I'm not Yingjie

The man feels that he is gradually becoming like his former self, which is a good thing. After all, wasn’t that who they admired back then?

I almost forgot, it's not just him who has changed, they have too.

The man smiled self-deprecatingly, an inexplicable expression on his metal face.

But fortunately, there is one person who has never changed.

The man returned to his room. He waved to the pink-haired girl who was doing housework and said, "Sakur, I designed a very interesting coffee machine today. Unfortunately, I can't make it."

"Really? How fun is it?" The pink-haired girl who was wiping the table asked with a smile.

"That's very interesting..."

He briefly explained his idea, and the pink-haired girl was amused by his expressive way of speaking and laughed along with him.

It was as if they were back to the time when they first met. Even though they were not familiar with each other, they could still smile from the bottom of their hearts.

Afterwards, they talked about other things, such as what dish the girl learned to cook today, what gossip the man heard about the people in the base, and what strange new phenomena he discovered during the experiment...

They talked about everything except the collapse and the cruel reality.

But they don't want to escape, it's just that there is no need.

They don't need to face reality again, and what they should do is not to spread pessimism.

"By the way, Lin, just burn my body and scatter it in any river."

Suddenly, the girl smiled and said something strange.

The atmosphere took a sharp turn for the worse.

"..."

The man's metal face was still smiling.

On the cuffs of the pink-haired girl's clothes, some purple stripes were faintly visible.

Chapter 67: The Man of Miracles Part 6

The girl sat at the table playing with an empty instant noodle bowl and fork. She had taken off her helmet, and her long dark blue hair fell over her shoulders like a dark waterfall.

Kosmo had already gone back, and he still didn't answer the question after all.

The girl actually didn't really want to get an answer from him. Everyone has different ideologies, which lead to different cognitions and completely different answers. If you are eager to know the answer to a question that determines your own value orientation from someone else, then in the end you will only be imitating others.

She just wanted to see what people other than Lin were like, and that question was her way of figuring out her final opinion of a person.

"…What exactly did you want to say at that time?"

"In the end, even after getting married, I still don't know."

The girl was mumbling something to herself, but no one could hear her, not even herself.

……

Men hate funerals.

Ever since he was old enough to understand, he had hated attending funerals.

I don’t know if this world has its own consciousness, but it rains at every funeral he attends.

The clouds were thick and the sky was gloomy. The strong wind could not blow through the clouds, nor could it blow through the haze in his heart.

When his parents died, he was not as tall as their tombstones. When his grandmother died, he was barely a head taller than the tombstone.

Afterwards, no matter how reluctant he was, he attended many funerals, such as those of his students and some veterans who joined Meteor Passage at the same time as him, but most of them had no remains. After all, the continued influence of Honkai energy meant that either there were no remains, or... the remains had turned into monsters.

However, he was no longer so opposed to funerals. Many people regarded funerals as the final memorial ceremony for a person. The tears shed would accompany the soul of the deceased. But he could not cry. It would always rain at that time, so he thought he had cried enough.

Tears are something that should have been shed when we were born.

However, this was the first time he was planning a funeral for his wife.

“…Is it okay not to go to work? There are still many things that are not finished.” The pink-haired girl sat in the colorless room and said with a smile to the man who had been silent.

"It's okay, they understand." The man shook his dazed head. After his body was completely replaced with soul steel, he no longer had any abnormal physical conditions, but he was still in a daze. "There's still a lot of time."

"Hehe... Actually, right now, I feel really sorry for you." The pink-haired girl's smile did not change at all because of her illness, and it was filled with the warmth of the morning sunshine. "In the end, we have to separate after only a few years of marriage..."

"..."

She couldn't survive by replacing her body with soul steel.

Even if the man could go against the crowd and use the soul steel, which was already produced in very small quantities, to treat the girl, the girl would not be able to withstand the pressure and sequelae of the operation. Not everyone is qualified to live like the man... No, except him, no one can do it at present.

"Come to think of it, I actually wanted a child very much before..."

"do not talk."

The man clenched his fists. He couldn't control his facial expression. Why was this damn soul steel so hard to control!

Children? This couple, from the time they met until now, had not had any sexual intercourse, because on the second day of their marriage, he was transformed into his current appearance.

What should he do now? Do he believe a miracle will happen?

Do you believe that the girl is an exception among exceptions, and that she has a serum in her body that can fight against Honkai energy, making her immune to the erosion of Honkai energy at the last moment?

Or should we invest all our resources into researching the Honkai Serum, which has remained a mystery until now, and complete it before the girl's life ends?

There is nothing he can do.

He could only sit here and wait quietly for the girl's death.

Even his hug could only give the girl a cold feeling.

"Did I...do something wrong..."

For the first time, the man began to doubt whether he was on the wrong path.

Since joining Meteor Passage, those companions who had always been full of vigor and enthusiasm to save humanity died, and those kind-hearted students who dreamed of the future died, but he could only survive again and again until the arrival of the last straw.

"Don't talk nonsense."

The girl's elongated tail tone brought him back to reality. He rarely saw the girl so angry. She puffed up her cheeks and glared at him, as if to say that she would be angry if he continued to talk nonsense.

"At this point, I don't want to teach you to believe in yourself anymore, Lin. Are you doubting the past created by humans? Isn't it because you accept the imperfections of humans that you plan to work as their miracle?" The girl's solemn expression was sacred and pure in the sunset. "Remember, even if I die, you must not get lost."

“…Even so.” The man raised his head, smiled bitterly and shook his head, “I can’t be sure that I will…”

"No, because you are my husband."

"..."

"No matter how much my husband feared that he could not shoulder the responsibility, he still walked ahead of everyone else. He was confused, afraid, and depraved, but he never forgot his original intention."

The girl covered her chest, which was choking her, and tried her best to smile: "He is my miracle, he is the miracle of mankind."

Men hate funerals.

Now, more than ever, I hate it.

"Beep————"

The communicator and the alarm sounded at the same time. The man couldn't help but tremble at this moment. His steel body, which had no physiological phenomena, couldn't help shaking at this moment. His whole heart was trembling rapidly.

don't want……

“Lin.”

Not at this time.

"Take it."

Please, have mercy, at least let me at this last moment...

"Young fiancé, don't run away."

At least let her...

The man numbly pressed the answer button.

"Dr. Lin, the ninth collapse has occurred."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"……I see."

The busy tone after hanging up was drawn out for a long time.

The man listened to the increasingly noisy voices outside the room, and he felt that everything was moving away from him.

He wanted to ignore everything and just stay here with her until the end of human history.

But the girl was right.

She told the truth every time, and this time was no exception.

There is a fool who, no matter how scared he is, will walk ahead of everyone else.

"……I gotta go."

"Well, have a nice trip."

A lone figure left the room.

A week later, he returned.

And the girl also fell asleep in the light.

Chapter 68: The Man of Miracles Part 7

“In a person’s life, there will always be countless losses, but some people don’t realize the losses, while others… only see the losses.”

This sentence is the girl's epitaph. The last words she left for the man were written on the bedside table of her hospital bed.

The man didn't know whether she wanted to give him one last warning or express some emotion, but he still planned to carve this sentence on her tombstone.

Similarly, there is nothing under that grave, and the remains are in the headquarters of Meteor Passage, in a container that prevents the leakage of Houkai energy.

Even now, standing in front of her body which looked no different from when she was alive, he was still a little dazed.

The experiences of the past decade or so have been like a dream, and now the dream is drawing to an end, and the people in the dream have also vanished like bubbles.

There are still four major collapses before the end of the collapse.

Perhaps mankind can hold on until the day of dawn, but... this dark night before dawn is too long, so long that countless people have been lost, so long that no one realizes that they are no longer who they used to be.

"Dr. Lin."

"I know. I'll be right there."

Before the person who called him could say the next word, the man turned and left.

He was not a person who reminisced about the past. Even if he looked at the body, it would only waste more of humanity's time.

Now, he has to protect the world and humanity that the girl loved when she was alive, and become a miracle for mankind.

……

"Oh!"

Lin stretched out the battle line. He turned around and threw out three grenades, which bounced out in the aftermath of the explosion. He was dancing in the air, using various weapons dazzlingly.

Emperor-level Honkai beasts. The most common form of this higher-level Honkai beast is born as a companion Honkai beast of a Herrscher in a large-scale Honkai. They often have abilities similar to those of a companion Herrscher, but sometimes have many differences. Their abilities are no less bizarre than those of a Herrscher.

However, this does not mean that higher-level Honkai beasts will not be born outside of a large-scale Honkai. In fact, even Judgment-level Honkai beasts, in addition to Shesha in the third Honkai, there have been two Judgment-level Honkai beasts born outside of a large-scale Honkai, and the damage caused is no less than the advent of a Herrscher.

However, today's mission is to face an emperor-level Honkai beast, which is even more special...

Lin Kongkong chopped off the attacking claws with a knife, and the auxiliary jet device adjusted his body shape to a state where he could just rush through the gap. Then he pulled out his gun and fired continuously at the huge core of the Honkai Beast.

On the other side, Sakura dodged like a ghost amid the constant attacks, then found the right moment to stab the weak joints of the Honkai beast with her ice blade and standard knife, instantly paralyzing its ability to move.

Today, two highly similar emperor-level Honkai beasts were born. This was also the new task Lin received after dealing with the mutated lower-level Honkai beast.

Generally speaking, to defeat even one Emperor-level Honkai beast, let alone two, requires a joint expedition of at least three teams. Such a highly dangerous mission would never be the responsibility of Lin and Ying's Poison Pupa team, but these two Honkai beasts are really special.

Their Honkai energy reaction has barely reached the minimum standard of upper-level Honkai beasts, which is lower than some mutated lower-level Honkai beasts. It is speculated that the Honkai energy content at the place where they were born is not high, and the fact that two of them were born has led to the dispersion of Honkai energy. Therefore, in terms of strength, they are not as strong as ordinary emperor-level Honkai beasts.

After careful consideration, the 19th branch decided that Lin and Ying would defeat the two Honkai beasts. They were also not an ordinary team. The number of Honkai beasts that Lin had defeated was more than most people combined, and his experience was enough to deal with these two Honkai beasts.