"8 minutes and 42 seconds." An He raised his left wrist to show him his bracelet, which was showing time.
Just a moment?
Yu Zhesen thought he had been chatting with Ma Yingjie for a long time.
After drinking two and a half glasses of draft beer, he now felt a little bloated in his stomach.
"I'm going to the bathroom, please keep an eye on me." Yu Zhesen said and began to take off his windbreaker.
An He frowned slightly: "Are you very hot?"
"Kind of."
He put the windbreaker he took off on the sofa behind the bar together with Claire's windbreaker, and set off for the bathroom.
In fact, he took off his clothes not because of the heat, but because he was worried about whether there might be any monitoring equipment hidden in the uniform that was delivered using optical particle chain transmission technology.
It didn't matter to Yu Zhesen whether what he said to Ma Yingying was monitored, but he didn't want his "nonsense" to be known to outsiders.
The restroom was empty at this hour, which suited him just right.
But for the sake of safety, Yu Zhesen still played a piece of pop music on his mobile phone, and then whispered to the mirror in front of the sink: "Shi Xin, are you there?"
Three seconds later, Shi Xin's figure appeared in the mirror in front of him.
She was wearing the black windbreaker uniform of the Security Bureau, and her blond hair was tied back in a ponytail exactly like An He.
"Yu Zhesen, good evening."
Maybe it was because the situation of his appearance this time was not urgent. Shi Xin finally said hello to him.
"I want to find out what happened on the rooftop today...how did you do it?"
Although Yu Zhesen regarded the situation as going back in time based on his feelings, he still hoped to hear accurate information from Shi Xin.
"Just as you thought, I rewind the time between you and Qian Zhimo."
"So my arm was really burned off by 'Steel Burning' at that time, right?"
"Yes, but I blocked your pain nerve signals, slowing down the transmission of pain back to your brain ten thousand times."
Yu Zhesen was stunned for a moment: "I thought I was numb from pain at that time."
"At that time, your entire body was shrouded in the realm of 'Steel Burning'. If I hadn't done that, you might have fainted before you knocked him down."
After hearing Shi Xin's description, Yu Zhesen took a deep breath.
When he saw Bong Bing pushing Su Qiang towards Qian Zhimo, he jumped on her as soon as his mind became hot, without even considering the consequences that this would bring to him.
"You don't have to blame yourself. Judging from the results, you did nothing wrong." Shi Xin comforted her softly.
"But not everything in this world is consequential."
"Then do you want to know the more detailed process?" Shi Xin smiled slightly, "Actually, I was also prepared to meet the end of life with you."
Yu Zhesen looked puzzled: "But didn't you save me?"
Shi Xin shook his head, and what he said next shocked Yu Zhesen:
"Actually, I only awakened the ability to go back in time after your arms were burned by 'Steel Burning'."
Facing Yu Zhesen, who was dazed in front of the mirror, Shi Xin continued: "And this kind of retrospective ability can only work when you are on the verge of death.
"Backtracking can barely affect a small space near your body, but the effect is far less than when it acts on you.
"This is also the reason why your clothes and armor could not be completely restored through retrospection."
Yu Zhesen raised his hand and asked her to stop explaining. He needed some time to accept and digest this new information.
"I originally thought that I could rely on this power of retrospection to save injured people in the future." He sighed, "It turns out that this ability is not that easy to use... So next time I want to save someone, the premise is to
Do you want to get yourself seriously injured and dying first?"
In the mirror, Shi Xin's solemn expression clearly expressed her disapproval of this approach.
She said: "The moment before launching the backtracking, I had a strong sense of suffocation. If it was not affected by the hot wind generated by the burning steel... maybe it was the self-suppression limit of the backtracking ability itself."
Yu Zhesen suddenly felt a little worried about her.
I don't know since when, he and Shi Xin seem to have been tied together. They are unique to each other.
For Shi Xin, only Yu Zhesen in this world can perceive her existence.
Likewise for Yu Zhesen, Shi Xin is the only existence in the world that is one with his heart and soul.
He hesitated and asked: "Will it be painful to use the ability to backtrack?"
Shi Xin smiled and didn't answer.
"I...I can get very passionate sometimes," he said, scratching his head.
Although Yu Zhesen has reflected on this problem of his own countless times, it is difficult to change human nature.
"Don't worry, I won't hold you back when it's time to fight."
Shi Xin's answer made him feel reassured as always.
Just as Yu Zhesen wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, the surrounding scenery turned gray at this moment.
Environmental time came to a standstill, and his body began to age.
"Someone is coming soon, let's make a long story short." Shi Xin put his palms on the mirror, "There are only two high-speed trains of time in a day, so now this is the last train of the day."
Yu Zhesen nodded, indicating that he remembered this restriction.
"Besides, you have to be careful about people from the Security Bureau."
"Why?" Yu Zhesen didn't understand what he meant.
Shi Xin suddenly held his forehead, his expression looked a little painful: "I saw in the prediction that you were killed by a person from the Security Bureau. No... Once I want to see more clearly, something will happen
A strong sense of suffocation... Something is preventing me from interpreting your future."
Yu Zhesen's body aging reached its limit at this time, and this time high-speed train was also forced to reach its destination.
The gray-white scenery around him was shattered like a mirror, the heart of time disappeared from Yu Zhesen's eyes, and time began to flow again.
Will I be killed by someone from the Security Bureau? Yu Zhesen's heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He chose the most likely answer from several conjectures - the Security Bureau has been penetrated, perhaps by a mole planted by the Adventist sect.
The other party has been preparing for this rescue operation for half a year. The currently arrested Bi Yuansheng and the killed Glacier are obviously just the tip of the iceberg of the strength of this huge organization.
Yu Zhesen suddenly wanted to know who the "Prince" was that the Guilin sect tried so hard to rescue.
No wonder Claire acted like she was facing a formidable enemy and insisted on coming here tonight, which was not a particularly suitable time, to meet with Han Jinghu and Jin Jianshen.
Although I don’t know how the instructor talked with the two people inside, I think it won’t be easy to achieve any valuable results.
Both Han Jinghu and Jin Jianshen were among the most astute people he had ever met.
What Jin Jianshen did today could be called a hero, but Han Jinghu's approach was completely incomprehensible to Yu Zhesen.
He shook his head and suddenly felt that with his current position, there was no need to worry so much.
Picking up a handful of water from the sink and patting his cheeks, which were red and hot from overuse, Yu Zhesen prepared to return to the bar.
It doesn't seem very kind to leave An He there all the time...
Moreover, they finally reunited after being separated for two years. In fact, the conversation between them could be less explosive.
An He was mainly angry at his reckless actions today.
Yu Zhesen knew very well that as long as he apologized and softened, An He would forgive him immediately.
The two of them are quite similar in terms of being soft-spoken and not being tough-minded.
Isn't it just about coaxing women, especially the women you like? Do you need to teach this? It has long been engraved in the innate genetic instinct.
Yu Zhesen smiled, turned around and walked out.
He bumped into a young man in a hurry at the curtained door of the bathroom.
After the collision, Yu Zhesen just took a step back, but the other person sat down on the ground and let out a painful "ouch" sound.
"Sorry, sorry, are you okay?" Yu Zhesen looked at the other person covering his face, as if he had hurt his nose just now.
The other person got up while cursing and glared at Yu Zhesen fiercely. He was about to go around him and go to the bathroom, but was stunned when he met his eyes.
"Yu...Yu Zhesen?" The man covered his nose, his tone a little hesitant and unconfident.
Yu Zhesen didn't expect that anyone would recognize him here, and was stunned for a moment.
He didn't realize it until the other person put down the hand covering his face.
The person in front of me is my old classmate.
"Fan Minkai?"
"Let me go, it's really you..." Fan Minkai heard Yu Zhesen call out his name, and now he was finally sure that he had recognized the right person.
They were classmates in middle-level education, and it has been almost six years since they last met.
The education and training program formulated by the Iron Dome Administration for citizens caused the two people's life trajectories to become two completely different paths after graduating from secondary school.
According to the Iron Dome Education Act, every citizen receives five years of primary education and three years of secondary education starting at the age of 8.
After that, a selection examination will be used to evaluate whether the citizen has the qualifications to enter a higher education institution and receive two more years of elite education.
Once you fail the selection and evaluation examination for elite education, you can only transfer to the Iron Dome Vocational Training College to learn various types of professional skills. After two years, you will be assigned to work in various low-level industries according to your professional skill level.
The people who formulated this education plan believed that the entire society only needed a small number of upper-class elites to maintain management and operation.
With the development of artificial intelligence technology, various professional and technical positions will gradually dilute the proportion of manual operations.
After all, sophisticated artificial intelligence machinery is obviously more reliable than a flesh-and-blood body that has seven emotions and six desires and is subject to birth, aging, sickness and death.
Of course, these are just ideas for the time being. Before machines can completely replace living people to complete production work, the Administration believes that increasing the population to accelerate rejuvenation and expansion is also a path that must be adhered to.
The respective educational experiences of Fan Minkai and Yu Zhesen exactly represent the polarization in the Iron Dome era.
After completing intermediate education at the age of 16, Yu Zhesen went to a high school in Xingzhou City to continue receiving elite education, while Fan Minkai entered a vocational training college.
Heroes are also afraid of old neighbors, and classmates are afraid of meeting old classmates.
When he first saw Yu Zhesen, Fan Minkai felt a little panicked.
It’s the kind of inferiority and invisible oppression that poor students feel when faced with top students, which has been inherited since school days...
But he soon realized that this was the "Rainbow" bar - a notorious gathering place for people who are not doing their job.
Even now, there are many bad guys and street kids out there who are willing to steal the savings of their parents and parents to try their best to turn their bicycles into motorcycles.
Looking at Yu Zhesen's tattered clothes, Fan Minkai had a smile on his face - he was so happy to meet an old friend in a foreign land and find someone of the same kind!
"Wait for me, let me relieve myself. Let's have a drink and chat." He patted Yu Zhesen's shoulder with his hand and grabbed it hard twice.
