Honkai, they all became my stigmata

There was an unexpected sound.

The pupils of the cherry-colored girl suddenly widened.

"……bell?"

Prometheus lowered his head in doubt.

"...!"

Her arm had penetrated Bell's thin chest at some point.

The touch of blood covered the gray-haired girl's arms, without a doubt, this was definitely not her subjective behavior.

Prometheus wanted to withdraw his arm and apply emergency rescue measures to Bell, but found that he had lost control of the mechanical body.

——she was controlled.

In other words, she was infected with a virus.

Since when?

Was it just during the interval of the battle, or, earlier, when she had a hearty chat with Ling?

This... is "No.12 Herrscher"?

The remaining consciousness made her notice that some code language appeared out of thin air above her electronic pupil.

It outputs word by word, like a baby who is learning how to speak:

"Thank you, your body is very convenient."

"It's mine now."

"If it wasn't for your mechanical body, I wouldn't be able to control it to this degree."

"She, Ling...must die in despair..."

"In this way, I can absorb her negative emotions and give birth to a complete birth."

"No. 12 Herrscher will definitely come."

"This is... her irreversible [destiny]."

Chapter 43

Interlude that Changed Destiny

Capable of corroding machinery and networks...

This No.12 Herrscher is an ultimate virus with self-awareness that can invade the Internet and reality?

This news must be conveyed to Dr. Mei...

Prometheus thought so, even though her mechanical body was completely unable to move, she still tried to send a communication to Dr. Mei with the only communication module left.

However, even the communication module has been controlled, and she is in fact involved in tinkering.

At this moment, the code language of her electronic pupil scrolled again:

"This body of yours... belongs to me. This body is very good and can become the [matrix] of viruses."

In just a few minutes, it has grown rapidly.

Endless darkness emerged, as if to completely wipe out Prometheus' AI consciousness.

As a digital life, she obviously has no way to resist No.12 Herrscher's ability, and the other party thinks the same way.

The Herrscher of Corrosion laughed wildly. In its eyes, everything in this base was being eaten away by it.

It has already connected to the base's network system through Prometheus's network connection, and the data of the virus began to multiply and spread without limit.

At the same time, the virus has already infected some soldiers in the base through the air, turning them into dead soldiers and starting to destroy them.

Destroying human beings is just a snap of the fingers.

——But when it was triumphantly thinking about the future, it felt that it had touched an iron wall at the data level.

The defense system of the Flaming Moth base?

No, no—

This is a virus of the same scale as it. It hacked into the system one step ahead of itself, and blocked itself in turn.

At the same time, a figure appeared out of thin air in the room they were in.

A soft white light appeared in his hand and fell on Ling's body. In addition, a small figure flew to Prometheus's side and raised the magic wand in his hand.

Then, he knocked hard on her head.

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5 minutes ago.

The outside of the Flaming Moth base.

Chen Yu, who came across time, landed here, and looked at this huge and heavily guarded base with a solemn expression.

A faded fairy Ellie with a light blue tone fluttered its wings and flew beside him.

"...It seems that we came just in time."

Looking at the base that hadn't started to show strange things in front of them, they probably came in time.

"This is... the era in which the real Alicia lived?"

Little Ellie floats in the air, looking at this not-so-good world.

Different from the beauty of [Eternal Paradise], the Herrscher of Human Beings she longed for walked slowly in such troubled times?

"Of course, if we don't do something, I'm afraid that in a few minutes, the last three cities of mankind will be destroyed by the Herrscher."

Chen Yu nodded slightly.

To be precise, it was destroyed by the countless nuclear bombs Wei Wei had prepared for the Herrscher of the End.

He immediately asked little Ellie beside him:

"Have you found where the bell is?"

"I found it, on the 33rd floor underground of that base."

She nodded and replied.

With the power of the Herrscher of Corrosion, she has quietly sneaked into the defense system of the Flaming Moth and hacked into it.

——As long as you don't directly erode the network system, and only make this level of infiltration, you won't be noticed by it.

Fairy Ellie waved the magic wand in her hand, and a virtual screen appeared in front of Chen Yu's eyes.

On the screen, a group of Fire Moth soldiers have entered Bell's room, and Prometheus is protecting her in her room.

Sure enough, as Alponia said, even without the [discipline] she gave, desperate people would still make crazy decisions in the doomsday environment.

It was precisely because they killed Ling that the virus of the Herrscher of Corrosion spread out from her body, turning ordinary people in the base into dead men, corroding the network and machinery, and seizing the nuclear bomb. The control of the silo directly led to the destruction of the last three cities of mankind.

— But is that really the case?

If Ling survived without any harm, the consciousness of the Herrscher of Corrosion would never awaken?

No, I'm afraid it won't be that simple.

Even if we don't do anything, I'm afraid the virus itself will gradually awaken.

Bell's death only accelerated its growth.

In any case, since he already knew how the Herrscher of Corruption would destroy humanity after being liberated, it would be much easier to take countermeasures.

"Tell me the coordinates of the bell and the Prometheus room, and I will teleport them directly."

Elf Ellie nodded, and sent the coordinates to Chen Yu.

Next they will split up.

In reality, the collapse crisis caused by the birth of Herrscher, he can handle it;

As for the stalking and interception of the Herrscher of Corrosion at the network level... But she, who is also a virus, can handle it.

After getting the coordinates, Chen Yu had a thought, and teleported into the base of Flame Chasing Moth with Ellie the Fairy.

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Sirens sounded in Flaming Moth's base.

Kevin, who failed to intercept Sakura, frowned and did not continue to chase, because he realized that the source of the siren was not because of Sakura.

At this moment, Mei's communication request was inserted into his channel:

"Kevin, where are you? I need you to strike right now."

"Mei, what's going on?"

The white-haired man asked in a deep voice.

"...No.12 Herrscher, awakened."

A large number of dead soldiers have appeared in the base, and there is an urgent need for combat power to attack.

"At the same time, I also detected a very powerful Houkai energy fluctuation just now, which is very similar to the Herrscher of the Sky, but completely different. He seems to have gone to the 33rd floor underground where the bell is. You are on the way to clean up the dead. Go there."

May asked.

"……I understand."

Kevin nodded, picked up the Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment in his hand, and rushed out immediately.

At the same time, he also asked May:

"What is the real body of No.12 Herrscher?"

"The defense system in the base is being compromised at the same time. It is robbing the control of all machinery and equipment. I think, I am afraid, it is some kind of force related to the virus."

"Virus……"

Kevin murmured.

To be honest, this is not his area of ​​expertise.

But at least he knows that one of the last resorts of human beings, where thousands of nuclear bombs are stored, is also the place where the launch order is issued through the network.

If there is any means for a virus to destroy human beings, it must be that.

He told May his doubts and conjectures.

"You are right, it is trying to attack the defense program of the nuclear bomb silo to seize the right to launch it, but it is strange, Kevin..."

Mei said with a somewhat doubtful voice.

This was the first time Kevin heard his sweetheart speak in this tone again.

"What happened, May?"

"... No.12 Herrscher is indeed attacking the program of the nuclear bomb silo, but at the same time, it seems that another force is confronting it, delaying its action."

"Does this have something to do with the force you just detected entering the basement of the Flaming Moth base?"

Kevin asked.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out. Kevin, we should rush to the 33rd floor first. We must distinguish clearly... whether this force is an enemy or a friend."

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The sakura-colored girl was sprinting through the passage of the Flame Chasing Moth.

She galloped in the corridor, her figure passed one iron door after another, and the intensifying alarm around her was undoubtedly stimulating her nerves, leaving her with no chance to breathe.

"...Hurry up, I have to hurry up!"

Even with the agility called "Setsuna" by her companions, she still felt that she was too slow.

There is still a little distance from Ling's room.

The surrounding ground was full of blood and dead soldiers who had been knocked to the ground, which could not help but deepen the uneasiness in her heart.

"I found... 769,767, Ling's room is just behind it!"