I'm not Yingjie

From 23:30 on September 11th to 18:30 on September 18th, a total of 163 hours, Lin needs to find out where the "abnormality" lies.

The moment I heard time falling off a cliff and crashing to the ground—

……

"Snapped--"

The greasy plates shattered on the floor, which was covered with prints of high heels and leather shoes.

"Excuse me."

"fine……"

Lin's gaze shifted from that insignificant episode to Alicia's face, which was full of confusion.

"What's wrong?" Alicia asked, blinking.

"No..." Lin shook his head to get rid of the sense of disobedience, "What did you just say?"

"I said those two kids really want to see you."

Alicia was dissatisfied with his absent-mindedness and snorted, "You are a senior after all. It is our duty to take care of the juniors."

There is no rule in the Fire Moths that seniors must take care of juniors. It is just a convention that seniors train newcomers.

He had already stayed at the dance for too long today. His main purpose was not to attend the dance and socialize, so it seemed unnecessary for him to meet the two newcomers.

and……

There was no need to satisfy Alicia. She had done something out of line today. If he just obeyed her, she would definitely go too far.

"I still have something to do."

So after saying this coldly, Lin turned around and left without hesitation.

"Eh? Eh!"

Alicia, who didn't expect Lin to be so decisive, was left standing there in a daze.

……

Dance party, men and women, lights, red wine...

Lin neither likes nor hates colorful parties. Entering one place with completely different decibels, temperature and atmosphere into another place, one would wonder if one had entered a different world.

After walking out of the room filled with the smell of alcohol and hormones, the air seemed to feel fresher.

Even though he couldn't smell it.

"Oh, isn't this our winner in life, Lin? You left so early. Is there someone waiting for you in the house?"

To be honest, Lin had imagined many possibilities, and someone was waiting for him at the door was one of them, but this person still surprised him a little.

Qiansu.

The hacker girl was wearing her fashionable jacket and hot pants as usual, chewing gum and blowing bubbles in the empty aisle out of boredom. When she saw Lin, she shook her gray hair into a ponytail, raised her eyebrows and showed a malicious smile.

There was almost no communication between Lin and Qiansu. After he and Ying brought her back, they became complete strangers since their positions had nothing in common.

Of course, given the hacker's bad character, it's easy to imagine that she's preparing to take revenge on Lin.

"...Hey, hey, hey, you don't think I'm waiting for you here on purpose, do you?" Qianqi's right cheek puffed up, and she chewed gum happily. She said with dead fish eyes, "Not everyone is as blind as those girls and will like you."

So, this was an accident?

"Yes, it was just an unpleasant accident. I came out to get some fresh air and just happened to bump into you. If possible, I really hope I will never see you again in my life."

Qianqi's lazy look doesn't have the refined temperament of the Fire Moth members at all. Are all hackers like this? Or is she just a special case? Weiwei might be able to chat with her.

"But since we've met, why not chat with me for a while? I'm unfamiliar with the place, and no one would respond if I talked about The Matrix with these people." Qianqi sighed, seeming to be very worried about his interpersonal relationships at the headquarters.

It is indeed a very sad thing, so Lin... eh? Where is Lin?

In the blink of an eye, Lin disappeared. She looked around in confusion, only to see a nimble figure disappearing around a distant corner.

Lin walked steadily towards his room. He had to go to Mobius's laboratory tomorrow, so it would be best to get in good shape today...

The footsteps behind him approached, and Chisu's angry voice sounded: "That damn helmet man! Stop!"

……

"You were the one who caught me in the fire-chasing moth, right? If it weren't for you, I would still be out there, making waves on the Internet. Don't you feel ashamed at all for causing me so much trouble?"

Lin stared expressionlessly at the hacker who was almost as tall as a bean in front of him and kept chattering.

Ashamed? She should have thought she would be caught the moment she hacked into the Fire Moth's internal network. This was all her own fault.

"Instead of apologizing to me, can't you see that I'm just trying to find someone to talk to?" Qianqi put her hands on her hips and looked up at Lin fiercely, looking like she wanted to bite off a piece of her flesh. "Why? You don't bother to care about a girl who doesn't like you?"

"I……"

Lin wanted to explain that they didn't have that kind of relationship with him.

And Qianqi sneered and waited for his explanation.

But Lin opened his mouth but didn't say the last word.

"..."

"Why don't you say anything again?"

"I don't think I need to explain it to you."

They are not familiar with each other.

It can be seen that Qianqi's distorted expression probably means that he wants to tear Lin's mouth that can't spit out ivory.

"I really don't understand what's so good about you. As soon as you enter the dance, women follow you everywhere."

"You said you weren't waiting for me on purpose."

"..."

Qiansu's expression was like "What weird things are you talking about?" She probably didn't understand what the connection was between what she said and what Lin said in response to her.

However, after seeing Lin's silence, Qianqi reacted after a while.

What he meant was that since she wasn't waiting for him, there was no need for him to contact her, and she could just continue waiting for the next person to come out and talk to her.

To put it more bluntly...don't bother me.

"Alright, alright! Can you just think of me as waiting for you?" Qianqi grabbed her hair and yelled at Lin in despair, "You're so weird! Do you usually interact with others like this?"

……

Afterwards, the two went to Qiansu's room. The reason they didn't go to other places or Lin's room was that Qiansu said she didn't want to walk too far and it was too dangerous to go to Lin's room.

She didn't seem to understand that given the enclosed conditions, as long as Lin really had bad intentions, her room would be just as dangerous as Lin's room.

"Please take a seat. Would you like something to eat or drink?"

Qianqi's room was the most unusual one in the headquarters that Lin had ever seen. It was filled with densely packed posters and sticky notes with chaotic fonts crumpled together. Just looking at it made people dizzy.

There are also countless "personal hobbies" of Chisu.

It is simply synonymous with crowded.

"No need." Lin sat in a proper position, with models and dolls placed on both sides, sandwiching him in the middle.

Qianqi threw a piece of gum over and said, "I'm just being polite. I only have gum and Coke."

At this moment, the electronic clock on the bed just passed midnight.

Chapter 126: The Extraordinary Ordinary

"Honestly, I don't want to talk to you about my past. It's so frustrating, so let's skip the heart-to-heart part."

"..."

With this as the opening remark, Lin thought it was time for everyone to go home.

I don’t know if the hacker girl really hates him from the bottom of her heart. She has never said a good word to him since they met.

Of course, no matter how much she hated him, the suffocated Qiansu also wanted to find someone to chat with. After all, in Lin's opinion, there were almost no people in the headquarters who could get along with Qiansu.

He was certainly not one of them.

"Even though I had read your profile before joining, I realized I underestimated you after actually meeting you." Qiansu complained while opening a can of Coke, "You are just a collection of perverts."

"Only a twisted organization can bring all of you together. Do you know how desperate I was when I found out that the patients in this intensive care unit, which is comparable to a mental hospital, were locked up together?"

"I'm a normal person. It's too stressful to be with you guys."

“…You’re lying.”

Lin suddenly exposed her lie.

As early as when he brought her to the 19th Branch, she had already admitted that she was deliberately captured and joined the Fire Moth.

"Lying? No, no, no, you seem to have misunderstood something." Qiansu poured the Coke into her mouth and swallowed a big mouthful. The gas released by the carbonated drink made her burp. "These are two different things. I originally planned to join the Fire Moth, but not in that way. I have already built an identity for myself, ready to sneak in without anyone noticing."

Indeed, Chisu's MSA-999 number was created by herself.

Qianqi spread his hands helplessly and said: "After all, the best way to prevent people from noticing anything unusual is to be 'conspicuously ordinary'."

"Conspicuously ordinary?" It was the first time Lin had heard of this concept.

"When people come into contact with each other, they will automatically label each other. This label is both a person's outstanding part and a person's mediocre part. Once labeled as ordinary, it will be easy to be noticed if you do something a little bit out of the ordinary. So I think giving others a special impression from the beginning is actually a way to hide."

"After I established my identity, I started to interact with the people of Fire Moth, showing everyone the label I was willing to show them, and then blending in without anyone noticing."

"But now I have been labeled as a 'captured intruder'. Any character I want to create will be destroyed under this label. Others will only regard me as a labor camp prisoner who has ill intentions towards Fire Moth."

Does this explain why she's not popular?

At this point, Qianqi was still just complaining. It seemed that she just wanted to find Lin to vent her grievances, and no other meaning could be heard for the time being.

…but that’s only for other people.

"Then what was your reason for wanting to blend into the Fire Moth in the first place?" Lin looked at Chisu who was swishing the Coke in the can out of boredom. "What was your reason for disguising yourself as 'normal'?"

"Um... I want to protect humans?"

“…You are not that kind of person.”

"That's not the way to say it. If you want to deceive others, you have to deceive yourself first. People who don't want to protect humans can't join the Fire Moths, but if I deceive myself that I want to protect humans, can't I join?"

She was changing the subject.

Lin, who had originally planned to deal with it casually, gradually became serious.

Qianqi did not notice the change in Lin's vision in the helmet. He pressed his lips to the opening of the can as if kissing it, enjoying the joy of carbs.

"However, unlike you guys who value rationality, I value emotion more. But I am looking forward to seeing what choice you will make when your rationality and emotion are put on the scale for comparison."

"If someone could put aside their rationality for me, I would definitely be moved to tears."

"After all...humans are better at deceiving themselves than others."

Not knowing what kind of emotion Qianqi was harboring, she gave a smile that Lin couldn't understand.

……

Qiansu.

When investigating a person, Lin often starts with her name. This name, which is full of Far Eastern flavor, has determined her birthplace.

There is also the possibility of a pseudonym. People's mouths are not restricted and they must speak the truth. It is always right to be careful of a cunning and treacherous hacker. The possibility of a pseudonym cannot be ruled out.

The reason why he had only started investigating Qiansu from the beginning was because of a series of special circumstances tonight.

"..."

Lin couldn't describe the feeling. His entire perception was like a stuck DVD player, making him involuntarily start to pay attention to everything abnormal around him.

It was as if someone was whispering in his ear, urging him to do something.

Since Qianqi is the person Mei decided to recruit, Mei should have investigated Qianqi's background a long time ago, but even Mei may make mistakes.

In the dark database, Lin inserted his ID card into the card reader. After scanning his fingerprint and pupil, he entered the world's largest and most comprehensive knowledge base. With his authority, he currently cannot view information above the captain level, but it is more than enough to investigate a hacker.

His fingers, leaving afterimages, moved on the touch screen, and he became more and more adept at adapting to his body. He believed that it would not be long before he would be able to return to normal.

He scanned the dazzling array of countless documents, his pupils focusing quickly on the parts he wanted like a camera lens. The documents on MSA-999 and "Unnamed Hacker" were opened and enlarged, appearing before his eyes.

However, what Lin, who was mentally prepared, did not expect was that Qianqi's information was very complete.