I'm not Yingjie

During the battle, Lin could hardly find any chance to get close to the Honkai Beast. It controlled the distance between itself and Lin and used its abilities to constantly interfere with his actions. The accuracy of its control made Lin once think that the Honkai Beast was controlled by AI.

Moreover, the battle field was not suitable for Lin's fighting style, and with Sakura in a coma, he was greatly restricted.

So Lin gave Honkai Beast a "chance".

The attack mode of this Honkai beast is very "restrained".

Lin speculated that it was trying to prevent him from obtaining its combat intelligence, so it chose a safe but not smooth way to attack.

So Lin deliberately exposed himself to its attack range, allowing it to bite through him. At that time, he quietly and silently clenched a collapse bomb in his left hand.

It is because of caution that one becomes rigid.

Lin destroyed its body cavity and then destroyed the three cores at the fastest speed.

Help is on the way.

He had already noticed that the origin of this Honkai beast was suspicious, but even though he was full of doubts, they had to receive treatment next.

What Lin didn't expect before he fainted was that this Honkai beast was just the beginning.

Chapter 76 Trapped

"bass!"

The monsters fell down immediately. Mei looked at these monsters that turned into ink-like substances and disappeared with an uncertain expression on her face. After putting away the knife, she looked at Pado, who was hiding aside and trembling, almost digging a hole to bury her head in.

"So you really can't fight?"

"I, I've said it before... In the past, it was Brother Lin, Brother Jie, and Sister Ying who were at the front. I was useless." Padu breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the monsters were completely destroyed. He grabbed the back of his head and laughed happily without any embarrassment. "Others say that Brother Lin protected me too well, but I feel that I really can't fight the Honkai beast..."

"Were you in the same team with Lin before?"

Mei knew that the previous civilization, the Fire Moths, had adopted a team system, just like Sentence. Logically, Lin was the team on the front line. How could a member like Paduo, who couldn't fight at all, join Lin's team?

"Hehe, this is a lazy method that I am proud of."

"……be lazy?"

At this moment, Kosmo came out from the anchor point again. He said calmly: "Switching between multiple teams with different work natures is Padu's way of being lazy."

"Uh, Ah Mo, how did you know..."

"You told me yourself, when we were assigned to the same team as Sakura."

"..."

Mei was not here to listen to them revisiting the past. She placed her hand on the hilt of the knife cautiously and looked at the boy who seemed to have an extraordinary aura: "What did you mean just now?"

"Have you seen Qianjie?" Kosmo did not answer her question directly, but asked a question in return.

"…What does this have to do with Qianjie?"

"You should have seen Qianjie's way of communicating, so there is no need to be surprised if other Yingjie have similar situations."

That's not wrong. After witnessing Qianjie's extraordinary first appearance, this level seems acceptable.

But Mei still wants to ask, can't you just show up calmly like Alicia and Lin?

"Just consider it as you have passed my test. I will give you the Mark of the Rising Light, so go back." Kosmo still had the same deadpan expression as Kevin and Lin.

"Didn't you hear what I said? I didn't come here for you and your mark..."

"You are the one who didn't listen, right? Didn't I tell you that?" Kosmo's tone suddenly cooled. "The Deep is not a place you can go. You said you came here for Lin, but you can't provide any evidence."

"Kevin can testify to that."

"Kevin?"

Kosmo paused for a few seconds, as if thinking about something.

"Where is Kevin now?" After a while, he asked another question.

"…He is in the Paradise of the Past, but he has separated from us and is investigating on his own."

"...No, your words are simply unbelievable."

"you--"

"But Lin told me something."

Kosmo interrupted Mei abruptly and said coldly, "If the visitor has a strong desire to enter the deepest place, let me give this to the visitor."

Mei took the thing from Kosmo in a daze.

cross?

This is a small cross pendant, like a cheap handicraft that can be bought at any roadside stall.

"I advise you that the cross was given to Lin by Aponya, but I am keeping it for you now. You'd better not lose it."

Kosmo's seemingly unintentional words once again mentioned the word "Aponia".

"Don't worry, I will find it even if it's lost!" Padu rubbed his hands and smiled, "You can get a 20% discount if you find someone you know, Mei-jie."

This guy never forgets to do business.

Mei shook her head. She had more important things to do: "Kosmo, Aponia..."

"No comment."

"..."

After a solid retreat, Mei took Paduo and left the strange space temporarily and returned to the lounge.

"Come to think of it, Paduo, you seem to be less worried about Lin since a while ago." Mei was very curious about Paduo's attitude of not caring about Lin's affairs. After all, it was only a short while later that Paduo went from being anxious to being indifferent.

"Because I think Ah Mo seems to be... right." Paduo waved his hands, "Hey! Sister Mei, I'm not saying you're lying, it's just that Ah Mo is right, Brother Lin is really the most powerful here, even Sister Snake is under his control, and he often does some weird things, such as suddenly disappearing, which is not uncommon, so maybe you were just... tricked by Brother Lin."

Mei didn't think that the situation at that time was fabricated by Lin just to tease her, but it was really hard to explain now without any evidence, so she was too lazy to explain and simply looked at the pendant in her hand.

This pendant looked so ordinary upon closer inspection. She couldn't see any special features about it that would make Lin specially entrust Kosmo to give it to the visitor.

"Pado, do you know this thing?" Pado, who is well-informed and likes collecting, should know what this is.

"This is what Sister Abonya gave to Brother Lin. I don't know what she meant to say, but it seems that Brother Lin and Sister Abonya did something at that time, so Sister Abonya gave Brother Lin the pendant she had always worn on her chest."

A token of love?

The first word that came to Mei's mind made her hold her forehead with her hands.

That shouldn't be possible... Lin never seemed to mention Aponya.

Wait a minute, she seems to have forgotten something.

Since there's no way to ask Kosmo about Aponia, then asking Padu and the others should be the same, right?

"Paduo, who is Aponya? Why did Lin ask me to find her?"

"Sister Aponya...we remember she was ranked third."

third?

Only lower than Kevin and Alicia?

Mei knows that although there is no direct correlation between the ranking and strength of the Thirteen Fire-Chasing Heroes, there is definitely a certain connection. And this man named Aponia can actually be higher than Eden, Qianjie, Mobius and others, so there must be a reason.

"I……"

Just as Mei was about to ask another question, she felt dizzy and had almost no chance to resist. Her consciousness fell into darkness amid Padu's panicked cry of "Mei, what's wrong with you?"

……

Tick.

A distant sound of dripping liquid woke Mei up.

She got up from the ground and saw a road with iron bars on both sides that looked like an infinitely spreading prison.

"Tick."

"Mei, please come here."

At the end of the road, an ethereal voice took away the rest of her consciousness.

"You came here for Lin, right?"

Chapter 77: Super Transformation Surgery

There are many different feelings when one is in a coma. Some people will spend a meaningless period of time between closing their eyes and opening them again. Some people will feel strange sensations such as drowning, running, and falling when they are in a coma. Some people...

Reach out your hands and it seems like you can touch the sky.

Lin's drowsy consciousness awakened in darkness. He had experienced this strange feeling of mismatch between body and consciousness during simulation training.

So after taking a second to think, he figured out his current situation.

He fell into a deep coma.

His memory was very clear and his consciousness was very clear. This situation was a bit like a lucid dream, except that he probably suffered serious injuries and was unable to wake up now.

But it was still strange. He had been in a deep coma many times before, but this time he was in this state. Was it because of the effect of Mobius's potion transformation? Or... was it the change in his consciousness after entering the Herrscher core that time?

The subsequent impact of entering the Herrscher's core was greater than Lin had imagined, but consciousness was an extremely difficult concept to define, so even if he could feel the changes, he didn't know what the changes were.

Then again, why was it just pitch black, with no images at all? This was his own consciousness, but why couldn't he even move in this pitch black place?

Perhaps his thinking had an effect, like the sun coming out after the clouds had cleared, and the surrounding environment gradually changed.

"How's Su doing?"

This is his own voice.

The ground beneath his feet was gradually replaced by the metal floor of the Fire Moth Headquarters. He stepped on the solid ground, and the real touch made him feel a little uncomfortable, as if he had really returned to the headquarters.

The two people standing outside the laboratory were him and Mebius. Lin could tell at a glance that Mebius, whose white coat was stained with blood, had just performed an operation. She leaned against the wall, looking a little tired. After hearing what the person in front of her said, she waved her hand impatiently: "It went smoothly. This is the smoothest super-transformation operation so far."

Super transformation surgery…?

Lin, who was outside the screen, searched his memory after hearing this unfamiliar word, but could not find anything matching it. Besides, he and Mebius were talking about Su? Kevin's friend whom he had only met once?

What's going on? Shouldn't this be the scene in his memory? Why doesn't he have any impression of it at all?

"…What about the aftereffects?"

"Aftereffects, hehe..." Mebius sneered when she heard it. She did not answer directly, but stared at Lin with her light gray eyes with a sly smile.

Wait a minute...light grey?

Lin concentrated his attention on observing Mebius's eye color and confirmed that it was light gray mixed with some bright green as if injected with medicine, exactly the same as his current eyes.

Mebius's original eye color was light blue, so this change was definitely not normal.

Moreover, Mebius's eyes...are now completely snake-like.

It's not an illusion. Before, Mebius just gave people the feeling of being like a snake, but now his pupils have turned into vertical pupils like those of a poisonous snake.

What is this...

Mebius laughed and said, "Are you really that concerned about the sequelae? I saw that you were in a hurry to go to the operating table at that time."

“…” Lin neither denied nor confirmed.

"Hmph, so boring. Don't worry, he won't have the problems of our 'generation'... at least not as serious as you and Kevin." Mobius didn't seem to be in the mood to tease Lin, or she herself didn't want to continue this topic. "And Spasi has the same attitude as you... If you are so worried, why send Su to the operating table of a 'executioner' like me."

"……Thanks."

"..."

Lin's sincere thanks made Mebius's face fall completely. There was a hint of anger in her eyes, and even her pupils began to emit a faint green light.

"Why are you thanking me?" She seemed to be trying hard to suppress her nausea and asked in a rude tone, "Do you think I spent a lot of effort to make the operation successful? Or did you 'accumulate' enough experience and 'make good use of' this experience to make the operation successful? I tell you, it has nothing to do with those things. He was just lucky."

"I see."

"You understand? You say you understand every time! Do you really understand? Have you listened to what I said? You..."

"..."

Perhaps because he saw that Lin didn't talk back, the more he scolded, the angrier he got. After shouting a few words in anger, Mebius could only grit his teeth and hold back his anger. Finally, he said coldly: "It is because of people like you that I feel that humans are hopelessly stupid."

"..."

"Has the Gray Snake been active in your area recently?" Mebius wanted to change the subject. She turned her head to the side, not wanting to look at the cold and rejecting shell of Lin's helmet.