I'm not Yingjie

"Lin is not well-received among the Fire Moths. His behavior and thoughts have led to most people misunderstanding him. As a result, even though he has excellent performance, he has not become a leader or hero in everyone's mind like Kevin."

Alicia's smile remained unchanged: "It's obvious, isn't it? But fortunately, everyone is with him."

"This is also the strangest thing. Before joining the Fire Moth, Lin was willing to sacrifice for the sake of humanity. But in the Fire Moth, because of what I just said, he gradually lost trust in humans and even despaired of them. In the end..."

"'Betraying humanity'."

Mei stared at Alicia after she finished speaking. The pink-haired girl brushed her bangs and sighed.

"Mei, why do you miss Lin so much?"

"Is not it?"

"Most of the situation is the same as Mei said. He sacrificed for humanity and was misunderstood, but Lin never despaired of humanity from beginning to end. From the first time I met him, he believed in humanity without hesitation."

"But he has killed humans, and it was during the time of 'betrayal'."

"...Well." Alicia lowered her head and didn't smile, "Maybe it would be better to ask him directly~"

"It's because he chose to avoid talking about it that I came to ask you."

"Then I can't say anything either. Lin and I have an agreement. As long as he doesn't tell the truth, I can't tell anyone what happened at that time."

In the end, it was evaded.

Mei was silent for a while, looking at Alicia, and Alicia also looked at her with a smile, and both of them tacitly did not speak.

"One last question, what is Lin's seal?"

Mei had seen Lin's mark, that impressive clock-shaped pattern many times. She had also tried to enter the anchor point marked with the mark, but every time after defeating the enemy, his mark would not appear, and she still didn't know the name of the mark.

Does this mean that Lin never actually intended to give her his mark, even though he was the first one to show up?

"Lin's Mark..." This time Alicia answered. She squinted her eyes, and Mei's figure was reflected in her pupils. "Mei, why don't you try to get Lin's Mark? Only by experiencing it yourself can you understand it."

“I can’t get it.”

"No, it's possible~" Alicia said, "Mei, do you remember how the seals of the heroes were obtained?"

"…You mean, I want him to recognize me?"

"That's right. Didn't you notice that Lin hasn't appeared here for a long time?"

After hearing what Alicia said, Mei realized that Lin had indeed not appeared for a long time and had been in the paradise of the past.

Is it...

"Then let me go with you next time."

Chapter 42: God's Key Project

One day, at 1:16 pm, in the residential area of ​​Telan, the central city of Mu Continent.

"The temperature in areas affected by the cold wave has dropped in recent days..." The weather forecast was broadcast on TV, and a student with messy hair walked out of the room with droopy eyes and yawning.

I weakly greeted my roommate who was watching TV: "Ha... good morning."

The roommate glanced at the time on the upper right corner of the TV speechlessly and said to him, "It's already one in the afternoon, good morning? Did you play games all night again yesterday?"

"I don't have classes today, so of course I'm playing games." The student threw himself onto the sofa, leaned back and took a deep breath, "Hiss... why is it so cold? The air conditioner is on, but it's still so cold?"

"Didn't you watch the news? The temperature has dropped. Winter came early this year. It is also estimated that the lowest temperature this year will break the record low. It's terrible. I wonder if the school will be closed or not."

"There have been so many strange things in recent years. The typhoon a few months ago was also very scary, and then it disappeared without a trace. And it was said that something happened in the Far East two years ago." The student waved his hands and said, "If someone told me that the world was going to end at this time, I would believe it."

"Haha, the end of the world, it's possible. What would you do if the world really ended?" The roommate smiled and picked up the remote control to change the channel.

"What else can we do? Just lie down and wait for someone to solve the problem. There are so many people in the world, I don't think the disaster will happen to us."

"Too……"

“Bang——————”

Before the two could react, the wall collapsed like a toy block, and the two people who were still smiling jokingly were crushed in an instant.

"beep--"

The bell rang loudly and blood flowed out from under the wheels.

A severed arm, holding the remote control, lay quietly in a pool of blood.

"Thorn."

The TV fell to the ground, sparks flashed from the nearly disconnected wires, and before I could change the channel, the news host said seriously: "Please try to stay at home and don't go out. This cold wave has caused quite serious accidents, including a car accident caused by a driver's fingers being frozen..."

……

"Project God's Key?"

Lin frowned the moment he heard the name.

Obviously, after the Fire Moth decided to use a combination of Honkai and technology to fight Honkai, many plans emerged. Whether these plans can be implemented depends entirely on whether the results of the plans can meet expectations.

Wei Wei was wearing gloves and pondering her gadgets. She said casually, "You always complain that no one is developing weapons for you. Maybe the Key of God will be assigned to you."

"...I didn't say that." Lin didn't remember saying that there were no weapons to use.

"Oh, that's what Prometheus said." Wei Wei picked up the tweezers and adjusted them, saying without looking back, "Anyway, this plan is still just a prototype, and we haven't decided whether to implement it. It just happened to be my turn."

"you?"

"Yes, if nothing goes wrong, I should be the one to make the first Key of God. Oh, by the way, you don't seem to know what the Key of God is, so let me explain it to you."

Weiwei put down the mechanical man in her hand and snapped her fingers. A screen lowered in front of her and the lights went out. Then a beam of light was projected onto the screen, revealing several gem-like substances.

"The Key of God Project, in simple terms, is to use the power of the Herrscher to fight against the Herrscher. That is, to use the Herrscher core that has never been used to create weapons to achieve the effect of using the power of the Herrscher."

"..."

"The Herrscher is dead, but the Herrscher Core still exists, and the power it contains has never disappeared. Keeping the Herrscher Core is a very risky thing, so being able to use it is a good thing, but now we are still facing two problems."

"One: The characteristics of Honkai energy cause almost any material to be damaged under long-term erosion, so we must find or create a material that can adapt to Honkai energy and is not corroded in order to continue subsequent development."

"Second: Users. Even though the God's Key Project has not yet begun, we have already anticipated how difficult it would be to control the power of the Herrscher after the God's Key is born. It is foreseeable that it would cause damage to the user, and not everyone can activate the power of the God's Key."

"To put it simply... the technology is not enough, the personnel are not determined, and there is no plan yet."

After listening to this, Lin shook his head. Judging from the current situation, even if the Key of God was really created, it would be impossible for him to use it.

"Don't be discouraged. If I really plan to make a God's Key for you, I'll probably use the Second Herrscher Core, which has the most destructive power, as the material. Since your fighting style is changeable, how about adding a form-changing system to the God's Key? I think it would be cool to make the God's Key into lipstick..."

"unnecessary."

"What a bummer~" Wei Erwei rubbed her knuckles, having no way to deal with Lin's stubborn attitude, "But judging from your combat records, apart from the now obsolete pistol, your weapons are rarely used for a long time. They are either broken or lost. Frequent weapon changes are suitable for you."

"Is the helmet adjusted?"

"Almost done, do you need it?"

"There is a mission."

"Okay, it's right there. When Prometheus comes back, I'll transfer her into the helmet and you can use it directly. I've improved the helmet's recognition device, and the rest remains basically the same."

Lin nodded and prepared to leave.

He wanted to find Himiko to ask about Hun. After what happened last time, he kept an eye on Hun, who often came to see him. But no matter how he looked, Hun seemed almost the same as before, or he looked stronger and more mature, a completely qualified warrior.

But there is still an lingering shadow in Lin's heart. He didn't pay much attention to Hun before, so he didn't know what happened to her. He thought she grew up through hardships, but now it seems that it is not that simple.

The disintegration and collapse within humanity seemed to have only given it a push from behind.

"Wait a minute." Wei Erwei stopped Lin. "Although it's just a plan, and it's a vague idea of ​​Dr. Mei's, but when she said it, I felt that this plan should be centered around you."

"A special divine key that can directly use the Herrscher Core. It itself is not driven by the Herrscher Core, but it can be embedded in the Herrscher Core to achieve the effect of using the corresponding power, so it is temporarily named the Blank Key."

"Of course, the Blank Key will most likely never be created, and we don't even know where to start, so I'm just mentioning it to you."

"...I won't live to see that day." Lin simply responded.

"That's not necessarily true. In life, first come first served is the norm. You're still young, aren't you?"

"..."

Chapter 43: Nameless

"He said he would come with me...but he disappeared in an instant."

With one swing of the knife, the entire space trembled, and the monster in front of him was torn into pieces.

Mei put away her knife and looked at the gradually disappearing corpse, and two anchor points appeared in the distance.

This journey was asked by Alicia to take. There were no problems at the beginning, but the types of monsters increased and became more and more bizarre. Many monsters that were not products of Honkai also began to appear, and Mei had never seen such monsters before.

Compared with Honkai Beasts and Death Soldiers, these monsters are more like machine creations, and their movement modes and attack methods are different from other enemies.

Is this also influenced by Lin...

Judging from intelligence from all sides, Lin, who seems to be an outsider among the Thirteen Heroes, is likely to have a closer connection with the Paradise of the Past, and there are so many suspicious points about him that Meiyi can make a whole list and study them slowly.

Another forest in the paradise, a memory space that is similar to a small paradise in the past, "the betrayer of mankind"...

Another point is that the image of the other Lin that appears is also worth pondering. He may be the user of the Black Abyss and White Flower from the previous generation of civilization, and the power of that suit of armor is similar to something in Mei's impression.

"Lin... have you changed after that?" Mei thought of Kobayashi standing alone in the dark. He said that he would save more people in the future, but he became a "traitor."

Whether it is the truth about the paradise in the past or the truth about Lin, Mei needs to explore it. One is her mission and the other is her true heart.

"Is it just ahead?"

Mei looked at the anchor point from afar and walked forward with the sword firmly in hand.

……

"Is this okay, Lin?"

Alicia sat on a tall building, swinging her legs, humming a song, and asked Lin beside her.

Lin checked the weapon in his hand and asked calmly, "What do you mean?"

"Mei wants to know what happened then~ Do you really want to tell her?" Alicia sighed, "By the way, there's another girl interested in you. Lin, you're such a sinful man."

"...Don't talk nonsense." Lin loaded the pistol with a click, put it back into the holster, sat down next to Alicia, and looked at the anchor point that had not moved. "She has someone she likes."

"Eh? I was just joking, did you take it seriously?"

"I was just kidding."

"...Lin, your jokes are even more uncomfortable than Kevin's jokes."

Although Alicia said so, she couldn't help laughing and said, "But Lin, you are already very good at sensing other people's feelings. You have made great progress."

"It's not about feelings." Lin found the interface of the helmet with his fingers, and after gently pressing it, he unlocked the helmet. He took it off in front of Alicia, "I just found that she looks a lot like someone."

The true face under the helmet is truly reproduced in this false space.

His lips moved slightly. "We live in an era that compresses human sensibility to the extreme. Once sensibility outweighs rationality, we will be punished by God and lose to fate."

"So most of the people who survived, especially the upper echelons, had already abandoned their emotions and turned into machines that execute orders. A situation like Qianjie's was an exception."

"Me too, me too." Alicia raised her hands proudly.

"…I mean people who are purely driven by emotions."

"Ah, then Qianjie should be considered unique."

"If we don't make the right choice between less and more, between importance and priority of decision-making, we won't be able to advance civilization. Reason must exist in human beings." Lin's fingers brushed across the helmet, as if stroking the scars of the past. "But Mei and Raven are different. Their emotions take precedence over reason. I think this is the difference between the current civilization and the previous civilization."

The only difference between the word "emotion" and ancient civilization and stupidity may be the pronunciation.

Alicia seemed to be thinking: "So even though Mei feels that her way of communicating is similar to ours, you can still easily see her thoughts in your eyes?"

“…I told you, I can’t see it.”

"Haha, but that's what you meant by that."

Lin shook his head. Since the first day he met Alicia, he had never been able to win an argument with her.

He stood up, looked at the fluctuating anchor point and put on his helmet. It was time to get down to business.

"So, Lin, do you think Mei and the others are on the right path?"

"..."

Lin looked at the horned girl who walked out of the anchor point and said indifferently: "All of us have given me the answer."