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

Because only what you come into contact with is real.

Illusions are just illusions after all.

And just as Alicia had said to herself before, there were countless Alicias in countless worlds, but there was only one Alicia who fell in love with him.

Then, there is no need for him to pursue a false illusion.

The reason why he hadn't taken action yet was that he was a little curious about this world and the power of the Eighth Herrscher. The Eighth Herrscher could accurately reproduce the behavior patterns of the "lover" that a person thinks about day and night, and even be comprehensive in every aspect. Some subtle habits could be perfectly reproduced, but why did it become the impression of other people when it came to him?

Let’s not talk about Lilith, Alicia is also a little different…

"Hey, hey, hey, you're not really sleepy, are you?" Lilith said speechlessly, "This is the breakfast prepared for your dear sister, Astaroth. You have to send her to school later. You didn't forget it, did you?"

Astaroth?! My...sister?

Zhu Yufeng looked at Lilith suddenly. Lilith's expression was full of speechlessness: "What happened between you and Alicia last night? Did you forget everything after waking up?"

Zhu Yufeng retracted his gaze and said, "I was a little sleepy and didn't react for a while..."

"...Have you taken any safety measures? Well, considering that I still have to take care of Astaroth, I will have to wait for a few more years..."

Zhu Yufeng: “…”

How should he answer this? He knows nothing! And what are you thinking? However, this is probably what Lilith would really think...

Zhu Yufeng probably understood now that the subject of this dream was most likely not him, but Astaroth... But why was he in the same dream as Astaroth? And in this case, it would be useless for him to kill "Lilith" and "Alisa", because the subject of the dream was not him.

If he wanted to escape from this dream, without considering the influence of external forces, everything seemed to be in a dead end. First of all, if he died in the dream, he would also die in reality. And there was no doubt that if Astaroth wanted to wake up, she would most likely kill him. And if he wanted to leave, he had to kill Astaroth...

"This is really a bit troublesome..." Zhu Yufeng thought. At this point, he could only take things one step at a time and confirm the current situation.

He remembered that the Seventh Herrscher Uriel had said that her original target was Alicia, but then she felt that he was a greater threat than Alicia so she turned her spearhead on him. By analogy, did the Eighth Herrscher think the same way?

However, according to the information from the previous life, the Eighth Herrscher only knew that there was such an organization that fought against Honkai, so she used memetic weapons on a large scale to try to find the Fire Moth. Then she shouldn't have known that she was a threat directly like Uriel did...

Could it be that the Eighth Herrscher discovered something was wrong when he and Astaroth were reading the storybook and were attacked by the memetic weapon?

This possibility cannot be ruled out...

She is also a Herrscher now, and the Eighth Herrscher obviously does not have the ability to read her own memories directly, so she can only construct this world through Astaroth's memories and then trap herself. She is also gambling that Astaroth is important enough to her, so that even if she finds something wrong, she will not be able to escape from this world.

"I remember when Kiana was dragged into the realm of the treasure master, I beat him up directly... But the Eighth Herrscher didn't show up, so what should I beat him with?" Zhu Yufeng thought while eating breakfast. "And the longer you stay in the dream world, the weaker your body will become, and you will also be corroded by the Honkai energy all the time... Mei's body began to gradually..."

Mei's body's resistance to collapse is too low, so she can't become a fusion warrior. During the Eighth Herrscher incident, she was attacked by the Eighth Herrscher. Then, during the Tenth Herrscher incident, in order to personally test the Blank Key, her body collapsed completely, to the point where she had to rely on drugs to survive...

No, even if I am now a Herrscher and can withstand the erosion of Honkai energy, I cannot be dragged here like this. I must find a way. After all, I am the thirteenth Herrscher. In terms of serial number, I am ranked behind the eighth Herrscher. In terms of peak strength, wouldn't I be able to beat the eighth Herrscher?

Even though I'm not at my peak right now, I should at least give it a try.

"Wait..." Zhu Yufeng paused while eating breakfast. He looked at the breakfast in front of him with a serious expression. After a while, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up.

Sure enough, the Eighth Herrscher had probably noticed her identity, but she was not sure whether she was the same kind as her, or whether she was her enemy, so she might have made some moves in various places here.

She would disperse the power to any person or thing that she might come into contact with, and then use it to investigate her background. In other words, as long as she dispersed the power, she could follow the clues to find the person.

"What's wrong? Is breakfast not to your taste?" Lilith's voice sounded.

Zhu Yufeng thought about it and decided to observe for the time being. The Eighth Herrscher had no entity, and her exact location in the consciousness space was unknown. He had undergone a fusion warrior surgery, but he also found that as time went by, the fusion warrior surgery seemed to have provided convenience for him to gradually release his power?

What was even more strange was that he was gradually beginning to recover the special abilities he had gained from absorbing other Honkai beasts through the Chimera Project, just like in his previous life. It was strange to say that his power should be time, but why did he derive a bunch of things that didn't seem to have anything to do with time? He asked Mobius, but Mobius just told her to study it for a while and then nothing more happened...

In short, he could use the power of Mitra to gradually locate the exact position of the Eighth Herrscher. Now, it was just a little bit of scattered power, which was far from enough to locate her position...

Thinking of this, Zhu Yufeng did not hesitate any longer. While guarding against the possible encroachment of the Eighth Herrscher on him, he secretly used the Eighth Herrscher's temptation on him to counter-locate the Eighth Herrscher.

As for the outside world... we can't put all our hopes on Alicia and the others out there and do nothing, right?

Fortunately, the Eighth Herrscher also knew that everyone was a Herrscher, or at least at the same level, so she didn't dare to blatantly test everyone. At the same time, the Eighth Herrscher herself had to find the Fire Moth and destroy it from the inside. She probably didn't have much time to focus on Zhu Yufeng. He only found faint traces left by the Eighth Herrscher in breakfast.

Zhu Yufeng could more or less guess what the Eighth Herrscher was thinking, which was that no matter whether he was her companion or not, he would first trap himself here, and then deal with the Fire Moth. After the Fire Moth was dealt with, he would focus his main energy on himself.

"I don't know what the situation is like outside... Lilith probably doesn't need to worry, as for Mei and Destobia... Speaking of which, after Seele finished the operation, she confirmed that it was a psychic fusion warrior. If we locate it at that time, she will also be involved... Tsk, I'm still a little uneasy. I have to hurry up..."

There will be four updates tomorrow. I keep my word. It's a rare May Day holiday, so I went out to play with my roommates for a day. Four updates is the estimated length for solving the Eighth Herrscher incident tomorrow. If it can't be solved within four updates, I will continue to update.

By the way, I also think my delivery rate may be a bit fake. Another Bronya has appeared in the pool. When will the next Bronya exclusive light cone be arranged? (rubbing hands)

Chapter 223 Strategic Arrangement

Mebius' laboratory.

Seeing Mobius walking out of the laboratory, Alicia asked: "Mobius, how is the situation? The results of the examination..."

Mebius glanced at the people who had gathered around her. Her gaze lingered on Lionel, Hen, and Desdobia, and then she said, "The situation is the same as that of other patients with sleeping sickness. They are all in a state of deep sleep. By comparing the test results of other patients with sleeping sickness by Admiral, it can be confirmed that all patients with sleeping sickness can be considered to have been attacked by some kind of memetic weapon."

"In other words, the eighth Herrscher has appeared, right?" Lionel said with a serious face, "With one move, even the strongest warrior of the Fire Moth was hit... That's right, every time the Honkai attacks, it targets the weaknesses that we humans cannot reach. In terms of physical fitness, we have gained strength that can rival the Herrscher, so a Herrscher who can use memetic weapons has appeared..."

"But we also have fusion warriors with psychic abilities, and perhaps we can find a way to fight the Eighth Herrscher." Beffinger turned his gaze to Seele, "But we don't even know where the enemy is, or how to find her."

"It's not that we don't have a way, but the current number of psychic fusion warriors is not enough to support us in finding the exact location of the Eighth Herrscher." Mobius said calmly, "We need more psychic fusion warriors to work together, go deep into the illusion created by the Eighth Herrscher, trace the source, and capture it in one fell swoop."

"The illusion woven by the Eighth Herrscher?" Lionel frowned.

"You can understand that the ultimate effect of the Eighth Herrscher's memetic weapon on humans is to make them fall into a dream of the most ideal life in their minds. This is why no one has been able to wake up so far," Mebius explained.

"A world where all your wishes come true? Indeed, it is hard to refuse. Even the most determined warriors will look forward to the day when the war ends." Lionel said to himself, then nodded to Mebius and said, "I understand. I will discuss this matter with Dr. Mei immediately and try to gather the required psychic fusion warriors in the shortest time possible."

Kevin glanced at Lionel, he also knew that May's health began to deteriorate because she was attacked by the Eighth Herrscher during the Eighth Herrscher incident, and the reason she was attacked by the Eighth Herrscher was that when May was trying to gather various data on people who were attacked by the Eighth Herrscher and fell into a deep sleep, she deduced the information contaminated by the Eighth Herrscher, but was accidentally attacked by the Eighth Herrscher's latest contaminated information.

This time, the Fire Moth reacted quickly to the attack of the Eighth Herrscher, but...

"I'll go with you." Kevin said.

Lionel nodded, and Beffinger touched his chin and said, "I remember that I am also qualified to perform fusion warrior surgery. Why don't I sign up here first?"

"There is no time to lose, let's get ready right away." Lionel said and left with Kevin and Beffinger.

"What are you doing here? Instead of standing there in a daze, why not collect information about what those people who fell into sleeping sickness did before?" Mebius said to Hen unhappily, "Although we have speculated that the power of the Eighth Herrscher is a memetic weapon, we don't know the specific medium."

"I understand. I'll go tell them right away." Hen nodded, completely unaware that Mebius was planning to send them away. After all, not everyone present had memories of their previous life.

Lilith crossed her arms and looked at Nahemah and Abaddon: "You two should go over and take a look too."

"Eh? No..."

Nahemma could tell at a glance that Mobius had something to say and wanted to get rid of some people with the most reasonable reason. He also guessed that this matter was related to Zhu Yufeng. How could he ignore it when it concerned the boss's business?

"Got it." Abaddon dragged Nahema away without giving him any chance to speak. Although Abaddon also saw some clues, he chose to remain silent. He believed that since Mebius was going to keep it secret, she must be sure that she could control the situation, and this information might not be suitable for them to know now.

While being dragged away, Naheima was arguing with Abaddon. He changed the topic and accused Abaddon of not understanding the ways of the world and not having any respect for him. In fact, what he thought was similar to Abaddon. If he didn't need to know, then he didn't need to know.

Unlike Hen, the fallen angels at least had some subconscious impression of what had happened in the past, so they could see that something was wrong, but they all chose to remain silent about it, and Beffinger, who had run away long ago, was no exception.

Esmodesm and Beelzebub were released on bail and joined Zhu Yufeng's team. The operation was also completed, but they were still imprisoned in the deepest place and under the supervision of the Aponian Law.

Kosmo was silent for a moment, then looked at Desdobia and said, "Let's go too, Desdobia."

"Yes." Desdobia nodded, "There's no time to lose!"

After everyone else had left, Lilith looked at Mebius and whispered, "Okay, Dr. Mebius, now that everyone else is gone, is there anything about Feng that you couldn't talk about just now?"

"You guys come with me."

Mobius waved and asked the others to follow her into the laboratory. Then, she asked Rovco to compare Zhu Yufeng's examination records with those of others, and then said, "Let me tell you the conclusion directly. Yufeng's condition is different from that of the others. The Eighth Herrscher doesn't seem to have any substantial impact on his mind. Compared to the others, Yufeng's current condition may be more like a lucid dream."

"That is to say, he knows that he is dreaming, and he probably also knows that he is under attack by the Eighth Herrscher. However, for some reason, he is temporarily unable to wake up like the others?" Lilith said.

"Generally speaking, the stronger the resistance to Honkai energy and the more resolute one's will is, the easier it is to wake up from the dream woven by the Eighth Herrscher. But Yu Feng's situation is different." Mobius said as he looked at the data on the screen. "According to the analysis results of Admiral's instruments, Yu Feng and Astaroth have a large overlap in their thought waves. It can almost be said that... he and Astaroth are having the same dream."

"In other words, the subject of the dream is actually Astaroth. If Astaroth can't wake up, Feng can't wake up either, right?" Lilith said, "After all, I have been with Feng for so long, I know his personality well, and the influence of the Eighth Herrscher on him has no effect at all."

"Yes, that's true... Feng has always been able to clearly distinguish between dreams and reality." Alicia nodded thoughtfully, "In other words, the Eighth Herrscher may have also noticed this, so he simply used Astaroth's dream as his cage to bind him inside. In this way, if he wants to break through the dream, then..."

"He needs to kill the owner of the dream. Although it is possible that he will face the Eighth Herrscher directly afterwards, judging by the cowardly look of the Eighth Herrscher, he will at most leave a harsh remark and run away without looking back." Lilith shrugged, "But... Feng won't do that. If the owner of the dream changes to someone else, he will do it without hesitation. He didn't do it now because that person is Astaroth."

The Eighth Herrscher was actually a coward. When Lilith broke through the Eighth Herrscher's dream, the Eighth Herrscher was shocked and angry but still chose not to pursue her. On the one hand, it was because she felt that a person's breakthrough was not a big deal, and on the other hand, she was really a coward, fearing that if she moved too much, she would attract the attention of the Fire Moth and eventually get locked...

Later, the Eighth Herrscher had a formal confrontation with the Fire Moth. While she tried to control the fallen guards in her dream world to attack the fusion warriors who were locating her position, she was also constantly hiding her tracks until she was finally locked onto by Su and caught by Aponia and had no choice but to fight. While fighting, she also tried to find an opportunity to escape.

In fact, the Eighth Herrscher had no choice but to be timid. After all, her predecessors were basically killed by humans after their positions were exposed. The Seventh Herrscher with the most brilliant record was still killed instantly by Kevin. Kevin was not so strong before. He performed an operation and killed the Herrscher instantly. Who wouldn't be afraid? Even if her body was a consciousness, what if another person similar to Kevin appeared among the spiritual fusion warriors? She had to be timid...

The Ninth and Tenth Herrschers followed the basic principle of developing slowly and hiding whenever possible, unlike the previous Herrschers who would fight with humans as soon as they awakened.

In her previous life, the Eighth Herrscher decided to take the initiative to attack the fusion warriors who tried to locate her. That was because she used her abilities to kill several psychic fusion warriors, including Desdobia. This gave her a lot of confidence. Then, when she met Su and Aponia and found that she couldn't beat them, she immediately gave in and tried her best to escape.

"That is to say, apart from finding the Eighth Herrscher and killing him, do we have no other way?" Seele said. She only had a rough idea of ​​the Eighth Herrscher's power. After all, she was not even considered a human at that time. Moreover, Zhu Yufeng could not intervene in the confrontation with the Eighth Herrscher at all. With only a Key of God, she did not have a sufficient assessment of the Eighth Herrscher's ability.

"In theory, if Feng is strong enough, he can locate the Eighth Herrscher in the dream created by the Eighth Herrscher and then kill him." Roffko said with his hand on his chin, "But, although it's a bit strange...but..."

"Feng has also developed abilities similar to those of a psychic fusion warrior, right? He told us about this a long time ago." Lilith said, "After all, everyone here is trusted by Feng, so there is no need for him to keep this from us."

In fact, among the fallen angels, only Rovko, Xila, Lilith and Admiral knew that Zhu Yufeng had the ability of a psychic fusion warrior. The others knew nothing about it. Among them, Rovko, Xila and Admiral still did not know his identity as a Herrscher, at least he had not told them.

Zhu Yufeng's super mutation factor comes from Yuga, which is a top-secret file in the Fire Moth. If the abilities that Yuga gave him also include psychic abilities, it would inevitably bring a lot of trouble.

Therefore, even in the records of top-secret files, Zhu Yufeng's abilities were recorded as time-related abilities, manifested as the acceleration and reversal of limited self-time, as well as the acceleration and reversal of time for touched objects.

There is no other way. His abilities also have to be recorded on file in Mu Continent. The king of Mu Continent is very interested in Zhu Yufeng and Kevin, the two "warriors" who took the lead in undergoing surgery. This cannot be concealed. I can only write something realistic but will not exceed the king's imagination.

Luo Fuko frowned slightly. What she actually wanted to know was that Yuga was a time-based Honkai beast, so why did Feng, who had fused with its super-mutation factor, have mental abilities? However... Seele's fused super-mutation factor came from the Honkai beast Yanluo, who was also a mental fusion warrior in the end. Xila, who was also trying the Chimaira Project, did not develop mental abilities after fusion with Yanluo's super-mutation factor. Could it be that not only would different Honkai beasts bring about different abilities, but different people fusing the same Honkai beast would also have different abilities?

Yuga's time-related ability is the strongest ability known so far. The theoretical possibility of this ability alone is enough to rival the power of the Herrscher. Just like the essence of the power of the Seventh Herrscher is to accelerate the thermal motion of molecules, the power of time can do the same. Time can also do the creation and withering of the Sixth Herrscher... In other words, if Yuga really corresponds to a Herrscher with power related to time, He may be the final enemy of mankind...

"There is another way. Just like how Admir used the machine he made to find the answer about you fallen angels, I can modify the machine he made and send the foreign consciousness into the consciousness space where Yu Feng is now." Wei Wei said, "However, since the consciousness space where Yu Feng is now is constructed by the Eighth Herrscher, it is not enough to rely on the instrument alone to break through. A spiritual fusion warrior is needed to break through that barrier."

"Should we let Sister Nia or Brother Su come?" Padu asked.

"They need to lock onto the Eighth Herrscher in the outside world, so it can't be them." Wei Wei looked at Seele, "Or we can go back to the original plan and do nothing, wait for Yu Feng's news, and then we can kill the Eighth Herrscher in the outside world."

Seele crossed his arms and said, "I see. Let me do it, I also want to see what that guy is dreaming about. Although the main character of the dream is Astaroth, there must be some influence of this guy in it."

For example, she was also very curious about how the Eighth Herrscher would deal with the relationship between this dead wood and other girls.

Chapter 224: Holy Scars

"I understand. I will upload some of my data." Admiral said to Lionel on the screen, "The Third Research Institute will also do its best to assist in searching for information contaminated by the Eighth Lawrence."

"Then I'll leave it to you, Director Admiller." Lionel nodded and closed the communication.

Admiller was promoted to the director of the Third Institute after the Seventh Herrscher incident. In fact, the people in Mu Continent also knew that Admiller had actually controlled nearly two-thirds of the voice of the Third Institute. After the death of the former director Erwin, the new director could not suppress Admiller's self-willed behavior. After struggling for a while, he chose not to interfere. The Third Institute was almost divided. Although Admiller did not care much, other people in his faction never forgot to suppress the director's faction, especially the Gray Snake arranged by Mobius to help him operate here. He liked to stir up trouble, which led to a tense relationship between the two sides. The Gray Snake even mobilized the original "Arc Moon" killer organization that had been swallowed up by the World Serpent to do things.

After the Seventh Herrscher incident, Mobius resigned from his position as a senator, and Mu Continent did him a favor by giving the position of director of the Third Research Institute to Admiral, who belonged to Mobius's faction. Anyway, at that time, the original director's faction had been suppressed by Admiral to the point where they could hardly raise their heads.

After Admiller became the director of the Third Institute, the Third Institute could basically be regarded as the base camp of the World Serpent. The Fire Moth had long been aware of the existence of the World Serpent, but they were always unable to catch these shadows hiding in the darkness. They only knew that there must be an organization organized by the shadows of the Fire Moth.

The most outrageous thing is that as a senior worker of World Serpent, Mostima has been secretly observing some information exchanges among other people. Someone proposed that Mebius was related to that shadow, but in the end it turned out that even Mebius was just one of the cadres and was pushed out as a prominent figure.

Some people also speculated that this hidden organization had already existed together with the Fire Moth when it was established, and they did not expect that the World Serpent was actually developed only in recent years.

Mastema: “…”

Well... it's not surprising, after all, no normal person would have thought that Mobius would make so many things happen after the incident of the Third Herrscher, and he knew what would happen next like a prophet, and then profited from it.

All Mostima needed to do was to guide the topic at the appropriate time. After all... no one would have thought that Velvet and Mobius would work together to build the Gray Snake Network for internal communication within the World Serpent, and then he and Velvet would establish a surveillance system for the internal structure of Fire Moth... Except for May, most of the key geniuses of Fire Moth were working for the World Serpent, and although May did not join the World Serpent, her style of doing things was actually not much different from that of the World Serpent.

Mu Continent and Lionel are naturally aware of this, but no matter what, the ultimate goal of the World Serpent is still the same as that of the Fire Moth. It is just that in order to fight against the collapse, some of the behaviors that the World Serpent has currently discovered are relatively radical.

In order to defeat the Honkai, humans always need to pay some price, especially when humans have begun to show signs of decline in this war. Therefore, Mu Continent has maintained a tacit attitude towards this.

Otherwise, if you are determined to investigate thoroughly, you will still be able to find some people.

Basically, everyone who knew about it believed that Admiral was one of those shadows. Giving him the position of director of the Third Research Institute was also a way to give the World Serpent a place to operate openly. The first meaning was indeed to check and balance the internal relations of the Fire Moth. The deeper meaning was that the shadow that the Seventh Herrscher brought to mankind was huge enough. If the Fusion Warrior Plan had not been realized by Mobius in advance, the damage caused by the Seventh Herrscher would have been even more serious than it is now.

Regardless of whether Admiral is one of the shadows, as long as his style of doing things is suitable for succeeding Mebius, it will be fine. As for how many people Mebius sacrificed before completing the first fusion warrior operation, although the report submitted by Mebius afterwards did not say so, who would believe it? Don't you see how many people who have undergone surgery after the Seventh Herrscher incident have survived so far.

It’s just that no one wants to care, so if Mebius says yes, then so be it.

After finishing his communication with Lionel, Admiller asked his men to immediately collect information on those people infected with sleeping sickness in the Third Institute, summarize it, and submit it to the headquarters.

"You don't seem to be interested in finding out the contaminated information, Director Admiral." Gray Snake's voice sounded in the shadows of Admiral's laboratory.

Admiral didn't even bother to look at it. He just lowered his head and looked at the latest experimental report in his hand and said, "The power of the Eighth Herrscher is a memetic weapon. Our institute currently does not have a psychic fusion warrior that can fight it. Besides, we have more important things to do now."

Although Admiller is now a fusion warrior, he is not a psychic fusion warrior... maybe he is more functional... In short, he can basically be regarded as the weakest one among those who have completed the fusion warrior surgery.

Ever since Zhu Yufeng confessed some things to him and Rolfko, the Stigmata Project has been lingering in Admiller's mind. His goal is to improve the physical fitness of some humans to the point where they can withstand the consequences of Honkai energy for other humans, and the Herrscher is a good target, but after Zhu Yufeng told him the concept of the Stigmata, he changed his mind.

He is indeed obsessed with the artificial Herrscher plan and has not completely given up on it until now. He regards the Fusion Warrior Plan and the Stigmata as steps for humans to take a step towards becoming Herrschers. According to two of the fifteen versions of the Stigmata plan described by Zhu Yufeng, Admiller is more in favor of the spiritual Adam plan.