I'm not Yingjie

The only response to her was silence, not even a sparse applause.

"Virvi... I don't think anyone would want to blow up a building." Seeing that no one was talking, Eden spoke up to ease the awkwardness, "Do you have any other magic tricks?"

"There are still people alive in Oita."

"What's that?"

"Cut people up with an electric saw..."

"Okay, that's it for the magic part."

Eden successfully prevents a ketchup-spattered magic show from taking place on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Kevin grabbed a handful of ice cream that looked as hard as stone and was filled with cold air and asked the others, "Don't you want to eat ice cream?"

However, let alone ice cream, everyone around him tacitly avoided getting close to him.

"Give me one!" At this time Qianjie appeared in the wrong place at the wrong time and did the wrong thing. He grabbed an ice cream from Kevin's hand and lifted the mask slightly up, revealing his chin.

Paduo, who was eating candy, swallowed the candy wrapper in one gulp when she saw this scene: "Brother Jie is going to take off his mask?"

Qianjie stuck out his tongue to lick the smooth side of the ice cream. Kevin looked at him with rare anticipation, waiting for his thoughts after eating it.

"Woo?"

A strange and confused sound came from Qianjie's throat.

He pulled the popsicle stick stiffly, and then a "wuwuwu" sound came out.

"Oh no, his tongue is stuck!"

"woo woo woo woo!"

So Kevin went to pour hot water to thaw Qianjie's tongue, but before he brought the hot water to Qianjie, it all turned into ice water.

There was another rush.

“I feel like I’m gradually adapting to life here.”

Seeing this scene, Hua smiled at the man sitting in the corner puffing on his pipe.

"...What about you?" The man blew out a puff of misty white mist, squinted at Hua, looked at the glasses on her face and asked, "Aren't you going on a trip?"

"Me? Did I say that?"

"..."

"Sorry, Lin."

"There's no need to apologize. It's just a matter of starting over. Now is not the same as before. We have a chance to start over again." The man pointed his pipe at Kevin, who had a cold face. "You can learn from Kevin."

"Start all over again? How easy is that?" Hua couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Ice and snow can melt, but how can the frost in people's hearts be melted by sunshine?"

"Haven't you become more sophisticated in your speech?"

"Sorry, that's not what I meant..."

"No need to apologize." The man repeated this sentence. He put down his pipe and put his hand on the mask. "I can discard this mask now, but I am used to covering my face. Compared with you, I am far behind."

"Why are you talking about these things during the New Year? We finally get together. Wouldn't it be nice to watch some magic tricks, eat some ice cream, and set off some fireworks?" Alicia walked behind Lin in cotton slippers and said to the two of them in a reproachful manner.

"It feels good to be home~" She stretched happily and then fell headfirst onto the sofa, half of her body sank into it, struggling helplessly, "Wuwu, Lin, pull me..."

Sakura couldn't help but laugh out loud, and even the pink fox on her neck giggled.

"Can't you get up by yourself? Or have you gained weight and can't get up?" Mebius, who came out of the kitchen wearing an apron and carrying dishes, rolled his eyes unhappily. He put the delicately colored dishes on the table with one hand and lifted Alicia up by the back of her collar with the other hand. "She's so heavy... You've gained weight."

Alicia weighed the flesh on her belly and swallowed her saliva: "How is that possible~ I weighed myself when I went to get my clothes today!"

"That's a matter of scale."

The man asked Mebius, who was arguing with Alicia, "How is Sue?"

"Him?" Mobius's dissatisfied tone became even more serious. "I don't understand why you could let me cook with a sick person? It's hard for him to just stand, let alone cook. With the Kosmo supporting him, the kitchen is almost full."

Gresh, who had been drawing on the paper beside her, raised her little head and said, "Aunt Mobius, do you need any help?"

"Yes, sister." Mobius said, "Anyone is fine. Please replace the patient. You should come here. You are the best cook."

She called the man who was smoking, and he nodded and prepared to put away his pipe and go to the kitchen. However, before he could stand up, the other two got up first.

Ying threw the fox to Paduo, who had been eyeing it with envy, and stood up and said, "I'll go. Lin is usually in charge of cooking, so he should take a break today."

"Let me come too. Three people should be enough." Aponiya also stood up with her eyes lowered.

"..." Mebius stared at them, and after a while he uttered a word, "Okay."

……

It was drizzling, and after a hearty meal, the already noisy mansion became even noisier. A few people who couldn't handle alcohol well ran around the house trying to get people to drink. Only the men sat cross-legged in the courtyard, sipping sake in the rain.

The sweet raindrops fell into the cup, disturbing the ripples on the wine surface, but he didn't care and drank it all in one gulp.

"This is what the people of Shenzhou call the flavor of the New Year." Alicia picked up another glass of wine on the table. Her cheeks were as sweet as melted brown sugar in the influence of the wine. She took small sips and let her lips touch the clear wine. "If everyone gets together to play, even the Nian beast will be scared away."

"That's not what I meant..." The man wanted to correct Alicia, but he stopped talking halfway and said, "Nian Beast... Maybe we can go look for it."

"Haha, that's also in Shenzhou, right? Do you want to go to Shenzhou and take a look?"

"We haven't been to the Taixu Mountain that Hua mentioned yet. Let's go and see it after the New Year."

"Okay, let's go together?"

"Eden has a job, Sue hasn't recovered yet, Kevin..."

"But didn't everyone come back today without any prior arrangement? No matter who we are, we are all just partners. As long as Lin tells everyone that he wants to go out and play together, he will definitely get everyone's consent."

A drop of rain fell on the side of the mask and slowly slid down.

"Really? Then let's go together."

"Whoosh!"

Paddo lit the firework, and a beam of light rose from the darkness and exploded into colorful colors above the man's head.

His long hair swirled on the ground like an inky black scroll. Under the shining light, it dispelled the gloom, as if the bright light was sprinkled on the top of the bamboo forest, leaving countless mottled spots of light.

My hair has grown longer without me noticing.

But there is no need to cut it short anymore.

Chapter 62 Normal and Abnormal

"Forehead……"

Every bone in my body was wailing, and deep fatigue was rooted under my head that seemed about to break.

Hun held on to the shaking chair, her consciousness swaying in the unstable transport plane and about to dissipate. Every minute she had to raise her head to make sure she was still awake.

The air conditioner was whistling at full blast, and even though the cabin was filled with filtered warm oxygen and the room temperature on the thermometer enveloped her, she could not feel any warmth.

It’s like falling into an ice river, the endless cold freezes the soul.

The half-human-pig-like speaker noticed her strangeness while holding a cigarette, put down his finger and asked jokingly, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Soul grabbed the oxygen transport tube, took a few deep breaths, and whispered, "Compared to Lin, it's nothing. It's just one of the symptoms of Honkai's erosion."

"Compared with Lin? He is actually pretty good. In the past few years after the Third Collapse, at least tens of millions of ordinary people have died from the Collapse disease. They don't have the treatment of the Fire Moth, so they can't even survive for two years." The Speaker flicked off the burnt ash.

"..."

"Don't look at me like that. I'm just telling the truth. You always arbitrarily give Lin some tragic names, as if he is the most miserable one in this cruel world. But it's not hard to understand you. After losing your loved ones, you have a morbid desire to protect him. It's just post-traumatic stress disorder." The Speaker sneered, "But for Lin, he never felt that he was pitiful. Your pity is a bit redundant."

Hun covered his head and murmured, "What's the point of saying this now..."

"It's really useless. We're all dying, so we have to speak our minds." The Speaker couldn't help laughing. "Me too, me too."

The fact that he could still laugh so cheerfully after experiencing failure made Hun feel angry and curious.

"Same? I've said it many times, we are different..."

"I know you want to say that we are not the same kind of people, but I just want to say that we are all normal people."

The speaker's laughter gradually faded, and the light in his eyes faded as he leaned back in his chair: "A bad person who does one good thing cannot be a good person, but can't a bad person do one good thing..."

Hun lowered her head speechlessly. She could no longer hear what the Speaker was saying.

……

"Are you going out?"

Velvet stopped working and asked the mechanical girl with a ponytail who picked up the helmet.

"I have completed the protection agreement. Doctor, please protect yourself from now on." Prometheus held his helmet in one hand and bowed to Velvet who was sitting on the workbench. "Please wait until I come back to assist you with the rest of the work."

"You can work even when Lin's helmet stops functioning. The black box in the helmet is connected to your main system, so you can know all the information before he takes off the helmet."

"And before he disappeared, he was wearing a helmet."

Velvet's casual words did not make Prometheus show any expression. She never showed her emotions, or it was unknown whether she had any emotions or not.

But she kept her head down and said nothing.

“You told me that your system was interfered with when Lin disappeared, so you didn’t know how Lin disappeared. But from the current situation... you have reached a consensus with the person who took Lin away.” Wei Liwei yawned and put down the wrench in her hand.

"I can't interfere with the operation of my own system." Prometheus said monotonously.

"In the agreement Mei set for you, protecting Lin is the top priority, so if you judge that the other party does not want to harm Lin, you can organize a complete set of logic to convince yourself of the system principles."

"…Are you going to scrap me?"

"Oh? You admitted it so quickly. I thought you would deny it." Weiwei tilted her head and smiled. "Don't worry. I'm just surprised at the level of your personality."

"With more than half of the senior executives at the headquarters dead, the chances of you destroying me are as high as 98%, so..."

“Hey, wait a minute. Even if I want to scrap you, I have to get Mei and Lin’s consent. Besides, in my opinion, the result and process of this incident are not what we saw. There is nothing wrong with Einstein’s reasoning. She did simulate the general appearance of the whole incident, but she still ignored some details.”

Weiwei picked up a screw and said to Prometheus with a smile: "Just like this screw, it looks insignificant, but it is crucial to a work."

"..."

"The key information that Einstein knew was told to her by Mei. Mei did not lie about this, but Mei should have only told her part of it. This is the same as what you just said about 'not being able to interfere with the operation of the system'."

“There are no lies, but the truth is not complete either.”

"Mei has already known who the murderer is through your system, but at the same time, that person has no intention of hiding it from Mei. Instead, he used you to convey a message."

"He will clean up the top management including himself. After that, power will be redistributed. With the support of Mebius, May will have the opportunity to implement her plan. In exchange, she will not participate in this incident."

"This is the main condition. I guess there is an additional condition, which is Lin."

"To allow Lin to spend his last moments safely, this is the fundamental reason why you and Mei let him take Lin away. Before this, Mei probably investigated the other party's background and had great trust in him to keep his promise."

"And Mei really didn't participate. She just symbolically investigated the scene in the early stage and then handed everything over to Kevin."

Wei Wei put her palms together and chuckled, "In the end, when the balance of power is broken, she no longer needs to abide by their treaty and guide Einstein to discover the truth. She also needs to act quickly to end this incident, establish her prestige, and pave the way for her to gain greater voice in the future."

"You've been following Einstein and me all the time. I'm afraid it was Mei who instructed you to monitor our progress in solving the case."

After listening to Velvet's conspiracy theory, Prometheus neither admitted nor denied it. She was completely in a state of shutdown, staring at Velvet blankly.

"I will not judge whether Mei is right or wrong at this point. She will do anything for humanity. This is no different from those high-ranking officials."

"But...even if it's you, even if it's her, would you have such a selfish motive?"

Wilvi said softly.

"Are we...abnormal? Dr. Velvet."

"No, you are normal, you are like a normal human being, more human than most people."

Chapter 63 Rain

"Here, Lin, this is for you."

The owner of the store where he worked handed him a bottle of drink. Ling, who was packing up to finish his work for the day, glanced at it and didn't take it.

"Haha, it won't be deducted from your salary. It's your treat." The boss smiled heartily and forced the drink into his hand.

“……” Ling was in charge of the checkout at the front desk, so he could tell at a glance that the price of this bottle of drink was the most expensive among all the drinks.

"When you came to apply for the job, I asked you about your family situation. You told me you were an orphan." The boss also opened a bottle of drink. In his shop, you can drink whatever you want. He is warm, straightforward and generous. He treats employees well and has good interpersonal relationships. "Tell me if you have any difficulties. I also suffered a lot when I was young, and I know it's not easy for you."

"I'm okay."