I'm not Yingjie

It was as if we were back to the time when Hun had just joined the team, fragile and breakable, just like the label attached to this girl.

"Team Leader Lin, you are always able to accept these things calmly." Hun laughed at himself, "Even though you came to take care of me today, I still can't cheer up."

"…Humans are not able to heal their wounds immediately after understanding the truth."

"..."

Hun tilted his head and his hair swept across his face.

“Some people just look like they’ve accepted it, hiding everything under the surface, like the director of the R&D department.” Lin stopped at the entrance of the amusement park and took out the cash from his pocket.

"What about you? Captain Lin, have you ever had that experience?"

"Yes." Lin replied, "But..."

He said to Hun calmly: "If you don't want the same tragedy to repeat itself like a Möbius strip, then go and fight."

"Fighting..." A flash of light slid into Hun's eyes, and she clenched her fists, "I know."

"Also, if you can't let go of the past, then look around you and stop losing."

"Yeah……"

Lin walked to the ticket window and handed in the cash: "Two tickets."

"Eh? Captain Lin?" Hun stretched out her hand and opened her mouth to speak. She looked at Lin who came back with two tickets and handed one of them to her.

"I have today off, don't I?"

Lin pushed his sunglasses up calmly.

Chapter 72 What is Satisfaction?

"Hey, Mei."

The hooded woman with red eyes waved to Mei with a bright smile.

"Raven? Why are you here?" Mei walked up to her. "Did you finally die in the line of duty? Is this your memory?"

"Please, how could I die for the World Serpent? And what does 'finally' mean? Did you always think I would die?" Raven turned his face to her, "After all, you can try it yourself to know whether it is true or not?"

"Well, at least this rant is about...why are you talking to him too."

Mei's gaze slid down and landed on the helmeted man with his fingers crossed in front of him. His figure standing still in one place for a long time often made people ignore him. If it weren't for his gaze, which was far more noticeable than his own presence, occasionally sweeping over other people, it would be difficult for people to notice that there was someone sitting here.

Moreover, it was Lin again, always Lin. Why were the things and people she encountered recently either related to Lin or talking to Lin? His appearance frequency was getting higher and higher, which made Mei feel a little confused as to whether this was foreshadowing the next events.

"Huh? Lin? What's wrong?" Raven looked at Mei, who was a little overwhelmed, in confusion, his tone full of matter-of-factness.

Mei patted her horned forehead: "No, nothing..."

"Meow~"

The sound of a cat's cry sounded under Lin's feet. Lin bent down and took out a note from the can. After taking a look at it, he stood up and walked towards the entrance of Paradise.

"Ah, are you leaving now?" asked the raven.

"Something happened."

"Okay, let's talk next time, Lin."

Lin nodded and walked into the entrance.

"Huh... He's sometimes so quiet and keeps to himself, which makes people misunderstand that he hates me." Raven stretched his legs after sitting for a long time and stood up. "Well, Miss Mei, I see that you seem to be hesitant to talk, so just ask whatever you want to ask."

Mei withdrew her gaze from the entrance of Paradise, feeling a little confused. She simply closed her eyes, then opened them calmly.

She first asked, "Why do you feel like you can talk to that helmeted man?"

"Hmm? Isn't Lin easy to talk to?" This question puzzled Raven for a moment. "He was the first person I met after entering the paradise, and he provided me with a lot of help. Besides, don't you think he is reliable because he doesn't talk much but has a lot of experience?"

"We are talking about the same person..." Mei stopped talking halfway, as if what Raven said was not wrong. Lin did give her some help, and he was indeed a ruthless person who didn't talk much, but she always felt something was wrong.

Mei folded her arms and supported her chin with one hand: "He was also the first person I met. It is said that he is always the first person to appear in front of visitors. But I feel that his attitude towards you and me is a bit different."

Could it be because of her appearance like Alicia?

Mei glanced at Raven's face, and then compared it with the face of the cute girl that Alicia described.

...Probably not.

That man is not someone who would treat people differently based on their appearance.

"Is it really still related to the Herrscher?"

"What are you talking about? Lin treats you and me differently? Haha..." Raven laughed out loud, "That shouldn't be the case. I think even if you are a Herrscher, as long as you don't have too much hostility towards him, he will be more generous."

"No, Lin really likes you."

The elusive Alicia appeared from behind the raven today.

"You are..." Raven looked at her in confusion.

Visitors generally cannot see all the heroes, which is a kind of protection mechanism of Paradise. Of course, the heroes themselves also have the power to decide whether to appear in front of visitors, which is the so-called "preference". So Raven has never seen this pink-haired girl.

Mei narrowed her eyes and looked at her: "Alicea..."

"Ailishia?" Raven suddenly realized what was going on when she heard the name. She had heard it from other heroes before, but this was the first time she had met them. "Hello, I'm Raven."

"Hehe, you're also a cute girl." Alicia stared at Raven's face with interest. "Hello, I'm Alicia, the second in sequence."

Raven, who was startled by the word "cute girl" and got some goosebumps on his skin, turned around and asked Mei with his eyes, and Mei spread her hands to indicate that Alicia was like this.

"You just said that Lin likes... Raven?" Mei is slightly better than Raven in grasping the key points, and she is also very interested in this sentence.

Raven took a step back. "…What do you mean? Are you looking at me for what?"

"It's not that kind of love." Alicia quickly cleared up the misunderstanding, "How should I put it? It's the kind of love where the senior looks at the junior and the junior's performance meets the senior's psychological expectations."

Mei pondered and said, "I see, they are indeed similar in some ways."

Raven asked, "What aspect?"

"The fighting style is weird, the angles are tricky, and it is insidious and cruel."

"…Is this a compliment to me or to Lin?"

"And they all like to find something to cover their faces. You don't have aerosol allergy syndrome like him."

Alicia smiled and interrupted the conversation between the two and said, "Lin always makes corresponding comments after the visitors leave. Most of them are very interesting, so I wrote them down."

It was you who forced him to make the evaluation.

Mei complained silently in her heart.

"The one with the highest evaluation is Raven." Alicia counted the number of visitors on her fingers and continued, "I only found out about it after Raven left, so this time I will be more attentive and wait for Raven to come~"

"Then you didn't show up last time..."

"It was an accident~"

Obviously, the raven was wearing a hat and its face couldn't be seen clearly, so I thought she wasn't a cute girl and didn't show up.

Mei found that her ability to complain in her heart was getting stronger and stronger, which was also trained when she was with Alicia and Lin.

Raven actually believed this explanation. After all, compared to the explanation that he didn't come out because he didn't see the face, the unexpected explanation was more convincing. It can only be said that Alicia's habit of looking at faces was too...straightforward.

Raven was also curious about what the taciturn helmeted man would say: "So what is he satisfied with about me?"

Battle? Personality? Or final treatment?

"I said it was cute, do you believe it?"

"..."

"I'm just kidding. Of course, Lin didn't deny this statement~" Alicia said with a smile, "What Lin is satisfied with you is that you don't have a deep obsession."

"What do you mean?"

"There are many people around Lin who have gone down a path of no return because of their obsession."

Alicia lowered her head and spoke softly, her smile looking particularly helpless.

Chapter 73 No~

Twenty-three point six kilometers per hour.

"call……"

Lin maintained his body shape on the treadmill to cope with the gradually increasing speed. The pointer on the speed dial rushed towards an exaggerated value, from the average human speed to the human limit speed, and then slowly exceeded this value. He still kept himself in a relatively uniform speed.

He is basically the only one who goes to the gym early in the morning. Not everyone treats every day as if it were their last.

And I say “basically”… because there will be another person coming.

"Forest."

At a fixed time, the white-haired boy pushed open the door, walked in, slumped on the bench, and covered his face with his hands.

"..."

Forty-six point seven kilometers per hour.

Lin's breathing became heavier. After a simple warm-up, he used all his strength to continue to maintain a relatively balanced speed.

The gym was quiet, with only the sound of Lin's running. Kevin hadn't moved since he came in, and there was no movement from Prometheus in Lin's helmet.

...I forgot that Prometheus is still with Velvi. I'll go get it back later.

After reaching the treadmill's limit of 50 kilometers per hour, Lin only maintained it for a few seconds before gradually stopping. He picked up a towel to wipe the sweat off his face, glanced at Kevin, and walked to the door and locked it.

He leaned against the wall opposite Kevin and asked, "What's up?"

"Lin..." Kevin put down his hand, his face full of fatigue.

……

"The captain of the first squad died in the line of duty?"

Hua and Yimer, who were waiting for Lin in the combat meeting room, were each dealing with their own matters. When Yimer informed Hua of this matter, she raised her head with confusion in her eyes, with a piece of noodles still in her mouth.

The death of a combat team's captain was spoken so casually and without any weight from Imer's mouth.

Imer sighed with regret: "He encountered a high-level Honkai beast during the mission and died to protect his teammates."

"how come……"

Even though Hua has already understood the cruelty and ruthlessness of Honkai, when one tragedy after another is brought to him, he still can't help but feel a tightness in his heart.

"So, what's next?" Hua quickly calmed herself down. If she wanted to become a qualified soldier, she must first stabilize her mental state. This was what Lin had told her when she joined the team.

"The Third Honkai, the Fifth Branch, and this time the First Squad. The Fire Moth is already quite short of manpower. We can't just add combat personnel whenever we want, especially at the captain level." Imer often uses the communicator to handle things. He swiped the screen twice and said seriously, "The captain's situation is an exception among exceptions. It is difficult to promote a captain from the remaining people to rebuild the First Squad."

In just a few months, he was promoted from private to captain and took over the Seventh Squad. After nearly half a year, he stabilized the team. In terms of performance, Lin was not inferior to any captain of any combat squad, which was also due to his exaggerated record. It is now impossible to find the same person to serve as the captain of the First Squad.

"Wait a minute... The captain of the first team..." Yimer refreshed the announcement interface out of habit and was stunned for a few seconds. "Someone has already taken up the position."

"Isn't this the captain's friend?"

……

"I had another mission, so I didn't go on the mission with the captain." Kevin smiled bitterly, "If I were here, maybe things would be different."

"..."

Lin listened to Kevin's explanation of the whole story. It was not uncommon for Fire Moth soldiers to sacrifice their lives. Lin had seen many such cases, but it was the first time that Kevin experienced the death of a comrade around him, and he didn't even find his body. This was very unpleasant for him.

"Do you blame yourself?" Lin asked.

"Ah."

The events of the Fifth Branch and this incident made Kevin feel powerless.

Not the powerlessness to fight, but the powerlessness to stop what has already happened.

"Besides, I will be the captain of the first team." Kevin sighed heavily when he said this.

Kevin has only been in the team for about four months, making him the youngest member of the First Team. He is about to take on the position of captain of the First Team, one of the longest-serving captains in the Fire Moths.

No matter how you look at it, this is unreasonable. It's even more unreasonable than Lin becoming the captain of the Seventh Team.

"immediately?"

"yesterday."