Zhu Yufeng: I'll Just Live with Her

"Huh? What brings you two here?" Hen looked at Blanca and Griseo with some surprise. He had only just told Elysia and Lilith about Griseo, and he hadn't expected Griseo to show up at this time...

He had just heard the news and was preparing to go to Astaroth's ward.

Astaroth's abilities have been verified, but so far they are kept secret from most of the Fire Moth warriors. As one of the veteran warriors of the Fire Moth, he knows some of the rumors.

The council seemed to be preparing to forcibly take Astaroth into the Deepest Place. I dare say that if Feng weren't resting right now, the council would definitely not dare to do this directly. And even if Feng wasn't there, his team members Nahamah, Baal, and Abaddon went there after learning the news.

Based on what I know about Baal, there's a possibility that a conflict might break out between him and the council representatives. I heard that Lionel has already gone there to handle it, and Elysia and Kevin should have received the news by now... Kevin is hard to say, but Elysia will definitely go.

If necessary, we might have to wake up Kaede while she's sleeping, but if Kaede has a bad temper when she wakes up... things might get even more complicated.

"Griseo said she wants to talk to Astaroth. Judging from your expression... did something happen?" Blanca noticed that Hen's expression became somewhat unnatural when he heard "Griseo wants to talk to Astaroth," and Hen seemed to be in a hurry to go somewhere when he came.

Hen glanced around, then said hesitantly, "Astaroth's special ability has been confirmed, and it should be revealed to the entire Fire Moth community soon... Her ability is similar to a mental attack, and because she is so young, her ability is extremely unpredictable..."

"How could this be..." Blanca was stunned. "Does this mean that the child might even be unconsciously launching psychological attacks on others?"

"It seems that..." Hen glanced at Griseo and then said, "The council wants to keep that child locked up in the Deepest Place for management, and that's when they clashed with the other Fusion Warrior in Maple's team... I'm going over there to check on things now, and hopefully the situation won't get out of control..."

The worst-case scenario would probably be a complete break between the Fusion Warrior and the Council. At any time, when the decision-making level and the execution level clash, it will only lead to a decline in the outcome. The Fusion Warrior are currently the main force of the Fire Moth in fighting against the Honkai. Thanks to the efforts of the existing Fusion Warrior, the increasingly frequent Honkai have been dealt with in a timely manner. However, the Council, as the decision-making level, has always been wary of the strength of the Fusion Warrior. They are worried that the increasingly powerful Fusion Warrior will eventually replace their voice and their current position, making the Council a vassal of the Fusion Warrior.

To put it bluntly, if the Fusion Warrior really wanted to do that, the Council wouldn't be able to stop them.

It is precisely because of this possibility that the council has never had a good attitude towards the Fusion Warrior.

The Mobius faction doesn't care, but the May faction might not necessarily listen to May. Then there's Lionel's side. Although he is the military representative and supports the Fusion Warrior Project, it doesn't mean that his subordinates won't have opinions about the Fusion Warrior.

Many people oppose the Fusion Warrior Project for two reasons: firstly, the Fusion Warrior Project has had a shockingly low success rate so far; and secondly, as the number of successful individuals increases, the number of Fusion Warrior will gradually exceed the current number of non- Fusion Warrior to resist. If the leaders of the Fusion Warrior then have other ideas, the council and even the Mu Continent will be helpless.

Someone has already mentioned this matter to the King of the Mu Continent. It will probably be some time before the King requests that the Fusion Warrior Project be stopped... After all, for the King, there must be a counterbalance to the Fusion Warrior. If the existing human forces cannot subdue the Fusion Warrior, it is not a good thing for those in high positions.

Currently, the only non- Fusion Warrior with combat power comparable to Fusion Warrior is Qianjie.

Blanca had also figured out the reasoning behind it, and sighed softly. Just as she was about to say something, Hen suddenly looked behind her. "Feng? You're awake?"

"If I don't wake up soon, I don't know what might happen." Zhu Yufeng's expression and tone seemed to be much colder than usual, perhaps due to lack of sleep and the current events that were affecting his mental state.

"It's because he didn't get much rest all day, and then he was woken up and told this after only a short time of sleep... It wouldn't be a good mood for a normal person..." Hen smiled bitterly to himself, then looked at Kevin next to Zhu Yufeng. He knew that Elysia and Lilith probably wouldn't wake up Zhu Yufeng, who had just fallen asleep.

"It was Lionel who asked Kevin to wake me up," Zhu Yufeng said, having seen through Hen's thoughts.

He glanced at Griseo, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I'll go with Kevin to check on the situation first. According to the information Lionel confirmed, Astaroth's abilities are limited to her ward."

He still hoped that Griseo and Astaroth could be as close as they were in their previous life, but he also had to consider the thoughts of Hen and Blanca, so he could only try his best to mitigate the impact on Astaroth's abilities.

After saying that, Zhu Yufeng didn't linger. He had to quickly deal with Astaroth's matter, and of course, he also had to settle accounts with those troublesome councilors.

Watching Zhu Yufeng's departing figure, Hen's expression was somewhat complicated.

On the way to Astaroth's hospital room, Kevin asked, "Maple, what are your thoughts on this matter?"

For Kevin, all he needed to do was listen to Mei. He would do whatever Mei told him to do, so he never thought about why.

But now, if they want to surpass the Finality in the final battle, and Mei is not a living being, there are some things that Kevin cannot help but think about.

As for dealing with the conflict between Fusion Warrior and ordinary people that he is facing now, Kevin had never thought much about it before. In the past, he was only concerned with Honkai the Honkai. When organizing team building activities or operations, he was basically with the Fusion Warrior. In the later stages of the fight against the Honkai, the conflict between ordinary people and Fusion Warrior became more and more intense. It's not that he didn't see it, but he just didn't care.

Until the Twelfth Herrscher Incident, when the conflict between Fusion Warrior and ordinary people reached its peak, the remaining Fusion Warrior, namely the Fire Moths, developed a great rift with the ordinary warriors due to Rin's death and Maple's near-death experience.

Looking back now, it was almost the last time we were on the verge of civil war. If Feng hadn't woken up, a civil war might have already broken out.

"If you're thinking about the Twelfth Herrscher Incident, that was just the result of escalating conflicts, not something that happened overnight," Zhu Yufeng said. "No matter how well the Fusion Warrior do, ordinary people will always have a deep-seated distrust of us outcasts. After the Tenth Herrscher Incident, even ordinary people lacked trust in each other, let alone in us."

He even wanted to say that the Eleventh Herrscher Incident, which involved his own attempt to forcibly sacrifice civilians to fill the Divine Blessing Barrier, also exacerbated the distrust of ordinary people towards Fusion Warrior.

This kind of estrangement can't be resolved so easily. Zhu Yufeng is too lazy to care about these things now. As long as they don't hold him back, he doesn't care what others think.

He firmly believed in one thing: that Fusion Warrior were also human and didn't need to act as babysitters for ordinary people, going to great lengths to please them and then carefully maintaining their relationships.

Are you sure this won't embolden some people? And then, if one day the Fusion Warrior stop obeying orders, they'll shout, "Those who are not of our kind must have different hearts," without ever considering the sacrifices and contributions the Fusion Warrior made for humanity. In their eyes, what the Fusion Warrior did was even their duty.

Rin's experience before the Tenth Herrscher incident is proof of this. No matter how much merit Sakura had made before, they imprisoned Rin with just a word. Even her own sister Sakura could hardly see her sister. During Rin's imprisonment, if it weren't for Mei taking care of her, her treatment might have been even worse.

The Fusion Warrior overcame their fear of death to perform the Fusion Warrior surgery and withstood the pressure from the Honkai Beast to protect humanity, only to be told in return, "You should have done it this way."

It sounds ironic, but in reality, many people in high-level positions have this kind of mentality.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Fusion Warrior have obtained powers that do not belong to humans. "This is to pull the gods off their thrones and seize their power." Before becoming Fusion Warrior, no matter how excellent a person is, he is still still in the category of humans according to conventional understanding. Even Elysia can be classified as a special human with "extraordinary Honkai Energy". But the Fusion Warrior are different. Their existence breaks the previous understanding of humans.

Why are people so afraid of man-made Artificial Collapse? Because it is the manifestation of the inhuman side of the Fusion Warrior; they don't know whether what stands in front of them is a warrior or Honkai Beast.

Even if other Fusion Warrior themselves are resistant to Artificial Collapse, once they become Fusion Warrior, this is what they can do. It's not that they don't want to do it, but that makes others think they can't do it.

The Seventh Herrscher Incident was a great success for the Fusion Warrior' debut, which boosted people's confidence in a short period of time. However, now that the Eighth Herrscher Incident is over and the number of Fusion Warrior has increased, some cracks that were originally covered up by the joy of victory will gradually emerge.

Zhu Yufeng had already considered the issue of Astaroth's placement, but he didn't expect that someone in the council would think of suppressing the Fusion Warrior by forcibly imprisoning Astaroth in the Deepest Place in advance. After all, for the sake of saving the world, there shouldn't be too much conflict between humans. Even if he wanted to overturn the table, he would probably face opposition from May and Lionel.

Those people were gambling, gambling that they wouldn't dare to defy the world and directly start a human civil war.

If they tacitly allow this to happen, it will give them a taste of success, and they will then try to further control the Fusion Warrior.

All I can say is that when World Serpent is able to replace all the high-ranking members of Fire Moth, none of them will escape.

The biggest obstacle for the World Serpent to control the Fire Moth currently comes from the Mu Continent. Although Lilith didn't say it, Zhu Yufeng knew what Lilith was thinking after they had been working together for so long. She probably thought that the sinking of the Mu Continent would be the final outcome. In fact... Zhu Yufeng wanted to agree with this idea right now.

"So, you mean, don't overthink it?"

"We don't actively seek trouble, but if someone tries to cause trouble, we absolutely cannot tolerate it; that's human nature," Zhu Yufeng said. "Fusion Warrior are also human beings. If we don't even consider ourselves human, how can you expect others to treat us like human beings?"

Kevin silent, feeling that asking Feng this question was pointless, since Feng never seemed to be confused about anything. In his eyes, it was probably nothing but Honkai and Honkai. If it weren't for his current physical condition, Kevin felt that he and Mei's child might be old enough to run errands someday, while Feng was still stuck on chaos and Honkai.

It's really worrying.

Of course, it still depends on Lilith. For a top-tier blockhead like Feng, there's no other way but to take extreme measures.

They arrived outside Astaroth's hospital room.

"Feng, you're here." Elysia looked at Zhu Yufeng. "Sorry, I still have to wake you up this time."

"It's okay, I'm used to it anyway," Zhu Yufeng said with a shrug.

Elysia squinted at Zhu Yufeng. "Used before? Didn't you used to be unable to fall asleep even when you wanted to? How can that be the same?"

"Where is Lilith?" Zhu Yufeng asked again.

"As for Lilith, she said she has her own things to deal with and this matter is not under her jurisdiction. Whether she comes or not makes little difference," Elysia said helplessly. But that was indeed the case. On Nahamah and Baal's side, Zhu Yufeng was basically the only one who could keep things under control. If Zhu Yufeng didn't come, the council wouldn't give in either, so the stalemate could only continue like this.

However, in order to minimize the situation, Lionel dispersed everyone else, leaving only the council members and a few Fusion Warrior from Zhu Yufeng's side in this area.

The council representatives knew it was hopeless when they saw Zhu Yufeng arrive, and with Kevin still by Zhu Yufeng's side, it was basically confirmed that the two leaders of the Fusion Warrior shared the same attitude in this incident...

Zhu Yufeng glanced at the council representative, then looked away at Lionel and stated his initial thought, "Since Astaroth's abilities are limited to the ward, we do not support taking her to the Deepest Place. Some in the council also believe that she must be under control. So, until further confirmation is obtained, would it be acceptable for me to live with her as a means of control?"

This also helps prevent Lilith from launching night raids and causing more trouble.

Elysia: "..."

Suddenly it became clear why Lilith said she envied Astaroth.