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

I once had the same thoughts as them, and then...

"Feng, this time we already know what will happen in the future. We have all experienced it. This time... we will definitely be able to defeat Honkai!"

The old friends in my memory did not comment on this.

Kevin looked at the exit that was just around the corner. Let him take a good look at what the current civilization looks like now, and see if the current civilization is still relying on the sacrifices of Kaslana and Shaniyat to protect their overly naive ideals.

He thought again of the Kaslana named Siegfried whom he had come into contact with through the Kaslana stigma and who had been mentioned by Maple in Paradise. That guy had potential, and his wife was the strongest Shaniyat of the contemporary era. He just didn't know what kind of trouble the guy Maple in Paradise mentioned would get into when he got hot-headed.

He stepped out of the door leading to the intrinsic world from the quantum sea, and saw a white-haired creature floating in the air confronting a short white-haired creature on the ground.

Wait, that white hair floating in the air...

"Hey, long time no see, Kevin." The white-haired girl shifted her gaze from the man on the ground and looked at Kevin who had just come out of the quantum sea, seemingly greeting him quite casually.

"Kevin Kaslana?!"

Theresa, who was standing on the ground and "confronting" Lucifer just now, also turned her gaze to the legendary ancestor of the Kaslana family who appeared from the Eye of the Abyss. For some reason, Kevin, who had just appeared from the Quantum Sea, did not seem very friendly. The extremely low temperature radiating from him was so cold that even she, who was still quite far away from him, could feel the chill.

Could it be that the legend about his close friendship with Lucifer is fake?

But Lucifer claimed earlier that he was a friend who came to pick him up...

The legendary savior hero looked coldly at Lucifer, who appeared in front of him in the form of Kiana. He waved his hand, and a black knight sword appeared in his hand. The Honkai energy condensed into the shape of a greatsword on the sword, and black flames burned with it. In contrast, a blizzard blew around, and frost began to spread on the ground.

Are these two really close friends? Why does Theresa feel like Kevin is serious about killing Lucifer?

A certain bishop of destiny who was watching from the dark looked at the big sword in Kevin's hand with a thoughtful look. Is that the "Past" in the Key of Time? The divine key that could bring Kallen back from the past...seems to have considerable destructive power.

Even Otto did not fully understand the authority of the three keys of time, and there was no detailed description of this in the Void. He had been searching for it for five hundred years, and although he had visited the paradise, he had never been able to see the true appearance of the [present]. This [past] was indeed the first key of time that he had truly seen.

Originally, he wanted to pay a visit to Kevin as a sign of respect as soon as Kevin came out of the Eye of the Abyss. However, the remaining Anti-Entropy troops have gathered here to prepare for evacuation, and Lucifer has also arrived at the Eye of the Abyss in person to greet Kevin. If he jumps out at this time, it would be too inconvenient.

He would not be like Cocolia. Even after turning into a Honkai beast, he would not be stupid enough to try to pounce on Lucifer and bite him when Lucifer appeared.

Lucifer didn't care about Cocolia's previous little actions, but that didn't mean he would ignore Cocolia's offense. Although he probably didn't take the Honkai beast that pounced on him and wanted to attack him seriously, he just nailed it to the ground with the Spear of the Sub-Void as if he was crushing an ant.

Even Otto had to "praise" Cocolia here, because the Honkai factor he injected had extremely strong survival ability, so Cocolia was not dead yet when Lucifer casually stabbed her with the first Sub-Earth Spear. She was still struggling to pounce on Lucifer, and finally attracted Lucifer's attention as she wished. After being glanced at, she was stabbed to death by several Sub-Earth Spears.

At the same time, we have to praise the twins for showing the normal Honkai beast's instinctive fear of Lucifer at this time, and retreating back instead of moving forward. Otherwise, they would probably be regarded as nameless troublesome Honkai beasts by Lucifer and nailed to death with the Spear of the Sub-Void.

"You guys are lucky to have saved my life..." Otto said in a low voice with some regret. Although he still had ways to continue to amplify the twins' frenzy state, that kind of trick could not be hidden from Lucifer's eyes. Otto would not do such a trick that could be seen by others.

The only small action he took before this was probably to let Destiny temporarily stop further attacks on Haiyuan City, giving Anti-Entropy enough time to evacuate. Of course, this was not Otto's original intention. Otto just didn't want the meeting between Lucifer and Kevin to become too noisy.

Even if things become noisy due to some accidents later, it must have nothing to do with me or destiny, it is all the fault of anti-entropy.

After all, I have ordered a temporary truce. If Anti-Entropy is blind, that is Anti-Entropy's own business.

"I knew it would be like this..." Lucifer didn't seem surprised. "Kevin, how about you use the [Past] in your hand to confirm who I am?"

Kevin looked down at the greatsword in his hand, then looked at the girl in front of him whose face was exactly the same as his former enemy. After a moment of silence, the blizzard that was blowing around him stopped in an instant, and the greatsword in his hand turned back into a knight's sword.

Kevin's eyes then fell on Padu, who seemed to be horrified by his behavior, and a girl with a white high ponytail in a corner. He glanced at the anti-entropy mecha troops who were preparing to evacuate in front of the Eye of the Abyss and frowned slightly. But he stopped caring about it and looked at Lucifer and said, "Your appearance has really changed a lot... Why do you look like this?"

He had thought about what it would be like when he met Feng, but he never thought that the Feng he saw 50,000 years later would have changed his gender. It would have been fine if he had just changed his gender, but the look on his face was clearly...

Kevin thought he would not make a mistake. Although this face was still a little childish now, her appearance was the final enemy that he had replayed countless times in the world bubble he created in the [past] and wanted to kill countless times.

The absolute enemy of mankind who destroyed previous civilization, the Ruler of the End.

"It's a long story. After all, this is not my body." Feng dropped from the air in front of Kevin and shrugged. "You scared those people just now."

Kevin didn't bother to look at the Anti-Entropy Force in the distance behind Feng after hearing this, and just said: "What do you think?"

Feng looked back at Theresa and the others who were still looking as if they were facing a formidable enemy, and said, "Ideals are good, but they have not experienced the cruelty we have experienced. By the way, what about Kosmo and Seele? And, about Seele... are you sure?"

Kevin nodded, then turned sideways. In front of the two of them, the long-lost leader of Anti-Entropy, Walter Yang, Bronya, and Seele appeared one after another.

As soon as Walter walked out of the Eye of the Abyss, he felt the cold gazes from Lucifer and Kevin. Walter's nerves tensed up instantly and he broke out in a cold sweat. One of them was a god who could make him feel like a god with just a glance during the Saint Freya period, and the other was the most unfathomable existence he had ever encountered in the Quantum Sea.

However, their eyes did not linger on Walter for long, but fell on Bronya and Seele who came out later.

Seeing that Lucifer and Kevin's eyes fell on herself and Seele, especially Seele, Bronya immediately stepped forward, wanting to protect Seele behind her, but she did not see the surprise in Seele's blue eyes when she saw Lucifer's appearance. A red light flashed in her eyes with a cold light.

Xier's fingers trembled slightly, until her gaze shifted from Lucifer to Kevin, and then back to Lucifer, she calmed down.

Bronya's action of standing in front of Seele was almost subconscious, even though she knew that Seele might no longer need her protection. When she was in the Quantum Sea, it was Seele who guided her little by little to break through the illusion set up by Kevin. When facing Kevin, Seele was able to face the oppression from Kevin without fear and choose to die together.

The same thing happened when they left the Quantum Sea. Senior Kosmo helped them block most of the waves that were sweeping in, but the remaining aftermath still shook the way back to reality. When she was swept away by the waves, Xier, who was supposed to be taken away by Kevin, appeared again and rescued her from the waves.

The Xier now...is no longer the girl who would hide and cry secretly.

But what Bronya did was all her subconscious behavior. She was unable to protect the girl behind her at the beginning. Now, even if it was to make up for the regret in her heart, even if she was defending against the ancestors of Kaslana and Shaniyat, Kevin and Lucifer, even if she had no chance of winning this time, she would do her best to protect Seele.

Wendy, who was standing next to Theresa, looked at Seele behind Bronya, then touched her face. Was that Seele that Bronya had been talking about? It seemed... maybe... probably... that she really looked a little like Seele?

Not long after Walter and the other two came out of the Eye of the Abyss, Kosmo also came out of the Quantum Sea.

Seeing Kosmo coming out, Lucifer didn't say much nonsense, just said: "Now that everyone has come out, it's time to leave."

Bronya was stunned. When Lucifer said this, his eyes not only fell on Kosmo, but also on Seele behind him? !

This is really weird. Why would Lucifer pay attention to Xi'er? Wasn't it Kevin who paid attention to Xi'er and wanted to take her away?

At this time, Seele, who was protected by Bronya, came out. She looked at Lucifer with some doubts in her eyes, but she still asked tentatively: "Can I... say goodbye to Sister Bronya and the others first?"

She had just returned to the Eigenworld and hadn't yet visited her former friends from the orphanage. It felt a bit too hasty to leave like this.

"Okay, but you may not have much time, because Anti-Entropy will be evacuating from here soon." Lucifer's tone rarely became so cold, which made Bronya wonder if Kiana was online at this time, because in her impression, Lucifer's tone has always been as cold and condescending as Kevin's, and he never asked for anything in return. She didn't expect Lucifer to speak like this.

Walter on the other side extracted what he was concerned about from Lucifer's words. Was Anti-Entropy going to withdraw from Haiyuan City? But wasn't Haiyuan City an important base of Anti-Entropy? What happened during the year he was in the Quantum Sea?

Walter looked at Einstein with some doubt. Einstein sighed helplessly and nodded. She could hold on until now just to wait for Walter to come out. Once Walter came out, it would not be necessary to continue defending Haiyuan City.

She could also see that it was Otto who ordered Sky's Mandate to suspend the attack, but that didn't mean Anti-Entropy could stay in Haiyuan City or organize a counterattack. If Lucifer hadn't been here, Einstein had no doubt that even if Anti-Entropy evacuated, it would suffer heavy losses under Sky's pursuit, and some research materials would not be taken away in time.

What's more, even if Walter joined the battlefield, Theresa had no reason to continue to assist Anti-Entropy, and Wendy was injured and could no longer fight Angelica, so the final result would not change at all.

"If the young lady wants to spend more time with her old friends, it's not impossible." Otto walked out of the corner slowly under Einstein's shocked gaze at the right time. "Tianming has temporarily stopped the offensive against Haiyuan City, leaving enough time for Anti-Entropy to evacuate. As long as the young lady is willing, it's not a problem for her to spend a few more days with you to catch up with the old times."

Lucifer crossed his arms, his eyes lingered on Otto for a moment with a hint of meaning, then looked away.

Kevin glanced at Otto for a moment longer, then looked at Lucifer: "The current bishop of Heaven's Destiny?"

"A guy who knows how to use all the resources around him to accomplish what he wants to do." Lucifer's tone returned to its original coldness.

Chapter 88: "Spoiling" and Pride

"Is that so..." After listening to Einstein's story, Walter held his forehead with a headache and said, "It seems that a lot of things really happened during my absence... Whether it's Shaniyat or Lucifer..."

Einstein lowered his eyes and said, "We should be thankful that Lucifer has no intention of directly intervening in the struggle between Destiny and Anti-Entropy."

Walter was silent for a moment, then said: "Perhaps, Lucifer has his own plans just like Kevin. He and Kevin are old comrades-in-arms, and they are likely to have the same ideas about fighting the collapse. However, when it comes to some of the problems brought about by Lucifer and Kevin, Anti-Entropy is indeed inferior to Destiny in this regard."

"...Yes." Einstein admitted helplessly.

Whether it was in the process of resurrecting Lucifer, Otto played a role in promoting and assisting, or now with Kevin's return, Otto took the initiative to suspend the attack of Destiny on Haiyuan City. Basically, as long as Otto does not go too far, Lucifer and Kevin will not have any reaction to Otto's actions.

After all, Otto really had an absolute advantage in intelligence. Relying on the support of the Shaniyat family, he learned the details of what happened back then. In many things, he could perfectly avoid the minefields of those old heroes.

According to Walter, Kevin doesn't care how many sacrifices will occur in the process of fighting Honkai. His only goal is to completely expel Honkai from this world, and for this he can trample on anyone's ideals.

The same goes for Lucifer. For thousands of years, as the Shaniyati family believed, Lucifer has never been reluctant to lend his power to the descendants of the Shaniyati family to fight against the collapse, but the consequence is undoubtedly death.

It can be seen from this that when it comes to fighting against Honkai, these two people don't care about the dirty deeds that Otto has done in the past. As long as Otto doesn't get in the way of them, they will all turn a blind eye.

On the other hand, anti-entropy...

Although it is difficult to judge what Lucifer's attitude is towards Anti-Entropy, it is a fact that the relationship between Anti-Entropy and Shaniyat is not good. It is hard to say whether Lucifer, as the ancestor of Shaniyat, will be affected by this.

In addition, it is difficult to say what kind of evaluation Kevin will have on Siegfried's handling of the matter.

Einstein sighed deeply, as if he had let out all the frustration he had been feeling recently, and said, "Think positively. Although we haven't found her body, at least Cocolia can now be considered dead. Without Cocolia and with your return, the situation inside Anti-Entropy will be much better. After all, we've experienced more difficult situations before."

"About Cocolia..." Walter thought of the other twins, "Ain, are you sure about that..."

"Joachim, don't go on." Einstein said in a deep voice, "It was just a Honkai beast that Otto sent in to destroy it. It was because it killed Cocolia that Otto found the opportunity to catalyze the Honkai beast factors in Rosalia and Lilia, causing them to fall into rage and turn into Honkai beasts... This is the truth of the matter."

Einstein paused and added, as if to emphasize, "There is no other possibility."

Walter was silent.

He knew very well that Einstein knew what he wanted to say. He suspected that the Honkai beast that Lucifer had casually killed with the Spear of the Archon was Cocolia, but Einstein denied him without hesitation before he could say it, and his meaning was very clear.

All to protect those children.

Cocolia's final fate can only be said to be what she deserved, but the children are innocent.

According to the only eyewitness, Xing, Rosalia and Lillia were madly biting the Honkai Beast after the collapse. Due to the Honkai Beast's powerful regeneration ability, the outcome was never determined. In addition, Xing herself also joined the battle.

If they knew that Honkaimon was actually Cocolia...

"How are the two children doing now?" Walter asked.

"Thanks to Lucifer, or rather... we should thank Seer for asking Lucifer for help. Their bodies are not in any serious condition for now." Einstein replied, "As for the details of what happened, they don't remember them very clearly. They only remember that it was the doctor who helped Cocolia perform the surgery on them who asked them to help Cocolia."

"And that doctor is actually Otto who has been lurking in Haiyuan City." Walter frowned and said, "Regarding this, I am basically sure that Otto knows much more about those pioneers than we do. He may even have a cooperative relationship with a pioneer. But we still know nothing about it."

If it weren't for the previous experiment, in which I fell into the quantum sea, and saw some of Kevin's memories while fighting against Kevin in the quantum sea, I probably wouldn't have thought that there is still a group of people called Forerunners in the modern civilization, and they have concealed their existence too well.

Based on this, and combined with Otto's many actions, Otto is quite familiar with those pioneers. It is not difficult to deduce that he is very likely to have a cooperative relationship with one or several of them.

After all, Mandate itself was established by the descendants of the Forerunners in order to organize the modern humans to unite and fight against the Honkai, especially the Shaniyat and Kaslana families, which have direct bloodlines from the Forerunners. Compared with Mandate, Anti-Entropy, formerly the North American branch of Mandate, had no chance to come into contact with these.

the other side.

After Theresa contacted Mei and the others, she learned about the various events that happened in Sky City. Thinking of the conversation she had with Lucifer when she evacuated to the Eye of the Abyss, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

"No matter who you are, even if you are Lucifer Shaniyate... I will save Kiana!"

At that time, the Eye of the Abyss was about to open. Lucifer, who was floating in the air using Kiana's body, looked at her for a long time before saying with a hint of joking in his tone: "...So, how long are you going to stand there holding Judas?"

Theresa: "..."

How could she know why she had never been able to be hostile to that guy from the beginning to the end! And Judas seemed to be disobeying orders...

Now thinking about the scene at that time and the words she said, Theresa just wanted to dig three feet into the ground and bury herself.

Wendy, who had listened to Mei and the others' story beside Theresa, was silent for a while, and her eyes became strange when she looked at Theresa. If Lucifer did not intend to take over Kiana's body and was interested in training Kiana, then Theresa's previous remarks were definitely an offense to Lucifer.

But Lucifer's tone at that time was very different. It seemed that He didn't mind Theresa's offense at all. Instead, He teased Theresa with interest.

The same treatment also went to Seele. When everyone in Anti-Entropy felt helpless against the Vodka sisters who were in Honkai Beast form and difficult to subdue, Seele suggested that she could ask Lucifer for help. At that time, everyone thought Seele was crazy for thinking that Lucifer would help.

result……

As a result, Lucifer actually came to help.

Lucifer is gentle, but if it weren't for Seele, he would have ignored the Vodka sisters and would have found it troublesome to even look at them for more than a second. Lucifer is cold, but he is a little too indulgent towards the principal and Seele.

Wendy was really puzzled by this. What was going on?

While Wendy was thinking about all those random things, Theresa also began to think about Himeko and the purpose of Lucifer that she relayed. Lucifer once asked Himeko, "Is this your era or my era?" Theresa had no objection to this statement. She was even pleased... and sad that Kiana finally chose to prove to Lucifer that she was capable of shouldering the future of this era.

Isn't it because in this era, as Kiana's elders, they can't do anything for Kiana, so Kiana has to bear all these?

At the same time, Theresa was also reflecting on why she had always been so dissatisfied with Lucifer. Now she understood that it was because she was angry at herself for always being able to watch others sacrifice and being powerless to do anything. She blamed Cecilia for sacrificing herself because she accepted Lucifer's power. How could she not feel guilty and angry because she was useless and could only watch Cecilia seek help from Lucifer?

I am...actually just a selfish person.

She was dissatisfied with Cecilia being bound by the family's mission and responsibilities, but if it weren't for the persistence of the Shaniyat and Kaslana families, how many more casualties would have occurred among humans?

Didn't she know? She knew, but she ignored it.

Or maybe she felt that Shaniyat and Kaslana protected humans too well, just like doting parents who shielded their children from all the storms. But the children had to grow up eventually, and they would have to face those storms eventually.

The fundamental reason for founding Saint Freya, in addition to the disgust for the small actions of his grandfather Otto during the Second Great Collapse, may also be his desire to fulfill his best friend's somewhat overly philanthropic ideals and his own escape from reality.

Cecilia hoped that one day, the Valkyries would no longer be consumed like chess pieces just to execute the orders of the machines. At that time, Theresa asked Cecilia, "If there were no sacrifices by the Valkyries, what would humans do when facing the collapse?"

Cecilia was silent for a moment, then replied softly, "Isn't that Shaniat's responsibility?"

Theresa sincerely wanted Cecilia to think about herself once in a while, to be more considerate of herself, to be a little more selfish, and not always love others before herself.

Now... Ever since I knew that Bianca was the real Kiana, and looking at her past experiences and achievements, her character of being determined to bear all the costs alone is exactly the same as Cecilia's. Why didn't I see it at the beginning?

Well... maybe it's because the two of them have similar personalities in this regard, which always makes her think of her deceased best friend, so on the one hand she is really afraid of being nagged by Bianca, and on the other hand she is also afraid that seeing Bianca will remind her of Cecilia.

"Then, Theresa, if it were you, before the trigger of fate was pulled, between sacrificing yourself and sacrificing others, which side would you choose?"

In a trance, Theresa remembered a question Cecilia had asked her before. She almost subconsciously answered that she would sacrifice herself. Cecilia smiled gently: "Look, aren't you the same as me? I don't want others to sacrifice. They can't handle it, but I can handle it all, so why should I choose to escape?"

It's really... a kind of gentle arrogance.

The entire Shaniyat family is really all carved from the same mold of arrogance. I really don’t know from which generation this arrogance was inherited. It feels like this family has been like this since the moment it appeared in history...