Chapter 151 Interlude Paradise in the Past Life
“Ugh!”
The heart-wrenching pain woke the girl up, and the illusion in front of her... no, the memory gradually dissipated. The vision became blurred, and then clear again, as if the camera had refocused.
“Have we returned to the courtyard? No, it’s still here…”
In the distance were strange-shaped high-rise buildings. The top building was relatively complete. The lower it went, the more abstract the structure became, until it became a simple, square steel frame, until the steel bars also turned into smaller and smaller blocks one after another along the direction of gravity…
The girl took two steps with the sword. She had not yet recovered from the massive memory just now, so that her cognition of “self” had a slight deviation.
She couldn’t help but lean on the giant arm armor beside her, but her fingers went straight through the air and touched nothing.
She stumbled suddenly, but fortunately she inserted the long knife in her hand deeply into the ground, so she was able to stand firm.
"What's going on... this memory... actually affects the synchronization with the core!"
"No! Whose is this... It should be Mikael's, definitely Mikael's... But, it shouldn't be, Mikael's memory can't appear here at all!"
"Damn, is this the end! The power can't be used temporarily... For safety reasons, leave first."
After a little thought, Mei made a decision.
As her mind moved slightly, a "star gate" appeared in the air not far away.
In the previous day and night, she used this "star gate" to shuttle through one broken memory after another, facing the enemies that the pioneers had faced, and broke through her own limits twice in a row-of course, most of those memories belonged to that woman.
So, although she was confused about the memory that seemed to be that man that had just inexplicably entered, she still trusted the "star gate" itself, so she used the long sword as a crutch and dragged her tired body towards the star gate.
Although... Although there was no familiar, golden crystal rose engraving on the star gate, instead there was a deep and bright starry sky.
"Just like this... it's OK... right?"
But just when the fingertips were about to touch the real and fake stars...
"Hehe..."
"Uh!"
A strange sound came through the star gate, and Mei's pupils suddenly widened. The instinct of fighting for a long time suddenly grabbed her heart, and at the critical moment, she briefly controlled her body and quickly dodged to the side.
But it was too late, a claw much larger than the star gate quickly stretched out and crushed the border of the star gate. Even though Mei had already pounced to the side, the air wave brought by the claws, which condensed cold air, still left a long blood mark on her left arm.
"This... this is not..."
The platform under her feet and the small star gate began to expand rapidly. Only in this way can they provide enough space for the big guy behind the star gate.
Then, a huge head struggled and twitched and squeezed out of the narrow star gate...fly-like eyes, sharp chin and sharp teeth, and slender pink ears...
"Yaksha!"
Yaksha raised its head high, and in a series of twitches, its upper and lower jaws opened a huge blunt angle, and a sharp cry came out:
"Moo--"
"Ah!"
The airflow in the space spread out in ripples visible to the naked eye, directly knocking Mei away.
"How is it possible..."
The red arm armor climbed up her arm, her five fingers deeply embedded in the ground, and her body was hanging in the air and fluttering, like a piece of clothing hanging alone outside the balcony on a stormy day.
"Is this Yaksha? It's more than twice as big as what Alicia remembered... This kind of power is far beyond the judgment level. Even if Benares's power is ten times, it can't reach this level!"
She quickly glanced at her right hand, which was unnecessary. The touch of her empty fingers had long meant that the knife was gone.
"Damn it, just when the core can't synchronize..."
Even though the star gate has expanded countless times, it still looks so small in front of Yasha, so small that it only shows a part of its arm and a head, which has already filled the gate.
"Moo--"
It hissed again, and the right arm and neck that squeezed out of the door frame burst out with conspicuous meridians. Under its constant struggle, the space around the star gate shattered like a mirror, and Yasha's complete body finally appeared in front of Meiyi-although it was hunched over, its height was still more than 100 meters. The air waves gently raised between the opening and closing of the three teams of flesh wings flipped Meiyi over again.
"How...how could it be..."
Yasha walked towards Meiyi leisurely, and every step it took on the platform would cause large cracks. As it walked past, the platform behind it began to slowly collapse.
"I promised Kiana... I won't be here..."
Red lightning wrapped around Mei's body, and as the Honkai energy surged, her long hair, which was shining with purple light, broke free from the restraints of the hairpin and quickly stretched to the ground.
The pair of horns on her head were not absent, and the red arm armor and the huge sword appeared at her side - at the most critical moment, she finally completed the synchronization with the Herrscher Core.
"Isn't it Yasha! It's nothing more than a defeated opponent of Mikael back then, I can definitely do it!"
Her whole body turned into lightning, and before Yasha froze the space in front of her, she took the lead to go behind him, and the semicircular knife light passed by, and the flesh wing on the upper right of Yasha had been cut off by half.
Its huge body was stunned for a moment, and in this moment, Mei smashed its right eye again, and thousands of tiny eyeballs scattered like raindrops, all over the ground.
So it went completely crazy.
"Moo——"
The space was frozen, and the shock wave with a biting cold air shattered the bones of Mei's limbs in just one encounter. The two huge arm armors protecting her in front of her could only protect her from driving away.
But the frozen space has hardened everything, and the arm armor created by the Herrscher was covered with cracks in just a few seconds.
"Damn it!"
Mei's eyes were full of fear.
"...Yes, that woman said that you just need to call her name - do you really need to? That woman never tells the truth... Wait, could this be a trap she set?"
"Forget it, there is no other way, Ai--"
She just shouted a syllable, and heard a chuckle in her ear:
"Oh, I've been waiting for a long time, and you finally call me? It doesn't matter! I've said it before! As long as you call my name - Alicia, I will always be here!"
As her voice fell, a huge crystal rose bloomed in the air, and the flawless dome instantly enveloped the entire space.
The pink figure had already blocked Meiyi in front of her. Facing the shock wave mixed with cold air emitted by Yasha, she stood still, and there was no scar on her body.
As for the impact caused by Yasha freezing the space, it was almost "zero" for her, and Meiyi felt a little more relaxed.
"Do you know, Mei? We spent a lot of effort to deal with this guy! Killed and resurrected, resurrected and killed again. For this, I nicknamed Mikael the 'Weak Herrscher'!"
"I saw this."
"Haha! Mikael was still very cute at that time!"
Alicia held Feihua - no, now Feihua from the past life, across her chest, three fingers on the string, gently pulled it down, and a slender crystal arrow condensed on the bow, and the overflowing pink light also rendered Ai Li's face into her favorite pink.
"Watch it!"
The arrow shot out silently, and a few thin lines quickly crossed the dome, and then dissipated into nothingness.
All of Yasha's movements stopped.
Mei collapsed to the ground, and correspondingly, Yasha's body quickly decomposed into countless neatly cut pieces.
"This... this is the power of Alicia, so easy... after all, she is the companion of Mikael, Kevin and the class leader..."
"Okay, does your arm still hurt?"
"Huh?"
Mei looked around and found herself back in the Golden Courtyard. She stood up and rubbed her shoulders. The injuries she had just suffered in the paradise of the past life had all recovered, and only the pain was still stimulating her nerves.
She suddenly stepped back half a step and instinctively distanced herself from Alicia:
"What's going on! That Yasha is countless times stronger than you remember. It has already surpassed the scope of the Judgment-level Honkai Beast, right?"
"Oh! Why do you want to stay away from me? Do you suspect that I am the mastermind behind this? I am really sad!"
Alicia kept approaching, but Mei kept retreating until she fell on the gorgeous sofa.
Ai Lishia leaned on the back of the sofa, put her face close to Mei's ear, and asked softly:
"Before Yasha appeared, did you see someone's memory?"
"Someone... So that was indeed Mikael's memory? Impossible! He told me in person that he didn't leave any memory at all, and there shouldn't be any memory from his first perspective in the paradise of the past!"
"Ah! Did he tell you that?"
"Why, did he really leave any memory?"
"No."
Aili shook her head, and was serious for a rare moment.
She turned over and sat next to Mei.
Mei moved to the side, and Ai Li also silently pressed against her. Mei's breathing was a little heavy, but she gave up resistance.
"Theoretically, Mikael did not leave any memory in the Paradise of the Past. This is determined by his characteristics as a Ruler of Reason. It's not that he can't, but he dares not."
"Don't dare?"
"Yes, the Paradise of the Past is a very magical place. It can perfectly restore our complete abilities with data. So, if Mikael left his memory, whether the power of this memory can reach the level of physical reconstruction, none of us dare to guarantee."
"You don't even trust your own memory? This..."
"That's the kind of person Mikael is! He trusts others very much, but he doubts his own abilities... Alas... There's no way. Every time it comes to this, I have to come out!"
Mei blinked, and inexplicably felt that the way Ai Li sucked her fingers was a little cute.
"Anyway, for some reason I don't know, sometimes Mikael's memories will intrude into the Paradise of the Past, and the result is what you saw, so Meiyi - next time you see a star gate without an imprint, don't get close to it."
"But there was only that one door just now..." Meiyi instinctively wanted to question, but she couldn't completely trust Alicia, even though she was Mikael's teacher...
So, when the words came to her lips, she blurted out another question:
"Uh...but why is it Yasha, not Mikael himself?"
"Well... you can also think of it as Mikael himself, or a kind of condensation of his negative emotions, not only Yasha, but also the 500-meter-long Pavanti, and the Shesha as thick as dozens of buildings... because these are the parts that he abandoned, and they are all the parts of himself that he hates so much."
"Abandon? Hate? Himself?"
"Well, that's what happened during the seventh collapse. In short, from a physiological point of view, among the heroes you have met, Mikael should be the one closest to humans."
"Then... do you also have reproductive isolation?"
"Oh, Mei!"
Alicia's eyes widened in disbelief, "You actually made such a joke, which is really beyond my expectation! But I'm very happy! Because I felt it!"
"Felt what?" Mei was a little puzzled.
"Of course I felt it-the traces left by Mikael on you!"
Mei lowered her eyes and looked at the girl who was sitting lazily beside her.
Her smile was so flawless, but in Mei's eyes it was so...unpleasant.
So, she couldn't help but ask that question after all:
"Alicia, at the end of the memory I saw...did he really...kill Seele from the previous civilization with his own hands?"
The third volume is over, and the collapse is obvious to all, so I'll take a day off tomorrow to sort out the outline of the next volume and sort out my mood.