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

Su was silent for a long time before he said, "Kevin, this time we were caught off guard by the constraints..."

"What about the next erosion? What about the end? What has happened will happen again, so this time... can we only watch them leave? And then... as a 'survivor', live to the next civilization?" Kevin continued to ask.

Su didn't know how to answer his best friend's question, so he had to change the subject: "Feng...how is he doing recently?"

"He has been unwilling to meet with other people. He just said that he needed some time to think about some things." Kevin said, "Neither Alicia nor Lilith can see him."

Su opened his eyes, sighed softly, and said: "He is indeed...always like this. For him, this may be his way of soothing his wounds."

Both fell into silence.

the other side.

"Feng...is he really going to be okay?" Alicia said worriedly.

"Don't worry, he won't be defeated so easily. He is just thinking about some other problems." Lilith picked up the black tea and took a sip, "Some... problems that he has to think about."

"What did Michael say to Feng back then?" Alicia stared into Lilith's eyes. "You must know, right, Lilith?"

Lilith looked up at Alicia and said after a while: "Indeed, I know. Do you want to know?"

"I don't want to watch him think about these things alone. We have been together all this way, why should he think about these things alone?" said Alicia.

Lilith lowered her eyes and said jokingly, "Why else? Of course it's because of you."

Alicia was stunned: "Because... me?"

"What has happened will happen again, what has been done will be done again..." Lilith's words became more meaningful, "Ailishiya, you have to know that only one person between you and Feng can survive, or in other words, one of you must die."

Alicia's pupils shrank.

"But if something happens to you, what Feng did in the Final War will definitely happen again. As for me, I will die with Feng anyway, so it doesn't matter." Lilith shrugged, folded her hands and supported her chin while looking at Alicia and said, "Michael told Feng that the tragedy of restraint will definitely happen again. If the tragedy of restraint does not happen, then the erosion will sweep the world in a form that we can't even imagine."

Alicia stared at Lilith in a daze. Hearing what she said, Feng knew from the beginning that the tragedy of restraint would happen again? That was why he was always uneasy in the Divine Grace Boundary, and why he desperately rushed back to the Fire Chaser Moth headquarters to try to prevent the tragedy from happening...

"The recurrence of the tragedy of restraint has verified Michael's words, so he has to consider his next choice." Lilith looked into Alicia's eyes, "In my opinion, there are only two futures now. One is that you die and then he will die too, or he dies and you live."

So he will die, right?!

"Why?" Alicia's voice was a little bitter. "In his eyes, you are at least as important as me. As long as you are still here..."

"Maybe?" Lilith spread her hands and said, "What if I die too?"

Alicia: “?”

"I've never had any attachment to the world, although I'm happy to live on for Feng." Lilith leaned back, "But whether the End is happy or not is another matter. The End War cannot be without sacrifices. If we fail, then in order to buy time for the next civilization, we have to make some sacrifices, right?"

Alicia clenched her hands, and after a long while, she said, "If that day comes...if one of us must die, I don't want that person to be him."

Lilith drank her tea calmly without expressing any opinion.

The two were silent for a long time before Alicia spoke again: "Before... Mei's health was so bad, and Kevin cared about her so much, how could Mei..."

"Oh, she also created a child who is similar to Lilith, extracting her and Kevin's genes and giving birth to the child from an artificial womb." Lilith smiled meaningfully, "Feng is indeed more concerned about Lilith now, but Lilith is not enough to be the reason for Feng to live. After all, the key to everything lies in you, isn't it, Alicia?"

Alicia lowered her eyes.

Lilith waited for Alicia's answer calmly. Alicia would only show confusion due to concern for Feng. Besides, she did not lie this time. She just laid the facts in front of Alicia. As for what kind of answer she would give in the end, it all depended on what Alicia thought.

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Chapter 318: After the War (Part 3)

After everything was settled, the Fire Moth held a solemn memorial ceremony for the soldiers and researchers who died in this incident.

Zhu Yufeng and others stood at the front of the mourning crowd with solemn expressions.

In this tragedy, the Fire Moth lost most of its researchers, and many research projects came to a halt. Although personnel could be transferred from other branches, the talents of the headquarters were concentrated from the best branches, and this loss was extremely painful for humanity.

Among the researchers who died, Dr. Einstein's sacrifice had the greatest impact. Dr. Einstein was the former chief scientific researcher of Mu Continent's Honkai Research Institute. After the sinking of Mu Continent, he joined the Fire Moth and brought a large amount of Mu Continent research data and interpretation of related information to the Fire Moth.

In addition, for the World Serpent, the Gray Serpent network was almost completely paralyzed in the attack of the Ruler of Constraint, and a large number of Gray Serpent individuals were lost. It will take a considerable amount of time to rebuild the Gray Serpent network.

Fortunately, the European branch that Admiller is in charge of still has many researchers who were transferred from the headquarters, and they can barely make up for the talent gap caused by the attack of the Ruler of Constraint.

“…Let us mourn the heroic spirits who rest here. Their sacrifice will not be in vain. Humanity will surely defeat the Honkai!”

Lionel made a speech as the representative of this memorial ceremony. On the one hand, although the Fire Moth did not lose almost all of its fusion warriors in this incident, unlike the previous life, it lost a considerable number of scientific researchers. After the two waves of attacks of the riot of thousands of people and the tragedy of the restraint, the leadership was almost wiped out.

Therefore, at this stage, as one of the only remaining senior officials, and given his military status and military achievements, it is reasonable for Lionel to lead this memorial ceremony.

Now the Fire Moth is in a sense in a more embarrassing situation than in the previous life. The leadership is almost wiped out, but the number of human survivors and surviving cities is far more than in the previous life. So how to fill the leadership vacancy caused by the attacks of the Thousand and the Two Herrscher is also a problem.

Countless people's eyes are fixed on these vacant positions, but will they become teammates who are even more destructive than those teammates in their previous lives... Based on experience, it is very likely that they will become like this.

The Fire Moths no longer have senior executives who have experienced many ups and downs. If they are to arrange people to fill these positions in the future, it is unknown whether those people have a specific understanding of Honkai and whether they value the future of mankind or the current power.

This matter also caused quite a headache for Mei and others, especially Lionel, who had deeply experienced the degree of the sucking of pig teammates. He once planned to do the work of several people by himself and work overtime for a few more hours, and he didn't want some "greenhorns" to fill these positions.

Lionel has seen through human nature. If those guys who are unaware of the threat of Honkai take positions that do not belong to them, they will only be obsessed with using their power to benefit themselves and their cronies. He had deeply experienced this situation when he was in Mu Continent.

I would rather die from overwork than have another useless teammate.

In short, the impact of this tragedy of restraint is not much weaker than the impact of the annihilation of the fusion warriors in the previous life. The result of the annihilation of the fusion warriors is that humans have lost their means of defense against Honkai. The result of the death of a large number of scientific researchers is that a large amount of research progress has stagnated and many experimental data may not be understood by newcomers...

From Zhu Yufeng's perspective, perhaps the impact of this tragedy of restraint may be even greater than that of the previous life.

The general level of fusion warriors is not qualified to participate in the Final War, because there were not many humans left in the previous life, so the Fourteen Heroes could still cope with it more or less, but there are a large number of humans left in this life. In order to resist the increasingly powerful attacks of Honkai, the fusion warriors have to be transferred to various parts of the world to garrison and suppress Honkai. The fusion warriors stationed at the permanent base... the situation is almost the same as in the previous life.

But this time, humans also lost an equally important researcher - although the key people are basically fine except Einstein, but you can't expect Mebius or Velvet to watch over hundreds of experiments and projects at the same time, right? They have to operate them manually.

Moreover, in this tragedy, Hen and Desdobia have already lost their fighting power. Hen's super-mutation factor in his body was severely damaged, and the damage to his body caused by the Divine Grace Barrier was too serious. The Black Abyss White Flower could not achieve complete treatment. Now Hen can only sit in a wheelchair and be an ordinary disabled warrior, and Desdobia...

Her situation is better than Hen's, as she has not lost her identity as a fusion warrior, but... her mental state is no longer suitable for being a warrior.

Kevin said that after Desdobia woke up, she asked Kosmo about the final outcome of the incident almost in an interrogative manner. After learning that Blanca had sacrificed herself, her emotions completely collapsed. Until now, Desdobia still locks herself in the ward and is unwilling to see anyone except Kosmo.

The worst thing is...she started to self-harm...

Kosmo was also very helpless. Desdobia didn't even dare to open the curtains and locked herself in the dark. Kosmo didn't know what to do. Whenever he mentioned anything related to Desdobia, it would cause a strong reaction from the other party.

Did Destobia do something wrong?

Zhu Yufeng did not have a good opinion on this. It was impossible for him not to blame Destobia for putting Astaroth and others in danger, but Michael had already given him a heads-up before this, and... for the sake of Kosmo and their past friendship, and also, Astaroth and others seemed to be safe this time, so he would not blame Destobia too much.

But expecting him to take the initiative to visit Desdobia... I can only say that you are hoping for the best. Don't count on it next time.

At least there is no hope in the short term.

Zhu Yufeng's attitude is one thing, but it must be admitted that the other warriors did not blame Destobia too much, or rather, they were all grateful to Destobia and Astaroth for protecting their loved ones and children.

Kosmo originally wanted to talk about these things with Desdobia so that she wouldn't blame herself too much, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Desdobia covered herself with the quilt and covered her ears.

He doesn't listen to anyone at all.

Because of Blanca's death, Mobius, who had an average or even not very good relationship with Kosmo, no longer had a good face towards Kosmo. Although Hen didn't say anything, his attitude towards Kosmo obviously became a little distant. As for Grayshu, she didn't seem to be affected too much, but it was unknown what she was thinking.

Zhu Yufeng could only say that he was powerless regarding Kosmo's current situation, and he even felt a little sympathetic towards Kosmo.

From Kosmo's perspective, he may support Desdobia in his heart, but he has more experience and has seen more tragedies than Desdobia, so he will use reason to restrain his emotions. The specific action is to throw his thoughts to the runaway Honkai beast form after the collapse, and directly force himself not to think about these things by stopping thinking.

Hen... He has always been a senior that Kosmo respected very much. Otherwise, in his previous life, Kosmo would not have completely fallen out with his former idol Kevin because of Hen's death and even defected to Fire Moth.

This time, Hen survived, but his attitude towards Kosmo became lukewarm and somewhat distant. Hen must have understood that Desdobia's behavior was human nature, but his wife was among the dead. How could he not have some negative thoughts? In the tragedy of the previous life, Zhu Yufeng himself did not meet Alicia directly.

Kosmo must be feeling sad, but Desdobia is even sadder than him. Kosmo cannot show it in front of Desdobia, for fear of upsetting her again.

And there is Sakura. This time, she also seems to have a lot of opinions about Kosmo. She even said when Kosmo visited Ling and Lilim that Kosmo should have made Desdobia realize the reality and situation earlier. For Sakura, this was already an accusation, because in most cases Sakura would not easily express any personal opinions. Perhaps it was because Ling almost faced death again this time that Sakura couldn't hold it anymore.

"All I can say is that the tragedy of restraint has indeed happened again."

Zhu Yufeng lowered his eyes and thought so in his heart.

After this incident, he had confirmed Michael's words, so he spent a few days thinking alone. Michael and Vita had both pointed out that path, and this might be the only chance he could seize.

You should never lose hope in your heart, but you should never bet everything on one thing. Here, he more or less understood Otto. In this matter, he might be the same as Otto. They both could not withstand the consequences of a failed bet.

As Zhu Yufeng was thinking this, he suddenly noticed that there were several pairs of eyes drifting towards him. He knew without looking that these eyes were from Alicia and the others. After all, to them, he had just come out of autism after a few days, and his mental state was as worrying as Desdobia's.

Especially Kosmo, his gaze was the most obvious. He looked in his direction quite frequently, and the emotions contained in his eyes were quite complicated.

"Kosmo has been feeling really bad these past few days..."

Zhu Yufeng smiled bitterly in his heart.

He didn't want to get involved in this matter. Time would slowly heal the wound, but how long this time would be and whether humans still had so much time was unknown.

Lilith had talked to him about that choice, and she asked a very direct question: "If you die, I will definitely not live, but Alicia... are you really sure that she won't have some extreme thoughts now? For her, you have long been an indispensable part of her life."

It is indeed a question worth considering...

Talking about this with Lilith doesn't mean he doesn't trust Alicia. It's just that Lilith really sees some things much more clearly than Alicia. Or, compared to Alicia, Lilith is the one who has fewer concerns and lives more freely. If he talks about this with Alicia...

There is a high probability that Alicia will directly go to the [Last Banquet] ahead of time and die first...

It’s a bit funny to think about it this way. The two people agreed to save each other, but in the end they started competing to see who would die first.

If it was just Michael who said this, Zhu Yufeng would still have some doubts, but before that, Vita had said something similar once, but Michael said it more clearly, and then the tragedy of restraint happened... In reality, I can't help but believe this...

In the previous life, regarding the coming of the Ruler of the End, the approximate time of his arrival had actually been calculated during the tragedy of Constraint. This life is almost the same. According to the global Honkai energy index, the time of his arrival this time may be later than in the previous life?

But for some reason, the thousand people and constraints popped up very early.

Could it be that the erosion will be even bigger in the future? That's not right. The tragedy of the restraint has already happened. The situation Michael described should not happen again...

"If the tragedy of restraint had not occurred and humanity had once again achieved complete victory, then war, famine, plague and death would have spread throughout the world. This world is already full of sin, or in other words, the birth of humanity is original sin. To transcend reincarnation, one must..."

Those four words were similar to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that he had learned about before. Referring to the comics he read before traveling through time, Corrosion once caused the spread of the Black Death in the Middle Ages, which meant that Corrosion could indeed exercise the powers of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Zhu Yufeng only understood one thing from what Michael said later: only when Alicia died could mankind have a future, and the only person who could save Alicia was himself.

Someone must be nailed to the cross of punishment in her place, and the only person qualified to do so is herself...

After the memorial service, Zhu Yufeng looked at his companions. Kevin was the first to come forward. He asked, "Feng...are you okay?"

"My condition is definitely much better than when you were the Seventh Herrscher." Zhu Yufeng pretended to be relaxed and made a joke, "Don't worry, Kevin, you have to believe in my ability to withstand pressure. At least I never had any problems in my previous life, right?"

Kevin was silent. Yes, this guy had never been emo, but when he got crazy, he was crazier than anyone else.

After Kevin, Hen wheeled his wheelchair in front of him, looked up at the young man whom he could only look up to now, was silent for a while, then smiled, stretched out his hand and gently patted Zhu Yufeng, and said: "Feng, this time... I really thank you and your sister so much. Gray Xiu was just born not long ago and was still a young boy, but now he has become the pillar of the Fire Moth... Thank you for your hard work, Feng."

Zhu Yufeng looked at Hen's legs, which were no longer able to stand up, and said, "I'm sorry, Hen, I..."

Hen raised his hand to stop Zhu Yufeng from speaking. He said, "You have no reason to apologize to me, Feng. You have done very well so far. I have to thank you for rushing on the road regardless of everything so that you can return to the Fire Moth in time and save my life."

Zhu Yufeng was silent.

Hen also sighed softly, glanced at Kosmo not far away, and pushed his wheelchair away.

Zhu Yufeng looked at Kosmo. Pado and Ying, who also wanted to come over, seemed to have seen through Kosmo's thoughts. They did not move and waited for Kosmo's action.

After hesitating for a while, Kosmo stepped forward and leaned forward to bend down, but was held by Zhu Yufeng. He looked at Kosmo and said, "No need, Kosmo."

"I'm sorry, Feng... I have to tell you this... This time..."

"It's human nature, and it's understandable." Zhu Yufeng said, "But maybe everyone needs time to heal this wound. Words...may be a little pale and powerless at this time. It is because we are human that we have such love and hate entanglements. Relax, Kosmo, let time slowly heal everything."

Kosmo nodded silently.

Then, Padu, Ying, Mebius, and Vivi came over to greet him one after another, asking about his mental and physical condition. He responded one by one. After answering everyone, Alicia came forward last. She raised her head, looked into Zhu Yufeng's eyes, and said seriously, "Can we... have a good talk, Feng?"

Chapter 319: For the Dawn of Hope

Zhu Yufeng and Alicia were walking together in a park inside the Fire Moth base. Due to the attack of the Herrscher of Constraint, all the plants here had withered. The complete Divine Grace Barrier could kill an ordinary human life within a second, and the same was true for plants and animals.

The two of them were silent along the way.

Finally, Alicia couldn't hold back any longer and spoke first: "Feng, don't you have anything you want to say to me?"

Zhu Yufeng was silent for a moment, then said in a somewhat uncertain tone: "Am I still in good health at the moment?"

"I...well, your physical condition is indeed within my scope of concern." Alicia was very sure that Zhu Yufeng had roughly guessed what she was talking about, but he was still trying to play dumb and struggling. "But, Feng, you should know that this is not what I am talking about."

Zhu Yufeng was silent. This time he didn't say anything else.

Judging from Alicia's attitude, it was obviously Lilith who told her, but why did Lilith tell her this? Everything Lilith did was purposeful, and she knew the reason why she didn't want Alicia to know. So did Lilith tell Alicia this because she thought she had made a mistake in her judgment?

Regarding Zhu Yufeng's "refusal to cooperate", Alysia pouted her lips slightly and said, "I should have told you at this time, 'leniency to those who confess, severity to those who resist', Feng, do you really still not want to say anything?"

Zhu Yufeng just smiled lightly: "Then may I ask, Alysia, how are you going to treat me strictly?"