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

What he wanted to do most now was to defeat Honkai and reverse the predetermined fate. As for other things, he...he felt that as someone who no longer had the qualifications to have a role in the future, he was incapable of thinking about these things.

Or... refuse it.

He finally made up his mind.

She fits into someone better than her doomed self.

He looked into Lilith's eyes for a long time before speaking: "I'm sorry, I think I can't respond to your feelings... I'm sorry..."

He watched the expectation in the girl's eyes gradually turn into loneliness. It was the first time he saw that Lilith could have such feelings. She sighed softly, but still smiled: "Because... after all, I am not Alicia?"

"No, absolutely not!" He said firmly, "You don't need to be anyone, just be yourself. You are you, not anyone else... I just feel that I..."

"I get it. You just want to defeat Honkai, right?" Lilith smiled bitterly with some helplessness.

Zhu Yufeng lowered his eyes and remained silent.

"Forget it, if you don't agree, then don't agree." Lilith looked at Zhu Yufeng and said, "But since you have failed the girl's heart, shouldn't you make some compensation?"

"……Please say."

Lilith smiled and extended her hand to the young man: "Then dance with me under the moon."

"……it is good."

She had a pocket watch, one of the first things she had repaired when she learned how to do it.

But in fact, this watch also implies a classic philosophical topic for her - the Ship of Theseus.

If a ship is sailing and its damaged parts are replaced, until every part of the ship has been replaced, is it still the same ship? If not, then when did it become different?

For her named [Vilvi], it would be——

If the new personality is reduced in repeated experiments, and new spirits are split to fill the gaps, then if one day even the original personality is replaced, will [Vilvi] still be [Vilvi]?

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"I'm not a philosopher, so there's no point in talking to me about this." The silver-haired young man said coldly, "I can't give a qualified answer either."

"Don't worry. I'm not prepared to get an answer from you. After all, the original [Vilvi] still hasn't figured out this question." She looked carefully at the lance entangled with black and white, the last divine key she made before she was banned. "I'm just chatting with you. Otherwise, wouldn't it be boring for you and me to stay in the Spiral Workshop without saying a word?"

She placed the Divine Key named [Black Abyss White Flower] on her workbench: "There is no big problem with the condition of Black Abyss White Flower. As you faced the Anti-Herrser head-on, I am a little surprised that Black Abyss White Flower only suffered this little damage. But it's a pity that the Divine Key made by the Herrscher Core of the Constrained Herrscher is not my responsibility, otherwise, I can tailor a Divine Key for you."

The young man turned his gaze towards the Black Abyss White Flower and said, "No need. I am quite comfortable using the Black Abyss White Flower right now."

“Can I take this as a compliment?” She smiled and said, “After all, this is the Key of God that I made.”

"A masterpiece of genius, no doubt." The young man said, "And... this should have been done by an expert, right?"

"After all, isn't Expert Wei Wei still Wei Wei?" She didn't seem embarrassed at all. "I am also Wei Wei, so it's okay to say that I did it, right?"

"I hope the experts won't hear what you say." The young man said and stopped talking.

So the workshop fell into silence again. The young man didn't speak, and she didn't know what to say. She was very clear about the young man's ability to end the topic, especially now.

Never mind, it's enough that he's here.

When she was trying to repair the damage caused by the Ruler of Constraint to Black Abyss White Flower, the young man suddenly asked: "Wei Weiwei, do you think I am still myself now?"

"If you are not Yu Feng, who else could it be?" she answered casually.

"I thought about the Ship of Theseus you mentioned. Am I also a Ship of Theseus?" The young man said expressionlessly, crossing his chest. "Since I completed the fusion warrior surgery, after I accepted the Chimera Project, and now, I have devoured Lilith and the others with the power of Vishnu. Am I not the Ship of Theseus with all its parts replaced? So, am I still the same person as before?"

The hand that repaired the black abyss white flower paused, she was silent for a while, and then she laughed softly: "But your inner self has never changed, right? The original me is facing the replacement of the inner self. According to her idea, maybe one day, you will still see Wei Wei, but will the personality inside still be [Wei Wei]?"

"That's why I said I'm not a philosopher and can't answer this question." The young man lowered his eyes, "It's just because you mentioned this question that I thought about it a little bit."

"It doesn't matter. It's her business if she's struggling." She said with a nonchalant expression, "But I'm happy that you're willing to think about this issue."

After a while, the young man spoke again: "Tens of thousands of years ago, a monkey in the monkey group tried to walk down from the treetops, lit a torch, and began to live on the ground. Perhaps this was the beginning of humans, but at that time there was no concept of humans."

He turned his gaze towards the decorations in the workshop, which changed every time he came here, and continued, "In the tens of thousands of years since the concept of human beings was born, as nature changes, human standards have also been constantly changing. Later humans have divided previous humans into different categories, but it is undeniable that the name of the human group has always existed. Is this also a kind of Ship of Theseus?"

"Are you still thinking about this?" She said speechlessly, "It's just a troublesome matter that I caused when I was angry with myself."

There seemed to be a sound behind her, and her instinct told her that something terrible had appeared and she had to drop everything and escape.

She turned back from her work and looked in the direction where the young man was standing. At this moment, the fallen angel with twelve black wings stood in front of her. The oppressive feeling he brought was even more terrifying than when Kevin showed his demonic state before.

It is a collection of thirteen fallen angels named Lucifer, the first and last fallen angel.

For a moment, even though she possessed nearly half of [Vilvi's] talents, she was a little dazed. Was the person standing in front of her a person who was close to being a god, or a god with some human form?

"Can I still be called a human being now?" he asked.

Can he be called a human? Compared with ordinary people, can he be called a human with many inhuman characteristics? Is he a human in spirit when he can ignore the lives of 100 million people and decide their fate?

"It depends on what you think," she replied. "No matter what your answer is in the end, you are still Yu Feng, the Yu Feng I know."

"I think, therefore I am, right?" The young man seemed to smile. He folded his wings and turned back into a human again.

"As long as I feel that I am a human being, then I am a human being." The young man looked at the black abyss and white flowers on the workbench, "What other people think has nothing to do with me."

Should I record these conversations and let my ego know? Although I don't want to share the time I spend alone with him with any personality, but...

How should I put it? As the first person to be separated and used to store all of [Vilvi's] pride, she is not just this.

Along with his pride, all the feelings called love that [Vilvi] had for him were also separated.

But even though she was specially designed to store this kind of feelings, it seems that she can't bear the new feelings that keep arising.

"How long do you estimate it will take for the Black Abyss White Flower to be fully repaired?" the young man asked.

"Just give me a day, I guarantee it will be restored to its original state, and if possible, I can add some other functions..."

"Forget about the non-combat function. I still don't understand why the experts added a blooming function to it."

"…That should have been added by the conductor."

"Well, my bad."

After apologizing without any emotion, the young man looked at the time and said, "I have other things to deal with. I'll come back tomorrow."

"No problem." She replied, watching the young man leave the Spiral Workshop, then picked up the notepad aside and wrote down the previous conversation.

After all, she was usually only allowed to come out when the young man was around, and she was too lazy to come out in other situations.

Now that the young man had left, in order to avoid the conductor suddenly asking her to log off, she had to write down what [Vilvi] was going to do next.

After a while, the Spiral Workshop welcomed the second visitor of the day: "Hi~ Weiwei, are you busy?"

It's Alicia.

She put down the clipboard in her hand and looked towards the door. "It's you, Alicia."

The self does like Alicia very much, but at the same time she is actually jealous of Alicia, jealous that the person she likes likes Alicia, although it seems that it became Lilith later?

This jealousy was naturally directed to her. Although the magician was responsible for social interaction and emotional expression, all the emotions he had for a person were directed to her.

Alicia's eyes moved to the black abyss and white flowers on the workbench. The smile on her face faded a little. She asked: "Feng...he just came here, right?"

"Yes, he was here." She said unhappily, "Heiyuan Baihua was also injured in the tragedy of the restraint. In order not to affect the subsequent battles, he came to me for help to repair it. If you had come earlier, you might have had a chance to meet him? But he probably wouldn't pay attention to you."

Alicia looked at her and said after a while: "You are... Extremely Evil?"

"Yeah, but I'm about to log off." She placed the notepad on the workbench. "Let the magician or conductor chat with you."

In the end, it was me who was so slow at first. Before he went to Europe, why not just lock him up in the Spiral Workshop? Now, even if I wanted to knock him out, I couldn't... I also maxed out my drug resistance, so anesthesia is useless...

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"It has been confirmed that the End has temporarily stopped its activities, but how long it will take for it to recover its ability to move has yet to be confirmed by Mebius and Velvi." The hero holding the Inscription of [Salvation] said as he looked at the broken Keys of Domination scattered on the ground and the debris floating in the universe.

He looked at the fallen angel who was standing facing the End. The Black Abyss and White Flower were held in the fallen angel's hand, and at this moment the fallen angel seemed to be staring at the End in a trance.

They all knew that the person in front of them had long gone, but they also knew that, at the very least, they had to bring him back to Earth.

"Kevin, we... failed, right?" asked the warrior holding the Inscription of [Floating Life].

"But he, and Alicia, have left us hope. This battle is not over yet." said the hero.

She stared blankly at the fallen angel's back. It had not been long since their last meeting. After the [True Self] left, the last fallen angel also left.

The young man with the inscription of [Asuka] and the mortal with the inscription of [Empty Dream] stepped forward, as if they wanted to put down the fallen angel who had been standing all the time, close his eyes, and wish that he could reunite with his friends on the other side.

But after their hands touched the fallen angel, they seemed to be still, without any movement.

"Pado, Kosmo, we are all sad for Feng's departure, but... we... also need to learn how to say goodbye." said the singer of the Inscription of Gold.

[Xu Guang] was speechless, while [Kong Meng] hesitated for a moment and said with a tearful voice: "But... I can't move. Brother Yu Feng... he can't move at all..."

"How strange..." The Serpent Master of the Infinity Inscription stepped forward to verify what Kong Meng said, muttering, "He is now just an empty shell. He was corroded so deeply by the Honkai energy. After using the zeroth rated power of the Black Abyss White Flower for the last time, he already... Why is there still..."

The hero of [Savior] walked silently to the fallen angel of [God Shadow], looked into his eyes, and said in a low voice: "Maple, I promise you that no matter how great the cost, mankind will definitely defeat the Honkai."

The fallen angel stood quietly, then he closed his eyes gradually, and his body turned into particles of light and dissipated.

The hero of [Savior] raised his head, looked at the vast universe above him, and said once again: "Humanity will definitely defeat the Honkai."

Everyone watched the light disappear. After a while, [Infinity] looked at her: "Hey, Wei Wei, can you still move? Are there any usable instruments in the destroyed Moonlight Throne?"

She ignored it and just looked at the black abyss and white flower left where the fallen angel once stood.

“Oh, forget it! Since all the other personalities are silent, you are just like that…” [Infinity] also turned his gaze to the nearly scrapped Key of God, “Besides, I am too lazy to observe anything now… There is no need…”

After a while, she walked forward, stretched out her hand and grasped the Black Abyss White Flower, as if she was examining the Key of God, wanting to see if it could be repaired, because this was what [Wei Wei] would do, and it was also what she should do.

But she was just looking at the boy she once was.

Is it possible that someone has noticed and liked this boy earlier than Lilith?

But the boy never looked at her, and she knew it was difficult for her to compete with the girl the boy admired. She was just a liar. She could deceive the world and even herself, but she could not deceive her own feelings or her true inferior self.

She stared at him, watching him being different every time he woke up.

"Ah, hello, I'm Alysia's deputy. You can call me Feng, or Yufeng. As you can see, I'm the one who wrote Alysia's mission report. I may... only have this much ability. After all, Kevin fights much better than me..."

This was him when they first met, but he seemed to have forgotten about it long ago. At that time, he was still full of resentment towards Kevin.

"Captain of the 7th Squad of the European Branch. Although we may have to change the name of the squad after being transferred back to the headquarters. My name is Zhu Yufeng, hello... I think we have met before? I don't think I talked to you much when I was in the headquarters before. Anyway, at most we can get to know each other again. By the way, this is my deputy, Lilith."

He was transferred back from the European branch. He also had his eye on the girl next to him. She was really a perfect girl, but she couldn't seem to win...

"Huh? Is something wrong?"

This was after she decided to cut off her thoughts and went to see him before she fell asleep. At that time, he seemed to have let go of something, but she still didn't think she could express her feelings frankly, because in fact she was basically paying attention to him one-sidedly...

"... Don't worry, they just fell into a brief silence due to the effect of the Divine Grace Barrier. Thank you, no, I should say, thank you for creating a split second opportunity for me to kill the Ruler of Constraint."

This was him after the tragedy of restraint. At that time, he seemed to become very tired. She looked at the deputy who had passed away in his arms, and she chose to remain silent again.

"…I'm glad you're okay."

That was the last time she saw him. Under the attack of the End, all the personalities she relied on fell silent. At the moment when the Moonlight Throne was about to be destroyed, he brought her back to the moon, in a posture that she had only seen on other people and in books, in the embrace that she had always longed for.

"Am I also a Ship of Theseus?"

"Can I still be called a human being now?"

The personality from which she had separated all her feelings for him and all her pride relayed to her everything that had happened at that time.

She still hadn't figured out the answer to that question, but there was one thing she thought she was clear about, which was that no matter how she divided herself, she could not completely divide her feelings for him. No matter how new personalities were born, no matter how many old personalities disappeared, some things would never disappear.

"But isn't it too late to think like this now?" She thought as she looked at Heiyuan Baihua.

"Also, it really doesn't matter whether you're a human or not, because... even if you were you at that time, you're still you, and you're still that... handsome, right?"

Extra: The Story After That

Front row reminder: BGM: Theme of Love

"I'm back, Mei." The white-haired young man looked at the bespectacled leader in front of him and said, "We... failed."

"I know... Kevin, our guess about the end was wrong from the beginning..." Mei put one hand on the command platform and said as she looked at the desolate moon on the screen, "We have also paid the price for this mistake..."

"Feng...he has secured a glimmer of hope for the future for us. Humanity has not lost yet. We still have a chance." Kevin said.

"Alisa will return to Honkai, and Feng will seal the End for three days... We... still have time to prepare... cough cough cough..." Mei Zheng said, and suddenly covered his mouth. When he let go, his palms were full of blood.

"Mei?!" Kevin's expression changed, "Your body..."