I am the former civilized hero.

Fortunately, I finally got back before dawn.

Padua patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief. Tonight was really dangerous. If the masked man took action, she would probably die there.

"I will never go to a sanatorium again. It is just as scary as the rumors say."

She remembered the legend that anyone who caused trouble in the sanatorium would have a bad end. Only then did she realize that there was a terrifying madman living there.

Paduo tiptoed into the house and saw the big orange cat lying on its back snoring on the ground. She resisted the urge to rub its belly and prepared to get into bed.

"You're finally back."

Suddenly a voice came from behind. Padua trembled all over, and used her hands and feet to jump directly to the beam. She hugged the pillar with both hands and looked down, and saw Ryan sitting on the box.

"Mr. Adam, don't scare me."

She jumped down and looked at Ryan with a guilty look on her face: "Ahaha, I ate too much canned food at night and couldn't sleep, so I went for a walk."

Ryan didn't say anything, just stared at her expressionlessly. Padua fils stuttered and scratched her head on the spot.

"Walking is just one of the reasons. We went there mainly to sell things. After all, the family still has expenses to pay for."

Ryan still didn't speak, his expression and look didn't change, and beads of sweat suddenly covered Pado's forehead, and she lowered her head in dejection.

"Okay, okay. I'm going to go get some stock."

You see, I didn't ask anything, but you said it yourself.

Seeing the girl's 'super' psychological quality, Ryan smiled faintly: "What is restocking?"

"Just quietly take some away and give it to people who need it more."

"I see. It means stealing."

"It's not stealing!" Padu was anxious, scratching his head, not knowing how to explain. After a few seconds, he sighed and said, "Well, it's stealing, but I'm a chivalrous thief who only steals from the rich and gives it to the poor."

He is indeed a chivalrous thief. With Pado's skills, if he was willing to do evil, he would have become a hot commodity among all the major gangs long ago, and would not have lived in this remote corner.

Ryan admired her very much. How should I put it? Apart from being too weak, she had the demeanor of a knight, robbing the rich to help the poor, which was in line with people's fantasy of justice.

So he didn't tell Padua Ferris what happened tonight, and tried his best to keep her innocent. Otherwise, her frightened look would inevitably make people feel distressed.

"So who did you rob? And who did you help?"

"Oh, a speculative businessman who raises the price of grain several times every time there is a famine. I have been annoyed with him for a long time." Pado said seemingly casually, but in fact she was full of pride. She took off her coat to reveal her tube top, but suddenly realized that Ryan was a man, so she quickly put it back on.

"Then I gave the stolen food to the nursing home."

"nursing home?"

"Well, didn't we see the expelled Honkai patients during the day? I thought that food prices were high this year and the sanatorium must be very tight on money, so I decided to give them gifts. I'll leave after they give them. It's good to do good things without leaving a name."

Wow, you are still a living Lei Feng.

Ryan's smile became more and more obvious. He didn't need to create a character. The more he got to know her, the more he felt that Padua was worthy of the title of hero.

"At least on this dusky street, it sounds great."

"No way, we are so weak that we can't even defeat a Honkai beast. We can only do what we can to make our life worthwhile."

"When you are poor, you should take care of yourself; when you are rich, you should help the world. Not many people can do this. In a sense, we are the same kind of people."

Paduo had never been to school and did not quite understand the difficult sentence. After thinking about it, her eyes lit up and she quickly took out a tattered notebook to write it down.

"I have to write this down. It seems to make sense."

He is actually quite studious.

Ryan sat next to her and saw her holding the pen with her hand and writing words that looked like earthworms, which made him feel uncomfortable.

"I'll teach you how to write in my free time."

"Okay, I learned these words by eavesdropping in elementary school." Padu buried her head in writing while complaining with lingering fear: "By the way, it was really dangerous when I went to the sanatorium today. I met a lunatic wearing a mask, who was scarier than you."

Mask? Madman?

When Ryan heard these two key words, he immediately came to his senses.

Qianjie finally came to this dusk street!

Chapter 225 Why is there another woman beside you???

In the early morning, Ryan stood on the roof and could see through the holes between the tiles. Inside the house, Padua was sleeping on the floor in a big letter shape, drooling from the corners of her mouth. There was a kind of wild beauty in her sleeping posture.

What a terrible sleeping posture. I wrapped myself up like a caterpillar last night, but I was completely defenseless when I fell asleep.

Her two slender thighs were spread apart, and her right hand occasionally scratched her flat belly. She also muttered in her sleep things like "canned yellow peaches are delicious". She slept like a dead pig and would not wake up even if a stone was thrown on her head.

At first, Ryan put up the quilt for her several times, but later he gave up this useless effort. After spending two days with Padua, he couldn't describe the strange feeling he had.

Some are timid, some are kind, some are passionate, and some are brave.

Anyway, it's very comfortable. She's just a simple girl. You don't have to use up too many brain cells to get along with her.

"But fate is still very stubborn. Now that the Ice Herrs have gone into hiding, Qianjie still came to this Dusk Street."

Ryan sighed helplessly. In the original world line, Qianjie was injured after killing the Ice Herrscher, so he was picked up by Aponia. Now no one knew where the Herrscher was hiding, and he came.

It doesn't matter, Ryan is not interested in Qianjie's past, but this will make Dusk Street more dangerous.

That man didn't look like someone who could talk nicely. His intuition was extremely sharp, and it was unknown whether Vivi's toys could be hidden from him.

Ryan was in a dilemma. If he was discovered by Qianjie, there would definitely be a bloody battle. Although he was much stronger now than when he was in the desert and should be no match for Qianjie, he did not come to Dusk Street to kill people or make enemies.

"I must use all my strength to deal with Qianjie. Then I will be exposed. There are also an unknown number of Herrschers waiting for me. Is there any way to expose Qianjie first?"

If he goes into battle with Fire Moth or Herrscher, and I jump out to support him, maybe I can improve his favorability, but there is a problem there.

"Aponia hasn't had the fusion surgery yet. She may not be able to survive the aftermath of the battle. If she dies, my plan will have to be postponed by a large margin."

There are two anti-personnel special attack nuns among the Thirteen Heroes, one is Sakura from the physical department, and the other is Aponia from the spiritual department. In Ryan's plan, this nun is very important, so important that she is irreplaceable.

Ryan paced on the roof, but couldn't think of a good way to have the best of both worlds. However, thanks to Topado, the foreshadowing had already been laid.

There were trackers of those people in the food. The sanatorium must have entered the Fire Moth's field of vision, thinking that they had some kind of deal with him. After all, no normal person would think that the commotion last night was just to let Padufils send a few bags of rice in. Now there is something more important -

Jingle Bell.

The phone rang, and Ryan answered it without even looking at the contact person: "How's it going? Have you found any information about 'Dusk'?"

"Can you be less realistic and ask right away?" Mebius sat in front of the computer and rolled her eyes quietly. She swung her pen and the notebook on the desk was filled with information.

"So what do you want to do, chat?"

Why can't we just chat? Every time you go out, you just ask me for this and that. Have you ever considered my feelings?

And he doesn't even pay, he always gets it for free!

Mebius roared in her heart, but of course she couldn't say it out loud. She had to appear serious at a time like this, otherwise she would be ridiculed and lose face.

"Forget it. If Mei hadn't been dragged away to observe the imaginary space, I wouldn't have bothered to help."

“But you helped after all.”

"That is subject to conditions. Remember, call that wooden stake and ask it to find a house to live in. Why should it occupy your room as soon as it arrives?" Mebius' voice became sharp.

"But you live with me too, you obviously have your own place..."

"Huh? How dare you go back on your word!"

"Okay, okay, I'll call her when I'm free. Now we're operating in secret, so don't waste time. Even if there's interference, the Intelligence Department can still locate the signal." Ryan spoke faster, sounding anxious.

Oh, I don't know when I'll be free. You guys are treating my room as an entertainment room. If no one is watching, it might become a garbage dump.

Haha, I knew you were in a hurry and wouldn’t bargain.

Thousands of miles apart, both of them laughed, each mocking the other's stupidity and naivety.

Mebius stopped spinning his pen and coughed lightly: "I used the backdoor left by Mei to hack into the central database. Please listen carefully to the following abnormalities."

Is the central database your public toilet? How can you come and go as you please?

Ryan complained in his mind while writing down every word. According to Mebius, the code name "Dusk" did not exist in the Fire Moth. It was speculated that it was a vest on top of a vest, but she did find the "Dusk Project" in the database.

This plan was proposed about fifty years ago, with the aim of studying the long-term effects of Honkai energy on the human body and then using genetic technology to adjust these effects.

Unfortunately, the time is too long and the detailed information has long been lost. We only know that the predecessor of the Fire Moth set up five test sites around the world. Later, when the organization was reorganized, this research with extremely negative public opinion was terminated.

"This is normal. The original intention of setting up the Fire Moth was to eliminate the Honkai energy. I remember the original slogan was to build a 'blue and pure world'. Later, they found that the Honkai energy could not be eradicated, so they changed it to the current slogan."

"It's foolish to not change because of fear and to regard all evolution as negative." Mebius snorted disdainfully.

"Do you think everyone loves to commit suicide like you?"

"Haha, I have another important piece of information, but it seems you don't want to hear it."

"Come on, I'm talking about myself."

That's more like it. Hey, I think I found a way to control him. As long as it's business, this bastard won't dare to be sarcastic with me.

Mebius suddenly became cheerful, and then said seriously: "I found out that there were unusual transfers in the parliament. A Punishment Sword Squad was transferred to southern Europe, along with two high-ranking fusion warriors, one of whom is 'Ice Breaking Fist' Anderwich."

"Ice-Breaking Fist? He seems to be the one guarding the Antarctic refuge, a warrior from the Russian region." Ryan read the information and remembered this warrior, numbered CM006.

Due to his influence, at least the order of the fusion warriors was messed up. Mobius became No. 1, the original Long Aotian Kevin became No. 4, and Vivi, who had just undergone surgery recently, was simply ranked No. 17.

This also includes Ryan from 002, Ying from 003, Hua from 010, Hen from 011, and Alicia who has not undergone surgery yet, making a total of upper-level fusion warriors.

Compared to the billions of humans, this number is pitifully small, but it is countless times more than in the original history, because in the original timeline, the number of fusion warriors at this moment is 0.

"What are you thinking about? Why did you suddenly stop talking?" Mebius's perception was very sharp.

"Nothing. I just thought that if it weren't for the two of us pushing them forward, the carriers of these upper-level fusion warriors might have died at the hands of some Honkai beasts, and wouldn't have lived to have surgery at all, or might have simply become experimental consumables." Ryan shook his head. This was his greatest contribution.

He just corrected a lot of mistakes and reduced unnecessary losses, just like the 'King of Killers' who was killed before. If he hadn't jumped out to seek death, there should be nineteen of them now.

"Then you dug a hole for yourself. Originally, within the Fire Moth, except for that fat woman, no one could match you."

"Not necessarily. Among the eighteen people now, except for you, the rest are not specifically against me. They are not necessarily friends, nor are they necessarily enemies." Ryan was still confident, and he thought of Coleman.

This fusion warrior nicknamed 'Void' and numbered 015 is one of this type. He follows orders but also has his own opinions.

"It's up to you. I'm only responsible for the surgery." Mebius smiled subconsciously. She liked Ryan's confident tone, as if there were no problems in the world. "But let me correct you. There are no eighteen now. Some have died. But there are some you need to pay special attention to."

While the file was being transferred, Ryan switched to the mailbox and took a look. He paid a little attention to some people, such as a macho man dressed as women and a pair of pretty twin girls. He didn't know if they had appeared in the original world line.

The butterfly effect is too strong now. Perhaps in a city that was saved from destruction by Ryan, there is a genius who can become a "superman". Perhaps they have already joined the Fire Moths, but died in a trivial crusade.