Damn it, Mei! There's a traitor among us!
"Hi? How do you feel?" Chen Luo brought that streak of flowing light before him and tilted his head.
"Don't play dead, Number 17. Do you think you could have entered this space before completely turning into pure white consciousness without me? Ignoring me like this really hurts my feelings, you know?"
"Why are you looking at me so shocked? I only just became the Honkai Consciousness too. I'm one of you. If you don't believe me... how about I give you temporary control of the Honkai Consciousness? You can freely choose someone else to become the temporary Honkai Consciousness."
"I think those Flame-Chasers in the Elysian Realm would be quite suitable. What do you think?"
"...Fine. I'll trust you one last time!" At last, after a brief silence, a somewhat mechanical voice echoed through the pure white space.
The torrent of time surged onward. Chen Luo stood within the River of Time, and after taking merely two steps, time had already spanned fifty thousand years.
Fifty thousand long years passed. After the world endured the devastating calamity of the Herrscher of the End, the planet slowly shed the splendid garments of human civilization. Like a newborn infant stripping away the outer layers of modern civilization, it returned to its most primitive state.
Chen Luo watched with his own eyes as the survival pods rose from the earth once more. Everyone broke out of their pods, breathed in the fresh air, and then immediately threw themselves into tense, exhausting work.
The propagation of civilization was rushed and bewildered, but Kevin had indeed treated the test-tube baby created using Mei's DNA and his own with enough tenderness.
However, as a member of the Immortal Race, Kevin ultimately could not maintain that warmth