Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

Li Mo was silent for a few seconds and truthfully told her his state, "Every restart will greatly increase the amount of pollution on my body, as well as my abilities in all aspects. The price is losing most of my human cognition. I can't restart too many times, at most four times. Once I die more than three times, I will forever lose my self-awareness and become a ghost that executes rules. I am now in a state of three deaths. Killing a Herrscher is not a difficult matter for me."

MEI: "Whether you can kill a Herrscher is not important now. Your situation is obviously not reasonable. You said it yourself, every restart will greatly increase the quality and ability of your body. According to your description, killing a Herrscher in the state of three deaths is as simple as stepping on an ant."

"But other ghosts don't have this ability. No matter how many times they restart, their rules and physical qualities will never change."

"So... have you ever thought about why you are different from them, what is the reason?"

MEI was eager to know the answer. Only by figuring out the reason could she continue to delve deeper.

Just like solving a math problem, if a definition was not proven, and one blindly sought proof, one would only get a seemingly reasonable result that was not supported by any correct theory.

Every step needed a foundation, a reason, and to be able to be proven.

Li Mo: "..."

Call duration: 09:00.

Li Mo was silent for a long time, standing in place without moving. He had never been so confused as he was now.

In the state of three deaths, his thinking should have been very active and agile. His extreme rationality could easily guess dozens or even hundreds of possibilities, among which might be hidden a corner of the truth.

But he didn't. He couldn't even think of one possibility, as if he had been born without this memory template and thinking template.

Another minute passed.

The call duration had already reached double digits: 10:00.

"I don't know," Li Mo said very calmly, with no emotion on his face, and no waves in his mind.

MEI on the other end of the phone did not speak. She vaguely sensed something, but chose not to tell him, but to hide it in her heart.

Even if she said it, it would be meaningless. It was like a person from the future world returning to the primitive world and telling them: there is an attraction between two objects, which is proportional to their mass and inversely proportional to the square of their distance. When you hunt wild animals with weapons, it is actually the compression of atoms and atoms, the confrontation of forces.

What was the point?

Primitive people were still struggling to survive. Saying more truths was just floating.

What's more... she had already mentioned many times, that illusory truth, even if it was just a possibility.

The revival of the Bizarre.

The distortion of the source.

As time goes on, the pollution accumulates.

Death and restart, the pollution increases sharply.

The essence of the two was not different.

MEI: "Come back first. We'll talk more when you get back. Remember to bring the Herrscher Core, the sparkling gem in the Herrscher's body. You should still be able to feel the surge of energy."

Li Mo: "Alright. Is there anything else you want to say?"

MEI: "Tsk, the way you say that, it feels like you're sending me on my way."

Li Mo: "You are misinterpreting. My words don't have that meaning."

MEI: "Am I misinterpreting? Forget it, I understand. I can't communicate with you in your current state with normal human thinking. All in all, just do as I say. There's nothing else. If there is, then it's to be careful."

Li Mo: "Mmm, I'm hanging up."

MEI: "..."

The phone was hung up. After a "beep" from both phones, Li Mo and MEI each showed different expressions.

Li Mo was still calm. MEI heaved a long sigh,趴 on the table with a sad face, her eyes full of pity.

Let's keep moving forward...

Only when we reach the last moment will we give up.

"But, it's indeed time to prepare to welcome my 'end'. Let it be on the moon..."

Returning to the research lab, Li Mo became idle.

In the following years, apart from going out on patrol regularly, checking for any missed ghosts or newly appeared ghosts, there was no more work.

MEI had requested that Li Mo not contribute to the fight against the Honkai without her permission.

Without the interference of the Bizarre.

Humanity and the Honkai had started a protracted tug-of-war. They came and went, and the human side suffered huge losses.

The high-level officials of various countries had united, showing unprecedented cohesion and a big picture view, and fought against the Honkai together, regardless of their differences.

The effect was also very significant.

A Herrscher would destroy several countries with each appearance, causing countless deaths.

Most of the survivors had become soldiers, throwing themselves into the battlefield, and shedding their last drop of blood for that false victory.

The United Nations, the Fire Moth, and various civilian organizations had held high the banner of persistence, cheering for every victory, and being vigilant against every failure and the impending crisis. Everyone was dutiful in their positions, working tirelessly.

The soldiers came one after another, fearlessly charging at the products of the Great Honkai—the dead and the Honkai beasts.

The researchers worked day and night, dragging their exhausted spirits, and using their tenacious will to support the high-intensity research of the Honkai series of weapons.

From a certain point of view, this was perhaps the most united time in human history.

With a great enemy at hand, there was rarely any internal strife.

It was just that... the ending was already doomed. When the end came, it would be the day the world collapsed.

The so-called efforts seemed extremely pale in the face of absolute strength, like a pile of ants that could be easily destroyed by a single punch from a human.

In the face of the Honkai, weren't humans just another kind of ant?

If there were tricky ways to deal with the first twelve Herrschers.

Then against the end, they could only fight head-on. No matter how much effort was put in, the strength that was improved by using Honkai Energy, how could it surpass the strongest in the Honkai's definition?

Unless there was a BUG in the rules, or the end was not the final pass.

But obviously, the end was the last threshold for civilization's ascension, the end of civilization, and also the end of humanity.

A few years passed like a flash.

Apart from a few special cases where Li Mo had dealt with the Herrscher of Binding, other difficult problems were smoothly solved under the leadership of MEI and the Fire Moth.

The final Herrscher of Corruption had appeared on Rin. The Herrscher of Corruption had to be killed to awaken. Li Mo had not let this happen.

As time went on, the Honkai judged that the corrosion had failed, and let the last Herrscher, who symbolized annihilation, appear on the moon.

Her advent would bring down the curtain of civilization.

The divine pattern of the end unfolded, covering the universe and the galaxy, flashing with a deep and mysterious golden light.

According to MEI's plan, the splendid human civilization was overturned at this moment.

After the Battle of Finality, apart from the hibernation pods at the bottom of the sea, there were no more living people in the outside world.

Li Mo went to the devastated moon alone. At a glance, he saw the broken Xuanyuan Sword, a damaged mask, a tattered pocket watch, and scattered blood and limbs...

Seeing these familiar old objects, he could imagine the scene of the Flame-Chasers fighting to the last moment on the battlefield of the end.

It was just a pity...

Their efforts were meaningless. Li Mo had stayed at the Fire Moth for a long time later, and had heard different views from different people.

To sum up, the hope of victory was slim, but at least there was some, estimated to be around 20%.

But Li Mo knew that there was never a possibility of victory. The ending of this civilization was already doomed.

Therefore, the people who had died on the battlefield of the end could have escaped and lived on.

They had not only died at the hands of the end, but also in the grave of hope.

But none of this had anything to do with him.

Li Mo came to the desolate dark side of the moon. It was pitch black all around. It was impossible for the human eye to capture anything. It was as if the light had been annihilated here.

But a ghost's vision was different. Li Mo did not rely on his eyeballs to see things.

With the help of his special vision, Li Mo soon came to a dim and lightless large pit, with some fresh blood remaining on it.

"According to the plan, I'm here."

"..."

After a few seconds, a slender figure crawled out of the large pit in a sorry state. Her exposed skin was covered with wounds that were bleeding.

The Key of Blankness faintly emitted a visible light, illuminating the vicinity.

MEI's face was pale. She stuck out her tongue and replied playfully, not in line with her character, "You're so slow, but you managed to make it before I died. The last Herrscher is indeed the Herrscher of Finality. I hid from the beginning and built a defensive base, but I didn't expect the aftershocks of the Herrscher of Finality to injure me so badly. Fortunately, I wore the Key of Blankness in advance, otherwise I would be done for~"

"So why did you want me to come here in the end?"

"Ah, ah, you really are a man who doesn't understand romance. I'm about to die. Shouldn't you care about me first?"

"Since you know you're going to die, hurry up and tell me what to do next. Things will change if we delay."

"Forget it, I can't communicate with you on this matter. Although human civilization has been destroyed, the Herrscher of Finality has not disappeared. I speculate that she will not leave until all the living people in the civilization have disappeared, and will only stop after killing the last person in the world. It's only a matter of time before she finds the people in the hibernation pods."

"So you want me to kill her."

"Don't, don't, don't. The authority of the Herrscher of Finality comes from the Cocoon of Finality. The Cocoon of Finality has now descended upon this world. In the process of you killing the Herrscher of Finality, there will inevitably be a leakage of pollution. At that time, the world will be polluted along with the Cocoon of Finality, and that would not be worth the loss. So what you have to do is just to find a way to control the Herrscher of Finality."

"..."

Li Mo did not answer, his mind thinking for a few seconds.

Killing the Herrscher of Finality was indeed not an easy matter for him, unless he voluntarily entered the state of four deaths. At that time, killing the Herrscher of Finality would be a simple matter.

But losing the only fault tolerance just like that was not worth it.

In the state of three deaths, he could deal with the Herrscher of Finality, but as MEI had said, the process of killing Her would inevitably be accompanied by a large-scale spread of pollution.

He still couldn't clear the end without taking damage.

What was even more fatal was... that face... the Herrscher of Finality had Tuna's face. If he fought her head-on, he wouldn't be able to do it at all. He could only be passively beaten.

Li Mo's lips pursed slightly. The sudden lively expression aroused the dying MEI's desire for knowledge.

She was very curious about what Li Mo was thinking to let such a weak emotion control his body to react subconsciously.

"I will find a way to control the Herrscher of Finality. Is there anything else to say?" Li Mo came back to his senses and said.

MEI clicked her tongue, threw herself back into the large pit, and looked up at the starry sky.

It was like when she was a child, lying on the soft grass, surrounded by the fresh fragrance of grass and the moist smell of the earth.

When she opened her eyes, what came into her sight was the vast and boundless night sky. The dotted lights were like countless small lanterns, shining in the darkness.

When she was a child, the stars were her friends, her deceased family.

After she grew up, the stars were her enemies, her deceased self.

"No, no. I'm tired. I want to sleep. You can think about the rest of the things yourself."

"Mmm."

"Finally, is there anything you want to say to me?"

"What do you want to hear?"

"Anything."

"..." Li Mo was silent. This conversation was particularly familiar. He seemed to have seen it somewhere.

He remembered now. It was the conversation when he was celebrating MEI's birthday at the coffee shop.

"Good night."

"Ugh... alright. I should indeed say this. Then..." MEI paused, slowly closed her purple eyes. The light of the Key of Blankness quickly faded, until her whole person merged into the darkness, leaving only a final whisper, "Li Mo, good night."

"..."

"..."

Li Mo left the dark side of the moon and stood beside the remains of the Flame-Chasers, looking at the Earth.

The moon dust under his feet shimmered with a white light under the sun, like a silver sea of sand.

There was no wind around, no breath of life, only endless darkness and silence.

The starry sky was bright and distant. Every star was like a lonely eye, quietly watching the two cold planets and the lone person.

There was a group of dead people and ghosts on the moon, and a group of living people who were about to become ghosts on the Earth.

But everything had a turning point.

The plan to deal with the end was very simple. He would hold back the Herrscher of Finality and let Rin unfold the ability of the Grief Seed to absorb life force.

In this way, the Herrscher of Finality would temporarily lose her combat power. Before the Cocoon of Finality could replenish her life force, he just needed to sever the connection between Her and the Cocoon of Finality.

This was not a simple matter. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was a pipe dream.

Li Mo looked sideways and caught sight of the vermilion Stigma on his back with his bizarre vision. As the pollution accumulated, the faded Bizarre Stigma returned to its original appearance.

On it was a collection of almost all the Herrschers and special powers of Honkai Energy condensed into a restraining agent, powerful but unusable.

Even if he could use it, with just these, Li Mo alone could not accurately sever the connection between the end and the Cocoon of Finality. He would only pollute both of them into an unknown Bizarre.

But after the Stigma became bizarre, he could do this. The specific reason was unknown.

In his memory... such a thing had indeed existed.

"..."

"..."

"The ability of the Bizarre is engraved in the soul. As long as you let your instincts dominate your body, you will naturally know how to use it."

Li Mo suddenly muttered to himself, repeating what he had said to the newly revived Rin.

It was just that this time, he was saying it to himself.

"When Otto Apocalypse gave me this Stigma, he didn't tell me the steps and methods of using it. I... didn't ask at that time. This is not reasonable."