I am the former civilized hero.

"Well, let's go. I'll treat you. I learned a lot from you today."

“What can you learn from me?”

"It's a spirit. Hard work can really change your destiny."

I work hard just because I am weak. What is there to learn from this?

Hua muttered to himself, not quite understanding what Ying was thinking, but he was still very happy that someone was treating him, so he took Ying's hand and started jogging.

"Slow down, aren't you tired?" Ying shouted helplessly, thinking that Hua was only nineteen years old, and no matter how strong and hard she tried, she was essentially just a young girl, so she just let her do whatever she wanted.

But just after turning a corner, Hua suddenly retreated and crashed into Ying's arms. Fortunately, the airbag was big enough, so he was not hurt.

"What are you doing......"

"Shh, Sister Ying, look quickly." Hua lowered his voice and pointed to the other side of the corner with a strange expression.

What the hell is going on?

Sakura looked suspicious and silently poked her head out, just in time to see another pink-haired girl coming out of the room, looking around furtively, looking like a thief.

"Hey, is this Alicia?"

"That's Sister Ellie, but isn't that Ryan's room? And did you notice her clothes? They're totally different from usual."

Everyone knew Alicia's taste in clothes, and the professional attire she was wearing now was certainly not her style, but Sakura already knew why Alicia was wearing it, even if it was somewhat unexpected for her to come out of Ryan's room so late at night.

Her nose moved slightly, and she immediately smelled a sour smell, then she turned her head away with a smile.

The girl hid in the shadows, the bright moonlight illuminating half of her face. She pursed her lips and frowned, but the sourness and entanglement could not be hidden at all.

"Are you jealous of Ellie?"

"A little bit, but more of it is fear. I think Sister Ai Li means too much to me, and she herself is far from being something I can handle."

We are not blind. We all know how much Ryan has sacrificed for Alicia. As for the Herrscher of Man incident, he almost bet on the fate of mankind. If you think about it carefully, a large part of the reason for controlling the Fire Moth is for Alicia.

How can this not be jealous? If you treat Alicia as a competitor, she will be a devil-level figure.

She has a very good personality, has deep feelings for everyone, and her appearance is impeccable. Her fighting ability is second only to Ryan. Anyone who sees them thinks they are a perfect match made in heaven.

But Ying was smiling, even though it was a very faint smile, and Hua caught it and patted her.

"Sister Ying, you're still laughing, your home has been robbed."

"Why aren't you laughing? Mebius has done this kind of thing more than once, and in terms of aggressiveness, Alicia is much worse than her."

"Mobius? That platypus is nothing. I'm not afraid of him." Hua raised his chin and snorted softly. "She is tough and likes to use some tricks. She doesn't pose much threat at all. I'm not trying to disparage her. If Padu gets serious, she can break through her defense. She can be said to be the lowest creature in the food chain."

Fortunately, Mobius was not there. If he had seen Hua's expression, he would have rushed out of the laboratory and fought to the death.

Ying almost couldn't hold it in, but her thoughts were surprisingly consistent with Hua's. Mobius was indeed not a threat. Every time she saw her smug look, she wanted to laugh.

But Alicia is different. She was born for love and meets all human definitions of beauty. Fortunately, her ideas are also different from those of humans.

Glancing at the white moonlight that filled the corridor, she suddenly asked, "What if I asked Alicia to take my place?"

"That proves that Ai Li has no intention of joining the battlefield, which is still favorable..." Hua analyzed instinctively, and then slowly opened his mouth, "No, Sister Ying, why did you do this?"

This is not like inviting a wolf into the house, it's clearly like inviting a Tyrannosaurus Rex. If Alicia really thought about it, the outcome would be decided in an instant.

Because Alicia is not as tacky as us. We can't win anyway, so we might as well try another method.

Ying thought silently in her heart, but shook her head gently at Hua who was shocked: "Don't ask, this is good for you, and for me too."

......

The clacking sound of typing stopped. Ryan took off his glasses and rubbed his swollen brows. He didn't know that a battle of wits was going on outside the door. During the break, he took a look at the things on the chair next to him.

They were a pair of black stockings that had just been taken off and still had body temperature.

"Alicea, you idiot, why did you learn from Mebius when there are so many people to learn from? No, it was Mebius, that bastard, who ruined my reputation by recording such ridiculous things."

Ryan gritted his teeth and recalled what had just happened. There was some ambiguity, but it was quickly dispelled by the blood pressure.

As a decent person, Alicia enjoyed Ryan's massage and insisted on paying for it. Then she took off her stockings and said that she got the inspiration from someone.

There was no need to think about who that someone was. It was Mobius. Even Ryan could guess the whole process:

Super Ellie sneaked into the laboratory, broke the firewall, found Mebius's top-secret files, her mouth turned into an 'O' shape on the spot, she copied it with a blushing face, and then recorded it all.

"It's sad that a respectable gentleman is misunderstood like this." Ryan sighed, picked up the black stockings on the chair, rubbed them in his hands, and then calmly put them into his pocket.

Don't get me wrong, this is a precious fragment of Yingjie and must be well preserved.

"When I have time, I will also have to hack into Mebius's personal computer to see what this idiot has recorded. I guess there's a lot of dark history or something like that."

After secretly setting up a side quest, he turned his eyes back to the screen, rubbing his hands in his pockets gently, and his expression gradually became focused.

One is a global map, where the "fishing net" is being tightened at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per day, and the movements of Honkai beasts can be basically predicted; the other is a typing software, which just happened to be at the point where the term "Human Instrumentality Project" was explained.

As expected, after the continuous dropping of geological probes, the Honkai beasts had few options. As long as they could not hide, Ryan had a hundred ways to kill them. If he didn't try hard, the damage caused would not be great.

As expected, most of you are concentrating. Do you want to fight me to the death?

Apart from being cohesive as one, it seems that it can no longer create value. As for what other functions it has, Ryan can't think of it, nor does he want to think about it. This is a question that another person should grasp. Anyway, he will deal with it according to the circumstances.

After a short break of half a minute, he put his hands on the keyboard again. As the ancients said: use words to express meaning, Ryan felt that he had almost reached this stage.

Now that it was all beginning to wrap up, he was looking forward to whether he would survive or turn into orange juice.

Chapter 7: Overcoming all obstacles! (5K)

Da da da.

Ryan was walking towards the bridge as his leather boots touched the steel floor. The vast sea of ​​clouds and the blue sky outside the porthole made him feel very good, and the smile on his lips never disappeared.

Typing all night brought me a good mood. Even though no one is paying me for my work now and few people are following me, I feel a sense of relief and pride suddenly as a long project that has lasted for several years is about to be completed.

If I write a few more chapters, I won't be considered a eunuch. Just look at my sense of responsibility. I will finish the book even before the end of the world. I think this is unique in the history of literature.

"Ryan, you seem very happy?" Sakura had been observing silently, and the man could not hide his joy at all.

"Well, I can't say what it is specifically, but it's always good to be in a good mood to face new challenges." Ryan fooled around, and the shame of being an author made it difficult for him to speak.

This was a lie, he knew exactly where the joy came from.

Sakura frowned slightly, and when she turned around and saw Alicia, she understood, because the latter showed an expression of "as expected". She subconsciously slowed down her pace and actively used Honkai energy to connect with Alicia.

"Ellie, did you give Ryan a gift again?"

"You figured this out? Are all you assassins so scary?"

You're being too obvious. Why do you have such a 'scary' expression on your face?

Ying instead felt the urge to complain, so she asked directly: "So what did you give me? I haven't seen Ryan so happy in a long time."

She was really curious. Ryan was under too much pressure and often had a fake smile on his face. Nothing could make him happy now.

"Ah... I'm embarrassed to say it." Alicia's face turned red all of a sudden. She didn't expect that Mobius' top-secret file would be so effective.

Ryan is really a hot-blooded boy. Although his habit is a bit unhealthy, I can obey it if it makes him happy.

Nothing was said, but Forget-me-not's eyes told it all.

Just when Alicia was wondering whether to give white or gray next time, Sakura looked at the straight back in front of her and had a rough guess.

No matter how powerful he is, he is essentially a man. Am I too reserved?

'What are these two people whispering about?'

Ryan had been observing the movements behind him, but unfortunately the two of them were using the "internal team communication" and he really couldn't hear anything. Then he thought that Ying knew what he was writing, so he stopped worrying.

Alicia is a golden wingman, she will definitely help me advance the progress.

click-

The automatic door of the bridge opened, and Ryan and Hua ran into each other. The girl quickly looked away and only glanced at Alicia secretly.

Why am I looking at her all day today? And I feel a little guilty.

Ryan looked back and forth without saying a word. The moment he stepped onto the bridge, he regained his composure and indifference.

Business was the most important thing, so he had to solve the current trouble first. According to his discussion with Alysia, the message conveyed by Calis was becoming more and more clear:

It's not that he wants to move towards the end, but that he has to move towards the end?

A 3D electronic sand table was projected in the center of the bridge, with hundreds of red and blue light spots scattered all over the world. After several days of deployment, a reconnaissance network covering the sky and the earth had taken shape, and during this time, other teams that were originally scattered around the world also gathered together.

Ryan took a look at the sand table and understood the situation:

With the Eastern European snowfield as the center, there are nearly a hundred red dots, bright or dark, distributed on the battle line with a diameter of thousands of kilometers. These are the targets found by geological detectors. It is no exaggeration to say that this number is a bit abnormal, but it also confirms Ryan's observations during this period.

The Honkai beasts are gathering and forming a corps-level scale, but the battle line is too large and too broad. For example, the Hyperion, [Tianhui] and [Gold] that fill the gap in the east are in Siberia, 1,500 kilometers away.

So there are some blue spots scattered around the Honkai Beast. To the south are the teams [Ao Mie] and [Scarlet] that came from the Middle East, and to the north are the [Ice] and [Savior] that bypassed the South Pole and crossed half the globe.

Because the number of fusion warriors is limited, and there are also a large number of drone mechas, all of which are remotely controlled by Prometheus, this large network will not be too sparse in the absence of strong interference.

"As expected, there is a record. Perhaps before attacking Alicia and the others, the Honkai beasts that were closer had already gathered in this area."

"You mean it's prepared for failure?" Hua asked with a questioning look.

"Well, smart criminals always think of an evacuation route before committing a crime. I've said it won't be easy to catch him." Ryan didn't show any discouragement. The previous battle was a lose-lose situation. The strength of that battle must have been wiped out, not to mention that he called in helpers to fight in a group.

The only surprise was that the opponent did not rush to recover its strength. Each of these red dots was tens to nearly a hundred kilometers apart. Logically speaking, it had entered the range of the big fish eat small fish game.

Was it because he was injured too badly and lost this ability? Or was it because he was afraid that he would be caught by me if he did it too obviously? Or was it...

Ryan fell into deep thought and threw out several hypotheses at once. The bridge was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. No one spoke to disturb him, but just focused their eyes on the silent man.

"Edwin, call out the reactions of all Honkai beasts around the world."

"Yes, Chief."

With the sound of keyboard tapping, the projection turned into a world map. The teams participating in the hunting came from all continents, throwing detectors as they went, basically dispelling most of the fog of war on the earth.

A few red dots stayed or went in the opposite direction, but because everyone was busy getting on with their journey, no one paid any attention to these fish that slipped through the net and just let them leave.

"This number doesn't put much pressure on us. Even if they were all gathered together, I could handle them all by myself."

The goal of all wars is to destroy the enemy's main force. Once the beasts in front of us are dealt with, the remaining soldiers will not be able to cause any trouble at all.

But Ryan not only did not feel relieved, but his heart was in his throat. According to his experience, such smooth and logical progress was not normal.

It fits the expectation very well. Even some doubts can be explained perfectly. Is this the only ability you can get after putting in so much effort?

Admittedly, the losses caused by this conspiracy were not small. A huge hole was blown in the European continent. If it were not for the restraining authority, even he would be injured. However, if the vision was expanded to the entire earth, the fierce battle of nearly a month would seem too easy.