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

"I remember that Mu Continent has tested the current Honkai combat equipment. It should be able to withstand the Honkai energy radiation brought about by a Honkai outbreak, right?" Hen, who was standing next to Lionel, interrupted.

Einstein smiled bitterly and said, "In theory, this is true, but it can only provide temporary protection when the Honkai breaks out. Moreover, the Honkai energy level of the Ninth Herrscher this time exceeds the Great Honkai energy level that has appeared in the past. Even if you can survive, your equipment will be damaged. In addition, we cannot guarantee that the equipment can block all Honkai energy radiation."

"Is that so..." Lionel lowered his eyes, and then began to deploy the battle, "Attention, all teams, closely monitor all movements in Murstein, and do not allow anyone to leave. If anyone tries to force their way through, they are allowed to be shot. At the same time, the armed puppet troops will act as the vanguard to enter Murstein first to investigate the situation."

"Do you need me to go in?" Hen looked towards the city of Murstein with a serious look. "The physique of a fusion warrior can help me be immune to the erosion of Honkai energy in most cases. Moreover, with these equipment on my body, I can withstand another Honkai outbreak. The concentration of Honkai energy here does not have much effect on a fusion warrior."

"Yes." Lionel nodded. "Indeed, although the armed puppets can perform tasks in such a high concentration of Honkai energy environment, they are still slightly less flexible than human intelligence."

"Then I'll go first." Hen didn't hesitate and immediately set off for the city of Murstein.

Lionel watched Hen go away, and then his gaze became distant. He looked in the direction of the place where Yanar lost contact in Murstein City.

Logically speaking, he also thought that he was unqualified to be her fiancé, and he had been prepared for Yanar to ask him to cancel the engagement over the years.

Even though this was a family marriage, there had never been a family marriage where the fiancé had not seen his fiancée several times after the engagement. This was something that Beffinger had often mocked himself for when he was around.

Maybe... he really doesn't care about love. He has always thought so.

From a secular perspective, he was an absolute failure as a fiancé. He had never expressed any feelings to his fiancée, and was always buried in his work, gritting his teeth and persevering for the so-called future of human civilization.

Is there any fiancé who is more of a failure than me?

However, he should have been like this, but during this period of time after returning to Mu Continent, he gradually began to pay attention to his fiancée who had been working silently behind him. In order to ensure that the pace of fighting against the collapse would not stagnate due to the factors of others, he often had to stay up late to work overtime, and the appearance of Yanar undoubtedly greatly relieved his pressure.

This time, Yanar went to Murstein to investigate the Collapse for his own reasons. Everyone thought that this was just an ordinary investigation mission. No one expected that the ninth great Collapse would come so suddenly.

"If something happened to Lilith, Feng would definitely be the first one to rush in regardless of the consequences... After all, he does have a criminal record." Lionel thought with a wry smile. The Fifth Herrscher incident was the only incident in Zhu Yufeng's file that was seriously warned about, because Lilith was deeply involved in the awakening of the Fifth Herrscher. Even if she was not fully awakened, the level of danger was not something that ordinary people could easily go there.

But Zhu Yufeng was determined to go in and find Lilith.

Although neither of them was surprised afterwards, Zhu Yufeng's behavior of going to the Fifth Herrscher Awakening Center alone without waiting for support was still punished by the Fire Moth. He was required to write a 10,000-word report and was given a serious warning.

What Zhu Yufeng did that time was completely different from his usual style. From a rational point of view, it was undoubtedly a very dangerous and adventurous behavior that disregarded his own safety and the development of the Honkai enterprise. At that time, Zhu Yufeng was already one of the best fighters of the Fire Moth, basically representing the future of mankind, but he still took a huge risk and the possibility of meaningless death.

This is an action that Zhu Yufeng would never take under normal circumstances.

This is why when the king asked Lionel who Zhu Yufeng liked, Lionel decisively gave the answer that it was Lilith. Although it is rumored in the Fire Moth that Zhu Yufeng joined the Fire Moth for Alicia, it does not rule out the possibility that he did it to repay a favor and had nowhere else to go, right?

If a person who has always been rational can be dominated by emotions, what else can this be but love?

And according to Lionel's observations, although Alicia's affection for Zhu Yufeng was definitely above liking, he always felt that she was not able to compete with Lilith for him. As for the others... Alicia was at least able to fight, while the others were no match for Lilith, and even had to learn cooking from Lilith...

Another thing, Lionel was very angry. Who on earth spread the rumor that his sister liked Feng? He couldn't see that his sister had such an idea, right?

Seele or Michael are more reliable than Roffko, right? But there are still many supporters of the CP of my sister and Feng, at least they are not at the level of passers-by.

Don't let him know who has been promoting this weird CP!

Lionel shook his head and put this thought out of his mind. Apart from Zhu Yufeng, the fact that Kosmo chose to undergo the fusion warrior surgery with a very low survival probability for Desdobia also left a deep impression on Lionel.

In contrast to these two people, when his fiancée was in trouble, before he cared about her safety, he first thought about how to minimize the damage caused by the collapse and how to kill the Ninth Herrscher at the lowest cost. Moreover, he did not personally enter Murstein to look for Yanar...

As a fiancé, he had undoubtedly failed somewhat...

Even though his rational thinking had been restraining him, forcing him to think calmly about the current situation and the circumstances, suppressing his inner uneasiness, but... he did not deny that at this moment his heart was still like what he had seen in books before, silently praying for her safety.

After standing there for a while, Lionel walked back into the camp, looked at Dr. Einstein on the screen and said, "Any movement from the Fire Moth?"

"Not yet. After receiving the statement with the seal of His Majesty the King himself, the movements of the Fire Moths have been under the close attention of the intelligence department. So far, we have not received any news of any movement of the Fire Moths." Dr. Einstein said expressionlessly, "From a common rational point of view, after Mu Continent has issued such a strong statement, there is no need for them to continue to insist on anything. Moreover, for them, the outcome of the collapse of Mu Continent is not very relevant to them."

"Yeah... there really isn't much of a connection." Lionel said as if mocking himself.

During this period of time, Mu Dalu has been constantly trying to investigate the many plans being carried out by the Fire Moths. Although he has obtained some information, he still paid a considerable price. Finally, in order to reduce unnecessary losses, Mu Dalu no longer risks investigating those plans that the Fire Moths are strictly guarding against.

As long as the Fire Moth doesn't want to do anything fancy like making all of humanity's consciousness ascend or connecting consciousness and abandoning the external body.

This plan to deny the existence of human civilization is unacceptable to Mu Continent, but it might be something that Mobius could come up with. After all, Mobius did say in previous records that "the body is nothing but a shackle on the mind." In addition, the Fire Moth has the Herrscher Core of the Eighth Herrscher in hand, so it might be possible to carry out a similar plan centered on the Herrscher Core of the Eighth Herrscher.

To deny the meaning of existing civilization in order to ensure the survival of human civilization... What is the difference between this and denying the history of human development from ancient times to the present? We have fought so hard to protect the current civilization, but in the end we have to give up our existing civilization and compromise with the enemy that threatens our survival.

Anyway, Lionel couldn't accept it. He would rather die in battle as a human being than become a thing like that and live forever.

However, if that day really comes, there will still be people who choose to live that way, right? After all, everyone has their own aspirations.

What made Lionel feel a little relieved was that at least among the plans currently being carried out by the Fire Moth that Mu Continent had spent a lot of money to spy on, there was no plan similar to what he had imagined. Even the Stigma Project, which Lionel didn't understand at first when he saw the name, was confirmed to be a plan related to human genes, and Su was in charge of it.

The plan that Roffko was transferred to Europe to implement was named "God-killing Plan". The current Herrscher is called the Apostle of God by some people, so it is easy to imagine what the "God" that the God-killing Plan wants to kill is.

"They really dare to think... Up to now, humans haven't even figured out what Honkai is, and they have completely strangled Honkai... Haha, but it is precisely because humans dare to think that they can create such a brilliant civilization today, isn't it?" Lionel said in his heart.

"Captain Lionel, Major Yanar has contacted us!" A soldier suddenly shouted, interrupting Lionel's thoughts.

Lionel came back to his senses and said, "Cut to the main screen."

Soon, Yanar's rather embarrassed face appeared on the screen. It was obvious that she was using the communication terminal on her arm to make a call, and dark red lines caused by the erosion of Honkai energy had begun to appear on her beautiful cheeks.

"Yanar..." Lionel wanted to ask "Are you okay?" first, but he swallowed the words in the end and asked, "How is the situation over there?"

"What's going on..." Yanar turned the camera around and could see that they were inside a certain building. "The Honkai broke out not far in front of us. It's confirmed that all the team members except me were killed, and I... can only hide in a nearby basement..."

"Have you seen the appearance of the Ninth Herrscher?" Lionel continued to ask.

"I... saw it." Yanar stared straight into Lionel's eyes through the screen and said, "But I can't believe it. It's hard to believe that the person who appeared in front of us is Feng from the Fire Moth."

"What?!" Lionel was shocked. "How is this possible?"

No matter how you look at it, this is a bit too outrageous, right? All the Herrschers that have appeared so far are female, but Zhu Yufeng is a real male! Is this the first male Herrscher?

The other people around were also shocked by Yanar's news, and they couldn't help but lower their heads and whisper to each other.

Dr. Einstein on the screen was also shocked, but she quickly thought of something and looked thoughtful. Then she whispered a few words to the assistant beside her and continued to listen to Yanar's report.

Lionel came back to his senses from his surprise. He stared into Yanar's eyes and confirmed again: "Are you sure?"

"I won't make a mistake." Yanar lowered her eyes. "He is the strongest fusion warrior, how could I make a mistake... Originally, we thought he was sent by the Fire Moth to infiltrate Mu Continent for investigation. Now it seems that the Fire Moth may not be completely unaware of the occurrence of the Great Collapse this time."

"I see." Lionel's expression became a little complicated. "Can you send me the exact coordinates of your current location? Hen has already entered the city with the armed puppet troops."

Yanar coughed violently a few times and said in a hoarse and weak voice: "No need, Leon... Don't come to me again. There is a possibility of a second outbreak of Honkai. You can't get too close to this city... Besides, the Ninth Herrscher's companion Honkai beast..."

Before he finished speaking, the ground shook and a strong earthquake spread from the city of Murstein, knocking most people in the camp to the ground. Yanar's communication was also interrupted by the earthquake.

Lionel steadied himself, his eyes focused.

He knew that the worst might have happened.

If what Yanar said was true, then Feng, as the Ninth Herrscher, was undoubtedly the strongest Herrscher that humans had ever encountered. However, if Yanar lied, then, without a doubt, she was the Ninth Herrscher.

"Contact the Fire Moth quickly, we need to know where Feng is now!" Lionel said in a hoarse voice.

Chapter 267: A radical study

"Sir Lionel, let us handle the confirmation of this matter. Regardless of whether the Ninth Herrscher is Feng or not, your command and dispatch are still needed on the scene." Dr. Einstein said in a deep voice, "While you were contacting Yanar just now, I had already sent someone to contact the Fire Moth."

"Really... I'll leave it to you then." Lionel pressed his brows and shifted his gaze to the city of Murstein again. If he calmed down and thought carefully, there were too many flaws in Yanar's words. First of all, there was no reason for Zhu Yufeng, the strongest fusion warrior of the Fire Moth, to suddenly appear in the city of Murstein. If he had to make a far-fetched connection based on this sentence, it could only be explained as the Fire Moth preparing to spy on some things in Mu Continent.

But what secrets does Murstein City have? This is just a prosperous city on the Mu Continent, nothing more.

Moreover, according to Lionel's understanding of Zhu Yufeng, although his style of doing things in the Fire Moth was somewhat eccentric, he would at least act with Alicia, Lilith or Kevin when carrying out missions. There was almost no record of him carrying out missions alone in the existing action records.

Even if there is a situation of fighting alone, it is caused by sudden accidents.

The only time he carried out a solo mission was as a bodyguard for Mobius. In other words, Zhu Yufeng would normally not appear in a place alone. There must be someone familiar to him next to or nearby.

But for people who don't know him, judging only by his usual behavior and words, it's easy to think that he is a loner.

Then, another problem was placed before Lionel.

Assuming that Yanar was indeed lying, that is, assuming that Yanar was the Ninth Herrscher, then why did she frame Zhu Yufeng? Speaking of being treated specially, the first thing that came to Lionel's mind was the Seventh Herrscher incident. The Seventh Herrscher Uriel was targeting Zhu Yufeng in both actions, from his identity being exposed to his self-destruction to transferring the Herrscher core into Himiko's body.

The first time he exposed his identity as a Herrscher was to catch Zhu Yufeng off guard, and the second time was to try to take advantage of him when he was unprepared, even if it meant self-destruction to die together with him.

Why would a Herrscher, who had barely met Zhu Yufeng, have such a strong desire to kill him?

The current Yanar is also... Even if we take a step back and say that Yanar is not the Ninth Herrscher, and the power of the Ninth Herrscher may be linked to the disguise of his appearance, to mislead witnesses into thinking that he is Zhu Yufeng, then what is his purpose? Why is it Zhu Yufeng again?

Emotionally, Lionel wanted to believe Yanar, but judging from his rational thinking, what Yanar said was more likely to be false, and... when she was talking to him, that look seemed to contain something else.

"No need, Leon... Don't come to me again. There is a possibility of a second Honkai outbreak. You can't get too close to this city... Besides, the Ninth Herrscher's companion Honkai beast..."

She told herself not to get too close to the city, and how did she know that there was a possibility of a second Honkai outbreak? There were precedents for a second Honkai outbreak, but this conclusion needed to be drawn based on detailed data calculations. Yanar's team was almost wiped out because they were in the center of the Honkai outbreak during the first outbreak. Even though the equipment they carried could help Yanar make judgments after surviving, it was a question whether the equipment could still operate normally in such a violent Honkai outbreak.

But, when Yanar said this, it seemed as if she was certain that there would be a second outbreak...

If the conclusion was drawn based on the theory that the Herrscher had not yet fully awakened and a second burst was needed to achieve full awakening, how did Yanar know that the Ninth Herrscher had not yet fully awakened this time?

The more I think about it, the more I realize something is not right...

Lionel frowned, and then another earthquake interrupted his thoughts. He looked at the soldier beside him and asked, "Have you confirmed the companion Honkai Beast of the Ninth Herrscher?"

"The 15th, 26th, and 27th armed puppet teams that entered first have discovered the Ninth Herrscher's companion Honkai beast. Switch to the main screen now." The soldier switched the images seen by the armed puppets to the main screen while operating.

The vibrations continued to come, and from time to time one could feel the violent vibrations of this Honkai beast shaking the earth to attack the armed puppet team.

After thinking for a while, Lionel said, "Notify the troops currently outside Murstein to retreat and loosen the encirclement. Also, the nearby armed puppet team immediately rush to the location of the Ninth Herrscher's companion Honkai Beast and try to kill it as quickly as possible."

The amplitude of the earthquake caused by the Ninth Herrscher's companion Honkai Beast shaking the earth is constantly increasing. The troops stationed outside the city are too close to the earthquake source, which will cause unnecessary casualties.

However, this made Lionel's heart sink even more.

As we all know, the characteristics of the companion Honkai Beast are extremely similar to those of its corresponding Herrscher. Therefore, the ability of the Herrscher can also be inferred based on the ability of the companion Honkai Beast, just like the fourth Herrscher's companion Honkai Beast Vayu can stir up hurricanes, the seventh Herrscher's companion Honkai Beast Surya can release high temperatures, and the initial power of the sixth Herrscher was also inferred based on her companion Honkai Beast Yama.

Although there are exceptions, such as the Third Herrscher's companion, Shesha, whose main characteristic is infinite resurrection, but it also has the ability to use lightning, so it cannot be said that it has no relationship with the Herrscher of Lightning.

In this case, the Ninth Herrscher's ability is very likely to have nothing to do with changing appearance, and isn't the ability to change appearance a bit useless for a human-shaped disaster like the Herrscher? After all, the powers of other Herrschers are often destructive, and if it is explained by illusion, then sorry, it overlaps with the power of the Eighth Herrscher.

Therefore, if we speculate the true ability of the Ninth Herrscher based on the characteristics of its companion Honkai beast, it is related to earthquakes... and the abilities of the Herrschers that have appeared so far are also linked to natural forces, such as lightning, strong winds, and fire... the only thing missing is an earthquake.

As for tsunamis, the root cause can be attributed to hurricanes and earthquakes, so they are not included for the time being.

"Sir!" a soldier exclaimed, "The concentration of Honkai energy in Murstein City is rising!"

"What?" Lionel shifted his gaze to the Honkai energy detector, on which the concentration of Honkai energy, which had been decreasing over time after the Honkai explosion, began to rise again.

If this trend continues, the second Honkai outbreak is only a matter of time.

"Can we still contact the trace who is searching for the Ninth Herrscher inside?" Lionel asked, "Tell him to evacuate from Murstein City as soon as possible and prepare to use heavy firepower weapons to cleanse Murstein!"

It doesn’t matter how many survivors there are inside. We must find the Ninth Herrscher as quickly as possible by any means necessary!

"no!"

A stern shout came from the communication terminal, and Lionel was startled: "Your Majesty?"

"The city of Murstein has important experimental data and results from Mu Continent's secret research on Honkai. The facilities can be rebuilt if they are gone, but the data and results must be recovered first." The king said in a deep voice.

Lionel was stunned for just a moment, but immediately ordered the armed puppet troops to go and retrieve the experimental data and results.

But he soon discovered something was wrong. The coordinates given by the king were close to the mission location where Yanar was going, and it was an underground research institute. In other words, could this great collapse be caused by Mu Continent itself? At the same time, Yanar's exact location seemed to be becoming clear.

Moreover, he had never heard of nor seen any documents on the corresponding plan, which means... this was a secret research directly under His Majesty the King. However, as the highest person in charge of the Honkai Agency in Mu Continent, he was unaware of this matter, which only showed one thing: he did not have enough trust from His Majesty the King.

"Although I have known that such a day would come, but... when such a day really comes, there will still be some..." Lionel smiled helplessly in his heart, and then contacted Hen who was on the way there, and asked him to go to the underground research institute, and reminded him to be careful if he met Yanar.

"No, although there is nothing wrong with your judgment, aren't you a little too cold to your fiancée?" Hen complained speechlessly on the other side, "After all, she is still your fiancée. She has helped you a lot during this period of time. Feng is not as heartless as you."

"I am just making a rational judgment based on facts." Lionel lowered his eyes, but his hands on the podium had already been clenched. If possible, he certainly didn't want to say this, but...

He was destined to be a failed fiancé.

the other side.

Dr. Einstein looked at Mebius on the screen and frowned as he said, "So, Feng went on a mission? Where's Kevin? Where's Alicia or Lilith? Are they all on a mission?"

"That's right." Mobius said calmly, "You can't handle the Ninth Herrscher, so you want us to help? I'm sorry, but we don't have the energy to do that."

Dr. Einstein stared into Mobius' eyes, then disconnected the communication, lost in thought.

What she can determine now is that Zhu Yufeng, Kevin, Alicia and others are definitely not in the Fire Moth at this moment, and are most likely in Mu Continent!

The top fighters of the Fire Moths have almost all come out, which is incredible in the eyes of Dr. Einstein. No matter how much the Fire Moths are at odds with Mu Continent, it is impossible for them to act recklessly at this time and send all their top fighters out to carry out the mission of clearing up the Honkai. So there is only one possibility, that they have already sent those top fighters to Mu Continent.

Although what Yanar said was full of loopholes and many parts could not be explained by common sense, if she was not wrong and Zhu Yufeng was the Ninth Herrscher, then the Fire Moths' behavior of sending such a large force to Mu Continent even regardless of the ban of Mu Continent could be explained.

That is, they already knew that Feng had become the Ninth Herrscher, and therefore they had to be on high alert.

After all, the Ninth Great Collapse had just occurred not long ago, and Mu Continent had immediately sealed off the relevant information about the Ninth Herrscher. It was impossible for the Fire Moth to know the inside story about the Ninth Herrscher. Moreover, Mu Continent itself had not yet figured out the specific power of the Ninth Herrscher, but the Fire Moth had already "impatiently" sent out its top combat force...

However, while contacting the Fire Moth, she also obtained relevant information from the king about the secret experiments conducted by Mu Continent in the city of Murstein, and neither she nor Lionel knew about this!

At the same time, this experiment emphasized that they wanted to replicate warriors like Zhu Yufeng or Kevin, and based on this, create artificial controllable Herrscher.

Is it true... because Mu Continent cannot replicate the fusion warrior technology of the Fire Moth, so it gradually starts to take a different approach...

Dr. Einstein took a long breath, and said to the people around him with a calm face: "Keep paying attention to the changes in Murstein City. The Fire Moth... has not yet found complete evidence to prove that the Ninth Herrscher is Feng."