Collapse: The World I Live In

Coming to Kevin, he was now standing next to the corpse of the Fifth Herrscher, looking at the corpse that had been burned black by the flames and could no longer be recognized. He looked around again. The black land burned by the flames and the frozen land were simply two different worlds. Kevin frowned and couldn't help but feel troubled. Something more powerful than the Herrscher had appeared...

Back before, Kevin's team was outside the city, waiting for the order from the top to launch an attack.

At this time, Kevin's communicator rang. He looked at the person who called and answered the call, "What's the matter? Yi, why are you looking for me at this time?"

"Kevin... the only one who can save Hen now... is you." Yi said.

"What? What happened to Hen? What happened?" Kevin was very confused when he heard what Yi said.

Yi also told Kevin the news that Team Hen was being used as bait to die. Yi was still in the lab at this time. He looked at Blanca who was still teasing Gray Xiu but looked worried, walked out of the lab, and said to Kevin, "Blanca doesn't know about this yet, so the only one who can save Hen is you, Kevin."

"I understand, Dr. Yi...what do you want me to do?" Kevin now, just as Hen said before, could not accept sacrifice, so he decided to do as Yi said.

"Look at your [Long Yan] first. After it collapsed for the fourth time, I installed a new function on it. There is a button on the handle. Press it." Yi said.

Kevin followed what Yi said, found the button and pressed it. At this time, Kevin could feel that [Long Yan] began to heat up and continued to spread around, melting the surrounding blizzard and forming a field.

"This is..." Looking at the changes that took place in [Long Yan], Kevin couldn't help but feel surprised. This function was just right for the current situation.

"This is the new function. Based on the original [Long Yan], I fused it with the genes of a fire-attributed emperor-level Honkai beast. It can form a heat field around it. Within this field, your fire-attributed attacks will also be strengthened. This is the new function, which should help you defend against blizzards." Yi explained the new function of [Long Yan] to Kevin.

"We can resist the blizzard..." Kevin was happy after listening to Yi's introduction. However, although we can defend against the blizzard, Kevin looked up at the hail falling from the sky and said, "But the temperature is not enough to melt the hail in the sky instantly..." Kevin also had to consider the lives of the members of his team.

"Before you set off, Dr. Mei should have given you a device, right?" Yi asked.

"Mei did give me a device, but because of time constraints, she didn't tell me the specific functions." Kevin replied.

"That device is made from the heart of the Fourth Herrscher's companion Honkai Beast." Yi said.

"Heart? Really?" Kevin took out the device Mei gave him and looked at this fist-sized thing that was obviously made of some metal. It didn't look like it was made of a dragon's heart at all.

"Don't worry about it. You won't understand these things about technology. The main thing is the function of this device. It can provide you with a defensive space with a radius of 100 meters. After all, those hailstones are naturally formed through the power of the Herrscher and cannot match the attack of the Herrscher. Therefore, it is more than enough to use this device to defend against them. In this space, you can also isolate yourself from the outside world's perception of yourself, so that when you enter the city, you don't have to worry about being discovered by the Herrscher." Yi said.

"Since this device can block the perception of the Herrscher, why not give it to Hen?" Kevin asked, holding the device tightly.

"..." Yi opened his mouth and didn't know how to tell Kevin, so he told Kevin the truth, "That's because Hen had threatened the interests of some high-level officials because of something he did before, and we only have Mei and Long at the top now, which is not as good as those high-level officials. So those high-level officials finally thought that it would be much more useful for your team to use this device and give the Herrscher a fatal blow through a sneak attack after the Herrscher appears, rather than giving it to Hen, so this device appeared in your hands."

"..." Kevin fell silent after hearing this. Although he knew that Hen had conflicts with several senior executives before, he did not expect that these senior executives would kill Hen because of these conflicts. He had no way to help Hen in the senior executives, so he could only try his best to protect Hen now, so he said, "Then what should I do?"

"The Herrscher's ability this time is very obvious. It is related to ice. The weapons equipped to your team are all high-calorie weapons. And with your domain, it is not difficult to defeat the Herrscher. You just need to stop the Herrscher for a while before the Herrscher finds Hen and the others. Then Himeko and Alicia will discover the battle between you and come to support you." Yi said.

"I understand. I'll leave now..." Kevin said, holding [Long Yan] tightly.

"Okay, Kevin, I'll leave it to you..." Yi could only ask Kevin to save Hen at this time, because he was now confined inside the Fire Moth, unable to go to the front line, and unable to do anything. It had been so long, and the top leaders of the Fire Moth were still unwilling to believe him...

After agreeing to the chess game, Kevin hung up the communication, organized the people, made preparations, and headed towards the city. He also knew that this operation must be successful. After all, this violated the original mission requirements. If it failed, not only would he suffer, but the entire team and mei would also be implicated, so this operation must succeed!

……

Coming to Yi, after getting Kevin's reply, Yi sighed and prepared to return to the laboratory, but when he turned around, he saw a figure, that figure was Mebius.

She stared at Yi and said, "Do you know what you are doing? Yi, do you know the consequences if the higher-ups find out about this? If they find out, it will be difficult for you to leave the Fire Moth in the future..."

"I know, Doctor..." Yi replied, "But Hen is not only my friend, he is also Blanca's wife and Gretsch's father. I don't want to see Gretsch lose his father at such a young age, so... I must find a way to help him. Even if I lose my freedom in the future, at least I can save a happy family. I think it's worth it."

"You are almost thirty, how can you still be so naive!" Mobius said to Yi, "You only think about the success of the operation. Have you ever thought about what will happen if the operation fails?"

“……” Yi didn’t say anything this time. He was indeed a bit naive. As a man nearly thirty years old, he was like the protagonist in a hot-blooded comic book. He only thought about success but did not consider the consequences of failure.

"Oh, forget it..." Looking at Yi who lowered his head and did not answer him, Mebius sighed and said, "I have already talked to Aikanshiya and Himeko. When the time comes, Himeko's team will be fully responsible for clearing out the Honkai beasts and the dead soldiers, while Aikanshiya will go to help Kevin. Now everyone is disobeying the orders of the higher-ups in order to save Hen. When the time comes, the blame will be laid on you and Kevin, and the punishment you will receive will be reduced."

"Thank you, Doctor. I make you worry every time." After hearing what Mobius said, Yi said that he seemed to have caused Mobius a lot of worry since he joined the Fire Moths.

"When the time comes, you should think carefully about how to repay Alicia and the others!" said Mebius.

"I will." Yi said with a smile.

At a corner that the two of them didn't notice, a woman was leaning against the wall, eavesdropping on the conversation between Yi and Mebius. That woman was Blanca.

After listening to the conversation between Mebius and Yi, Blanca could not help but sit down slowly against the wall, tears overflowing from her eyes. She was very grateful to everyone who had paid for Hen. She knew what Hen was about to face, but she could do nothing. That feeling of powerlessness made Blanca very unwilling, but there was nothing she could do. But now it was different, Hen could be saved this time...

When they came to Kevin's side, they had already entered the city and searched for a long time, but still hadn't seen any trace of the Herrscher.

Just when Kevin was getting impatient and didn't know where to search, one of his team members suddenly said, "Captain Kevin, there is an unknown heat source in that direction."

Kevin quickly gathered his team members and rushed in that direction. After all, this was the only clue, but he was also puzzled. The Herrscher this time was obviously the Herrscher of Ice, so why was there a heat source in her territory?

When Kevin arrived at that place, the scene at the beginning of this article appeared. On one side was the land burned black by flames, and on the other side was the land frozen by ice, and the body of the Herrscher was lying in the middle.

So there was that communication, the communication that allowed the team members who had originally left Hen to return to their original positions...