"I'm telling you seriously, this is your and MIE's child."
Xu Zifu lifted Little White Ball with his mind and showed her to Kevin.
"On that point... I believe you."
The instant Kevin met Little White Ball's eyes, he felt a blood connection between them. It couldn't be faked.
"And me! Call me Xu Yanwu! Not Head of the War Gods!" Xu Yanwu somehow turned the conversation back to himself.
"Um..."
Kevin awkwardly rubbed his nose. Come to think of it, Xu Yanwu had been called Head of the War Gods ever since Kevin joined Fire Moth.
Back then, Xu Yanwu's head could be called Fire Moth's greatest weapon against the Honkai. The pure energy extracted from it practically sustained all of Fire Moth's expenses.
Looking at Xu Yanwu's somewhat listless face now, Kevin even wondered whether Fire Moth had drained too much energy from him...
"Whew..." Xu Yanwu let out a long breath. Forcibly saving Kevin just now had consumed quite a bit of his energy, and he was exhausted again.
Xu Yanwu had done more than simply pin the Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire to the ground. He had also forcibly suppressed the riot of the Herrscher Cores within both Holy Judgments of Heavenly Fire.
As expected, using his ability on Herrscher Cores like the Divine Keys was still a little too much.
That was what Xu Yanwu thought.
"Kevin, although I've been staying in this laboratory all this time, your group of humans..." Xu Yanwu paused, as though organizing his words. "You're about to be wiped out, aren't you?"
Kevin's expression darkened. Xu Yanwu was telling the truth. "Yeah. I can't fight the Fourteenth Herrscher. She's too strong."
"Of course she's strong. Wasn't I cut into this state by her too..." Xu Yanwu rolled his eyes. "I'm no expert at fighting the Honkai either. I didn't have even the slightest way to deal with the final Herrscher. It was nonsense for you to count on me from the start..."
"Yeah..." Kevin said dejectedly.
"But your efforts won't go to waste."
Xu Yanwu's change in tone made Kevin's eyes light up. "What do you mean?!"
"This..."
Xu Yanwu glanced at the beautiful girls lying in the Cryo-sleep Pods behind him and lightly twitched his nose. "You probably won't live to see it, but Little White Ball's descendants, along with these girls, will become the hope of the next civilization..."
"Them..." Kevin hesitated before asking Xu Yanwu, "Thank you for looking after my child."
Xu Yanwu raised an eyebrow. "What? What are you planning to do?"
"Before the final Herrscher destroys the world... I'm going to enter a Cryo-sleep Pod with my and MIE's child." Kevin picked up Little White Ball. Her unusual genes kept her from being affected by the cold, and she merely looked curiously at the man who had picked her up.
"So soon? You're not going to stay and chat with me a little longer?"
Xu Yanwu was somewhat irritated. He had finally woken up, only to have to go back to sleep again. It was an awful feeling.
"Once you leave, you really will never see me again. Don't you want to ask about anything else?"
Kevin lowered his eyes. "I know, but I don't want to ask anymore."
"I only need to know that humanity will ultimately triumph. That's enough."
"I'm the only one left..."
Alone in the empty laboratory, Xu Yanwu suddenly felt lonely.
When you knew that you were the only person left in the entire world, how would that feel?
That was probably how Xu Yanwu felt right now.
No family in the world, no friends in the world.
"Well... I can't die anyway. I'll just wait for the next civilization.
Isn't it just... fifty thousand years..."
Xu Yanwu's voice trembled slightly. Fifty thousand years of loneliness was a cruel number.
"Hey, hey, hey! Kevin! I regret it! Take me into cryo-sleep with you, damn it!"
Xu Yanwu wailed and repeatedly slammed into the Cryo-sleep Pod's hatch.
But it was fucking useless.
Kevin and Little White Ball had already entered deep sleep.
Forget Xu Yanwu shouting like this—even if the sky collapsed, they wouldn't react in the slightest.
Don't do this...
I'm lonely by myself...
Seeing that he had no way to wake Kevin, Xu Yanwu decided to go outside first, absorb some energy somewhere rich in Honkai Energy, then climb straight into a Cryo-sleep Pod.
But when Xu Yanwu emerged from the base and saw the hellish scene outside, his heart gave another frightened twitch.
"It really is nothing but ruins... How cruel."
Xu Yanwu flew through the sky for a long time and visited many places. In the end, he could not help but sigh. "Humanity has been destroyed yet, yet, yet, yet, yet, yet, yet, yet again."
Xu Yanwu smacked his lips. "I didn't take a close look at the previous civilization. Could it have been this miserable too?"
"Humanity should never have been born."
A pleasant yet spine-chilling voice came from behind Xu Yanwu's head.
"Eek!"
Startled by the voice, Xu Yanwu screamed and shot forward, only for a slender jade-like hand to grab him directly by the hair.
"You broke through my seal, god from another world."
That hand turned Xu Yanwu's face around, letting him see an unfamiliar face—and a familiar feeling...
"I-I-I-I-I'm not some god from another world! I'm just an ordinary person..."
Xu Yanwu was on the verge of tears. How had he ended up in this big shot's hands again...
Was the Honkai world really this damn tiny...
The Herrscher of the End stared at the trembling Xu Yanwu in her hand with golden eyes and shook her head. "No, you are a god. But it seems you still cannot use your own power very well."
The Herrscher of the End patted Xu Yanwu's head again. "Stop shaking. I'm not in such a hurry to seal you."
"...Uh, that's not the issue of whether you're going to seal me or not... And the power you mentioned... is it immortality and Wish Fulfillment...?"
Xu Yanwu reined in his nervousness slightly. At least he did not look quite so terrified anymore.
Unexpectedly, the moment Xu Yanwu spoke, the Herrscher of the End looked at him strangely.
Xu Yanwu's mouth twitched. "Uh, what is it?"
"How would I know what your power is?"
"..."
"Come with me."
The Herrscher of the End dragged Xu Yanwu into the sky by his hair.
Of course, let's not mention how much hair Xu Yanwu had ripped out in the process...
The Herrscher of the End did not stop until Xu Yanwu was foaming at the mouth.
"Look at this planet."
The Herrscher of the End's voice roused Xu Yanwu. "Huh?"
"This planet is very beautiful, like a gemstone."
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