I'm not Yingjie

"It was also at that time that they began an unknown experiment."

……

"Clap clap."

"Hello? Sound check~ Sound check~"

As soon as Mei returned to the lounge, she heard a familiar voice amplified by a loudspeaker echoing between the empty walls.

"The Mei-san who beat Mobius down is back~"

"..."

The sound was deafening. You could tell that the person using the loudspeaker had turned the power of the machine to maximum, otherwise there wouldn't be such a deafening effect.

Mei, who was in a good mood after defeating Mebius with the help of Klein, didn't know what expression to make after hearing the loud noise that kept replaying.

She didn't need to guess who did it.

"I suggest you find Alicia as soon as possible." At this time, another person walked up to her. Lin, who had not been seen for a long time, did not change much from before he left. "Otherwise, she will keep letting it go."

After saying that, Lin wanted to walk past her, but Mei stopped him with one step: "Wait a minute, I have already defeated Mebius, you should tell me something, right?"

"It was Mobius who promised you. I can't control what she wants to tell you. But as for me, if you don't meet my requirements, I won't tell you what you want to know."

Lin left the words as usual and walked past Mei into the anchor point.

Chapter 30: Solution to the Puzzle

The black-haired girl did not cancel her Herrscher status. She stood in front of the tattered and sneering Mebius and said, "I don't think you will go back on your word."

"That's hard to say." Mobius knew that his words were almost useless to Mei, "I am the most evil, the most bastard, the most terrible Mobius~ Do you think I can't do something like going back on my word~"

"Lin told me you would keep your promise."

"What's the point of him saying that? Who is he to me?" When Mobius mentioned this name, he felt so angry that his teeth itched. The incident of Lin's plot was still vivid in his mind. "According to the agreement between him and me, he is still my pet now."

"…I don't know about your relationship, but based on one thing, he is indeed special to you."

Mei took out the super concentrated mustard that she had been carrying with her. This thing in the bottle that looked like some kind of medicine made people feel a burning phantom pain in their mouths as soon as they took it out.

"..." When seeing such a thing appear in front of him again, Mebius' expression changed slightly.

"You have repeatedly mentioned Lin's super-transformation surgery. There are two doubts about his super-transformation surgery. One is that you prevented him from having the surgery before the surgery, and the other is whether the post-surgery super-transformation surgery had any impact on Lin."

"According to the data recorded in the Paradise of the Past, 90% of people who have failed surgeries will die, and most of those who survive by chance will be deformed and suffer from sequelae, and will spend the remaining few days in a daze."

Mei pinched the mustard and stared at Mebius. "For the first doubt, there is very little information. As the parties involved, you are unwilling to speak up, and it is not relevant to my question, so I will not pursue the reasons. As for the second doubt... I think I already know what the sequelae of Lin's surgery are."

"..."

"..."

Mebius raised his eyes with disdain: "Is that all you want to say? What does it prove?"

"This proves that..."

"You can ask me what you want to know now, but it has nothing to do with that guy." Mebius turned over and sat on her weird-looking machine, showing her usual slightly evil smile, "I suddenly found that you are more interesting than I thought, so I might as well give you some food, my little guinea pig."

"If you had done this earlier, maybe we would have had less trouble." Mei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that Mobius finally cooperated.

but……

She glanced at the mustard in her hand, her thoughts racing.

Was this also something he had guessed a long time ago?

Mei, who had already made a judgment on Lin, once again began to speculate on Lin's purpose.

"You'd better hurry up." Mebius had a bad look on her face. She glanced at her clothes intentionally or unintentionally. That expression seemed to be telling Mei what she had done.

Mei didn't waste time talking to her. After organizing her words, she said, "Besides the Thirteen Heroes and the visitor, there are only two people in the Paradise of the Past who are not members of the Thirteen Heroes but also exist here. Klein is the maintainer of the Paradise of the Past. So what is the significance of Lin's memory to the Paradise of the Past and the Thirteen Heroes?"

The appearance of "Lin" gave her some vague guesses.

"Don't you already have the answer in your mind?" Mobius said, "A person who is closely related to the Thirteen Heroes, a person who participated in more than half of the Herrscher crusades in the previous civilization, a person who is not a hero but has a mark. If you stick to his individual character, then you will not be able to see his whole picture."

"...Can you change it to something that is easier to understand?"

Mobius looked at Mei in surprise. The look from the bottom of her heart made Mei feel ashamed. After thinking about it, she changed her words and said, "Then, have you ever thought that we are the 'Thirteen Heroes' instead of the 'Fourteen Heroes'?"

"Isn't it because there were only thirteen fusion warriors left after the tragedy of the restraint that you formed a special group of Thirteen Heroes?" Mei asked with a frown, "And Lin's super transformation surgery failed, so naturally he is not a member of this group."

"Hehe..." Mobius seemed to like to laugh at the other party with ambiguous laughter. "Do you think, besides me, other people, especially Alicia, would want Lin to become a member of Yingjie?"

When Mei heard this, her eyes widened in surprise.

Why hadn't she thought of this before?

Although Lin is not a fusion warrior, he does have the qualities to become a Yingjie. He also has a fusion warrior number. Judging from other people's reactions to Lin, most of them will not reject him from becoming a Yingjie.

Even Lin possesses the [Nameless] mark.

What does this mean?

"But you still didn't answer me, Lin..."

"What a hassle! Do you know why Lin asked you those three questions?" Mebius interrupted Mei impatiently, "His meaning is very clear. None of us will directly answer you about anything related to Lin. The only one who can answer is Lin himself."

"..." Mei's eyes dimmed. Since it was impossible to pry all the information out of Mobius, Mei got to the point based on the lesson from Lin. "Then, I wonder who knows the answers to those three questions?"

After hearing Mei ask the question she wanted to know most, Mebius suppressed his impatient expression and stared at Mei with a smile, with a cold gaze spinning in his eyes.

After a long while, Mebius said, "The three questions are 'Lin's appearance', 'Lin's age' and 'Lin's cause of death'. You should have asked some people, so you should know their reactions to these questions."

"They were only willing to answer 'age' and 'appearance'."

Some don't even want to talk about their appearance.

"Really? Then I'll just answer 'age'."

"What do you mean?" Mei stared at Mobius, who remained expressionless, with lightning flashing through her hair. "You're not really..."

"That's what you wanted to know. To be honest, I was a little surprised that Lin would give you such a simple question. But seeing that you still look confused, I'm not too surprised."

Mebius' tone was always full of sarcasm and pretense, and this time was no exception.

"Lin has already given you a hint this time. The key to the three questions is not that no one is willing to answer, but that everyone is willing to answer. The responses of people including me are actually the best answers."

"Because Lin, I didn't ask you what the answers to these three questions are, but who knows the answers."

Mei frowned as she thought about what Mebius said.

It's not the answer to the question, but the person who knows the answer...

Wait a moment……

"Then I'm only willing to answer 'age'."

I just want to...

What does this mean?

Chapter 31: Doing something big

Phantom pain in right eye.

Lin knew very well that in this incomplete memory, his body was nothing more than a wandering soul created by his own mind, but the pain simulated deep in his brain still made him cover his right eye, which was different from the intact eye in reality.

After a while, the pain subsided a little. He put down his hand and saw blood on his palm.

"Lin, don't come over here!"

The words that he had heard somewhere before rang again, and this time, they exploded directly in Lin's ears, as if someone was roaring at him.

The scene in front of me blurred for a moment, and the dark night and bloody corpses flashed before my eyes.

time is limited.

"I know." Lin repeated as if he was talking to someone, "I know."

After saying this, he took a deep breath to refresh himself, and immersed himself in the conversation between the man and Zero.

"First, adults, then teenagers, girls, children, babies..." The man recounted what had happened, "Finally, the fetus. By the time we found out, your parents had killed 19 people in the name of experimentation, including a pregnant woman."

"The organization, which was not yet established at the time, did not realize that their ideas were fundamentally different from those of the Human Research Protection Association, which was just a group of people who gathered together out of interest. Their research and escape contributed to the establishment of the organization I am in, the Fire Moth."

"According to the investigation, the couple conducted genetic modification experiments on each of their victims. They attempted to transform humans into beings with stronger abilities. As the age of the experimental subjects gradually decreased, it showed that they realized that the key point of this experiment was the age of the recipient."

"After they arrived in the Far East, the number of victims reached nearly a hundred, all of them were babies and mothers in their mothers' wombs. Until one day, all news about them disappeared, as they vanished in a fire at a shopping mall."

The man's expression didn't change much when he talked about the victims, and he didn't seem to care at all about the dead.

"But by then, the Fire Moth had already been established, and my position in the Far East was second to none, so after spending some time we still found them, and at the same time... we also found the fruits of their research." The man's gaze shifted to Zero's face, and he said frankly, "You already know what happened afterwards."

They used children as experimental subjects to complete the human transformation plan, and eventually used the results of the experiment on their own children.

"To be honest, I generally don't regard such people as human beings, but there are many people within the Fire Moth who support their actions."

"I don't know when I will be assimilated into their ideas. For the sake of all mankind, I am afraid that sooner or later I will become like that. As long as I am for more valuable people, I will use those worthless people as stepping stones."

He smiled bitterly and took a puff of his cigarette: "I really... don't want to become like that."

"You can leave." Zero did not show much surprise at the man's words, but instead began to give the man advice.

The man picked up the extinguished cigarette butt, threw it into the trash can in a perfect parabola, and said, "Leaving? That might be a good idea... But I can't just stand by and watch. If I witness the atrocities and remain unmoved, I would be an accomplice."

"I saw a lot of people laughing." He whispered to himself, his knuckles white from cracking, "So it can't be wrong."

The man hated the couple, but he also hated himself at the same time. He hated all human beings like him.

Because they have the same firm belief, even if this belief will scatter others in fireworks, it will never change.

What the couple did was only a part of the man's future. Sooner or later he would do more heinous crimes than them, and he would do so under the banner of human justice.

It is because of this understanding that men deeply hate human beings and their belief in preferring death to surrender.

"But, they missed one thing." The man suddenly laughed carefreely and wanted to take a cigarette, but when he saw Zero's short and childish figure, he put the cigarette box back. "They transformed all aspects of you to surpass humans, but they only missed the most critical Honkai resistance. However, they did not know the true face of Honkai. It was really a coincidence."

"As long as you don't have Honkai resistance, you can live as an ordinary person. I will apply for an identity certificate for you, and you can live in Changkong City from now on."

The recorder was turned off and the nineteenth recording should be the last.

But when the man reached the door, Zero looked up and said, "What is Honkai?"

"I don't know what it is. Is it a concept? A manifestation? A disaster? But it made me determined to become a member of the Fire Moth."

"I want to join the Fire Moth."

Zero's words froze the man's expression. He turned around and saw Zero's dull face and instinctively asked, "Why?"

"Because I have to protect humans."

The man shuddered at this moment.

He discovered that the most terrifying transformation the parents had made on their child was not in his learning ability or reaction nerves.

But his life.

They put a curse on Zero.

"Putting all your hopes on a child without authorization, only the most foolish people would do such a thing."

……

"Hey...how do I use this thing?"

Paddo took out all the weapons she could use in the room and placed them on the table, including Lin's pistol.

Wooden sticks, kitchen knives, fruit knives, hair dryers... Without a doubt, this pistol is the most powerful weapon. A pistol is the most suitable weapon if you want to drive away the surveillance people, but Paduo doesn't know how to use it, and she doesn't want to kill anyone.

So after careful consideration, she had no choice but to put the pistol and the knife in her pockets, hold a thin wooden stick in her mouth, and use her hands and feet to climb onto the roof silently.

Someone was watching them, this was what Lin told her. Before this, she had not found any clues of the watcher, and she had no confidence that she could defeat the watcher... She herself was not good at fighting, and most of the time she just did some petty thefts.

She is good at sneaking and playing tricks, but in a head-on battle she can only cheer others on.

However, the arrow has been put on the string and has to be shot. Lin asked her to drive away the monitor, which means that the monitor's existence is of no benefit to them. Besides, Pado also knows that she has been closely monitored by that man, and she is afraid that if she does something illegal, she will be killed.

In order to regain her freedom, Paddo chose to do something big.

"Where could he be hiding? Is there any place outside this house where we can monitor him..."

Thinking of Lin's cruel action that day, Paduo calmed down unconsciously.