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

Mei waved her hands and said tiredly, "There's nothing to be surprised about... My body has actually been unable to hold on for a long time. If Feng hadn't given up the time for Mebius to develop a drug that could cure him, I wouldn't even be able to welcome you back from the moon..."

"Mei, you always like to force yourself... Why don't you tell me about this kind of thing?" Kevin's voice was rarely filled with a reproachful tone.

Mei smiled bitterly and shook her head, saying, "Because I don't want you to worry about me, and I don't want my departure to occupy the rest of your life... But Feng told me that I was wrong. He said that if I left like this, you would never be able to let go, so... he gave up the time for Mebius to develop a drug that could cure him, and forced me to wait until you came back from the moon."

"…But he didn't come back, and I couldn't thank him anymore."

"Yes, maybe at that time, he was ready to face his end. You can't stop a person who wants to die, right? Lilith, who had always been with him, passed away during the tragedy of the restraint. Alicia, who was his original belief in joining the Fire Moth, also passed away. What can we, the rest of us, do to keep him?"

"…We are very similar to him and Lilith."

"Yes, this is why he convinced me. You and I are like him and Lilith. Lilith's departure has changed him, and it always reminds me of you... Kevin, I hope you can walk your own path instead of following my shadow, but... If I'm not here to tell you this in person, I'm afraid you will still choose the Stigma Project in the end."

"..."

"Both Feng and Alicia think this is the worst plan, and so do I."

Kevin wanted to say something, but fell silent. He also looked at the desolate moon on the screen. After a long while, he said, "He and Alicia... walked side by side all the way. We didn't know what they were carrying until the end... Until the end, we couldn't do anything for them. We could only watch them walk ahead of us and open up a future path for us."

"Feng..." Mei lowered her eyes for a long time before she looked up at the screen again, "Kevin, what do you think he will see at the end?"

Kevin was silent.

"I'm a scientist, and I shouldn't say this, but if possible, I also hope that there really is a place after death where people go together. In this way..." Mei looked at Kevin, "In the other side where we will eventually arrive, can he see Lilith?"

"He'll see," Kevin said.

"He can finally have a good rest..." Mei said as she walked outside again. Every step she took seemed a little strenuous. Kevin reached out to support Mei, but he hesitated as his side effects would make Mei's already poor health worse.

"Don't worry about me. I am still aware of my physical condition. I haven't reached the point where I need help yet... cough cough..." Mei coughed a few more times, "Come with me, Kevin. Originally, I was going to let Su tell you, but since I'm still standing here, then... let me tell you in person."

"What is it?"

"It's your child and mine."

"?"

Exterior of the Fire Moth base.

After returning to Earth, Paddo hurriedly left the base. She came to the place where she had buried her treasure chest. Regardless of the dirt brought by the soil, she reached out and dug out the box she had buried not long ago.

Her hands were shaking a little. She tried to open the box but failed. Then she remembered that the box needed a key to open.

"Key...key...I think I didn't forget it on the moon..." Paduo searched her whole body, then hurriedly took out the key and opened the box.

For a moment, she thought about breaking the box open if she couldn't find the key.

"Let me see... This is Sister Ai Li's hairpin, this is Sister Wei Erwei's small machine, and this is Sister She's pendant..." She took out the things inside one by one to confirm.

"This is Brother Jie's mask..." She took out the mask that she definitely couldn't get by herself. She looked at the mask and pursed her lips.

This was given to her by Brother Yufeng. After she told him about her goal, before the final battle began, he brought Brother Jie's mask and gave it to her.

……

"Eh? Brother Yufeng...you, you had a fight with Brother Jie?"

"Yeah, it's nothing. It's good to stretch my muscles before the final battle. He always wanted to have a serious fight with me anyway. After the fight, I asked him if he could have a mask, and he gave it to me."

"Um...Brother Yufeng, you..."

"Didn't you say you wanted it before? I just happened to be able to get it for you, so I took it."

"..."

……

Paddo put down the mask and rummaged through the box again, finding a well-preserved Fire Moth badge.

……

"Brother Yufeng... this is..."

"When I first joined the Fire Moth, Alicia pinned the badge on me personally."

"Sister Ai Li gave it to you? This, this, this... we can't accept this, right?"

"Then... you keep it for me. I'll come back to get it after the End War is over."

"okay……"

……

Padu looked at the small badge in his hand. It was a badge that a girl had pinned on the boy a long time ago. It was the boy's initial reason for fighting and the beginning of his subsequent ups and downs in life.

Even though they never met again, he never threw away the badge. On the contrary, he always cherished this small badge. After many years, its luster is still the same as before, as if it had never been stained by dust or damaged.

When he is unable to sleep at night due to the side effects, will he pick up the badge and reminisce about the past?

Paddo didn't know.

She just felt it was unfair. She wanted to know what he got in the end and why he could keep fighting like this?

The word "hero" has always been far away from her. When she was a child, she never took the old ladies' stories about heroes seriously, because there are always people who can be heroes and there are always people who can hold up the sky when it falls. Although she thought so, at that time, she was just like everyone else and envied the heroes in the stories.

"But if... this is the hero's ending, this is the hero's story..." Paduo murmured, "What's the point of being a hero like this?"

She carefully placed the badge in a small box, put it back in the box, and then took out a uniform from the box.

That was the uniform of the fallen angel team that had become a thing of the past. It was tailor-made for her because that was her birthday wish. However, not long after the uniform was completed, the tragedy of restraint came. Sister Sira, Sister Mostima... even Sister Astaroth died in it...

She was older than Astaroth, but because of a ridiculous cold, she did not participate in the crusade against the Herrscher from the beginning.

This dress was finally brought to her by Brother Yufeng. Although she knew it fit her well, she had never worn it before.

His vision suddenly became a little blurry. Padu wiped his face carelessly and said to himself, "Since I survived, and since Brother Yufeng gave me these... I have to do what I should do..."

She folded the uniform and put it at the bottom of the box, then picked up the box and walked back the way she came.

Before leaving, she once again looked back at the place where the box was dug out. When the box was buried, she and Brother Yufeng buried it together. What she thought at first was that with her strength as the weakest hero, she would definitely never come back if she participated in the End War. If she buried the box with Brother Yufeng, then Brother Yufeng would know where to dig out the box.

But in the end, she was the only one who came back here...

Fire Moth Base, dance hall.

The Battle of the End was lost, and the hibernation of all things will begin before the End awakens again. Civilization has been destroyed, and the remaining people are in panic in the only remaining base. The once crowded auditorium is now empty, but on the stage, the singer of [Gold] is still earnestly using the ancient harp, playing melodies that the world has never heard of.

"You are here after all, Eden." Aponia came to the stage and looked at Eden and said, "Is this song for Ellie? I remember that when Ellie left, your song was not yet finished."

"Yeah, it's a big pity that I didn't get to play this song for Ellie until the end." Eden stopped playing, she looked at the empty auditorium and said, "Abonya, tell me, if Ellie had agreed to Feng and Feng hadn't chosen to leave, would the ending be different now?"

Aponia was silent. She didn't know how to answer Eden, because in her eyes, Feng and Ai Li were the only ones who didn't have the corresponding threads of destiny. So for these two people, their fate was in their own hands, but... they also chose to walk towards the road of death and the future that was destined to perish.

"In fact, I had already written the song for Ellie, but Feng corrected some of my mistakes after Ellie left." Eden said softly, "He said that Ellie's life was without any haze, her soul was pure and flawless, her farewell, her final song should not be so depressing... I agreed with him at first, until after the End War..."

Aponya listened quietly.

Eden lowered his eyes and continued, "Perhaps just as he said, Ellie's life was indeed like this, but... he may have never thought that Ellie would be sad because of him, and would miss him until the very end... Yes, he may have never known that in Ellie's story, he had always been there, but fate was so unpredictable that they, who once cared about each other, could not meet in the end."

Aponia looked at the harp that Eden played, and after a long while, she sighed softly. She would impose rules on every warrior so that they could at least have a sweet dream before their death, but... Feng was not like that. Kevin made her rules invalid at the cost of no longer dreaming, and Feng had been protected by Beffinger from the very beginning. Coupled with the factor of the Chimera Project, he was completely immune to the effects of the rules.

In the end, he had to wait for Kevin to promise him that humanity would defeat the Honkai Impact before he disappeared. In the end, he might not even have a dream.

In Abonya's eyes, he had always been lonely, because she saw him trying hard to cut and then connect the threads of others, countless attempts, countless failures, he faced all of this alone, without saying a word.

Perhaps, he may have already known the fate of everyone, but unlike himself who had given up long ago, he still chose to fight. He once saved the rest of the fallen angels, but in the end, he still could not change the final outcome of his constraints.

How much she wanted him to at least have a dream in the end, a dream in which his wish came true, but she couldn't do it. Even in the end, she could only watch him leave alone.

How she wanted to give the tired traveler a hug, even if this hug could not change anything.

"Aponia, sometimes I wonder what would happen if there was no collapse?" Eden asked.

Aponia thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps, we will never meet."

"Yeah... Feng and Ai Li never met again because of the Honkai, but if there was no Honkai, there would be no way to tell their story." Eden sighed softly.

Aponia lowered her eyes. She actually had a premonition that if there was no Honkai, Feng might not even exist in this world...

"Even though he suffered countless hardships, he still moved forward alone, leaving behind a tomorrow called hope." Aponia said softly.

Mebius' laboratory.

"Klein, if Mobius in Paradise ever embarks on a paranoid path, give this video to her." Mobius said to the puppet Klein.

"I understand, Doctor." The puppet Klein nodded, "Well... Doctor, if you really miss Feng, why don't you make an armed puppet like you did for me?"

Mebius looked at Klein and didn't answer. She just stared at the empty laboratory in a daze.

In the past, when the Cangxuan and Danzhu sisters were playing around here, Klein always looked helpless towards this pair of funny people. If Yufeng was here, he would just stand aside quietly or try to ask if they needed any help.

And now...

They are all gone.

For the first time, she had the urge to stop.

Armed puppet... In the final analysis, it was just her self-deception. She put the thinking module of Klein in her memory into the puppet Klein. But if she really knew Klein, why didn't she think about why Klein became the Herrscher of the Thousand? If she really knew Yu Feng, how could she...

Once a person leaves, he is gone. She has no way to keep him.

One day later, in Kosmo's room.

Kosmo packed up his things and looked at the photo of himself and Desdobia on the desk. After a while, he picked up the photo and said to himself, "Desdobia... I'm leaving, and you... will keep an eye on me, right?"

The girl in the photo smiled sweetly, as if she was still beside him at this moment, saying: "Amo, don't always look so dejected, heroes will not be defeated by setbacks~"

He put the photo into his bag and walked out of his room.

Before boarding the Ark, the boy took out the harmonica given to him by the girl. He played the harmonica, boarded the Ark, and headed for the lonely sea of ​​stars.

"This is..." Zhu Yufeng looked at the sun earrings in Lilith's hand and asked curiously, "Is it for me?"

"Of course, you are the leader of the fallen angel team. Everyone met and got to where they are today with you as the center, just like the many celestial bodies orbiting the sun in this solar system. Aren't these sun earrings very suitable for you?" Lilith said with a shrug.

Zhu Yufeng looked at the moon earring on Lilith's left ear and said nothing.

"Are you thinking about this?" Lilith reached out and touched her moon earrings. "You are the leader and you wear sun earrings, and I am the deputy leader and I wear moon earrings. Isn't it reasonable? After all, for humans on Earth, the moon is the light at night, and this light comes from you as the sun, right? The sun's brilliance can easily burn people's eyes, but the sunlight reflected by the moon is just right. Doesn't this also represent our relationship? You are not good at dealing with people, so I am the one who handles interpersonal relationships."

It sounded really reasonable, leaving him with no way to refute it.

only……

"You really don't have any other thoughts?" Zhu Yufeng looked at Lilith with empty eyes. Even if his emotional intelligence was lower than that of a certain elementary school student who is a god of death, he should be able to see what Lilith is thinking at this moment, not to mention that his emotional intelligence was not that low.

Lilith just confessed to me yesterday, although I rejected her in the end... Today she took out the sun and moon earrings again, and they look like a couple's pair...

He didn't believe that Lilith didn't have any other thoughts.

"Yes, that's what you think. Even if you didn't agree to my confession, it still makes me feel like I succeeded." Lilith spread her hands. "You rejected me anyway, but now you want me to handle so many things. It's reasonable for me to charge some interest, isn't it? Don't you have an old saying in Shenzhou? If you don't give the horse grass to eat, you still want it to run? You will be hung on the street lamp if you do this."

Well-reasoned, no rebuttal...

Seeing Lilith holding the earring in front of him, Zhu Yufeng took it and looked at the moon earring on Lilith's left ear. He tried to struggle: "But, the sun and the moon can only meet for a short moment at the junction of dawn and dusk. You..."

"Even if it's just for a moment, you can keep looking at each other before the other person disappears. Isn't that romantic?" Lilith smiled like a little devil, "Just tell me whether you want to wear it or not~"

"Can I refuse?"

"Then I will go on strike~"

"..."

Seeing him put the earring on his right ear helplessly, Lilith said leisurely: "Besides, my name is Lilith? Atagena, the goddess of the moon, of course I have to wear moon earrings~"

Zhu Yufeng asked desperately: "Then why didn't you choose Xingyue's earrings?"

What moon goddess? You are actually the moon devil!

Lilith looked at him with empty eyes: "The sky is filled with countless stars, who do you think I am?"

Zhu Yufeng: “…”

Good... that makes sense...

"Moreover, the stars in the sky are shining, but their brilliance has nothing to do with the moon. The distance between them and the moon is unimaginably far." Lilith said softly, "Compared to the stars, aren't the sun and the moon more appropriate? At least, the moon shines because of the sun."

Zhu Yufeng looked at Lilith and remained silent.

That night, he watched the expectation in the girl's eyes gradually turn into loneliness. He remembered the time when he confessed to Alicia. At that time, perhaps he and Lilith had the same feeling...

Anyway, he didn't object to Lilith's behavior. After all, Lilith didn't cross the line or anything. She was just wearing earrings. He had already let her down once, so what was wrong with wearing these earrings?

Let others think whatever they want, it has nothing to do with him anyway. His only goal now is to defeat Honkai.