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

"Look, isn't this what human beings are like? Human nature is like this, complex and contradictory, sometimes ugly, sometimes beautiful... They advance in such a contradiction and create the glorious civilization we have today."

Alicia is willing to believe in the beauty of this civilization. Even if the night is long, it cannot cover up the twinkling stars in it.

He is willing to believe in Alicia, so he will fight for a chance for this civilization and entrust his life to this era.

Normally, most of the time is spent training in the base. Although there is inevitably some gossip among the soldiers in the base, overall the atmosphere is good.

The Cocoon of the End said that since the Origin was willing to embrace humans, then she deserves a better civilization. Zhu Yufeng actually did not deny this point. However, the Cocoon of the End still thought too simply about humans, or Alicia. She grew up in the previous civilization, and all her good memories were also in the previous civilization. Her roots were in such a civilization, so how could she give it up so easily?

However, there is no doubt that Alysia loves all human beings, whether they are from the previous civilization or the current one. What she values ​​is the possibilities and creativity of the human group.

So she is willing to sacrifice herself in order to give mankind the opportunity to end reincarnation.

Speaking of this... Zhu Yufeng also wanted to know, if Alicia was asked to choose between all mankind and herself, and she could save everyone by just pulling the trigger at him, what would she choose?

But this was just a thought. He would not ask Alicia such a difficult question. The answer to this question was not that important to Zhu Yufeng. No matter what choice Alicia would make in the end, Zhu Yufeng would not give her this opportunity.

Based on his understanding of Alicia, Alicia will most likely choose the third path, which is to sacrifice herself in exchange for the "all" option from both sides. In this respect, she is quite similar to Kosmo.

But she will never have the opportunity to make this choice.

As Zhu Yufeng thought about this, he pushed open the half-open door of the ruins. Among the broken walls, he could still see the dolls made by the girl, based on himself and Alicia, scattered under the ruins. They were already covered with dust.

Zhu Yufeng looked at everything around him in silence. This shop was actually very small, and could only provide a living for one person. The last time he came here, everything was in perfect order, but now, it was a mess.

Where did the owner of the shop go?

Did he flee to the nearest surviving city, or... failed to leave?

Zhu Yufeng walked inside. There was a shop outside, and the place further inside should be the bedroom. He put his hand on the door handle, and suddenly stopped moving. He could feel that there was a "person" inside. It's not quite right to say that it was a person. It should be said that it was a person who had turned into a dead soldier.

However, the movement of this assassin was so weak that Zhu Yufeng did not realize there was an assassin inside until he got close to the bedroom. After thinking for a while, Zhu Yufeng pushed open the door.

He looked at the scene in front of him, took a deep breath, and then sighed.

What appeared before his eyes was a dead woman sitting quietly on the dusty bed. She hugged her legs with two dolls in her arms. She just sat there quietly, as if she was unaware of his arrival.

Zhu Yufeng walked forward, ready to give the poor girl final relief.

Suddenly, the assassin raised her head and turned her empty eyes to Zhu Yufeng. She just looked at Zhu Yufeng without any hostile reaction. She raised the two dolls in her arms, as if she wanted to give them to him, and as if to tell him that she had finally waited for the arrival of the "savior hero".

Zhu Yufeng looked at her and took the dolls from her with both hands. She just looked at him quietly. Zhu Yufeng held the two dolls with one hand and raised the other hand hesitantly. Looking at the girl's empty eyes, he closed his eyes briefly. He was thinking about whether he needed to do that.

"It's just... just a brief encounter."

Zhu Yufeng lowered his eyes, and finally decided to use the power of the Herrscher of Time and the Herrscher of Consciousness to see what happened in the last period of her life.

After reading it, he fell silent.

The girl had thought about leaving this fallen city, but the soldiers from the Fire Moth Division who came to support her cheated her of all her money under the pretext of "transfer fees" and left her here. She could only endure the erosion of Honkai energy while hiding in her room, placing all her hopes on the people represented by the two dolls, until the end... the only obsession left in her mind was waiting.

Do I need to turn her back to human form? Theoretically, I am the Ruler of Time and I have the power of time. It should be no problem to turn a person's body from a dead soldier back to a human form. However, this will also bring many more complicated problems.

For example, is there really room for her in this era?

Where should he place her? How would she live after that? Was he really giving her hope rather than greater despair by turning her from a dead soldier back into a human?

After all, it was impossible for him to arrange everything perfectly after turning her back into a human. This had nothing to do with his power, but everything to do with humans.

She was in this state because of humans. If she were changed back, she could keep her mouth shut. But which city would accept her? How would she take root in a new city?

Her life had been hard enough.

Why would he want to do this? He had already seen separations and deaths, and he had only met this girl a few times, so why did he have such an idea at this moment?

Has he changed?

Maybe, or it could be due to his change of mood. Now he is just like her, waiting for his "savior hero"? No one is not afraid of death. If he can avoid death, who doesn't want to live well? It's not like he has no concerns in this world.

Mavis was born not long ago, and Lilim hasn't grown up yet...

After thinking for a while, Zhu Yufeng finally gave the poor girl relief, then buried her here, erected a simple tombstone for her and wrote her name on it.

Before leaving, he looked back at the simple tombstone and left.

Suddenly his communicator rang. It was Ying contacting him and saying that she wanted to talk to him about something. It just so happened that her mission was also over.

"Where can I find you?" Zhu Yufeng asked.

Ying reported a place name, and Zhu Yufeng fell silent. Far East? Isn't it a bit far? Well, for me, it's not too far, and from Ying's tone, she seemed to be serious about what she wanted to say to me...

"I'll be there in half an hour."

Half an hour later, Far East.

Far East had long since disappeared, and the entire island was in ruins, just like when Kevin came to Far East alone in the original world line in his memory, with scorched earth everywhere and no sign of life.

Ying had been waiting here for a long time. She nodded to him, and the two of them walked together on this lifeless land.

"At this time before, when you were injured and asleep, I came here alone." Ying took the initiative to speak.

"and then?"

"It's the same as it is now. All you can see are ruins and scorched earth...there isn't a single cherry blossom to be seen...In the past, this was the place with the most cherry blossoms in the Far East, but now, even here, there isn't a single cherry blossom to be seen. It's still...the same as it was in the past." Ying said with her eyes lowered.

Zhu Yufeng was silent. He suddenly looked towards a place in the distance and pointed there: "Look there."

"That is……"

The two of them came together under the cherry blossom tree that was blooming on the scorched earth. Zhu Yufeng looked at the dead trees around him, then looked at the cherry blossom tree that was constantly dropping cherry blossoms, and said, "This should be the last cherry blossom tree left in the Far East. It seems that our struggle is not yet at a dead end, right?"

Ying was silent for a long time, and finally said as if she had made up her mind: "...Feng, are you really as optimistic as you say?"

Zhu Yufeng smiled bitterly: "...Yaksha's ability to perceive emotions is really troublesome..."

He guessed something in his heart. When did Sakura hear his conversation with Mebius or Lionel?

"These cherry blossoms may disappear again soon... just like our second struggle against the collapse. Even though we already know everything that is going to happen,... in the end, humans are still forced into this situation."

"Be more optimistic, Ying. At least we have changed the tragedy of the constraint. Ling is still alive and well. The Fallen Angels and Yingjie will fight the last Herrscher together. Humanity has not failed and will not fail."

"But... Feng, it has come to this point. Have we really changed anything? Can the final outcome, the result, really be changed?" Ying said, staring into Zhu Yufeng's eyes.

Zhu Yufeng did not answer her question. He just walked under the cherry tree and placed his hand on the trunk. Wrapped in the Honkai energy, she watched the time of the cherry tree gradually go backwards, and finally it turned into a seed and fell into his hand.

He walked up to her, placed the tree seed in her palm, and said, "Perhaps, this time we still cannot change the outcome of the sinking of civilization. The new era may be a little difficult for those of us from the old era to accept. The cherry blossoms of the new civilization may indeed be different from those of our current civilization... But, people always have to look forward, don't they? Let's regard this tree seed as a commemoration of the past."

She didn't say anything, but just looked quietly at the cherry tree seeds in her hand.

After a long while, she finally spoke: "I don't care about the final result. It doesn't matter if civilization starts over again. Feng, we...what I want is for you to continue to move forward with me in the next era."

"..."

"We tried our best and tried for so long, but in the end... we still couldn't save you?"

"……You knew already?"

"I... didn't mean to listen. I just care too much. I won't tell Alicia, but I really... I don't understand. We have fought to this point. We have tried our best to avoid the mistakes of the previous life, but... why did you still want to..."

"The world is still uncertain. No one can predict what will happen in the end. Don't be too pessimistic. It's just a worst-case plan. A helpless plan. It's just an insurance for the next civilization, a helpless plan to continue the human race."

"..."

Ying was speechless for a long time, and finally could only reach out and hug Zhu Yufeng tightly, as if he would not disappear in this way.

Chapter 330: The Decisive Battle Is Coming

Zhu Yufeng came to Lionel's office again.

Seeing Zhu Yufeng coming in, Lionel was silent for a moment, then said: "Alicia...is she okay now?"

"Overall, the recovery is very fast. After all, he is a fusion warrior, and his physical fitness cannot be compared with that of ordinary people." Zhu Yufeng said.

"I see..." Lionel nodded and asked, "Then... Mavis, is she okay now?"

"Except for being a little too quiet, she is no different from an ordinary child in other aspects." Zhu Yufeng replied, "Well... I mean, apart from the fact that she is a natural fusion warrior."

"Is he really just a natural fusion warrior?" Lionel sighed softly. He looked at Zhu Yufeng with a complicated expression and finally got to the topic of why he called Zhu Yufeng here today. "I've heard from Dr. Mei, Feng, you... have always been a Herrscher. The Herrscher X we speculated, the master of Yuga, is you, right?"

Zhu Yufeng lowered his eyes: "Yes."

Now it is less than a month away from the Final Battle. Mei and Kevin have already landed on the moon to carry out the preliminary arrangements for the God-killing Plan and to pave the way for the next civilization just in case.

As the commander of the Final War, there are some things that Lionel must know and cannot avoid.

For example, Zhu Yufeng’s identity as a Herrscher.

There is nothing to hide about this point. After a long period of observation, Zhu Yufeng and others have confirmed that Lionel is trustworthy. After finalizing the plan for the formal battle against the End, everyone unanimously decided to choose Lionel as one of the two commanders of the End War.

Yes, both commanders.

There are two battlefields in the Battle of the End. One is where Zhu Yufeng faces the Herrscher of the End who is about to be born. The other is commanded by Mei, who tries to find the location of the Cocoon of the End through the connection between the two Origins, Alicia and Lilith, and the Cocoon of the End.

After all, the Cocoon of the End is not in the original world. Even if the Fire Moths spent a lot of manpower on calculations, it was difficult to locate the exact location of the Cocoon of the End. The fact that the final return direction of the two Origins was the Cocoon of the End saved Mei and the others a lot of trouble.

The Battle of the End... No matter which battlefield it is, it is a very risky challenge for the direct participants. Zhu Yufeng has to face the End directly. How much time do Alicia and the others have to find the Cocoon of the End? Whether mankind can pass this final test depends directly on how long Zhu Yufeng can compete with the End.

As for Alicia, she wanted to use her and Lilith's characteristics to locate the Cocoon of the End. Although there was no need to trigger the condition of "Return of the Origin", it was extremely risky to open the door to the space where the Cocoon of the End was for them. In her previous life, Paduo almost lost herself in order to open this "door", so she only went in through a "back door". This time, it was not only the two Origins who were to be sent in, but also their assistants.

No one knows what the space where the Cocoon of the End is like, but the huge risks involved are visible to the naked eye.

Zhu Yufeng was actually quite opposed to this plan at first, but... apart from this, there was no other plan that could help them locate the location of the Cocoon of the End.

If the location of the Cocoon of the End cannot be located, there is no way to cut off the connection between the Cocoon of the End and the End.

What's more, in order to get more accurate information from the front line and receive first-hand data from Alysia in a timely manner, Mei, as the commander of Alysia, will also personally conduct on-site command at the lunar base.

The moon is the battlefield where Zhu Yufeng and Zhongyan will have the decisive battle.

The danger involved can be imagined.

Lionel's responsibility is to strive for the most spare resources and opportunities for both battlefields during the End War. He will be directly responsible for the Thunderbolt. Roffko, Vilvi and others have been transferred to implement the End Cocoon Positioning Plan. In addition, he also needs to be responsible for commanding ground operations. According to Mei and others' speculation, at the time of the End War, the Honkai beasts in various locations around the world will riot, and there will be large-scale Honkai attacks. Commanding other fusion warriors to deal with these violent Honkai beasts is the responsibility of Lionel and Hen.

Therefore, as the person directly responsible for this final battle, it is necessary for Lionel to know some things.

After experiencing the initial period of depression, Hen finally cheered up again. After all, this was the final battle that would determine the survival of mankind. For the sake of his deceased wife, Hen had to cheer up again.

"Uga... if it's your companion Honkai beast, it doesn't seem to be a surprising thing." Lionel smiled helplessly, "After all, in all the current files, except for the destruction of a city when it first appeared, it has never had any hostile behavior towards humans. On the contrary, we... spent a lot of effort to find a way to deal with this strongest Honkai beast, but in the end, it turned out to be a waste of effort..."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but think of his destroyed homeland. When Mu Continent was still there, research on Yuga had always been a top priority. After all, Yuga's special abilities involved changes in time and space. If it could be successfully analyzed and utilized, it would definitely be a huge leap forward for human technology.

When Lionel was first informed of Zhu Yufeng's identity as a Herrscher by Beffinger, he was surprised, but he accepted it after a while, because if he thought about it this way, some of the mysteries surrounding Zhu Yufeng had a reasonable explanation, such as his almost completely blank past. Before the incident of the Third Herrscher, there was almost no trace of Zhu Yufeng's existence, and when Mu Dalu was still there, all the things found were forged by Mobius and Velvet.

If Zhu Yufeng was a natural Herrscher, then this would be easy to explain. The only thing that made Lionel feel a little upset was that Mobius and the others had obviously known about this for a long time. Otherwise, Zhu Yufeng's blank past would not have been hidden for long if someone wanted to investigate.

Regarding this matter, someone wanted to investigate Zhu Yufeng in the previous life, but when those people tried to investigate, it was after the Ninth Herrscher incident. The Fallen Angels had already been established, and everything that needed to be covered up had been covered up by them. Before that, Kevin was the focus of everyone's attention.

In short, Lionel was only surprised for a moment before accepting it, and then asked what it would be like when Beffinger found out.

Beffinger's answer was that he had known about the tragedy of the restraint as early as the time when he was a battlefield observer together with Su. The moment Zhu Yufeng released the power of the Herrscher in order to force Gabriel to reveal his existence, it was impossible for him to escape Beffinger's perception. It was just that Beffinger chose to remain silent and pretend that this incident did not exist.

Lionel and Beffinger had the same opinion on this matter. If Zhu Yufeng, as a Herrscher, wanted to kill Wenming, it would be too easy. He had fought his way up from an ordinary soldier to the strongest of the Fire Moths, and had also been targeted by several Herrschers starting with the Seventh.

If Zhu Yufeng wanted to destroy civilization, he had countless opportunities to destroy civilization, but every moment he stood up to protect civilization.

Therefore, there was no need to doubt his position. As for confessing such an important matter so late, Lionel also expressed his understanding. He knew why he knew this, because he had seen some things clearly from beginning to end. If it were someone else...

The consequences are simply unthinkable.

A Herrscher is at the highest level of human power and has a powerful force that can rival the End. In the eyes of other high-level officials, he is an intolerable existence. They will try their best to completely nip Zhu Yufeng's "harm" and eliminate all existence that threatens their status and power by all means.

When the fusion warrior plan was proposed, many high-level officials opposed the plan, and even the King of Mu Continent chose to stop it after insisting for a while. A big part of the reason was that the power of the fusion warriors could directly threaten the power of ordinary people like them.

In addition, Beffinger also said at the time that even if the previous events had not happened, he would still believe in Feng's position. Lionel asked him why he thought so, and Beffinger replied: "Why do you think I chose the Fire Moth in the first place?"

This was the only reason that Lionel thought was ridiculous. He and the king racked their brains to think of the reason why Beffinger decisively betrayed Mu Dalu and ran away without looking back. In terms of treatment, the king's treatment of Beffinger was not low at all, although the king's intentions were not good...

He thought that Beffinger ran away because he didn't want to be a court jester and take the blame for the king.

"Do you think I care about that?" Beffinger looked at Lionel with a half-smile and said, "Although what you guessed can indeed be considered one of the reasons, the one who influenced my final decision was Feng."

It's Feng...

Come to think of it, the heroes who save the world also seem to appear around him, Alicia, Lilith, Kevin... everyone's story is intertwined with him, and as a Herrscher, he rolled himself into the Fire-Chasing King in order to protect mankind.

This is also the reason why Lionel believes in Zhu Yufeng. He has always been a picky person, but Zhu Yufeng is currently the only person he can't find any fault with - except for the fact that he and Alicia secretly had a baby.

These two people are really...

Lionel sighed with a headache. He looked at Zhu Yufeng and said, "Actually, I called you here because I want to know one thing. Why did you decide to protect humans?"

He more or less thought that it was probably for Alicia. After all, when he first knew about the affair between Zhu Yufeng and Alicia, he questioned Zhu Yufeng, and Zhu Yufeng said that he was a very selfish person who only wanted Alicia to live well.