I'm not Yingjie

"..."

Lin's rest was interrupted, and his helmet restarted as he opened his eyes. Through the viewing window, Lin saw a blue-haired woman standing in front of him with one hand in her pocket.

Her hair looked weirdly messy and neat at the same time, and she wore dark red square-framed glasses. In contrast to her too short height, she had a mature and intellectual temperament, which Lin had never seen even in Mebius, the oldest man he knew.

Lin didn't see her when he got on the transport plane.

"I'm really sorry, I'm not here in person. This is just a holographic projection. If nothing goes wrong, Mr. Lin, you will be able to see me in person in about two hours." The blue-haired woman held a tablet in her left hand, her eyes not on Lin, and said lightly, "Of course, 'nothing goes wrong'."

"Who are you."

"Oh, I almost forgot to introduce myself." The woman put down the tablet, pushed up her glasses and said to Lin Danran, "Hello, Mr. Lin, my name is Einstein, I am the head of the sixth branch, and I am currently at the headquarters of the Fire Moth."

Einstein from the Sixth Branch...

Lin vaguely remembered that Delta seemed to have mentioned Einstein. She had made great achievements in the study of the Second Law. Many inventions, including the phase transfer device, were developed based on her theories and achievements.

"So the greetings haven't started yet, but I don't intend to let them start, or else you will arrive at the headquarters soon, Mr. Lin."

"..."

"Mr. Lin, after arriving at the headquarters, I was invited to conduct miniaturized research and development of a weapon device. After the final stage of debugging yesterday, it can be used in actual combat. Today, Dr. Mei and I placed it on the transport plane to Mu Continent, and had someone place it in another aircraft after arrival."

"Its output is not as good as the Titan, but I think Mr. Lin should be able to maximize its capabilities."

"It's up to you whether you want to use it or not."

……

Time remaining until the fifth Honkai outbreak: two hours.

"Huh...finally..."

Anna wanted to reach out to wipe the sweat, but before she touched the sweat, it had already solidified on her skin, making a crackling sound and a piercing pain.

Everyone from the orphanage has arrived outside the city of Teran. According to the notice, they will seek refuge in an open shelter next. Although it is not absolutely safe, it is much better than staying in the city.

"Anna, what happened? Are you hiding something from me? Why did you suddenly ask us to go to the shelter, and Tran is under blockade?" Binet, who was also out of breath, walked to Anna.

Anna shook her head: "Let's talk about it later, you guys leave here first."

"Wait a minute, what about you?"

"I still need to confirm whether other people have left. There must be people who haven't left my workplace and school yet." Anna picked up the loudspeaker and headed into the city. Bina couldn't stop her. "Anyway, hurry up and leave! I'll be back soon!"

"Anna!" Binet failed to catch Anna, and she ran back like a gust of wind, which made Binet very anxious.

Anna couldn't just sit there and watch. She knew the truth of it all, so she had corresponding responsibilities. The uncle told her these things, definitely not just to let her stand by and watch.

She didn't know what that person had been through, but their meeting at that time, whether it was fate or accident, was an opportunity for Anna to face herself again.

Lin was eager to find the answer from her, so Anna wanted to be the person who could give Lin the answer, the person who could do what she said.

"Uncle, we are destined to be together." She walked against the wind in the cold wind, and smiled, "It's hard to find a girl as perfect as me. You have already given so much for mankind. Don't die before you agree to marry me."

She rushed towards the cold current without hesitation.

Chapter 75 The Fifth Collapse

Time remaining until the fifth Honkai outbreak: ten minutes.

"If there are no humans at the site of a large-scale Honkai, will Herrscher still be born?"

This topic was proposed after the Fourth Collapse, and based on the special Fourth Collapse, another study on the birth of the Herrscher was conducted.

All Herrschers so far have been born as humans, and are all young women.

The higher-level Honkai beasts are made up of pure Honkai energy, but the higher-level Herrscher can only be born through humans. This is really puzzling, so some people speculate whether the Herrscher can also be made up of only Honkai energy.

The discussion then shifted to whether humans were needed at the site of a major collapse.

And till now, no one can answer it.

……

"I am your temporary commander."

Hen said to the group of mostly new recruits in front of him.

"..."

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. They obviously didn't know why they were asked to form a team temporarily without any running-in. This would not be of any benefit to the battle, but orders were orders, and now Hen was their temporary captain.

"Oh... What should I do? I still have to go to the battlefield for the first time..."

Kosmo glanced at the man who was muttering with his head down. He was about the same age as him and was also a new recruit.

"Erwin, you're too nervous. Don't be afraid. We should just be doing some marginal work." The other person should know the recruit and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.

The sound of conversations came one after another. The disorganization and lack of discipline were the biggest drawback of the temporary team.

Kosmo looked at Hen and shouted expressionlessly, "Silence!"

"..." In an instant, everyone shut up.

As one of the most senior soldiers among the Fire Moths, Hen is first-rate in both strength and rank, so his deterrent power is enough to suppress this group of young boys who have not yet awakened from their sweet dreams.

Kosmo is the calmest one among them. In addition to his past experience being different from most people, Kevin's emphasis on teaching him also made him out of the category of "new recruit", so it is not difficult for him to integrate into a new team.

However, Kosmo never thought about the purpose of establishing this team. Even though he had witnessed countless darkness in that border town and had a sense of justice far beyond that of ordinary people, he still could not imagine what kind of cruel things humans would do to their fellow men.

Hen spotted Kosmo, who was different from the others, in the crowd. He had an impression of the child that Kevin brought with him. He nodded and said, "Soldier Kosmo, step out."

Kosmo walked out from the formation.

"From now on you are my temporary deputy."

"Yes."

Kosmo was unable to understand the meaning of the pity in Hen's eyes when he looked at him, and the determination that replaced it in the blink of an eye.

……

"Woo——"

Anna's head was throbbing with veins popping out as she pushed the wheelchair up the slope. The old man in the wheelchair looked around helplessly and could only say to Anna anxiously, "Girl, you'd better leave me alone. I can just find a place to hide. You go and take shelter."

"How...can this...be possible!"

Anna growled and pushed hard, and finally pushed the wheelchair up. Her physical strength had been exhausted from running back and forth before, and the fact that she could still push the old man was purely the result of the great amount of physical exercise she required in her daily work.

“Hu…Hu…It’s okay…It’s not completely blocked yet…” Anna looked at the city exit not far away, breathed a sigh of relief, and mustered up her last bit of strength to push the old woman forward. “Look, old lady, we’re still in time.”

"Oh, you kid..."

After pushing the old man out, Anna saw some people helping to pick up people leaving the city, so she handed the old man and the wheelchair to those people.

I can finally breathe a sigh of relief...

Anna looked around but didn't see Binet and the others. They must have gone to the shelter a long time ago. She felt relieved and prepared to go to the shelter.

"Hey! You, don't go in there!"

Suddenly, a person's shouting attracted her attention. She looked in the direction of the shouting and saw a figure covered in rags walking in the distance.

He didn't know whether he didn't hear the shouts of the people outside the city, or he heard them but ignored them.

"that person……"

"Leave it to me! I'll bring him out!" Anna volunteered to run out. She rushed back to the blockade line. The Fire Moths were gradually blocking the city, and this exit was the only open entrance and exit of Tran, so she had to bring the man out before the exit was blocked.

She tightened her beret. The hail in the city had stopped long ago, and what followed was suffocating white snow. The vast expanse of white made it easy for her to find the man in black rags: "I remember, he went this way."

Anna ran in the direction where the figure disappeared.

……

Time remaining until the fifth Honkai outbreak: three minutes.

"All teams please be on high alert. The concentration of Honkai energy in Tran is increasing, and a small Honkai beast has been born."

Kevin focused his mind on this battle. Now was not the time to think about unnecessary things. What he was going to face next was a large-scale collapse. After all, he had never faced the Herrscher head-on during the fourth collapse, so his knowledge of the Herrscher's strength was only the tip of the iceberg based on paper reports and data simulations.

But even though he tried to force himself to concentrate, he was still distracted by the matters between Lin and Kosmo.

"Kevin, what are you thinking about? You look very uneasy~"

Alicia came to his side at some point, she also changed into combat gear, and her whole person had a solemn and murderous aura.

But her witty way of saying it doesn't change with the way she dresses.

"...Nothing." Kevin shook his head and took a deep breath. "Let's focus on the next battle. Although all the residents have evacuated, the animals in the city will also be corroded by the Honkai energy and turned into Honkai beasts. Without the dead soldiers, the strength and number of Honkai beasts should be higher than before."

"Really? Actually, even if you're worried about Lin and Kosmo, it's okay to say it out loud. It's human nature."

"...Then Alicia, can you force yourself not to think about these things?"

"How could that be? I'm always worried about Lin and Kosmo." Alicia shook her head, not feeling nervous at all. "But worrying and fighting don't conflict. Or to put it more romantically, it's because of these worries that I can exert a stronger power."

"…No matter what your original intention was, thank you very much."

After Alicia's interruption, Kevin gradually calmed down.

"drop----"

During this brief moment of relaxation, a scarlet alarm suddenly sounded.

The fifth collapse breaks out.

Chapter 1: The Fifth Collapse Crusade

The third branch was established as a temporary combat command center. With the buffer time, the Fire Moths were able to be fully prepared to deal with the large-scale collapse this time.

"The range of Honkai energy radiates beyond Tran!"

At the moment of the fifth Honkai outbreak, Tran's Honkai energy value soared to the average level of a large-scale Honkai. The scarlet range on the originally ordinary detector spread all the way from the center of the outbreak to outside the city.

Sigma, the commander of this operation, immediately shouted: "Detect abnormal Honkai energy immediately! We must immediately determine whether the Herrscher and the superior Honkai beasts are born!"

"Herrscher-level Houkai energy confirmed! A large number of Houkai beasts appeared in the city. The temperature outside Teran dropped to minus ten degrees Celsius. The temperature in the center continued to fluctuate. The lowest temperature monitored was minus ninety degrees Celsius! All the rivers in the city were frozen!"

"The fifth Herrscher is tentatively named 'Herscher of Ice'! Team 2 and Team 6 will deal with the escaped Honkai energy! Everyone else, put on cold-resistant gear and prepare to enter Teran for a mop-up operation!"

……

"Is this... the Herrscher's birth?"

After receiving the combat order, Kevin's expression, which had just improved, instantly fell. The coordinates of the Herrscher displayed on the locator had told him that there were still civilians in Tran who had not been evacuated and had been transformed into Herrscher.

If there were no one in Tran, would the location of the large-scale collapse change? If everyone evacuated, would there be a more densely populated area that would be destroyed? So is keeping some people in Tran and specifically transforming them into Herrschers a way to reduce losses?

When asking residents to evacuate, didn't they specifically check to see if all of them had been evacuated?

But wouldn't this be exactly what the Fire Moths were planning? This would allow them to be prepared for a major collapse for the first time.

These conflicting thoughts collided in Kevin's mind.

"Wait a minute, this location..." Alicia beside him suddenly looked at the coordinates of the Herrscher and shouted, "Isn't this the orphanage that Lin mentioned? Shouldn't the people there have evacuated long ago?"

Kevin turned his head in confusion: "What orphanage?"

……

The time from being eroded to being transformed into a Honkai beast depends on the Honkai energy concentration of the environment. The reason why a large-scale Honkai is called a large-scale Honkai is that under the spread of high-concentration Honkai energy, living things are constantly eroded, transformed, and spread, causing Honkai beasts and dead soldiers to continue like a tide of cockroaches.

In the early stage of the Collapse, just like any other major Collapse, there was a gap of about half an hour between the appearance of small-scale Collapse beasts and the appearance of large-scale Collapse beasts. This period of time could be completely regarded as a lull in the Collapse, and could be used to confirm the intelligence of the Herrscher to prepare for subsequent subjugation operations.

"..."

A charge-level Honkai beast blocked the way, its head wrapped in black cloth raised slightly in the blowing wind. After seeing this deformed and ferocious beast, the rag-cloth man just waved his hand as if to drive it away.

"Gah-"

However, how could a Honkai beast possibly understand what humans meant? The Assault-class Honkai beast, known for its speed, turned in the air and dived like a fighter jet, with the tips of its two elytra as sharp as blades aimed at the man's body.

"Oh!"

The wings and the pink-purple blood were frozen into ice sculptures by the cold wind.

The man stepped on the corpse of the advancing-level Honkai beast, and with a light step, the frozen Honkai beast corpse broke into pieces.

After bypassing the corpse, the man seemed to have received some signal and began to actively look for the Honkai beasts in the city. Almost all of the Honkai beasts could not withstand a single move in his hands.

In the extremely cold temperature, his skin tissue was frozen and rotten, but at the same time it regenerated at an incredible speed.