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

Chapter 156: Shifting Responsibility

Fire Moth Headquarters, family area.

"Our station reports the latest news. The world-famous marine tourist city of Atlantis has sunk due to the turbulence and tsunami caused by an undersea earthquake. The death toll is under investigation. It is reported that the main cause of this major casualty accident is that Atlantis's relevant protective measures were not in place..."

Mostima turned off the TV and looked out the window. Others could be fooled like this, but she wouldn't.

The offshore tourist city of Atlantis was built under the auspices of Mu Continent, after all. Its technological development was even more advanced than that of some small countries. How could it sink due to turbulence and tsunamis?

Most people would be fooled probably because the information about Honkai was strictly blocked. Almost people in the world don't know that such a thing exists. In addition, Honkai has not spread yet, and most people don't have the opportunity to come into contact with it. So even if some people don't believe it or some people are talking about conspiracy theories, it has nothing to do with Honkai.

After all, who could imagine something like the concept of Honkai Impact 3rd that is driving all this development?

The Fire Moths are only responsible for cleaning up and blocking news related to the collapse, and they can say whatever they want about the rest.

"Um...Sister Mastema..." Jaina stood at the door of the bedroom and whispered Mastema's name.

"What's wrong, Jaina?" Mostima looked at the little girl who had been abandoned by her sister. Now in Fire Moth, as well as being a World Serpent cadre, Mostima had no control over his own affairs. When he looked around, he found that Jaina was the only familiar person around him. Even Feng had only come once in this month.

At least... Feng also introduced Ling to Jaina, so the two children can take care of each other at school... Compared to Lilith, who has never come and has no information at all, Feng is considered pretty good. What's more, in reality, Feng is only a little familiar with her, and to Jaina, she is a stranger.

School, for Mostima, it was a concept that was buried along with the past. Due to family reasons, after walking out of the school gate, she didn't know where her home was. She was not needed anywhere. Even in school, every time there was a parent-teacher meeting or any parent-child activity, she could only watch. Over time, all the children said that she had no parents and didn't like to be with her.

Every day when she went to pick up Jaina from school, she looked at the school gate and couldn't help but think back to when she was a child. Her biggest wish was that her parents would come to pick her up from school, but every time, she had to walk back by herself and was treated like air. No one cared about her grades, or whether she was in danger or anything.

Once she deliberately wandered around her "home" for a while, expecting someone to look for her and criticize her for not going home so late, but nothing happened except that she went hungry.

So she enjoys provoking relationships between people and watching them perform one farce of betrayal after another. It is also because she subconsciously envieses peaceful relationships. She keeps repeating such behavior and destroying the relationships, as if to prove to her past self: This is how the world is, and you are not alone.

And now...

Stopping his thoughts, Mostima saw that Jaina seemed to be holding something in her hand. It looked like a report card?

I remember that my academic performance was pretty good before. Maybe that was the reason why I was excluded? My parents treated me as if I didn't exist. Without someone to back me up and protect me, the malice of children would be even more unscrupulous.

"The teacher said that family members are required to sign..." Jaina said in a low voice, "My sister is not here..."

"Okay, I understand." Mostima reached out and took the report card from Jaina's hand, and glanced at the grades on it. How should I put it? Should I say that she is worthy of being Lilith's enchanting sister, with full marks in all subjects. The same goes for Lilith's brother named Davion, who has basically learned all the economics knowledge before he even reached adulthood.

As for Lilith, the eldest sister, it seems that there is nothing that Lilith doesn't know...

She had seen the flower arrangements of the Far East, the ink-and-wash landscape paintings of China, and she had also played the classical harp...

I really want to see what kind of brains this family of freaks have. Each of them is more capable than that stupid dad, and they even think they have good control over their children. If that guy hadn't been lucky enough to die in the Fourth Collapse, I guess when he returns home Davion will give him a famous scene of a loving father and a filial son.

If Lilith knew about the Fourth Collapse in advance, then it would be a case of a loving father and a filial daughter...

"Sister Mostima, I miss my sister so much..." Jaina said somewhat aggrievedly.

Hey, hey, hey, about two months ago, your sister pointed a gun at you.

Seeing Mostima's strange expression, the little girl lowered her head and said, "My sister is very good to me. She taught me how to make cakes, do homework, and braid my hair... My brother is also very good. Although he never smiles much, he actually admires my sister very much... I haven't seen my sister and brother for a long time... I want to go home..."

Mastema was silent.

She didn't know much about Davion. She only knew that Davion wanted to kill his father. Davion never seemed to have a good face towards Lilith. In addition, when she stayed at Lilith's house, Lilith seemed to intentionally or unintentionally prevent her from communicating with Davion at home.

Children always lack sufficient understanding of the malice in the world, not to mention that in Jaina's heart, Lilith is a perfect sister, regardless of her own personal experience or what others say. So even if Lilith no longer concealed her true malice and pointed a gun at Jaina, Jaina, who didn't even know what a gun was, was just subconsciously afraid because she felt the malice.

After the incident, especially now that the only person she lived with was her elder sister Mostima, she missed her family even more.

Mostima began to think, what should she say? This was the first time Jaina had said this to her since they had been together for so long. It seemed that she had wanted to say it, but she thought she shouldn't ask, so she didn't ask. Now her longing took over...

Jaina is an obedient and smart child. She must have vaguely sensed something and that’s why she didn’t ask. She suddenly thought of this now. Is it because the transcript requires the signature of a family member?

So the question is, should Mastema tell Jaina that her sister no longer wants her and is chasing after men?

Forget it... Even if it's a lie, if it can protect a child's fragile dream, just say it.

"Your sister has things she needs to do." Mostima signed and pretended to speak casually, "Your brother also has things he needs to do. What they need to do is very important, so they can't come back for a while. When they come back, they can take you home. You have to behave well and try to get them to come back earlier."

Jaina bit her lip, and then said with a sobbing voice: "But why... a few days ago, Sister Ling said that she saw Sister and a brother named Feng go to her house and play games with her? Why didn't Sister come back to see me..."

Mastema: “!”

Lilith!

That Ling, is Ying's sister? You don't care about your own sister, but go play games with other people's sisters?

She suddenly remembered what Feng had said to her when he introduced Ling to Jaina: "Lilith... She actually hates her family, so you may see her everywhere, but... She will never appear in front of Jaina again. Once that time comes, try to protect Jaina as much as possible. I will also keep an eye on Lilith."

Mostima pressed her eyebrows. She really underestimated the extent of Lilith's heartlessness... Now she even has reason to suspect that Lilith deliberately went to Ling's house after knowing the relationship between the two children. It was just to let Ling mention this matter to Jaina intentionally or unintentionally...

"Is that so?" Mostima forced a smile. "I see. I will try to find Lilith later. She must have her own difficulties."

She uttered the last few words almost through gritted teeth.

If you want to cut ties with your family, just do it. Why are you coming back to complain?

But she had no way to confront Lilith head-on. For some reason, she was a little scared of Lilith. Maybe... it was because she was tricked by Lilith and she was afraid...

But it didn't matter. If she couldn't go directly to Lilith, she could go to Feng! Didn't Lilith like Feng? Wouldn't she do anything for Feng? Then as long as Feng asked...

By the way, would Feng ask this? At the beginning, he only introduced Ling and Jaina to each other, and did not let Lilith and Jaina meet. He also said that "Lilith hates her family"...

Brain pain.

Never mind. Feng and Lilith have already gone on the mission. Let’s see if I can think of any excuse before they come back.

Mu Continent.

"Fayu has been confirmed to be killed, and its Honkai core as the Honkai Beast has also been recovered. The only thing to deal with next is this newly born Honkai Beast." Zhu Yufeng looked at the others and said, "As for this newly born Honkai Beast..."

"Don't worry about it, Fire Moths. Since this happened near our Mu Continent, and the sunken Atlantis was also a floating city built with countless efforts on our Mu Continent, it should be our Mu Continent that should solve this matter." A young officer came over and said, "You are the warriors arranged by Fire Moths to transport the Herrscher core. Now the Herrscher core has arrived where it should be. You don't need to interfere with other matters."

I don't really want to get involved, Zhu Yufeng complained in his heart.

Don't make it seem like he really wants to fight with Faruna or something. If you say you can handle it yourself, then I will definitely run away and tell you that you can't handle it... With the current technology of Mu Continent, it is definitely enough to deal with Faruna, so there is no need for him to care about it.

"It feels like this person has been arrogant from beginning to end." Desdobia whispered to Kosmo.

Kosmo nodded. After all, he had dealt with people from Mu Continent many times in his previous life. There were indeed some people who were proud of being from Mu Continent and looked down on people from other continents. There were quite a few of them, and the direct result... was probably the Ninth Herrscher incident.

"After all, as an organization dedicated to fighting the Honkai, you didn't even notice the occurrence of the underwater Honkai, and you also lacked corresponding measures after the Honkai occurred. It's really hard for people to trust your level." The young officer said, "Mayor Candela has already protested to His Majesty the King. I hope you can learn from this and improve your skills in the future."

Paduo rolled her eyes. Take corresponding measures? Are you kidding me? There are only a few of them. What measures can they take? Neither Kevin nor Yufeng got the Skyfire and the Black Abyss White Flower. Kevin, who got the Skyfire, can give the earth a middle part, and Yufeng, who got the Black Abyss White Flower, can also smash the Sahara Desert. What's a mere Falou?

The young officer naturally saw Padu's expression. He snorted and said, "There really is no one left in the Fire Moth Chaser. The recent outstanding talents are either not yet adults or have just reached adulthood."

Desdobia finally couldn't stand it anymore and said, "But I remember that when Dr. Mobius' assistant, Rolf Ko, came to Mu Continent for academic exchanges, all the scholars in Mu Continent combined couldn't debate with her."

"What's there to say about someone who is so stubborn?" The young officer's face darkened, and he looked at Zhu Yufeng: "Are you the leader of this team? I didn't expect that your soldiers are helpless in the face of disasters, but you are quite good at talking."

Zhu Yufeng: “…”

How did he become the leader? Alicia has always been the captain.

Besides, Luo Fukou was originally from Mu Continent. How could he cut off the relationship so quickly?

Lilith yawned and said with some lack of interest: "In terms of research, you have also independently studied the collapse, but you still didn't notice the collapse. In terms of measures, Atlantis has no measures to deal with the collapse from beginning to end, and you still want to rely on a few people to reverse the situation. It's like you are here. In terms of talking, you go to complain to your parents when you can't win the argument. Isn't that childish? Since it has nothing to do with us, can we leave now?"

Kevin looked at Lilith approvingly. See, she had been silent before, but as soon as Feng was mentioned, she made her speechless.

The young officer's face darkened even more. After a long while, he snorted coldly and said, "We in Mu Continent have many things to study, not just Honkai. You, the Fire Chasing Moth, are an organization specializing in Honkai. Do you still need us to teach you how to do things?"

"Oh, really?" Alicia said in surprise, "But Mu Continent started researching Honkai earlier than the establishment of the Fire Moth, and the establishment of the Fire Moth was also led by Mu Continent, right? What's more, we also share our experimental results with you. From what you said, is it possible that Mu Continent has research results that it has not shared with us?"

Young officer: “…”

He just talked about this man, why did two women jump out to talk?

In fact, it all comes down to a question of shirking responsibility. The sinking of Atlantis can be said to have severely slapped the face of some people in Mu Continent. They want to get back at the table, but they are unwilling to admit the responsibility they have to bear in this incident.

The young officer's face turned pale and blue, and finally he just snorted coldly and left.

Lilith squinted and looked at his back, with a dangerous light flashing in her eyes.

Alicia glanced at Zhu Yufeng and said jokingly, "Now there's no way someone can refuse to become the leader of the team, right?"

Zhu Yufeng looked at Alysia with empty eyes: "Is this because someone deliberately dumped the matter on me?"

"Because I think you can handle it~" Alicia shrugged.

"I can help you handle it, leave it to me." Lilith looked at Zhu Yufeng.

Alicia: "..."

Chapter 157: Debate in the Palace

"Were all your previous mission reports written by Lilith?" Alicia looked at Zhu Yufeng and asked in a low voice.

"The subsequent mission reports were indeed written by Lilith." Zhu Yufeng nodded. As for the earliest times, he didn't even dare to trust Lilith, so why would he let Lilith write a mission report?

As the young officer said, the mission of Zhu Yufeng and others was to escort the core of the fourth Herrscher to Mu Dalu, and the rest had nothing to do with them, so after staying in Mu Dalu for a while, they returned to Zhuhuo Moth Headquarters.

At this time, in the palace of Mu Continent.

"Your Majesty, the Fire Moths must be warned. They did not play their due role when needed!" Candela said to the King of Mu Continent.

The king was silent for a moment, then said, "...theoretically, the Fire Moth should be held accountable for not noticing the signs of the Great Collapse in time."

Candela just wanted to say something more, but the king said: "However, the research direction of Moth Chasing Fire mainly lies in how to fight against Houkai, the analysis of the causes of Houkai and the discussion of the nature of Houkai, which belong to Mu Continent and Chasing Fire The common research direction of the moths, the Houkai energy observation instruments currently owned by the fire moths are all provided by the Mu mainland, so, to trace its source, should the research institutes of the Mu mainland be held accountable?"

Candela didn't care anyway, he just wanted an answer, an explanation, but the others couldn't sit still. Immediately, a scholar stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the collapse this time is indeed strange. Before this collapse, every time a collapse occurs, there will be a premature gathering of collapse energy. Although the speed of gathering varies, this is also why we can observe and predict the occurrence of collapse..."

The king glanced at him and said, "Then according to what you said, why didn't we observe the gathering of Honkai energy this time, but instead the Honkai energy directly occurred? Could it be that the Honkai energy gathered in large quantities at the bottom of the sea out of thin air?"

"This..." The man was silent for a while, as if he was considering his words.

At this time, another scholar said: "Your Majesty, according to our research on the Judgment-level Honkai Beast Yuga that is still wandering between the Earth and the Moon, the appearance of Varuna may be due to the same reason as the appearance of Yuga."

When Yuga appeared, there was no sign at all. It destroyed the city of Vishakha in an instant and annihilated the army that came to fight against it, causing the greatest casualties in humanity's war against Honkai until the appearance of Varuna. It is still listed as the most dangerous Honkai beast. Humans are always highly vigilant against Yuga and monitor all of its actions. Once it makes any abnormal movement, the observers will become very nervous.

There is no way. The unknown is always terrifying. Although Yuga's ability has been confirmed to be the reset of time and space, its principle is still a mystery. Many scientists have racked their brains but have not been able to figure it out. On the one hand, this ability is unprecedented, and on the other hand, there is too little information and data about Yuga. Even Yuga's two companion emperor-level Honkai beasts, Rahu and Ketu, who were once defeated, did not show any abilities related to time and space. It was purely because of their high Honkai energy level.

The current mainstream theory is that Yuga is a Honkai beast from a higher dimension, because according to the relevant video footage recovered in Vishaka City, when Yuga appeared, the sky seemed to be shattered and a big hole was torn in it, and the meteorological satellite and observation satellite on that day did not find anything abnormal in the sky above Vishaka City.

The high-dimensional world is a realm that humans still cannot reach, so isn't it normal that the Honkai beasts that come out of it have abilities that are a bit incomprehensible but can be explained by high-dimensional operations?

"So you mean to say that Varuna also has the same ability as Yuga?" The king looked at the scholar who spoke.

"As of now, it is much weaker than Yuga." The scholar said somewhat awkwardly, "Based on the current data, Atlantis sank entirely because Varuna was too large and directly hit it."

"Huge in size? How big exactly?" asked the king.

"At least the size of the inner city of Atlantis," the scholar replied.

"So what does this have to do with Gao Wei?" the king asked again.

The scholar was silent for a moment, then gave an uncertain answer: "Maybe Yuga used his special ability to open a rift in time and space and called him?"

A certain Honkai beast wandering in the Earth-Moon orbit: "???"

"Can you convince yourself with this reason? If Yuga had this ability, wouldn't the world be in ruins by now?" The king snorted coldly, "Okay, you can analyze the relationship between Yuga and Varuna later. By the way, increase the amount allocated to the Fire Moth. At the same time, the frequency of exchanges between Mu Continent and the Fire Moth on the research of Honkai will be increased from now on, and the research progress will be shared with the Fire Moth."

"Your Majesty," someone else said, "The Fire Moths did almost nothing during the Atlantis Collapse incident. Their soldiers even knocked out Mayor Candela. How can we continue to indulge them like this?"

Speaking of this, Candela's face suddenly darkened. That expressionless boy hit people really hard. He still felt a little bit of pain now.

"That's what I said. Do you have any objection?" The king looked at the man expressionlessly and said, "Also, the fact that you did nothing in this incident... Sir Yitzhak, my subject, answer me, if it were you, what would you do?"

“This…” Izak choked, “Your Majesty, this is not my area of ​​expertise. I just think they haven’t done what they should do as an organization whose purpose is to fight against Honkai…”

"Why are you butting in on something that is not within your professional scope?" The king glanced at Isaac coldly. How could he not know what his subjects were up to? Did he really think that he, the king, was a good-for-nothing wearing a crown? He had seen all the power struggles between the Fire Moth and the many high-level officials of Mu Continent and the high-level officials of various countries in the world.

The Fire Moth is an organization that brings together talents from all over the world to fight against the Honkai. However, Honkai involves too many aspects, and if the Fire Moth wants to do something, it will inevitably infringe on the rights of certain people. Therefore, they will not allow the Fire Moth to become the only voice against Honkai. The independent research on Honkai by the military of Mu Continent and even countries around the world also originated from this, but in terms of research progress, Mu Continent and the Fire Moth are far ahead.

The king had no objection to this, because he also thought that if the only voice against Honkai was Fire Moth, would Fire Moth use its power for personal gain?

So he condoned this behavior.

Now, these people's accusations against the flame-chasing moths are completely intentional crimes, without any reason at all, they are just to suppress the flame-chasing moths, which is not what the king wants to see.

The fire moth cannot dominate the market alone, but its status must not be low.

Yitzhak lowered his head, knowing that the king had seen through his inner thoughts, so he could only say: "I have overstepped my authority, please forgive me, Your Majesty."

"People should know shame and then be brave. If you fail in the battle against Honkai, you should continue to train yourself and improve your abilities instead of putting the blame on others." The king said calmly, "Why don't you blame those who are working hard for something that no one expected? Research results don't come out of nowhere. A tall building also needs building materials. What do you want to research without the funds?"

After a pause, the king continued, "You keep saying he should, so why don't you give him what he should have? You want him to do what he should do? A well-trained soldier can easily kill a wild animal with a gun, but if a soldier with bare hands is eaten by a tiger, do you still say he didn't do what he should do?"

Everyone else was silent. When Candela saw that the king had no intention of holding anyone accountable, he became anxious. However, someone quickly covered his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, I think Mayor Candela is also responsible for this incident. I suggest that we take him away first and then investigate thoroughly after the incident is completely over."

Let this stupid brain continue to talk, maybe His Majesty the King is going to grant more power to the flame moth. They condoned Candela to say this, because they want to use him as a gunman, so as to reduce the fire moth. Moth's right to speak, now the goal is not achieved but it has the opposite effect, so why do they want Candela here?