I'm not Yingjie

"Like Kevin did to Dr. May."

The mechanical girl blinked her monitor and spoke to Lin, who lowered his head and remained silent.

……

"I'm really sorry, I've been busy with tasks lately and haven't had much time to come visit you. This is the bracelet Ling gave you."

The most unexpected visitor might be this cherry-haired female swordsman with a sword.

As soon as she came up, she told him about the recent situation in a familiar tone and handed him a scarlet bracelet. She was very indifferent throughout the whole process. After she finished speaking, she stared at Lin on the bed without blinking, as if waiting for him to speak.

What Lin should ask in this situation is the classic question, "Do we know each other well?"

But he noticed that Sakura's tone was not just inexplicably familiar, so after taking a quick look at Sakura's armor that had not yet been removed, he asked, "How did Mei arrange it?"

Seeing that Lin quickly realized it, Ying secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She always felt a great pressure and guilt when communicating with him. It was only after she finished speaking that she remembered that there was something important she had not said.

"After you recover, you and I will form the Poison Pupa Team and carry out missions together for a while."

"..."

Ying is the new member of the Poison Pupa and the only member at present. She obviously did not expect that her first teammate would be Lin, who sent her into the abyss.

Besides, she had asked Mei hesitantly, and Lin would not agree to carry out the mission of the poisonous pupa.

Fortunately, Mei had naturally considered this issue.

"Until the situation at the headquarters stabilizes, we are just an ordinary combat team and will not accept any missions from the original poison pupa."

The cancellation of Lin's position had a moderate impact, and making him start all over again as an ordinary private was actually a bit of a waste of his talent. So, with the tacit approval of other senior officials, Mei transferred him to the Poison Pupa, which was equivalent to her private army, so that he had a certain degree of autonomy.

Moreover, Lin's rich experience can also provide certain subsidies to Ying, which is equivalent to giving remedial lessons to this newcomer with high combat power but little experience.

"I will not go on any missions until you recover. Do you have any instructions?"

Ying's face was tense. She knew that Lin was a person who was particularly strict with himself and his teammates, so it was best to get along with him in a businesslike manner.

But what she didn't expect was that after listening to all this, Lin calmly opened the book and said calmly: "Please help me peel an apple."

"……Um?"

It's the beginning of the month, you know what I mean

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Chapter 3 Killer Exchange Law

"Lin...disappeared from the paradise of the past..."

In the deepest darkness, a pair of blue pupils slowly opened. She thought silently for a while, and then a hint of deep red flashed from the depths of her eyes.

Just a few seconds ago, Lin's breath disappeared out of thin air from the paradise of the past life. This was an unprecedented situation.

Lin's memory is different from that of the heroes. His memory will not be a burden to the visitors, so he can appear at the starting point of the paradise of the past life from the very beginning, observe the visitors and provide help. Naturally, he is not like the heroes who hide in the paradise of the past and do not come out to see people.

This is the only time that a person has disappeared and even Aponia cannot be found.

I don’t know if it was an illusion when Lin disappeared. It wasn’t that his aura was concealed, but... it dissipated.

"What happened……"

Lin had discussed with her the plan regarding the Herrscher visitor, but his own disappearance was clearly not part of the plan.

Is this...what happened in the paradise of the past?

Before anyone could react... deep within the Fire Moth, in the cemetery where the endless rain fell, the tombstones engraved with countless people's names began to... shake.

……

"The apples... have been peeled."

The cherry-haired killer reluctantly pushed the fruit plate to the man who was reading. The juicy apples inside had been cut into six pieces with superb knife skills. He nodded silently, pointed at the plate, and motioned her to eat some too.

...very strange.

These words appeared in Sakura's mind.

Whether compared to the first time they met when he was sitting in a wheelchair or compared to the second time they met, when they were fighting, Lin seemed to have changed in some way.

When we first met, he was a mysterious man who was cold but also a little gentle. When we met the second time, he was a master with murderous intent and every move drew blood. The latter could be said to be the former's hidden side.

But now, Lin seems... to have lost his temper.

But then again, he himself was not cruel. It was just that his usual silence and the knife-like gaze that appeared from time to time did not give people a good impression. Now, he seemed to have washed away all the sharpness, and just sitting there, he perfectly blended into the peaceful atmosphere of morning and evening.

It feels like an old man's retirement life.

"Ka-chi."

The sound of Lin chewing an apple brought her back to her senses from her thoughts. She looked up and found that Lin had closed the book and was about to switch to the next one.

His reading speed was incredibly fast. In the time it took him to peel an apple, he had finished a half-read book. At first, Ying thought he had read it several times or was just skimming through it, but he even occasionally made notes and put bookmarks in the book, which showed that he had indeed read it carefully.

Reading ten lines at a glance is not enough to describe his reading speed.

Lin glanced and found Ying observing him, so he handed the book in his hand to her: "Do you want to read it?"

"...No need." Sakura was stunned for a moment, then shook her head.

"I think it's very interesting." Since Ying didn't want to read it, Lin didn't force her. He put the book on the table. "This book tells the story of a female assassin and a target falling in love. The process is a bit cliché, but the ending is unexpected. It can be said that the author used all the previous content as a prelude to the ending."

"..."

Why did he suddenly start talking about the contents of the book?

And why is it... a female killer?

"Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to kill a target but couldn't?"

"..." Ying found that when Lin asked this question, his eyes returned to their original state. A kind of severe coldness that seemed to pierce people emanated from him from the inside out, but he deliberately lowered his head and didn't look at her, probably because he didn't want her to see it.

After thinking about it, Ying sighed softly: "Once."

"What kind of person is the other party?"

"My first target to kill."

"..."

"I can't remember his name anymore, but I remember the look in his eyes when he faced the blade reflecting his terrified face when I couldn't bring myself to do it the first time." Sakura said softly, "I realized at that moment that the person who died at my hands was a living human being like me."

“But you still did it.”

"Yes."

"..."

"..."

Speechless for a moment.

The atmosphere in the room dropped to freezing point with Lin's words.

Ying did not explain whether the people she killed were the ones who should be killed, because she chose those targets not to eliminate harm for the people, but to make it easier for herself to do it and make it more justified.

But there was no such thing as taking a life for granted, and Lin could see why she chose those people.

Ying thought that this conversation would end here, and they would continue to maintain a cold and unfamiliar relationship until Lin left the Poison Pupa team.

But what she didn't expect was that after a brief silence, Lin picked up the book again, turned to one of the pages, glanced at it and said, "The heroine of this book has an interesting view on her career as a killer. She believes that being a killer is a kind of 'exchange' profession."

"..."

What do you mean?

Sakura listened to him continue in confusion.

"She traded her 'humanity' for her 'life'. The more people she killed, the less 'human' she had. After she killed the first person, she was no longer a complete 'human'."

Lin expressed the heroine's opinion in the book as concisely as possible, and then he closed his eyes. When he opened them again after a while, the coldness in his eyes was no longer there.

"But the world in the book is just fiction after all. If her opinion is different from yours, then it doesn't apply to you. Moreover..." Lin exhaled, "The author of the novel is just writing a novel. His opinion is also not applicable to real killers."

"Exchange... huh..." Sakura muttered to herself, with a flash of self-mockery in her eyes.

"cherry."

"Ok?"

Lin calmly picked up the next book and said calmly, "I once left a letter in your mailbox, hoping that you would give up being a killer and return to normal life. At that time, it was a 'chance' I gave you. If you still choose to live as a killer, I will personally hand you over to human judgment."

"……terribly sorry."

"You don't have to apologize, I've done my job."

Ying, who originally thought that Lin was going to blame her, looked at Lin in confusion. He picked up a piece of apple and threw it into his mouth: "I just handed you over to humans for trial, and the result of your trial is... to let you fight for humans."

"In my opinion, this is also a kind of exchange. The moment you choose to step onto this battlefield, no matter what your original intention was, you have already got back the part that belongs to you."

"So, please ask for advice in the future."

Ying stared at Lin, whose face bandage hadn't even changed, and an inexplicable feeling surged from her heart.

It was a bit uncomfortable, but also surprisingly...relaxing.

"By the way, have an apple." Lin pushed the fruit plate in front of her.

Chapter 4: Eve

Lin rarely uses sweet talk to achieve his goals. Perhaps there was someone who was good at doing this before, but he did not teach Lin this skill.

Lin just said what he thought, and he didn't care whether the consequences of his words were hatred or friendship.

For example, did he mean anything when he told Sakura just now? No, he just happened to be reading that cheesy urban novel, and felt that Sakura was similar to the heroine in the book to a certain extent, so he expressed his opinion.

However, Lin did think about having some friendly exchanges with Sakura. They would become teammates, and cooperation on the battlefield was crucial. After Lin's experience of many events, his approach to interpersonal relationships changed.

As for what the change was... he himself couldn't explain it clearly, maybe he became kinder, or maybe he became more real.

"Oh my~ So there's already a girl visiting you~"

"..."

Lin didn't need to look up to tell who the person was by the elongated ending modal particle.

There is no need to think about it. The first thing that person did after entering was...

"Ka-chi."

Grab the last apple in the fruit bowl.

Lin Ping calmly raised his head and looked at Alicia who was chewing an apple with satisfaction. Judging from her appearance, she had just returned from a mission and came to the ward without even putting down her weapon.

“Hehe…” Alicia glanced at Lin looking at her and smiled nonchalantly. She looked at Ying curiously, especially her long pink hair, “Sure enough, Lin also likes pink~”

“I don’t like pink.”

"Liar."

"Pink makes me feel like a sponge that has not been rinsed clean and is full of detergent." Lin used a metaphor that he would never use before, "The moment I saw it, it made me uncomfortable."

"..."

"..."

Alicia glanced at Ying secretly and found that she didn't seem to care at all. She smiled meaningfully at Lin: "Lin, I will be angry if you belittle the color I like like this."

"is it?"

"But if you ask me not to be angry, I won't be angry."

"Please." Lin said in a voice as cold as minus thirty degrees.

A pair of beautiful big eyes narrowed into a slit in satisfaction, like crescent-shaped silver teeth. Although she didn't expect Lin to be so cooperative, it was an achievement to get this guy to say such words.

"Hey, let me formally introduce myself to you, this girl who is as cute as me. My name is Alicia."

Alicia openly extended her hand to Ying, and Ying glanced at Lin who didn't express anything, nodded imperceptibly, and extended her hand to hold Alicia's soft palm: "My name is Ying, a member of the Poison Pupa Team."

"Hmm... She's as beautiful as her name. By the way, Lin, you didn't tell me that you knew such a beautiful girl before? If she hadn't saved you last time, I wouldn't have noticed~"

The last time was when the battle with the Sixth Herrscher was almost over, and Sakura followed Mei's orders and rushed to the battlefield in time. She pierced through the arm of the Sixth Herrscher who was attacking Lin, and then saved Lin and dealt the Sixth Herrscher the final heavy blow together with him.