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Honkai Impact 3rd
"Everything in the Honkai world is built upon Honkai energy. Without the almost omnipotent Honkai energy, your world and our world wouldn't be that different."
Mebius looked at his memory and chuckled.
Mebius's memory watched her silently.
"Oh, right, there will be a lot of people coming to the Honkai World later."
"At that time, we couldn't manage so many people."
"Chaos is inevitable. We can suppress it for a short time, but once our Honkai energy is depleted, chaos will reignite, and the future of humanity in the Honkai world will likely end at that moment."
"Perhaps some will survive and live tenaciously, but what will humanity become after a few generations? Just monkeys that look like humans."
"Perhaps eventually, these monkeys will develop civilization, but that will only be the beginning of a new cycle."
"It's a memory of Möbius," Möbius said coldly.
"Hmph, giving up so easily?"
Möbius nodded.
"I'm not you. I'm just a very realistic, ordinary person. I don't have that kind of belief or strength."
"Wait, there must be some other way..." Alicia's memory didn't want to see this scene. How could it be so sudden, that human civilization was about to perish?
“Yes, there is, that’s you,” Mebius suddenly said.
"For some reason, the 12th Herrscher seems quite interested in Alicia. Her true identity is truly intriguing."
"But none of that matters anymore, Vilvie, we should go."
Möbius sighed and looked at Vervie.
The two nodded.
"Wait!" Alicia's memory tried to hold on, but the next second, Paradise of the Past shut down, and all the memories inside stopped at that moment. Perhaps it was the end? Because no one could restart Paradise of the Past.
The Pure Land of the Past needs maintenance. Without any maintenance, the device that stores the data of the Pure Land of the Past cannot resist the erosion of time. A hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand years is enough for the world to change drastically and for the stars to shift.
In the Honkai world, Mebius and Velvet left the Moth of Fire base and came to the city where people lived.
At this moment, people were bringing the awakened people over from the jars. Many people felt pity, but also gloated, because these newcomers would suffer in this apocalyptic world just like them.
Meanwhile, in the virtual world, at St. Freya Academy in Canghai City, Shenzhou, raging flames are gradually rising.
This also includes the anger of the entire nation.
Chapter 351 Rising Flames (3)
Ai's calculations were actually quite accurate. The warheads on the seven ballistic missiles were indeed just relatively weak bombs, and the casualties caused to St. Freya Academy after the seven ballistic missiles fell did not exceed one thousand.
Shenzhou failed to intercept the ballistic missile in time, and ballistic missiles that have entered terminal velocity are almost impossible to intercept.
No one in the world could have imagined that an organization not only possessed ballistic missiles but also suspected nuclear warheads, and that it had actually launched them.
Even if the ballistic missiles launched are not very powerful, it would only thoroughly enrage China and have no other significant meaning.
Five minutes after St. Freya College was attacked by ballistic missiles, China's special forces launched a direct airdrop towards Firemoth's base in New Zealand.
At the same time, strong electromagnetic interference directly cut off the signal throughout New Zealand.
This surprised Mei somewhat.
The ongoing live stream was thus abruptly ended.
"Dr. Mei... Dr. Mei"
At this moment, Mei also noticed that Ai's condition seemed a bit off.
"The main...main...program...is...being...cleaned up."
Ai's voice was intermittent.
"Love clothes?" Dr. Mei asked tentatively.
However, she received no response.
"BOOM!!!" The door to the base's main control center was blown open with an explosion. May and Kevin were just about to activate their self-ignition devices when two bullets struck them.
May and Kevin then discovered that they could no longer move their bodies; the bullets that hit them had instantly paralyzed their bodies, though they remained conscious.
May and Kevin weren't sure if they could leave the virtual world if their bodies were imprisoned, but for now, the only way to leave was by suicide.
But at this point, neither May nor Kevin could move, and they couldn't even commit suicide.
Suddenly, Mei realized that there was nothing in front of her. The door to the main control center had been blown open, but Mei did not see anyone.
However, a few seconds later, Mei realized that it wasn't that there was no one in front of her, but that she couldn't see them.
May and Kevin were suddenly lifted into the air, and they both felt someone grabbing them, and their eyes were covered.
The two were thus taken away from the base in New Zealand by unseen beings while their bodies were under control.
When May and Kevin regained their sight, they were surrounded by a group of unknown individuals wearing metal masks.
The two discovered that their tongues had returned to normal, and they could speak normally again.
"A Chinese?" Mei asked.
She wasn't sure if this person was from China, but she highly suspected it; it was just too unexpected.
May has always believed that China would not deploy special forces for at least half an hour after the attack.
Ai was also constantly monitoring the special forces of various countries in New Zealand.
These are certainly not all, but May never imagined that less than 10 minutes after the attack, Ai's main program seemed to have been wiped out, and that May and Kevin were captured by an unseen special forces team.
No one responded.
Mei was then taken to a pure white room while still conscious and injected with some special drugs.
After being injected with the drugs, Mei knew what they were.
A man and a woman, both wearing masks, entered the room.
"Who are you?" the masked woman asked.
"plum"
Mei blurted out her name uncontrollably.
What was your purpose in attacking St. Freya Academy?
"Awaken all Fusion Warriors and find the Twelfth Herrscher."
The masked man next to her was recording every word Mei said, and also recording all of Mei's voices.
Under the influence of the truth serum, Mei revealed everything she knew, including memories from her dreams and those from the virtual world.
Mei's body in the virtual world was that of an ordinary person. Although her consciousness was strong, it was already broken and tattered, and she had no ability to resist the interrogation in Shenzhou.
It was indeed Shenzhou's special forces that killed Ai and deployed the stealth troops to capture Mei and Kevin. In order to deal with the 'Fire Moth' organization, Shenzhou had, of course, spared no expense in the past year to pull out all the trappings and do everything possible to capture Mei and Kevin and kill the artificial intelligence Ai.
In a sense, May and Kevin were successful in thoroughly enraging China. When they were truly determined to do something, nothing could stop them.
However, Shenzhou really did not expect that what Mei was going to do was to directly launch a ballistic missile to awaken the so-called fusion warrior.
The launched ballistic missiles did not cause much casualties, but their target was extremely precise from beginning to end: other Fusion Warriors. The hijacking of the world's networks was also to attract attention in order to find other Fusion Warriors.
Approximately seven hundred people died as a result of the attack by those seven ballistic missiles, including Su, Fu Hua, Padofelis, Sakura, Gretchen, and Kosmo.
Apart from Alicia, everyone else died on the spot during the attack and went to the Honkai world.
After May and Kevin were taken away, Möbius and Velvet did not find May and Kevin appear. Although they were somewhat concerned, they did not care what May and Kevin were doing.
Anyway, according to the plan, all the fusion warriors except Alicia will reunite in the Honkai world. As for the others, they are purely incidental and necessary sacrifices.
While May and Kevin were being taken away for interrogation, in the Honkai world, Mebius, Velvet, Eden, Thousand Calamities, and Aponia were bringing all the other Fusion Warriors except Alicia to the Firemoth base.
When Aponia saw Gretchen and Kosmo, she hugged them with great tenderness. Gretchen and Kosmo were both very young and were completely disoriented when they were exposed to all of this.
When Gretchen was held in Aponia's arms, feeling the warmth of Aponia's embrace, tears slowly slid down Gretchen's cheeks.
"Mom," Gretchen murmured unconsciously, her memory still stuck on the moment when Blanca and she were blown up together.
Kosmo, standing nearby, was also stunned, unable to recover from the memory of himself and his friends being blown up.
The sight of Gretchen and Kosmo made Aponia feel even more sorry for them.
Su, Ying, Padofelis, and Fu Hua are all adults and have a slightly higher capacity for acceptance, but that's about it.
When they arrived in the Honkai world, they all remembered their memories of the Honkai world, but these were just memories and did not mean that they were people of the Honkai world, at least that's what everyone thought.
Su stood up silently, looking at the scenery outside the Moth of Fire base. Her hands were clenched into fists until they turned white. When Su was attacked, she did not die immediately. Instead, in her dying moments, she saw the hospital where she worked completely collapse, burying many doctors, nurses and patients.
Sakura's eyes were somewhat crazed, yet a trace of clarity remained deep within them. When the attack occurred, she still remembered protecting her younger sister Rin beneath her. Sakura herself had died, but her sister Rin should still be alive. Sakura bowed her head, praying that her sister would be safe and sound.
Padrephilis sat silently, motionless. She didn't shed tears, and her face was expressionless; however, her heart was already dead. Her classmates, so many of whom had been so kind to her, were dead. The place that had given Padrephilis the warmth of home was utterly destroyed.
Fu Hua was also incredibly confused and grief-stricken. She was the quickest to react; so many people were dead, so many innocent people, a group of people in the prime of their lives, just like that. Fu Hua suppressed her anger and desperately wanted to demand, "Why?!"
"To avenge the Honkai," Mebius said directly to the Fusion Warriors who had just arrived in the Honkai world, perhaps sensing their thoughts.
"Hmm, that's a very sophisticated and natural reason."
"Revenge is only natural."
Mebius hummed softly.
"What kind of revenge is this?!" Fu Hua stared at Mebius, each word distinct.
"I don't know. Anyway, May and Kevin are dead, I'm dead, and so are you all. Everyone should be dead by now."
"Our existence is probably just a source of amusement, a source of amusement that is noticed by the true Herrschers."
"To be honest, I'm quite tired."
Mebius leaned lazily against Vervie and spoke indifferently to the crowd.
No one responded for a moment.
The fusion warriors who had just arrived in the Honkai world were all at a loss as to what to do.
“I’m tired too,” Velvi poked Mebius’s cheek.
Velvi truly felt exhausted. The other seven consciousnesses within her continued to urge her on, but Velvi was already weary of it all. She was simply herself; there had never been any other consciousness. Velvi lived in a happy and fulfilling family, with parents who were well-mannered and educated—everything was so blissful.
She was accepted into her dream school, St. Freya Academy, and had a bright future ahead of her, so why... why did it turn out like this? She should have been filled with joy and living a happy and peaceful life, but why did it turn out like this?
Everything was destroyed.
"Do whatever you want, I'm tired and I want to sleep," Velvi said to the group, then got up with Mebius and turned to leave.
Eden left with them; in this apocalyptic world, there was no need for a singer who could only have been born in the glorious era of humankind.
Qianjie glanced at everyone quietly, then left in silence, without following Vervi and Mebius.
Aponia was still taking care of Gretchen and Kosmo, but seeing their dejected and heartbroken appearance, Aponia's already dwindling spirit died as well. Yes, everyone had already died long ago.
When Velvi and the others arrived in City 1, they could see people taking care of those who had just arrived in the Honkai world next to the jars outside the city.
But who will take care of these people who have been struggling to survive in the apocalypse for a year?
Even though it appears calm on the surface, the entire human settlement is actually filled with a deathly despair. In this post-apocalyptic world, there is no future.
"Come on, everyone who's feeling tired," Mebius's voice came through the makeshift broadcasting equipment to everyone's ears.
"Let the flames rise"
"Let civilization be buried"
Let everything end in light and brightness.
Silently, the people followed Velvet and the others to the city center of City 1, where a massive Honkai energy nuclear bomb was quietly waiting to be activated.
Before activating the nuclear bomb, Virvi spoke her last words to the humans who hadn't followed.
"There are still two nuclear missiles that haven't been activated. Anyone who needs them can activate them. The activation code is 55555."
Vervi entered the activation code for the nuclear bomb.
Eden sat on the swing nearby, humming a song softly.
"It's time for a good night's sleep."
"Um"