The Vixen's Gambit: Tonight We Hunt

All the operations were completed in an instant.

The golden eyes, which had originally symbolized power due to the drive of two cores, had now faded, leaving only tired light blue.

Now Lee was truly weak to the extreme. Even when she was drained of blood and came out of the experimental cabin back then, she was in much better condition than she was now.

At that time, Lee was only physically weak, but now even her mental aspect felt unbearable tearing and dizziness due to the overloaded operation of the Herrscher of Sentience Core in the previous battle.

Unable to even support herself with her hands, Lee's legs gave way and she knelt on the ground, leaning weakly against the console and breathing painfully.

"This way....."

The originally seriously injured Lee had been barely maintaining her life with the two Herrscher Cores. Now that the core belonging to Elysia, which had more power, had been removed, Lee fell directly to the brink of death.

The best-case scenario was for Kevin to defeat the Herrscher of Finality and return, taking her to Vill-V's laboratory, where there was a repair pod specially designed for her body, for treatment.

As for the worst-case scenario.....

Lee silently raised her head and looked at the screen on the console. After the Stargate was activated, the screen had automatically switched the perspective to the camera of the SELENE floating in space, according to the program settings.

Humanity ultimately failed to achieve the SELENE plan of converting all the Honkai energy on Earth into other forms of energy. The Ninth Herrscher destroyed Mu, causing this plan to completely lose the possibility of implementation.

The only remaining finished product was this spaceship floating in outer space.

Originally, it would be piloted by Vill-V in the battle against the Herrscher of Finality to attack the Herrscher of Finality – but now obviously no one could pilot it.

But fortunately, it was now the age of science. Although it was not as flexible and agile as piloting it while sitting in the spaceship, it was not impossible to control it remotely. Anyway, Lee never intended to really win against the Herrscher of Finality. This SELENE only needed to attack at a critical moment to save Kevin's life from the Herrscher of Finality's hands.

Sigh, my biggest weakness is that I'm too kind~

Thinking calmly, Lee looked at the situation on the screen with a sad face.

The battle between Kevin and the Herrscher of Finality had already erupted. The flames of Might of An-Utu and the ice created by Kevin could be easily seen even without using the SELENE's magnification function.

Different from the previous battle with Lee, Kevin was undoubtedly using all his strength now. Lee made a simple estimate and sadly found that unless she used a system cheat, no matter how she struggled, she would eventually die within three hundred moves.

There was an insurmountable gap between her, the second strongest in the world, and Kevin, the strongest in the world – and unfortunately, Kevin, the strongest in this world, also had such a gap with the out-of-spec Herrscher of Finality.

His attacks were almost painless to the Herrscher of Finality, while each of the Herrscher of Finality's attacks could put tremendous pressure on Kevin.

Kevin could only accumulate power to launch a full-strength attack to cause real damage to the Herrscher of Finality, but the Herrscher of Finality would not give Kevin such an opportunity at all. Without the assistance of teammates, Kevin didn't even have the opportunity to organize a real counterattack – he couldn't even retreat.

Now the only hope was for Lee to use the SELENE to create opportunities for Kevin. But that required timing, otherwise the SELENE would be destroyed by the Herrscher of Finality without any effect.

And to grasp this timing, Lee needed to wait here. If she left in advance, Kevin would lose even that only chance to save his life.

At this moment, the screen on the other side of the console suddenly turned on the monitoring mode with the sound of a prompt, displaying the monitoring screens inside and outside the Fire Moth base.

And in some of these monitoring screens, there were now – people.

That's right, they were living people. They were now walking carefully into the Fire Moth base with weapons. The alarm just now was triggered by them unintentionally.

When Griseo and Hua were in the shelter, Hua had taken some people to search for survivors nearby. Then Hua suddenly realized something was wrong halfway through and rushed back to the shelter to fight Lee.

They were all left in the wilderness, and now they had become the last survivors of humanity.

After that, they saw Kevin, who had gone to retrieve Hua. Although Kevin didn't say anything to them, seeing that this MANTIS Soldier was not anxious, they could be sure that the Herrscher had been defeated by him.

Perhaps they wanted to find other survivors, perhaps they wanted to find a way to survive, perhaps they wanted to find the body of that Herrscher and crush its bones to dust..... Anyway, these people had come here.

And at the moment when she saw those figures, a trace of panic flashed in Lee's eyes. She subconsciously shrank her body, and her breathing also became rapid.

These people who dared to volunteer were usually more strong-willed. They could overcome their fear of the Herrscher. And in this case, another kind of mind-steel seal would also be carried out in their minds – kill the Herrscher, defeat the Honkai.

Just like Rin back then.

And when such people found that Lee, the Herrscher who had just slaughtered all of humanity not long ago and exterminated all the people in the last shelter, was staying here without any resistance.....

Presumably, what they would do would definitely not be to sit down calmly and condemn Lee's behavior.

"I have to escape....."

Even though she was unable to stand up, Lee still subconsciously used her hands to support herself and wanted to crawl towards the exit of the control room – and then froze when she glanced at the flames on the main screen.

If she left at this moment, Kevin would definitely die.

Lee's lips trembled. Her gaze looked blankly at the exit not far away. Unlike the control room, there were many hidden corners outside where she could hide. As long as she went out now, maybe she could find a suitable place to not be discovered.

But if she stayed in the control room, these people would find her sooner or later.

Activate the protection mode? Although this would allow Lee to be separated from these people, the incident of the Herrscher of Corruption had also strengthened the network measures of the base's protection, so the connection between the base and the SELENE would also be cut off.....

Lee's struggle was obvious. In the end, she lowered her head as if she had given up on something.

"Kevin..... I'm sorry."

...

"Ugh—!"

Knocked away by the Herrscher of Finality again, Kevin was already covered in wounds at this time. Even if he entered the MANTIS FORM of the CHIMERA, he was still so powerless in the face of the Herrscher of Finality.

At this point, he had to admit one thing. It seemed that he had indeed overestimated himself to defeat the Herrscher of Finality with his own strength.

But the opponent's defense was not so strong that it was invulnerable – damn it, if only there were teammates to help distract her for even a moment!

It was just that this fantasy seemed to be impossible to realize, because the Herrscher of Finality had already stretched out her hand to him, and in the next moment she would kill him here.

Did he lose? In this way, in the end, he couldn't let Lee get rid of her fear.....

Looking at the attack that was coming in an instant, a trace of powerlessness flashed in Kevin's eyes, and then—

The light that shot from space instantly rushed from behind the enemy, and in an instant it hit the Herrscher of Finality, who was caught off guard!

A huge amount of Honkai energy in her body was instantly converted into heat. Even the Herrscher of Finality could not help but stop attacking and struggle in pain. Kevin would not miss this excellent opportunity.

Gathering his strength and striking with all his might, the flames of salvation roared on the surface of the moon in an instant, leaving a striking mark on the surface of this planet!

And the Herrscher of Finality, who was hit by these two forces at the same time – temporarily stopped moving.

That's right, Kevin could feel that even facing such a terrifying attack, it could only buy him a few hours to escape back to Earth. It wouldn't be long before the enemy would be able to move again.

The Herrscher had already set up a solid defense around her body. Even if Kevin attacked again now, he would not be able to hurt her. And the SELENE, which could destroy this barrier, had already been scrapped in the overloaded attack just now.

Humanity had lost, just as Lee said. They had no chance of winning in front of the Herrscher of Finality.

Was it Lee who controlled the SELENE just now? She saved him again.....

At this point, how could he persuade her not to be so pessimistic after returning to Earth?

Kevin looked up at the azure planet above his head. On this planet, there was probably only one person worrying about him now.

No matter what, let Lee live first.

Live to the next civilization, and continue to think about ways to fight the Honkai.....