I said I would turn back time

Northern suburb of Donghai City.

In a half-collapsed villa, several homeless people were taking apart the tables and chairs they had picked up and throwing them into the fire in front of them to keep warm.

And in the shadow not far behind them, Lin Xing's figure slowly emerged.

The spiritual thoughts in his sea of ​​consciousness surged out and turned into a large, delicate net that swept across the entire villa area.

Collapsed walls, overgrown weeds, ants running on the floor, and the basement that had been soaked in various kinds of sewage all appeared before his eyes.

In addition, you can also see cut-open buildings, smashed cars, and security doors that looked like they were torn open by wild beasts...

All signs indicate that there was a war here, which resulted in the entire villa area being in ruins.

But among these ruins, some complete rooms have been preserved, allowing homeless people to hide in them to take shelter from the wind and rain.

At this moment, Lin Xing's eyes moved slightly: "Found it."

His body flashed and he passed through a basement door silently.

As he continued to move forward, the sewage filling the basement seemed to be separated by an invisible force, revealing a dry and clean passage.

After crossing the passage, the space in front of me suddenly widened, and it turned out to be an artificially enlarged underground space.

At this moment, a man and a woman were huddled up and resting on a worn-out sofa with exhausted faces.

As Lin Xing stirred up the sewage, the two of them immediately jumped up from the sofa like frightened mice and looked at the direction where Lin Xing came in with wary faces.

Looking at the strange young man walking in, the girl pulled out her dagger and seemed about to attack.

Lin Xing looked at the middle-aged man with a vicissitudes of life next to the girl, and said calmly: "Six years have passed, and it seems that your fungi skills have indeed made some achievements. But you haven't been able to be forced to look like this. Complete the third inheritance?"

Ma Hong, who was already full of white hair, was startled when he heard this, and stretched out his hand to stop the girl at the side who wanted to attack.

He still remembered that six years ago, there was a person who called the power he had not yet mastered mysticism, but that person should have died on the moon.

And just when Ma Hong was thinking this, he found that he was still lying on the sofa, the girl beside him was still resting with her eyes closed, and the young man who had just appeared had disappeared.

Ma Hong rubbed his eyebrows: "I...dream?"

Recalling how he had been hunted around and fled here and there during this period, he had a trace of bitterness on his face, wondering if he was too tired.

At this moment, the sound of water flowing sounded again.

"Six years have passed, and it seems that your fungi skills have indeed made some achievements. But to be forced into this state, is it because you haven't completed the third inheritance?"

Ma Hong was stunned for a moment when he heard the exact same words spoken by the other party. Then he reacted instantly, a look of shock flashed across his face: "It's...really you?"

The girl next to him looked at Lin Xing warily and asked in confusion: "Master, who is he?"

In the girl's mind, there was obviously no memory of the last time she met Lin Xing. For her, this was the first time she saw the young man in front of her.

Ma Hong looked at Lin Xing, who looked like a stranger in front of him, and what he had just done, and he could understand that the old friend in front of him did not want to reveal his identity.

So he thought for a while and replied: "A trustworthy old friend."

He looked at Lin Xing and asked, "Really?"

Lin Xing curiously looked at the underground space in front of him, looked at the pots and pans on the side and said, "Are the people from Xinguo chasing you?"

Ma Hong nodded helplessly: "I have been hiding in the suburbs of Donghai City for research in the past few years."

"Starting a few days ago, these guys didn't know which way they found me. They seemed to be going crazy and tried their best to catch me."

"They also have great power in Donghai City, and there are many people inside Xia Kingdom. Even though I hid in several national institutions established by Xia Kingdom in Donghai City several times, they broke in."

Ma Hong couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this.

In the past, he was also an elder of Zhou Tianhui, an overlord who was in charge of countless manpower and material resources.

But after the great changes in the world, more and more geniuses emerged and gradually caught up with him in realm. However, because he wanted to combine the technology of the world to create a new power, his realm improved more and more slowly, and he is now still the second inheritance. , being chased by a group of juniors and running around.

Ma Hong continued: "Then I thought that since the great changes in the world, the population of Donghai City has skyrocketed, and many people with poor qualifications who cannot find jobs have become homeless."

"There are a lot of homeless people living in ruins all over the city. However, the Xia Kingdom now lacks the resources to manage them. Their management is extremely loose, and there is little monitoring in the ruins."

"I hid among these homeless people, and I was able to escape tracking for the time being..."

Having said this, he looked at Lin Xing and said, "Who did you find me through?"

Lin Xing did not answer, but said casually: "You can follow me first, I will protect you."

Ma Hong's face relaxed when he heard this, and his whole person seemed to relax.

He nodded and agreed happily: "I feel relieved when you are here."

The girl on the side frowned and looked at Lin Xing in front of her with suspicion.

At this moment, Lin Xing maintained the appearance of an ordinary young man. There was no trace of strength in his body. He was just like a random passerby on the street.

The girl was full of doubts about her master Ma Hong trusting the young man in front of her so much.

"Master, the new country has a huge power in Donghai City, and there are super masters like Tianju. Is it too dangerous for us to go out now?"

Ma Hong rubbed the girl's head lovingly: "Feixia, if he can't protect us, I'm afraid no one in this world can protect us."

When Lin Xing was his enemy, Ma Hong felt that he was always oppressed by the opponent. No... it should be said that the entire world was once under the oppression of the opponent, and all the masters in the world were suppressed by Lin Xing.

But at this moment, instead of being Lin Xing's enemy, he was receiving assistance from the other party. The invisible pressure turned into a sense of security, and he no longer had the fear of the past few days.

Duan Feixia had never seen her master trust someone so much. She looked at Lin Xing in surprise: "Are you from the Xia Kingdom? Can you use many people to support us?"

Lin Xing said calmly: "I am enough."

"let's go."

Seeing Lin Xing turn and leave, Duan Feixia became more and more confused, but out of trust in her master, she followed her master and left the basement obediently.

Lin Xing, who walked out of the basement, suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky: "Ma Hong, get ready to leave quickly."

Ma Hong asked: "Is it someone from Xinguo who is chasing us?"

Lin Xing walked forward quickly: "Something more troublesome."

"Now is not the time to confront him head-on."

Next, Ma Hong and his disciples followed Lin Xing. They first left the abandoned villa area and came to a nearby commercial street. After turning left and right, they came to a residential area.

After waiting for ten minutes in the underground garage of the community, they left the community and walked to another commercial street.

Just like this, they stopped and went around, and Duan Feixia was surprised that she didn't encounter any pursuit along the way.

She couldn't help but think in her heart: "What's going on? No one is chasing us when we are walking around so openly. Have the people of Xinguo given up on chasing us?"

At the same time, in the abandoned villa area on the other side, shortly after Lin Xing and the others left, a tiny beam of light suddenly fell from the sky, covering the entire villa area in an instant, and then disappeared instantly.

It was like a flash of light suddenly appeared, illuminating every corner inside and outside the villas, so fast that people couldn't react.

The tramp who was warming himself by the fire was flashed by the light and couldn't help but close his eyes.

But just as he closed his eyes, the firelight that was still swaying seemed to slow down a little bit. The originally erratic firelight became slower and slower, and finally turned into a solid state.

Not only the firelight, but the homeless man still had his eyes closed and motionless. The ants that were crawling back and forth in the floor just now seemed to have been pressed on the pause button. Even the weeds blown by the cold wind outside the house stopped at the place where they were blown down. moment.

Everything in the entire abandoned community seemed to be frozen at the moment when the flash of light swept across, showing a strange stillness, which was in sharp contrast to the noisy streets around it.

And in this stagnant abandoned community, a paper crane appeared from nowhere and floated flexibly in this still world.

The paper crane floated slowly past the room where the homeless people were, flew all the way through the corridor, got through the jelly-like sewage, and finally circled around the underground space where Master Ma Hong and his disciples were hiding just now.

"Did you escape in advance?"

"But since even I was able to dodge in advance, doesn't it mean that it was you who took action...Lin Xing..."

The next moment, the paper crane had disappeared without a trace, and the abandoned community that had just fallen into stasis seemed to come to life again.

The wild grass swayed back and forth in the strong wind.

The fire continued to flicker in the darkness.

But the homeless man's closed eyes never opened, and the ants that fell into stillness also remained still, as if they had completely lost the breath of life.

There was a soft clang sound, and another homeless man standing in front of the fire fell forward. His entire upper body had fallen into the flames and was swallowed up by the raging fire.

But he was as motionless as a corpse, letting the flames burn him without any struggle.

Until the flames extinguished, everyone at the scene was completely submerged in darkness.

Just like this abandoned villa area, it was swallowed up in the shadow of Donghai City and no one noticed it.

…

The other side of Donghai City.

Mo Xingyi's home.

Duan Feixia kept pinching her fingers and kept looking at the dormitory in front of her with her big eyes. She said, "We are just going to live here openly. Is it really okay?"

Lin Xing waved his hand and said: "I asked Xiao Mo, she doesn't mind two more people living here."

"But the bed still belongs to her. You have a sofa seat and a floor bunk to choose from."

Duan Feixia bit her lip, stared at Lin Xing and said: "I'm not talking about this, I mean... this is the dormitory of the Quantum Intelligence Research Institute, right? There are surveillance everywhere, and many people in Xia Kingdom have already taken refuge. New country.”

Lin Xing said casually: "Don't worry, the surveillance here has been taken care of by Xiao Mo, and no information about us will be spread. But then, don't leave this room unless necessary."

After a casual explanation, Lin Xing looked at Ma Hong and asked, "Can you...can you contact Jing Shiyu?"

Ma Hong sighed and looked at the night outside the window and said slowly: "Ms. Jing has been supporting my research for the past six years. She is very concerned about the development progress of bacteriology."

"Including my newly created scientific research techniques, biological sublimation, and new secrets, she will personally take care of them."

"Even after she left before, she still kept in touch with me."

"Basically, I will talk to her once a week to explain the latest development plan and submit the required resources."

"But since a month ago, I can no longer contact her."

"Without her support, the development of the project has come to a standstill. With no other choice, I waited for a month and tried to contact some acquaintances a few days ago. Mo Xingye is one of them. You should be through Did she find me?"

Having said this, Ma Hong frowned helplessly: "But I don't know who else leaked the news, and people from the new country started to track me."

Lin Xing asked: "Did anything noteworthy happen before Jing Shiyu lost contact with you?"

Duan Feixia on the side also listened carefully to Ma Hong's words.

In Duan Feixia's eyes, Jing Shiyu was able to deal with any situation with ease and orderly, and she had always been the strong woman she admired.

Ma Hong squinted his eyes, and a strange look appeared on his face: "There is indeed something strange, but maybe I heard it wrong."

Lin Xing asked: "What?"

Ma Hong said slowly: "During the last call, I heard another person's voice on her side, saying that he wanted... to ask Miss Jing to marry her."

Lin Xing frowned and asked doubtfully, "Can you tell who that person is?"

Ma Hong shook his head: "I don't know, I just know... it sounded like a female voice."

"She also said something like... I hate you too. I just want to use you to turn the three of us into a family..."

"Then Miss Jing seemed to be very angry. They started arguing and the call was disconnected."