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

After the Ninth Herrscher incident, Lionel took the initiative to offer to take the blame for the sinking of Mu Continent, ready to take all the blame on himself in order to calm people's hearts, although he knew very well that if he did so, he would end up with a not very dignified death at best.

However, as long as one person is sacrificed, people's hearts can be appeased, and that is a profit. As for the reputation during his lifetime and after his death, Lionel said that he no longer cared about it. After all, when he was working for the king in Mu Continent, he did not cooperate with other families for profit and only wanted to concentrate on fighting the collapse, and he had been scolded a lot.

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The Fire Moths finally rejected Lionel's proposal. They believed that there were not many experienced commanders like Lionel who were clear-headed and reliable, so it was worth spending more resources to keep him.

This gave Lionel a rare feeling of being relieved of a burden. In some areas, such as technology, the Fire Moth might not be able to catch up with the Mu Continent for the time being, but at least the top leaders would not be like he was in the Mu Continent, where he acted as if he was the only one fighting against the Honkai.

"No matter what, we need to take measures." Lionel said, "Maple is a hero, all fusion warriors are heroes. They have undergone the fusion warrior surgery to live in the face of death, and they live in the face of death with the determination not to fear death... If an era cannot accommodate heroes like them, then civilization will be worthless. Heroes protect us, and humans should give back."

Chapter 286: Thousand Herrschers

"What's going on... Recently, there have been rumors that have suddenly exploded and spread everywhere on the Internet and within the Fire Moth. It is obvious that it was done by the Tenth Herrscher." Mobius frowned and said, "But the Tenth Herrscher seems to have appeared much earlier than before."

"Let's review our experience with the Tenth Herrscher incident. We first discovered the initial individual, number 0001, a chef." Wei Wei thought, "But this time we observed him in advance. So far, he has not shown any behavior that can prove that he is the Tenth Herrscher."

"The Tenth Herrscher may have appeared much earlier than we expected." Mobius pressed his brows, "This time the Tenth Herrscher's target is obviously Yu Feng."

"We can't rule out the possibility of a feint to the east and attack in the west." Zhu Yufeng said, "In the last life, the Tenth Herrscher who was lurking in the upper echelons of the Fire Moth transferred Kevin and me away from the Fire Moth. The final target was Mei, and this..."

"She was also used by Mei..." Kevin lowered his eyes, "She used the Blank Key to kill hundreds of Herrschers, but this also caused further irreversible damage to Mei's already poor body..."

"Is Mei in good health recently?" Zhu Yufeng asked.

"Well, with the help of Dr. Einstein and Lionel's management of the warriors, Mei doesn't need to be dragged down by the complicated work like in her previous life." Kevin let out a long sigh, "She was supposed to be just a scientist, but in the end, the burden of managing the entire Fire Moth fell on her. No one could even help her."

"What I am more worried about now is that in the last life, Mei mainly used the Blank Key as bait to force the Thousand Herrscher to show up, but this time, compared to the Blank Key, the Tianting, which is under construction, or the God Killing Plan, may be their real target." Zhu Yufeng said, "In addition, destroying the management of the Fire Moth will probably still be one of their goals."

"Indeed... it's not impossible..." Mobius sighed and said, "But, Yufeng, you have to understand that even if this is the case, you are still one of their targets. The seventh Herrscher can still be said to be a coincidence, but what about the eighth Herrscher? What about the ninth Herrscher? This all shows that you are now becoming the target of all the Herrschers who will appear next."

"This is obviously a question of choice. I still think that we can't focus all our attention on the rumors because of this incident. After all, the Thousand Rulers are in the dark and we are in the light. We must divide our forces to guard against their sudden attacks." Zhu Yufeng said. He didn't care what others said about him, or he never cared.

At least, the soldiers in the headquarters did not choose to believe the rumors circulating among them.

As for the rumors among the soldiers from other branches, it is really impossible to control them. If we want to control them, we will have to devote too much energy to them.

"You always don't care... But have you ever thought that we can't just ignore these rumors, because they are not all false." Mobius said, "We will have to face the end eventually, and by that time, your identity will not be hidden at all..."

Zhu Yufeng was silent.

Alicia glanced at Zhu Yufeng, then looked at Mobius and said, "Then... Mobius, how is Klein doing recently?"

"Klein?" Mebius was startled, then said, "Oh... do I need you to remind me of this? After the Ninth Herrscher incident, I have been keeping an eye on Klein's condition, but just like what Velvet said, she hasn't shown any signs of a Thousand Herrscher so far."

"…Is there a possibility that we didn't notice something at the beginning?" Kosmo said, "For example, the Thousand Herrschers were originally a single individual, but there is a possibility of infection. They bewitched ordinary humans in some way and induced them to become new Thousand Herrschers. In the end, the number of Thousand Herrschers reached the maximum value, a thousand."

"It's not impossible. It's very possible." Lilith shrugged and said, "Everyone who despairs of the future, is dissatisfied with the present, feels that the world doesn't need them, feels that existence has lost its meaning, or lives in a daze, may become the carrier of the Ruler of the Thousand. After all, this is not without precedents. Oh, no, maybe it should be considered a precedent?"

Everyone else looked at him with doubtful eyes, while Lilith looked at Zhu Yufeng: "That... Xi'er from the later civilization?"

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Zhu Yufeng was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered after a while: "Indeed, in the post-civilization Thousand Herrschers tried to seduce Xi'er to join them, but this does not prove that the Thousand Herrschers have the property of contagion? The Thousand Herrschers of the post-civilizations also have the Domination Theater."

"Theatre of Domination?" Mebius asked. "What is that?"

"It is the base camp of the thousands of Herrschers of the post-civilization, a relatively isolated imaginary space." Zhu Yufeng recalled, "They communicate and plan through the Domination Theater, and can deprive the weak Herrschers of their powers in the Domination Theater..."

"Unfortunately, the only one who was truly affected was the Ruler of Reason." Lilith added.

Alicia remembered the unbeatable legend of the third-generation Herrscher that Zhu Yufeng had introduced... Ever since Kevin confiscated her driver's license, she has been frustrated...

It turns out that the civilized Kevin was just like the current Kevin, doing all kinds of bad things!

"It sounds like they are indeed different from the Thousand Herrschers we encountered." Mobius lowered his head and thought, "However, we have never understood why they can communicate with each other in some unknown way. Perhaps the Thousand Herrschers of our civilization may also have a similar theater of domination?"

"But..." Zhu Yufeng thought about it. It was indeed possible, but he still felt it necessary to say, "This is indeed possible, but the Thousand Herrschers of the post-civilization mainly exist as puppets. After their Herrscher cores are recovered, they will automatically return to the Domination Theater. We can only eliminate them all at once and destroy the Domination Theater. But the Thousand Herrschers we encountered are not like this."

"Indeed, as long as the Thousand Herrschers we encounter are killed, we can recover the Herrscher core." Wei Wei nodded, "However, we should also consider that when the Herrschers' target gradually begins to become Yu Feng, then the form in which they appear and other abilities may be slightly different from the previous life."

"If Kosmo's guess is correct, and the Thousand Herrschers appeared much earlier than we remembered... could it be that the first Thousand Herrschers was born shortly after the sinking of Mu Continent?" Zhu Yufeng frowned and said, "That does make sense... But, the second Herrscher was born in a short time after the death of one..."

"Weren't the Herrscher of Ice and Herrscher of Rock of the later civilization born one after the other?" Lilith said lightly.

"That's for a special reason. There is a special relationship between the Herrscher of Rock and the Herrscher of Ice. They were quasi-lovers and then turned love into hate..." Zhu Yufeng suddenly fell silent, because if we talk about someone who has a connection with the Ninth Herrscher, Yanar, there really is one in the Fire Moth.

"I remember Lionel is Yanar's fiancé, right?" Kevin asked.

"He was suspected by the king, abused by other families, and all his efforts were lost with the sinking of Mu Continent. He was a typical Mu Continent soldier who was proud of Mu Continent." Lilith said with her hands on the back of her head, "After suffering so many blows, he does have the potential to become a Herrscher of the Thousand."

"According to what you said, my experience in my previous life didn't seem that bad." Zhu Yufeng complained with his eyes half closed. "However, this possibility cannot be ruled out. I will ask Beffinger to pay more attention. If it is Beffinger, he will definitely be able to find out that something is wrong with Lionel in time."

“Even though the Tenth Herrscher may appear in a different form this time, they still succeeded in doing the same thing as in the last life, creating a rift called suspicion between people.” Aponia, who had been silent, sighed softly and said.

Everyone was silent.

Regardless of whether Lionel is an individual of the Thousand Herrscher, the success of the Thousand Herrscher was proven when they began to doubt the identities of others.

After that, everyone wondered when the people around them would suddenly become Herrschers, and everyone was wary of others.

"We can only do our best to calm the shock caused by the Thousand Herrschers." Su said, "As long as we control the spread of the news and keep the matter of the Thousand Herrschers within the Fire Moth, then maybe there will be a turnaround."

The seeds of doubt can only grow in the right soil, which is why the impacts caused by the Thousand Herrschers of the previous civilization and the Thousand Herrschers of the later civilization are different. The previous civilization had just experienced the huge blow brought by the sinking of Mu Continent, coupled with the destruction caused by the previous Herrschers, people's fear and confusion about fighting against the collapse were intensified, and the current civilization... The second Herrscher with the best record in the current civilization destroyed the entire Siberia, which is true, but... there was a full ten years between the second and third Herrschers, which was enough time for Destiny and Anti-Entropy to cooperate to pacify the turmoil brought by the Herrschers.

By the time the Thousand Rulers of the modern civilization appear, how many ordinary people will still remember the disaster in Siberia?

What about the previous civilization? Mu Continent has only sunk a few months ago, and it has only been more than two years since Australia was burned down to only one-third of its original size.

The one who caused the greatest damage closest to the Thousand Herrschers of the current civilization was the Herrscher of Meteoric Ice, who sank a small island... This had no effect on the morale of mankind.

Suspicion and caution only existed during the period when the Thousand Herrscher appeared, and because there was knowledge left by the previous civilization as a precedent, Destiny and Anti-Entropy had made corresponding arrangements for the emergence of the Thousand Herrscher, and Otto could in turn use the Theater of Domination to achieve his own goals.

After the Thousand Herrscher incident, everyone in the current civilization knew that there would be no more Herrschers like the Thousand Herrschers, so what was there to be afraid of? But the previous civilization didn't know.

The combination of many factors ultimately resulted in the situation where the same Herrscher had different impacts on the two civilizations.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yufeng's heart was filled with helplessness. If Mu Continent was still there... forget it, it would be better if it didn't exist. If Mu Continent was still there, once the Thousand Rulers ran to the Mu Continent palace, a human civil war would start directly. Even after the civil war, there would still be a lot of suspicion between people.

Regardless of whether Mu Continent sinks or not, the Thousand Rulers can cause great damage to human society.

In the past, civilizations... could only choose the lesser of two evils.

Now that it has been confirmed that the Thousand Rulers have appeared, it is time to take action.

When it comes to taking measures...humans are in the open, and the Thousand Rulers are in the dark. With this point alone, there is basically only one way for everyone, and that is to lure the snake out of its hole. It is the same whether it is the previous civilization or the current civilization.

In the previous civilization, Mei used herself as bait to divert the main force of the fusion warriors away from the Fire Moth, using this "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to lure the Thousand Herrscher to show up. Although Mei entered the countdown of her life afterwards,... in fact, if Mei had not made this sacrifice, the Thousand Herrscher would have continued to lurk, eventually inducing the internal division and demise of humanity.

The same thing happened when the current civilization first fought against the Thousand Herrscher. Anti-Entropy could only use Kiana as bait to induce the Thousand Herrscher to pull Kiana into the Domination Theater, and then use this to locate the Domination Theater. Although they did not completely eliminate the Thousand Herrscher afterwards...

The Thousand Herrschers of the current civilization finally lost to Kiana's burst. I wonder if it can be considered that they created a big daddy by their own doing.

And this time, the appearance of the Thousand Rulers was detected, so what should the corresponding bait be?

"Now Mei no longer needs to fight alone. Although the Blank Key can be regarded as a powerful weapon for humans to fight against Honkai, I think nothing can interest the Thousand Herrscher more than the God-killing Plan." Mobius said, "No matter whether they know about the God-killing Plan or not, we do need to make it public to calm people's hearts."

"So are we still going to remain indifferent to their rumors about Feng?" Kevin said.

"There's nothing we can do about it. After all, they're in the dark and we can't control them." Zhu Yufeng said, "And even if they're targeting me, they can't beat me even if they come with thousands of them, so there's no way we can use Mei's strategy at the time to lure them out using me as bait."

"No, it's not impossible." Wei Erwei looked at Zhu Yufeng, "The God-killing Plan... is not only for Zhong Yan, but also for you."

"Either kill Zhongyan or kill me?" Zhu Yufeng chuckled, "That is indeed a bait of sufficient weight."

When it comes to the Thousand Herrschers, besides Klein, one can't help but think of Qianjie and Imer.

Zhu Yufeng once asked Qianjie what he would do when the Thousand Rulers attacked again.

Qianjie simply stretched out his hand, then shook it firmly, and said, "I don't care whether he is a Herrscher of the Thousand or the Hundred. Even if he has to die, Imer should fight to the end and die."

"I remember that in my previous life I also fought to the last moment and died."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Yufeng felt the gaze from under Qianjie's mask that seemed to be able to gouge through him. Qianjie sneered and said, "You... really think you died gloriously, right? Dragging your half-dead body to save a group of guys who have no use to you at all, do you really think that you died gloriously? You are just like that woman Alicia, shamefully walking ahead of all of us!"

"But at least... I am consistent..." Zhu Yufeng said as he looked at Pado and Seele who were practicing against each other in the training ground.

Chapter 6 The Storm is Coming (k)

"What's going on? Where did this group of people come from..."

Mostima's fingers moved rapidly on the keyboard. With the assistance of the Fire Moth Network Security Department, it was much easier to locate those who spread the rumors, but... the source of the rumors could never be found.

Recently, the Fire Moth and the World Serpent seem to have started to weaken their efforts to search for the source of the rumors? But there is still a lot to do on my side, what an ultimate tool man...

Mostima took a sip of the coffee beside him, and looked at the latest rumor on the screen and couldn't help laughing: "What? My relatives, friends and comrades in Mu Continent said that they saw Feng destroy the defense line they set up, and then they thought Feng and the Herrscher were in the same group? If they are not in the same group, why don't they die with the Herrscher?"

Mostima quickly found the address of the publisher and then reported it to the Fire Moth Network Security Department.

"You're not even from Mu Continent. With just a few words... can you deny all the efforts of Feng... and everyone else before this?" Mostima leaned back in his chair, looking at the ceiling in a daze.

Although that's what she said, it seems that she was like this before... using unfounded information and the identity of an "unknown kind-hearted person" to mislead others, and then sow discord and provoke conflicts, while she profited from it and enjoyed it.

Who can make people like this? Just a few "I heard" can be believed, and if there is some video material that can cause misunderstanding, won't it be believed more thoroughly? This trick of mine used to work almost every time, until I met Lilith, and then she took advantage of me. Now I am completely trapped and can't escape.

Besides, even if you run, where can you run to?

In this world, is there any other place where she can live in peace except here?

As a hacker, knowing too much is not a good thing. If Lilith had not forced him to join the Fire Moth at gunpoint, what would he be like now? Died in the Australian wildfires? Died in the dream of the Eighth Herrscher? Or died in the sinking of Mu Continent?

Who knows?

If I had not joined the Fire Moths and lived to this day, after seeing these comments on the Internet, I would probably want to get involved. After all... for ordinary people who have never had direct contact with Honkai and only know about it from paper information, they cannot feel the threat from Honkai, and may even take the protection and sacrifice of heroes for granted.

They have not seen the scorched earth and corpses in the area of ​​Australia burned by the Seventh Herrscher, nor have they seen the gradually withering bodies of people who fell into the dream of the Eighth Herrscher and could never open their eyes again, nor have they seen the scene of annihilation of all things when the Ninth Herrscher spread like a black hole.

For them, occasionally seeing a few dead warriors or something like that was already the limit of what they could encounter. Perhaps it was because the Fire Moth did a too good job and protected these people too well, so even if a small-scale collapse or a few scattered dead warriors and collapse beasts occurred, they could be cleared out in the first place.

But, to be honest, we can't blame them entirely. After all, even the senior executives who have more information have a mysterious confidence in fighting against Honkai, and always feel that they have the advantage. Lionel probably has a lot to say about this... Mu Continent is a joke to the Honkai Organization.

If senior executives who know more comprehensive information think this way, ordinary people who can only know partial information in order not to cause panic will probably think this way even more.

Mostima even thought in his heart, if Feng sacrificed himself in order to stop the Ninth Herrscher in this incident, whether the people of Mu Continent would be grateful or not, it is hard to say how ordinary people would feel about it.

The word "hero" is the furthest word from those ordinary people who are protected.

They would think that when a hero falls, there will always be another hero to stand up, and when the sky falls, there will always be someone taller to hold it up.

Perhaps some people will sincerely grieve for the departure of the hero, but there are so many people, and a thousand people have a thousand faces and a thousand mouths...

If Mu Dalu were still alive, then for the sake of his own face, Mu Dalu would never make Feng's image in front of the public become so good, so in the end... haha, it would be better not to save him.

No one owes the world anything. Saving the world is not anyone's obligation. It's just that the world needs them, so they chose to stand up, that's all.

But there are always people who take the dedication of others for granted.

Although for a freak like Feng, the reason that drives him to stand at the front and choose to save the world is not because of how strong his sense of responsibility is, but... he just wants to protect the people he wants to protect.

If Mostima were to complain, it seems that there aren't many normal saviors among this group of saviors. It's unclear who Feng is doing this for, but it's definitely not because of a sense of responsibility. Kevin is even more clear that he's just embarking on this path for Mei, although Feng is also one of the reasons in the popular Kaifeng story in Fire Moth... Ahem, I'm getting off topic. Alicia really likes human civilization, at least on the surface, so she's a little more normal. Lilith... Lilith never thought about saving the world, she just wanted to stay with Feng!

Apart from Alicia, Kosmo is probably the only one who is more like a traditional person who chooses to become a savior because of his strong sense of responsibility.

The other first-tier fusion warriors...are really not very traditional, and some are even more outrageous than the others. It is hard to imagine how such people could become heroes that save the world.

Even myself... I clearly don't want to do this. I would never have thought that I would be doing the work of saving the world now.

There was a knock on the door of the room, and Jaina's voice came from outside: "Sister Mostima, lunch is ready."

"I understand." Mastema closed the computer and walked out of her bedroom.

"Sister Mostima seems to have not been working much recently. Is she feeling unwell?" Jaina asked.

"Nothing. Maybe my boss saw that I've been doing well recently and my performance is much better than others, so he gave me a long vacation." Mostima said casually, "Jaina, how are you doing in school recently?"

Jaina lowered her eyelids and said in a slightly strange tone: "I... everyone in school is saying that Brother Feng didn't take Honkai seriously, and that Brother Feng might be the Herrscher."

"Herrser?" Mostima frowned, as if she had discovered something, and asked quickly, "Who said that?"

Even as family members of Fire Moth members, children should not know what a Herrscher is. Or they may just know that there is such a thing but their understanding of the concept is very vague. The rumor spread in Fire Moth's school, and it must be because someone taught them to say so.

"I heard from Andrew from Class 7 that his father seemed to be from Mu Continent, and then... he died not long ago." Jaina said hesitantly.

"Andrew from Class 7, his father is a soldier who died in the battle of Mu Continent..." Mostima thought about it for a while and felt that this was very important information. He then lowered his head and took out his mobile phone to tell Gray Snake the news and asked them to investigate. Although he had learned this information inadvertently during a casual conversation at lunch, and Gray Snake might have noticed it a long time ago, but... the recent outbreak of these rumors is indeed abnormal and cannot be taken lightly.

Really, why am I worrying so much about this?

Mostima complained in his heart like this for who knows how many times today.

What she didn't notice was that while she was sending a message to Gray Snake on her phone, Jaina was not eating quietly as usual, but staring at her.

Perhaps because his gaze was too obvious and undisguised, Mostima raised his head and looked at Jaina, meeting her strange gaze directly: "What's wrong, Jaina?"