Cheng Cheng and the Cicada
Chapter 1 True and False Yu Xi
Another Yu Xi!
Is this one real or fake?
Lin Xian was unable to look up, pinned down by the dagger at his throat, but he heard clearly everything the time-traveling assassin girl reported.
She had gone ahead to place a small camera on the hood of the Tesla, pointed in their direction.
Clearly, the time-traveling assassin girl intended to record his capture as "evidence" to submit to some law enforcement agency.
So, who was she reporting to?
And who sent her to capture him?
Lin Xian's mind raced, laying out all the known clues...
First.
The time-traveling assassin mentioned two terms he didn't recognize: Time Court and Time Police.
These two organizations certainly didn't exist in the current year, 2024.
Considering the time-traveling assassin came from the distant future, it wasn't difficult to deduce...
Perhaps in the future, hundreds of years from now, humanity had fully mastered time travel technology, established a legal system to maintain temporal stability, created a Time Court to judge temporal criminals, and a Time Police to arrest them.
This seemed!
To correspond perfectly with his fourth dream!
Every time he entered the fourth dream, he was surrounded by armed soldiers, and their captain would produce an official-looking warrant, saying:
"Lin Xian! You are under arrest for crimes against humanity, endangering the Earth, and disrupting time!"
And this sentence...
Was completely consistent with what the time-traveling assassin girl said while recording the arrest video.
This meant—
[The time-traveling assassin girl and the armed soldiers in the fourth dream belonged to the same organization—the Time Police!]
Because temporal particles were extremely limited and precious, not every Time Police officer could travel back to 2024 to arrest him. So, the Time Police, knowing a lot about him, launched a "pincer attack."
A pincer attack was a strategic term, referring to an important tactic. Dividing one's forces into two groups, attacking the enemy from two directions.
The Time Police's pincer attack, dividing their forces into two, was arranged as follows:
One group was responsible for controlling him in the future world 600 years from now—August 28, 2624, the day he could travel to and freely move around.
Their purpose was clear: to completely seal off his dream world, greatly weakening his fighting ability, preventing him from developing and learning future information in advance.
It had to be said, this move was indeed very effective, making it nearly impossible for Lin Xian to move an inch, whether in dreams or in reality.
And the second branch of the pincer attack was the time-traveling assassin girl capturing him now.
In his view, she was an evil time-traveling assassin.
But in reality, she was a Level 3 Agent from the Time Police, a veritable partner of justice.
Her mission was to arrest him in 2024.
Sure enough, his initial guess was correct: the time-traveling assassin girl didn't see killing him as her primary objective. Her task was simply to arrest him and send him to the Time Court for trial.
The time-traveling assassin girl was clearly given high authority. As a police agent hunting criminals, she would inevitably face various dangerous emergencies. Thus, judging from her tone when reporting, it was safe to assume... even if she injured him or even crippled him during the arrest, it would be perfectly acceptable.
Even if she accidentally killed him during the arrest, it would still count as completing the mission, simply skipping the Time Court trial.
From a police investigation and pursuit perspective, this made perfect sense.
Some criminals were extremely vicious. During the arrest, they would not only resist strongly but also take hostages to endanger the lives of the public... Faced with such fugitives, there were not a few cases of being shot dead on the spot.
Lin Xian never expected that one day, he would bear such a charge and become a temporal wanted criminal like Kevin Walker, with a reward for his capture, dead or alive.
The Time Police, on the one hand, sealed off his future dreams;
On the other hand, they sent a time-traveling assassin (Time Agent) to the real world to hunt down the culprit.
Catching people from both ends—this move was too ruthless.
So.
Continuing the reasoning.
Who was controlling the Time Police and the Time Court?
Whoever was in control was probably the one who framed him.
The answer was self-evident...
It had to be that mysterious old man!
It was he who framed him with crimes against humanity, endangering the Earth, and disrupting time, making him a sinner of history.
It was he who sent the Time Police to arrest him from two directions and send the 2024 version of himself to the Time Court for trial in the future.
It was also he who induced him in the dream 600 years from now, deliberately saying Kevin Walker's lines, causing him to focus all his attention on Kevin Walker... ultimately leading to this series of events.
So, who exactly was this mysterious old man?
Lin Xian couldn't say for sure yet, because there were too many possible candidates. Currently, it could be Jask, it could be Copernicus, whom he had never met but only heard the name of, it could be anyone in the Genius Club, or even anyone outside the Genius Club...
However.
Now, carefully analyzing what the girl just reported.
Two more key pieces of information could be obtained.
First, this girl said that the way to send him to the Time Court for trial was surprisingly forced hibernation.
Lin Xian thought she would activate a time-travel machine, like Doraemon's time machine, and whisk him away to the defendant's seat hundreds of years later in the blink of an eye.
But that was too unrealistic.
It was not strange that the world 600 years from now had mastered time-travel technology.
But 600 years ago, in 2024, there was definitely no time-travel machine, no time machine. Not to mention... to travel through time, temporal particles had to be used as consumables.
Where could two of such precious things be found?
Moreover, he was a captured criminal. How could he deserve to use such valuable things?
In comparison.
Forcibly stuffing him into a hibernation pod, ignoring any side effects, forcing him to sleep for hundreds of years, and then roughly waking him up hundreds of years later to conduct a trial—this was more in line with the treatment of a "heinous" historical sinner.
Perhaps, in terms of waiting time at the Time Court, this was more efficient.
The time-traveling assassin had just put him in the hibernation pod... and perhaps the Time Court 600 years later would directly trigger a temporal butterfly effect, immediately open the hibernation pod, and he would be asleep inside for 600 years.
This was the real time capsule, the time express.
But on the other hand.
In this era of 2024, hibernation pods were still in the experimental stage and not yet mass-produced for public use.
Using a hibernation pod at this stage was not something anyone could do. It required connections and power; money alone was useless.
He only managed to grab two volunteer spots through his good personal relationship with the Longke Institute.
So, for the time-traveling assassin, in this unfamiliar 2024, where did she get the confidence to obtain a hibernation pod and roughly stuff him inside?
This was the first key piece of information—
[In the current 2024, this time-traveling assassin girl was not fighting alone! She also had a supporter in this time, who could not only provide her with the convenience of arresting him and his location information... but also provide her with a place to detain him and a hibernation pod, working from the inside out.]
This could explain a lot of problems.
Combining this with his previous analysis, it was not difficult to guess that the supporter of the time-traveling assassin girl in this time was likely the mysterious old man in his youth!
The first thing the time-traveling assassin girl did after traveling here should not have been to immediately start arresting him, but to find the "younger mysterious old man," meet with him, discuss and finalize the battle plan, and then this time-traveling assassin girl truly started to act.
At the same time, in 2024, the "younger mysterious old man" had prepared the necessary hibernation pod equipment, just waiting for the time-traveling assassin girl to capture him, forcibly stuff him inside, and force him to hibernate for hundreds of years until the Time Court opened.
At this point, this key piece of information had been figured out.
Then, there was the second key piece of information in the girl's report...
She said.
After putting him into forced hibernation, she would have completed her mission and would return immediately.
Where she would return to was obvious.
Deducing from the previous and subsequent words, it was likely to return to the Time Court and the Time Police hundreds of years later... Relying on the arrest video she had just shot, she would definitely be awarded a medal, right? Or even be promoted two levels to become a Level 1 Agent?
Lin Xian didn't care about this.
What he cared about was...
How was it possible to return immediately?
The time-traveling assassin girl's words "return immediately" made it seem like she could salute, disappear from this time, and then directly appear 600 years later in the next second.
This was too exaggerated!
Without any time-travel machine or even temporal particles as consumables, could she directly travel through time with her physical body?
This could already be considered a fantasy novel. In any novel genre, the ability to travel through time at will was at least at the level of a great power.
So...
Lin Xian guessed.
Were all the abnormal and illogical aspects of this time-traveling assassin girl related to her abnormal time travel?
This was the second key piece of information that Lin Xian had discerned—
[The reason why the time-traveling assassin girl was not restricted by the laws of time was likely strongly related to her ability to return to the future world immediately; or rather, these two unreasonable things were the real secrets of the time-traveling assassin girl! They were the source of her power and the reason why she was not restricted by the laws of time.]
Unfortunately, there was too little information currently, and Lin Xian couldn't guess the reason. Moreover, in the current situation, his mind was in an overloaded state, thinking quickly, and he didn't have time to think about many things in such detail.
Because...
Above all these mysteries.
There was one thing that shocked him the most, surprised him, and made him dare not believe it—
[Lin Yu Xi]!
This Level 3 Agent of the Time Police said the name of the person she was reporting to at the end of her report... Lin Yu Xi, that was her full name.
When Lin Xian heard this name, he also felt suspicion at first.
After all, the previous fake Yu Xi used the name Yu Xi to deceive him with empty words. Who could guarantee that this second Yu Xi was real?
But after careful consideration...
Lin Xian was now 90% certain that the time-traveling assassin girl in front of him might really be the real Yu Xi!
Because in the current situation, she had no need to lie or deceive him at all.
She had already caught him.
In the face of her invincible monstrous strength, he was like a little chicken, completely in her grasp. What need did she have to deceive him with the name Yu Xi?
He was about to be forcibly put into a hibernation pod to hibernate, and she was about to blink and travel back to the Time Police 600 years later to receive a medal.
This might be the last time they met, and there would be no further intersection.
So.
Did the girl need to lie?
Especially since she was seriously recording a report video, reporting her capture work to her superiors. Who would lie at this time?
Needless to say, what she said must be her real name.
Lin Xian really never thought that...
The time-traveling assassin who had been chasing him relentlessly, the silent, expressionless, cold, and icy killer... was actually the real Yu Xi!
Alas.
Lin Xian sighed inwardly.
Was this the truth behind the Yellow Bird's final words?
If the Yu Xi that the Yellow Bird spoke of really referred to this Time Police Level 3 Agent who had been chasing him... then don't blame him for not realizing it.
Even if the Yellow Bird explicitly said that the killer chasing him was Yu Xi, and told him not to leave her, Lin Xian would never have believed it. Wouldn't that be seeking his own death?
But now, debating these things was meaningless. The fact was the fact.
Currently, Lin Xian had already sorted out the matter of the two Yu Xis.
Two Yu Xis.
Namely, [Fake Yu Xi] and [Real Yu Xi].
These two fake and real Yu Xis were both time-travelers, both teenage girls, both came with different purposes, and both were gene-modified with drugs, making them incredibly strong.
But they were completely different people.
First, [Real Yu Xi], because her situation was relatively simple.
Real Yu Xi, real name Lin Yu Xi, blue eyes, chin-length black short hair.
She was a Level 3 Agent from the Time Police hundreds of years in the future, whose purpose was to capture the historical sinner Lin Xian and bring him to justice.
Real Yu Xi did not have much contact with many people in this time of 2024, nor did she say many words. She was concise, taciturn, and really like the Terminator in the movies.
Her superior was undoubtedly the mysterious old man in the fourth dream; and her contact person in 2024 was probably the mysterious old man in his youth.
Her story was that simple.
Her first encounter with Lin Xian was in the underground garage of the residential complex where Zhao Yingjun lived. After tearing off the car door as a greeting gift, she officially started the escape and pursuit battle with Lin Xian.
From Donghai to Princeton in the United States, then from Princeton to Mississippi, and then from Mississippi back to Donghai City, until today, until now, killing the fake Yu Xi and successfully arresting him.
That was all, with no excessive plot twists and turns.
……
Then, there was [Fake Yu Xi].
Looking back now, this fake Yu Xi was the real Oscar-winning actress... What Angelica, what the Shapeshifting Witch—they were really weak in front of her.
Fake Yu Xi, real name unknown, blue pupils, hairstyle first disguised as black chin-length short hair like the real Yu Xi, and later, in order to deceive him, tied the short hair into a short ponytail, never letting it down in front of him.
Her itinerary and experience were very complicated.
Even Lin Xian couldn't fully guess it now.
First of all, after the fake Yu Xi time-traveled to 2024, she must also have had a contact person, but who this contact person was, Lin Xian couldn't guess at the moment. But it was definitely not the Jask on the surface... he now believed that Jask was probably also a victim deceived by the fake Yu Xi.
After the fake Yu Xi met with her 2024 contact person, she also quickly formulated a series of plans and began to act.
Unlike the real Yu Xi... this fake Yu Xi was restricted by the laws of time, so there were very few things she could actually do. To achieve her goals, she had to use others and kill with a borrowed knife.
Thus, her plan to manipulate people's hearts began.
Angelica had once extracted information from a female secretary, saying that Jask had hidden a blue-eyed girl in the observation tower for several months.
At that time, Lin Xian couldn't tell whether Jask was hiding the real Yu Xi or the fake Yu Xi, but now it was obvious that he was hiding the fake Yu Xi.
It was precisely because the fake Yu Xi was afraid that the trick would be exposed that she considered the possibility that Angelica would be captured. She didn't follow him into the house to meet Angelica at first, and then, in the Donghai University Affiliated Hospital, she didn't follow him to meet Jask either.
What she was afraid of was being seen clearly in terms of facial details by the two of them.
If Angelica saw it and confronted Jask, Jask would immediately understand that the fake Yu Xi had betrayed him and become Lin Xian's protector.
And Angelica could also realize that the fake Yu Xi had deceived Lin Xian, so she could reasonably dispel the misunderstanding with Jask and notify him in time.
In that case, all the efforts of the fake Yu Xi would be in vain.
Therefore, the fake Yu Xi really used the information gap advantage to the fullest. She revealed her face when she should reveal it, and never revealed her face when she shouldn't, making everyone unable to distinguish between the real and fake Yu Xi... and even, many times, treating her and the time-traveling assassin as the same person, playing everyone for fools.
Arranging the fake Yu Xi's actions in chronological order.
First, the first step of her plan was to come to Jask's side. She must have deceived Jask about something, making Jask believe some false information and helping her complete part of her goal.
Lin Xian didn't know the details of this, only Jask knew.
But it was worth mentioning that the fake Yu Xi was already deliberately playing the role of the real Yu Xi at Jask's place.
The female secretary said that the blue-eyed girl was expressionless, her eyes were cold and penetrating, her black short hair reached her chin... obviously, the fake Yu Xi had already begun to impersonate the real Yu Xi at that time.
She must have known about the existence of the real Yu Xi for a long time, and also knew that the real Yu Xi would come to chase Lin Xian. She also didn't want Jask to discover the switch between the real and fake Yu Xi later. Therefore, the fake Yu Xi had already begun to release smoke bombs when she was by Jask's side.
After that.
The fake Yu Xi left Jask and went to Copenhagen to kill the Yellow Bird.
This step was also predicted by the Yellow Bird.
But also hindered by the laws of time, the Yellow Bird couldn't say it... Perhaps the Yellow Bird only knew that she would be killed by a time-traveler, but didn't expect that the other party would use the trick of impersonating Yu Xi.
This couldn't be blamed on the Yellow Bird either.
Because the era that the fake Yu Xi traveled from was hundreds of years later than the Yellow Bird's era, the fake Yu Xi had sufficient information advantage to see through the Yellow Bird. But the Yellow Bird knew very little about the fake Yu Xi, or even nothing at all, and even judged the real Yu Xi's situation incorrectly.
After all... who could predict the future?
Lin Xian had always thought that it was already incredible that the Yellow Bird knew the name Yu Xi.
Therefore, the Yellow Bird's hint "Don't leave Yu Xi"... might have another meaning, rather than any situation that he had imagined now.
Continuing to talk about the fake Yu Xi's affairs.
When the fake Yu Xi killed the Yellow Bird in Copenhagen, she was also very scheming. She wore a hoodie similar to that of the real Yu Xi, covering her facial features with a large hood, and then deliberately revealing a few strands of black chin-length short hair for him to see.
This caused great misleading to him, who didn't take a clear photo at the time and couldn't see the details clearly.
The fake Yu Xi ran away after killing the Yellow Bird, without even looking at him.
Because she had no way to violate the laws of time and couldn't attack him at all. The only opponent she could fight and harm was a time-traveler who didn't belong to this era.
So she ran very fast.
On the one hand, to prevent the camera in his hand from capturing her facial features; on the other hand, she couldn't kill him anyway. What was the point of staying on the beach?
In any case, her main purpose was to pretend to be the real Yu Xi, pretend to be a time-traveling assassin, and make him believe that the real Yu Xi had killed the Yellow Bird in the following encounters.
Facts proved that this impersonation performance of the fake Yu Xi was very successful.
After he returned to Donghai, he was immediately caught by the real Yu Xi and chased down.
With the Yellow Bird incident in front, plus the similar figure, the azure blue eyes, and the iconic black chin-length short hair, Lin Xian naturally confused the real Yu Xi in front of him with the fake Yu Xi who killed the Yellow Bird—
Time-traveling assassin!
At this point, the fake Yu Xi's first goal was achieved. She not only poured the dirty water of killing the Yellow Bird on the real Yu Xi, but also made him treat the real Yu Xi as a heinous time-traveling assassin killer, establishing a chain of hatred.
After that, the fake Yu Xi's high-light acting moment was staged again.
Princeton, USA, when the real Yu Xi was driving a Mercedes-Benz to arrest him, he collapsed to the ground because of reverse forced avoidance, and was about to be caught by the real Yu Xi.
At this time.
The fake Yu Xi tied her hair into a short ponytail and made a gorgeous appearance, saving him in a critical moment, and then turned her head and said:
"My name is Yu Xi. Yu from Yu Ji, Xi from lai qu gui xi (coming and going, returning), this is my name, Yu Xi!"
In this situation, Lin Xian didn't doubt the identity of the fake Yu Xi at all.
Because he was already at the end of his rope just now, about to be killed.
At this time, the girl who claimed to be Yu Xi appeared and saved him. Plus, the Yellow Bird had just told him "Don't leave Yu Xi" two days ago... How could he have thought that a girl who sacrificed her life to save him would be fake?
At this time, the fake Yu Xi was still acting. She knew what it meant to play hard to get.
She said that the two of them should act separately, leave Lin Xian temporarily, and also advised Lin Xian that she would appear immediately if there was danger.
Looking at it now, the fake Yu Xi did it on purpose.
She clearly knew that Lin Xian would not leave her, because she had already explained that she could sense the location of the time-traveling assassin... Obviously, a normal person could analyze that staying with her was the safest. It was just that the fake Yu Xi was really thoughtful. She didn't want to say such words herself to cause suspicion, but rather induce Lin Xian to say it.
This performance of "a girl saving a hero" earned the fake Yu Xi Lin Xian's trust.
She followed Lin Xian all the way to Texas to find Angelica, but used the excuse of squatting outside the door, and didn't enter the house to see Angelica.
After Angelica lost contact, the fake Yu Xi went to Mississippi with Lin Xian to kill Kevin Walker.
Lin Xian didn't know whether killing Kevin Walker was within the fake Yu Xi's plan, but anyway, the fake Yu Xi's acting skills had been perfect along the way, with no flaws, extremely natural, and also made Lin Xian trust her unconditionally.
Especially when he killed Kevin Walker, the fake Yu Xi didn't have any objections at all. She followed the whole time, protected the whole time, and fought inextricably with the time-traveling assassin real Yu Xi. She was injured and got hurt... In that situation at the time, she acted more realistically than a real bodyguard, and no one would suspect her.
After Kevin Walker's death.
The fake Yu Xi began to persuade Lin Xian that, in order to solve the time-traveling assassin crisis, it would be better to directly kill Jask!
Lin Xian thought she was right.
In the situation at the time, Jask was the murderer who killed VV, the murderer who killed the Yellow Bird, and the murderer who made Angelica's life and death uncertain... With these three layers of hatred, Lin Xian had long hated Jask to the bone, and couldn't wait to kill him immediately to avenge his friends.
But reason suppressed him.
Reason told him that he couldn't compete with Jask in the United States and couldn't take risks. Then, the fake Yu Xi and Lin Xian returned to Donghai, Longguo together, preparing to start the second stage of battle with Jask here.
The first thing they did when they returned to Donghai was that Lin Xian pulled the fake Yu Xi and Zhao Yingjun, and the three of them did a paternity test together.
Lin Xian had suspected that Yu Xi might be the future daughter of him and Zhao Yingjun, and also the daughter born to the Yellow Bird and her Lin Xian... If the facts were really like this, then many things could be explained clearly.
Lin Xian was still somewhat looking forward to the results of the paternity test.
Because at that moment, he really trusted the fake Yu Xi... Faced with such a cute and petite little girl who took her life to accompany him on adventures and protect him, who wouldn't trust her?
At this time, the fake Yu Xi was still acting.
She accompanied him and Zhao Yingjun to the hospital, had hot pot together, and behaved innocently and likably.
Therefore, even if the paternity test results showed that the three had no relationship, it didn't change Lin Xian's trust in the fake Yu Xi at all; she wasn't his daughter, there was no blood relationship, but she still protected him so desperately, what else was there to say?
The next morning, Lin Xian and the fake Yu Xi went to Donghai University Affiliated Hospital to see Jask.
The fake Yu Xi still wanted to act alone. She was probably trying to take the opportunity to go to the underground black market and see if she could get a handgun for Lin Xian.
But Lin Xian remembered the Yellow Bird's instruction "Don't leave Yu Xi" and finally brought the fake Yu Xi to the 17th-floor stairwell, keeping a safe distance.
The fake Yu Xi was still so cautious and didn't go to see Jask.
Because in the eyes of Jask at the time, the blue-eyed girl next to him should be chasing Lin Xian now... It was also for this reason that Jask felt that this matter couldn't be explained to Lin Xian at all, and no matter what he said, Lin Xian would definitely not believe it... The fact was also the same, Lin Xian at the time didn't have half a point of trust in Jask, who had three layers of hatred on him.
Until the afternoon.
When the fake Yu Xi took out the Taser from her pocket, Lin Xian truly and unprecedentedly felt a trace of doubt about Yu Xi...
Although the Taser wasn't a real bullet handgun.
But in Longguo, it also belonged to controlled firearms and couldn't be carried casually.
Lin Xian didn't quite believe that such a thing could be stolen casually from Jask's bodyguard.
It was just that...
That was his enemy Jask after all. Who could say for sure whether his bodyguards would carry Tasers?
What's more, Yu Xi was also kind-hearted, letting him have a means of self-defense so that he could seize the opportunity when Jask went back on his word.
This was actually the last step of the fake Yu Xi's carefully planned plan...
The fake Yu Xi knew better than anyone that Jask wouldn't attack Lin Xian at all; she knew very well that the conflicts between the two came from her provocation, and in fact, Jask had no hostility towards Lin Xian.
Her most brilliant part was coming.
She first told Lin Xian:
"It's okay, that time-traveling assassin is still far away, in Shandong. You can rest assured to meet Jask tonight. The time-traveling assassin can't come, can't make it in time."
She was lying.
The time-traveling assassin at this time must already be in Donghai.
But if the fake Yu Xi told the truth, Lin Xian probably wouldn't risk making an appointment at night. She used the information gap that only she could sense the location of the time-traveling assassin, and lied to Lin Xian, who couldn't verify it at all... Only she knew the real location of the time-traveling assassin. She said it was there, and it was there. Lin Xian had to believe it even if he didn't believe it.
Then Lin Xian went to the abandoned factory with the fake Yu Xi to ambush.
But at this time.
The fake Yu Xi suddenly said:
"Not good, the time-traveling assassin is coming soon. It seems that Jask is going back on his word!"
She poured the dirty water on Jask again at a time when Lin Xian couldn't turn back, and pretended to advise:
"But Lin Xian... don't worry. If Jask is just recalling the time-traveling assassin out of defense, you only need to negotiate with Jask and can completely ignore her."
"But, if the other party isn't here to negotiate, that is, the time-traveling assassin directly attacks us... then Lin Xian, don't hesitate, use the Taser in your hand to subdue Jask directly."
The fake Yu Xi said it on purpose.
Because she knew better than anyone that Jask and the time-traveling assassin weren't in the same group at all, and hadn't even met.
The time-traveling assassin didn't care about that much. As long as she rushed in, she would kill Lin Xian without hesitation. So... according to the fake Yu Xi's original plan, Lin Xian was definitely, certainly, and necessarily going to shoot Jask.
This was terrifying to think about.
Lin Xian suddenly thought...
This Taser was given to him by the fake Yu Xi.
Was this really a normal Taser?
Had it been modified?
Had the current been strengthened?
[Would it... if he really shot Jask, directly kill Jask?]
The fake Yu Xi's trick was indeed clever.
But she still underestimated Jask... Smart as Jask was, he still made a safeguard and sent a substitute Jask to the appointment... And this substitute was obviously disguised by Angelica's disguise. Normal people couldn't tell it apart at all.
Here, there was information that even Jask didn't know, that was, this group of blue-eyed, visually enhanced time-travelers could easily see through all kinds of disguises.
The fake Yu Xi instantly realized that it wasn't the real Jask, and the time-traveling assassin also rushed in, and her trick finally had flaws.
With the fight between the real and fake Yu Xi, with the short ponytail scattering and falling on her neck... Lin Xian finally understood what he had always felt was wrong!
He understood the drama of the real and fake Yu Xi,
He understood the real murderer who killed the Yellow Bird,
He understood the fake Yu Xi's tricks.
……
Now, the fake Yu Xi was already dead. After all, the regular army Time Police Level 3 Agent was more skilled and beheaded the fake Yu Xi, instantly turning her into blue stardust and dissipating.
But new problems came again.
Lin Yu Xi.
Lin!
Wasn't that his last name?
He had once suspected that the name Yu Xi should have been given to their daughter by the Yellow Bird and Zhao Yingjun, so there was a high probability that it was his daughter.
The paternity test didn't come to a result because the real and fake Yu Xi were mixed up!
The Yu Xi herself was fake, so it would be strange if the DNA test came to a result.
But the Yu Xi in front of him now was real!
And her last name was the same as his... Lin.
Considering the Yellow Bird's last look when she left, gentle, reluctant, longing, pleading...
Lin Xian understood at this moment.
That should be the look of missing his daughter...
Was it possible that it was because in a certain time in the future, under certain circumstances, he had to leave the little Lin Yu Xi and didn't let her grow up in an environment full of paternal love?
So she was used by bad people, by the mysterious old man, and cultivated into a time-traveling assassin?
Or...
Was it that he and the Yellow Bird both left the little Lin Yu Xi because of some situation, making her an orphan, so she was trained to be such a time-traveling agent?
It was even more likely.
Considering that long-term hibernation would cause amnesia, would Lin Yu Xi have a blank brain after waking up from hibernation, be subjected to memory fraud, and be given a fake memory diary, brainwashing her?
Lin Xian didn't know what Lin Yu Xi's life experience had been in the past ten years.
But according to the known clues, he was probably sure that—
[Lin Yu Xi was very likely to be the daughter of him and Zhao Yingjun in a certain time.]
This was not difficult to verify, just do another DNA paternity test.
However.
Would there be such an opportunity?
Would Lin Yu Xi believe the words of a criminal who had committed heinous crimes?
"Have you considered that I might be your father?"
Lin Xian, who couldn't lift his head because a sharp knife was pressed against his neck, said:
"Put down the knife, let's talk it over."
"Shut up."
Lin Yu Xi increased the strength in her hand, and the sharp knife pressed harder against the back of Lin Xian's neck:
"Although I'm an orphan, you can't be my father."
Her words were filled with hatred, full of contempt and hatred:
"You have committed heinous crimes, destroyed the Earth, disrupted time... How many people have died because of you, how many families have been broken because of you. You are the most vicious historical sinner in human history!"
"Save whatever words you have for the Time Court."
Boom——————
A Tesla sedan, speeding too fast to slow down, crashed directly into the rear of the black Tesla in front.
Lin Yu Xi was quick-witted and agile, directly picking up Lin Xian next to her and rolling over, coming to the open space next to her.
Even though the Tesla that crashed into them wasn't aimed at them, she still raised her vigilance, tightly hooking Lin Xian's throat with her left hand and holding the sharp knife in her right hand, glaring at the Tesla with the doors opened.
"Lin Xian!" "Lin Xian——"
The left and right driver and co-driver doors opened at the same time, and Jask and Angelica jumped out of the car at the same time.
Jask, holding a small refrigerator, ran to Angelica's side, looking at the Lin Xian who was being held hostage and the strange girl with azure blue pupils:
"I see..."
He pressed his left hand on the small refrigerator's password keyboard, pressing the password while saying:
"[So this is how this entangled temporal particle is used! No wonder it can ignore the laws of time... No wonder you said you could go back! You yourself are an independent closed loop... Your existence isn't in the present, but in the future where the entangled temporal particle is located! Completely reversing the cause and effect!]"
Click.
The sealed door of the white refrigerator opened.
Lin Xian and Lin Yu Xi could both see the objects inside the refrigerator—
Two entangled temporal particles were orbiting each other! The strange and energy-filled blue electric balls seemed to be together and apart, like two yet one!
That was a superimposed entangled state that words couldn't describe at all!
"I was indeed suspicious when I saw Lin Xian being devoured by the laws of time..."
Jask sighed and continued to say:
"But I was still reluctant to part with this hard-won temporal particle and was really unwilling to destroy it like this. But in the current situation... Copernicus's closed loop hasn't disappeared, which means that this temporal particle doesn't belong to me in the future. It will still be stolen by Copernicus."
"[In that case... then no one will have it! Lin Xian, what I owed you before, we're even now!]"
As he said this.
Jask directly reached into the small refrigerator! Stirring his fist between the entangled temporal particles!
Dong…
Lin Yu Xi suddenly widened her eyes, her body recoiled back, and the sharp knife in her hand fell directly to the ground.
She clenched her teeth.
Like a flight, she jumped to the wall next to her and climbed to window height with her bare hands in two or three steps, jumping directly out of the broken window!
"Lin Xian!"
Angelica saw the time-traveling assassin slip away and ran to Lin Xian immediately:
"Are you okay!"
"Angelica, don't worry about Lin Xian first, come and help!"
Jask slammed the small refrigerator on the ground and then ran to the stone pile next to him, picking up a few stones and running back to throw them into the small refrigerator:
"Damn it, I should have installed