Chapter 235: Second Rewind

During this period, Luka, Laiboli, Ka'er, and Zongfang all accompanied her.

Qiao Suisui personally arranged his funeral. Just 12 hours after Anubis died, she collapsed directly while offering flowers at the funeral and was forced to log out.

Afterward, she returned to the modern world, and this experience was not much different from the entry and exit.

Qiao Suisui, who returned to the game world again, learned that in order to find her, Luka kept trying to cross the line of death, wanting to transcend the game world to her world, but he didn't have the chance to see Lanze and find the location of the bug, and died accidentally in a so-called "suicide."

The difference was that Laiboli didn't start a war this time, because Qiao Suisui had argued with him the night before this log-out because she was dissatisfied that she always let Zongfang sleep in her room, and said some unintentional harsh words. She had thought about apologizing to her the next day, but everything happened too suddenly, and she just lost her breath like that.

In the ten-plus years that followed, he fell into a collapse due to guilt and self-blame, and was extremely decadent, making a completely different choice from the Laiboli in the previous timeline. He constantly donated, did good deeds, took in homeless people, etc., even if it could reduce a little bit of guilt. But in the middle of the night, he would still return to that scene in his dreams.

He grabbed her wrist, his eyes red, and said: "You have to have a limit to your partiality, right? What did I do wrong? Tell me, I'll change."

"So what is it now? You tacitly allow him to accompany you every day? Then in the future, you take him and those snake cubs back to Sote, and leave me and the children in Aosilan!"

Laiboli couldn't get over it no matter what. When he missed her the most, he slapped himself hard, and even didn't dare to see her for many years.

Ka'er's situation was no better than his, roughly the same as the previous timeline: alcoholism, addiction to hallucinogens.

And this time, it was Zongfang and Luka who placed her body in a crystal coffin for preservation, guarding her at an extremely low temperature.

The Qiao Suisui on this timeline gradually merged with the Qiao Suisui at this moment.

Her hand slowly lowered from her forehead, her whole body was soaked in cold sweat, and the sound in her ears gradually recovered. Laiboli had been nervously checking her condition.

"Suisui, look at me, Suisui, what's wrong with you, don't scare me..."

Qiao Suisui looked at the man in front of her, and only then did she notice the details she hadn't noticed just now because she was too happy. There was a shallow vertical wrinkle between his brows, which was the trace left by the habitual frowning of long-term melancholy and annoyance.

She gently stroked that wrinkle with her hand, but her eyes had already calmed down.

"Ashi..."

"I'm here. Suisui, is there anywhere uncomfortable? Does your head hurt?"

Laiboli hugged her, not daring to let go for a moment.

Qiao Suisui raised her eyes, took a deep breath, and then gave him a gentle hug, "Ashi, see you later."

"What?"

Laiboli was still reacting to her words, but saw the person in his arms had already broken free and ran outside quickly.

Ignoring Laiboli's shouting behind her, Qiao Suisui returned to the Xuyan with the flight equipment again.

She took out the time rewind device for the second time, adjusted her breathing, and pressed it without hesitation.

This time, she knew where the problem was, so she chose to return to an earlier time point.

Southern Battlefield.

The night sky was full of stars.

Qiao Suisui opened her eyes and looked around, confirming that the ground under her feet was the underground experimental base. At this time, the version of her on this timeline should be looking for clues below with Ka'er.

She didn't run to the entrance to enter, but found a relatively high place, took out a three-claw rope gun from the system, and aimed it at that place.

With a "click," the three-claw iron hook firmly hooked onto the rock above. She wrapped the rope around her hand with one hand and nimbly climbed over it in two or three moves.

Qiao Suisui stood on the high ground and overlooked the entire ground.

Time passed minute by minute. She steadied her mind, crouching motionless on the inconspicuous high ground, waiting quietly. The surroundings were silent. More than ten minutes passed, and she finally saw a familiar figure appear in her field of vision.

Only to see the silver-haired man walking quickly. His movements were soundless, as if he were a ghost. He skillfully found the location of the underground entrance and placed the mini explosive device he had prepared in a suitable position. This was an explosive developed by the Federation, less than the size of a palm, but with great power, which could cause an explosion in a radius of 500 meters with the device as the center.

Qiao Suisui took out a sniper rifle directly from the system. At this moment, she was lying on the ground, looking at the actions of "Zongfang" below through the scope.

Her fingertips were on the trigger, aiming at "Zongfang's" head, her hand trembling slightly.

Although she knew this wasn't the real Zongfang, but Kui Shou in disguise, she still couldn't be decisive at the moment of pulling the trigger. Looking at Zongfang's face, as long as she imagined blowing up Zongfang's head, she would find it difficult to steady her mind.

She released the trigger, lowered her head, took a deep breath, and then continued to lie down, her eyes looking at the scope, trying to use other things to divert her attention.

She suddenly remembered that when they were also in the Southern Battlefield, Ka'er liked to tell her bedtime stories during that time.

Other people's bedtime stories were about princes and princesses, while his bedtime stories were about the use and maintenance of sniper rifles, the essentials of shooting movements, the angles and heights of ambush points, etc. Every time he told these, Qiao Suisui would inevitably fall asleep, just like listening to the political teacher talk about Marx when she was in school. Ka'er also deliberately told the bedtime stories in a profound and professional way because she would fall asleep as soon as she heard them, ensuring they were boring.

"The first important thing is to choose a sniper rifle that suits you. I like to use the M40, it looks cool, isn't heavy, and there's no pressure to run after shooting. Then choose the right bullet, because different bullets will have different effects..."

"Check your gun and scope to make sure they are fine. Clean the barrel, don't let there be dirty things inside..."

"Find a hidden place, preferably a high one with an open view..."

Ka'er's voice seemed to be in her ears. She closed her eyes, calmed down, and imagined him by her side at this moment, holding her hand and teaching her.

"Put the target on the crosshairs of the scope, try to steady yourself. Control your breathing, usually shoot at the end of exhalation, because that's when you are most stable."

Qiao Suisui raised her eyes, her eyes full of firmness and resolution. She looked at the crosshairs in the scope and controlled her breathing.

"When pulling the trigger, take it slow, don't pull it suddenly, so the recoil will be smaller. Continue to watch the target after shooting to see if you hit it."

Inhale. Her slender fingertips slowly hooked the trigger, aiming at the back of "Zongfang's" head.

"The recoil will affect your next aim, so you must kill with one shot. Don't shoot if you don't have full confidence."

Exhale.

"Bang—"

Just one second before "Zongfang" was about to detonate the device, Qiao Suisui blew his head off with one shot.

The bullet passed through the center of the man's eyebrows, and blood flowed down the blood hole in the center of his eyebrows, instantly covering that handsome face.

Qiao Suisui calmly confirmed through the scope that the target was precisely hit. She didn't hesitate at all, got up quickly, wrapped the gun in her hand skillfully around the rope, with the muzzle firmly stuck above the rope, forming an improvised zipline device, and then jumped off the high ground decisively.

Driven by gravity, she slid down the rope rapidly like an agile dark night walker, with the gun in her hand steadily dragging her. The wind whistled in her ears, and her figure drew a sharp arc in the air, swift and elegant.

Within a few seconds, she landed steadily on the ground, her feet touching the ground lightly without making any extra sound. Qiao Suisui stood up straight and went up to confirm "Zongfang's" corpse, only to see that the man in front of her had turned into a puddle of deflated human skin.

She knew that Kui Shou must be observing the situation here in the dark, and she must give Ka'er and herself some hints. But she couldn't appear directly.

She saw many metal pipes embedded in the wall at the entrance, so she used the gun body to knock on the pipes vigorously.

The pipes were connected to the entire underground laboratory. She had seen the structure inside, so she was very sure that the sound transmitted by the metal would reach the underground directly.

When she knocked for the fourth time, a hard object pressed against the back of Qiao Suisui's head.

Her movements froze in mid-air. She turned her head slowly, only to see Kui Shou pointing a gun at her head.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 236 =====