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

"I have kept the gifts you gave me over the years well." Zhu Yufeng said, "I can feel the care you put into preparing each gift. It's great to meet you in this world."

"Eh?!"

"That's it, I'm leaving first."

"Wait!" Alicia shouted, "Feng, why are you..."

"..."

"I know about Lilith..."

"Don't worry, I never hated you for this, because you are Ai Lishia, a flawless person who embraces the world, so it's reasonable for you to make such a choice."

"That……"

"I came with nothing, and I should leave with nothing."

Alicia's pupils shrank, and she quickly realized what Zhu Yufeng meant. She cried out in a low voice: "No, you can't die!"

Zhu Yufeng turned his head and said without emotion: "The opponent is the end, an enemy more terrifying than restraint. Who can guarantee that they can retreat unscathed?"

Alicia's body froze, and then she smiled reluctantly: "How could that be? You... are the strongest fusion warrior..."

"This time, let me go before you." Zhu Yufeng did not stop, he still had to return the gifts to other people.

Alicia held the box containing the gift and looked at the young man's back as he walked away.

She looked down at the box. Mei had disagreed with her plan when she discussed it with her before. Now, even her belief in carrying out this plan alone was shaken.

She wanted to fight alongside him again.

Regardless of the future of mankind or the fate of all living beings, she wants to walk side by side with him again.

But...she has no way of ignoring the future of future generations of mankind. This is something only she can do.

There is still some time before the end that Mei and the others expect, and perhaps she can figure it out during this time.

the other side.

Kevin silently took the box from Zhu Yufeng, and when Zhu Yufeng turned to leave, he suddenly said, "Can you come back alive?"

Zhu Yufeng was stunned, turned around and looked at Kevin. After a moment of silence, he said, "Wait for me to come back, and we will go back to yesterday."

"It's a word."

“…It’s a deal.”

a week later.

"Look, the surface of the moon..." said a researcher, pointing to the red moon outside the window.

Someone immediately activated the Honkai energy monitoring system and said in a lost voice: "Honkai energy is gathering in large quantities on the surface of the moon, but this is completely inconsistent with the analysis of Dr. Mei and the others!"

When she discovered that something was wrong with the moon, Alicia already had a bad feeling. She wanted to find someone to discuss it with, but she couldn't find Zhu Yufeng anywhere. She could only come to Mei's studio and saw Mei staring at the moon. There was no surprise or panic on Mei's expression.

Suddenly, Alicia understood everything.

She said in a trembling voice: "Mei, is this... your plan with him?"

"Yes." Mei admitted straightforwardly.

"You hid it from everyone, just to let him go to the moon alone at this moment? Let him face the end alone?"

"Yes."

"Even if he is the strongest fusion warrior, he can't fight the End alone!"

"He will become another Herrscher of the End."

"……What?"

"He will use himself as a carrier to share the Houkai energy needed for the birth of the end, and become the new Herrscher."

"But……"

“It’s something only he can do.”

Alicia took a few steps back, and the words Zhu Yufeng said at that time echoed in her mind: "This time, let me be one step ahead of you."

Because I know she will definitely not agree, so...

But why...

"I never thought that he, Dr. Mobius, and Velvet could actually find a way to make Honkai energy gather ahead of time." Mei looked up at the sky and said, "It's even much earlier than expected."

Mebius and Velvet knew too?

"If I use the Second God's Key, I'll still have time..." Alicia whispered to herself as she ran towards where Qianjie Yicheng was at the fastest speed.

Then, what she saw was Kevin standing next to Qianjie Yicheng holding Jiemie.

"Kevin, are you also..."

"This is his realization." Kevin said calmly.

why?

Why did Kevin know that too?

May, Mebius, Velvet, even Kevin...

Why...she doesn't know?

After a while, Mei announced the plan to the other Yingjies and asked them to stand by the Second God's Key. Once Zhu Yufeng failed, they would serve as the second echelon.

Velvet is already on the moon piloting the Moonlight Throne.

Sakura wanted to use the time-freezing knife again, but this time Kevin easily stopped her. Kevin said, "I won't be careless if you use the same trick a second time."

Qianjie wanted to go berserk and fight with Kevin, but Kevin directly placed Jiemie on Qianjie Yicheng, as if to say, "If you dare to come, I will destroy Qianjie Yicheng."

They could only stay on the ground, waiting anxiously for news from the moon.

After a burst of intense light, Wei Wei sent back a message: "The battle is over, we have won."

Kevin was about to activate the Thousand Worlds Vehicle when he saw this, but before he could do so, Alicia had already surpassed him and activated the Thousand Worlds Vehicle.

The remains of the moon are in ruins.

The silver-haired young man leaned against a stone wall.

His body was slowly disappearing from the bottom up.

Alicia came to him and helped him up. He raised his head and his dilated pupils proved that he had almost lost all his vision.

"Feng..." Alicia called.

He seemed to hear it and squinted his eyes, trying to see the person in front of him clearly. After a while, he seemed to finally see clearly. His lips moved slightly, then he closed his eyes and disappeared in Alicia's arms with a smile.

All the other heroes who came witnessed this scene and lowered their heads. Even the most unruly Qianjie turned his back.

Alicia knelt on the ground, stunned for a long time, until cold tears fell on the back of her hands, and she showed an expression that was hard to tell whether she was crying or laughing.

He did see her, but he saw her... as Lilith!

Until the end, she was not in his eyes.

……

"The End has disappeared, but the Earth is no longer suitable for the development of civilization. Even with the restoration of the Fourth God's Key, it will probably take a long time..."

"Let me do it."

"Alicia?"

"I am also a Herrscher, and there is still a large amount of Houkai energy remaining on the moon."

"Do you want to..."

"If Feng can do it, so can I."

She came to the place where he disappeared again and looked at the blue crystal ball in the universe.

She raised her hands and released all her powers. At the same time, she made a wish to Him whose existence she did not know: "If Alicia, who embraces the world, cannot embrace him, then please let me become Lilith, even if I lose my true self, even if I am no longer flawless... as long as I can... embrace him."

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"Hi~ Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Lilith. Please give me your guidance in the future~"

The silver-haired girl extended her hand to the young man and said with a smile.

Extra: Birthday Gift

“In one’s life, one will intersect with the life trajectories of countless others, or separate from them, or walk with them together… No matter how much you don’t want to admit it, those who have walked with you will always leave their traces in your behavior and thoughts in various ways.”

Outside the window, a ray of morning light poured into the room and fell on the book in the hands of the silver-haired young man. The young man closed the heavy book, clipped the bookmark at the position he saw, and then placed it on the writing desk.

He came to the window, looked at the rising sun which was not yet glaring, and said to himself: "It's a new morning again..."

No matter how dark and desperate human civilization becomes, the sun will still rise.

"Today... is Alicia's birthday." This thought suddenly popped up in my mind.

Alicia's birthday... He remembered the gift Alicia had given him before but he asked Kevin to return it. He felt that he was no longer qualified to accept gifts from Alicia.

Even if their relationship hasn't broken down, it will be hard for it to go back to the way it was before, right?

He didn't hate Alicia, because it was natural for her to do that, and if Alicia was the only one who thought so, she wouldn't be able to do it. But emotionally and logically, he couldn't face Alicia, the initiator of that incident.

So... he chose to return Alicia's gift.

Did he ever think about giving Alicia a gift to show that he didn't hate her? But Lilith was gone, and he was worried that the gift he gave Alicia would make Alicia misunderstand that he hated her. He really had no confidence in his own judgment.

And... let's go back to the original point. He didn't know how he should face Alicia.

Hate? He doesn't hate.

Relieved? He couldn't let it go.

Zhu Yufeng looked down at the soldiers passing by outside the window. Some of them had gloomy faces, and some had dull eyes.

They have lost hope of victory and spend every day like the walking dead in a daze.

"No wonder Abonya would impose discipline on them." Zhu Yufeng thought. At first, he did not understand why Abonya did this. Now, after witnessing the situation with his own eyes, he somewhat understood Abonya's helplessness.

"At least we should live with hope. Life without hope is painful and meaningless."

He remembered a sentence he had seen in a famous book in this world. He felt that this sentence was very appropriate in this situation. By the way, which book did he read it in?

An answer quickly popped into my mind:

The End of Time

Speaking of which, my brain has been acting a little strange lately. How should I put it? It's not that there are any negative effects, but that I've become smarter? The speed at which my brain processes information has become abnormally fast. Sometimes Zhu Yufeng even wonders if he has evolved a second brain or something. He can actually do two things at the same time.

"Is it because of the Chimera Project... Because I want to become a god, I will gradually stop being a human both physically and mentally?" Zhu Yufeng said to himself, "Forget it, there's no point in thinking about this. After all, the ultimate goal of everything is to defeat Honkai. As for the process, it doesn't matter."

Zhu Yufeng shifted his gaze to his room again. After using Vishnu's characteristics to devour other fallen angels, the side effects of the super transformation surgery could no longer be suppressed by Mobius's medicine alone. Mobius promised him that he would definitely develop new drugs.

He said, "No need. This level of pain is still within my tolerance. There is no need to waste time on it. The time left for humans is running out."

At that moment, Mebius's eyes became a little strange. It was the first time that he saw something else in the eyes of this mad scientist doctor.

"Whatever you want." Mebius said and went to do the next experiment.

This kind of pain is actually not that bad, as it allows him to clearly know that he is still alive. Except for making him unable to sleep, everything else is fine.

Anyway, given his inhuman physical fitness, he no longer needs to worry about any physical illness caused by lack of sleep. The only thing he needs to worry about is mental fatigue.

So in the past few months he found another way to relax his mind, which is reading. Immersing his mind in the sea of ​​books can also distract his attention from the pain. Isn't this more useful than tossing and turning in sleep?

Or he would occasionally try to empty his mind and not think about anything, and he could keep doing that for a long time.

He planned to visit the three current cities of mankind today, and finally take a look at the last rays of human civilization.

He had already planned to give up on the humans in these three cities. No, it should be said that after the tragedy of restraint, he had given up on the possibility of saving human civilization.

If we can't defeat the End, there is no point in leaving more people behind. In the original world line, Kevin risked his life and the Moonlight Throne was self-destructed at full power to gain a mere twelve hours for mankind. Even if he is added now, what good will it do?

I'll discuss this with Evil Velvet later.