I'm not Yingjie

"..."

Lin shook his head and walked towards the utility room holding the things in his hands, followed by a group of chirping children like little birds.

"Uncle? Does Sister Anna know him?" asked the boy called Xiaoke by Anna.

"Is he Sister Anna's uncle?" Another girl also stared at Lin Gaoda's back with some curiosity.

None of the children found Lin scary, even though he looked like a soulless robot without a word.

Anna blushed and said, "Uncle is not my uncle. This... Uncle is my nickname for Lin. Do you understand nicknames?"

"What's the pet name?"

"Stupid, it's just like we call Anna Sister Anna."

"Oh, I see."

"So he is Sister Anna's sister?"

Hearing these childish conversations, Lin didn't say anything. Children's words are full of strange fantasies, which is not a bad thing.

I hope Anna won't teach me a bad lesson.

……

“Just put it here.”

Lin put down the things in his hand. With his arm strength, he could easily carry objects weighing two or three hundred kilograms, let alone some ordinary sundries. However, it was indeed a little difficult for the people in the orphanage.

The rain outside the window was lighter, and the mottled raindrops fell on the stained glass. Under the colorful light, the shadow looked like the fallen Son of God.

The rise in temperature brought with it an increase in rainfall, and continuous drizzle shrouded the city, but no one thought it was a nuisance, because it meant that life was gradually returning to normal and returning to their familiar daily routine.

"Mr. Lin, do you like winter rain?" Binet asked when he saw Lin staring out the window.

"I don't like it." Lin lowered his head, "But I don't hate it either."

"That's it..."

"There are always many beginnings in spring and many endings in winter." Lin recalled what someone said, "This is what someone said to me. He said that many things cannot be stopped once they start, even if they shouldn't start. There are also many things that cannot be continued after they end, even if they should continue."

"That's a really wise statement... Did Mr. Lin's parents say that?" Binet said with a smile.

“No, it was said by someone…whom I can’t even remember.” Lin often dreams of the man whose face he couldn’t see clearly asking himself while he was sitting on a chair. “He seemed to have said a lot more, but I only remember this one sentence.”

This vague memory is similar to the memory of a "time traveler". I don't know whether it is true or false, and I don't know when it happened.

"Come to think of it, I haven't asked where Mr. Lin is from? Shenzhou?"

"The Far East."

"From the Far East... Are you here for work?"

"Yes."

Then Binet revealed her true purpose: "Is that so... ahem, Mr. Lin, don't blame me for asking too many questions. I want to know about your parents..."

"No more."

"..."

As a nun in the orphanage, Binet consciously did not mention anything about the children's parents in front of them. Their biological parents either abandoned them or passed away early. The children may not have grown up yet, but these are scars in their hearts, so Binet is still quite sensitive.

When Lin said that his parents were not at home, her expression froze and she immediately realized that she had asked the wrong question.

But Lin understood the feelings of those who remained silent after asking questions, so he immediately added: "Don't worry about it."

"Mr. Lin... I..." Binet seemed to feel bad. "To Anna, I am like a family member. As her only elder, I just want to..."

Lin shook his head and interrupted her: "Don't think too much, I will leave soon."

"leave?"

"go back."

Binet hesitated and asked Lin: "Mr. Lin, what kind of girl do you think Anna is?"

"..."

What kind of girl?

Lin searched the memories in his mind. From the day he met Anna, she was a little different from others. She talked to herself, was optimistic and outgoing, and had extremely selfish psychological activities.

But she would work herself to death to save money for the orphanage, lie to save face and have a bad temper, and these didn't seem so "special".

What words can be used to describe Anna like this?

"After all, aren't humans made up of 'not special' and 'special'?"

Binet's words enlightened Lin. She stood under the window and smiled, "For example, Mr. Lin may seem eccentric, but he also enthusiastically helps Anna and helps out at the orphanage. Isn't it normal to do these ordinary things?"

"After all, this is 'ordinary people', this is ordinary 'greatness' and 'happiness'."

Lin looked over Binet's shoulder and out the window. Anna was chasing the children in the drizzle, scolding them to go back downstairs. She didn't look like the quirky girl who said "Marry me" at all.

Ordinary life, ordinary happiness and ordinary greatness.

What is...normal?

When Lin was lost in thought, Prometheus' cold words rang in his ears.

"Lin, there is a Houkai reaction nearby."

Chapter 63 Do you love this world?

"Captain, I'm back."

Hun yawned and walked into the conference room, sat next to Desdobia who was working, and picked up an orange listlessly.

Himiko rarely drank alcohol in her free time, and instead used her computer to read recent external information.

The longer the interval between the fifth and fourth collapses, the more uneasy the people of the Fire Moth become. Who knows what kind of trouble the collapse and the Herrscher will cause this time.

This is why the team that remained in the Fire Moth was paying close attention to external consultations.

"Hun, you've been on too many missions. You should rest up recently." Himiko looked at Tran's condition carefully and said, "Go get a physical examination later."

"Actually, I have been commissioned to do so more and more times. I can't possibly not go." Hun threw two slices of orange into his mouth and smiled happily.

"Appointment? Maybe your outstanding performance has been noticed. After all, your hard work is almost as hard as that kid's."

"Team Leader Lin? That's great."

After typing the last word, Desdobia also picked up the orange. Her tender fingers peeled off the orange skin, revealing the flesh. She smiled jokingly, "Hun still cares so much about Captain Lin."

"Let's not talk about that... Doesn't Desdobia often go out to buy things as if she were giving them away?"

"Well, actually I was planning to give everyone some things." Desdobia said vaguely with an orange in her mouth, "Didn't Captain Lin hold a party last time? I always felt like something was missing. Afterwards, I thought it would be a pity if there were no souvenirs from the party, so I wanted to buy some things for everyone."

"Really? Have you decided on anything?"

"Ah, a gift should be given to the person concerned as a surprise."

Desdobia chuckled expectantly and said, "It's such a long-awaited, warm gathering."

……

"Gah-"

The slow-moving assassin was clawing at the rain-soaked wall, his movements as comical as a drunk, and he let out meaningless growls as rain poured into his mouth.

"Boom!"

A black shadow fell from the sky, stepped on its head, pressed it directly to the ground, and easily burst its head like a balloon with the help of its weight and impact.

The dead soldier who had lost the ability to move did not move at all, not even twitching, because he had lost the normal reflexes of a human being. The deformed body was filled with rotten flesh and blood that could be corroded by the Honkai energy.

Lin bent down and picked up the identity card dropped by the dead man. According to the scan of the ID photo, he was a handyman in an orphanage.

This made Lin Maozi's brow twitch.

Orphanage, odd jobs, illness...

It seems that the handyman's illness is the erosion of Honkai energy. The initial symptoms are indeed a bit like ordinary flu, so he was probably ignored and then corroded and turned into a dead man.

But why... so fast?

If one is only accidentally exposed to a small amount of Honkai energy, then it will take at least several days from being eroded to completely turning into a dead soldier. Although the host's will, emotions and physique will also affect the speed of erosion, it is impossible to turn into a dead soldier in just two days.

Unless one is exposed to a high concentration of Collapse Energy without any protection, the speed of Collapse Energy erosion will be accelerated.

In other words, this handyman has ever encountered an environment with high Honkai energy?

"Prometheus, pull up his recent schedule."

Lin decided to conduct a reconnaissance along his recent itinerary. If his guess was correct, the sharp rise in Honkai energy the day before yesterday was probably not an accident.

"Uncle~Where are you~"

Anna's voice came from the corner behind. Lin raised his head and said, "Don't come over!"

"Eh?"

But he was still a step too slow. Anna's confused face appeared at the corner and twisted the next second when she saw the corpse on the ground.

"Wow ah ah!"

"Shhh."

Lin's cold gaze brought her back to her panic state in an instant. She swallowed and glanced at the corpse on the ground. After looking around and seeing no one, she walked over cautiously.

When she was passing over the bodies of the dead soldiers, you could clearly see her body shaking.

She asked Lin with a pale face: "Uncle, this couldn't be..."

"Yes, a dead man." Lin's simple answer made Anna's face even paler, as if it was covered with a layer of white paint.

The appearance of the dead soldiers means that Honkai energy has indeed appeared in this city, so Lin’s speculation is likely to come true.

After hearing Lin's story, Anna turned around and wanted to go back to the orphanage in a state of confusion: "No, no... I have to let Binet and the others leave immediately... No! Everyone in this city has to leave! I'm going now..."

"Calm down, Anna."

"But, but..."

"It's not confirmed yet, and we can't go anywhere right now."

Lin knew the mechanism of evacuation very well. Sheltering could only be done when there was a disaster. Before a disaster occurred, no shelter would be open to civilians unless there was solid evidence that a disaster would occur.

So, if we want to leave the city now, where can we go? What kind of impact will the riots caused by the collective departure of the entire city have on the Honkai intelligence under the jurisdiction of the Fire Moth?

What's more, even if Anna spread the word about the existence of Honkai everywhere, how many people would believe it?

"Uncle..." Anna gritted her teeth, forcing herself to ignore the body on the ground, and said to Lin, "Is there anything I can help with?"

"No."

"You've really undermined my confidence..."

"……Come with me."

After notifying the third branch to deal with the body, Lin took Anna away and walked back along the handyman's route.

"Uncle, you are so calm." Anna secretly glanced at Lin's side on the road.

"...You'll be calmer after seeing so much."

The mountains of corpses and seas of blood caused by a large-scale collapse, and the monster cage made of an entire city, were all things Lin was already accustomed to.

"You're fine." Seeing the color gradually returning to her face, Lin said in a deep voice, "Better than many people I've seen."

Many recruits do not have Anna's psychological quality. When faced with the dead soldiers who were once humans and have human appearance and their deaths, most of them will experience a mental breakdown.

It was truly rare that Anna was able to adjust her mentality so quickly after witnessing the body of the assassin with his head blown off.

"Because I told you..." Anna said casually, "I love this world, so I must learn to be strong, otherwise I will be abandoned."

"..."

"Uncle, do you love this world too?"

Chapter 64: Destined

The Fifth Herrscher...