Chapter 251 The Ninth Collapse

"Uuuuuu——"

Under Sakura's sudden blow, the Herrscher's right hand turned into a sky full of ice crystals from the wrist down. The extreme coldness slowed down the transmission of pain, and it was not until five seconds later that it let out a whimpering cry.

Its body inevitably trembled. It happened that the armor plate in the command room could not bear its weight and tore apart with a "crash". The Herrscher's body also sank quickly. Sakura slashed open the armor behind her. Ban, Hen and Blanca rushed out with Kil and Mei respectively, running against the influx of sunlight in an instant.

"Aldemir and Evelyn!"

As their bodies crossed each other, Mei shouted to Sakura.

"Understood, I'll save you!"

Sakura was about to rush back with her skates on her hands. Although she knew that the chances of the others surviving were slim, she still had no hesitation.

Fortunately, he was one step faster.

Fortunately, she took a step slower.

"No need."

Before she even took a step, a familiar voice sounded in her mind.

Before she could make any move, what she saw in front of her eyes was dazzling golden light, followed by extreme dizziness, but she had been through it a lot and was used to it, so she could overcome it.

Others around him were not so lucky. The sound of vomiting was mixed together, almost suppressing the sound of hunting wind in the Gobi and the explosion in the base not far away.

Wait...wait a minute, why are there so many people!

Her dizzy vision gradually recovered, and Sakura looked back and forth. There were no less than ten thousand people lying or sitting on the flat Gobi Desert.

On both sides of her were Blanca, who was supporting Mei, and Kil, who was knocked unconscious by Mark and was carried on his shoulders.

Aldemir was buried in the desert with his face on the ground and his butt in the air. He was still waving a fire ax inexplicably in his hand until Evelyn came over and kicked the broken ax away.

The rest of the scientific researchers and soldiers of the coalition government were not much better. Many of them did not understand what was happening until now. They were grabbing the sand and waving it around, screaming in despair while waving it.

Someone opened his eyes at this moment and looked at the drastically changed scenery around him, his eyes empty and slightly lost in thought.

But just a moment later, four golden characters popped up in his mind - Survival!

He couldn't control himself for a moment, hugging his head and crying.

Sakura cast her gaze further in the direction. As she looked around, more golden light emerged, that is, more people were transferred out.

Not long after, there was no longer a living person in the base that was crazily destroyed by the Ninth Herrscher.

"Mikael?"

"Tsk, who else besides me?"

The familiar figure appeared in front of Sakura. After being stunned for a moment, Sakura glanced around, but did not see anyone else.

"What happened? The one in the base... seems to have a Herrscher-level energy response?"

The situation was urgent, so Mikael ignored the pleasantries and asked directly.

Sakura moved silently, giving space to Mei.

Clinker Mei’s words are so concise:

"Obviously, the ninth collapse has happened."

Mikael frowned. The ninth collapse was the same as the seventh collapse. They both followed the last collapse. The frequency of this fast-paced collapse did not matter whether everyone's body was eating or not. The consumption of food is also a huge challenge only on the mental level.

It’s not just as simple as feeling tired. Since there are only thirteen Herrschers in total, the increasing frequency of Honkai Impact means that... we are getting closer and closer to the predetermined ending...

It's really ironic, people's thoughts are always contradictory, just like students always look forward to the final exam, because once they finish the exam, they can win a long vacation. But they undoubtedly hate final exams, because if they fail, they will win a mixed doubles match sponsored by the Seven Wolves.

"But did Honkai receive the stimulation from before? He actually chose such a body... But in this way, did it change the fate of another, no, at least two people?"

Mikael smiled, but it was a bit regretful. Now he almost fully understands the criteria chosen by the Herrscher of this era - it is both a predetermined fate and a rational choice.

In other words, as long as there is a body that is more suitable in all aspects than the established qualified person, it is possible to change...

Unfortunately, I understood it too late. He touched his chest, where a red mark remained.

But fortunately, it's not too late. His eyes slanted slightly and glanced at Sakura beside him.

"His power..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mikael suddenly felt a mountain-like weight on his shoulders, and his knees felt a "clicking" sound from the joints, which was then transmitted to Mikael's ears through solid vibration.

It might have been much more comfortable if he had knelt down or sat down obediently at this time, but Mikael did not do that.

"ah!"

He was soon glad that he had not done that - the screams around him were endless, and many people relaxed a little under this pressure and sat down on the Gobi Desert with "peace of mind", which directly caused bone cracks or fractures.

Fortunately, Mei had Blanca to support her, but even so, it was difficult for her to hold on.

"Ho...ho...the power of the Ninth Herrscher is gravity..."

In the base not far away, Herrscher was struggling with one hand on the ground. He didn't know if his own actions would be affected by his own power... or not.

Mikael took a difficult step. He was relatively less affected. After all, he controlled the power of space and could use phase travel to continue fighting...

"Mikael, the current situation is not suitable for fighting. Move everyone around you to the underground city first!"

"I am confident that I can defeat him, Velvet."

"In such a gravity environment, others cannot support you. How long do you need to use it to end the battle? Now it is not the battle itself."

As soon as he finished speaking, a crack opened in the ground in front of Mikael amid a roar.

It was just a black line at first, but it tore to hundreds of meters wide in just a few dozen seconds.

"When the gravity is too high at one point, the plate movement of the Mu continent intensifies. Mikael, listen to Velvet first."

Mei and Velvet's judgment was very accurate, and Mikael also came to his senses at this time - no one would doubt that he could defeat the Ninth Herrscher. So far, he has mastered eight Herrscher powers. If you still can't kill a new Herrscher, how can you explain it?

According to Mikael's idea, instead of directly killing the Ninth Herrscher, at least have a fight first to test the opponent's strength.

But as Velvet asked, how much time does it take?

With Mikael's ability, it might be a simple test, but it might lead to a serious battle in the end. If it reaches that point, the Herrscher may not be able to compete with Mikael, who has mastered eight kinds of powers. In comparison, everyone's core output power is almost the same, and other fusion warriors cannot fight in this gravity environment, so the possibility of ending the battle in the short term is slim.

However, Mu Dalu can't last that long! Not to mention, plate turbulence will soon spread to other continents.

Of course, what's more important is that there are as many as two billion residents living in the Mu Continent, which is almost half of the remaining population in the world. If these people cannot be protected, even if the Ninth Herrscher is defeated...

"Tch, tell me straight away, what do you want me to do?"

This is not a simple battle, but also involves issues of geography and physics. Mikael feels that it is best to follow the advice of May and Velvet.

"The preliminary plan is that you first transfer the people you just rescued from the base to the underground city."

Mikael directly complied with the instructions, and he was the only one left in the Gobi Desert for an instant. There is nothing to say about this. Under excessive gravity, blood will deposit downwards, and the blood pressure is not enough to transport blood to the brain, not to mention that it has already been done before. Many people suffer bone fractures due to falls under heavy gravity.

The only thing worth mentioning is that due to the consciousness splitting ability given by the power of the Eighth Herrscher, he not only easily transferred these people to the underground city tens of thousands of kilometers away, but also directly transferred Mei, Sakura and others to the Chasing Fire. In Moth's command room, the fusion warriors who were on vacation in the North Pacific were also moved there by Mikael before.

Mei and Sakura's deep breathing soon came through the communication. While they were resting, Velvet continued to explain her ideas.

"Next step, you need to use an imaginary number barrier to frame the entire continent of Mu, as well as the plates in the surrounding sea areas. This can temporarily slow down the spread of plate movement. Of course, you also know that this effect is irreversible and can only delay time."

Velvet was not polite at all when it came to explaining ideas. When Mikael was unable to do anything, and Mei still needed time to relieve her physical discomfort, she changed her personality at the right time and became the conductor of this battle.

Of course, Mikael had no objection to this, and even before Velvet finished speaking, he activated his power.

For a moment, the light and shadow over the entire Mu continent experienced some extremely difficult to detect deflections. If you observe carefully with a telescope, you may find that there are many more small hexagonal matrices in the sky.

Huge waves suddenly splashed on the sea surrounding Mu Continent. If you take an underwater perspective, everything would be extremely clear - the imaginary number barrier is like a huge glass bowl flipped upside down into the sea, and a huge ravine is broken on the sea surface. , But this was not the end. It was quickly embedded in the seafloor crust thousands of meters deep.

Can this kind of physical barrier really help slow down crustal movement? Mikael was unsure. This was not a question of whether he believed in Velvi or not. After all, no one had ever studied these things. Maybe Velvi was also ill and sought medical treatment. As for how much Mikael knew about her... quite a bit. possible.

The Ninth Herrscher finally climbed out of the base built by the coalition government. He immediately turned to look in the direction of Mikael.

After confirming his target, his eyes glowed blood red.

"Um?"

Under Mikael's somewhat surprised gaze, the armor plate on Herrscher's face, no, it should be said that it was Ajax's face, became distorted in a burst of sour metal groans, and the depressions were crooked, looking like real teeth. seam.

The Herrscher used his remaining left hand to grab the armor on his face and suddenly tore it apart——

"Click——"

The armor plate was thrown away by Herrscher, and even under the pull of huge gravity, it still flew dozens of kilometers away, and soon became a small dot in the sky.

"roar!"

The Herrscher's mouth opened wide. In return, Mikael silently raised his middle finger and then ticked him.

Thanks to the ever-opening crack, the distance between the two Herrschers was a bit far. The Ninth Herrscher narrowed his eyes and slowly leaned down. This is a standard hunting posture among animals, and it also helps to use strength in his lower limbs. , rushing through the rift valley that had expanded to thousands of meters in one fell swoop.

"Hey! Velvet, if you don't speak, I'm really going to start a fight!"

Mikael joked, and the conductor's voice soon came from the other end of the communication:

"Okay. The next step is very simple. Prometheus has given the analysis results. The excessive gravity overflows from the Herrscher's body. Watch me take him to a place where the excess gravity can be dumped."

"Hey! Wait! Vivi!"

Mikael had a complaint in his mind but didn't know whether to say it properly - you told me not to go up, but you...

Seeing the Herrscher's three limbs exerting force, and not knowing how Vivi would operate next, Mikael retreated half a step and broke into a defensive posture.

At this moment, Mikael sensed a spatial fluctuation. It goes without saying that in this world, the only one who controls the power of space is Mikael...

"Second God Key!"

A huge spatial crack suddenly broke out below the Herrscher, and with his movements, it looked like he was squatting in the toilet.

But Mikael couldn't laugh, because with a loud whistle, the Second God Key rushed out like a train, and the locomotive directly hit the Herrscher's legs.

Then, four raging flames gushed out from the booster rockets that were temporarily placed on the four sides of the locomotive. The Second God Key pushed the Ninth Herrscher into the air under the huge gravity.

The Herrscher was caught off guard and could not react. He almost watched the space rift open in front of him, and then was forcibly pushed into it by the Second God Key under his ass.

Amid the magician's arrogant laughter, the space rift closed.

"..."

As the Ninth Herrscher was phased to an unknown area, Mikael's body suddenly relaxed, and the influence of gravity suddenly decreased, making him feel light and floating, as if he was about to float.

Confirming that the large rift in front of him had also temporarily stopped expanding, Mikael couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But then his heart was lifted again--

"Mikael, I'm in the sea..."

In the communication, Vivi's voice stopped abruptly.

In a hurry, she didn't say anything clearly.

There was no time to worry about Vivi's safety. At this time, wasting time would be the greatest disrespect to her.

Mikael narrowed his eyes and began to think about the meaning of her last interrupted sentence.

"Is she reporting her position? Sea... somewhere on the sea? Or a region beginning with the word sea?"

He muttered to himself. He knew that his voice would be known to his fellow Fire Moths through the communication, so it was more like he was talking to Mei than to himself.

"But she said before, 'Take him to a place where the excess gravity can be dumped'..."

Combining the context, Mikael seemed to have awakened some memories of his past life, and his eyes lit up.

"Mei, in this world, there should be only one place that can dump the excess gravity on the Ninth Herrscher."

"Yeah."

Mei seemed to have not recovered completely, and her voice was a little ethereal. But based on Mikael's understanding of her, the two of them probably thought of the same thing again this time.

"Sea..."

"Boom!"

As if there was some magic spell, Mikael had just uttered the word sea, and the ground shook violently. He was still a little uncomfortable with the previous change in gravity, so he took advantage of the momentum and sat down on the ground.

He wiped his mouth and smiled. Fortunately, he didn't bite his tongue.

But the next moment, he couldn't laugh anymore--

The rift that stopped moving after the Ninth Herrscher left was now expanding at a faster speed. It expanded two or three hundred meters in just a few seconds!

Mikael quickly climbed to one side of the rift using his hands and feet, holding the edge of the cliff with both hands, and looked down.

The color in front of him gradually deepened from the light yellow of the Gobi Desert, but from a more macroscopic perspective, it only took a moment to go from yellow to black.

If you look closely, you can even see the orange-red color underground.

"The exit of the Quantum Sea, marked as the Eye of the Abyss, emits a huge gravitational force. Note that it is gravitational force, not gravity!"

"What's going on?"

Listening to the noisy voice in the communication, Mikael stood up silently.

"I'll go to the Eye of the Abyss to scout."

Before the voice faded, he disappeared on the spot.

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Turning and spinning, it was as if a pair of huge hands were holding everything, and the flow of the entire seawater was completely disordered under its kneading.

As soon as Mikael stepped out of the space crack, he was dragged by a huge attraction and rushed towards the black spot in the distance with a large area of ​​seawater.

"This is it!"

After rolling for a long time, Mikael crashed into the imaginary barrier. He was prepared for this, so he deliberately chose a farther landing point.

Mikael lay on the imaginary barrier with his limbs spread out. Even with the obstruction of this thing, it still could not offset the extremely strong gravity.

Even the surface of the imaginary barrier was twisted and deflected under this gravity, almost becoming an arc surface.

He took the opportunity to look at everything around him. After the Eye of the Abyss was closed by him, there was no power of the quantum sea flowing out, and the light blue fluorescence naturally disappeared.

But now, the blue light on all sides is more than just fluorescent. Even though it is tens of thousands of meters away, the seabed is still bright and clear. This is the gesture of the door of the quantum sea being completely open!

Mikael's pupils turned into rotating gears. The distant picture was constantly zoomed in his sight. With the sea as the blue background, the so-called "little black dot" gradually became clear - it was a huge black hole.

…………

"According to my judgment, it should not be a so-called black hole, but a collapse caused by high-quality gravity. Theoretically speaking, it is similar to the collapse caused by space energy, and both have extremely strong attraction and destructive power. However, the collapse principle of this form is consistent with that of a black hole, and perhaps we can call it a quasi-black hole.”

In the cubicle behind the command room, a variety of complex calculation formulas were displayed on a three-dimensional projection screen. Mei sorted them out and made a summary.

"This also corresponds to the power of the Ninth Herrscher, which is to control gravity."

Alicia glanced at the overcrowded cubicle because it was full of people. Mikael was not here, and no one answered Mei's words for a while. She rolled her eyes, suppressed the worry, and naturally He spoke out:

"Then... Mei! Where's Velvet! What's her situation now? Is she fighting a bloody battle with the Herrscher in a place we don't know!"

The corner of Mei's mouth twitched, and she knew that this was Ai Li's way of joking to relieve the tense atmosphere. Of course, her worry about Velvet was not fake, but she insisted on saying it in this almost joking way, It was as if she was afraid that others would know her concern, which was also quite dishonest.

"Don't worry too much. The half hour we spent now, at Velvet's side, I don't know if half a minute has passed."

"Ah...ah? What does this mean?"

This time it was not Ellie who asked the question, but Kevin.

Meadow glanced at him, probably meaning: I'll make you refuse to listen in physics class before!

"A pseudo black hole has something in common with a black hole. Excessive mass will distort the space and time around it. To put it simply, time around a pseudo black hole will slow down. We have already passed half an hour here, but maybe Velvet Only half a minute passed."

When she explained this, everyone was still confused as to whether they understood it, but at least they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Although she is facing the Herrscher, Velvet is not a helpless scientific researcher. As a fusion warrior, coupled with her pile of weird equipment, what anti-Mikael armed forces, anti-Kevin armed forces... …

For this reason, Mikael and Kevin also came to her to protest - why are there no anti-Alicia armed forces?

In short, with the physical fitness of the fusion warrior and the various strange equipment in her hands, it is still possible to deal with the Ninth Herrscher for a few minutes.

Ai Li nodded in understanding, sucked her fingers, and asked:

"Um...that's not right! Black hole! A black hole the size of a coin can swallow the entire earth!"

"That's not true. Because the surrounding light is distorted, the black hole will look much larger than its actual size. Don't look at it. It looks like it completely covers the Second God's Key and the Ninth Herrscher, but in fact it may not. As thick as a hair."

Mei spread her hands, and with her movements, the picture in the projection changed again, from a complicated formula to a live video of the seabed.

"The quasi-black hole only follows some physical principles of black holes, and is not essentially a black hole. This can be seen from the end point of the sea water being swallowed - the vast majority of them are not swallowed by the black hole, but are not swallowed by the black hole. In the distance, the eye of the abyss is completely opened due to gravity. "

"So, that is to say, there is no need to worry about this pseudo-black hole swallowing the earth or the Mu Continent, right?"

Mei blinked twice and turned to look at Alicia.

Seemingly unsure, she blinked twice more.

Seeing that Aili still didn't understand, she could only point to the Eye of the Abyss and explain:

"Although the black hole will not swallow Mu Dalu, this thing will!"