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

"That's great... That should actually be the effect of your power, right?"

"Maybe. I still don't know how I did it. If I can start over again after I die..." Zhu Yufeng thought for a moment, "Then we will have many more chances."

"Why do you have to win?" Vita asked.

"To protect the people I love." Zhu Yufeng replied, "I am not actually interested in what will happen to civilization, but if I want to protect the people I love, I must protect civilization, so I will protect civilization as well."

Vita was silent.

"I still don't quite understand. Since you are so annoyed by their confused thinking, why do you still maintain superficial politeness?" Zhu Yufeng asked.

Vita did not answer, but asked: "Why, don't you like this?"

"I don't care." Zhu Yufeng shrugged. "You are not the person I like, and it doesn't matter what the person I like is like. I like her not because of who she is, but because she is the person I like."

"Heh... As a Herrscher, you are really..."

Vita said nothing more.

After a while, Vita asked again: "You don't seem very surprised about my true appearance. Did you guess it a long time ago?"

"There is a factor in this aspect, because there is a precedent of someone. I think based on your current performance, you are a little worse than her." Zhu Yufeng thought of the appearance of a certain scumbag Lilith, "It's just that she thinks that as long as she is by my side, it doesn't matter what happens, so she can usually behave like a normal person."

"Going both ways?"

"Well... I guess... I guess so, right?"

"? Didn't you decide to protect civilization for her sake?"

"If it's her... She doesn't care about civilization at all and even wants to watch the human civil war herself." Zhu Yufeng curled his lips, "You are talking about another person."

"You like it too?"

"……Yes."

"Scumbag."

"Yes."

Vita: “…”

What a weirdo... He agreed with being called a scumbag.

"How many years does your civilization have left?"

"At least hundreds of millions of years. Before the birth of my civilization, there were other civilizations on the third planet, but they all failed and were destroyed, so it was our turn."

"..."

"So, can you let go?"

"You're already a scumbag, do you still care about holding hands for a while?"

Zhu Yufeng: “…”

The problem is that you have never relaxed from the beginning to now, and you are saying this too confidently, right?

Vita raised her head and looked towards the sky of Venus, saying, "After all, this will be the last hand I will hold for billions of years."

Zhu Yufeng fell into deep thought. If his guess was correct, it meant that by the time Vita caught Su, billions of years had already passed?

Zhu Yufeng's body began to become somewhat illusory again. Vita looked at Zhu Yufeng, seemed to think for a moment, then showed an inexplicable smile, and then kissed Zhu Yufeng on the face.

Zhu Yufeng: “???”

What the hell? How long have we known each other? If there was a favorability system, your difficulty would be basically free!

"Let's meet again in billions of years?" Vita said with a smile.

Then she watched the silver-haired man disappear again, muttering to herself: "I don't know if this will cause you any trouble or something. Even if I want to see it, I have to wait until billions of years later... But, I also want to meet the person you mentioned..."

Chapter 283 If It Is the End

"So... when you woke up from a nap, you found this thing?"

Mobius tried to touch the cube next to Zhu Yufeng with his hand, but before he touched the cube, it turned to the other side.

Mebius: "..."

The little thing still has a temper, right?

Lilith looked at the cube thoughtfully. She said that she wanted to secretly take a look at Zhu Yufeng's dream last night, but found that she could not enter Zhu Yufeng's consciousness space.

"Metatron's Cube." Su began.

What the hell is this? Isn't this the "Saint Crystal"? Zhu Yufeng cast a puzzled look at Su.

"I've only seen it in documents about alchemy." Su picked up a piece of white paper, then quickly sketched a few strokes on it with a pen, and then drew a somewhat complicated plane figure.

Zhu Yufeng picked up the white paper and took a look at it, then compared it with the "holy crystal" next to him, and felt that it seemed to be true: "I didn't expect that you, Su, also studied alchemy... I thought that you scientists didn't care much about this kind of metaphysical things."

"Basically, anyone who studies Honkai will know something about alchemy." Mobius rolled his eyes and said, "After all, the history of human civilization is closely related to Honkai. Before science developed further, some of the explanations of Honkai by alchemy were reasonable."

"However... Metatron's cube is more of a pattern than a real cubic structure in alchemy." Su frowned and said, "In alchemy, Metatron's cube can be decomposed into six structures, including five regular polyhedrons, corresponding to five elements. The fire element is the sharpest regular tetrahedron, the air element is an almost imperceptible regular octahedron, the water element is a regular icosahedron like a small ball, and the earth element is a cube that can be stacked. As for the remaining regular dodecahedron, it corresponds to the fifth element 'ether' in alchemy. The sixth non-regular polyhedron structure, which is the star-shaped tetrahedron structure it currently presents, represents the energy structure of the universe - the Merkaba field, which is responsible for releasing and absorbing energy so that everything in the universe can proceed normally."

Zhu Yufeng had a blank expression on his face. He felt like he was listening to a divine book... Why did Su know so much about these things?

"I didn't expect you to have studied so many things in alchemy." Mobius looked at Su with some surprise. Although Metatron's Cube was a part of alchemy, it was not the most important one. The focus that Mobius wanted to understand when he read the alchemical texts was on life.

Zhu Yufeng looked down at the simple diagram of Metatron's Cube drawn by Su. He didn't know if it was a coincidence, but there were exactly thirteen circles on it... It was hard not to make him think that these corresponded to the thirteen Herrschers.

Excluding the beginning and the end, it starts from the first law, the Law of Reason, and ends with the thirteenth law, the Law of Time... if I can really be counted as the Law of Time.

At the Cocoon of the End, he obtained the information that the Honkai energy he had endured before becoming a Herrscher was actually the power of the End.

At least for now, his identity is still the thirteenth Herrscher and he has not become the End. However, even if the Herrscher of Time does not exist, if the Origin and the End are regarded as one, there can still be a total of thirteen Herrschers.

"At that time, I was desperate and tried all kinds of methods." Su said with a bitter smile, "At that time, I had not yet joined the Fire Moth Chaser. I was determined to save my patients from the clutches of Honkai... So I tried various methods and read various books. I also read some things like alchemy."

Mebius once again focused his gaze on the star-shaped tetrahedron that was orbiting Zhu Yufeng, and asked, "After it appeared, did you experience any abnormalities?"

Zhu Yufeng came back to his senses from his various thoughts, thinking of his battle with his past self in the space where the Cocoon of the End was, and said: "It seems to be similar to a medium, or something similar. Anyway, after it appeared, I was able to use the powers of the first, second, fourth, fifth, seventh and ninth Herrschers."

"What?" Mobius frowned and continued to ask, "Then to what extent can you use the power of time?"

"There's no progress." Zhu Yufeng spread his hands.

"Feng has more power under his control. Isn't this a good thing?" Kevin spoke. He had no chance to speak since the beginning because the things being discussed here were beyond his knowledge, so he could only ask questions that he could barely understand.

"Good thing?" Mebius glanced at Kevin. "Maybe, if that's all..."

What she was more worried about was that her initial guess would come true, that is, Zhu Yufeng was the juvenile form of the End. If this was the case... based on the information currently known, it would really be the worst outcome.

If humans want to defeat the collapse, they must transcend the end...

"But what if... humans can coexist with the End?" Such an idea popped up in Mebius' mind, "Heh... After all, this idea is a bit too crazy. We still don't know enough about the End..."

Alicia, who had also been silent, had the same idea as Mobius. Zhu Yufeng's power should be related to time if he was just the Herrscher of Time. But if he was the End, if he became the End this time...

No, it won't be like that. I should believe Feng. He is also a Herrscher of Man, and now he is fighting side by side with everyone just like me.

but……

What if... in order to end the disaster brought about by the collapse, we must destroy the end?

Zhu Yufeng looked at Mobius, then at Alicia. He had wondered before whether the heroes had hidden something from him. Now that they all had such expressions, it must be because what he had just said made them think of something, and what they were thinking was actually easy to guess.

The Cocoon of the End... If what I saw was true, then its existence did prove from the side that the authority of the End would be projected into different powers in different time periods. Now I am like the six-core Xilin. Will there be a day sooner or later when I will become the End?

Although it is not known how the current civilization defeated Honkai, according to the description in the post-Honkai book, Kiana should have sealed herself and Honkai on the moon, and then Hollow Manzo tried to completely expel Honkai from the earth by transferring the moon to that person in the sky.

No, do you really not consider the tidal effect between the moon and the earth?

So Kiana actually sealed herself and the Cocoon of the End together?

That's not right. The Cocoon of the End does not exist in the intrinsic world, but in the imaginary space. As long as the Cocoon of the End exists, the Honkai will not disappear...

"Didn't you see anything in your dream?" Lilith asked, "It's impossible that you just slept for a while?"

Alicia and Mobius both looked at Zhu Yufeng. Zhu Yufeng was silent for a moment and said, "Indeed... I... may have seen the Cocoon of the End."

"The Cocoon of the End?" Mebius' pupils shrank. "So, what happened next?"

"It's nothing. The Cocoon of the End simulated a version of me who was once a demon. And I suddenly gained those powers while fighting the demon." Zhu Yufeng glanced at the Metatron Cube beside him. "Of course, it also appeared with it."

"What else? Anything else?" Mebius continued to ask.

"Uh... later on..." Zhu Yufeng looked at Su and said in a tone that was difficult to describe, "I met the female Su and witnessed the destruction of her civilization."

Su, who had just opened the thermos and was about to take a sip of the tea he had brewed, asked: "?"

Kevin: "?"

Lilith raised her eyebrows: "From your tone, is there anything else going on between you two?"

Alicia's gaze instantly changed from gossip to vigilance.

Su opened his eyes, covered the thermos cup, put it on the table, looked at Zhu Yufeng and said seriously: "She...didn't do anything to you, did she?"

Mebius looked at Su with a somewhat strange look, and always felt that there was something wrong with what Su said. It should be an illusion. Anyway, Kevin and Su had caused many misunderstandings that gave Mebius a headache. It must be because he had read those weird articles written by Danzhu before, which left a deep impression on him.

"To say that I didn't do anything really means that I didn't do anything... It should just be the image of the civilization that was destroyed by the Cocoon of the End." Zhu Yufeng said, "Only after watching the destruction of her civilization can I be sure that she should be the you in the parallel world that you and I talked about."

Everyone else turned their eyes to Su. Su did not say much about the details, but only said that he was once chased by a female version of himself when he was observing the Quantum Sea and was almost possessed by her.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Su told his previous experience again, then looked at Zhu Yufeng and asked: "So, the female me, the civilization she was in..."

"It was destroyed by erosion, and what you call putting the minds of all the people in the civilization under control..."

Zhu Yufeng briefly recounted the information he had compiled from his conversation with Vita.

After listening to Zhu Yufeng's story, Mebius put his hand on his chin and said, "In other words, the female Su, or Vita, is the last survivor of the Venusian civilization?"

"That's right." Zhu Yufeng said, "I was also surprised. Vita told me that Venus also observed the Earth. Although life appeared on Earth at that time, there was no sign of civilization. According to my own analysis, the Earth should still be in the Mesozoic era at that time."

"Did relying on the power of the Quantum Sea to fight against the collapse eventually lead to the destruction of civilization..." Su said as he thought, "The fact that the Quantum Sea is hostile to the Eigenworld may indeed lead to such a result. And the thoughts she controls are data bodies similar to the paradise of the past that are preserved by the spiritual consciousness system she developed..."

"The destruction of Venusian civilization happened hundreds of millions of years ago. If she is a Venusian from our solar system, how did you determine that she is a female?" Zhu Yufeng asked curiously, "Although she does look a lot like you."

"How similar?" Kevin asked. He had no other intention, he just wanted to see what a female Su looked like.

Zhu Yufeng: “…”

At least compared to you and Kiana, Vita is really similar to Su, and they have some similar features, but you and Kiana have nothing in common except for your hair color and eye color, and you don't even have ahoge.

Suddenly, Zhu Yufeng had an idea. The cube beside him told him that it could simulate Vita's image, so Zhu Yufeng asked it to project Vita's appearance.

Kevin glanced at Vita, then at Su, and nodded: "Indeed, you can tell at a glance that he has a deep relationship with Su."

Su looked at Vita's image with a complicated expression, while Mebius lost interest after just one glance and explained Zhu Yufeng's previous question: "Your words prove the existence of the Cocoon of the End, and also prove some of our speculations about the Cocoon of the End. The Cocoon of the End may be something created by some existence in order to find its own kind. No matter what it is, it is something we cannot do at this stage. The End is nothing more than a reincarnation machine that executes the orders of the Cocoon of the End. The Cocoon of the End itself stores the data of civilization. Therefore, when a civilization is destroyed by the End and starts again, the new civilization will experience a similar history as the previous civilization and have similar people."

"Then am I now the Herrscher of the End chosen by the Cocoon of the End?" Zhu Yufeng asked very straightforwardly.

Kevin's eyes narrowed.

"I really hope not." Mobius said after a "tsk", "But... you have seen the Cocoon of the End, so this possibility cannot be ruled out..."

"But the End we faced before was born directly after the Honkai energy gathered, but Feng is different. He is the same as Alicia. He and that End were just following orders..."

Before Kevin finished speaking, Mebius said unhappily, "Of course I know, but the matter has not been fully investigated yet. Moreover, compared to the end of the civilization reset, what is the reset of our world's time?"

Kevin just shut up, this was not something he could think of.

"The Cocoon of the End is obviously incapable of reversing time, but Yu Feng did see the Cocoon of the End..." Mobius scratched his hair in annoyance, "and before that, other Herrschers clearly showed hostility towards Yu Feng, which doesn't seem to be consistent with the fact that the Cocoon of the End chose Yu Feng as the Herrscher of the End..."

"However, now that the existence of the Cocoon of the End has been confirmed, the direction of our research on Honkai can basically be confirmed." Su said, "Perhaps, by finding the Cocoon of the End and conducting further research on it, we may be able to find a way to completely defeat Honkai."

Chapter 284 Lilith: Must take action on Feng immediately

After leaving Mobius's laboratory, Alicia saw that Zhu Yufeng seemed to be still thinking about something, so she asked, "Feng, are you... worried about something?"

Zhu Yufeng lowered his eyes, and then said: "In front of the Cocoon of the End, after fighting with me who had transformed into a Karma Demon, he said something that made me somewhat concerned."

"What?" asked Alicia.

"What has happened will happen again, and what has been done will be done again." Zhu Yufeng said, "Although I know that this is probably what the Cocoon of the End used to deceive me, but... As expected, after waking up from the dream, I still care about it to some extent."

"Does that mean the tragedy of restraint will happen again, or that you and Alicia will break up again in the future?" Lilith shrugged as if she didn't care at all. "That's right. After all, no matter how much you say you don't care, the tragedy of restraint is too painful for you, so you don't want it to happen a second time."

Alicia pursed her lips. The tragedy of restraint was not pleasant for anyone, and...