I'm not Yingjie

"what is that?"

At this time, he didn't know that this was just the prelude to the end.

He would never have thought that he would have to fight "that thing" for the rest of his life, nor would he have thought that the fate of him, the girl, and humanity was already determined at this moment.

Humanity will need a savior at the end of the world.

Even if that person doesn't want to be a savior.

Chapter 46 Hello, Earthlings

"The third one..."

Hua frowned and rubbed the edge of the pit. The warmth she felt made her frown even more.

Before heading to Australia for garrison mission, they must first complete the survey mission in Shenzhou, and this place is the last place they need to explore.

This is the latest location where the Honkai energy anomaly was discovered. It only took them a few dozen minutes to arrive here, but what they saw were still the same pits as before.

"Including this one, the number has reached hundreds." Yimer brought other instruments this time. He squatted beside and checked the surrounding environment. "It can be confirmed that it is something from outside the earth, but no abnormalities were found whether it was monitored by satellite or captured by human eyes."

"So it's something extraterrestrial..."

The threat of collapse is already enough to make humans anxious, and now during this period of time, there are actually things that look like alien creatures landing on Earth?

Aliens are a perennially hotly discussed topic, but now it is very likely to be verified in the worst possible scenario.

Sneaking into the earth without finding any trace is enough to make one's heart sink.

"Wait a minute...it's hot..." Hua, who originally wanted to continue observing and try to see if there were any other discoveries, suddenly looked tense.

High-temperature remnants are common, but what fell was not a meteorite, but some kind of living "thing" that is difficult to detect.

One thing they overlooked was whether the thing that descended on Earth could possibly attack humans.

"Oh!"

A cluster of fire burst out from behind Imer. Hua almost instinctively grabbed his shoulders and pulled him away. The smell of burnt and stinky food entered his nostrils in the next second.

The flames that shot up into the sky turned the trees behind them into charcoal. Hua and Imer both took out their weapons very quickly.

Under their gaze, an unclear transparent shadow flashed by. Hua's excellent dynamic vision allowed her to capture this subtle scene, and she punched decisively in the direction where the shadow was moving.

"boom!"

The feeling of a metallic-hard texture and a heart-sinking sound came from the place where she touched her hand, which made Hua quickly withdraw her hand and move back. However, she was still a step too slow. The terrifying force hit her fist, and then the unstoppable force hit her body with her arm, knocking her out.

Imer raised his pistol and fired four shots at the "thing" that attacked Hua. However, the bullets did not even scratch the outer shell of the thing. The transparent shadow rushed straight towards Imer at an unbelievable speed.

With no other choice, Imer had to drop the computer in his hand, step back to help Hua, and prepare to take her with him to retreat.

But just as the shadow passed by the computer that Imer dropped, it suddenly stopped. Judging from its complete transparency, it was indeed standing still.

And Imer had already come to Hua's side, helped Hua up with his dislocated shoulder, and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute." Ke Hua suddenly stopped him, "Look there."

Yimer turned around and saw a strange scene: "That is..."

I saw a black, square, and seemingly curveless "mechanical arm" stretched out from mid-air, picked up the computer that Imer had dropped on the ground, and then turned the entire computer over in the air as if checking it.

Finally, he removed the back cover and placed the arm, which looked like a mechanical device but had no metallic luster at all, on the power supply.

At this time, the computer screen began to refresh rapidly. Almost all the software installed by Imer on the computer were opened at the same time, and countless words flashed by in the places where input was possible.

After about seven seconds, the computer screen went black.

Finally, the screen lit up again, with a simple text box in the middle.

Hello, Earthlings

……

"Information about previous civilizations?"

Judging from Mei's rare surprised expression, she was not pretending not to know, but really knew nothing about the matter.

Lin nodded.

He reported to Mei about the out-of-control simulation data incident that he and Ying encountered in the simulation room last time. Originally, this matter should have been reported to Mei as soon as possible, but she had been doing closed experiments in recent days, and there was no sound even when Lin came to find her.

"The data is wrong? I see. I'll have Prometheus II search the database later." Mei turned to the big screen next to her and whispered, "No. 2."

"Doctor, what can I do for you?"

An emotionless mechanical voice was heard.

"Are you monitoring the backdoor left by the last hacker attack?"

"Yes, according to your instructions, I monitor the hacker's movements 24 hours a day."

"Has the hacker carried out any database intrusion operations recently?"

"No, the back door has not been used recently."

"Give me a list of people who have logged into the database recently and made changes."

"Yes."

Lin investigated the equipment in the simulation room afterwards and found no malfunctions, so the only possible problem was the data. The information left by the previous civilization could not appear in the simulation room for no reason, so the possibility of human intervention was high.

Since it wasn't done by hackers, it could have been done by an insider.

The Great Purge has sounded the alarm for Fire Moth. The enemy may not only be Honkai, but may also come from within.

"But is it such a coincidence? We have just confirmed the existence of the previous civilization, and you and Sakura have encountered such a thing." Mei murmured.

"confirm?"

"It has not been made public yet, but you should get in touch with it in the future." Mei smiled faintly, "Dr. Einstein discovered the remains of a previous civilization and the core of the previous civilization's Ruler of Reason."

"..."

Lin suddenly fell silent.

He looked at Mei's smile, glanced at the door behind him inconspicuously, and finally nodded silently, indicating that he should continue.

"From the looks of it, the situation is similar to the last Herrscher of the previous civilization you mentioned. Next, we will analyze the data attached to its core and use it to make a special key for the Key of God."

The Ruler of Reason is a Ruler who can analyze human technology. The Ruler of Reason of the previous civilization was the last Ruler of Reason, so her core should also contain an extremely terrifying amount of technological information, which would undoubtedly be a great help to current humans.

This may also be the reason why the robot chose to preserve the core of the Ruler of Reason.

But what Lin cared about was another word in Mei's words.

"The key to the extra chapter?"

"To put it simply, it is not the Divine Key in the Divine Key Project. We have a general direction, but the candidate has not yet been determined."

"……I see."

Afterwards, Lin and Mei talked about some other things, mostly about the Poison Pupa Squad and Sakura.

Finally Lin walked towards the door.

Mei asked from behind him, "Lin, are you training new soldiers recently?"

"……Um."

"Her helmet seems to be the same as yours. Is she trying to develop the same style?"

"Do not."

Lin Zaimei walked out of the door under his meaningful gaze.

"Is it done?" The girl stood obediently at the door, seemingly having waited for a long time.

"Ah."

Lin looked back at the closed door of the R&D department.

Chapter 47 Separation

A month and a half was neither short nor long. It passed in the blink of an eye, and it was time for Lin to leave the headquarters to carry out his mission.

The investigation on Lin was coming to an end. The people above could see clearly that this guy did nothing except taking a girl around all day. It was as if he had changed his character and became harmless to humans and animals. Mobius also did not find any problems with his mental consciousness. There seemed to be no signs of his consciousness becoming a Herrscher.

But the problem lies in "taking girls around".

How come they didn't notice that Lin's XP was so strange before? They had tried to persuade this guy to no avail. Although they had experienced so many collapses, most of them had already believed that Lin was really fighting for humanity and would not accept any flattery, but they didn't expect that Lin was actually a girl who liked helmets.

The reason why the senior executives have no prejudice or opinion against Kevin is because the relationship between him and May is well known. If they attend the meeting together, Kevin will only stand behind May instead of opposite her, which is blatantly saying "I am your subordinate in name, but as long as my girlfriend says to kill you, I will not show mercy."

But it also gave the top management some reassurance. The people who were originally abnormal have now become normal, so there is no need to worry.

"Do you really want to leave?"

Lin was about to go out when his sleeve was pulled. He turned around and looked at the girl with sleepy eyes and disheveled hair, and nodded without saying anything.

They have been "married" for more than a month, and the relationship between Lin and the girl has not changed...but there seems to be some changes, it is something that cannot be explained intuitively. He can feel that the girl's mood changes are increasing day by day. Her original curiosity about everything and her desire to ask everything have decreased as time goes by and Lin answers all his questions.

Simply put, she is becoming more of a human being.

The process was so fast that Lin was somewhat emotional. It took nearly three years for Prometheus-01 to transform from a dull artificial intelligence in an iron shell into a bionic robot that could be expressionless, treacherous and play tricks on him, while it took Lin more than 20 years...

"Okay...wait for me, I'll go out with you."

Lin sighed, sat on the bed, and listened to the rustling sound of changing clothes behind him. His mind had drifted to another place————

Lin walked out of the Spiral Workshop. He looked back and saw that no one came out, so he turned on the camera in his hand, quickly skipped the first long section of the video, and went directly to the part where the girl entered the Spiral Workshop.

He observed every move of the girl in the video, her stiff expression and movements, and even the details of the wrinkles in her clothes.

Soon, their conversation came to the point where Lin sought to verify the girl's number and badge.

At this time, Lin played the entire video in slow motion. Even though the speed at which he collected information was enough to see every detail of the scene clearly, he still chose to play it in slow motion.

The girl put her hand into the collar of the ball gown...

From Lin's perspective at the time, he couldn't see inside the girl's collar, but from the camera's perspective, he could clearly see the girl casually grabbing at the collar where there was nothing...

In the empty hands, a badge appeared by the reorganization of particles.

"..."

The following content was just the unchanged Spiral Workshop. Lin turned off the video and took the camera in his hand.

Lin did not play it backwards again. He would not have such childish thoughts as “Maybe I saw it wrong”.

The facts are there.

The most important thing he should do at this moment is to notify Mei's Titan troops to be on alert, then sound the alarm and let all the soldiers at the headquarters take up their weapons to capture the girl who is waiting for him. Then, whether to conduct living research or kill her directly will be decided by the Fire Moth.

The most important thing to do...

"How can I become a human?"

Lin looked down at the video recorder in his hand. He thought for a long time, so long that he almost stood there like a pine tree. Then he made a decision.

This was the second time he made this decision, the last time being when Mebius asked him to deal with "that thing".

Lin simply broke the video recorder in his hand into two halves, threw it into the trash can next to him, and then turned and left decisively.

Back to the present, the girl changed her clothes faster than expected, and before he could finish his recollection she was already sitting on the edge of the bed swinging her legs.

Lin stood up and helped her pick up the boots from the shoe rack. She took them and put them on neatly, then picked up the helmet next to her and put them on her head.

"...Do you still want to wear it?" Lin glanced at the girl standing next to him after putting on the helmet, "You can already smile normally."

"Yeah, but I don't want to show it to anyone else." The girl shook her head, "Just show it to Lin."

"You will meet more people in the future. There is no need to wear this helmet all the time."

"Then let's talk about it in the future." The girl tilted her head and thought for a while, then corrected, "No, Ai Li can also watch it."

"..."

Lin didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing to be able to get acquainted with Alicia, but it was obvious that Alicia still liked this girl with Lin's style. It should be a very novel experience for her.

Lin and the girl walked out of the room together and headed towards the R&D department. Before they carried out their mission, Mei had something else to tell them.

At the door of the R&D department, Sakura had been waiting for a long time fully armed. The armor on her body seemed to have been updated with newer technology, and the original ordinary standard sword was replaced with a weapon similar in appearance to the Far Eastern katana.

Lin and Ying nodded to each other silently as a greeting.