Chapter 238 The Eighth Collapse Officially Begins!

"Clang-clang-clang-"

As the white wrist gently shook, the remaining alcohol surged in the tin-colored small pot, making continuous echoes.

Spasi pinched the spout of the pot and naturally raised the pot to his lips, but as soon as the pot was raised, he put it down with a bitter smile.

"Hey, hey! The combat meeting is about to start, so you can't get drunk. Although young people like Mei and Mikael are polite enough, if I lose face in front of that snake, I don't know how she will laugh at me in the future."

While complaining about himself, he controlled his left hand to screw the cap of the wine pot on. But when this action was transmitted from his mind to his left arm, the corresponding position suddenly felt a piercing pain, accompanied by the sound of the iron saw motor, and the constant friction between flesh, bones and metal rang in his ears.

"Ugh! Ah!"

"Dang-dang-dang!"

The wine flask in his hand fell to the ground. Su and Bolong turned around and quickly helped the pale-faced Spasi up.

"Doctor, are you okay?"

"Teacher! You..."

Spasi's teeth were trembling. He stretched out his right index finger and shook it, indicating that he was fine.

When Mei and Mobius, who had come to the second laboratory earlier, heard the noise and rushed over, Spasi's abnormality gradually disappeared.

His face was as pale as paper, and there were beads of sweat on his face. He looked around and explained in a low voice:

"It's okay... It's just phantom limb pain."

He looked at the wine stains on the ground at his feet, looked up at Bolong, and said apologetically: "I have to trouble you again."

Bolong wore sunglasses and nodded expressionlessly. Su helped his teacher up and walked back to the control console with Mei, who was a little shaky.

"Teacher, why don't you let Mikael take a look at it for you... With his current ability, it's not difficult to repair a broken arm."

"Ahem——"

Before Spathi could say anything, he heard another familiar voice behind him:

"Although it sounds magical, Doctor, Su is not bragging for me."

There is no doubt that it was Mikael, Ellie and Aponia who crossed the space rift and appeared directly in the laboratory.

"Of course I know the power of the First Ruler... In the past two years, the [God] who can revive people's broken limbs in their invisible sleep has been circulated among the soldiers. It must be you."

"In fact, it's not that beautiful. The newly constructed limbs are often not matched with the original body. Those with milder conditions can return to the battlefield after training, but most people can no longer reach the level of a warrior."

Mikael explained a few words, and with a blue light on his hand, he was about to reach out to Spathi's broken left arm.

But Spathi shook his head and refused.

"Su has advised me more than once, but it's not necessary."

"Teacher, this is different from ordinary medical treatment. It doesn't require any resources."

Su still insisted, but Spasi just smiled back.

"Of course I know this, but the meaning of scars has never been pain or healing, but it can make people remember something..."

He raised his head at a 45-degree angle and looked at the iron-gray ceiling, as if that could prevent the waves in his eyes from falling.

Mikael shook his head helplessly at Su. If the object did not cooperate, he would not be able to complete the reconstruction smoothly.

"Okay, let's stop chatting here."

Mei, who had been standing aside without saying a word from beginning to end, interrupted a few people at the right time.

"By the way, is it because of the Eighth Herrscher that we were all called here?"

Mikael secretly held Ellie's hand and squeezed it slightly.

"Where has a similar riot broken out again?"

"Not really. Since you finished your mission, a total of thirty-three hours have passed, and most of the riots around the world have subsided. This is enough to reflect that although these riots have realistic reasons, the Eighth Herrscher must have also interfered. De Moana Chino is just a city she focuses on."

"Mei, just tell me, what new situation has emerged?"

"..."

Over the years, everyone knows each other's words too well. The so-called affirmation first and then denial. Mikael knew that there must be a new situation, otherwise they would not have called them and Aponia.

Mei pushed her glasses and tried to answer the irrelevant question in a calm tone: "Kai... Sakura and Kevin, how are they doing now?"

Ellie rolled her eyes, took a half step forward calmly, and said exaggeratedly: "Oh! Dear Mei, Kevin's situation is not good!"

Mei folded her hands on her chest, and her breathing gradually became long and heavy.

Alicia unwillingly raised her chest and faced her, her tone still so unreserved, Mei had been mentally prepared for this, she was confident that she could even guess what Ali was going to say - she just wanted to use Kevin's situation to induce her to show her long-lost girlish attitude, and then tease her to ease the heavy atmosphere lingering over everyone's heads.

But just as Mei was secretly thinking about whether she should cooperate with her for once or remain solemn and rational, Ali's words caught her off guard -

"No!"

Ally held her chin up, paced two steps in a pretentious manner, then sighed and spread her hands:

"I just said the opposite! Kevin is in a good condition now, and the so-called not so good is for you, Mei."

"……What's the meaning?"

Looking at Alicia's sly eyes, Mei couldn't help but have a bad feeling.

"I heard from dear Aponya that Kevin's life in the dream was very comfortable. He was making love to Mei in the dream... Oh, it's a pity. You can't see him being forced into a deep sleep with a smile on his face. Look, it’s hard to say that he’s in a bad state, right?”

"...Let's talk about serious topics."

Mikael silently pulled Ally back, and after two interruptions, it was time to get down to business.

However, he also felt that the matter had not yet become extremely urgent. He thought that his ability to observe what was happening was not as good as that of Ai Li. Since Ai Li would jump out to lighten the atmosphere, and since Mei did not interrupt her, then the matter was probably still stuck so far. On the edge of "serious" and "not serious".

At least it's not urgent.

"Here's the thing."

In the awkward silence, Spacey spoke.

"Director Fall, well, he was Su's mentor when he was an intern. After he joined Fire Chaser, he still focused on the treatment of Honkai Disease. Later, ordinary hospitals no longer admitted patients with Honkai Disease. Instead, they were all sent to the branch hospital established by Fire Chaser Moth, so Farr went to the branch hospital with the intention of getting close to the cases. "

When Spacy said this, he couldn't help but pause for a moment. It was not to take time for everyone to digest the information, and the amount of information in this paragraph was not large.

This silence was simply a form of mourning - everyone present knew the true nature of Honkai Disease and that it was "incurable." Even from another perspective, the reason why Fire Chaser prohibits ordinary hospitals from admitting Honkai patients is to pool the resources of these patients so that they can be used to make... serum.

Theoretically, this serum is only for the treatment of soldiers of the coalition government. Of course, there must be a certain amount of stock in the hands of some people on the black market for the use of those in the upper class. But as far as the Fire Chasing Moth itself is concerned, demand for this thing still exceeds supply.

In the final analysis, the serum can only neutralize the Honkai energy in the body once. If you continue to engage in work that exposes too much Honkai energy after recovery, it is almost certain that you will contract Honkai disease again. There are more than 50,000 people in the Fire Chaser headquarters alone. If one person prepares a serum, it would require no less than 50 million corpses of Honkai Disease patients...

But that’s not the focus of today. After everyone observed a moment of silence, Spacy continued:

"The first person to contact Farr was his former colleague, well, it was the Brindi City Hospital. They received thirty-seven patients in five hours, all of whom fell into coma for a long time due to unknown reasons. No one took it seriously at first, but when the number of people came up, they knew something was wrong, so they called Farr to ask."

"And Fal naturally thought of you and Su."

Mikael followed his words and deduced.

"When Su heard this symptom, he naturally thought of Kevin and Ying, and Mei... you were confirming the symptoms of those patients with Farr, and expanding the search scope to explore the popularity of this comatose phenomenon around the world. , right?"

Before Mei could nod to confirm that this was indeed the case, he took the first step and asked:

"What's the result?"

Indeed, if there was no result, how could Mei call him over.

"This symptom, let's call it narcolepsy for the time being, is very similar to Kevin and Ying's symptoms from the onset. After getting the consent of the family, Farr tried to use physical means to wake up the patient, but failed. After being forcibly awakened by Hen, four of the five samples showed signs of dementia, and only one was awake, but he cried and clamored to go back to his dream. "

"Sweet dream?"

"Well, that must be...a dream that is very accommodating to people's wishes, so that people would still nervously think that the real world is fake after waking up from the dream, haha..."

Mei rarely said a lengthy and gritted word, and she didn't know who she was insinuating.

"Currently, I can find more than 5,000 confirmed cases around the world, most of which are concentrated in big cities... However, considering the unnatural urbanization of the current population structure, and the situation in suburbs and villages and towns is very It makes sense that it is difficult to synchronize to the information network. "

"Have you responded to the coalition government?"

Mikael knew that what he was going to face next was a completely different battle from the previous Honkai.

In the past, when facing the Herrscher, you only had to rely on your fists to defeat and kill the opponent and you would be successful.

However, due to the special nature of the Eighth Herrscher's power, her attacks are like choking smoke, and you can't tell where it comes from for a while. After choking people enough, they can escape intact, and wait until the humans recover. Shenlai wanted to fight back, and punched the smoke with his fists, but it couldn't cause any damage...

In fact, it was indeed a good opportunity to nip the disaster in the cradle when we were in De Moana Chino. At that time, the Eighth Herrscher stirred up the storm but was not suspected for a while. It was most likely that he was a little arrogant and actually chose to face the enemy head-on when the fusion warriors were approaching...

Of course, there is a high probability that it is because she did not guess that Ai Li would be immune to her mental interference to a certain extent.

Just like Mikael, he also ignored Ellie's state of mind. But speaking of it, he still thinks that he has more responsibilities. If he didn't seek stability so much, or... didn't care so much about the lives of those people, but directly relied on the power of space to quickly rush to the battlefield and kill the Herrscher... then... It's not impossible...

In short, the battle with the Eighth Herrscher will definitely not be resolved in a short period of time. It will definitely be a protracted battle. And it will no longer be a simple "wrestling", but a war of strategy and resource allocation.

At the very least, the Fire Moth has absolutely no time and resources to deal with these "sleeping syndrome" people, so the joint government must take action.

Of course, the answer is obvious——

"As for the coalition government... they refused and said that they have not detected the Herrscher-level Honkai reaction, so they can only give us a little help."

"Okay, it's better than nothing."

Mikael cursed secretly in his heart, wondering whether he should use the power of the Eighth Herrscher to cooperate with Aponya to directly brainwash and transform those people after the eighth collapse.

But it is not easy to achieve. This is not something that can be solved by just controlling a few leaders, but Mikael has already archived this idea in his mind.

Returning his thoughts to the present, Mikael suddenly felt that something was wrong - he seemed to have discovered something "hua"!

"wrong!"

"What's wrong?"

Mikael's hands moved back and forth on his chest, quickly organizing words——

"Whether it was the initial riots or today's sleeping sickness, they all show a global distribution trend. So the question is - how does the Herrscher spread these mental attacks?"

Several people present fell into deep thought for a moment. Everyone was obsessed with the phenomenon, but tacitly forgot to investigate the cause and process.

Only Ellie asked stupidly:

"Huh? Do you need any special transmission method? Kevin and Sakura seemed to be directly affected by the spirit at that time?"

"That's different."

Mikael casually poked her cheek, causing her to puff out her mouth in dissatisfaction and instantly transform into a puffer fish.

Only then did he remember... Just like Ellie holding his arm earlier, this interactive action that had always existed since they were children seemed to have been missing in the past two years...

But now was not the time to think about this. After being stunned for a moment, he explained to Ellie:

"How close were Kevin and Sakura to the Herrscher at that time? It's a street, less than thirty meters. The Herrscher's mental interference can naturally affect them easily. But the Herrscher can really spread his mental attacks in a direct way Around the world? I don’t think so.”

Mikael turned to Mei, who had already realized something.

"Taking our actions in De Moana Chino as an example, Aponia's limit is to give discipline to more than 200,000 people concentrated in the city center at the same time. If the space is enlarged, or the number of people is larger, Anything more would be difficult to achieve.”

Aponya nodded silently to show that Mikael was not wrong.

"Hen and Destobia are no exception. Destobia's specialty is telekinesis. Not to mention, Mei, what you just said, asking Hen to forcefully wake up the patient, is probably not a remote operation, right?"

Mei nodded. It was precisely because of this that Hen, as the oldest warrior, did not appear here.

"Of course I'm not trying to compare Herrschers with the ability of fusion warriors. Kevin only fused the emperor-level Parfanti, but he could easily kill the fifth Herrscher. Qianjie was not even a fusion warrior, so he killed the fifth Herrscher instantly. The Four Herrschers. The fact that Aponia and Hen can't do it doesn't eliminate the possibility that the Herrscher can do it, but it at least means that the possibility of the Herrscher being able to do it is not high.

"And I have some evidence - if the Herrscher directly influenced them, it should be like Kevin and Sakura falling into dreams at the same time without distinction, rather than in this staged manner."

"Yes." Mei confirmed Mikael's guess, took over the conversation and continued to analyze: "If you think about it carefully, the Herrscher did not try to control everyone when he was in De Moana Chino, but instead controlled an individual As a transfer station for mental interference, this is still based on Mo Yuli's cooperation, but it may also be that she is lazy. "

Mikael blinked. Although Mei's last sentence sounded unreliable, his intuition felt that it might be more true...

Although this intuition should be even more unreliable...

"In short, we hypothesize...hypothesis! Her influence needs to be transmitted through some special channels, just like some infectious diseases. This can explain why humans around the world do not all fall into deep sleep at the same time, but one after another. One, it keeps expanding.”

"So, if this transmission path can be found, then we can follow the clues to find the opponent's location, and even if it doesn't work, we can also take corresponding countermeasures."

Su rarely found an opportunity to interject.

"But the question is...what is the so-called Tujing?"

Ellie started to scratch her ears and cheeks, Su closed her eyes, Aponya lowered her eyes and prayed, Spacy had already hidden aside and secretly drank most of the bottle of wine, and Mebius had not paid much attention to this from the beginning. Instead, he held a stack of documents and kept thumbing through them.

As for Mei, she stood motionless, as if she had a plan in mind, but also as if she hadn't started thinking at all.

She is definitely the person who has the deepest thoughts at the moment, at least Mikael can't get the slightest trace of happiness, anger, sorrow or joy from her face.

But that unreliable intuition once again reminded him that Mei probably already had the answer in her heart, but she couldn't confirm it yet. She was waiting for someone to give the same answer as her.

Mikael took two deep breaths and began to ponder.

His first reaction was undoubtedly to look for the memory of the eighth collapse of the previous civilization, but that was a very old memory after all. Even if time is only regarded as a linear concept, it can be regarded as something that happened twelve years ago.

Moreover, an awkward sense of self-esteem surged in my heart again-why do I have to rely on those memories?

Why can't I rely on the existing information and my own analysis to infer this path?

What is the existing information?

Fainted?

No, the important thing is not the single-layer information.

Just like the three-point positioning method used to locate the position of the Herrscher in De Moana Chino, its essence is the intersection of lines. At this time, Mikael crossed the description of sleeping sickness and riot in his mind, trying to find the intersection-

Global...Cities!

Both riots and sleeping sickness basically occurred in big cities.

This phenomenon has been explained by Mei before. Because of the large-scale collapse disaster, the wilderness became unsuitable for survival, and a large number of people poured into the city, forming a deformed high urbanization rate.

Even in the villages and towns that are still struggling, due to the backwardness of the medical system and the network and news system...

Yes!

Mikael clapped his hands excitedly, shocking the people around him.

He opened his mouth, and just as others opened their eyes wide to listen to his speech, he stroked the hair on his chin and started thinking again.

"If all the excuses given by Mei are overturned, then the Internet is indeed the most likely way. The Internet is the fastest place for information transmission in modern society. Not counting water and air, it is indeed the fastest place for transmitting "viruses."

So, he raised his head confidently, and Mei and Ellie happened to do the same thing.

Three lines of sight collided in the air, and after a few seconds, the three people said in unison:

"Internet!"

"Internet!"

"Internet!"

"Puff——" It is rare to see Abonya and Su laugh at the same time. The former shook her head and said helplessly:

"As expected of Ellie, she always brings surprises."

"Although this is just a guess, it is not difficult to verify it."

Mikere said immediately.

Mei understood, and she dialed Fal's communication first without Mikael saying the specific "verification measures".

"Director Fal, it's me, Mei, please ask some patients with sleeping sickness, whether they browsed the Internet before falling asleep?"

"This... I can only help ask, the hospital is already a little short of manpower..."

"Hurry up, half an hour at most, I need at least one hundred samples."

Mei did not pay attention to Fal's complaints, nor did she understand the executor's difficulties. She just gave the order roughly and hung up the communication directly.

The waiting time was anxious and torturous. Fortunately, although Fal complained, he also sent the data in time——

"Sure enough!"

Mei was surprised and happy, and then quickly rubbed her face. She hadn't slept for two or three days. Now that most of the problems have been solved, her body and mind are slightly relaxed, but more tired.

"Oh! Dear Mei, how about we take a rest for a while? The kind of rest that only girls can have!"

Ellie supported her at the right time. She wanted to refuse, but she heard Ellie continue to fool her: "Are you still worried about dealing with the Herrscher? Don't worry, Mikael is still here. Come on, I'll take you to see Kevin."

Mei was dragged away by Ellie.

At the same time, Mikael turned to Su and told him:

"Three things, first, set a countdown alarm for 168 hours."

"What does this mean?"

When Su was confused, Aponia helped explain:

"Once a person sleeps for too long, it is difficult to wake up, and seven days is a watershed in terms of body, mind, material and consciousness.

"Or to put it another way - we have to kill the Herrscher within seven days, otherwise many people will die, including Kevin and Sakura."

After Aponia finished explaining, Mikael immediately took over and continued:

"Second, let Erwin conduct further investigation. Since it is a mental influence spread through the Internet, what is the specific method? Is it a fixed website? Or video? Or audio? This is not difficult to check, just look for commonalities.

"Third..."

Mikael raised his head, looked at Mebius, and nodded.

"Use Mo Yuli's factor to transform all the remaining qualified people in the base into spiritual perception fusion warriors."

"Mikael, this..."

Mikael interrupted Su with just one sentence:

"You are also one of the qualified people."

For a moment, determination, excitement, worry, fear, and many other emotions mixed together, blocking Su's throat.

Finally, Mikael walked into the war room, walked to the command platform in full view of everyone, and gently touched the microphone--

"Sorry to bother you, but... the eighth collapse has officially begun!"