I'm not Yingjie

"Come with me."

Kevin didn't say anything. He was the first to get off the transport plane. Alicia waited for the wriggling transparent object to follow Kevin down before following closely behind, forming a double team formation.

At this moment, Alicia had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu, as if she had seen this kind of thing somewhere before.

When they walked into the Shenzhou branch, a pair of eyes were already watching them quietly in a distant corner.

The girl silently looked at Alicia and Kevin who walked into the branch, but her sight seemed to be focused on the invisible Xingcai.

When Kevin subconsciously looked in her direction, she had disappeared without a trace.

At this moment, Alicia remembered why this scene gave her a sense of déjà vu.

At the beginning, Lin took the girl around the headquarters and introduced her, which seemed very similar to this scene.

……

Meanwhile, at the Fire Moth headquarters.

"Why do we need to conduct a consciousness detection experiment on this Herrscher core? Wasn't it confirmed that there is a Herrscher consciousness inside it when it was first discovered?"

Weiwei, who was caught to conduct this experiment involving only two people, did not have any complaints, but she was also quite curious as to why Mei would suddenly do this experiment which seemed meaningless to her.

One of the reasons for carrying out the Key of God Project is to completely transform the Herrscher Core, which still has hidden dangers, into a weapon for humanity. No matter what the Herrscher's consciousness is inside it, it will not matter in the future.

"...Ten seconds left." Mei did not answer, but just stared intently at the contents on the detector.

This experiment could be said to be a spur-of-the-moment idea, or it could be said to have been premeditated. She was the only person who could detect the consciousness of the Herrscher through technical means, and the only one who knew this secret was Wilvi, who assisted her.

For any purpose, this technology cannot be made public.

Ten seconds passed in the blink of an eye.

"Let me see... wait! What is going on!" Wei Wei, who originally thought that this was just another boring experiment, now widened her eyes.

And the eyes behind Mei's glasses were completely obscured by the reflection.

Chapter 60: Invasion

"Is this okay? Kevin, let it stay?"

Alicia, for once, neither smiled nor made any jokes. Instead, she looked seriously at the silent room at the end of the corridor.

"This is just surveillance." Kevin still folded his arms, looking calm, "If this is the 'sincerity' they need, then we can only accept it."

However, with the previous example of Xingcai invading Imer's computer, the network in that room has been completely cut off, and it is impossible to steal the branch's information by invading.

In addition, at least twenty people were arranged to monitor Xingcai in all directions. Even if it was transparent, it would be impossible for it to operate under the noses of so many people.

But even Kevin himself was not completely sure about this arrangement.

"Alien creatures, collapse, planetary collapse beasts..."

There are so many things happening one after another, any one of which is enough to overturn the worldview of all human beings.

Can Xingcai really be trusted? Do they really just want a place to go?

……

"Teacher, do you believe that there are miracles in the world?"

The man was standing in front of the operating table. The man who was both an assistant and a student suddenly asked him a question.

At this time, the man was the only student left.

The man also understood why he asked this question, because just yesterday, one of the man's only two remaining students died in the experiment.

The last remaining student picked up a pistol and shot the student who had turned into a dead soldier in the head.

Being corroded instantly by Honkai energy at close range, it would be too late even if one wanted to remove the affected parts and replace them with machinery.

"..." The man put on the mask numbly, even though this kind of protection was useless. However, others still tirelessly advised him to protect himself and even told him not to conduct such dangerous experiments himself.

Protection? What could possibly stop the erosion of Honkai energy at such a close distance?

Masks? Filters? Protective shields? Or a noble and great spirit of dedication?

ridiculous.

"When I was little, my parents always taught me that even in desperate situations, I must have hope and look forward to miracles." The student smiled calmly, as if reminiscing about his childhood. "They said that the birth of human beings is an incredible thing and a great miracle in this vast universe."

"...So, do you believe in miracles?" The man looked at the student with sparkling eyes with eyes that were cold and inhumane.

"Yes, I believe a miracle will happen."

Even though he has lost many people along the way, he is still looking forward to the future.

“Isn’t it a miracle that humans can have teachers?”

……

The man lay woodenly on the hospital bed, half of his limbs had completely lost the feeling. What he had to face next was to completely replace these limbs with machines.

But he just listened to the doctor's advice without any expression.

The man's last student died during the experiment.

The hope that was shining on his face disappeared from the world before the experiment could be over.

Just like every other dead person, there is no difference, not a single extra word.

It's like, on paper, being crossed out with a stroke.

The man didn't hear anything the doctor said. He didn't even notice when the doctor left or when the pink-haired girl came in.

The emptiness in his eyes was like a black hole, with nothing inside. Nothing could fill it, and nothing would flow out.

"Lin, are you okay?"

The pink-haired girl knew that what she said was nonsense, but other than that, she didn't know how to communicate with this boy she had known for a long time.

She watched him go from being a person who would often laugh and tell weird jokes and opinions to gradually becoming numb to life, silent, and alienated from everyone including her.

It was like the person inside the body was no longer him, but a puppet called "Dr. Lin".

But this time, the man did not remain silent as usual: "The birth of humans is not a coincidence, but a series of chain reactions from the conditions that produce organisms to the evolution of organisms. In other words, it is not a miracle, but a necessity."

"..."

The pink-haired girl didn't know why the man said this, but at the moment, all she had to do was be a perfect listener.

The man's tone was neither disdainful nor serious. He just used the same tone as he would for any other matter: "Behind every accident, there are necessary conditions. Just like when introducing a murderer, we always introduce his traumatic history to let the audience know that his birth was not a story that someone wrote casually on a whim."

There are no miracles in this world.

“Isn’t it a miracle that humans can have teachers?”

The man held his head and breathed in a tight and painful manner.

What a joke.

What kind of miracle is this for a loser like him?

Why do so many people look forward to him, believe in him, and are willing to put their lives in his hands?

Let's face the reality. The current achievements of mankind are not a miracle, but a mountain of blood and corpses piled up with lives and sacrifices.

Stop praying for a miracle.

There are no miracles in this world. No gods will come to save mankind, and no human beings will suddenly explode with a small universe to defeat Honkai.

Every person who believes in humanity and chooses to sacrifice himself without hesitation is only spreading despair.

……

"despair."

The people sitting in the monitoring room were concentrating on watching the surveillance footage. Even though it looked like an empty room, they did not dare to let down their guard at all.

Xingcai cannot be observed by any detection means, so they can only use their naked eyes to observe whether there is anything abnormal in the picture, and whether the Xingcai that "seems" to be lying on the bed is not moving.

At least for now, it seems that after Xingcai entered the room and lay down on the bed, there has been no movement.

Do aliens need to sleep too?

No one knows, and the only aliens they have come into contact with may be the guy with a shellless brain in movies and TV shows who uses a toy gun to turn people into skulls.

Hopefully, there won't be any hiccups.

At this moment, a person quietly opened his door and came to the database of the Shenzhou branch.

The girl wearing a helmet stood expressionlessly in front of the door of the database. She stretched out her hand and pressed the door lock.

"Click."

After a slight sound, the door lock was automatically unlocked.

Her deep blue eyes in the helmet emitted a seductive glow.

Chapter 61: The Man of Miracles Part 1

After unlocking the door to the database, the girl stepped inside and the door behind her closed automatically.

The night vision function of her helmet was turned on, and she was searching for something in the dark data room.

Soon, she found her target - a storage device that could be connected to the main database.

She casually stretched out her hand in the air, and a standard long sword of the Fire Moth appeared in her hand. She strode to the front of the equipment, raised the long sword high, and stared coldly at the equipment in front of her through the azure visual window.

Then he chopped it down without hesitation.

"bass!"

……

A peaceful night.

"Is there anything unusual?" Kevin came to the monitoring room and asked the last shift of monitors.

"No, although we can't tell where it is, we can see if it's moving. Now it has started moving again and is observing the facilities in the room."

Kevin moved closer to the surveillance screen, squinted his eyes and stared at the tiny transparent fluctuations inside, confirming that its outline was the star-colored outline he had noted down.

He took a long breath and asked, "Did anything happen inside the Shenzhou branch?"

"Um... there seemed to be something unusual in the database last night..."

"Why don't you report to me?"

The monitor was at a loss as to what to do in the face of Kevin's questioning. He was just a new employee and was only following instructions for such tasks. The changes in the database did not attract their attention.

In fact, the abnormality of the database was that when he was monitoring, he caught a glimpse that the door of the database seemed to be abnormally unlocked for a moment, but when he looked carefully again, it was normal again.

There is no abnormal access record in the system.

“…Forget it, I’ll go over and take a look.”

Seeing him like this, Kevin knew that he couldn't get any information out of him, so he simply went to the database of the Shenzhou branch himself.

There are some differences between the databases of the branch and the headquarters, because each branch is responsible for different projects and functions, so the stored data is also different.

However, the headquarters' database can be queried through specific terminals, and the headquarters' database contains all the information of the entire Fire Moth, and even most of the information of humans is stored in it. It can be said that the headquarters' database is a microcosm of the human race.

However, if a specific terminal wants to access the headquarters database, it needs the identity verification of the person in charge of each branch, so not everyone can access it.

However, Kevin was thinking of what Imer had reported, that Xingcai had invaded his computer and absorbed most of the Fire Moth data.

I'm afraid that human safety measures cannot resist the invasion of mechanical life forms like Xingcai.

Arriving in front of the database, Kevin opened the door with his badge, and the scene that came into his sight made his pupils shrink into a small dot.

The terminal was neatly split in half by a knife, emitting sparks.

"Squeak."

……

"The peculiarity of human beings is that they always call for peace and equality, but they never really achieve it."

The man wrote this sentence in his diary, but quickly crossed it out. The words in his diary were sometimes neat and sometimes sloppy, just like his ever-changing mood and emotions.

He tapped the pen, and then wrote another sentence with his metallic hand: "But who can decide who can survive... If life is equal, then is death right? If death is equal, then what is the meaning of unequal life..."

“Can a person’s life really be decided by a stranger?”