I'm not Yingjie

"Yes."

After Prometheus responded, all the indicator lights on the gate of area A-3 turned red, and a barrier wall fell from above, blocking the way of the Honkai beast.

"howl--"

Seeing that their way was blocked, the Honkai beasts angrily looked for the prey they could see - the two short humans.

Then, all the Honkai beasts rushed towards the unarmed Lin and Ritt.

"You...are really crazy."

"I'm not crazy." Lin put Ritt down and let him lean back. He then stood forward and blocked him. "You too, all humans are like this."

"..."

Ritt stared at the back of the boy who was about the same age as his daughter, with his hands dropping.

……

"You're still here, Herrscher. That's amazing."

"Oh? Can I still be kicked out?"

If we were to say which hero Mei least wants to meet, Qianjie would probably be firmly ranked first, with the most violent temper, the worst attitude, and... the worst language.

The white-haired masked man sat at the conference table, his hands crossed, staring at her like a devil.

Mei really doubted whether some habits of the previous civilization were different from those of the present. For example, the conference table was not actually used to place things or hold meetings, but was a kind of utensil similar to a chair. In her impression, Mobius and Qianjie often used this table as a bed or chair, and Mobius even lay directly on it.

I hope it's just to highlight their overly prominent personalities.

“Hahaha… drive you out? I’m afraid you don’t have the ability to leave before being killed.” Qianjie laughed wantonly and raised his head with interest. “But I am indeed curious, why Lin didn’t just get rid of you ‘there’.”

Mei challenged calmly, "It seems that he has no way to get rid of me."

After all, the paradise of the past is just a device for carrying memories, and Mei has not actually died here.

But there have been exceptions, and some of them were due to the white-haired, grumpy man in front of him.

"Oh? So you fought him?" Qianjie asked sarcastically. "With a defective product? Hahahaha..."

“Humph, Qianjie, you are so confident in your own strength, but you actually also respect Lin?”

Lin's special status is fully reflected among the several heroes who have appeared. He is not one of the thirteen heroes, but he is closely related to the heroes. The friendship between Kevin and Hua; the subtle feelings between Alicia and Mobius; the respect between Su and Eden; Sakura's inexplicable guilt... Even Qianjie shows an emotion similar to that towards Kevin towards Lin, an ordinary person who is not a fusion warrior.

In addition to the "core" seen in the paradise, "Lin" who holds the Black Abyss and White Flower and can use abilities similar to those of the Herrscher of Reason, Mei is even more curious about Lin's identity and past. She has begun to wonder whether the secret of the paradise is related to Lin.

"You don't have to provoke me, Herrscher. I know Lin's strength better than you do." Qianjie snorted coldly, "If his super transformation surgery is successful, Kevin may not be his opponent... No, even if it's just a failure, it may be better."

Mei had already learned from Alicia that Lin's super transformation surgery had failed, but why did Qianjie say that failure was better? And this tone... Could it be that it wasn't just a failure at that time?

"What happened?"

"Are you a fly? Flying around all day, buzzing, and then asking questions to anyone you catch?"

“…You spoke to me yourself.”

Qianjie sneered and said, "Yeah. So now, I feel annoyed, can you go away?"

"What if I say no?" Tiny lightning began to jump on the tips of Mei's hair.

"Then it's not Lin's turn. I'll deal with you first!"

The auras were tit-for-tat and ready to explode, with heat and lightning bursting out in the small space.

"Thousands of calamities."

Lin stood behind Qianjie at some point and read out his name coldly, which stunned Qianjie for a moment.

Of course, he is Qianjie: "Oh? Lin? Aren't you always fiddling with your useless information in Paradise?"

"That's exactly what I came for."

Lin walked up to Mei and extended his hand.

"Where's the information from last time?"

"……it's here."

Mei handed over the information while observing Qianjie's reaction with her peripheral vision.

How to put it, although Qianjie's tone was not inferior to Lin's, he had no complaints about Lin's behavior, not even a hum, giving Meiyi the illusion that a mother could calm a irritable child by calling her son's full name.

Sure enough, it is a subtle relationship.

Lin weighed the information, then opened it and briefly read the text after Ying's translation, then nodded: "Okay, ask whatever you want to ask."

"What happened to your super transformation surgery?"

"you do not need to know."

"Didn't you let me ask anything?"

"I didn't say I would answer casually."

"..."

Mei thought for a while, then asked, "What happened between you and Sakura?"

This sentence made Qianjie look over as well.

“…Poisonous pupa.”

"what?"

"That's all I can say. Ask Sakura for the rest."

Mei just watched Lin take the things and leave, and only then did she react.

Does this count as getting something for nothing?

Chapter 63 Turing

He had no weapon in his hands, was not wearing any armor in order to infiltrate, and his body had not fully recovered.

On the opposite side were twelve special Honkai beasts with no recorded information. Each of them was on the same level as the ones Lin had encountered before. Although there were no large-sized Honkai beasts, it was almost impossible to win...

"Lin, what should we do?"

This was the first time Prometheus had asked Lin directly, hoping to get a specific plan from him, because no matter how she calculated with her advanced intelligence, his only outcome would be death.

Now he couldn't even pass on the message to the outside, as he had blocked the way out himself, and he wouldn't just run away without caring about the others in the abyss.

Dead end.

Prometheus' own data can be stored and backed up, and the chance of being destroyed is very small, but when she calculated that Lin was destined to die, she didn't know why she asked this question.

Just seeing that Lin ended up with nothing left in her graphic calculation, she forcibly turned off the graphic calculation.

"Can the door still be opened?" Lin tried to keep as much distance between himself and Ritt as possible to avoid being hit by stray bullets when the Honkai beasts attacked. After seeing all the Honkai beasts left the door, he asked Prometheus.

"There is a sixty second lockout period after a forced closure."

Sixty seconds.

Before Lin could figure out a way to break the impasse, two azure-colored assault-level Honkai beasts suddenly accelerated, spinning and charging in mid-air, transforming into two streams of light and attacking suddenly.

You can't confront it head-on.

The human body cannot compete with the body of a Honkai beast. It is just like even if Lin's nerve reaction can allow him to see the trajectory of a bullet, it does not mean that he can avoid it during its flight. To avoid a bullet, one must ultimately rely on the judgment of the gun and the shooter.

Lin stepped sideways, and this small movement avoided two blue drills. He turned around and kicked the torso of the Honkai beast that had stopped spinning.

"Snapped!"

The body and weight of the Assault-level Honkai Beast were the lightest of the bunch, and Lin kicked it away easily. There was still one left, and before Lin could kick, another bright red Knight-level Honkai Beast attacked from behind. The flame from the tip of the gun reflected on the helmet, emitting a shadow of death.

Without thinking, Lin reached out and grabbed the wings of the remaining Assault-level Honkai Beast and jumped up, then threw the Honkai Beast out, just hitting the tip of the spear of the Knight-level Honkai Beast, and its core was pierced.

"Gah-"

Lin Luo was on the back of the centaur of the Knight-level Honkai Beast. At this time, Prometheus' urgent alarm sounded -

"Miniature Honkai beasts are approaching."

Miniaturization?

Lin suddenly felt a pain in his side, blood oozing out from his waist, and he fell off the Honkai beast. He found the culprit based on the data from the helmet. The Honkai beast, which was as big as a fly, was licking his blood and rushing towards him again.

An ultra-compact Dash-class?

The knight-level Honkai beast turned around, raised its front hooves, and prepared to trample Lin's body.

Lin pushed with both hands to avoid being trampled by the knight-level Honkai beast, then stretched out his hands to welcome the small charging-level Honkai beast.

"boom!"

Ritter felt the whole ground shaking. He bit his lip, crawled towards the host, and pressed the emergency contact button.

There was no response.

Logically speaking, at the moment of containment failure, an alarm would be sounded in the Deepest Place, and guards would be dispatched to suppress it. Even if they could not stop the first wave of attacks, they could prevent the number of victims from increasing.

But now, the alarm did not sound, and even the emergency contact was ineffective. The A-3 area became an isolated island.

Ritt felt that his heart had been frozen into a small piece of ice, and a chill froze him from the inside out.

From the moment he agreed to Lin, he was treated as a pawn, and he never noticed that there was a surveillance camera on him from beginning to end.

Clothes? Or a meal? None of that mattered. What mattered was that the man who had given him the order to attack the Fifth Branch had now pressed the button to kill his compatriots, just like he had done before.

"Is this... retribution? Hahaha..." He fell to the ground helplessly, looked at the ceiling and laughed sadly, "Sure enough, this world is fair."

At the end of this short life, what Ritt thought about was not his seriously ill daughter, but the scene he saw when he infiltrated the Fifth Branch.

In that mechanical and orderly Fire Moth branch, there is a white-haired little girl who treats this place as an ordinary amusement park, running, playing and fighting in it.

She didn't understand what the liquids in those raised transparent containers meant, nor did she understand what kind of experiments the researchers walking around were doing for humans.

But her childlike innocence infected everyone, and those who put their lives in danger for the sake of humanity stopped their busy hands to play with her.

And the birth of children is the greatest kindness in the world.

These are the most emotional words that the most rational people can say.

After seeing that scene, Ritt stood in front of the door of destruction with his head down, too far away from the dazzling light.

In the end, with a casual press of the button, the photo of the family of three disappeared in the flames.

Ending up like this is really... not unexpected.

A knight-level Honkai beast came in front of him, its scarlet eyes emitting ruthlessness, and its lance raised high.

Ritter maintained a self-deprecating smile, trying to face the death of his own miserable life calmly.

But when the cold tip of the gun stabbed him, he still collapsed.

He doesn't want to die.

"You can't even die gracefully at the end."

Ritt put his hands in front of him, his face distorted with fear. The only cool thing he could do was to shout and mock his own weakness.

"bass--"

"You think too much. This is not retribution, but an arrangement made by someone behind the screen."

A drop of blood fell on Ritter's cheek.

Lin held Ritt's collar with one hand and ran towards the gate with the other hand, panting heavily, on his shoulder which was cut in order to save Ritt. While Ritt was waiting to die, he killed three more Honkai beasts, and the rest could not be killed with his bare hands.

There are still nine seconds left before the door is opened. Lin is really familiar with the countdown. Almost every time he is in danger, there is always a countdown related to his life hanging above his head.

"You created a father who lost his wife and daughter, and a daughter who lost her parents, cough..."

Lin coughed up blood. The high-energy environment caused his physical condition to deteriorate rapidly. He spoke weakly to Ritt behind him.

"Were you able to stop the destructive behavior at that moment? Did you have any compassion? Did you think of another possibility?"

"And now, the person hiding behind the screen is doing the same thing as you. So, tell me now, is that person the so-called retribution?"

"Finally...if you can't die bravely, then live on and accept your true 'retribution'."

Ritt stared blankly at Lin, who was bleeding profusely, and he spoke those incredible words calmly.

The door slowly opened in front of him, and Lin rushed out, but at this moment two tentacles emerged from behind him and entangled his heels.