I'm not Yingjie

Kevin didn't know if he was just being overly nervous recently. He was very self-aware. Ever since the Great Purge, his personality had become as suspicious as Lin's. He had to confirm everything thoroughly before doing anything.

Kevin exhaled and said coldly: "Who do you think did this to the database..."

In the corner where he was looking, a transparent figure was watching them quietly.

The deep blue pupils in the helmet are continuously emitting a faint light.

……

After splitting the terminal in half with one sword, the girl put away the sword. She first recalled the method that Lin taught her how to find a suitable hiding place by observing the environment, and then quickly used the helmet to collect information about the surroundings. She found the best hiding place, took three steps forward and squatted down.

Then the long knife in her hand disappeared, and a small pen-shaped device appeared in her hand. She pressed the button, and a veil-like light enveloped her body, and then her figure disappeared from the spot.

The girl, who made herself invisible by refracting light, waited patiently.

But it won’t take long. After all, “those things” really don’t have much patience and will only act when they think the time is right.

"Gah-"

The door of the database opened and closed, the whole process took less than half a second, and some things had already come in.

As if the air was wriggling, an indescribable "monster" of an unclear shape appeared in the field of vision.

Star color.

Perhaps in the eyes of humans, the specific whereabouts of the starlight cannot be captured in any way, but in the girl's vision, she can clearly see the outline and movement trajectory of the starlight.

After all, the Honkai energy contained in these alien creatures is enough for her to ignore their material and only look at the shell filled with Honkai energy.

After entering the database, Xingcai went straight to the database terminal of the Shenzhou branch. For them, the spatial layout of humans was just a backward layout that only needed to be scanned once to confirm the specific layout, and there was no need to spend extra time observing the entire room.

However, what awaited it was just scrap metal split in half.

"..."

Perhaps because it didn't expect to find something like this, Xingcai stopped moving for a few seconds, but this does not mean that it can be completely blocked.

After examining the entire cross-section of the terminal, several tentacles extended from its transparent body, ready to repair the terminal.

"Snapped--"

However, a hand has already grabbed its "head".

It didn't even have time to fight back. A long sword that didn't exist in the Fire Moth emerged from the palm of the hand that grabbed it and pierced through Xingcai's entire body.

"...Crack."

There was no blood, no mechanical sparks, nothing came out of the body that had lost its life in an instant.

The girl grabbed the corpse of the star and quietly left the database.

Even if Xingcai can transmit information to each other through network consciousness, before it dies, it will only convey the information that the one who killed it was not a human, so the Xingcai in the Shenzhou branch will not have any unusual movements.

And no one would doubt her.

After the girl "analyzed" Xingcai, she disposed of the body and returned to her room. She stood there for a long time.

After a while, she held her stomach.

"…I'm so hungry. I want to have a midnight snack."

……

The transformation is complete.

After the man regained consciousness, he discovered that this was not his original body.

In other words, there was little left of his original body.

"The operation was successful, Dr. Lin. From now on, you will no longer be eroded by Honkai energy and will have a long life. In this way, even if a major change occurs to humanity, you will be able to continue human history."

"..."

After waking up, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

If it were simply about extending lifespan, men have a hundred ways to allow them to live until the destruction of the earth without being disturbed by any external forces.

But that won’t work, this is the image that humans need.

An image of power, perfection, and indestructibility.

The man could not feel the temperature, his body had completely nothing to do with human beings.

Now, he probably wouldn't want to hug the girl.

But he still picked up the ring he had taken off at the beginning of the operation and put it on his finger that reflected the metallic luster.

"People out there want to survive, and we tell them that it will cost them humanity."

"And I was about to die and you would revive me, telling me that my death would be a loss to humanity."

The doctor, who was celebrating and smiling happily, was stunned when he heard what the man said.

"If death is equal, then on the way to that destination, there are only human-defined inequalities."

After the man finished saying this in an unknown tone, he stood up, left the doctors and researchers behind, and left the ward.

At the end of the day, humans have never changed, and this has nothing to do with the collapse.

Those who don't want to die are dead, and those who want to die are alive. Even if there is no collapse, there are other things that will force people to death or keep people alive.

But he had no choice but to keep going.

No matter how he defines human beings, he is still one of these lives.

If you ask him how he should treat humans next... then there is probably only one choice.

Believe it, believe in humanity.

Chapter 64: The Road to the Deepest Places

"Looking for Sister Ai Li? I know..."

When Mei came to her house, Padu was still counting what treasures she had found in the paradise. Seeing Mei's anxious look, she immediately asked in confusion: "What happened?"

"…Lin, let me go find her. He's in trouble."

After weighing the pros and cons, Mei decided to make it clear to Padu that Lin's matter was by no means a trivial matter, and it would be better to notify all the heroes.

"Brother Lin? What happened to Brother Lin?"

When Padu heard that this was about Lin, her leisurely expression disappeared immediately.

Mei's expression was definitely not good. She hadn't felt this kind of protected feeling for a long time. "I'm not sure yet. He just asked me to find Alicia. Padu, do you know where she is?"

"I'll take you there right away! Before she left, Sister Ai Li told me that she was going to the deepest place. If I explain to Ah Mo, he will probably listen..."

"Amo?"

"Well, anyway, you'll know when you meet them. This has never happened in the Land of Elysium."

Even Padu, who was lazy and spent the whole day either looking for things or basking in the sun, became serious, and Mei's level of attention to this matter increased to a higher level.

Along the way, Mei talked to Paduo about some things about Lin. What was even more unexpected to Mei was that Paduo seemed to know more than she thought, especially about Lin. Paduo knew all the information about Lin that Mei inferred from just a few words and the information she collected.

It seems that Lin takes better care of Padu than she expected...

"It seems that Lin is not so cold to everyone." Mei followed behind Paduo and sighed.

"...Actually, I didn't feel that he had changed much between the first time I met Brother Lin and the next time I met him." Padu's expression suddenly froze, and she muttered in a low voice, "But...both Sister Aili and Sister Wei Erwei said that Brother Lin had a period of time..."

"what?"

"nothing."

Paduo was not willing to talk more about this matter. She just heard it from others. However, she also had some small regrets that she had not met Lin at that time.

"By the way, Sister Mei, what on earth did Brother Lin encounter that made him need to go find Sister Ai Li?"

"..."

Mei was a little speechless about why Padu took so long to ask, but she quickly answered: "Some very strange... things, Lin was very nervous when he saw her, and the feeling that power gave me..."

That familiar power that contained the breath of death made her think of the Herrscher personality of the Void that had awakened in Kiana's body.

"That's not right... Brother Lin shouldn't be defeated by anyone now." Padu shook her head and muttered, "Even if it's Boss Kevin now, he's no match for him when he's only in memory form."

"What did you say? Kevin can't beat Lin?"

"Eh? I didn't say anything."

"What are you hiding?"

Mei narrowed her eyes. She felt more and more that this matter was not that simple. These Yingjie and Lin must be hiding many things from her.

She was fed up with the endless guessing game.

"Does Lin still have some power? If he has that kind of power, why would he..."

The "Lin" of the past had demonstrated abilities similar to those of the First Herrscher.

Could it be that besides those things, there are other powers that she has never seen before?

"No! Brother Lin..." Padu shrank his neck in fear, "Brother Lin can't just use that..."

"You guys are really..."

"That's it for now."

A cold voice stopped Mei from asking further questions.

At this moment, she suddenly realized that they had unknowingly come to a place they had never been to before.

If I were to use one word to describe this space, it would be "abstract".

The entire space is like a painting on paper, with abstract colors and buildings everywhere, but with substantial entities, it is like two-dimensional coming to three-dimensional.

In this space, there stood a handsome young man with dark green hair clasped in his hands and a pair of pitch-black horns on his head. It seemed as if he had been standing there from the beginning, waiting for their arrival.

"Ah, Ah Mo..."

"..."

The boy called Amo glanced at Padu, then looked at Mei a few times, scanning her up and down.

Naturally, this little movement and look did not escape Mei's attention, but what concerned her was that the boy was just looking at her without any intention of speaking.

"You are..." Out of politeness, Mei decided to ask.

"The ninth Fire Chaser, Xuguang, Kosmo."

The boy answered briefly in a cold voice.

Another heroic figure, which was acceptable to Mei, except that this one looked just like Kevin and Lin, and was difficult to talk to.

"What you just said is..."

"..." Kosmo did not answer Mei's question directly. He seemed to be thinking about something. After looking at Mei and thinking for a while, he slowly said, "Don't ask things you shouldn't know."

"..."

This conversation was like being pointed at in the nose and talked back, and Mei immediately felt that Kosmo was difficult to talk to.

But as if realizing that his words might be misinterpreted, Kosmo explained, "I'm talking about Lin's affairs. You don't need to know so much about him. You shouldn't force Paduo to ask. If Lin wants to tell you, he will tell you naturally."

"Okay, I understand." Mei also realized that she was questioning Padu just now, so she calmed down and asked, "I found Alicia and heard Padu say that she was in the deepest place. Is this the deepest place?"

"No."

"Ok."

"..."

"..."

There followed a long, abrupt silence.

After saying "no", Kosmo never spoke again.

Mei, who had been waiting for Kosmo's next words, looked at Pado after a while.

Padu shook her head awkwardly at Mei, indicating that this was just how Kosmo was.

"Amo doesn't have any bad intentions, he's just... not very good at expressing himself." After explaining, Paduo smiled and said to Kosmo, "Um, Amo, Brother Lin is in trouble, we need to find Sister Ai Li, can you let us in?"

"Something happened to Lin? Who said that?" Kosmo's eyes were already on Mei.