Chapter 329: Opportunity to Turn the Tide of the Battle (More Updates)

"No... Damn it! No!"

Sakura punched the ground with her fist, and the ground trembled, but that was not her fault, but the aftermath of the battle in the basin with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers behind her.

Her own insignificant punch could not change anything except leaving an insignificant fist mark on this dead wilderness.

As a killer who needs to be extremely indifferent to emotions, she rarely lets her emotions spill out, especially the negative emotions that have the greatest impact on combat effectiveness.

But at this moment, she was really desperate and... confused.

Sakura has never actually seen Mebius' resurrection from the dead, and she can't explain the specific principle, but she knows what she should do - Shesha's resurrection passive needs to be based on a large amount of Honkai energy. In theory, , even if she does nothing, Mebius will crazily demand Honkai energy from her and everything around her out of biological instinct.

However, Sakura had tried many times to inject Honkai energy into her corpse, but without any results. No matter how much Honkai was absorbed into her body, it would be lost in an instant, with no possibility of being absorbed.

So, everything couldn’t be more obvious——

Mebius is dead. Mebius is indeed dead.

There is no holding back, no reversal, death is death, there is no second possibility.

but……

"How is this possible?"

She spread her right hand flat, and she could still feel a trace of warmth in the cold palm. Two months ago, Mikael once held her hand. She still remembered the dry and warm touch, and she could not forget it either. It was his eyes that were both gentle and remorseful that day.

No, it wasn't just that one time. Perhaps in the eyes of some people, he was the "hateful Herrscher". He had indeed given himself many secret missions that were extremely bloody and even cruel.

But at that time, Sakura could feel that the reason why he did such dark things was just to give more people light, just to give them light.

He had always been so gentle towards the Fire Chaser Moth, the Counter-Entropy, and Ying Jie. Sakura had never thought that one day he would have the possibility of killing his "family" with his own hands.

Mebius's cold body was still motionless and without any warmth, as if he was telling her the irrefutable fact with such silence——

She was dead, killed by Mikael himself.

As a result, Sakura was completely confused.

She believed in Mikael. This was a habit she had maintained for so many years...or rather, it had become a belief.

It was precisely this habit that she was certain and certain to do such a thing - killing her "family" and destroying the civilization she had always protected. It was extremely painful for him and made it impossible to do it. , something that is even less likely to be wanted to do.

But he still did it, and then there was only one other possibility left - in order to get something he wanted more, he had to do this.

Is it because Alicia disappeared? Or is there something else hidden in this world?

Sakura tried to guess Mikael's motives, but this was what she couldn't understand the most, and it was also the weirdest thing about everything that happened now——

"Mikael...what do you want to do? What do you need from us? Why don't you say it?"

Why...don't you want to say more even if it's half a sentence or a few words of explanation?

"Hoo..."

Sakura's left hand rested on the ground, and her five fingers gradually bent under the extreme exertion, and finally clenched tightly together. She raised her hand and slowly released her five fingers. The fine lunar soil was blown by the wind and instantly blended into the darkness. Together with the answers she wanted to know, they could no longer be found.

As for the violent vibrations and explosions that were constantly coming from the basin behind him, they didn't seem to be that important at this moment.

Suddenly, her heart contracted suddenly. This was an instinct that Sakura had honed from walking between life and death for a long time. She quickly pulled Mebius's body and rolled it aside. The next moment, a slender and straight red line was drawn from where she was before. The entire ground was cut open, and the heat caused by the high temperature was still left in the air. White track.

Sakura swallowed and held the cold handle of the knife with her left hand, but she didn't know what to do.

"Sakura, are you okay?"

Just at this moment, a familiar voice sounded in her mind.

"Su?"

"It's me."

Su's voice was a little ethereal, even a little intermittent.

"I'm sorry, after the Honkai energy around him completely exploded, this place has become a singularity where the Honkai energy accumulates in space, just like a black hole or space collapse... Ah, I'm sorry, now is not the time to talk about this. In short, The current state of the mental communication network is a bit bad, so I am rebuilding it now. How is the situation over there? "

"I……"

Sakura looked down at Mebius' body, not knowing how to find words.

But Su seemed to be just asking casually. He didn't wait for Sakura's answer, but announced in a concise, clear and cruel tone:

"Sakura, you are the only one I can contact at the moment, but with my mental power, I can sense some life fluctuations... I hope you are mentally prepared. In my perception, Aponia, Eden, and Mebiu Si, Destobia, Hen, Kosmo and Qianjie are all... dead."

"Mebius is here with me."

Sakura answered mechanically, and it wasn't until two seconds passed that she added an explanation:

"I tried to input Honkai energy into her to trigger Shesha's 'Snake Slough' ability, but nothing happened."

"is that so……"

"Su, tell me, is it possible that in fact, no one is dead, but what method did Mikael use to put everyone into a state of 'suspended death'?"

After hesitating for a moment, Sakura bit her lip and asked.

And the response she got was a sigh:

"I can't say..."

After a pause, Su continued:

"We don't know exactly what powers Mikael has after becoming the End. If he can do these things, I am no exception. However, as far as the mental state I have detected is concerned, they are already in contact with the dead. No different.

"So, Sakura, I just want to remind you that in the next battle, you must have the awareness to kill and be killed, otherwise..."

Otherwise, Su didn't say clearly, but Ying knew clearly.

But just because you know it clearly doesn't mean you can do it. Sakura recalled her previous knife attack. She clearly had the opportunity to slash at Mikael's neck, so why did she choose her right arm in the end?

Although even if the neck is really targeted, Mikael will not be injured in most cases, but this has nothing to do with Mikael. This is her own choice - from the moment she realizes her body, she has resisted fighting Mikael.

"Oh……"

Sakura closed her eyes and let out a quick breath.

The wind behind the moon suddenly picked up, and the slender fox ears on her head also swayed with the wind. In the past, out of some kind of psychology, she would deliberately reduce the swing of the fox ears to ignore their existence.

But looking back from the current perspective, all this is just meaningless self-deception.

"I understand, Su. The best ending for a warrior is to be killed by the last bullet in the last battle. The determination to die has been there since the first day I became a warrior. At the very least... "

Sakura released her left hand that was holding the skate and placed it on the other knife behind the skate.

When she opened her eyes again, there were some purple thunder arcs in her eyes between the blue frost color of ice and snow.

At the very least, we can choose how to die - this is what Ling once said.

As a younger sister, Ling has this awareness, and as an older sister, of course she cannot lag behind.

Besides, death is never scary.

But just when Sakura was ready to return to the battlefield, her spiritual connection with Su was suddenly severed.

"Su? Su?"

There is absolutely no hope of defeating Mikael with the strength of a hero alone. Although Sakura has the consciousness to die in battle, she hopes that her death can create some value, and this is not something she can do alone.

Therefore, facing Su's loss of contact, she could only stand vigilantly and continue to wait, and at the same time pray in her heart - Aponya, Destobia, and Hen were all "dead". If Su's last spiritual perception The fusion-like warrior was also killed, so she really could only fight on her own.

After about ten seconds, Su's voice sounded again, which made her sigh in relief.

"I'm sorry, the Honkai energy fluctuated a bit too much just now... Hmm! Mei and Velvet are connected!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a calm voice:

"Su! Where's Kevin...how are you doing?"

"Kevin... I'm still looking for his specific location. He should be Mikael's key target, but don't worry, I can feel his mental fluctuations, which means he is still alive. As for the others..."

Su sighed silently, and then explained the current situation concisely and concisely.

Mei was silent for a moment, then spoke again:

"That is to say, you, Sakura, Vivi, Kevin, and Hua are the only ones alive now, right?"

"Yeah, but I can't contact Kevin and Hua yet. They may still be in a coma."

"Ta, ta, ta -"

Mei tapped the table a few times and then asked:

"Vilwei, is there any hope of survival on Pado's side?"

"...Mei, if you are willing to believe in Pado's good luck, then she...has almost no chance of surviving. However, you should be able to see the terminal situation there, right?"

"Well... the terminal has arrived at the designated location, and later... all you need to do is activate it. But Pado, I can't contact her..."

The communication network fell into a brief silence again. Su and Ying did not know what Pado's so-called mission was, nor did they know the significance of having the terminal in place. However, this did not prevent them from sorting out the most important things from Mei's words. information——

Padu is dead.

And the three seconds of silence that spread during this time that was supposed to be racing against time was just the last thing that their comrades could do for her and the previous victims.

Just a silent condolence.

"Don't give up!"

Mei suddenly patted the table and encouraged loudly:

"Humanity still has its last weapon that has not been used, Vivi..."

"What? Do you need me to appear again?"

Mei shook her head silently. Of course, others in the mental communication network could not see her movements.

In fact, Mei also knew that with the battle like this, there was no possibility of victory.

Moreover, the terminal of Prometheus has followed the path previously opened by Mikael and Ellie and entered its final destination. The only meaningful goal in this battle has been achieved.

Logically speaking, it was time to retreat. At least... at least Kevin, Su, Ying, Weiwei and Hua could survive.

But... you have already come this far, how can you be willing to give up at the end?

Moreover, Mei is not just making it up. Humanity does have a weapon that has long been placed on hope, but has never been put into actual combat... It's just that there is a slight problem with it.

"The accumulation of a large amount of Honkai energy interferes with the electromagnetic field. Without human control, the Moonlight Throne cannot complete the braking in recent months and cannot reach the scheduled position. Therefore, Velvet, I can only leave it to you."

"Huh? Is that all?"

"Besides you, there is no other choice, Velvet. You should know very well that our series of remote commands to the Moonlight Throne are all completed through electromagnetic waves. Under the current situation, someone must personally enter the satellite to manually Operation. The only ones who have this ability are you and me, the designers and makers of the Moonlight Throne.”

"Sigh... Okay, who asked me to do more work? But the situation here is also a bit bad. So many baby bumps were damaged in the previous battle, and so many blank keys have not been used yet..."

"Blank Key? When did you copy it..."

"Uh... cough, cough, cough! In short, I need to make some repairs to the equipment before I can go to the Moonlight Throne, and this time is conservatively estimated to take more than half an hour... I need someone to buy time for me."

"Buying time..."

Sakura had been listening to the conversation between the two silently, and her eyes gradually became firm:

"Leave it to me!"

"What?"

"Leave the task of delaying time to me."

Sakura repeated firmly.

"You want to use the 'sword that freezes space'? No, that's fine if you're facing other enemies, but for Mikael... I'm afraid it won't work. Even if it works, it won't be able to delay half of it. hours or more.”

Sakura pursed her lips. Mei's analysis was certainly reasonable, but...

"There is no other way. Among those who can immediately join the fight, I am the only one with the strongest fighting ability. We have no choice unless we are willing to bet that Mikael will stand motionless."

Mei closed her eyes in pain. Of course she knew what Sakura said was right, but if the sacrifice could not achieve its intended purpose, then it was better to bet that Mikael would do nothing and generously give them time to prepare.

But just like Sakura said, they have no choice... huh? Huh?

Suddenly a bright light flashed in Mei's mind:

"Sakura, how long can you delay Mikael at most?"

"I can't say for sure, but...although I hate to admit it, it might be one minute, maybe two or three minutes, it won't be longer."

"That's enough!"

Mei adjusted her glasses - "No matter what direct means we take, we can't contain him for half an hour, but what if we can make one minute turn into half an hour?"

It's really sad to say...

For May, the reason why she came into contact with the Fire Chaser was because she published a paper on the theory of relativity and was noticed by Mebius.

But what she didn't expect was that... at the end of this civilization, she would still have to use it one day...

"this……"

"Oh? I understand."

"I understand too."

Only Sakura was still confused and didn't know what Mei meant.

Of course the latter understands this. If possible, she doesn't want to explain more at this critical moment, she just needs to tell Sakura what to do:

"Sakura, you only need to get close to Mikael, then release the rated power of the Ninth God's Key to create a pseudo black hole, and hold on for another minute. That's enough - the gravitational time dilation effect will make you near the pseudo black hole. One minute spent becomes sixty minutes spent in real space!”

Mei paused, and without waiting for Sakura to digest her words, she turned to Su and ordered:

"Su, please, can you find the key to the Ninth God?"

It is indeed useful to use mental power to find people, but it is not impossible to turn it into a form similar to electromagnetic waves and spread it out, like radar to find objects. However, it is a test for the fusion warrior's own level of control over his mental power.

I don't know whether it's because Su was lucky or because his control over his mental power was really superb. He only remained silent for two minutes:

"Found it! The Key to the Ninth God...is with Hua!"

"Okay! Sakura, you go find the Ninth God Key and Hua. If Hua can still fight, then the task of containing Mikael will be completed by the two of you. Velvet repairs your equipment as planned and prepares to go to the Moonlight Throne To do manual operation, finally, Su..."

"I understand, May. Leave Kevin to me. If it is him, he may not be able to fight Mikael if he cooperates with the Moonlight Throne."

oh? Is it really so?

Sakura wasn't sure whether Mei's confidence was genuine ignorance or feigned. At least based on her judgment of Mikael's combat power, getting close to him and using a pseudo-black hole is far more difficult than holding him down for a minute...

Even though she was so helpless and not optimistic about this plan, Sakura had to admit that this was the only chance to reverse the situation of the war so far.

So she didn't complain and followed Su's guidance and headed in the direction of Hua.

…………

"Well……"

Hua closed her eyes tightly, but she still couldn't get rid of the feeling of dizziness. Rather, it was precisely because of this dizzy feeling that she realized that she was slightly awake.

She instinctively wanted to take a deep breath, but the thing pressing on her head was extremely heavy, and she couldn't even take a simple breath... Fortunately, the fusion warrior would not be suffocated to death.

But when she felt it carefully, she felt a strange feeling - the thing underneath her was as hard as a stone, but the thing pressing on her... was softer, as if... a person.

What happened before? She only remembered that everyone was fighting with Mikael. After a sudden white light, her body flew back uncontrollably, and then...

Then she remembered nothing.

Hua's limbs were still a little weak. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't move the soil around her at all, and the soil that buried her didn't leave any space for her to exert her strength.

"Damn it...can we just wait here?"

To be honest, her mind is still in a daze, and she has no idea why Mikael is like this.

Of course, this is true for all Yingjie.

"Because of this...I have something I have to do...I have to ask him clearly about all this!"

Thinking of this, an unprecedented power suddenly surged out of her body. She concentrated all her strength on her right arm and raised it sharply——

"puff!"

She felt that her right arm had successfully broken through the shackles of the soil, and her wrist had emerged from the soil.

"It's still a little bit...a little bit..."

Her limbs were struggling, always feeling that she was just a little bit close to success, but she was still unable to break through that little distance.

Fortunately, at this moment, a pair of equally cold hands held her right hand that had broken out of the ground.

"Hua, is that you?"

There seemed to be a vaguely familiar voice shouting.

Hua heard it, but didn't know how to express it. She couldn't even breathe, let alone speak.

She had no choice but to bend the four fingers of her right hand and put her thumb up.

The next second, a huge force came from her, and her entire upper body stood up instantly.

Because of this, she saw that what was pressing on her was...

"Eden!"

The blood overflowing from her seven orifices dyed her beautiful face black and red, but her identity was still not difficult to identify. Hua hugged Eden's body, but she could no longer feel any warmth from his body.

The tears flowed out of control.

Sakura's eyelashes trembled, and she picked up the Ninth God's Key, the Law of the Star Sea, from Eden's right hand, then knelt down next to Hua, gently hugged the girl's body, and touched it like a comfort bell. Her head.

But after a long sigh, she still didn't know what to say to comfort Hua, what to say to comfort Hua.

After all, with her observation ability, it is not difficult to see that, except for Mebius...

However, after all, the girl lost all her memories at once a few months ago, so her dependence on him may not be as deep as before. Compared to... she should have much less resistance during the battle, right? Is this a blessing in disguise?

"Huh?"

Sakura seemed to suddenly think of something. She took advantage of Hua's opportunity to wipe away her tears and quickly opened Eden's closed eyelids. When she saw the red cross in her eyes, her eyes narrowed slightly, and then she quickly opened her eyes before Hua could. Withdrew his hand.

"Hua, now is not the time to cry. Listen to me. We still have a chance to reverse the situation. We need your help."

Thank you all for your support over the past six months. I suddenly remembered that I haven’t added an update for so long (hahaha). This time I just took advantage of the opportunity to make a small update (I really can’t squeeze it out).