I'm not Yingjie

The black ball lasted for ten minutes, and all matter and life dissolved in it.

The white-haired man placed his companion on the ruined building of the Fifth Branch and looked out at the dead silent space.

When the black ball disappeared, the fighting Titans and the Honkai creatures, the buildings built by humans, and the broken giant trees had all become rotten and withered, just like the world a hundred years later.

In this depleted world, the sea of ​​white gardenia flowers fills every space, quietly singing in the wind under the high sunshine...

Chapter 119: New Life

The lost body temperature warmed up in the burning, and Su ran with all his might. He listened to the trembling in his ears, the shaking of his unstable feet, and the howling of the child in his chest.

At first glance, there was no way out, only endless flames, endless ruins, and only fading physical strength at high speed while time was still moving cruelly forward.

pain.

My hands, feet, and head were all in tearing pain, and I felt like my whole body was about to be torn apart by the pain.

How far is the monster from him?

Ten meters?

Five meters?

Or……

"Oh!"

The swollen giant palm slapped the ground behind him, and the strong wind pushed him back and made him fall more than dozens of meters, breaking his right leg with a snap.

"puff--"

The saliva and blood could not bear the weight of the chest and flowed from the lips.

Su hugged the child tightly, whose crying voice gradually weakened. He climbed up and breathed his last breath. He was too weak to continue running away. He could only put the child under the broken wall beside him and cover him as best he could, then turned around to face the monster.

Biologically speaking, this kind of creature should not appear. Its mere presence in front of Su made him feel uncomfortable.

However, now did not seem to be the time to investigate the structure of the Honkai beast. He let his unconscious injured arm drop down and raised his other hand into a ridiculous fist.

Su always thought that when he died, he would recall his whole life, remember every detail of his life in a short yet long moment, and then face death.

Those patients who died in the hospital all had unwillingness in their eyes. They were still whispering the names of people who were important to them at the moment before they died. They were either surrounded by their families or lying alone until their lives faded away.

But Su found that he was calmer than he thought.

There are no unwilling echoes, nor replayed memories.

He just looked up at the deformed arms that were about to send him into another world, waiting without blinking...

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The bullet passed through the terrifying arm, breaking its seemingly indestructible body with blood and flesh flying everywhere, and then the continuous gunshots pierced the core of the Honkai beast.

"Boom..."

The body of the giant beast fell down.

Under the rising sun of hope, a young figure holding a gun walked up to Su Daining.

"Doctor Mei, this is Prometheus III. We have found survivors after losing contact with TT-079 and falling into Changkong City. Please arrange for recovery."

……

"Want a cigarette?"

Fal leaned against the door, took off his blood-stained gloves and threw them on the pile of dead bodies. He took out a pack of cigarettes from his white coat and asked Ragnar, who was sitting at the door covered in blood.

"...I remember you don't smoke." Ragnar used her left hand to pry open the fingers of her right hand that was holding the broken stick. She took the cigarette handed to her but did not put it in her mouth.

"I really don't smoke. Smoking can damage lung function. Long-term and heavy smoking can also cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, not to mention the poison contained in secondhand smoke..."

"So, why do you still have cigarettes?"

Fal shrugged and smiled nonchalantly: "The patient is an old smoker. His lungs are all black, which looks more terrible than the purple organs eroded by the Honkai disease. I found cigarettes in his hospital gown. He smoked secretly in the hospital."

"…Then do you smoke?"

"Forget it. I've said so myself that I don't want to smoke anymore." Farr put down the cigarette box and glanced at the cigarette in Ragnar's hand. "What about you?"

"I don't smoke either. I used to be a maid, and the family I served was allergic to cigarettes. They strictly forbade the servants in their house to smoke. It left a deep impression on me." Ragnar weakly took off his blood-red coat, and after thinking for a while, he put the cigarette in his pocket.

"You were also a maid?"

"It's just a hobby... There are always times when you want to experience a different life, so I got a professional maid certificate and worked as a maid for about a year."

“It’s really a rich experience.”

"Really? I think life is long, and these are nothing."

"Is life still long..."

In the operating room behind the two people who were talking in low voices, on the screen of the electrocardiogram monitor, the line symbolizing life was beating strongly.

……

"..."

The blue sky is far away, and the tiny clouds are stacked layer by layer, casting mottled spots of light on the girl's cheeks.

Clusters of pale white flowers embraced her, and the breeze blew the red and blue hair around her ears.

"call……"

The wind pressure rolled up the petals and flew towards the sky. The wounded people stepped into this pure white flower garden, and drops of blood slid into the stamens.

The man in the helmet came to the girl's side with the help of Sakura. After Sakura nodded, he let go of her hand and squatted down to look at the girl.

"...The sky of you humans is vast and boundless, it's really nice." She curled her lips and a thin and ethereal voice sounded.

"The sky does not belong to humans. It's just there, and anyone can look up at it." The man let out a long sigh and replied calmly.

The girl looked at the cloud again and couldn't help laughing: "Really?"

"..."

She was barely breathing, and her blue and red pupils looked at the man at the same time: "Have you ever looked at the sky while lying down?"

The man hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "Let's see later."

"Then you must take a look. The view from here is much more beautiful than looking at the ground from the sky."

At this moment, she no longer had a false smile, nor did she talk incessantly. She just admired the sky normally.

The cloud was eventually blown away by the wind, but she didn't seem to care much, or maybe she never intended to focus her attention on that inconspicuous cloud in the ever-changing sky.

The man pulled a pistol from its holster.

"By the way, can you help me choose a name?"

The hand that loaded the gun paused for a moment, and he seemed to have forgotten his previous sarcasm towards the girl, and asked calmly: "What kind of name?"

"Anything is fine... But Soul doesn't like names that are too long, and I hate having the same name as others, so I'm still a little picky." The girl glanced at Kevin, who had a cold face, and shook her head, "It doesn't matter if you don't choose it."

Lin stared at her familiar face, the smile he had seen countless times, which froze at the last moment under the bright spring breeze.

"...Xier." He thought of the unfinished hug and whispered softly.

“Hahahaha… Do you have trouble coming up with names? I ended up using Soul’s name.”

The laughter spread far away and came back again.

Slowly, the red and blue faded from her body, leaving only pure black.

The girl stopped laughing, closed her eyes silently, and placed herself in the sea of ​​flowers, breathing evenly, as if she was falling into a long sleep.

The white flowers were like a blanket, covering everything of her.

The man stood up and raised his gun.

"Goodbye, Lin."

"Goodbye, Xi'er."

"Boom."

The white petals covered the smoking muzzle of the gun.

Chapter 120: To You in the Past

has it ended?

ended.

The battle lasted for two days and one night, spanning a quarter of the earth from beginning to end. The battlefield stretched to nearly half of the Far East, with casualties exceeding five million. The Sixth Collapse ended with the Fire Moth losing almost 80% of its combat power.

It began with an internal fight among humans and ended with the Honkai attack. Perhaps the number of casualties was less than the first and third Honkai, but the damage to human society and the Fire Moths was unprecedented.

In the cities where the sixth collapse occurred, less than a hundred residents hiding in the shelters survived. The blow suffered by Changkong City after the second collapse was no less than that of the third collapse, not to mention the depletion of earth resources and aging of buildings caused by the strange ability of the Sixth Herrscher.

After investigation, it was found that the lifespan of plants rooted in this city was greatly reduced. Even the most tenacious species could not survive for more than ten days. It was as if the white flowers that withered after the death of the Sixth Herrscher absorbed the vitality of this area, turning it into a dry city.

It is dead and gloomy all year round, and you can't even feel the warmth of the sun just by walking on the shadeless road.

Therefore, even after the city was rebuilt after the sixth collapse, the number of residents dropped to about one-tenth of the original number, making it the place with the least number of residents among the large cities in the Far East.

The Fire Moth's headquarters combat forces had suffered a terrifying 86.5% loss, including various advanced weapons and equipment and autonomous Titans. After the inventory, there were only thirteen functioning Titans left in the Titan force, and the headquarters combat team was reduced to about five.

The command function of the headquarters was paralyzed, and the operation of the Fire Moth was greatly affected in the next six months, and even the jurisdiction of some places had loopholes. The most obvious point was the sharp increase in the number of patients with Honkai disease, but there was no way to accommodate them.

However, this purge and the reduction in the number of soldiers also caused the remaining senior officials to change their original elite strategy and accelerate the expansion of armed personnel, which affected some of the subsequent historical processes...

Of course, that’s a story for later.

……

"Lin, I burned a letter from you."

On the way back to the fifth branch, Alicia suddenly said something to Lin who was resting on her shoulder.

She looked like she was sorting out events in her notebook and found the labels left behind. She remembered the important clues only after seeing the previous annotations. She seemed a little embarrassed, but she had played similar roles many times, so it still looked as natural as before.

"...What letter?" Lin's tone at this moment was similar to that before he left, as steady as an old monk in meditation.

Ai Lishiya's tone contained a complexity that she rarely told others. She lowered her head, sighed, and pursed her lips and said, "A... I don't know what a letter from someone else means to you."

"Yeah……"

Alicia didn't know whether Lin meant that he knew who it was or that he didn't care who it was, so she asked tentatively: "Do you want to know what's written in it? I still remember the content."

"no need."

Lin just shook his head. Alicia felt a not-so-light shake on her shoulder and nodded without saying anything else.

Words interpreted by others may not convey their original meaning.

She might consider Lin and embellish the bad parts of the letter, but is that what that person wants to say? Is that what Lin wants to hear?

Since she didn't want Lin to know from the beginning, let it go.

"Alishia, have you ever thought about the future after the Honkai ends?"

"..."

"I asked Hua this question. I wanted her to live with that future as her goal, but I never thought about it myself." Lin opened up, contrary to his usual behavior. His helmet was completely dark and he couldn't see anything. "A soldier, an ordinary person, doesn't have the time and hope to imagine the future."

"But now, have you changed your mind?"

"Now I realize that it is ordinary people who imagine a better future. They look forward to a better tomorrow every day. They do not take the shortness of life for granted. They want to tell others about their lives in a richer and longer way in the future."

"That's a good idea." Alicia didn't talk about the future she imagined, but just asked with a calm smile, "What do you want to do after the collapse is over?"

What do you want to do?

It is easy to splash colorful paints on a blank sheet of paper, but Lin is not the kind of person who wants to play all over the world.

Lin suddenly thought of the soldiers who rebelled in this incident, and the souls who became the Sixth Law Seekers. Their names would not be recorded in the Fire Moth's special cemetery. No matter what contributions they had made or what their identities were, after betrayal, they were no longer members of the Fire Moth.

But apart from the Fire Moths, no one would erect tombstones for them. Their past, their names, their extremism, and their ideals have left no trace in this world.

Just like they never existed.

"I want to build a cemetery." Lin said softly.

"cemetery?"