I'm not Yingjie

"There is not enough time to ask for your confirmation now."

Lin didn't want to argue about these meaningless things at this time. Some bright red numbers flashed on his visual window which was also affected by electromagnetic interference. He adjusted the system to adapt to the environment while constantly trying to connect to the monitoring system of the combat department. Now his eyes were all black. The upper-level Honkai beast was nearby and could attack at any time.

"The battle against the Emperor-class Honkai beasts will be put on hold for the time being. We will escort the survivors..." After explaining the situation to Mei, Himiko considered that it was impossible for them to fight the Honkai beasts with Mei and the others at this time, so she wanted to retreat temporarily.

But Lin's cry rudely interrupted her: "No!"

Lin corrected the errors on the viewing window one by one. His damaged internal organs and thighs began to ache again. He coughed twice barely noticeably and looked at Himiko: "Captain, the closest upper-level Honkai beast is our team. If we retreat, it may escape the encirclement formed by the various teams."

What this means is that once their team, which has the specific coordinates of the Honkai beast and has the initiative, retreats, it will continue to attack the remaining teams that cannot communicate with each other, and the number of casualties will rise sharply.

Himiko pointed at the two of them and said, "But we have to escort them."

"..."

Choose...?

Lin looked at his two friends in silence, with snowflakes still flashing across the screen.

The heavy rain hit his helmet, making a crisp sound.

If they choose to escort, then the Emperor-level Honkai Beast will start to act again and cause immeasurable damage to the remaining team. If they choose to attack, then they will have to abandon Mei and Kevin.

Himiko stared at him solemnly. She did not give any orders to Lin. She knew that Lin would follow the orders, but she wanted to know what Lin would choose.

Hunye nervously placed the sickle in front of her. She thought of the soldiers howling in the communication channel, and looked at the two people who were forced to send the seriously injured Lin to the front line, looking at a loss.

This is a question without an answer. No matter which side you choose, the other side will be put in danger.

"I have a proposal."

Mei, who had been silent all the time, suddenly raised her head and said something.

She looked towards Lin.

The two people's eyes met through the screen.

Endless thunderstorms sound the bell of destruction.

Mei cannot die. Neither the Fire Moth leadership nor the entire Fifth Team will abandon the two survivors. Her life or death is not hers to decide.

But there is one person who can decide for himself whether to stay or go.

No words were needed, the two of them already understood each other tacitly.

Lin turned around and handed the rifle to the bewildered Kevin: "Kevin, do you know how to use this thing? Just like the game we skipped class to play, just pull the trigger."

“Lin…” Kevin knew he was indeed Lin when he heard this.

He didn't know what Lin meant. Why did he give him the gun?

When Himiko saw Lin's action, her face changed: "Lin! You are not allowed to leave the team! This is an order!"

"..." Lin turned his back to her and did not answer. He calmly told Kevin, "If you have anything to say, go back and talk to me. Protect yourself and Mei."

"What are you going to do?"

“…I want to save more people.”

Even Hun, who was a beat slower, knew what Lin was going to do. Her reaction was even more intense than Himiko's. She reached out to grab Lin's arm and said, "No! If you must go alone, then I will..."

"Humiko!" Himiko's roar made Hun's hand freeze in mid-air.

Himiko took a deep breath, wiped her face, walked to Lin's side, looked up at the man who was a head taller than her, wanting to see what his expression was like inside his helmet.

But there was nothing to be seen, perhaps only emptiness under that helmet.

She slowed down her speech and spoke in the tone of an elder rather than a superior: "Lin, there is no point in you going alone, and the top priority given to us is to rescue Mei. Now that the mission is completed, you don't need to continue fighting in your condition. I will go to contain the emperor-level Honkai beast, and you will find a way to contact other teams after escorting the survivors."

"None of your armors are speed-oriented. I am more maneuverable than you. I am the best candidate. Escorting requires one person to protect, one person to clear the way, and one person is enough to contain." Lin patted Kevin on the shoulder. He wanted to say something to Kevin, but in the end he just put his hand down silently and said to Himiya, "Captain, the mission has been accomplished. Next is the best combat plan based on my rational judgment."

Himiko gritted her teeth but couldn't say anything else.

Lin is right.

It was exactly as the scumbag high-level judged, and I wish I could punch him in the face.

There is no time. If we delay any further, the Emperor-level Honkai Beast will start to act again. We must make a decision immediately.

……

"Forest."

Kevin glanced at Soul and Himiko who were starting to move forward, then hesitantly stopped and looked at Lin who had his back to him and had pulled out a high-frequency cutting knife.

Lin stopped moving but did not turn around.

The azure blade cuts through the raindrops.

The rain was pouring down, pouring down on the two young men who had met again after a long separation.

One of them still looked the same as before, but the other was restrained by heavy armor.

It has been more than half a year since Lin dropped out of school. When they met again, Kevin felt something even colder from Lin than before.

"So this is what you've been doing?"

"If you're alright, leave now."

"Why would you make this choice? No one would condemn you if you left."

Kevin doesn't have such noble ideals. He just wants to protect the people around him, not only Mei, but also Lin and Su. They are irreplaceable to Kevin.

Why did Lin fight these monsters? Was it just for the so-called "fate of mankind"?

That reason...

"It's up to you to think whatever you want." Lin pressed the button next to his helmet, and the world in front of him was covered with information. He turned back indifferently and looked at his friend. A heavy voice sounded under the helmet, "But if you just want to know the answer to this question, I would have told you a long time ago."

I can't just fight for the people who matter.

When I see other people's tears, I realize that I am no longer a spectator.

When I saw the blood of others, I realized I couldn't stay any longer.

When I witness the loss of other lives, I realize that I have to carry it with me.

I flap my wings with all my might towards the light, even if it means my whole body is shattered to pieces or set on fire, I still want to do my best to move forward towards the fragile and tiny light.

He is destined to neither be a hero nor a role model.

But he wanted to be the stupidest moth flying towards the light.

Everything about the young Lin was buried in that night. Now, Soldier Lin is about to set off.

"Roar--------"

The roar of the emperor-level Honkai beast is approaching.

Lin turned and ran towards the lightning.

Chapter 8: A Snake for a Snake

The Emperor-level Honkai Beast is not the top Honkai Emperor among the lower-level Honkai Beasts, but a higher-level Honkai Beast above that.

There are two reasons why these six characters are completely distinguished from the lower-level Honkai beasts. First, the upper-level Honkai beasts are different from the lower-level Honkai beasts, which are still silicon-based life forms. Their bodies are all made up of pure Honkai energy. Both their physical strength and their ability to control Honkai energy are far beyond the reach of the lower-level Honkai beasts.

The second is the special nature of the upper-level Honkai beasts. They do not belong to any Honkai beast species, but are a single race of Honkai beasts with only one. Even if the Honkai Emperor and Honkai Crusher continue to evolve, they cannot evolve into emperor-level Honkai beasts.

This is also the tricky part about upper-level Honkai beasts. Lin has only had experience fighting against an emperor-level Honkai beast once, and that was a Honkai beast that was a companion of the Second Herrscher with extremely special abilities. But that cannot be used as a reference, because the new upper-level Honkai beast is definitely a monster completely different from that one in terms of abilities and fighting methods.

"Bang."

Lin swung out his hook and swung to the roof, squatting on the edge, observing the coordinate direction of the Honkai Beast, which was also the direction where the roar came from.

silence.

With Lin's location as the dividing line, the area of ​​nearly five kilometers in front of him seemed to be separated from Changkong City.

Nothing could be heard except the sound of rain.

There were no roars of Honkai beasts and dead soldiers, nor the noise of collapsing buildings. There were only greedy and strange eyes in the blind spots of vision watching everyone who entered this area.

If the Changkong City after the outbreak of the Collapse was a beast cage harbouring murderous intent, with assassins and Collapse beasts ready to move in the thick shadows, then the area in front of Lin was the territory where the truly dangerous Beast King was entrenched.

[Communication connection...failed]

Completely cut off from all communication with the others, it seemed that only he and the Emperor-level Honkai Beast, which was somewhere unknown in the darkness, were left in the area.

It seems that the judgment was correct. The emperor-level Honkai beast regarded this place as a hunting ground. The Fifth Team was already at a dangerous distance. In addition to attacking other teams, if they walked slower for a few minutes, or if the emperor-level Honkai beast set them as the next target, the final result would be that the Fifth Team would fight the Honkai beast with the survivors.

Now, should I take the initiative to go in, or continue to observe...

"Cough cough..."

There were a few conspicuous drops of blood on the viewing screen.

[A drop in blood pressure and an increase in heart rate have been detected, and internal organ examination is being conducted...]

Lin cancelled the detection system that was going to scan his internal body. This system was not present when he wore the suit last time. It seemed that it was a new feature added by the director of the R&D department.

In an environment with high concentrations of Honkai energy, Lin's damaged body is getting worse every second. His strong endurance does not mean that the pain will not affect his movements.

"..."

Lin half-knelt on the ground to adjust his breathing. He took out all the effervescent green reagents he got from Mobius and put them into the armor's active unit, so that he could directly use the helmet to control the active unit to inject the reagents.

"Zi!"

A tube of reagent was injected into Lin's body, and the abnormally colored liquid spread from his blood vessels.

"call……"

The pain disappeared, and at the same time a ten-minute countdown appeared on the upper left corner of the visual screen. That was the duration of the drug written on the syringe. If it exceeded this time, Lin would have to bear the side effects.

There are five bottles left.

Lin had no way out. He had to contain or defeat the Honkai beast within a total of one hour.

Or believe that Himiko and the others can complete the escort within an hour and contact other teams to come here to defeat the Emperor-level Honkai Beast.

Anyway, go ahead.

Lin opened his helmet and his pupils turned green.

……

A black dot bounced and shuttled between the buildings. The jet device helped him move flexibly on the flat surface of the wall. In the steel jungle, he turned into a tiny spider.

The last confirmed signal of the Emperor-level Honkai Beast was the place where Team 7 lost contact. Lin quickly found the specific location from the map built with the three-dimensional model. He jumped down from the sky and landed heavily among a pile of scrap metal.

Blood flowed through the gaps in the armor on the soles of his feet.

The internal organs pulled out of the body, the crushed eyeballs and the brain matter flowing out of the holes, these things mixed with the rain among the power armor that was emitting sparks, looked curious and terrifying.

Even without opening the helmet to smell it, Lin knew that the air was filled with the smell of blood that even heavy rain could not wash away.

This is the place where Team 7 lost contact. There is no need to say more about their fate.

But Lin did not come here to mourn for them. He first took a quick glance at the scope of the battle and the distance between the corpses, then squatted down to observe the wounds of the soldiers of the Seventh Squad.

Burns, crushing injuries, and penetrating injuries caused by lightning...

After Lin spent a minute looking at all the corpses, he roughly determined the attack method and range of the Honkai beast.

It is larger than the average Temple-level Honkai beast, and can use lightning attacks similar to the Third Herrscher. Judging from the way several team members died from being pierced from bottom to top, it can also use attacks similar to ground spikes. Several corpses are ten to fifty meters apart, and there are also traces of Honkai beasts chasing, which means that the attack range is also about this distance...

The battle was over very quickly, probably in less than fifty seconds, which was much faster than he expected.

There was still some black mud-like fluid left on the path, that was...

"Zi."

Suddenly, a very slight sound flashed by Lin's ears, and it was abrupt amid the sound of continuous rain, as if the scales of something were rubbing against a sharp edge.

He subconsciously turned around and drew his sword, the azure blade cut through the air and stayed in mid-air.

There was nothing behind me. On the street not far away, some sticky, transparent body fluid dissolved into the rain and disappeared.

"Wow..."

There is only the sound of rain.

The feeling of being watched grew stronger.

Lin suddenly turned sideways and pointed the blade of the knife at the shadow under the broken wall beside him. Then, alarm bells rang in his heart and he turned again to look at the corner under the tall building not far away.