I am the savior, but I am being asked by Alicia and the others to pay me back.

Without waiting for Ye Ming to respond, Xiao Zhi, who wanted to say whatever he wanted to say, took the initiative and said:

"It's not your turn."

"..."

Logically speaking, Shibao was expressing that there were too many people who wanted to be intimate with Ye Ming, and these players wouldn’t have a chance.

But when these words came out of her mouth, Ye Ming felt uncomfortable.

·············

In the game, it was already getting late, and Alicia and Mei decided to meet again the next morning.

At that time, she and Mei will witness the birth and end of the "Thirteenth Herrscher" together.

After that, Mei, who had nothing to do, decided to experience Alicia's memories a little more.

But in the process, I met Hua.

The two chatted for a while and talked about the topic of the Yingjie system.

Hua told Mei that, in fact, although the Thirteen Heroes were rejected at first, there was still a compromise plan that allowed Alicia to establish the Five Heroes.

There are five people: Alicia, Kevin, Weiwei, Su, and Hua.

The reasons for the rejection of other candidates are different and it is not hard to guess, except for Padu...

When Alicia mentioned Padu Felice, the upper echelons of the Fire Moth were all shocked.

They all asked: Who is Paduo?

However, even so, thanks to Alicia's efforts, the name of "Thirteen Heroes" was passed down.

She also organized many activities, basically with the theme of love and affection. Although the fun in them would bother many people, no one could resist Alicia's enthusiasm.

In the end, everyone basically recognized their own heroic identities, and found a glimmer of redemption for their "lost hope and future" in the sense of identity and belonging.

[This is the early prototype of Aimen]

[Fuck, now that you mention it, it seems that Thirteen Heroes is the predecessor of Aimen]

After seeing Hua off, the screen went black and silent.

Then, the memories came to a dark and windy night.

"Are you ready to go, Sakura?"

Sakura heard the sound and pricked up her ears nervously and looked around.

After seeing that the person coming was Alicia, I finally felt relieved.

"Yes, I told Ling the meeting place. We will set out separately... I will be the bait to shake off the pursuers."

"elder sister……"

Seeing this, Ling's heart suddenly rose to her throat.

"There's no time to prepare a safer plan. I can only give it a try. But you, are you okay?"

"Me? Are you saying I can't bear to leave you? Of course that matters." Alicia was still joking.

Sakura explained why she was cautious:

"You were the one who told me the news that Ling was identified as the twelfth Herrscher. If we disappear, you will likely be suspected and even held responsible."

“They shouldn’t be able to guess me.”

Alicia was still as optimistic as ever, but Sakura's words made countless players explode.

[Ling is... the twelfth Herrscher?! ]

[So this is the reason for Ling's tragic death! ? ]

Before this, Ling's death was only mentioned, but what happened specifically and the scenes at that time were only briefly mentioned.

Players have only seen the miserable appearance of Ying dying in the ruins, but they don’t know how Ling died.

And now, the long-buried secret has been revealed, Ling, the twelfth Herrscher... just putting these two words together, the ominous omen made everyone gasp.

"..."

Of course, the one who was most panicked was Ling herself.

Before this, she had comforted her sister more than once, saying that her death might not be that sad.

When Raven mentioned that there was a hidden story behind this, Ling became even more certain that there might be a relatively less bad ending between her and her sister.

But now, the words of the Twelfth Ruler directly shattered her fantasy.

“They wouldn’t have guessed it was me.”

Facing Sakura's concerns, Alicia said calmly:

"Even if they guessed it, what can they do to me?"

Sakura said sadly, "Maybe... they'll lock you up, just like they planned to do to Ling."

Alicia remained optimistic: "I am Alicia, who once sat at the top of the Thirteen Heroes. Where can I be held captive?"

"Thirteen Heroes?... At first I thought it was just a joke you made on the spur of the moment, but I didn't expect you to persist until now."

Sakura felt relieved, but at the same time she asked Alicia with trepidation:

"Ling... is she really okay? The Fire Moth wouldn't have assumed she was the Twelfth Herrscher without any basis..."

Sakura looked extremely confused, and her inner turmoil was evident in her words:

"If... I mean if... she really becomes an enemy of humanity, I..."

Before Sakura could finish her words, Alicia asked back:

"Do you feel anything strange about... Ling?"

"No," Ying confirmed, "She is still the same Ling, my sister."

Seeing this, Ling's expression was full of conflict. She was extremely pleased with her sister's trust in her, but she was also afraid that she would disappoint her sister.

Ling has no confidence in herself who died tragically, but Alysia is very sure:

"Then she is human. No matter what the Fire Moths have discovered, they don't know Ling any better than you do."

Ying nodded: "Well, I believe Ling, and I believe you too."

After deciding on the rescue plan, Alicia remembered one more thing.

"By the way, do you want to... go to the paradise again to synchronize your memories?"

"It would be a shame if I didn't record the emotions I just felt."

In response, Sakura shook her head:

"No, this is better. I don't want "that me" to know what happened to Ling."

"Even if I'm just a memory, I hope... that I won't have to face this kind of difficult choice again."

601. Garen's Whisper

"I understand. Next time when we synchronize our memories, I will remind everyone over there to keep it a secret from you."

Another simple sentence, revealing a heart-wrenching truth.

"That is to say, my sister in the paradise of the past... knows nothing..."

Following Ling's summary, other players also realized that something was not right.

[If Sakura in Paradise knew about this...]

The famous playwright Chekhov has a famous saying that if a gun appears in the picture, it will definitely go off.

Everyone knew that if Ying knew about this, things would be very bad, but...

The scene changed, and Sakura from Paradise had arrived at the archives room.

And that magical typewriter is already filled with the past of Sakura and her sister Ling.

Immediately afterwards, the content that Ye Ming had once mentioned briefly appeared in front of Ying and was presented to all the players.

Ling, who was identified as the twelfth Herrscher by the Fire Moth, was imprisoned and was facing a death sentence.

In order to rescue her sister, Sakura did not hesitate to become the enemy of the entire Fire Moth, and as a "traitor", she defeated the prison guards along the way.

In the end, the one standing in her way was... Kevin.

"Stop it, Sakura. Your actions are tantamount to betrayal of humanity."

"Betraying humanity? Ling is innocent! She didn't do anything. You can't consider her a threat, let alone imprison her!"

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

"What does it mean to have a Houkai reaction? You and I both have Houkai beast factors in our bodies, but we are fusion warriors who protect humans."

Sakura still refuses to believe that her sister will become a Herrscher, while Kevin hopes that Sakura can trust Dr. Mei's supervision.

"I don't doubt Mei, but I can't trust the Fire Moths. You know how those people have been looking at us."

Even if they are clearly on their side, fusion warriors will still be feared and hated. If they are suspected of being a Herrscher, the situation will be ten times worse.

"I don't care what happens to me, but now that Ling has fallen into their hands, I will never sit idly by."

Communication was ineffective and the two eventually came to a standoff. Sakura, relying on her own abilities, dodged Kevin's attack and continued to run deeper at an extremely fast speed.

The alarm that the base was under attack also made Kevin stop the pursuit and turn to deal with more serious situations.

"Faster...faster..."

Sakura rushed through the corridor, her figure passing by one iron door after another. The increasingly intense alarm sounds continued to irritate her nerves.

"Ling...where are you?"

The rapid voice and the tone of voice that seemed to be about to cry made Ling feel heartbroken, as if she could feel the pain in her heart and lungs just by breathing.

"Found it! 769...767, Ling's room is right in front!"

The door of the confinement room was not locked. Ying broke in and looked into the depths of the room impatiently...

But all he saw was Ling's body lying in a pool of blood.

"..."

The air was filled with the smell of blood, and the scene in her eyes impacted Sakura's brain, leaving a deep imprint in the depths of her consciousness.

Countless broken bones, bruises, cuts, and blood staining the entire room...

What kind of cruel despair did Ling experience before she died that led to such a shocking death.

In order to take care of the players... no, to be exact, to take care of Ying and Ling's feelings, Ye Ming did not release the process of Ling's murder.

But it is precisely because of this that it triggers creepy fantasies.

"..."

Sakura's eyes were dead, and she knelt on the ground like a pale corpse.

She didn't know what kind of person could do such a devilish thing.

But even if we knew who it was, it would be meaningless.

The bottomless malice was more terrifying than the coldness on Kevin's body at this moment.

And then... the truth emerged in the communication between Dr. Mei and Kevin.

The twelfth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Corrosion, is an ultimate virus that can infect both humans and machines.

In other words... Ling is innocent.

Even if she was infected, she shouldn't have been killed so cruelly.

"..."

"..."

At this moment, the Herrscher of Corrosion seemed to have replaced the virus with silence, spreading it to all the players and everyone in the studio.