The Crucifixion Cross

Chapter 11. Reasons for Betrayal

There was no breath of the living in the room. Although Su Fei had already guessed that the person with his back facing him was definitely not a real person but a holographic projection, but when the armchair slowly turned from the direction with its back facing him, that The phrase 'Uncle Longma...' still blurted out uncontrollably.

"Hey, long time no see, kid from the Baiyu family."

The man who betrayed Mishima with the same gentle and wicked smile that was in his memory—— Said Ryoma Raiden.

Of course, because of the holographic projection, the Thunder Ryoma on the seat is somewhat different from the one in Su Fei's impression... For example, his gaze is not on Su Fei, but closer to the desk .

If Su Fei hadn't weakened to such an extent now, he would probably walk to the desk as quickly as Raiden Ryoma expected?But it's a pity that Su Fei is now in the 'energy-saving mode', saving as much energy as possible, so there is an error.

This also reflects a problem - now the virtual image of the 'Thunder Ryoma' is not real-time, but a video set by Raiden Ryoma in advance.

"Well, you must have discovered it too? This—" Raiden Ryoma pointed to his body, "It's not a real-time call, but a pre-recorded virtual image, so don't expect to get anything out of my mouth Top-secret information, just listen to me at ease."

Saying that, the corner of Raiden Ryoma's mouth showed his signature wicked smile again.

Huang Quan behind Su Fei shivered lightly. She hated this kind of guy who smiled like a boss, let alone a handsome uncle... This could easily remind her of a guy who once stood in the boss class. The guy with the pinnacle of personality.

In comparison, it's easier to get along with this self-proclaimed 'behind-the-scenes' guy who has been turned into a mess...

Thinking of this, Huang Quan subconsciously moved a little closer to Su Fei.

The soft touch from behind did not affect Su Fei, and all his attention was on Leiden Ryoma.

"I believe you should have found out, right? I did cut off the communication network of Mishima, and I did set up the bomb hidden in the city. In your eyes, I am indeed a 'betrayer', but ah, I know You will not make judgments so simply, so you will definitely come here, to this ME that has condensed my countless efforts, because you want to know the truth of all this..."

After a pause, Leiden Ryoma let out a soft breath:

"So, where do I start explaining to you... about 'why I betrayed', or 'reasons for my betrayal'?"

'Why should you betray' and 'reasons for betrayal' - two sentence patterns that don't seem to be much different, but they contain two completely different meanings.

The former has a feeling of helplessness, while the latter has a sense of freedom and ease in recognizing everything.

Raiden Ryoma shook his head, seemed to give up thinking, and then continued:

"Brat of the Baiyu family, you are not an idiot, so you should be able to think now that the source of all these disturbances is not my sudden imprisonment, but the sudden attack of Cocolia ten years ago...

"Ten years ago, both me and Yimei thought that this was Cocolia's operation to snatch ME, but in fact, we were wrong. Cocolia's real purpose was not ME at all, even against ME. Your assassination plan and sowing dissension are all incidental, and all these actions are to cover up the truth——her goal is Mei."

"...!"

Even though this had been expected, Su Fei still couldn't help being a little horrified when he heard Lei Dianlongma tell the truth at this time, and Huang Quan behind him was also the same.

She knew far fewer things than Su Fei imagined, but the "Sister Yimei" that Lei Dianlongma said was enough to make this smart girl think of many things in an instant.

"Why did Cocolia take Mei abducted for a period of time at such a high price? The answer to this question, after a long, long time, I got the answer—"

I just talked about the key point, but Raiden Ryoma suddenly changed the subject and asked softly:

"Hey, kid from the Baiyu family, do you believe in the theory of 'reincarnation'?"

Before Su Fei could reply, the video continued to play according to the established timeline:

"Of course I didn't believe it, because it was so ridiculous, until a few months ago, a video recording of the sender as 'Jormungand' changed my opinion.

"The content of the video is very simple, but it's just a video of daily life. The problem is the protagonist of this video and the recording time—"

Following Raiden Ryoma's narration, the video also began to play on the virtual screen that popped up beside him.

After the logo of the worldly python Jormungand, the person who appeared in the video frame made Su Fei and Huang Quan gasp with a high synchronization rate:

"This is... Mei!?"

"This is... Mei-senpai?!"

"Mei?" Seemingly anticipating Su Fei's reaction long ago, Leiden Ryoma shook his head, "No, she is not Mei, her name is 'Mei'—although the pronunciation and appearance are exactly the same as my daughter, but actually In fact, she is a talented scientist recruited by the fire moths at the end of the last era, and she is also the source of most of today's technology... In other words, the time of this video is 5000 years ago."

"I see... that's why Kevin Kaslana's replicants are always talking about things like 'marriage' and 'reincarnation'..." Su Fei connected all the clues almost immediately, but Huang Quan found it difficult to accept this shocking fact for a while:

"Wait, 5 years ago!? How long is human history, what happened to 5 years! Also, Mei-senpai from 5 years ago... Mo! What the hell is going on! You must be in Liar! Right! How could human civilization exist 5 years ago!"

The impact of information that exceeded expectations made Huang Quan's brain confused, but the video that Raiden Ryoma had set in advance just continued on his own:

"The reason why Jormungand sent me this video is very simple. They want to tell me that my daughter hides a secret that I don't know... To be honest, I don't want to believe the theory of 'reincarnation', because it It's too ridiculous, and the same pronunciation of appearance and name can't be used as a reason to conclude that Mei is the reincarnation of Mei, but... this is just one of Jormungand's goals.

"In the subsequent contacts, they provided a lot of documents about human experiments. Although they have blurred important places, I know that the purpose of this series of human experiments is actually to 'artificial Herrscher'."

Under Su Fei's surprised gaze, Leiden Ryoma continued:

"It is not a herrscher conceived in an environment of high-intensity Houkai energy, but the birth of a herrscher is facilitated by the power of the 'hersher gem' left over from the previous era.

"The experimental results show that relying on the power of the Herrscher Gem and the reaction of a certain strength of Houkai, it is entirely possible for human beings to make the Herrscher come in advance. At the same time, because the power of the Herrscher Gem is weaker than the core of the Herrscher that is completely condensed naturally There are too many, the power of this Herrscher born through artificial means is only less than a quarter of that of the genuine Herrscher. If enough experimental data can be collected, it can be made even without relying on the power of the Herrscher gem. These 'fakes' take the place of the 'genuine'."

When Raiden Ryoma said this, Su Fei could almost guess the real purpose of the organization named Jormungand.

"By forcibly letting the Herrschers descend to weaken the combat effectiveness of the Houkai side, and destroy as many of them as possible when the Herrschers are still immature..."

"By forcibly letting the Herrschers descend to weaken the combat effectiveness of the Honkai side, and destroy as many of them as possible in their immature infancy—yes, this is the real purpose of Jormungand," Lei Dian said. Ryoma said lightly: "The reason why Mei was chosen was not only that her aptitude gave her the possibility of becoming an artificial herrscher, but more importantly, it was to test whether Mei's secret was hidden in Mei.

"Ten years ago, the real reason why Cocolia wanted to kidnap Mei forcibly was to implant the Herrscher of Thunder gem in her body, so as to stimulate Mei's 'backhand',

"When I finally found out the truth, the Herrscher Gem had almost merged with Mei, and it was impossible to safely separate the gem from Mei with existing technology. I could do nothing but watch Mei gradually collapse. less than..."

Even though it was only a pre-recorded audio, at this moment Su Fei still felt a strong bitterness from the voice of Thunder Ryoma.

"The arrow is on the string and has to be launched. Either watch Mei being eroded into a Herrscher by the Honkai, or join forces with Jormungand to make the Herrscher of Thunder come early within the 'controllable range'... All the riots that broke out in Canghai City are For this purpose.

"An immature Herrscher of Thunder is far easier to deal with than a normal Herrscher. If you were there, maybe Mei might be able to defeat the Herrscher...Although it's embarrassing, this is what I really think. "

With lowered eyes, the current Raiden Ryoma finally showed the weakness and decadence that an old man should have.

"Boy of the White Feather family, I can't stop anymore... I can have countless reasons to justify my 'betrayal', but none of these can hide the fact that I decided to join Jormungand, and at the same time, I also accepted Jormungand's philosophy ——Let the disaster come in advance before it matures. Compared with the bitter fruit swallowed by the fire-chasing moth at the end of the last era, this idea is too tempting to me.

"Indeed, Herrscher's strength is far beyond what ordinary people can contend with, but if human beings can retain their own strength to the maximum extent before she wakes up, who can say for sure the final result?

"'We are right,' said the Lord of Jormungand.

"However, is my choice really the right one? Can this inhumane practice of sacrificing innocent girls to bring disasters ahead of schedule really lead to the right future?

"What if our choices made things worse?

"What if the lord of Jormungand deceives me?

"What if Mei fails to defeat Herrscher?

"What if the Herrscher's power is strong enough to easily wipe out all human beings?

"I can't guarantee that everything will go smoothly according to plan, so now I need a 'safety measure', a 'restraining force' that can correct the wrong path before everything deteriorates to the worst point--also It's you, Bai Yu Su Fei."

Leiden Ryoma slowly raised his head, obviously it was just a virtual image, but at this moment, Su Fei seemed to feel the sharp gaze like a sword.

"I have decided to entrust you with the last hope of mankind, which is the 'truth of the world' that the flame-chasing moths of the last era have not touched—"

Following Leiden Ryoma's faint narration, the ethereal female voice sounded:

"Arise, fair moon, drive away the envious sun, whose eyes are red with anger at her daughter's prettiness..."

With a bit of imperceptible teasing, the ethereal female voice smiled slightly, and slowly said the name destined to determine the fate of all human beings in the future:

"—Throne of the Moonlight."

Hua Ling's words: Reminder from the back row, the Moonlight Throne here is not the warship against entropy, but something else with the same principle...

By the way, the wrong use of the word 'groundless' in the previous chapter has been corrected, thanks to the book friends for reminding.

Chapter 12. The Moonlight Throne

Su Fei knew that this was a classic line in "Romeo and Juliet", but the ethereal female voice subtly switched the positions of the sun and the moon...

Whether there is some kind of deep meaning hidden in this, the current Su Fei still doesn't know, he can only follow the pace of Thunder Ryoma, step by step towards the so-called 'human being's last hope'.

The virtual projection of Raiden Ryoma slowly disappeared, replaced by that ethereal female voice.

"——Throne of the Moonlight." With an elusive smile, she said slowly: "Translated, it means 'Moonlight Throne'.

"This is a great cross-age plan led by 'Pioneers'. It exists not only to fight against Houkai, but also to fundamentally erase Honkai... Yes, you heard it right, 'Pioneers' ' Their ambitions are so grand, they are no longer satisfied with lingering in the shadow of the collapse, but thinking about how to completely defeat the collapse.

"It's a pity that under the obstruction of a certain person and an organization, the process of the plan was delayed for more than 40 years, and it was not until recently that it finally turned from a design drawing into a real thing."

People have already hinted at this point, and it refers to "fundamentally erasing the collapse" and "a certain person and a certain organization". With Su Fei's IQ, it is naturally not difficult to guess the true meaning of these words .

Throne of the Moonlight——The Moonlight Throne Project refers to the Honkai Energy Transformation Device, which is most likely to be a beautiful girl who is anti-entropic. It is indeed not a whimsical idea that the transformation device can really work, and it can fundamentally erase the Honkai.

After all, the essence of the Moonlight Throne project is to convert all the Houkai energy on the earth into real internal energy.

According to the sequence abilities of Herrschers such as Yan, Ice, and Wind, there is indeed a certain connection between the Houkai energy and the real number internal energy. Once the key is grasped, it is not impossible to convert the Houkai energy into the real number internal energy .

If this plan can be implemented smoothly, the Mandate of Heaven, the Anti-Entropy, and the Three Islands will all lose their meaning of existence, because the source of their strength—Honkai—has completely disappeared from this world.

And this is probably the root cause of that man—Otto Apocalypse wanting to prevent the implementation of the plan, right?

Su Fei could see that ordinary excessive conspiracies such as conquering the world or destroying the world basically had nothing to do with Otto. What he was begging for should be something more humble but also more magnificent.

In order to realize his wish, at least in the eyes of Otto now, the existence of Honkai is necessary...

"The name of 'her' is the Moonlight Throne, but unfortunately, the 'hope' entrusted to you today is not the complete body of 'her', but another device (Device) equipped with the same mechanism—usually, I will 'She' calls it 'Siren'."

A half-human, half-bird banshee in Greek mythology, a flirtatious and dangerous woman who lures sailors with her beautiful and melodious singing voice... The device named after this (Device) naturally aroused Su Fei's interest.

By the way, Su Fei has been vaguely aware of these strange nouns since he first came into contact with Destiny, until now he can finally be sure that the 'God of Creation' of this world is an old dead middle-aged man, and also Got a disease called 'If you don't use metaphors, you will die',

Most of the proper nouns that Su Fei comes into contact with are the names of gods or places in Norse mythology, such as Vanaheim where she is now, or Jothuheim, which is about to arrive...

The former is the kingdom of gods, while the latter is the residence of giants, under which Mimir, the spring of secrets and knowledge, is buried. According to legend, the great god Odin obtained endless wisdom after drinking the spring water of Mimir.

Well, if it is changed to the real world, the so-called Mimir probably corresponds to a super-large Houkai energy research institution, right?Like the Tower of Babylon of Destiny...

Su Fei felt that he was about to figure out the brain circuit of this vicious "creator god". He felt that he was fully prepared for what would come into his eyes next, but when the X-shaped air corridor descended to the ground At a depth of about 200 meters, the wounds and hideous claw marks turned up on the inner side of the wall made Su Fei feel that she was still too young.

What is it to put on a dead soldier in Titan armor? Isn't this even the artificial cultivation of the Houkai Beast?

To actually raise this kind of thing in the basement of ME's building... Uncle Ryoma, how brave are you!

Su Fei was filled with emotions, but when the ethereal female voice reached Jothuheim on the floor, she gently said, "Huh~?" ' with a sound:

"Strange... What are these exaggerated claw marks? Is there a guy with such a huge physique under our house?"

"Wait, so you didn't prepare the recording in advance?!" Su Fei was startled.

"Why do you treat Ada as a recording?" Su Fei was surprised, but the ethereal female voice was obviously more surprised than him, "This is too rude, My little master!"

Before the conversation fell into endless mutual complaints, Su Fei wisely strangled Huatou:

"For the time being, let's ignore the question of why you were able to talk to me smoothly, which should only be a recording, and the suspicious address... The first thing to be sure is that you don't know what these claw marks are?"

Through the transparent glass window, Su Fei's gaze stayed on the hideous claw marks on the inner wall for a long time.

I didn’t notice it when I skipped it in a hurry before, but now I look at Su Fei carefully and feel that something is wrong. Those rough claw marks don’t look like the scars left by the rampant Honkai Beast after wanton destruction, but...

That's right, it's like the trace left by a falling ferocious beast desperately using its paws to stop the falling momentum!

At this moment, the mysterious voice who called himself Ada finally panicked:

"That's right, Ada doesn't know what's going on... It's strange, according to the Master's arrangement, the 'plot' after this should be Ada proudly introducing 'her' to you, and then sending you to the 'throne' That's right... Could it be that some guests came without invitation?"

Uninvited guests, huge claw marks, a super-large Honkai energy research facility called Jothuheim...

When Su Fei put these keywords together, the answer was already obvious——

"Is it that dragon!? It's not dead!?"

Hua Ling’s words: Ada’s words were also mentioned in previous chapters. If you don’t know or have no impression, just treat her as an artificial intelligence of the last era similar to Ai-chan...Of course, what’s here is not the ontology, but the It is anti-entropy as an 'alliance gift' presented to Raiden's split, just call her Ada.MK.II (laughs

As for the Siren that appeared in this chapter... If you don’t know, you can Baidu "Xenoblade Chronicles 2". Of course, there is no such thing as a messy plot, and I don’t have time to write so many female characters. I just think that Siren’s appearance is better than Titan.

Chapter 13. Central dogma (Siren concept map updated)

Although the sea before Su Fei's coma was bombed to tatters, in "mandarin terms", it can be barely fooled by a "large-scale gas explosion", but now even a "gas explosion" is useless. That's basically the doomsday wasteland level.

The power of the thunderstorm from the Herrscher of Thunder can be seen from the current state of the sea.

When he was chatting with Judas before, the listening girl said that one of the reasons why Kallen would kill him was that she regarded Su Fei as a core of Herrscher who had awakened herself, and Herrscher The essence of the core is the door connecting the world of imaginary numbers and the world of real numbers. Its essence is to transform the energy "beyond common sense" in the world of imaginary numbers into a converter capable of interfering with the world of real numbers—the so-called "capable of interfering with the real number world." power', which is commonly referred to as 'Honkai energy'.

The core of a normal Herrscher is only as big as a fingernail, but Su Fei may be the core of a Herrscher, and his transformation efficiency is hundreds of times that of an ordinary Herrscher...

In the words of Xianxia novels, Su Fei's heart is a god-level elixir refined with countless treasures from heaven and earth, anyone who eats it can ascend to the sky in one step.

The newly awakened Herrscher of Thunder is indeed pitifully weak, but after swallowing Su Fei's heart, her strength has risen to the point where she can compete with the Herrscher of Flame from the previous era. The power to destroy a country can only be compared with the immortals in their heyday.

He couldn't imagine how the dragon-shaped Honkai beast, which had been severely injured by him twice, survived such a devastating force.

What's even more frightening is that it will soon be Su Fei's turn to face this terrifying force...