Chapter 286 Tired

"Hmm? It's over?"

Su breathed a sigh of relief when he sensed that Mikael had walked out of the ward.

"Hmm, it went much more smoothly than expected."

As Mikael answered, he raised his hands and rubbed his temples vigorously.

"No collapse, no loss of control, just a little confusion. Just a little guidance will be fine."

After listening to Mikael's words, Su shook his head.

"It's not that simple. If the person who went in was not you... After all, Hua is now also a monitoring target of the Fire Chaser Moth."

"Hmm?"

Mikael raised his eyebrows.

Being a monitored target does not mean that it is judged as an enemy, but that there is a possibility of losing control and must be vigilant.

For example, Mikael himself is the highest-level monitoring target of the Fire Chaser Moth.

In any case, this kind of vigilance means a kind of distrust. It's okay for Mikael himself, he is a Herrscher himself, and the seventh collapse is not far away. Even if the core members of the entire organization have never lost their trust in him, after all, they cannot demand this from hundreds of thousands of people in the entire organization. Mei also has to be responsible for more people.

But what about Hua?

"Su, you might as well explain it clearly. I just told her: You just saved the world. Is the world going to question her now?"

"No, no, no, Mikael, you may have some misunderstandings."

Su also rubbed his eyebrows like Mikael, and then explained:

"From my own perspective, of course I don't want to have any doubts about Hua. But she does have the possibility of causing great damage."

"Which fusion warrior doesn't have the possibility of causing great damage?"

Su shook his head again, signaling the man in front of him to calm down. Although the other party's tone was not angry, it just made the temperature much colder.

"So, Kevin and I, as well as Velvi, Mobius, Kosmo, etc., are all special surveillance targets of the Fire Moth, and our defense level is only lower than yours."

"That is to say, the attack on P-21 Island allowed Hua to successfully advance and reach this power threshold, right?"

After all, before this, although Hua was also one of the earliest fusion fighters, she never had any outstanding achievements and never showed her strength.

And the attack she made with the God Key, currently only two people in the Fire Moth can take it - Mikael is one, Alicia and Kevin are half each.

This is indeed a soaring growth, and it is understandable that people have some concerns.

Cooked Su still shook his head and denied:

"More than that, Hua... Mikael, you should not have seen the report about Hua's collapse and loss of control, right?"

Mikael frowned and did not answer.

After Hua used the first rated power of the Eighth God Key to kill the Tenth Herrscher Collective, he did fall into a short period of out-of-control, but before any results were achieved, he was forcibly interrupted by the consciousness left in the God Key by Mikael.

It is not surprising that the Eighth God Key recorded this part.

"But... since she is going to fall into the state of [artificial collapse], it is normal for her to lose control due to the breakdown of her sanity, right?"

"Mikael, don't deceive yourself. The purpose of performing a second operation on a fusion warrior is to keep her sanity in the state of [artificial collapse]. In other words, it is abnormal for Hua to lose control so easily."

"...Shenyin?"

"Yes, because of Shenyin."

Su was somewhat insensitive to Mikael's sharpness, but since he could guess it, Su felt that there was no need to spend the effort to explain it. He just added something that might be called a conclusion:

"She may never fall into [artificial collapse] again in the future."

"Maybe it's a blessing in disguise."

Speaking of this topic, Su closed his eyes again and murmured:

"It should be said that one never knows what good and bad things are..."

For those who have experienced the extreme pain from consciousness to body of [artificial collapse], never falling into [artificial collapse] again may be something to be envied.

But in certain circumstances, being unable to fall into artificial collapse means that when you need power the most, you lack the power to change everything, and in the end you can only return to the starting point of "I can't do anything".

So, good and bad are interdependent, and who can tell whether it is a blessing or a curse.

Mikael shook his head and took the initiative to change the subject:

"What about the captain? How is she now?"

He vaguely heard that Himiko's condition was not good, but Su did not say how bad it was.

But it was definitely not the case that he had to give up treatment, so Mikael came to see Hua first.

"How to say this..."

Su spread his hands rarely:

"In five days, we have used six serums on Captain Himiko."

"Six!"

Mikael was shocked himself.

"Why so many?"

Due to cost reasons, no one had ever enjoyed such treatment before. After all, six serums meant six thousand suffering Honkai patients.

Moreover, according to experience, one serum is enough to clear all the Honkai energy in a person's body. What does it mean to take six serums in just five days? It means that in such a short period of time, he has fallen into the late stage of Honkai disease six times in a row...

"What is going on?"

"..."

Su pondered for a long time, not knowing whether he had really put a lot of effort into carefully choosing words, or simply didn't know how to express it.

Mikael thought he was a relatively patient person, but patience was never a constant value once set. It would fluctuate with the mood, time, and the corresponding person. For example, now, the silence only lasted for half a minute, and Mikael already had an irresistible urge.

"Mikael, the principle of the serum... is to extract a very small amount of antibodies remaining in the body of each Honkai disease patient to decompose the Honkai energy radiation remaining in the body. You should understand this very well."

"Similar to (vaccine)."

"Yes, similar to (vaccine)."

Since the principle is exactly the same, the final result is also the same. Although the Honkai energy radiation will not produce any upgrade evolution to the antibody like a virus, the human body will produce corresponding adaptability, so the effect of the serum is actually geometrically reduced.

"Has the captain's body reached this point?"

"Well, the connection with the core of the Seventh Herrscher, even though it was only half of the core, still caused irreversible damage to her body, and her internal organs have been burned and charred. Of course, the most troublesome thing is the Honkai radiation that can't be removed. Now ordinary medical staff are not allowed to approach her ward."

"And the therapeutic effect of the serum has reached its limit. After all, she has used the serum twice before and once in the battle, which is already nine... The effect of the serum is better than nothing, right?"

Su opened his mouth, but in the blink of an eye, he quickly came to his senses and swallowed back the words that were about to blurt out--

"The inventory of serum is running out."

He couldn't control himself for a moment and almost said this question.

It is understandable that since Vostok, this has been at least the twelfth year that humans have been fighting Honkai, and there are less than two billion people who are still alive. They have a certain adaptability to Honkai radiation and are not as easily infected as before.

Correspondingly, the number of corpses of Honkai disease patients also dropped sharply, and even with such a small number of pitiful corpses, the Fire-Chasing Moth could not fully accept them - after all, the principle of serum is not very complicated, and privately made serum is rampant, and these "local snakes" are much faster than the Fire-Chasing Moth in collecting corpses.

Even without investigation, Su could guess that many of the corpses of patients controlled by the government were mostly sold to local serum private manufacturers at high prices by local bureaucrats.

If the amount of serum is sufficient, then Himiko's problem is not a problem. If one bottle a day is not enough, then ten bottles a day, and if ten bottles are not enough, then one hundred bottles. If all the remaining two billion people in the world are made into serum, a full two million bottles will definitely be enough to extend Himiko's life until the end.

But he finally did not tell Mikael about this problem. This is a consensus between him, Mei and Mobius. After all, even if he said it out loud, what can Mikael solve?

The power of the Sixth Herrscher can solve other problems of Himiko except Honkai disease, but this is something that humans can do.

And Mikael couldn't cure the Honkai disease anyway, and even his entering Himiko's ward was just adding fuel to the fire for her condition, which was why Su had repeatedly described Himiko's condition in an optimistic direction before.

He was afraid that Mikael would travel to Himiko's ward in a phase without knowing the situation, and then be irradiated by the Honkai energy of the Herrscher...

As for the serum issue, if the place needs to be rectified, it is also something that Mikael needs to "avoid suspicion", and there is no time - if he intervenes directly, it will expose the human's distrust of the Herrscher and the Fusion Warriors that was not originally revealed.

And if it is said that the serum is squeezed with power... that is just an idealized result. The Herrscher of Reason can only achieve permanent reproduction of things that are fully understood. It is not difficult to fully understand simple mechanical creations, water and coffee are not difficult either. His own body, because it is his own body, can barely be used, but the serum involving a lot of biochemical knowledge is naturally not included.

Mikael guessed something from Su's expression, but he didn't ask more.

Although he didn't know what Su wanted to say specifically, since he didn't say it in the end, it was something he thought Mikael shouldn't know, or it would be useless if he knew it.

But it doesn't matter. Mikael is not completely without guesses about Himiko's situation. In fact, he conducted some trivial experiments on possible situations a few days ago. He is sure to save Himiko in the worst case, but he needs some cooperation from Mobius.

And Mobius accepts everyone.

So, in the face of Su's concealment, he just shook his head, didn't ask anything, and disappeared instantly.

…………

"Captain?"

Hearing this title, Mikael couldn't help but stop. After all, in his heart, this title belongs only to Himiko, and he just happened to talk about Himiko with Su not long ago, so he hasn't been able to turn around this title in his mind.

It seemed to take him a long time to realize the change of identity. He turned around and saw that it was Imer who had just returned to the original world.

Mikael looked at the "Poison Pupa" logo on the side door frame and couldn't help but joked:

"You should have a day off. Why don't you go find Qianjie? Come to work directly?"

"Don't mention it. I was originally going to find Qianjie, but Erwin stopped me. Dr. Mebius seemed to have done some experiment on Qianjie. His mood has not been very stable these days. I heard that three simulation training grounds had been dismantled, and then Kevin took them to the surface for 'exercise training.'

Mikael nodded. He had heard about this, but he did not stop it, nor did he go to Mebius to ask for an explanation.

As for the battle between Kevin and Qianjie, he will not interfere. For the two at this moment, fighting for days and nights until both sides are exhausted may be the most appropriate way to vent their emotions.

He just said without any end:

"Maybe you should actually go find him."

Yimer's answer was to shrug and said helplessly:

"Of course I understand, but with the intensity of their fighting, I can't even get close... Let's not talk about this anymore. Captain, are you here to find Sakura?"

"Um."

"Poison Chrysalis has recently opened again. I heard from other people that Sakura left the base last night because she had field work. But if we contact you urgently, she can come back tomorrow. If it is a very important matter, Dr. Mei and the captain will approve it. Under such circumstances, can we use the power of the Herrscher to bring her back now, right?"

"...After a while, Dr. Mei will have an order to transfer Ying back to the headquarters. It's not a particularly urgent situation. Just ask her to come back tomorrow."

Mikael blinked, his mind was still hesitating before the words came out of his mouth.

In a sense, this is a very dangerous decision - judging from the intervals between recent Honkai outbreaks, there is no "safe period" to speak of now.

Perhaps it was because of his decision that the Twelfth Herrscher was born tonight before Sakura came back. Then the best situation for humans who had no choice but to do it was to be able to achieve the original Twelfth Time. The degree of collapse.

But... isn't this what Mikael is secretly looking forward to?

Anyway, the twelfth God's Key can also become the cornerstone of the "Palace of the Past". Let Ling become the "Herrscher" at the expense of her original consciousness. This is not only to advance the plan of the Paradise of the Past, but also to reduce the number of people in the past. Casualties caused by twelve collapses.

Two billion to one, Mikael watched the balance in his heart shake. Even if the weights on both sides were two billion to one, his sensibility still could not give an obvious judgment of which one was more important.

Or maybe, when he started thinking like this, his inner tendency was already obvious.

It's like a person wants to help himself make a decision by tossing a coin. Heads is the result he vaguely wants, tails is the result he doesn't want. If heads are thrown, everyone will be happy, but what if it is tails?

He will definitely think like this: "It doesn't count this time, let's throw it again!"

Then he will not be content to accept the decision given by the coin toss until it comes up heads.

Mikael felt that his psychology at this time was no different from this kind of person. The difference was that he did not have a chance to toss the coin a second time.

He has only one chance, and the person who tosses the coin is not him, not even a human being.

Therefore, all he could do was delay the time for making a decision by such an insignificant dozen hours.

If the Twelfth Herrscher was born during this time period, it would be "what a pity."

If the twelfth Herrscher is not born within this period, then he will come and talk to Sakura about Ling.

But it wasn't easy for him, even though it sounded like a passing of the buck.

No matter which decision is made half-heartedly, the guilt to be shouldered will not be reduced by half.

But it doesn’t matter anymore. Before that, let’s go back and sleep for a dozen hours.

…………

The original dormitory had long been destroyed by the seventh collapse, but Mikael later added a little creative spirit when constructing it.

Although today's dormitories still bear the name of dormitories, it may be more appropriate to call them apartments - after all, there is no shortage of space. They were only turned into dormitories to save costs, but the later reconstruction was "out of pocket" by Mikael. , then it doesn’t matter.

The structure and decoration of Mikael's apartment are no different from Kevin and May's. After all, it is a mass-produced product made by himself.

But as soon as he stepped into the door, Mikael noticed something unusual.

It is not a change that requires efforts to perceive through multiple powers. The fragrance in the air, the roaring sound of the range hood and the gas stove, the collision of the pot and the spatula, the sawing of the steam and the pot lid, as long as one is not blind and has a nose, Normal people who are not blocked or deaf can detect abnormalities, right?

"Ah! Are you back so early today?"

Ellie was wearing an apron, holding a spatula, and leaned half out of the kitchen.

Mikael was speechless for a moment, just looking at her blankly.

"Huh? Why are you so stunned?"

Ellie wiped her hands on her white apron, then walked up to Mikael on tiptoe, stretched out two fingers and waved them in front of Mikael's eyes:

"Look! What is this? Three, two, one, answer quickly!"

"three……"

Mikael deliberately reported the wrong number, and received a slight shock on his forehead. The movement was so fast that he had no time to hide. Of course, he would not hide, but at this speed, it was as if the person who did it was here. I could have guessed before that he would deliberately report an error.

"What? I come to your place once in a while and borrow the kitchen. Are you so surprised?"

"It's not surprising..."

"What are you thinking about? Are you thinking... about wanting to eat something else?"

Alicia blinked at him and gave him a mischievous smile.

If it were the former Mikael, he would probably blush and be at a loss for words for a long time - Ali liked to see her like this.

But she was going to be disappointed. Like many times before, Mikael just smiled slightly, replacing his tired face with this indifferent expression, and then folded his hands, leaned against the door and said:

"Alicia, it's burnt."

"Ah? What? Speak louder, I can't hear you!"

"...The food is burnt."