The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

The blue-purple shadows rise and fall like waves, rotating endlessly.

These words seem a bit redundant, because they are waves, waves that belong exclusively to the quantum sea.

In the center of this wave, two men, who were clearly complete strangers, said that word in unison:

"Long time no see, Sue."

"Long time no see, Mikael."

For Su, this reunion could indeed be called "long time no see" - if the Mikael in front of him was mistakenly regarded as "the Mikael of the past".

And for Mikael, why not?

Although he is just a reflection in the world bubble, the world bubble also comes from the real world, or it was peeled off from an original world in the battle, or it is a world that has died.

Mikael couldn't tell which situation his original world bubble belonged to. If it was peeled off from the original world, then the time in this world bubble should continue to advance along the time of the original world. It should not be possible that 50,000 years have passed. , it’s still right when it collapsed for the seventh time. However, whether the time flow speeds of the world bubble and the real number world are consistent is another question that cannot be verified.

Therefore, he is more inclined to believe that he comes from the reflection of a dead world. Originally, this was impossible. He was very aware of his own uniqueness. In a word, if "he" had already existed in a world that had already died, then the world of real numbers that Su was familiar with was in front of him. Who is Mikael in the movie?

However, since "he" has become the end, it can indeed explain all this.

After all, it's the end, so it's not surprising that he can do anything.

Mikael even suspected that the attack against him "not long ago" in the "imaginary number space" might have the shadow of the end afterwards?

Why should I kill myself! But after thinking about it carefully, Mikael felt that this was indeed something he could do.

"Are you done thinking? If you don't speak, it will be difficult to continue the communication."

"Communicate...I don't think there is any need for communication between us."

Mikael sat back into the "Tide" and picked up the First Herrscher core.

"Of course, if this is what you want, there is no need to talk about it at all, I will just give it to you."

Mikael threw it casually, but Su did not pick it up.

The blue gem streaked across the side of Su's cheek, but he remained indifferent. He just took a deep breath of non-existent air, and then sat down opposite Mikael.

"Mikael..."

"Huh? As promised in advance, I'd be very happy if you were willing to talk to me, a dead person, for a few more words. However, if it involves matters involving your original world, I don't think I have the position to intervene."

"Dead man, is this what you think?"

With his eyes closed, it was somewhat difficult to find anything that could be called an "expression" on Su's face, but Michael didn't care.

As he said himself, he is a dead person, and the world that belongs to him has long since died. Now he is just a shadow lingering in the quantum sea with the power obtained by "reflection".

The intrinsic world and so on, that is also Su's intrinsic world, so what does it have to do with him.

"well……"

Su sighed again and stood up with his hands on the ground.

His expression was neither sad nor happy. Only from the lowered corners of his mouth could one get a glimpse of the unspeakable disappointment.

"Mikael, how long do you plan to escape...?"

"escape?"

Mikael sneered.

"escape?"

He repeated the word loudly.

"Hahaha. There must be someone to escape from. Where to escape from and what to escape from? Please tell me, what does escape have to do with me?"

Just as Su's lips parted, Michael's hoarse voice directly spoke back his words:

"Does everyone think that I escaped all the way? From the beginning, I could obviously take Alicia and leave without caring about anything in this world. What? It's the First Herrscher who escaped the collapse. Does bad control have to save the world? Isn't it a kind of arrogance and self-righteousness to try to save a world with one's own insignificance, regardless of whether the world is willing to be saved?

"No, you might..."

"Did I say something wrong? In every Honkai Impact event, I didn't risk my life to fight. Why should I be denied the crime of escaping? Even this time... Even this time, what did I do wrong? ? Who would have thought that the Seventh Herrscher would be born just a few days after the sixth collapse! If I don’t vent any emotions and clock in, train, eat, and sleep like a normal person, will it be the opposite? Will anyone think I’m cold-blooded?”

"..."

"Or do you think my handing over the Herrscher core to Mei is an escape? Why is this an escape? When I can't master this power and haven't been able to do it after trying all afternoon, handing over the core to Mei is an escape. Isn’t it a better decision to give it to Mei! Isn’t it more selfish to hold on to a Herrscher core that you can’t use for the time being?”

Su had given up the intention of interjecting. He knew the reason why the Michael in front of him had lost his mind, because even that world bubble was chosen by him personally. The world bubble that has been reincarnated again and again during these seven days.

Those were the seven most vulnerable days for the man in front of him in these long 50,000 years.

Although his battle with Honkai has lasted for nearly nine years, and he has witnessed the sacrifice of familiar people in the past, Su has also heard Ai Li mention the orphanage when they were young... but Seele is different.

Su got a lot of words from Aponia. For Mikael at that time, Seele's incident itself did not mean as simple as "a person Mikael loved died in front of him". It was a deeper level, a tragic failure of resistance to fate, and the despair that followed.

To be honest, Su... can actually understand this despair.

Indeed, apart from the fact that their civilization has been destroyed, Su's life is actually quite smooth.

He received the notice of his parents' death in a temporary shelter 57 kilometers outside Changkong City. It was the thirteenth day after the end of the third Honkai. The efficiency of the United Government was quite high. In order to prevent the spread of the Honkai virus, his parents' bodies were burned locally. He did not even see the ashes, and only received a disaster subsidy of 50,000 yuan issued by the United Government.

He still remembered that time, he stood in the temporary shelter full of crying and wailing, looking at the people around him who were either seriously injured, disabled, or lying on a corpse and crying loudly, or quarreling with the military police who were preparing to forcibly cremate the corpse, but he did not feel much despair and sadness.

He had all his limbs intact, and did not have to face the pain of his relatives leaving in front of him. As for his deceased parents, after all, he did not even see their ashes, and just thought of them as having gone on a long journey and would need decades to reunite, so he felt much better.

Now think about it, in the temporary shelter at that time, it was probably only people like him who could remain quiet - a group of people who were not very lucky or very unfortunate, but at least numb enough.

Compared with most of the heroes he knew, his life afterwards was still... It can't be said to be smooth, but at least it can be called... less painful.

His two most important mentors survived to the end, Director Farr and Dr. Spasi, they are still alive and well now - squandering endless time in the beautiful paradise built by the paradise of the past.

As for loss, he could be considered the one who had experienced the least among the heroes.

But he felt that he could understand Mikael's despair at that time.

This was not a kind of condescending self-righteousness, but a real understanding.

Just like a patient he had taken over when he was a doctor in Brindi City.

That patient was originally judged to be hopeless, and even Director Fal did not think it was necessary to treat him, but under Su's bold treatment and medication, the erosion of the collapse energy was reversed for a time.

Even though 50,000 years had passed, Su still remembered the ward round before leaving get off work that evening. He sat in front of the little girl's bed, regardless of the risk of infection, and held her right hand full of purple erosion lines. The girl's consciousness was much clearer than when they first met, but her body was still weak. She half sat up with the help of the bed, her eyes reflected the color of the sunset, and she chattered with Su about everything she wanted to do after she recovered.

Walking out of the ward, Director Fal and a group of colleagues surrounded him and celebrated quietly. After all, no one had expected that a hot potato would become the first case of collapse that might be reversed.

Su received the news that the girl had died in her sleep at 2:03 a.m. the next day.

Although the two people's situations were not completely the same, Su felt that the despair of Mikael when he watched Xier die in his arms and the despair when he was woken up by the phone ringing in the middle of the night and received the news of the girl's death were at least 10% similar.

It was only 10%.

Although he had experienced it once 50,000 years ago, after such a long time, Su still didn't know what words he should use to comfort his comrades.

He didn't come here to do this.

He used to be one of the kindest people, but now he has no choice.

If possible, he is willing to give the other party freedom, or even liberation. He also knew that he was not qualified to lead this strict stranger in front of him to a path that the other party might not want to embark on. But in order to save the world, he had to do something against his will.

"Heh..."

He sighed softly, his thoughts were long and musty, and the time in front of him was only a moment of sighing, but in this short moment, Mikael had already rushed in front of him.

Su opened his tightly closed eyes a little, but he didn't think Mikael would hurt him.

The Mikael in front of him was still the reflection of the person he was familiar with. When he was angry, sad, and desperate, he might hurt others objectively, but the existence of a person was a kind of harm to others, and his subjective will never wanted to hurt anyone except himself.

"Su, don't you believe it, Su! I'll show you this! I'll show you this!!"

"You——"

Su took a step back. Although he had some psychological and physical resistance, he had to use his spiritual power to intervene at this point...

"Why are you hiding from me, Su! Who is running away!"

Under the crazy roar,

"Enough, Mikael! Stop messing around."

Su's hand pressed on Mikael's shoulder, the movement was slow, but unexpectedly heavy.

"You care... is this called nonsense..."

"No, I was referring to something else all the time. And Mikael, you..."

"..."

"You actually understand everything, so you used this clumsy performance to lead the topic to another matter, making me unable to speak. Isn't it?"

"..."

The objects of aggression and silence were reversed, and Mikael's self-inflicted injuries quickly recovered with the reconstruction of the power of the First Herrscher. However, not everything in this world can be reconstructed back to its original appearance with the power of reason. of.

"So, I still have the same question - Mikael, when do you plan to escape?"

Mikael took a deep breath and his voice became calm again, but not so calm.

"Indeed...indeed...indeed, indeed, indeed indeed! I am not a fool...hehe, why am I not a fool...hehehe...Su, is it interesting? Let them enter my place from the very beginning. That world bubble, including Xi'er being accidentally drawn into the quantum sea, and now you standing in front of me... are all just step-by-step plans. It's not that I don't understand what you are thinking, but..."

"but?"

"Why!"

Mikael grabbed Su's shoulders with all his strength and roared with all his strength:

"Tell me why! Why should I, a reflection of my past, have to bear the mistakes of my future self in another world? Why?"

"Ah……"

Su closed her eyes again.

In the end, Mikael clearly refused, although due to the tacit understanding between the two parties, Mikael had already expressed his refusal with practical actions before Su could even speak...

However, it is not just as simple as needing him to do that thing, he is also "my reflection" to Mikael. If he just escapes, it will be a better result. What if it is the worst...

It seems that we can only resort to some coercive measures with great reluctance. Although this is not the first time he has used this so-called "forced" method. It is said that some things will go wrong countless times once they get off to a bad start, but Su doesn't feel this way at all...

Su's shoulders shook slightly, and he took five or six steps back. After a certain distance, he slowly raised his left hand.

"If you have a choice, I don't want to force you to make any decision. But, I'm sorry, whether it's us or you, everyone living in this world, in fact, there is no way to escape. ”