I'm not Yingjie

...Perhaps, it was not a stone that was thrown, but a bomb.

The girl adjusted her top hat and cast a lazy gaze at the pink-haired girl standing at the door, looking at the mechanical creations in the room with great interest... and the helmeted head beside her.

"Alicia, long time no see. And Mr. Lin, nice to meet you. Welcome to the Spiral Workshop." She closed the book, put it aside, and politely made a gesture of invitation to the two seats in front of her.

Lin didn't move his feet. He stood at the door and looked at the girl who, according to Alicia, was the director of the engineering department, and the dazzling number of tools and finished machines in the room.

It has been a while since she took office as the Minister of Engineering, but Lin has never met her. The only time they met was when Alicia asked her to renovate the second gym.

To be honest, it is a bit inappropriate to call it a workshop. What Lin can see are overwhelming works of completely unknown use. The names of the works are marked with simple stickers, such as writing "Texas Chainsaw No. 3" on a lipstick, which is an ambiguous name. Compared with the orderly assembly line production and professional design of the R&D department, this place is more like a private corner for self-entertainment.

Finally, Lin looked at the most out-of-place thing in this room.

The girl chuckled and raised the poetry collection in her hand: "Are you interested? It's a collection of poems that records some unpopular poets in the Middle Ages. There are many interesting poems in it, at least to me."

"...The poem just now was written by Goethe, so it's not unpopular."

"The phrase 'I love you, it's none of your business' first came from Goethe's work, so the poem 'I love you, it's none of your business' is also generally believed to be written by him, but in fact, the author is a female poet." The girl's fingers brushed the edge of the poetry collection, staring at Lin with interest, "Compared to poetry, I'm more interested in the poet's life. Her legendary experiences in love and revolution may be more widely circulated. It is recorded that the reason her second husband separated from her was that he could not tolerate having only one wife..."

She tapped the cover of the book. "It's a pretty interesting life, isn't it?"

"..."

"I seem to be a little too involved. Please take a seat first, both of you."

"Well, is it the 'great' writer Velvet today?" Alicia sat down with a smile on her face.

"It should be called...'great' artist." Weiwei smiled.

Lin walked to stand next to Alicia, standing like a pine tree. He had no intention of sitting down, but Alicia pulled him to the seat and sat down.

"It's exactly as written, personality." Wei Wei noticed the little movements of the two, and couldn't tell whether it was a joke or something else. "Colorful white? Colorful black? It's a bit hard to describe. If there is someone who knows more about colors than me, he should know how to describe you."

“Why does it have to be color?”

"Who knows? I don't know what I'm thinking either."

Wei Erwei's way of speaking is different from everyone else Lin knows. She seems to be kind and polite to others, but her words are inconsistent, full of leaps and turns, and her style is like a fine line between genius and madness.

Lin was about to start a formal conversation when Wei Wei's eyes lit up and she stared at Lin's power armor and exclaimed, "Oh, your equipment is more advanced than the last design, but it still doesn't have my favorite heat exhaust fan design. It can obviously reduce the load on the armor and dissipate heat for the wearer. Delta is really old-fashioned."

Wouldn’t the exhaust heat really roast the wearer?

“…Come to think of it, you gave him some design suggestions.”

For example, she participated in the design of the phase transmission device that almost caused Lin to die suddenly in the human headquarters. She should be called a genius mechanical engineer.

Wei Wei counted on her fingers: "Phase transmission device, miniaturized Titan energy, information integration system, equipment backpack... Which one are you talking about?"

"..."

Unexpectedly, she was involved in so many equipments. Lin has begun to worry about the stability of subsequent equipments. She hopes that Titan will not add functions such as increasing the indoor temperature according to the driver's emotional value to achieve the effect of ignition.

"I'm here this time because I want to ask you for a favor." Lin got the topic back on track. If he continued to talk about it, it might involve some topics that would cause Delta and him to have a cerebral hemorrhage.

"Okay, let's talk about equipment modification or poetry. Today's poetry discussion is limited to today, tomorrow's project is cooking, the day after tomorrow is mysticism, and the day after tomorrow is magic... By the way, magic can actually be done at any time, but I prefer performing magic to exchanging techniques."

Lin waited until she finished speaking before he spoke: "The deepest place."

"Oh? My new work, interesting." Wei Weiwei was not surprised. "To be honest, I am not very satisfied with it. After all, most of the designs inside are not in accordance with my wishes..."

"I'm not here to discuss technical issues with you." Lin felt that it was necessary to stop Wei Wei from frequently going off the rails, which was very similar to Delta. "I want to know how to get there."

"how to get to?"

Wei Wei narrowed her eyes and stared at Lin with her special colored pupils: "Why do you want to go there?"

"I need to verify something without the Fire Moth being able to find out, and I need your help."

"'Neither the wise nor the foolish are harmful, but the most dangerous are those who are half wise and half foolish.'" Wei Wei nodded, "Instead of following the rules without knowing why, it is better to seek the truth yourself. This is different from what is written in the book."

"What book?" She had mentioned "book" twice. Lin raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Here."

A hardcover edition of "One Hundred Questions about the Silent Helmet" was placed on the table.

Lin glanced at Alicia, who was whistling nonchalantly, pretending not to see anything.

"Although the Deep Place was built by me, the management rights are not in my hands, so even I cannot let you go there openly."

Lin retorted: "But you are the builder, so you probably left a secret door in there."

"You are right about that. I usually leave backdoors in my works."

Weiwei crossed her arms, looked towards Lin's viewing window, and locked eyes with him.

The headlights above my head suddenly went out, and my colorful pupils lit up in the darkness.

"But what conditions can you offer to convince me to help you?"

……

Lin left through the so-called "back door", and Alicia walked to the switch and turned on the light, making the room bright again.

"Is turning off the light also one of your little magic tricks?" Alicia looked up at the light bulb.

"The switch is in my hand." Wei Wei showed the small switch hidden in her sleeve and said with a smug smile, "Don't you think it's oppressive to use glowing contact lenses after turning off the lights? It's like the villains in some works."

"I didn't expect you to agree to Lin so easily. It was a little beyond my expectation."

"Agree? No, no, no, I didn't agree. It's just that he found out by himself. It has nothing to do with me."

Wei Erwei cleared her throat, regained her poetic elegance, looked at the direction where Lin left, and sighed softly:

“You will not end, this is your greatness;”

"You have no beginning, this is your fate."

"Your songs revolve like the starry sky, with the beginning and the end radiating the same brilliance."

Chapter 52: The Hated Fox

Lin stuffed a small piece of paper in his hand into the activity unit, injected the medicine given by Mebius into his neck, and after injecting it in one breath, he walked towards his room. He needed to organize his equipment to face the next problem.

Looking from afar, a man was leaning against the door panel. He turned around when he heard the sound of Lin's footsteps.

The bright red hair is the unique vitality of the Fire Moth, fluttering like a bright firework under the blurry reflection of the matte metal wall.

Himiko had been waiting in front of Lin's room for a long time.

Lin's pace slowed down, then quickened a little and walked to the side of Himiko.

"The soul is in bad condition and has suffered a mental shock. It may take a long time to recover." Himiko handed the case report to Lin.

Lin opened the report with Hun's number written on it, and some eye-catching words in it made him purse his lips.

"Lin, what did you see at that time? Why was there such a notice?"

"…Just as it was written in the notice, I was carrying out another mission at the time, which happened to be the time when the attack occurred." Lin handed the report back, "I have another mission to carry out soon, please take good care of Hun."

Himiko stared at Lin with gloomy eyes: "At this time? Mission? Are you sure?"

"……Correct."

"Lin, Soul needs you." Himiko tightened her coat. She felt her body was very cold, or perhaps something else was even colder. "She has already lost her parents. You are her last resort."

"And you, Captain... Himiko."

"You mean something different to her. You're the only one who can cheer her up by staying with her now."

When Lin saw Himiko's sincere expression, he realized that he had unknowingly become a support for others.

The area on the back that was eroded by the collapse energy was aching slightly.

Lin unconsciously looked away, even though Himiko couldn't see what was inside his helmet, he still did so subconsciously.

"I will." Before Himiko could breathe a sigh of relief, he added, "After this mission is over."

Himiko clenched her fists: "What exactly is the mission?"

"Private mission."

"..."

Lin walked around Himiko and into the room. He felt like he was escaping.

He was in the room, took off his helmet and looked at the photo on the table.

The girl's bright smile beside him was frozen in the distant past.

……

"Cemetery, laboratory, sacrificial site..." Mei had a rare moment of free time to sort out the information she had obtained. She manipulated tiny electric currents to draw some patterns in the air that she remembered.

Lin's cemetery, Mobius's laboratory, Qianjie's sacrificial site... So far, Mei has seen some special spaces in the paradise that were formed by the memories of the heroes... To be more precise, these are special spaces made up of the memories of Lin and the heroes. These are all their overly strong memories that make some originally abstract scenes concrete.

This confirms what Alicia said about the impact on Paradise, which also includes changes in the types of monsters and space.

Besides this, are there any other ways to influence the paradise?

The more she explores this wonder left behind by a former civilization, the more she is surrounded by mysteries.

"Maybe I can ask Alysia... No, what about Kevin?... No way either... Lin? Forget it."

Several candidates flashed through her mind. There were also people among Yingjie who didn't know much about Paradise itself. Based on her impression alone, Mei thought that these three people were the ones who knew Paradise the best. However, the way the three people communicated was quite confusing to her. Recently, even Lin began to respond to her with silence and light signals.

Mei didn't understand. Was it really that hard to talk properly? Why did everyone want her to guess riddles?

"Mei, what happened?"

A voice that was neither gentle nor sharp interrupted Mei's recollection, and a touch of cherry pink and a pair of long ears appeared in front of Mei.

"Ying, are you here?" Mei had a good impression of this girl whose childhood experience in the previous civilization was similar to hers, but the way she said it also made her confused. "No, nothing. I was thinking about how to ask those three people."

"Three people?" Ying looked puzzled.

"Alixia, Kevin, and Lin, they seem to have a deeper understanding of the Land of Prosperity. I have some questions for them."

"Dr. Mebius is the owner of Paradise, why don't you ask her?"

"Her?" Mei had actually known about this for a long time, but she subconsciously excluded Mebius. "It's no use asking."

"Then...where is Alicia?"

"I don't think it's reliable."

"Kevin?"

"He won't say anything."

Ying shook her head, "Maybe you'll need to find the answer yourself. There's a limit to what I can help you with in non-combat situations."

Meiyi said "Hmm?" and raised her head in confusion: "Why did you leave Lin behind?"

"Lin..." Facing Mei's question, Sakura's eyes dodged, "That's right, you can ask Lin, if he thinks he can say it, he will."

Mei saw Sakura's unusual behavior and suddenly had a strange premonition: "Come to think of it, Sakura has never appeared with Lin. Only you and Mobius will not appear when Lin is present. And every time before Lin comes, you will coincidentally leave. Are you... hiding from him?"

"…Nothing, just some things from the past." Seeing that she was exposed, Ying no longer looked at him in a daze. "Lin must hate me very much, so in order to prevent some verbal conflicts between us, I will try not to meet him."

"Lin also had an argument with someone? Do you mind telling me about it?" Mei smelled some clues and asked Sakura without hesitation.

"..." Mei's straightforward question was somewhat unexpected by Sakura. She pinched the scabbard hesitantly and sighed, "Mei, you already know the nature of the work and the composition of the poison pupa."

"The Fire Moths are a non-staff team that mainly does shady work. As far as I know, you and Qianjie were both members of the Poison Pupa."

"That's right, but that was after the Poison Pupa was reorganized. Before the Poison Pupa was reorganized, all the missions it carried out were aimed at humans."

"Killer?"

"You could say that. I was also a member of the first generation of the Poison Pupa. What I did at that time was mostly...life-depriving things."

"I think I understand why you said Lin hates you."

Although Mei still doesn't believe in Lin, in the eyes of many people, Lin is a fighter who fights for humanity, and his open performance shows that he cares more about humanity than most heroes.

To make an analogy, he is like a doting father who can tolerate whatever mistakes his children make and continue to protect them without wavering.

What Sakura did was completely different from what Mobius did. She was really acting for the purpose of killing humans, so she was almost on the opposite side of Lin.

"But that's not entirely true. In fact, before I carried out that mission, an incident involving Lin happened to the Poison Pupa."

"The Fifth Branch Incident."