I'm not Yingjie

"…But the setting of time travel is very interesting."

The man was pleasantly surprised: "Really? You think so too."

"Well, it would be interesting to experience a life that is completely different from the past." Zero's tone was dull. He had already turned dozens of pages during the conversation. "Going from a world full of disasters to a peaceful world would be the dream of many people."

"..."

The man was suddenly stunned. He stared at Ling, a child who was only a few years old.

Looking at his coldness and indifference, looking at his unusual reading speed, looking at his face that made her disgusted.

The man just looked at Zero until he finished reading the entire book and picked up another novel.

Silence flowed from his eyes, like tears flowing down his face.

Chapter 42: Things That Should Be Victorious

Lin was awakened by the sound of the wind. He felt as if someone had grabbed his hair and pulled him up from under the water. His consciousness broke away from his hazy memories and returned to the cold and sober reality.

He covered his head which was about to split open and gasped rapidly.

Has the effect of the medicine worn off?

Glancing at the time, Lin estimated that the drug's specific duration of effect would be around twenty-seven hours. He then took out another injection and pushed the drug into his body.

"vomit……"

The burning in his stomach and the cut in his throat made Lin spit out a mouthful of purple and green liquid.

It emits heat, but you can't see the bright red color of human blood.

He leaned back in his wheelchair, looking up at the distant blue sky.

……

Himiko stood in front of Destobia and Tama, who were dressed in serious attire. After being unable to sleep well for the past few days, their faces showed deep fatigue.

"The mission of the fifth team is to escort important people to the third branch. The mission will begin in thirteen hours."

Escort missions will be assigned to the various squadrons, and after this incident the headquarters may be downgraded until the air base is built.

"In addition, before this mission is carried out, we need to conduct one last Honkai energy erosion rate test." Himiko scratched the back of her head. "What happened recently is too bad. We still have to cooperate."

"...Actually, I feel like this is a little unreal." Desdobia said in a low voice embarrassedly.

Himiko, who had excellent hearing, tilted her ear and asked, "What?"

"No, no, no, nothing."

Soul added: "I also feel that what is happening now... has a sense of unreality."

The senior executives died one after another, each corpse was unrecognizable, each death was horrific, but the closest to them was the attack on Imer.

Under the operating mechanism of the Fire Moth, except for the captain who has the highest authority, the soldiers have incomplete information about the entire incident. It is like standing outside the mountain and looking at the mountains shrouded in clouds and mist, which are so close and yet seem so far away.

Imer was injured because he accidentally discovered the crime scene, which was a surprise.

"Isn't it true..." Himiko pondered this sentence with a gloomy face.

"Captain, are you angry?" Hun asked carefully.

Himiko only looks careless, but she actually pays special attention to the people around her. Along the way, people she met died in battles one after another, forcing her to numb her nerves to face death.

"Not really. I don't know many of those old guys. Some of them just gave me orders." Himiko pulled her bangs into a ponytail, changed her hairstyle to a more lively one, sat at the conference table, and picked up a half-drunk bottle of beer. "But I'm not surprised that the situation has developed into this."

As one of the most experienced soldiers, what Himiko can see and what she can see clearly are far beyond what ordinary people can compare to.

"Seeing how depressed you all are, let me tell you a story that happened before Lin came to the Fifth Squad."

"Before Team Leader Lin arrived?"

"Yeah." Himiko took a big gulp of wine, burped, and said while spinning her fingers, "Hun, you should know that you and Lin were both new recruits at the time, and Lin joined the team only a few months earlier than you. Together with me, there are three people in the fifth team, so have you ever thought about what the fifth team was like before Lin joined?"

"...Just you?" Hun found this answer a little unbelievable.

When Himiko heard this, a trace of sadness flashed in the depths of her eyes. She said in a nonchalant manner: "That's right. To be precise, the whole team except me was wiped out during the second Honkai, so I was the only one left before Lin joined."

“Total destruction…”

The scale of the first and second collapses was not large, but the second collapse lasted for half a month, making it the longest large-scale collapse to date. Before Alicia joined the Fire Moths and rushed to the front line, the battle situation had been in a stalemate.

The hasty end of the first Honkai resulted in a lack of experience in dealing with the second Honkai, which caused the Fire Moth to pay a terrible price for the second Honkai. An entire branch was wiped out, and more than one-third of the participating combat teams suffered casualties. Until now, the cost of the second Honkai is still affecting the Fire Moth.

"My team was on a peripheral expedition mission. Our main mission was to defeat the Houkai beasts and the dead soldiers who wanted to escape. At that time, we didn't have special anti-Houkai weapons, so the battle was very difficult. Basically, a mutated lower-level Houkai beast would require three or more teams to jointly defeat it."

"Because of my outstanding performance, I was assigned the task of guarding the key nodes."

"That is the mission..."

Soul and Desdobia looked at each other and both heard the sadness in Himiko's voice. It seemed that this mission led to the annihilation of all members of the original fifth team.

"The battle line was stretched out at that time, and it took a long time for each node to provide support, so unless it was an emergency, we were not allowed to ask for help from outside." Himiko chuckled self-deprecatingly, "While I was defending, another node not far from us requested support and encountered two mutated lower-level Honkai beasts."

"But my situation is rather special. The higher-ups have ordered me to defend the key points and not go to support other nodes."

"Behind me is the shelter, with ordinary people who are unarmed. Even though the Honkai energy response nearby was very low and the Honkai beasts and the dead soldiers were all defeated by us, I still had to obey orders and not go to support them."

"What I didn't expect was that my team members... wanted to help the team that sent out the distress signal, and disobeyed my orders and those of my superiors."

Himiko took another sip of wine, but this time she did not pour it into her mouth in one big gulp. Instead, she licked the wine in small sips with her red tongue, as if the bitterness in the wine had fallen into her heart.

"I didn't go with them to support them. They rushed to the node that sent the signal as quickly as possible, and then..."

"Half an hour after arriving, we lost contact."

Desdobia's heart tightened, and she seemed to have guessed what Himiko was going to say next.

In addition to the Second Herrscher, who had the most bizarre abilities, there was also a Honkai Beast whose abilities have not yet been clearly explained during the Second Honkai, which caused a large number of casualties among the Fire Moth's combatants.

The companion Honkai beast of the Second Herrscher is an emperor-level Honkai beast named "Vashak".

"That's right. One of the two mutated lower-level Honkai beasts in the rescue message is actually an emperor-level Honkai beast. Its Honkai energy content is lower than that of ordinary emperor-level Honkai beasts, so it was not detected at the first time."

"Sometimes I wonder if I had made better judgment at the time and gone with them to support them, perhaps what happened later would not have happened."

"But it's all just hindsight. I always dream about my teammates. They died because they made the right judgment, but I am still alive. It's really ironic..."

Himiko lifted the wine jar, shook her head and tried to drink, but it was snatched away before she even touched the edge.

Hun Jiao's cute face appeared in front of him: "Captain, drink less."

As she put down her drink, she said, "It's not the captain's team members' fault, nor is it the captain's fault... No, it's not anyone's fault. If we must find a reason, it's only the fault of Honkai and death themselves. Their existence is the root cause of the tragedy."

"...You've really grown up." Himiko patted her wine-free hands and smiled with satisfaction.

"So I want to defeat Honkai and death... That day will definitely come, and I want you to witness it, I want Team Member Lin to witness it..."

Chapter 43 Tracking

"Sir, do you need any help?"

As a five-good employee of the airport, he believes that he should appear where he is needed, and crawl as far away as possible to where he should not be. Doing his job to the best of his ability is a compulsory course for an employee.

So when he saw a disabled person with limited mobility entering the airport alone, he naturally walked up to him, held his wheelchair, and gently asked him if he needed help.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but when he just took a step, he felt that the disabled man who covered himself tightly glanced at him.

I must have seen it wrong. Who would pay attention to everyone's every move in an airport with such a large flow of people?

“…No need.” The strangely dressed man shook his head at him.

The employee was not annoyed and said in a friendly voice: "Okay, you can call the staff at any time if you need anything. Now I will push you to the window. Which flight do you want to take?"

"I can go by myself, you go do your own thing."

“My job is to serve you.”

"…Then, for my sake, you go do something else."

Lin had to persuade the kind-hearted employee to leave. It was not because he felt it was troublesome, but because he had no money or identification on him. Even if he arrived at the airport, he didn't know how to take a flight back to the headquarters.

In fact, the Fire Moths have specially set up special planes and personnel at the airports in major cities to prepare for emergencies, so Lin plans to find a special plane to return to the headquarters.

But these plans were shattered when he realized someone was following him.

Lin looked around inconspicuously through the reflective smooth surfaces in the airport. After using Mobius's potion, his condition returned to normal. Even without the help of the helmet, he could see everything around him.

Someone had been following him since a while ago. The tracking method was professional and the distance was kept well. If his eyes had not been vaguely on Lin, and Lin was too sensitive to sight, he would not have noticed the follower.

Was he being followed by the man who had brought him to Dusk Street?

He thought about it, pushed the wheelchair into the disabled restroom, opened the innermost door, and then locked the door.

Closing his eyes, Lin began his short rest.

……

"This is number three. The target has entered the disabled restroom. It has been half an hour. Do you need to go in and confirm the target?"

"No, the target is very intelligent and may have discovered that we are following him. We can keep a distance from him and use the life detector to detect him." Another person contacted, "We will capture the target after he reaches the planned location."

Obviously, the trackers would not underestimate Lin. For them, the mission had to be completed meticulously, and any unexpected complications that might occur had to be nipped in the bud.

But this wait lasted for a full fifteen hours, from day to midnight. Many people came in and out of the disabled restroom where Lin was, but Lin was never seen coming out.

"Number Three, the target still hasn't moved?" asked Number One.

"Yes... The life detector shows that there is only one signal source now."

"..."

Number One had to consider the possibility that Lin fainted in the bathroom. Lin's condition could be said to have reached the limit of human limits, equivalent to having one foot out on the edge of a cliff, so it was possible that he fainted in the bathroom.

The order No. 1 received was to take Lin back to Sundown Street, not to kill him, so after some consideration, he decided to arrest him directly.

However, even if they are trying to capture someone, they still need to be prepared: "Divide into two teams, one team will be responsible for the capture, and the other team will be on standby outside to prevent any accidents."

"Yes."

The six people were divided into two teams according to their ranking. Teams numbered four to six entered the bathroom to arrest Lin.

The ceramic floor that was cleaned so well that it could reflect people's faces was trampled by black boots. Most of the people waiting for the plane in the hall were half asleep and half awake. In the corner of the bathroom where no one noticed, three swift figures entered. The leader held a syringe in his hand, which contained enough anesthetic to make a person sleep for several days. (Monthly fee group 694936135).

"..."

Silently, efficiently, and quickly, after confirming the surrounding situation, the leader nodded, the other two pointed their guns at the door, then he raised his foot and kicked the door hard!

"Boom-"

The sound of the door panel colliding violently with the wall could be heard from far away, which made him realize that something was wrong.

The door is not locked!

After the door was kicked open, two pistols were pointed inside, but their guns were not aimed at a human body, only at a wheelchair!

Lin was like a spider, clinging to the gap between the two walls, and this distance was just enough to avoid the gunfire.

Even a moment of opportunity is enough.

"Oh!"

He ejected, grabbing one of the pistols with one hand before his fist was reflected in the other man's face.

Lin, who only has one leg, has limited mobility, but this disadvantage is reduced in a small space, which is why he chose the bathroom as the location.

After Lin instantly disarmed the two men holding pistols, the leading stalker, No. 4, finally reacted and tried to raise his hand holding the pistol.

"Oh!"

Lin pulled the trigger without looking back, and the bullet fired accurately and shot away No. 4's pistol, causing his arm to go numb. Then Lin turned around and knocked him out with just two moves.

"..."

Although he knocked down three people within five seconds, Lin was not happy. He found that the fighting qualities of these three people were better than he had imagined. Even if he launched a fierce attack, they would be able to react. If he was slower, Lin might be injured.

If I guessed correctly...

Lin didn't have time to think further. There should be more than three followers. He observed that there were at least four to six people, which meant that there were people waiting outside the bathroom.

The pistol was equipped with a silencer, so there was no need to worry about the gunshot causing a commotion, but if these three people lost contact, it would probably immediately alert the stalkers outside.

The clock ticked, Lin glanced at the time, then quickly found all the bullets from the three men.

"Number Four, please report back."