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"Yeah, after eating so many carbohydrate bombs, it's more than just..."
Before he could finish his words, a warm index finger touched his lips. The girl in front of him raised her eyebrows and said, "Stop. It would be impolite if you continue."
Ryan swallowed and saw Alicia spinning lightly, her skirt dancing like butterfly wings.
"I won't get fat, absolutely not!"
"Okay, I haven't thanked you for buying me coffee yet. Logically, men should pay for it." Ryan returned to normal. He didn't know why he always had difficulty in having evil thoughts.
"I invited you to dinner, so of course I'll come. So, how was your day?"
"Uh......"
This morning he was still a little confused, feeling the pressure brought by the collapse, and the loneliness of being separated from his friends; near noon he was still thinking about the internal struggle of the Fire Moth, and then -
Then I chatted with the girl for a long time, and I couldn't even count how many words I said. I felt like I didn't do anything today, but I was annoyed that I didn't waste time.
Ryan thought for a moment and replied in an affirmative tone: "At least it's easy."
"Really? That's great!" The girl clapped her hands without saying anything extra.
He saw Alicia stepping onto the curb, walking on it with her hands raised flat, looking quite childish. Because she looked too high-profile, passers-by turned their heads, some with desire, some with admiration, and some with jealousy.
Lovely Lishia seemed to have seen nothing, and was only concentrating on her fight with Daoya. Ryan did not say anything, and did not even ask her where she was going. He just followed behind silently, watching her long pink hair swinging back and forth.
This is a waste of time, but Ryan doesn't hate this waste. He is even a little grateful to the netizen who stood him up. If it weren't for him, he wouldn't have met Alicia.
"Ryan, what do you usually do?"
"Practice skills, research various topics, try my best to understand Honkai, and occasionally solve some disasters."
"Really? I didn't ask you about your job, just how you like to have fun, drinking or doing something else? Doesn't your roommate like playing basketball?"
Ryan paused. Basketball was too easy and too difficult for him. If he wasn't careful, he would easily dunk the backboard.
"Let's write something to kill time."
"A novel? Where is it serialized? Can I take a look?"
"Ah, forget it. These are all things that are not presentable." Ryan felt ashamed for some reason. For example, he had never let Kevin see them.
A clumsy work, not worth mentioning.
"Hmm, you're still keeping it a secret from me, but... never mind. It's more fun this way."
Interesting? What does that mean?
As Ryan was thinking, Alicia had already jumped off the curb. She came over and looked at Ryan's gentle smile under the street light.
"Well, this smile is genuine, lacking a lot of politeness. This is my first time dating a boy. Thank you, it feels great."
"Ahem, don't say such misleading things." Ryan looked away.
"What's there to misunderstand? I like you, don't you like being with me?"
hiss......
Ryan took a deep breath and wanted to ask if this Alicia was a reincarnated succubus, she was so seductive. But when he looked at those pure purple eyes, he couldn't answer for a moment.
She was sincere in what she said. She seemed to know everything, and yet she seemed to know nothing. But if she thought in that direction, she would seem so vulgar.
Alicia loves everything, whether humble, noble, vulgar or elegant, she loves human beings themselves.
What a fairy-like girl.
Ryan silently chanted "Love Gate" in his heart, and was about to discuss what "love" is from a philosophical perspective, when he heard Alicia's cell phone ringing. It was the theme song of a certain children's animation, a pure nursery rhyme.
"Sorry, oops, I forgot something important." Alicia quickly answered the call, and then a cold female voice came.
"Alicea, where have you been? Didn't you say you would shield me from the questioning from above?"
"Sorry, I was chatting with my friends for a long time today and forgot about it."
"Forgot? Well, you really don't take me seriously. Ha, you don't need to consult me about that question anymore."
"No, I'll be right back."
Snapped.
The girl hung up the phone and ran away: "I have to go back. It's already night time before I know it. Happy times really pass quickly. Goodbye, Ryan."
Before Ryan could react, the girl had already run away. Ordinary people couldn't keep up with her thinking. After a few seconds, he raised his hand.
"Goodbye, Ellie."
As soon as he said this, he realized that he had subconsciously changed the address. He stood there for a long time before shaking his head in self-mockery.
Alicia, it's so scary.
This affinity is simply unreasonable. Due to too many secrets, Ryan never drank over the years and was very cautious in what he said and did. Only a few people could treat him sincerely, but that was also the result of years of preparation.
But in just half a day, he made a friend. Looking back now, everything seemed to be natural.
"If you treat others with sincerity, will you get sincerity in return? Even if you are hurt and betrayed, you can still love everyone equally and powerfully. You are indeed Alicia."
After thinking for a long time, all I can do is sigh. He is indeed the only one in the world, the last ray of sunshine in despair.
Love door.
Ryan made the sign of the cross on his chest and felt his steps become lighter.
"Let's just go back to the hotel. This Alicia is really hard to deal with because she does whatever she wants."
He felt that he was somewhat unable to deal with such an overly enthusiastic person. It was not that he disliked him, but when he thought of the ending, his heart became heavy, and the joy of increasing his strength disappeared.
It is difficult to survive alone, and it is even more difficult to change the fate of others and survive together, so people rarely make friends.
He had already understood something last night, and after receiving telepathy from Alicia today, he finally understood what the twisted feeling in his heart was.
Selfishness, unwillingness, fear, and some heroic thoughts.
"Alas, I have been so deeply involved with this world without realizing it. After all, I am still not capable of being autistic, nor am I cruel enough to treat every living person as an NPC." Ryan walked through the long street and glanced at the dim moon in the sky.
He couldn't be absolutely rational. Looking back now, he realized that when he approached the elementary school student Fu Hua, he had already fallen into it and embarked on a more difficult path.
"I originally wanted to find someone to cling to and slowly survive, but it really doesn't work -"
The man clenched his fists and walked forward in the moonlight.
"Let me be the forerunner."
Chapter 17: Mebius?!
Ryan's plan when it was time to come was actually very simple, that is, to let the tall guy take over when something happened, and he would stay in the back to develop, and when the end came, he would find a chance to get into the hibernation chamber and live to the next generation to watch the Valkyrie.
But he has lived in this world for nearly twenty years, and what he has seen and felt along the way has slowly changed his thinking. Coupled with the feedback from his fate, he has a vague impulse. As his strength increases and he goes deeper, this impulse becomes stronger and stronger.
Just at this time, the Chiba Academy incident ignited the fuse.
He suddenly realized that he could no longer watch his friends die indifferently. The world changed because of the butterfly effect. If he had not intervened, Kevin and May would have died.
At the same time, he also found that he had become tall. At least at this stage, there were few people in the world who were taller than him.
This is embarrassing. He has become a powerful figure by chance. However, he is also self-aware. He is not arrogant enough to pretend to be a savior, nor is he as selfless as Alicia.
"At least make some preparations, and do as much as you can."
Those who are destined to be travelers will be influenced by the ideas they follow. When Ryan made up his mind, he swept away his previous confusion, hid in his room for several days and refused several invitations from the Far East Branch.
"almost."
In the evening, in the dim sunlight outside the window, Ryan took off his glasses, threw down his crayons, and stared at the wall in front of him with bloodshot eyes.
The wall was already covered with words and various arrows. These were his summary of the current situation based on the intelligence on the Fire Moth.
Honkai Impact 3rd, Herrscher, and of course, numerous numbers and photos.
"The First Herrscher was conquered in Europe, and the Second Herrscher was in the northern ice field. Before they appeared, the local Honkai disasters increased exponentially, and the individual strength of Honkai beasts also increased."
Ryan squinted his eyes. He remembered that the Chariot-class was rare ten years ago, but before the Second Herrscher, he encountered the Temple-class when he was traveling in the north of Shenzhou. It just so happened that the Second Herrscher was born on an ice field a thousand kilometers away.
According to particle collision experiments, the collapse energy in the air is also increasing, at least it is obvious enough in the microscopic world.
"The second Herrscher was five years apart from the first, and the second Herrscher has been around for two years now, which means it's almost here, right?" Ryan's eyes showed a bit of solemnity, and he stretched out his hand to draw a red circle on the map.
The area where they landed is in the Far East. No wonder the power of the Far East branch is increasing, but most of this area is ocean.
There is no reason why the Fire Moth cannot calculate the results he can calculate, but both Honkai and Herrscher are random, and based on experience, they usually appear in sparsely populated areas.
"This probability is unscientific, but unfortunately the world has changed too much."
Ryan knew that he had interfered with the world line too much. For example, Kevin and May joined the Fire Moth in advance, and the impact on the follow-up was difficult to calculate.
The third herald, the third herald...
He kept muttering to himself that according to his previous thoughts, he didn't need to think about this problem. As the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. After calculating it, he could figure out this range.
"But not now. If I want to take a more difficult path, I need a stronger power. I want to try and see if I can touch the power of the Herrscher."
Ryan's breathing began to become heavy. This was not just a matter of pursuing power, but a call from the soul, an extreme desire to explore the unknown.
No, if I face the Herrscher now, it would be like seeking death. At least I have no chance of winning alone.
Ryan closed his eyes. As the 'Apostle' of Honkai, the Herrscher not only has special authority, but can also mobilize energy a hundred times that of lower-level Honkai beasts, and he also has to give birth to a bunch of Honkai beasts. How can he deal with them?
I can only rely on the power of the Fire Moth, and I can't let them find out that I can touch the power.
The crayon was raised and put down again. This was an unsolvable deadlock. Even if Alicia was called, there was not much hope. He couldn't just wait in Canghai. What if she changed places?
"Let's slowly look for opportunities, resolve a few more collapses, and increase our strength." Ryan didn't hesitate. He picked up a handkerchief and wiped off the patterns on the wall. He couldn't let the Fire Moth find out that he wanted to deal with the Third Herrscher so early.
Let’s go have dinner first, then find a chance to meet with the Far East Branch and look for a breakthrough from them.
Ryan felt like he was back in research institute. All issues had to be solved step by step. There was no point in just daydreaming about it.
It was late at night and the dinner in the hotel was over. Ryan didn't care about the quality of life. Considering that he had to practice long-distance Honkai energy control in the room for a while, he simply walked towards the convenience store.
The road became completely quiet, with an occasional car whizzing by. Some teenagers with colorfully dyed hair were hiding in the alley smoking, and they became restless when they saw Ryan.
But before they could surround him, the harmless man had already opened his windbreaker, revealing a two-foot-long saber. Several people swallowed their saliva and sat back to smoke.
He still had some foresight, so that he wouldn't have to ask the Far East Branch for help to clean up the mess after killing someone.
Ryan didn't even bother to look at it. He didn't like slapping people in the face and usually went straight to the point.
Walking along the dim street, he soon saw a 24-hour convenience store in front of him. There were not many people there late at night, and the cashier was yawning.