The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Mei Mei! Don't go to the cafeteria! I heard that a new fried chicken restaurant has opened in the snack street behind the school. Let's go and try it!"

His hand was pulled forward, but looking at the familiar back in front of him, his body felt no resistance.

The roads in the academy are spacious and bright, with brown-red floor tiles beneath your feet. Every 100 meters you walk, you will pass an arch made of white marble. There are emerald green shrubs on both sides of the road, the noise of the lawnmower floats in the distance, and the fragrance of green grass is still thick in the air.

The blue sky is high and far away, and even the hanging white clouds don't seem to be something that can be touched with just these hands.

It’s not just the blue sky and white clouds, the white marble reflecting the sun is like the white snow on a sunny day in March and April, with the potential to blind people’s eyes. There were still small dazzling light spots on the floating shrub leaves. When I squinted my eyes carefully, I discovered that they were water stains left by the previous sprinkler.

Not to mention the girl in white clothes and white hair in front of her. Her whole body seemed to have a ring of light, leaving a blurred track in her movement.

Even her voice had a certain sharpening feeling, like an arrow shot from afar and grazing her ear - everything was like a distant and false phantom, an untouchable dream.

However, there are indeed things that can be grasped.

Meiyi held Kiana's hand forcefully.

It's really strange, knowing that this place is not reality, but still unwilling to leave voluntarily.

"Kiana, stop eating out! You had bad food and diarrhea two days ago, and you buy games with Bronya every day. Is the allowance really enough..."

"Enough is enough! At worst, I can ask my aunt to make an advance payment!"

Kiana turned her head while running and stuck out her tongue playfully.

"Besides, I took Mei Yi with me just because I was afraid that the outside would be unclean!"

"This has something to do with me..."

"As long as Meiyi secretly learns other people's techniques and cooks them for me, then I don't have to worry about hygiene issues and I don't have to spend money!"

"Uh... okay, okay."

"Yeah! Mei Yi is the best to me!"

The entire arm was hugged tightly by the excited girl, but Meiyi just smiled casually and picked up Kiana's sleeves.

"Kiana! When you were in class... forget it, I'll buy you a small portable pillow next time. All the saliva flowed onto the sleeves, and it's hard to wash... Hehe... Hehehehe..."

As he spoke, Mei Yi also hugged her shoulders and laughed.

This is obviously a story from when I first arrived at St. Freya... I never expected that those daily routines that seemed ordinary, boring and troublesome would turn into a dream that I didn't want to wake up to three years later.

Just smiling, she found that the people around her disappeared.

"boom--"

The huge arch shattered and collapsed, and there was no flame around it. Only the wind blew scorching air waves and choking smoke in front of us. The bricks and tiles under his feet were broken, and Mei Yi walked silently to the scorched earth aside. Every step forward, she could step on carbonized bushes.

Does Saint Freya look like this now?

No, how is that possible?

Mei didn't speak, didn't think, didn't shed tears or be surprised, and didn't even deliberately look for Kiana.

She just cleared her mind and kept going, and going.

Finally, she saw the familiar figure in the ruins.

The girl who obviously preferred braids let her hair down and was suspended in mid-air with her back to her.

But when she turned around and revealed her bright yellow eyes, Mei realized that this was not the girl she was familiar with.

"What a pity you're late."

A familiar face and a slight smile, but the smile was full of ridicule.

She opened the rift in space with her bare hands, pulled something out and threw it in front of Mei Yi.

Mei lowered her head silently. At her feet was Kiana's body covered in purple lines.

"Make a decision quickly. If you continue to hesitate, either I will take over this girl's body, or she will be unable to withstand the strength of her core and die of Honkai Disease. Raiden Mei, is this the future you want to see?"

"I see."

Biting her lower lip gently, Mei closed her eyes and opened them again. The ruins, Herrscher of the Sky, and Kiana no longer existed, leaving only the undecorated beams and the low chirping of sparrows outside the window.

The corners of his eyes were open for only three seconds, and then closed again under the incomparable soreness.

I just lay there quietly for a while, and the sparrows outside the window kept making noises for a while.

After a while, Mei Yi opened her eyes helplessly.

I couldn't sleep anymore, but the sleepiness was still invading my mind.

She slowly got dressed under the quilt and lay there in a daze for a while before slowly getting out of bed.

First, he rinsed his mouth with the remaining tea he made last night, and then wiped his face with the cold well water.

There was silence outside the house. Taixu Mountain’s morning exercises started much earlier than St. Freya’s morning reading, so there was more than enough time. Besides, she didn’t need to participate in the exercises that Taixu disciples had to clock in. She could definitely burn a A pot of boiling water and a good rinse.

It’s just that I’m not in the mood to do so.

Besides, compared to the warm water, the biting cold water is obviously more sobering.

After wringing the towel and hanging it on a shelf nearby, Mei Yi opened the door, and the cool breeze from the mountain top rushed in with fresh air, but only to this extent, it was far from dispelling the confusion in Mei Yi's heart.

"call……"

As his chest rose and fell, the turbid air accumulated in his body all night was exchanged with the clouds and mist in the mountains. The sky above the head is not the blue in the dream, but is wrapped in thick night. Only a little light leaking from the east mixes the sky there with the gray clouds into one color.

It’s still early for sunrise. Meiyi walked back into the house, then took some cold water and slapped it on her face. Her thinking was indeed much smoother. At least she knew what she should do now... no, what she could do now.

Take out the potatoes, carrots and black pepper that you ordered last night from the antique-styled refrigerator. She also laid out the kitchen utensils that had arrived last night. After checking them all, she put the peeled potatoes in a pot and added water to steam them. After the water boiled, she scooped some out, mixed them with cold water, and controlled the temperature. , then mix in the flour together with the yeast.

If it was Kiana, she should have already guessed what she was going to do... When she thought of this, Mei couldn't hold her lips down.

pity……

When the air outside the house gradually became noisy, Yayi wrapped the finished product in oil paper, then wrapped the oil paper in a cotton coat, and jogged all the way to a path beside Taixu Mountain to sit down.

The uneven bluestone floor was covered with overnight dew. After sitting for a long time, a wet coolness soon climbed up the tailbone.

The air behind him was noisy and lively, but the sea of ​​clouds in front of him was so quiet that it didn't even stir up any waves.

The sleepiness returned unknowingly. Before Mei could see the sunrise among the sea of ​​clouds, her head kept nodding downward until she fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.

…………

"Hmm...ah ah ah ah ah... Well, since the death of Mr. and Mrs. Chen, the meat fillings in his steamed buns have become less and less, and the price has increased by fifty cents... If it were this girl, Why don’t you just raise the price by one dollar without reducing the filling? Who needs such a small amount of money these days? Don’t you think so, kitten?”

"Uh...hehehe, Sister Sushang, our name is Pado..."

Padu was still wearing the same black robe as before, hiding the organs that were not "human" under the fabric. There was a plastic bag hanging on her finger, and she held a bun obediently in both hands, biting it in small bites. It really looks like a kitten eating.

Compared with her, Su Shang's eating appearance was much bolder. She wrapped the bun with oil paper and held it under her arm. As for the bun in her hand, it only took two words to say, and only the last handful was left covered in gravy. The buns are skinned.

"Speaking of which...Sister Sushang, is it really okay for you to miss the morning practice like this? Although we are very grateful to you for accompanying us down the mountain, if you are found lazy by your disciples, you won't...well, you should be fine, right?"

If anyone who is familiar with Padu is present, they will be able to recall the words she swallowed - "Sister Sushang! You will not throw all the blame on me in front of the disciples, saying that I seduced you down the mountain and then You missed your morning practice!”

Unfortunately, there was no such tacit understanding between Su Shang and her, and she also encountered new troubles——

"belch!"

"Sister Sushang?"

"Hiccup-hiccup-"

Paduo quickly and sensibly held Su Shang's shoulders and patted her back gently. But Su Shang just waved her hands and refused.

"Hiccup - no need to burp - look at my burp - my girl's burp -"

Su Shang held the last bite of bun wrapper in her palm, and while patting her bulging chest with her left hand, she lightly hooked her index finger, and then stopped in place.

"belch--"

The wind suddenly picked up and swept across the forest beside the path. Countless dewdrops jumped up from the petals, green leaves, and roots, merged in mid-air, and finally flowed into Su Shang's mouth.

"Gudu-ha! It's better now!"

"So...so powerful! Is this Taixu Sword Qi!"

"Yeah! It's quite convenient! I just can't let my mother and master see it, otherwise they will have to chase me and spank me."

Smoothly throwing the bun skin flattened in her palm into her mouth, Su Chang began to respond to Pado's previous question.

However, her words sounded like a fellow-minded person to Pado:

"This girl has sneaked down the mountain not once or twice. How many people on Taixu Mountain don't know this trail? Even if the disciples sneak down the mountain, the elders turn a blind eye. Let me tell you secretly. , Dare to sneak down the mountain, is also part of the sect's assessment. After all, we call ourselves people in the rivers and lakes, if we don't dare to sneak down the rivers and lakes, what's the point? And this girl is the current leader after all! Sect leader! If the leader doesn't even have the privilege of staying in bed, how can he encourage ordinary disciples to climb up? I just need to show up before they finish their morning training. It’s not that no one has mentioned this problem, but it’s a pity that they don’t live as long as this girl.”

"That's right, Sister Sushang!"

Looking at Padu who wanted to give a thumbs up and applaud at the side, Su Shang grinned.

"Besides, if this girl hadn't appeared in time last night, what would you have done?"

"Ah? This, this, this... we just came out to look at the stars!"

"Do you need to wear a black robe to see the stars?"

"Aren't we afraid that the disciples on Taixu Mountain will treat us as some kind of monster and kill us! Sister Sushang! You can't bear to wake up early in the morning and see a disciple come to you with our head in exchange for a reward... …”

"I think you are more likely to be taken to the Sword Hall and hand over all the stolen goods obediently..."

"How is that possible? Hehehe... But Sister Sushang, what is the sword-wielding hall you have been talking about? When we came to Taixu Mountain five hundred years ago, there were only Ahua and her seven apprentices here!"

"ha?"

Su Shang's smile froze.

"That... little... little Pado, what did you just say? Did you... come to Taixu Mountain five hundred years ago?"

"Yes, at that time, something happened in Australia, which is what you call the South China Sea. We flew all the way to tell Ah Hua in an aircraft. Later, Ah Hua drove our aircraft and took seven of his apprentices to the South China Sea to kill him. I killed that Honkai Beast... Sigh, I don't know if our big villa in Nanhai is still there, and our aircraft. Ah Hua hasn't returned it after using it..."

Every time Paduo said another word, a drop of cold sweat would appear on Su Chang's forehead.

[It’s over, it’s exactly the same story as the master and mother told. I heard that the master's real name is Hua. When he went to St. Freya Academy, his pseudonym also took the Chinese character. Couldn't "Ahua" just refer to the master... Then wouldn't she... It's over! My mother and my master will be going to Taixu Mountain in the next two days. If they find out that this girl and Pado are brothers, they will definitely be accused of disrespecting the immortal master. A public execution! ! ! 】

"Ahem!"

As expected of a person who has lived for more than five hundred years, Su Chang immediately stopped her smile and looked at Paduo with a serious face.

"Miss Paduo, you must be very tired carrying the buns! I will help you carry them!"

Pado opened his mouth wide and his strange-colored eyes widened to the maximum extent, as if he was completely confused by this sudden change in attitude.

She looked at the two solitary meat buns in the plastic bag she was carrying, and then at the meat juice that had not been wiped off the corners of Li Suchang's mouth. She seemed to understand something and shook her head warily.

Seeing her alertness, Su Chang was stunned for a moment, and soon realized that the girl in front of her was in a sense the same type of person as him.

She couldn't help but chuckle, and took the oil-paper package under her arm into her hand. She reluctantly stroked the smooth oil-paper with her fingertips, then gritted her teeth and handed the oil-paper package to Padu.

"Ah hahaha, although I am the head of the sect, it will not be good if the disciples see me holding the buns I bought from Yamashita. I would like to trouble Miss Paduo to deal with it!"

"Really, really! Then you're welcome!"

A golden light suddenly emitted from Paduo's eyes, and she hugged a package of buns tightly in her arms.

"Ahem! Miss Paduo, this mountain road is quite long! Are you tired from walking up the mountain? Do you want me to take you to fly with a sword?"

"Then, that, that... forget it, we are a little afraid of heights..."

"Then I'll push you from behind!"

Su Chang deliberately took a step behind, stood behind Padu, put her hands on her back, and exerted a little force. Padu felt that she was almost flying up the stairs up the mountain, and even landing on her feet became a luxury. .

"Slow-a-point-ah-"

Suddenly, at the end of his sight, which was the end of the path, Pado saw a figure.

"Stop, stop, stop! Sister Su Shang, you are going to hit someone!"

Meiyi opened her eyes amidst the noise, rubbed her eyes with her fists for no apparent reason, and then felt the light in front of her eyes dim, and two familiar figures stopped in front of her.

Paduo obviously didn't exert any force, but he supported his knees with his hands, panted heavily, and kept tapping his heart with his hands.

"Oh my god, the speed just now made our heart beat out."

Her exaggerated movements could not help but attract Ya Yi's attention. Su Chang took the opportunity to look at the bamboo forest behind Ya Yi, where an unnamed elder stood.

The moment the elder saw her, no matter how much he concealed it, he could not suppress the embarrassment and helplessness on his face, but he quickly nodded and left here consciously.

Su Shang then turned back her gaze.

"Hmm...your name is Raiden Mei, friend of the Second Herrscher?"

Of course Su Shang knew that the girl in front of her was once a qualified candidate for the Third Herrscher. But since the core of the Third Herrscher is no longer in her body at this time, it is better to use the normal name.

But it's obvious that Mei Yi can't accept this title - not herself.

"Kiana...she is not the Second Herrscher. As long as her consciousness is still awake, she is not the Second Herrscher."

The voice was relatively high-pitched when it sounded, but soon became deeper again.

Su Chang fell silent. She knew that the reason why the girl in front of her lowered her voice was not because of a guilty conscience, but because Kiana's fate could be said to be completely controlled by Taixu Mountain at this time. To be precise, it was in the hands of her, Li Su Chang. That's why she is so cautious, afraid of offending her.

Pitiful.

Su Chang sighed secretly and turned to look at Paduo.

"Um...Miss Paduo, I want to have a private chat with Miss Yayi..."

"Oh oh oh! I understand! We still have to take care of Kiana, let's go first!"

Paduo left faster than the elder, almost in the blink of an eye, and couldn't even find a shadow.

After confirming that there was no one around, Su Chang sighed and was about to sit down on the steps when she saw Mei Yi standing up, beating her numb thighs.

"Hey, be careful!"

Su Chang instinctively wanted to help, but Mei Yi retracted her hand, took out a still warm oil paper bag from her arms, and stuffed it into her hand.

"What does it mean?"

"Well... I heard from Pado that the head of the family likes to eat steamed buns very much. I thought that you might not have tasted a kind of curry stuffed steamed buns from my hometown, so I made a few for you to try..."

Looking at the humble girl in front of her, Su Chang sighed first, a fire surged in her heart, and she wanted to express something fiercely, but maybe she had lived for too long, and this overly intense emotion disappeared in the blink of an eye. All that's left is sadness.

She opened the oil paper bag, and inside were five ordinary steamed buns. However, the shape of the steamed buns was not particularly special. It was a bit bigger than the one she bought before. From the thin skin, you could still see the yellow color mixed with curry sauce.

"Speaking of which, the fillings of stuffed buns have been changing with the times. I remember when I first became the boss, there seemed to be a popular type of sweet stuffed buns similar to five-nut mooncakes, but they are no longer available now. For a while, there were only meat buns, vegetable buns, and bean paste buns. Later, there were some fancy vermicelli buns, tofu buns, and custard buns, but this is indeed the first time I have seen curry buns... Well, you You know, when I was little, I was a very disobedient child."

"Eh?"

Yayi didn't understand why Sushang started talking about seemingly unrelated things, but this did not prevent Sushang from continuing to talk.

"My mother and master were very strict with me. They forced me to get up early every morning to practice. Later, I could even doze off while standing. But you know, when you reach a certain age, you can't help but give birth to... I was so rebellious that I forgot what day it was. I didn’t go to practice Qigong after getting up in the morning. Instead, I ran down the mountain secretly when no one was paying attention. Only when I got off the mountain did I realize that I was a child wandering around the town. In the evening, I happened to meet an old man selling steamed buns. Seeing how pitiful I was, he stuffed me with two meat buns for every sale, and also used a stick to help me drive away the wild dogs that were snatching food. Later, I often slipped away. Patronize his business hahaha.

"Then again, there are people who make steamed buns in the canteen on the mountain, and their skills are also good, at least better than that old man at that time. And the inheritance of the skills at the foot of the mountain is also very unstable. I went out to travel around the world when I was fifteen years old, and I wanted to take him with me on the way back. Luo... I wanted to patronize the old man's business, but I found out that he met a freeloader and made trouble three months before I came back. He got so angry that he got into a fight and was beaten to death. He couldn't even take revenge because that guy had been beheaded by the government.

"But, after he died, a new person soon started selling steamed buns in the town, and his skills were better than his. However, after that person died, his son did not learn his skills, and was squeezed out by another steamed bun shop. I lost my business. When I was thirty years old, my master suddenly gave up his job, passed the job on to me, and went away on his own. My mother and my father had already gone to Sichuan and Chongqing alone. You can't run away on this mountain, so the only fun is sneaking down the mountain to buy steamed buns. It's a pity that in the past five hundred years, the people in that town have changed three times due to the war, and the one I bought this morning has also changed. The new store opened ten years ago, and there are no traces of the past, let alone the taste of the past.

"Oops, I accidentally started chatting too much. In short, when I go to the foot of the mountain to eat steamed buns, it's never because the steamed buns are delicious. No matter how delicious the buns are, I'll still get tired of them after five hundred years. It's not that I miss the taste of the past - The five-nut stuffed buns make my teeth ache just thinking about them, please spare me.”

"ah--"

"Okay, I said some weird things, don't worry about it."

Su Shang patted Mei Yi's head gently, stuffed a curry bag into her mouth, and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Well?"

She quickly took out another one, bit open the skin gently, smelled the aroma, and closed her eyes with satisfaction.

"Hehe, I have to say, what you made is really delicious."

"You...just like it..."

"Snapped!"

Su Shang suddenly patted Mei Yi's shoulder, which made the gentle girl in front of her tremble. Because with this action, the naive and free and easy look in Su Shang's eyes disappeared, replaced by a deep and playful look. .

Meiyi had seen similar looks from two men before, and it was hard not to bring back some bad memories for her.

Su Shang didn't seem to notice this.

"Speaking of which, Leiden Meiyi, you should also understand that if you do this, you won't be able to sway my decision at all, right?"

"I...I know, but I want...at least I hope you guys don't treat Kiana too...well...too..."

"Do we Taixu look so unreasonable?"

Mei Yi didn't know how to respond to Su Chang's words. After seeing the dark side of reverse entropy and destiny, she certainly couldn't think that Taixu Mountain was a gathering place for righteous partners. Besides, Kiana's identity was so sensitive. Whether it's to think of her as an innocent girl or as a Herrscher who brought irreparable harm to the world, it seems inaccurate but neither is wrong.

Seeing that she was silent, Su Chang probably guessed what she was thinking, so her expression became even weirder, and she even showed an indescribable smile.

She lowered her voice and said seriously:

"Let me tell you some good news, Mei. Personally, I support handing Kiana over to Anti-Entropy."

"Ah! That's great..."

"But, for such an important matter, it can be said that it involves the fate of the entire China and the entire world. I can't bear such a heavy responsibility alone, so I plan to summon the master and several uncles to have a meeting to vote."

"ah……"

Seeing Mei Yi's expression change from moved to desperate, Su Shang finally couldn't help but patted her shoulder and laughed softly, scaring the birds in the forest to flap their wings and fly into the morning sun in groups.

"Hahaha! I thought you were a very smart girl, or are you feeling dull when it comes to your friends? Can't you tell? As a long-standing ally of Tianming, it is of course impossible for Shenzhou to directly kill Kiana. Leave it to Anti-Entropy, especially since Youlandale is still here. If we had known, we wouldn't have brought her back, but we really don't think we would leave Kiana, a Herrscher who could fight for humanity, to her. Otto is a good idea, so there is only a compromise.

"My master and several uncles live all over the world. It will take a long time to get back to Taixu. Even if they come quickly, the meeting will last for a few days, and Youlandale can't say anything. As for what we are delaying, ? Of course, they were waiting for Theresa to come. On a quiet morning, the leader of Taixu went down the mountain to buy buns for team building, but the anti-entropy troops appeared directly on the mountain. Use the Eleventh God's Key to control Orlandale, and then you take Kiana with you. We are too weak. We really didn't expect such an unexpected situation, and we are powerless... How about this script? Wonderful or not? Do you think Otto will be satisfied?”