I'm not Yingjie

The reason why Lin didn't do anything was because Hun's suggestive eyes, flashing with tears, told him to look at the child in the corner, the other person in the photo.

At least don't do it in front of the children.

He glanced at the boy who was surprised and frightened after he pulled out his gun. Judging from his terrible complexion and chapped lips, he may have stayed in this room for several days and witnessed the whole process of his mother's transformation from normal to mutant.

The boy's pupils were dilated, and his throat, which had not made a sound for a long time, uttered syllables whose meanings were unknown. His wandering eyes did not know where to look.

Three days ago, his mother stumbled back home. Her hands had claws and she was unconscious, but she still asked him to find an iron chain to tie herself to the bed.

He just sat in the corner, watching his mother, who had been comforting him, start babbling nonsense, struggling in pain, and gradually turning pale into a monster, and then only a terrifying roar was left.

The boy didn't know what to do. Should he go find someone? Who? The police? A doctor? His mind was in a mess. He just huddled in the corner, not going anywhere, staring blankly at his mother who didn't recognize him.

Not many people live in this old apartment. Even the landlord doesn't come here except to collect rent. So many days have passed, and no one has noticed anything unusual about this room.

Until Lin Hehun arrived.

Are they going to kill Mom?

Lin's indifference as he held the gun deeply engraved in the boy's eyes, causing his dilated pupils to shrink.

He didn't know where he got the courage and strength to stand up, and roared as he tried to grab the gun, but before he took the first step, Lin turned the gun around in an instant and pointed it steadily at the boy's brow.

The murderous aura and fear of death instantly made the young man stop.

"Wait a minute, Captain Lin!" Hun also stood in front of the boy. Facing Lin's indifferent gaze that could not be blocked even by sunglasses, she couldn't help swallowing her saliva and gritted her teeth and said, "Captain Lin, how can you point a gun at an innocent person?"

"..."

Lin looked at the boy over Hun's shoulder without saying anything, but he lowered the gun, and this action made Hun breathe a sigh of relief.

But before she could continue to persuade Lin, Lin threw a syringe into her hand.

"Is this... an inhibitor?" Needless to say, which laboratory the bright green color came from. This potion can inhibit the erosion of Honkai energy. The Fire Moth will regularly distribute a certain amount of inhibitors to the soldiers, but the quantity will not be too much. After all, it is too difficult to make, and the effect can only be said to be average. Excessive use will also cause drug resistance.

Lin will be exposed to far more Honkai energy missions than others, and considering that he is a valuable elite soldier with low Honkai energy resistance, more inhibitors will be assigned to him.

Lin Yan pointed his gun at the dazed boy and said simply: "Give it to him."

These words that could freeze the water made Hun shudder. She turned her head with difficulty and looked at the boy's neck.

The pale skin made Hun's pupils shrink slightly.

What will happen if you come into close contact with Honkai for three days?

The boy also noticed her gaze, followed it downwards, and saw the paleness.

Exactly the same color as my mother's, it symbolizes death.

Suddenly, a hand covered his eyes, and another hand pulled him into a trembling but warm embrace. A fresh fragrance relaxed his nerves that had been sleepless for several days.

"No, it's okay. We have an inhibitor. You can still be saved. Don't worry." Cold sweat broke out on Hun's back. She held the cold syringe, gasping for breath, and a feeling of relief arose in her heart.

Fortunately, Lin had an inhibitor, and fortunately they arrived in time...

The boy's tears flowed from his dry eyes again, and hope appeared in his dull eyes: "Really?"

"real."

This time it was Lin who answered. He put away his gun, walked up to the boy, and said in a gentler voice: "You and your mother will be fine. We came just in time. It's not a serious illness. You will be fine after taking the inhibitor."

"Really? Then you won't kill my mother?"

"No, I never kill anyone."

"That's great……"

Hun couldn't bear to watch it anymore. It was too cruel to let a child who was only in his early teens go through this.

Especially, after he wakes up, these gentle lies will be cruelly torn apart.

Lin comforted the boy in a gentle voice until the boy, who had not slept for three days, completely relaxed and fell into a deep sleep.

"Inject him with an inhibitor." The moment the young man closed his eyes, Lin's voice was covered with frost again. Without even half a second of hesitation, he quickly pulled out his pistol and aimed it at the assassin on the bed.

No one would stop him this time.

Lin pulled the trigger.

Blood splattered on the white wall.

……

"Team Leader Lin, are we going to take this child to the Fire Moth?"

After Lin contacted the corresponding personnel to handle the matter, Hun walked to him holding the boy who had been injected with inhibitors and looked at Lin with some fear.

Lin put down the communicator: "No."

"Then we should make him ..."

"killed."

"..."

At this moment, Hun thought he had heard wrongly.

Was that the word that this man, whose face you never see, uttered so casually just now?

"Why……"

She held the boy and stepped back step by step, as if she saw a monster more terrifying than the Honkai Beast, but Lin ignored her and pulled out his gun again to check the bullets in the magazine.

"Fuck."

The sound of the bullets hitting each other hits the soul's heart.

Lin Ru checked his equipment meticulously, just like he did every time he attacked, in order to kill the enemy: "The inhibitor is not very effective for deep erosion, and the speed of Honkai energy erosion is also affected to a certain extent by the host's mood and state. His mental state is weak, and the inhibitor can only help him sleep peacefully for a while."

In a few hours at most, or tens of minutes at the fastest, the boy will become a dead soldier.

"But we can take him back to base and stabilize his condition..."

"There is no word on stabilizing the condition. We don't know how long it will take to make the antidote to fight the Honkai erosion, nor how much resources it will cost, let alone when it will be his turn to use it." Every word Lin said was like a sharp blade, piercing through the heart of the soul. "And the Fire Moth will not raise a dead soldier. The best case scenario is that it will be cut into pieces by a laboratory, or even by your parents."

"But he is a human being, and his mother was also a human being. Don't you have any sympathy at all?"

"The assassins you killed, weren't they human beings when they were alive?"

Lin's simple words made Hun collapse completely to the ground.

"Those who died, those who were killed by us, we bear their lives, so any hesitation and pity for Honkai is..."

A blasphemy against life.

Lin did not say the last word. He just silently picked up the boy from Hun's hands and walked towards the empty rooftop.

"Captain Lin, if I were also corroded by the Honkai, would you shoot?" Hun looked at his back and gave a sad smile.

"meeting."

……

The boy woke up from his drowsy dream, just in time to see Lin taking off his mask and sunglasses, facing the sunset, quietly looking at the city.

"Big brother……"

Lin's deep pupils reflected the fiery sunset glow. He said softly, "Your mother is already receiving treatment. Go to sleep."

"I can't sleep." The boy shook his head. "Big brother, you are so beautiful. I want to chat with you."

"…What do you want to talk about?"

"Can I go back to school? My classmates all told me to drop out, and my teacher said I owed tuition and asked me to leave... But my mother told me that she already had a lot of money and would soon be able to pay the tuition, rent, and new clothes..."

"Yes, you will be back to school soon. You must study hard."

"That's great. Mom also told me to study hard and become a rich man in the future..."

Lin listened to the boy's mumbling silently, pursed his lips and said nothing.

Until the sunset disappears from the sky.

Until night falls.

Until the innocent words turned into a growl.

Under the starless night sky, gunshots were fired.

Chapter 8 Humans are not special, you are not, and I am even less so

"The mission is over? Then you guys stay in Canghai City for a few days."

"Where do all these missions come from? Do you think the Fire Moth Chaser only has our fifth team?"

"Don't talk nonsense. If you dare to return to the headquarters early, I will submit your disability application and make you the mascot of the headquarters for the next few months."

"You should take good care of Hun. She's a new talent with great potential. Of course, don't teach her your hard-working spirit as a senior. If others work as hard as you do, their life will be shortened."

Lin frowned throughout the conversation with Himiko. He could hear Himiko calling for drinks on the other end of the line. It was probably a drinking party with some of her comrades from the same period as her, chatting about topics that only old ladies and men who pick their toes would talk about.

Maybe this is how people are. They relax as much as they can during happy moments, so that they can forget their past sorrows and face the disaster that is bound to come.

From this perspective, he himself is the outlier.

There was nothing more to say, so Lin hung up the noisy call and turned to the bewildered girl with underpants, saying, "You may have to stay for a few days, so go find a place to stay first."

"Good, good."

While walking on the road, Hun couldn't help but look at Lin's expression, but all he could see was the tightly covered mask and sunglasses. The airtight outfit made him look as cold as an iceberg in every way.

He stared at the photo for a long time while letting the follow-up personnel take away the two bodies and dispose of the room, then waved his hand and threw the photo away.

Lin seemed to be cold-blooded, decisive, and ruthless, but he stayed with the child until he had to shoot him.

What kind of mood was he in when he said that?

"What are you thinking about?"

Hun's absent-mindedness was easily noticed by Lin, who was always observing his surroundings. He asked while looking for a hotel.

Hun was startled, but Lin's eyes had already left her face, which made her hesitate for a moment, but in the end she was unable to ask the question in her heart.

So she changed the topic to a lighter one, which was also a gossip that was often discussed on the Fire Moth intranet: "I was wondering why Alicia always came to see Team Member Lin. Are you two very close?"

This is just nonsense. If they have a bad relationship, would they be seen together every day?

Unexpectedly, Lin gave an unexpected answer after hesitating for a moment: "I don't know."

"Eh?"

"If you dislike someone, you will deliberately distance yourself from them, slander them, and reject them. Then what I showed was definitely telling her 'I hate you' directly." Lin crossed his arms. He was also very confused about the relationship between him and Alicia. "But she took it as my... Should I say one thing and mean another?"

It was difficult for Lin to find a word to describe it. A flash of inspiration came out of his mouth and a word popped out: "Tsundere?"

"..."

Lin looked at Hun with an extremely strange look, but in a sense, this word seemed to be correct?

"In short, she subjectively defined my behavior as saying one thing and thinking another..."

"Proud."

"The mouth is..."

"Proud."

"..."

Hun smiled cunningly, he didn't expect that this iceberg also had a weak point. It might be that he had always used his zero-freezing-point aura to suppress others, so he was not good at arguing with others verbally. When he was overwhelmed by others, he didn't know what to do.

What a cute reaction. No wonder the book says teasing the man in the helmet is fun.

Lin was silent for a while, and then said with some resentment in his tone: "In short, after she subjectively defined my behavior as tsundere, nothing I did could stop her from approaching me, causing me to not know whether my relationship with her is good or bad now."

Lin Neng talked to Hun about this kind of topic, which made her feel less sad. She asked jokingly, "Well... Captain Lin, have you ever thought that Miss Alicia likes you?"

"..."

"..."

"Ok?"

After these words were spoken, there was a long silence. It was not until he passed another intersection that his soul reacted and turned to look at the hooded man in surprise.

"what happened?"