Chapter 655: The Boundary Between Past and Future

You have time to worry about whether she'll go berserk and hurt people; you'd better go look after the fleet that's about to fly in from the sky.

You want me to hand over Qi Yu; do you think that's possible?

Zhang Jie spoke expressionlessly; he had originally wanted to make a move, but it looks like he'll have to be passive again—he really hates this feeling.

Ah....

The Forbidden Permit let out a sigh; he thought highly of this young man before him, even his whole family he thought highly of.

But alas, I'm being roasted over a fire; with so many people launching a sudden attack, how is that not a kind of coercion?

Are you willing to guarantee with your chief status?

Of course.

Good.

Wait! This isn't what we agreed on!

The monocled man panicked, hurriedly speaking, but was glared back by the Forbidden Permit with just a look.

When did the Forbidden Permit's actions need your oversight?

Just then, Zhang Jie's phone rang; he answered it in front of everyone, and Zhang Yan's extremely anxious voice came through.

Little brother, it's bad! A big group of people has come to the house, a group of senior investigators! They want to capture Qi Yu!!

Big brother and Dad aren't here; I alone can't stop them!

The atmosphere suddenly fell silent, a terrifying silence; Zhang Jie's icy eyes instantly locked onto the monocled man.

Are you ready for how you'll die?

Wait wait! This isn't my doing!!!

He hastily waved his hands, the panic on his face not feigned; Zhang Jie pointed angrily at him, indicating this matter isn't over!

The next moment, he leapt into the air, flying toward where Qi Yu was; nobody stopped him.

Is it really you?

The Forbidden Permit pressed further, while that person remained utterly innocent.

How could that be?

At this moment, Zhang Jie was already rushing there at full speed, thinking only of going faster, then faster still.

But when he arrived, all that remained was a mess.

Zhang Jie:.....

Fuck....

He unwillingly looked around, hoping to find a remnant of hope, but ultimately he only saw a dying figure.

It was Qi Yu...

Her breathing was extremely weak, her body completely shattered, just like last time, but this time it was obviously more severe.

Just who...?

The Qi Yu lying on the ground seemed to sense Zhang Jie's arrival; her remaining eye twitched slightly, looking toward him.

Mas... Mas....

She couldn't get out the words 'Master'; her lungs were punctured, and each time she opened her mouth, fluid with blood bubbles seeped out.

Don't speak.

Zhang Jie hastily cut his hand, dripping blood into Qi Yu's mouth, but... this time, it didn't work.

Drink it down... drink.

Qi Yu's mouth opened and closed; in her remaining eye, the light of affection slowly faded.

Qi Yu? Qi Yu!

Zhang Jie pressed his hand against her chest, continuously pressing; but this only caused more blood foam to seep out, with no effect.

Will she degenerate into a little insect disaster again, like last time?

Zhang Jie waited a while, but Qi Yu's body showed no change.

She died, dying before Zhang Jie's eyes, with no rebirth, no resurrection, sudden and unexpected.

Not right... this shouldn't be how it is...

Is there any way...

This shouldn't be the ending; it's too hasty, so hasty that it's really hard to accept.

Zhang Jie racked his brain, trying to find a way to save Qi Yu, when suddenly a flash of insight struck him.

He recalled that day, the same scene, the same suddenness, but back then it was his older sister who died.

But the difference is that, on that day, he experienced a time reversal.

But...

Where would I get the ability to reverse time?

Zhang Jie gritted his teeth, blood and filth everywhere around him; he didn't even know whether his family were still alive.

Reversal... reversal...

Zhang Jie was certain he lacked the direct ability to reverse time, but aside from that person he had seen, nothing else could reverse time.

Even the containment objects of the final containment couldn't do that.

Ah.

In the void, Zhang Jie seemed to hear a sigh, just like that time, the sound during that reversal, the same!

Light cone view.

That voice slowly spoke; at first Zhang Jie didn't understand what it meant, but suddenly a flash of insight appeared in his mind.

Light cone.... what is it?

A light cone takes a certain event in the present as its starting point, dividing into a future that can be influenced and a past that can never be changed.

Since light extends forward or backward from an event in a conical shape, it is called a light cone.

The nature of the light cone horizon is to let Zhang Jie shift along the time axis, enabling him to appear at a certain future moment within a certain event.

His physics was poor; back then, even after obtaining this supernatural ability, he only took a moment to learn about it, researched a bit, found that its ability was just displacement, and didn't pursue it further.

Back then, he merely wanted a displacement-type supernatural ability.

"Light cone horizon..."

"What if, what if I could reverse-shift onto the light cone of the past?"

Zhang Jie admitted that his development of supernatural abilities was still too lacking, and once the idea of shifting to the past light cone arose, there was no going back.

Gazing at Qi Yu, who had long lost breath in his arms, Zhang Jie clenched his teeth.

The light cone horizon had become an instinct of his body; he could trigger it even with his eyes closed, but as for another way of using it, this was his first time.

Zhang Jie's body began to burst with blinding white light, and his physique flickered wildly like a dropped frame.

"Damn..."

Zhang Jie bared his teeth; reverse-shifting violates the laws of physics, and without supernatural ability, given today's scientific level, it would be absolutely impossible.

He felt the contamination within his body being rapidly consumed, even the faintly touched will of taboo was rapidly receding.

This time, he would pay a tremendous price.

But if he could succeed, it would be worth it!

Zhang Jie's body flickered faster and faster, while his will was continually weakened.

Finally!

As the piercing white light flashed, Zhang Jie seemed to enter a special state.

But the world did not rewind; he sensed that he was only one step away from rewinding.

It seemed as if an invisible membrane blocked him.

This membrane is the boundary between past and future; Zhang Jie constantly shifts toward the past, and it firmly blocks him, preventing him from going back.

"Let me.... go past!!!"

Zhang Jie felt such helplessness for the first time.

(Cough cough, bosses, the ginseng has boiled through; now I feel so weak....)