I'm not Yingjie

In a sense, he looks more terrifying than the Honkai beast just now.

Fortunately, the three children had seen the man in the helmet, the one Anna brought back that day.

"You, you are..." The children saw the monster in the story and the high-tech soldiers in a sense in the same day, which made them even more confused.

"Where are Anna and Binet..." Lin asked the three children in a listless voice with a low cough in his hoarse voice.

Aren't they supposed to be taking refuge? Then why did Anna and Binet abandon them?

"You are the person that Sister Anna brought back! Please go and save Sister Anna and Sister Binet!" The first one to react was the boy in the lead. He didn't care about Lin's outfit, and knelt on the ground with tears streaming down his face, shouting to Lin.

"..."

After seeing the bodies of the assassins, Lin roughly guessed that the three little guys did not fail to seek refuge in time, but quietly returned. The reason for their return was probably Anna and Binet.

"What happened?" he asked.

“Wuwu…Sister Anna…Sister Anna said she had to save other people… and ran back…” the boy wiped his tears and snot, crying loudly, “And then…then Sister Bina…she was worried about Sister Anna…she asked the others to take us away…I went to find…Sister Anna myself…wuaaa…”

"Until now... he hasn't come back yet..."

Binet and Anna, didn't... leave?

Lin looked towards the frozen city, then looked down at the three children.

The other two also burst into tears due to the boy's disturbance. For them, who were well taken care of by Binet, losing two elders who were as close as family members in one day and experiencing the feeling of being homeless was something they could not bear at all.

Lin Qiang suppressed his nerves that were about to faint, and after taking a few breaths, he said to them: "You go back first... I will bring Bi Nai and Anna back..."

"Really? Really?" Hearing Lin say this, the most mature boy lowered his crying and looked at Lin with red eyes.

"Ah."

"Then...then we must bring them back! We made an agreement! We must bring them back!"

"it is good……"

Lin no longer knew whether it was the body that was pulling the soul, or the soul that was pulling the body. He looked at the boy's hopeful eyes on the screen and nodded gently.

"We have an appointment..."

……

"Lin, the fifth Herrscher has been confirmed to be born."

After flying at low altitude for a while, Prometheus seemed to remember something and suddenly reminded Lin.

But this sentence is actually nonsense. The Herrscher will be born at the same time as a large-scale Honkai breaks out, so there is no need to mention it again.

So what Prometheus really wanted to say was what followed.

"The coordinates of the Fifth Herrscher have not moved since its birth." Prometheus displayed the coordinate map on Lin's window. The bright red origin appeared in Lin's pupils. "The coordinates are...Tran's orphanage."

orphanage.

What do these three words mean.

After seeing this, Lin just remained silent.

"Lin, the Fire Moths are already well prepared for this crusade. According to my calculations, the success rate of the operation is over 90%. We don't need you to assist in the battle." Prometheus kept popping up the Fire Moths' battle plan as if to deliberately block Lin's vision, but the authority Lin gave her allowed her to only appear in the upper right corner.

"You don't need to kill your friends."

Lin Yiwei flew: "..."

"You can return to the headquarters now to receive treatment. Maybe you can stand up again. Those three children will not know the truth of today. They will only think that you broke the appointment and their sister is dead. They will not know that their sister has turned into a murderous monster."

"You don't have to see the Herrscher you know die in front of you. Really... you don't have to."

Prometheus' voice dropped.

At Lin's fast flying speed, he returned to the snowy Tran in the blink of an eye, passing through the sky like a bird's song in the sky.

The city covered in white snow was as quiet and peaceful as a dead city.

"Cough cough..."

Lin couldn't count how many times he had coughed up blood. At first it was normal bright red, but later it was gradually replaced by pink and purple blood. Now he couldn't even cough. His throat was burning and painful, as if there were bugs drilling in it.

As he approached the area of ​​high concentration of Honkai energy, his body became weaker and weaker, and the symptoms of Honkai disease gradually worsened.

Some breakthrough-level Honkai beasts discovered Lin, and they immediately flew towards him in groups, but were then all shot down by Lin with a floating cannon. They were frozen into ice cubes in the air and smashed to pieces when they landed.

It would take another three minutes to fly to the orphanage. The high altitude and low temperature in Teran City caused frost to form on Lin's outer armor. If it weren't for the cold-resistant materials, he would have been frozen into a block of ice by now.

The orphanage that seemed to be sealed in an ice coffin or covered in an ice cocoon appeared in the distance, as if quietly waiting for someone to arrive.

"Lin, you can't change the fact that people are transformed into Herrschers. They are messengers chosen by Houkai. This is their fate that cannot be changed."

"But you are different. You still have two years left. You have already given your 'all' for humanity. Now you only have your life left."

"I beg you, Lin, go back."

Prometheus' voice was completely silent, yet it spoke words that an artificial intelligence could never say.

"Do not."

However, Lin looked at the world weakly but firmly.

This world where Anna lives, the world she says she loves, is a world covered in snow.

Has he given all for humanity?

He said:

"That's not all."

Chapter 4 Queen

"No support...what do you mean?"

When Kosmo said this, he felt a chill behind his head, but it was not because of the cold, but a kind of chill from the bottom of his heart.

Hen looked at the communicator and said, "Kosmo, why do you think this almost useless team was formed?"

"Why..." Kosmo frowned, "I don't know why... What is the significance of this team?"

The most distinctive feature of this team is that it is composed entirely of useless recruits. They are neither a group of fighters with outstanding individual abilities nor the most dedicated soldiers. Their greatest significance is that they are meaningless.

To fight the Herrscher like this, without any support, is just courting death...

Send to die...

Kosmo's fingers froze.

"It seems you already know." Hen glanced at him, then deliberately raised his voice and said, "Yes, the purpose of this team is to 'send you to death'. The order given to me by the Fire Moth is to lead you to death."

"..."

It happened in a split second.

Before Hen's voice had even finished falling, everyone who had been worried from the beginning dispersed and disappeared without a trace, except for Kosmo who was still standing there in a daze.

However, Hen just smiled, which was not common at ordinary times.

Even though his mission had failed and all the members of this makeshift team had deserted, they probably wouldn't return to chase the Fire Moth.

"You go too, Kosmo." Hen breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the gun and smiled at the stunned Kosmo, "What's wrong? Are you scared?"

"Are you serious?" Kosmo obviously hadn't recovered from the shock of the fact. He asked, "The purpose of this team is to 'send it to death'? Why?"

Why did the Fire Moth let the soldiers who fought for humanity die?

"Why? Maybe it's to get some information about the Herrscher in exchange for someone who doesn't matter, or maybe it's for some other reason... but probably someone thinks that 'sending one's life to death' is a meaningful act when necessary." Hen is not as stern as before, but more relaxed. "This is my duty as a soldier."

Kosmo looked sternly at the man who turned around, abandoning his past honor just to follow orders and fulfill his duties.

"Don't let Kevin know this. He is still young, just like you and that kid... He can't accept the decision of 'sacrifice'... Haha, I'm probably the same." Thinking of the young man he sent on the transport plane back to headquarters, Hen laughed at himself.

But Kosmo had no intention of moving to catch up with the group of people and fleeing. He said to Hen, "If this is your duty, then why are you telling everything at this juncture... You are betraying the orders and tasks they assigned to you, and you are about to betray your own life."

"Because they are as young as you, you still have your own lives to live. I can't let you go down this path when you are completely clueless about everything, so I tell you all this and let you make your own choices." Hen smiled and said, "Whether they choose to move forward or retreat, there is nothing wrong with that. They just chose the smiling faces of their family."

"But if you do this, you won't be able to see the smiling faces of your family." Kosmo's eyes were firm. "It's meaningless for you to die alone. If we fight together, we can survive."

"You might be able to do it, but they can't. If that's what you insist on, then don't forget it. But I still suggest you think more about other people. There's nothing wrong with being a shrink."

Hen also saw this persistence in Lin, but that person also paid a heavy price for this persistence.

If Lin could have stepped back from many options, he wouldn't have reached this point today.

"I'm leaving, Kosmo, you should leave quickly." Hen shook his head and threw away the unnecessary thoughts.

"No, Hen, you're wrong."

“They are not retreaters, they are heroes.”

"It's just that now is the moment that determines who they are."

Hen looked back in surprise.

At this time, scattered footsteps gathered from where the soldiers left, and those who had escaped returned here and gathered together.

Kosmo smiled at Hen, a very proud smile.

But the next second, his smile froze like the rain in the cold wind.

"...This is...Lin...From now on...I will provide combat support...Please...do not...attack..."

A weak voice was coming into the ears from the communication channel, which was also the reason why those people were willing to come back.

"Yes, there is support." The person who came back said to Hen in surprise.

They didn't notice how fragile Lin's voice was. No, they noticed it, but the joy of not being abandoned overwhelmed their doubts about Lin's weakness.

Anyone will believe what they want to believe, even if it is a lie constructed by themselves.

"Lin?" Hen picked up the communicator in shock and started talking to Lin at the fastest speed, "Lin! What are you doing!"

"call----"

A gust of wind passed over their heads, and in everyone's sight, a high-speed flying black shadow flew from behind them towards the frozen orphanage.

……

There are no Honkai beasts.

The area around the orphanage was eerily quiet. Logically, this was the place with the highest concentration of Honkai energy, and many Honkai beasts should have been born here or higher-level Honkai beasts should have been bred. However, it was like a cemetery with no movement at all.

The entrance was also blocked by a thick icicle. Lin controlled the three floating guns to use a high-output cutting mode to chisel out a door, and then flew straight in.

Ninety degrees below zero.

The coldest place on earth is Antarctica, where the temperature can reach nearly minus sixty degrees Celsius. For humans without professional protective equipment, it is a hell where they face death face to face.

But now, in an orphanage in the central city of this human world, the temperature is as low as minus ninety degrees Celsius.

Even though Lin's protective equipment technology far exceeded the current level of humans, it began to stiffen in the severe cold.

A small transparent ice cocoon was hanging upside down from the ceiling of the orphanage's lobby.

The ice-blue tassels were solidified into a graceful shape, the long skirt spread out in waves, the long hair was crystal clear in the ice crystals, and the fair skin was displayed in this transparent display cabinet like a work of art.

This is the Fifth Herrscher.

However, when Lin saw the Fifth Herrscher, when he saw her face, he murmured dully:

"Binet?"

Chapter 5 Justice

Not everyone is a hero, and not everyone can be saved by a hero.

How many people often regret that it is just a little bit short.

Yeah, just that little bit.

……

The fifth Herrscher is... Binet?

how could this be……

Lin's disordered brain stopped thinking for a second when he saw the girl taking off her nun uniform in the ice cocoon.