I'm not Yingjie

"Let's go out for a walk."

“I want to make a model…”

Klein signed her name on the report and listened dully to the two sisters discussing how to spend the vacation. She simply counted the work that had not been completed and felt that vacation was something that should be far away from her.

Many people felt that Klein's work intensity was too high. She could no longer be considered to be leaving home early and returning late. She spent most of her time in the laboratory and often fell asleep while working at night. They thought that Möbius's exploitation of his assistant was really too much.

In fact, all these tasks were undertaken by Klein herself. Mobius' workload was no less than hers. After Klein came to Mobius' laboratory, she found that Mobius stayed in the office almost all day long, never going out of the door and had no time to rest. Even though Mobius had some ways to relieve fatigue, the workload was so terrifying that he could not finish it even if he worked day and night.

As for why he didn't give it to Danzhu and Cangxuan... It's not that he really thinks they are a drag. They can still do some basic but heavy work. But seeing how happy and worry-free they are all day long, Klein doesn't want to put too much pressure on them.

However, there hasn't been much work recently. Perhaps it's because the Sixth Herrscher took away most of the Honkai creatures in the city before his death, resulting in a lack of material in the field of Mebius' research.

Picking up the report, Klein walked towards Mebius' office, thinking that maybe he could try the new lobster-flavored milk tea in the cafeteria today.

When she reached the door, she saw that it was still a crack. She thought that Lin might have forgotten to close it when he came out to deliver the sashimi. She was about to knock on the door when she heard Mebius's gasp.

"You... come closer, or I'll smell..."

Klein was stunned on the spot, and after a second she burst out laughing at herself.

It must be just a misunderstanding like in some cartoons. Only overly sensitive people would think wrongly.

So with this interruption, she forgot to knock and just pushed open the half-closed door.

"Doctor, report..."

The composed expression was fixed on his face.

Under the dim light, a strange smell lingered around. The green-haired woman's white coat slipped from her round shoulders. She sat on the desk, raised her beautiful legs wrapped in semi-transparent and attractive black stockings, which were without a trace of fat and tight muscles, and stared nervously at the serious man in the helmet.

At this time, the man in the helmet held the long leg that looked like a work of art in his hands and seriously put his nose, which was not covered by the helmet, to the woman's thigh.

After Klein pushed the door open, two pairs of eyes fell on her.

"..."

"..."

Lin turned around and continued to approach.

“Wait a minute!” Klein grabbed Lin’s shoulders.

Chapter 23 Theory and Practice

"..."

"Don't you have anything to explain?"

Klein stood in the middle, separating the two people. Lin stood on the right side with his arms crossed calmly, and Mebius sat on the chair on the left side with his head turned aside expressionlessly.

"..." Lin looked at her as if he had no idea what she was talking about.

“That’s what you were doing just now. I must have misunderstood, right?” Klein was still thinking positively. Not to mention Mobius, Lin was an emotional insulator who acted upright and put business first.

Lin said lightly: "There is no misunderstanding."

"…Smell the stockings?"

"Ah."

"No coercion? No accidents? No experiments?"

"No."

"..."

Lin shook his head and said solemnly, "To be precise, I actually plan to smell the body odor."

The discussion about whether Mebius was wearing unwashed clothes for a long time also turned into an argument about her overall cleanliness. Since she didn't change her clothes, it was possible that she didn't even take a shower, so smelling her body odor was also a way to confirm whether she had taken a shower.

“Doc?” Klein reluctantly turned his head towards Mebius.

Mebiusson nodded coldly: "Yeah."

Sometimes Klein felt that the world was changing too fast, so fast that before she could react, the images of two people who she thought were worthy of respect collapsed in her mind.

What on earth happened that caused two people who were fine this morning to end up in this kind of relationship?

Wait a minute, Mr. Lin has been coming to the laboratory frequently recently, and he always carries something in his hands. Judging from the fact that he took out sashimi today, it means that what he brought was actually the meal prepared for the doctor. In other words, the two of them have been secretly eating together in the private office some time ago?

Just to be on the safe side, you should ask.

"Mr. Lin, when did you start..." She forced out a not-so-pretty smile with difficulty.

"Thirteen minutes and twenty-one seconds ago." Lin stated the time when their argument began.

"Ah? You guys just started doing that today! And, in the office?"

Lin raised his eyebrows under his helmet and said coldly: "Is there any problem with this?"

When both parties agree, using the most direct method to prove a point is convenient and effective. Shouldn't this be considered an excellent method of argumentation by all scientific researchers?

"Klein, your thinking is too conservative. This is a fatal flaw for scientific research, and even for the fire moth research project." Lin took a step forward, looking down at Klein's confused eyes, and read slowly.

Mebius nodded in agreement. "That's right, Klein. Although I think you are better than most idiots whose brains are sealed in cement, you still need to improve your mental agility."

Klein looked at the two of them in confusion. What does this have to do with quick thinking? And this is no longer a question of being conservative, right?

"But aren't you...sniffing the stockings?"

"It's about smelling stockings and body odor." Lin corrected, "Only after practice can you gain true knowledge. If everything is just speculation deep in your brain, then there will be a huge deviation from the actual situation. Even something like smelling stockings is very particular."

Klein's face suddenly turned red: "What's the point! Isn't this just perverted!"

"Let me ask you, what do you think the stockings of a beautiful high school girl who ran five kilometers on the playground would smell different from those of a middle-aged woman who is too plump to fit on a sofa?"

“This…” Klein waved her hands. She didn’t know what to say anymore.

"Most people would think that the former stockings would smell better, but in fact the former would only smell like sour sweat, while the latter would smell like pleasant perfume. This is the gap between imagination and practice." Lin folded his fingers and said impartially, "Only after you have truly smelled the two and compared them, you will know that the so-called girl's body fragrance and sweat fragrance are all fake. Stockings are just a carrier. They will not smell better just because they are worn by good-looking people."

"Humph, it's normal for Xiaobai, who knows nothing, to say such things."

At this time, Mebius, who had been watching coldly, suddenly spoke up to refute Lin. She smiled contemptuously: "The so-called body fragrance actually exists. It is a personal physiological smell related to the hormones of both sexes, also known as hormones. When it is discharged with sweat, it will stimulate the nerve center of the opposite sex, speed up the breathing process, provide sufficient oxygen supply to the brain and eventually cause excitement. The content of body fragrance is particularly high in the secretions under the armpits. After removing the sweat, what is left is basically hormones."

"Is that so? I've learned my lesson. It's understandable that so many people would be tempted by those sweaty sports stockings." Lin nodded after thinking for a while. "See, Klein, this is the price I pay for speaking out without actually practicing. I was laughed at by those who hold the truth."

Klein was completely numb. Her eyes were blank and her expression was dull as she pulled the corners of her mouth: “Is that so?”

"Yes, there are many groups on the Internet who are fanatically obsessed with women's feet, but the sad thing is that most of them cannot come into contact with women, so they focus on stockings and develop various ways to smell them. This is what I call 'particularity'."

"They have gone through various practices, and even if they are called perverts, they still persevere in studying women's stockings. They know exactly which age group's stockings are the cleanest, which material's stockings are the most transparent and feel the best, and what posture can sniff the largest area. They spend money and the future of human survival to complete the practice."

"This is the spirit of unconventionality, avant-garde thinking and great exploration."

Lin couldn't help but sigh and pay tribute to those perverts who were willing to give up their living status in human society.

"You may be just a layman, but you are a good thinker." Mobius raised his lips beautifully. "Klein, your respect for him seems to be justified."

But now Klein wanted to withdraw his respect for Lin as well as her.

"But, those people are just trying to satisfy their desires." However, Mobius changed the subject and questioned Lin's words with sharp eyes, "Their behavior will cause psychological harm to the people who conduct the research. Even my experiments will obtain the consent of the subjects in most cases. What they are doing is not real 'practice'."

"Really? But who should pay for the damage they have suffered? They have the awareness of social death."

"Don't be ridiculous. Humans are just creatures that can forget the wisdom gained from evolution in order to satisfy their instincts. If they really have a practical spirit, they should conduct various quantitative variable experiments after negotiating compromises with the subjects, instead of stealing stockings and secretly following women."

Lin's dull voice came through the helmet with a sense of oppression: "But the way you said will cause more harm. Maybe what they are pursuing is not just stockings, but the pursuit of stockings that violates moral sense, or even evolved into not the pursuit of women's stockings, but simply the pursuit of stockings! Isn't that a kind of harm to men?"

Mebius' voice gradually became louder. "How is that possible? After stockings broke away from the single concept of men's clothing, they were highly associated with women, which meant that this kind of desire was destined to come from the desire for women! Then we should openly ask for consent!"

"If you do it secretly, the other party may not notice you, and you won't get hurt!"

"That's only one-sided! Smelling stockings openly may cause harm to both parties, but it will definitely be less than one-sided damage!"

"Sniff secretly!"

"Smell it openly!"

Klein later forgot how he got back to the room.

Mebius, who often had an unpredictable smile on his face, and Lin, who was silent most of the time, argued endlessly on the issue of "how to smell stockings" with red faces and short breaths, even attracting onlookers outside the laboratory. All kinds of professional or vulgar words popped out of their mouths, accompanied by sneers and sharp voices like blades.

That was really the headquarters... No, it was the most spectacular "academic debate" since the establishment of the Fire Moth. It was unprecedented and will probably never be surpassed in the future.

Klein felt that he really needed to take a break.

Chapter 24 Warning Data Abnormality

【Simulation preparation】

[Cabin air pressure meets standards]

【User's neural connection is complete. 】

【Organ scan stability】

[Pupil pattern confirmation completed]

【Simulation starts】

Lin stood in the deserted ruins, taking slow, deep breaths. He hadn't done any simulation training for a long time, so he needed some time to readapt.

All physical sensations in the simulation device, including the body, are just products simulated by the device based on real data. It cannot be 100% accurate, so the user will have a sense of deviation that "this is not my body". In severe cases, rejection reactions are likely to occur, affecting the normal functioning of real organs.

However, this time the speed of adaptation was faster than he had imagined. After just a few breaths, Lin felt that he could use his body perfectly.

"..." He put his palm in front of his eyes. His fair skin without armor gleamed in the setting sun. He clenched his fist and felt the strength in it.

The last simulation was at least a year and a half ago, but I have adapted to it faster than any other time.

No matter how much I want to rule out that possibility, once it flashes through my mind, I can no longer ignore it.

After entering the Herrscher's core, he underwent some kind of change, a "change" that has not yet been fully manifested.

"Lin, where are you?"

As Lin was thinking, he heard the sound of a box popping up in the air ahead. He casually made a few strokes in the air, and the power armor and helmet were slowly assembled on the body from feet to head in the form of data streams.

"You can see my coordinates." Lin said as he took out the simulated weapon to check it. Even things simulated by data may be wrong, even if the probability is so small that it can be ignored.

In order to prevent data from being mixed up incorrectly, multi-person simulations are generally separated by a certain distance, which is determined based on the complexity of the data.

When the woman with long cherry-colored hair appeared fully armed behind Lin, his helmet data had just been loaded. Sakura only saw that his eyebrows and black hair were covered by the plain outer edge of the helmet.

Even though she had seen it once before, when Sakura saw Lin's soft eyebrows covered by the cold outer armor and his whole person turned from warm to cold, she still found it incredible. To what extent must a person's appearance be outstanding for a small part to affect the overall temperament of the whole person.

"Can you adapt?" Lin asked.

Sakura's attire was no different from the light armor in reality, and these things and weapons could be copied through separate scans. Of course, Lin was not worried about these, but about Sakura's condition.

For warriors like Ying and Hua, their control over their bodies is far beyond the reach of ordinary people. If they were to undergo simulation training, the time required to adapt and the possibility of rejection reactions would also be incomparable to ordinary people.

"Well... I didn't see the abnormal organ reaction you mentioned, but it's true..." Ying's face looked much gloomier than outside. She covered her chest with her hands, her eyebrows twisted and curved, "It's very uncomfortable. It hasn't completely subsided since I came in."

"...Then let's just conduct a simple simulation."

The reason why Lin and Ying conducted simulation training was to avoid too much adjustment when performing tasks later. They were unable to perform some simple tasks now, and could only strengthen their coordination through this training model for new recruits.

The location for this simulation is Changkong City, the site of the third collapse. Among all the collapse battlefields affected by the environment, the third collapse is particularly typical and is also the simulation location chosen by most recruits.

After confirming the types of the Death Soldiers and Honkai Beasts, they began this battle. Lin was in command throughout the process and pointed out the mistakes of Sakura, who had never cooperated with anyone in a battle.

From noon to late at night, they trained without a break for about seven hours. Because the body projected in the simulation device would only be affected by mental fatigue, the two people with good mental resilience only felt slightly tired after the high-intensity training.

"Let's stop here for today's training." Lin Kanying hadn't fully adapted to the training after such a long time, so he decided to end the training. "Let's take a break and eat something."

"Well... I made sushi..." Sakura whispered hesitantly as she put her knife back at her waist.

"…Then let's eat together."

Lin didn't say anything more. He opened the system's background and clicked to end the simulation.

"..."

"..."

After a while, Lin's hand, which was suspended in the air, trembled a little. He said "Hmm?" in confusion and clicked again to end the simulation.

However, the system seemed to have crashed and there was no response at all. When Lin was about to check the system database to see what had happened, something strange happened.

"call--"

The scenery of the surrounding Changkong City suddenly changed drastically. A large number of buildings and the corpses of the killed Honkai creatures were transformed into data and reorganized into another appearance. The huge data flow in it was like the changes in heaven and earth, the alternation of the sun and the moon, the wind and the tsunami, and it was instantly presented in front of the two of them in an abstract way.