I'm not Yingjie

This was the "sneak attack" she learned from Lin.

"You let me win." Mei did not show much joy. She stood still and looked at Lin's "wound" and said, "Based on your reaction ability, I can't hit you with this move."

"No, I didn't dodge. The electric shock paralyzed my nerves, that's all."

It is hard to tell whether he is trying to save face or is really numb.

In any case, Lin's goal was achieved and Mei won, so he will give Mei the reward she deserves.

"This is the mark of [Nameless]. If your nerve reaction can withstand [Moment], then this gift will not be a burden to you." Lin crossed his arms, turned his cold gaze from her to the other side, and shouted, "Pado."

The cat girl appeared exactly where she was supposed to be: "Wu! Brother Lin, are you looking for me?"

"Take good care of her." After saying this, Lin left without looking back.

"What does it mean?" Mei looked at the "mark" in front of her without knowing what was going on.

"Hey, hello, you must be the guest this time." Padu's ears twitched, and she laughed energetically, "My name is Padu Phyllis, you can call me Padu or Phyllis, you're welcome, Brother Lin and Sister Ellie have told me your story, how you became everyone's favorite as soon as you entered the paradise, and Sister Ellie's designated tease... oh no, playmate..."

"Your two words... seem to have no difference."

"Oh, don't worry about it. Anyway, I saw your fight just now. You were amazing. Although Brother Lin is not a fusion warrior, even if there were hundreds of me combined, I couldn't beat him. You actually beat Brother Lin. Then I'll call you Sister Mei."

Paduo stood in front of Mei and pointed at the seal beside her with a smile: "Although I want to promote my products and information, but now let's finish the work at hand. I have never seen Brother Lin give his seal to anyone, but I heard from Sister Ai Li that most people can hardly bear it."

"So you are here... to take care of me?" Thinking of Lin's words before he left, Mei's face did not look very good. The "gift" in front of her turned into poison in her eyes.

"Ahem, actually, I've been expanding my business recently, such as the business of taking care of people...Since Mei-sister is a new customer, I can give you a 20% discount, or even a 10% discount if that doesn't work!"

"..."

As expected, Mei was just overthinking when she expected there to be a normal person in the paradise of the past.

Come to think of it, she clearly wanted to ask Lin some questions about the paradise in the past life, so how did it turn into engraving?

...that’s all.

Mei sighed, then placed her hand on the seal with great concentration.

"——————"

Darkness strikes.

Chapter 47: Signs of Disaster

"There were signs of braking. The driver tried to control the speed but was too late."

Imer stood behind the blockade wearing gloves, squatting down to carefully observe the remaining traces.

"This was indeed an accident, but at least the driver's mental state was not a problem."

"So it has nothing to do with Honkai..." Hua followed him in a blue coat that looked a bit old-fashioned. "May they rest in peace."

After being baptized by the Fourth Herrscher, the Fire Moths became alert to abnormal natural phenomena. After all, the Fourth Herrscher had broken their inherent concept that "large-scale collapse will inevitably occur in places with a large number of people". Who knows if the next Herrscher will be more cunning, hiding and accumulating strength to catch them off guard.

This global low temperature is obviously an abnormal natural phenomenon. It is particularly serious in Mu Continent, where the average temperature is nearly five degrees Celsius lower than the lowest temperature in all previous years. It is a terrifying low temperature that can completely stop social activities.

Many teams and scientific researchers have been sent out to investigate the low temperature phenomenon in Mu Continent, but no conclusion has been reached yet as to what caused the still-dropping temperature to be so terrifying.

The seventh team was assigned to Telan, the central city of Mu Continent. After discussion, they decided to investigate the strange phenomena that had occurred recently in the city. The first case was a major car accident in which a truck crashed into a house in a residential area.

The erosion of Honkai energy will cause people to gradually lose their sanity and control over their bodies, so accidents are likely to be caused by those who are eroded.

"Where is the captain?" Hua and Yimer had been investigating outside for some time. Now that they knew it was just a simple accident, they were ready to report to Lin, but they did not see Lin.

Imer walked towards the wall that had been knocked open: "Inside."

Lin was indeed in the house. He was wearing gloves and was checking the bloodstains on the ground.

The bodies had been taken away, leaving only some bloodstains that could not be cleaned up. It was said that the three bodies were in a horrible state. The driver's head was deformed due to the impact because he did not wear a seat belt. The two residents were crushed into meat scraps and died on the spot.

The scene was like hell on earth.

Yimer said to the squatting Lin, "Captain, we have checked the outside and it is initially believed to be a common traffic accident."

"..." Lin could also see what was going on. This was a traffic accident for which the driver was fully responsible, but what could be reflected from this accident was that the current temperature had reached a point where even normal life would become dangerous.

The outside temperature displayed on the viewing window reached an exaggerated level, and even Imer and Hua, who were in excellent physical condition, were shivering.

Lin exhaled. Unable to get any more information, he could only stand up and say, "Collect."

……

"What a coincidence, Lin, are you guys resting here too?"

While taking a break in the cafeteria of the third branch of Tran, Alicia and her teammates came back from outside.

After all, it is an entire city, and one team is far from enough, so after adding the personnel of the branch, the headquarters sent two teams or more to all the cities in Mu Continent to conduct investigations. The team with Lin and his team is Alicia's fourteenth team.

She walked very skillfully to Lin who was searching for city information and greeted him. Her words made her teammates look a little strange.

What a coincidence... It seems like there is no place for them to rest except here?

But their captain has been acting weird like this for a long time, so just pretend you didn't see it.

At least he's better than this guy from Team 7.

This is what they all thought when they saw the scary helmeted man.

"Yeah." What was even more surprising was that Lin answered seriously, "I'm processing today's information."

"Did you come to any conclusions?"

"……unusual."

Lin pressed a button on his helmet, and a small device next to the viewing window projected the image on his screen onto the wall.

Displayed on the screen were two linear statistical graphs, one was a typhoon wind scale graph caused by the Fourth Lawsman, and the other was a temperature rise and fall graph of Tran, or a cooling graph, because the temperature had only dropped and not risen in the past month.

Everyone came over, and Lin began to explain slowly.

"The typhoon wind intensity curve caused by the Fourth Herrscher has obvious signs of an upward slope. I speculate that this is a phenomenon in which she is adapting to her own power and her control is gradually increasing."

The diagram in the first picture is simple and easy to understand, and anyone can see what was happening at the time.

"So Herrschers also have a certain period of adaptation after birth. They are likely to meet the requirements of adapting to power by manipulating natural phenomena." Lin's vision controlled the pattern on the screen to reduce the first picture and enlarge the second picture. "Except for the Fourth Herrscher, the Second and Third Herrschers have similar situations. Their rising curves are smooth, and the difference lies in the length."

"But this time it's different."

The pattern in the second picture that Lin enlarged is very different from the first picture. The many cliff-like temperature drops are completely different from the smoothness of the first picture.

"After removing the variable of seasonal temperature change, the resulting statistical graph does not show a steady decline in abnormal temperature, but rather a situation where the temperature remains constant followed by occasional sudden drops."

"Doesn't this mean that no Herrscher will be born?" A female member of the 14th Squad asked doubtfully, "This means it's a good thing, right?"

"..."

good thing?

Lin said calmly: "In this month, there has never been a situation where the temperature on the second day is higher than the temperature on the first day."

"Ah..." She understood after hearing that. "That means this is still a continuous decline, which is also an extremely abnormal phenomenon... But what does this mean?"

"This is a map of electromagnetic fluctuations in Changkong City one month before the birth of the Third Herrscher."

Everyone's face changed after seeing this picture.

"This is... disorder? It existed before the Herrscher was born?" Hua murmured.

"The powers of the First and Second Herrscher are special, and they cannot detect any valuable data. The reference numbers of the Third and Fourth Herrscher are also very small." Lin replaced the wind field distribution map before the Fourth Herrscher was born, "But there is reason to suspect that this is a 'sign'."

A sign of the birth of the Herrscher.

Lin didn't say it explicitly, but his meaning was obvious.

The low temperature this time is global, which means that the Herrscher that is born will likely be more powerful than the previous Herrscher. They can't help but feel terrified at the thought that a terrifying enemy will appear in this city with a population of 32 million.

After seeing Lin's inference, Alysia said nothing, but turned back and said lightly: "Contact the headquarters."

Chapter 48: Ice Rain

"It's just a speculation without any substantial evidence. We can't put all our forces into it."

Ten minutes after receiving the intelligence, the conference room was filled with decision-makers. However, compared to the previous times when they worked together to overcome large-scale collapse, this time, the meeting seemed to have not yet emerged from the internal strife and was filled with inconsistent opinions.

The Speaker spoke first: "We can't put all our strength into this just for one possibility."

"Isn't the lesson of the Fourth Herrscher enough?" The person who opposed him knocked on the conference table impatiently. "The current situation is the same as before the birth of the Third and Fourth Herrschers. Do we have to wait until it is too late to make amends before taking action?"

"I don't mean not to support, but we don't need so many troops." The Speaker seemed calmer. He looked around and said, "My suggestion is to invest the same combat force as in the war against the Fourth Herrscher and transport our Titan to Tran. Pilot MSA-079 is on standby there, right? He has experience in defeating the Herrscher many times, so he can delay the Herrscher for enough time even if he comes."

This statement was agreed by many people. After all, it was just speculation at this stage. A few charts could not explain anything. What if it was a coincidence? If the Herrscher did not fall in Tran, but somewhere else, it would be difficult to support him.

"Wait a minute, Engineering Minister Wei Wei reported that the Titan driver's physical condition no longer allows him to continue driving the Titan, otherwise there will be more serious sequelae than last time."

The Speaker rolled his eyes: "So?"

"…What? MSA-079 is now our best soldier, not a consumable for the Titans."

"Then I want to ask." The Speaker put his hands on the table and stared at the person who objected. "Besides driving Titans, does MSA-079 have any other uses?"

"You..." Anger flashed across the man's face.

"What we need is the Titan, not the MSA-079. Since it can be used as a battery for the Titan, why keep it if it is not used?" The Speaker tilted his head and smiled, "Now we are discussing how to fight the Honkai, not humanitarian care for a soldier."

"No, I object too. The last time the Fourth Herrscher was defeated by the Titans, there was a certain amount of luck involved. The Delta flight device can reduce the impact of the Fourth Herrscher's wind field, and we don't know the power of the Fifth Herrscher yet, so we can't use the Titans as a guarantee."

"I agree……"

"I object……"

"be opposed to……"

"Oh!"

A loud bang silenced the gradually bustling conference room.

The person who slammed the table was the speaker. He raised his head, took back his hand, rubbed his wrist slowly, and slowly revealed a sneer: "I remember this is a meeting room, not a vegetable market."

"..."

"Gentlemen, since when did our opinions on working together to fight the Honkai begin to diverge?"

Since when?

The previous efficient unity was replaced by different sound segmentation.

"Some people may say that Dr. May caused our division, but in my opinion, Dr. May's appearance has only brought forward the problems that will arise sooner or later." The speaker's words were very restrained. "This may not be a bad thing. It can help us correct the mistakes before we make bigger mistakes."

"correct?"

"Yes, I have always believed that if there is no strong enough voice to maintain order above equal power, then such problems will sooner or later become a stumbling block for mankind."

"Speaker, we are discussing combat, not asking you to come to the election!"

However, the Speaker looked at him with a smile without saying a word. Or rather, the Speaker was not looking at this one person, but at everyone present.

How could these people not know what the Speaker was planning? Before they founded the Fire Moth, they were all political elites, leaders of one party, and geniuses. Just based on what the Speaker said above, they were able to guess what he was thinking.

But what he said was not wrong. He just made public something that everyone knew but was unwilling to mention.

The problems with their decision-making system had long been exposed, but everyone believed that this was how the Fire Moths were distinguished from the rotten secular organizations, because they were "special" and the Fire Moths were also "special".

"But I think it won't be too late to deal with this matter later. Let's decide on this action in the same way as before."

……

"Huh... this is such an uncomfortable meeting."

The Speaker walked into his private space and took off his micro-earphones. His expression was no longer as relaxed as before, but became solemn instead.

The poisonous pupa was disintegrating. Judging from the wounds of the members of the poisonous pupa who died one after another, the murderer was Sakura, whom he personally invited into the poisonous pupa.

Only she can do this.

He could probably guess how Mei had persuaded Sakura to rebel, but there was no way he could stop her now.

Originally, he wanted to rely on the poisonous pupa to increase his voice, but now so many people can't even do anything to one person, it seems that he still has to achieve his goal through other means.

The Speaker sat in his chair with his head down, and his expression could not be seen clearly.

……

"Half of the branch combat forces and the headquarters combat forces are stationed in Teran, and the rest are on standby..."