I'm not Yingjie

The twelfth Herrscher is also the last Herrscher before the end. In the man's eyes, he is the one who puts an end to this civilization and is the strongest Herrscher who will bring divine punishment upon mankind.

Because she used human weapons to defeat humans. It could even be said that... humans defeated themselves.

"Sakura, thank you... I want to say a lot of things to you, but in the end, there is only this sentence left... Thank you..."

The man turned around and looked at the pink-haired girl who seemed to be sleeping in an ice coffin. A natural smile that only belonged to humans appeared on his metal face.

“The meeting was just a coincidence.”

"The agreement at that time was just a farce."

"But no matter what, this is the outcome we have arrived at together."

"If I were to say, I am any different now than I was then..."

……

The man grabbed the twelfth Herrscher by the neck, and they fell to the ground together. He attacked with all his might, and the Herrscher also mercilessly wanted to take the life of this last human.

That's right, although this person's body is made of soul steel and it is impossible to tell from his body that he is a human being, she can feel that he is a human being!

"Oh!"

They fell to the ground, and the man grabbed her shoulders, and his soul steel arm pierced through her chest, pulling out the Herrscher core.

And at the last moment, the Herrscher also completed his attack on him, and the sharp blade made of the same soul steel pierced his head.

"Clap."

The lifeless body fell to the ground.

"Crash..."

A rain comes to cleanse the post-apocalyptic world.

It's like tears, it's like sin, it's like hope...

It fell upon the man's motionless body.

After his death, the Herrscher core was bound in a container forged on his arm based on the command he gave at the last moment.

After that, the Soul Steel Doll and the Herrscher Core will usher in tens of millions of years of silence.

From that moment on, the consciousness in the Herrscher's core began to invade the body made of soul steel, and the last insignificant emotions left by the man were merged into her consciousness.

That is just the memory of an insignificant individual among billions of human beings.

That was just a possibility that approached zero infinitely after his calculations.

That was just a miracle that humans naively prayed to non-existent gods.

In the end, he still asked himself that question: "Do you believe that miracles will happen?"

His consciousness dissipated.

“I don’t believe in miracles… but the history of science is full of miracles.”

"But if there really is a miracle called 'love'... please make it happen... even if it's only one in ten million... one in a billion... I pray with all my heart..."

"This is just a tiny human's insignificant wish..."

"But even here and now... I am praying for you..."

"Praying for the civilization that will come in who knows how long..."

"A miracle happened..."

……

The information left by the man disappeared in the long river of time, and ultimately he was unable to leave anything for later civilizations.

Just like he is always unable to save humanity.

It's just a meaningless story.

This is a story that starts with a farce and ends with a heavy rain.

This is a story of moving from incompleteness to normality, of the desire for change and feeling, and ultimately transformation.

This is a story that I don't know what emotion to use to interpret it in the end.

This is the wrong story.

This is the right story.

This is the story of how “I” became a “human”.

Chapter 73: Magic Box

Disappeared?

The sudden disappearance of the Honkai Beast stunned Lin and Ying. Before they could determine whether the Honkai Beast had become invisible or escaped, Lin noticed a "thing" running towards him at a very fast speed.

A familiar feeling came over him, and Lin captured an unusual piece of information from the massive amount of data. He leaned back as fast as he could, and a transparent wind blade chopped up all the trees behind him, leaving a gap of a hundred meters.

Glacier, Wind Blade...

A flash of purple lightning paralyzed Sakura's body for a moment, followed by a heavy sound of breaking wind. She gritted her teeth and forced her powerless body to avoid the blow from the invisible giant arm.

It didn't disappear, but... became invisible?

"Refraction of light..."

After it sent out the wind blade, Lin immediately turned on the thermal detector, and sure enough, the deformed Honkai beast was right in front of them.

The power possessed by the Fourth Herrscher was later verified to be the ability to create an ideal fluid, and the refraction of light can be seen as a branch ability under the manipulation of this power. However, the Fourth Herrscher himself did not demonstrate the diverse uses of this power.

Ice, wind, and thunder. This Honkai beast has now demonstrated three abilities. Is it because it devoured those two Honkai beasts?

"Here it comes." Ying also turned on the thermal imaging in her contact lenses. She slashed the tentacle that was stabbing at her with a knife. The slime-like tentacle broke into two pieces and jumped on the ground, looking extremely disgusting.

Having missed the best opportunity to retreat, they had no choice but to kill the Honkai beast here.

The Honkai beasts have seemingly bulky bodies, but their tentacles are as flexible as poisonous snakes. Even though they look soft, their terrifying weight and speed turn them into iron whips that can disintegrate people with just the slightest touch.

But what worries Lin even more is speculation from another aspect.

Before he could express this guess, what he was worried about happened in the next second.

"Roar!"

The strong wind brought by the Honkai Beast was not as powerful as the Fourth Herrscher that could easily blow down half a city, but it was still enough to blow people off the ground. In it, Lin and Ying both saw some flickering spots of light.

Those are sharp ice crystals.

"bass!"

With the help of wind, ice crystals were launched faster than bullets. Lin and Ying used their knives to block them at the same time. The terrifying force made their arms numb, and the cold air contained in the broken ice chips penetrated into their bodies.

As expected, he can mix his abilities together!

Having been overwhelmed by attacks from powers that were undoubtedly similar to superpowers, many people are grateful that at least the Herrscher can only use one power. If the powers of multiple Herrschers appear on one Herrscher, or if multiple Herrschers appear at the same time and cooperate with each other, it would be the most terrifying disaster.

And now, even though the strength of their abilities is far inferior to that of the Herrscher, Honkai beasts with more specialized abilities have appeared.

However, ice does not ionize, so it does not conduct electricity, which limits the ability of Honkai Beast to manipulate electromagnetic fields. In this case...

Just as Lin was thinking quickly to find a solution, something he didn't expect happened.

An ugly flame was lit.

"..."

The temperature, which had been dropping rapidly under the influence of the cold air, suddenly rose to a level that made them feel hot.

Flames ignited on those tentacles.

"Ying, step back." Lin instinctively asked Ying to retreat.

But it was too late. Sakura had already retreated as fast as she could when she heard Lin give the order to retreat. However, the horrible temperature had already melted the ice into liquid. The Honkai beasts were even spontaneously creating large ice blocks and melting them, and the water instantly spread to their backs.

"Crackling."

A terrifying electric current connected Sakura's body from the liquid.

……

"…What is your purpose?"

The girl sat quietly in a corner of the room. The surveillance above her head was useless to her and Xingcai. Xingcai could completely use the power of technology to interfere with human surveillance systems.

The civilization that has already left the galaxy cannot be compared with the technology of current human civilization.

If there is any Earth civilization with a technological level equal to or stronger than Xingcai, it would probably be the one before this civilization that had completed twelve collapses and was just one step away from its end.

That civilization did not leave the planet, but that does not mean they were incapable...

The weapon the girl used to kill Xingcai was an ordinary soul steel weapon from the late pre-civilization period. The technology contained in it surpassed the strength of Xingcai's body structure, so she could kill them easily.

But for modern humans, this alien civilization, which does not have any friendly tendencies, came too early and at the wrong time...

"We just want to be able to be accommodated..."

"No, there was a star invading the database last night. After analyzing its source, I found that it was connected to the same place as you." The girl's calm voice came out from the helmet. "In other words, if the star is a 'hawk', it means that there is still a connection between you and the 'hawk'. If the star is a 'dove', it means that your goal is not to get some area to settle down."

"But I am more inclined to believe that you and it are not of the same faction. From the very beginning, Xingcai has no so-called faction. That is just a lie you told to humans."

"..."

The camera was still spinning as if nothing had happened.

The space seems to be frozen.

After a long silence, Xingcai made an indescribable sound: "What kind of 'thing' are you? You are not a 'human' either."

"No, I am a 'human'." The girl said with unprecedented certainty, "Now, answer my question, what is your purpose?"

"Don't lie to me. I can tell whether what you say is a lie. If you don't answer, I will tell other humans the truth about your existence."

"Humans won't believe you."

"So who do you think they will trust, their compatriots or you?"

"..."

If the girl's analysis was correct, then Xingcai was a group of "creatures" that only had rational logic but no emotions.

This is the same as what they said, that after changing their bodies, they will abandon all emotions.

Therefore, the girl believed that they would definitely analyze and come to the conclusion she wanted them to draw.

"If you don't believe me, then I will explain your body structure to prove that the information I got is correct."

"Your bodies are not 'transparent', nor are they special because of their 'material'. Instead, you are intentionally hiding them, using technology that humans have not yet acquired, to make your bodies unobservable."

So, there is only an outline, but not even a vague shape.

"You are not 'metal life forms', but... Honkai creatures."

"You are a group of micro Honkai beasts."

Chapter 74: Star Invaders

"Your body structure is highly similar to that of Honkai beasts, which means that from the very beginning you transformed yourselves into bodies suitable for the Honkai energy environment. The so-called inability to survive on the native planet is a lie."

The girl clearly stated the content of the conversation between Xingcai and Kevin, and all of this was the result of her eavesdropping on their conversation.

Not only is the body very similar to Honkai Beast, the girl even discovered that Xingcai's body shell is actually a "container", and its contents are the real body.

In other words, the star colors that Kevin and the others saw were just some "Honkai Beasts" whose bodies were deliberately compressed.

They can return to the size of a normal Honkai beast by leaving their shell.

And their true forms... are all distorted creatures that cannot be described using the creatures on Earth or the Honkai beasts that have appeared.

"Are you what humans call a 'herrscher'?"

At this moment, Xingcai, who had been silent, said something after completing her analysis of the girl.

The girl just sat there calmly and asked in a questioning tone: "Tell me, what is your purpose?"

……

"Dr. Einstein, this is the latest achievement."