Before the collapse of civilization, kiss Mebius at the beginning

The time is slow, but the time is slow.

"Slow down your time... a hundred times?..."

It took Alicia a while to realize the deep meaning behind this sentence.

"That is to say, Minister Karin... and these frozen people... their thinking time has been slowed down a hundred times? What can be done in one second on weekdays requires a hundred times more energy at this moment? This..."

"No."

Karin shook her head and interrupted Alicia's speech. She then said,

"You have personally experienced the 'full of time' It feels like a hundred times, isn't it? Although from my perspective, your time has indeed been slowed down a hundred times... But for you, for those of you who are frozen, you will at most feel that you are dreaming.

You should have had dreams too, right? Alysia... It's just a dream, and your time will pass. And I just want you to experience the passage of time, so it's not torture. "

"This..."

Alysia paused, she had personally experienced the "time slowing down" that Karin said. From her perspective, she was really frozen in a blink of an eye, and she didn't feel anything during the period, so naturally there was no so-called pain.

From this point of view... Karin's behavior seems to be really harmless? She really just wants to experience the feeling of time flying by herself, so as to realize the feasibility of her determination to develop the power of one person?

"No!"

Alicia suddenly realized that she seemed to have been misled by Karin. She stared at the blue "love ice crystal" in Karin's hand, and said hurriedly,

"Minister Karin, the one you have in your hand... is the Herrscher Core! Throw it away or give it to me. Otherwise, you will be corroded by Honkai!"

"Herrscher Core..."

After hearing the word, Karin's eyes flashed with confusion, but she was soon relieved and nodded to herself. Said,

"That's the principle... So the Herrscher core really exists, but the cores of the previous Herrschers were all confiscated by Dr. Mobius, and all the information was blocked? Haha... But that's right, I should have thought of it earlier. Only the power of the Herrscher that comes from 'God' can achieve the miracle of 'slowing down a hundred times'. Thank you for solving this doubt for me, Alicia."

Seeing that Karin didn't seem to take the horror of the Herrscher core seriously, Alicia's tone was a little anxious.

As the first combat force of the Fire Moth, Alicia had fought with the Herrscher several times, so she had also seen too many tragedies from the Herrscher... Even if we don't mention anything else, just take the first Herrscher Xu Ziling as an example. He seems gentle and warm, but in fact he is the orphan of an entire civilization.

Alicia still remembers that when she heard that Xu Ziling was dug out from the ground by Mobius, she subconsciously asked about his past, and the particularly complex emotions flashed across his face.

Knowing that there were too many tragedies in this, Alysia did not continue to ask about Xu Ziling's past, and only wished that they could still have this moment.

And this is the tragedy of the First Herrscher.

And later, there are the Herrschers of Void, Thunder, and Wind... Their lives can only be described as painful. Yingyan said that he lost his parents since childhood, Raiden Ryoma lost his wife, and Wendy also lost her most important friend in her purest years...

Honkai always comes after the happiest thing, and like an unreasonable gangster, it forces the identity of "Herscher" on them, smashing their original happiness and peace, and causing one tragedy after another.

Reason, Void, Thunder, Wind.

None of the four Herrschers who have been born can escape this pain that seems like fate. This may be related to the fact that the Herrscher himself has no hope for human society... But the last straw that broke the camel's back was undoubtedly the disaster called "Honkai" and the identity of the Herrscher.

Now that the fifth Herrscher has appeared in Alicia's vision, she will certainly want to do her best to save the other party before the situation becomes serious, even though she actually knows that her hope of success is slim.

"Minister Karin! Now is not the time to think about so many things... Tell me first, have you ever heard an empty sound in your ears? Or

"The one who told me, have you ever felt that there is another consciousness competing with you for control of your body? This is very important... Please answer me!"

Alicia's tone was urgent. The most urgent thing was to confirm whether Karin was bewitched by the God of Disaster. Only after confirming this, could she try to save Karin.

"Voice?"

Karin frowned slightly, she stretched out her hand and nodded her forehead, then said,

"The only voice that I can hear and makes me irritated is your voice, Alicia. The Herrscher personality... Is this something that will appear with the Herrscher core?"

"Well... Indeed."

Feeling that Karin did not seem to be lying, Alicia could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then she explained,

"The Herrscher personality is usually something that appears with the birth of the Herrscher... They generally have great hostility towards human civilization, and will subconsciously attack and destroy everything they can see after seizing the human body.

Minister Karin, judging from your appearance, you should not have been corrupted by the Herrscher personality yet. Then there is still hope! Hurry up and throw away the core now! In this way, you may still be saved..."

"Throw away?"

Karin's tone suddenly rose, and then she waved her hand and scolded,

"This ice crystal is the basis for me to slow down my thinking a hundred times, and it is also the basis for me to complete my plan to save the country alone! How can I throw it away because of a little non-existent danger? !

Also, Alicia, I hope you can correct your state! I am your direct superior, and now I am talking to you! You are the one who listens! I don't want to see such an offense again! ! "

Kalin's scolding was accompanied by a lot of biting cold and trembling castle. Alicia noticed that the ice sculptures around her had some cracks because of Karin's anger. This discovery made Alicia shut her mouth quickly. She couldn't bet on whether the life inside these ice blocks could still survive after they were broken.

"..."

After scolding, Karin seemed to realize her own loss of composure and stretched out her left hand to cover her forehead for a short rest.

After a while, Karin turned her head away and said:

"This core is the foundation for me to implement my plan. I can't discard it... If it really contains danger, then thank you for your kind reminder, Alicia. But if you give up your six-year plan just because of possible danger, then I don't need to be the Tsar. Let's stop this topic here. I don't want to hear you say something similar to me again. ”

“Hmm…”

With 79 ice sculptures as hostages for Karin, Alicia had no choice. She had to listen to Karin and shut up.

The scene fell silent for a while.

It was not until a long time later that Karin sighed and spoke again:

“Wait and see… Alicia, for you. Mr. Qianjie and your friends will wake up soon. By then, I will tell you all about my grand plan and territory.

You don’t need to ask me why. If you really need an answer… Just regard everything I have done so far as the will of the ‘Rinbing Carrier’. "

As she spoke, Karin lowered her head and glanced at the "Ice Crystal Karin" who was sitting on the throne without saying a word.

Ice Carrier... This is the name Karin gave to her other half. In other words, it is the name she gave to her other half differentiated from the Honkai Beast gene of Ashwagawa, that is, the "Ice Crystal Karin" in Alicia's vision at this moment.

And Ice Crystal Karin or Ice Carrier, in fact, is not speechless. It's that she needs to concentrate all her brain power, in that time that has been slowed down a hundred times, like a supercomputer, to receive and process all matters of all sizes on the land of the snow country.

If Alicia closes her eyes at this moment and feels the air with her skin If she could see the flow of Honkai energy in the air, she would definitely find that... in this seemingly empty and cold castle, the nearly endless Honkai energy had already wrapped and covered the cold ice carrier. She used these Honkai energy radiations to release and receive information.

Alicia stared blankly at the "Ice Crystal Karin" whom Karin called the "Crystal Ice Carrier", and then looked at Karin's indifferent body... Somehow, an idea suddenly emerged in Alicia's heart.

Suppose... the Herrscher consciousness of the Ice Herrscher... was actually born a long time ago...

Suppose... the "Karin" who had been communicating with her since the beginning... was not "Karin" at all? !

Suppose... this

Is this "Ice Carrier" the real Karin... her human personality? ! !

The moment this terrifying thought appeared, it swept through Alicia's heart. Although she had no evidence to prove this, this thought was like a maggot attached to her bones, tightly occupying Alicia's mind, and she couldn't get rid of it for a long time...

"Gulp."

Alicia swallowed her saliva subconsciously to relieve her nervousness.

"..."

Karin seemed not to notice Alicia's emotional changes. After explaining her own motives for her behavior to Alicia, she never spoke again. She just stretched out her hand and stroked the cheek of the Ice Will. The action was gentle, like stroking a work of art.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Alicia knew that maintaining the current stalemate was more beneficial to her, and there was a greater chance of waiting for the possible reinforcements. But the doubt in Alysia's heart intensified. The urgency of saving people and the doubt of figuring out the opponent finally forced her to speak again.

"That... Minister Karin, before they wake up, can I ask you a few more questions?"

"Ask."

Karin's tone was flat, as if the previous excited scolding had taken away all her emotions.

"Hmm..."

Alysia certainly couldn't ask you directly whether you were a human. After pondering for a moment, she tried to use a roundabout way of asking to get the answer she wanted, while covering up another layer of her doubts.

"Minister Karin, you just said... you slowed down your own time and ours by a hundred times. You have explained the feelings of those frozen people, and I have experienced them... but you seem to have skipped the feelings of you, the 'unfrozen person'? Why?"

"Heh... are you concerned about me?"

Karin chuckled, then waved her hand nonchalantly and said,

"I have already told you the answer, haven't I? 'A reaction and thinking that is a hundred times beyond that of ordinary people'... That's right, every word and every action you can hear from me now are actually carefully considered by me using my time that has been slowed down a hundred times.

But even if you know this, what can you do? No matter how many times time is slowed down, my will will not waver. On the contrary, my slowed time has given me almost endless reaction and thinking power. I have no reason to refuse this power.

If you are reminding me out of kindness, then I appreciate your kindness. But I absolutely I will not give up this power just because of your words. Please take back your concern, Alicia.

"..."

Hearing Karin's answer, Alicia's heart finally died.

Even if the body has been extended to an extremely long degree due to the fusion operation, Karin's spirit is still only at the level of a human.

And let's ask... can a human... really endure hundreds of times more time than an ordinary person?

Alicia didn't know,

but she knew that Mobius in the research institute, she and Xu Ziling had been working at double speed for a long time, and now they simply couldn't stand the research progress at single speed.

From two to one, it's still so, and it's even more frightening to change from 1 to 0.01...

If Karin wasn't joking, then she was definitely a lunatic. And if she was joking, Alicia's situation would be even more dangerous.

After pondering for a moment, Alicia looked at Karin again and said:

"I have another question... This is the last one! That is... Minister Karin, you just said that I was the first one to wake up from the ice? It took 8*100 hours, which is one month... What about the others? When will they wake up? "

"I don't know."

Karin's answer was straightforward. She said,

"But I need to tell you the worst case scenario... The worst case scenario is that these people's lifespan as humans is exhausted and their bodies die of old age.

It may be a bit confusing to say this, but things involving time cannot be explained in a few words... Slowing down time is actually a different kind of time acceleration. And now these frozen people are consuming their lives at a speed of 100 seconds per second. Considering that most of them are old, they should all die of old age within half a year. And their spirits will be pulled by this core."

"What..."

For the first time, Alicia's pupils trembled, molecules slowed down, molecules accelerated... The power of this fifth Herrscher was really a bit confusing.

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The terrible thing is that when she thought about the people who were frozen and were consuming their lives at a hundred times the speed, Alicia couldn't calm down at all. She was so eager to protect everyone. She forgot her identity for a moment and shouted to Karin: "Wait... Stop! Minister Karin, I don't know why you think that those who died in molecular acceleration will be pulled by your core, but according to the existing information, a Herrscher can only master one power with one core! Your power is already linked to molecules, so it is impossible to involve consciousness. Those who died in molecular acceleration are really dead! You are murdering them, stop it!!" "Murder..." Karin's eyes flickered slightly, and she shook her head and said, "I never thought this was a murder... On the contrary, I think it's a 'trial', a needle The "trial" of the Su country!

The winners will break through the shackles of ice and create a new future with me! The losers will abandon their bodies, and their consciousness will be collected by this core. In the new world promised by "Him", they will no longer have to suffer disasters and class pain! This is the way to save the country that can make everyone happy! As for everything in reality, I alone can bear it! ! "

Karin said a lot in one breath, and Alysia's pupils widened slightly, but soon, a surprise flashed in her eyes, and her expression also showed a little relaxation.

At the same time, a plain but profound voice sounded behind Karin——

"'Listen to me'... Miss Karin, abandon the ice law core..."