Vill-V: Heh Heh, Expressionless

While embracing Elysia in the rain, Zhu Yufeng suddenly remembered that he seemed to have been bugged by someone all along.

However, it's unlikely that Vill-V will reveal this, but she'll definitely be furious.

Zhu Yufeng wondered what others would think if they knew about this.

His identity as a transmigrator was just as sensitive as Elysia's identity as Herrscher. Elysia only dared to admit to others that she was a born Herrscher in the end, while he... Naoya only admitted his transmigrator identity to Elysia this time after starting over.

After all, this is Previous Civilization, and our world hasn't Honkai. If the technology of this Previous Civilization can really sustain us, is there a possibility that this could trigger a war between the two worlds?

Even if they don't know how, they will most likely be dissected by Lapis.

This guy is from another world! Look at Master Qian, if it weren't for his strength, how many times would he have been dissected? In fact, he was also tricked by Mobius a lot and studied on the operating table.

Although it might seem that Mobius can't be used as an example, since others were also studied by Mobius time and time again...

"So, you still don't have a definite answer, do you?" Elysia leaned against Zhu Yufeng's chest and asked softly. "I know my request is unreasonable. You have your own family, your own friends, and they are all in a world I may never be able to reach... but..."

"I feel that thinking about this kind of question is meaningless. I have been thinking about it for more than ten years before this," Zhu Yufeng said. "Even though my childhood memories have become blurred, even though I have left too many traces of myself in this world, if I still have to make a choice, I will still hesitate. Elysia ... In my world, there is no Honkai. Although the civilization is not as advanced as this world, it is the place where I grew up."

Elysia remained silent.

She understood everything Zhu Yufeng said. Like how she grew up in Vostok -51, where her life made her understand the beauty of humanity. Later, she embarked on a journey, witnessed many things, and understood how complex human emotions are. Each experience deepened her love for humanity.

She will keep the memory of Vostok as her most precious memory, hiding it deep within her heart.

Even after she joined the Fire Moth and became an elite warrior on the front lines against the Honkai, she still missed her time in Vostok.

Feng is probably the same, but the difference is that his hometown is not something he can just go to whenever he wants. He can't even see his hometown or receive any news from it. Therefore... if he really has to leave one day, the possibility that he will choose to leave is not small.

Moreover, reflecting on Feng's experiences in his previous life, he probably didn't have much affection for this world.

Perhaps it was because he considered himself a traveler from another world that he subconsciously didn't want to have too much involvement with this world, lest he be unable to cope in the future, so he rejected everyone.

"If you're going to die sooner or later anyway, then why fight so hard?" Elysia asked. "This world is unfamiliar to you, you don't even have a reason to fight for it, so why..."

"I said it was for you," Zhu Yufeng said calmly. "The Thirteen Heroes of Fire Moth deserve a better future, nothing more. Besides, I truly don't know how I should live. I can't find my way home. Or perhaps there is no way. But people have to live, and people have to have a goal. Your story is my initial understanding of this world. You are the first person I've encountered in this world, so..."

Zhu Yufeng paused for a moment, then gently patted Elysia's back. "You don't need to worry so much. So much time has passed and I still haven't found the way home. I might not find it now, right? Besides, maybe I'll find out later that I don't really miss home that much. In the end, we'll only know when we find it, won't we?"

Although it's possible that he altered the fate of the Thirteen Heroes of Fire Moth, and after that he could, or rather, would be forcibly thrown into his own world.

Let's not talk about this, lest Elysia overthink it again...

"I understand." Elysia's voice was soft but firm. "I will never give up."

She had said this many times before, only to reaffirm her conviction time and time again.

In some ways, she and Feng are actually the same kind of people; she is a born Herrscher, while he is a traveler from another world.

"Elysia... what did you and Lilith talk about before?" Zhu Yufeng asked, somewhat puzzled. "Your behavior these past few days seems a bit..."

"Because... I get a little anxious in front of the person I love," Elysia replied.

"Huh?!"

Elysia raised her head and looked at Zhu Yufeng with narrowed eyes. "Lilith understands you better than I thought, and you trust and understand her just as much. It's only a matter of time before she joins the Fire Moth again. This time, I won't watch her take you away from me again."

Zhu Yufeng was confused.

"You really didn't notice..." Elysia said speechlessly, "You've never attended my birthday celebrations. Don't you suspect that Lilith deliberately chose this time to go on missions?"

Zhu Yufeng: "..."

Huh? He always thought it was a bad match... But then he realized his feelings for Elysia were too complicated, and Elysia hadn't said she absolutely had to...

Seeing Zhu Yufeng's expression, Elysia looked even more speechless. "Then tell me, when she comes, are you still planning to have her as your deputy? And then you'll leave my team and go solo?"

"Because apart from me, no one can restrain Lilith." Zhu Yufeng gave an affirmative reply. "She is also even less likely to join someone else's team. If that's the case, then the lives of the other people in that team... are probably in danger. I'm serious."

Elysia: "..."

See, she told me! Why would she go with Feng Yibu on something like this?!

"And you said that Lilith arranged my not attending your birthday party... First of all, Lilith must have told you that. Well, secondly, I might have suspected something, but I was just indulging her." Zhu Yufeng thought for a moment and then said, "And more likely, she's just too good at it."

"Um?"

"Think about it, why didn't you have any suspicions before that? Because either I set off for the mission several weeks in advance, or several months in advance, and then I took on other temporary assignments in the middle of the mission, which made it take longer, or there was an accident that made the mission take longer..." Zhu Yufeng smirked, "Tell me, if you were in my shoes, would you have noticed?"

Elysia: "..."

She... readily admitted defeat.

Zhu Yufeng added insult to injury, "Besides, you didn't say I had to come, did you?"

Elysia pinched Zhu Yufeng's waist hard.

"... So you do have your moments of being a little moody too."

"What do you think I am? I've always been a slightly special, ordinary girl!"

"I just wanted to say that Elysia looks surprisingly cute like this, even though she's cute normally..."

"Ugh... you fouled..."

"Hey, we've been out long enough, it's about time we went back, right? The whole point of this trip was to find that girl, wasn't it?" Zhu Yufeng patted Elysia's head. "Also, have you been holding me for too long?"

Hmm... why do I feel like I'm comforting a child? And are my actions a bit too intimate? Anyway, hair feel review.

Elysia puffed out her cheeks. Although she let go of Zhu Yufeng's hand, she also took his hand and said, "Don't let go, or I'll get angry."

"Go ahead, if that's your wish." Zhu Yufeng smiled.

The two walked back for a while, and Elysia said again, "About your identity..."

Zhu Yufeng took out his phone, looked at the "???" message sent by Vill-V, and then said, "Vill-V listened to you too."

Elysia: "..."

She wanted to say that this was a secret between her and Feng, but Vill-V was eavesdropping again! She finally understood why Lilith had shown such a rare indignant expression when talking about Vill-V before... Oh well, Vill-V could only listen anyway, and she should Vill-V for stopping Lilith from going straight to base.

"But I believe you won't tell anyone else," Zhu Yufeng said. "Besides, maybe one day I will tell others about this, just like you did."

"...Until then, I will hold your hand like this and never let go again," Elysia said. "I should also apologize to you first; just now... I also lost control of my emotions."

"It's nothing, it just made me feel your sincere feelings for me once again."

"... Feng, when you say that... I get shy too..."

Zhu Yufeng glanced at Elysia beside him, then at his phone. He knew he had to be careful when he got back; he didn't want to wake up with a sore back...

Spiral Workshop.

"Elysia did it on purpose, didn't she?!" Evil said through gritted teeth, "She knew all along that we had planted a listening device on Yu Feng, and she still..."

"I think it's more likely that she feels it doesn't matter whether we're listening or not," the Expert said calmly, though her trembling fingers proved that her emotions weren't as calm as they seemed.

"And then there's Lilith. Personally, I think Lilith might be a bigger threat Elysia," the Conductor said. "After all, Lilith had a history of misconduct back in the last time we met."

"Didn't we do the same thing?" Bai Wei said weakly.

"Ahem, this is different." The Conductor said somewhat awkwardly, "In short, although we don't know exactly what Elysia and Lilith said, it's clear that Lilith will be back soon, and we need to consider our next move."

"My assessment is that it's Evil to just force it into a fait accompli," said Ji'e. "At the very least, the whole child would come out, whether it's Elysia or Lilith..."

"Rejected!" Vill-V said, her face flushed. "You Evil, stop talking!"

"Another kind of magic trick where people appear out of thin air? I think..." the Magician said.

"You think it won't work," the Expert coldly interrupted the Magician's spell.

"But, in fact, isn't this the most direct and quickest way to keep Yu Feng in this world?" Evil shrugged and said, "Once life continues, it means he can no longer leave so easily."

"... Although I hate to admit it, what you said makes sense." The Expert rubbed his forehead, looking exasperated.

"What seductive words... The devil whispers, 'You are the devil, Evil,'" the Scholar said. "They possess such allure..."

"If we really do this, Yu Feng will be angry, really angry." I, Vill-V, immediately suppressed the Evil thought. "No matter what, I don't agree, unless... unless Yu Feng is willing..."

"But the problem is, we seem to have fallen far behind Elysia and Lilith." The Magician shrugged. "I don't have any magic here that can help us overtake them."

"Compared to this... how exactly did Yu Feng appear in this world?" The Expert started typing on the keyboard. "Just like when I pull up the data now, the place where Yu Feng appeared is an area with missing information. The investigation of the Fire Moth on this matter is entirely based on Yu Feng's account and some on-site investigations by other people."

"That's why we haven't been able to discover Yu Feng's true identity." Evil stroked his chin and said, "Although the existing investigation data on Yu Feng is still marked as having doubts, there's no problem with the proof from Mobius regarding his human identity."

"So what should we do if he really goes back?" Bai Wei asked with some worry.

"Don't worry, he won't easily abandon this realm, no, I should say us, the Thirteen Heroes of Fire Moth, and besides..." Evil pondered for a moment, "Ultimately, we should first find out why he appeared. If we can establish a two-way passage between the two realms, then there won't be a problem. If Yu Feng goes back, he'll probably just want to experience the aura of his true homeland. If he can return after going back, he will definitely choose to come back."

"Should we tell others? Won't it be difficult for us to gather information on our own?" Vill-V asked.

"No need for that. We can apply for a new investigation into Yu Feng and go back to the place where he was first discovered by Elysia." Evil paused, then added, "However, before that, we also need to confirm with him, because among the Thirteen Fallen Angels, Admiralty and Rovoc are also top geniuses in this world. It's impossible that Yu Feng didn't try to find a way back last time."

"That makes sense." The Conductor nodded; when the Evil weren't having an attack, they were quite reliable.

"None of that is needed now!" Evil's expression suddenly changed. "What we need to do is take action! Even if we can't just force things, we should at least do something else, right? I can't take listening to this anymore!"

"Perhaps we could share this with Mobius?" the Magician said jokingly. "At least then we wouldn't be the only ones suffering here."

"Mobius ...if she were alive, she could probably create a child with Yu Feng right away..." the Conductor said with a smirk.

"How about we..."

"Veto!"