there is a lawyer.

"What else? Can you be more detailed? This may be of great help in solving Xi'er's current problem."

"Xie'er... seems to be acting a little strange. The big sister who looks like Jizi said that the Xi'er in her world is dead, and Xi'er seems to... know the one you are..."

Mikael's brows furrowed. Xi'er once spent 50,000 years in the Quantum Sea. It's not impossible to accidentally return to a world she has been to before, right?

But the superposition of several keywords gave Mikael an ominous premonition - Himihu, Hua, Mikael, Seele, Herrscher, Mebius...

etc! Isn't this just...

"When you met that big sister who looked like Himeko, what was she doing? Do you remember?"

"Water the flowers? They seem to be sunflowers."

Mei replied without thinking.

The corners of Mikael's eyes twitched twice. Nothing more was said.

It is certain that what is happening in the world bubble is the seventh collapse.

Another Mikael has interfered with time in this world five times. Except for the first time, Mikael suspects that each time interference corresponds to his feeling of prying eyes from the world of imaginary numbers.

Then, less than a week before the seventh collapse, there should indeed have been a time interference, so it does not seem impossible to create a world bubble.

According to the reincarnation time of a world bubble, perhaps it was in the original timeline that the Seventh Herrscher destroyed mankind, which caused another time interference of his own, and the time interference also left such a world. Bubble.

But why did Su deliberately find such a world to soak in?

Could it be that he wants to draw the "Mikael" in that world bubble to fight against him?

That's too ridiculous. The world bubble is just a phantom of the past. A phantom is a phantom after all. How can it be transformed into reality in the world of real numbers?

"Well, Mikael..."

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Mikael's silence seemed to frighten Mei, but Mikael himself didn't yet understand where this fear came from.

"Can you help Wendy? The doctor said... the desire gem has been completely integrated with Wendy. If the desire gem is taken out, Wendy will die. If not... she may die in her lifetime..."

"I understand. Mei Yi is still as gentle as ever. Don't worry, I will find a way."

Mikael patted Mei's head gently, then he stood up and took two steps casually.

"I will try my best, but I need some time to prepare. I may disappear for a day tomorrow."

There is no need to say where he is going.

But whether it is towards Hua or Mei Yi, this is probably the last tenderness.