I'm not Yingjie

In that battle, she and Lin did not communicate at all, but they understood each other so well as if they had been comrades-in-arms for many years. In a sense, their compatibility in battle exceeded their own imagination.

"Did I... disturb you?" Ying was a little hesitant and a little uneasy. She always felt that the atmosphere of the conversation between these two people would not be good with an outsider.

"No, she is just like that."

"Oh, Lin won't mind, and neither will I!"

The two people rejected Sakura's idea in unison.

"Really..." But Ying couldn't actually get a word in. After all, she wasn't familiar with anyone in the Fire Moths, and her long-term killer habits had also made her less social, which was somewhat similar to Lin's previous approach of staying away from others.

"Since Ying is here, does that mean that you, Lin, are going to join the Poison Pupa?"

Ying looked at the cheerful Alicia in surprise. She and Lin hadn't said anything to each other, but Alicia had guessed at once that Lin had joined the poisonous pupa.

However, this was just a simple logic problem for Alicia. Unlike her smiling face all day long, Alicia's observation and thinking abilities were top-notch, and she broke many records in the Fire Moth test.

"Wow... Is this your team uniform? It's really nice. I want to change into a different outfit, too."

Alicia stared at Sakura's coat with shining eyes. This naked look made Sakura at a loss. She looked at Lin, but Lin lowered his head to read a book, as if to say "She is like that, get used to it."

"Lin, don't you think ordinary uniforms are too old-fashioned? They feel too 'uniform'."

Lin sighed imperceptibly and said, "You can learn from Mobius and modify it yourself."

"Hmm... Hmm? Lin, you can actually tell that Mobius modified her clothes?" Alicia pouted after a brief surprise, "But those are her own clothes. The white coats of researchers are too uniform, so she only needs to make a slight change to make them stand out. The uniforms are different, so how can I stand out?"

"Snapped."

Lin closed the book.

He pinched his chin and thought, "You can try to shorten the trouser legs. The Fire Moth uniforms are all long trousers. If the trousers are shorter, they will generally be particularly conspicuous."

"But if the pants are too short, it won't look good. I don't want to be different and stand out."

"How about some decoration?"

"Good idea, what should I add?"

"……flower?"

Sakura stared in amazement as a patient who had just recovered from a serious illness and a soldier who had just finished a mission chatted about how to modify boring clothes.

Is this what happens when talking to Alicia, or is Lin actually like this?

"By the way, Lin, have you thought about it? When will it be held?" Alicia suddenly changed the subject and asked out of the blue.

"Let's hold it when I can get out of bed." Lin responded calmly.

"Is that so... Then Ying has to come too. You are now Lin's team member, so you have to join the 'Loving Family' group chat~"

"?" Sakura, whose arm was held, stared at Alicia in bewilderment.

Love each other... a family? Why does it sound like a name that some elderly lady gave to a chat group?

Lin explained to Ying, "We are going to have a party. Can you help me cook? I think you are a good cook."

"me?"

"...Oh, right." Lin seemed to have remembered something, and he said calmly, "Your sister should come too."

Chapter 5: Small Mistakes

Fingers, flexion and extension.

Knees, tap.

Breathe in, breathe out.

Feeling the muscles in every inch of his body throbbing, Lin felt a little unfamiliar with the powerful limbs he had not felt for a long time. However, he quickly put aside the unfamiliarity and devoted himself to recalling how he had used his body before.

According to Mebius, the body parts she created are not much different from the original ones, and can be used normally after the adaptation period.

However, there are too many parts of the body for transplantation this time, including internal organs that are related to the body's circulation, so there is a high possibility of an overly strong rejection reaction. The specific situation needs to be further observed.

Lin Chu closed his eyes in the gym and felt the inharmonious parts of his body. He was completely immersed in the perception of his body without moving. After five deep breaths, he opened his eyes, and his deep black pupils quietly reflected the figure of the person in front of him in his eye sockets.

He picked up the wooden sword at his feet, and the other party also raised the wooden sword in his hand.

They did not observe any etiquette in the competition, nor did they wear any protective gear; this was just a simple sparring match.

Ying took the lead. She started with her eyes level, stepped forward and thrust, the wooden sword drawing a straight grey line. The speed was average but the technique was quite sophisticated and mature. Lin, who had never learned swordsmanship, could only dodge by relying on his dynamic reactions.

He dodged by turning his head sideways and raised the wooden sword from the lower right with one hand. Lin wanted to wield the sword based on pure intuition, but after stabbing out the sword, Ying used her other hand to hold down Lin's sword-holding hand to stop his sword. This smooth and flowing method of stopping the blade with bare hands should be a move from the sword-fighting style that she learned.

"Oh!"

Lin swung his empty hand to force Ying back, and the two of them retreated at the same time. The wooden swords that made sharp sounds collided in the air, making a heavy muffled sound.

In the following fight, Lin was always in a state of barely defending. Ying made the most of her speed advantage and easily deflected Lin's wooden sword, which was held in the wrong posture. Lin could only rely on his experience to dodge and was continuously hit by several blows. The sound of the collision between flesh and wooden sword made people shudder.

Soon, Lin, who was at a disadvantage in the battle, had his weapon taken away. Facing Ying who was holding two swords with his bare hands, he had no power to fight back.

But Ying was not merciful. She did not look down on Lin because of his amateurish posture and unskilled moves, but took this unfair duel seriously.

"jingle--"

The twenty-minute alarm rang and they both stopped at the same time. Ying took a step back, put the knife down with both hands and saluted Lin, while Lin, who was covered in bruises, nodded slightly.

Lin walked out of the ward and the first day of rehabilitation ended. He fell to the ground with his head back exhausted. His originally abundant strength was once again squandered. He felt that he got tired much faster than before.

The white stepping socks stopped in front of his eyes. Ying half squatted down, helped him up, and helped him to rest on a chair beside him.

"How does it feel?" Lin leaned against the wall, dissipated all the strength in his body, and asked Sakura who was wiping the wooden sword in a weak voice.

Sakura thought back to the one-sided battle and answered truthfully, "You fought based on instinct. You applied force in the right direction, but you didn't effectively use the characteristics of the weapon to reduce the burden of force. In short, you don't even know the basic techniques of kendo. If it's a one-on-one head-on fight, you don't have any advantage."

"..."

That’s a really honest review.

In fact, Lin is best at taking shortcuts in battle, using various venues, props and information gaps to achieve his goals. It doesn’t really matter what the weapon is. A knife that can effectively hurt Honkai creatures does not require too much consideration as to whether it is a stab or a chop, and how to use force.

But after careful consideration, Lin decided to ask Ying for her swordsmanship to enhance his own frontal combat capabilities.

"My swordsmanship was taught to me by my father, and my school is... that's all. If we follow the Far East's swordsmanship level classification, I have reached the level of a family-inherited school. I don't plan to recruit disciples to pass on my school, so the name is not important. If you want to learn, I can teach you."

Sakura's attitude when talking about swordsmanship was different from usual, with some nostalgia and disappointment in her eyes, but Lin could see her love for kendo.

After Lin nodded, Ying continued, "My style is actually a dual-sword style, but dual swords are not convenient for assassinations, so I only use a single sword. Over time, I have become accustomed to only having one sword."

No wonder she usually carries two swords, a long sword and a short sword. Lin has also heard of this two-sword technique, but he didn't expect that Sakura, who can use one sword so skillfully, is actually a double-sword style.

"If you really want to learn, you should start with the basic structure... wait until your body is in better shape."

After packing up their things, Ying and Lin walked out of the gym. They didn't say any parting words, but just walked towards the direction they wanted to go.

As Ying walked on the road, she couldn't help but sigh when she thought of Lin's gloomy face during the sparring.

Teammates… I’ve never experienced teaming up with people before.

And Lin should have a great disgust for her deep in his heart. He himself said that he just handed her over to humans for judgment, so he would accept this result only because of his trust in humans, not because he thought she was qualified to return to the outside world.

Should I say it's a headache? Or frustration?

The female killer remained calm but felt a little depressed.

She thought she should say hello to Ling today, so she took out her communicator. However, when she was doing fingerprint verification, an error message appeared on the screen.

"Ok?"

After trying three more times in a row and failing, Sakura froze.

broken?

She doesn't have a deep understanding of electronic tools. Apart from her inexplicable obsession with headphones, she only knows how to use other electronic products but doesn't know how to adjust them.

But Fire Moth’s things shouldn’t break so easily, right?

Sakura turned the communicator over in confusion and saw the code on the back.

MSA-079.

"..."

Oops, I got the wrong one!

Ying immediately realized that she and Lin had taken the wrong communicators before leaving. Thinking that Ling might be sending a message to her at this time, and Lin didn't know that she had actually hidden the fact that she had joined the Fire Moth from Ling, she ran anxiously in the direction where Lin left.

Turning the corner, I saw Lin’s back!

"Forest……"

"Brother Lin?"

Sakura's cry got caught in her throat.

Because Lin Zheng was holding the communicator and calmly looking at the confused Ling on the screen.

Chapter 6 A Small Misunderstanding

"Brother Lin?"

Lin fell silent after seeing the other party's face when he answered the ringing communicator.

I don't know whether the communication devices all over the world have the same design concept or whether it is set up by the Fire Moth to ensure timely transmission of communication. The communicator requires fingerprints or pupil prints when actively unlocking, but when connecting, you only need to press the connect button to connect the communication.

So Lin answered the call without any precautions and saw Ling, whom he thought was his sister.

After thinking for a third of a second, he thought of the possibility that he had taken the wrong one.

"Why Brother Lin?"

Lin didn't expect that he would be recognized even without a helmet. He never considered that his highly recognizable cold temperament would be prominent even without a helmet. This sudden situation caught him off guard and he didn't know what to say.

At this moment, Sakura's shout made him turn his head to glance at Sakura. The other party's panicked expression made him realize something.

'Don't tell Ling.'

Seeing Ying's silent lip movements, Lin nodded silently.

If she takes the communicator back now, it will seem like she is deliberately covering up something, and Sakura is worried that Ling will notice something is wrong and ask about it later, which will be troublesome. So it is best to let Lin and Ling explain now, using any excuse like they met by chance and Sakura left the communicator on the table and forgot to take it away.

But before Lin could speak, Ling suddenly said, "Brother Lin, why are you holding my sister's phone... Why do you look breathless as if you just did something..."

Out of breath?

Lin's body, which had not yet fully recovered, was indeed recovering slowly after the intense exercise and the blow. He was still sweating and his breathing was heavy, as if he had just run several kilometers.

"I..." Lin said calmly, "I was just doing some exercise to keep fit."

"Then why is my sister's phone with you? Isn't she on a business trip?"

"she……"

Lin glanced at Sakura dancing with joy.

Ying no longer cared about maintaining her image at this point. She tried her best to show through her actions that they had just met by chance. She pointed at Lin, then pointed at herself, and then made a gesture of two hands meeting each other.

Lin, who originally planned to use an excuse to fool people, saw Ying's anxious look and thought that she might want to use his own excuse. So after observing her movements, he tried to guess what she wanted to convey.

Lin nodded.

“She works out with me.”

"..."

Sakura dropped her hand.

Ling was also stunned. She asked in an abnormal tone: "Exercise together...?"

"Well, we actually occasionally make plans to work out together, so we were just working out."

Lin felt that there was nothing wrong with this excuse, and it was half true and half false. After all, what they had just done was indeed an exercise in some sense.

"Um..." Ling looked at Lin, who was wrapped in bandages, suspiciously. She said in a strange tone, "Can I ask my sister to answer the phone?"

Lin glanced at Ying again.

Ying shook her head vigorously. Since they had already lied about exercising together, if she looked like she couldn't breathe, the lie would definitely be exposed.

Lin gave her a look that showed he understood what you meant, turned his head and said, "She's doing intense aerobic exercise and can't answer the call for now. She'll call you back when she's done."

"Aerobic exercise..." Ling laughed dryly, her face inexplicably red. She coughed, "Wait, we don't have to fight for a while. That... Brother Lin, I don't know when you two started... exercising together... But ah! But I don't object! It's just that you must be nice to your sister. She has worked hard to take care of me since I was a child. It's actually a good thing that someone can take care of her now."