Kevin, but he is a male mother in Xingtie with little Ai Li

There are always people who say that the longer people live, the more they will feel that everything in the world, including secular values, will gradually become meaningless.

Generally speaking, this is true. Kevin's long-term experience has almost made him lose the ability to perceive most things and emotions, and he has gradually let go of many things...but the only thing that remains unchanged is: the things that were once extremely important to him are still as important to this day.

So he changed a lot, but he never changed.

"Stop! Stop! Why are your brain waves changing so strangely? Didn't I tell you not to think too much about it?!"

"I can't guarantee that you won't suddenly attract the Void and become a vegetable under its influence... Although I can wake you up again after you come out, I don't think you would be willing to experience that feeling, right?"

Complex thoughts flashed through Kevin's mind in a moment, and the angry voice of Heita appeared in Kevin's ears in the next moment.

Kevin was actually very clear that this was not a normal association, but just like the irrepressible smile he had when he met "Joy" not long ago, He was actually constantly deepening Kevin's understanding of "nothingness" and the world, causing his spirit to continue to fall into the abyss.

Unfortunately, this level of influence not only failed to drive Kevin into self-destruction, but instead made him more determined in his own path and heart.

"Hey, don't take Nothingness so lightly, okay? The academic community generally believes that His power is enough to easily destroy the universe!"

The voice of the black tower kept ringing in Kevin's ears, but it did not affect Kevin's mentality at all. He did not respond to the other party, but just walked closer to the side of the "self-destructor" step by step.

He felt that this guy seemed familiar, but he was also sure that he had never seen him before.

"This is the leader who initially decided to attack the Wormwood Galaxy. To be honest, I didn't expect that he would actually be a 'self-destroyer.'" Black Tower's reluctant voice sounded again, giving Kevin an answer.

Kevin was just about to squat down to check why the leader had turned into this state, but he suddenly felt something strange in his pocket. Then, a memory bubble slowly floated out of it.

Its surface is clear like a colorful bubble, but inside it is endless darkness, making it impossible to see what is going on inside.

And at the moment when this memory bubble appeared, the leader's empty eyes suddenly became fierce. He jumped up from the ground like a wild beast, and then hugged the memory bubble tightly in his arms, letting his body fall to the ground as if he didn't notice it.

At the same time, a piece of cloth with words written on it fell from the opponent's body. Kevin did not recognize the characters on it, but it did not prevent the simulated universe from explaining it for him -

[A bug that laughed loudly once passed by countless people. A soldier who tried to destroy himself gained "joy" from it, which turned into a desire to survive. But the happiness that a bug can spread is too little, and it always fluctuates within three days. Diluted. Condensed again.]

[His true self seems to be hidden in the memory bubble, but it has nothing to do with you. You finally discovered that happiness is the best medicine to resist nothingness. ]

"..."

So, what does this mean?

Do you want to say that all this is actually related to these two star gods, or do you simply want to express the relationship between the two?

After all, there are too many star gods and information involved, and a simple message is not enough for Kevin to make a conclusion.

But just when Kevin was about to make further exploration, he heard a roar like a huge hammer falling from the sky. Under the influence of that sound, the memory bubble held in the arms of the self-destructor quietly shattered.

Before Kevin could even react, a "shadow of nothingness" was released from the memory bubble, and the moment it came into contact with the leader who was hugging it, it annihilated him.

Kevin knew exactly what it was - it was like an indescribable tangle of matter, empty yet solid, and completely unable to be associated with any reasonable thing that actually existed in the world.

In a sense, this is the 'back side' of the world, and it shouldn't exist in any material world.

Just as Kevin was about to do something to it, a more magnificent roar suddenly came from the sky -

Chapter 267: Breeding Betrays Breeding

Different from the ordinary roar at the beginning, this seemed to be a strange, complex sound. Even Kevin couldn't understand which dimension the notes came from. It was a roar, whimper, laughter, and horizontally arranged hymn harmony, as if it was the opening music for some grand epic.

The empty shadow in front of Kevin shattered the moment the sound came, just like ice meeting lava, and no trace disappeared in an instant.

Even the people getting off the gondola were completely unable to resist the sound - they unconsciously began to dance to the rhythm of the music, but no one felt the slightest repulsion.

This strange scene instantly made Kevin feel his hair stand on end. This was not his own intention, but more like a subconscious reaction of the body when facing a threat.

The next moment, Kevin began to clearly feel that everything around him was being endlessly elevated - from the barren continent to the dim planet, from the regular star system to the vast star field... In the end, the entire universe seemed to be reflected in the picture in front of Kevin.

"It's started! It's finally started! I've been waiting for so long just to record this scene!"

Hearing the voice of the black tower suddenly echoing in his ears again, Kevin couldn't help but ask: "What are you referring to?"

"Huh? Didn't I tell you about the War of the Gods? In order to resolve the 'breeding' that affected the universe, several star gods including 'joy', 'protection', and 'harmony' surrounded and suppressed it... Just watch quietly, this is a unique scene."

"In order to prevent your spirit from being negatively affected, we did not allow you to participate in too many exchanges between the Star Gods. But in fact, it was originally the Order that invited the Protection to attack. I think you should be able to understand the reason. 佨"

"But now, uh... Taiyi of Order has been assimilated by Hippie of Harmony. But even so, we can't be completely sure that this incident happened during the time of the Universal Insect Plague. You just have to wait and see."

Kevin tried to look in the direction the black tower was pointing, and he saw a female figure with her eyes slightly closed standing among billions of stars. The figure seemed to have completely merged into the sea of ​​stars behind her, and the light behind her head illuminated the entire sea of ​​stars between her body at the same time.

This is the Star God of Harmony. Just looking at this figure gave Kevin an extremely gentle feeling - just like the influence of "joy" and "nothingness". His influence seemed to echo countless sounds in Kevin's mind, but calling out the same note at the same time.

Among them, the most unique ones are a majestic male voice and another kind and peaceful female voice.

The notes Kevin just heard seemed to come from here.

"Attention, it's about to begin!"

The voice of the black tower suddenly sounded, and Kevin finally broke free from his trance. He subconsciously cast his eyes on the most eye-catching figure in the sea of ​​stars at this moment - it was a vague silhouette that was gradually generated during the deduction.

Obviously, the computing power of the simulated universe is not enough to restore the full picture of the War of the Gods, but this scene alone is enough to shock people.

The huge silhouette was only outlined clearly in the sun, and the amber on his wrists was gathered with anger... They vibrated and jumped, and their trajectory was like commanding a huge stone pestle and hammer -

Kevin tried to see more from the outline of the silhouette, but he felt that the more he focused his gaze, the blurrier the image that finally appeared in his mind became, as if his body itself was resisting this incomprehensible thing and passively simplifying it in order to protect itself.

Perhaps this was the reason why he couldn't see the picture clearly, but Kevin was able to control his body, and the main reason was of course that the limit of the simulated universe had already been reached.

boom--! ! !

Along with the roar of the hammer, something seemed to splash onto Kevin's cheek. But at this moment, he should not have a definite shape in it, and Kevin did not want to explore what it was.

After undergoing countless transformations in the Chimera Project, Kevin's body's perception ability is definitely beyond the imagination of normal humans. But because of this, he can sense much more information.

When his hammer fell, what really shook the earth was not the loud noise, but the lifeless whimpering of the thing under the hammer. There was also a kind of laughter in that sound, and it was also an ensemble of thousands of voices.

These were voices from God. Even if Kevin could capture them, he would be completely unable to understand their meaning, let alone the fact that these several voices were intertwined with each other?

But Kevin still felt some tangible truth—His damage to "reproduction" was not simply physical, but at a more biased and ambiguous level.

Just like light ink spreading in the salty sea, Taizyuros' death was more like a dismemberment... The concept of "reproduction" was being diluted, and "preservation" was stripping away His broken shell, body, and heart... Then a second concept was being extracted, and the power of "cluster" began to flee, and He continued to dilute himself.

Kevin was even able to believe without any reason that this kind of death was definitely more cruel than being killed on a physical level, but He who destroyed most of the universe deserved such an ending.

As this "trial" continued, the temperature began to rise uncontrollably - finally, under this cruel death, "breeding" itself began to react.

In His arms, the primordial egg with fangs and tentacles began to escape from His side and feet... That's right, under the strong threat of death, "breeding" itself betrayed "breeding" and tried to escape from death, but the final result was that it died instantly the moment it left His body.

When breeding leaves reproduction behind, naturally there is nothing left here.

Beyond the trembling divine voice, colorful blood had already covered most of the canvas—that is, at the moment when "breeding" began to fear death and betrayed "breeding", His "death" also quietly arrived.

Under the siege of several star gods, this god who destroyed most of the universe was unable to put up any effective resistance, and passed away quietly after betraying his destiny.

This is His end.

Chapter 268 Black Tower: You are so awesome!

Under the blue-green moon - the glow gradually faded, and Taizyuros fell into it.

But it is obvious that the death of this star god is not the same as the death of intelligent creatures. It is more like a drop of ink falling into the sea and being diluted countless times. Under the countless divisions, Taiziyuros can no longer maintain his existence and thus disappears.

Under the grand blueprint that spanned the universe, Kevin witnessed more clearly how countless swarms of insects throughout the universe perished at the same time - they receded rapidly in units of galaxies, like the tides under the moon, but always left some remnants.

Just like what Kevin had learned from the Star Core Hunter, the "Star God" would die, but the "destiny" opened up by it would not disappear. They were like the traces left by the Star God to this world, integrated with the most basic laws of physics.

Kevin closed his eyes and sighed slightly. When he released his senses again, he was back in the familiar space station, letting the black tower in front of him look up at him with a very strange look.

"You are so...awesome!"

"...?"

To be honest, Kevin thought that he did not do anything out of the ordinary in this simulation, and most of the time he was still following the established route in the simulated universe.

If we go by the final battle of the gods, he actually had no influence on the outcome of this simulation. So... why on earth was this guy so happy?

"Don't look at me like that. In fact, it's best for us to have subjects who can maintain the normal course of history."

Black Tower seemed to see Kevin's concerns, so he explained to him: "However, under the condition of not affecting the course of history as much as possible, you still have to get the attention of the Star Gods as much as possible, that is, to awaken the simulated Star God from his dormant state..."

"Only when these two conditions are met at the same time can the events in the simulated universe be perfected as much as possible to their original appearance - no matter from which aspect, this is almost a difficult condition to achieve, but you did a good job this time."

"The previous subject was mostly acting from the perspective of 'exploring' Akivali, but we suspect that Akivali was also involved in this global insect plague, so this global locust plague is not very suitable for her."

As she spoke, Heita spread her hands helplessly. If possible, she certainly didn't want to face such a situation. But even the virtual star gods in the simulated universe were as arrogant as their real selves, and being too perfunctory would not win their approval at all.

Even like "Joy", it can discover from time to time that it is actually a strange thing called a string of data. Black Tower even suspects that it has the ability to tamper with the settings of the simulated universe at any time and mess it up.

The reason why He didn't do that was probably because from time to time someone would come into the simulated universe to act with Him, and He seemed to think that this was... quite fun?

"To be honest, I'm not really interested in the principles and process of the exploration. As long as I can get useful results, that's fine." Kevin finally decided not to think about the ethical implications and just said it so bluntly.

Kevin has always been pragmatic about these scientific products that he probably can't understand. After all, if he really had to think about so many things, his brain would probably not be enough tens of thousands of years ago.

Even though the genes of Honkai Beast have given him an almost photographic memory and a mind far more agile than that of ordinary people, scientific research is not something that can be done with just these.

"Okay, okay, I get it. I will never tell you so much again in the future." Hearing this, Heita couldn't help but roll his eyes.

For her, the most important thing is of course the interesting process rather than the result. Otherwise, why are there so many strange objects in the space station that she has only studied half of?

For most people, this behavior would probably bring out their obsessive-compulsive disorder. But for Heita, since she already felt it was boring, she could just throw it aside. What's the big deal? She doesn't need it.

Does anyone have to complete all the levels and characters in a game before giving up?

Kevin certainly didn't know what Black Tower was thinking, nor did he care. He just asked his doubts immediately afterwards: "So that 'breeding'... really fell in history?"

"In theory, yes. I think the simulation we just performed is as close to the historical truth as possible. There may be some hidden details, but they are generally insignificant."

Heita coughed twice before continuing, "But as a researcher, I think my explanation should be more rigorous. Taiziyuros did fall, but based on the traces of Zerg activities in various parts of the universe, I always feel that the fate of "breeding" is not the sluggish state that it should be after His fall."

"The death of star gods is indeed different from that of mortals. Logically speaking, they are simply diluted into countless parts. Their essence still exists, but they can no longer affect the outside world."

"Perhaps He will still come back at some point, but who cares? Who knows, by that time, no one in the universe will remember who you and I are. Why should we worry about the Star God from a mortal's perspective?"

"Instead of worrying about these things, I might as well think more about what I should eat tonight."

It can be seen that the scientist Heita is indeed pure. She has always only cared about the research that she is interested in, but she doesn't care about anything else.

Kevin couldn't judge whether this kind of mentality was good or bad, but at least it was much better than those guys who liked to harm others everywhere.

For Kevin, knowing that guy's death was good news, and the way the gods destroyed Taizyuros might also give him some inspiration.

Just as they did with "breeding", Kevin could also find a way to cause some damage to the Star God's concept. This is obviously much more effective than purely physical.

But if he wants to achieve a similar effect, the best way must be to master the conceptual power of the same level... Where should he find such a thing?

Chapter 269: Brother Jie: Please Get Out of Here

Can the abilities of Herrschers be classified as "concepts"? Theoretically, they should be. Because whether it is absolute zero or ideal fluid, these are things that are almost impossible to appear in the physical world in human imagination, but Herrschers have mastered such abilities.

But if similar concepts are compared with those of the star gods, they are obviously far inferior.

The concepts mastered by the star gods are not limited to the destructive power they display. The more important point is of course that these conceptual abilities can even directly affect other things in the universe - such as the immortals who are endowed with immortality by "abundance", and even the ability to replace all reproductive behaviors with their own "reproduction".

Kevin had no doubt that if the Herrs could come to this universe and develop their abilities to the extreme, then at the very least there would be a horrific disaster that could easily destroy an entire planet.

But for the star gods who can easily bring disaster to most of the universe, it is still far from enough.

However, since Herrscher can reach the level of ordinary planetary level, the power of "The End" is definitely not as simple as what Kevin has discovered so far.

You know, the main reason why the current civilization only has thirteen Herrschers with the same abilities as the previous civilization is that the existence of Prometheus has endowed it with the consciousness of Honkai, thus freezing it in the midst of change.

If not, the Herrschers that appear in the current civilization will be completely unknown enemies - they will not know the other party's abilities, let alone when they will appear and how many will appear.

In a sense, the existence of the Herrschers is a projection of the Cocoon of the End and different dimensions. In other words, the true power of the End is not just as simple as the power displayed by the thirteen Herrschers. It is only because Kevin has only personally come into contact with these powers that he can simulate them from the End.

But even so, when Kevin used these abilities, it seemed as if there was still a barrier between them, and he couldn't use them as easily as those Herrschers. This was not only because he had not yet fully mastered the power of the end, but more importantly, Kevin had not even completely understood what the essence of the "end" was.

After all, not long after Kevin finally forcibly absorbed the power of the end, he entrusted the future of the end and civilization to the girls of the new era.

He only knew that the so-called "Cocoon of the End" seemed to be a mechanism used by some advanced civilization to cut off the end of the tree of imaginary numbers and use such a whole world to screen out similar existences.

Can it be simply understood as... a testing ground that constantly cleanses civilization with collapse?