I am the former civilized hero.

But this person is not in control at all, and even his position in the "Star Era" plan is marked with a question mark.

Tree roots, tree, can't it be...

Ryan took a deep breath. The hypothesis was in the process of being realized. If it came true, Ryan couldn't tell whether it was good or bad, but after thinking about it carefully, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's stop fighting. We've spent so much effort and gained so little. There's no need to continue. No matter what Honkai wants to do, we can only deal with it. If it just transforms the Herrscher into a beast, that's the best case scenario. As for the rest, we can only deal with it as it comes."

"You want to say that the initiative has been taken back by Honkai? But fat woman, no, the Ruler of Man is still in our hands. Didn't you just ruin one of His plots not long ago?" Mobius raised his eyebrows, looking a little unconvinced.

"There is no initiative at all. If we were to push it, it would be extremely difficult. But it is much easier for Honkai to push it. How can a 'God' be controlled by an 'Apostle'?" Ryan looked sideways and slowed down his speech:

"After all these years, we all know that the collapse is like a wave. Once a wave hits, there will definitely be a second wave behind it, which will eventually submerge the earth."

Mebius closed his mouth, and suddenly thought of something else: "So, what is the meaning of Calis's existence?"

"At critical moments, make decisions for Honkai based on his interests and position."

"Decide?"

"Well, bad, or the worst decision." Mei took over the conversation in a cold voice. These things are still in the hypothetical stage, so there is no need to waste time, so she turned her head and looked at Ryan: "Do you want to go and see it yourself?"

"Well, we have to go deeper inside. Let Prometheus use the positions of these Honkai beasts as extension lines to roughly define a central range." Ryan stroked his chin and stopped wasting time talking about hypotheses.

With the help of supercomputers and siege from all sides, the extension line was quickly drawn. Due to the small number of samples and the winding route, the central area could not be accurately drawn, but it was probably the large area in the middle section of the Ural Mountains.

Within this area, red light spots are also dense, proving that there are a large number of Honkai beasts reacting.

"I have to remind you that if these light spots are part of a huge monster, the intensity will be very high." Mei warned seriously.

After hunting, ambush, counterattack and encirclement, the intelligence hidden under the iceberg is gradually revealed.

"So there doesn't need to be more people, Mebius, you just come with me."

The woman who was gently swinging her toes on the swivel chair was stunned and sat up straight in an instant. As a leading expert on Honkai beasts, she could indeed provide a lot of advice, so she raised her chin slightly.

Humph, now you know how important I am.

"Don't be too happy yet. It's dangerous to act with me."

"Haha, I happen to be immortal."

Okay, I've done my duty.

Of course Ryan knew that Mebius would not refuse, so he asked her to prepare the equipment and then looked at Mei.

"One more thing. This is the final information we analyzed from Vita's file. You can refer to it."

Ryan looked down at the data transmission. It was a record of the end of Venus, mixed with some summaries from Mei and others. The last sentence surprised Ryan.

A tsunami hit Venus, and both civilization and collapse were destroyed in the final test. This was not because they played too hard or something went wrong, but because the opponent's strength required a tsunami of this scale. Initially, the top leaders of Venus did not make up their minds, and there was also a "Spark Plan" to use the quantum sea to hide and pass on the experience to the next era.

"But they discovered that this abyssal beast could potentially destroy both civilization and the planet, so they had no choice?"

"Yes, this is the worst case scenario. Since all the escape routes have been cut off, we might as well fight it out. Perhaps the answer the Venusians are looking for is too unsatisfactory for Honkai, and they don't even want to restart. It's better to end this exam completely."

Mei had long discovered that Venus was a bit of a coward. They did not have strong warriors and simply relied on technology to deal with the situation. No matter how powerful the abyss beast was, it would not cause any waves if thrown into the sea.

It's okay to get the answers wrong on this test, but you can't go too far in cheating.

The two looked at each other. This was the result they were afraid of. In terms of cheating methods, Ryan was not that bad, but he definitely had more tricks.

Protecting the planet and defeating the end are not at the same level of difficulty.

"I understand. I'll pay attention."

Ryan nodded seriously, asked Mei to sort out the logistics and quickly prepare the final, worst-case plan, and then simply cut off the communication.

"Commander-in-Chief, are you really going?" Edwin, who had been listening, couldn't help but ask. Even he knew the risks involved.

Facing the siege of the Fire Moths but passively defending, there was obviously something wrong. It would have been more normal to concentrate all forces to break out in one direction.

"You can't just sit there and watch. If you don't take a step forward, you'll never know what the other party is thinking. Intelligence is verified." Ryan bent down and tightened the laces on his leather shoes. He was used to it.

No matter how many ideas he has, he has to verify them through actions. He is not a person who daydreams all day long.

Edwin didn't think of persuading them. He, or most of the people in the Fire Moths, were accustomed to Ryan's style. They were also accustomed to this hero walking in the front and paving a way out in the dark and endless abyss.

"Please be careful."

"You too." Ryan did not reject such concern and turned and left.

After leaving the ship, he happened to meet Alicia and the others who had returned, and explained a few things to them. Hua wanted to follow them, but was held back by Ying and Alicia, and finally lost his temper.

Sometimes you really can't be so stubborn, because there are dangers lurking in the ice and snow.

Ryan quickly disappeared in the wind and snow without any attack. He found something wrong after entering the battlefield. To be honest, it was like he was being stared at by invisible eyes.

He hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward decisively.

Cutting through thorns and brambles, clearing away fog, and blazing a trail, this is his value.

Chapter 7: The Clinging Snake (K)

Wuwuwu——

A strong north wind blew, bringing up large waves of snow. This area was really too large, and the place where the Thousand Calamities wreaked havoc was thousands of miles away. After passing through the battlefield of Alicia and others, Ryan could hardly see any traces of fighting.

The ground was covered in white and was vibrating slightly. That was the result of the resonance of a large number of detectors. However, it was difficult for the instruments to operate at full power in this area and they were unable to tear the thick frozen soil.

Beneath the vast land, undercurrents were surging. Without even looking at the tactical terminal, Ryan could feel that every inch of the air was filled with hostility.

"You didn't launch an attack. Are you trying to lead me deeper?"

Ryan was not a stubborn person and would not just rush in. Instead, he circled the snowfield clockwise, occasionally breaking through the surface to test the reaction.

Just as Qianjie and the others reported, if he didn't take the initiative to attack, those worm-like monsters would shrink back and look very cowardly.

"It's not just retreating, sometimes it moves in parallel. Even if you know where it is, it's hard to play whack-a-mole."

To play whack-a-mole, one has to dig up the earth, which is not difficult for him, but Ryan has received a lot of information that these root-like things have many kinds of abilities.

Some of them were like the authority of blood, swallowing up the flames of the Thousand Tribulations, while others were like pumps, sucking the collapsed energy in the air into their bodies.

"No hurry, let me play with you first."

Ryan went around clockwise from the west to the east near Shenzhou. From afar, he saw the white earth turned into scorched earth with several huge pits remaining. Next to a collapsed hill, he saw the figure of Mebius.

There were several instruments beside her, and she was using green lightning to cut open a large mass of body tissue, and the spurting white liquid covered her entire body.

"You look like a murderer."

"Stop talking nonsense. If it wasn't for the work you assigned to me, would I have to work so hard?" Mobius rarely said anything stubborn. As an autopsy expert, the concept of 'disgusting' did not exist for him. With a flash of green electric arc, he decomposed all the liquids.

Ryan didn't provoke her. He walked to the instrument to observe the data, then turned around and estimated the distance with his eyes.

"This place is 500 kilometers away from the edge of the battlefield, but the analyzed data are surprisingly similar?"

"It proves that the edge and this part are the same object." Mobius adjusted his glasses, his high heels stepping on the body tissue that was still squirming on the ground. "Even if the middle section is removed, it will not lose its activity."

Her knife skills are superb. The monster buried deep underground has a diameter of tens of meters at its thinnest, but it is strange that it can still remain alive after she cuts off a piece.

Ryan couldn't help but squint his eyes and take a closer look, and he discovered that the back of this thing was covered with suction cup-like things, opening and closing like a human mouth.

It was totally disgusting. Fortunately, Ryan had long been immune to these indescribable things and just felt that it looked somewhat familiar.

"This thing..."

"Yes, it's the squid-type Honkai beast that Andevich encountered in his report. Its characteristic is that it constantly absorbs energy from the air." Mobius showed a strange smile and directly called up the file. "SGB-015, this is the name I gave it. It's a pity that we no longer have humans available for surgery, otherwise it would be much more powerful than the materials we used at the beginning."

She seemed very fanatical, but also very regrettable. As the leader of super-transformation surgery, she has always been passionate about experiments such as human body transformation.

"It's not too late now. It's quite interesting to use it in the Chimera Project."

"Do you think there is still time to perform the surgery now? That wooden stake is the final product. It will be very dangerous to fuse more super-mutation factors. If it doesn't work, we can only let Paramecium try. I have collected a lot of materials recently." Mobius smiled slyly and pulled out a lot of files as if to show off.

The recent beast tide is very beneficial to the Fire Moth. Unlike Earth and Venus, the Earth has not placed all its bets on the Quantum Sea. The Honkai Beast is an important foundation for fusion warriors.

Ryan was dazzled by Mebius' biological treasure trove, and suddenly he had an idea.

It seems that Kevin's "Brahma Beasts" can be collected together at once. He is not that powerful now, but the aura of the protagonist is still there. Honkai could not have expected that he would train a super warrior.

Unfortunately, this idea did not last long. It took Brahma Hundred Beasts tens of thousands of years to complete it. As Mebius said, he did not have the time to click on the technology tree, even if the time was shortened by ten thousand times.

"As a technical reserve, just in case it may be useful someday?" Ryan shook his head with some regret, thinking that each of these heroes is a talent. If Mobius survived, he might be able to become an end-level existence in the post-civilization.

"I didn't plan to use it now. The super mutation factors of hundreds of higher-level Honkai beasts will leave no one alive after one injection." Mobius stretched out his hand and asked the drone to bring the test tube filled with green liquid back to the Hyperion, then he slowly took off his gloves.

"By the way, it would be great if you could directly possess the abilities of these Honkai beasts. Maybe you would have a higher success rate than Kevin?"

"Why don't you just give me a shot?"

"Haha, at a time like this, if there is even the slightest problem, how many people do you think will cut me into pieces?" Mebius would not be fooled. She and Ryan were both cautious by nature. Even during the last operation to fuse the quantum beast, they had done a lot of experiments.

With a turn of his snake eyes, Mebius silently ran to Ryan and gently bumped him with his shoulder: "I'm not talking about the surgery, why doesn't your 'Destiny' work?"

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I see. What are you curious about?

If in the past, Ryan had to use this curiosity to tease the other party, and wanted to hear the information about his fate without doing the test cup stirring experiment? But now he doesn't have to take advantage of it.

"Perhaps Honkai beasts are not rare anymore. In many ways, Herrschers are closer to the existence of imaginary space."

"What do you mean?"

"It's just that pioneering requires a sense of novelty. Although this thing is powerful, it is essentially no different from a breakthrough-level Honkai beast. If I hadn't obtained the authority of blood, I wouldn't bother to care about them."

Mobius thought about it for a moment, then his face fell. "What a useless fate. But according to you, some fates can be used?"

Almighty pioneer, pioneering star god Akivali, please forgive this woman's ignorance.

Ryan apologized to Mebius in his heart. Fortunately, Akivali was not here, otherwise he would have to punish him. Such a pragmatist really could not understand the romance of pioneering.

"Let's go, let's go deeper." Ryan started walking, wanting to see how big the difference was between the core area and here.

But Mebius was anxious. After waiting for so many years, this bastard finally let go, so he hurried to catch up.

"Hey, you haven't answered my question yet!"

The two men moved forward along the snowfield. The scenery was nothing special, just the same old pine forests and mountains, but Mebius didn't care about that.

She thought Alicia was so tacky, wanting to turn everything into a date. A true scientist is someone who keeps learning. Even being alone with Ryan could be turned into an academic seminar.

Ryan was constantly being entangled and tempted by others, which made him want to slap himself twice. He was entangled as soon as he spoke, and except for occasionally breaking the ground to take some specimens, he never had any peace.

No, Mebius had no interest in his job anymore and had completely forgotten the original purpose of this operation.

"You mean there is more than one destiny, and even in terms of exploration, 'intelligence' is stronger than 'exploration'?"