Chapter 518 She Could Have Survived

The smell of gunpowder smoke and blood condensed in the air, mixed with the smell of rust coming from the armor wall through the thick paint and the smell of machine oil from which the source could not be determined. Perhaps there was also the smell of sweat and some people with enlarged sweat glands. Body odor that is unique to human beings, all of these alone are enough to make people vomit all the last night's dinner, but now they are completely mixed together, making people even lose the desire to live.

However, this is just Bronya's personal feeling. For the noisy soldiers around her, all this is enough to prove that she is still alive. In such an era, as long as she lives, as long as she can survive, Just fine.

In this world that is about to face the end, most people can no longer find anything more important than their own lives - no one would say this, but the noise around them converges Flooding into Bronya's ears, this was what she heard.

She didn't like this, it was too desperate.

“The essence of human beings is to lay down one’s life for something that is not ‘me’.”

Although Bronya wanted to use a dagger to poke eighteen holes in the body of the person who told her this sentence, she had to admit that this sentence was correct.

And these soldiers who were just living for the sake of living, or just living because of living, looked so pitiful to Bronya.

But poor people must also be hateful. From the moment she entered this warehouse, no living thing appeared within three meters of Bronya. It is true that there are many people holding corpses here, and the corpse in Bronya's arms is also covered with black cloth, but I don't know who spread the news. At least everyone here knows what is in her arms. Who does the body belong to...

Lawyer. The one responsible for all this harm.

At least that's what these soldiers thought.

Bronya wished she could calm down. She kept telling herself that the soldiers who killed Ling had all paid the price with their lives. These people in front of her were innocent. If she vented her anger on them, it would be the same as venting her anger on the Herrscher. What's the difference between those scumbags who vented their hatred on Ling?

"Oh……"

But this did not prevent Bronya from sneering twice, and turned back all the peeping eyes with the coldest eyes.

There are still too many people in this world, this world is still too big, maybe some people have to be killed to be clean - negative thoughts like this kept spinning in Bronya's mind, and when she realized her mistake , and I feel that it is better to just make mistakes.

Anyway, that’s all I thought. If people are convicted based on their thoughts, then no one in this world should be exempted from the death penalty. What's more, Bronya could feel the same emotions from the eyes of those soldiers...

To be honest, she didn't care, but she was definitely not able to ignore these malicious intentions. That look, everyone's look, made her sit on pins and needles in just twenty minutes. The desire to escape arose in her heart at least three times. Unfortunately, she had nowhere to escape.

Most of the people in the base, regardless of whether they have combat capability or not, have been concentrated into several huge warehouses far away from the battlefield——

The beds in the medical department are simply not enough to accommodate so many injured patients, not to mention that a large number of ordinary soldiers have withdrawn from the frontline battle. I heard from them that the Twelfth Herrscher is a "virus" that erodes reality and the Internet at the same time. In this world, not to mention ordinary soldiers, not even the few remaining fusion warriors can get involved in this kind of battle.

The warehouse is larger than expected. It must have been emptied very early. The floor is covered with thick and even dust, and there are no traces of the placement of materials. What does this mean?

Just observing without thinking is the same as not observing. Bronya is not such a fool.

No matter what was originally placed in this warehouse, was it arms? Or food? Or medicine? In fact, it doesn't matter. The only truth that Bronya can grasp is... there is nothing here except a group of human beings who are worse off than alive.

The warehouse is like a human stomach, and the dust on the floor is like the acid from not eating for a long time, complaining about the tragic shortage of supplies to everyone who is willing to listen.

It was also a world ravaged by collapse. Bronya had been here less than two hours, but she only felt that this place was completely different from her original world.

And is the reason for this difference the fifty thousand years or the distance of the eight Herrschers? As soon as she thought of this, Bronya became uncontrollably frightened. For a time, this fear dispelled the previous restlessness, allowing Bronya to calm down again.

"Captain Kevin!"

When Bronya heard someone shouting, she quickly raised her head, but her height was completely incomparable with the many soldiers. She saw almost all of the thousands of soldiers standing up from the warehouse door to her. Just like this With a simple movement, the sound can be compared to ocean waves, not to mention the friendly "Captain Kevin" they mouth.

But Bronya just sneered.

Bronya didn't know what attitude these people had towards Kevin, but she recalled what Sakura said earlier - "What do those people in the base think of us?"

Fusion warriors probably look like Rosalia and Lilia, but Kevin looks more human than the two of them. Except for the cold air lingering around him, at least there is no inhuman organization.

Despite this, in the eyes of these people, "Captain Kevin" has long been a non-human who cannot be trusted. They don't respect Kevin so much on weekdays.

After understanding this, Bronya no longer felt shocked when looking at the scene in front of her. The only emotion she could grasp was sadness.

She felt sad for these ordinary soldiers, as well as for Kevin and Sakura.

However, I don't know where Mikael, who has not appeared yet, is. As a Herrscher, he should be more hostile than a fusion warrior. Is this the reason why he has become like this? I always feel that such a reason is too childish.

Just thinking about this, Bronya only felt that the flow of people in front of her split to both sides, more exaggerated than when they were away from her before, and a passage about five meters wide was separated.

This is not the so-called "respect", but when Kevin does not carry the sky fire, no one can get close to the invisible barrier formed by the cold air.

"Bronya. Follow me."

Kevin consciously stopped seven or eight meters in front of Bronya. His lips only opened a little, and the slightly tired voice sounded clearly in her ears.

Bronya exhaled lightly. She was mentally prepared. After all, an organization like the Fire Moth must have a strict archive system. They only need to check and find that Bronya could never appear in the room where Ling was imprisoned at that time and place. Now she was called to go. On the one hand, it was a routine inquiry, and I am afraid that her sudden appearance was related to this collapse.

Kevin didn't care what she thought. After saying those few words, he turned around and left.

Bronya looked at the body wrapped in black cloth in her arms, hesitated for less than a second, and carried it on her shoulders and followed Kevin.

Perhaps it would be easier to leave Ling's body here first, but she couldn't imagine... No, she imagined too much about what these people would do to Ling's body. It was disgusting enough to happen once, and Bronya never wanted to see it again.

And... she and Sakura had agreed to help take care of Ling's body.

The warehouse became quiet at some point, so quiet that the footsteps of a man and a girl could completely overwhelm the breathing of nearly two thousand people.

Bronya could feel the gathering of countless eyes, but without exception, those eyes were either on the body on her shoulder or on Kevin.

Until the two of them walked to the door of the warehouse, someone suddenly choked and shouted:

"Captain Kevin, did we win?"

"Da——"

Kevin stopped, turned back half of his face, and swept his eyes across two thousand faces.

"We won."

The same words, but Kevin gave a statement.

The warehouse became quieter for a while. Kevin didn't say anything else, and turned around and walked out of the warehouse. Bronya trotted to follow him. When she walked out of the warehouse, there was a deafening cheer behind her.

There were no words that could be clearly captured. Everyone just cheered nervously, feeling lucky that they survived this disaster, and also feeling lucky that humans finally defeated another Herrscher, and the last one before the end. This was mentioned in the history class taught by an unknown man at St. Freya Academy. There were thirteen Herrschers in total, at least only thirteen appeared in the previous civilization. Defeating the twelfth Herrscher meant that humans finally made it to the finals.

Bronya turned around in confusion. She saw someone tearing his uniform and shouting meaningless syllables at the top of his lungs. She saw someone kneeling on the ground, covering his face but unable to hide the tears that were overflowing, but his lower half of his face was smiling. There were also countless men and women who knew each other or didn't know each other, hugging and kissing excitedly in public. Even many dying wounded soldiers were smiling, smiling, and their chests gradually stopped rising and falling.

"It's really sad..."

Because only Bronya knew that the people here could not cross the end after all, otherwise, there would be no era she was in.

But... there was a very strange feeling in my heart.

It seemed that the negative emotions I had towards these people before had subsided a lot.

Why?

Is it because I feel sorry for them? Or was there some unspeakable touch in my heart, and I felt that these people were not so hateful for a while?

Bronya didn't understand.

"Have you seen enough?"

Kevin suddenly spoke, and Bronya turned around. He still kept a distance of eight meters and looked at her expressionlessly.

Bronya didn't answer, but took her steps towards her.

The two walked quickly in the dark tunnel, and the bodies of the dead were piled on both sides of the road... No, perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that they were the bodies of Kevin's compatriots.

For a full ten minutes, the two did not say a word, nor did they meet any human beings. They just walked forward...until a third person appeared in front of them.

At first glance, Bronya could tell she was a fusion warrior. It wasn't because she was wearing weird nun clothes, but from a biological point of view, in a natural state, it is impossible for fat to accumulate on the human chest to that extent - it must be a side effect of becoming a fusion warrior!

Only when she got closer did she see that there was a palm print on the nun's pale cheek, and there were traces of fire burning on it, which reminded Bronya of the man called Qianjie.

Bronya was not interested in what happened between them, and her eyes only stayed on her face for a moment, but the nun took the initiative to speak:

"This child is Bronya, come on, [please] hand over Ling's body to me."

"Hmm?"

Bronya only felt a trance in her consciousness, and before her vigilance rose, her hands unconsciously wanted to hand Ling's body to the nun in front of her.

"Aponia!"

Kevin shouted softly.

"Don't... don't use the commandments anymore."

Unexpectedly, Kevin's voice was full of pleading.

The nun called "Aponia" bowed her head deeply and stopped talking.

"Give Ling's body to her first. Don't worry, she may be... the kindest person here."

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Bronya heard a hint of absurdity and ridicule in Kevin's voice.

She didn't try to resist, and obeyed Kevin's instructions very obediently. She didn't think she had the possibility of resisting Kevin.

Kevin suddenly took a deep breath, and then motioned Bronya to follow him.

After walking a few steps, Bronya saw Sakura when she turned the corner of the tunnel.

"Sakura, she's here."

Bronya's eyelids trembled, and she wanted to swallow a mouthful of saliva, but the saliva and the breath were stuck in her throat, and she couldn't swallow it.

"You're here."

Sakura wanted to raise her hand to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth, but her hand only raised halfway and fell down again.

The entire blade of the ice-blue long sword that must have pierced countless enemies' bodies was sunk into Sakura's abdomen, and the huge wound almost cut her slender waist in two.

"How... How is it possible... Who did this..."

Sakura seemed not to hear Bronya's question, and asked breathlessly:

"Rin's body, is it okay..."

"No problem."

Bronya had begun to slowly accept all this, she breathed a sigh of relief and nodded vigorously.

"That's good..."

Sakura's head drooped.

One second...two seconds...Just when Bronya thought she was dead, Sakura raised her head with all her strength.

"My...wakizashi...is it still there?"

Bronya quickly untied the wakizashi from her waist and handed it to Sakura. She realized that the woman in front of her could no longer see anything clearly.

"I'm sorry... Bronya... I can't fulfill the promise we made... The cherry blossoms in my hometown should have bloomed... It must be a beautiful sight... But I haven't seen cherry blossoms for ten years... And so has Ling... If I went to see the cherry blossoms without telling her before I died... She would definitely blame me in the underworld..."

"No... No!"

Tears began to well up in her eyes, and Bronya shouted in Sakura's ear, her voice becoming more and more choked.

"Bronya... I... fulfilled my promise to Ling... I accompanied her to the last moment... I am a good sister..."

"Yes! Absolutely!"

"You are better than me... You must find your sister too..."

"Yeah! Yeah!"

Sakura's eyes turned empty, and her sight fell behind Bronya.

"Kevin... You said... My ending... I am not living up to the title of 'Fire Chaser' she gave me..."

"Absolutely not."

The man's voice was as steady as ever, but Bronya heard the sound of broken ice falling to the ground.

"Heh... Heh..."

Sakura's mouth stretched out to the sides, but the severe pain prevented her from ending her life with a smile.

Sakura died.

"She could have lived."

From the direction of the voice, Bronya realized that Kevin was sitting behind her.

"The 12th Herrscher launched a fierce attack on the Fire Moth from the cyber world, but in reality we are only facing low-level dead soldiers. With Sakura's strength, she could have lived."

"..."

"Sakura committed suicide. She firmly believed that Ling's personality was not erased. She used her death to stop the Herrscher for two seconds, giving Mei the opportunity to seal the Herrscher. Her death was worth it, and she did accompany Ling to the last moment. Whether as a warrior or as a sister, she is..."

The rest of the words could no longer be said.

And what about Bronya?

She kept telling herself in her heart that what was happening in front of her was just a play that happened 50,000 years ago. She was just watching it happen as a bystander. She couldn't change anything, so there was no need to feel sad about it.

It was effective at first. She gradually held back the tears in her eyes, but as Kevin explained it in a superfluous way, she couldn't hold back the tears anymore.

"Yakura asked me for another favor."

Kevin naggled annoyingly.

"We will help find your sister, but she wants you to come with me and bury her body and Ling's body back in her hometown. Maybe in her eyes, this is also a fulfillment of the promise she made with you."

"When do we leave?"

Bronya wiped away her tears and snot with her palm.

"Now. No one knows when the end will come. Honkai will not even give us time to hold a funeral."

This bubble of the world is finally coming to an end, tears in my eyes