Chapter 240

Luka kissed her forehead gently and said: "Don't worry, they are fine, living in the Federation with Zong Yan. I sent Angsi to investigate, and Zong Yan has never mistreated them."

Upon hearing this, Qiao Suisui suddenly thought of something, then took his arm and pulled up his shirt sleeve; there were no scars on his forearm or wrist.

Her eyes filled with tears, and she hugged him tightly.

After hearing all this, there was no need to think carefully to know exactly what Luka had endured to wait for her.

On the previous two timelines, he had constantly committed suicide to find a way to reach her world, but Luka on this timeline had never done so once. It was because he knew Zongfang and Laiboli were both dead, and Ka'er was nowhere to be found, and the children had no one to look after them. If he committed suicide again, he would truly leave them as complete orphans.

This man always carried all the responsibilities without a word.

Qiao Suisui couldn't describe what she was feeling at this moment. After learning the endings of Zongfang and Laiboli, the fact that Luka was still alive was her only comfort.

She rubbed the tears on her face against his shoulder, and the man revealed a gentle smile because of this long-lost intimate gesture.

Qiao Suisui asked: "Where do you think Ka'er would go?"

Luka was slightly surprised to hear her ask this: "I thought he brought you back after you woke up. I guessed he should be in the Freedom Alliance, but every time I was almost about to find him over these years, he would use the breaking prop to get away with you. Sang Yan seems to know his whereabouts, but he has been drifting everywhere since you fell asleep, and coupled with the fact that the Dragon Clan is always mysterious, very few people can find him."

Qiao Suisui fell into deep thought; she felt her mind was very chaotic.

Ever since the two time retrospections, she began to confuse the past and the present. Because new memories were constantly appearing in her mind, and she was too anxious to change everything, she hadn't stopped to think properly about why the results were unsatisfactory every time.

Qiao Suisui realized at this moment that even if she could return to the past, she did not have complete control over everything. Because everyone had subjectivity and their own consciousness, they did not follow the plot rigidly.

Currently, two time retrospections had been initiated; every retrospection was a return from the current timeline to the past.

That is to say, adding the original timeline, there were now three timelines.

She returned from the first timeline to the time node of the prison, made changes, and then returned from the past to the future; this was already the changed second timeline. On this line, although she successfully saved Anubis, he returned to the prison because he was worried about her safety and ultimately died.

Then she retrospected from the second timeline to an even earlier time, which was the Southern Battlefield period. On this timeline, she helped herself obtain evidence of the Federation's crimes and exposed everything. But Anubis still died, and it was the kind of ending Lan Ze had foreseen—killed by a flurry of swords, bones picked and flesh stripped. This was the third timeline.

Simply put, if her original timeline was one, then she returned to the past of one to make changes and fissioned into two; when the retrospection ended, she was already standing on the timeline of two. Then she returned from two to the past of one and fissioned into three; when the retrospection ended, which was this very moment, she was standing on the timeline of three.

Then, next, she could only return to an even earlier time node of one.

Because if she were standing on three right now but returned to the prison period, this plot segment did not exist at all on this timeline. The events that occurred after each time retrospection node had already overwritten the original plot of one.

That is to say, she could only return to a time node earlier than the Southern Battlefield period to be on the timeline of one.

At the same time, Qiao Suisui believed she had overlooked a very important point—

She had always thought that the time node was the most important thing; she thought that as long as she changed the situation that occurred at this time node, she could change the future. But trying it twice had been very uncontrollable.

Just now, from Luka's narrative, she captured that Anubis had clearly planned a very meticulous operation, but it still failed in the end. Thinking of this, a flash of light suddenly crossed Qiao Suisui's eyes.

"Still a headache?"

Luka saw her keeping her head down without speaking, so he gently lifted her chin with some worry, saw that her face looked a bit weary, and held her as they lay down.

He placed one arm under her neck, then lay on his side and held her tightly. He patted her back, one tap after another, coaxing her to sleep just like on many nights in the past.

At the same time, on the other side, far away in the Freedom Alliance. Ka'er leaped down from a black hole in mid-air, carrying a sealed box in his hand.

He passed through a bush and came to a huge flower. Calling it a flower, it was actually a layered flower bud, as large as a double bed.

He knelt before the flower bud and opened the sealed box. As soon as the lid was opened, smoke drifted out from the box, and the surrounding temperature dropped by more than ten degrees instantly.

Ka'er wore black leather gloves and carefully lifted a stone that looked like cold ice from the box.

This was a nitrogen-sealing stone; placed in a sealed space, it could preserve the moisture and freshness of all things. Ka'er would go around scavenging for these nitrogen-sealing stones every so often.

At this moment, he used his hands to push aside the overlapping petals, but the person who should have been sleeping peacefully inside had vanished. Ka'er frantically rummaged through the petals, but there was no trace of Qiao Suisui inside the entire flower bud. He dropped the nitrogen-sealing stone in his hand to the ground, immediately looked around, and leaned down to check for traces on the ground.

But no matter how carefully he examined it, he could not see any traces of a second person entering or leaving.

The next second, Ka'er snapped his fingers, and a rotating black hole vortex appeared in the air. He walked into it with large, angry strides.

The next day.

Qiao Suisui woke up from Luka's embrace.

She rubbed her eyes, took a deep breath, and turned her head to see Luka watching her gently.

She leaned over and kissed the corner of his mouth. "When did you wake up? Why didn't you call me?"

In fact, he hadn't slept all night.

He didn't dare to close his eyes, fearing she wouldn't wake up, so he kept an eye on her breathing.

"Just woke up," Luka said.

His five fingers ran through the back of her head, combing her long hair. His focused eyes were full of attachment and love.

"Sui Sui."

"Hmm?"

"Will you still return to your world?"

Qiao Suisui was startled; she didn't expect him to ask this.

She remembered Luka from the previous timeline, who seemed to have been looking for a way to her world precisely because he knew she didn't belong to this world.

Qiao Suisui did not hide anything and said: "Even if I have to leave, it will be after things have changed."

Luka's gaze dimmed, and the expression on his face was one of unconcealable desolation. A few seconds later, a gentle smile still appeared at the corners of his mouth.

"Then can I... go to your world?"

(End of chapter)