Chapter 511 You, No Way to Escape

The blue-purple shadows rise and fall like waves, rotating endlessly.

These words seem a bit redundant, because they are waves, waves that belong exclusively to the quantum sea.

In the center of this wave, two men, who were clearly complete strangers, said that word in unison:

"Long time no see, Sue."

"Long time no see, Mikael."

For Su, this reunion could indeed be called "long time no see" - if the Mikael in front of him was mistakenly regarded as "the Mikael of the past".

And for Mikael, why not?

Although he is just a reflection in the world bubble, the world bubble also comes from the real world, or it was peeled off from an original world in the battle, or it is a world that has died.

Mikael couldn't tell which situation his original world bubble belonged to. If it was peeled off from the original world, then the time in this world bubble should continue to advance along the time of the original world. It should not be possible that 50,000 years have passed. , it’s still right when it collapsed for the seventh time. However, whether the time flow speeds of the world bubble and the real number world are consistent is another question that cannot be verified.

Therefore, he is more inclined to believe that he comes from the reflection of a dead world. Originally, this was impossible. He was very aware of his own particularity. In a word, if "he" had already existed in a world that had died, then the world of real numbers that Su was familiar with before him Who is Mikael in the movie?

However, since "he" has become the end, it can indeed explain all this.

After all, it's the end, so it's not surprising that he can do anything.

Mikael even suspected that the attack against him "not long ago" in the "imaginary number space" might have the shadow of the end afterwards?

Why should I kill myself! But after thinking about it carefully, Mikael felt that this was indeed something he could do.

"Are you done thinking? If you don't speak, it will be difficult to continue the communication."

"Communicate...I don't think there is any need for communication between us."

Mikael sat back into the "Tide" and picked up the First Herrscher core.

"Of course, if this is what you want, there is no need to talk about it at all, I will just give it to you."

Mikael threw it casually, but Su did not pick it up.

The blue gem streaked across the side of Su's cheek, but he remained indifferent. He just took a deep breath of non-existent air, and then sat down opposite Mikael.

"Mikael..."

"Huh? As promised in advance, I'd be very happy if you were willing to talk to me, a dead person, for a few more words. However, if it involves matters involving your original world, I don't think I have the position to intervene."

"Dead man, is this what you think?"

With his eyes closed, it was somewhat difficult to find anything that could be called an "expression" on Su's face, but Michael didn't care.

As he said himself, he is a dead person, and the world that belongs to him has long since died. Now he is just a shadow lingering in the quantum sea with the power obtained by "reflection".

The intrinsic world and so on, that is also Su's intrinsic world, so what does it have to do with him.

"well……"

Su sighed again and stood up with his hands on the ground.

His expression was neither sad nor happy. Only from the lowered corners of his mouth could one get a glimpse of the unspeakable disappointment.

"Mikael, how long do you plan to escape...?"

"escape?"

Mikael sneered.

"escape?"

He repeated the word loudly.

"Hahaha. There must be someone to escape from. Where to escape from and what to escape from? Please tell me, what does escape have to do with me?"

Just as Su's lips parted, Michael's hoarse voice directly spoke back his words:

"Does everyone think that I escaped all the way? From the very beginning, I could obviously take Alicia and leave without caring about anything in this world. What? It's the First Herrscher who escaped the collapse. Does bad control have to save the world? Isn’t it a kind of arrogance and self-righteousness to try to save a world with one’s own insignificance, regardless of whether the world is willing to be saved?

"No, you might..."

"Did I say something wrong? I didn't risk my life in any Honkai fight, so why should I be denied the crime of escaping? Even this time... Even this time, what did I do wrong? ? Who would have thought that the Seventh Herrscher would be born just a few days after the sixth collapse! If I don’t vent any emotions and clock in, train, eat, and sleep like a normal person, will it be the opposite? Will anyone think I’m cold-blooded?”

"..."

"Or do you think my handing over the Herrscher core to Mei is an escape? Why is this an escape? When I can't master this power and haven't been able to do it after trying all afternoon, handing over the core to Mei is an escape. Isn’t it a better decision to give it to Mei! Isn’t it more selfish to hold on to a Herrscher core that you can’t use for the time being?”

Su had given up the intention of interjecting. He knew the reason why the Michael in front of him had lost his mind, because even that world bubble was chosen by him personally. A person with whom Michael was severely injured by the Imaginary Divine Skeleton collapsed for the seventh time. The world bubble that has been reincarnated again and again during these seven days.

Those were the seven most vulnerable days for the man in front of him in these long 50,000 years.

Although his battle with Honkai had lasted for nearly nine years, and he had witnessed the sacrifice of familiar people in the past, Su had also heard Aili mention the orphanage when they were young... but Seele was different.

Su got a lot of words out of Aponia. For Mikael at that time, Seele's incident itself did not mean as simple as "a person Mikael loved died in front of him". It was a deeper level, a tragic failure of resistance to fate, and the despair that followed.

To be honest, Su... could actually understand this despair.

Indeed, apart from the fact that their civilization had been destroyed, Su's life was actually quite smooth.

He received the notice of his parents' death in a temporary shelter 57 kilometers outside Changkong City. It was the thirteenth day after the end of the third Honkai. The efficiency of the United Government was quite high. In order to prevent the spread of the Honkai virus, his parents' bodies were burned locally. He did not even see the ashes, and only received a disaster subsidy of 50,000 yuan from the United Government.

He still remembered that time, when he stood in a temporary shelter full of crying and wailing, looking at the people around him who were either seriously injured, disabled, or lying on a corpse and crying loudly, or quarreling with the military police who were preparing to forcibly cremate the corpse, he did not feel much despair and sadness.

He had all his limbs intact, and did not have to face the pain of his relatives leaving in front of him. As for his deceased parents, after all, he did not even see their ashes, and just thought of them as having gone on a long journey and would need to spend decades to reunite, so he felt much better.

Now think about it, in the temporary shelter at that time, the only people who could remain quiet were probably people like him - a group of people who were not very lucky or very unfortunate, but at least numb enough.

Compared with most of the heroes he knew, his life afterwards was still... It can't be said to be smooth, but at least it can be called... less painful.

His two most important mentors survived to the end, Director Fal and Dr. Spasi, they are still alive and well now - squandering endless time in the beautiful paradise built by the past paradise.

As for loss, he can be regarded as the one who has experienced the least among the heroes.

But he feels that he can understand Mikael's despair at that time.

This is not a kind of condescending self-righteousness, but a real understanding.

Just like a patient he once took over when he was a doctor in Brindi City.

That was a patient who was judged to be hopeless, and even Director Fal did not think it necessary to treat him, but under Su's bold treatment and medication, the collapse energy erosion actually reversed for a time.

Even though 50,000 years have passed, Su still remembers the ward rounds before leaving get off work that evening. He sat in front of the little girl's bed, regardless of the risk of infection, and held her right hand full of purple erosion lines. The girl's consciousness was much clearer than when they first met, but her body was still weak. She sat up halfway with the help of the hospital bed, with the colors of the sunset reflected in her eyes, and chattered with Su about everything she wanted to do after she recovered.

When he walked out of the ward, Director Fal and a group of colleagues surrounded him and celebrated quietly. After all, no one had thought that a hot potato would become the first case of collapse that might be reversed.

It was 2:03 a.m. the next day when Su received the news that the girl had died in her sleep.

Although the two people's situations were not completely the same, Su felt that the despair of Mikael watching Xier die in his arms and the despair when he was awakened by the ringing of the phone in the middle of the night and received the news of the girl's death were at least 10% similar.

It was only 10%.

Although he had experienced it once 50,000 years ago, after such a long time, Su still didn't know what words he should use to comfort his comrades.

He didn't come here to do this.

He used to be one of the kindest people, but now he has no choice.

If possible, he is willing to give the other person freedom, even liberation. He also knows very well that he is not qualified to guide this strict stranger in front of him to a path that the other person may not want to embark on. But in order to save the world, he has to do something against his will.

"Heh..."

He sighed softly, his thoughts were long, and there was a musty smell of time. The time in front of him actually only passed the moment of sighing with his head down, but in just this short moment, Mikael had rushed in front of him.

Su opened his tightly closed eyes a crack, but he didn't think Mikael would hurt him.

Mikael in front of him was still the reflection of the person he was familiar with. When he was angry, sad, and desperate, he might hurt others objectively, but the existence of people was a kind of harm to others, and his subjective will never wanted to hurt anyone except himself.

"Su, don't you believe it, Su! I'll show you this! I'll show you this!!"

"You——"

Su took a step back. Although he had some psychological and physical resistance, he had to use his spiritual power to intervene at this point...

"Why are you hiding from me, Su! Who is running away!"

Under the crazy roar,

"Enough, Mikael! Stop messing around."

Su's hand pressed on Mikael's shoulder, the movement was slow, but unexpectedly heavy.

"What do you care about... this, is it called nonsense..."

"No, I was referring to another thing from the beginning to the end. And Mikael, you..."

"..."

"You actually know everything, so you used this clumsy performance to lead the topic to another thing, so that I couldn't speak. Isn't it?"

"..."

The objects of aggressiveness and silence were reversed. Mikael's self-injury quickly recovered with the reconstruction of the power of the First Ruler, but not everything in this world can be reconstructed back to its original state with the power of reason.

"So, I still have the same question - Mikael, when do you plan to escape?"

Mikael took a deep breath, and his voice became calm again, but not so calm.

"Indeed...indeed...indeed, indeed, indeed, indeed, indeed, indeed, indeed! I'm not a fool...haha, why am I not a fool...hahaha...Su, is it interesting? From the very beginning, I let them enter the world bubble where I am, including Xier's accidental involvement in the quantum sea, and now you are standing in front of me...it's all just a step-by-step plan. I understand what you are thinking, but..."

"But?"

"Why!"

Mikael grabbed Su's shoulders and shouted with all his strength:

"Tell me why! Why should I, the reflection of the past, bear the mistakes made by my future self in another world? Why?"

"Ha..."

Su closed his eyes again.

Mikael finally refused openly. Although given the tacit understanding between the two parties, Mikael had already expressed his refusal with practical actions before Su even had time to speak...

However, it was not just as simple as needing him to do that thing. He was also "my reflection" to Mikael. It would be a better result if he just escaped. What if it was the worst...

It seems that he could only use some compulsory measures very reluctantly. Although this so-called "compulsory" method was not the first time he had used it, it was said that some things would happen countless times once they started badly, but Su did not feel that way at all...

Su's shoulders shook slightly, and he took five or six steps back. After pulling away from a certain distance, he slowly raised his left hand.

"If there is a choice, I don't want to force you to make any decision. But, I'm sorry, whether it's us or you, everyone living in this world, in fact, has no way to escape."