I'm not Yingjie

Lin pushed through the crowd, walked to the side of the figure, sat on the chair beside her, and tapped his fingers on the wooden table that reflected the light.

To be honest it should be more surprising to see this guy at the prom than some people thought he would be.

Her long pink hair cascaded down, and she closed her eyes and hummed some tunes. It should be the song from the wireless headphones she was wearing. In front of her was a plate of food. She put on a hood and established a personal space here, isolated from the world.

After all, if she wasn't wearing a hat, an elegant gentleman would probably ask her to dance.

She was very sensitive to the space around her. After Lin sat down, her brows twitched, as if she felt someone was approaching. So she stopped humming and waited quietly for the person next to her to leave.

But after waiting for a long time, the person next to her didn't move, so she walked away. But when she opened her eyes and looked at the person indifferently, she was stunned.

"Forest?"

Sakura took off her headphones and looked at the helmeted man in front of her in surprise, as if she had not expected him to appear here.

"You..." Ying was speechless, complex thoughts flashed across her eyes, "Are you... okay now?"

"……Um."

"That's good, I thought... No, it's nothing."

Ying wanted to say something but stopped herself. Finally, she smiled gently, leaving behind her usual coldness.

"I'm glad you're okay. Do you want to eat? I just got..." Ying turned around and saw that there was only an empty plate in front of her. She coughed and her cheeks blushed slightly. "I, I'll get some more..."

"No need." Lin stopped her and said calmly, "I just came to see you."

"what?"

Chapter 116: So I'm Here

Ying took a sip of her drink, and with some doubt she glanced at Lin, who was sitting at the table and tapping his fingers rhythmically. She really wanted to ask what Lin meant by what he had just said, but if she asked, it seemed like she was overthinking it.

Maybe she was just overthinking it? Lin had no reason to come to her?

but……

Lin took a cocktail prepared by the bartender and put it next to him, seeming not to intend to leave.

"Lin, are you here... to drink?" Ying asked tentatively.

"No." Lin pointed the window towards the stage and said dully, "I just came to see you."

"..."

Sakura didn't know how to continue the conversation. What she was recalling at this moment was the scene that happened in the Spiral Workshop before the seventh collapse.

Her fingers subconsciously placed on her lips.

"Ah... I see." Ying hurriedly interrupted her own wild thoughts. She was a little annoyed at her assumptions about Lin, because they were obviously not appropriate when applied to Lin. It was impossible for him to think that way, nor to do that, as he put human beings first.

It was just an accident anyway, Lin didn't care, and she shouldn't care either.

"cherry."

"exist!"

"..."

Lin stared at the frightened Ying for a long time without saying anything. She reacted like a startled rabbit, which seemed different from her usual behavior.

"Has anything happened to you recently?"

"..."

Sakura's expression froze.

If there is one thing, it is indeed something that she cannot get rid of now.

"Lin, why do you want to undergo super transformation surgery?"

Lin stopped tapping the tabletop with his fingers, and glanced at the stage where the concert was about to begin, which seemed to be still early.

Is this the complexity in her eyes just now?

"Humans had no choice at the time." Lin didn't let Ying wait for long. He gently touched the edge of the cup with his fingers. The ice cubes inside looked sharp, but his fingers couldn't feel the coolness. "Me too."

No one forced him to undergo the super transformation surgery. Even Mebius, who had promised to put him on the operating table, objected at that time. Kevin was the same. As long as he did not participate, no one would force him to undergo the super transformation surgery.

It was they themselves who forced them to lie on the operating table.

"Even if we don't perform the super-transformation surgery, someone else will do it." Lin said in a low voice.

He believed more than anyone that besides him and Kevin, there were countless people who were willing to sacrifice their lives for humanity.

So he couldn't let those people take the risk, nor did he want Kevin to take the risk of being the "first".

"No matter what, more and more people will become fusion warriors. This is just a choice that comes from one's own thoughts, not the opinions of others."

Lin noticed some movement coming from the stage, so he stood up and pushed the wine glass to the dazed Ying's hand.

"Huh?" Sakura looked at him in confusion.

"It's better to drink a little at the dance so as not to look out of place."

Does this mean...he noticed her just now because she was the only one drinking a drink around and therefore she was conspicuous?

"Also, let's schedule our visit to your house for next month. I need to bring someone with me."

Go to her house?

Ying, who hadn't reacted yet, watched Lin walk further and further away. She then looked down at the wine glass in a daze.

The ice blocks that originally had sharp lines seemed to have melted at the edges and become much softer.

……

"Guess who I am~"

Lin was walking forward when his vision window was suddenly covered by someone, and the inside of his helmet fell into complete darkness.

The pink-haired girl smiled wickedly and waited for Lin to speak, but before Lin uttered the first word, she saw a window suddenly open on the back of Lin's helmet and lit up with a blue light.

"…Lin, what is this?"

Lin looked at Alysia expressionlessly from the screen: "A new function added by Weiwei."

"Well... I originally wanted to give you a surprise." Alicia pouted and put down her hand, and Lin turned off the secondary monitor and turned around to face her.

"From what I've seen, you're already at the headquarters. I wouldn't be too surprised if you guessed it."

"Then why don't you pretend to be surprised?"

"..."

Seeing that Lin didn't speak, Alicia smiled softly and tilted her head slightly. Her long hair hung down from behind her exquisitely carved face. She looked Lin up and down: "I just saw it~"

"……what?"

"You danced with Dr. Mebius."

“…Many people saw it.”

"And you and Sakura were there chatting and drinking."

"What's wrong with this?"

When Alicia heard this, her eyes smiled like pointed crescent moons: "Hehe, what about me?"

Lin kicked his hand silently, as if it had nothing to do with him.

"What? If it were me, I would be sad too if I had this attitude, Lin." It seemed that Alicia's tearful look was just an act, and Lin could only sigh.

"What do you want?"

"Don't be reluctant, Lin, why do you look so helpless when you come to me?"

Lin thought for a moment, then spread his hands and replied, "Because we... have the best relationship."

"Hmm?" Alicia was like an ever-changing witch. In the last second she was feeling aggrieved and about to cry, but in the next second she was smiling with satisfaction, with a bright smile blooming on her pretty face.

"We have a good relationship, so I can let it go for a while. Oh~" Alicia's smile seemed to contain countless meanings. "What if I say now, Lin, you hurt my feelings by treating your good friend like this, what should I do?"

"..."

This sentence made Lin not know how to respond for a moment.

It looked like Alicia was smiling particularly happily, and she didn't look sad at all.

"What do you want to... do?" This time, Lin asked uncertainly.

"Let me think about it...Did Dr. Mobius ever tell you not to dance with others?" Alicia said casually, "Given her personality when she was with you, she should have said that, right?"

"Ah."

"That's really hard to deal with." Alicia thought hard for a while, and finally grabbed Lin's hand casually, "Forget it, we are good friends, we don't need those to prove anything, right?"

"..."

"You should at least say something."

"Correct."

"hey-hey."

Ai Lishiya held Lin's hand, smiled and strode forward towards the stage.

At this moment, Lin felt as if he had returned to the dance party after the third collapse.

There weren’t so many people back then, and it wasn’t so noisy. It seemed like two completely different worlds from now.

But the girl who was holding his hand and dancing on the dance floor at that time had not changed at all, as if telling him that Alicia had always been here.

I can still feel the soft touch of my fingers at that time.

Chapter 117 Remember

Eden sat in front of the dressing table, looking at herself in the mirror from the world outside the mirror.

As I mentioned before, she seldom wears makeup. Not only because of her natural beauty, but also because she wants people to pay more attention to her voice and melody when she sings, rather than her appearance.

But today she wore light makeup and her clothes were more gorgeous than before. If in the past she dressed like a low-key artist, today she was an eye-catching star.

To match the atmosphere of the headquarters today? Or is it because her agent said when she was still alive that it would be better if she dressed more carefully?

No one asked her, and only she knew the answer.

In the lonely backstage, there was only her and the faint noise drifting in.

Yes, people are having fun today, leaving all their sorrows behind, forgetting the survival of mankind, the threat of collapse, and the pressure of survival.

To allow forgetting to exist is the privilege of these warriors who have witnessed countless tragedies along the way.

but……

……

"do not move."

Alicia's light sigh made Lin, who was about to pull his hand out of her palm, pause.

Perhaps because she understood Lin's temper, Alicia held his hand very tightly, interlocking their fingers to prevent Lin from having any chance to let go.

Lin had no choice but to let her hold it without getting angry.

"…Are you feeling better today?"

"..."

In fact, there is another reason why Lin sometimes doesn't want to see Alicia.

She was too smart. Not as smart as Mebius and Mei in the field of knowledge, but she seemed to be able to perceive everything. Behind the smiling mask, she had a pair of eyes that could see through everything.

Even if the person himself is confused and unaware of it, Alicia can easily see it.

If it were anyone else, Lin might have thought that they were asking whether Lin was feeling better, but for Alicia, even if he wanted to fool her with perfunctory words, it was impossible.

"You look much better now. I thought you had turned back into the cold Lin, but today I saw that you were getting along so well with Dr. Mobius..." Alicia smiled and lowered her head, "Should I say I'm very happy?"

"..."

"I'm sorry about Xiao Qi. But I don't know how to tell you these past few days."

"…Why are you apologizing?"