Honkai Impact 3: Saving the former civilization by rubbing the black technology

If she hadn't come, facing Aponia and Mobius, the Eighth Herrscher would probably not hesitate and would directly choose to escape. In that case, she would still have a chance of escape.

But if he, the culprit who had pushed her into a desperate situation, was standing in front of her, Ai Yue was sure that this guy would immediately choose him as the target of possession.

In that case, with Aponia and himself working together, even if the Eighth Herrscher struggled to his death, he would be nothing more than a piece of meat on the chopping board.

But the dream created by the other party was beyond Ai Yue's expectations. He thought that the other party would use more lethal means, so that the trump cards he prepared in advance could come in handy. However, he did not expect that the Eighth Herrscher had only prepared a beautiful dream for him.

By the way, the Eighth Herrscher never used any lethal attack methods from beginning to end, which makes people wonder if he just learned half of the Herrscher's methods and couldn't help but run out to harm others.

"Whatever. You've won now anyway." The Eighth Herrscher's face was filled with despair. "The victor takes all, and whatever the winner says is right."

Halfway through his words, the other party suddenly raised his head and stared at Ai Yue: "But I'm still very curious, what on earth are you?"

"What do you mean?" Ai Yue frowned. "Is there something wrong with your brain? Can't you see that I'm a human?"

"Impossible! Where in the world does a human like you exist?" The Eighth Herrscher shook his head in denial. "During my invasion of the Fire Moth, I found most of the information regarding humans' struggles against the Herrschers. Aside from one unexpected victory, all the other wars ended in human victory, but none of the methods they used were similar to yours."

Wars between humans and Herrschers often involve targeted tactics or means based on the Herrschers' powers. As a result, humans' counterattacks are always slower than the Herrschers' offensives, and they can only launch effective counterattacks after the Herrschers have caused large-scale disasters.

But Ai Yue was completely different. He almost blocked every path that the Herrscher planned, and then pressed her head and beat her up.

Halfway through the spider web dream, this person rushed out and found the dream's weaving node; the Eighth Herrscher used mental lock to locate the Fire Moth, but discovered that it was a trap set by the enemy, waiting for her to fall into the trap and reveal her position; she laid out a dragnet for the final battle, but this person before her was able to imitate the Herrscher's methods, crossing space and ignoring the sea of ​​Houkai Beasts to come to her directly...

If the war between humans and Herrschers is like the counter-attack between chess players, then the war between Ai Yue and the Eighth Herrscher is like the prediction of a charlatan beating up ordinary people.

How dare such a being call himself a human? Where the hell is there a human like you!

"In short, I can give you one last chance." Ai Yue ignored the other party's questions and forcefully changed the subject. "Submit to me and offer your Herrscher core. In this way, I may be able to preserve your consciousness. Even without a body, there is still a chance to exist in another form."

"And then? I'll become a tool in your hands, used against future Herrschers, right?" The Eighth Herrscher sneered. "Don't be ridiculous. You certainly won this time, but I won't be the last Herrscher. One day, you'll go to hell to accompany me!"

After saying this, the figure of the Eighth Herrscher disappeared in front of Ai Yue's eyes along with the collapse of the entire pure white space.

Perhaps in order to maintain the dignity of the Herrscher, she chose to destroy her own consciousness and retained her last bit of dignity by committing suicide.

The world in front of him quickly turned back into that dim room. The difference in light and darkness made Ai Yue squint his eyes. He felt a little weak and couldn't help but take a step back, then he bumped into a soft body.

"Are you okay?" Aponiya hugged Ai Yue from behind and asked softly in his ear, "The consciousness of the Eighth Herrscher can no longer be detected, is that possible?"

"Yeah." Ai Yue nodded and looked around.

With the help of his powerful mental strength, he could see that the room was surrounded by something that looked like half a chain, emitting a faint glow. It was the cage set by Aponia.

In such a cage, the remaining consciousness of the Eighth Herrscher has no chance of escaping.

"Rose?"

"I'm here."

"Send a message to all Fire Moths." Ai Yue breathed a sigh of relief, feeling as if a heavy stone had finally fallen from his heart. "The Eighth Herrscher is confirmed dead. This time, we have won the war again."

Chapter 66: The lawless outlaw Ai Yue makes his grand appearance

Prometheus was so efficient that he spread the news throughout the Fire Moth in just a moment.

It was only because of the Eighth Herrscher's invasion of the Fire Moth headquarters that the entire headquarters was still paralyzed. Although some people would soon wake up from their dissipated dreams, it would obviously take some time for the entire headquarters to be fully operational.

However, in addition to the Fire Moth headquarters, it was obvious that other people also received the message.

"The Herrscher is dead?" Alicia was stunned when she heard the news, and even the arrow in her hand was deflected and flew past the target's head.

Fortunately, the sea of Honkai beasts in front of them was very dense, so other unlucky people were also affected.

"What should we do now?" Sakura frowned, appearing beside Kevin and killing a Houkai beast that attacked from behind. "Evacuate? There seems to be no reason to move forward."

"No, quite the opposite. We need to go take a look." Hen took over the conversation. After all, he was one of the most experienced veterans of the Fire Moth Chaser, and his reaction was quick. "Even if this is true, we must see the Eighth Herrscher's body with our own eyes."

"The message came from Prometheus, suggesting this might have been done by Dr. Ai Yue and his team." Kevin shared the same opinion. "Although we don't know exactly how they found the Eighth Herrscher or how they killed her, we all have to go and provide support. Without their leader, the Honkai beasts will quickly go berserk, and the situation will become even more chaotic. Don't hold back! Sprint with all your might!"

In order to conserve enough energy to face the Herrscher, the Fusion Warriors have been controlling their fighting style, trying to clear the way with the least loss possible. But if they really weren't needed to deal with the Herrscher, then things would become simple.

"No problem!" The first person to respond was Alicia. She drew her longbow, and a pink crystal arrow filled with vast energy gradually appeared in her hand. As the girl released the bowstring, the entire arrow turned into a huge torrent of light and blasted forward, instantly opening up a path in the dense sea of collapsed beasts.

"The Eighth Herrscher is dead?"

Just as Kevin and the others were struggling to move forward, Mei slowly woke up in the conference room. Now she was the only one left in the room. After seeing the message on her phone, the girl couldn't help but show a look of astonishment: "What happened?"

"The process was rather complicated, but the Eighth Herrscher is indeed dead." Prometheus sent a photo showing the remains of a young girl. "Also, Dr. Ai Yue said that you might need to attend to another matter more urgently."

"What's going on?" Dr. Mei frowned. Judging from Prometheus's hesitant attitude, it seemed to be a rather troublesome matter. "Finishing work? I'll arrange it right away."

"No, I can take care of the finishing work," Prometheus said, "but you still need to deal with the important people above, Dr. Mei - these are Dr. Ai Yue's exact words."

"Dealing with the big shots up there?" Dr. Mei was stunned for a moment, then realized, "Wait, what on earth did Ai Yue do?"

Dr. Mei finally realized why she had always felt that something was very wrong - because from the beginning until now, she had not received any form of orders from above!

This was simply impossible in the past. Even if they chose to let the Fire Moths make the decision on their own at the beginning, once the Herrscher's situation was confirmed, the decision-making power would be quickly taken away.

Although everything was completed very quickly this time, with the entire process taking less than 48 hours, there was no single order, and it was completely inconsistent with the group's style of doing things.

Even though Prometheus has blocked the connection between the Fire Moth's internal network and the external network, there are still plenty of ways for those people to contact the Fire Moth.

In response to Dr. Mei's question, Prometheus chose to respond with silence.

What did you do? Everything.

Dr. Mei felt a black screen before his eyes.

Ai Yue has always given people a very strange feeling.

On the one hand, he is very clear about his abilities and often creates incredible projects, constantly refreshing the evaluation of him by Dr. Mei and others. It can be said that there may be geniuses like Mebius, Velvet, and even Mei in the entire human race, but there will definitely not be another person like Ai Yue.

On the other hand, compared with his talent, this person's temper and personality are good to the other extreme, even seeming a little cowardly. Whether he is getting along with other people in daily life or facing the deliberate difficulties of the Fire Moth's top management, he will take the initiative to give in, giving people the feeling that he has a very high moral bottom line.

Only when he was with Mebius and the others would Ai Yue occasionally reveal his unruly side.

But in fact, from Dr. Mei and others, we can see that intelligence beyond human beings and extremely high moral bottom line are actually contradictory to some extent. After all, when many scientific and technological achievements were born, they almost violated the secular rules of the time. If there was no courage to confront authority and secularity, many technologies might not have appeared.

Dr. Mei sometimes wondered where Ai Yue's courage came from, and now she finally knew.

"Ai Yue blocked the communication between the top management and the Fire Moth?" Dr. Mei took off his glasses.

"Yes."

"It goes without saying that Vervi's transformation of the Deep Place and Aponya's departure were all decisions he made on his own?" Dr. Mei began to rub his brows.

"Yes."

"Besides that, what else did he do?" After realizing that the problem seemed a bit outrageous, Dr. Mei laughed and said, "Don't hide it. Tell me everything."

"He had me hack into the shelters of several high-ranking officials and imprison them, preventing them from sending any information. He also tampered with the wartime orders of many countries, placing most armies on alert..."

Prometheus began to confess everything Ai Yue had done, each of which horrified Dr. Mei.

Then I felt weak.

This was no longer something she could solve - even at this moment, even Dr. Mei felt fear of Ai Yue.

"What does Ai Yue want me to do?" Dr. Mei leaned back in his chair after Prometheus finished his report. "Or rather, at this point, what else does he think I can do?"

If Ai Yue were tried according to human law, he would be sentenced to a punishment known as "shooting for one hour."

At this point, unless the next Herrscher comes tomorrow, Ai Yue will probably have to spend the rest of his life in prison before then.

Not only that, even Prometheus might not be spared. In the worst case, he might even be abandoned directly.

"You just need to delay." Prometheus gave a surprising answer to Dr. Mei, "Delay until Dr. Ai Yue returns."

Huh? He dares to come back?

Chapter 67 How many good things are you hiding from me?

In Dr. Mei's initial conception, Ai Yue's best option at the moment is to directly defect from the Fire Moth and rely on Prometheus's powerful ability to establish his own power. With his ability, as long as he does not deliberately stir up disasters, under the premise of fighting against the collapse, this matter will probably end with the result of "recruitment".

Although it is ironic, this is indeed the reality - only when a person shows great harm will he be truly taken seriously and receive treatment that matches him.

But if Ai Yue really chooses to return to the Fire Moth, then...

"Don't worry, Dr. Ai Yue has taken all of this into consideration." Prometheus seemed to understand Dr. Mei's concerns and continued, "Furthermore, you don't need to excuse Dr. Ai Yue. You can even put all the blame on him—those are Dr. Ai Yue's exact words."

"What on earth does he want to do?" Dr. Mei was stunned for a moment, then revealed a somewhat annoyed expression, "Won't this only make things worse? And he wants me to throw dirty water on Ai Yue, I can't do it."

Even if we put aside Ai Yue's contribution to defeating the Herrscher, he was also a person who owed a favor to Dr. Mei. Just because he was able to solve Kevin's extremely low body temperature, she could not allow herself to be the one who took advantage of the situation.

She didn't know why Ai Yue said such words, but she always felt that she was looked down upon.

"Don't worry, Dr. Mei," Prometheus continued. "You could even say that if there's any way to solve this problem once and for all, then this is the only way. Just do it."

After saying this, Prometheus ended the communication.

Once and for all?

Dr. Mei looked at the phone screen after it went out and couldn't help but look thoughtful.

She vaguely realized that what Ai Yue had done before was nothing compared to what he was about to do next.

While things were in chaos outside due to various reasons, Ai Yue's side seemed very harmonious.

When Mebius opened his eyes, his gaze fell on her.

Ai Yue sat against the wall and threw the white coat in his hand to Mebius, who was naked because he had just been resurrected.

"Awake?" Ai Yue pointed at the remains of the Eighth Herrscher beside him. "While no one's watching you, why don't you add some more inventory?"

What he was talking about was naturally the Herrscher gene sample that Mobius had kept privately.

"How can you be so patient?" Mobius put on his white coat and looked at Ai Yue with a strange look in his eyes. "I thought when I opened my eyes, I would see you lying on the Herrscher's body and refusing to get down."

She felt a little guilty when she said this - because she was like that at the beginning.

"Am I some kind of pervert?" Ai Yue responded subtly, "Of course, it's mainly because I've already collected everything I wanted to. Otherwise, it might be exactly what you imagined."

"So fast?" Mobius was stunned for a moment. "Wait, I've been curious before. You don't seem to have any storage space on you, so how do you always pull out all kinds of things?"

After Ai Yue took off his white coat, he was wearing a very simple pair of long-sleeved trousers underneath. There weren't even many pockets in it, so how could he put anything in it?

She didn't even see the "Pikachu" that scared her. Where does this guy usually hide it?

Mebius's eyes scanned Ai Yue repeatedly, finally focusing on the opponent's belt.

If there's anything suspicious, it's this delicate-looking belt buckle.

This guy has no taste in clothes at all. How could he buy himself such a nice belt?

"Oh, I was finally discovered?" Ai Yue smiled slightly, with no intention of hiding it. "It's a little later than I thought."

Ai Yue casually waved his hand in front of the belt buckle, and a familiar golden light flashed. In an instant, a gun appeared in his hand, and it was Pikachu.

"This is it!" Mobius immediately pounced on him, grabbing his belt buckle and examining it carefully. "A space-expanding storage item? When the hell did you come up with that?"

"It hasn't been around long, and it's only the first generation product. It has many shortcomings and can't be mass-produced." Ai Yue put his hand on the other person's head, trying to push her away. "Don't try. This thing is controlled by mental waves. You can't use it."

Mental wave frequency is a theory proposed after the emergence of mentally perceptive fusion warriors. It is that a certain unique mental fluctuation can be regarded as a mental "pulse". Since everyone's mental wave frequency is different, it can also be used in the identification system, which is safer than other biometric technologies.

But this thing is currently only Ai Yue’s patent, and others can’t even understand what mental wave frequency is.

"I've cleared out the Honkai beasts around the building, and they're ready to go out at any time..." At this moment, Aponia floated over and frowned at the two people's strange postures. "What are you doing?"

"Just researching the equipment, nothing special." Mobius immediately stood up and turned to look at the Eighth Herrscher. "Well, I'll study the Herrscher some more. Give me five minutes."

When she came, she did not forget to bring a small toolbox. Although all her clothes were blown away, the toolbox was still lying safely in the corner.

"Kevin and the others are approaching, let's wait a while." Ai Yue remained seated without moving, simply patting the ground beside him. "You've worked hard, why not take a break?"

"No..." Aponya shook her head subconsciously, but immediately reacted. She glanced at Mebius and then walked towards Ai Yue. "Well, I am indeed a little tired."

The nun sat next to Ai Yue, resting her head on his shoulder, and couldn't help but smile.

Ai Yue didn't say anything, because he had closed his eyes at this moment, as if he was asleep.

The continuous high-intensity mental consumption made him a little unable to hold on. If the effect of "Aponia's Embrace" had not continued, Ai Yue would probably have fainted at this moment.

About fifteen minutes later, the Fusion Warrior team finally arrived at the building, and on the roof of the building, a plane from the Fire Moth was waiting for them.

"This is actually true..." Kevin couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the Herrscher's body placed in a special preservation device. "But, how on earth did you do it?"

Since joining the Fire Moth, Kevin has hardly missed any battle against the Herrscher, but he never expected that one day he would become a supporting role.

Of course, he didn't care about it, he just wanted to know how Ai Yue and others did it.

"Don't worry about the details for now." Ai Yue sat between Aponia and Mobius. "Before we return to the Fire Moth, I have something to tell you."