Chapter 605 No, She Is Ji Zi

“Hu…Hu…Hu…Hu…”

The dizziness brought by stepping out of the star gate had long been familiar to the point that it did not bring much disobedience, but if it was when she was exhausted, it would be a different story.

It was as if a thousand needles were mixed in her brain, stirring and turning as time went by, and her whole body was more like being stuffed into a drum washing machine. In the non-existent "clang, clang" sound, she finally felt the hardness under her feet.

“Hmm…”

But then, her knees softened. If she hadn’t used the purple long knife named [Heavenly Strike] to insert into the gap between the floor tiles in time to support her whole body, she would undoubtedly fall down in this magnificent hall in a mess.

There was no exaggerated teasing in her ears, and she didn’t know what was going on. In the past, when she heard that voice, she would secretly say “Here we go again” in her heart, and then consciously prepare for all kinds of teasing and interrogation.

But at this moment, she felt that she didn’t hear that voice the first time when she returned to the hall of the paradise of the past life. It was a bit regrettable and a bit…uncomfortable.

However, just as she was thinking this, a voice more familiar than Alicia's sounded:

"Huh? Mei is out?"

She raised her head in disbelief. The man was lazily leaning on the sofa, holding a glass of orange juice in both hands and sipping it.

The corners of Mei's eyes twitched, "You came to the paradise again?"

"What do you mean again? Mei, have you forgotten the meaning of the name [Mikael]?"

Perhaps she was really tired and dizzy. Mei only felt that the bright light from the top of her head blurred everything, blurred the colors and light and shadows around her, and blurred Mikael's familiar smiling face.

Closing her eyes and resisting the pain between her eyebrows, Mei took a deep breath and answered without mercy:

"The guardian of paradise, or - the gatekeeper?"

"... You don't have to use this word."

"But don't gatekeepers usually stand outside the door?"

"Then you can use your imagination and treat this hall as a guard room."

Mikael smiled and drank the orange juice in the cup, and then with a long sigh of satisfaction, the colorful crystal cup naturally gushed out orange-yellow liquid under the refraction of light until it was full.

Mikael said "wow" softly, kept the cup still, carefully stretched his neck, and moved his face forward in a rather funny way, put his lips on the brim of the cup, and then gently sucked.

The liquid in the cup deflated until only about two-thirds of the orange part remained, and then Mikael raised his head with satisfaction and leaned his head back on the sofa again.

"How about Meiyi? You have been exploring the paradise for so long, and even broke through the limit of your own [will]. Do you want to relax with a glass of orange juice?"

Raising a finger leisurely, another full glass of orange juice appeared out of thin air in the space beside him. As he pointed his finger at Meiyi, the cup immediately moved horizontally towards Meiyi, and stopped steadily in front of Meiyi in the blink of an eye without spilling a drop.

However, Meiyi did not take it.

She just looked at Mikael coldly. For a long time, she did not say a word. The only sound in the hall was the sound of Mikael sipping orange juice, which was so quiet that it made people feel uneasy.

After a while, looking at the orange juice still floating in front of her, Meiyi hesitated for a while, but still reached out to take it, but the look in her eyes looking at Mikael was still not very warm.

"What are you planning again, you guy?"

"Hehe..."

Mikael grinned, as if he was laughing, but his expression soon became awkward and reluctant.

"Mei, after all, am I really not worthy of your trust?"

"It's not a question of whether I am worthy of trust or not... Even if you don't consider what you did to me before, you are quite clear about the purpose of my coming here. But... every time I want to know something... everyone, everyone here uses various reasons to prevaricate me and let me find the answer myself. Mobius, who was willing to tell me everything, no longer responded to me, and only said that you warned her? What else do you want from me?"

Mei's hands were shaking. Although she was exhausted, anger became an emotional catharsis that could not do anything. The orange juice spilled from the cup made the hand holding the cup sticky. This was the only result of anger.

"Mei, if you are too purposeful, you will be annoying."

"?"

"You often chase after the heroes and ask them questions, right? Even if you can see that they are not in a good mood, you will force them to listen to your questions. Why do you do this? I should... no, someone should have taught you that if you want to get something from others, it is not feasible to just ask for it and be aggressive."

Mei narrowed her eyes, looked up and down at "Mikael" in front of her, and then let out a breath.

"What about you, Mikael?"

"Hmm?"

"Why do you keep fighting until now? Not long ago, the you I know told me that you hope to bury your ashes on the moon after death, always watching over humans, and scatter the other half in the universe, pursuing infinite possibilities. You are still so romantic even in the face of death... Knowing that moving forward will only hurt more people, knowing that continuing to fight will only increase your pain, why do you keep moving forward and fighting with such pain?"

A drop of cold sweat slid down Mikael's forehead, he blocked his mouth with orange juice, and then whispered in the sound of "gurgling" bubbles:

"Because I have something I have to do."

"That's also my answer. But..."

Mei held the knife in one hand and the cup tightly in the other hand, walked in front of Mikael and looked down at him.

"But, you are not Mikael, right?"

"..."

"At least, you are not the Mikael I am familiar with. Right?"

"How did you...find out? I think I did a good job of pretending."

Mei used all her strength to force out a smile that only belongs to a "winner".

"That's just because you think you can pretend well. If it were him, he would never ask how I found out about you. Probably...he would just say "oh" faintly."

"Oh."

"Learning and applying on the spot won't work."

Mei smiled self-deprecatingly.

"What's more, I understood the moment I saw the orange juice. You seemed to really like this drink in the past. At every dance, when Kevin and Kosmo both held up red wine, only you had orange juice in your glass. But... the Mikael I am familiar with would just drink silently in this situation."

"So that's it. Because of the inconsistency of experience, I have completely different habits from those 50,000 years ago after 50,000 years. So it was seen at the beginning? Sure enough, there is still a long way to go before I become the future me."

"Why... do you want to talk like the class monitor?"

"..."

"You shouldn't be a memory, right? Everyone I met told me that Mikael didn't leave his own memory. Mobius is like this, and Alicia also concluded so. And the Mikael I am familiar with has never denied this."

"If I'm not a memory, then what am I?"

Mikael turned his head and looked at the slowly rotating star gate.

Mei frowned, searching her past memories, and boldly guessed:

"You were... during the fourth collapse..."

Before she finished her words, Mei suddenly felt her eyes sore, and she blinked instinctively, but when she opened her eyes again, the sofa in front of her was empty, and even the glass of orange juice in her hand that she had not drunk yet disappeared without a trace.

Only the sticky feeling in her palm reminded her that everything that happened before was not an illusion, nor a dream.

"Is this... running away?"

She covered her forehead, and sure enough, Mei still found it difficult to connect such a clean and neat escape behavior with the Mikael she was familiar with. If it was him, he would just say nothing in the same escape, as if he was embarrassed as long as he was not embarrassed.

This is indeed the case. The ice is always unshakable. If someone tries to melt an iceberg with his hands, his hands will undoubtedly freeze into broken ice before the ice and snow melt.

But... why do I always feel a sense of foreboding?

"Hey, hey, Miss Raiden Mei, why are you in a daze in the hall alone?"

"Raven?"

When Mei turned around, she saw Raven with her hood off. Although she was talking to her, her head was turning around, as if she was looking for something.

Looking at the small tuft of hair on her head that kept turning and trembling, Mei suddenly understood why Alicia had a special liking for her character.

She suddenly wanted to be humorous, or maybe the long-term exploration of paradise had exhausted her spirit to the extreme, so she wanted to do something that she would never do or was not suitable to do under the rebellious psychology.

However, before she made up her mind, Raven retracted his eyes, and then his face began to become solemn, but every time his eyes were about to meet hers, he inevitably dodged to the side.

Perhaps it was still because of fatigue. Mei didn't notice anything unusual at first, and even wanted to make a joke. Until Raven hesitated for a long time and couldn't say a word, the ominous premonition became stronger and stronger, and even turned into countless hands in an instant, tightly grasping her heart.

"Raven, did something happen in the outside world?"

Natasha took a deep breath, and shivered again. She opened her mouth to say something, but changed her words at the last moment:

"Miss Raiden Mei, you may need to leave here for a while."

"What happened outside?"

"Miss Raiden Mei, congratulations, you are now the new Lord of the World Serpent. As for what happened outside... Jackal will tell you."

Natasha touched the back of her neck that was already wet with cold sweat, and decisively threw the question to Jackal.

But after two seconds, seeing that Mei didn't answer immediately, Raven sighed and put one hand on his waist and added:

"Please, Miss... Oh, no, it's your Lord. I'm just an errand messenger. If you have any questions, don't embarrass me. Anyway, just leave first."

Meiyi turned her head in confusion, and the everlasting star gate slowly rotated in mid-air, just like it did when she first arrived here.

Without much hesitation or nostalgia, Mei closed her eyes. When she opened them again, Meiyi just stared at the raven with a dull look.

"Let's go."

She moved her lips slightly and just said this.

…………

"So, the current situation is that Kiana has been taken away by the Tenth Herrscher, and Bronya is temporarily unable to use the power of the Herrscher of Reason... In other words, in order to prevent the Tenth Herrscher from taking away Reason, Take away the power of the sky, or release the consciousness of the second Herrscher in Kiana's core. We must take back Kiana as quickly as possible, but is the combat power seriously insufficient? "

The projection of "Thunder and Lightning Meiyi" swept across everyone present. After taking a deep breath and biting her lower lip tightly for a few seconds, she regained her composure and unconsciously analyzed the known information. .

Standing in front of her, Theresa's expression suddenly became extremely complicated.

After half a year, my student not only fully mastered the power of the Herrscher of Thunder, but also became the leader of an organization that is hidden deep in history and has reach into the entire world. In a sense, it is larger than the destiny. host】.

Of course, power and status are not what Theresa focuses on.

The point is that she was already prepared for Mei's anger, sadness and despair. As the principal of the school and Theresa's aunt, she understood very well what Kiana meant to Mei, although she could not fully understand it. A bond between two young girls, but she could feel the weight of it.

That was an emotion far heavier than the friendship between her and Cecilia.

But Meiyi has already acted calmly enough. She is calmer than Siegfried who she spent a lot of effort to calm down before. She immediately turns her brain to think about the problems she is facing at this moment and the corresponding countermeasures. .

It only took half a year to achieve such huge growth. As the principal, Theresa was of course happy for Mei's growth, but...this growth was not due to her education, but to someone who was being taught by them now. The credit of a man who is regarded as an enemy.

She finally discovered that as long as that man was involved, everything would become ridiculous.

Shaking her head, Theresa turned sideways to make room for Mei.

"Mei Yi, before you came, we had already discussed a rough battle plan. Now Dr. Mei will explain it to you and Hollander."

"Um……"

"clear."

The second crisp voice came from Hollandale. The voice was transmitted to the terminal of Destiny via Gnius, and then transferred to Hyperion.

Behind Mei, Bronya was surrounded by armored bunnies and suspended in mid-air, Seele was holding the sacred mark on her heart with her right hand, Siegfried was waving his arms from time to time, and they had already put on their respective Valkyries. The armored Rita and Anna, as well as the duo of Kevin, Su and Hua, who were resting with their eyes closed.

Of course, there is also Teresa who is carrying Judas on her back.

"Isn't Velvet here yet?"

Mei turned sideways and glanced at the not-so-large team.

"Her fighting style relies on a large number of Blank Keys, and currently there is only one Blank Key. She should seize the last moment to upgrade it."

Su, who never opened his eyes, spread his hands and spoke unusually calmly.

Mei nodded to make it clear, and then asked no more questions.

And right in front of her, or in other words, Mei Yi, who was displaced into this space through projection technology, suddenly had a flash of fear in her eyes.

May, Kevin, Sue, and soon Velvet.

Although I have been in contact with Mikael, Mebius and the squad leader a long time ago, after roughly understanding their stories and their predictable endings, it is a bit sad to look at the current battle. .

There is no doubt that for them, this is a fratricide that no one wants to face, but why, every [Ying Jie] exudes nothing but determination.

"Now let's explain the battle plan this time."

Mei's cold voice drew the attention of the new World Snake Lord back.

"This time the battle is mainly divided into two plans, A and B, based on the enemy's situation, corresponding to the possibility of Mikael's appearance or non-appearance respectively. Of course, everyone should know that if it is the latter situation, just Our strength, at least for now, is impossible to defeat him, but...if you still have the mentality of not fighting hard because your opponent cannot be defeated, you can withdraw from this operation now."

No one quit. What May said was indeed a concern for everyone present, but everyone was worried about how to solve the problem, not fear.

"In the end, all we have to do is rescue Kiana, and on this basis, try to complete the plan to annihilate most of the Tenth Herrscher. It doesn't matter whether we defeat Mikael or not. And if we just want to achieve our goal , what most of you need to do is just to hold him back for a while.

"Some of you may not know Mikael, so you are worried about his invincibility and the so-called final authority. Therefore, before the explanation of the battle plan begins, I need to point out to you Mikael's biggest Weaknesses -

"Yes, his biggest weakness is that he is too invincible."

"Click——"

Following Mei's increasingly passionate voice, the doors on one side of the bridge slid open to both sides just at the moment when the last note fell.

Velvet walked in with her top hat covered, but she was not wearing any armor, nor were there any of the various machines and blank keys that she had imagined behind her.

She leaned against the doorframe, sighed heavily, glanced at Mei first, and then turned her head to look behind her.

"Come in quickly. Since you've already put it on, there's nothing I can do about it."

After saying this, she spread her hands to everyone again:

"I'm sorry, but it seems I can't go this time."

The person who stepped into the bridge from behind her was wearing a fiery red Blank Key, holding a weapon with the same name as the great sword [Selter] fifty thousand years ago...

Himihu.

No.

She is Jizi. (End of chapter)