Chapter 525 Mebius, [Please] Release Me

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In the familiar darkness, countless indistinguishable voices sang in Mebius’ ears, a bit like the exaggerated and meaningless chanting in the church, and like cries in despair.

That was the strongest wish in her heart every time death came, some positive, some negative, some crazy, some relieved... All of these accumulated together and became an indissoluble noise.

She, Mebius, never had the ability to be "immortal". She experienced a serious death, but after each death, she could be resurrected again.

Mebius opened his eyes.

As repeated countless times in the past, the first moment he opened his eyes, he felt the sticky and cold black mud, and the darkness with a hint of hazy green.

"Ugh... ah ah ah ah——"

The pain accumulated between the chest and abdomen came out with a trembling sound of air flow. I guess this sound was also recorded at this moment. If there is a next time, it will merge into the indistinguishable noise.

Mebius sat up from the mud. Everything should exist in the spiritual world. He looked down and found that, as expected, the whole person turned back into a little girl, but this was not a problem. Fifty thousand years is enough for every fusion warrior to learn to control the side effects of himself. Evolution is also the instinct of living things.

As long as she wants, she can grow back to her original size in just a few minutes after waking up. But that guy seems to prefer her smaller size and is not interested in her adult posture.

"Ugh... ah!"

She groaned in pain and died by decapitation. It is inevitable that people will feel uncomfortable in their throats, just like swallowing a hundred fish bones.

She casually picked up the black mud that had completely replaced most of her body fluids and swallowed it. Wherever the black mud passed, she felt a chill, then a tingling electric shock.

"Is that what it feels like? No wonder he likes to drink it so much."

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Mebius stood up.

After death, consciousness will also fall into complete chaos. But before the body revives, consciousness often wakes up first. It's just that due to the special nature of the spirit, Mebius can't judge how much time has passed.

However, this time will not be too long. If there is enough Honkai energy to absorb, a few seconds will be enough.

"It's really embarrassing. It's natural to regard Mei as an ordinary person. It seems that she hasn't worked in vain for these 50,000 years... So, how does she plan to kill me?"

Can she find a way to isolate Honkai energy? For example, build her a soul steel coffin? It's not impossible, but it shouldn't be in time. Even if such things were prepared in advance, the defect of "no Honkai energy" that could lead to his true death was fixed by Mebius.

Resurrection requires the consumption of a certain amount of Honkai energy, which is based on the law of conservation of energy, but Mebius' body itself contains a large amount of Honkai energy. In the absence of Honkai energy, the Shesha factor will in turn devour Mebius himself. Of course, because of the damn energy conservation, resurrection in this state will cause many problems. The best case is that the body will no longer be able to grow for a long time. In the worst case, it may appear in an "incomplete" disabled posture.

However, with Mikael's power as a backup, it is not a big problem.

Mebius covered her head and stood up. She began to laugh at herself.

Who could have thought that she, Mebius, would have a day so dependent on another individual who does not belong to "me".

"Tick-tock-"

"Huh?"

Mebius turned around slowly and looked at the figure behind him in disbelief.

"Mei? You...what kind of Honkai beast did you fuse with?"

"Mebius, since when did your thinking become so rigid?"

Mei lifted her long hair beside her ear and rubbed her temple with her thumb.

"You know my body, it is impossible for me to become a fusion warrior. I have already jumped out of this shackle with actual actions, why is your mind still trapped in it?"

"Tsk! So you deliberately showed me the ability of a spiritual perception fusion warrior, just to show off in front of me? Or to let me die clearly and figure out how I was killed by an ordinary person?"

"We are friends, don't be so hostile to me..."

"Ah? Are you talking like a human? You killed me, and then asked me not to be so hostile to you?"

Mei tilted her head and smiled, but her expression was full of sadness.

"If I hadn't used this method, you probably wouldn't be willing to listen to me honestly, right?"

Mebius's eyebrows jumped, she took a deep breath, then put her hands on her waist with full momentum, and her questioning voice became sharp and high-pitched because of her physical condition:

"Mei, we have chosen different paths, so there is nothing to talk about."

"Huh? Really?"

In front of Mebius, Mei slowly knelt in the mud. As long as the other party wanted, these dark muds could turn into sharp spearheads and pierce her in an instant, but she still did it. Maybe she felt too tired to talk while standing, or maybe she just used this method to show her sincerity to Mebius.

Mebius's lips trembled and she pushed upwards. She suddenly waved her hand violently, and the surging darkness was about to engulf Mei, but was silently withdrawn at the last moment.

Mebius stood in front of Mei, lowered his head slightly, and looked down at her.

"You are still so competitive... I still remember that you always liked to stand on tiptoe with Alicia to compare heights. Although you were much taller than her, you rarely had the opportunity to appear in a complete posture..."

"It was clearly that woman who took the initiative to provoke. I just don't like to look up and talk to others."

"Does this remind you of your father?"

Mebius did not answer, but just hugged his hands in front of his chest.

"Mei, don't talk about me. Your current state... I don't know what method you used to gain strength, but it must be not easy, right? How long can you maintain your current state? Or how many times can you use it?"

"..."

"Don't try to give me the illusion that you have plenty of time through small talk. We have always known the "price"."

Mei spread her palms and slowly covered her face.

"I underestimated you, Mebius. Your insight is still as sharp as before."

"Same here, you also tricked me, it's even."

Mei shook her head without comment, and answered Mebius' question in a tone of indifference:

"Three times. I can only use the ability of a fusion warrior three times."

"The first one doesn't count. It just took advantage of the physical fitness of the fusion warrior to enter my spiritual world once, and killed me immediately for the second time. There is one left. Is it for Mikael?"

Mei did not answer or deny, but asked back:

"You don't seem to be afraid of dying in my hands?"

"Compared to this..."

After finally changing back to this form, Mobius couldn't help biting his nails, so that his complete words were broken into two pieces--

"I am more concerned about how you did it. I thought you used a soul steel body like Otto, but how can you use the power of a fusion warrior without a physical body?"

"This... the method itself is actually not that difficult, it just depends on whether you want to get it."

Mei pointed her head with her index finger.

"You made a new body for yourself? This shouldn't be feasible, right? The body made by biotechnology will also have a soul. Even if it is not awake, it will reject and resist the input of another consciousness. You are not a fusion warrior of spiritual perception, and you don't have any special talents. If your consciousness rashly enters such a body, I am afraid there will be problems, right?"

"Yes... but Mobius, why don't you... be bolder?"

Without waiting for Mobius to say anything else, Mei straightened her upper body, pulled the hem of her shirt out of her skirt, and continued to lift it up to reveal her waist and abdomen.

On the left waist, there was a blood-red mark that Mobius was definitely familiar with.

"Stigmata, you..."

"That's right. Now I completely control this body as the 'Stigmata Will'. And this stigmata doesn't have much special power. After all, the essence of stigmata is a story that happened in the past. 'Mei' corresponds to nothing. It is precisely because I can't do anything that I have a strong compatibility with the imprints in the paradise. After all, one of the meanings of the paradise is to train the awakened stigmata, and I have gained the ability to use the power carried by the imprints in reality for a short time."

"..."

"The problem with doing this is also obvious. The technical immaturity and the original soul of this body fell into a deep sleep and could not cooperate. In the end, I only had three chances to attack, but it was enough."

"You are really... a lunatic."

"Don't worry, the time and resources required to make such a body are completely astronomical. I can't make a second body like this, and there is no need to sacrifice another soul."

"What happens after the three chances are used up?"

Mei tilted her head and smiled, but did not answer the question.

Or rather, this question doesn't need to be answered at all. Mobius himself has made it very clear before. They have always known the "price".

"Tick-tock-"

"Is it worth it, Mei?"

"Is there anything worth it or not worth it?"

Mei's rhetorical questions always make people speechless.

"You are no longer...human, and the distance between a fusion warrior and a human is even greater...What is the final price for such a price?"

"I never thought that such words would come from your mouth one day, Mobius-is your definition of human so narrow?"

Once upon a time, this was Mobius' most well-known catchphrase, and it even set off a wave of imitation among the Fire Moths. Now Mei is bringing up the old things again, but it is full of irony.

"Mobius, you've changed. You've changed since Alicia died. You've put away your sharp and sarcastic attitude, and the dangerous aura on your body has also dissipated a lot... Are you doing this to use love to make that man come back?"

"Oh, you're really kidding. You don't even know what he wants to do..."

"No, on the contrary, the reason why Sakura went to die and the reason why Velvet and I are standing here is precisely because we know what he is going to do. It is precisely because it is so clear that I feel that everything you are doing now It’s so ridiculous.”

"What did you say!"

Mebius shouted loudly, but the black mud that symbolized her consciousness did not create many ripples. Therefore, Mei knew that all her speculations so far were true.

"You know, Mebius. Like most people who saw this story, in the first tens of thousands of years, I always thought that what Mikael wanted to do was to create a world with Alicia. But this There are too many doubts, such as why he wanted to reincarnate the whole world and why he wanted to save us, but in the end the reason that made me give up this conjecture was precisely you."

Mebius bit his lower lip, but his eyes inevitably moved to the side.

"If what he did was really just to bring Alicia back into existence, then I can't imagine you standing by his side so firmly. Even if the person he wanted to save was Alicia, she was so perfect I can't convince myself to believe that a woman will do her best to help the man she loves to save the woman he loves. "

"But it just happened, didn't it."

Mebius's voice was full of resentment. She hated Mei and why she wanted to crush all the illusions she had constructed in front of her.

"Rather than believing that this kind of thing really happened, I would rather believe that Mikael's purpose was never just to save Alicia. I built his character model for derivation, and then substituted him for countless days and nights. Looking back on everything in the past, he finally understood why he did what he did in the first place——

"What Mikael despairs about is not the passing of Alicia. What makes him despair is that after going through so much effort and enduring so much pain, he came to the end step by step, and finally paid Alicia's deeds. Despite the price, it still failed to save the world.

"And how did our world end? It was not destroyed by collapse, but by our own hands. It was the interaction between good and evil in human beings that ultimately led to the end of humankind in the most tragic and absurd way. . Maybe we can use 'This is the provocation of the Twelfth Herrscher' as an excuse. , but as human beings who lead that era, have we really guided the good and evil of human beings? We ourselves also despise the power of human beings, and it is not unfair to get such an ending, and it must be Alicia. You don’t like it—Mikael will definitely think so.”

"Oh……"

After uttering a syllable of unknown meaning, Mebius raised his head, his white neck shining brightly in the darkness like snow under the winter sun.

"When I figured this out, I just felt unspeakable sadness. What Mikael wanted to do was still defeat Honkai and save the world, but he changed from a person who challenged the gods to someone who needed to be defeated. god.

"Of course he could have given victory to human civilization 50,000 years ago, but humans 50,000 years ago were not qualified for such a victory. We had already destroyed ourselves. And humans in this era have just embarked on the road to challenge the gods. It is even less likely that he will grant them victory directly.

"Remember the story in the textbook when you were a child? When a baby bird hatches out of its shell, you can't help it. That will only make its body weak and unable to really fly into the sky. The real Victory cannot be a gift from the gods. It is a blasphemy against all the deaths that have been born due to this event, and will also make human civilization unable to face new challenges after crossing the end.

"The real victory must be for humans to use their own strength and will to pull the gods down from the throne. This is what his human personality expects. This is also an ending that Alicia will definitely like. It's a pity. , when I understood this, the third collapse was already It's over. This is even crazier than the Stigmata Plan. The Stigmata Plan was the last line of defense I originally built, but there is no room for failure in Mikael's plan. Once it falls into reincarnation again, it is irreversible. Not falling into reincarnation is equivalent to giving victory to mankind."

"You know this, but still want to stand against him and be a disruptor? Can't you make it easier for him to realize this dream?"

"That won't work."

Mei looked into Mebius's eyes seriously:

"Pretending to know nothing and spending the next year in the paradise of the past is a blasphemy against the dream that Mikael has endured so much pain but still wants to complete. To complete his dream, What is needed is the efforts of every human being, including the human beings of the new era, and also Including the humans in the old world, including you and me. Only such a victory can be recognized by him. Only in this way can he truly fulfill his dream. Only in this way can humans bid farewell to their childhood, transcend the end, and move towards the future. .So join us, Mebius, this is what he wants to see."

"But that's what he doesn't want to see."

Mebius shook his head slowly but firmly.

"He is such a contradictory person. Maybe he really wants to see me challenge him as a human being, but he certainly can't accept my betrayal of him. Besides, I swore to him that I will always Stand by his side. He's got enough on his back and I can't let him get hurt again."

"Is that so... That's another situation. Mobius, do you know why I allowed Sakura to sacrifice herself so hastily?"

"Isn't it to confirm Mikael's attitude?"

"Not entirely."

The person who shook her head slowly became Mei.

"For Sakura, it is undoubtedly painful to resist Mikael, but she wants to do it, and wants to make up for the regret of 50,000 years ago, so it is better to reduce this pain to a moment. For this reason, she even concealed the situation from her memory, not because she was afraid that the memory would stop herself, but because she wanted the memory to continue to live with Ling as the real Sakura. And I just shamelessly took advantage of this. In fact, Mikael must also think that the battle was the best counterattack we have fought in the past 50,000 years. Both the cooperation and tactics are much better than those 50,000 years ago and 500 years ago. More."

"You also know that you are shameless."

"But we did everything we could, such as the fourth collapse, we took advantage of it, but we also let many people leave there in advance when we could. "

"What about the others? Did you treat them like you did to me?"

"Of course not all heroes are willing to do this, but you are the only one who stands by Mikael and will never betray him until the end. This contradicts the proposition of "all mankind defeats the end." "

"Ah... I understand."

Mobius nodded vigorously. In fact, both of them understood that the above reasons are indeed true, but Mobius's existence as an individual will not affect the decision of the entire human race.

It's just that it is painful to get to this point. Mikael is in pain, and Mobius's pain is no less than his. This is the pain that only "old friends" can experience.

Caught between faith and love, between instinct and reason, between the lover and the person the lover loves and the human being the lover loves...

Instead of continuing, it is better to grant her a rest that is 50,000 years late, under the pretext of making up for the regrets of 50,000 years ago.

"You don't have to worry. In the new world he wants to see, you will definitely not be allowed to exist."

"Oh, you want me to say this?"

After taking a long breath and unloading all the burdens, she gradually felt the return of "self".

She suddenly squinted her eyes, looked at Mei with interest, and asked softly:

"So, how do you plan to kill me? Ordinary mental attacks are ineffective. In order to prevent this from happening, my soul, or consciousness, has been trained, not..."

"It's actually very simple."

Mei's voice was suddenly full of pity:

"Mebius, [please] let go."

"I can still do this--"

Mebius' voice stopped abruptly. After realizing that it was a commandment, it was too late.