I'm not Yingjie

The sky after being burned is like an ocean turning into a red tide. The high temperature and thin oxygen deprive people of their vitality and everything they can see.

Even the smell of being burnt could not be smelled. Only the residue after carbonization and vaporization could give the numb nasal cavity some more perception.

Soon, footsteps were heard and someone helped Eden up. After a quick check of her pupils, breath and pulse, she finally regained some consciousness.

In front of her was a strange man. Normally, she would be surprised to see such a stunning man, but at this moment, her heart was filled with emptiness after the sudden arrival of disaster.

"Are you hurt?"

The man's familiar, flat voice brought Eden back to his senses.

"Mr. Lin..." Her once heavenly voice could only produce a hoarse bass.

His one arm and his voice made Eden realize that he was Lin.

After Lin carefully picked up Eden, he turned around and looked at everything around him.

After the fire, all that remained was the collision of destruction and endless smoke.

At the performance venue, he and Eden were the only ones left alive, and in this city, they were probably the only two left.

In just a few minutes, the raging flames reduced the entire city to ashes.

And the culprit behind all this, the Seventh Herrscher, is...

"..."

Lin looked at the desolate ruins, and something seemed to be extinguished in his heart.

The seventh Herrscher was Himiko, who was joking with him not long ago.

……

"team leader……"

Lin, who used to react very quickly, was now sitting in the ruins so quiet that only the sound of burning flames could be heard. He stared at the smiling red-haired woman floating in the air with his breath stopped.

The red-haired woman lowered her head slightly, saw the only person left, smiled and tilted her head slightly.

"Forest."

The call was no different from usual, but it made Lin tremble for a moment, then he turned over and pounced on the red-haired woman in mid-air...

No, it's the Seventh Herrscher.

"Hmm?" She smiled, turned sideways, and moved up a few meters, leaving Lin empty-handed.

The flames wrapped around her body transformed into a black dress with intricate embellishments. At this moment, as the Seventh Herrscher, she had completely descended into this world.

She should have killed Lin right here, but she flew out without even looking at Lin.

"Oh!"

The bullets shot by Lin were melted by the high temperature before they reached the Seventh Herrscher.

And he could only stand there, watching the Seventh Herrscher go away, watching that extremely familiar figure disappear.

Then, the heat erupted again—

……

He was spared by the Herr.

why?

The Seventh Herrscher's smile is exactly the same as Himiko's, and she can even call out his name, but all this has already happened to the Fifth and Sixth Herrschers, and it was just a disguise of the Herrschers.

Lin thought of the girl, but the Seventh Herrscher killed everyone present except him.

But, no one attacked him.

"Mr. Lin...are you...ok?"

Eden also recovered from her near-comatose state at this time. She saw Lin standing in front of the sea of ​​fire and asked him softly.

"..."

"Now, this is what you call collapse, right?"

Eden saw his agent at close range, who was concentrated by the column of flames and burned to charcoal before he could even scream.

She looked at the desolate surroundings, and only sadness remained in her heart.

Only when she witnessed a real disaster with her own eyes would she be more sad than she had imagined.

"...Yes, the Seventh Herrscher is born."

"Although it was just a casual glance, she was..."

"Ah."

Lin interrupted her and confirmed what she said.

He had rationally contacted the 19th branch and the headquarters, rationally reported all the situations including Himiko becoming the Seventh Herrscher, rationally described the destructive power of the Seventh Herrscher and the estimated casualties, rationally...

Be rational and make yourself look normal, just like before.

"Do you want to go see her?" Eden leaned against the ruins. She seemed to no longer care whether the high temperature would damage her skin. She used to be as bright as a star, but now she looked like a stone falling into the mud. However, she still spoke to Lin calmly, "Does a person who becomes a Herrscher still have reason?"

Lin said nothing. He turned his head and showed Eden the sea of ​​fire in front of him.

He seemed to have said everything.

But Lin did not deny it.

"I have something I want to ask her."

Why let him go?

What remains beneath that smiling, destructive appearance?

He looked down at his feet and saw a group photo that was curled, deformed, and turned to ashes in the spreading fire.

Those smiling faces disappeared.

"Boom."

He heard the sound of his head hitting the ground.

The earth fell on his body.

……

"Tick tock..."

"Tick tock..."

"are you awake?"

A highly recognizable voice that she had heard not long ago appeared in her ears. This time, it seemed to be tainted with some fatigue, revealing her tiredness.

What came into view was the ceiling of the laboratory that I hadn’t seen for a long time, and the IV hanging on my arm.

Under her dark green bangs were a pair of dark circles under her eyes that seemed familiar. She stared coldly at Lin who had just woken up.

It was like something I saw by chance, but also like something I had been waiting for for a long time.

"Congratulations, you have added a great chapter to your sleep history." Mobius turned around coldly, picked up a syringe, and inserted it into Lin's neck, "Don't move."

A slight stinging pain accompanied by the cold liquid flowing into his body, and his stiff body seemed to be activated. He rolled sideways and got off the bed.

Only then did he realize that he was not on the operating table, but in Mebius's private room.

"Because of your special condition, I didn't place you in the medical department. Instead, I will directly monitor you after I have restored your limbs." Mobius folded his hands and stared at Lin indifferently. "You can continue to lie down. The Seventh Herrscher has already started to treat you. You are not needed."

"…How is the battle going?"

"It's not bad. At least I've already come up with a code name for the Seventh Herrscher: Herrscher of Flame."

"I mean... the battle situation."

"Can you stop whining?" Mobius turned around impatiently. "Didn't I tell you that we have already started to deal with the Seventh Herrscher?"

"...Now, to what extent has she damaged Australia?"

"..."

After just a few words, the atmosphere between them became tense.

And Lin seemed to understand something from Mebius' silence, and he sat back on the bed.

The overwhelming destructive power kept replaying in his mind along with the stinging pain in his body...

Chapter 91 Return to the Past

"How could this number of Honkai beasts possibly be..."

"Even during the sixth collapse, there weren't so many Honkai beasts appearing at once. What on earth is going on..."

Lin dragged his disabled body indifferently, turning a deaf ear to the words spreading panic, like a rat hurriedly crawling across the street.

During the time he was in a coma, the outside world underwent tremendous changes.

Half of Australia's territory was burned down by the raging fire. The unquenchable flames extinguished the lives of 16 million people. The Seventh Herrscher flattened the surface of Australia with the most horrific fire in human history.

If the Sixth Herrscher is the most special Herrscher in terms of personification, then the Seventh Herrscher's destructive power is the strongest Herrscher in history. No weapon that the Fire Moth tries can stop her progress. Her power is like the bright moon in the night sky, emitting a desperate glow.

But the birth of the Seventh Herrscher was not the only disaster.

Lin walked into the R&D department. He did not look at this busy place where people were standing shoulder to shoulder, but went straight to someone's office.

The door was left a crack, as if it was waiting for him.

Without a moment's hesitation, Lin pushed the door open and walked in.

"Click." He locked the door.

There were only three people in the room including him, but their standing positions were completely different from the last time they met.

At that time, they formed a triangle, which allowed each other to see all of each other.

And now the white-haired man was standing behind the bespectacled doctor, and he was standing opposite the two men.

They could have just stared at each other, but May soon broke her silence.

"…Within 72 hours, a total of 200 Titans were wiped out in Australia, along with the three dispatched teams and the Australian national army."

"The Seventh Herrscher's high temperature makes it impossible for conventional weapons to withstand it. Her power involves manipulation at the molecular level, not just ordinary heat."

Mei seemed not to notice the strange atmosphere between them. She pushed up her glasses and described the current situation in a calm and nonchalant tone...or rather, the tragedy.

"Within 24 hours after the Seventh Herrscher began to operate, a large number of Emperor-level Honkai beasts began to appear around the world. The initial estimate is about 5,000, and the number is still increasing. According to the Herrscher of Reason of the previous civilization, those are the Stars that hid among humans after the fall. Some areas have begun to be assimilated by the Stars."

"Eleven hours after Xingcai started its activities, they discovered the location of the Fire Moth headquarters. Currently, some Honkai beasts are already attacking the headquarters. The front line can still resist for about thirty-seven hours."

The Titan troops and armed puppets that blocked Xingcai were easily destroyed this time. They showed their ability to learn and evolve like they had learned human language. After the Titan technology, which was already outdated for them, was analyzed, they could not cause much damage.

The reason they haven't used their technology to attack yet is that they just want to assimilate humans.

Before the humans could react, the Herrscher and the Starlight had already defeated them with lightning speed.

"Now Fire Moth has only one option left."

"Fusion Warrior Program."

Mei seemed to be talking about something that had nothing to do with her.

And Lin seemed to be listening to something that had nothing to do with him.

When Lin left, Kevin, who had been silent and cold all the time, suddenly said to Lin, who had opened the door with his back to him, "I was the one who killed the Ruler of the previous civilization."

"..."

"She wanted to retrieve the Herrscher Core and refused the surveillance of the Fire Moth, so I killed her. Her Soul Steel body has been recontained by Mei. You..."

"If you have anything to say, wait until this large-scale collapse is over."

Lin seemed to be running away from something. He left without saying anything else.

Leaving the place where frost has spread somewhere in his heart.

……

"The Fusion Warrior Project needs a volunteer now. Since this is the first super-transformation surgery, the success rate... is almost zero."

“It’s like praying for a miracle.”