Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 1228 - 26: The Mystery of the Supervillain’s Origin
Why did he let someone travel through time?
Well, at least the one who came through looks like a human.
He even seems a bit reserved and rigid, wonder which era’s prince or duke he might be.
"I see you often use this device."
Ji Yan pointed to Su Xiaowan’s phone: "Can you teach me how to use it?"
Su Xiaowan glanced at Gu Qing’s phone and hesitated for a moment: "This is called a phone. How about I buy you a new one?"
"No need, I might leave at any time, and I just want to check the time."
"Can you read the time?"
"Miss Su, although I’m from the past, I’m not that ancient."
"Alright..."
Su Xiaowan held his hand and showed him how to unlock Gu Qing’s phone with a fingerprint: "Don’t look at the album; there’s nothing in there anyone should see."
"Hmm, like this? Can I just talk to it directly?"
Ji Yan put the phone to his mouth and seriously asked: "What year is it now?"
"Hello Master, it is now May 5th, 2008 AD..."
Ji Yan frowned slightly and began calculating in his mind.
Su Xiaowan curiously asked beside him: "Do you know what year you time-traveled from?"
"1371 AD."
"Huh?"
"It’s normal for the time not to match. Do you have any history books? Specifically about domestic history, with detailed timelines."
"Uh...I need to look for it. How about you just ask AI?"
Who keeps a history book at home unless you’ve got nothing better to do? Okay, you can’t say no one does, because sometimes you might meet clueless teachers and classmates at school.
Has this thing evolved to such an advanced degree? Can it understand whatever I say?
Ji Yan looked at the card-shaped phone in his hand, hardly believing.
"Please help me check the contemporary history of Ming Country a hundred years ago."
"Okay, Master, you asked me to search for domestic history from a hundred years ago, which would be 1908 AD..."
Looking at the lines of text appearing on the phone screen, Ji Yan only felt his vision go dark.
Completely unmatched.
Who is this first President? I’ve never heard of them.
"Please check for me again, the specific timeline of the plague outbreak in Xiangjiang about a hundred years ago."
"Okay, Master..."
The results of the search made Ji Yan’s scalp tingle.
The plague lasted nearly thirty years before and after.
How am I supposed to calculate the exact time?
"So you’re someone from a hundred years ago."
Su Xiaowan glanced at Ji Yan’s search history: "Then you really got the short end of the stick. In those novels, the male protagonist usually time-travels thousands of years at a time..."
"It might not just be a hundred years."
"Round it off to a hundred years?"
"It’s not a question of whether it’s a hundred years or not."
Ji Yan rubbed his temples and sighed: "I don’t really want to discuss this issue with you because I can’t even explain it myself. So can we not dwell on this?"
Su Xiaowan raised an eyebrow: "Clearly you are dwelling on it yourself, I just asked one question, and you retaliate?"
Ji Yan let out a long sigh.
So painful, can someone please save me?
...
"Are you saying that this handsome guy who looks like this claimed to be my husband?"
"Yes!"
Li Yufei held up her phone, opened the album, and shoved a picture she secretly took with a drone right in Li Mumu’s face.
"Confess honestly!"
"He is indeed my husband, but he shouldn’t claim it outright, right?"
"How dare you start a relationship? Weren’t we supposed to be single forever?"
Li Yufei turned and flopped onto the bed, hugging a pillow and starting to fake cry.
"If you have something to say, say it, if not, scram!"
Li Mumu was holding back anger.
In the blink of an eye, several months had passed without any warning. Rumor had it that Wang Yunxiao had even come by, and she hadn’t logged in at that time.
You ask me what’s going on? I want to know, too!
Even if you switch timelines, at least give me a "ding" sound.
Nothing at all; before my brain reacted, the person was already gone.
What good person can withstand such torment?
Li Mumu picked up the phone and took a look at the trending topics online.
The hottest news recently was about the so-called "human-shaped mobile disaster," the super mutant Annihilation that killed millions in the Federation, now crossing the Pacific Ocean and heading towards Ming Country.
The internet was filled with wails, and even those sitting at home eating popcorn and watching the drama couldn’t hold back anymore; absurd memes filled the sky.
Li Mumu wasn’t overly worried because Shen Qingxi had told her about this part of history where Annihilation initially landed in Fusang, only to be stopped by the principal for three days and nights, ultimately fleeing in disgrace, covered in lumps.
"So you don’t even know why you can log on yourself?"
"It’s not that I don’t know at all; it’s just hard to explain."
By now, the three of them had returned to the Special Affairs Bureau headquarters, resting since Li Mumu was sent for observation due to the issues on her end.
Since there were no outsiders here, Li Mumu directly pulled over a whiteboard.
She wrote the word "Tardigrade" at the top.
"You know the water bear, right? The animal that can survive under extreme conditions."
"First, let’s assume there’s a creature with adaptation as strong as a water bear that can survive and even grow in a temporal tide."
"For now, I’ll nickname it Annihilation."
"Why temporarily? You’re just pointing at her nose and calling her a water bear." Li Yufei quietly muttered.
"You shut up, don’t interrupt me."
Li Mumu picked up a pen and drew a long line on the whiteboard.
"This is the original world line from our memory, I’ll call it C10."
Li Yufei wanted to say something but stopped.
Li Mumu glared at her.
Li Yufei made a gesture of zipping her lips and gave a thumbs up.
"Then there’s the world line we entered, C11, after being reverse floated as a signal flag to the past after we died. Don’t ask why it’s C11, this is data recorded by the Tushan."
Li Mumu drew a second line.
"From the perspective of C11, the C10 world line has already been swept into the great tide, roughly like this."
She drew a Möbius strip between the two lines.
"We are here now. In your view, it’s C10; in my view, it’s C10.1, understand?"
Li Yufei nodded vigorously.
Li Mumu then drew a thin centipede on the Möbius strip.
"This is Annihilation. She was born from C10 and ascended to become a high-dimensional being, entrenched in this temporal tide of C10.1, treating it as her nest."
"Now she should have encountered a natural enemy specifically targeting her."
Li Mumu drew a chicken beside it.
"But physically annihilating Annihilation is impossible because she is no longer a physical being. She must be annihilated from a higher dimension, that is, the spacetime level."
"The so-called strike the snake at seven inches, their original plan was to modify her origin, which is on the line of C10.1, July 14, 2036, when I was ordered to investigate the underground laboratory and released Annihilation that day."
"But their plan failed. Annihilation’s true origin wasn’t on that day."
"She hid her origin somewhere no one could find and left traps like CE2036/7/14 outside to deceive people into falling into the trap."
Li Mumu lifted her pen and drew a vertical line at the front of the two lines.
C11 Line September 20, 1371
C10 Line September 20, 1901
Chen Tianjun and his group arrived in Xiangjiang in search of the legendary Phoenix Egg.
Wen Ya cautiously raised her hand beside.
"Speak!"
"Isn’t this origin a bit too distant?"
"Because it’s distant enough, no one else can find it."
Li Mumu spread her hands: "Of course, all this is just my hypothesis based on various clues, without actual evidence to support it."
Such matters are, how to say, akin to the Divine Eagle Hero finding Dragon Maiden after sixteen years.
This sixteen-year gap in the Jianghu World is a complete blank period. You also don’t understand why there were no masters of a top-five caliber during those sixteen years or how Dragon Maiden survived on little fish and honey at the bottom of the valley.
The author said sixteen years, so sixteen years it is.
If Annihilation’s origin is traced back over a hundred years, no one can explain this blank period in between.
Like the pumpkin on top of Cornell University’s tower, no one knows how it got up there.
Unable to trace, naturally the hands can’t reach.
"Is there a possibility of... reincarnation?"
Wen Ya quietly asked.
"It’s possible."
Li Mumu nodded: "I also think it’s reincarnation, but right now there aren’t more clues, and I can’t figure out how she reincarnated."
