The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Mei Yi is going back to World Snake, aren't you going to see her off?"

"What to give? Forget it, she may not want to see me again now.

"Not necessarily, she has always regarded you as her mother. You...have always regarded her as..."

"enough!"

The secondary base in California was built on the ground. On the top of the tallest building, two figures leaned on the railings and looked quietly at the cemetery next to the base.

The tombstones are lined up one after another, like waves rising unconsciously on the sea. Among them, the only one with someone standing in front of it is particularly conspicuous.

Hua looked at the tombstone from a distance. The only thing she could do was to lower her head and mourn silently in her heart.

It was said to be a moment of silence, but my heart felt unusually calm.

Being calm does not mean not being sad. On the contrary, Hua's nerves that had not fluctuated for a long time were twitching at this moment. There was a huge shadow spreading in her mind, tearing at her nerves in silence without causing any pain. .

Hua knew that this was the two emotions of sadness and numbness acting on his heart at the same time, resulting in even more unspeakable horror.

Just like when a wound is being sutured, a large amount of anesthetic is injected into the wound with a needle, and the pain disappears. However, the coldness of the needle punctured the skin, and the "buzzing" sound made by the friction between the thread and the flesh when suturing the wound is the same as the sticking. The touch is obviously not painful at all, but it makes the hands and feet weak and almost nauseating.

It's probably a coincidence, both Himeko and Himiko once said - death is not terrible, the terrible thing is to make people feel numb to death.

Perhaps this was a curse cast by Jizi's undead for not saving her, although Hua did not believe in the existence of so-called undead.

Compared with her, Mebius is the type who doesn't have much sympathy for the victims. Compared with the passive and numb Hua, as a scientific researcher, of course Mebius has to actively become indifferent. Only in this way can one cruel but necessary experiment be carried out one after another.

So Hua directly avoided Jizi's topic. She knew that among those present, or among all the people in the entire base now, that was the only person that Mebius cared about.

"Whether you are willing to admit it or not, Mebius, you did once entrust that impossible wish to Raiden Mei. This is an undeniable fact."

"……can you speak?"

"I'm sorry if what I said made you uncomfortable, but I promise that what I said is true."

"..."

"And it's not just you who has placed your expectations for [the child] on Raiden Mei. That girl has also placed her expectations on you for a mother she has never met. Of course, I may not need to remind you of this kind of thing. You should understand it yourself.”

Mebius' hand tightened on the railing, but in the end he loosened it weakly, leaving only a mess of rust and paint chips on his palm.

"I understand, but so what?"

Turning sideways, Mebius's body began to expand under the faint white steam, until it was finally a little taller than Hua beside him.

Eight centimeters to be precise, not a millimeter less - she added mentally.

In this case, although it is still not to the level of overlooking, at least you don't have to look up at the other party. Even because of the heat energy generated during the change, the hair and body that had been wet by the rain became dry again.

Hua tilted his head and commented seriously:

"Mebius, your ability to change size anywhere is really useful."

"Can you...can you change a word?"

"Then... Mebius, your ability to grow bigger and smaller is really useful."

"..."

Pouting his lips, Mebius couldn't tell what the kid next to him who always looked serious was thinking.

Was it because of some unspeakable reason that he was making fun of her openly or secretly, or was it just because he was naturally stupid.

Pressing the brittle railing with his palm again, Mebius' tone was a little lonely:

"Sustenance is just sustenance. That stupid girl and I are just placing things on another person that we want but cannot get. This behavior does not have much meaning, and the feelings contained in it are difficult to describe. Go to the truth. And, Hua, in your eyes, am I such a [emotional] person?"

"The side that everyone shows is often the opposite of what they are inside. People who seem very cold may actually cherish every hard-won relationship in their hearts, and vice versa. Of course, if I guessed wrong, then I guessed wrong. Bar."

"Click-click-"

Without a word, Mebius twisted the railing in his palm into a twist.

"Is this really a guess? Or is it the result that the power of consciousness can observe?"

"Which one do you want?"

Hua became rarely tactful.

Mebius took two deep breaths, along with the hair-like raindrops. After a while, she looked at the two remaining figures in front of the tombstone and said word by word:

"Thunder Mei, she is going to be the hero of this world after all. And I am one of the culprits who turned this world into this. It was okay when she didn't know this, but now she must be qualified to contact Most of the truth has been revealed. If I appear in front of her again at this time, won't I cause trouble for her? "

"Causing trouble?"

"Yeah, isn't it what you said? Some people may seem indifferent on the surface, but in fact they really value the people around them. She wouldn't want to be my enemy, even if she knew that I was behind most of the things that Mikael did. Regardless of fate or the will of another person, she must become a hero who saves the world, so if my true form appears in front of her, she will definitely be caught in the conflict between attacking and not attacking. …

"Of course, apart from this reason... why don't you take a look at the atmosphere at the scene? Her little girlfriend needs her comfort. At this time, I suddenly appeared. What if I didn't cause trouble for her? Besides, she should know that I am here. Is she aware of my existence for several days but has never come to see me? Her attitude must be clear. "

Hua sighed inexplicably, which actually made Mebius laugh:

"Why are you sighing? This matter has nothing to do with you. It's better to say that as a [squad leader], how about you not comforting your classmates? Isn't that good?"

When she said this, Hua sighed again and then answered slowly:

"According to the Herrscher of Knowledge, this probably belongs to me... I am older, and I have to read beautiful stories. And... this matter will develop to the current point, whether it is the tragedy at the Salt Lake City base, or Ji I knew about my son’s death in advance, but I didn’t take any action to stop it... I don’t think I am qualified to comfort Kiana.”

"Ouch!"

Mebius yelled exaggeratedly, then waved his hands in an impeccable manner, raised his head and glanced at the rolling thunder and lightning in the dark clouds, and turned away first.

"Let's go, let's go. It's going to rain hard. Only fools are happy to get wet."

Hua did not respond, but followed Mebius closely.

"Why are you following me?"

"I don't want to get caught in the rain either."

Hua's answer left Mebius speechless.

Stepping into the dark and deserted stairwell with one foot, white steam quickly rose from Mebius's body again, and he returned to his petite appearance in the blink of an eye. Of course, all the water in his body was also evaporated. .

Hua, who was following closely behind, was also exposed to the light of heat released by Mebius, and most of the rain on his body dried up in an instant.

She lifted her chin with her fingers and asked thoughtfully:

"Isn't there a time limit for this change?"

"No. This is the Shersha gene patch that I spent thousands of years developing. How could there be such a flaw... Wait, what are you thinking?"

It wasn't until he turned back that Mebius saw Hua's slightly suggestive eyes.

Maybe she was too sensitive, but it didn't matter. Mebius raised his chin provocatively, looking proud of "You can change if you have the ability."

But soon, the two of them looked at each other, as if they thought of something at the same time, and their expressions turned towards sadness forever.

After a long time, it was Mebius who broke the silence first.

"What's wrong? You took the initiative to come to me, but you kept hiding your true purpose until now?"

Seeing Mebius's eyes become sharp in an instant, Hua felt as if he had returned to the dimly lit laboratory, and couldn't help but reach out to hold onto the handrail of the stairs.

The handrails were covered with thick dust, which mixed with the rainwater that had not yet dried on the palms of my hands and turned into something like sticky mud.

【】

As if he felt that such a reaction was too "weak", Hua's five fingers began to move rhythmically, and the stairwell was filled with "ding-dong-dang" echoes for a while. From the perspective of "music", It's not a heavenly sound, but it's a passable work that follows the rules.

Of course, as someone who holds a part of the power of consciousness (meaning that she borrowed it last time and never returned it), and even still retains the core of the Herrscher of Consciousness in her body, it is still possible to add subtle spiritual power to this tune. , but she didn't choose to do this.

Because there is no need to do anything extra.

Sure enough, after a short period of silence, Mebius himself spoke.

"You came to me and temporarily sent away Su who was responsible for guarding me... Humph, in your current capacity, even a fool can guess what you want to say to me - it's nothing more than persuading me and letting me Just like you, we stand on the opposite side of him in the final battle, right? "

Hua looked at Mebius quietly, and then answered slowly for a second:

"Yes, so what's your answer?"

"What? This tone... As if you will kill me here if I choose to refuse. Please, sister, that guy Mei has let me go, why are you still lingering? This is really a fight at that level. , It’s not too much for me to have more, and it’s not enough for me to have one less, why do you have to make everyone unhappy like this?”

Being called "eldest sister" by the woman in front of her made Hua quickly scratch her head in embarrassment, but that was all. She quickly put on a straight face and explained in a businesslike manner:

"First of all, in the final battle, every more person brings more hope of victory. This is not a matter of one more, no more, one less, no less. Secondly, the reason why Mei gave up, and the reason why I don't give up, As you said, it’s because Mei and I look at this matter from different perspectives.”

"Oh? It's interesting. Let's elaborate on the second point."

Mebius leaned against the wall with her arms folded, and she didn't care even if the loose white coat she wore would be blackened by the dust on the wall over the years - it was Mei's clothes anyway.

"Mei is a decision maker, and her judgment is rational. Since you have made up your mind, it is unwise to continue wasting time on you. She only has one chance left to borrow the power of the imprint. Apart from her, none of us can make up our minds to kill you, so she chose to put you under house arrest in a certain sense."

"What about you? What is your so-called different identity?"

Mebius' eyes were full of teasing. She boldly stared at Hua's face with a bit of neutral beauty, and did not forget to "tsk tsk" twice.

No one even cleaned the dust in the stairwell, and the lights were naturally broken after years of disrepair, but her vertical pupils emitting emerald green light still captured Hua's gradually reddening cheeks. As for the action of grabbing the small braid on the right temple, even if you only look at the outline of the body, it is quite clear.

But Hua is not the girl she used to be. The shy psychology also dissipated in the face of the crisis of world destruction.

She quickly straightened her body and answered Mebius with a rhetorical question:

"What do you think?"

Seeing Mebius curl his lips in boredom, she continued to speak.

However, the moment she opened her mouth, her tone became unusually sad.

"Mebius, you must also think that my behavior is strange. Obviously, I also... that him, but I finally chose to become his enemy after the agreed time arrived..."

"What's strange?"

"Ah?"

"It's easy to understand. Everyone has their own ideas in their hearts. If you can't figure it out, just treat it as someone else's brain disease, right?"

"...You just didn't figure it out..."

"Is there a difference?"

Mebius snorted nonchalantly.

"Okay, stop talking so much. Although I have a lot of time, it's not to the extent that I can waste it at will."

Looking at Mebius who suddenly became a little aggressive, Hua had a somewhat absurd but indeed expected guess in his mind.

But the timing was not right, so she quickly put an end to her temptation and continued in a low voice:

"I just think... this is what he expects, or rather, it is one of his many dreams. Compared to dying at the hands of the [hero] of this era, he would probably prefer to die at the hands of the one he loves..."

Hua's eyes swept over Mebius, and she thought he would say something like "Oh, how can you be sure that you are the one he loves" to choke her, but Mebius did not do so.

She even prepared a defense - "The definition of love is very broad, and it may not be what you think."

But Mebius just kept silent, and then suddenly spoke:

"You said this, do you think I don't know?"

"Huh?"

A complicated smile appeared on Mebius's little face.

"Of course I know what you're talking about, but everyone has their own role to play. Since you play the role of [Killed], I can play the role of [Not Betrayed] with more peace of mind." "Who made him so weird? He certainly wanted to be killed by the person he loved, but the pain of betrayal still existed. At this time, there was a stubborn and hard-mouthed guy who never betrayed. He probably thought I was not very good, but he would be relieved." Hua opened her mouth and finally squeezed out only one sentence: "It seems... it is true." After a while, she tilted her head and asked back: "Then am I not a bad person?" "It's good. Only a simple and kind person like you can be so cruel to do such a thing, and it makes people not hate you from the bottom of their hearts." Mobius smiled softly, turned around and continued to walk towards the rooftop where it was raining. "What are you doing? Are you not going back?" Mobius shook his head. "Mei is leaving, I'll see her off. "

"Didn't you say before... uh, how did you know she was leaving?"

Mobius showed a face full of pride, and then stretched out his hand to point to the top of his head.

"The position of the thunder has changed. Can't you feel the collapse in the rain? Although it is very small. This thunderstorm is just a manifestation of the mental landscape of the Herrscher of Thunder. That child is really a fool. She is crying in her heart, but she still pretends to be strong to comfort her girlfriend. She is really... as stupid as her father. "

"Which father are you talking about?"

"What do you think?"

"..."

"Hehe! I can't send her off in person, so let me watch her go. It's really worrying. "

Mobius sneered and pushed open the door of the rooftop again, and then her movements froze.

Mei stood at the door of the rooftop, expressionless, but the rain around her avoided her and flowed around her body into the floor.

After a while, her expression became gentler, but she turned around in time.

"Goodbye, Mobius. "This time, you didn't call me mom." Mobius, who took only 0.1 second to recover to the size of a "mother", whispered, and the voice seemed to be trying to keep her, and also seemed to be encouraging her to move forward bravely. Mei's footsteps paused, and her stilt-like heels disappeared, and her feet were a little distance from the ground. Mobius thought she would say something, but she said nothing, and her figure merged into the roaring thunder the next moment.

In one step or two, Mebius slowly returned to the armrest of the rooftop, watching in silence as the red lightning in the sky got further and further away until it disappeared into the thick black clouds.

"Ah sneeze——"

It seems that I have a cold... Wait, can fusion warriors still catch a cold?

Mebius couldn't remember clearly.

I just felt extremely irritable.

"So annoying!"

She casually broke off the twisted railing and threw it downstairs. The railing shattered on the ground, but the little sound it made was soon replaced by the endless thunder and unrelenting carnival. Covered by sound.

"After working on it for a long time, I actually got one thing wrong."

Catching the deliberately slowed footsteps behind him, Mebius chattered in a daze.

"No matter what time it is, no matter what place it is, no matter what form it is... our era, their era, fusion warriors, herrschers, Stigma Awakeners, ordinary people. Well, even in the end, human beings will always be human beings, just complex creatures that can never abstract the contradictions of good and evil into separate concepts." (End of this chapter)