The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

In the vast sea of ​​​​fire, the girl's existence is so out of place.

The black hair has indeed turned into white hair, but it is different from that comrade. Even the whitest part seems to have a faint blood seeping out of it, until the ends of the hair show a fiery red.

Hua stood alone among the ruins, her chest rising and falling slowly, and she didn't care even though the air around her was filled with fine dust particles.

Occasionally, soldiers wearing anti-entropy uniforms would pass by her. Some would hold instruments and tools and form a team to participate in the search and rescue work in an orderly manner. Others would just have empty hands, desperately scanning everything around them, letting silent tears fall. Two white marks were drawn from the dirty cheeks; of course, there were screams, moans, and shouts, holding simple tools, or just relying on their own hands, facing the ruins that human power could not shake. They dug frantically until dark blood flowed out from the ruins and spread all over the ground, and then they began to cry in despair.

But the girl who was supposed to be responsible for the mission of "saving mankind" just stood, stood alone, and stood without saying a word.

Nothing was done, and naturally no help was offered.

Some of the soldiers coming and going simply ignored her, but most of them, when they saw her, would unconsciously show prayer in their eyes.

She had witnessed so many such eyes in the past five thousand years that at this moment, she actually found that such eyes could no longer touch her heart.

Maybe it had never happened before, but she always confused those looks. Looking at every pleading look, she would always unconsciously think of herself in Canghai City, so in the beginning, she would never ignore that look.

But in the end it was numb. After all, she had too few things, and a certain person's weight in these things that could be called "owned" was too heavy, too heavy.

No, the reason that prompted her not to lend a helping hand to these humans might not be numbness. In the past, even if her heart was really numb, she would do her best to respond to the humanity that was destroyed by the Honkai Impact under the constraints of her "mission".

I'm afraid it's because...

No, I don’t want to think about it any more…

Lies are always beautiful, but the truth is embarrassing.

Yes, although most of the surviving warriors saw the scene of her heroic battle with the indomitable giant, she knew that she was not innocent.

In other words, she is also the culprit responsible for the anti-entropic Salt Lake City base becoming the way it is.

Of course, this did not refer to an unintentional mistake during the battle, but that she had known that things would turn out like this, but she still chose to indulge him.

"Hua, promise me something, okay?"

"Um."

"Next, I will soon become the enemy of the whole world, so I hope you..."

"You want me to stand on your opposite side and become a hero to defeat you together with everyone, right?"

"...Well. I'm sorry, I can only spend this half year with you."

"Then you should also know that this is...a cruel thing."

"sorry."

"I'll do as you say. Just like before."

"..."

"But in exchange, stay with me for one last month."

"good."

In this way, the [mission] was temporarily forgotten, in exchange for a month-long, or only a month-long, and in the end, it was not a very happy time.

Not even a final goodbye. However, at least I left my own space in time in that dying heart.

Is all this worth it?

"magnificent."

The faint call from behind made people feel numb all over, and they began to panic unconsciously.

Fortunately, she was no longer the girl who didn't understand anything. She calmly buried her feelings and then turned around slowly.

"Mei, you're okay."

"Is it possible that you are saying this because you hope something will happen to me?"

The index finger gently pushed the lens, Mei squinted her eyes, and there was a faint smile on her lips - it was hard to imagine that with this expression, she still sounded the same tone.

"No, I asked a little too directly."

"Pfft——"

May laughed an emotionless laugh.

Hua sighed secretly in his heart, and his voice couldn't help but become lighter:

"This kind of temptation is really annoying - I admit, I know all this. Mei, if you want to treat me as an enemy, please feel free to do so."

"Nothing like that."

Logically speaking, this should be a calm narrative, but Mei forcefully inserted some intonation into it, as if announcing the return of [sensibility] in this way.

"Hua... Hua, let's put it this way. Whether it's you, him, of course Kevin, or even myself... we are all just a bunch of fools. Even if the concept of [destiny] itself has changed, But what we do still strictly follows the instructions of fate, because...a person's character is his destiny. If you know a person well enough, it is not possible to predict every step he/she will take just by relying on your imagination. impossible."

Hua's lips moved upward slightly, followed by a heavy sigh, and her eyebrows furrowed.

"I see, so you are saying this just to tell me - are you and I considered accomplices in a certain sense? Uh..."

The knot between his brows quickly eased, and as Hua spoke, he understood Mei's true intentions.

It's just to tell her, "You are not the only one who allows such things to happen", so the guilt in your heart can be dissipated to some extent.

"But...I did it because...because..."

Hua turned his head and said, "Mei, why did you do this?"

"The answer is not difficult to guess, isn't it? The ending that that idiot wants is not simply to defeat him. What he wants is the most ideal and romantic ending. The least, the least, is for all mankind to be able to Together, instead of being scattered like this, I just think that such a future is better, and it is indeed that kind of future that is more likely to be successful. At the same time, it is also that kind of future that Alicia likes more. The price paid for this is less than 10,000 lives in the Salt Lake City base, which is quite cost-effective.”

"You still... haven't changed at all."

Hua's smile became increasingly bitter, but she didn't feel qualified to laugh at Mei. Compared with the mistakes she made purely because of her "emotional", Mei's choices based on her "rational" judgment are easier to understand emotionally.

"Then... Hua, you will be our companion in the next battle, right?"

Mei took her hand out of the pocket of her white coat and slowly handed it to Hua.

Hua stared at the hand for three or four seconds, and then held it tightly.

"It's just like 50,000 years ago. In this way, we can complete our mission soon."

"Um."

Mei responded softly, and the two finally no longer stood face to face, but walked side by side among the ruins under the broken moonlight.

"However, I came to you not just to talk about this matter."

"Is there anything I can do for you?"

If it had been 50,000 years ago, this sentence should have been "Is there anything I can do?" Time will always change too many things inadvertently - when this sentence blurted out, whether it was Hua or Mei, their hearts There was an indescribable emotion in them all.

"Kevin just had a dream."

"Um?"

Hua was stunned for a moment, then asked tentatively:

"Is... the commandments have been released? Without the commandments, Kevin would not be immune to mental attacks, but the power of the Herrscher of Knowledge is not in my hands. Even if this were not the case, the power of the Herrscher of Knowledge cannot reshape the commandments. "

"No, that's not what I meant."

Mei took a deep breath.

"Although it is unclear when and how the commandments were released, if the disappearance of the commandments is not targeted at Kevin as an individual, but has a wide-scale impact..."

Hua Wei looked sideways, and for the rare moment in her life, she saw the cold sweat falling from Mei's forehead.

"Huh... I used the commandments to prevent Mebius from fully resurrecting under the influence of the Shersha factor. If the commandments are released, it means... I originally wanted to find Su who was comforting the soldiers, but Since I met you first, so..."

"I see."

If you want to confirm a person's existence in such an environment, there is no more convenient method than spiritual perception.

There was no refusal, nor was there any need to ask why Mei wanted to [kill] Mebius in the first place. Hua just instinctively obeyed Mei's order just like fifty thousand years ago, closed his eyes, and sank his consciousness into his heart. With this, The special connection between the embodied body and the singular point of imaginary numbers calls out the Herrscher of Consciousness:

"Xiao Shi, lend me your power for the time being."

After a second, amidst the noise, a careless voice sounded:

"Huh? What happened? This is the first time you have begged me. No, I have to make some demands."

"what would you like?"

"Call me [Ms. Great Herrscher of Knowledge], and I will make an exception and lend you one-tenth of your power."

"Okay, great Lady Herrscher of Knowledge."

"No - Old Antique, you - how could you agree so simply? How could you agree so simply? Don't you know how to bargain?"

"..."

"Forget it, it's really boring, take the power - just this once!"

Sighing softly, a smile that was not quite appropriate could not help but appear at the corner of his mouth. Hua turned his head and whispered:

"found it."

…………

The moonlight is sometimes obscured by thick clouds, but even when passing through those gaps, the moonlight appears sluggish due to congenital deficiencies.

The same ruins, the same moonlight, everything is very similar to the beginning, very similar... that night in Canghai City, the night when I faced death for the first time.

The whole body is soaked in black mud - although I say so, in fact, the so-called [whole body] is still just the head, neck, and chest and abdomen.

The dark mud flowed out from the ruins like dark blood, and then flowed to her side, slowly condensing, and pieced together her body.

Mei had kept her body intact. Mebius knew this, but not long ago, the rules that bound her were suddenly released, but before he could open his eyes, he experienced death again.

Even though her death was thick enough to fill a book, it was indeed the first time that her entire body was crushed into broken flesh.

What happened?

This is probably... the base of anti-entropy, right?

Which Herrscher can destroy the underground base like this?

The brain and heart are the first parts to be revived, and are also the essential core of life. However, probably due to insufficient blood supply, Mebius's thinking is still a little slow.

It wasn't until he opened his eyes again to look at the big hole in the sky that Mebius seemed to remember something again.

"So that's it...it's you..."

He was the one who broke the rules for her, but that was the end of it.

He didn't take her away, didn't come to see her, and didn't even leave a few words in her mind.

This is not heartless. Mebius understands it very well. Because Mikael is a fool, he has absolutely nothing to do with the word heartlessness, so...

"You are really an idiot. Do you really want me to be your enemy... Really, I finally became smaller again, idiot... idiot..."

The torso and most of the internal organs had been fully recovered, leaving only the limbs. The black mud was forming faster and faster. After a while, the hands and feet finally got rid of the feeling of trying hard but not getting any response. state.

"Mei, this guy has become so lazy, haha..."

Of course, Mebius could never forget, nor could she forget the original grudge. After her body had almost recovered, she quietly waited for Mei's arrival.

It's just that this time the wait seems to be longer than before. The sporadic shouts from around prove that there are still people, but for Mebius, she is like being in the wild prairie at night, surrounded by There were torches that flickered on and off, but those torches were more like enemies than objects to seek help from, but no matter what, no one seemed to notice her at all.

For a normal person, he should run away at this time. But Mebius... no longer knows where he should go. Mikael hoped that she could be one of the people who killed him, but she had already sworn to him that she would never betray no matter what others did. This was one of the few promises she had made in her long life. Unfortunately, she had neither the habit nor the intention to break promises.

As for running back to the Paradise and being a bystander, she really couldn't do this. Instead of being stuck between the three options, letting Mei rediscover her and then kill her again seems to be the best option. But before that, she felt that she still had some things to confess that she had not had time to say last time.

However, people who control destiny have such a bad taste. Not long after Mebius had such an idea in her mind, she heard the footsteps gradually approaching her.

"Huh, finally here."

The corners of Mebius's mouth twitched, and he managed to put together a smile amidst the severe pain of body reorganization. However, the next moment, a voice that was not Mei, but was indeed very familiar, sounded not far away:

"Medical team! There are new wounded here!"

"Wait, this voice is..."

Mebius turned his neck with some difficulty, and saw an overly conspicuous fiery red in the dark night.

"Tsk——"

Fortunately, just when Mebius had wrapped his body in black mud and began to consider his next move, Mei's voice came too late:

"Wait a minute! It's okay Jizi, that wounded person is a bit special, just leave it to me."

"Eh? Dr. Mei will handle it personally... Hua, you are here too."

"Well, Himeko, leave it to us."

"Uh, okay."

Seeing that fiery red figure walking aside to make way for two familiar figures, Mebius let out another "pop" and turned his head back.

The footsteps approached, stopped, and finally with a "clatter", a white coat covered her body.

"Tsk, you really care about me, Mei."

"It's nothing, I just don't want to see the child naked."

"..."

The corners of Hua's mouth trembled, and then he was forcefully flattened, and his face turned away.

Mebius held the collar of his white coat with one hand and sat up expressionlessly.

"I thought you would kill me again the first time."

"Mebius...you are really...stubborn..."