Everyone looked at Bianca as if they wanted to speak but could not, and wanted to stop speaking but could not either, their expressions indescribably complicated.
This had to be a hallucination, right?
"Bianca, I'm so sorry."
Eden's gentle voice was like a ballad, soft and soothing as she did her best to comfort her.
"You know what Kevin's Heavenly Fire Unleashed is capable of. At that distance, forget surviving—even a corpse might have gradually melted away."
"So... there's no way he could have survived." Mobius crossed her arms and pretended to be indifferent, but it was obvious she did not want Bianca to give up on herself.
But still!
Could Bianca really not tell whether that had been Hen?
She was certain. Absolutely certain. She believed without a doubt that... it was her husband.
The tone, the voice, every little detail...
She was certain!
That was Hen. It was definitely Hen.
It wasn't a hallucination.
He was really still alive!
Bianca could not explain why Hen had come to no harm.
Especially since Kevin had personally witnessed Hen, within the range of Heavenly Fire Unleashed, deliver his last words to her.
But!
Wasn't Hen surviving a good thing, regardless?
Why worry about all those questions...? Once Hen came back, wouldn't they know the answers?
Why keep guessing here?
"You're right..."
Dr. Mei nodded.
"Send someone to bring Hen back first."
She raised her hand and gently rubbed the space between her brows. She looked deeply troubled, as if she were utterly exhausted, both physically and mentally.
The Ninth Herrscher had died, and needed to be recovered. The Herrscher core also had to be found and secured...
Then there was the rescue work on the Mu Continent, the resettlement of refugees, and all the various matters that needed to be properly handled after the disaster...
All of it required her and the others to consider and deal with together.
That was one of the prices she had paid for gradually taking control of the Moth of the Fire.
Now that she thought about it, she had been slightly too agitated!
She had made an overly rash judgment without verifying it.
For a scientist, that was already a very dangerous state to be in, wasn't it?
Perhaps after this... she really should find some time to take a proper rest.
Keeping her nerves taut all the time simply would not do!
P.S. 1: Here's the first update. Four more to go—let's keep pushing~~
Main Text: 012. Dr. Mei Was Really Too Weak.
As for the rest...
There wasn't really much else to say.
Thanks to Dr. Mei and the others' help,
the helicopter sent to pick up Hen and Little Griseo arrived even faster than expected.
They boarded the helicopter.
Listening to the rotors roar outside the window,
Hen instead seemed as if a heavy burden had been lifted. He leaned back against the seat.
He let out a long breath.
Then he relaxed.
He told Little Griseo,
"Don't let the helicopter's whup-whup-whup-whup fool you into thinking it isn't moving very fast.
"In reality,
"Honkai Energy is really amazing.
"This equipment was specially designed for transporting soldiers in emergencies.
"It's even faster than civilian airliners.
"Once the Honkai Energy field is activated to filter out the wind pressure,
"even though you can barely feel the speed inside the cabin, it can almost reach the speed of sound outside."
"Oh."
Little Griseo nodded.
She was more or less used to such things by now.
Yeah~
Honkai Energy was pretty amazing, huh?
If you put this in her previous life and told people that a helicopter could be accelerated to the speed of sound, the people who built helicopters would probably give you a couple of hard slaps and ask what kind of nonsense you were talking about.
But on closer thought...
Her true body, the Ark spacecraft, had originally already been capable of near-light-speed flight.
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