Chapter 49: Chapter 49
The sudden shock made everyone in the meeting room's face slightly changed
Then a weak announcement came from the window
"The emergency notice is now announced, and the Mu Continental Institute of Geology has already issued an emergency notice. A yellow warning was issued. A slight earthquake with an intensity less than magnitude four occurred just now."
"The intensity of the earthquake is expected to increase gradually in 32 minutes. All residents of Yatra are requested to obey the command of the public security and orderly evacuate from the building to an open area. Repeat, All residents of Yatra are requested to obey the public security instructions and evacuate from the building to an open area in an orderly manner."
The chief doctor glared fiercely at Mobius and walked to the window with big strides.
Apart from them, people from other institutes have also been gradually evacuated under the guidance of the Fire Moth Guards.
Although there is a hierarchy, all the researchers present have obtained their doctoral degrees.
The first person to respond was a doctor of geology. He threw himself in front of the computer monitoring the global seismic waves as his expression suddenly changed.
Disasters caused by Honkai are usually accompanied by strong electromagnetic interference, so most of the disaster-stricken areas are cut off from the outside world.
The highly damaged areas detected by the satellite monitoring before losing the signal look like a black hole.
But except for the information vacuum area that cut off all connections, the strong shock waves spread far and wide in all directions.
The real full name of the Institute of Meteorology in Fire Moth is "Honkai Disaster Response Administration".
They create countermeasures and plans, however, due to the unpredictability of the Honkai disasters even top scholars and researchers can only do as much as possible to reduce losses.
"Get out of the way!"
Just as the doctor of geology was sweating profusely to calculate the intensity of the earthquake in the affected area, Mobius suddenly forcibly pulled him away from his seat.
This time, no one stopped the stern Mobius.
She first quickly scanned the shock wave parameters in the surrounding area and then pulled up the distribution map of the teams of Fire Moths around the world.
She suddenly frowned: "It's unfortunate the first team just happened to be near the place where that thing was born. What a coincidence."
"Unfortunate? Why do you say that?" The chief doctor walked behind Mobius, even though he was still dissatisfied with Mobius's rude "usurpation" behavior.
However, as an equally excellent researcher, the chief doctor chooses to temporarily put aside his personal grievances against Mobius.
"Of course, it's because they have no value other than dying in vain," Mobius replied to the chief doctor's words in a calm to almost indifferent voice
"If that kind of 'thing' still retains the rationality and thinking ability of human beings, even I don't know what that thing will become. So~"
"What exactly is that 'thing' you're talking about?" The chief doctor asked in a slightly heavy tone.
"Haven't you read the paper I published a year ago?" Mobius said lightly
"As the chief researcher of the Disaster Management Bureau, although the principle of collapse is not the subject you are in charge of, you should also know that the Honkai energy is a kind of abnormal energy that violates the principle of conservation of mass and energy. It is generated for no reason in an isolated system, and the so-called Honkai beast is formed by this abnormal energy."
"Usually, the Honkai Beast we know has a 'core' that condenses most of its power. As long as the 'core' can be crushed, the Honkai Beast's body will naturally collapse due to the loss of Honkai energy."
"..." The chief doctor was silent for a moment, then nodded
"Yes, so this is the direct reason why we haven't been able to conduct in-depth research on Honkai until now, whether it's the dead or those who were killed by Honkai"
"Corroded monsters, or Honkai beasts condensed from Honkai, the power that drives them is Honkai energy, not the heart or brain, so even if we capture them these monsters will constantly struggle, and it will gradually consume the Honkai energy in their body. In the end, the samples we can get are only a very small amount of Honkai energy left in the body. "
"But what if... the nature of these monsters changes after the Honkai energy reaches a certain level?"
Mobius casually grabbed a pen from the table with a blank expression. She quickly wrote down something in the notebook and explained the core idea of her paper to the chief doctor in a flat voice
"According to my calculations, when the energy level of Honkai energy reaches a certain level, the "core" of the Honkai beast will spread. For the Honkai beast at this time, their "core" will replace the original "body" and the structure that was originally the body will become something else that we don't know yet."
"Something else?"
"It may be a more powerful force, or it may be a more terrifying concurrent disaster. Considering how uncontrollable Honkai energy is. In the worst case scenario, an unprecedented special ability is created."
Mobius put away her notebook and stood up, "Okay, I've finished what I have to do and the conference room is still open. Here you go."
"Where are you going?" said the chief doctor
"Aren't you going to stay with us to study the follow-up countermeasures?"
"The countermeasures or something didn't exist from the beginning." Mobius slightly turned her face
"The 2500 Honkai Wave can fluctuate, plus the large-scale earthquake is exceeding magnitude 9. In a Honkai disaster of this scale, even those Honkai beasts probably cannot protect themselves."
"Is it that scary?" said the chief doctor
"In a level 4, 500 Honkai Wave disaster, it is not uncommon for Fire Moth to deal with it but the energy level of about 2500 Honkai Wave should produce a terrifying concurrent disaster."
"Don't you think that the size of the Honkai energy level is just a simple superposition relationship?" Mobius couldn't help laughing
"That's why I said that people of this era won't be able to understand this 'Honkai', even me."
Western Shenzhou, Liangzhou City, Chishui Town.
Shirou slipped away with the dull-faced man in a suit and a soldier as he fell expressionlessly onto a broken wall.
It is now 12:30 in the middle of the night, the original dark night was covered in fire and rain
The stars and the moon are completely covered by a thick layer of volcanic ash as the waves lapped on the shore.
During New Year's Eve, a doomsday-like catastrophe descended on Chishui Town, which was immersed in joy a while ago without any warning.
The first thing that came was a high-intensity earthquake that destroyed all buildings in an instant.
Then in the south of Chishui Town the Qionglai Mountains suddenly lit up as if a second sun had risen on the top of the mountain.
A few seconds later, the sky began to rain fire.
In the face of this level of natural disaster, Shirou still felt a deep sense of powerlessness even after gaining all the power of "that heroic spirit".
All of this... is the phenomenon caused by the so-called 'Honkai'?
For the first time, he even had doubts about it.
During this nearly two-year journey, he and Elysia have been proactively approaching the area where the Honkai broke out.
They hunted down nearly a hundred Honkai beasts and also rescued many people in the area where the Honkai broke out.
Some humans who have not yet become Zombies have even secretly assisted many warriors from Fire Moth.
However, until this moment, Shirou never thought that the so-called 'Honkai' was something that could not be fought against.
In Shirou's view, although the Honkai phenomenon is difficult to handle it was not impossible to resist.
The so-called Honkai beasts and Zombies have never given him or Elysia any real trouble.
As long as he and Elysia can arrive at the scene of the Honkai disaster as quickly as possible, then the casualty would decrease compared to the moment when the Honkai broke out without any interventions.
For Shirou, the reason why Honkai is difficult to deal with is purely because of its unpredictability.
As long as he can find a way to predict the time and place of a Honkai outbreak in advance, then the "Honkai" is not much different from other natural disasters.
However, such incomplete cognition with a bit of flippant meaning was completely shattered by the "Honkai" encountered tonight, which was completely different from the past.
Undoubtedly, not only he but also the first team of Fire Moths encountered such a catastrophic collapse for the first time,
Even though the captain of the first team had issued a warning to all members of the team immediately at the first moment of the earthquake, all the members who were originally lurking at each sentry point lost their balance in the violent shaking.
Fortunately, the fighters belonging to the first team are all tough people who can deal with the Honkai Beast for a while even if they only rely on pure physicality and reaction time.
Therefore, even if they lose their balance, most of the first team still made the most correct decisions at the moment when the earthquake hit.
Except for the unlucky guy mentioned by Shirou who was knocked out by surprise the moment the earthquake broke out.
Including the man in the suit who was standing on the tallest building in the area, the other members of the first team barely survived the sudden catastrophe.
...However, this is the only good news.
Shirou moved his gaze down slightly and glanced expressionlessly at the man in a suit, who he carried out of the tall building.
His immature voice was piercingly chilling: "Hey, are you still alive? Can you move?"
The man in the suit trembled all over and nodded silently.
Shirou yanked his arm hard and threw the man in the suit to his side.
After the man in the suit also stood firm on the broken wall, Shirou carefully handed over the soldier he was holding with the other hand to him.
"Take care of your team members," Shirou said
"Can your wireless communicator still work?"
The man in the suit took over the unconscious subordinate from Shirou's hands, and after a while his voice became calm
"Who are you? Why did you suddenly appear in the base of Fire Moth."
"Is this kind of thing important now?" Shirou said coldly
"Although the hope of victory is slim, if you fighters immediately mobilize those who are still available and seize the time to search and rescue the survivors in the-"
The man in the suit frowned, "None of the members of the first team is a coward who would shrink back on the battlefield."
"That's right, then this city will be handed over to you first." Shirou nodded
"I'm going to find the source of this Honkai incident. Where is the specific location of the Honkai energy detected through satellite monitoring?"
After hearing Shirou's words, the expression of the man in the suit suddenly changed
He became extremely excited: "Have you been outside that hotel all the time?"
"Wait." After saying this, the man in the suit realized what was going on.
He said in a tone of astonishment and disbelief
"You... Could you be that little girl's accomplice? That little girl kept shutting down our surveillance in the city, maybe it's because you have been helping her in secret?"
"So what?" When the matter developed to this point, Shirou didn't bother to continue to hide it from the man in the suit
"I don't know what kind of order you got and I don't care whether you are prepared for it or not. Whether to capture Elysia or recruit her into Fire Moths, in the face of this level of Honkai disaster, all of that no longer has a meaning."
"Don't you... don't you care about that little girl named Elysia?" The man in a suit asked.
Shirou replied without hesitation: "OF course, that's my daughter. If I don't care about her, who else can I expect to care about her? You evil adults who only think about how to catch her every day?"
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