I'm not Yingjie

There was a detail that made the Speaker very uneasy. His blood first turned black and then disappeared. Although the process in between was extremely short, it did exist. It was that detail that made him have a horrible guess in his mind.

The Speaker pulled out the dagger he carried with his remaining right hand and cut off a bloody piece of meat from his burnt left arm. The piece of meat was as big as half a palm so that he could see the next experiment clearly.

He took two breaths first. After cutting the meat, breathing became more and more difficult. The pain of cutting off a piece of meat was nothing. Maintaining consciousness was the biggest challenge.

Closing his eyes any time could mean death, and he would never allow himself to die before uncovering the true identity of the black fog.

"Okay... record, first experiment..." The Speaker whispered a sentence to remind himself, and with chattering teeth he threw the fresh piece of meat in his hand into the black fog.

He stabbed the knife into his shoulder, forcing himself to open his eyes wide and not miss any details that followed.

"Zi-"

His eyes, bleeding, stared at the black fog of despair.

"..."

"..."

"So, that's it..."

The Speaker forced a smile.

Retribution?

If this saying really exists, then now is the time for it to come true.

At this moment, the "soul" with its eyes closed began to tremble violently, which was a sign of awakening.

As for whether the one who woke up would be a soul or something else... the Speaker no longer cared.

He stared quietly at a device in Hun's hand, then raised his head and looked at the cockpit that seemed to be separated by a chasm.

……

"drop--"

Lin put the pistol back into the holster after checking it, and looked at the communicator with his clear dark eyes. It showed that it was a call from Spasi.

Is there anything else that hasn’t been explained?

The first thing I saw after pressing the connect button was Spasi's stern expression: "Lin, this is an emergency call transferred to you. There is no time to explain. The Fifth Branch is already preparing a plan to attack the Sixth Herrscher."

"..."

The Sixth Herrscher...

From dealing with the rebellion to preparing to attack the Sixth Herrscher, it took less than an hour...

Lin didn't say anything. He just nodded calmly and asked Spasi to transfer the call.

Spasi's face disappeared from the screen, and was replaced by... a strange smiling face.

Lin had only seen this face once, and the impression it gave him was that of a politician with a dagger hidden in his smile. After that, they never saw each other again.

However, the familiar feeling that was so intense that it made his heart beat faster occupied his entire mind at this moment.

"Hehehe... If Dr. Spasi hadn't told me, I really wouldn't have believed that you left Dusk Street." The man's face was pale, and disgusting lines spread from his neck all the way to the corners of his eyes. The muscles in the lower half of his face were loose, like deformed fat.

But he still smiled, maintaining his usual demeanor, smiling calmly with the expression unique to a politician.

"It seems that you already know everything, so I will skip the polite words and get straight to the point."

"The Sixth Herrscher is on this transport plane. His real identity is a former member of the Fifth Squadron, Soul."

The Speaker and Lin looked at each other, two pairs of eyes that were so dark that one could not see the bottom, watching the changes in each other's eyes.

The Speaker could not see Lin’s emotions: sadness, anger, shock, pain… all were hidden under that dead water, unpredictable and without any leakage.

So the Speaker smiled with satisfaction.

"MSA-079, this is my last order for you. At any cost, including your own life, defeat the Sixth Herrscher." He spoke the sentence clearly, word by word. "The Sixth Herrscher's ability is to accelerate the apoptosis of living cells. It also has the potential to corrode non-living matter. It manifests itself in the form of black gas. It will automatically spread when unconscious and can pass through objects to a certain extent. Its movement method is unknown."

After letting himself breathe a sigh of relief, the Speaker sneered at Lin and said, "No matter who you and I were before, you are now just a soldier of the Fire Moth. Compared with stopping the collapse, your life is not worth mentioning."

"Do you understand?"

……

"You could have crashed the transport plane to delay the Sixth Herrscher's actions, but why did you let the transport plane fly towards the Fifth Branch on autopilot?"

After the Speaker ended his communication with Lin, Spasi angrily questioned the Speaker.

"Why... Dr. Spashi, I remember that the Fifth Branch's research on the Honkai Disease Serum has reached its final moments, right? How far is it?"

"...I don't know. Maybe only one portion of the extracted serum is needed, or maybe a hundred or a thousand portions are needed. The dose required to reach the qualitative change stage is unpredictable."

"very good."

The ominous smile of the speaker startled Spashie. He continued, "With the current medical technology of the Fire Chaser, even a serious injury like mine can be brought back from the brink of death, except for this nasty Honkai disease."

"You--" In an instant, Spasi understood the Speaker's plan.

"So do you know why I still let the transport plane fly to the fifth branch?" The Speaker's smile became more and more exaggerated.

"Do you understand?"

"You know it!"

Tearing off all the disguises of being gentle and easy-going, he roared madly with a terrifying voice, like a real monster.

"I can't die here! I can't die together with the Sixth Herrscher! I must survive! Live to the Fifth Branch!"

As a human being, his selfish desires finally deprived this demon of all his sanity.

Chapter 69: Full Strength

"The Sixth Herrscher is born."

Mei's fingers, which were typing the code on the keyboard, paused for a moment.

Velvet walked out slowly from the shadows behind her, holding her magic hat in her hand.

Mei ignored Velvet after a brief pause and continued to work. She replied calmly, "I have sent all the Titans to fight, and ordered one of my subordinates to join the fight against the Sixth Herrscher."

"After the rest of the troops have been reorganized, they will also be deployed in the subjugation campaign. Prior to that, we will evacuate the city's personnel, gather the fifth branch's combat personnel to contain the Sixth Herrscher, and dispatch other branches to provide assistance."

At a time when the headquarters suffered a major blow, May's actions were standard and quick.

There was nothing wrong with Weiwei. This set of processes was basically the process for every large-scale collapse. It was no exaggeration to say that she was a textbook commander.

All Titan troops specially assigned to deal with large-scale collapses have set out. Having already won the first battle in suppressing the rebellion, the Titans will undoubtedly demonstrate their due value in this crusade.

Yes, as the highest technological achievement of Firemoth at present, even if the Autonomous Titan is not as good as the TT-079 modified driven by Lin himself, it is enough to easily crush most Honkai beasts.

But Velvet suddenly asked: "Can Titan successfully defeat the Sixth Herrscher?"

"I don't know. Titans were not designed to defeat the Herrscher from the beginning."

The cold fluorescent light of the screen shone on Mei's cheek, and her thick glasses reflected a pale light, making it impossible to see her eyes behind them.

"Its weapons and armor are mostly designed to fight against large Honkai beasts, that is, 'giant beasts' of the same size, rather than a 'god' of human size. Even though Lin once used Titans to defeat the Fourth Herrscher, that does not prove that Titans will have any advantage in defeating Herrscher."

After listening to Mei's analysis without saying a word, Wei Wei dusted off the magic hat, put it on her head and lowered the brim: "Maybe the way I asked is wrong, then I will change the question, Dr. Mei..."

"Will you allow the Titans to successfully defeat the Sixth Herrscher?"

"..."

After these words were spoken, everything became quiet.

Wei Li stared at Mei's back with a gloomy expression that had never appeared before. She didn't know when the thin and quiet figure became so scary in her eyes.

She had seen humans killed to protect them.

Everyone in Fire Moths will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, and the most chilling thing is that they only have one common goal.

Protect humanity.

"I have programmed Prometheus II to operate on the principle of human supremacy."

When the atmosphere was about to drop below zero, Mei's calm words made Wei Erwei's frown relax for a moment.

"You witnessed the birth of Prometheus II with your own eyes, so you know very well that Prometheus II will not do anything to harm humanity. Even if its calculation model eventually becomes absurd, it will not come to the conclusion of rebelling against humanity."

Mei turned around, her overly long white robe falling at her ankles. She pointed to the spot beside her and chuckled, "Prometheus II is now commanding the Titans. I have only one order for it: to defeat the Sixth Herrscher at all costs to protect humanity. You can come here and check if I have entered any unnecessary orders."

After thinking for a second, Weiwei decisively walked to the screen and skillfully opened the Prometheus program. She breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the result that was exactly the same as what Mei said.

She had indeed witnessed the birth of Number Two with her own eyes, and knew its operating rules very well.

At least this time, Mei did allow it to fully defeat the Sixth Herrscher without endangering humanity.

"Mei, you don't seem surprised by what I just said." Wei Wei glanced at Mei. She rarely put away her radio-wave conversation style and spoke to Mei in a rational manner, "Then can I assume that you set a backdoor on No. 1 to monitor everything that happens to her?"

"As an engineer, isn't your favorite thing to do to set up backdoors in your own work?"

Mei did not give a direct answer, but her words were an implicit admission of what she had done.

So Weiwei asked directly: "Is my reasoning correct? You had a deal with that person? You knew the truth, but watched all this happen?"

"Most of it is correct, but I must clarify one thing. I did not have any deal with that person. He just informed me unilaterally." Mei replied in a normal tone, "And I chose to watch what happened next."

"..."

"Even if he didn't start a rebellion, this civil strife would have broken out sooner or later, but not at this time. Instead, it would have happened at the most critical juncture for humanity, when human nerves were being squeezed to the extreme and all of the Fire Moth's problems were exposed. This is the inevitable situation."

An understatement?

This woman with long black hair, who is already an adult and becoming more mature, described the cold and cruel facts in the simplest language.

"So he told me that instead of waiting for the poison to explode in my old age when it was irreversible, I would rather cut off the cancer first. Although I did not agree with all his plans and ideas of ruling, I had no reason to refuse, and of course no opportunity to refuse."

"The rest is pretty much as you said."

Mei's demeanor was so calm that it was not like a human. During this time when the sixth Honkai broke out and there were internal and external troubles, she still remained the most rational.

"...You didn't agree with all the ideas, so you ended his plan in the end." Velvet had restored the original appearance of the whole thing, but there was another thing that bothered her. "So, can I assume that your sensibility made you decide to let the Titans attack the Sixth Herrscher normally?"

Even though he commanded Lin with the most stringent orders and asked him to risk everything to defeat the Herrscher, he was still allowed to spend the last part of his time there.

Is this the little sentimentality that Mei has left?

"…If I can use sensibility to save the world, and love and justice can defeat the Herrscher, I will unleash all my sensibility, all the sensibility of mankind."

"But that's impossible."

Mei's words were like a bucket of cold water poured on Weiwei's head, making her shiver.

"Dr. Velvet, in your opinion, how can a person's greatest value be reflected? In a battle for the survival of mankind, should one hold back? Or should one give it one's all?"

Obviously, all value can only be realized by doing one's best.

"So, even if you try your best, you still lose?"

Chapter 70 "She"

The transport plane hovered steadily at an altitude of nearly 100 meters.

The charming red eyes looked out the window at the scenery below, and "she" stretched out her hand towards somewhere in the tiny city below.

"despair."

The transparent glass blocked "her" fingers. After a moment of hesitation and silence, "she" looked at the black fog around her. The fog, which seemed real but fake, was floating in the air.

As soon as she was conscious, the black mist was completely retracted into her body, which made "her"...

surprise.

"She" can feel the power in the black fog that causes all things to wither, but "she" can control this power at will, and there is another completely different energy in her body that exudes vitality.

Great, this way we can...

The joy on her delicate face lasted less than half a second.

Then...what will happen?

My head hurts... I can't remember anything...

It took a while for "she" to recover from the headache, but "she" still couldn't remember what she had forgotten.

The most important thing is that "she" must remember that it is related to someone...

Finally, "she" looked towards a place in the city outside the transport plane.