Chapter 334: Fire and Confrontation

"Kevin, when you listen to this recording, I will probably be gone. But please, please live well. Haha, I also left something for you. As hope for crossing the end of the world in the future , be sure to listen carefully to what you say next!”

Sitting on the edge of the crater, holding on to the lunar soil that had not yet completely cooled down and still exuding hot temperatures, and looking at the ruins of New Atla in the distance, Kevin's mind somehow resounded with Mei's " Last words".

That's right, just as he thought when he got the last words, he had enough time to listen to them over and over again.

So far, the terminal has been damaged beyond repair due to too many loops, but every sentence and word of Mei is engraved in Kevin's heart, and there is no possibility of mistakes or omissions.

So much so that now, whenever he comes to the moon, Mei's words will echo in his mind unconsciously:

"I made arrangements for many things before going to the moon, including the Stigma Project, which you are in charge of, the Hengsha Project, which is in charge of Su, as well as the Ark Project and the Fire Project. The specific contents of these plans are stored in the headquarters terminal. There is no need for me to say everything, but after this battle, the people in charge of each plan may need to make fine adjustments.”

"Yes, Mei, I did everything you said. Fifty thousand years ago, Su and I were the only two Yingjie who came back alive from the moon, and we happened to be executing the Hengsha Project and the so-called worst Stigma Project. "

As for the Ark Project...

The rocket that Blanca and Gratius were on set off 4,500 years ago, but disappeared without a trace as soon as it left the orbit of the earth and the moon.

This in itself was a plan of little significance, and Kevin did not force it.

And in the end, the Tinder Project... Kevin seemed to have thought of something, shook his head slightly, temporarily erased the hesitation from his mind, and continued to think about what Mei left.

"However, it's not a big problem. Kevin, I believe that if it were you, you would be able to lead them to regain what we lost today.

"What's more, it's not like I didn't leave a backup plan in advance. The so-called 'Fire Thief Plan', Kevin, that's a big gift I prepared for you... You can also find it in the headquarters' files later. That was what Pado had gained with her sacrifice, a 10% chance of defeating Honkai.

"Finally, the issue about Mikael, whether it is the past, present, or future, will be a trouble for you. I understand this. Kevin, but I don't think you need to get too entangled in this issue.

"What exactly does he want to do? What to do? This is not something you can figure out just by thinking. We can only grasp the results he caused, and then move step by step towards the future we have predetermined. However, this is also It’s just my personal advice to you. It’s up to you to decide what you want to do, Kevin, you are free.”

Yes...free, but Kevin would rather not have such freedom.

"snort……"

He stood up, and the lunar soil that he could see in front of him was still pitch black, which was the trace of the sky fire sweeping through it, and even a residual temperature of several hundred degrees remained.

For ordinary humans, both energy radiation and high temperature here are extremely deadly. But for Kevin... nothing more.

He turned his head and looked to his side. The Skyfire Great Sword had long been repaired as before. One or two flames jumped up from time to time on the sword. Compared with before, it seemed to be particularly restrained now, but the energy radiation and temperature it emitted had long exceeded multiple times that of the surrounding environment.

Even for those mass-produced fusion warriors, such a skyfire sword is extremely dangerous, and you may even be injured if you get close... but Kevin is happy with it.

The reason is also very simple.

Kevin lowered his head and glanced at his wrist. A green frosty cold air flashed from the edge of the wrist guard - he didn't know whether it was because the shelf life of Mebius's surgery had expired, or whether it was left behind from the battle 50,000 years ago. In short, although he could still control the cold inside his body, his body temperature had actually returned to the original minus 30 degrees.

Fortunately, he no longer has to worry about not being able to hug Mei.

Fortunately, this sky-fire sword that accompanied him all the way could still give him a small amount of warmth at this moment.

He closed his eyes and silently grasped the hilt of the sword.

In countless days and nights, in Kevin's memory, everything about that battle, instead of being washed away bit by bit by the long river of time and becoming blurred, the outline became clearer and clearer. Kevin only had to close his eyes. , without even thinking about it deliberately, every detail of the last time he used the Heavenly Fire Holy Seal will reappear in his mind.

As if to prove this, his chest rose and fell seventeen times in an odd rhythm. This set of movements has no special meaning, but the breathing he experienced before playing the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment, each rhythm, and each rise and fall of the chest are exactly the same as in the memory.

Completely consistent, because he has never forgotten and can never forget.

That was the closest he came to being a god, but he failed to cross it in the end.

However, speaking of Mikael...

Kevin opened his eyes and turned around. Behind him, the basin they fought with Mikael was the same as it was 50,000 years ago. The only difference was that——

In the center of the basin, there is a cross-shaped groove more than 20 kilometers long. Only such a large size can accommodate the extremely reduced stone statue.

Yes, compared to the size of the moon as a chicken egg 50,000 years ago, the size of this stone statue has indeed been extremely "reduced".

His wrists were nailed by huge stone nails, and his head seemed to be pillowed, or as if the other party was looking down at him on a flat cross.

"Mikael..."

The stone statue was covered with cracks of various sizes, especially on the chest. It was no longer a crack, but more like a wound left by a spear piercing. The broken ends of these cracks emitted a blue-purple glimmer, which was extremely strange. This was the appearance of Mikael that Kevin saw when he stepped on the moon again 5,000 years ago.

After they entered the hibernation capsule, the end did reincarnate on Earth, there is no doubt about that, but why did Mikael become the stone statue he is now? Is he dead? Who killed him? Who can kill him?

The "wound" on the chest of the stone statue looks like a big hole at first glance, but upon closer inspection, it seems to be two holes connected together, which also corresponds to the double-pronged spear next to Mikael that he had not used much until the end.

All this seemed to tell Kevin that Mikael, the end that had come, might have died.

The cause of death was unknown, but it seemed more like a self-inflicted death.

But Kevin could not accept this result anyway - he had not figured out until now what attitude he should take if he had the chance to face Mikael again, or would the next time he saw Mikael be at the end of the Stigmata Plan?

But no matter what, Kevin knew what he didn't want the most - he didn't want to lose the possibility of seeing Mikael again.

Whether as a former comrade-in-arms or as... a betrayer.

Because he must meet Mikael again, and then, whether with words or fists, he must make Mikael explain everything clearly.

"Kevin, you may need to go back to Earth now."

Su's communication suddenly sounded in his ears, and Kevin frowned imperceptibly:

"What happened? It shouldn't be twenty-four hours yet?"

Kevin turned around again and looked at the "command post" that had long been a ruin, as if looking at someone.

"Something happened...unexpected, but reasonable. You may need to come back early to deal with it."

"Didn't you advise me to try not to interfere in human affairs?"

Kevin raised his eyebrows. If it weren't for Su's dissuasion, he would have started to implement the Stigmata Plan a thousand years ago.

The two of them almost got to the point of drawing swords at each other during that time. If it weren't for Mei in the paradise to mediate in time, perhaps...

But no matter what, the rift between the two has already occurred. This rift has nothing to do with their friendship, and this rift will naturally not be made up for their friendship, because it is caused by the different attitudes of the two towards methods.

As the saying once said-if the Stigmata Plan is handed over to Su, it is assumed that the possibility of the plan being implemented is abandoned.

In other words, as long as they still want to cross the collapse, the conflict between the two is inevitable.

However, human civilization currently does not even have the qualifications to call itself "infant". Now that Kevin has calmed down, he also feels that he was indeed a little too hasty a thousand years ago.

But no matter what, what about another five hundred years? According to the speed of development of human civilization today, in about 500 years, the strength of civilization should reach the threshold for the emergence of Herrscher. At that time, the Stigmata Plan will have to be implemented.

Although Su keeps saying "give more time to the current human beings", it seems that he is just opposing him to implement the Stigmata Plan in advance, but when it comes to that step, based on Kevin's understanding of Su, he will probably continue to oppose the Stigmata Plan.

Kevin knows this very well.

Kevin has been prepared for this.

Perhaps... he has to take action against his good friend, who is also the only comrade who has accompanied him to this era.

However, at least not now.

So, this is strange.

The philosophy that Su insists on has always been to give humans time to develop themselves and reduce the impact of these "pioneers" on human civilization. Now he actually asks him to return to Earth in advance to deal with human problems?

"Su, what happened? Has a King-level or higher Honkai beast appeared?"

"That's not it."

Su quickly denied it, but this made Kevin even more confused-if it's not Honkai, then it's human beings' own business.

"The destiny... is the product of the intersection of you and his descendants with the current civilized human beings. In order to offset the negative impact of the Black Death, they are preparing... the Eastern Expedition."

"Eastern Expedition? So what? Don't you want them to develop on their own?"

"If they know some sense, of course it's not impossible, but their goal of the Eastern Expedition is... Shenzhou."

"Shenzhou?"

Kevin pursed his lips and roughly knew where Su's concerns were.

Kevin ignored the so-called "know some sense" and Su might want to express something, but Kevin didn't want to guess riddles with him.

The point is... Shenzhou.

Mei, who was born as a scientific researcher, also arranged the plan in a very "experimental" way.

Among the four plans, the Hengsha Plan and the Ark Plan are actually not very meaningful. At least Kevin himself thinks so. One is to observe the rest of the worlds on the imaginary tree and try to find the right way to fight against the collapse, and the other is to carry the evidence of everything humans have ever had and find a new home in the universe, but what does this have to do with the earth?

Therefore, what Kevin is most concerned about is nothing more than the so-called "worst" Stigma Plan and the "best" Tinder Plan.

One is the most rational plan, and the other is the most emotional plan.

It is not difficult to see that May deliberately retained contrast between the two plans.

Correspondingly, the execution areas of these two plans are also deliberately distinguished in Mei's setting——

Although the Stigmata have long been dispersed into the genetic sequence of all humans, the Stigmata Project should be mainly implemented in the general area of ​​the former European branch.

Correspondingly, the Tinder Plan will focus on execution in eastern Asia.

But the problem is that when there are only Su and Kevin, and Su has been bound by the Hengsha Project and cannot escape, the Fire Plan does not even have the most basic executors.

However, it’s not that Su can’t take on the role at the same time, because Kevin looked through the relevant information of the Tinder Project, and it was basically a plan... without any introduction or plan.

Behind the four words "Tinder Plan", there was a blank, so much so that Kevin initially even thought that there was an error in the system when Mei uploaded the information, so that all the information about the Tinder Plan was lost?

However, it is impossible. Just like the Stigma Project in his hand, it has gone through countless revisions. After each version of the plan is completed, a system backup must be uploaded, but... the Tinder Project... really has nothing.

But these are not the reasons why the Tinder Plan has not been implemented so far.

There is actually only one reason - 4,500 years ago, when Kevin and Su went to eastern Shenzhou to analyze the possibility of executing the Fire Plan, they discovered that before they arrived, there was a person with the pseudonym "Red Yuan" here. Spread the spark of civilization.

It's not like they haven't tried to contact each other, but they went to Taixu Mountain where "Red Kite" is located several times without success. They even almost got trapped in the illusion formation around Taixu Mountain the last time.

That was an illusory formation that almost overturned Su, a fusion warrior with mental perception. From this, there was almost no doubt about the identity of "Red Yuan", and he must be one of the Ying Jie.

Considering that "Red Kite" appears as a woman, Aponia and Destobia, who are spiritual perception types, and Hua, who holds the key to the eighth god, are all suspects. And, considering Mikael's power, he is naturally also under suspicion.

Although to a certain extent, Kevin and Su witnessed the other Ying Jie's fall, but the final authority is time, and Mikael's thoughts are unpredictable, and it is even unclear where to stand, so ...It’s hard to say.

"So, Su, you want to join the war between Tianming and the Ming Empire of China?"

"Kevin, I think this time may be the best opportunity for us to contact the Red Kite. It is undeniable that the Ming Empire in the east is very powerful. If they fight normally, there is no chance of winning in Tianming's current state. But as far as I know You know, Tianming took the opportunity to cure the Black Death and developed a lot of Honkai energy weapons, but the Red Kite in China will not spread these things."

"So, once Tianming uses Honkai energy weapons on the battlefield, China's army will be unable to support it and will ask Chi Yuan for help?"

"Perhaps Chi Yuan is already paying attention to this war. If everything is just a conflict between humans, she will not intervene. But if it involves Honkai...she can't just sit idly by. If she really If it’s one of Ying Jie, I believe she will make such a choice.”

Su's words made Kevin silent again for a while. Based on his understanding of Su, he knew that he had missed one more reason——

He, Su, is a doctor after all, and he once had the dream of hanging a pot to save the world. Faced with the war that is about to break out, and the large-scale bloodshed and injuries that are about to occur, how can he remain indifferent?

only……

"Su, give me two more hours, okay?"

"Kevin, you..."

Kevin rarely begged others, especially to Sue, but at this moment he had to do so.

He wanted to stay here all day. This was a habit he had developed over tens of thousands of years, just because of her words——

"Kevin, last but not least, let me tell you a secret! For Mingyan who controls the power of time and space, every blow he makes will peel off countless world bubbles in the intrinsic world. From a probability perspective, among them It is inevitable that I exist in a certain world bubble.

"If... I mean if, I really... Haha, you will hear this recording, which explains everything, doesn't it?

"In short, if all this really happens, you can go to the moon on this day every year in the future. The one in the world will remember this, and she will stand at the door of the headquarters on this day every year. In this way, we They are also... looking at each other, right?

"In this way...we are not completely separated, right?"

Kevin took a deep breath and turned his gaze to the ruins of the command post. There was a broken bridge facing him in the ruins. That was the only place where people could stand.

Kevin looked at the empty broken bridge, just like it had been for tens of thousands of days and nights before.