"The events of Changkong City happening here once again—what you mean is..."
The moment Fu Hua heard Xu Yanwu say that, she immediately understood what he meant.
"That's right. Exactly what you're thinking." Xu Yanwu raised his glass toward Fu Hua.
"Don't you find it fascinating? Such a tiny gem, yet once specially activated, it could unleash such tremendous power..."
Xu Yanwu drained the Zombie in one gulp and set the empty glass before Fu Hua.
"In an instant, Honkai descended... This city, which humanity had spent who knew how long building, one of the crystallizations of countless years of human evolution... could be paralyzed in a moment."
Xu Yanwu toyed with the glass in front of Fu Hua.
"The millions of people in this city... under the erosion of Honkai Energy, they would become walking corpses like the name of this drink... zombies."
"And then... amid that mountain of corpses and sea of blood, a girl would absorb this gem and become a... Herrscher."
As Xu Yanwu said this, his voice carried a hint of malicious delight.
Even Xu Yanwu himself felt a little like punching himself.
He restrained all his aura while putting on a more ostentatious display, his mind remaining intensely focused on Fu Hua.
Xu Yanwu was starting to feel mentally exhausted.
"Of course, this Herrscher... wouldn't be one of those terrifyingly powerful Herrschers right from the start, like the First Herrscher who founded Anti-Entropy, or the Second Herrscher born in Siberia more than a decade ago..."
Xu Yanwu continued, "The Herrscher in Changkong City wasn't very strong at the beginning either, was she?"
"According to my intelligence, wasn't she defeated by a white-haired girl? Oh, right, that white-haired girl was the person traveling with you this time..."
"Come to think of it, she seems to