The civilization before the collapse, heroes and heroes are reborn with me

After a long time, Mebius finally stopped what she was doing. She leaned back on the chair with some weakness and said, "Regarding your health, I have a piece of news that is barely good news and a piece of bad news to tell you. Which one do you want to hear first?"

Zhu Yufeng said expressionlessly: "Whatever you like."

"Heh... OK, let me tell you the good news first." Mobius said as he looked at the data displayed on the instrument, "Your resistance to Honkai energy has reached the level of a Herrscher. In this way, perhaps the Honkai energy radiation when the Last One was born may not kill you. Your current physical fitness, except that the Herrscher core has not been found, is close to that of a Herrscher. Of course, your situation is different from that of the twelfth Herrscher. If I have to explain it in a term, you are now at most a pseudo-Herscher, or a Herrscher body."

Zhu Yufeng did not comment on this, but continued to ask: "What is the bad news?"

Mobius looked at Zhu Yufeng. It was actually nothing to be close to the Herrscher. With a combat power like Zhu Yufeng's, his Honkai energy reaction could reach or even exceed the Herrscher level after activating the artificial collapse. That was why she said that this news could only be barely considered good news.

In theory, it is not difficult for any fallen angel to defeat the Herrscher.

What are Herrschers? What do they represent? Or are they just a manifestation of Honkai? What is certain is that the Herrschers' ability to contain and control Honkai energy is difficult to surpass even for fusion warriors, and the Herrscher core can be seen as the condensation of the Herrschers' own high concentration of Honkai energy, which is both their Honkai energy storage and the embodiment of their authority. Just like Kevin can use the sky fire to launch a nuclear explosion that can be seen on the other side of the earth, Zhu Yufeng can use the black abyss white flower to smash out the entire Sahara Desert, and to do all this, they must rely on the Key of God, that is, the role of the Herrscher core.

Mebius stopped his thoughts and said, "Bad news? The bad news is that your body's life span is no more than one year, even though you are now a fusion warrior."

Even he was ultimately unable to break through the limitations of the human body, just as his own body was completely incompatible with the power of the Twelfth Herrscher. He was originally an ordinary person who luckily survived the earliest super-transformation surgery. Afterwards, he almost forcedly fused one Honkai beast after another, and finally... through the characteristics of Vishnu, he devoured all the fallen angels.

Gaining power comes at a price. The shadow of the god who wanted to steal the authority of the gods and wear the crown of the gods will eventually...

"At least I can still live until the end." Zhu Yufeng didn't seem surprised by this. He accepted it very calmly.

"Although I'm probably not qualified to say this, you really look less and less like a human being now. It seems that you are really only one Herrscher core away from becoming a Herrscher." Mobius sighed softly and said, "The forced fusion of various Honkai beasts has an impact on you not only in terms of physical burning pain, but also on your mental state."

"Doesn't this just prove that I'm close to the final form of the Ascension Plan?" Zhu Yufeng said, "The condensation of the Herrscher core requires a large amount of Honkai energy, but obviously, even if high concentrations of Honkai energy are everywhere on Earth now, it cannot gather together to catalyze the birth of a new Herrscher, unless..."

"Herrser of the End..." Mebius whispered, "Are you planning to seize the power of the End?"

"The end will come, we all know that, don't we?" Zhu Yufeng stood up and said, "That will be the last battle where we bet everything."

"When the End was born, the huge Houkai energy gathered on the moon could indeed catalyze the birth of a Herrscher, but..." Mobius frowned, "The question now is, why do you have such a physique? Kevin, who also carried out the Chimera Project, did not experience the changes that have happened to you now. Moreover, I cannot guarantee that you will still retain your self-consciousness after becoming a Herrscher."

"Ling has proved that the consciousness of a Herrscher may not necessarily defeat her own consciousness." Zhu Yufeng said, "At the moment when the twelfth Herrscher was sealed, Ying and I found Ling. It was not because we sealed her, but her remaining consciousness defeated the consciousness of the Herrscher, creating an opportunity for us."

"If you are not careful, you will become the enemy of mankind." Mobius looked up at Zhu Yufeng's silver pupils, "Think about what they did to you? Think about why you have become like this... Are you still willing to protect mankind?"

"This question is meaningless." Zhu Yufeng crossed his arms and said, "I have come this far. I will never fall down before I defeat the End, because... I will not let the sacrifice of Lilith and the others, as well as all your efforts so far, become a joke."

Mebius was startled.

"Maybe humans are really not as good as you said. They may always harbor ill will towards me, but what does that have to do with what I'm going to do?" Zhu Yufeng continued.

"But they hurt you, they almost killed you!" Mobius' voice suddenly rose several degrees, "Do you think this is okay?!"

"But I still have you!" Zhu Yufeng said firmly, "Dr. Mobius, let's not talk about you first. Did Kevin hurt me? Did Alicia have ill will towards me? Didn't you help me?"

Mebius froze.

"The dice has fallen." Zhu Yufeng turned and looked at the screen in the laboratory. "At this point, we have been through so much and sacrificed so much. Just because of their betrayal, I will give up? I want to defeat the end, what does it have to do with humans?"

"Ha!" Mobius sneered, "You are really a selfless and kind person..."

"Selfless? No, I'm a selfish person, a very, very selfish person." Zhu Yufeng closed his eyes and whispered, "If I give up everything like this, it would be the biggest betrayal to Lilith and the others! Their sacrifice would become meaningless, and all the pain I've endured until now would be nothing but a joke."

silence.

There was a long silence.

Neither of them spoke, and the only sound in the laboratory was the sound of the instruments running.

After a long while, Mebius said, "The level of Honkai energy of the End far exceeds that of all the Herrschers who have appeared so far. Although you are a qualified Herrscher, but... even I cannot guarantee that you can really withstand the Honkai energy that erupts when the End is born. The Honkai energy resistance of your body is artificially created after all. I cannot guarantee that when the final Honkai erupts, that unprecedented level of Honkai energy will not activate the super-mutation factor in your body again."

"But we... have no choice anymore," said Zhu Yufeng.

"Yes, there is another way." Mobius said softly, "Before the birth of the End, I can work with Vilvi to create a device that condenses Houkai energy. Theoretically, as long as the Houkai energy reaches the limit, the Herrscher will be born. We can make a device to slowly inject Houkai energy into it, and you only need to absorb this Houkai energy."

"How slow is this?" Zhu Yufeng frowned. "We also have to consider the design and production. We don't have that much time."

"It is slower than when other Herrschers were born." Mobius looked at Zhu Yufeng and said, "You also know that almost all Herrschers are born with a large-scale Honkai energy explosion. We cannot instantly gather a large amount of Honkai energy that can give birth to a Herrscher, but we can collect the Honkai energy that is everywhere now."

"But what if we fail?" Zhu Yufeng asked again, "Doctor, you also said that the birth of the Herrscher is due to the instantaneous accumulation of a large amount of Honkai energy. If I absorb Honkai energy like this, can I really achieve what we expected in the plan in the end?"

"No, the essence of the birth of the Herrscher is to condense the corresponding Herrscher core through the absorption of Honkai energy." Mobius said in a low voice as thin as a mosquito's whistle, "Besides, the reason for her birth is still unclear..."

"Except what?" Zhu Yufeng asked with some confusion.

"That can't be used as a reference. Anyway, we should at least try it, right?" said Mebius.

"Indeed, there is very little we can do now," Zhu Yufeng said with a sigh.

"I'll contact Wei Wei right away. Before that, just wait for the news."

"Please, Doctor." Zhu Yufeng nodded and turned to leave the laboratory. At the moment when he was about to step out of the door, Mebius' voice sounded behind him: "What are you going to do when everything is over?"

"Find a place to bury myself, if I'm not dead. If I'm dead... it's the same if I'm thrown directly onto the moon."

"... Before you bury yourself, I won't let you leave casually. If you really become a Herrscher, you won't be allowed to leave until I get your experimental data!"

"...As you wish."

The door of the laboratory was closed. Mebius looked at the tightly closed door, lowered his eyes and said to himself: "I won't let you die... There must be another way..."

When a human being is transformed into a Herrscher, some of his or her illnesses will disappear. Although it is not known whether Zhu Yufeng's current physical condition can be cured by transforming him or her into a Herrscher, it is still a hope after all, isn't it?

"Your reasons may sound selfish, but for us, for someone like me who has watched you grow up, how can this be considered selfish? Have you ever seen yourself in your eyes, Yufeng?"

He is indeed selfish enough, he doesn't care about other people's opinions, he just wants to protect the meaning of the path he has walked. He is also selfless enough, because he has never cared about what he carries.

a few days later.

At dawn again, Zhu Yufeng looked up from his book, clipped the bookmark, put the book back on the shelf, opened the door, and prepared to ask Mobius about the progress of the research and development of the Honkai Energy Collection Device. It would be difficult for ordinary people to make a new device in a few days, but Jiwu told him that it would only take her a few days to complete.

Should we say that she is worthy of having half of Velvet's talents? Then what kind of epoch-making monster is the perfect Velvet?

"Hmm? This is..." Zhu Yufeng noticed that on his door, there was an invitation surrounded by pink crystal flowers that seemed to be growing on the door and fixed on the door. This style was obviously done by Alicia.

Zhu Yufeng reached out and took down the invitation. The crystal flower that was originally used to fix the invitation disappeared after he took down the invitation, as if it had never appeared.

The pattern on the invitation is very delicate, and it can be seen that Alicia put a lot of thought into it. By the way, why did Alicia put the invitation here with him?

She did write invitations in the game, but she never sent the last one.

Zhu Yufeng thought so, then walked back to the dormitory, sat at the table, and gently opened the invitation.

He stared at the contents of the invitation in a daze for a long time. Even when Mei announced the appearance of the thirteenth Herrscher in the Fire Moth, he had not yet come to his senses.

After reading the content several times, Zhu Yufeng resealed the invitation and walked out of the dormitory.

He first went to find Eden, who was about to set off to where Alicia was. After asking the other party whether he had received the invitation and getting a negative answer, he went to find other people.

Aponia, Qianjie, Ying, Hua, Velvet, Kosmo, Grayshu, Paduo, Su...

None of them received any invitations.

"There are still Mebius and Kevin left..." Zhu Yufeng looked down at the invitation in his hand, "But I guess they didn't receive it either... Alicia, Alicia... Why do you think I will attack you just because you are a Herrscher?"

"Is it possible that she just wants to see you?"

Another inexplicable thought popped up in his mind, and he immediately denied this possibility. If she just wanted to see him, why would Eden give him the invitation if she didn't even receive it? Wasn't she afraid that Eden wouldn't go?

"She didn't send out the invitation, didn't she want to give the right of choice to other heroes? She gave you the invitation, doesn't it mean that she would rather not give you the right to choose and still want to see you?"

Zhu Yufeng: “…”

He should have let it go, right? Why does he keep thinking about that? It's like he has a split personality...

Besides, even if he went to see Alicia, what would he do? What should he say?

It was for her that he decided to fight against Honkai and joined the Fusion Warrior Program, but in the end, she still made that helpless choice... What's more, the death of Lilith and the others has always been like a deep valley that separates his relationship with Alicia.

He didn't hate Alicia, because if she didn't do that she wouldn't be Alicia, but it was impossible for him not to care about it.

And they had been together for so long, even if he had tried his best to avoid meeting her, did she stop trusting him because of this? Let him attack her...

The voice in my mind finally stopped, and Kevin's voice came from the front: "Feng, you are here. Are you going to where Alicia is now?"

"No, there's no need..." Zhu Yufeng handed the invitation to Kevin, "Give it back to her. If she asks, just say: 'Those who are here are here because they believe in Alicia, and those who are absent refuse to fight because they believe in Alicia.' Just tell her that..."

Kevin was stunned for a moment, then took the invitation and said, "...I will tell you the truth."

"Please." Zhu Yufeng nodded, then walked towards Mobius' laboratory.

Kevin looked down at the invitation, it seemed as if it had not been opened, but he believed that Zhu Yufeng must have read it. He always remembered what Mebius said a few days ago. What exactly did Alicia write in the invitation?

Forget it, he is only responsible for paying it back, not for looking after it.

Zhu Yufeng came to Mobius' laboratory. Velvet was not there because she had already gone to an appointment. Mobius was working with the armed puppet Klein to adjust the device that she and Velvet had jointly made.

Seeing him coming, Mebius was a little surprised: "Yufeng? I thought you went to find Alicia."

"There's nothing to see. I don't know what to say when we meet. I'm afraid it will be even more boring than Kevin's." Zhu Yufeng said expressionlessly, "So, Doctor, is the device completed?"

"It is indeed completed, but if we want to start the final step, we must wait for Velvi to come back." Mebius said, "Are you really not going? That may be the last time you see Alicia."

"I know, but... my relationship with her is not that close... there is no need." Zhu Yufeng said.

"Whatever you want." Mebius shrugged. "Before the last step begins, I will help you adjust your physical condition."

"it is good."

Extra: Daily Life of a Fallen Angel①

"Hey, did something happen between you and Alicia yesterday? Or did you dream about something unspeakable? You were distracted for half of the meeting today." Lilith said to Zhu Yufeng who was walking beside her, holding a pile of documents and looking at him with empty eyes.

"Aren't you here? It doesn't matter whether I attend this meeting or not, right?" Zhu Yufeng said to Lilith with his eyes empty. "By the way, please don't always think of me as a vulgar person, okay? Do I look like that kind of person?"

Lilith rolled her eyes and said mercilessly, "Very similar."

"Aren't you here?" This guy finally said what a human being should say. It's not easy... But why do I always feel that there is still a big gap between me and Alicia?

Zhu Yufeng: “…”

Are you going to play tricks on me again by looking at the Black Abyss White Flower in my hand?

"You really can't stand being teased. If you can't catch up with Alicia in this state, I lose, okay?" Lilith said as if she didn't take the Black Abyss and White Flower in Zhu Yufeng's hand seriously at all.

Zhu Yufeng put away the black abyss white flower and said expressionlessly: "Lilith, let me emphasize to you again that I have let go of this kind of thing now, and I really hate it when people make fun of it."

"Doesn't Alicia say this often? 'You look distracted, are you thinking about me?' She has said this to you many times, right?" Lilith continued to complain.

Zhu Yufeng was silent for a moment, then said, "Don't you think your words are worse than hers? Besides, your starting points are different, right? Besides, she is not someone else to me."

Lilith: "..."

This person is almost writing double standards on his face...

"Okay, what's going on?" Lilith gave up arguing with a very hypocritical person over this matter. "Maybe I can help?"

Is Alicia really that good? She doesn't believe that Alicia really has no bad intentions. Maybe there is something that no one knows about? Obviously, this guy has a very low trust in other people, but he trusts Alicia surprisingly...

This doesn’t make sense…

"Nothing..." Zhu Yufeng's expression became a little guilty.

Lilith looked at Zhu Yufeng with empty eyes. Was he taking her for a fool?

"Boss Yufeng, Big Sister Lilith, have you finished your meeting?" Mostima walked over.

"It's over, although someone was distracted half the time," said Lilith.

Mostima looked at Zhu Yufeng, who looked a little unnatural. As if he had thought of something, his expression became a little teasing: "Boss Yufeng, you didn't spend half of that time thinking about the game I gave you yesterday, did you?"

Zhu Yufeng: “…No.”

He would never admit that he played all night yesterday and found that there was really no way to surpass Mostima's record. Then he spent half of the meeting thinking about which step he could optimize. After all, he was also a player who was good at scoring points. Looking at the not-so-big gap between himself and Mostima in terms of the time it took to clear the level, he always wanted to play a little longer...

Returning to the original intention belongs to...

Mostima had an expression that said, "Do you think I believe you?" Then he stood on tiptoe and patted Zhu Yufeng on the shoulder and said, "Brother Yufeng, it seems that I am better at this. There is no other way. This kind of thing depends on talent. Although you are talented, I have also practiced for a long time. For a hero like you who goes to the battlefield every day to fight Honkai beasts, it is normal for you to lose to me in this aspect~"

Zhu Yufeng: “…”

What you said makes sense, but are you serious about that happy expression? It's just that you won this time, so what? And in terms of hacking skills, aren't you the best in the world, far better than me? Not to say you crushed me, but at least you beat me, right?

Of course he wouldn't understand what this hacker girl was thinking. If he did, he wouldn't be Zhu Yufeng.

Xila, who had been following Zhu Yufeng and Lilith silently, glanced at Mostima, who immediately restrained his expression and stood at attention.

Forget Xila is here. If you get too proud, Xila might chop you down...

Lilith looked at Zhu Yufeng, then looked at Mostima, and said with a smile: "Mostima, can I play the game you mentioned?"

"Of course, no problem!" Mostima still looked in a good mood. "Hey, Boss Yufeng, don't mind. I can also give you some advice. I can definitely be a good senior in this regard!"