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

"Heh... I'm afraid it's not just me. When I arrived at the scene, I realized that things are more serious than I thought. In addition to you and me, Yu Feng has also been reborn." Mobius stared at Alicia and said, "Do you know what this means? This not only means that Kevin and the others are also very likely to be reborn, but also means that Yu Feng may be more paranoid than in the previous life!"

Alicia was silent.

"And with the way you're behaving, he may have figured out that you've been reborn as well. You'd better be more restrained. The best outcome would be to dispel his suspicions." Mebius said unhappily.

"Why? If that's the case, can't we just be honest with him? Let's start over together, fight again, and strive for a better future." said Alicia.

Mebius looked at Alicia speechlessly: "Alisa, do you have some misunderstandings about Yu Feng? That's right, after all, he spent more time with me later, and you don't understand him like this."

Alicia showed a puzzled expression. She always thought that Zhu Yufeng became so crazy in the later period because no one understood him and because he was too lonely.

In fact, she was not wrong. The problem was not that no one understood him, but that he rejected everyone!

Mobius sighed deeply and explained in a tired tone, "Yufeng is too stubborn. Think about it, if Yufeng hadn't been there in the last life, how much more serious would the disasters caused by each collapse be? It would be more serious than we remember. Yufeng himself knows this, and because he knows this, he will not change his thoughts and actions. If he knew that we are also reborn, he would only ask us to act according to his ideas and concepts, otherwise we would still go our separate ways in the end."

Alicia was stunned and a little at a loss, because the side of Zhu Yufeng that Mebius described was indeed a side that she didn't understand, and for a moment she didn't know what to do.

"The best way now is to make him think that only you and he are reborn. After all, he has trusted you from the beginning to the end." Mobius said, "He will still accommodate you because he was like this before, but this will not change his mind. What we have to do is to change him slowly and silently. Do you understand what I mean?"

"I understand." Alicia whispered, "You are right, Mebius, I was too impatient..." She understood that it was not only the world that needed to be saved, but also the lonely traveler who had gone astray.

But this made her feel even more sorry for the stubborn boy, because he had been fighting against the collapse alone, but no one could save him.

Mobius looked in the direction where Zhu Yufeng left and said softly, "He is a good boy. Even if he is so stubborn, he is still a good boy. He doesn't owe the world anything, and he has never asked the world to give him anything in return... He shouldn't be like this now."

In her previous life, she was too immersed in the pursuit of infinity, so that when she discovered all this, it was already too late. But now, they have more time and more opportunities to slowly redeem this lonely boy.

And she also had her own selfish motives. Mebius glanced at Alicia. This time, she wanted to be the one standing next to him.

Chapter 4: Alicia Still Loves Him

The appearance of Mobius disrupted Zhu Yufeng's original plan, but in Zhu Yufeng's view it was a good thing. On the plane returning to the Fire Moth headquarters, Zhu Yufeng began to revise the plan. He might try to persuade Mobius to carry out the Fusion Warrior Plan early and become a Fusion Warrior before the Seventh Herrscher incident. This might prevent the Seventh Herrscher from completely burning Australia.

However, we also need to consider whether climbing the technology tree too high and too fast will further enhance the strength of the Herrscher. After all, the Herrscher of Constraint is clearly aimed at the Fusion Warriors. If it weren't for Lilith and the others who risked their lives to clear the way, he would never have reached the Herrscher of Constraint. At that time, he expected that he would die together with the Herrscher of Constraint. But in the end, the Herrscher of Constraint, who was pierced by the Black Abyss White Flower, did not fight back, but chose to give him a hug.

"Michael..." Zhu Yufeng thought of the pious girl. She was originally a medical worker. Zhu Yufeng often saw her helping the wounded on the battlefield and praying for them. However, she eventually became the enemy of mankind and swung a sharp blade at the humans she had been saving. No, not necessarily. Maybe she thought that dying in her sleep was the best ending for mankind?

No need to worry about the future anymore, no need to struggle under the pressure of survival anymore, everything will end in the dream.

The power of the Eleventh Herrscher, the Herrscher of Constraint, can suppress Honkai energy. Ordinary people will die immediately, and fusion warriors will die within one minute.

Although he had personally entered the Divine Grace Barrier, his feelings seemed different from those of other people. He had heard Weiwei say that the feeling was very painful, but he felt that after entering the Divine Grace Barrier, it was as if an invisible hand was helping him to unload the burden on his shoulders, as if wanting him to let go of his obsession and go back.

There were originally two plans to defeat the Herrscher of Constraint. One was for the Fallen Angels to join forces with other fusion warriors to attack head-on, and he and Kevin would seize the opportunity to break through the blockade of the Divine Grace barrier and kill the Herrscher of Constraint. The other was proposed by "Extreme Evil" Wei Wei, who would send as many ordinary people as possible to the battlefield at all costs to break through the blockade of the Herrscher of Constraint and make the Divine Grace barrier ineffective in a short period of time.

As the leader of the strongest fusion warrior team against Honkai at the time, he clearly expressed his agreement with Velvet's plan. According to the calculations of "Extreme Evil", the number of people who made the Divine Grace Barrier invalid was still within the tolerable range for rebuilding civilization relative to the total number of humans. However, this plan eventually aroused fierce opposition from Alicia, Mei and others, because in this plan, there was only one ending for those ordinary people who were sent into the Divine Grace Barrier, death.

Even if there are volunteers willing to sacrifice, the number of volunteers is far beyond what can be achieved.

The top executives debated for a long time and finally chose the first option.

With no other options, he was prepared to have his team members bypass the orders from the higher-ups and forcibly send the number of civilians that Velvi had expected into the Divine Grace Barrier. In his eyes, the fusion warriors, who were the most powerful weapons against Honkai, were far more important than civilians.

However, before this plan could be implemented, Alyssia, realizing that he was determined to push forward with the second plan, decided to kill the Ruler of Constraint with Kevin and other fusion warriors before he sent the civilians into the Divine Grace Barrier.

Knowing that Alicia is the Herrscher of Origin and the first and last hope of mankind, Zhu Yufeng must ensure Alicia's safety. Therefore, he terminated the second plan and led the Fallen Angel Squad to join the battlefield as quickly as possible.

The final result was that the entire fallen angel team was wiped out except for him.

Before rushing to the battlefield, he explained to everyone that entering the Divine Grace Barrier would lead to death, but... no one retreated.

To start over again, the Ruler of Constraint is always a hurdle he must overcome, and he cannot change the tragedy of constraint without sacrificing the lives of civilians.

"This time... I must control Alicia first." Zhu Yufeng thought, "Sorry, Alicia, only this time, only this time I must do this. Sorry..."

On the other side, Alicia and Mebius were still discussing future arrangements.

"Alicia, since you have special feelings for Yu Feng, are you ready to face his true other side?" Mobius said, staring at Alicia.

Alicia sat up straighter. She had actually noticed something in her previous life, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't find any clues. She said, "Mobius, are you trying to tell me the truth about the purge of the resistance?"

Mebius looked at Alicia with some surprise, and after a while he said, "After all, you are Alicia, it is impossible for you not to notice anything. Let me put it bluntly, Yu Feng, he slaughtered all the surrendered resistance soldiers and their families on the spot."

Alicia's pupils shrank.

The Rebel Purge took place during and after the Tenth Herrscher Incident. At the time, Fire Moth had to face not only Honkai, but also the Fire Moth's rebels. Due to poor early work, the rebels always believed that Fire Moth was colluding with the Herrscher of Honkai and deprived humans of their freedom, which caused a lot of trouble for Fire Moth, especially during the Tenth Herrscher Incident, when they were used as a target by the Tenth Herrscher.

After the Ninth Herrscher incident, the Fire Moth officially put the suppression of the rebels on the agenda, and eventually Zhu Yufeng led the Fallen Angel Squad to Africa, the rebels' base, to suppress them.

The final result announced to the public was that multiple end-stage Honkai beasts were born in Africa, and the lurking individual of the Tenth Herrscher launched a final counterattack by firing a Honkai energy fission bomb, which completely wiped out the resistance forces in Africa.

But...that's not the case.

"It took Yu Feng several months from the beginning to the end of the suppression." Mobius took a sip of coffee. "This is ridiculous enough. Who are the fallen angels led by Yu Feng? A bunch of lunatics who have played around with artificial collapse. How could it take so long to suppress a rebel army that doesn't even have fusion fighters?"

Alicia was silent.

"The suppression ended not long after it started." Mebius said calmly, "Yu Feng activated the zeroth rated power of the Black Abyss White Flower, and at the cost of his own vitality, destroyed the entire Sahara region and 80% of the rebels. Most of the remaining rebels chose to surrender after that, but after confiscating all the rebels' supplies, they were killed by Beelzebub and Esmodesse who received Yu Feng's instructions."

"In all of Africa, hundreds of millions of people died."

Mobius coldly told the cruel truth that Alicia had never known in her previous life.

There was a long silence in the cabin.

It had been so long that Mebius began to think that if Alicia's feelings for Zhu Yufeng were limited to this, then there was nothing to be afraid of.

Just as she was thinking this, Alicia spoke up: "I... didn't know the truth of the matter was like this. I believe everything you said is true, Mebius, but I also believe that Feng would never carry out meaningless killings. The Fire Moth Council agreed to this matter from the beginning, right?"

That's more or less.

Mobius thought, and then said another fact that she hadn't mentioned before: "That's right, Yu Feng asked the parliament how to deal with the rebels, and the parliament's answer was to deal with it on their own. Ha... Those old immortals are afraid of being branded as slaughtering their own kind, so they deal with it on their own... The Fire Moths don't even have a plan to absorb the rebels, so they let Yu Feng deal with it on his own..."

Alicia looked down at the floor and asked softly, "Mei, she knows too, right?"

"Of course she knew. She even voted in favor of the resolution to let Yufeng deal with the rebels on her own. It's ridiculous that she acquiesced to the treatment of the rebels, but when the tragedy came, she was unwilling to let civilians sacrifice." Mobius answered nonchalantly, "But since she didn't tell you, maybe Yufeng had informed her."

"Then how did you know this, Mebius?" Alicia raised her head and asked another question that concerned her.

"Lilith told me," Mobius replied, "Yufeng took on all the sins by himself. She was afraid that Yufeng would have some psychological problems because of this. At that time, I observed Yufeng for a long time and didn't feel that there was anything different about him. But now it seems... I'm afraid he has had mental problems for a long time."

"Yes, this is Feng. He refuses to say anything and keeps everything to himself. He bears all the sins that do not belong to him." Alicia said softly.

She and Mobius both knew that during the Tenth Herrscher incident, the human race's material reserves could only barely sustain themselves. Although the resistance army also had supplies, judging from the seized supplies that Yu Feng brought back from the Fire Moth afterwards, the resistance army's supplies had long been stretched to the limit. If they accepted a large number of resistance personnel at this time...

Judging from the results, the choice Zhu Yufeng made at that time was undoubtedly wise. At least in the end, humans had not yet panicked or rioted due to famine.

But, emotionally, he is an inhuman executioner.

"I'm afraid it was the handling of this incident and the impact of the Ninth Herrscher incident that allowed him to unlock the final taboo." Mobius said. She was obviously referring to the subsequent tragedy of the restraint, in which Zhu Yufeng agreed to and even tried to bypass the instructions of the top leaders and forcibly implement Wei Wei's second plan. He had done this for the first time, so would he care about the second time?

Leave light and hope to others, and bear darkness and sin on yourself.

After a long time, Alicia stood up, and Mebius frowned and asked, "Alica, what are you going to do?"

"Thank you for telling me all this, Mebius." Alicia turned her back to Mebius so that he couldn't see her expression. "Thank you for helping me make up my mind."

Mebius raised an eyebrow.

"I will confess to him and accept everything about him, just like I told you at the beginning. We can start over together, fight again together, and strive for a better future together." Alicia said, "Because I have realized that I love him, and it will not change because of what he has done or said. I love him not because he is a hero who bears all the sins alone, but because he is who he is."

Alicia smiled bitterly, and then said softly: "It seems... I have become a little stubborn."

After Alicia left, Mebius sat alone like a stone statue. After a long while, he said self-deprecatingly, "Haha... you are really worthy of me, Alicia. But even so... I won't let go easily. After all, snakes won't give up their prey easily. What they are best at is waiting."

Alicia was walking on the road leading to the cabin where Zhu Yufeng was. She thought a lot. She once thought that when Zhu Yufeng revealed a side of him that she had never known, she would distance herself from him or feel sympathy and regret for him. But after Mobius told her everything, she realized that she still loved him, not out of sympathy, but out of love.

She wanted to bear the burdens with him, experience them with him, and then change the existing future to a better direction.

Maybe their end will not change at all, but they can decide the process to reach the end.

The hatch opened, and in front of Zhu Yufeng's puzzled look, she greeted him as before: "Hi~ Hello, I'm the second of the Fire Chasing Heroes, Alicia. Now, let's officially get to know each other again, Feng."

Chapter 5: Long Talk and Reminiscence

"...Now, let's officially get to know each other again, Feng."

Zhu Yufeng looked at Alisha in surprise. He didn't know why Alisha would choose to come over and confess to him, but... since she had already confessed, there was no need for him to hide anything.

"The third of the Fire Chasing Heroes, Zhu Yufeng of the Inscription of Divine Shadow." Zhu Yufeng said, "Long time no see, Alysia... Can I take it as such?"

"We really haven't seen each other for a long time." Alicia's voice suddenly became cheerful. "So... how do you feel about our first official meeting after our rebirth?"

Zhu Yufeng smiled: "Just like when we first met."

Alicia also laughed: "I'm so happy. When you introduced yourself, you used the seal I came up with, acknowledging your identity as a hero... I thought..."

"I have always been proud to be a hero." Zhu Yufeng said calmly, "I have always been proud to fight side by side with you."

Alicia was a little surprised. She looked into Zhu Yufeng's eyes and knew that he was not pretending at all. His answer came from his heart, but...if this was the case...

"Feng, can you answer me a question?" Alicia said in a low voice.

Zhu Yufeng hesitated. What did Alicia discover? Did she want to ask about the truth of the purge of the resistance army, or the truth of the 12th Herrscher incident? He couldn't answer these two questions because he didn't want Alicia to see his dirty side, but... he didn't want to lie to Alicia even more.

"Ask me, I... will tell you everything I know." He said. He had already decided that it didn't matter if he was beaten up by Alicia later.

Alicia took a deep breath and asked very seriously: "I want to know, at that last banquet, I clearly gave you an invitation, why... didn't you come?"

Zhu Yufeng almost couldn't hold it in. He thought she was going to ask something, but was this what Alicia cared about?

"I asked Kevin to answer this question when I returned the invitation to you. Kevin should have told you as well." Zhu Yufeng said, "The people present came because they believed in Alicia, and the people who left refused to attack because they believed in Alicia."

Alicia lowered her eyes slightly. This was not the answer she wanted to know.

Zhu Yufeng saw Alicia's expression and had a bad feeling in his heart. He asked tentatively: "Could it be... do you really want me to go over there?"

After he finished speaking, he felt that he had asked a nonsense question. The first question asked by Alicia was very telling. She really wanted him to come to the appointment, so she sent out the invitation.

So he immediately tried to save the situation: "I'm sorry, I don't understand romance. This is not the answer you want, right? The most important reason why I didn't go should be..."

He paused, then recalled the situation and said: "At that time, I felt that you didn't trust me."

"I..." Alicia opened her mouth, but didn't know how to answer. Zhu Yufeng's answer caught her off guard.

Zhu Yufeng continued as if he had opened a conversation box: "After receiving the invitation, I went to confirm with other heroes, but none of them received it. Your original purpose of becoming a Herrscher should be to unite the rest of us, right? I know that you are a girl who is afraid of loneliness, so you are afraid that you will make us angry after becoming a Herrscher, and the relationship between you and us will become alienated. But you are wrong. We have always believed in Alicia. In my eyes, the story of the Fourteen Heroes is a story that exists because of you. You did not send invitations to other people because you were also afraid of being hated and wanted to leave the choice to them. But you only sent me an invitation, and in it, as a Herrscher, asked me to attack you... Alicia, do you know how heartbroken I was at that time? I was thinking, I have done so much for mankind and fought for so long, but you think I will attack you because you are a Herrscher..."

Zhu Yufeng was telling the truth. He had originally planned to attend the final banquet. He wanted to witness the end of Alicia, the end of the most beautiful, glorious and flawless person of this era... However, when he received the invitation, the words on it pierced his heart like a sharp arrow.

"I am not trusted by her." He thought so sadly at that time.

After calming down a bit, Zhu Yufeng continued, "Of course, this is only the main reason. There are also some other external factors, such as the [God Ascension Plan] has reached its final stage..."

Alicia interrupted what he was about to say. She lowered her head, making it hard to see her expression. Her voice was trembling: "Then why... after the tragedy of the restraint, you refused to see me? No matter how I tried, you refused to see me... I finally got to see you once, but you were lying on the operating table, dying, and I could only stand outside and watch you, unable to do anything... I always thought that you hated me because of Lilith's matter!"

By the end of her speech, Alicia's voice had a hint of tears in it, and Zhu Yufeng felt as if someone had hit him hard on the chest with a hammer. Is this what she thought?

There was indeed a reason why he didn't see Alicia because of Lilith, but it was definitely not because he hated Alicia, but... he didn't know how he should face Alicia.

In his previous life, Lilith was the only girl who confessed to him. She stayed by his side even when he rejected her. She trusted him unconditionally until the end, but he had no way to protect her. His guilt towards Lilith and other inexplicable emotions made him unable to let go of her passing. Before she died, Lilith once said that she envied Alicia for making him so infatuated. It was this sentence that became the biggest barrier between him and Alicia.

Plus... that was the first time he showed his dark side in front of Alicia, but he had to do it because he wanted to protect his teammates.

He must be very ugly in Alicia's eyes.

Even so, when he knew that he had been granted the [Divine Shadow] Inscription by Alicia and became a Hero... he was really happy...

In a word, he felt that Alicia would definitely not like him like this, and because of Lilith, he felt that he seemed to have really fallen in love with Lilith. He didn't know how to face Alicia, so he chose to be a coward and avoid the problem, and simply disappeared to put an end to it.

"I... never hated you..." Zhu Yufeng said bitterly, he didn't know that Alicia would have such an idea, he had always viewed her as a character in the game. At first, it should have been his self-consolation after the failure of his confession, and then it evolved into self-hypnosis, hypnotizing himself that Alicia would not fall in love with any single individual, so as to avoid the problems he should face.

Both men fell silent.

After a long while, Alicia, who had calmed down, spoke: "When you first confessed to me, I was very surprised, because you were the first boy to confess to me. I chose to reject you because I felt that I didn't know you well enough... I thought the time was long enough for me to get to know you and give you a serious reply. However, you left my team soon after that, and our communication became less and less. But I have been watching you, watching you become a hero step by step..." What she received was the boy's pure love, and she didn't want to let him down, so she wanted to understand him carefully and give him a serious reply.

I am not a hero, Zhu Yufeng thought.

"Then, I saw Lilith's confession to you. She was so beautiful at that time..." Alicia continued softly, "I don't know why, but I didn't want to see what happened next, so I ran away from there."

Zhu Yufeng also remembered the situation at that time. Lilith asked him out and said that she had something important to tell him. He saw Lilith dressed up in the moonlight. She confessed to him, and he chose to refuse after thinking for a long time.

He watched the expectation in the girl's eyes turn into loneliness, but she still smiled and told him that she would never give up and she would definitely surpass Alicia.

He said: "You don't need to surpass her, you are you, unique... I rejected you not because of loving Lishia, but... I... am not ready for this, I don't think I have the ability to respond to your feelings."

He actually... doesn't know how to fall in love...

When I confessed to Alicia, it was because I was stimulated by Kevin. It was a stupid thing I did in a fit of anger.

Come to think of it... Was Alicia there at that time?!

In fact, it wasn't just Alicia who was present at the time, because Lilith's gorgeous attire attracted a lot of attention before she arrived, and then most of them dispersed when they saw that the person she was looking for was Zhu Yufeng - after all, one of the boring topics within the Fire Moth at the time was the relationship between Zhu Yufeng and Lilith.

Zhu Yufeng already understood what Alicia wanted to say, but now he could no longer simply like Alicia... He...