The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

The future... what is the word that corresponds to the future... called?

He has a clear mind, and there are no problems with his intelligence and cognition. However, at a special time, in a special place, facing a special person, someone needs a longer time to barely capture the person who is so special to human beings. the concept of--

past.

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"Ah! Oh no, no no! Ah Hua is missing!"

The shouts of her friends chased her back along the straight street. The girl dodged and turned into the alley. The sharp shouts were quickly dispersed in the warm wind of the summer night.

"Carol..."

"Ahua! Ahua! Where did you go... It's over, it seems to be really lost. Should we report it quickly... report it to Captain Hen?"

The voice of her friend chased her relentlessly. Her friend was the first and only friend of the same age that she had made since childhood.

The master's apprentices didn't treat her badly, to be precise, they took good care of her, but that kind of care was a little bit like "Girls shouldn't practice these things" and "Master can coax her well." "Can you introduce more about the relationship?" and "How can she, a girl, practice better than us? Where should we put our faces?" and other distracting thoughts.

Girls of the same age don't like to talk to her even more, "You eat too much, more than boys, you are...", "Well, you see she eats in a hurry and eats a lot, it's just like..." , "Why are your hands so hard? Oh, let go, don't touch me, it hurts"... The world of children is very simple, there are not so many colors mixed in black and white, as long as they show their connection with the group Her "differences" often lead to rejection by everyone. Even if she deliberately left her hometown to study in Canghai City, thousands of miles away, her efforts proved to be in vain.

Only Carol, among her peers, was the only one who thought that her martial arts skills from elementary school to adulthood were very cool, and she was the only one who could face her terrible appetite with a smile, and also considerately share some of her portion with herself.

But just now, just a minute ago, she made a decision that might be said to betray Carol.

She wanted to leave the Fire Chaser, she wanted to leave here without anyone knowing, and without anyone being implicated.

Because she was going to chase another person's back.

Why do you do this... Why do you do this...

Staying in Fire Chaser, the instructor named Hen and Captain Himihu both said that as long as they are willing to stay in Fire Chaser, given their age, they will probably be placed in logistics and civilian positions that are not dangerous, and every month The amount of the subsidy is not small. Even if they don't stay, the Fire Moth promises to solve their future education and housing problems, and will give them a considerable amount of compensation in one go...

But now, following her impulse... gone, all gone... Fire Chaser will probably list her as a missing person, and if she can contact her father, she will give him double compensation... Of course, this is the best case scenario...

Father...still...

Is it too late to regret it now?

"Ahua! You should answer me, Ahua!"

Carol's shouting was getting closer... This guy said he wanted to go back and report to Captain Hen, but at this moment he still didn't just leave her alone...

Hua leaned her back against the wall. The rough wall stung her a little and made her feel a little itchy.

She covered her cheeks hard, and her body slowly slid down, but this trend had just begun. The man who had been standing beside her since she turned into the alley, but had never said a word, took her arm. His arms gently lifted her up.

But such a gentle gesture was not considered warm to Hua. Instead, it made her feel excited, as if she had finally had to face the fact she was afraid of -

"You...are really Mikael...right?"

"yes."

"But... I heard them say that you were dead... and they even held a funeral for you..."

"...Aren't you going back? Carol is calling you."

Even though he had already revealed his identity, Mikael still pushed his hat down. Hua wanted to laugh at his cover-up behavior, but when she thought about how she was full of random thoughts but didn't dare to speak, she felt that she was too embarrassed to say this.

"Go back, Hua. For you, staying in Fire Chaser is a better choice. You are still young, too young, so..."

"I won't go back."

Hua rarely used a decisive tone.

"Don't be angry, go back."

"I won't go back!"

"You...I'm leaving. If everything goes well, we should be able to meet again in a few years."

Mikael had nothing to explain and no time to explain. He planned to leave directly. If he left like this... Hua would not be able to catch up with him.

But at the moment when he turned around, Mikael only felt his sleeves falling down - helplessly turning around again, Hua pinched his sleeves with both hands, and begged cautiously but unwillingly:

"Mikael, don't leave me...Mikael, take me with you."

His vision was trembling slightly, and every muscle from his eye sockets to the corners of his eyes was trembling.

Whose?

Of course...both of them.

Quietly, the moon, half of which was missing, moved to a position just sandwiched by the houses on both sides. The fluorescent moonlight shone along the gap above the head, gently grazing Mikael's face. The profile of his face finally fell gently on Hua's cheek.

The light in the azure eyes kept moving, like gently swaying waves. Despite this, Hua's hands did not waver at all. She just stubbornly grasped Mikael's sleeves, no longer speaking, but never letting go.

"Why are you doing this... You obviously don't understand anything until now, but you still want to follow me... Just trust me so much?"

Mikael's tone became gentle unconsciously.

Hua's face twisted to one side. Some words don't need to be said.

At the moment when she passed by Mikael, countless possibilities flashed through her mind, countless possibilities that conspiracy theorists like the most. Without exception, Mikael was subconsciously put in the position of a victim by her.

This is a bit strange.

To be honest, how much does she know about Mikael? The two had met only a few times before. Not to mention why her trust in him has reached the point where it has surpassed the credibility of the Fire Moth, why would she rather leave Carol and go with Mikael?

At that time, she couldn't answer this question, and she didn't even dare to think about it.

Perhaps, as Mei said, there is no meaning in this world, but if a person wants to survive in this cruel world, he must find something meaningful to himself.

And for reasons that even Hua herself couldn't explain at this time, she tied the meaning she was pursuing to Mikael.

"Who is talking in front? Hua? Is it you? Answer me quickly!"

Carol's voice was gradually approaching. Hua only heard Mikael laugh softly, and then asked gently:

"It seems to be Carol, she is your... best friend, right? Do you want to take her with you?"

"You agreed!"

Hua was so excited that her hands that were originally holding Mikael's sleeves shook, and then she tightly grasped Mikael's wrists.

But after a moment of excitement, she had to calm down again.

"No... Carol's parents have news that they are coming to Moth City. Let her stay."

From any angle, this is an impeccable reason for considering others, but Hua can't explain it clearly. Is she afraid to meet Carol?

Or does she think from the bottom of her heart that a girl like Carol who is loved by everyone and lively and cheerful should pursue a completely different meaning from her gloomy girl with strange hobbies.

In fact, no one can tell, but the past cannot be changed.

Looking back from the distant future, at this moment, the distance between Carol and Hua is less than 20 meters, and even if they walk a few steps forward, they can hear their conversation clearly.

If Hua suddenly regretted it at that moment, or hesitated for a few seconds, perhaps there would be no subsequent entanglement between the two.

Of course, the word "entanglement" must be put in quotation marks. The reason is that the relationship between the two has never been complicated. In the next five years, there has never been a disagreement between the two - the latter may really happen, after all, where in the world are there two people who have exactly the same ideas from beginning to end? But even so, there was no doubt that the two had never had a tit-for-tat exchange, or even a quarrel.

If the alley in Canghai City was the place where the two met for the first time, then this dilapidated alley in Moth City was the place where they would inevitably reach this point 50,000 years later.

At that moment, Mikael just rubbed Hua's hair, messing up her carefully groomed hairstyle, and then gently and forcefully held Hua's hand and said to her:

"In that case, thank you for your trust, Hua. I will take you to save the world!"

With this promise that was not a promise, the two figures quietly disappeared in the alley.

As for why Hua began to realize why she was looking for meaning in Mikael, it was half a year later.

Yes, half a year later, in the snowfields of Siberia.

On the day they arrived at the village where Qianjie was.

"Remember that day, Mikael."

When thoughts returned, not to mention memories, even the scene of the heart lake began to disintegrate. The two people's consciousness returned to reality. The closed clouds and the blood-red lightning surged together. The thunder was like a long drumbeat, gently tapping the eardrums of the two people, and also made the originally tired consciousness regain its spirit.

"A lot of things happened that day, and you also said a lot to me, but the most important thing is that you told me a common point between us-compared to other people, we have too little."

Hua raised his right hand to block the bangs that were constantly blown by the wind, but his left hand approached carefully, and finally naturally and lightly placed on the back of Mikael's hand.

"It is precisely because you have too little, so even when you lose something, the pain you feel is much lighter than that of ordinary people. Because of this, you often don't know what you are fighting for, and why you want to protect things that don't belong to you at all.

"But Mikael, you are different, you can do this. This is something I can't do, don't understand, but I look forward to it very much. You have never had the peace before the collapse, a happy family, and a school life that makes people smile when they recall it, but you are willing to fight as a Herrscher, who is supposed to destroy the world.

"I watched with my own eyes as you became more and more painful during the battle. Your confident smiles became less and less, and you spent more and more time in silence and daze. In the past, I would smile and encourage you every time you met me. Later, as long as I didn't Whenever I open my mouth, you always walk past me in a hurry... Not to mention, when all this accumulates to the extreme, the moment it explodes...

"But even so, you still haven't given up the fight. What is it that drives you to keep moving forward? At what point do you have to stop? This is to understand your original intention, and then..."

Then, no one ever deliberately guided this relationship, and the relationship between the two did not suddenly grow rapidly at a certain moment, but slowly, slowly, unknowingly got closer, closer, and closer again, By the time Hua realized it, there was no cure.

"So, Mikael, I understand what you mean. In your eyes, if you accept my heart, you will accompany me into the future. This will make you shaken and make you want to give up for fifty thousand years. Everything you insist on, because if you continue on the original path, you will be shattered to pieces, but I don’t think you need to dwell on this - we have enough memories of the past for many years, so I don’t actually know whether there is a future. care."

Mikael suddenly laughed, but turned his head sharply, not daring to look at Hua again.

"But, Hua... have you ever considered the consequences of not letting go of the future? I only have a few months left. I will create a new world for you that can heal the pain of the past, but there is no such thing as a new world in that new world. There is no place for me. Today, we will act as if nothing has happened. You will regain everything you have lost in the new world, but if today... Hua, this kind of thing is too cruel for you, why bother pursuing it? What about something that will soon cease to exist?"

"Is it cruel?"

Hua bit her lip tightly and asked:

"Then do you think these fifty thousand years have been cruel to you? Wasn't it cruel the moment Alicia said to you, 'Live on'?"

"It is precisely because I have experienced such cruelty that..."

"Since you can endure such cruelty for fifty thousand years, I believe I can do it too!"

"magnificent……"

"Besides, Mikael, I can't look back. Letting go now is the regret of never getting anything, and continuing is the regret of gaining and losing. Which regret is more regrettable?"

Mikael was silent.

Suddenly, a red thunderstorm tore through the thick clouds, but the thunder was as faint and faint as a slowly falling feather.

The sun shines through the cracks in the dark clouds, and something seems to be stuck on the eyelashes, refracting the sun into a variety of colors.

It was only then that Mikael realized belatedly that he was being hugged.

Hua hugged Mikael tightly from the right side. Her embrace was stiff. Mikael struggled instinctively, and she suddenly tightened her arms with such force that she almost broke Mikael's ribs.

"Mikael, let me stay by your side. Even if it's only a few months, even if it's only a few days, a few minutes... I want to see with my own eyes, to see you who, like me, had too little from the beginning, How far can you go for something that doesn’t belong to you?”

"..."

"And...and I can see that you are...very...very lonely right now, right? No one can talk to you about your worries, and no one around you knows about everything in the past...You can take me with you, like this Have these problems been solved?”

"..."

"If you are afraid that your determination will be shaken because of my relationship, I can actually try to supervise you..."

"..."

For some reason, Mikael took a deep breath, but was unwilling to answer.

As Hua talked, her heart became more hesitant and sad. She kept finding new reasons, even reasons she didn't believe in, to try to persuade Mikael, but the latter just smiled and remained silent, saying nothing.

For a moment, Hua collapsed.

She hugged Mikael tighter, her throat choked with sobs, and somehow she shouted the same words as she did fifty thousand years ago:

"Mikael, don't leave me...Mikael, take me with you."

The silence continued to spread, turning into darkness in his consciousness, almost swallowing Hua up.

But suddenly, Mikael spoke.

But before speaking, she held Hua's hand.

"Okay, I promise you."

"Really...really?"

"You've already said that you don't want the future...then I can only keep fooling around."

The corners of Mikael's mouth formed a beautiful "U" shape, and his smile was genuine. Only his brows were wrinkled uncoordinatedly, and there seemed to be something shiny hanging on his eyelashes.

Feel? Feel nothing.

There is no excitement of "finally XXXX", nor can I feel any excitement.

In fact, even the final response was extremely dull, lacking in waves and conflicts, which made the Herrscher of Consciousness on the side look sleepy.

But this is how Mikael and Hua get along.

There has never been a real gap between them. He understands everything she wants to express. She can always interpret what he wants to say in advance. The two people just slowly get closer and closer as time goes by. But because there has never been a real gap, the relationship between the two changes so slowly no matter when and where.

Their relationship seemed so good that they could be together at any time, which would not make either of them feel awkward or surprising to others, but they always felt that something was missing, something was missing, something that neither of them could clearly explain.

Like an asymptote, infinitely close, infinitely close, infinitely close, behind it was the sadness of never being able to intersect.

Fortunately, there were so many tragedies in this world, so they finally had the opportunity to intersect.