I'm not Yingjie

Then Ying looked at the girl. She and Lin had not met many times, but the girl was always by Lin's side, so she could be considered to know the girl.

"Good morning, Sakura," the girl greeted calmly.

"Um... hello." Sakura hesitated for a moment, but still responded.

The girl has no name, and even Lin doesn't know what her name is. If he wants to address her, he can only use words like "hey", "you", "that", or the number MSA-970. In short, it seems a bit awkward at this moment.

"Let's go."

Lin Yi took the lead and stepped into the R&D department, followed closely by the girl and Ying. They soon found Mei who was wiping her sweat after finishing a dangerous experiment.

"Are you here... I have some things to do here, so I'll get straight to the point."

This is probably the opening line Mei has used most recently.

She didn't look at Lin and Ying, but instead focused her attention on the girl: "The Poison Pupa Team went to Australia to arrest and investigate the hacker as planned."

"MSA-970, temporarily join the th team and go to Shenzhou to carry out the mission of investigating aliens."

Chapter 48: Departure

"Can you take a transport plane to Shenzhou after completing the mission?"

"……cannot."

"What about eating?"

“…Actually, besides me, there are many people who can cook.”

It was the first time that Lin encountered such a slow process when saying goodbye to someone.

He rarely explains a lot of things to others when they leave. Some people will meet again, but some people will part ways forever. Language cannot convey everything.

But the girl was like a freshman who was about to enter full-time boarding school. She was worriedly thinking about a lot of useless things and asked Lin some unnecessary questions in detail.

And Lin also patiently told her the answer he had already prepared.

"Alicia will go with you, don't worry, just ask her if you have any questions." Although Lin couldn't see her expression through the helmet, her body language, which she couldn't control well, told him that the girl was indeed very panicked.

"Lin, you are such a hateful guy. You left your wife to another girl to take care of, and you shamelessly said that you can just ask me if you have any questions."

Alicia had arrived at the tarmac without knowing when, and she glared at Lin in anger.

The girl saw Alicia coming and stretched out her hand: "Aili..."

"Haha, of course I lied to you. I like Xiaoqi so much. I'm so happy to take Xiaoqi to Shenzhou." Alicia's expression changed quickly. She greeted the girl with a smile, hugged the girl's waist, and rubbed the girl's lower abdomen vigorously to tickle her, causing the girl to tremble because she couldn't help but itch.

Xiaoqi is the nickname that Alicia gave to the girl. Because the girl had no name, Alicia didn't want to call her by her number, thinking that it would be too distant, so she used the seven in MSA-970 as her name.

"Alicia, I'll leave her in your care for the time being." Lin heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this scene. Apart from him, the girl's closest person was Alicia, so in this mission, her being in Alicia's 13th team made Lin put his worries at ease.

"Don't worry, don't worry, I will take Xiaoqi to Shenzhou to eat delicious food and buy new clothes."

"Delicious? Is it as delicious as Lin's?"

"Uh..." Alicia was speechless for a moment, "This is a bit difficult..."

While talking to the girl at Alicia's side, Lin turned around and saw Klein approaching. She came in front of Lin with two tubes of medicine in her hands.

“Mr. Lin, this is the nerve repair medicine that Dr. Mebius asked me to give you. You can’t inject the second one until half a month after the first one. The precautions have been sent to your communicator. Please don’t do anything that may damage your nerves. In particular, neural connections need to be prohibited.” Klein spoke slowly. She thought for a moment before continuing.

"Mr. Lin, you didn't say hello to the doctor before you left. Although she didn't say anything, she looked very angry. She also said that the dishes you agreed to cook would not be prepared until you returned, which was a breach of trust."

"..."

angry?

Mebius had never treated him well in the laboratory, and most of their conversations were sarcastic. Would he really be angry about this?

As for cooking...

"Let her eat in the cafeteria. Instant noodles don't provide enough nutrition."

"I have been persuading her..."

Klein scratched the back of her head helplessly. She didn't know how many times she had persuaded Mebius to go to the cafeteria to eat nutritious meals, but she either said that she didn't have time or that the food was not tasty. In fact, she didn't want to go out and listen to other people's criticisms.

She didn't want to go out. After Lin left, no one brought her food. Would she have to go back to her habit of eating spicy, seafood, and hot and sour instant noodles for three meals a day?

"Let's wait for Mr. Lin to come back soon." Klein smiled, "But the temperature in Australia is the highest in history. Mr. Lin should not get 'frozen' when performing the mission."

"..."

"Huh? Isn't it funny? I wrote down all of Mr. Lin's jokes."

"Nothing." Lin was silent for a while and said, "I will."

Afterwards, two transport planes took off from the headquarters' tarmac and flew in different directions.

……

"Hua, Yimer, now you really become my team members."

A woman with long, fiery red hair stood in front of the transport plane, smiling and greeting Hua and Yimer who were getting off the transport plane.

Desdobia on the side also greeted them with a smile on her face.

"Captain Himiko...long time no see." Hua Ye responded to them with a rare faint smile.

"It's only been a little over a month." Himiko counted on her fingers, then she put her hands on her hips and laughed, "I finally snatched you two from Lin, so let that little bastard go play house with the two girls."

"Two girls?" Imer asked in confusion.

"Oh, you don't know yet, Lin's current team member is only a pink-haired girl, and there is a new recruit who follows him all day long. I heard that they are playing a couple or something..." Himiko waved her hand indifferently, "In my opinion, the pink-haired girl is a good match... Uh, no, nothing."

After listening to Himiko's words, Hua sighed: "The captain is living a good life now..."

"Tsk, don't think too highly of yourself. He will also be coming to Australia to carry out a mission soon."

"Recently?"

"Yes, but unlike our mission, his team is only carrying out a simple investigation mission."

Desdobia patted Himiko's shoulder, signaling her talkative captain to stop talking. It felt weird to stand here and talk loudly about Mr. Lin.

Imer also thought of this: "Okay... then let's carry out the mission as soon as possible."

"No hurry. The team has been expanded. It will be several days before your turn to carry out the mission. You should first adjust your status from the last mission." Himiko also said seriously, "Tell me about your mission process in Shenzhou."

Yimer and Hua were both silent. They seemed to be wondering where to start. After all, this matter... was really beyond common sense.

"Captain Himiko, you should have heard about the truth about the Honkai energy anomaly that was uncovered during this investigation mission."

"Um, 'Visitors from outer space', right."

Visitors from outer space, also known as "aliens".

Imer exhaled and whispered solemnly, "During the investigation, we came into contact with one of the aliens. It learned human language and conveyed some information to us."

"Among them, the most important piece of information is that a race of aliens wants to invade the Earth."

Chapter 49 I want to play a game with you

heat.

This word can encompass the entire summer. Even things with higher temperatures may not be represented by the word hot, because everyone has probably experienced a summer with the buzzing of cicadas, the scorching heat, and garlic-flavored watermelon taken out of the refrigerator at hand.

The moment Sakura stepped out of the transport plane, she was knocked back by the heat wave.

They were not landing in the Australian branch, so there was no shelter or air conditioning when they landed. In just a moment, Sakura felt like she had arrived in a scorching hell, and the scenery in front of her was distorted by waves of steaming heat.

At this moment, she sincerely envied Lin's fully enclosed helmet. It was said that his helmet had its own temperature control system, which was equivalent to a small air conditioner.

“Want sunscreen?”

At this moment, Lin's voice came from behind. Before Ying turned around, a brand new bottle of sunscreen was handed to her.

"what……"

Ying didn't expect that Lin actually prepared such a thing.

"She bought it." Lin Yubo said calmly.

"..." Sakura took it with a strange look on her face.

She is naturally referring to the MSA-970 girl.

Ying actually felt that the relationship between these two people was more like that of elders and juniors rather than husband and wife... like brother and sister, father and daughter. Every time she saw them together, Lin was teaching her something, and the girl's tone was full of dependence on Lin, just like a little girl who couldn't live without her father.

The feeling of "buying some small things that only girls would use and giving them to my father who is away from home" is even stronger.

But this is indeed something Sakura can use, as her armor doesn't cover much skin to begin with... Although she had applied to change to more normal armor that exposed less skin when she got a new one, her application was rejected by the R&D department with the reason "What kind of speed armor do you want?", so her current armor looks about the same as before.

The heat could be controlled with her weapon, but direct sunlight couldn't be blocked.

After simply applying the sunscreen to the exposed parts of her body, she returned the sunscreen to Lin.

"Let's go, the location of the mission target is nearby."

Lin first jumped off the transport plane and landed on the ground, splashing dust.

The mission this time was extremely simple, and it could even be said that it had nothing to do with Honkai. It was to capture the hacker who had invaded the Fire Moth's intranet and posted the betting odds in Mei's name. If this wasn't a two-person operation, Lin wouldn't have been sent to do such a ridiculous thing. Sakura even thought it was Mei's personal grudge.

Moreover, after a thorough investigation of the hacker's more than 100 fake IPs through Prometheus II's reverse intrusion, the real location was found to be this uninhabited wilderness.

In other words, the hacker was most likely living alone in a secret base, and they even avoided the trouble of taking action in a crowded city.

Using the knife to release cold air to cool herself down, Ying followed Lin forward.

This was her first time in Australia. She had been to most countries before when she was clearing out the original members of the Poison Pupa. Australia was one of the few places she had not yet set foot in.

This is the western part of Australia, mostly deserts and semi-deserts. She wondered if someone would have enough money and ability to build a secret base here? Or was it actually an organization?

But soon, with Lin's "stop", her doubts were resolved.

Because, a seemingly inconspicuous house appeared in front of them.

The color of the house is very similar to that of the desert. It should be specially used for concealment. Judging from the solar generators distributed nearby, there is no need to worry about power supply.

Lin didn't have anything, he just walked forward and opened the door...

……

“Hahahaha…it’s finally here.”

The hand hidden in the shadows reached out and tapped a few times on the keyboard under the fluorescent light of the screen. The door in the surveillance screen was automatically unlocked, and the man in the helmet pushed the door open easily.

"Oh? It's Lin and Ying. It seems I'm quite respected... Well, since they didn't bring any powerful equipment, I'll take a good look at whether the Fire Moth soldiers are as described in the data..."

Before she finished her words, Lin in the surveillance screen suddenly raised his head, and his gaze broke through the limitations of the surveillance and looked directly at her.

"……Eh?"

It's strange. That's a disguised pinhole camera. It shouldn't be visible from the outside.

And Lin looked as if he knew that she was observing them at the moment.

……

Ying also raised her head and looked at the light: "Surveillance?"

"Yeah." Lin nodded, and he looked back at the door. "The lock of this door is remotely controlled. Someone unlocked it manually and is watching here."

From the outside, you can't tell that the front door is manually locked and that there is a camera, but these subtle details cannot be hidden from Lin. He can find out the internal structure of the house through many means, including concluding that there must be a basement after seeing the terrain and appearance of the house.

And the person hiding behind the screen and watching this place is most likely in the basement.

Prometheus was not brought by him this time. Velvi's Key of God plan was in the early stage and was short of people. She was not needed for this kind of mission, so she could not directly invade the monitoring system.

However, there is no need to go through so much trouble. They can catch Him along the way.

……

"Did you find out..." She was silent for a while, watching Lin and Ying in the picture walking towards the depths of the house as if nothing had happened. She thought indecisively, "Then why did they come in? Aren't you afraid of an ambush?"

After much thought, she decided to proceed as planned. She stared intently at Lin Heying as they walked into the room she had booked and pressed the door-closing button.

"Oh!"

The reinforced gate completely blocked the way back, and the walls were naturally specially thickened and reinforced, so ordinary firearms and cold weapons could not break through.

Then, she turned on the microphone...

"Hey, you two from the Fire Moth, I want to play a game with you..."