Sixth Honkai Eruption

"Uncle, my hand hurts, I'm sleepy..."

"Don't worry, child, we'll figure out a way to get you out of here. Hold on, and whatever you do, don't fall asleep!"

"This is the third rescue team. There are still survivors in area A3, but we are unable to rescue them all in time. We request backup!"

"Help! My child is still trapped underneath..."

"Save the child first!"

"Where's the medical team? We have a seriously injured survivor here!"

"Hold on, you must hold on!"

Amidst ruins and flames, rescue teams moved about, while in the city's central area, the Fire Moth combat squads steadily advanced towards the center.

The Sixth Great Honkai erupted in the form of a massive earthquake. A large number of survivors emerged during this Great Honkai, a situation that also occurred during the Third Honkai Eruption. However, unlike the third Collapse, this time, in addition to survivors appearing in the peripheral areas, many survivors were also found in the central area of Honkai outbreak.

In its subsequent investigation, the Fire Moth focused on the survivors found in the central area.

"The Honkai Beast in the J4 area have been mostly cleared out. No Herrscher were found, and..." Zhu Yufeng glanced at Kevin and Kosma working together to lift a stone slab, while Pardo and Disaster took the opportunity to rescue the survivors trapped underneath. "We also found three survivors here. The coordinates have been set down, and we'll wait for the rescue team to arrive and take them for treatment. We will then continue towards the center."

Sakura and Hua were still clearing out other Honkai Beast nearby, while Lilith and Elysia were settling the other two survivors. As for why Elysia and Lilith were acting together, it was because they didn't trust Lilith. Lilith was the kind of person who would ignore a survivor even if they were calling for help right at her feet, and might even step on them or "help" them by covering them with dirt.

Don't expect Lilith to save people when she's acting alone. If she's with someone else, then the others will be the ones rescuing people while she just watches, unless Zhu Yufeng is with her.

"Maple, this survivor seems to be dying..." Disaster reached out and checked the little girl's breath, which had become very weak. "She needs immediate medical attention!"

It's worth mentioning that a few days before the Sixth Honkai Eruption, which was Zhu Yufeng's birthday, Elysia brought Zhu Yufeng some "news": she had finally quit and let Zhu Yufeng become the team leader. Kevin and the others also joined Zhu Yufeng's team after obtaining the consent of Hen, who was far away on the moon.

As for the deputy... Alicia is the Elysia choice. Lilith doesn't seem very interested in the position. In any case, whether Zhu Yufeng wants to or not, she will handle the things that should originally be handled by Zhu Yufeng or Elysia...

"This is the central area of the Honkai. Where can we get her to receive treatment?" Lilith looked over. "We are a combat team, not a rescue team. We still need to go to the central area to investigate."

"But..." Disaster looked at the child in her arms, caught in a dilemma. She had encountered similar situations before during missions, but in those cases, either the Corrosion Honkai already spread deeply, or a rescue team was on standby nearby. It wasn't like this now...

No one expected that so many survivors would appear in the central area of this Honkai, something that had never happened before... Moreover, an even larger number of survivors in the peripheral areas are waiting for rescue and resettlement.

"Please, we can ignore it... please save our child first..." The other two survivors pleaded in unison. They were also seriously injured, but they could hold on for a while and wait for the rescue team to arrive.

But their child, unless Zhu Yufeng and the others take the initiative to bring her out to meet the rescue team that is preparing to enter, will only have one outcome: to die here.

Moreover, this is the most ideal situation. As far as Zhu Yufeng knows, the number of rescue teams that arrived at the first moment during the Sixth Great Honkai was severely insufficient. This is because the number of survivors in this Honkai far exceeded the estimate. They couldn't even save the people on the outer perimeter, let alone enter the inner circle to rescue people.

This isn't your average earthquake rescue; this is a Honkai site. Most rescue teams don't have Honkai response measures. The Honkai's Corrosion is one issue, and the Honkai Beast's attacks are another...

It was during this Honkai that the Titans were widely used in rescue operations and battles against Honkai Beast. After that, the Titans also became the main force against the Honkai, in addition to the Fusion Warrior. This can basically be seen as a further escalation of the war between humans and the Honkai. However, they were completely useless in the Eleventh Herrscher and the Tenth Herrscher incidents and even turned into enemies.

Titans can also be infected by Honkai and enter a riot state during Honkai, which is another weakness of Titans.

At first, when Zhu Yufeng watched the Titan battle, he thought it was much more powerful than the Titans in the game. It could slap an Assault-class Honkai Beast away like swatting a mosquito. If Tank-class Beast came over, as long as it wasn't as tall as a building, it would be knocked unconscious for a while.

Later...

Later, just like in the game, I became cannon fodder among cannon fodder...

Not to mention the Herrscher, the Seventh Herrscher's companion, the Honkai Beast Su Liyeh, once annihilated Australia's proud Titan Unit.

So when Elysia heard that a certain Fourth Herrscher had been knocked unconscious by several Titans, she was stunned for a moment. She could understand the Thousandth Herrscher, since the Thousandth Herrscher was not good at individual combat and mainly destroyed the social structure and trust relationships of the remaining humans. But the Fourth Herrscher was really a bit unreasonable...

This time, due to the importance of the situation, and because Mobius managed to secure a seat on the council, the number of rescue teams was increased immediately after the Honkai outbreak, and the application of Titan was promoted.

Therefore, if Ru Kuan takes this child out now, there is a high probability that they will run into the rescue team that entered using the Titan.

However, this raises the question of whether taking the child out violates the regulations of the Fire Moth.

The division of the Fire Moth is still clear: combat teams do what combat teams are supposed to do, and rescue teams do what rescue teams are supposed to do. Only in special circumstances, such as when the Honkai situation exceeds expectations and a retreat is needed for further discussion, or when a team is severely damaged and must leave the battlefield, can the combat team take survivors with them when they retreat. Or, if the battle with the Honkai has ended and the combat team still has spare capacity, they can help the rescue team. This was the case when Zhu Yufeng was rescued by Elysia.

By the time combat squads start taking on the role of rescue squads, it's already late in the fight against the Honkai, and there's a severe shortage of manpower. Moreover, at that point, whether they can even carry out rescues is a question.

From a strategic perspective, the Sixth Great Honkai has now erupted, yet no Herrscher has responded. It's hard not to suspect that something is at the center of the Honkai. Therefore, the combat team's primary task is to find a way to break through and enter the center of the Honkai to investigate the situation and obtain firsthand information, rather than "wasting time rescuing people" here.

Disaster awaited Zhu Yufeng's answer. In her heart, she also believed that she should choose to move forward and resolve the issue of the Fourth Herrscher Sixth Herrscher soon as possible so that more people could be saved. Amo had also told her that if she failed to kill the Fourth Herrscher during the incident, the Fourth Herrscher would cause even greater destruction.

The same applies to the Fifth Herrscher.

Yes, yet another vibrant life vanished before her eyes, and this time, it wasn't because she couldn't save it within her capabilities, but because her duty wouldn't allow her to...

Lilith glanced at Disaster, and was about to speak when Zhu Yufeng said, "If we try to save everyone, in the end, we might not be able to save anyone. This is also a kind of... trade-off..."

This isn't a matter of saving as many as possible.

As survivors, they could indeed take the child out, because there was nothing in the center of the Honkai except for the Sixth Herrscher's Companion Honkai Beast, Yanluo. However, this was from the survivors' perspective, not from an outsider's.

Furthermore, there's another point. Human groups have a characteristic, which, to use Shenzhou proverb, is "not worried about scarcity but about inequality." What if you rescue a dying survivor here, and then encounter another one deeper into the central area? What if the survivor's family and friends learn that someone else was saved because of them, while their own loved one was abandoned? How would they feel? Then there's the issue of abandoning one's primary mission to do something that should be done by someone else—a serious violation within the Fire Moth.

For soldiers, breaking the rules is a very serious matter. The punishment depends on the severity of the violation... but in any case, a written apology is inevitable, and they might even be confined to a small room for a few days...

In summary, saving someone means facing a host of problems, while not saving someone doesn't bring as much joy, except for the constant torment of one's conscience.

Anyway, this person felt he didn't have much of a conscience, so he didn't care.

Upon hearing this, Disaster struggled for a moment, but in the end, she did not resist as she had during her first mission. She had been fighting the Honkai for quite some time, and she knew that Zhu Yufeng was right.

So she stood up, not daring to look into the girl's desperate eyes, sighed softly, and walked behind Kosma.

"Although we can't take them out, we can still do some emergency measures." Zhu Yufeng glanced at the little girl, who was in danger of losing her life at any moment. After thinking for a moment, Zhu Yufeng walked to the little girl's side, squatted down and did a simple bandage and some hemostasis for her.

After a while, he stood up and said, "Let's go. I've already done the emergency treatment. Whether we can wait for the rescue team depends on their luck."

Disaster glanced at the little girl's condition. Compared to when she was first rescued, the little girl Cang's cheeks seemed to have regained some color, and her breathing was not as weak as before.

Disaster was stunned, while the others looked over with thoughtful expressions.

On their way to the central area, Disaster couldn't help but whisper to Kosma, "Amo, don't you think Feng's emergency response skills are a bit too good? That child just now looked like his life was in danger at any moment, but after he took care of him... he's much better now..."

It's much better now, but whether it can be saved depends on the speed of the rescue team.

Later, she had the opportunity to learn from Feng about emergency response methods and details.

Kosma said with a somewhat complicated expression, "... Indeed."

(From Disaster's angle, she couldn't see the details of the process. Feng really just followed the usual procedures, but... most likely... Feng used his powers... time reversal... However, given Feng's current state, he can't rewind too much time, otherwise he himself might not be able to stand up...)

Zhu Yufeng discovered that he, and everyone else knew, could recall a person's state for a short period of time. It all started two months ago when he and Lilith returned from the Far East. Lilith celebrated her birthday alone with Zhu Yufeng, and she had a good time, but Kevin, who was helping her, was in a terrible situation...

His training volume skyrocketed. Mobius and Vill-V pushed him to his limits to increase the training volume, not to mention Sakura, who wanted to challenge him.

Out of consideration for Kevin being his good brother, and also to test the extent of his control over his abilities, Zhu Yufeng conducted an experiment on the exhausted Kevin. In the end, it was verified by Mobius that Kevin's physical condition had been reverted to half an hour earlier.

Of course, if the effect were applied to Zhu Yufeng's own body, it could rewind even more time.

To go back half an hour would be quite taxing on Zhu Yufeng himself. After helping Kevin go back, he felt dizzy and almost couldn't stand up.

And... Kevin got an extra half hour of training afterwards...

This time, it was on the battlefield, and they had to fight Honkai Beast at any time. Of course, Zhu Yufeng couldn't go back half an hour. He would only help the little girl go back time without affecting his own battle.

He differs from Ugar in this respect. Although Ugar can manipulate space and time on a large scale, his effects are limited to inorganic matter and other Honkai Beast, and are ineffective against organic life forms.

Incidentally, Ugar has been harassing Hen on the moon quite a bit lately, flying over Hen's head from time to time and occasionally letting out a howl. Hen's attitude has changed from being on high alert at the beginning to being numb, and now he can even count the time it takes for Ugar to take a stroll and greet Ugar.

"After all, although he's indifferent to others, he's much more tolerant of his companions. He may not always grant every request, but at least he'll try his best to do something..." Lilith said with narrowed eyes to Elysia. "Disaster is also a companion now, right? If it were anyone else, he probably wouldn't even bother to make a gesture of bandaging and would just leave."

"Yes, both cold and gentle. It sounds contradictory, but that's Feng." Elysia said with a faint smile.