"There are some things we didn't want to let you know so early, but you saw through it yourself, so we have no choice but to confess to you."
Chu Xiao sighed and said sincerely: "Actually, we are not only from the earth, but also the directors of the Space Management Bureau, responsible for handling abnormal events that occur in various universes."
"Cosmic Management Bureau?" Li Zheng's heart moved slightly when he heard the name. He felt like he had heard it somewhere.
It was not something I heard after coming to the matrix, but this title existed in the memory of the original owner that I had been indoctrinated into.
"Yes." Chu Xiao continued: "We know your identity because you are also a director of the Universe Management Bureau. You lost contact after entering here a long time ago..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Zheng suddenly laughed and said: "What are you talking about? You don't think you are the only ones who like to read novels, do you? The Universe Management Bureau is basically a hit book written by Yue Luohong.
The setting in the novel! If I hadn’t happened to read it, I would have been fooled by you.”
"Ahem..." Chu Xiao scratched his head in embarrassment: "Have you read all those unpopular novels? I heard Yue Luohong said that there are only three subscriptions for that book, one is him, one is me... the third one should be
It can’t be you, right?”
Li Zheng smiled slightly and said loudly: "It's not me, I see pirated copies!"
"Is that book called "Abnormal Asylum"?" Ye Kai raised his hand and said weakly: "If so, the third subscriber should be me."
"Good guy!" Ye Yuan glared and said, "You can't even remember the author of Journey to the West, but you can remember the title of a street novel that only three people subscribe to?"
"To tell you the truth, I time-traveled the moment I finished reading that book." Ye Kai said nonchalantly: "During the time-traveling process, I saw Li Zheng in an image similar to the turbulent flow of time and space, and that's when I got to know him.
Exists. But the image is very short, only fragments of his life on a planet that is somewhat similar to the earth."
"Eh?" Chu Xiao raised his eyebrows in surprise: "My sister and I also time-traveled instantly after reading that novel! My sister had little pocket money, so she read it with me. I also learned about it from the turbulence of time and space.
I didn’t know the existence of Li Zheng, a senior time traveler. But I saw a little more. In addition to fragments of his life on that planet, I also saw a very strange purple thing that covered the sky like a dark cloud."
Remembering that his sister who traveled with him had been killed by Lin Feng, Chu Xiao's eyes dimmed, revealing a bit of sadness.
"Wait!" Ye Kai thought of something and asked Chu Xiao: "I was afraid that you would be sad and never asked. Are you and your sister walking in the same passage?"
"It's the same one. She was by my side when we traveled through time." Chu Xiao nodded: "What? Aren't you two?"
After hearing this, Ye Kai looked at Ye Yuan in surprise: "Of course she and I didn't come together. I thought she came across time because of me, but now it seems... that's not the case?"
Ye Yuan's expression was a little unnatural, and his eyes evaded: "You read that novel on your phone every day, and I was just curious about what's so good about it... Just..."
"You also watch pirated copies?" Li Zheng asked.
"Yeah." Ye Yuan nodded sheepishly.
"That's wrong!" Li Zheng looked at the three of them: "Since you didn't travel through time together, how did you confirm each other's identities and then run together?"
Ye Kai continued to raise his hand: "The message you saw with the word "Earth" was sent by me."
Chu Xiao raised his hand: "I saw it."
Ye Yuan raised her hand: "I saw my brother's profile picture."
Li Zheng was silent for a few seconds and asked: "Then why didn't you take the initiative to contact me?"
The three of them looked at each other and said in unison: "You didn't contact us either."
After a few people thought about the logic, they quickly understood where the misunderstandings were.
Li Zheng is a senior time traveler, and Ye Kai and the others saw that they had exposed their identities as time travellers, so senior Li Zheng must have noticed them if he was interested.
However, he did not contact the three of them later, so the three of them thought that Li Zheng had not noticed, and were worried that their identities as fellow time travelers would be exposed and cause suspicion.
After all, he is a senior. No one knows whether this senior will exclude dissidents. It is not like they have never read similar novels.
The reason why he got together with Chu Xiao was mainly because they formed a friendship when they joined forces to hunt down Lin Fan.
After Li Zheng himself woke up from the matrix, he only had the memory of living on Earth and knew nothing about being a time traveler. He didn't notice Ye Kai's message at the time, and he didn't expect that these players were not from Earth.
people.
In fact, Ye Kai and the others did not take the initiative to contact Li Zheng because they were worried that all this was Li Zheng's plan and that the entire matrix was just a game created by Li Zheng for fun.
"Then here's the question." Ye Kai and the others stared at Li Zheng and asked, "Why do you only have memories of life on earth and no memories after time travel?"
Ye Yuan glanced at Miriel not far away, suddenly thought of something, and exclaimed in a low voice: "You are not the time traveler Li Zheng, you are a clone!"
Li Zheng smiled bitterly and nodded: "Yes, I am indeed not the original body."
Seeing his admission, the expressions of Ye Kai and the others became extremely complicated.
Ye Kai's facial features wrinkled together and said: "We have been guarding against feelings for so long, but we are guarding against a clone who doesn't know anything?"
Chu Xiao also complained: "We have been worried for many days, but it turns out that we are all searching for enemies in the void?"
Ye Yuan said with a downcast face: "I think the three of us are just idiots."
"Compared to others, I'm more curious about another less important question." Li Zheng looked at a few people and said: "Why are we time travelers with a sense of justice, but none of us are also time travelers?
Where’s the big villain?”
"Haha..." Chu Xiaopi said with a smile: "Do you think we can even read the original version of that kind of novel, what kind of bad people can we be?"
Li Zheng twitched the corner of his mouth twice and nodded slightly: "It makes sense."
There are only three people who subscribe to the full version, and one of them is the author himself. You can imagine how rubbish the novel is.
As for piracy channels...
Readers who read pirated novels have no chance of reading such trashy novels, okay?
"So, The Matrix is really not a game you play for fun?"
Anyway, their identities have been revealed, and Ye Yuan and the others no longer hide their words, and they can ask any doubts they have now.
"Of course not!" Li Zheng said truthfully: "I think I shouldn't be that boring, and there are so many races in the outer city. If it's just for fun, why should I raise those aliens?"
"On the contrary, it's you." Li Zheng looked at the three of them with burning eyes and asked: "As time travellers, where are your standard golden fingers? Portable grandpa? System?"
