Chapter 447 Illusion? Parallel World?

"Sorry, you came a little too fast. Have a good sleep and rest for a while. This is not meaningless, and it will also allow you to better understand 'him'. This world is not just a dream."

Before her consciousness fell into a daze, Xier heard such a sound.

"Chi-Chi-Chi-Chi-"

"Uh... where is this?"

The head seemed to be dizzy for a moment, and when she woke up again, Xier found herself in a place she had never seen before.

In front of her was a neat lake, surrounded by willow trees. Yellow birds chirped softly, spread their wings, shuttled between the dry yellow willow branches, and then rushed across the lake. Such neat handwriting was obviously man-made.

She raised her head, and half of the sky above her head was the dazzling light of the morning sun, and the other half was dark, the west sky that had not yet walked out of the night.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Xier always feels that the sky is a little weird.

After looking at the sky for a few more times, she finally found the problem - the morning light and the night divided the sky in half, one side was dazzling golden, the other side was low and deep blue, there should be a transition between fish belly white and light gray in the middle, but it was not obvious here, so the whole sky became distinct.

Xier took a deep breath, always feeling that the air here was also a little inexplicably dull, probably because there was no wind around, and the lake in front of her was also unusually calm, with only shallow and sparse wrinkles.

"Another me, are you there?"

She looked around and instinctively called out "her". Unconsciously, she had taken her existence for granted, and also took it for granted that she would rely on her unconsciously when encountering problems.

She could feel the existence of "her" in her body, and even feel "her" breathing, which was no different from sensing whether her heart was beating, but unexpectedly, "her" did not respond to her call.

This made Seele feel nervous. She and her other self were not completely harmonious. It was not that the other self suddenly got angry and ignored her before. But that was at least based on the situation of conflict between the two. Now it was like this, it was hard not to suspect that something had happened to the other self.

Fortunately, the other self still existed, and after careful perception, it seemed that he was not injured, so Seele was relieved and continued to observe the surroundings.

She wanted to shout the names of Sister Bronya, Sister Mei and Kiana, but considering the unfamiliar environment, she conservatively chose not to make a sound.

She looked to the right, where there were layers of buildings. The row closest to her was relatively low and looked like an apartment building. But the shapes of all these buildings were slightly weird. The main material might be the reinforced concrete that Seele was familiar with, or maybe not, because everything was tightly wrapped under a thick layer of metal armor.

Although the matte paint was deliberately applied, the unique hardness and heaviness of the metal could still be felt. Coupled with the sharp edges of the building, this kind of solemn atmosphere made Xier take a half step back at a glance, and then quickly turned her eyes to the left.

Then, she saw a huge pyramid.

It is called a pyramid, but it is just a description of the shape. Its surface is covered with light blue crystals, which reflect the sunlight and cover the gaps between the crystals, which are not bright. Compared with the row of buildings on the right that are wrapped in heavy armor plates, this pyramid looks both gorgeous and fragile.

"Sasha——"

There were swaying branches behind her, Xi'er turned around quickly, but saw a familiar red in a field of tender green sunflower buds:

"Teacher Jizi!"

"Jizi? Ha——yawn, after leaving my hometown, few people still call me like this...wait, you are——"

Himiko got up early, and was dozing off while watering her beloved sunflower seedlings. When she heard the call, she raised her head suddenly, and then her pupils shrank slightly.

"You are...Xi'er?"

She rubbed her eyes in disbelief, letting the blurred double image in her eyes dissipate, and thus truly confirmed the identity of the girl in front of her.

"Teacher Jizi, why are you here?"

Xi'er frowned, "Jizi"'s reaction made her feel a little uncomfortable. That look was not hostile, but... I always felt that look was like looking at a dead person.

"How are you... um... you are still alive?"

Himiko's words made Xi'er stunned. She looked at herself, then at Himiko, and pinched her face again.

It hurts a little, but it also confirms that she is not dead, she is still alive.

So what is going on now?

She suddenly thought of the worst possibility. Could it be... Could it be that this is the future? Something seems to have happened in the middle, so that everyone thought she was dead?

Seele shook her head, but this was not to deny the guess in her mind, but to deny Himiko's words.

"Teacher Jizi, I'm fine. What's the situation now? Where are Mei, Bronya and Kiana? Where is Mikael?"

Himiko's eyes became more and more weird. She opened her mouth and hesitated. But then she thought of something again, and her amber eyes narrowed slightly.

"Mikael... Alas... Mei is a workaholic. Need I say it? It must be the same as before."

She deliberately made her words vague and ambiguous, not out of vigilance, but out of doubt and temptation.

Although the exchange between her and "Seele" was only a few words, as a battle-hardened commander, it is necessary to keep a clear mind in any situation and quickly organize, summarize and reason about the existing information.

She first ruled out the possibility that the Sixth Herrscher was resurrected. The Sixth Herrscher is dead, and there is no room for doubt. After all, the core has been made into the Key of God, and the body was dissipated under the witness of Mikael. Without power, the Sixth Herrscher has no possibility of resurrection. If there is power, with the power of the Sixth Herrscher, there is no need to talk nonsense with her. She can completely destroy the entire base without knowing it. Exposing her existence is the worst choice.

Taking a step back, assuming that this is really the Sixth Herrscher who has resurrected from the dead, her goal is to recapture the Herrscher core, then exposing her existence is also the worst choice. Changing to a body that is more or less concealed than an ordinary body, using Seele's original body, isn't it just looking for a head that says "Come and catch me"?

Of course, Himiko had dealt with Herrschers many times, and she knew that it was wrong to measure the IQ of Herrschers by ordinary people's standards.

But what really made her rule out the possibility that Seele was the Sixth Herrscher was her name.

"Teacher Himiko? Teacher Himiko? What about Sister Bronya and Kiana?"

Seeing Himiko in a daze, Seele waved her hand and called her twice again.

Himiko smiled. Yes, it was these names of the girl in front of her that made her realize something.

Her name was Himiko, not Himiko. Although the two names in her hometown refer to the same pronunciation, there are still subtle differences in the common language.

She and Seele did not have many intersections. They only met once during the fifth collapse. Later, she returned to the Fire Chaser Moth after the anti-entropy, and she never saw Seele again. Now she knows that it was Mikael who sent her to the world called the Quantum Sea.

In this case, it is understandable that Seele called her the wrong name, but it was a bit too coincidental that she called her the similar "Himeko".

Moreover, she had never been Seele's teacher, so how could she be called "teacher"? During the fifth collapse, Seele called her "Captain Himiko" or "Sister Himiko" following Mikael. If the Herrscher really inherited this memory, he should not make such a low-level mistake.

And finally, there are the other two names Seele mentioned.

"Bronya, Kiana..."

Himiko silently recited these two names she had never heard of, and she had an idea in her mind.

"Seele, you..."

The words stopped abruptly, and Himiko suddenly raised her head. Just now... the sky above her head seemed to shake. And the shaking morning sun is undoubtedly the best proof.

"No way..."

She whispered softly. Although she felt incredible, she had a premonition in her heart.

The next moment, the piercing alarm sounded throughout the underground city. The alarm sounded three times.

"Hehe..."

Himiko shook her head and smiled, no longer paying attention to the bewildered Xi'er, but just taking advantage of the last moment to gently water the sunflower buds at hand.

"This... this alarm sound, is it... another Herrscher?"

Xi'er murmured softly, the shirt on her chest slightly red, and a white flower suddenly bloomed in her palm, followed by two, three, and more and more, until it finally condensed into a white giant sickle that didn't quite match her petite figure.

Himiko seemed to be watering the flowers wholeheartedly, but in fact she was paying attention to Xi'er's movements. Seeing this, she couldn't help but look sideways slightly. Of course, what surprised her most was Xi'er's words...

"Xi'er!"

Just at this moment, two childish shouts came from the side, and Himiko turned her head and couldn't help shrinking her pupils when she heard the sound.

Two girls ran over from the direction of the headquarters base not far away. The shorter one had silver-gray hair and eyes. It was needless to say who she looked like. The more mature one looked almost exactly like Mei who had just joined the Fire Moths a few years ago!

Without having to think hard, Himiko knew that these were the "Mei" sister and Bronya sister mentioned by Seele. Because the two girls reacted exactly the same as Seele the first time they saw her.

The two of them stopped in their tracks, their eyes full of doubt, and then said in unison:

"Himeko (teacher), why are you here?"

Himiko smiled, stopped watering, pulled up her long fiery red hair, and shook her head helplessly:

"I'm sorry, I'm probably not the 'Himeko' you know."

Seele, Bronya and Mei certainly didn't understand this kind of words.

Himiko naturally knew their doubts. She herself was a little confused about the current situation, but the appearance of the two new girls further confirmed her guess.

So, she laughed even more helplessly, but she still did not forget to be a riddler:

"You will understand soon."

It was indeed very soon. As soon as she finished speaking, at the end of the road leading to what Seele had previously regarded as an "apartment", a figure that the three girls were no strangers to appeared in their sight.

The girl rushed straight over, her eyes quickly passed over Himiko's face, she nodded in respect, but when she quickly rushed past Mei and Seele, she suddenly stumbled and stopped, and then walked back.

She gasped heavily, her flat chest rose and fell quickly, so that her voice was a little unclear:

"Dr. Mei? And... Seele? No, you should be..."

The three girls were obviously as shocked as she was, and their words finally came down to the same name:

"Class monitor?"

"Hmm?"

Both sides were stunned at the same time.

Mei and Hua simultaneously extended their index fingers and pointed them back at themselves.

"Doctor? Are you talking about me?"

"Class monitor? Are you talking about me?"

Hua's brows furrowed, and then she glanced at Himiko unconsciously.

"Ahem!"

Himiko cleared her throat and shook her head slightly:

"Hua, ignore them for now, you... go do what you should do first."

Hua glanced at Mei again, looked at Xi'er with some vigilance, and finally looked at the road she ran from with some melancholy.

There was no one on that road, what was the figure she was expecting doing at this time?

And, "do what she should do"...

Haha, for a fusion warrior like her who has no effect, what difference does it make between doing something and not doing something?

She hated this kind of powerlessness.

She kept repeating "I still have something I can do" all the way, not because she really felt that she could do anything, but besides "doing something", she didn't know what else she could do.

It sounds a bit awkward, but it's probably because a person's inner thoughts are not good at being expressed.

"I understand."

She nodded and ran again in the direction of the headquarters base.

So the three poor girls were left there again, watching another acquaintance they knew but didn't know them disappear from their sight.

"Are you confused?"

Himiko started watering the sunflower buds again.

"Yes, a little..."

Mei nodded consciously.

But Bronya looked around, the piercing alarm sounded non-stop, and there was only a little room for rest between three consecutive sounds. No soldiers were seen being mobilized, but there were some noisy voices coming from the buildings farther away, probably organizing evacuation. But "Jeko" just stood there without any reaction, without the desire to evacuate or prepare for battle.

"You are not Himeko."

Bronya said firmly.

Himiko's mouth curled up slightly, and she asked softly:

"When did I say I was the Himeko you are talking about?"

Bronya was speechless, but Seele and Mei were confused by what she said.

So, she smiled and added:

"My relationship with the Himeko you are talking about is probably the same as that between you and the Dr. Mei I know, and between you and Seele who died two days ago. We are just isotopes in parallel worlds."

"Parallel world?"

"Isotope?"

"I am dead?"

The three girls were shocked.

Himiko raised her chin slightly. There are not so many fools in this world. Parallel world is a theory that is easy to accept and has been saturated. In addition, Kevin and Hua have mentioned more than once that they met Aponia in the original world in the world bubble before the fourth collapse. Therefore, Himiko herself has thought about the existence of parallel worlds and the existence of isotopes in parallel worlds corresponding to the original world more than once.

Of course, she didn't show such indifference in her heart, but surprise is not an emotion that must be expressed with actions or words.

Of course, there is another reason, because the situation at that time did not allow her to be surprised. She had more worries and concerns, things that made her mind more concerned than things that were close to scientific miracles.

She was silent for three seconds. She expected that person to appear in these three seconds, but unfortunately he didn't.

So she was as disappointed as Hua before.

"Forget it, although I don't know how you three little brats came here across the distance between worlds, I will explain the current situation to you first-did you hear the alarm? Seele, you seemed to realize it just now, didn't you? It seems that there are Herrschers in your world too."

"Herscher?"

Mei was stunned, but Bronya was not surprised, but answered coldly and proudly:

"We are humanoid weapons trained to fight against Honkai and Herrschers."

"Really, but they are the same."

Himiko replied with a smile.

"They?"

"Well... but him, how to say..."

She ignored the girls' questions, but lowered her head in disappointment, stroking the sunflower buds with her fingers.

Aren't you going to show up yet?

She was completely disappointed.

"It seems that the only thing I can do today is watering."

Himiko smiled bitterly, saying something that the three girls couldn't understand.

But fate seemed to like to play tricks on people. Just as she was disappointed, she heard the sound of sunflower branches and leaves swaying, even being trampled.

Of course, there was also that familiar voice:

"Captain!"

Sorry, I argued too much again. This chapter shouldn't be so short.