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

If there was no other choice, the top leaders would not agree to the Fusion Warrior Plan, a plan whose success probability was believed to be zero by its proposers. During the time Kevin was undergoing surgery, the other warriors of the Fire Moth had to face the fear of an unprecedentedly powerful enemy and go to the location of the Seventh Herrscher one after another, trapping the Seventh Herrscher in place at the cost of their own lives, just to buy that little bit of time that might be hopeless.

It was not Himiko's fault to become a Herrscher, but the trauma and oppression that the Seventh Herrscher brought to mankind was too great. For a long time afterwards, the surviving warriors subconsciously chose to avoid talking about anything related to the name Himiko, not to mention that Kevin fell into severe depression because of this, which made other warriors who regarded Kevin as a hero have negative emotions towards Himiko.

Although there are warriors in the Fire Moth, including the depressed Kevin, who thinks that Himiko deserves a fair and reasonable evaluation, the emotions of the majority of the warriors must be considered in the end. Therefore... except for a few warriors such as Hua and Kevin, other warriors kept silent about it. Over time, no one in the Fire Moth remembered her except for the description in the files. Pado, who joined later, even knew of Desdobia, but did not know about Himiko.

There was nothing that could be done about it. Mei had planned to wait until the turmoil over the Seventh Herrscher incident had calmed down temporarily and people's emotions had settled down temporarily before proposing a fair and objective evaluation of Himiko in parliament. However, the Eighth and Ninth Herrscher incidents that followed caused humans to once again fall into fear and hatred of the Herrscher, and the Tenth Herrscher incident brought the trust between people to the brink of collapse. As a result, Himiko's case had to be delayed again and again, and in the end, reality did not allow Himiko to be given a fair evaluation.

But this time, everyone knew that, at least, this really had nothing to do with Himiko. If anyone wanted to blame someone, blame Uriel for catching everyone off guard. If anyone wanted to blame someone, blame those councilors who were willing to believe in the Herrscher and directly caused this incident. Uriel and those councilors became the ones who bore the final responsibility for this incident.

This time, there will still be people who remember Himiko, remember that there was once such a warrior who stood at the forefront of the fight against Honkai, who had experienced the battles of many Herrschers, and remember her contributions to mankind.

Her tombstone is no longer placed in a remote corner with almost no maintenance. Soldiers who miss her often come here to offer her a bouquet of flowers along with those of other soldiers who died.

"I'm sorry, Captain... If I could do it all over again, I would still have to watch you go." Hua took out another bottle of wine and placed it in front of the tombstone. "This is the wine you always wanted to drink. Feng asked Naheima to get it for me... Now the Eighth Herrscher incident is over. Kosmo and Desdobia, who you always cared about, are both alive and well... I'm fine too."

"Hua..." Zhu Yufeng, who was standing next to Hua, lowered his eyes and sighed softly, "I... am also very sorry. I still can't do something..."

He saved Seele and participated in changing the fate of Desdobia, but he did not change anything in the Seventh Herrscher incident. Perhaps it was a good thing for mankind that Australia was not completely burned down, but for Hua, who regarded Himiko as a close friend and life mentor, everything might not make any difference in the end.

Hua stood up and said, "No... this is not your fault, Feng... if you want to think like that, my responsibility may be greater than yours."

Zhu Yufeng looked at Hua.

Hua showed a helpless bitter smile on his face: "Because I feel that my qualifications are too mediocre compared to yours, and you can all do better than me, so I always choose to obey numbly, and always leave some choices to you to judge, thinking that this is enough... If I could have been as persistent as Kosmo this time to find a way to keep the captain in the Fire Moth, then what happened later would not have happened... I have always been like this, drifting with the flow, hoping that others can bring about some changes..."

"Hua, you don't have to think like that." Zhu Yufeng said, "You are also trying hard to change. In every battle we have fought so far, you have been doing your best. No one can blame you for not doing well. It's just that we all let down our guard because of Uriel's appearance as the Seventh Herrscher..."

"Is that so..." Hua lowered his eyes, "But... after experiencing the initial sadness and self-doubt, looking at the current situation... maybe the situation is not that bad..."

Hua raised his head slightly and looked at Zhu Yufeng, saying: "In the last life, besides me, only Hen, Kevin, Alicia and you would come here occasionally. At that time, the captain's tombstone couldn't even be like it is now, with praise for her and praise for her life... It was just a tombstone with the captain's name written on it, nothing more... As warriors standing at the forefront of the fight against Honkai, you and the Fallen Angel Squad even spend 300 days a year outside performing Honkai beast elimination missions, so you don't have much time to come... Me too... And every time I come, all I see is desolation, nothing else."

Including Hen, there are really few warriors who know Himiko and know her character after the Seventh Herrscher incident... After all, the team she led was wiped out in the Seventh Herrscher incident except for Hua, and most of the warriors who were on good terms with her also died in the Seventh Herrscher incident. Although some of them survived, because they had faced death and Himiko's humanity disappeared too thoroughly after becoming a Herrscher, their feelings towards Himiko became quite complicated. It is difficult to give a positive evaluation without any negative emotions...

Originally, Hen could still take care of her, but then Hen died in the Ninth Herrscher incident...

Zhu Yufeng was silent. In fact, he didn't have much interaction with Himiko. He came here in his previous life purely because he was dragged here by Kevin. Zhu Yufeng never cared about the opinions of other people in the Fire Moth. He just had some ideas about Ji Zi in later generations, so he still had respect for Himiko. After coming here with Kevin to pay his respects once, he also checked Himiko's past records and concluded that she was undoubtedly a respectable warrior.

So when he comes next time, he will take care of it.

When he had a say in the parliament, he also thought about changing something for Himiko. At least, the afterlife of a respectable warrior shouldn't be like this. But as soon as he told Lilith about this idea, she rejected it because it was inappropriate. Himiko was indeed a respectable warrior, but her identity and "battle record" later, plus the blows brought by several Herrschers later... It would be good enough if her tombstone could be left in the cemetery and just deliberately forgotten by other warriors...

The individual Herrscher of the Tenth Herrscher in the Fire Moth did not even have a tombstone. Of course, the reason for this was that the Honkai Impact had been revealed to everyone in the world at that time. Ordinary people did not care what they had done before becoming Herrschers. All they saw was "Why should we commemorate the enemy who wanted to destroy our civilization?"

Therefore, in the end, even in the archives, the descriptions of Himiko were mostly just a passing mention. Whether it was the Void Treasury or other archives of the Fire Moth, even in the Paradise of the Past, the one who left the most memories about Himiko was Hua.

Hua, who was outside the paradise, had long forgotten Himiko, but her body retained the instinct that made her shed tears unconsciously when she saw Himiko, but she didn't know why.

Zhu Yufeng looked at Himiko's tombstone. In this life, Hua did not join Himiko's team, but just maintained contact as friends. Perhaps this was part of the reason that slightly diluted the sadness brought by their separation.

The situation on Kosmo's side is completely different. After starting over again, the relationship between him and Desdobia has further deepened, and their bond has become closer. This is also the reason why after the incident of the Seventh Herrscher, Kosmo always falls into an emo state unconsciously, right?

Now... Kosmo just woke up and is inseparable with Desdobia. Pado, who visits Desdobia every day, just takes a look and quietly closes the door. In Pado's words, "I feel like there are pink bubbles flying around, and no one else should be there except the two of them..."

In addition... although the Eighth Herrscher incident was also a perfect ending with almost zero casualties thanks to Kosmo's efforts, except for those who fell into the dream too early and then sank into depravity and could not be saved, but...

Zhu Yufeng still feels a little worried about the new way the Eighth Herrscher was born. Don't tell me that the Ninth Herrscher is going to do something weird this time?

As for Admiral, the main scapegoat for the Eighth Herrscher incident, if he were not far away in Europe and he did not have time to go there for the time being, he would have beaten this guy up long ago.

Admiller deserved to be beaten, but it was just a beating. There was no point in pursuing it too much. The matter was over, and judging from the result, it didn't cause any irreparable mess. It also raised the level of the relationship between Kosmo and Desdobia by several levels.

Finally, there was the matter of the Eighth Herrscher's core that had not been found. Mobius suspected that he had unconsciously swallowed the Eighth Herrscher's power and had checked him several times. After all, he had been fighting the Eighth Herrscher head-on. The other Seele, who was also fighting the Eighth Herrscher head-on, was also checked, but still found nothing.

At night, Zhu Yufeng slowly opened his eyes in his dream, and then found himself standing in a quiet city, a city so quiet that there was no sound at all.

"here it is……!"

Zhu Yufeng's pupils shrank. His mood fluctuated greatly at this moment. He was too familiar with this scene...

The Eleventh Herrscher incident, a tragedy of restraint.

Even in a dream, even though this was not the first time he had dreamed of this scene, when it appeared again, it would still cause turmoil in his heart.

For Kosmo, the death of Destobia in the Eighth Herrscher incident was his lingering nightmare, and the tragedy of restraint was the same for Zhu Yufeng...

only……

He looked down at his hands and clenched them. This was the first time he had such a clear dream...

He did not unconsciously walk along the original path as he did in his previous dream, but just stayed here.

Moreover, he hadn't had this dream for a long time... Why...

After hesitating for a moment, Zhu Yufeng still took a step forward and walked towards the final location that brought an end to this tragedy.

A church.

The city was extremely quiet, and apart from the sound of my own footsteps, I could hardly hear any other sound...

Three broken stone statues appeared in front of them. They were the first three fallen angels to die...

"Beffinger, Roffko, Admiral..."

Zhu Yufeng read out their names and stretched out his hand with some trembling, but it seemed as if something was blocking him and making him unable to reach them. After standing for a while, he once again set foot on the road that he would never forget.

Along the way, he also saw other fallen angels who appeared in the form of damaged stone statues one by one.

Without exception, he couldn't touch them.

Finally, he arrived in front of the church that was almost in ruins. The holy Ruler also appeared in the form of a stone statue. Her eyes were full of compassion, and she stretched out her hand as if she still wanted to give him a hug.

"Michael..." Zhu Yufeng suddenly felt a chill coming over him. He raised his head and saw small raindrops falling from the gloomy sky.

"Oh, right... Lilith!" Zhu Yufeng looked around and saw Lilith leaning against a broken wall. Unlike the others, she was not a stone statue.

He walked forward and helped Lilith up. She raised her head and a gentle smile appeared on her pale face: "Feng...Did you change anything this time?"

Have I changed anything...

"I..." His voice was hoarse, not knowing what to say.

"Don't worry, and don't blame yourself." Lilith reached out and gently stroked his face. "I still love you. I will always love you and stay by your side... until the end of the underworld, and we will never be apart."

"Lilith, I..."

"Take me back the way we came here..."

"……it is good."

He picked up the girl, and she closed her eyes in his arms. Just like before, he held the girl in his arms and walked back the way they came in the drizzling rain.

He didn't realize that there was another person at the scene.

"!"

Alicia suddenly woke up, she sat up from the bed, her breathing became a little rapid, just now, she dreamed of...

Chapter 233: Saving Flow: It Should Be a Knife

"The tragedy of restraint..."

Alicia pressed her forehead and took some time to calm her heavy breathing.

"Why...I dreamed about this..." She glanced at the digital clock on the bedside. It was still midnight, and she couldn't run to someone's room to check on the situation or find some comfort...

After all... I couldn't talk about this nightmare even if it was over...

The tragedy of restraint has been a topic that she and Zhu Yufeng have tacitly agreed not to mention until now. Neither of them wants to mention it. For Alicia, that was the beginning of their relationship never being able to go back to the past. For Zhu Yufeng, that was the beginning of him almost losing everything, and in the end only his obsession was left to support him.

A person never really meets another person again, and from then on all emotions can no longer be conveyed. A person completely loses the right to sleep, and from then on has to endure pain that ordinary people cannot endure every day.

At first, she had dreamed of this nightmare before. In the period after her rebirth, she would dream of the tragedy of restraint almost every night. At that time, or at the last banquet, no matter how long she waited, he would not come.

She had almost put her mind at ease and thought that she could have a new beginning, but after knowing that Lilith was also a reborn person, she had the nightmare again that night.

It was not until the amusement park that Zhu Yufeng initially confessed to her about his identity, and since then their relationship has indeed been steadily getting closer. Therefore, she has not had such a nightmare for a long time.

Even after the Seventh Herrscher incident, and after witnessing Himiko's unchangeable fate, she was also worried that she and Kaede would not be able to overcome the tragedy of their constraints in the end, and even more worried about... his fate ending in the Final War... but that was only a brief moment of hesitation.

She still believed that they could change their fate in the previous life this time. She expected him to save her fate, and she also believed that she could save his fate.

Because this was the first agreement between them after their rebirth, and it was an agreement that they both had to fulfill.

In addition, the changes in the Seventh Herrscher incident were indeed unexpected, but according to Mobius's speculation, it was essentially the same as in the previous life. After all, no one would have thought that the real Seventh Herrscher was Uriel, and no one would have thought that Uriel would use the imaginary path to implant the Herrscher core and transform Himiko under everyone's eyes.

Therefore, the impact of the Seventh Herrscher incident on Alicia was not as great as that on Kosmo.

"Is it because... the Eighth Herrscher this time was born in a completely different way from what we know..." Alicia whispered to herself, "But... even if this can be called a correction of fate, wasn't Destobia saved? What... am I still worried about..."

After Aponia officially joined the Fire Moth, Alicia once asked Aponia about Zhu Yufeng. Aponia just lowered his eyelids at that time and said, "At the end of the last life, from what I saw, he was already entangled in the thread of fate, but... in this life, I can no longer see the fate of others... I'm sorry, Alicia, I can't answer your question."

Based on what Alicia knew about Aponya, she did not lie to her, but she might have chosen to hide something...

Hiding something?

Although Aponia's concealment did not attract much attention in Alicia's heart at the time, or she once again chose not to believe it, after all, even if Feng was already entangled with the thread of fate, didn't he change the fate of others in his previous life? This time everyone is no longer bound by fate, so why can't everyone save him together?

The reason why I had such a nightmare this time was because I didn’t take Aponya’s words seriously at the time, but in fact, it still planted a thorn in my heart...

Alicia felt that her mind was becoming a little unclear, and she began to feel sleepy.

"As long as Michael is still a Herrscher with the Herrscher core like Seele, there is a way... We can definitely overcome the tragedy of restraint, definitely... we can." Alicia seemed to be talking to herself, but also seemed to be talking to someone who was not here now.

There is no point in worrying too much now. What can you change except scaring yourself?

Thinking of this, Alicia lay down on the bed again, slowly closed her eyes, and fell asleep again.

"here it is……"

When she opened her eyes again, what she saw was a sky full of twinkling stars, and the surrounding scene was...

"At that time during the [Last Banquet]?" Alicia looked at the scene around her. Just like in the dream of the tragedy of restraint, except for Lilith and Zhu Yufeng, Michael appeared in the form of a stone statue, and it was the same here.

Aponia appears as a stone statue in a praying posture, Velvet's stone statue is showing her new invention to herself and other guests, Eden's stone statue holds an unfinished music score in his hand, and Kevin's stone statue sheds tears that are physically ice crystals.

Just as I remembered, he... sure enough, he still didn't come...

Alicia looked at the surrounding scenes and arrangements, and then looked at the fireworks she had made and had already been set off. She had been looking forward to him coming to the appointment and fulfilling the agreement they had made, but she was so clear that he would not come.

Just because she didn't want to believe it, she kept asking other guests about the possibility of Kevin coming until he came with his invitation.

"What's wrong with me... First there was the tragedy of the restraints, and then there was the [Last Banquet]..." Alicia said to herself with a bitter smile, "Am I... just so afraid of Feng's departure... I..."

She raised her head again, looking at the sky that was gradually becoming dreamy. The clouds gathered into the shape of a moth chasing after a fire, just like before...

She thought again of the last birthday gift that she had made and expected from Zhu Yufeng. That time, she also found it in a dream, so... does this mean that she can now go back to Chase the Fire Moth and see what Feng was doing at that time?

After making up her mind, she looked at a red crystal flower lying quietly on the place where she had stood when she left. She thought for a moment, walked forward, and placed a pink crystal flower next to the red crystal flower.

Then, the environment of the dream changed according to her thoughts, and in just a moment, she returned to the Fire Moth.

However, what she didn't know was that after she left, the scene of "The Last Banquet" did not disappear, but only underwent some minor changes. Her stone statue appeared where she put down the crystal flowers. The statue held two crystal flowers in the palm of its hand and looked up at the dreamy sky. After that, another person who was not supposed to be here and was the only invited person came here.

"Is this... the scene of the [Last Banquet]?" Zhu Yufeng looked at the surroundings. How could he have this memory? He had never been here before, and the description of the [Last Banquet] in the Eternal Paradise did not include any scenes or CG, just a background picture...

Zhu Yufeng looked up. Okay, the sky was indeed like the background picture... But how did he know, or simulate the scene at that time? This scene didn't look like an amusement park in the eternal paradise...

He looked at the four stone statues standing silently there, and finally fixed his gaze on Kevin's statue. He walked forward, looked Kevin up and down, and then said: "I didn't expect you to cry like this... Although the ice chips flowing from the stone statue are indeed a bit shocking..."

And Kevin's clothes were not intact at all. According to the person involved, he was beaten very seriously by Alicia...

I am the one who caused all this...

"I have to be nicer to you in the future, Kevin..." Zhu Yufeng said with a smile. No matter in the last life or now, Kevin had to bear everything in the end.

After saying this, his expression disappeared almost instantly, and he looked at the stone statue that he saw the first time he arrived here, the statue of Alicia.

He walked to the front of the stone statue and saw the red and pink crystal flowers in Alicia's hands. He had heard the origin of the red crystal flower from Alicia. After all, red was the color of his Heroic Mark and the color of the Fallen Angels' team emblem. Alicia wanted to give him the crystal flower, but in the end she chose to leave with it because she was really close to despair at that time and thought that he would never accept anything from her again. Even if Eden gave him the crystal flower as her last gift to him, it was almost like forcing him to accept it...

"Before that, I had already forced you to make a choice once. How could you... do it a second time..."

That’s what Alicia said.

As for this pink crystal flower...

Zhu Yufeng lowered his eyes and thought for a while. No matter how he thought about it, pink could only be related to Alicia herself, but why would there be a crystal flower here that Alicia had never mentioned to him? As for the two crystal flowers being held in Alicia's hands, that was easy to understand, provided that he understood it correctly.

Suddenly, he seemed to have an inexplicable premonition that told him to touch the pink crystal flower. After hesitating for a moment, Zhu Yufeng chose to believe in his premonition. After all, he had walked around the Fire Moth Base for a few times before, and then he came here to take a look because of his premonition...

So he reached out his hand and touched the pink crystal flower, and a memory entered his mind.

"Hmm... Is this... really okay?" The girl sat in front of the dressing table and looked at herself in the mirror. "Although I am indeed very beautiful... but what will Feng think? I should ask Eden later..."

What he saw in the girl's eyes was anxiety and anticipation... Yes, she had been looking forward to his date so much...