I'm not Yingjie

This little episode did not cause much of a stir. If there was any incident, it was that the man who brought Zero back came to "visit" him.

"Nineteenth record, time: Zi————, gender: male, age: 5 years old."

A person whose face I couldn't see was squatting in front of me.

"Did you listen to the nurse?"

"..."

"It's really a headache..." He sighed, "Okay, let's get to the point."

The child sitting on the chair looked at the video camera expressionlessly.

"Do you remember how you fell from the third floor without getting hurt?"

"Xiao Lin."

Lin stood behind Ling, trying to get closer to see the man's face clearly, but no matter which angle he looked at, the man's face was covered with a layer of gray mist.

After hearing the name "Kobayashi", Zero regained some consciousness. He rolled his emotionless eyes and looked at the man squatting in front of him.

The man shook his head: "Not talking?"

Zero's skin is abnormally white, with a complexion somewhere between pathological and normal paleness. Together with his creepy expression, it puts a lot of pressure on people.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you that I changed your name." The man was not scared by Ling's dead face. He leisurely lit a cigarette and puffed out smoke, "Ling doesn't sound like a human name, so I gave you my name. It just so happens that our names only differ by one pronunciation."

"..."

"Your mother is from Shenzhou. I also happened to grow up in Shenzhou, so we are old acquaintances. We used to work in the same place until your mother and your father got married and left the institute."

The man shook off the ashes from his cigarette butt and consciously spit the cigarette to his side instead of directly in front of Zero.

"I know that even if you don't tell me, you must be wondering why I killed your parents. And with your thinking ability, you can probably guess it almost exactly." The man squatted on the ground, put out his cigarette, and took a deep breath. "But you are qualified and must know the truth, and you need me to explain it to you in person, because no matter how much I hate them, they are still your blood relatives."

"…What's the point of all this? Even if I knew the truth, nothing would change."

Zero's voice is childish, but that's because of his voice. His tone and expression are like a cold adult.

The man calmly lit another cigarette, holding the cigarette and waving his hand maturely: "Of course it makes sense. How can a normal person be indifferent to his parents?"

"..."

"Before I tell you about those things, let me introduce myself first."

The man held a cigarette in his mouth, and stared at Ling with a pair of fox-like eyes smiling: "I, Lin, hate stupid humans."

Chapter 28 Lin's Humor

"Any clues?"

Hen walked past the bloodstain and approached Kevin who was observing the bloodstain carefully. They were two of the many investigators. Compared with those professional personnel, the clumsy appearance of the two team captains in charge of the battle was somewhat out of place.

It wasn't actually their turn to investigate the matter, but Kevin was always worried about Mei who might be targeted and Lin who was missing and framed. He trusted his own eyes more than anyone else.

However, Kevin overestimated his own observation and analytical abilities. He wandered around the scene for a whole day without finding any new clues.

"No." Kevin clenched his fists in frustration. "No matter how the murderer entered the meeting room or how he left, we still don't know."

Speaking of confidentiality, there are no surveillance cameras in the headquarters' conference room, so everything that happens here cannot be seen through surveillance records.

"..." After hearing what Kevin said, Hen also realized how difficult it was to investigate this matter.

"How on earth..."

“When engaging in logical reasoning, people often fall into errors of their own making.”

A calm female voice came before the person arrived. A woman with messy blue hair changed into a set of light brown formal trousers and walked in from the main door of the conference room.

“That’s inertial thinking.”

Hen looked at this woman who suddenly appeared. He was confused: "You are..."

"Dr. Einstein." Kevin already knew May when she met Einstein.

Einstein still had some impression of this little follower of Mei. She nodded and turned her eyes to the place where Mei had discovered the third person standing. "Human inertial thinking tends to complicate some simple problems. After all, reality is not completely determined by logic. When we want to use fragmented clues to reproduce the process with logic, it is difficult to accomplish."

This sentence made Kevin stunned, and he seemed to become much clearer in an instant.

Using logic to replicate the process...isn't that what he is doing now?

"'How to complete the assassination' and 'how to leave' are the two points of the investigation, but since the murderer has committed the crime, he must have worked hard on this aspect." Einstein put her hands in her coat pockets, and a light blue flower was pinned on her chest, which was particularly conspicuous in the bright red scene. "Understanding the method is what detectives do, and we are not detectives."

"The first thing that needs to be determined is the motive for the crime."

"What you mean is... let's start with who might carry out the assassination and put the others aside?" Hen quickly understood what Einstein meant.

"I'm not an expert, but if we simply rule out the possibility of 'having an alibi', then I'm afraid no one in the entire headquarters is a suspect." Einstein turned around and smiled, "Then the perpetrator is someone who is familiar with the structure of the headquarters and has great agility and mobility?"

Einstein's words were meaningful. Kevin shook his head grimly and said, "No, he would never do that."

"That's right. Lin has no criminal motive in this matter." Einstein nodded with satisfaction. "He is willing to risk everything to defeat the Herrscher. There is no reason for him to kill the top leaders of the Fire Moth."

"And then there are some clues worth paying attention to."

Einstein walked to another place, she squatted down, took out a monocle and put it in front of her right eye.

"Three kinds of footprints. What a coincidence. There were almost no clues left, but three kinds of footprints were left."

"The footprints of the victim, the bystander, and the murderer all exceeded the maximum female size at the headquarters."

"That is to say, the three people present are all men."

……

“That’s what happened.”

Lin finished reading the contents of the file and took a deep look at the final result. He closed the document, put it back into the file bag and put it back in its original place.

Alicia, who was sitting on the steps, listened with great interest with her eyes closed. She didn't know what was so enjoyable about Lin's flat tone. Only after Lin finished reading did she open her eyes and stared at Lin with a smile.

"If I remember correctly, Kevin became a cold-faced man like you from that time~"

"..."

Kevin, who witnessed the whole incident, then encountered the thing that changed him the most, and gradually became rational and indifferent.

To use Aponya's words, it was being pushed onto the battlefield by fate.

When Lin saw Kevin again, he had become what he is now, and then... he never changed again.

"So that's what happened then..." Alicia muttered softly, and after a moment she said, "Lin, don't you feel sorry?"

"……what?"

"If you were there at that time, you would have found out the truth quickly, and the subsequent purge would not have happened."

"...No." Lin was quite accomplished in denying other people's opinions. He said firmly, "Mei was forming a new poison pupa at that time. Even if those things hadn't happened, power would have fallen into her hands soon."

"Mei...I thought you hated her." Alicia sighed.

"She just made the best choice at that time." Lin whispered, "She has always been the most correct person among us."

"Hey, don't think about those unhappy things~ Oh, Mei and Mobius are almost done fighting, do you want to go and take a look?"

"No, I'm going to go outside and wait for Mebius."

Lin walked to the anchor point and prepared to return to the lounge.

Alicia's eyes rolled around, and she smiled mischievously, "Lin, I find that you can be quite sinister sometimes. You gave the seal to Mei because you wanted her to teach Mebius a lesson, right?"

It was common knowledge among every visitor that Mobius never appeared with Lin. They seemed to be incompatible, but their attitudes were somewhat subtle and unclear.

Therefore, Mobius usually doesn't know what Lin did, including giving the seal to Mei.

"...You think too much." Lin was silent for a long time, left this sentence, and walked into the anchor point.

……

"..."

Lin turned her back to the entrance of the paradise of the afterlife, and Mebius limped out, her clothes torn and revealing her spring light, supporting her walking machine.

Seeing Lin at a glance, Mebius gritted his teeth and called out his name: "Lin——"

The helmeted man turned around indifferently and looked at her.

"You came to me at that time just to delay time?" She quickly figured out why Lin suddenly came to her at that time, "And you actually gave the [Nameless] mark to the Herrscher of Thunder? Why!?"

It was unbelievable. Mobius had thought of many things, but she never thought that Lin would plot against her.

"We don't have a good relationship, so this is normal, isn't it?" However, the helmeted man said it lightly as if he wanted to make Mebius laugh with his humor.

"You bastard!" Mobius was furious. "You're here just to mock me?"

"No, it's comfort."

Lin said calmly, "When Alicia comes out later, she will ridicule you."

Chapter 29 New Incident

"What did you find? Prometheus."

The mechanical girl who was scanning the scene nodded after hearing Einstein's words: "Now we can simulate and recreate the assassination process. Do you want to project it?"

"Wait a minute, let's go to the Spiral Workshop." Einstein glanced at the people around him as if nothing had happened.

As early as when he learned that someone had been murdered at the headquarters, Einstein knew that the perpetrators were the top executives of the Fire Moth.

Just as she said to Kevin and Hen, the motive for committing a crime is the basis for finding the truth. How many technologies does the Fire Moth have? It is not difficult to kill a person without leaving any traces as long as you plan carefully.

And this is exactly where the problem lies. The victim is a high-ranking official, so this case may not be the last.

She had no intention of getting involved in this dispute. Her only purpose in joining the Fire Moths was to fight against the Honkai and save humanity. Einstein held a similar attitude to Lin in the internal struggle among humans.

But at this moment, the turmoil has swept across the entire Fire Moth, and has seriously interfered with the work on the Fifth Honkai Impact. Even after the Fifth Honkai Impact, a total of three Honkai energy reactions of higher-level Honkai beasts occurred around the world, but the headquarters did not deal with them, and relied entirely on the temporary response of the branch.

The headquarters was completely paralyzed. Everyone in the top leadership was in danger, and there were many factions, making it impossible to carry out unified command.

The hidden wounds buried within humanity were completely triggered by this assassination.

"What is the murderer's motive...power?" Einstein stared at the hideous bloodstains on the wall, his fingers tapping rhythmically on his forearms, shaking his head and muttering to himself, "If it was for power, then the vested interests would be easily spotted."

Just when the investigation was in full swing, no one expected that two more people would die at the headquarters tonight.

……

"In order to fairly describe what your parents did and experienced, I will start from the first time I met your father and mother."

The man who called himself "Lin" moved a shorter stool and sat in front of Ling, puffing away smoke in a very relaxed manner. From his skillful shaking of the ash, it could be seen that he was an old smoker.

And Zero didn't care at all about the man's smoking. It would be better to say that he didn't show any extra concern about anything.

Zero will comply with other people's requests, but when no one talks to him, he will stay where he is like a robot on standby, saving energy and being environmentally friendly.

"I first met your parents when I was in college. We met once at a science competition, and they were already in love at that time. It was just a simple competition, so we didn't have much communication, but your father won the competition and made me remember him."

The man actually talked about some old memories. He didn't care whether Ling's not very spiritual eyes were staring at him, and he just recalled the past.

After all, he is a self-righteous person.

"Of course, I believe that during that time, both I and they were still in a 'normal' stage. We didn't have any deep hatred. We could have a nutritious breakfast every morning, sit in the library and flirt with each other in the ocean of knowledge, and then sneak out to get a room at night."

He smiled, not knowing what funny thing he was thinking of: "Oh, I'm talking about your parents. I'm planning to join an international company right after graduation and live a wonderful office life. If I'm lucky, I might be able to meet a good woman and get married."

“……” Zero didn’t seem to understand the meaning of the man’s words. He simply lowered his head and looked like he was asleep.

"In short, I can guarantee that at that time, your parents didn't have any evil intentions... They might have thought of creating you, but not through a test tube, nor through... that kind of method." The man spoke at a moderate speed, with the calmness of a leader, "But something happened after that."

"The ideas of geniuses seem to be somewhat extreme. Among the comic books I bought for you, there is one called Naruto. In it, there is a family that awakens a special ability when they are in extreme emotions. Because strength is linked to emotions, this family is full of guys with sick brains but special fighting skills."

"I think this comic does make some sense. Some people I know are just like the family in this comic. Their groundbreaking ideas can bring opportunities to mankind, but at the same time, their sick brains often cause them to use the ideas the other way around."

He put out his cigarette and stepped on it: "Your parents are this kind of people."

"I don't know what they observed, but after they graduated, they went to an ancient site for archaeological research. After they came back, they firmly believed that humans would encounter some unpredictable disaster. It was also at that time that I became colleagues with them."

"'Human Research Protection Association', I objected to this name, but it was useless." The man smiled awkwardly, "That was the predecessor of the organization I am in now. What we do is written in the name - protecting and studying humans."

This man's topic was indeed very old. He introduced the situation of the organization at that time in great detail. Lin, who had been observing him, seemed to have something revived in his mind, which overlapped with the picture in front of him.

"That's a little off topic. You should be more interested in your parents, so let's get back to the point."

"Your parents, after joining the organization, were responsible for research in the field of genetics."