Offer a savior to the infinite world!

"Go ahead, be careful and don't make too much noise."

Lin Yi said this and took the lead to move forward, continuing to walk towards the top of the building.

More inscriptions were found, which seemed to be left by someone who suddenly thought of something while walking. All the handwriting was crooked and looked like the graffiti of a drunkard. But the content was completely different. It was obvious that the person had not lost his thinking ability, but there was always a weird feeling.

[Flames reshape life]

[The flame makes us inseparable]

[Flame gives us new form]

[This flame brings new possibilities. I must understand it. I must understand it.]

Lin Yi's fingers gently brushed across the words on the wall. As he walked, he continued to look at these words that were left behind at an unknown time.

[I cannot grasp paper or pen, I melt and gather, I exist but I cannot exist, I am changing every moment, I am understanding every moment]

[I can no longer hide myself. My mind has become transparent and can be seen by everyone. The seven of us who are left, the only seven people who still have our own selves, can now directly transmit our thoughts to each other.]

[My memories, my emotions, my thoughts, and everyone's thoughts are all blended together. We can hear everyone's voice, and everyone can hear our voices. The fire melts all the barriers between us, and everyone can understand each other.]

How is this done?

[Why didn't we just die and become monsters who know nothing like everyone else? ]

[What is the difference between us and others? How can the formula be solved? I want to know, I must know, I want to know what it is, I want to understand the essence of this thing]

As he moved forward, more and more words began to appear densely on the wall. Especially when he reached the staircase on the second floor, the words almost covered the entire wall. The writer seemed to want these things to be seen, but it was also possible that he just happened to be here, so he left his notes here.

"It seems that someone stayed here some time ago."

As Shane spoke, he stepped into the room on the second floor. Under Jianzi's somewhat nervous gaze, he picked up a teacup that had fallen to the ground and seemed to be half melted due to the high temperature.

"And there is a good chance there will be more than one person."

Following Lin Yi in, he looked towards the house in front of him.

This is a lounge. A pool table, a wine cabinet, an old-fashioned record player and some other elegant-looking entertainment facilities are neatly arranged in various corners of the room. It seems that a lot of time, effort, and of course money have been spent on creating the environment here.

But now, many of the furniture here are in a charred or half-melted state, and the carpet is full of black footprints, showing traces of many people walking back and forth. Near the door that seems to have been squeezed out by something, the carpet has been completely burned, and there are traces of something being dragged on the exposed ground, as if a large piece of burning rotten meat has been crawling on it.

Hmm, the burning piece of meat? Could it be the guy sleeping down there?

Some notebooks were burnt to the point where only a small part was left, and the rest had already turned to ashes. When the notebooks that still had some structure left were opened, some incomplete records could be seen inside.

Lin Yi spent some time analyzing these contents, and finally roughly determined that these should be the notes of the survivors who left here.

The time of these notes should be the earliest moment. In the only remaining written records, Lin Yi discovered that when this place was just moved away from the real world, there should have been a considerable number of survivors. At that time, the ruins of the research base seemed to be in a space that was almost completely dark, with only a dim yellow light whose source could not be seen shining from the surroundings, ensuring that they would not live in an absolutely dark environment.

Many other things were hard to tell. Lin Yi could only roughly determine that the bodies of the survivors seemed to have gradually changed under the light, and their spirits had also changed. As for the specific content of this so-called change, there was no way to know. However, it was not impossible to guess, after all, they had dealt with those invisible monsters many times.

"A controlled trial?"

Putting down the torn notebook, Lin Yi walked deeper into the lounge.

At the end of the lounge, there was a metal door that had been opened and was twisted and burned.

There is a burnt chair behind the door, and the windows in the room are completely sealed, completely blocking any light source from coming in. There are still some traces of modification on this burnt and deformed door, and some traces of stacking and covering can be seen on the gap of the door.

"What is this place?"

Emiya Shirou walked up from behind, looked at the chair in the room, frowned slightly and asked.

"Poor guy, well, it looks like he's proven something."

Lin Yi stepped into the room, his eyes swept across some opened, empty cans lying on the ground, and then turned his gaze to the wall inside the room, to some messy words left on the wall.

[My comrades, my brothers, reject the flames, reject us]

[Why do you avoid the flame of rebirth? Why don't you open your heart to us and accept everything about us?]

【We should move forward together, seek the truth together, and work together for our future】

[Don't be afraid, you already live among us, you already walk with us]

[I don't allow you to reject this warmth, please believe that this is for your own good, for the good of all of us]

Reach out and gently touch the words.

Then he turned around and looked at the chair in the room, and at a sunken human-shaped structure among the burn marks on the chair.

Closing his eyes and opening them again, Lin Yi seemed to have seen what had happened at that time.

“These researchers, after they were initially thrown into this place, are still trying to parse out the situation they’re in.”

"They managed to conduct some kind of controlled experiment. A volunteer entered the room, and then they managed to completely seal the windows and doors. Well, I guess there should be some kind of oxygen supply equipment in the room. Anyway, this volunteer stayed in the room for a long time, so long that the people who were supposed to be used as controls with him all lost themselves and turned into those invisible, burning, twisted monsters."

"Then, on the day when his companions who were exposed to the light completely lost their minds, they tore open this door, rushed into this room, pressed the volunteer who did not turn into their own kind on this chair and burned him to death... Well, no, it should be that he was dissolved into a pool of mud by the flames. Well, it's a tragic story, but at least he did prove something. I suspect that if we stay in this place for too long, even if no monsters come to catch us, we will gradually change, lose our self and form, and become the same as those monsters, right?"

In his low voice, Lin Yi expressed what he felt about the past revealed by the burnt and dilapidated remains.

It was not until he finished speaking that I came to my senses and turned around to see Shirou Emiya with a rather ugly expression, the special forces team who had retreated quite a distance for some reason, and Miko who looked like she wanted to run away but was still forcing herself to stand still, but the expression on her face had become very // aggrieved.

"Uh, what's going on with you guys?"

Lin Yi was puzzled by his teammates' strange reactions.

"How should I put it... Mr. Lin Yi, when you were saying those words just now, the expression on your face was a little too intoxicated, as if you were acting as one of those monsters who dissolved and killed their victims alive... Well, in short, your expression and movements were very vivid..."

It's so vivid that I feel like if those monsters could be seen, they might look like you just now.

Even more rude words circled around the boy's mouth, but in the end he didn't say it.

"Uh... it's not that serious, right, Jianzi?"

Lin Yi, who had not expected to be described like this, was somewhat shocked and tried to seek help from his juniors.

Jianzi: "..."

Lin Yi: “⊙︿⊙”

Jianzi: "...QAQ"

Lin Yi: “(._.)”

Well, it seems that I really need to be more careful next time when I am deducing the scene.

Chapter 22: May your future be smooth

It didn't take long to find the backup power source, and there they encountered a burning monster.

Hmm...or rather, the remains of that monster?

"Its body has been completely split apart. Its limbs, torso, and head are all completely detached and have all become half-melted. Um, senior, you are already very close to it, but this thing still has no reaction. It seems to have lost the ability to sense the outside world."

Jianzi, who was standing not far away and observing the situation carefully, said to Lin Yi in front of him. As for Lin Yi himself, he picked up a bent steel bar, held the gun in his other hand, and poked it forward slightly.

Well, it looks like it did hit something.

After throwing away the steel bar and confirming from Jianzi that the monster still had no reaction, as if it was really dead, Lin Yi frowned.

Then he installed a silencer on the muzzle of the gun and fired six bullets to put it to eternal rest.

"Hey, do we have to fight even if they don't attack us?"

Unexpectedly, after confirming for a long time, Lin Yi killed the other party without hesitation. Jian Zi tilted his head and showed a somewhat confused expression.

"I just wanted to confirm the situation of this thing, but even if this monster really won't attack us, it is still too dangerous. We can't risk our lives on the enemy's whim. Unless you are sure that the other party will not hurt you, don't sympathize with something you don't know the details of. It's easy to fall into a bad situation if you do that."

Lin Yi walked to Jianzi's side and tapped the girl on the head while speaking.

The girl let out a low whine and ruffled her hair, but didn't say anything in rebuttal.

She could tell that Lin Yi was teaching her what to do as a rescuer. When facing an unknown situation, you can't just deal with it carelessly. You must find a way to figure it out, at least confirm the threat. For things that are threatening but difficult to understand, it's best to treat them with a heart of stone, otherwise you might encounter misfortune. The girl nodded slightly, remembering these words in her heart, and secretly decided to put them into practice in her future life.

Well, the prerequisite is that she can really find a way to become stronger after the first mission as Senior Lin Yi said, and have the ability to resist those things.

"How's the situation here?"

Looking past the various densely packed wires and the somewhat damaged mechanical equipment in the house, Lin Yi looked at Shirou Emiya and a technical soldier who were busy not far away, and asked them seriously.

"It's almost done. The damage here isn't too serious. It should be fixed in 3 minutes."

Shirou Emiya wiped the black ash off his cheeks and continued to adjust the rather sophisticated equipment in front of him.

"What on earth do you do, young man? How can you even use this kind of military equipment right away?"

The technical soldier probably thought that he was the main force in maintenance, but when he really started working, he found that Shirou Weimiya was more familiar with the mechanical structure than him, a veteran with more than ten years of experience. This made him feel a little frustrated, so he couldn't help but ask.

"It's my personal ability. I can analyze the structure of various items. Although this mechanical device is complex, it doesn't contain any troublesome things like [mystery], so it can be analyzed quickly. With this ability, I can quickly figure out its structure and find out where the problem is. Well, this side is a little loose. Give me some adhesive. Well, it would be better if you could give me the micro-welding machine as well."

As the boy spoke, he took the things from the technician and continued to tinker with the machine in front of him.

Unlike Lin Yi, who always talked to himself and acted on his own, and often made people confused about his inner thoughts, Shirou Emiya always had a gentle smile on his face, and always insisted on standing at the end of the team to guard against any incoming enemies. Therefore, he quickly became friends with these big-headed soldiers, and everyone liked this slightly dull but friendly and gentle young man. If the current situation did not allow it, maybe someone would have wanted to buy Shirou a few drinks in the lounge just now.

"Mr. Lin Yi, we have found some text here. Can you interpret it?"

While waiting for Shirou Emiya and the technicians to repair the backup power supply, Shane walked up to Lin Yi and said.

The place the other party was talking about was in a relatively hidden corner on the side of the room where the power supply was located, and it was deliberately blocked with a metal table, as if they were worried that someone would discover it and erase or modify it.

Lin Yi's gaze paused on the burnt marks on the table, then he moved the table away and looked behind it. Then he saw what Shane had mentioned, some extremely messy words carved on the wall.

Well, the handwriting below seems to be from the same person.

Frowning, Lin Yi observed the words carefully. The handwriting was so messy that local people like Xie En could not recognize the content. But with the help of the system's auxiliary translation function, Lin Yi was able to understand what was recorded there. It just took some time to decipher it.

I am Ira

I turned off the backup power.

[I don’t know how long I can stay awake. My body and my consciousness are gradually no longer mine.]

[The Fire of Rebirth, He calls Himself that]

[He is not a simple flame, but a living thing, something beyond our understanding, something we should not touch]

[I don't know how to describe that flame. He, maybe he is a god? I don't believe in gods, but if gods really exist, I think only things like this can be qualified to be called gods. However, he is not a good god, but an evil god.]

[Polva, who volunteered to participate in the control experiment, died 6 hours ago. My companions have embraced the flame of rebirth before me, and have completely transformed from the inside out into something other than human. I don’t think I can hold on for much longer.]

[Ordinary weapons cannot kill us. Even if I tried to tear off Lin Luo... no, tear off the limbs and head of Subject 1 and destroy her senses, she still did not die. We cannot die by hurting each other. It's a pity. I thought I could find a way to end everything, but now it seems that everything will still go to the worst outcome.]

[However, at least I can turn off the backup power supply. My method was a bit rough, and I guess the technicians will complain to me after I repair it. Although I can no longer hear the complaints from those respectable soldiers, it is a pity.]

[But only in this way, they who have been transformed, and I who will soon be transformed, will stop. Our current bodies are no longer able to repair the power supply, and without the power supply, most of our experiments will be forced to terminate. Then I will find a way to dismantle my companions and make them all stop. I hope I can do it. I hope I can do it before I completely lose myself and throw myself into the great fire of rebirth.]

[I don’t know if anyone can still see these words, or recognize the traces I left behind, but at least I hope you can know that we once fought against this terrible nightmare, and tried our best to find out His essence, to find the great Him (this paragraph has obvious traces of being crossed out)]

[We were once human, and in our last moments as human, those of us who were still alive did not choose to give up]

[And now, I will try to end it all in my own way before it's too late]

May your path be open and bright, unknown follower.

The words carved on the wall are messy, with many of them overlapping each other.

This wall was left with serious burn marks, and it was obvious that Dr. Ira had spent a lot of time carving these contents before leaving. It must be said that at first Lin Yi had wondered if these scientists had caused all this trouble by themselves, and regarded them as the creators of the disaster. However, after seeing this message, Lin Yi realized that the situation might be somewhat different from what he had imagined.

"If these records are true, then the Fire of Rebirth... well, there are not enough clues in this regard for now. But at least one thing is certain, that is, cutting off the power supply did not stop the researchers from acting under the influence of the Fire of Rebirth. Did they find other ways to study the big fireball? Or was the fireball created by them in the first place?"

While muttering to himself, Lin Yi stood up and was then enveloped by a light source, which illuminated the originally dark walls.

Not far away, Shirou Emiya said "It's fixed", stood up happily and brushed off the dust on his body. Through the window, Lin Yi could see that some windows in the main building had lights on.

That way, you can move on.

Come to think of it, I always feel that their current process is very similar to that of a certain game series. What's going on?

Lin Yi, who was feeling a little doubtful, was just about to leave the room when Jianzi beside him grabbed his sleeve and gently tugged him.

"What did you find?"

"……Um."

Turning his head, Lin Yi saw the girl staring out the window, staring at a lighted window in the half-collapsed main building. Her face looked very nervous.

It was a tall, hunched figure with flames burning in it.

In Jianzi's sight, the person standing silently behind the window seemed to be watching her with a half-melted face.

Even though they were at a considerable distance, Jianzi felt an extreme chill at this moment. She couldn't describe the feeling. Obviously, this monster wasn't particularly scary compared to the things she had seen, but after seeing this thing, the girl even felt like she couldn't breathe and her whole body was frozen.

If Lin Yi hadn't been right next to her, she felt that she might not even have the strength to reach out and grab Lin Yi?

"Very powerful?"