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

"Did you make it?"

Inside the lunar base, Pado looked at the images uploaded from the Tianting and murmured, "Just now, with the salvo from the Tianting and Moonlight Throne, plus the full-strength attack from Brother Yufeng and Boss Kevin, it's impossible for Eternal to still be alive without that turtle shell, right?"

Last time, Brother Yufeng was about to die, but he still managed to crash The End in the end. This time, not only is Brother Yufeng stronger than in his previous life, but Boss Kevin has also become the "Savior Kevin" who was a legend in his previous life. Even if The End has been strengthened, it should not be able to withstand the full-strength attack of Boss Kevin and Brother Yufeng without its turtle shell, right?

Mei stared at the detection of Honkai energy on the screen. So far, the energy reactions that appeared were indeed only from Kevin and Zhu Yufeng. This seemed to prove that the End was indeed defeated by the previous attack, but... is it really that simple?

Alicia and the others are still under constant attack from the Imaginary God's Skeleton, causing slow progress. But with the support of the Cocoon of the End personally coming out to support them, can they really be defeated so easily?

After all, in Mei's mind, the group led by Alicia and the others should have a higher chance of success, while Zhu Yufeng's group should theoretically only be able to delay time.

Mei's brows were furrowed, while the researchers around her had already jumped up excitedly, hugging each other and celebrating that humanity had won the final battle.

In their eyes, the battle between Zhu Yufeng and Kevin and the End was quite difficult. The collapse energy caused by the battle almost caused the equipment to fail several times. Although Kevin and Zhu Yufeng had the upper hand throughout the whole process, the tenacity of the End was beyond everyone's expectations. In their impression, no Herrscher had ever survived so long with the cooperation of Kevin and Zhu Yufeng.

What's more, Kevin and Zhu Yufeng were also injured by the End during the battle, and at that moment their hearts were in their throats.

And now, the energy reaction of the End has disappeared from the radar, how can they not be excited?

"We won, we won!"

"The End has been defeated, and the remaining Honkai Beast is no problem! We finally won!"

People didn't feel happy for long. The next moment, as if confirming Mei's inner uneasiness, a stronger Honkai energy reaction than the one just shown by the End appeared within the radar detection range.

"really……"

Mei whispered that although it was expected, she did not expect that in addition to the resurrection of the End, the energy level of Honkai energy in his body would also be further improved.

The researchers who had just been celebrating fell silent in an instant.

In the End Crater.

Zhu Yufeng and Kevin were suspended in mid-air. As they were fighting against the End head-on, they naturally noticed something strange the moment the End was resurrected. The End did not leave them any chance to be stunned after his resurrection. He rushed over and slashed at Zhu Yufeng with a sword. Zhu Yufeng held the Black Abyss and White Flower across his body to block it, but was still knocked into the stone wall of the End Crater by the End.

"Feng!" Kevin shouted, then took the Jiemie and once again engaged in a fierce battle with the resurrected Zhongyan. He had already realized from their previous battle with Zhongyan that Zhongyan's target had always been Zhu Yufeng. As long as she was not directly threatened by Kevin, she would keep her eyes on Zhu Yufeng the whole time.

It was as if the purpose of her birth was to kill Zhu Yufeng, or in other words, compared to resetting civilization, killing Zhu Yufeng had the highest priority in the End.

During the Battle of the End in the previous life, Kevin had never felt that the End had any purpose. For the End at that time, her only goal was to reset civilization. If the heroes stood in her way, she would just wipe them out. It was almost like this. But now, the End has shown an extremely strong purpose.

It was as if she and Zhu Yufeng had some deep hatred.

...Although the End is supposed to have no emotions, Kevin thought it was easy to understand and just assumed so.

After a brief fight with Zhongyan and being repelled, as if to verify Kevin's idea, Zhongyan flew straight towards Zhu Yufeng without caring whether Kevin still had the ability to fight after repelling Kevin.

Thanks to Zhongyan's strong purpose of targeting Zhu Yufeng, he often made mistakes in the battle and Kevin seized the opportunity to cause damage and gain an advantage.

But even so, neither Kevin nor Zhu Yufeng were optimistic about the outcome of this battle. Zhongyan could be resurrected once, so was it possible that he could be resurrected a second time or a third time? And would he become stronger each time he was resurrected? As the two of them fought for a long time, their strength would also be consumed. As one gained strength while the other lost strength, they would eventually be defeated by Zhongyan again.

In other words, just like the battle between humans and Honkai, humans can defeat Honkai countless times, but Honkai only needs to defeat humans once. Similarly, here, they can defeat End countless times, but End only needs to defeat them once.

Zhu Yufeng and Kevin looked at each other and understood each other's thoughts. Since they didn't know how many times the End could be resurrected and whether he would become stronger after resurrection, all they could do was change their strategy from defeating the End at the beginning to delaying time for Alicia and the others.

only……

Zhu Yufeng glanced at Kevin obscurely. Kevin's "savior" form could not last too long. If Kevin did not exit the "savior" form in time, the backlash of the power of the end would cause him to fall into the same fate as his previous life.

Because of Kevin's assistance, he can now suppress the battle with End throughout the whole process. However, once Kevin can't withstand the backlash of End's power and withdraws from the battlefield, he and End will probably be in a situation of equal strength. In this way, the scope of his battle with End may be further expanded, thus affecting the Fire Moth's lunar base.

In addition, even if Alyssia and the others successfully locate the location of the Cocoon of the End, and Mei successfully cuts off the connection between the Cocoon of the End and the End, the End still has to be defeated in the end. But by that time, how much power will he and Kevin have to defeat the End?

Also, Kevin usurped the power of the End. Once he withdraws from the battlefield, will the part of the power of the End that he has borne eventually flow back to the End?

In short, the situation is not optimistic. He can only hope that Alicia and the others can succeed sooner rather than later. If it really comes to the last step, and he has to choose between him and Alicia...

Kevin was wielding the Jiemie while gritting his teeth inwardly. He had not expected that the Cocoon of the End could have such great malice towards civilization. The strength of the End made it clear that the Cocoon of the End would stop at nothing to end the situation. He now deeply understood the tremendous pain that Zhu Yufeng had endured when he fought with the End in his previous life, and he also understood that his current body could not support him fighting for too long.

Kevin had considered what Zhu Yufeng had considered, but he believed that Mei would be able to sever the connection between the Cocoon of the End and the End. However, he was not sure whether he could continue to fight after that - it was very likely that he would need to or even have to withdraw from the battlefield by then.

"If we want to achieve a balance between the annihilation effect of the power of the end and the self-repair effect of the body, the Stigma Project is the easiest plan to achieve this goal..."

Kevin once again recalled what May had said to him. May said that if she was given another ten years, she could at least realize a simplified version of the Stigmata Plan. Although he didn't have that time now and realizing it wouldn't help him achieve balance all the time, it could at least allow him to endure as the carrier of the power of the end longer.

"The Holy Mark Project..."

"That is the worst plan. Even if human civilization is destroyed, I don't think this plan should be implemented." Zhu Yufeng said this when discussing the preservation plan for humanity's retreat. "Civilization is defined by the existence of humans... but humans can never be defined by civilization."

Mei also agreed with Zhu Yufeng's opinion. She also thought that the Stigmata Plan was the worst plan, but she also said that she had no other choice. In Mei's eyes, the survival of civilization and defeating the collapse were the top priorities. If she was in a desperate situation, she would still implement the Stigmata Plan.

Zhu Yufeng denied the success of the Ark Project, and said that it would lose contact in the future. The success of the Spark Project was like a distant ideal. Zhu Yufeng only said that the current civilization will surely defeat the Collapse, but he himself did not know how the current civilization would defeat the Collapse. The success of the Hengsha Project was also quite slim. Zhu Yufeng had already stated that in that time and space where he did not exist, Su spent 50,000 years of his life observing other worlds, and in the end he only came up with the possibility of defeating the Collapse.

only one……

Su Qiong spent his entire life confining himself in a Sumeru mustard seed and observed countless worlds, but only at the end of his life did he find the only possibility.

As for what the possibility was that Su observed, Zhu Yufeng still didn't know.

Therefore, it was difficult for Mei to believe what Zhu Yufeng said, so Mei did not actually stop his research on the Stigmata Project. Zhu Yufeng was aware of this and said that he understood Mei's thoughts, but he would not change his own mind against the Stigmata Project. In addition, the Stigmata Project was not all bad. At least the existence of the Stigmata gene generally increased humans' resistance to Honkai energy, and even the Stigmata Awakeners who could adapt to Honkai energy appeared.

Zhu Yufeng has no objection to the natural selection method of survival of the fittest. He just does not agree with the "Spiritual Adam" plan in the Stigmata Project, which almost denies the existence of the human species itself. However, the "Spiritual Adam" plan can help Kevin better control the power of the end and achieve a balance between annihilation and creation.

"Kevin, let's make a deal in advance. If I can't come back for this Final Battle, but you carry out the Stigmata Plan in the next civilization and create that 'spiritual Adam', then I will come back to beat you up even if I have to pretend to be a dead body." Zhu Yufeng once said to Kevin half-jokingly.

Because in his eyes, Kevin was actually implementing the Stigmata Plan in the present civilization.

And when the imagined existence of "Savior Kevin" actually appeared, Zhu Yufeng was even more certain that if the current civilization really disappointed Kevin, based on his understanding of Kevin, this guy would definitely and absolutely execute the "Spiritual Adam" and carry the whole world on his back.

Not to mention that the so-called "Spiritual Adam" denies the existence of human beings themselves. In other words, it almost transfers all the people in the world into a place similar to the "other world". Only Kevin is left alone outside. There is no living being who can talk to him. He has to endure the eternal pain of the power of the end constantly destroying his body and he cannot die.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yufeng suddenly thought, why not beat Kevin up right here and now?

Forget it, forget it. Just think about it. As long as we win this battle, Kevin won’t have the chance to carry out the Stigmata Plan.

Zhu Yufeng and Kevin, each with their own thoughts, slowed down their pursuit of the End and began to systematically preserve their own strength, with the ultimate goal of suppressing the End to buy time for Alysia and the others.

But the End seemed to have discovered their purpose. Not long after the two changed their battle plan, they found that the End's actions had obviously changed. Compared with before, the End's fighting style had become a bit like a desperate fight. If they did not fight with all their strength and just tried to delay time, they might not be able to stop the End's attack.

And if they fought with all their strength, with the way Zhongyan was fighting, it was possible that she would be killed again, and then resurrected and become stronger...

Suddenly, Zhu Yufeng had an illusion that, compared to the emotionless reincarnation machine in his previous life, the End seemed to be gradually deviating from the concept of "machine"?

Could it be that this time, Zhongyan was learning and evolving gradually while fighting him and Kevin?

Earth, Fire Moth Operations Department.

Hearing the news that the End had been resurrected and become even stronger, Lionel frowned, and finally his eyes fell on the core key of the Tianting in his hand...

Chapter 337: The Final Battle (Part 2)

The place of origin.

Alicia and Lilith stood together and liberated their powers to assist Mei in locating the Cocoon of the End at the lunar base. Qianjie and others fought fiercely with the seemingly endless number of imaginary divine skeletons in order to protect them from obstacles.

To make an analogy for the actions of Alicia and Lilith, the road leading to the Cocoon of the End is covered by fog and darkness, and they are the bright lights that illuminate the road ahead. Therefore, the consequences of their actions are also quite obvious. If they fail to find the location of the Cocoon of the End before the lights go out, they will definitely die.

But the difference is that after Siwon completely frees himself and returns to the Cocoon of the End, the beacons they carry will also lock onto the location of the Cocoon of the End.

In other words, if Zhu Yufeng and Kevin had enough time to act, their actions would definitely succeed. The only difference in the final result, apart from success, was whether the two origins could survive.

"A lot of time has passed here now. Both Lilith and I can only vaguely feel the existence of the Cocoon of the End. Mei and the others still haven't located the Cocoon of the End. I wonder what the situation is like over there with Feng..." Alicia thought with her eyes lowered as she resisted the fatigue and pain brought about by the gradual dissipation of her existence due to the liberation of power.

Even if she had agreed with Mei in advance that once the situation on Feng's side was not right, Mei would send a message to her through the beacon on her body, and the moment she learned the news, she would immediately choose to completely liberate herself. The reason why she discussed this with Mei was actually the same reason why Zhu Yufeng went to find Lionel. She believed in Mei's rationality, and also believed that if the war on the Zhongyan side was unfavorable, Mei would definitely choose to notify her.

Because the war at the End is not going well, it means that civilization is one step closer to destruction. Destruction is at hand. At that time, in order to ensure the success of the War of the End and the survival of civilization, Mei will inevitably choose to inform herself of the news. As long as she completes her self-sacrifice, Mei will be able to locate the location of the Cocoon of the End and cut off the connection between the Cocoon of the End and the End.

For the rational Mei, this choice is natural.

but……

Alicia glanced at Lilith beside her again. In addition to the trump card left by Zhu Yufeng, there was another variable in her plan which came from Lilith. She was not sure whether Lilith could stop her in time. Moreover, she did not believe that Lilith would not have the means to contact Zhu Yufeng. Even she had gone to Mei to find a way to understand the battle situation at the End. It was impossible that Lilith had no way to establish contact with Zhu Yufeng.

Thinking of this, Alicia suddenly hesitated. It was not that she did not trust Mei, but she wanted to know what the situation was like on Zhu Yufeng's side. Mei had no way and would not tell her the specific situation of Zhu Yufeng's side, so now only Lilith could do it.

Neither in his previous life nor in this life, he had any experience of direct battle with the End. Before, he could only hear a little about the danger of the Battle of the End from Pado and the others. After that, it was through Lilith's dream power that he could directly feel the cruelty and danger of the battle in his previous life from the memories of Lilith and Zhu Yufeng.

The finale born this time is expected to be even stronger than the previous life. Even though Kevin and Feng are stronger than the previous life, how strong will the finale become? Will it become stronger than the current Feng? After all, the cocoon of the finale has "threatened" to intervene directly...

She thought back to the dream in which she saw Zhu Yufeng being pierced through the heart by the spear of the End, with half of his body burned by the blazing flames. Although the power of time could reverse the situation in the end, the pain he endured was real.

Will he encounter such a situation again this time?

When she was a "bystander" in the dream before, she still felt a little sad when she thought about all this now. And now the longer it takes to locate the Cocoon of the End, the longer Zhu Yufeng's battle with the End will last. It is difficult for Alicia to force herself not to think about this.

Although she also knew that it might be the Cocoon of the End interfering with her, she had to admit that the Cocoon of the End had indeed hit her soft spot.

Their plan was also two-pronged. She and Lilith gradually released their powers to help Mei and others outside locate the Cocoon of the End, while they themselves were in the Place of Origin and were also locating the Cocoon of the End. The thoughts derived from her concerns about Zhu Yufeng could easily interfere with her own positioning of the Cocoon of the End.

Alicia wanted not to think about it, but the more she did so, the clearer the image of the Last War in her previous life became in her mind, to the point that Alicia could clearly feel that this was the information being infused into her by the Cocoon of the Last War.

It's not just the Final Battle, but also everything before the Final Battle, the separation after the tragedy of Constraint, the result of Lilith's confession after he failed to hold on after the Ninth Herrscher incident, Zhu Yufeng's confession to him after the Sixth Herrscher incident, and... their first encounter before the Third Herrscher incident.

Everything kept reappearing in Alicia's mind like a revolving lantern, and finally gathered into a message sent to her by the Cocoon of the End: "Only one of you and him can continue to coexist with civilization, and the other will repeat the same mistakes."

"No way... We will all survive..." Alicia pressed her brow with her hand and said subconsciously. The interference of the Cocoon of the End on her was constantly increasing. All the things that she could not abandon in the past kept appearing again and again, coupled with the pain brought by the disappearance of her own existence, making it difficult for Alicia to concentrate.

She looked at Lilith. If she was being interfered with by the Cocoon of the End, then Lilith's thinking must also be interfered with by the Cocoon of the End, right?

When her eyes fell on Lilith, she found that Lilith was calm and composed from beginning to end, which made Alicia a little discouraged. Even if Lilith's mind was interfered with by the cocoon of the end, so what? Lilith was pure Feng Wei, and she insisted on dying together and living together to the end. How much effect could the cocoon of the end have on Lilith?

After a long while, Alicia spoke softly: "Lilith... do you have any idea about Feng's situation?"

It didn't matter if she didn't know. She could just make up a lie, as long as it could suppress her worries that were being magnified by the interference of the Cocoon of the End.

Lilith glanced at Alicia and said playfully, "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"

Alicia was stunned. Why did Lilith ask her that? Did Feng really have an accident? If so, why didn't Mei send her any news? Or did the Cocoon of the End block Mei's channel for transmitting news? This shouldn't be the case. Qianjie and the others are still fighting here to keep in touch with Su, and her data is also being transmitted back. The Cocoon of the End shouldn't be able to block Mei from transmitting news, right?

"The good news is that Kevin and Feng have killed the End." Lilith said lightly.

"Eh?!" Alicia was stunned for a moment. Was Zhongyan killed? But if he succeeded, then Mei would have also sent news of his success, right?

"The bad news is that the End has been resurrected and has become even stronger." Lilith continued, "At present, as long as the End continues to maintain contact with the End Cocoon, she should continue to be resurrected and become stronger."

Alicia's expression turned pale instantly, and after a long while she said, "If that's the case... why are you telling me this, Lilith? Aren't you... on the same side as Feng?"

When Lilith explained this to herself, Alicia immediately realized Lilith's intention, which was that the battle was now in a stalemate. If it continued to drag on, even if the location of the Cocoon of the End could be located by then, Zhu Yufeng and Kevin's remaining strength would probably not be enough to defeat the End, and the outcome would be the same as in the previous life.

So, if we want to solve this problem, they, as the origin, can indeed give the most convenient answer.

But she didn't understand, wasn't Lilith on the same side as Feng? Feng didn't want anything to happen to either of them, so why would Lilith, who knew all this,...

"Alicea, sometimes I'm not as carefree and carefree as you think." Lilith said faintly, "I must admit that the interference of the Cocoon of the End on you and me may be particularly effective on me."

"Hey... speaking of my feelings for Feng, this is the only thing I don't want to admit defeat to you..." said Alicia.

"Whatever you think." Lilith's expression was calm. "I'm just telling you, don't always think so outrageously of me. During the tragedy of the restraint in my previous life, I told Feng, 'Before becoming a hero, I was first a selfish woman.'"

"But didn't you end up binding your consciousness with Feng's through backup means?" Alicia retorted subconsciously.

"Heh... Even without Yu Duchen's help, do you think I wouldn't have done this?" Lilith sneered and said, "I love Feng, so I hope more than anyone else that he can put aside these meaningless responsibilities of saving the world and hope that he can survive. It is indeed romantic to go to the underworld together, but if only one person can survive, I am willing to leave the chance of survival to Feng."

Alicia looked at Lilith, and seemed a little surprised that Lilith would give such an answer.

"If we can't live together, then we can die together. It sounds romantic, but isn't that actually selfish?" Lilith's eyes became vague. "My lover can obviously live, but I take him/her away because I'm going to die. This kind of selfish love and romance... I don't need it."

After a moment of silence, Lilith continued, "I don't care about death because if Feng dies, I will die too. Even if Feng is extremely opposed to me doing this, I will do it. This is my selfishness. And Feng... he and I should have the same idea. He would rather die than leave the chance of life to you and me. But he knows very well that as long as he dies, he can't control me. Then I will stubbornly catch up with him and go with him."

You can't control me, and you still expect others to stop me from committing suicide? You wish!

Alicia looked at Lilith, and she suddenly realized that at this moment, she and Lilith were the same. They both developed the same "selfishness" of their own. They were both willing to sacrifice themselves in exchange for the life of the person who was fighting a desperate battle with the End in the End Crater.

No matter how much that person doesn't want them to do so.

This is their selfishness.

“As long as the Origin returns, even if Mei and the others can't cut off the connection between the Cocoon of the End and the End, human civilization will have a way out. Even if Feng doesn't have enough power to defeat the End, he doesn't need to continue fighting to the death. He can survive and witness the future of the next civilization.” Lilith's tone became soft, so soft that Alicia once thought that this was not something Lilith could say.

The last time I heard Lilith speak in such a gentle tone was when she pretended that she had not recovered her memory and used this tone to disguise her true self.

But at this moment, Alicia felt the true tenderness and love behind Lilith's gentle tone.

She sighed softly. Lilith was indeed a witch who was full of malice towards the world, but she gave all her tenderness and love to Feng and was willing to give up everything for her.

This is the "true self" that is left only for Feng under the mask of Lilith's "false self".

Alicia hesitated for a moment, then said: "No, if that's the case, I only need to be sacrificed, right? As long as I return to the 'Cocoon', the conditions for the next Civilized Ruler to be born with humanity can be met... In this way, I only need to be sacrificed, you and Feng can both..."

"I will return this sentence to you intact." Lilith glanced at Alicia, "If I return to the Cocoon now, I can help Mei and the others locate the Cocoon of the End directly. As long as Mei and the others successfully cut off the connection between the Cocoon and the End, you will still have a chance to survive."

"But that would be too risky. What if Mei and the others fail to do it or Feng is unable to defeat the End at that time, then wouldn't your sacrifice be in vain?" Alicia retorted.

"But at least there is hope, right?" Lilith chuckled and said, "You also know that Feng and I have the same stance. If Feng dies, I will definitely follow him. But if I die, Feng will not die with you, and my selfishness prompts me to keep Feng alive at all costs."