Chapter 123 Lina...sister?
"Lina!" After the smoke cleared, the team members rushed forward anxiously.
None of them expected that Lina would rush into the center of the explosion alone to save people.
At that moment, facing the horrific explosion, everyone thought she was going to die.
"Are you okay?" The team members surrounded him.
"It's okay." Lina tried to put on a reassuring smile: "Professor Victor's invention is very powerful...but the full-power output of the Hextech shield consumes too much energy. It has almost consumed all the energy of this Hextech gem."
"But fortunately... no one was injured in the end, right?"
Even though she said so, the team members, whose hearts had been on a roller coaster ride, could not relax so quickly.
Someone couldn't help but look at the blue-haired girl. Jinx, who was still slumped in Lina's arms, yelled in anger and fear:
"Hey! Little devil, what are you doing jumping out all of a sudden?!"
"What a bummer! You almost killed us all just now, do you know that?"
"I..." Jinx's pupils were blank for a moment.
She seemed to have some kind of illness, and a thin layer of cold sweat instantly seeped out of her forehead. She even had difficulty breathing:
"I...I just wanted to help."
"Help?" The team members were still angry: "You are doing more harm than good!"
"You rashly jumped out without even looking at the situation clearly. You call that helping!"
These leaders are also from Zaun, and they don't speak as politely as the well-mannered political cadres in TV dramas.
But Jinx, the crazy girl who was used to laughing, scolding and being completely immune to the Zaun dialect, was like a spoiled young lady from Piltover and started crying when she was scolded.
“I, I didn’t mean it… I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it…” Jinx couldn’t stop tears from flowing from the corners of her eyes.
It wasn't acting, she really cried.
At this time, she looked haggard and her temperament was delicate.
She doesn't look like that crazy girl Jinx at all, but rather looks a bit like...that Bakugo who hasn't grown up.
"I'm sorry... I really just wanted to help... I didn't know... I didn't know it would be like this..."
Jinx's eyes were blank and she was mumbling to herself, as if she was apologizing to Lina and the others with tears in her eyes, but it also seemed like she was talking to the air .
It's like I'm possessed by some kind of demon.
"Hey, girl..." This made the team members at a loss: "No, don't be like this... We said something too harsh, don't take it to heart."
"I was wrong... I'm sorry, I was wrong!" Jinx's symptoms became more serious.
She struggled and twisted her limbs, curling up desperately, as if she was trying to avoid some ghost that only she could see and that did not exist at all.
Finally, Lina hugged her tightly again: “Don’t be afraid, sister is here.”
"..." Jinx suddenly became quiet.
She was breathing heavily in Lina's arms, and the sweat on her forehead even soaked Lina's long black hair.
Finally, after taking a few breaths to adjust, her blue eyes, which were sparkling with tears, finally regained clarity.
"My name is Lina, what's your name?" Lina stroked her hair like a sister and asked comfortingly.
"J...Jessica." Jinx tried to regain her status as an Ace Agent.
"Jessica." Lina asked her again: "Are you worried about something?"
"Did we make you think of something bad?"
In fact, everyone can see that Jinx's strange behavior of emotional breakdown, tears, and even talking to the air was probably not just because of what just happened.
"..." Jinx remained silent for a long time.
Yes, she just thought of Milo, Craig, Vander... her friends and adoptive father who were accidentally killed by her with good intentions but ended up with bad results.
“It’s okay if you don’t want to talk about it.” Lina comforted: “Jessica, although I don’t know what you have been through before, but…”
"Whether it's what happened today or in the past, as long as you are helping out out of kindness, then you are not wrong."
"I..." Jinx suddenly raised her eyes and asked with concern: "Am I really not wrong?"
Lina did not answer directly, but just stared at Jinx's young and tender face and repeated Levi's words:
"I know a friend whose sister is just like you today. She did something bad with good intentions, which led to very bad consequences."
"She felt bad about it, but our president said:"
"When the world requires underage children to pick up guns and fight, it is meaningless to discuss the right and wrong gains and losses of this child personally."
Jinx: “…”
She was silent for a long time, not knowing whether she heard it or not.
Suddenly, Jinx said, "Sister Lina...Sister...Lina..."
Before I could even finish my words, I was stuck on how to address him.
The word "sister" means a lot to her.
"Jessica?" Lina keenly noticed that this girl was still worried.
"Do you have any family?" she asked.
"Yes... No, there are none more." Jinx answered subconsciously.
"I understand." Lina sighed softly and hugged her more gently:
"You can call me sister, Jessica. If you want."
"Lina...sister." Jinx seemed to be overcoming some psychological barrier. It took her a long time to finally utter these two words: "Why did you save me?"
She cares a lot.
Even her real sister would abandon her, let alone a stranger.
"Because I'm the leader." Lina said a little proudly, "This is what I should do."
It sounds like a sample elementary school student's composition.
But Jinx could somehow tell that Lina meant what she said.
"Leader..." All those boring theories that she had forced herself to memorize seemed to come alive at this moment.
While the team members were busy checking the bodies and preparing to finish off the attackers , among the "corpses" whose blood was dripping and prosthetic limbs were deformed by the bomb...
Suddenly, a living creature jumped up!
"Bastard!" he roared, dragging his charred and deformed body, and stood up with red eyes.
This is the leader of those cyborg warriors, the "Iron Man" whose entire body has been mechanically modified.
Although his whole body was twisted and shattered by the bomb, he still relied on his strong body to survive the terrible explosion.
Because he is a highly modified cyborg, this guy can't even feel pain.
No matter how badly damaged he was, as long as his limbs could move, he could continue to fight.
"Go to hell! " The Tin Man took advantage of pretending to be dead and launched a surprise attack on the leaders who were approaching him.
His gorilla mechanical arm, with its broken skin and twisted and deformed shape, was still performing its reliable mechanical functions and bursting out with terrifying power.
However, these team members were all mortals. Facing a close-range sneak attack from a powerful cybernetic warrior, they simply couldn't dodge.
"Stop!" Lina reacted in time.
The booster nozzle behind her spewed out flames again, pushing her to fly several meters quickly, and using her body to protect her teammates.
The next second, the Tin Man's heavy fist flew through the air.
But the Hextech armor of Korina did not open any Hextech shield to protect her like it did just now.
The punch hit her lower abdomen without reservation, knocking her heavily to the ground.
"Lena..." Jinx's eyes suddenly widened.
Only then did she recall that Lina had almost used up all the energy of the Hextech armor in order to open the shield to save her.
And Hextech armor without energy is nothing more than a heavy iron shell.
Jinx could see that Lina's face was pale at this time.
She is scared .
Yes, she was not a battle-hardened warrior at all, but just an ordinary Zaun who had undergone several training sessions.
Without that hextech armor, she was nothing.
But Lina still rushed to the front.
No, not just Lena.
Although the team members all looked panicked and were instinctively afraid of the Tin Man's power, in the end no one retreated.
The moment Lina staggered and fell, someone had already rushed to the front of the battle line like a relay and protected her with their unprotected flesh and blood.
"What a bunch of lunatics!" Jinx thought.
No wonder there are rumors that the leaders are a group of "robots" brainwashed by magic.
It’s not a robot, how could it be so reckless?
Jinx, don't be fooled by them.
What is Sister Lina... Even the real sister is unreliable, so what’s so good about her?
You will no longer have relatives or friends, and Hilco is your only support.
"Hey!" The Tin Man's heavy punch attacked Lina again.
Jinx stood up.
"Stinky tin cans—"
Jinx took a step forward and loaded a bullet into her double-barreled shotgun:
"If you dare to touch her, I will blow your head off!"
