I'm not Yingjie

Should we choose mostly redundancy, countless contradictions, and countless bad differences, or perfect similarity?

As a scientist, and a scientist who is trying to find a way to save humanity from disaster, he cannot look at this choice from a personal perspective, but must stand from the perspective of "humanity."

Then, the answer is obvious.

"Lin, I want to ask, this hypothesis... is it you who came up with it?" Sakura sighed quietly after looking at Lin for a long time.

"It has an even older prototype, probably dating back to mythology... But if you're asking about the giant hypothesis, then it was indeed me who proposed it." Lin ate the food in his bowl, his articulation clear, "I... humans can complete the human evolution part of the giant hypothesis. By then, maybe there's no need to defeat Honkai, it will automatically disappear."

"Does that sound cruel?" he asked.

However, Sakura unexpectedly shook her head in relief and chuckled, "How can we judge whether something is cruel or not if it won't happen?"

"…I might do that."

"But when you ask whether it is cruel or not, you have already determined that it is a cruel thing. Otherwise, you would not say it is a hypothesis, but a 'plan'."

Sometimes, it seemed that knowing him too well might not be a good thing.

But she was right, Lin wasn't going to do that.

"Redefining humans and then letting the defined humans survive is no different from Honkai." Lin looked out the window, as if he was still looking for the thunder in Changkong City. "Humans are different individuals. After the integration of consciousness, they may become perfect creatures, but they are no longer human beings."

"Okay, okay, my kind-hearted Dr. Lin, please eat quickly."

"...Of course, after the integration of consciousness, I won't be able to eat the food you cook, and I won't have the ideal of giving up. Just based on this reason, I won't do it." Lin rarely smiled. This is one of the few smiles he has had since becoming the leader of Meteor's Passing.

Creatures without emotions may be able to go very far, to the other side that humans cannot reach.

But what he wanted to save were not those creatures, only humans.

Chapter 101: Tears of Ice

From that day on, people looked up at the starry sky and saw ice crystals lighting up hope on the burning earth, and the dim starlight was reflected in the transparent icicles.

The extinguished fireworks are sealed in the cold air.

The instigator of the disaster was stabbed to death by a spear made of ice.

A name that opened the era of fusion warriors, floating above the ruins of Australia along with the name of the Fire Moth.

He was the first fusion fighter.

But no one knows that before him, there was another person...

……

The battle is almost over.

This was the most massive battle since the birth of Honkai. The criminals who betrayed humanity burned Australia for seven days and seven nights, turning the land of human prosperity into wasteland, the oasis into barren land, and the vitality into dead silence.

There are a total of 25.7 million people in Australia, and 23 million of them have died in the fire. The remaining survivors will suffer from PTSD for the rest of their lives and will be terrified by the raging fire.

After crossing four-fifths of the distance of Australia, the almighty Lord of Fire was stopped by the Savior who was radiating coldness.

No one could describe how spectacular the battle was, with fire devouring the sky, and ice and snow wrapping and freezing the fire before it could be extinguished, even leaving unextinguished flames in the ice.

The dark road that the Seventh Herrscher walked on was covered with ice and snow, turning into another extreme scene.

That indescribable ability to manipulate ice and snow even surpassed that of the former Fifth Herrscher.

That is the savior created by humans. After half a century of research, they finally used Honkai completely for their own benefit. The man-made god is about to judge the evildoer of destruction.

But all that has nothing to do with Hua.

She pushed open a corner of the ruins and searched in the dim light with her dust-covered face. Soon she found the person buried by the collapsed wall.

Hua went forward and lifted up the wall, wanting to call the emergency team, but when she saw the man's lower half turned into powder under the wall, she stopped silently.

She squatted down and closed his eyes. It was the only thing she could do for him.

Hua has seen countless corpses here, but more often than not, not even the corpses were left.

The destructive power of the Seventh Herrscher is unpredictable. In this collapse, not even a single creature was born, because the flames that burn everything will engulf all creatures, regardless of friend or foe.

Only in the ruins after the Seventh Herrscher's rampage will rare Honkai creatures be born due to Honkai energy, while many more hosts that can be eroded will not even have the chance to become Honkai creatures.

Hua leaned against the burnt broken wall, listening to the sound of energy collision coming from afar. Now she no longer felt the burning heat in her heart, but instead, a chill that chilled her heart.

This means that Kevin has the upper hand.

Humanity has defeated the Honkai Impact once again.

But Hua could only stand here in confusion.

She did not see the moment when Himiko turned into the Herrscher, nor did she see the moment when Himiko died.

It seemed like just a dream to her, whether it was the meeting with Himiko or her departure now, Himiko, like every person she had ever lost, disappeared like a bubble.

What Himiko said, her habit of drinking, her carefree yet reliable personality, and the smell of alcohol every time he hugged her intimately...

They are all meaningless and have been wiped out from this world.

At the beginning of the Seventh Honkai, the nearest branch was the Nineteenth Branch. Logically, the Nineteenth Branch should have been the first to be affected by the birth of the Herrscher, but the Seventh Herrscher changed her route and avoided the Nineteenth Branch, giving them time to retreat.

The Seventh Herrscher had no reason to avoid the Nineteenth Branch, just as she had no reason to let Lin go.

But Hua's intuition told her that the Seventh Herrscher was deliberately staying away from them.

why?

Hua wanted to ask the Seventh Herrscher in person whether she still remembered him and whether she could still call out his name?

And...is she still Himiko?

But Hua can't go.

She could only stand here and wait for the news that Kevin had defeated the Seventh Herrscher.

All of this is not a beautiful story, nor is it even a tragic story. Reality is just reality, without the drama of a story.

Just like there once stood a person named Himiko.

Today, there is nothing here.

In the starry sky, mankind received an icy dawn.

……

Kevin put down his hand, and the overflowing coldness began to subside.

The embodiment of destruction was nailed to the buildings of mankind.

This battle was very strenuous, not only because of the Seventh Herrscher's terrifying destructive power, but also because he was unable to control his own abilities. The frozen land that spread over hundreds of kilometers was proof of that.

But he still won.

Humanity still wins.

All the communication equipment had been destroyed in the previous battle, but Mei would soon detect that the Herrscher's Honkai energy response had disappeared. Before that, he could... do whatever he wanted here.

So he looked at the body of the Seventh Herrscher, the one who had been there since he and Mei joined the Fire Moth.

They met at a dance, Kevin still remembered, it was the dance after the third collapse.

Himiko, who has stayed in the Fire Moths the longest, looks no different from when they first met.

But Kevin had become the fusion warrior who killed her with his own hands.

Kevin didn't feel much sadness, perhaps because he didn't have much intersection with Himiko. She was Lin's former captain, Hua's guide, and a warrior with a good reputation among the Fire Moths. He would occasionally meet her because of Lin.

Other than that, nothing else?

But Kevin doesn't think he is such a cold-blooded person. Even if someone he doesn't know passes away, he should feel a little sad.

It should be that there is no way to feel sad for the Herrscher. The corpses under her feet are enough to fill the sea, and everywhere she passes is a place of death. Why should there be any sympathy for a monster that intends to destroy humanity?

But Himiko is Himiko, and the Seventh Herrscher is the Seventh Herrscher. Kevin would never think of them as the same person. When Himiko turned into the Seventh Herrscher, she was already dead. He would not believe that the Seventh Herrscher would still retain Himiko's consciousness.

This was the lesson he learned from the Sixth Herrscher.

What on earth was it that caused him to stand there in such a hollow state?

Kevin thought of Lin who walked into the operating room. There was something in his eyes that he had never seen before.

Kevin understood.

Lin wanted to personally defeat the Seventh Herrscher, and he wanted to free Himiko with his own hands.

But Lin didn't do it and was not even qualified to step onto the battlefield.

Kevin calmly walked towards the body of the Seventh Herrscher, knelt on one knee beside her, and stretched out his hand to close her blurry eyes.

During the metamorphosis operation, he lost his body temperature, but that was probably only a small part of what he lost.

"Click."

Kevin's hand stopped.

From the corner of the Seventh Herrscher's eye, a drop of frozen water fell and hit the ground.

That tear was not burned by the flames.

But in the cold, it lost its shape.

Chapter 102 The Day Xing and You Disappeared

Behind the dusty history, there is an unknown past being written.

The man who became a savior for humanity failed to save his wife, nor did he save the entire human civilization, just as he said to himself at the beginning.

"He can't do it."

But at the end of history, he gave up his identity as a savior and just prayed for a miracle as a human being, but he saved the new civilization countless tens of thousands of years later.

In the end, the person who did it was just the boy who liked to lie on the lawn by the river and bathe in the morning breeze.

……

"Locate coordinates."

"drop----"

"Target positioning completed. High Honkai energy reaction detected at the target location. It is estimated that the Honkai energy concentration will drop to normal levels in thirteen hours. The recovery plan will begin in thirteen hours."

Prometheus III stood in the cockpit of Titan, circled around the "wonder", and then stayed in the air, observing its status.

In the battles with Xingcai and the Seventh Herrscher, the Titan army was almost completely wiped out. The top technology that humans were proud of was like a toy that could be manipulated at will in the face of even more terrifying technological levels and power. After the successful emergence of the Fusion Warrior Project, the Titan, a weapon that shone brightly in the battles with the Fourth and Sixth Herrscher, was completely abandoned.

The Titan driven by No. 3 now is just one of the few autonomous Titans left in the Titan Army.

The reason why she drove the Titan here was because of Mei's order, to retrieve the core of the Herrscher of Reason.

The scene captured by the monitor in front of me is nothing short of a miracle.

A towering, massive building that resembles a transmission tower stands on the ground. Its silver-white metal shell shines brightly under the sunlight, and there is still some substantial blue Honkai energy remaining on the muzzle of the gun.

The area occupied by this transmission tower alone is comparable to half of the headquarters base, and in this area specially selected to house the transmission tower, there are six identical transmission towers.

After the Herrscher of the previous civilization retrieved the Herrscher Core, they came here. Later, according to the monitoring of the Fire Moth, the Honkai energy reaction that erupted was twice the total Honkai energy emitted by the Seventh Herrscher when it burned Australia.

In other words, according to the large-scale Honkai, the Honkai energy converted by the six transmission towers reproduced by the Herrscher of Reason is enough to cause twelve large-scale Honkai.

Seven seconds after the high-Honkai energy reaction occurred, all the emperor-level Honkai beasts in the world stopped moving and lost all life characteristics.

The Rulers of the previous civilization annihilated the star-colored collective consciousness from outer space, wiped them out in the planetary orbit of the earth, and prevented them from attracting more terrifying alien civilizations and planetary-level Honkai beasts.

Humanity is saved by the Herrscher.

This is similar to the legend of Prometheus stealing fire in mythology. It is the most incredible event since the war between humans and Honkai.

That Herrscher of Reason should have been celebrated as a miracle of "humanity regaining its humanity after being corrupted by the Honkai."

But in history, she left nothing behind.

No one knew that there was once a Herrscher who fought for humanity and gave his life.

No one knew that there once existed a girl who called herself MSA-970.

……

She lay alone in the high tower, gazing at the starry sky.

The Herrscher core in her chest lost its color, changing from its original azure to gray, and a crack appeared on it as if it was about to collapse under the heavy burden, but it was quickly repaired by her with the last of her power.