Of course it is impossible to continue.

The blonde Valkyrie, filled with shame and anger, led her men away and it looked like they wouldn't dare to cause trouble again.

After the other party ran away, Fang Zheng came back humming a song. As a result, Bronya just stared at him for a long time before she uttered a word.

"abnormal."

"I swear to God, this is the best solution."

Fang Zheng doesn't agree with this.

"Look, that girl is a stubborn person. Even if I beat her back head-on, she might still come to trouble me. But look at her now, does she dare to come back? After all, she is a helper in resisting Honkai. You can't let me kill her with one sword. She is not a worthless waste like Otto."

“…”

Hearing this, Bronya rolled her eyes helplessly, but she had no way to refute. After all, Fang Zheng was right. Youlan Dell was not someone who gave up easily. Even if Fang Zheng defeated her, she would probably come back again. But after this incident, Youlan Dell probably wouldn't dare to appear in front of Fang Zheng again - after all, being stripped naked in public was too shameful.

At this moment, the sisters Rosalia and Lilia also rushed to Bronya's side, happily grabbed her and started chatting. Fang Zheng didn't want to disturb the little girls' long-awaited reunion, so he turned around and came to Cocolia. At this moment, Cocolia and Einstein were staring at each other, and the atmosphere seemed to be quite tense.

"Hey, you are Cocolia?"

Fang Zheng walked up to the woman in front of him, said hello, and looked her over. Cocolia looked like an old woman now. Although she looked OK, her blonde hair was still a queen... Fang Zheng was not very fond of this type of woman. So he just glanced at her and looked away without interest.

"So you are the visitor from another world they are talking about?"

Looking at Fang Zheng, Cocolia also looked at him curiously, and Fang Zheng nodded.

"Yes, you should have known that from now on, Haiyuan City will be under our management."

At this point, Fang Zheng crossed his arms and looked at Cocolia in front of him. Generally speaking, the other party would either jump up and down, get angry, or make demands.

However……

"Of course not."

Cocolia was so straightforward that it was like a clearance sale.

"I have already heard the details from Einstein. Since you are here for this purpose, the Eye of the Abyss will be left to you."

Having said that, Cocolia smiled at Fang Zheng.

"Then please make yourselves at your own pace. Einstein is as familiar with the situation here as I am. She will assist you."

After saying this, Cocolia turned around and left, while Fang Zheng scratched his head and looked at Einstein beside him in confusion.

"So easy to talk to?"

"That woman must be up to something."

Einstein shook his head, still with a serious look on his face. Now Fang Zheng finally understood why Einstein looked like he had swallowed a bitter herb. The feeling of punching nothing was really too uncomfortable.

"No matter what she wants to do, I will let her know that everything she does is in vain."

Fang Zheng didn't care at all, he just shrugged and said something casually. Einstein looked at him and shook his head.

"I really don't know where you get the confidence from..."

"With food in hand, there is no need to panic. In the final analysis, strength is the basis of everything. Even if this guy wants to secretly set a trap and throw us all into the quantum sea, I have a way to get everyone out of it. So no matter what she wants to do, it doesn't make any sense to me..."

"I hope so."

Perhaps because he was moved by Fang Zheng’s confidence, Einstein’s expression returned to its original state.

"Cocolia agreed to let us take over Haiyuan City. Although I don't know what she is up to, we should still do what we should do. It will take some time to stabilize the Quantum Sea..."

"Then I'll let the little girls out to relax. This place is indeed a very suitable place for tourism."

After a brief chat, Einstein took his people to take over Haiyuan City. Fang Zheng teleported Kotegawa Yui and the others from the battleship and asked them to take a good look at the place.

As expected, after seeing this city in the sea, everyone seemed excited and thrilled. Although the girls had seen a lot of things since coming to this world, this was the first time they had seen something as romantic as a city in the sea.

Apart from anything else, just standing here and looking at the swimming fish outside and the beautiful blue seabed scenery around them has made the girls say that the trip is worthwhile.

The twins named Rosalia and Lilia also joined in. They were particularly interested in Lala and the other three Devilukes. Perhaps because they all had tails, the two girls were quite enthusiastic towards them. Lala and the others were also very friendly to Rosalia and Lilia, and the two sides quickly became friends.

Fang Zheng found a place to sit down, watching the girls laughing and playing not far away, which was quite relaxing. But soon, he saw Bronya walking towards him, but the girl's expression now seemed a little gloomy. Seeing Fang Zheng, Bronya hesitated for a moment and spoke.

"I'm sorry, Bronya..."

"The negotiation broke down? That's nothing. Come, sit down."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng patted the chair next to him. Bronya hesitated for a moment, then sat on the chair.

"Did you see that?"

"A little bit. Anyway, I can guess that things don't seem to be going well between you and that woman."

When visiting Haiyuan City just now, Fang Zheng saw the dispute between Bronya and Cocolia. Although they were far away at that time and could not hear what they were saying, Fang Zheng did see Bronya slap away Cocolia's hand that was reaching out to her, and then turned away, while Cocolia stood there without saying a word.

“…”

Bronya didn't say anything, but just looked at the scenery in front of her silently, then she asked in a low voice.

"Yuuki, do you think... this is right? In order to deal with Houkai, we must sacrifice something, no matter what it is?"

"Of course...it's not right."

"……Yeah?"

"That's right."

Fang Zheng nodded.

"I don't deny that humans do need to make sacrifices in order to fight. Sometimes it's sacrificing oneself, sometimes it's sacrificing others. But the question is, is this active or passive?"

“…Does it make any difference?”

"certainly."

Fang Zheng spread his hands.

"When you are in danger, you may indeed lose something. But this is a sacrifice you can't do anything about, all you can do is accept it. This is indeed something that cannot be helped, however, sacrificing something on your own initiative is different. Indeed, Honkai is a disaster, and we have no way to revive those who died in the disaster. We may feel sad and painful for their sacrifice, but all we can do is accept it. However, even so, it does not mean that we must sacrifice something in order to face and eliminate Honkai."

Having said this, Fang Zheng snorted coldly.

This is why he dislikes Otto. Because passive sacrifice and active sacrifice are completely different things.

There is a story about China's well-known hepatitis B vaccine. It is about Professor Tao Qimin, who was developing the vaccine at the time. He successfully produced the first hepatitis B vaccine, but they could not afford gorillas to test the effectiveness of the vaccine, so Professor Tao Qimin used himself as a test subject and injected himself with the hepatitis B vaccine.

This is a necessary sacrifice. If they had enough money to buy gorillas for this experiment, who would really be willing to inject themselves with a vaccine whose effectiveness has never been verified? Success is naturally a good thing, but what about failure?

It's touching to talk about Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs, but in the final analysis it was because he had no other choice.

However, in the face of collapse, is there really no way out?

Passive sacrifice is something you cannot control, but you have to actively sacrifice something for it? Just because "there is no other way"?

Or is it because you don't want to think of a solution?

This is true for Otto and Cocolia as well.

This is just like when humans face drought, they don’t think about how to develop artificial rainfall, but instead throw a boy and girl into the river every year to pray for rain and plenty of food.

Simple and crude, it may be effective or not.

Who knows?

There is no alternative but to sacrifice.

There is no other way, so sacrifices must be made.

At first glance they seem similar, but in fact there is a world of difference between the two.

In Fang Zheng's opinion, both Otto and Cocolia are actually minions of Honkai.

Because in order to save all this, they abandoned their humanity.

If people lose their humanity, then the basis for human existence will no longer exist.

Fang Zheng had also read from the Destiny database that before this generation, in the pre-civilization era, they had also fought against the collapse at all costs, even abandoning their own dignity and humanity as human beings, and only wanted to survive.

However, in the end they all failed.

If people abandon their humanity, then what is the difference between them and two-legged animals?

So in Fang Zheng's opinion, this is why the previous civilization, even though so advanced, was eventually collapsed and destroyed.

They lost their humanity, and they are no longer called human beings. In the end, even if they really defeated the collapse at this cost, they would no longer be called human beings. So in the final analysis, they cannot uphold their dignity as human beings, so how can they defeat the collapse?

The heroes of that era have always said that in order to defeat Honkai, they are even willing to abandon everything and turn into demons.

However, when they made this choice, they had actually already lost to the collapse.

It's just that they themselves don't know it yet.

If you are no longer a human being, then the goal you are fighting for will no longer exist. Just like Fang Zheng, even if he is now the Time Dragon, the God of Magical Girls, the God of Games, and the God of Love... forget about the last one.

But he still insisted on his human character and ideas. He still liked to spend money, cheat people, and flirt with girls. He hated Americans and always put Shenzhou first. Fang Zheng didn't know what other gods were like, but he had always been like this. It was like this before, it is like this now, and it will be like this in the future.

Only if one possesses human nature can one be qualified to be called a human being. Once one loses human nature, one is automatically expelled from the human race.

However, for some people, they seem to completely fail to understand this truth.