I have no regrets about my 2D world!

Speaking of this title, Bai couldn't help but think about finding Mei's father.

When they first met, Mei had called him brother. However, when Mei's father found out about this, he told Mei earnestly, "Don't underestimate Bai because he looks so young. He and I are actually from the same generation, and Ai Li is his daughter. Remember to call him uncle when you see him in the future."

From then on, Mei started calling him uncle. He didn't know how many times he had said it until now, but he could never change it back.

"Okay, Uncle Bai." Mei curled the corners of her mouth slightly, seeming to be very happy to see Bai's conflicted expression.

"You... Oh, forget it. Fortunately, we are all family here now, so it's up to you to call me whatever you want.

But if you still call me that in front of outsiders, don't blame me for adding something to your meal." A dangerous smile appeared on Bai's face.

Alicia doesn't cook much, so her cooking skills are just not that bad. As for Mei, she has no talent at all in cooking. The food she makes is hard to swallow even for those soldiers who have undergone rigorous training. So he is responsible for the food they eat at school.

Moreover, after controlling food for so long, he already knew the preferences of the two people, and it was easy for him to add some things they didn't like to eat into their food.

As they both don't like to waste food, as long as it is normal food, they will force themselves to eat it even if they find out they don't like it.

"Um, okay, I understand, Uncle Bai." Mei smiled helplessly and could only agree.

There's no other way. Bai has already given in, so she can't go too far, right? It's just...

Mei glanced at Xier slightly.

One of your own?

"Hey, Abai, you didn't count me in, did you?"

Seeing her friend fall down in disgrace, Alicia suddenly remembered something. If she had heard correctly just now, Bai seemed to be talking about you.

"What do you think, little Ai Li?" Bai's smile was extremely kind, but in Alicia's eyes it was as if the devil had bared his fangs.

If there is food you don’t like in the lunch meal, it will ruin Miss Fairy’s good mood for the whole day!

But the clever fairy lady would not give up.

"Well, well, since you, Bai, have asked me to do so, I can only comply, right?" Alicia sighed. Bai was about to show a satisfied look when he saw her curl up the corners of her mouth.

"Well, why don't you tell me how I should address you outside of society, is that right?

Father?"

A moist breath with a hint of fragrance was passed by Bai's ear and into his brain, causing his body to tremble instinctively.

When he turned around, he saw Alicia already distanced herself from him with a smile, as if nothing had happened and she was waiting for his response.

And it seemed that he really had no way to restrict how Alicia called him.

Given their relationship, calling each other by name is obviously not appropriate, but if Ai Li calls him like she did just now...

"Oh, right, I remember seeing two people of similar age walking together somewhere. If one of them calls the other something that doesn't fit their age, it's called 'play' or something like that."

Alicia raised her head slightly, put her finger on her chin and looked at Bai with curiosity.

"Abai, do you know what that's called?"

Bai Hu was silent, but his expression became calm.

"Little Ellie, I don't remember taking you to see anything about this, and school probably doesn't teach this either. So where did you know this?"

"..."

Alicia was speechless for a moment, then she carefully put down her hand, tiptoed to Bai's back, and placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Well, Ah Bai, actually I just heard about this when I was out playing. That's all I know. If you don't like it, Ah Bai, I promise I won't tell you again."

The fairy lady who is usually fearless is only afraid of Bai showing this kind of expression, because once it appears, it proves that there is something wrong with her, and it is the kind of problem on principle.

The last time she saw Bai with this expression was when she went to rescue someone.

There is nothing wrong with saving people, but at that time she wanted to save the person who was bullying others.

Because the group of people bullied someone too much, the bullied person resisted and almost beat one of them to death. She couldn't stand it at the time, so she went to stop them.

She didn't want to see anyone die, but she couldn't hide the hatred in the eyes of the bullied.

She clearly remembered that Bai was looking at her with this kind of eyes at the side until she persuaded both parties to leave with a kind voice and explained the truth to her.

The bullies have come after the bullied more than once. In the past, the bullies could tolerate it because those people's demands were less, but this time those people insulted the relatives of the bullied, so they looked like they would kill the bullied people when they saw them.

Since then, she would still help whenever she saw a similar situation, but she would investigate thoroughly before going, to ensure that while helping the good people she would not embolden the bad guys.

And now, seeing Bai's expression again, she immediately realized that there was something wrong with her joke.

Although I am not sure where the problem lies, I will admit my mistake first.

Seeing Alicia admitting her mistake obediently, Bai no longer had the idea of ​​scolding her.

"Forget it, it's up to you to call me whatever you want, but try not to say things like that in the future."

I don't know if it's because he has been taking care of Ellie for a long time or if his mentality has really changed, but even though Ellie is about to enter adulthood, she is still a child in his eyes. This made him overreact when he heard Ellie say such words.

This mentality was fine in the past, but I'm afraid I'll have to adjust it a bit from now on. After all...

Alicia is already crooked.

"By the way, did anything happen today? Why did you come back so early?"

It’s only been half a day since Alicia left, so they should still be in school.

"Hey, Bai, did you forget? You only need to report on the first day of school. School officially starts tomorrow."

Seeing that the topic had been changed, Alicia finally felt relieved and a smile appeared on her face again.

"Tomorrow?" Bai wasn't entirely sure, after all, he had never been to Qianyu Academy. "But if school starts tomorrow, shouldn't you be taking Mei shopping now? Why are you back?"

"Because we accidentally heard a piece of news, but we're not sure whether it's true or not. I thought you, Bai, would be more reliable, so I came back to confirm it with you."

"Oh? With your and Mei's intelligence, you can't even tell whether the news is true or not?"

Bai turned his gaze to Mei, only to see Mei shaking her head.

"Oh, I feel a little embarrassed when Bai praises me like that, but I really didn't know it this time."

"Then tell me what the news is, so I can see if I've heard it before."

He usually doesn't pay too much attention to other things, so if there is any gossip, he may not know it.

Hearing Bai's agreement, Alicia stopped massaging Bai's shoulders, took out a mobile phone from her clothes, swiped the screen twice, and placed it in front of Bai.

"Hey, that's the ninth message here."

Shiro looked towards where Alicia was pointing.

"A large explosion occurred east of xx City. Investigations by relevant personnel confirmed that it was caused by a chain reaction caused by a car accident while transporting certain materials. The area has now recovered and is open to traffic."

"Is there any problem with this?" Bai was a little confused.

This kind of thing doesn't happen too often, but it's not too few either. As far as Bai knows, similar news can be seen on TV from time to time.

"If there was no problem, we wouldn't have come to look for you, Bai." Alicia put away her phone and came to Bai, her expression a little more serious.

“We’ve been to this place before, and at that time there was no space for vehicles to pass through, let alone transport special materials through there.

But after seeing this news, I became curious, so I went there to take a look, and found that a road had been built without me noticing.

So I wanted to ask Ah Bai if you knew about this matter?"

Alicia smiled softly, while Mei beside her was waiting for Bai's answer.

Things were exactly as Alicia said, but she didn't say it completely.

After becoming curious about the news, she was dragged there by Alicia. On the surface, there was nothing there, just as the news said.

But after careful observation, they still found some unreasonable traces.

It is true that a road was built, but the grass on both sides of the road looked like it was just laid not long ago. It was still wet even though summer was almost approaching.

Moreover, some broken alloys were even found a little further away from there. Mei took those things back and secretly checked them, and found that they matched the materials of a certain weapon on the market.

So the two of them had some speculations, maybe there was no car accident at all, but a battle.

After making a guess, the two went there again, bringing some tools with them, and turned over the lawn to take a look.

Sure enough, there was a crater under the lawn that had not been completely filled, and if you smelled carefully, there was a smell of gunpowder.

Originally, they didn't want to tell Bai about this, but Alicia said that Bai must know the details of the matter. Although she didn't know why Alicia was so sure, she still followed her.

"I've been there before... huh?" Bai raised an eyebrow, suddenly thinking of the address displayed on the screen just now.

Generally speaking, he would not remember the names of other cities except a few nearby cities, so when he saw that city, he didn't realize where it was for a while, but now he has remembered the situation there.

"Since you've all come to ask me, you should have already investigated there, right? What have you found?"

"As expected of Abai, you know it." Alicia praised without hesitation, and then told Bai about their discovery.

"You guys actually managed to find something. Should I say you're attentive, or are those guys just careless?"

After listening to Alicia's story, Bai also understood what the two were thinking.

They discovered that a battle had taken place there, but they didn't know the details, so they came to him, the know-it-all in Alicia's eyes, to ask about the situation.

He usually doesn't pay much attention to things in the outside world, but this incident happened to be within his scope of attention.

There was indeed a battle there, called the First Herrscher Subjugation War.

Since the world's technology is not very advanced at present, the First Herrscher does not have very powerful means. It was discovered and eliminated within just one day of its birth, so it did not attract the attention of most people, including those organizations fighting against the First Herrscher.

It was also fortunate that both Alicia and Mei had considerable resistance to Honkai energy, otherwise, with the organization's crude processing methods, they would probably be infected immediately after arriving at that place.

But they were lucky enough to escape, but the others might not have been so lucky.

So much time has passed, I'm sure some people nearby have started to be infected by the Honkai.

"Well, now that you've discovered it, I'll explain it to you in detail. I'll also let you know the truth about this world."

Chapter 8 The Unfortunate First Ruler

"There's a disaster in this world called collapse. You can view it as either a natural disaster or a man-made one. It won't disappear due to human will, nor will it increase due to personal intervention. It simply appears to target civilizations.

The more developed the civilization, the more terrifying the forms and scale of disasters.

With the birth of collapse, there is a special energy, which people call collapse energy. This energy will infect all living things indiscriminately.

Those who cannot resist this infection will be corrupted by this energy and transformed into another creature.

The news mentioned that a collapse occurred there, and then someone was assigned to deal with it."

"But there are signs of fighting there. It shouldn't just be a simple disaster, right?"

When it came to areas she had never touched before, Mei instantly entered a state of learning.

“Yes, it wasn’t just an ordinary collapse, because from that moment on, the test had already begun.

What was born with the collapse was not just some energy that could infect living things, but also a being called the Herrscher.

Every great collapse is almost always accompanied by the birth of a Herrscher. The Herrscher can have any form and different abilities, but they all have one thing in common: they are extremely disgusted with the creatures that dominate the current civilization.

For example, the place where the battle took place was the birthplace of the first Herrscher of this era to attack humans, the Herrscher of Reason.

But this Herrscher was unlucky, he was discovered and killed before he could even develop much."

Thinking back to when he saw a group of people using the most basic weapons to kill the Herrscher of Reason, Bai couldn't help but laugh.

"Then what did this Ruler of Reason do to make you, Uncle Bai, so happy?" Seeing the smile on Bai's face that didn't look fake, Mei suddenly felt curious.

Normally, one should be happy that the Herrscher who had ill intentions towards humanity was killed, but it doesn't seem like Shiro is happy about it.

“How can I describe it to you? It’s like you found someone who had a stable chance of getting into a good university, but this person was forced to drop out of middle school.

There was no malice, it was just funny.”

"Then it seems that this person has very bad luck."

Although Bai's metaphor was a little abstract, Mei could still understand it.

"But why is this person called the Herrisher of Reason? Is it related to his abilities?"

"Well, I don't know why it's called the Herrisher of Reason, but it does have something to do with abilities.

It is said that the Herrscher's ability is to understand and reconstruct, to create things out of thin air. It can be said that if he is given enough time, all the weapons in the world can be used by him."

It’s a pity that there is not enough time for him.

If the Ruler of Reason had appeared later, the other Rulers would probably have had no chance. After all, by that time, the weapons made by humans would have been enough to destroy humanity.

"Are there no restrictions?" Mei's expression was serious.