Chapter 623: Overlooking the Tower of Babel

"21002, 21002, this is 72200. We have observed a large number of flying Honkai beasts gathering 30km ahead. The escort formation is ready to go into battle. 21002, I wish you good luck."

"72200, I wish you good luck too."

The tail flames of missiles and jet planes left long white marks like meteors in the blue sky. The sparks of the explosion and the bursting bodies of Honkai beasts looked like gorgeous fireworks.

But all this was only as short-lived as fireworks. The plane did not carry any combat bombs at all. After all the medium-range missiles were fired, less than half of the Honkai beasts were destroyed.

"Keep going! Open a channel for 21002!"

The nameless pilot held the control stick tightly with one hand and pulled it back, and pushed the throttle valve to the bottom with the other hand. The rudder pedal was also pressed hard. The plane instantly rolled and climbed, increased its altitude, gained energy, and then dived down in an inverted flying posture, and flipped the fuselage again during the impact.

The distance was getting closer and closer. The distance of 30KM meant less than two minutes for the fighter. The next moment, the machine gun spewed flames and made a blasting sound like tearing cloth. The special armor-piercing shells shot sparks on the exoskeletons of the Honkai beasts, but almost no Honkai beasts fell because of it.

On the ground, it was a big guy that could only be solved by a 270mm railgun. From the moment these fighters did not return after launching the missiles, the ending was doomed.

"Bang--"

A dozen fireworks exploded in the sky again, but this time, it was not the Honkai beasts that fell in the billowing smoke, but the wreckage of the planes.

In just one encounter, all the fighters were shot down by the angry Honkai beasts. But at least they bought enough time, even if it was just a few seconds of this encounter.

"I have parachuted and am in good condition. 21002, please keep going."

An old fighter with a blue-gray paint job and a person standing on the back of the aircraft rushed through the airspace lower than the previous battle. Because of the extremely fast speed and the radar turned off, the Honkai beasts, which had been attracted by the previous fighters and were still hunting the parachuting pilots, did not notice this fish that escaped the net.

Wei Wei, who was sitting in the driver's seat, looked up at the three snow-white parachutes in the air, although the next moment, those parachutes were torn to pieces by the angry Honkai beasts.

Mei did not look up, nor did she look back, but just reached across the seat and pressed Wei Wei's shoulder:

"Keep going."

She ordered.

After taking a deep breath, Mei turned around again, not to look for the wreckage of the escort fighters, but to look at a third person who was squatting on the plane with his body pressed against the canopy and following the action.

"We are about to reach the [Absolute Denial Zone] 10km away from the Tower of Babel. Now you can reveal what trump card you have that can get us close to the Tower of Babel, Otto."

Because of the mental communication network built by Su, Mei's voice sounded directly in Otto's mind.

Her long golden hair was flying in the wind. The hair was tied up before the action, but the hairband used to bind it disappeared with the wind at some point.

Pushing aside the long hair scattered in front of his face, Otto did not respond to Mei's questioning, but reached into his collar and took something out of his [heart].

Then, a dazzling golden light suddenly burst out from his clenched fist, and then his five fingers loosened slightly, and a small cross bathed in golden light fell down, constantly fluttering in the wind, but unable to break free from the chain still tightly held in his palm.

"That is..."

Mei only saw the golden light, and she understood everything, so she closed her eyes with peace of mind.

Otto's emerald green eyes were still open. He looked at the golden cross shining like the holy light of heaven, and countless memories and emotions surged in his heart, destined to flow to a place he could not grasp--

"Then I would like to ask you, Mikael... since even Eleanor who was with her is still alive, then Kallen herself... Kallen... Kallen! Is she still alive?"

"I don't know."

Before these four words were spoken, Otto had never thought that he would experience uncontrollable anger again after five hundred years of precipitation.

But Yulan Dell quickly stood in front of him. Although she didn't understand what the conversation between the two meant, it didn't stop her from acting according to Otto's previous request.

[When I lost my mind...]

Otto gradually calmed down, and Mikael spread his hands and stated in an unusually calm tone:

"With Karen's character, even without my participation, she would probably die at the hands of the church. Of course, I won't deny my guilt, but from my point of view, I have reasons for Karen's death, because only in this way can you step by step to your current position, and in my plan, there is indeed something that only you can prove for me with your own actions...

"But these plans were disrupted by another person. Whether she rescued Kallen or not, whether Kallen is still alive now, I don't know at all, and I have no desire to ask. Otto Apokalis, of course you can Keep going according to your plan, but if you change your path because Karen may still be alive, I will not interfere like I did before. I will find another way where your behavior needs to be confirmed in the original plan. , If there’s nothing else, I’ll leave first.”

The man turned around and left in a hurry. From the beginning to the end, his eyes did not linger on Otto, nor did he leave the slightest feeling of guilt.

Just like he did five hundred years ago.

But Otto had calmed down.

Otto naturally understood what kind of person the other party was.

He is someone who, like himself, must reach a certain destination no matter what. As long as you think about this, calming down is actually not that difficult.

I just experienced to some extent the emotions of some people who had suffered misfortune because of themselves.

And it’s not all for nothing.

But just when Otto was about to leave, Mikael turned back.

He held a gem full of golden light in his hand and handed it to Otto without saying a word.

"What is this? Don't say it's the core of the Second Herrscher."

After adjusting his mentality, Otto even had time to joke back.

But Mikael just silently moved the gem closer to him.

Otto remembered that as a [Guard], Hollander was about to touch the gem on Otto's behalf, but he stopped him again.

He already knew what it was, but he didn't know what price he should pay for it.

"Take it. This is not a reward for you, nor is it a gift. It's just that if you decide not to follow the path you planned for five hundred years, you will use this power one day... and, This power is very destined for you, just like fate has linked you together in the dark, and you can't be separated, right? "

Otto did not refuse. He would never refuse the power given by others, whether it was the bewitchment faced by Lisa five hundred years ago or at this moment...

Even false power is better than no power at all.

Otto grasped and tightened the golden core.

Then, he finally bid farewell to the identity of [human being] completely.

The small golden cross was flying, but the chain was still firmly grasped in the palm, with no room to break free.

"Karen...can you promise me one thing?...That is, can you not inherit the Kaslana family's Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment...There are other divine keys to destiny! The Black Abyss White Flower will probably be killed by Eleanor Succession, but there is also the oath of Judah which has been vacant and you go and apply for it as Is your weapon okay? ...Nothing, I just...the power of the God Key is too powerful, it is a true double-edged sword. I don't want to see you like Uncle Francis...I'm sorry, I made a mistake...What? You agreed...Thank you..."

[A310 let A303 go. With such strength and tenderness, in a daze, I really thought A310 was the reincarnation of Kallen. However, reincarnation cannot be explained by scientific principles. ……right! There is no evidence to prove that A310 has anything to do with Karen! But A310 is special, and I decided to adopt her as my granddaughter, named... Teresa. 】

"Theresa, today is the day you fight for the first time. Really, as a descendant of the Apokalis family, you can enjoy everything in the rear, but you still bravely set foot on the battlefield... You use I have carefully checked your equipment, put your favorite bitter melon juice in the food ration, and washed the skirt of the nun uniform. Fortunately, your enemy is only a tank-level Honkaiju, this kind of monster You are already familiar with it.

"...No, I'm still a little worried... Theresa, take this weapon. I once told you that the genes in your body come from the greatest Valkyrie Kallen Kaslana, and this It is also the weapon she once used - Judah's oath. It will protect you in my place during the battle."

The so-called fate is like this, it cannot be broken away or disobeyed.

The so-called "restraint" is like this, the tighter it gets, the deeper it becomes.

"I am guilty of selling the blood of innocent people."

Otto closed his eyes high in the air and murmured scriptures that he did not believe in.

“Father, into your hands I commit my soul.”

Otto's other hand clenched the cross tightly. The sharp edge of the cross easily scratched the skin of the soul steel body, but it was not stained with blood.

It actually doesn't matter whether it's bloody or not, just like many things don't matter anymore.

The golden light spread out around the small and inconspicuous cross, and quickly condensed into a light curtain that enveloped the fighter, forming an oval-shaped barrier.

Everything inside the barrier was dyed purple, and Velvet's body suddenly hurt, and she could hardly hold the control stick of the plane, but the pain quickly dissipated.

It was only then that she realized what Otto meant by "power".

"That feeling just now...you are the Herrscher of Restraint in this era!?"

"Ma'am, you're making a bit of a fuss."

Otto's response was in his usual "annoying" style.

"That's not the point! Did you know that I have the genes of Honkai Beast in my body? Mei's existence also relies on the stigmata. If that lasted a little longer, Mei and I would have died!"

"Calm down, calm down, ma'am. Aren't you still alive? Don't worry, a real Herrscher is different from the cold things like the Key of God. I can give you the power to act in this barrier, to keep the energy supply of this fighter running normally, and even to maintain the mental communication network created by Mr. Su while [Constraining] - just now it was just because I used this power for the first time, so I was a little unfamiliar. Don't worry, there will definitely not be a second time."

"Do you want to do it again?"

In the boring bickering, the fighter gradually approached the dark purple Tower of Babel.

Although it is close, the distance is actually quite far, even beyond the range of the average person's vision - looking at something 10,000 meters away is an almost non-existent experience for most people.

The next moment, the plane seemed to hit something.

The collision was not violent. The defense that blocked the fighter was not an unbreakable line, but a slightly resilient barrier.

Whatever it was, in the face of the invalidation of [Constraints], the barrier's blocking of the fighter only existed at the moment of contact.

The plane successfully entered the [Absolute Denial Zone] 10,000 meters away from the Tower of Babel. Neither Wei Wei nor Mei felt any "discomfort". It can only be said that when the power of constraints appeared on their side, it was quite useful.

"Wei Wei, fly close to the Tower of Babel, Su, is Mei not here yet?"

Mei still closed her eyes and gave orders until half a minute later, as if she had calculated the time accurately. When she opened her eyes, she could clearly see every dark purple brick and tile that made up the Tower of Babel through the cockpit of the plane.

The gaps between the bricks and stones were not small, but the purple energy of collapse was constantly escaping from the gaps that should have been pitch black, which made this already heavy and terrifying building even more weird. Coupled with the black clouds that gathered from time to time above the head, it did not look like a giant tower built to spread the name of mankind in mythology, but rather a dark castle in the night of a certain death country.

"How is it, Dr. Mei, have you found anything?"

Otto's voice sounded softly.

But before answering this question, Mei asked a rhetorical question:

"How long can your barrier last?"

"Are you underestimating me, Dr. Mei? The eleventh Herrscher of the previous civilization supported a constraint barrier with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers for nearly a day, and if it is a barrier of this size, I think it would not matter if I could support it for another day and night."

"Well, then the plane will circle around the Tower of Babel a few more times, and if it is attacked, we will leave. But...Has Raiden Mei not arrived yet?"

Mei asked again unconsciously. However, no one could respond to her.

So, she bit her lip, held onto the cockpit wall with her hands, and observed something carefully.

When the plane flew around the Tower of Babel for the eighteenth time, Mei spoke again:

"There is no doubt that this tower is the product of the world bubble of the Domination Theater embedded in the intrinsic world, but because it was embedded too quickly and too suddenly, the boundary of this world bubble has not been completely eliminated - after all, it is a boundary that can resist the erosion of the quantum sea. Even if it should no longer exist, it still forms a layer of [binding] in this posture. It has affected the collapse energy that originally belonged to the world bubble of the Domination Theater in the Tower of Babel to a certain extent, so it will form an [absolute rejection area] 10,000 meters away from the tower."

"In other words, if time is extended, after this layer of boundary gradually merges and dissolves with the world, there will be more collapse energy flowing out of the tower. Will the world be destroyed faster than we expected? This is really not good news."

"No, this is good news. Very good news."

Mei is not in the habit of explaining her battle plan, but if the object is a smart person, such as Mikael, such as Otto, she is still willing to communicate a few words.

"Excessive accumulation of Honkai energy is not a good thing for Herrscher. It is true that this means that they can obtain nearly infinite power without even drawing from the Imaginary Tree, but the power of a Herrscher core has a threshold after all, and it is impossible for it to utilize all the Honkai energy. Normally, nothing will happen, just because the Honkai energy is too little."

"Too little? Dr. Mei... You don't want to..."

"That's right, just like in Changkong City, when the accumulation of Honkai energy reaches a certain level, it will automatically generate an imaginary singularity - this is the world's The law, even the end, cannot stop or reverse this process. And now the Tower of Babel is not in trouble, nothing more than there are two Herrschers inside, the tenth Herrscher and the second Herrscher. The second Herrscher is essentially a multi-core Herrscher, and the less than 7000HW of Honkai energy is just enough for them to squander.

"But if Honkai energy continues to increase, until there is at least 1000HW more Honkai energy when the upper limit of the Honkai energy of these two Herrscher cores is filled, enough to cause the birth of an imaginary singularity, then we can... create a new Herrscher."

"Hmm... a crazy idea, but I like it. To be honest, Dr. Mei, we met too late. If we met earlier, we might have a lot of common topics."

"Sorry, I'm a married woman."

"Huh?"

Realizing that it was his frivolity that caused Mei to have some misunderstanding, Otto did not rush to explain. He suddenly felt that the world did not seem to have changed much, and this misunderstanding was still so interesting.

And Dr. Mei just waited quietly and quietly in the boring circle of the plane until she heard the thunder in the clouds.

"Raiden Mei is here."

Su's voice sounded in the mental communication network. Apart from the tacit understanding, another subtext of this sentence was that Mei was also pulled into the communication network, and Mei could directly issue any orders.

"Mei, time is tight, I'll be frank. Has anyone told you that all the Herrscher cores are actually connected together?"

Mei had just arrived. After learning what happened in this world, she still had a lot of questions in her stomach, but now she was suppressed by Mei's strong attitude.

"Hershers Core? Connected?"

"Yes, this is due to the nature of the Herrscher Core... There is no time to explain now, you just need to accept this. By the way, Mei, let me ask you, after half a year of exploring the Paradise, can you trust me?"

"... Probably, yes."

"That's good. What I am going to say next is quite informative, and it will be troublesome if you are skeptical. The Herrscher Core is essentially connected together, which is actually meaningless most of the time, but sometimes, such as in special cases like the Tenth Herrscher, they can use this to create a means of communication that relies on quantum entanglement and ignores distance. And for you, a Herrscher who has [Emerged], this point has a higher value--

"After the Herrscher has [Emerged], he can sink his consciousness into the depths of the Herrscher Core. If there are two Herrschers who have [Emerged], they can completely sense each other in this way. But even if only one Herrscher [Emerged], there is a great probability that he can contact the Herrscher who [has not [Emerged]]. On this basis, if the object you are looking for is deeply entangled with you, then the possibility of success will also increase accordingly. "

"Doctor Mei, do you want me to sink my consciousness deep into the core, and then feel Kiana's situation, determine Kiana's specific location, or even provide help to Kiana directly?"

"Yes."

"May I ask, this information is..."

"Mikael summarized it."

"...I understand, I will try my best, and then...I will definitely do it."

"Well, then..."

"Wait, Mei, look at the ground!"

"Okay" was interrupted by Vivi's scream before she said it.

The fuselage flipped, and Mei supported the cockpit cover with both hands and looked up at the ground. Even though she was used to seeing strong winds and waves, she couldn't help shrinking her pupils when facing the scene below--

The doors and windows of the lower level of the Tower of Babel opened, and countless black dots flew out of the tower, and then pieced together into huge bodies in mid-air.

"Vilvi, descend. Otto, the defense is up to you. "

Mei ordered without hesitation.

The fighter plane rushed directly into the dense black dots.

"Bang!"

The black dots passed the restraining barrier that could not block any real objects, and slammed into the canopy, directly dyeing half of the canopy red.

Mei looked at the half face hanging in the gap between the canopy and the fuselage, and the eyeballs connected by nerves and floating in the air, and did not speak for a while.

And when her eyes turned to the other side, she saw giants thousands of meters high.

The giants had no heads, only strong bodies and slender limbs.

This was nothing.

But what if...

The giants' limbs were made up of a string of heads, and the giants' bodies were made up of headless torsos?

"Are these all the people who were swallowed by the Tower of Babel before? "

"Boom--"

Countless silver threads hung down from the sky, connecting the giant's hands and feet one by one.

Then, the silver threads jumped, and the giants began to mechanically take steps forward. For a moment, even they who were flying in the air felt the vibration of the sky and the earth.

The hands and feet of the headless corpse that made up the giant's torso twitched and trembled with the vibration. There were too many black spots rolling down the giant's limbs. They were eyeballs that could not withstand such violent movements and flew out of the eye sockets.

"Ugh--"

Wei Weiwei had already turned on the autopilot mode and vomited at her top hat. Looking at the restricted scene in front of her, and smelling the smell of Wei Weiwei's vomit, Mei's throat kept squirming-even if she was calm, her body's instinctive reaction made her almost unable to hold back vomiting.

What's more, this is still high in the sky--

But the urge to vomit was quickly suppressed by fear:

"Wei Weiwei! Get out of the way! "

The giants right below the plane suddenly turned around, their headless necks tilted back slightly, and they stared at the plane whizzing by.

They couldn't reach the height, but it didn't matter.

The arm made up of countless human brains swung like a catapult, and the puppets at the end of the arm broke away at the end of the swing. In the blink of an eye, thousands of human heads smashed the plane to pieces.

Fortunately, a red lightning flashed, and less than a second later, Mei, Velvet, Otto and Mei appeared at the third floating port of Destiny.

But everyone's face was... not very good...

"Ugh——"

At the last moment before vomiting, the Conductor switched his personality to the Magician. He took over the consciousness of his body, which was still unclear about the situation, and was about to say some exaggerated opening remarks and a few new magic tricks that he had racked his brains to come up with, but his legs went weak and he fell to the ground and vomited.