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She was standing beside the display wall showcasing outstanding students at St. Freya Academy, looking at several black-and-white photographs hanging on it. They included photos of Velvi, Eden, May, and Möbius.

Today is Qingming Festival. Ellie is looking at the display wall with Ellie and Ellie. Around them are other students, all of whom are lamenting the deaths of these outstanding students.

Alicia could never forget them.

They should have had brilliant and dazzling lives, but they were murdered at a young age.

Although Möbius was not young, he was quite young by scientific standards. So much so that in the past, when Möbius attended various seminars, the young and beautiful Möbius always looked quite out of place in the photos taken of the white-haired scientists around him.

Vervi, May, and Eden were indeed at their prime.

"It's time for class." As the school bell rang, Ellie woke up Alicia, who was immersed in grief.

"Hmm," Alicia slowly suppressed the sadness in her heart.

A questioning voice suddenly rang out among the students.

"Hey, what's this weird notification? What is it?"

"That's strange, I got this notification too? It looks like some kind of live stream?"

"What is this? A missile?"

The students looked at the push notification that suddenly popped up on their phones with confusion. Following the notification, they arrived at a live stream room.

The live stream didn't feature anything funny; instead, it showed a ballistic missile being ejected from its silo. Many students recognized the prominent nuclear markings on these missiles.

This strange live stream left the students somewhat puzzled.

"Target: Canghai City"

Suddenly, a synthesized voice rang out in the live stream room.

Immediately, the students of St. Freya Academy were stunned.

St. Freya Academy

"Launch countdown: 30, 29, 28..."

Most of the students at St. Freya College initially thought it was a belated April Fool's joke.

At that moment, a pleasant female voice rang out in the live stream.

"This world is a false world; all of humanity lives in a false world!"

"The Twelfth Herald, through its power, can force all of humanity to live in a falsehood."

"We are the Moths of Flame, and we must awaken all of humanity in the virtual world! To fight the 12th Herrscher, we can only choose the Fusion Warriors who kill the Moths of Flame in this virtual world; only they can fight the Herrscher!"

Then, half of the live stream screen showed the avatars and information of the 12 Fusion Warriors.

The students of St. Freya Academy all looked at Alicia and the display wall behind her.

This sci-fi movie is so weird, she's in it? And there are several dead people in it too? Weren't they killed by terrorists? To have dead people appear in a sci-fi work? That's so rude.

Most students thought the live stream was a fake science fiction film and didn't take it seriously at all.

"How come I have one too?" Padofelis, who was diligently doing her homework in a class at St. Freya Academy, was suddenly reminded by a classmate that she herself appeared in this strange artwork. This puzzled Padofelis, but after only glancing at it a few times, she didn't want to pay attention to it and continued doing her homework.

She worked incredibly hard to get into St. Freya Academy.

"President! President! Look!" In another class, Fu Hua's classmates surrounded her, chattering excitedly.

Fu Hua was also puzzled when she saw the live stream. What was a fusion warrior? This was a concept from some science fiction movie or TV show. But how was her information included?

"Dr. Su, you're here!" In a hospital, a patient lying on a hospital bed suddenly showed the live broadcast screen to Su, who was busy at work.

Su frowned, but didn't take it to heart. The patient's condition was far more important than this strange live stream.

"Sister, sister, what movie did you act in?" In the park, Ling looked at her phone curiously and asked Ying.

"No," Sakura said, looking at Rin's phone with a puzzled expression as she sipped her milk tea, only to see her own profile picture and messages.

"what?"

Sakura opened her mouth slightly. What the heck? Me? What kind of fusion warrior am I? How come I don't know?

"Kosmo is amazing!" Kosmo's friends exclaimed with curiosity and amazement as they surrounded him on the street.

"Kosmo is a fusion warrior? That's amazing!"

"I want to be a fusion warrior too!"

Kosmo's friends were all surprised.

Upon hearing his name, Kosmo blinked. A fusion warrior? Hmm, so my hidden identity is a fusion warrior?

Kosmo suddenly felt excited and thrilled.

"Gresh, did you go to any performance?" Blanca, who was holding Gresh, suddenly saw the live stream pushed to her phone and asked Gresh curiously.

"No," Gretchen, who was drawing in Blanca's arms, said after hearing this. She glanced at her mother's phone carefully and then shook her head.

Just then, Blanca's phone rang.

"Hey, honey, what's wrong?" Blanca asked, answering her husband Hen's call with a puzzled look.

"You have that weird live stream on your phone?" Hen's voice sounded somewhat surprised and uncertain.

“Yes,” Blanca replied, puzzled.

"Everyone around me received a notification from this live stream! Something seems wrong!"

Hen was very worried. At this moment, he discovered that everyone he could contact had received push notifications from this strange live stream, as if they had been forcibly pushed to everyone.

At this point, the countdown in the live stream room had only 10 seconds left.

"These seven ballistic missiles are not currently loaded with nuclear warheads. Although they will hit the vicinity of St. Freya Academy, they will not cause significant casualties."

The pleasant female voice rang out again in the live stream room.

"I hereby demand that Shenzhou hand over these seven people to the Fire Moth! We must awaken all the Fusion Warriors, otherwise the next wave of ballistic missiles will not be without nuclear warheads!"

The images of Su, Fu Hua, Padofelis, Sakura, Kosmo, Gretchen, and Alicia were listed at the top of the live stream. Then, the live stream paused for a few seconds on the nuclear symbol in the middle of the screen. Immediately afterward, the countdown ended and the screen showed seven ballistic missiles being launched into the sky in sequence.

The voice continued to recount the story of the Honkai and the Fire-Chasing Moths.

The bottom right corner of the live stream room turned into a small map with seven bright spots appearing in the New Zealand region. Seven dotted lines flew out from different directions, but their ultimate destination was St. Freya College in Canghai City, Shenzhou.

Everyone connected to the internet worldwide received this forced push notification to the live stream, and hundreds of millions of people saw its content. Most people still thought it was some belated April Fool's Day prank—ballistic missiles? Preparing to attack St. Freya Academy? Such a joke is not funny.

However, people near New Zealand soon saw the launch trajectories of the seven ballistic missiles, and many stared wide-eyed at the trails that streaked across the sky.

At the same time, radars and satellites from major countries around the world detected a high-speed target signal of unknown origin that suddenly appeared in New Zealand.

"Seven high-speed target signals detected!"

"The expected landing location is...within China?!"

Chapter 350 Rising Flames (2)

In the devastated world, Mebius and Velvet sat quietly together.

They are currently in the base of the Fire Moth, while Eden, Aponia, and Thousand Calamities are in an underground shelter in City 1. The humans who came to the Honkai world have already settled down in this abandoned city.

But the situation over the past year has not been very good.

Despite the efforts of Velvi, Mebius, Eden, Thousand Calamities, and Aponia to reassure the people, life over the past year has become increasingly unbearable for them.

Everything around them constantly reminded them that they were in an apocalyptic world.

The source of food and water is currently still the green nutrient solution in those jars; there is simply nothing else edible in this post-apocalyptic world.

Although nutrient solution can provide all the nutrients the human body needs, it has no taste, not even saltiness. People can accept it for a while, but cannot accept it in the long run.

Drinking nutrient solution makes people feel like they're not eating at all, even though the nutrient solution keeps their bodies healthy.

They desperately wanted real food, not these nutrient solutions.

But in this post-apocalyptic world, there are no large plants or animals to be found, only low-lying grass. Some people try to secretly eat this grass, but it still has no taste.

It wasn't just a food problem; people were also looking for clothes that couldn't cover their bodies.

The three abandoned cities were not actually lacking in clothes, but those clothes had been around for a long time and were already rotten and unwearable. Even if they were available, they were barely usable and would break down soon after.

The cities where people live are filled with dust, and in the past year, people have only managed to clear out a very small number of habitable places. At night, they usually have to huddle together for warmth.

There was almost nothing flammable, so in the end, Velvey relied on the core of the Herrscher of Flame from the Judgment of Heaven to start a fire. She used the flames from the core to forge metal pipes as heating pipes, which solved the problem of people's warmth at night.

This kind of life makes many people think that they are actually living in ancient times.

Although Velvet successfully concocted many steam engines with the Herrscher of Flame's core, these steam engines were actually the reason why the Firemoth base was able to restore power. However, the only power source for the steam engines was the flames released by the Herrscher of Flame's core.

The other Divine Keys are either not in this base or are completely unusable; the only way to leave and find other bases is on foot.

Qianjie tried to find other bases, but he had no idea where they were located. He almost got lost and wasted his Honkai energy.

In the devastated, post-apocalyptic world devoid of civilization, Honkai energy is virtually irrecoverable. Even though some Herrscher Cores have been crafted into Divine Keys, obtaining Honkai energy through these cores is beyond the capabilities of Fusion Warriors. On the contrary, using Herrscher Cores requires a vast amount of Honkai energy.

Velvi didn't know how much longer she and everyone else's Honkai energy would last. The Herrscher of Flame's core would soon stop working, as she wasn't a Herrscher and couldn't extract Honkai energy from it.

For humans who once lived in modern times, life without electricity, clothing, plants and animals, and real food was almost unbearable.

They tried to rebuild civilization, but civilization requires material support, and in this post-apocalyptic world, there is no material support to speak of. Without material support, how can there be civilization?

In fact, some people had already tried to commit suicide because they could not bear such a life. It was Eden and Aponia's dedicated comfort that kept people going until now.

However, even Eden and Aponia were exhausted, both mentally and emotionally.

They only feel relaxed when they can occasionally return to the virtual world.

But as they shuttled back and forth between the Honkai world and the virtual world, everyone except Kevin and May gradually realized that they had never lived in the Honkai world, and that everything in the Honkai world was just a real dream for them.

This dream may be able to disappear; no one wants to live in this dream. The real world is where humanity should live.

But in the real world, sometimes we don't need to be so serious.

At this moment, Mebius and Vervière activated a device together, and their consciousness entered a place called Paradise of the Past.

A large virtual world, but compared to the virtual world they once lived in, which was indistinguishable from reality, the paradise of the afterlife was the real virtual world for Mebius and Vervière.

After restoring power to the Moth of Flames base, Velvet discovered the existence of Paradise of the Past. However, this thing also requires a lot of electricity. Without a Honkai energy reactor, the Honkai energy that Velvet and the others used to activate the core of the Herrscher of Flame could not be kept running for very long.

Since discovering the Paradise of the Past, Vilvie and Mebius have only opened it three times.

For the memories in the Paradise of the Past, they never knew what was happening outside. The first time the memories saw Velvet and Mebius appear briefly, they suddenly asked the memories if they could interfere with the Honkai World, but after receiving the answer that they could not, Velvet and Mebius left directly.

The memories could all sense that Velvet and Mebius were not the original beings. The two of them explained that they were ordinary people living in a world that had not collapsed. In addition, they told the memories about the 12th Herrscher creating a virtual world that was completely indistinguishable from the real world.

As for helping Velvie and Mebius? Sorry, the Memories can't do anything but offer verbal support.

“It can’t be sustained now.” The memories of the Paradise of the Past were all gathered around Velvi and Mebius, who had come to the Paradise of the Past. They looked at the memories indifferently.

Although the existence of the Paradise of the Past and the memories within it are amazing, unfortunately, the Paradise of the Past is ultimately just a false existence. It cannot provide any help to reality and instead requires Honkai energy to activate.

Vervi and Mebius are here to notify these memories.

"The paradise of the afterlife will never open again, and we will never return."

"We want to return to our true world, the world that belongs to us."

"The world of Honkai is not the world we live in."

Alicia's memory tried to hold on.

"But......"

That's fine.

However, Velvi did not want to talk to Alicia's memory. She was not the Alicia who was a student of St. Freya that Velvi knew, and the Velvi that Alicia's memory knew was not the Velvi who was a student of St. Freya.

Words can sometimes have enough power to help people persevere.

But humans are ultimately creatures living in reality; they need material things, and when faced with material scarcity, words become powerless.

In the post-apocalyptic, devastated world, there is no civilization to speak of, and without civilization, there is no Honkai energy, so Velvet cannot replenish her Honkai energy.

She knew that she was just an ordinary person, and although she had some special talents, she was ultimately just a human being.

Human beings are sometimes limitless, but sometimes they are limited.

Unfortunately, this happens right now because there are limits to human capabilities.

Civilization will cease to exist, and technology will disappear.

Vilvi knew she was a genius, but not one who could truly change everything; she was just an ordinary genius.

The memories of the Land of the Dead looked at the exhausted Velvi in ​​silence, especially Velvi's memory. She didn't like herself in this state, but she couldn't help. She couldn't change reality or the virtual world.