The Hero Who Laid Down Her Life to Preserve the Seed, Kevin Embraced New Life and Faced the Honkai Era Head-On!
Even Niu Tian and Tai Tan, two towering men, silently turned their heads away.
Just as the blade was about to touch the skin.
"Beep--beep--"
A faint electronic notification sound came from beneath the nearby ruins.
Kevin stopped moving.
He numbly turned his head to look at the source of the sound. It was a small alloy door buried under the rubble.
As if driven by some kind of instinct, he put down his sword, stumbled over, and pried open the heavy stones and steel bars with his bare hands.
The door opened.
A soft blue light shone through the narrow space behind the door.
Everyone's heart was in their throat.
What is that?
Kevin... slowly walked in. Inside the cramped shelter, there was only a sophisticated Life Support Capsule.
Through the transparent hatch, a baby is sleeping peacefully inside.
She was so small, so fragile, as if she were the only hope for life in this destroyed world.
The entire world of "battle of nudity," and everyone watching this scene, instantly went blank.
"A child...?" Ning Rongrong covered her mouth, her eyes filled with shock.
"It's... it's their child?" Ning Tian's eyes widened in disbelief.
On the control panel next to the Life Support Capsule, a line of information is clearly displayed.
[Vital signs: Stable]
[Body temperature: 37.0°C]
Tang San's pupils suddenly contracted!
Body temperature is normal!
This detail made him instantly understand something. Kevin, because he had incorporated Parvati's Genes, maintained a body temperature of minus thirty degrees Celsius year-round. But this child... was normal!
"In vitro fertilization... Genes modification..." Tang San deduced the truth almost immediately, "MI...in her final moments, for Kevin, for their civilization, left behind a final...hope."
In the video, Kevin reaches out with trembling hands, touching the cold hatch, as if feeling the heartbeat of the little life inside.
His gaze fell on an envelope affixed to the hull.
There are only two words on it.
[Kevin received]
It's MI's handwriting.
Kevin's hand hovered in mid-air for a long time before he finally used all his strength to take the letter down.
He held the letter, looked at the child in the cabin, then at MI's cold body not far away. This upright man, this warrior who had carried too much burden, finally could no longer hold on.
He knelt on the ground, clutching the letter tightly to his chest, and let out a suppressed cry, like the wail of a wild beast.
That was the first glimmer of light bursting forth from the end of despair.
It was a new flower quietly blooming on the ruins of civilization.
Rong Nianbing, the God of Emotion, clearly felt the immense and overwhelming torrent of emotions emanating from the Light Screen.
Extreme grief, extreme despair, extreme silence... and, in the very center of that silence, a faint yet incredibly resilient... emotion called "hope" suddenly bursts forth.
Gu Yuena's tears fell silently. She looked at the baby and thought of her son, who had been sealed in ice for ten thousand years.
"She...she planned it all..." Gu Yuena's voice trembled. "She knew she was going to die, she knew Kevin would survive...so she gave him a reason to live..."
Tang Wulin held his wife tightly in his arms, his heart filled with mixed emotions. He understood Kevin's feelings better than anyone else.
It wasn't simple joy, but a responsibility so heavy it was suffocating, a sense of bewilderment as if forcibly pulled back to reality from the brink of death, a... the only starlight seen in endless darkness.
The image on the Light Screen finally froze on Kevin's face, which was covered in tears and blood.
He clutched the letter MI had left behind tightly, his gaze fixed on the sleeping baby in the Life Support Capsule, as if trying to etch her image into the depths of his soul.
In an instant, it was as if all the air in the entire space had been sucked out.
child...
That heroine who resolutely faced death, entrusting everything to the future, actually left behind a bloodline?
Lie Yan's body trembled slightly, and she subconsciously moved closer to Ji Dong. She understood best how brilliant and how heavy the love and hope born from despair could be.
"Using the child as my hope for survival..." Huo Yuhao murmured to himself, his eyes instantly reddening.
He recalled his childhood and the hopeful look in his mother's eyes before she died. He deeply understood that will to struggle and survive for another person.
Tang Wulin's heart clenched.
child.
hope.
These two phrases, taken together, possessed the most terrifying power in the world. He involuntarily looked at Gu Yuena beside him, and in that instant, he thought of their child, the child he owed so much to.
[Fifty thousand years later, Kevin, calling himself Kevin Kaslana, began to help humanity resist the Honkai. His descendants formed the strongest family against the Honkai — the Kaslana Family, whose bloodline inherits the will to protect and the vow to Conquer Collapse.]
"Fifty... ten thousand years?"
Zhou Weiqing gasped, completely stunned.
"Are you kidding me! Sleeping for 50,000 years? That'd make you a living fossil!"
He couldn't imagine what that scene must have been like. The world Cang Hai, the stars had shifted, and fifty thousand years was enough for a completely new world to be born and destroyed several times over. And that person, Kevin, had been sleeping for so long in that cold sleep pod, clinging to a single hope.
This goes beyond mere perseverance.
Is this a miracle, or... Curse?
"Kaslana ..." Sea God Tang San's eyes became incredibly deep.
He didn't dwell on the 50,000 years; God's life is almost Eternity, and he understands the significance of time better. What he cared about was something else.
A family.
A family whose sole mission is to fight against the "Honkai".
A family that has etched its vows into its bloodline and passed them down through generations.
This is somewhat similar to the legacy of their Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, yet completely different. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan inherits Martial Soul and glory, while this Kaslana Family inherits the survival of an entire civilization.
It's too heavy.
"What a magnificent Kaslana." The Dragon God's majestic voice resonated in everyone's hearts, carrying an indescribable sense of admiration. "With a mortal body, she bore the weight of civilization, making a vow that spanned eras. This spirit is no less than that of Gods."
Even the usually arrogant Dragon God gave such high praise, leaving the rest of the crowd utterly astonished.
"The strongest family..." Ning Rongrong murmured softly, her glass-like eyes sparkling with wonder.
As the sect leader of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, she understands all too well how difficult it is to manage and pass on a family's legacy. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is renowned throughout the world for its support abilities and is incredibly wealthy, but its core mission is nothing more than "protecting its partners and bringing glory to the sect."
And the Kaslana Family's goal is actually to "Conquer Collapse".
What a magnificent, yet utterly hopeless, goal this is.