I'm not Yingjie

"The raven is gone? Has it left the promised land?"

"No, she's still in the afterlife, but this signal is... strange."

problem occurs?

To be honest, anything can happen in the paradise of the afterlife, and Raven is an unpredictable person. It is normal for her to disappear and reappear suddenly, but it is abnormal to disappear for several days in a row without any message.

The relationship between Raven and her is actually quite subtle. At least in World Snake, they have some common topics. Raven has no sense of belonging, which makes her much more relaxed than others. And there is also the relationship with Xiaokong. They can be called "friends".

"Can we track her whereabouts?" Mei asked Klein after thinking about it.

"If it's the trajectory of her movements before she disappeared, it can be found. But after she arrived at an unnumbered area, her signal stopped between the upper and lower levels of that area. But there is no such mezzanine space in the paradise of the past." Klein's small hands tapped a few times on the keyboard, and she was very puzzled by the results displayed.

"Oh...I'll go find her."

Mei couldn't help but think of the experience that made her sweat profusely. She hoped that Raven had not arrived in the same strange space.

……

"My name is Kevin, let's be friends."

"..."

The boy wearing a hooded mask ignored the hand stretched out in front of him, walked around the white-haired boy who looked a little embarrassed, and walked on his own way.

"here it is……"

When Raven saw this scene, the Lord with a young and immature face, and the hooded boy whose back looked familiar to her, she was stunned.

As a mercenary, she looked around and discovered that this seemed to be a school, with students coming and going. The vibrant atmosphere was also present among the group of children she adopted.

"Could it be the previous civilization..." Raven frowned. She turned slightly and discovered something strange.

Her face changed and she turned around abruptly. "

The entrance is missing?

The stairs that allowed her to enter this space disappeared out of thin air?

"Tsk... should we say this is unexpected or not unexpected?" Raven looked at the empty floor with a grim expression. According to her experience, some unconventional operations would probably be needed to find a way out.

"Excuse me, what can I do for you?"

While she was thinking, the teenage Kevin walked up to her with a puzzled look and asked her.

"Uh-huh?"

Raven, who thought she was simply in a memory projection, responded in a low voice, then she looked up in surprise and looked at Kevin who looked puzzled.

Is this young Kevin interacting with her? It's not just a simple memory reappearance?

How is this possible? Could it be that the people here... are all memories?

No, how could the Paradise of the Past contain the memories of so many people? Moreover, the current situation cannot be explained by simple memory. From the two Lins last time to the two Kevins now, could this be the hidden mechanism of the Paradise of the Past?

While he was in a daze, Kevin thought that Raven was also a stubborn person, so he scratched his hair and walked away with a sigh.

"Hey, wait..." Raven stretched out her hand, only to find that the style of the sleeves was wrong. She looked down and saw that an unfamiliar school uniform had replaced her original combat uniform.

The weapons and clothes disappeared without anyone noticing.

"What the hell is going on here?" Raven muttered.

……

After going around in a circle, the raven got a general idea of ​​the situation.

First of all, this is definitely still the inside of the Paradise of the Past. The view that Raven sees from the school wall is still the Paradise of the Past. This space is only as big as a school, but once she wants to go out, she will be blocked by the invisible wall, so if she wants to leave, she has to find another way out.

Second, she seemed to be restricted by some special rules. Her originally enhanced physical fitness and weapons and equipment were all gone, and she was left with the identity of a student named Natasha. Fortunately, her face was quite tender and she was able to blend in with the students. Her figure was quite outstanding, but it did not seem too out of place.

Third…she met two familiar people.

One is Kevin and the other is Lin.

Raven had seen two Kevins before, one was Kevin, the leader of the World Serpents, and the other was Kevin, the "savior" in the paradise of the past. Although there were some differences between the two of them, the young Kevin she met in this space was so cheerful and lively that it was difficult for her to look directly at his face.

Lin, on the other hand, was the hooded man who initially rejected Kevin’s invitation to make friends.

It seems that he had the habit of hiding his appearance since his student days, but his back view and behavior style were always preserved in his memory, so Raven easily recognized him as the silent and reliable helmeted man.

Were these two originally classmates?

Raven quietly followed Kevin as he was about to go to the indoor basketball court to play basketball. It was surprising that these two identical icy guys who spoke in the same way had such a huge difference in their personalities. Seeing that face that was always emitting sub-zero temperatures and showing an almost silly smile made her think that coming here was not a loss.

"Kevin! Come on, you're the only one missing!"

"it is good!"

Kevin is also a good player on the basketball court. His amazing physical fitness and talent were already evident at this time. His outstanding appearance made the ratio of men to women in the audience extremely unbalanced.

Everyone was cheering for Prince Kevin, and every time a goal was scored, the overwhelming momentum overwhelmed the players of the opposing team.

At first Raven was watching with great interest, but soon she found it a bit boring. This level of game was just playing house for her, not to mention that Kevin was crushing her the whole time, so there was nothing to watch at all.

Oops, I forgot what she was here for.

Raven quickly stood up and tried to find a way to leave here.

"Snapped."

At this moment, a hand grabbed her wrist.

"what are you up to."

Raven turned her head stiffly and saw the young man, with only a pair of sharp eyes as sharp as a knife, holding her hand tightly.

……

"You were scouting the school an hour ago, and then followed me and the white-haired man, all the way to the basketball court, until your expression suddenly changed."

In a corner of the rooftop, the hooded man put his fingers in his pockets and stared at Raven coldly.

Raven glanced at his hand in his pocket inconspicuously. Judging from his posture, he should be holding a knife.

Would a student carry a knife to school?

"Your posture and your habitual movements are not what most people would do. You are examining me at this moment. Who are you?"

"..."

Raven didn't expect that her subconscious glance just now was also noticed.

It seems that Kevin in his student days was not the Kevin later, but Lin at this time was very likely the Lin later.

"Hmm..." Raven was not too flustered. She narrowed her eyes, touched her chin, and said, "You've got the wrong person."

"…Don't act stupid."

"Do you have any evidence to prove it?"

"..."

"Hmm? What do you think will happen if I yell for help and the people below catch you and find that you have a controlled knife on you?"

"I can throw the knife away right now, and there are no fingerprints of mine on you."

The wrist he grabbed just now was indeed not the clothes.

"What a smart man..." Raven rolled his eyes and smiled charmingly, "Well, I'll tell you my true identity."

"explain."

"I am... a person from the future."

Lin's eyes widened.

Chapter 16 Fire

As expected, the two people who are most likely to arouse suspicion in this space are Lin and Kevin. So the information that this space wants to convey and the way out should be found from them.

Although at the moment, she couldn't see anything...

"So that means superpowers, the dark world, and beautiful girls falling from the sky all exist?"

"..."

The raven made a wrong judgment.

She underestimated Kevin at this point in time and overestimated Lin at this point in time.

The hooded boy paced back and forth excitedly on the rooftop. He covered his mouth to prevent himself from laughing, and his hands and feet were shaking with excitement. The cold temperament he had just had disappeared, and he completely turned into an ordinary high school student.

“Hahahaha… I didn’t expect it. I didn’t expect it to finally come!”

"...What's wrong with you? Can't accept it?" Raven felt that she should express something, otherwise if she continued to watch, she was afraid that the image of Lin in her mind would shatter into pieces.

"Can't accept it? How is that possible? Of course I can accept it."

Lin stopped in front of Raven, looked at her with burning eyes and said, "I have been waiting for this day for more than ten years!"

Raven couldn't figure out what he was trying to say. More than ten years? According to his age, he was born just over ten years ago.

"By the way, how long in the future are you talking about?"

"Uh..." Raven thought for a moment, then smiled elegantly but not awkwardly, "Maybe in fifty thousand years."

"..."

Then Raven saw Lin's excited eyes go out in an instant and were frozen by ice.

……

"stairs?"

Mei, who followed the raven's trail all the way to the bottom of the stairs, also saw the sign. After picking up the raven's fallen feathers, she looked behind the sign and immediately understood what had happened.

"Klein, can you see where the stairs connect to?"

"No, but the area you are in shows that it belongs to Lin."

"..."

Mei had a bad feeling when she heard that word.

“Strange…” Klein sounded very confused. “Could it be that the vulnerability from last time has not been completely fixed? There is suddenly a lot of data in the Land of the Past that was not there before.”

"Is this also caused by a loophole?" Mei asked after rubbing her fingers across the dust on the stand.

"Hmm... No, that's not right. The image of the stairs already existed in the Paradise of the Past, but the data of the connected area contains information about multiple heroes. It's like someone stitched the main parts of multiple areas together."

"Multiple areas? Does that mean it will look messy?"

"Not really. The information is arranged very stably, but the amount of information is about one-fifth of the Paradise of the Past. The most likely scenario is that you randomly fall into one of the parts after entering." Data flashed on the screen in front of Klein, and she said, "Then it will be like a maze. You need to find the exit by yourself."

"..."

This is really a headache.

But Mei had no choice, she couldn't just leave Raven alone, that wasn't in line with her personality.

She used the power of the Herrscher of Thunder, giant arms emerged at her sides, two horns grew on her forehead, and with a light tap of lightning under her feet, she turned into a lightning shadow and rushed to the top of the stairs.

"------"

The strong light made it impossible for her to open her eyes. After adjusting for a while, she put down her hands to shield her eyes from the sun.

When her fingers touched the hem of her clothes, she froze abruptly.

Strange, after she becomes a Herrscher again, will she still not be able to adapt to the strong light?

After realizing that something was wrong, Mei quickly tried to sense the Herrscher core in her body.

No.

Both the Herrscher Core and the Honkai Energy disappeared without a trace, and the inside of his body was even cleaner than when the Conquest Gem was taken away.

The empty feeling of losing power made Mei alert, and she immediately looked around to see if there were any enemies.

noisy.

Push.

She was in the crowd, neurotically posing in a fighting posture, and passers-by ignored her completely. Some walked around her, or walked forward a few steps and gathered around one place, looking at something.

"Hmm...?" Mei put her hands down in a daze, feeling a little overwhelmed by this confusing situation.