Rumors Don't Come from Nowhere

"Even so, there shouldn't be rumors about me and the Sixth Herrscher, right?" Zhu Yufeng said.

"Is it possible that one of the reasons is that Seele is German?" Kevin asked, squinting. "And the place you were transferred to after leaving headquarters was the European branch, whose headquarters is also in Germany."

Zhu Yufeng: "..."

Are these all idioms?

"It's really a strange coincidence. The headquarters of the European branch is in Germany, so how did you end up in Italy and meet Lilith?" Elysia asked Zhu Yufeng, squinting at him. It was strange, but now that she thought about it, Lilith was Italian, and Zhu Yufeng was transferred to Berlin when he was transferred to Europe. How did he end up in Italy?

"That was really just a coincidence, don't look at me like that." Zhu Yufeng looked at Elysia with some helplessness. "Do you remember the written reason I gave when I joined the European branch? The European branch lacked experience in directly fighting Herrscher, so I left. Meeting Lilith... was just when I was teaching the warriors at EDA to fight Honkai Beast. You know what the warriors at EDA are like, right?"

The most ridiculous of all, that's the group of guys from the EDA Yang branch.

Of all the teams in the European branch, the most unreliable is the team from the Yida Yang branch.

"Well, after all, if you hadn't met Lilith, Lilith wouldn't have survived after that," Elysia sighed.

Kevin's eyes narrowed. What did Elysia mean by that? Did she mean that Lilith else would have perished back then? Would the Feng-Lilith Faction be even more justified then?

Elysia glanced at Kevin; she could tell what Kevin was thinking just by looking at him... She still wanted to bury Kevin.

Thinking this, Elysia looked at Zhu Yufeng again. "We've gone a bit off-topic. So... Feng, what else did you do while you were investigating SEELE?"

"I don't really remember much. Apart from the first time we met when she mistook me for a bad guy and slapped me, it was usually just me beating up some thugs or something." Zhu Yufeng scratched his head and said, "I only remember that, in my observation, she acted like an ordinary human being. As for the rest, I don't remember clearly."

"Maybe Lilith knows?" Kevin said.

After all, Lilith had indeed seen Zhu Yufeng's memories. There were some memories that Zhu Yufeng Lilith didn't remember, so Lilith might pay attention to them. Moreover, Seele was one of the few women besides Elysia who had interacted with Zhu Yufeng a lot before meeting Lilith, so Lilith should pay attention to her, right?

This might even help improve the relationship between Lilith and Maple.

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Elysia: "..."

Although what he said made sense, Kevin still buried it anyway.

After finishing up and returning to the base, Kevin "couldn't wait" to pull Zhu Yufeng aside and ask Lilith this question. Lilith was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Elysia with a slight smile. Lilith found Kevin's unwavering support for her quite amusing.

The original intention of winning over Mei was to get Kevin to stand on his side, but the effect seemed to be surprisingly bad. Even though Mei had no memory after being reborn, Kevin still supported him and Feng.

"The Sixth Herrscher, Seele..." Lilith shrugged and said, "I do have memories of seeing that back then. After all, even before I was bound to Feng as a consciousness, I had heard rumors about Feng and Seele. I was also interested in his past with Seele."

"When you and I returned to the headquarters of the Fire Moth, more than a century had passed since the Sixth Herrscher incident. By then, the rumors should have mostly died down, right?" Zhu Yufeng looked at Lilith. "Besides, I've never heard any similar rumors before."

"Of course you wouldn't have heard about this. Would you discuss these things with others? Or would you gossip with other people? Would they say these things in front of you?" Lilith rolled her eyes. "Besides, I heard this rumor when you took over the use of the Black Abyss White Flower from Elysia. Some people were chatting and mentioned that your fate with the Sixth Herrscher had gone through many twists and turns but you were still together. I even asked you about it then."

How could she not care? She's fallen for him, while someone else is pursuing Elysia in her heart. She basically doesn't care about other men. Then, the Sixth Herrscher comes along, and fate brings them back together again.

Could she possibly not care?

"It seems like there was such a time..." Zhu Yufeng said.

"Your answer is that nothing happened, that I just paid a little more attention to you those few days. After all, it's you, I know what you're like, so I believed you." Lilith crossed her arms and squinted as she spoke. "But after I looked at your memories from that time, I can only say that you may have gotten involved with another girl."

Zhu Yufeng: "???"

What's going on? He's only known Seele for a few days! How did he manage to attract another girl? He could understand other people, but Seele and he's only known each other for less than a week. If he's this good at flirting, would he still be single before he transmigrated?

Elysia: "..."

She said it herself: rumors don't come from nowhere; it's just that someone has no idea what they've done.

"As for that little girl... she probably still harbors feelings for you. As for the extent of those feelings, if given more time, she'd definitely become another Mobius. From what I've seen, it's probably still in a hazy stage. She has a sense of superiority over you, but I'm not sure how much she likes you." Lilith shrugged. "Speaking of which, I also have some doubts about something: are Herrscher Core really 'dead'?"

"According to Mei, the Herrscher Core that were made into Divine Key were all Herrscher Core that were already 'dead'. Although they could use the powers of the Herrscher, they could not reach the limit that a true Herrscher could reach. They could only barely reach it when the zeroth rated power was activated," Kevin said.

"If Dr. Mobius were here, he would definitely say, 'As Mebius's little follower, you remember him quite well.'" Lilith casually teased Kevin, then continued, "But when you used the Annihilation Key Black Abyss White Flower and the Key of Binding Divine Grace Judgment, didn't you find them too convenient?"

Zhu Yufeng thought for a moment about the Valkyrie Judas and its launcher, and said, "That might be because I have a higher compatibility with them. Didn't you all think that back then?"

Can you please stop thinking about love all the time?

Lilith's statement that the Black Abyss White Flower is the Key of Annihilation is not wrong. Originally, the Black Abyss White Flower should have been the Key of Creation, but in Zhu Yufeng's hands, the Black Abyss White Flower was basically used to destroy enemies, and even once smashed a large desert, thus becoming the Key of Annihilation, not wielding the power of creation, but only the power of destruction.

Just like Cecilia activated the Welwitschiavone, the Holy Lance of the Black Abyss White Flower at its Zeroth Power, to save Siegfried, the power of the Black Abyss White Flower seemed to have been completely unleashed.

When Zhu Yufeng attacks the Black Abyss White Flower, the Zeroth Power will be the annihilation of all beings. The Holy Lance's Hundred-Year Orchid can repair the life form from the genetic level, achieving the effect of rejuvenating the dying. The result of the Black Abyss Annihilation is to completely destroy the life force of the life form at the genetic level, decompose it, and spread it. Moreover, under Zhu Yufeng's full-force attack, it will cause a super large-scale AOE effect. Although the Black Abyss White Flower will be overloaded after that, making it unable to function for a period of time, Zhu Yufeng will also lose his combat power due to excessive consumption of Honkai Energy in his body.

Lilith really wondered, besides Zhu Yufeng, who else could defeat Black Abyss White Flower to such an extent?

Because it was so powerful, no one except Zhu Yufeng could withstand the side effects of using the Zeroth Power. Zhu Yufeng and Vill-V even came up with a word to use this Zeroth Power. If other people didn't pronounce the word, they wouldn't be able to use the Zeroth Power.

"I am the black that has fallen to hell, I am the white that was born from heaven, born before creation, existing after annihilation. I will spread the silence of death across this noisy world."

It's a Chinese idiom that has his own style.

Furthermore, Lilith knows that in the next era, there is a Valkyrie named Murata Himeko who left a portion of her consciousness in a quarter of the Ritsuki core. A certain Ritsuki also left her own consciousness in a quarter of the Ritsuki core. So, by analogy, in the current era, is it really true that no Ritsuki has left her own consciousness in the Ritsuki core?

And when Zhu Yufeng and the Finality were fighting, the Zeroth Power of the Divine Grace Judgment was actually able to bind the Finality, even if it was only for a brief half minute. It should be noted that the Finality is not on the same level as other Laws. It is already outrageous that the Divine Key made from a Law core left by the Law of Restraint could achieve this level.

This is not just simple damage; it shrinks the Divine Blessing Barrier, forcefully restrains the movement of the Finality, and suppresses the Honkai Energy within Him...

Although in that half-minute, no one else was able to inflict any effective damage on Finality...

It feels like if anyone else were to use these two Divine Key, they wouldn't be able to achieve this level of skill. It gives the impression that the person is working desperately, and the Divine Key are working desperately as well.

I don't know what happened to Black Abyss White Flower after the War of Finality, but in any case, Divine Grace Judgment was rendered useless.

"Indeed, if I hadn't seen your memories of the Third Law," Lilith said with a shrug. "Since you've forgotten, let me help you recall what you did those days."

Elysia and Kevin both expressed concern and listened attentively. Elysia wanted to know if she had ever had a rival in love, while Kevin was simply curious. Zhu Yufeng, seeing their reactions, decided to inquire as well...

"When you first met her, even though she slapped you, you didn't hit her back or turn around and leave. Instead, you stood there and seriously reasoned with her," Lilith said, squinting. "It's just like when I was giving you emotional intelligence training, I asked you to buy me a drink, and you told me to go get it myself. You were very straightforward."

Zhu Yufeng: "..."

Is it possible that at that time he was afraid that Lu Ziqi would misunderstand something and become unreasonable, and that he couldn't just stop observing and contacting her afterward?

"This doesn't seem like something you would do." Kevin looked at Zhu Yufeng. "You actually went and tried to reason with her."

"It doesn't seem like it." Elysia squinted at Zhu Yufeng, but she also knew that Zhu Yufeng might really be reasoning with Seele for the sake of future contact.

"Then when she was being harassed by thugs, you stepped in and taught them a lesson, saying it was an apology for your impetuousness when you first met her," Lilith continued. "She suspects you've been following her. Think about what you said."

Zhu Yufeng thought about it seriously for a moment, then looked blank. What did he say?

"If that's what you think, then so be it. As a victim of the disaster, my task now is to observe whether your life has been significantly affected by it." Lilith said, mimicking Zhu Yufeng's tone at the time. "Let me make it clear beforehand that I have a girl I like, so I won't have those kinds of feelings for you. If you hate it, I only have this one week. When the time is up, I will leave this city. And, I'm not just observing you."

Zhu Yufeng tilted her head and exchanged a glance with Kevin, both conveying only one meaning:

Is there a problem with this?

"Saying something like that in front of a girl..." Elysia twitched her lips. Although she was a little happy to know that the girl Zhu Yufeng was talking about was herself, she still thought that this guy was really straightforward.

"Based on my observations and the information I deliberately gathered about Di Luzi, she's grown up in an orphanage and is naturally quite strong-willed," Lilith said. "And yet you speak to her like that, beating up thugs and then leaving. What do you think she'll think?"

"She didn't kill me," Zhu Yufeng replied.

Lilith & Elysia: "..."

There's no hope for them...

"In short, while you were investigating others, you would observe Seele whenever you had time. I don't know about others, but in your own investigation report, you mentioned that Seele is quite independent, but because of her personality, she doesn't have many friends at school. During that week of investigation, one day you went to the other side of the city to investigate. When you met her the next day, although she seemed to be mocking you, she was really just saying it casually," Lilith continued. "She was still happy to see you. For someone like her, the most suitable way to get along is to maintain a suitable distance, just like you did, not too close and not too far."

Elysia and Kevin both seemed to be deep in thought.

"Not to mention, she tried to ask you if you had a girlfriend, although she mocked you for being single, but girls like her... are prone to doing that. When you said you were leaving, she told you to go, but she was obviously a little disappointed." Lilith stroked her chin. "If I remember correctly, the First Law awakened a few days after you finished your investigation."