Chapter 622 You Are Too Naive After All

【July 11, 2017】

[11:53 (Greenwich Mean Time) 12:53 (Destiny Headquarters Time) 4:53 (Pacific Time)]

[The Tower of Babel appears at 11:47 (GMT)]

[Currently available information A: A giant tower reaching the sky appeared in the Canaan area. Although it is not located in the land of Shinar marked in the second section of Chapter 11 of Genesis, it perfectly fits the characteristics of "reaching the sky" and Canaan's The Judeans did participate in the construction of the Tower of Babel as slaves after the defeat, so they named it the Tower of Babel (Note: To distinguish it from the former Tower of Babel, the name "Babel" is temporarily used).

[Currently available information B: The Tower of Babel grew most rapidly within the first half minute after its appearance, and stopped changing in height one minute after its appearance. The current highest point is 78,596.12 meters above sea level, close to the thermosphere. Taking into account the laws of physics, as the height of the Tower of Babel increases, the coverage area of ​​the Tower of Babel on the ground is also constantly expanding. When it first appeared, it just included the Old City of Judea, the Mount of Olives, and Mount Zion. Currently, the lowest level The diameter has expanded to nearly 200 kilometers, and the suburbs of Amman, Caesarea, and Rahat have begun to be engulfed by the tower, Judea has been completely engulfed, and Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Palermohim have basically been engulfed. 】

[Currently available information C: One minute after the Tower of Babel appeared, due to the fixed height, the range at the bottom of the tower no longer expanded. A large number of Honkai Beasts, Death Soldiers, and new monsters named "Imaginary Divine Skeletons" began to pour out of the tower. Currently, 678 ten-meter Honkai Beasts and 20 Honkai Beasts have been identified. There are eighty-three Honkai Beasts above the meter level. Twenty hundred-meter level Honkai Beasts. It is planned to establish a preliminary defense line on the Sinai Peninsula in the south and the Beirut-Damascus line in the north. Due to terrain reasons, the eastern defense line plans to abandon the Mesopotamia plain and the peninsula and establish a defense line on the Elam Plateau. The blueprint for the final defense line envisions that the northern line will retreat to the Anatolian Plateau and the Armenian Plateau at most, the eastern line the Zagros Mountains will be the final line of defense, and the southern line will consider giving up after the Sinai Peninsula and Red Sea defense lines are completely lost. That is, in view of the deterioration of the situation, it is planned to abandon the vast area including Syria, Canaan, Babylon, the Peninsula, and Egypt. 】

[Currently available information D: 11:52 (Greenwich Mean Time), the Honkaimon, Dead Soldiers, and Imaginary Divine Skeletons that appeared from the Tower of Babel began to move westward along the White Sea. The first Fourth Mecha Alliance The team has all set off to meet them. Attached is the Bishop's Decree No. 357 of the Mandate of Heaven: "After receiving this order, the navies of the various countries affiliated to the Mandate of Heaven should assemble as quickly as possible and make every effort to form Cyprus Island-Red Sea, Rhodes Island-Cyrenaica, and Italy. -Sicily-Malta-Tunisia three roads Defense line. The specific formation composition and command structure refer to plan B. Once the third line of defense is breached, the Honkai beasts can reach the floating port of Tianming headquarters. Therefore, the naval fleets of various countries must assemble as quickly as possible. Gather quickly!”]

[Currently available information E: Former Destiny B-level Valkyrie, Second Herrscher, Kiana Kaslana has been confirmed to have disappeared at the Anti-Entropy Sacramento Base at 11:07 (GMT). At the same time, a total of 998 Thousand Herrscher cores stored in the Anti-Entropy Sacramento Base, Destiny Headquarters First Floating Port L037 Warehouse, Shenzhou Honkai Related Object Storage Warehouse No. 076, and World Serpent Headquarters B33 Floor A Warehouse disappeared. Surveillance cannot prove how the core disappeared, and the possibility that the Tower of Babel is a counterattack means by the Thousand Herrschers cannot be ruled out. 】

[Currently available information F: The current Honkai energy reaction in the center of the Tower of Babel is about 5600HW. The appearance of the Herrscher is confirmed. The order of the Honkai Impact, the order of the Herrscher, and the power of the Herrscher are unknown. Since the Honkai energy reaction has exceeded the general Herrscher reaction, it is suspected that there are multiple Herrscher individuals (not the Thousand Herrscher type), but it is not ruled out that it is a single Herrscher, or that part of the Honkai energy reaction comes from a second Herrscher. sex. 】

[Currently publicly available information G: Due to the excessive deposition of Honkai energy in the area around the Tower of Babel, space and light are distorted. The clarity of images obtained from satellites and aerial photography is extremely low, but the architecture of the Tower of Babel can be roughly distinguished. The form is very similar to that of the Dominion Theater. The doors and windows are all sealed, making it impossible to observe the internal conditions. Also: The density of Honkai energy in the area about 10km away from the Tower of Babel is extremely high. 35 pilots have died because they were too close to the Tower of Babel. In view of this, the possibility of ordinary people surviving in the area swallowed by the Tower of Babel should be ruled out. 】

"How? This is all the information known so far. This time I am not hiding anything. If you don't believe it, you can also use your own anti-entropy methods to conduct reconnaissance. But considering that the technical power of anti-entropy is not as good as destiny. There is no essential difference, so I think it’s better not to waste your time.”

Otto folded his index fingers on the table in front of his chest, keeping his upper body straight up on the seat. His back did not lean against the back of the chair at all, and there was no familiar red wine glass at hand.

Such a serious posture made everyone who was quite familiar with him feel that something was wrong. If it weren't for the exaggerated welcome ceremony that was quite in line with Otto's style at the beginning, and the fact that Otto never left Orchid after that, From Dell's sight, many people probably think that he has been [replaced].

The air conditioner in the conference room was turned down a bit, that's probably it. Anyway, after seeing the information displayed on the screen in front of them, several people's bodies shivered uncontrollably.

"We will not question the accuracy of the information, but my Lord... Bishop Otto, why is there no item about the evacuation of civilians in the measures you have taken?"

After a while, Theresa broke the silence.

"Dear little Theresa, the situation has deteriorated to the point where we can no longer take care of these things. We can only leave the evacuation of civilians to the local government. Not to mention that the last piece of information has already ruled out the possibility of those civilians still surviving..."

Otto spread his hands, but suddenly added when Theresa's face became a little ugly:

"However, since Ms. Theresa strongly requested...then Amber, issue another bishop's order, ordering the governments of the countries around Judea to organize the evacuation of the people in accordance with the principle of giving priority to evacuating areas far away from the place where the collapse occurred. Tell them that I don't care about the speed of evacuation, I only ask to maintain the order of evacuation."

Theresa opened her mouth, but this time she did not refute.

After all, she was a commander who had commanded the Second Herrscher's encirclement and suppression operations, and of course she understood that Otto's decision was the best decision, even if this evacuation policy sounded so ruthless.

But as the second half of the order said, the key to evacuation is not simply to pursue speed, but order. Only when the order of evacuation is guaranteed, there is room to talk about speed. If the evacuation starts from the area closest to the collapse, it will often only lead to a large number of main roads being blocked by vehicles fleeing in panic, and the civilians in the inner circle cannot continue to evacuate. The civilians in the outer circle are blocked by the civilians escaping from the inner circle, and finally everyone will become dead soldiers.

Therefore, starting from the outermost circle is undoubtedly a solution that can save more people. As for whether the civilians in the inner circle need rescue? Probably... no need.

The meeting room fell into a long silence again, and even Dr. Tesla, who couldn't stop talking, just drank water one mouthful after another, as if blocking his mouth in this way.

Although the information provided by Otto seemed to be a lot of lavish, and countless photos and materials were attached, the weight of this information was far from enough for organizing a battle against the Herrscher, and the core information was equivalent to nothing.

Who is causing this chaos right now? Or the remnants of the Tenth Herrscher? Or both?

Is Kiana's disappearance related to the Tower of Babel? What is the situation of the Second Herrscher in Kiana's body? Will he take this opportunity to seize Kiana's body as in the past, and then work together with other Herrschers to destroy the world?

Everything is unknown. These key information have not yet revealed the slightest chicken feet. Even if people are eager to formulate a battle plan, they can only say that a good cook cannot cook without rice.

Of course, from the beginning of the collapse to the collection of those intelligence, it took only six minutes in total. Counting the previous conversation, it has been less than ten minutes since the appearance of the Tower of Babel.

During the second collapse, it was not until several days after the birth of the Herrscher that Destiny responded and sent out the team led by Theresa. It was not until the second day after the Herrscher completely erupted that the support team led by Siegfried was sent.

During the third collapse, the Far East Branch closest to Changkong City also responded effectively more than two hours later.

In contrast, everyone seems a little anxious now?

Whether to be anxious or not depends on the urgency of the situation.

When Xilin just became a Herrscher, she was completely unable to control her power. She only carefully retaliated against the staff of the Tower of Babylon in a way that even a Herrscher would feel ashamed to see, until too many people disappeared and aroused the vigilance of Destiny.

And Mei quickly regained her human consciousness after her first awakening. The scope of the collapse was limited to Changkong City, and the spread outward was not strong, so Destiny had more time to react.

But now? In just five minutes, the Canaan region from Judea to the White Sea coast has been completely destroyed. Even if the speed of the collapse will gradually slow down, in half an hour, the vanguard of the collapse will definitely cross the entire Syria to the north and enter Anatolia, and the south will cross the Sinai Peninsula. The east is flat. If the defense line of the Sagoros Mountains is also broken, I am afraid that we can only rely on Shenzhou to block it...

Judging from the current situation, it may not take half a day for the collapse to destroy the entire Central Asia and the Near East.

After that, the Honkai beast will cross the narrow Dardanelles and Bosphorus to attack Europe, wreak havoc on defenseless North Africa, and then sweep northward across the entire Iberian Peninsula from the Pillars of Hercules - just like what the pagans did before the Destiny united Europe in the 7th to 14th centuries.

However, there is no need to worry too much about the Eastern Front, which seems to be the most dangerous at present. Even if the entire Central Asia is destroyed, Shenzhou will have time to arrange a complete defense line along the Tianshan-Pamir-Tufan Plateau. If even Shenzhou's defense line cannot hold up, then the Destiny headquarters will have fallen long ago, and everyone does not need to care about what happens next.

"Damn it!"

Dr. Tesla knocked hard on the wall with his mechanical arm, and an apple-sized dent appeared on the poor armored wall in an instant.

Amber looked over when she heard the sound, and instinctively wanted to remind this highly qualified doctor to compensate for the repair costs of the wall, but was interrupted by Otto's suddenly raised palm.

The next moment, the door of the small conference room was suddenly opened, and the corners of the white coat flew up with the anxious footsteps of the person who came. The white reflection on the pair of round lenses made it impossible for everyone to see the woman's true expression.

"Dr. Mei? How did you..."

"The situation was urgent, so I directly used the Second God Key to bring Kevin, Su, Siegfried, Velvet, Bronya and Seele. In addition, Anti-Entropy, First, Second, The 3rd Flying Wing has all taken off and is expected to arrive at Tianming North Africa Tunisia Air Force in 36 minutes. Military base, please cooperate here to receive it. The first and second mecha wings will also arrive at the Tunisian air base about twenty minutes after the arrival of the three flying wings. These five wings need to be in Tunisia. West Asia received a replenishment of fuel, and then immediately headed to Egypt to build a North African defense line."

Mei threw her glasses on the table and kept talking, but there was no emotion in her purple eyes.

"The northern defense line should not be deployed along the mountains with the idea of ​​​​against humans. The Herrscher's duty is to eliminate humans. Only by annihilating more humans, transforming more dead soldiers, and spawning more Honkai Beasts can we quickly sweep the entire world. , so it will never give priority to attacking the Anatolian Plateau and the mountainous areas of Armenia, but will quickly head to the Aegean Sea along the White Sea and along the densely populated city-states along the coast of Asia Minor. shore, and then cross the sea to attack densely populated Greece, and then Italy... In the same way, the defense of Eastern China should not be mainly based on Tianshan and Congling. China's mecha and knight troops should cross the Tufan Plateau and enter Kashmir, with The body and poison are united to build a defense line on the Punjab and Sind lines, but even so, we must consider the possibility that the Honkaiju will cross the land and land directly on the South Asian subcontinent from the sea. "

She took out a huge world map from her pocket and opened it directly on the table in the conference room. The map was intricately marked with various colors of chalk, and there were many key locations with different colored tacks inserted. The tacks fell off to the ground during the process of opening the map, making a crisp sound, but Mei took out another handful from her pocket and quickly filled in the positions according to memory.

She pushed the map in front of everyone, as if she was the master of destiny, and said quickly without emotion, only speaking of efficiency:

"Please inform Tianming's subordinate troops and Shenzhou to build a defense line according to the markings on this map. I have calculated the speed of the spread of Honkai Impact. Areas that are too late to set up defenses will be abandoned immediately."

Otto leaned forward and looked at the intricate lines and text marks on the map. Without any hesitation, he turned directly to the white-haired girl standing aside and ordered:

"Amber, copy this map immediately, and then send the above information to the people in charge of each defense line, and ask them to strictly follow this plan. The part involving China can be sent directly through the personal contact email of me and Miss Su Shang, that email The password is 1496.”

Amber stood up and looked at the map quietly, and then started to operate the terminal in front of him without any doubts throughout the process.

Even if she knew that the plan on that map was far more cruel than what the Lord Bishop had previously formulated, it was almost equivalent to giving up all the humans in the Old World outside of Western Europe and China, and even the three people who had come all the way from the New World and were about to join the North African defense line. The air wing and the two mecha wings are just consumables in this plan - consumables necessary to delay time.

Even if a small number of civilians manage to escape in time, this plan will destroy no less than a billion human beings. This is what Theresa can judge at the first sight.

But she didn't say anything in the end.

Because Mei, who suddenly broke into the conference room forcefully, put in front of everyone the only feasible defense plan, or in other words, it was the plan that could buy the most time.

Judging from the current situation, before the force of the collapse crosses the Tufan Plateau, crosses the Danube River to the Bohemian Plains, sweeps the entire North Africa into the Iberian Peninsula, and breaks through the maritime blockade chain centered on Malta to attack the Tianming Headquarters , this plan can buy up to about 25 hours.

There is only one way to reduce civilian casualties - to get rid of the Tower of Babel and the Herrscher himself hidden in the Tower of Babel as quickly as possible.

This is something everyone present understands.

but.

It is now seventeen minutes after the Tower of Babel appeared.

Until now, mankind still doesn’t know who its enemy is?

Is it the Tenth Herrscher? Or is a new power born?

"There is no doubt that he is the Tenth Herrscher."

Just when everyone was trying to deduce the power of the Herrscher from the pitiful evidence, Mei directly gave the conclusion that everyone had speculated on.

"Why? Shouldn't we... have eliminated them? And the power of the Tenth Herrscher is manifested in having a large number of individuals and the power to dominate weaker Herrschers, but the Herrscher in the Tower of Babel showed The power that came out... is already far more powerful than Sirin..."

Mei did not answer Theresa's words immediately. She searched around the conference room, found a chair and pulled it over to sit down. Then she grabbed the tea in front of Theresa and drank it all in one gulp. After sighing, he began to explain:

"What we lack is just decisive clues, but whether it is the core of the Thousand Herrschers that cannot be analyzed and disappeared mysteriously, the number that does not match the number [one thousand], the architectural style and tone of the Tower of Babel and the Domination Theater are similar , all confirm from the side that this incident is most likely related to the Tenth Herrscher, and it is most likely the work of the two missing individuals.

"The reason why we cannot make a decisive conclusion for this speculation, apart from the lack of conclusive evidence, is simply that we think that the Tenth Herrscher cannot have such a powerful power, but... why do we need accurate evidence? Admittedly, this is a In a war, every decision needs to be made carefully, but sometimes even a wrong order is far better than no order at all. Instead of sitting here and thinking hard, it is better to make bold assumptions and boldly verify some things... I just say. ”

Mei's attitude was extremely strong. She suddenly raised her head, and her cold eyes suddenly swept across the entire audience.

"Humanity in this era has achieved brilliant results in the face of Honkai Impact. But because of this, you are too naive after all - Herrscher Siren, who caused the most casualties in the past, only caused the direct death of 12 million people. You Consider this the upper limit of the Herrscher's power, and because of this, you will kill a Herrscher in a short time. Hundreds of millions or even billions of people regard it as an abnormal level, but for us, this is just the normal level of Herrscher. You must know that our world had a much larger population than you when it came into contact with the collapse. There was even an extra continent, but at the end of the day, we were left with only the last 30,000 people.

"We only need to accept the destructive power of Honkai without questioning it. Moreover, the power of the Tenth Herrscher is not without trace. The power of the Herrscher of Reason is still in its hands, and perhaps it comes from Kiana's A small amount of energy was obtained in the core, but the most important thing was that Velvet used the Key of the Second God to observe something familiar in the space near the Tower of Babel. The space is fluctuating, and that space is now in a superposition state of the original world and another space. In other words, the Herrscher has forced the entire world where the Domination Theater is located into the space of the original world. The reason why the architectural style of the Tower of Babel is so similar to that of the Domination Theater should be the result of the reorganization of the buildings in the theater.

"And that theater... In fact, except for the Herrscher of the Sky, the power of the other Herrschers should not be enough to construct a world bubble outside the intrinsic world. Therefore, the world bubble that houses the Dominion Theater is undoubtedly The product of that person will be the creation of God. If such a world bubble is roughly inserted into the intrinsic world, the large amount of Honkai energy left when creating that world bubble will spread as quickly as a nuclear bomb explodes. The energy output curve provided by the model I built based on this is the same as the Tower of Babel. It’s almost unanimous, which can also be used as evidence.”

"In other words, worst case scenario, do we have to face Mikael again?"

"That's right."

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Despair spread in the dead silence. No one present would give up easily, but that didn't mean they wouldn't despair.

It is human nature to feel fear and despair when facing an enemy that is impossible to defeat or does not know how to defeat. Not to mention, the current situation is that even if a victory is achieved, can it be called a victory?

Even Otto couldn't help but fall into thinking, even if it was just for two seconds.

And Mei was back on her feet.

"I need a fighter jet. Velvet will take me to take a closer look at the Tower of Babel to verify some conjectures. I hope that the following people will stay at the headquarters on standby during this period. Those who are not called by me should try their best to Assigned to the defensive line of need.”

Mei had already become the owner of this conference room. She took out the marker she had prepared from her pocket and wrote down a long list on the smooth wall of the conference room.

And at the end of the list, she wrote down the name "Thunder and Lightning Meiyi" heavily, and then turned to look at the jackal who had been huddled in the corner without saying a word:

"Please World Snake bring your Lord back immediately. As quickly as possible, I hope that the fighter jet I am riding in can meet her in the sky above the Tower of Babel. There is a conjecture that must be verified with the help of her power."

After saying that, she turned to leave.

But at this time, Otto stood up:

"Wait a moment, Dr. May. If you are going to investigate the situation at the Tower of Babel, please be sure to take me with you."

"Um?"

"grandfather!"

"Theresa, everything about destiny... will be left to you for the time being. Dr. Mei hopes to be able to observe the Tower of Babel infinitely close to zero distance. If this is the case, there is one thing that only I can do."

"!"

Hollander stood up instantly and stood between Otto and the door of the conference room.

"Master Bishop, I cannot allow you to use that power, after all, it is that person..."

"Bianca, my dear student, don't you understand? What matters is not who this power comes from, but who will use it for what purpose. This is true for me, and for The same goes for you..."