In the middle of the night before the sun rose.
In the silent command center, lines of words appeared on the screen in front of Ai Qing as she typed on the keyboard.
[… After a comprehensive analysis of the intelligence collected by various departments, the Divine City is suspected to have the power of Hell behind it. Their motives are unknown, and the threat level is recommended to be raised.
Current suspects: Corpse Workshop, Human Exhibition Bureau, Tomb of the Returnless, Rancher, Withered King …]
The Danbo Inner Circle is temporarily stable, and there are signs of riots. Future forecast may be chaotic, but there is still a need to observe during this period … Involves the interim meeting of the P5 …]
When she wrote about the interim meeting of the P5, Ai Qing's fingers paused for a moment, hesitating whether to delete this line.
According to internal information, the proposals and objectives of this internal meeting of the Directorate of Defense were too serious. If the changes in the Danbo Inner Circle were connected, the situation may be further complicated.
After a short moment of contemplation, she continued writing the report.
Finally, she paused at the last line.
[Top secret target, No. S09 …]
In the silence, Ai Qing's fingers hovered above the case, pausing for a long time. Finally, slowly and surely, she wrote a conclusion: [Temporarily untraceable.]
Just like that, she pressed the send button.
There was a soft sound on the table.
The number on the counter changed.
— [7]
Ai Qing sighed silently and closed her eyes tiredly.
This time, they were even …
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In the middle of the night, in the hospital, Huai Shi inexplicably woke up from a dream.
To say that he woke up with a start was very problematic, because there was nothing that could affect the quality of a Young Arbiter of Life's sleep and make his soul spontaneously wake up from a deep sleep. It was not a stress response, but some changes that triggered the Stigmata and perception to naturally make him open his eyes, and then …
He saw a pair of dark eyes.
Almost, almost within reach!
"Did you miss me?"
She smiled and asked softly.
Huai Shi froze in place and almost screamed.
Ghost!
Immediately, he reacted. Oh, it's Tongi, then it's fine …
Huai Shi rubbed his face numbly. He couldn't figure out why she woke him up. He could only sigh helplessly. "Why are you floating in the air? Are you trying to scare me? "
"So calm? When he woke up and saw his big sister's face, shouldn't he be blushing and his heart racing? How disappointing. "
Tongi looked down and smiled. "Besides, I'm not floating. I'm standing properly. Well, I'm just a little closer."
Huai Shi followed her line of sight and met with an obstacle. He turned around and finally saw … to a certain extent, she was indeed standing on the wall beside him.
It was as if there was no such thing as gravity. Not even a strand of her hair was floating down, and the hem of her dress stayed where it was supposed to be.
How did he do it?
He was a fool.
But in order to prevent her from throwing out some strange settings to attack him, he could only pretend that he was used to it. He put his body back in its original position, face to face, and asked seriously,
"What is it?"
"Hmm? Can't I look for you if there's nothing? " Tongi looked lonely. "I just want to find someone to talk to. Why do you dislike me so much?"
Ha, woman.
Huai Shi was unmoved. He even had time to look at the balance in his account.
His money was still there!
Huai Shi suddenly became more and more surprised and incredulous.
It was as if the sun had risen from the west. The world seemed to have suddenly become a fantasy. Tongi actually stopped robbing him?
He was stunned for a long time. He looked at the woman in front of him uneasily and asked with concern, "Are you … okay?"
"I'm very good, very good. I even gained 200 grams. Sigh, I still need to drink less milk tea. "After that, she put the milk tea in her hand to her mouth, took two sips, and handed it over.
"Do you want it?"
Huai Shi's eyes twitched. He was about to refuse when he heard her sigh. "Speaking of which, don't you feel that something is wrong?"
"Hmm?" Huai Shi didn't understand.
Tongi shrugged and took a step back. Well, she floated up a little, giving Huai Shi some breathing space. "You might have misunderstood. Although I came at the right time, I didn't wake you up."
She looked at Huai Shi's phone regretfully. "You were already awake before they were ready to make a move."
"Hmm?"
Huai Shi frowned. He raised his hand and flipped open the Book of Destiny. He quickly flipped through his experiences in the past few days. Then, his frown deepened.
He felt that something was wrong … but he couldn't tell.
The page numbers in the Book of Destiny were no longer coherent. His memories seemed to have changed and were forcefully pieced together. The originally coherent matters had become loose.
Moreover, some of the contents were different. Wasn't he still tinkering with Qian Ye and Long Er to fight against Sheng Tianmu? Wasn't there an internal conflict between the five bosses? Why did it suddenly …
The words on the Book of Destiny suddenly blurred. Soon after, large sections of blacked out and deleted contents quickly appeared. Huai Shi felt as if he was struck by lightning.
Those blurry memories quickly changed. Very soon, they shrunk from their fleeting state to their current state. He was drenched in sweat.
What the hell!
This was the first time he had encountered such a phenomenon!
Logically speaking, only he had the right to change the Book of Destiny. To be exact, only Tongi existed as a 'branch'.
Without this pen, no item should be able to change the Book of Destiny!
However, his destiny and records had silently changed …
Could it be that other than himself, there was something else in this world that could affect the Celestial genealogy's source code?
"Don't think too much. There's no problem with the Book of Destiny. The only problem is you …"
Tongi explained, "The records of the Book of Destiny are indeed unchangeable and have the highest priority. However, in reality, its power is limited by its observation point, which is you.
Everything is recorded from your point of view. What it witnesses is everything you have experienced. If you can become a natural enemy in the future, it might be able to add in other people's perspectives that are related to you … Similarly, if what you have experienced changes, then the content will naturally be different. "
"What do you mean?" Huai Shi didn't understand.
"It's very simple," Tongi said, "It's just that the time has been changed."
"Huh?" Huai Shi felt that he was hallucinating.
Tongi said calmly, "Someone used the power of the Bifrost to perform a time jump and revise the events. Although it's a very small part, it still caused the distortion of the present situation to increase.
Well, it's obvious that the other party was quite restrained. In order to reduce everyone, they didn't implicate too many people. Probably only close to two thousand square kilometers of green land was eternally desertified. Ah, it should be two thousand nine hundred now. "
What the hell!
Huai Shi was stunned. He felt that everything was getting more and more mysterious.
"What the hell is this?!"
"Let me think. If I explain it in a way that you can understand, it's … 'load the file'?"
Tongi thought for a while and said seriously, "It's not satisfied with the original plot development. It violated the rules and made corrections to the details in an attempt to get a different result. Unfortunately, a person's power is limited after all. No matter how much effort you put in, most of it will only be in vain … "
"Wait!"
Huai Shi finally reacted. He subconsciously got up from the bed, raised his head, and got close to Tongi's face. He couldn't believe it, "You said that the Bifrost can reverse time. Is it true?"
"Of course."
Tongi asked in confusion, "After all, it's one of the three major blockades. It's a huge achievement that the Astronomy Society is proud of. If it's just a portal with Wifi, it's too useless.
Although the conditions for using it are very harsh … if it's used properly, it can even send the entire present situation back to a year ago. "
"… That exaggerated?"
"It's just a name. Although it can be achieved according to calculations, the cost of interfering with the scale of the entire world and the burning of the source substance is something that even the entire present situation can't afford. I'm afraid that the present situation will collapse before the teleportation is completed.
At that time, what's the difference between a pile of ashes and a year ago and destruction?
Therefore, the things that those lunatics in the Utopia researched were either of little value or of wonders. Each one was more prodigal than the other. However, limited by the cost, although it can't be used on a large scale, if it's cut a little and the expectations are lowered a little, there will occasionally be unexpected surprises. "
Thus, what was achieved was the miracle of 'time jump'.
At the cost of the eternal vitality of the entire green space and dense forest, the entire area was completely turned into a desert. The source substance and future heat were extracted to send a person's consciousness and soul back to their own body twenty-four days ago.
Therefore, secret personnel such as the 'Doomsday Sentinels' were born.
In the Book of Destiny, when the quill pen reached this point, it paused for a moment and tapped on the page. The large paragraph of text suddenly became thin, as if it was in between existence and non-existence.
With the God's Wedge in hand, Tongi could temporarily avoid the Astronomical Association's confidentiality measures such as the [Silencer Stone Tablet] and [Memetic Blockade]. However, she still couldn't continue to write in detail. She could only give Huai Shi a general understanding.
After a long time, Huai Shi came to a realization. "In other words, the Astronomical Association reloaded the file in order to save the Danbo Inner Circle?"
"What are you thinking about?"
Tongi glanced at him with a strange expression. "This isn't cost-effective at all, okay? Do you know how precious a soul that can be born to resonate with the Bifrost and withstand the reversal of time is?
Every time such a precious consumable is discovered, it's a treasure of the Astronomical Association. It's ten times more precious than the entire Danbo Inner Circle combined. How could it be wasted in such a place? "
"Then …"
"Of course, it's against the law and acting on its own."
Tongi shrugged sympathetically and seemed to be implying something. "I'm afraid that a retired police officer bypassed the Astronomical Association and directly forced the resonance to trigger the jump mechanism. Although I don't know what kind of price he paid, it definitely wasn't easy. "
"Wait, you're not talking about that bastard Yoo Dong-ri, are you?"
Huai Shi suddenly realized, and his whole body went numb. "I was wondering how he knew that I was a spy. It turns out that this bastard dares to cheat in addition to cross-dressing!
This is simply outrageous. I'll twist him and send him to the Astronomical Association tomorrow! "
After being angry for a long time, Huai Shi finally remembered. "That's not right … What exactly is he after?"
"Who knows? Why don't you ask him yourself? "
Tong Ji raised her hand and threw the empty milk tea to an unknown place. Then, she rubbed her hands together and magically brought out a bowl of ice cream. The top of the ice cream was sprinkled with chocolate, biscuits, and fruit slices. She scooped up a spoonful and swallowed it together with the cherry on top. She narrowed her eyes in satisfaction.
"Ah, it's good that the times have changed, Huai Shi … … You have to thank science."
She sighed and ignored Huai Shi's stomach growling. She said casually, "Compared to that, I'm actually more worried about you."
"Me?"
Huai Shi laughed. "What do I have to worry about?"
"What do you think?"
Tongi calmly ate her ice cream, but her eyes were fixed on Huai Shi's eyes.
After a long time, he helplessly looked away and shrugged.
"Confused? Hesitant? Uneasy, or angry? "
Tongi scrutinized his expression and couldn't help but shake her head. "Your Origin Substance is filled with uncertainty. Even the Young Arbiter of Fate's Stigmata has begun to seal up — — could it be because of the Dan Bo Inner Circle?"
"To be honest, it's a bit annoying."
Huai Shi sighed and collapsed back onto the bed. "My head hurts."
"That's normal. Spies are like this. It's much worse than being a traitor."
Tongi said sympathetically. "See, that's where the interesting part is. Even though these two words have roughly the same meaning, the people involved feel completely different."
She said, "Because they're fundamentally different."
They both had to endure, but the things spies and traitors had to endure were completely different.
A traitor's needs were always clear. Betrayal was just the price they had to pay in order to obtain what they wanted. But for a spy, betrayal was the end — — all of their actions and goals were for the sake of their ultimate betrayal.
"Spies are often very painful, but a traitor's happiness is something that no one can imagine. Because a traitor only needs to know how to live happily, but a spy can only be sad to the end … … Even the betrayal isn't for their own sake. "
Tongi sighed sympathetically. "From this perspective, spies are indeed much crueler than traitors."
"What kind of twisted logic is that?"
Huai Shi shook his head.
"Hm? I thought that you would feel the same way. "Tongi shrugged." After all, you've already experienced both of these feelings. Otherwise, there wouldn't be such a contradiction, right? "
Huai Shi was speechless.
Tongi lowered her head and leaned in closer. Her cold breath brushed against Huai Shi's cheek, bringing with it the sweet scent of butter. However, her gaze was completely devoid of any charm. Instead, it was dignified and serious.
It was as if she could peer into his soul and see what he was thinking.
"Let me guess," she said.
"You have two completely different impulses right now, Huai Shi. One makes you want to replace those incompetent people, take control of everything yourself, and make the situation better.
For this reason, you must seize power and even challenge the officials of Yingzhou, even if you know that it won't end well.
But the other impulse is telling you that it has nothing to do with you. You don't have to do so much. You're just a spy. Even if you complete the task, nothing will change.
So, after getting some results to deal with it, you start to slack off … … Anyway, even if the sky falls, there's the bureau to hold it up. There's also the overbearing president who can always turn the tide, right? "
Huai Shi rolled his eyes. "Isn't that good?"
"I didn't say that it's not good, but it's just avoiding the problem."
Tongi told him calmly, "If you let others make the choice for you, no matter what the outcome is, it's meaningless to you.
You'll only feel confused, then hesitate, then feel pain. After the pain, you'll gradually get used to it. After getting used to it, you'll start to comfort yourself that everyone is the same, just because they can't help it.
In the end, you'll start to compromise unknowingly and start to get used to everything you hate … You'll become a 'qualified' member of society. And this is the beginning of depravity. "
"Isn't it a little too much to call it 'depravity'?"
Huai Shi was stubborn. "Maybe I've matured?"
"Huai Shi, if you've matured, I won't sympathize with you no matter how much pain you're in. On the contrary, even if you rush straight into the abyss, I'll still encourage you.
But no matter what, you shouldn't just stand there. "
She stretched out her cold spoon and held it in front of Huai Shi's eyes, not allowing him to escape her gaze. Then she told the contractor in front of her word by word:
"If you can't stand it, then change it. If you can't stand it, then do it yourself. You should do what you want to do, Huai Shi. "
She said, "You're my contractor. You have the right to do so, and you should have the right to do so."
Huai Shi froze in place.
In the brief silence, Tongi suddenly smiled happily and was no longer serious. The spoon in her hand was brought to his mouth, bringing with it melting cream and syrup.
"Do you want some?"
Huai Shi nodded subconsciously.
The taste was as sweet as expected, with a hint of bitterness.
He didn't know whether it was because he had finally relaxed or because he had made up his mind, but his originally tense mind gradually relaxed and he felt sleepy.
Before he closed his eyes, he watched the figure in front of him gradually disappear. He couldn't help but call out to her.
"Tongi …"
"Hmm?" Before she turned into a black bird, she looked back and looked over.
"I'll try …" Huai Shi told her seriously, "Thank you."
"You're my contractor. You're welcome."
Tongi smiled handsomely and disappeared into the darkness.
She left silently.
As for Huai Shi, she closed her eyes.
For some reason, he, who was gradually turning into a salted fish, was full of fighting spirit.
From tomorrow onwards, he would do his best to cause trouble.
He decided that the grand plan to change the Danbo Inner Circle would start with unifying Extreme Path!
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The next day, Huai Shi, who was woken up, opened his eyes. Before he could yawn, he saw two policemen rushing into the ward from the corridor and the action team behind them with live ammunition.
The MPD badges on their chests were shining brightly under the morning sun, dazzling Huai Shi.
Then, without waiting for him to speak, handcuffs were put on his wrists with a click.
"Huai Shi Bai, you're under arrest!"
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