I am the former civilized hero.

Like a running female leopard, it crossed hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye, and using its hands and feet, it quickly climbed up the cliff. Ryan turned his head and saw two dark shadows coming out from behind a rock.

Sure enough, there was someone.

Ryan had been using electromagnetic waves to warn of the surroundings, fearing that the Herrscher would fall from the sky. Otherwise, in such a dense atmosphere of Honkai energy, these two people would not be detected at all.

Da da da......

Gunshots rang out, and Ying in the air pulled out her knife and slashed continuously, cutting all the bullets. She then fell in front of him and chopped the assault rifle in the man's hand into scrap metal with one knife. She stretched out her hand and pinned the two men to the ground.

Ryan quickly floated over and looked over: "It's actually a child."

Ying was holding two half-grown children, a boy and a girl, in her hands. They were staring at the two men with wide eyes in fear. They were dressed in rags and their hair was like weeds.

"Yeah, nothing threatening." Sakura loosened her grip slightly and watched the two children cough violently on the ground.

Ryan glanced at her and knew that Ying was not a cruel person, so he bent down and tore open the boy's sleeves. Sure enough, he saw traces of collapse and erosion on the surface of the skin.

He is a patient with Honkai disease and is born with a certain degree of adaptability, otherwise he would not be alive today.

Seeing that the two of them were almost coughing, Ryan squatted in front of him and asked as gently as possible: "You two heard the noise and came here to investigate? Where is the hiding place?"

"We..." The girl opened her mouth subconsciously, and the boy quickly covered her mouth.

"Don't talk, Liz, they are both monsters!" The boy stared at Ying with alert eyes and said, "Look, she has ears on her head, and that man can fly."

He is quite alert and doesn't feel any joy at seeing his own kind.

Ryan raised his eyebrows and was about to use mental induction when Sakura pulled his hand.

"Let me do it."

Ryan looked at the girl deeply and understood what she meant. Mental induction would leave sequelae, especially for children like this, it would be difficult to bear.

"Okay, I'll give you five minutes."

He turned and walked away, stepping on the edge of the cliff and looking at the corpses in the distance.

Ryan knew that Ying was thinking of her sister. This assassin was not as cold and hard as her knife. He was gentle under his cold appearance.

He is different. He only reserves his remaining tenderness for people he knows and pays more attention to efficiency in his tasks.

Not long after, Ying came back and walked behind Ryan and whispered, "I found out from asking. The gathering point is fifteen kilometers to the southeast, in a valley."

"Do they believe you?"

"They are just kids, so we can just coax them and scare them." Ying stroked the hair beside her ear and smiled, "I told them that the gathering point must be not far away, and we can find it by searching the surrounding 20 kilometers. It doesn't matter whether they tell us or not. Only by taking us there can we avoid hurting their families due to misunderstandings."

Ryan was silent for a while, then muttered, "It doesn't matter whether they say it or not."

"Hey, it's not easy for these survivors to struggle until now. If we really fight, you will not hold back. It's better to give them a chance."

"Ying, you are indeed gentle and always considerate of the weak."

"It's you who made me retain more of my humanity. And Ryan, you're very gentle for going through all this trouble."

Ying blinked, turned around and let the two children lead the way. She even asked the boy to go first to report, and held the girl's dirty hand, asking the man to catch up quickly.

Ryan had nothing to say, he respected the character of every hero, as long as it didn't hinder the plan, he would let Ying go, there had to be some good people in this world.

All the nearby Honkai beasts were killed, but no one jumped out to seek death. The three of them shuttled among the rocks and climbed down to the depths of the valley through a rope ladder.

Ying kept holding the girl, stuffing a lollipop into her mouth, and chatting with her gently from time to time.

They walked and stopped like this for about half an hour. After that, the leader Ryan saw electric lights flashing in the valley. In the light, he also saw some dishevelled men and women.

It was indeed a gathering point. Most of the people there suffered from Honkai disease. They were not too hostile, but they did not look happy either.

Ryan made a judgment at a glance. He saw that the men were holding rifles or steel pipes. When they approached, a man in old camouflage uniform came out.

His face was covered with beard, and his brown eyes were very tired. He looked at Ryan carefully and said, "You... are the Fire Moths?"

"Yes." Ryan nodded slightly, and saw a commotion in the crowd, but no cheers were heard.

There was only silence, as silent as the dead. Although North Britain had only been abandoned for a few months, it felt like it had been separated from human society for countless years.

"Don't you want to return to the human world?" Ryan asked doubtfully.

"Will you go back and be thrown into a concentration camp to fend for yourself? Or will you escape and be stoned to death by people who are afraid of being infected?" The man opened his collar, revealing the marks of collapse and erosion, and asked in a strange tone.

"Welcome to hell."

Chapter 138 Therefore, they are called Yingjie!

Ryan finally entered the gathering point. The eyes of these survivors were dull, but their IQ had not been completely eroded. They understood that the two men who had fought their way from the coast to the inland were not something they could defeat with the two broken guns in their hands.

It was called a gathering point, but it was nothing more than a huge cave with a few diesel engines humming to generate electricity and a few light bulbs providing a dim light.

There weren't many people inside, just over a hundred, and there wasn't a single elderly person over fifty years old. The collapse was like a natural selection, an absolute Dark Forest Theory.

The weak, old, sick and unlucky are eliminated first, and those who survive have a skill or are at least lucky enough.

'This is much harder than a zombie movie, even the air is filled with murderous intent.'

Ryan sat on a rock and watched a group of people busy at work. The woman carefully scraped the moss off the rock wall, the man went out with a gun to find food, and brought back precious canned food from the ruins, and several children helped wash clothes.

Water had to be fetched from the stream outside, so they washed very carefully and economically.

There was a strange feeling in the cave, neither pessimistic, as these people were still struggling to stay alive, nor optimistic, because even if they were rescued by the Fire Moths, there was no cure.

Such strange emotions mixed together make people feel very weird.

"Savior, huh, there is no savior in the world." Ryan smiled bitterly and shook his head. Even he could not change the fate of these people. He just felt it was a bit ironic.

He had just seen the Raven, the pinnacle of human civilization, and then he saw modern humans who had returned to primitive times. It was really...

It makes people full of murderous intent towards Honkai!

Ryan quietly clenched his hands and crushed the stone into powder. These people should have been working in office buildings or studying in bright classrooms, but they were hiding in caves like rats to survive. Then in two years at most, everyone would die.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have done anything unnecessary." Ying walked over silently, feeling a little uneasy.

This scene really makes it hard for people to feel happy. It makes people depressed. It is more convenient to use mental induction to extract information.

"I had expected this. After arriving here, I never thought that I could find a quiet town and sit on the roadside with you to drink coffee." Ryan laughed at himself. On the contrary, this idea was more fantastic. "Whether it is here or the holiday villa in Hawaii, they are all part of the world. There is no distinction between high and low."

"And observing the real world is also my destiny."

If he was being affectionate with Alicia and others every day, he would never see these things. But Ryan was not tired of this kind of scene. Only by seeing suffering could he truly live in this world.

Ying's eyes widened slightly. She didn't expect Ryan to say that. She thought she would be blamed, so she just smiled: "Ryan, you are really a gentle person."

"The world can accommodate gentleness, but it cannot accommodate saints. You have to distinguish the difference clearly. Ying, do you want to do something for them?"

"Yeah, but I don't know what to do." Sakura nodded first, then shook her head, and asked Raven to send a plane to pick them up. This was a holy act, and she wouldn't even think about it.

Ryan thought for a moment and replied, "Then do what you can, and do what you won't regret."

The gem-like purple eyes widened slightly, and the gentle yet cold-blooded assassin nodded slightly.

"I see."

Sakura walked away. There was no need to blame her or say anything righteous. You just had to fully respect her ideas.

Ryan watched her scrape moss for the women, mend clothes for the children, or give first aid to the injured. Gradually, he discovered that most heroes had one thing in common:

Being in purgatory, they yearn for light, and even if it takes a thousand calamities, they still long for a home. Perhaps it is because of this characteristic that they have not become carriers of the Herrscher?

Ryan didn't know the answer. He preferred to do something efficient and just watched quietly until the sky outside the cave darkened.

The whole day passed like this. Ryan didn't talk to anyone, nor did he contact the other two teams. He just watched Sakura busy herself.

Perhaps it was an illusion, but Ryan felt that the dejected atmosphere seemed to have disappeared a little. At least there was a strong warrior to help. The people struggling to survive felt a little more relaxed, and when they saw the pile of food that Sakura brought back, they finally smiled.

Like candlelight, it can only illuminate a little darkness around it, but it is indeed light.

Ryan's lips curled up unconsciously. He was used to passionate speeches and tired of grand blueprints. Looking at this small candlelight, he felt satisfied. At least it was really glowing.

"You are different from what I imagined." The bearded man climbed up the cave with a surprised expression. "I thought you would say something shameless or promise to rescue us."

"Does that make sense? Even if I inform the Fire Chaser Moth to send a helicopter, you will die within a year, or be thrown into the laboratory to make some small contributions to the future of mankind." Ryan sideways glanced, He knew what this man was doing.

They hid in the small room and observed all day, with their hands on the detonator. They had no hope, but they didn't want to be dragged back and tortured. Since they were already dead, why should they care when they would die.

"Has the Fire Moth been here before?"

"Well, they tricked the people away, and then threw them back not long after. I heard that they injected some medicine and wanted to see the effect. I am really grateful to the Honkai beast that killed them."

"You hate them?"

"Of course." The bearded man's eyes were full of hatred, and he said in a hoarse voice:

"I was once a member of the Fire Moth Chaser. During the great retreat, I was left here with the entire squadron, and then I survived among the Honkai beasts, the dead soldiers, and the mutant beasts. You know, they had the nerve to contact me later and hope that I could help them recruit volunteers!"

"No wonder you said welcome to hell. Spiritual betrayal is more despairing than physical pain." Ryan had a blank expression on his face, not affected by this tragic experience. "I'm not making excuses for them, but if humans want to survive, their bottom line must be lowered again and again, just like you. The instinct of survival overrides all morals."

The bearded man was speechless. If this man suddenly took out a special medicine to cure the Honkai disease, he guaranteed that this dejection would immediately turn into greed.

Everyone wants to live, but they just can't.

"That's why I feel that you two are different. You didn't say nice words, but she was really helping. Even though it's useless, at least it makes us feel like we haven't been completely abandoned." The bearded man answered silently, revealing a sad smile.

"I still have friends out there. Maybe humanity won't perish after all. Maybe civilization will continue. At least this responsibility is in the hands of people like you, which is much better than those people."

As he spoke, he pulled out an old notebook from his camouflage uniform and put it in Ryan's hand.

"This is what I have recorded in the past six months. It may be useful to you. After all, I used to be an agent of the Intelligence Department."

The cover of the notebook was already mottled. Ryan stroked it, feeling surprised and sarcastic at the same time.

This is much more useful than mental induction. For example, most of the people in this cave know nothing, and this bearded man is a former agent and has some resistance to mental erosion, so it is not so easy to get the answers from him.

His purpose was just to get intelligence, but he didn't expect to get it without any effort.

"Do you think we are honest?"

"That's partly the reason. The main reason is that I hate people who hide in the back and give orders, and treat living people as consumables. There are too few big figures like you who are willing to go deep into the front line, Dr. Ryan."

Ryan was not surprised to see the bearded man reveal his identity. Since he was from the Intelligence Department, he must have read the information about the Third Herrscher. All he wanted was to be treated as a human being.

Ordinary soldiers would feel disgusted when seeing these Honkai disease patients. Even though the Medical Department has already stated that the disease is not contagious between people, they are still rejected as monsters. The only value of their existence in the world is to be exploited as research material.

"I'm not a big shot. I'm just a survivor like you." Ryan replied calmly without any pride.

"But you have the power."

Ryan glanced at him and pointed to the busy cave: "So I am also facing a Herrscher, who needs to protect more people and bear more responsibilities, just like you."