I'm Not a Flame-Chaser - Chapter 614

The "Departure" of the Heavens: Chapter Thirty - Chaos Will Follow

Lin walked up to the Jackal, who was tightly bound by ropes, and without any hesitation, he casually ripped off her mask amidst her resentful and furious gaze.

The Jackal who wanted to strip others of their masks ended up having his mask stripped off instead; this is undoubtedly an absolute disgrace.

After Lin took off his mask, he didn't even look at her directly, which shows that this action was purely to humiliate her!

At this moment, Lin had utterly humiliated the Jackal... This was the ultimate humiliation!

"Let me go, you slut... mmm mmm mmm!" Just like before, before she could finish speaking, Lin cut her off and stuffed a wad of cloth into her mouth.

Lin then casually tossed the Jackal's mask aside, picked up the Jackal was unable to move or speak and could only frantically twist its body, opened the door, and rushed out.

Three...

Two...

One.

The explosions shook the entire industrial zone and the people of Sky City. With explosions occurring one after another in the Shencheng Pharmaceuticals industrial zone, no matter how it was explained, it was enough to cause the pent-up panic to erupt all at once.

Lin, who had already left the underground and arrived on the surface with the Jackal, was greeted by a patrolman who had heard the commotion. Before the man could react, Lin kicked him on the head, and the man passed out without even uttering a sound.

Then Lin quickly stripped the guard naked and changed his clothes. The Jackal kept whimpering when it saw Lin taking off his clothes, but Lin ignored it. After putting the guard's helmet on, he put the Jackal and the unconscious guard together, and then removed the cloth from the Jackal's mouth.

"You damned ant! Weren't you already infected with neurotoxins?! Did that bastard Night Owl lie to me?!"

As soon as she took off the cloth, she heard the Jackal's hysterical cursing. In her mind, she couldn't have made a mistake. Even if she had underestimated Lin and was captured, it was the Night Owl's fault.

This time, Lin kindly answered her question.

He took out a neurotoxin syringe in front of the Jackal and then plunged it into its neck.

Oh right, this guy looted a lot of industrial areas... Since he has a neurotoxin... then he... must also have an antidote...

Since Raven had already entered the sanatorium to hibernate when Night Owl arrived in Sky City, the handover of matters and tasks was carried out by Jackal on Raven's behalf. She did not tell Night Owl any information about Lin. In her opinion, Lin was just a mouse with slightly better talent but who only knew how to hide, and there was no need to take him seriously.

The Jackal glared resentfully at the helmeted man who didn't want to say a word to her. Would she reflect on her arrogance, which led to the failure of the experiment and the destruction of the plan?

Judging from her eyes, no.

She would only blame her subordinates, colleagues, and enemies for her mistakes, and would never think that she herself was wrong... even when the consequences of her mistakes had already defeated her.

After the Jackal closed her eyes and fell unconscious, Lin turned off the communicator terminal he had taken from her. The only sentence Lin had specifically asked her to say should have been effectively transmitted to the ears of the World Serpent executive codenamed Night Owl.

After crushing the communicator, Lin ran outside. Along the way, he encountered many patrolling guards who came to his aid. He pretended to be injured and told them that the intruder was inside.

Patrolmen kept running past him, and no one questioned him. After all, every attack on the enemy before this was a legitimate invasion and a legitimate departure. The characteristics of each intruder had been deeply ingrained in his mind. For example, the man wearing a mask and a trench coat was very easy to recognize.

After returning to the ground floor of the industrial building, Lin took a deep breath, then spread his arms wide and shouted with all his might—

"Explosion! Explosion! There's an attack!"

"The masked man escaped, and Lord Jackal has been captured!"

He rushed out of the building while screaming at the top of his lungs, and what he shouted caused chaos among the arriving troops.

The image of the masked man in the trench coat, who appeared and disappeared without a trace, was deeply etched in their minds. This time, he was clearly captured, but he still managed to escape and blow up the industrial building that had already been bombed once again. Even the disciplined troops couldn't help but waver.

Of course, this period of chaos didn't last long, and soon a leader reprimanded Lin, telling him not to disrupt morale.

However, Lin still achieved his goal. At this moment, the entire Shencheng Pharmaceuticals Industrial Zone was in complete chaos. No one knew where the intruder was or what he was doing. They were like a group of headless flies, running around searching for the masked trench coat man that no one had seen.

No one noticed that the guard who had been shouting at the beginning had disappeared without a trace.

Yesterday, after stealing Gray Serpent's eyes from Rita, Lin used Gray Serpent's intelligence network to monitor the movements of the entire Sky City. He noticed that a large number of foreign troops had entered Sky City under the pretext of "eliminating the Honkai disaster" to provide reinforcements.

He knew at that time that World Serpent had decided to reinforce its forces due to the excessive uncertainties in Sky City, and it was very likely that it had also reinforced an officer, because Raven was too badly injured to continue the plan, and Lin, Kiana and Rita were all beings who could threaten the experiment. It would be too easy for an accident to happen if a Jackal with no combat ability was in charge of the overall situation.

However, Lin did not expect that Night Owl would ambush him at the signal tower. In order to avoid arousing suspicion among the citizens before the experiment was completed and to conceal their purpose, World Serpent did not deploy mechs to defend the signal tower. Lin guessed that they probably planned to set up troops around the signal tower the day before the experiment officially began.

Therefore, when Night Owl ambushed him and injected him with neurotoxin, Lin did indeed make a mistake. However, Night Owl did not expect that Lin's drug resistance was extraordinary. In addition, since only half of the neurotoxin was injected, he did not lose consciousness on the spot.

After confirming Lin's symptoms of poisoning, Night Owl assumed that Lin was completely unconscious and took him back to the central industrial area. On the way, Lin injected himself with the antidote and finally, with Night Owl's help, successfully arrived in front of the Jackal.

Then, what just happened happened.

Lin sat down against the backrest, moved his fingers slightly, and then heard Night Owl's command from the communication terminal inside his helmet.

"All patrol units, assemble immediately. The target has infiltrated our forces. Search all personnel in the surrounding area. Anyone who disobeys orders will be shot on the spot."

Lin exhaled, then pushed the control lever, and the heavy mechanical Titan strode towards the rendezvous point.

In a dark corner not far away, the unconscious mech pilot lay motionless.

The Journey Begins in the Sky: Chapter Thirty-One - The Night Owl and the Necklace

Night Owl discovered that Lin had infiltrated the patrol earlier than Lin had expected. It seems that this person is much more cautious than Jackal. No wonder he took over Raven's job.

Lin, standing among the mechs, arrived at the assembly point. He saw the man, who looked like he hadn't woken up yet, frowning. Perhaps it was because Jackal and Raven, the two main leaders, were no longer there, and it was his turn, someone who was only good at behind-the-scenes work and combat, to step into the spotlight to command, so he was somewhat unaccustomed to it.

Fortunately, his abilities are not bad.

"From now on, no one is allowed to act without my orders, or they will be treated as intruders." Night Owl walked up to the patrolmen first, then sighed. "Squad One, remove your helmets and identify yourselves. Second and Squad Three, on guard."

Instead of having everyone verify their identities simultaneously, searching one team while having two other teams on guard minimizes the possibility of intruders interfering.

It must be said that Night Owl is smarter than Jackal; at least in Lin's opinion, he is more suitable for planning and Jackal a team.

But clearly, he overlooked one thing.

That means the orders are only effective for subordinates.

Lin, however, is not one of the World Serpent.

Lin's fingers moved across the buttons on the control lever. The Titan he had stolen was the Thunderclap Mech Assault Type. He hadn't looked at the specific number, but he knew it was a mid-to-long-range firepower Titan Mech, less mobile than the standard type next to it, and without melee weapons.

However, the performance of a machine does not determine the outcome of a battle.

As he looked at the familiar interface, his heart gradually calmed down.

This operating system is still being used by the World Serpent even after 50,000 years.

Kevin, are we both nostalgic people?

He skillfully pressed dozens of buttons on each of his left and right joysticks, instantly positioning more than a dozen target reticles at their designated locations. Due to the limitations of the World Serpent Titan Mech compared to the Fire Moth, which did not take into account the pilot's physical abilities and operational limits, the World Serpent Titan mech had far too many functional limitations, limiting the number of targets it could lock onto.

He pressed the fire button.

"Drop--"

The six missile launchers mounted on each side of the Titan's fuselage opened simultaneously, along with the support structures on its legs. This action drew everyone's attention to the Titan. Night Owl reacted faster than anyone else; he immediately took evasive action and shouted, "Attack that Titan..."

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom!"

Six missiles fired in unison from the missile launcher and struck the main target before anyone else could react!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Almost all the melee standard Titans around were hit in the legs at the same time, their mechanical legs were blown to pieces, and they lost their mobility in an instant!

Lin then continued to pull the trigger expressionlessly. The small turret deployed and shattered the muzzles of the other firepower-type Titans that had reacted. In just a few seconds, before the other Titans could even aim at him, he had already disarmed them.

After Lin finished unleashing his firepower, only a handful of Titan Mech remained in normal working order. One of them, a standard Titan that had managed to activate its energy shield and whose legs had not been damaged, charged toward Lin's Titan!

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Like a battle of giants in mythology, the muffled thuds and vibrations of mechanical creations running around made it impossible for anyone to stand up straight.

The weakness of the firepower-type Titan is its melee combat. Once a standard Titan, which specializes in melee combat, gets close, it has no chance to fight back.

Then, to everyone's horror, the firepower-type Titan, which they considered incredibly cumbersome, retracted its support frame and then, with the agility of a human, twisted its body and directly used its missile launcher to ram into the oncoming standard Titan like a hook punch!

"Bang!"

The armored version of the Titan was not as tough as the standard version, so the missile launcher was smashed to pieces on the spot. However, this also knocked the standard version of the Titan to the ground. The pilot tried his best to control the Titan and get it back up to attack, but found that the armored version of the Titan, which was usually as slow as a tortoise, stepped on his body at a faster speed and then aimed its machine gun at the vulnerable parts of his leg joints!

"Bang! Smash!"

Like a seasoned butcher dissecting a lamb, using the machine gun as a butcher's knife, the Titan was dissected like a butcher, its mechanical limbs' transport joints all shattered.

At this moment, the other guards attacked him with their weapons. Bullets rained down on the outer shell. Lin glanced at the damage to the machine and then quickly set the self-destruct program.

"——"

Lin spotted a figure on Titan's thermal sensor. A man wearing an optical camouflage cloak was attacking him from a tricky angle. But what made Lin frown slightly was that the thermal sensor showed that this man, codenamed Night Owl, seemed to have more than half of his body that was not human.

Cyborgs?

Lin Shen took a deep breath, then removed his helmet and put on his mask. After setting up the final operation, he pulled the ejection device.

"Whoosh!"

With a strong gust of wind, Lin was launched out, and Titan entered its pre-planned route, leaving the wrecked standard Titan and heading towards a desolate, uninhabited area.

The barrage followed Lin, who immediately hid in cover after landing. Just then, the sound of wind breaking came, and Lin kicked without turning his head.

"Bang!"

Clearly, the attacker did not expect that Lin could pinpoint his location without even looking, nor did he realize that the same move would be far less effective when used on Lin a second time.

Kicked into the non-mechanical part of his body, Night Owl grunted and took a few steps back. Then he saw Lin raise his pistol and aim it at him!

His pupils contracted, and he stepped back!

"Slap! Slap!"

Two gunshots rang out in quick succession. Night Owl raised his mechanical arm with all his might to protect his head and body. However, a second after the gunshots, his sensors told him that Lin was not aiming at his head.

"Gurgle..."

Night Owl's legs gave way and he fell to his knees. He stared in shock at the fact that his leg, which was smaller than a thumb, had been hit. Before he could continue to be surprised, a foot slammed into his face!

"Bang!"

The immense force sent Night Owl flying through the air, landing more than twenty meters away.

"Cough cough cough..." Night Owl, whose nose was bleeding, gasped for breath. He realized that he had to raise his head to confirm the enemy's position and actions, otherwise Lin would kill him easily.

He braced himself on the ground with both hands, struggled to lift his head, but his breath caught in his throat.

The masked man squatted down, picked up a necklace with a blue crescent moon hanging from it, and examined it in his hand.

Oh no, how could the necklace be...?

"Give it back to me!" The usually carefree Night Owl was more agitated than ever before. He forgot that he might be executed by the man in front of him at any moment and shouted hysterically.

After hearing his words, Lin gave him a cold glance, then turned and walked into the shadows, casually tossing the necklace to him.

"Clatter."

The azure necklace fell into the hand of the Night Owl. He stared blankly at the departing figure of the man in the blue robe. Behind him, the guards swarmed in, their dense footsteps engulfing him.

The Journey Begins in the Sky: Chapter Thirty-Two - Crisis Relief

Is it over?

It should end now.

Lin pulled his hood down and strode quickly through the brightly lit streets. His eyes were cold, but his fingers unconsciously loosened their grip.

Before destroying the Eos's engine, Lin specifically interrogated the Jackal World Serpent about whether there were any other devices that could release large amounts of Honkai Energy, and about the completion targets of the experiments set for them by the World Serpent.

Lin doesn't need to torture her; he has plenty of ways to make the Jackal feel pain. Besides, no matter how much the Jackal can't recognize each other, it at least knows the principle of "as long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood to burn." Even if Lin kills her and goes to the archives to look it up himself, it's no problem. Asking her will just save more time.

Therefore, she could only shamefully reveal that only the Eos engine could generate Honkai Energy covering the entire city, and that the World Serpent had told her to complete the experiment by next week at the latest.

Lin understands Kevin well; he doesn't obsess over the completion of a task. When an experiment fails, Kevin won't try again in the short term. Moreover, all three executives of World Serpent are currently injured to varying degrees, severely impacting the execution of the plan.

So now, the crisis in Sky City should be considered resolved.

The gloom that had hung over the city was finally dispelled, and light returned.

"This is the antidote you need."

Mei returned to the place where she had met Rita. Before handing over the antidote, she asked, "Tell me Kiana's whereabouts first."

"Hehe, Mei is really meticulous."

"It's just that I'll be less polite and more wary of you."

Rita didn't seem particularly surprised or resistant. She showed Mei a coordinate and said, "Miss Kiana's base is located here. We've temporarily allied in this city, so there's a high probability she'll be at the base if I don't notify her to join us."

"..." Mei marked the coordinates, then gave the antidote to the person she still didn't like, and also gave Rita the information on the World Serpent so that she could verify the authenticity of the antidote herself. After that, she turned and left without saying a word.

"Wait a minute, Mei." Rita Wenya's voice stopped Mei in her tracks.