Honkai: Fire Moth Herrschers

In the suburbs of Irkutsk, enormous Honkai beasts and numerous zombies roamed the desolate, frozen land.

Buildings, roads, and even the straight pine trees standing beside the road—these traces of human civilization were wantonly destroyed, leaving only a mess under the dim moonlight.

Himeko hugged the base of the wall, moving her steps little by little. Only when the sound of artillery fire came from the distant mountains would she suddenly explode with speed, quickly crossing one or two streets while the enemies were distracted.

But this time, even though there were only two blocks left to the entrance of the underground base, and the sound of artillery fire had been echoing back and forth more than ten times, she still didn't move.

Because what was now blocking the intersection was a tank-class Honkai beast over ten meters tall. The so-called elephant was completely incomparable to it, because the deep pit created by this Honkai beast's thick front leg was as large as a living room!

Its body completely filled the street. Facing such a behemoth, even Himeko found it hard to erase the fear in her heart.

"Gulp!" She silently swallowed her saliva.

"Ch-ch-ch..." The Honkai beast made a strange cry, and turned around in the narrow street. It seemed to have smelled something and began to walk towards the corner where Himeko was hiding.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Himeko's shoulders trembled with the ground. She glanced back at the darkness behind her.

The bodies of the only two soldiers from Squad Five who had joined her were left there. She had no other choice.

She moved her frozen knuckles and gripped the cold greatsword. Among all of Squad Five, she was the only one who used cold weapons. The reason was simple—she was one of the rare individuals in the Fire Moth with extremely high Honkai resistance, so she could use Honkai energy to fight to a small extent, although the price was the purple lines that gradually spread on her arm...

"I won't necessarily lose to you!"

A white incandescent lamp among the rubble of the ruins suddenly flashed for a moment, reflecting a fiery blade of light.

The seemingly heavy and blunt greatsword easily sliced off the huge front leg of the tank-class Honkai beast.

The Honkai beast let out a wail and fell forward. Himeko didn't hesitate to twist her waist, letting the heavy greatsword rotate with her body, and finally plunged straight into the Honkai beast's lowered head.

Purple, pasty mucus splattered everywhere, and the Honkai beast lost its life instantly.

Himeko herself didn't expect that, although she usually killed Honkai beasts easily, they were all two or three meters tall, and some were even shorter than a person. This was the first time she had encountered one so large.

Then, by the same logic... if ordinary soldiers could also use Honkai energy to fight...

It was a pity that her camera was damaged and she couldn't upload that sword strike to the Fire Moth database.

And she didn't have time to think deeply about it. The thick smell of blood and the wails of the Honkai beast before its death had already exposed her position. She quickly climbed onto the Honkai beast's corpse. For the enemies that were chasing after her, this was an excellent obstacle.

"Heh! I, a mortal, actually managed to kill my way to the underground base alone." She laughed self-deprecatingly and flipped over the corpse.

And then her smile froze.

Beyond the snow dust stirred up by the wind, she saw a silhouette slowly floating towards her.

That body even larger than the tank-class Honkai beast, that huge shield in front of it, and that towering spear...

"Chirp chirp chirp..." The Honkai beast cried strangely and began to charge at her.

"Temple-class Honkai beast! How many more monsters are there in here!"

Himeko pursed her lips tightly, a drop of cold sweat slid from her temple and instantly froze into frost. The psychological advantage she had gained in the previous battle had vanished—this was a guy that needed a 270mm railgun to be destroyed!

Just as she was thinking this, a whoosh suddenly came from the narrow street behind her. A shell dragged a long white line in the night sky above her head, and in just an instant, it blasted the Temple-class Honkai beast into pieces.

"There really is a railgun! Wait... who is controlling the railgun!"

"Zzzzz... zzzzz..."

The long-lost sound of electricity came from the communication device on her chest.

"Hello, hello! Hi! Captain Himeko, are you okay? Michael and I had a hard time catching up with you! I didn't expect the city to be so chaotic, we almost lost you!"

"Hey! Elysia, stop talking, run faster!"

"Ah! Michael, let me down!"

Himeko helplessly rubbed her forehead: "These two new recruits... they really don't have any sense of seriousness... I thought Michael would be a little more stable..."

But as she thought about it, her lips curled up again, and a tear slid down the curve into her mouth.

At least, Squad Five was still there. Besides her, there were still people fighting and alive.

But...

"Where did they find a weapon like a railgun!"

That was a weapon that had not yet been officially equipped, and was planned to be used in conjunction with aerospace battleships.

"Maybe, as a former military base of the R nation, Irkutsk has retained some advanced weapons."

She didn't want to delve deeper into this question, nor was it necessary. So she just randomly found a plausible excuse for herself and stopped thinking about it.

"Rumble rumble..."

The entrance to the so-called underground base was actually hidden in a residential area. Michael and Elysia simply coordinated to deal with the surrounding zombies. Himeko entered the password that the Fire Moth had obtained from the United Government. The concrete-covered, one-meter-thick alloy door of the underground base made a loud noise and then slowly opened.

The door opened so slowly that the three of them even wondered if there was a malfunction. A full five minutes passed, and Elysia had already eliminated three waves of zombies and Honkai beasts that had been drawn by the noise. The door had only opened a gap wide enough for one person to squeeze through sideways, and the gap was no longer widening, as if the parts inside were really stuck.

"I can't wait any longer, let's go in first." Waving away the thick musty smell, Himeko suggested as she opened her communication device to contact headquarters:

"Headquarters, this is Squad Five Himeko, we have successfully reached the location of the Honkai energy storage tanks."

"Good, proceed according to the plan. What's the situation with Ato's team?"

"Commander, the reinforcements of mecha and drone units have set up multiple defense lines in the subsequent hundreds of kilometers of depth and are ready to deploy the plan at any time... But, Commander..."

"Obey the order!"

"...Yes, ma'am!"

Apart from reporting the situation at the beginning, Himeko didn't speak again.

She suddenly looked at Michael, who was squeezing sideways into the door, and moved her lips.

But in the end, she didn't make any sound.

What should she say?

Should she tell them to run away quickly?

That didn't seem to make any sense. Even if they had a whole day, they wouldn't be able to escape the Honkai energy radiation zone.

Besides, Michael had already taken the lead in squeezing into the underground base.

"No enemy activity, no, no life forms have been found in the base so far."

So Himeko no longer hesitated, "Ellie, you go in first, quickly."

Elysia wiped the sweat that had become cold on her forehead and squeezed through the gap in the door with difficulty.

After confirming that there were no zombies nearby for the time being, Himeko also tried to squeeze in sideways.

But she struggled and found it difficult to move further in. She even seemed to try to retreat, but she couldn't do that either.

So she reached out her hand, looking rather annoyed at the two people inside the base who were almost ready to start eating melon seeds.

"Come and pull me, I'm stuck..."

Michael pursed his lips tightly, his expression a little unnatural, while Elysia covered her chest and laughed.

She turned her head and winked at Michael, but Michael hurriedly shook his head. Elysia stuck out her tongue, walked forward, and grabbed Himeko's waist through the gap in the door.

"Come on, Captain Himeko, take a deep... ah, no, exhale deeply, don't worry about your waistline!"

Under Elysia's guidance, Himeko was finally "pulled" in.

Before she could catch her breath, she quickly turned around, grabbed the handles on the door with both hands, and shouted.

"Hoo-yah!"

Under her great strength, the heavy door closed instantly.

Michael and Ellie looked at each other and shook their heads.

He said to Ellie in sign language, "It should just be a special physique, able to use a small amount of Honkai energy to strengthen her body."

Who knew that after Himeko turned around, she said without any hesitation, "Everyone has secrets, so now we're even."

Michael was stunned for a moment before realizing that she was talking about the railgun.

He himself didn't take it to heart, because the person in front of him looked exactly like Himeko from the new era, even the pronunciation of her name was the same... Besides, she seemed to be a very important character in Hua's memories, so he didn't have much of a guard against Himeko.

Anyway, the other party couldn't find out the source of the railgun, and no one should be so imaginative as to think that he could make a railgun with his bare hands, right?

He didn't say anything, and Himeko became a little embarrassed.

"Let's go, let's go find the Honkai energy storage tanks, we still have a mission to complete."

When she brought up this matter, the atmosphere became even more silent.

Himeko suddenly regretted it a little. If she had let these two children run away just now, what if they could really escape? Besides, even if they didn't escape the radiation zone and contracted Honkai sickness, they could still live for a few more days...

"Hmph..." She made a short nasal sound.

When she raised her head again, that characteristic determined smile had returned to her face.