I'm not Yingjie

Kevin lowered his head and walked from behind Lin to his side, looking so gloomy that he didn't seem like the cheerful boy he used to be.

Lin didn't need to look at his expression to know that his face was full of confusion and pain.

"The operation is over." He said hoarsely.

"……The results of it?"

"Dr. Spasi's entire left forearm was removed and he is no longer in danger of death."

"What about silk weaving?"

Kevin didn't reply.

Again.

Lin heard the sighs of the dead people standing behind him.

Kevin leaned against the dirty wall, holding his chest and gasping for breath. The heavy sense of guilt seemed to crush him. He looked at the silent Lin and murmured, "Lin, have you been through this many times?"

"Is this your first time?"

"I..." Kevin put his hands in front of his eyes. His black gloves were covered in blood. The scene of Lin shooting Karen kept replaying in front of his eyes, making his stomach churn and want to vomit.

It was supposed to be him who did it, but Lin got there first.

Just like before, in order to protect him who knew nothing, Lin left resolutely.

He raised his head and looked up at the ceiling: "Lin, is it really right to give up some people in order to save more people?"

"No, that's wrong." Lin answered decisively.

He turned his head and faced the confused Kevin with his cold helmet: "Kevin, if you can save all human beings by shooting Mei, will you do it?"

"I……"

Kevin's confusion receded in an instant, but what followed was his fear of his own answer, which did not even show any hesitation.

“There are differences between a few and a few, not to mention that there are also situations where ‘one’ is greater than ‘all’. Putting people on the scale to measure is a false proposition with no answer from the beginning.”

"I would shoot, just because at that point in time we had no choice."

Even if he didn't shoot, what would happen? Just watch Karen attack them?

“Don’t define the value of sacrifice, otherwise from the very beginning, you have already treated human beings as objects.”

"And no matter how much the items are lost, it won't make people feel sad."

……

Kevin returned to the rooftop. What Lin said to him might not dispel the confusion in his heart, but Lin believed that he would find his reason to fight by Mei's side.

Lin envied those who could protect the majority for the sake of the minority. The greatness of humanity was fully displayed in them. Their spirit would lead humanity forward and become the shining "heroes".

What Lin said to Kevin had already become an unattainable luxury when he chose to shoot again and again. He was the wrong person who made the "right choice" for everyone.

He suddenly put his hands over his chest.

"Cough cough..."

Lin loosened the collar of his helmet and spat out the blood in his mouth.

[Lin, your body has not fully recovered. Using burst mode will increase the burden on your body. I will lock your armor function until you recover.]

In order to break through from the outside and return to the fifth branch, Lin used the newly installed power armor burst mode halfway. The increase in output caused his body to overload. Fortunately, he only used it to hurry on his way and the usage time was short, otherwise it would not be as simple as vomiting blood.

"I transferred the authority to you. You can't lock my armor." Lin wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said lightly.

"Yes, but I ask you not to use the burst mode again." Prometheus' voice always appears so suddenly.

Lin did not respond, but simply added: "Someone has to do it."

He turned around and faced Soul, who was standing there in a daze.

Chapter 48 Nothing

"Are you ok?"

Lin rarely expressed his concern.

He actually had no similar experience, and perhaps he should have said something more gentle, but the moment tears welled up in Hun's red eyes, it proved that he was worrying too much.

The soul hugged Lin, buried its head and cried for a long time.

Lin did not push her away this time. He patted her back gently, allowing her to vent her sorrow.

The heart-wrenching cries echoed in the empty building.

……

The support from the third branch arrived on time. They got off the transport plane wearing protective suits, first carried the wounded onto the transport plane, and then went down in groups of three to clean up the wreckage of the fifth branch.

Corresponding personnel have also implemented a blockade under the building, and the news has begun to report on this "gas pipeline explosion" accident. It won't be long before public opinion on this incident disappears.

"There are a total of fourteen survivors in the fifth branch, all of whom have been eroded by Honkai energy to varying degrees. The lost data and research are still being counted, and it is estimated that not much can be preserved." Mei took off her surgical gloves and mask, stood next to Lin and talked to him in a low voice.

Lin looked at the stagnant soul. She knelt beside the bodies of her parents. It was as if all the vitality had been sucked out of her body. He closed his eyes and asked, "Any plans?"

“…How will this incident be explained?”

"Attack."

"Then go back to headquarters."

"The headquarters isn't completely safe either."

"But at least I won't be 'attacked'."

There will be no indiscriminate attacks like the Fifth Branch at the headquarters. At most, there will be personal assassinations against Mei. And under the checks and balances among the top leaders of the headquarters, there will not be no traces left like this time. By then, Mei will start to fight back.

"What on earth did you and Mobius do?" Lin knew that all the reasons were due to the plan that Mobius had mentioned. She was hinting in every aspect that Lin Mei was of the same kind as her, and would make humans no longer human for the sake of humans.

"The birth of the Herrscher is the result of Honkai energy condensing into the Herrscher core in the human body, which has a strong adaptability to Honkai energy, allowing humans to possess powers like natural disasters. This shows that Honkai energy itself will allow humans to gain some additional abilities, but the strength of its adaptability determines whether it will cause it to collapse or strengthen."

"You are already at the pinnacle of what humans can achieve. If you can use Honkai energy like the Herrscher, then it is entirely possible for you to rival the Herrscher in combat power."

Mebius also said this, and the focus of this theory is not the result but the process.

Lin called up the previous mission briefing, trying to find some clues between the lines, and asked: "What should we do? Use the Herrscher Core?"

"After obtaining the Herrscher Core, the First to Third Herrschers all showed signs of their personalities being contaminated or new personalities appearing to replace their original personalities. Therefore, using the Herrscher Core will only create new Herrschers. I plan to make them into weapons to fight the Honkai."

arms……

The Herrscher Core undoubtedly contains the power that the Herrscher possesses. If one wants to fully reproduce the power of the Herrscher, it is not enough to just make weapons out of it, but there is no doubt that this is the best way for humans to utilize the Core.

"But I have also considered what you said about directly using the Herrscher Core."

"..." Lin was not surprised by this. Mei always had radical and bold ideas, which were two extremes from her calm appearance.

Mei did not continue, but returned to the previous topic: "The Herrscher Core cannot be used, so we set our sights on the superior Houkai beasts that have equal strength but no power. They are all composed of pure Houkai energy and are very malleable."

"Integrating Honkai beasts into human bodies, this is our plan."

In all of Mei's sentences, she refers to herself as "we". Does she mean she and Mebius, or does it mean that more people have actually joined this project?

This plan is undoubtedly crazy and terrifying. Not to mention that the Fire Moth itself is fighting against Honkai, combining humans and Honkai beasts will cause opposition from some fundamentalists. In order to achieve the goals of the plan, how many people will Mei and others let go of the operating table and become unable to get off, or turn into monsters?

"...When did you start to have this idea?" Lin stared at the calm Mei deeply, and she calmly smoothed her long hair that was blown by the wind.

"The first second I saw the Herrscher's body."

That's why the top executives who originally invited Mei to join the Fire Moth split into two factions in such a short time.

"Lin, would you kill someone?" Mei suddenly asked an inappropriate question, but Lin could hear her intention from her tone.

After all, the Fifth Branch was implicated by her, and Mei could not guarantee that similar things would not happen again before she gained the final say.

How to become emperor? It's simple, just kill the current emperor.

Lin caught a glimpse of a man standing up and whispering, "Judgement of humans is not my job."

"Then let's choose someone else."

"Ah."

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah----"

"Oh!"

A fist hit Lin's helmet, and there was a crisp sound of broken finger bones. Lin, who had no strength to use, was knocked to the ground by this punch. He looked through the video window at the crazy Spasi who, regardless of his broken right hand, rode on him, raised his right hand and roared and hit Lin.

One punch, and another.

Spasi's fist couldn't leave any marks on Lin's armor and helmet, but he still raised his left hand without forearm and his broken right hand with bloodshot eyes and distorted face to sprinkle blood on Lin's body.

"It's you! It's you who killed Karen! It's you!" The words that came out of his mouth were already unclear. He bit his lips and the blood vessels on his face were as thick as chopsticks.

Like a wild beast, it was biting Lin madly.

Kevin, who was far away, saw this and rushed forward to stop it: "Dr. Spasi! Stop!"

"Get out of my way! You monster! You murderer!" Spasi found the strength to push Kevin away. He bumped into Lin head-on. Blood flowed from his forehead to his helmet. His eyes were red with anger. "You are a bloodless and tearless killing machine!"

"Do you think you've done another good thing for humanity? Pah!"

A mouthful of bloody saliva was spat on the viewing window.

"You are just executing the program set in your mind! You are a monster more cold-blooded than AI!"

"You have no parents! You have no lover! You have no children! You are planning to abandon even your friends! You have nothing, and you have nothing to lose, so you have no human emotions!"

"Did you hear that? You have nothing!"

Lin gradually relaxed the muscles in his hands and feet, and the information panel in the helmet disappeared, leaving only darkness and Spasi's screams.

The devastated Spasi grabbed the pistol from Lin's holster, pulled it out and pointed it at Lin's head.

"Doc! Stop!" Kevin's eyes widened and he rushed forward.

"Captain Lin!" Hun turned around and saw this scene.

Lin closed his eyes and waited for the gunshot.

"Oh!"

Chapter 49 We are friends

The transport plane was still as stable as when it arrived, but the atmosphere was completely different from the day before, as dead silent as a morgue.

After venting her anger, Hun got on the transport plane and fell asleep on Lin's thighs with tears still on her face. She experienced reunion and separation from her family in just one day, which was not something that someone of her age and experience could bear.

Kevin didn't say anything this time. He looked worriedly at Lin, who had not made any movement since he got on the transport plane.

"I am fine."

Lin shook his head calmly at Kevin.

He looked extremely miserable with blood all over his body, but in fact not a drop of blood was his own. Spasi's attack was at most to polish his outer armor.

But Kevin was clearly planning on asking something else.

"Did you know that Dr. Spasey would miss the target?"

At the last moment, Spasi fired without any hesitation. The overflowing hatred was terrifying, but the shot did not hit Lin. Then Spasi fainted again and was taken to the headquarters for treatment on a transport plane.

No matter how strong Lin's helmet was, it could not block the specialized bullets. If it had not deflected, there would have been one more body to clean up.

"The doctor's right hand finger bones were fractured, he had no left hand, and his mental state was unstable, so it was impossible for him to hit the target." This was Lin's explanation.

"Why don't you resist? Or do you really intend to pay..."

"The Doctor has lost too much, so it's normal for him to point the finger at me. You don't need to care."

But it's not your fault.

Kevin wanted to say that, but was stopped by Mei beside him, and she shook her head gently.

Lin doesn't care about these.

……

"Welcome back, long time no see... Although I wanted to say this, you came and left too quickly."

On the deck, the pink-haired girl, holding the hem of her skirt that was blown away by the transport plane, welcomed the exhausted-looking crowd.