I'm not Yingjie

Chapter 32 Fox Mask

Padu calmed down, she recalled the cat's movements, lowered her body and concealed her breath.

This was her usual trick. She had used similar techniques to steal many things, and many people didn't notice it, so she sneaked into their rooms and took away the treasures.

Her master is a cat, so she has also acquired some of the cat's habits, including the way of observing the environment.

Clinging to the roof, Paduo shook off her bangs and began to carefully observe the places around her where people might be hiding.

She is not a hunter, but a prey. This is the fundamental point. Padu believes that her greatest advantage is her ability to recognize herself, hide, explore and finally achieve her goals. All this depends on her clear understanding of herself.

"There's no one around..." Padu paid attention to every movement around her. She thought her eyesight was quite good. As long as they were within ten meters of the house, she would not miss any information.

But this should be an excellent surveillance area, but there is no one there.

In order to ensure that she had not missed anything, Padu checked more carefully, but still did not find anything.

"Could it be that Brother Lin is crazy and talking in his sleep..." She now doubted whether Lin was really awake at that time.

What Pado didn't know was that on a high slope hundreds of meters away, the scope of a sniper rifle hidden in the shade of a tree was pointed at her head, and next to it was the surveillance camera footage from the house.

After she jumped onto the roof, she placed one finger on the trigger of the sniper rifle...

……

Imer couldn't sleep.

In fact, he has always prided himself on being calm, and in fact he has always done so, following Lin's footsteps. He hopes that he can become an analyst in the team and serve as Lin's deputy.

But now he found that he was far from being as calm as he had imagined. After the captain disappeared, he lost his composure.

Where would the captain be now?

Imer didn't believe that Lin would die so easily. Even if he was going to die, he would die on the battlefield. Deep down in his heart, Imer didn't want to imagine Lin dying powerlessly from the Honkai disease, like every aging person, irretrievably stepping into the abyss.

"Let's get up and organize the information." Yimer turned on the bedside lamp and looked at the piles of information on the cabinet that he had originally intended to give to Lin. He sighed softly.

confused.

It is not only about confusion about oneself, but also about the future of the fire moth and mankind.

Where should the Fire Moth Headquarters, which has lost most of its functions, go?

Imer remembered that there was a document left in the team meeting room, so he quietly got up, put on his clothes, opened the door and walked out.

The cold and lonely night was not particularly warm even under the bright lights. At a glance, the endless corridors extended to depths beyond the reach of sight, as if bloodthirsty monsters would rush out of them at any time.

With not-so-easy steps, Imer walked towards the meeting room of Team 7.

"Tack, tick, tick..."

After the assassination, the Fire Moth did not impose a curfew.

Imer was not clear about the reason, as that was information only known to the captain. However, based on recent developments, it was very likely that there was a dispute among the command level over the attitude towards this incident.

The Titans that were supposed to be used to sweep dangerous areas are now lying dormant in the storage room. The reason is that the headquarters cannot miss any clues at the moment, so the Titans that are used as weapons must remain on standby until the incident is over.

Many of Dr. Mei's research projects have not been approved, but she has not proposed any new research directions to senior management for a long time. She has been focusing on the research and development of artificial intelligence, as if she had given up on her previous plans.

In addition, beneath the unchanging appearance, there is an undercurrent inside. Imer is tired of the endless fighting between humans. He wants to save humanity, the captain also wants to save humanity, and many soldiers also want to save humanity.

At least most people don't want to indulge in internal friction.

"Tick."

Suddenly, Imer stopped.

His eyes suddenly looked forward.

There is an artificial lake in this direction, and the sound of the wind blew in along with the rising and falling humid water vapor.

His fingers rested on the holster at his waist and he pulled it out without hesitation.

The smell is wrong.

Imer smelled the scent of blood, which was unique to human blood, mixed with the smell of rust.

Considering the recent assassination cases, Imer already had some guesses in his mind.

He could go back to the room and sound the alarm immediately, but this would most likely result in missing the opportunity to rescue the survivors. In addition to returning to the room, there was also an alarm outside the artificial lake, so the best way to deal with it was to go there and sound the alarm.

If it were Lin, what would he do?

Imer was careful not to make any sound while quickly approaching the outside of the artificial lake. He stood at the door and did not rush to sound the alarm in order to avoid alerting the enemy, but instead looked inside.

Pupils shrink.

The blood dyed the clear lake water red.

A floating corpse was floating quietly in the center of the lake. It was one of the senior leaders.

But that wasn't what shocked Imer the most.

A tall figure wearing a mask stood by the lake, staring at the corpse quietly. From the back, it could be seen that he was a man. His hands were covered with a pair of ferocious claws, and blood was still dripping from his fingertips.

murderer.

Imer immediately understood the man's identity.

He was sweating. He didn't expect that he would be the first person to discover the murderer, and it was such a coincidence. He now had two choices.

Either sound the alarm, then detain the murderer and wait for support.

Either don't sound the alarm, sneak attack the murderer and take him down in one fell swoop.

The two completely different choices in style made Imer hesitate for a second.

But then he knew this was not the time to be a hero.

If it were Lin, he would definitely choose the safest way. He would not allow himself to do something uncertain just to get ahead.

Lin would only do things for others if he was not sure about them.

So Imer turned around and sounded the alarm. After the alarm sounded normally, he breathed a sigh of relief, then raised the gun sternly and turned around to aim at the murderer.

"bass."

"..."

Imer stared blankly at the man who had appeared in front of him at some point, grabbed the pistol with one claw, and easily crushed it into a pile of waste.

A man wearing a smiling fox mask.

"Tick."

The smell of blood is strong.

Imer twitched and tilted his head, seeing the sharp claws piercing through his abdomen. The three thick claws mercilessly pierced through his unprotected body.

When the claws were pulled out, blood splattered at the corners of the fox mask's eyes and slid down the side of the face like tears.

Coldness swept through his consciousness.

Imer fell heavily to the ground, vomiting blood, and closed his eyes amid the shrill alarm.

Chapter 33: First Sight

Padu walked quietly on the roof, searching the surroundings: "Is there really a surveillance?"

She thought she had quite good reconnaissance skills, and any slight movement would keep her alert for a long time, but she didn't see even a single figure, which made her doubt whether Lin was awake.

"But... I always feel like someone is watching me." Padu stroked the hair on her arm and shrank her neck in fear, "It must be what Brother Lin said that made me suspicious."

And on the slope a hundred meters away, in a sinister shadow, the sniper aimed at Pado's defenseless head.

As long as she does something out of line or tries to attack the monitor, she can be sniped and killed directly. This is an order.

Wind direction, lighting, falling... As a sniper of the Fire Moth, he has already mastered all the skills.

Do you want to get started here?

The finger gradually pressed on the trigger and tightened.

The girl in the scope suddenly startled and looked in his direction.

"Oh!"

"Huh? I felt a tingling sensation all over my body just now. Was it an illusion?" Padu scratched the black hair by her ear. She looked in the direction she had just looked in confusion. In the previous moment, some kind of intuitive warning in her heart reached its maximum, and then suddenly dropped.

But Padu was not a warrior after all. She didn't know that she had actually been to the gates of hell, and she regarded the sense of danger as an illusion.

The sniper fell to the ground unconscious. A man stood behind him, took out a syringe and stabbed it into his neck.

After seeing Lin on the surveillance camera, the man thought for a moment and picked up both the sniper and the sniper rifle.

……

"Erwin, what are you doing here?"

Danzhu, who came to the medical department to get materials for the experiment, saw her sneaky good friend at a glance. She walked over from behind and patted his shoulder, which scared Erwin and almost jumped up and hit his head.

"Are you trying to scare me to death?" Alvin said with his hands on his hips in annoyance after seeing Danzhu.

He only felt a little confident in front of his friends. After transferring to Hen's team, he always felt that the atmosphere in the team was extremely depressing. Hen was also overwhelmed by recent events and had no time to get used to the new team.

"You're the one who's trying to scare me to death... Shh, keep your voice down, this is the medical department." Danzhu noticed that the staff in the medical department were looking at the two guys who were making the noise, so he took Alvin to the corridor outside.

After Danzhu checked the materials and found that there were no missing materials, he asked Erwin, "I heard that you were transferred to Hen's team. How have you been these days?"

"Don't mention it. There were some minor incidents during the Fifth Honkai Impact... Never mind, I can't tell you." Erwin wanted to tell Danzhu about how the Fire Moths planned to send them to die during the Fifth Honkai Impact, but he was afraid of implicating Danzhu, so he didn't say it out loud.

When he heard that the Fire Moths were going to send them to their deaths, he ran away like everyone else. He was just an ordinary person. If they were on a mission, Erwin believed that he could still barely keep up with the team, but his organization just wanted them to die, so the fear in his heart would not deceive him.

However, Erwin was different from the others who blamed Lin. He actually admired Lin for being able to intercept the Fifth Herrscher alone. Lin did what they dared not do, so they had no right to blame Lin.

Erwin didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, so he changed the subject and asked, "What are you doing in the medical department?"

"Dr. Mobius is short of some drugs for his experiments, so he asked me to get them." Danzhu was not in a hurry. The laboratory had been too idle recently, and they couldn't find anything to do. Mobius's experiments were not something that they, who were considered clumsy, could participate in. "The doctor has been very mysterious recently, always tinkering with some drugs. In the past, he was clearly doing things that looked very dangerous."

"Oh……"

Erwin seemed to be in a bad mood. Danzhu thought that the new team might be putting too much pressure on him, so she wanted to chat with him for a while and find some topics to talk about. But before she could open her mouth, Erwin said, "Yesterday...someone was killed again."

"Another..." Danzhu covered her mouth, her eyes widened, and she put her hand down after adjusting her breathing and heartbeat. "No wonder the atmosphere in the medical department is not right today."

"You don't know anything?" Alvin looked at Danzhu in confusion. Logically speaking, Danzhu would always know this kind of information before others. She was a gossipy person who loved to read posts and chat. How could she act like she just knew about such a big thing?

Dan Zhu lowered his head in embarrassment: "I, I worked on the model until very late the day before yesterday, and I slept almost the whole day yesterday. I was even scolded by the doctor this morning..."

"..."

Knowing his friend's erratic personality, Erwin shook his head and said, "Someone sounded the alarm last night, and two bodies were salvaged from the artificial lake. They were both high-ranking members of the Fire Moth. A soldier was seriously injured and is still being rescued."

"It is said that the seriously injured soldier holds important clues."

……

The atmosphere was somewhat frozen.

Kevin paced back and forth in front of the emergency room restlessly, his expression had become so ugly that it was visibly ugly to the naked eye.

The bright red warning light made him feel uneasy.

Hen's expression wasn't much better, but after all, he was older and more experienced than Kevin, so he was a lot calmer than Kevin.

The injuries to Lin's subordinates made their hearts, which were already heavy due to the assassination, fall to the bottom.

Hua sat on the cold bench in a daze. She folded one leg, leaned her face against her muscular thigh, and covered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.

"drop."

The indicator light turned from red to green. The three of them simultaneously looked at the door of the emergency room. The doctor pushed the door open and came out. He took off his mask and frowned as he said to Kevin, who was standing in the front row, "He is out of danger. However, the heavy blood loss and abdominal perforation will make him unconscious for a while. We will place him in the recovery cabin."

"Really..." Kevin felt relieved when he heard that Imer's life was no longer in danger.

If he failed to protect Lin, then at least he should protect Lin's subordinates.

"Has he been unconscious for a while?" Hen was concerned about another matter. "Then there is no way to verify that."

"what?"

Hua Cai came back to her senses from her dazed state. She heard the conversation between the two and asked without thinking.

Hen glanced at her and said, "Before he passed out, Yimer left a message that revealed the murderer's physical features."