The Vixen's Gambit: Tonight We Hunt

Unable to understand what had happened, Elysia only felt the world around her fading and distorting, making it difficult for her to discern the scene in front of her.

It seemed like she had seen something absurd, haha, how was that possible…

How could such a thing happen… No matter what, humans wouldn't do such a thing, right?

Elysia laughed dryly, her voice devoid of its usual sweetness, only tension and hoarseness remained.

Even if they didn't know Lee's painstaking efforts and regarded her as an enemy, they had already cruelly killed her, wasn't that enough…

Humans couldn't possibly do such crazy things, because there should be at least something good in everyone's heart.

Wasn't it because of this goodness that she was full of hope for humanity?

So, so…

If only this was fake.

Elysia knew that humans had more than just a good side. After all, she had traveled alone in this world since she was a child, and had seen too much evil, and had also met many kind people, and also understood that sometimes the power of evil could overwhelm justice.

But Elysia never thought that human evil could be so insane.

Dismembering her, stringing her up on a spear like prey, showing off and laughing wildly!

Elysia understood now, she completely understood why Kevin had become so crazy and ruthless, as if even the life of an entire civilization was dispensable to him. After all, after seeing such a scene, no one could remain calm.

Elysia understood Kevin, because she was thinking the same thing at this moment.

…Was such humanity worth her help?

Had she been fighting for such a result all along?

…

Her head was spinning, Elysia's breathing unconsciously became more and more rapid, and all she could hear was a shrill cicada-like ringing in her ears.

When a person poured countless love and expectations into something, if she finally found that this thing was completely contrary to her expectations, then the huge disappointment would completely turn this love and expectation into—hatred.

The deeper the love, the stronger the hate.

Elysia undoubtedly loved humanity. As a natural-born Herrscher, she betrayed her origins and chose to protect humanity and become the enemy of the Honkai.

Even when she saw the disgusting ugly faces of the Fire Moth higher-ups in the Previous Era, she still chose to stand with humanity, because compared with this filth, she believed that people like Lee, who were like light, could better represent humanity.

But the truth told her—she was wrong!

Humanity had personally extinguished their own light in the cruelest way possible.

Ungrateful, selfish, insane… Elysia suddenly realized that all the words created by humans to describe viciousness were used to describe themselves.

…Humans were ugly, and this world was not beautiful at all from the beginning.

Such a race and world full of darkness and distortion… It would be better if they didn't exist.

If she had chosen to destroy humanity from the very beginning of her awakening, would things have been different?

Compared with a world with nothing but death and such an ending, which was worse?

Elysia didn't know, but she could feel an unspeakable violence spreading in her heart that she had never experienced before, as if calling her… to fulfill her duty as the Herrscher of Origin.

Yes, perhaps the existence of humanity itself was a mistake, war, famine, death… They created too many vicious things.

Humanity, perhaps shouldn't exist…

…

Save me, is there anyone to save me!

Looking at the chaotic scene around her, Lihua really wanted to cry.

On the left, Vill-V was screaming and refusing to acknowledge the facts.

On the right, Kalpas had turned into a man of fire, frantically destroying everything around him. Next to him, Su and Kosma, who had transformed into their degraded forms, were venting their anger to everyone, although most of the attacks hit each other.

Eden was sitting there dumbfounded, expressionless, but the crystal wine glass in her hand had been crushed into powder. Pardo in it was crying like a cat whose fur had exploded.

Even the remaining few people who didn't move much seemed to be in a terrifying state.

The only ones in a slightly better state were Griseo and her family, because the moment Bianka realized that something was wrong, she immediately covered Griseo's eyes, preventing her from seeing the most terrifying scene. But even she and Ato, these two adults, were pale at the moment.

Their feelings for Lee were not as deep as those around them, but they were also good, and now Lee's final end made them feel… heartbroken.

The hero who gave everything was ultimately responded to by humanity in this way…

And Sakura didn't seem to have any extra movements, but her already dim eyes had completely lost their light.

Lihua had a hunch that if Sakura was released now, she might finely chop any place she didn't like into minced meat, along with the people and the streets… With such a character who had the same broken look in her eyes, there would be nothing surprising about doing such a thing!

And Aponia, who almost always lowered her eyes and eyebrows with a compassionate look, now opened her eyes wide. Those eyes that usually conveyed gentleness now only held anger and—killing intent.

Killing intent, this word was usually irrelevant to Aponia. Whether she was called hypocritical or a holy mother, her true intention was indeed not to hurt others.

Moreover, although her personality was a bit eccentric and not easy to communicate with, few people could make her angry, so she was even more irrelevant to the word "kill."

But even the most devout and gentle nun would be angered when you touched her faith, and although Aponia didn't believe in the gods of the Current Era, the ending she saw now was undoubtedly a trampling on her faith!

Aponia always wanted to help others, although due to her own reasons, the final results were always bad, but she still longed to help others.

The more light there was in this world, the less darkness there would be, so as long as enough people could be helped, this world would definitely get better.

She herself couldn't help others like this, but Lee did it, she helped countless people… thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions of people.

This was a miracle beyond the reach of mortal power. It could even be said that for Aponia, Lee was like a saint!

But now, the saint was killed.

Lee, who accomplished the great feat that Aponia longed for but could not achieve, was killed in such an insulting way.

…Religion itself always led people to be good, but its practitioners were also often willing to respond to blasphemers with the most intense violence.

Since humans didn't cherish being saved, and didn't cherish the person who saved them… Then let her send them all away!

All these crazy scenes in front of her were not what Lihua was most afraid of.

What she was most afraid of now was—Mobius, who was tightly gripping her wrist at this moment!

This petite doctor lowered her head without saying a word at this moment, Lihua couldn't see her expression, and didn't know what she was thinking—but the hand that locked her wrist like pliers made Lihua sure that what this guy was thinking was definitely not something like "what to eat for dinner"!

Damn it, she shouldn't have cared about her from the beginning, wouldn't it have been better to honestly sit with Griseo?!

Lihua originally placed her last hope on Elysia.

Although this pink-haired girl had the risk of eating a substitute, at least she was a reliable communication partner with a stable and normal mood, and wouldn't harm humanity by affecting civilization.

And as a permission dog, she should be able to manage—uh, at least stop these crazy targets from going crazy.

But the moment she saw Elysia sitting in her seat without saying a word, Lihua realized—it's over.

Elysia's face at this moment had quite a bit of the charm of the Herrschers that Unit 03 had killed before. Lihua found it difficult to summarize this feeling, but it was like a kind of…

Contempt for humanity.

Elysia despised humans… Haha, how could she have such a dream? Didn't this pink-haired girl love humans the most, especially beautiful girls? She would be glued to them at first sight.

She wouldn't do something crazy like Kevin.

Lihua cautiously looked at Elysia, who was completely oblivious to this gaze, immersed in her thoughts, but Lihua could almost see the almost substantial negative emotions emanating from her.

…She wouldn't do that kind of thing, would she?

Under Lihua's hopeless gaze, Elysia's eyes became colder and colder.

Sister, now that it's popular for Herrschers to become humans, as the originator of human nature who became a Herrscher, won't you perform a reverse version of human becoming Herrscher for me?!

A Herrscher leading a group of Previous Era MANTIS warriors to rush out of the Elysian Realm and go crazy, that kind of thing must never happen!

Where's the main body? Main body, help!

…

Her energy balance increased by another 20 million, yay—my ass!

Although it felt good to farm energy, it would be disastrous if the landmine exploded in her own house.

Despite receiving Unit 01's frantic call for help, Li Bei could only let out a long sigh at this moment.

If the worst happened and he really needed to personally beat up these lunatics… Was his strength enough?

He had three Herrscher cores, Herrscher of Origin, Herrscher of Fire, and Herrscher of Sentience, and a bunch of traits, so his strength was definitely strong enough.

But wasn't Elysia also simultaneously holding the power of Origin and the Gem of Haste? If she pulled out the other lunatics to gang up on him… he wasn't as strong as Kevin now.

Unless he called out Unit 03, Lee, together, but then things would get even bigger. He didn't even dare to think about what these lunatics would become like, and if Kevin also came, it would be even more terrifying if he knew Lee had appeared.

If he used all of his current nearly 70 million energy points to strengthen himself, it might be enough, but then there would be no way out if he encountered any emergency. And even if he won, the destruction and casualties would be too great.

Should he let Unit 02, Shoko, self-destruct to drive them back? But these lunatics were a bit strong, could Shoko's wish affect them…?

After thinking about it, Li Bei felt that he could only do something about Unit 01, who looked the same as Unit 03. Even if Unit 03 needed to appear later, it would be more reasonable to start with her.

Lihua, go persuade these lunatics! If all else fails, then evolve into Unit 03!

And after Li Bei made up his mind, the system popped out again: "Host, I have bad news and even worse news."

"I don't really want to hear either…" Sighing, Li Bei waved his hand, motioning for the system to speak.

"The bad news is that the Honkai world was already very close to the Earth plane earlier, unfortunately, someone on the other side first activated a space jump, which further reduced the barrier between the two worlds, and then a violent explosion occurred, causing the space to shatter… Simply put, the two worlds are now connected, and many people from the Honkai world are being thrown into this plane, and will be here soon."

For some reason, Li Bei felt that he could guess the protagonists of these two incidents.

"What else could be worse than this situation?"

"There are many things worse, such as the other news—because Earth does not yet have its own world consciousness mode, it will be more affected by other worlds and assimilated by them after the space shatters. For example, now that Earth is close to the Honkai world, if this continues, the Earth plane will imitate the Honkai world's mode and generate its own [Honkai consciousness]."

"??? Why didn't you tell me about such an important thing earlier?!"

"Because normally there wouldn't be a situation where all the strongest people in a world gather together and blow up with the other side, causing the space to shatter…" The system was also a little helpless. "This kind of situation only appears in the annotations of school textbooks, it's not even tested in exams."

Li Bei felt that his hair was about to fall out: "Earth also has some kind of spiritual energy revival, why would it become the Honkai?"

"What's missing is the manifestation mode of consciousness—for example, the Honkai world would have the Honkai consciousness that torments humans, if it were the Sea Tiger world(CN fiction), perhaps it would be an unspeakable powerful existence, the Type-Moon world would be Alaya and Gaia…"

"Simply put, the current Earth, because it has just begun to revive, is like an unevolved Eevee, and other mature worlds close to it are like evolution stones…"

"Then why is it the Honkai, this Fire Stone!" Li Bei rubbed his temples tiredly.

The consciousness of other worlds either honestly acted as background boards or helped the protagonists defeat enemies, but the Honkai was wholeheartedly causing trouble for humanity.

"Are there other evolution channels? Or give me an Everstone."

"Uh…" The system thought for a long time, and finally squeezed out two words, "Perhaps."

"If the host is willing to step up, it's not impossible…"

"?"

"Before Earth is assimilated into the Honkai consciousness, just insert the template of another world. After all, even if a Sylveon is weak, it can't become a Flareon."

"But now world templates can only be extracted from the character cards you already have, and your characters, besides those from the Honkai world, are only Shoko from the Chainsaw Man world…" The system said somewhat awkwardly, "If you use the Chainsaw Man world's consciousness template, Earth will also have its own hell and devils… Maybe it's better than the Honkai?"

"Not a chance." Li Bei only felt tired—why didn't he have a clone from a normal world. "Let's create another clone… But before that, how much energy does it take to extract a template?"

This kind of incident and item that affects the entire world could not be cheap, but he now had nearly 70 million energy points, which should be considered a way out—

"One hundred million…"

"Generally speaking, it's not much—but I don't have it."

Not surprised by this answer, Li Bei sighed. It seemed that Unit 04's energy farming task was heavy.

It was too difficult to farm 30 million energy points from a main character of a world… he had to start with the audience on Earth.

And it couldn't be like Unit 03's story that hasn't been broadcast yet, otherwise there would be no way to quickly recover energy.

Time was tight and the task was heavy. There had to be enough scenes to attract the outside audience. It could only be a high investment and high return, because the more energy it takes to create a clone, the more important the status of the clone would be.

But if he was going to create Unit 04, he could only let Lihua deal with those lunatics… Just ten minutes or so, it should be fine, right?

Leave Unit 02, Shoko, there as well, just in case…