Their commission was suspicious.

But as an ordinary person, Pado's hands trembled at the thought of her impending doom.

But Pado has already lost so many friends because of the Herrscher, it's time to get revenge!

"As expected of the Thirteen Heroes, you are much stronger than me." Chen Luo placed his hand on Pado's head and gently patted it.

"Haha, boss, you're joking..."

"Alright, no need to be modest. By the way, Pado, do you have any other wishes? If possible, I'll try my best to help you fulfill them," Chen Luo asked.

"Sigh, a wish? If I had to say a wish... could I borrow your cat toy, boss?" Pado said, glancing at a thin, black cat in a corner of the dilapidated twilight street.

Cats are creatures whose lives can be incredibly fragile at times, but also incredibly resilient at others.

Although there are no survivors left outside the base, some small lives still exist.

Whether it's fortunate or unfortunate, Twilight Street is not among the three last major cities of mankind, which means that there are no survivors left in Twilight Street, but also that it was not bombed by nuclear weapons.

However, the end of these little lives will also come.

The Herrscher of the End's all-encompassing attack will bring about the annihilation of all living things on the earth.

"Sure. I have some cat food and cat treats here." Chen Luo took out a cat toy and handed it to Pado, along with some canned pet food.

These canned foods were originally intended for Chen Luo to feed his pets, but Chen Luo's pets were all quite strange, so they were completely useless.

Pado, who had been staring intently at the cat toy, only escaped the terrible influence of this cat-related treasure after acquiring it.

Then he picked up the pet food Chen Luo handed him, gently shook the cat toy in his hand, and looked at the kitten expectantly.

Pado doesn't know who her parents are. She has lived with cats since she was a child, learning to find food from them, how to make noise with her footsteps, and sleeping with them.

However, after Paddo became a fusion warrior, she was no longer loved by cats, creatures with overly sensitive senses.

Tempted by the aroma of the cat toy and food, the skinny cat couldn't resist its instinctive lure and slowly approached Pado. In the end, although it didn't like it, it still let Pado put its paw on its body while it was eating the canned food.

However, after the black cat finished its cat food and Pado stopped using the cat toy, the cat suddenly darted away like a cat on fire and hid behind a rock.

"All right?"

"Okay, all done." After returning the cat toy to Chen Luo, Pado opened the remaining cans of food one by one.

Cats aren't powerful enough to open a can of cat food.

Although cat food can spoil 24 hours after opening, there are less than 24 hours left until the final battle, so there's probably no need to worry about things that far in advance.

"To be pessimistic, I might not even live another 24 hours." Pado laughed self-deprecatingly before looking up at Chen Luo.

"Boss, do you have water?"

"Have."

"Wow, boss, you really have everything! You seem to be able to do anything!"

"Human strength has its limits..."

"Then why not just go and surpass that limit?" After placing the water next to the cat food can, Pado stood up.

"To push the limits...that's exactly what I mean."

"Then good luck! If even I can muster the courage to face the final battle, then you, the boss who's much stronger than me, can definitely do it too!"

"Lend your auspicious words."

"Oh, right, boss, this is a gift for you. The cake was delicious, thank you." Pado took out a silver coin from her pouch and handed it to Chen Luo.

"This is?"

This is a slightly deformed silver coin with a cat's paw print on it, and the dents on it appear to be from a bullet.

"This is the silver coin that saved my life back then! It probably won't be able to help me at this camp, but maybe this coin can help you, boss! Believe in it, it will definitely bring you good luck! Finally, I wish you all your dreams come true!" Pado's face lit up with a smile once again.

[Affection Gift]: Nine Lives Difficult to Reverse!

"...Okay, I understand. Goodbye."

"Okay, goodbye."

Watching Pado depart, Chen Luo set off again. Chen Luo strolled through the river of time, and time carried Chen Luo to every corner of this civilization, but it took less than a minute.

The next moment, Chen Luo simply took a step forward, but a very long time passed.

Chen Luo stood not far away, watching the Thirteen Heroes of Chasing Fire step onto the star gate together. As the energy supply was completed, after a flash of light, the figures of Kevin, Eden, Wilvi, Qianjie, Kosmo, Mebius, Hua, and Pado disappeared into the base.

A stargate is a means of interstellar teleportation. Currently, apart from the base, only one stargate has been deployed on the moon.

It's not that I don't want to decorate more, it's that I can't.

"To excavate ancient ruins and obtain technology far surpassing modern levels—while this represents good fortune, does it also carry a sense of irony and despair? Because even civilizations more advanced than ourselves couldn't survive this calamity, so how can we expect to succeed? This is what people were thinking when they discovered ruins on the moon." Mei, who had also watched the eight heroes depart, turned to Chen Luo standing to the side and said.

"Luo, you've arrived." Su, who was responsible for staying on Earth, opened her eyes.

"Ah."

"Su, why don't you go to the monitoring room first?" Mei suddenly said.

"Hmm." Su nodded, then walked towards the operations room without asking Mei why she said that.

"I'm curious, is this ability to appear and disappear unpredictably also a power bestowed upon you by the Imaginary Stigmata?" Mei asked after Su left.

"It's just a power that allows me to travel freely." Chen Luo shook his head.

"Does this mean that Dr. Spacy's survival was also your doing?" May asked.

"Ok?"

“Because I always felt that it was very unreasonable for Dr. Spacy to survive the Eighth Herrscher incident and even live for a longer period of time. And didn’t Spacy say that a mysterious person helped him? So your journey allows you to travel back and forth between dreams and reality, right?” May asked.

“Not only that, it can also travel down the river of time… In other words, it can speed up time in your own senses, like fast-forwarding or speeding up a cartoon,” Chen Luo said.

"Oh, can we go up in time?" Mei asked as she walked with Chen Luo toward the operations room.

"The power of travel alone is not enough."

"So, your coming into this world and your leaving this world both depend on the power of travel?"

“Mei, you’re still so curious. Pretty much. By the way, you don’t seem surprised at all,” Chen Luo said.

"Because people from outer space should always have some special characteristics, but since your special characteristics are very obvious, you obviously don't need to enjoy the same treatment as Alicia." (Didn't receive.)

"A despicable outsider... right?"

"Did Wilvi tell you? Did Wilvi tell you that this nickname was given to you by Wilvi?"

"There really isn't..." The user-friendly plugin didn't remind Chen Luo, so Chen Luo really didn't know about this.

"When the meeting was initiated to discuss you, she was the most enthusiastic, and she overruled everyone's objections to give you this nickname!" Mei said with a smile.

"Sigh, so you guys are having secret meetings behind my back too, aren't you?"

“This is different. This is a meeting being held openly and legitimately after you left.” Mei shook her head.

"So how did you figure out there was a problem?" Chen Luo asked.

"Well... that's probably based on how often you like to help others and how often you don't, as well as how enthusiastic Möbius is about you."

"Huh? What kind of amazing angle of observation is this?"

"Because Chen Luo, you do often like to help people, and often you're not interested in helping people at all. And Möbius's enthusiasm for you also goes through a cyclical pattern."

"..."

Chen Luo really couldn't explain this situation.

Because what Mei was talking about was something related to time travel.

During the time jump, Chen Luo knew he couldn't complete or accept any commissions, so he simply gave up and only occasionally helped out.

Moreover, during the time jump, Mebius did indeed ignore Chen Luo.

There's nothing we can do about it.

"In short, it's obvious that you're hiding something from us. Or do you think you've covered your tracks perfectly?" Mei countered.

"No, that's not true..." Chen Luo admitted.

Because if Chen Luo really wanted to make it look flawless, he could easily do it.

It only requires a slight adjustment to everyone's mindset.

Chen Luo did not do that, and the user-friendly plugin never reminded Chen Luo of this matter, which shows that it was not important to Chen Luo.

"Don't worry, one departing friend is enough." Mei patted Chen Luo's shoulder lightly.

"...Didn't you ever suspect that I was some kind of mastermind or something?" Chen Luo asked.

Do you want to hear the truth or something nice?

"You mean telling the truth isn't a good thing?"

"The truth is, you're simply not cut out for it. You're not cut out to be the mastermind behind everything. Just like everyone thinks Alicia is mysterious, but at the Thirteen Herrschers Extermination Conference, those who went believed Alicia was fine, and those who didn't go believed Alicia wouldn't cause any problems."

“And if you can take out some strange and wonderful things from the Proof of Adventure, then it’s reasonable for you to take out even more strange and wonderful things, right?” Mei said.

From this perspective, it's perfectly normal for Mei and the others to suspect Chen Luoke.

Or perhaps Chen Luo didn't intend to keep it hidden.

Of course, the people from the previous civilization were only wondering just how special Chen Luo's situation could be.

However, it is clear that the final result is to choose to maintain the status quo.

Just as Chen Luo's arrival was sudden, his departure might also be sudden.

Therefore, Dr. Mei only considered Chen Luo as a "backup plan" capable of performing all tasks.

"...It's really hurtful that you're speculating about me like this. I might do something even more surprising to you."

“So we’re proceeding according to plan, because everyone knows that if you were capable of making a difference, you would have done it already, like Ellie. If you haven’t, it means you can’t. But it doesn’t matter, things couldn’t get any worse, could they? We’ll do what we need to do, and you can do your best. Whether you succeed or not, don’t hold it against you, because it wasn’t your responsibility.” May stopped at the door of the operations room.

"So, are you going to come in and watch the broadcast together, or do you want to go see this final battle in person?" Mei asked.

Mei had reason to doubt that Chen Luo could easily reach the moon.

In fact, everyone seemed to have long been used to Chen Luo's unpredictable appearances and disappearances.

"I won't go in. Don't worry, I'll do my best to ensure that everyone's efforts aren't wasted, and everyone should reap the rewards commensurate with their actions."

"Hmm. Although I don't know what you want to do, I hope you succeed... cough cough." Mei coughed weakly twice.

"Your body..."

"You should know this by now, shouldn't you? Although I don't know what you'll do, I probably won't see it. By the way, since you're not planning to go into the operations room, why don't you come with me to the lab? In the final moments of my life, perhaps I can increase humanity's chances of winning a little more. Cough cough..."

For Mei, a romantic to the point of being almost rational, watching the battle was meaningless, because the outcome was not something she could change by cheering him on.

Dr. Mei was only there to vouch for Chen Luo, whom the survivors of the Fire Moths called a "despicable outsider." Since Chen Luo wasn't planning to go into the meeting room, then Mei should go back to the lab.

Originally, Number 17 could have assisted Dr. Mei in her experiments, but Number 17 had a more important mission to complete.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

"Okay, but this is for you." Chen Luo helped Mei walk towards the laboratory, handing her a capsule at the same time.

"what is this?"

"Hope to overcome the collapse."

"Ok?"

"Try it."

"Okay." Mei didn't seem to have much doubt about Chen Luo. She put the capsule in her mouth and then took the warm water that Chen Luo brought from somewhere.

After swallowing the capsule, Dr. Mei instantly felt refreshed and comfortable.

But the impact is not significant.

"This... doesn't seem to have the miraculous cure-all effect I imagined. I thought you must have brought out some kind of magical artifact."

"This is a drug that increases Honkai resistance. Because the dosage is not high, it cannot cure the disease immediately, but it can only make you last longer."

"A drug that increases... Honkai resistance?!"

"Ah."

"That really is... a glimmer of hope against the Honkai. Alas, if this medicine had come earlier, if there had been more of it, perhaps... Unfortunately, it's too late now. I suppose there's no way to get Dr. Mebius to continue changing the Stigmata Project. Everything can only proceed as planned." Dr. Mebius, who had become more comfortable and whose cough was no longer weak, seemed somewhat regretful.

Dr. Mei's body had been ravaged by Honkai energy due to long-term experiments related to Honkai, and even with Sukai's medication, she could not continue for much longer.