Soon, Fang Zheng and Karen also walked out of the cell, only to see Ying Zheng observing the drone not far away with a serious expression. Karen looked at those things, confused - as a person from the Middle Ages five hundred years ago, she naturally didn't know what the disc floating in the air and glowing was.

But before Kallen could ask, Fang Zheng gestured to her, causing her to shut up. Then Fang Zheng looked at Ying and asked.

"Ms. Sakura, where are we going next?"

"Bypass these guards and take the elevator to the archives room. I have something to investigate."

Sakura answered without turning her head, and then when the security drones moved, she immediately walked out from the corner.

"They're starting to move, let's go! Follow me closely and don't get discovered!"

Led by Sakura, the two followed her through the drone guards and into the elevator. Then the three of them arrived at a certain floor of the base.

"The archives room is on this floor. You stay here first and don't move around. The road leading to the archives room is guarded. It seems that you can't hide there."

Staring warily at the security robot in front of her, Sakura spoke to the two in a low voice.

"What should we do then?"

"I have a solution. Keep your head down and don't make any noise."

As she spoke, Ying walked forward, and just as she appeared in front of the robot guard, a light suddenly flashed in the other's eyes.

[Warning, the area ahead is non-public, please show your identity]

Facing the robot guard's questions, Sakura seemed very calm.

"Sakura. Identification number: CM-004."

[Authentication in progress——Authentication passed, good evening, warrior of the Fire Moth]

"?"

Hearing this, Fang Zheng and Karen exchanged glances, and then Karen asked in a low voice.

"What's going on? Miss Yae is from this base? Then why is she being so secretive?"

"Maybe it's the other way around. Aren't you an example?"

“…”

Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Kallen closed her mouth and glared at him fiercely, while the latter shrugged his shoulders, looking unconcerned.

At this time, Sakura was still talking to the guard.

"We caught two escaped test subjects."

As she spoke, Sakura pointed at the two of them.

"They refused to reveal their identities, so Dr. Mei asked me to come to the archives to check which floor they escaped from."

Mei? Wow, this is really a big giveaway for an acquaintance.

Hearing this, Fang Zheng laughed inwardly. This was really interesting. Mei could actually become a doctor... He could tell this as a joke to them when he got home.

But unfortunately...

[Authorization verification failed, you do not have permission to access the archive room]

"cut!"

Hearing the guard's answer, Ying's face changed, and then she suddenly drew out her knife and swung it towards the guard robot in front of her. The next moment, the robot was cut in half by Ying and exploded completely. Immediately afterwards, a rapid alarm sounded.

"We can only break through by force. You hide behind me!"

"We can fight, too, Miss Sakura."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng stretched out his hand and summoned a great sword from the void. At the same time, Karin on the other side also took out a pistol from her arms.

"you……"

Seeing the two people's reactions, Ying was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

"Well, please!"

At the same time, security robots came from all directions and began to attack the three people.

Although these robot guards looked ferocious, they were nothing to Fang Zheng. The Sakura in this world was also a seasoned warrior. As the Valkyrie of destiny, even though Kallen was completely confused by everything in front of her, her combat skills were still sharp. Soon, the three of them teamed up to defeat these security robots and continued to move deeper into the passage.

And Kallen's identity also caught Sakura's attention.

"Karen, this is... a stigma?"

"Why?"

Hearing Ying's question, Kallen was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at Fang Zheng in confusion. Ying seemed to have mistaken her panic for fear, and smiled slightly, and hurriedly comforted her.

"Don't worry, you haven't done anything wrong. This is a great power. You shouldn't be locked up here. I will let you go..."

As they were talking, the three of them came to the archive room. Ying walked to the screen and typed something on it. Then she shook her head and walked aside.

"It looks like it will take some time. Let's take a rest here."

"OK."

After hearing what Ying said, the two nodded. Fang Zheng glanced at the terminal and then gestured to Kallen.

"You go talk to Sakura, I'll investigate that terminal and see if I can find any information."

"OK."

Kallen nodded, and then came to Ying and started chatting with her. Fang Zheng walked to the screen, quietly opened his personal terminal, quickly cracked the firewall of the network system, and began to copy a large amount of intelligence information inside. Although he didn't know when this time fragment happened, Fang Zheng always wanted to take advantage of the situation. Since he was here, if he didn't plunder it first, wouldn't it be a waste of all his years of playing games?

Just after Fang Zheng finished copying the information, Ying also got the clue she wanted.

"Found it. They locked Rin up on the 33rd floor underground! Follow me!"

Soon, the three of them left the archive room and came to the 33rd floor. Unlike before, the corridors here were lined with empty incubators. The dark green light shone in the dim corridor, making it look extremely eerie and scary. At this moment, Ying suddenly stopped and stared at the front.

"Oh no, a troublemaker has appeared."

Then, everyone saw a white-haired man holding a flaming sword slowly walking out from the depths of the passage. He stared at Ying and slowly spoke.

"Sakura, stop it."

Sakura didn't care at all about the white-haired man's advice.

"Get out of the way, Kevin! I know exactly what I'm doing!"

"I know that too, that's why I have to stop you, Sakura. Stop before things become irreversible!"

The white-haired man named Kevin stared at Sakura and spoke again.

"Your behavior is tantamount to betrayal of humanity!"

"Betraying humanity?"

Hearing this, Sakura immediately raised her eyebrows.

"Rin is innocent! She didn't do anything. You can't just assume she's a threat, let alone imprison her!"

However, in response to Sakura's rebuttal, Kevin simply shook his head.

"A special Houkai energy reaction was detected in Rin's body. There is no doubt that she is the twelfth Herrscher."

"Why?!"

Hearing this, Karin was shocked, and Fang Zheng curled his lips.

Oh, this is interesting...

But Sakura obviously didn't care about that.

"What does having Honkai energy mean? You and I also have Honkai beast genes in our bodies, but we are fusion warriors who protect humanity! Rin doesn't have any symptoms, she can control that power! She won't hurt others! You... can't take away her life!"

"I'm not letting you pass here no matter what, Sakura."

"…I don't want to do this, but Kevin, you haven't seen my true power yet."

At this moment, Ying was staring at Kevin with a serious expression. Just when the two sides were about to fight... Fang Zheng's figure suddenly inserted himself between them.

"I'll hold him off, Miss Sakura."

"Hey? You?"

Sakura and Kallen were startled when they heard Fang Zheng's words.

"but……"

"Leave it to me. I promise I won't let this guy get in your way."

Fang Zheng raised Frostmourne in his hand and looked at the white-haired man holding the flaming sword in front of him.

"I have seen almost everything that happened. I agree with your opinion, Miss Sakura, so... you should go and rescue Rin as soon as possible. Leave this guy to me."

"……careful."

Hearing this, Sakura was silent for a moment, then spoke in a low voice.

"This man's power is extraordinary. He is Kevin Kaslana, the number one of the Fire Moths. Don't underestimate him!"

"Hey hey hey hey hey!!!???"

Hearing this, Karen screamed. She stared at the white-haired man in amazement, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"As long as he doesn't look down on me."

Fang Zheng swung the sword again, blocking Kevin's sight.

"Hurry up, Miss Sakura, aren't you in a hurry?"

“…Please.”

Ying knew that there was no time to waste here, so she gritted her teeth and grabbed Kallen. The next moment, the two of them flashed and somehow appeared in front of Kevin. Seeing this, Kevin was also startled and hurriedly turned around to chase after the two. At the same time, the pitch-black sword mixed with the whistling cold wind chopped down at him, forcing Kevin to turn around and block Fang Zheng's sneak attack.

"Okay, come play with me, white-haired man."

Fang Zheng stared at Kevin in front of him, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Show me what you can do!"

Time paused at this moment, and then, flames and cold wind, light and darkness, white and black, collided with each other like a tide, bursting out unprecedented waves.

The scorching flames enveloped the entire space, and the flaming sword was swung out as if to burn even the air, covering everything in front of it in endless high temperature.

However, the howling cold wind came from the other side, penetrating into the bone marrow, and the piercing cold that seemed to freeze even the soul covered the corridor, frost howled, and heavy snow flew. Facing the huge waves of fire, they came head-on and collided with each other.

"What are you doing! You have no idea what kind of fate this will bring!"

Kevin brandished the flaming sword and shouted angrily at Fang Zheng in front of him. However, what he got was the latter's ridicule and mockery.

"I don't care about that. I just know that it's wrong for a group of you to team up and bully an innocent little girl."

"This is for the future of mankind! We must do this to save mankind! Only in this way can mankind survive!"

"They are just beasts. Only beasts would do such things. You are no longer worthy of being called human beings. You are just monsters wearing human skin and using high-sounding reasons to cover up your animal nature. Since you are human beings, how about facing your fate with dignity as human beings in the end?"

"Stop joking!"

Kevin roared again, and at the same time, the corridors around him began to collapse and urgent alarms sounded. However, neither side cared about these things at the moment, but stared at each other and raised the swords in their hands.

"I swear, no matter what the cost, humanity must defeat the Honkai!"

"Only humans can defeat the Honkai."

Fang Zheng tightly grasped Frostmourne and stared at Kevin with narrowed eyes.

"But I'm sorry, you are no longer human."

Both parties grasped their swords tightly, looked at each other, and then - two sword lights flew towards each other, crossing each other.

Then the next moment, the world turned around.

When Fang Zheng opened his eyes again, they were back in the cold cell again, and Karen was sitting beside them, motionless, but her eyes were red, as if she had just cried bitterly.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Fang Zheng stretched out his hand and waved it towards Karin. The latter was stunned for a moment, then quickly stood up and looked around.

“We are…”

"We're back to the beginning of the story... Well, tell me, what happened to you and Sakura after that?"

“…”

Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Karen was silent for a moment, and then told her and Sakura's experience in detail. After Fang Zheng blocked the man named Kevin, the two went to the floor where Sakura's sister Lin was. But what they didn't expect was that the entire base seemed to be infected on the way, and many members of the base became dead soldiers.

And just when Sakura finally made it to the cell where Rin was imprisoned, all she saw was... the dead body of her sister.

She did not die of disease, but was killed by the people in the base out of fear. However, what no one expected was that it was because of her death that the twelfth Herrscher - the Herrscher of Corrosion - awakened.

The following part was a little confusing because it involved something that Kallen didn't understand, but Fang Zheng still understood it. Obviously, the 12th Herrscher had hacked into the base's control system and launched nuclear bombs to destroy the three remaining cities of humanity. On the other side, Sakura also defeated her sister, who was a Herrscher, and died. Her sister was sealed in the black box by the doctor at the last moment - the black box that Kallen was holding.

"What on earth is going on?"

Kallen was completely confused at this moment. She understood the origin of the black box she had obtained, but she couldn't figure out what was going on in this world. The Twelfth Herrscher? The Fire Moth? Kevin Kaslana? She had never heard of these before? !

There is no such person in the Kaslana family, right?

“It’s very simple.”

Relatively speaking, Fang Zheng was very calm.

"You are a member of the Destiny Organization, so you should have heard that before our current world, there was another civilization that existed, but it was eventually destroyed."

"Of course I know that... Hey? So you mean, this is a record of an ancient civilization?"

"Strictly speaking, it should be considered the dream of the Twelfth Herrscher."

Fang Zheng knocked on the wall.

"Obviously, she used this method to pull Yae Sakura into her dream and transformed her into another Sakura. In this dream, Sakura would try to save her sister over and over again. But obviously, she failed every time. As a result, she would become desperate and full of anger, and then... be corrupted by the Herrscher."

"But why did she choose Miss Yae?"

"After seeing the look on Sakura and her sister, you still don't understand?"

"this……"

Hearing this, Kallen was also stunned.

"Wait, this is... something from the Ancient Century, right? But Miss Yae and her sister..."

"Maybe it's reincarnation, or maybe they just look alike, who knows."

Fang Zheng shrugged.

"So what should we do?"

“It’s very simple.”

Fang Zheng snapped his fingers.

"As long as you rescue Rin, then everything will be fine."