Chapter 462
It's important to understand that this time, the Honkai Consciousness had meticulously planned and schemed to include her, so Freya could hardly imagine what kind of problems she would face in reality.
"I wonder if Immortal Fu Hua's backup plan has been activated yet? If the Shenzhou government can take this opportunity to successfully gain independence, the Alliance will have one more ally, and the World Security Council's restrictions on the Alliance will become meaningless."
"It's a pity. Immortal Fu Hua deliberately broke her own will to warn us to be careful, but we wasted it. I'm afraid even Jana didn't expect this situation."
Freya had previously asked Jana to try to influence the actions of the ocean Honkai Beast, but now it seems that the Honkai Consciousness deliberately cooperated, and that the signal towers that interfered with reality this time were not just Fu Hua and her.
"Ah, maybe the World Security Council will get tricked this time too."
Freya felt that the Honkai Consciousness was plotting something big this time, after all, they were not facing a normal Honkai Consciousness.
Although the Alliance has been fighting against the Honkai, or rather, from the Previous Civilization to the present civilization, humanity has never stopped fighting the Honkai, the Honkai Consciousness is not humanity's true enemy; the Honkai Beast and Herrscher born from Honkai Energy are.
Those Herrscher face an even more difficult trial.
That is theoretically true.
The countless parallel worlds observed by SU, and the parallel worlds that can be directly examined next door, are enough to prove that the Honkai Consciousness of different worlds mostly follows the rules of the Imaginary Tree, but the Honkai Consciousness of one's own world is indeed somewhat different.
However, it was just a suspicion before, which cannot be used as evidence. If the wrong target is suspected, it will only make the result more serious.
It's like catching a cold and then buying cold medicine.
However, if you have cold-like symptoms but actually have a different illness, and you buy cold medicine, the medicine you take may trigger a mutation in your illness, making it more severe.
While Freya was gloating, she couldn't help but worry about the alliance's new ally.
"Let's leave it here for now. Mei won't be back for a while, so I'll go look for the survivors in this world first..."
Freya, who was also unable to return to her original world in a short time, quietly finalized her next course of action.
With the Honkai Beast around the world undergoing mutations, the Shenzhou government and the Onmyoji organization, which originally intended to betray the World Security Council and the Illuminati, are now in a very awkward situation.
The headquarters of the World Security Council was attacked by a new type of Humanoid Honkai Beast, and almost all the members were wiped out, which also caused the Shenzhou government to lose the opportunity to find out the true identity of the Illuminati in one fell swoop.
It is not surprising that the Shenzhou government and the Onmyoji organization betrayed the World Security Council. In this country with a long history, there is a traditional idea that "nobles and generals are born with special privileges."
Many people may collude with the ruling family, but if given the chance to bring down this family that has been secretly controlling the country for thousands of years, they will naturally not pass up such a good opportunity.
The more power a person holds, the less tolerant they are of those with higher power above them.
The ruling families within Shenzhou are seen as a major hindrance by the current top leadership of Shenzhou, and the current chief of the Shenzhou government has long wanted to shed his puppet status.
The struggles within Shenzhou may be for more power, or they may be for making the country better.
Regardless of their reasons, they accepted Fu Hua's offer to win them over.
Fu Hua, also known as Crimson Heron, is the guardian immortal of Shenzhou for thousands of years. Her status within the country's secret organizations is extraordinary, and even ordinary people have heard stories based on her, often with exaggerated or altered versions.
They knew Fu Hua's kindness and that Fu Hua and the Alliance stood behind Freya.
They were prepared to betray the World Security Council in this operation, and to this end, they specifically arranged for a high-ranking official to serve as a security committee member—a position that was certain to result in certain death.
Despite their meticulous planning, they never anticipated that the Honkai Consciousness would deliver this blow.
As a result, the target that Shenzhou originally wanted to betray was betrayed by the Honkai Consciousness first.
This brought their actions to a standstill, and the Honkai Consciousness even kindly destroyed the military bases of several other major powers, preventing those major powers that were not much different from Shenzhou from immediately organizing a counterattack.
Of course, if possible, the Shenzhou government hopes that the Honkai Consciousness will not destroy their military bases as well.
However, the truth is that the Honkai Consciousness treats everyone equally. It not only destroyed the military bases of almost all major powers, but also turned the entire country of Australia into a lair for Honkai Beast.
Yes, there are no survivors left in all of Australia now; there are only countless Honkai Beast producing and evolving there.
A new type of Honkai Beast called "Broodmother Type" has appeared in large numbers on the Australian continent, producing Honkai Beast at a rate of dozens of births per second. Large numbers of Honkai Beast devour each other and evolve into Elite Rank and even Epic-level Honkai Beasts.
Honkai Beast that reach the Elite Rank and Epic ranks will undergo molting, and at the cost of the deaths of a large number of Honkai Beast, more and more new Humanoid Honkai Beast will be born.
This new species of Honkai Beast, which Tesla named 'Honkai Beastman', possesses extremely high intelligence, as if it were a life form born to replace humans.
On the fallen Australian continent, they combined the remaining technological artifacts with Honkai Beast to create new functional Honkai Beast.
In addition to the [Broodmother Type], more and more functional Honkai Beast such as [Signal Tower Type], [Radar Type], [Anti-Air Type], and [Jamming Type] have begun to emerge.
From a certain perspective, functional Honkai Beast represent a development of biotechnology.
After the number of Jamming Type Honkai Beast increased to one thousand, the Alliance lost its ability to monitor the Australian continent, and the Alliance's satellites could no longer capture any images of the Australian continent.
Even though Freya made many preparations to prevent unexpected events, the counterattack of the Honkai Consciousness still exceeded the limit set by her and her companions.
Neither the sudden surge in enemy numbers nor the large number of enemies evolving in a sacrificial manner were things that FU and Freya had anticipated.
To avoid limiting her thinking, Freya also asked for other people's opinions, but the worst-case scenario they could imagine was that all the Honkai Beast on this planet would launch an attack on Changkong City.
In response to this worst-case scenario, Freya and Theresa will be stationed on the moon. As long as the battle on the moon ends in the shortest possible time, even if such a situation does occur, the Alliance can organize a rapid evacuation of its personnel.
However, reality is not like that.
Instead of having the Honkai Beast besiege and attack Changkong City, the Honkai Consciousness took advantage of the fact that the main forces of various countries were distracted by Kiana and her group to launch a strong attack on the World Security Council and the military bases of various countries.
The counterattack of the Honkai Consciousness can be divided into two parts: the former eliminated the figures in the command systems of various countries, and the latter disintegrated the military power of various countries.
If the Honkai Consciousness only achieves one of its objectives, it will naturally not have a significant impact. However, the destruction of military bases in various countries and the killing of security commissioners who can openly communicate with the ruling families and the Illuminati will obviously cause temporary chaos in these countries.
The Honkai Consciousness of this world understands the ugliness of human nature, and it is very clear what opportunities it has given to those ambitious families.
The Illuminati's eyes have been blinded, their ears deafened, and their voices mute. Their strong limbs and claws have been broken. The Illuminati can no longer hide in the shadows and control the country as they once did.
The Honkai Consciousness gave all the families in various countries with the ability to vie for power an excellent opportunity, and it summoned all the Honkai Beast in the world to the Australian continent, which was conquered in the first place. Now the Australian continent has been completely turned into a paradise for Honkai Beast.
SU recalled his countless observations so far, and realized that no other world's Honkai Consciousness had ever acted with such malice as this one.
In fact, once you reach the level of SU, you understand more and more that the Honkai's position is very fair. Just as humanity is a part of the world evolved from the Imaginary Tree, the Honkai is also a part of the world evolved from the Imaginary Tree.
The mission of Honkai is to screen civilizations. It is like a diligent quality inspector, meticulously checking whether newly born civilizations are up to standard.
Substandard civilizations can have a negative impact on the universe, while even competent civilizations still need to develop with great care.
The Honkai Consciousness of other worlds acts as a quality inspector, carefully assessing the development direction of other worlds, and immediately destroying them once it is confirmed that a civilization will bring harm to the universe.
If other civilizations have an evaluation process, then this civilization seems to have no such process at all. It's like a client deliberately making things difficult for product suppliers, directly putting the civilization on the list of things that must be destroyed without even looking at the product provided by the supplier.
SU is in a real bind right now. Freya just lost contact, and Aurora has collapsed like a soulless body.
"Kai... we can't get in touch with him. I'm afraid the one using the interference ability isn't the coalition of various countries, but the interference-type Honkai Beast we just saw."
Although SU quickly switched the screen to the Australian continent, where the red dots were most densely packed, after the alarming alarms rang incessantly, it only managed to obtain a small portion of the information due to the interference of the Honkai Beast.
Whether it's the signal Signal Tower Type- shaped Honkai Beast or other functional Honkai Beast with new abilities, the situation is clearly a bit beyond what's expected.
The two combatants that the alliance can rely on are now trapped in a so-called "snowstorm mountain village" or "isolated island" mode due to the interference-type Honkai Beast.
After Aurora, Kiana, who was in charge of drawing away the allied forces, suddenly felt a sense of loneliness and abandonment.
"Someone must notify Kiana and Kevin to return... We'll leave the situation on the moon to Bianca. With Bianca's strength, she can handle small-scale situations there. The key is Earth; the Honkai Consciousness of this world clearly wants to start an arms race with us..."
Tesla stated his calculations: the Honkai Beast that attacked military bases in various countries quickly retreated to the Australian continent after achieving their goals. Many Honkai Beast that were not capable of swimming either traveled from the seabed or with the help of marine Honkai Beast to this Honkai Beast Paradise.
The fact that the Honkai Beast have given up their attacks is not a good thing. Although they have given various countries a chance to react, Tesla believes that the leaders of these countries will not stabilize the situation immediately. Instead, they will take this opportunity to bring down those they dislike.
In fact, the Honkai Consciousness doesn't need to do anything extra; it just needs to create a time difference to buy time for the development of Honkai Beast Paradise.
Tesla's face turned very ugly when she learned this. She never expected that the Honkai Consciousness would be so patient in setting a trap and then waiting for them to fall into it one by one.
The Honkai Consciousness did not immediately activate the trap it had set, but patiently waited until everyone had entered before activating it in one fell swoop.
Tesla bit his lip anxiously, just then Jackal suddenly called.
"Lady Tesla... Lady Fu Hua has awakened. After examining the unconscious Lord Freya and Aurora, she requests to speak with you. We... we cannot determine her current condition, so..."
"Bring them in."
Tesla's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked Jackal to let Fu Hua into the communication channel.
"You're awake?"
"Well, to make a long story short, the Honkai Consciousness has assimilated FU's way of thinking. You can think of him as someone similar to Otto."
"Clear."
"Aurora will be fine. The Honkai Consciousness cannot act directly; it can only interfere with reality through the 'signal tower.' She will be trapped in the consciousness space for a period of time."
"..."
"Contact Kevin and Kiana as soon as possible. I'll contact Shenzhou and ask them to launch 'Operation Yellow Heaven' immediately."
Fu Hua's awakening is clearly good news for the League, which is facing increasingly dire situations.
541. If it were Freya, she would definitely do this.
As the situation worsened, Fu Hua, who was in the next ward to Freya and Aurora, suddenly opened her eyes.
Fu Hua, whose shattered will was reborn like a phoenix, and who once again formed an invincible will, learned about the current situation from the bewildered Jackal and immediately contacted Tesla.
"Jackal, can we connect to Shenzhou now?"
"I'll try... I'm sorry, Lady Fu Hua, it failed. The situation in Shenzhou was also disrupted."
Jackal tried to connect to the Shenzhou branch via communicator, but encountered a communication failure.
Based on the last satellite images of the Australian continent, it is clearly the ability of some kind of functional Honkai Beast.
The Honkai Consciousness of this world not only intervenes in reality itself, but also feigns weakness to achieve its goals. A large part of the strategic advantage gained by the alliance is due to the deliberate actions of the Honkai Consciousness of this world.
Even if the alliance was not careless, the ruling families who were secretly manipulating various countries had become arrogant.
Freya was always careful to prevent such a situation from happening.
Like EVA, like Lily, after the powerful enemy disappeared, those who fought on the front lines were immediately betrayed.
Simply put, once the Alliance, an organization dedicated to fighting the Honkai, loses its mission or its unique position, it naturally becomes a target for elimination by the rulers.
However, in the arms race between Honkai and the Alliance, the Alliance is clearly in a commanding lead.
Freya initiated the campaign to conquer the Previous Civilization cities on the moon in order to escape the internal strife that might follow, but she did not expect that all of this was part of the Honkai Consciousness's plan.
He slowed down the evolution of the Honkai creature, deceiving nations and alliances with the illusion of improved quality.
With the powerful Humanoid Honkai Beast unable to pose a threat, and the discovery of a new controllable energy source within various countries, the World Security Council was established to limit the Alliance's excessive development, leaving the Alliance suddenly 'impoverished'.
Fu Hua bit her lip. The current situation was quite bad, even worse than she had originally imagined.
"I'll take action myself..."
"Lord Fu Hua?"
"... Freya and Aurora are fine, you don't need to worry too much. Honkai Consciousness doesn't have the ability to directly harm others."
Fu Hua, who was personally confronting the Honkai Consciousness, replied that she knew what the Jackal was worried about.
Fu Hua found her communicator, took off her hospital gown, and used it to remotely connect to the Alliance's teleportation system, sending her God-Slaying Armor directly over.
Leaving aside the principles of teleportation technology, Fu Hua, now equipped with the Shadow Knight: Moonlit Blade, encountered a red-haired woman emerging from Freya's ward as soon as she left her own room.
"Muryota... Himeko?"
Looking at the red-haired woman who had gained a touch of gentleness and whose face was slightly flushed, Fu Hua subconsciously called out her name.
The Himeko of this world has a different ending than the Himeko of the parallel world. In that parallel world, the Himeko went to awaken Kiana K423, and now her whereabouts and fate are unknown.
In this world, Himeko is just an ordinary teacher due to Freya's overprotection.
Of course, Himeko spends most of her time at the Alliance's medical center. In order to investigate the truth behind her father's 'death', Himeko chooses to become Valkyrie, but due to problems such as lack of skill and surgical accidents, she almost dies on the spot.
Although Himeko ultimately survived, the Honkai Energy had a devastating impact on her, significantly shortening her lifespan.
Even though she has now recovered a significant portion of her lifespan through medical surgery, Freya has long since relegated her to the combat ranks, leaving her only to obediently remain a quiet literary beauty.
Seeing the resemblance between the other person and her benefactor, Fu Hua somewhat understood Freya's overprotective behavior.
Is there anything I can do for you?
Despite having almost no fighting ability, Himeko still asked the question.
"Miss Himeko, you're not feeling well..."
"That's relative to you. My body is just weaker than a normal Valkyrie. It's just that my body can't cut off a man's penis, so you think I'm particularly weak."
The aura of the literary beauty vanished in the blink of an eye, and Fu Hua could still smell a hint of alcohol in the air.
Clearly, the red-haired woman in front of me, whose cheeks were still slightly flushed, had drunk quite a bit. If she were even slightly sober, she wouldn't have said such shameless things.