I'm not Yingjie

Tran fell into a strange situation. Everyone knew that something was wrong with Tran, but no one could tell what was wrong. It was just a drop in temperature, which did not reach the point of a disaster.

A kind of tranquility before the coming of storm spread in the central city of Mu Continent, but everyone took this moment of peace for granted as eternal.

The Fire Moth had also used many methods to try to find the patterns and signs of the coming of collapse, but all to no avail. This was the reason why the final result was pending after Lin put forward his opinion.

"Sniff, sniff..." After getting closer, Alicia suddenly pursed her nose, then stared at Lin meaningfully and said, "Hey, Lin, why do I smell a girl's scent on you?"

"..."

Lin felt that the only smell he could smell was the stench of evaporating rainwater.

"I met someone." Lin didn't intend to hide it. It's better to say that there is nothing to hide about this kind of thing. "Someone... is a special person."

He wanted to say trouble, but when he thought about it carefully, Anna didn't seem to cause him much trouble.

"Oh~ It's special." After hearing this, Alicia's eyes smiled like crescent moons, "Do you want to go find her now?"

"Do not want to."

"Oh, please don't. I also want to see what the 'special' girl Lin mentioned looks like. Is she cute?"

"..."

"That looks really cute. Anyway, we've finished our work for today. Okay, let's go!"

Lin dodged Alysia's elbow and walked inside with his eyes drooping. He replied calmly: "If you want to go, go by yourself."

"Then tell me who she is?"

"do not know."

"..." Alicia sighed dejectedly.

Lin walked towards his temporary residence and closed the door with his backhand, making a "bang" sound.

……

Lin took off his helmet and coat and sat on the bed, looking at his hands that were no longer tender. His calloused palms were like a mirror, reflecting his appearance.

In one month, the fifth Honkai Impact will occur and the fifth Herrscher will descend.

The smiles of the Third and Fourth Herrscher before their death still linger in my mind. What do those ambiguous smiles represent?

Lin couldn't help but clench his fists when he thought about going up against the fifth apostle of Honkai chosen from humans.

Humanity has won four times, defeating those terrifying enemies four times.

But is that really a win?

For some reason, Lin couldn't feel any recognition for shouting victory because he had killed his former compatriots.

He stood in front of the wall covered with the names of the deceased, looking at the increasing number of names. The words twisted into faces in his eyes. They were not scary, and everyone was smiling.

Smiling and blessing Lin.

Just like the smile of the Herrscher before his death.

Every time Lin took a step towards them, he felt something in his heart gradually disappearing, and he even felt an inexplicable sense of relief when he thought that he would become one of them in the future.

"Boom."

The helmet fell to the ground, and Lin subconsciously reached out to pick it up.

"..."

The hand reached out in mid-air and stopped.

He looked at his right hand, and after a while, he stretched out his left hand, pinched his sleeve and pulled it up.

Ugly pink-purple lines bulged on his forearms like blood vessels.

……

[Lin, this doesn’t suit your character]

Lin, fully dressed, stood in the cold wind, with Anna's workplace, a restaurant, under his feet, which he had found in the database.

"According to what's written in Alicia's book, I'm a tsundere, so it's normal for me to behave contrary to what I say." Lin put his hands in his pockets, and the hot air he exhaled instantly disappeared from the mist on the viewing window.

[Lin, you are not normal today]

Abnormal? Maybe.

It was indeed out of character for Lin to come out so late to look for someone he had only met twice, but he inexplicably wanted to see what Anna, who had lied to him, was like.

[Do you empathize with Anna? Because you have the same experience]

"Do not."

Lin has said many times that he will not take any action in this regard.

If there is a reason, it is that Lin wants to see how people in Tran live.

Although he had seen all kinds of people in the Fire Moth, Lin hadn't seen what life was like for people outside of the Fire Moth for a long time.

The people in the hotel gradually left. When Lin's biological detector showed that there was only one person left in the hotel, he jumped from the roof and landed steadily on the ground with a small splash of water.

He silently opened the door and walked into the restaurant. The lights were turned off. He found a seat in a corner and sat down. Then he looked towards the kitchen, the only room that was still lit.

He could hear the sound of a mop dragging stains and a girl humming a song.

Lin just quietly placed his hands on the table, waiting for the person inside to come out.

It was late at night and everyone was asleep, but the girl was still cleaning her workplace carefully.

"Ah... my forehead feels so hot, should I ask for leave tomorrow..."

About half an hour later, Lin saw the girl, who was sweating profusely in such a cold temperature, coming out of the kitchen rubbing her shoulders.

Then, the other party saw him.

"Hey... Hey! Uncle with the helmet! Why are you here!" Naturally, she was startled by Lin's sudden appearance and stood there in a daze.

Then he thought of something and looked at Lin with a subtle expression and stammered, "Well, that... that... this is the restaurant opened by my parents... I just help out occasionally."

"..." Lin didn't say anything. The pitch-black environment and the fact that she was alone spoke volumes.

So she lowered her head in frustration: "I'm sorry...Uncle, I lied to you."

"Why do you want to apologize?" Lin asked.

"Because I was clearly trying to encourage you, but I lied to you. Actually, I..."

"Well, I know, this is your parents' store, and you help out here occasionally to earn some pocket money."

"Eh?"

Lin's light words made Anna unable to react.

But soon, Lin's silent gaze woke her up, and then she understood Lin's intention, and immediately covered the back of her head and laughed: "Hahaha, yes, that's it! A-choo... Ouch, it's so cold."

Lin looked at her clothes that were soaked with sweat. She was still warm just now only because she had done intense exercise. Now the cold wind blew and the clothes on her body stuck to her skin, taking away the heat. She was much colder than usual.

Plus the abnormal blush on her face, she must be sick.

"Let's go to your home." Lin stood up and said shockingly.

Chapter 55 If Tomorrow is the End of the World

"Uncle, you are not..." Anna, who had just finished her shower and changed into pajamas, sat at the small round table and looked at the helmeted man in front of her with a strange expression, "You have followed me."

"No."

"That's right, we just met by chance today...but how do you know where I live?"

"It's an accident."

Lin obviously already knew how to get along with Anna. With her strange brain waves, she would automatically interpret some seemingly reasonable words as normal, so Lin didn't need to explain it seriously.

"Why is it so warm... Wow!" Anna turned around and saw the air conditioner blowing hot air. She immediately frantically looked for the remote control, "Uncle, why did you turn on the air conditioner? I can't afford such an expensive electricity bill!"

After finding the remote control, she pressed the off button with a sigh of relief.

"drop."

"drop."

However, the air conditioner was turned on again before it even paused for half a second.

Anna pressed it again in confusion, but it turned off and on again just like before.

Lin watched her silently as she kept pressing the off button desperately. The remote control signal simulated by the helmet also kept turning on the air conditioner.

"Woo..." She was deflated with tears in her eyes, and walked back to sit down, "Forget it, let's just treat it as a guest and enjoy a day of luxury."

"..."

"Thank you in advance, uncle. I'm not feeling well today. If no one accompanies me on the way home this late, something might happen." Anna put her face on the table, her soft face pressed against the smooth surface, and said in a muffled voice, "I don't want to become the protagonist of the accident I saw today."

"I just need to talk to you about something."

"I know."

Her righteous tone made Lin at a loss for words.

“Hehe, go ahead and tell me. Since you escorted me home, I, the famous detective Anna, will come to help this confused uncle resolve his confusion!” Anna stood up and snorted proudly twice. She looked full of energy and didn’t look sick at all.

Lin sent Anna home. The fact that her house was empty actually revealed the lie about her parents, but she and Lin tacitly agreed not to mention it.

Try to act as naturally as possible, maybe that's what she was thinking at the moment.

Lin's first question was unnecessary: ​​"Why do you call me uncle?"

"Huh? Why not?" she asked back in confusion.

"You are eighteen and I am twenty."

If someone who is two years younger than him can be called uncle, then Grace shouldn't call Mobius aunt. Calling her grandma probably makes sense.

"I don't believe it." Anna said with distrust, "Unless you show me what you look like under your helmet."

"..."

Naturally, Lin would not show it to her. Not to mention his own habits, Alicia once asked him not to show his appearance to other people, so Lin would not take off his mask in front of other people.

"If you don't show me, I will definitely think that there is an uncle's face under the helmet. Anyway, as long as you don't show me your face, I will call you the helmet uncle."

It was just a name, Lin didn't take it seriously, he asked instead: "Did you encounter anything strange in the city today?"

"Strange thing? What do you mean?"

“…It means exactly what it says.”

"Oh... does hail count?"

"..."

Well, maybe most things can't be considered "strange" to Anna. After all, she is a thick-skinned person who can accept Lin's image who never explained the helmet. Maybe even if she saw the dead men, she would think they were zombies that ran out of a masquerade party.

As a result, the atmosphere suddenly dropped to zero. Lin thought about what else he could ask, but Anna spoke first:

"Uncle, did something bad happen to you?"

"……Why do you say that?"

"Girls are very good at reading people's minds. Don't you have other girls around you?"

"..."

If he thought about it carefully, apart from Mebius, the women around him were indeed very good at reading his thoughts, especially Alicia, who could accurately capture his ideas.

"You look even more lifeless than in the morning. Uh... it's a bit rude to say this, but uncle, you look like you just crawled out of a grave." Anna used an appropriate metaphor to talk about an inappropriate topic, "No way, even a super beautiful girl like me can't inspire you."

Do I look that bad?

After thinking it over, Lin finally asked the question he had intended to ask from the beginning: "Anna, if you were about to die, what would you do?"

"Ah? What do you mean? Uncle, are you terminally ill?"

"No, I'm asking for my friend."

"Oh..." Anna was confused. "You asked me this all of a sudden. I don't know. Can you set a range?"

Lin said without hesitation: "What should I do to maximize my value?"

"Well... I just know I'm dying soon, and I want to shine in the last stage of my life." Anna nodded in understanding. She frowned and thought hard, but she couldn't come up with a good answer for a while.