Chapter 8 The Herrscher of Fire

The underground base looked ordinary. Not to mention human figures, not even a mouse was seen.

Mikael was a little disappointed. After all, the combination of the Second Herrscher and Siberia was really easy to make people imagine. He once thought that this so-called R country military base was the Tower of Babylon in the pre-civilization...

I didn't expect that it was indeed a formal military base. There were no messy things like human experiments. Except for the Honkai energy storage tank and necessary power equipment, the entire base had nothing that could be dismantled and moved, leaving only a messy and disordered wire on the ground.

"Headquarters calling the fifth team. The saturation fire attack on the Herrscher has begun. It is expected that the energy of the Herrscher will be exhausted within half an hour. Please receive the order from the fifth team..."

Himiko suddenly reached out and turned off the communication equipment. They had rested in front of the Honkai energy storage tank for a night. At the beginning, the ground would occasionally tremble once or twice-this at least made her feel that the fifth team had not been completely abandoned.

But the last tremor was five hours ago.

At this time, the main force of the Fire Moth should have withdrawn to a place hundreds of kilometers away from Irkune City, because once the Honkai energy in the spherical container with a diameter of three meters in front of her leaked, the calculated radiation radius would be more than 500 kilometers.

"Mikael, Ellie, as the captain, I have something to apologize to you."

Himiko's voice was not loud, but it kept echoing in the small basement.

She wanted to confess everything at the end, Ellie stuck out her pink tongue and replied nonchalantly: "No need to say, Captain Himiko, we all know it."

"The headquarters' idea is for us to leak a small amount of Honkai energy, lure the Herrscher with insufficient energy here, and then release all the Honkai energy in an instant, and die with the Herrscher, right, Captain Himiko?" Mikael crossed his arms, leaned against the cold wall, and added silently.

"You..." Himiko didn't know how to speak for a while.

She pursed her lips, her eyes were obviously a little sour, but she finally showed a relieved smile.

"You two fools came even though you guessed it..."

"Don't say that, Captain Himiko. Look, if we hadn't arrived in time, you might not have made it to the underground base!" Alicia poked her cheek with her finger and said with a smile.

"Ahem!" Mikael interrupted her chatter with a cough, "Captain, let me be frank. This plan of the headquarters won't work..."

"..." Himiko was silent for a moment, slowly closed her eyes, and asked weakly, "Why not?"

"If Honkai can be compared to the ocean, then the Herrscher is the most active fish in it... How can a fish be drowned?"

"Are you... guessing? Or is there any evidence?"

"Of course it's a guess!"

"Evidence."

Mikael covered his forehead, "Alias, there's no need to hide it from Captain Himiko at this time."

"Captain Himiko... do you believe me?" Mikael's tone was full of expectation.

Himiko pondered for a moment, then nodded firmly, "Believe!"

"Okay!" Mikael walked to the Honkai Energy Saving Tank and reached out to grab the switch of the tank. "I have another plan with a higher success rate, but when I report to the Fire Moth later, I hope the captain can help me cover it up."

"What...what!"

The switch turned gently, and in the tiny gap, the extremely rich Honkai Energy turned into wisps of purple smoke and drifted out.

Himiko's body stiffened and she took a deep breath unconsciously. She didn't know why she had an inexplicable trust in the boy and girl in front of her at that moment, and why she didn't stop the boy's actions even though she had time.

As if she was stunned, she watched Mikael open Pandora's box in advance.

"What is he going to do... turn us into dead soldiers?"

Himiko's mind flashed such unrealistic fantasies. She had seen Dr. Mobius command scientific researchers to perform live dissections on dead soldiers and read their reports.

She still remembered that the report mentioned that the dead soldiers were the living dead formed when humans were exposed to Honkai energy radiation beyond their adaptability. Before they die, they need to endure the pain of their skin and body being gradually disintegrated into ashes by Honkai energy...

But these feelings have not been realized.

Under Himiko's shocked eyes, strands of Honkai energy that escaped flowed into the boy's body like water flowing into the sea, without making any sound.

"What is this...?"

Himiko thought of her own situation at the first time.

"I remember that the Honkai energy resistance of these two recruits is abnormally high. Could they be the same as me... No, even if so, with a mortal body, it is impossible to withstand such a huge amount of Honkai energy!"

This is not a metaphysical problem... This is a scientific problem!

One minute passed, two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes, half an hour...

Hunkai energy continued to flow into Mikael's body, but he was always like nothing happened.

Alicea might be a little bored, she rushed directly to Himiko and took her arm.

"Captain Himiko, the battle is over, you must thank us!"

Himiko's mouth twitched slightly. Talking about victory at this time was really a fantasy in her eyes.

But she actually admires Alicia's character. She is happy no matter where she goes and is full of hope for the future... As she gradually gets used to death and despair, she only lives in the present, unwilling or daring to look forward to the future. It is very rare among the fire-chasing moths.

So she forced a smile and responded casually: "Okay, in addition to the celebration held by Fire Chasing Moth, I will give you two more tickets to Eden's concert. How about it?"

"Hey! The captain is going to bleed a lot if he has tickets to the big star Eden's concert!"

"Demonstration!" Himihu raised his hand and gave Ellie a slap in the face, "You asked someone to buy tickets for Eden's concert two days ago and you were defrauded of the money. Do you think I don't know?"

Alicia didn't expect that Himihu would reveal this matter in front of Mikael. She instantly blushed, became angry, and her eyes wandered, looking left and right, trying to relieve the embarrassment.

"So you really went and bought it..."

Mikael tried hard to hold back his laughter. He couldn't help but recall the first time Ellie was deceived. It was a thin brown-haired girl who was a few years younger than them. She tricked Ellie into giving her an apple candy, but then At that time, Ai Li didn't care at all.

By the time she was deceived for the second time, Ellie was already lying on the ground, rolling around, crying and making trouble...

Perhaps this is the accumulation of human nature...

"Huh..." He exhaled a breath, and all the Honkai energy in the piggy bank was sucked into his body.

He couldn't help but think of the scene when he and Ellie were bragging that he could drink three liters of water.

It's as if the body is a huge balloon that will burst when poked by the embroidery needle.

"Are you ready, Alicia?"

"Well, of course!"

Mikael turned his head slightly and looked at the stunned Himiko out of the corner of his eye.

"Captain...yes, I am the Herrscher, the Herrscher who fights for mankind. Just like you, I am a moth chasing the light of fire!"

"boom!"

There was an explosion above the head, and the ceiling was like paper, which was broken by the second Herrscher's bucket.

The broken rock and soil seemed to be burying everything, but the light curtain constructed by Mikael isolated it all.

Himihu looked up. From a distance of tens of meters, he could only see a purple figure the size of a grain of rice in the night sky, giving people the illusion of a frog at the bottom of a well.

The collapse of the ground short-circuited a large area of ​​wires in the base, and sparks spread along the hanging wires until they reached the feet of the self-proclaimed Herrscher.

It really looks like...

Chasing the famous flame of the future.

"Headquarters, this is the frontline command headquarters. It has been detected that the Honkai energy reaction in Irkune City has increased sharply. The Honkai energy reaction has increased by more than 4000HW in a short period of time. Next, drones will be used to conduct battlefield reconnaissance."

"Headquarters, we found a large number of battle traces of mechas, rail guns, and aerial battleships around the city of Irkune, and requested confirmation of the itinerary of our troops."

"Headquarters, no battle debris left by the unknown force has been found..."

"Headquarters, Herrscher's body has been found, as well as the fifth team, Captain Himihu... They seem to be still alive!"