Chapter 172 Time Travel
At 2 minutes past 11 o'clock, an open-air restaurant on the street of Lafite Road.
Aileen Wang was wearing a red silk armless shirt, a black skirt, and brown high heels. She was sitting on her seat, waiting for Diana.
The white bag was placed on the chair nearby, and two cups of chocolate ice cream were placed on the table.
Perhaps because Opportunity City is close to the inland sea, the temperature rose sharply at noon today. The air was hot and humid. Small beads of sweat appeared on her forehead and the bridge of her nose, and her neck and collarbone were also wet.
Wang Aileen took out the wet wipes she carried with her and wiped her face, helplessly watching the mountain of butter in the cup melt slowly, and the chocolate beans dotted on top looked like crying eyes.
She sighed, took out her makeup box and took a picture. The lip gloss seemed a little faded, so she took out her lipstick and touched up her makeup.
bump!
Suddenly, she felt her left elbow being touched by someone. Her entire arm went numb for a moment, causing her expensive lipstick to fall to the ground.
Wang Aileen frowned when she felt the strange feeling. She looked behind her and found no one. She bent down to pick up the lipstick, but her other hand picked up the lipstick one step ahead of her.
"Hey, you lost your lipstick." Diana appeared from the right side of Irene Wang, put the lipstick on the table, and then sat on the seat opposite.
"Diana! When did you arrive?" Wang Aileen was startled. She noticed that Diana's left arm was splinted.
"You just arrived not long ago, you seem to be scared by me?" Diana looked at Wang Aileen with a smile.
She twisted the spoon on the table with her right hand, stirred the ice cream in the cup, picked up a piece and stuffed it into her mouth, with a happy expression on her face.
"It's great, it tastes like chocolate." Diana said intoxicated.
"It's so hot today, it's so hot that I'm hallucinating. Is Opportunity City always this hot?"
Wang Aileen said as she put the makeup box into her bag.
"I'd rather it be summer forever, so I can eat chocolate ice cream every day." Diana laughed.
Wang Aileen shook her head. She reached out and touched Diana's bandaged left arm, with a distressed look on her face.
"Don't be nervous Erin, it's just a dislocation, not a serious injury." Diana clapped her hand and continued to enjoy the chocolate ice cream.
Seeing that Diana was eating so happily, she felt relieved, so she changed the topic to the main topic.
"Come on, let's talk about that gun, Diana. When you saw that gun, what did it look like?" Wang Aileen came closer and took out the recording pen.
"You still want to record?" Diana was a little surprised when she saw the recorder.
"I haven't written for many years, don't force me to show my shame." Wang Aileen turned on the recorder.
Diana stretched out her hand, pinched the microphone of the recorder, and then said: "Then I have to make it clear first that the relevant information about the Xijin Building case is confidential."
"I understand, Diana. I promise not to leak it. I will convert the recording into text when I get back and delete the file." Wang Aileen promised.
"Also...you cannot quote this information in any of your research." Diana said cautiously.
The written reports of the Psychic Research Institute usually indicate the sources of various quoted information. Because of the citation of a research topic, the Administration can discover that Diana is secretly leaking confidential information to her classmates. Although the chance is very small, it is not
Impossible.
"There will be no written report. We always deal with it cautiously and will not take you out." Wang Aileen said.
"And..." Diana was mid-sentence.
"Two more cups of chocolate ice cream." Wang Aileen said to the waiter.
Diana hesitated to speak, leaned back in the armchair and made a gesture of invitation.
"Okay, let's talk about that gun Diana, that gun... you told me last time that its registration time was wrong..." Wang Aileen asked.
"Yes, but it turns out that it was just an error in the information entry. Later, the firearms storage department revised the information, and the gun is now lying in the evidence room." Diana said.
"Did you see anything strange when you saw that gun?" Wang Aileen hinted.
"Well...of course there are. For example, there are no fingerprints on it, and the bullets have just been fired. It feels like the gun thief deliberately left it for us." Diana replied.
Wang Aileen shook her head. This was not what she wanted, so she asked: "Is there anything more bizarre? For example... does it make you feel something, making you feel that this gun does not seem like something from this time...
"
Diana was stunned for two seconds, then laughed and said: "I understand what you mean. Are you saying that this gun came through time and space? Hum hum..."
"I'm not kidding, Diana...the information about that gun may be related to the investigation results of Parker's body." Wang Aileen frowned.
"Parker? That body is still there..." Diana was stunned.
"Now, it has turned into ashes...but we can still detect signs of life from that handful of ashes. Diana, this is strange. I think that gun will give me the answer." Wang Aileen said.
When Diana looked at Irene Wang's expression, it didn't look like she was joking. She suddenly remembered that she had gone to Weber Psychiatry before and searched for Parker's information accompanied by the CEO, but she really couldn't find it at that time.
"You scared me Erin, do you mean that Parker really traveled through time and space? Is he a time traveler who traveled from the future to the present?" Diana smiled awkwardly.
"It's not impossible, but it's very likely." Wang Aileen said.
"This doesn't make sense... maybe... maybe it's just caused by psychic infection. You also know how mysterious and unpredictable psychic energy is." Diana shook her head.
Some things have nothing to do with scientific research. There are many ways to make a data error or a person not exist.
"And time travel is something that spiritual energy can possibly do..." Wang Aileen said.
"Time travel will bring paradoxes. If there were real time travellers, the world would have been in chaos." Diana shook her head.
"Time paradox was just a hypothesis before, but if it really happened, how would it appear? No one in this world has ever seen a real time paradox, maybe Parker is it?" Wang Aileen said.
"What you said makes sense...and you are a researcher. I can't refute it, but there are many things that can be forged, and that gun may not explain anything." Diana said.
She still doesn't quite believe in time travel.
Time travel, rebirth and going back to the past, is equivalent to starting life over. If someone really has the ability to time travel, whether he goes back to the past or travels to the future, it will inevitably have an irreversible impact on reality.
Of course, the premise is that the time paradox really exists. If human beings' hypothesis about time travel is reliable, and there are time travellers, the world should be in chaos by now.
However, it didn't.
This world only has weird spiritual energy and an unknown void.
"That gun, if possible, can you take it out and lend it to me to study for a while?" Wang Aileen didn't want to discuss too much on the hypothetical topic, she just wanted the gun.
"I really want to help you Erin, but the administration's management of firearms is very strict, especially since this gun has been lost once..." Diana shook her head.
"Can you replace it? Apply for that gun to be your sidearm and take it out of the administration." Wang Aileen refused to give up.
"You may not know that the agents of the Administration and the investigators of Ling Enterprise are divided into different levels, and the guns are also divided into different levels. It is impossible for an agent to apply for an investigator's weapon as a sidearm." Diana sighed.
At this time, the waiter brought two cups of chocolate ice cream.
"So slow?" Diana asked.
The waiter showed an embarrassed expression, put down the ice cream, and ran away immediately.
"The chocolate ice cream here is great, but the orders are too slow..." Diana complained as she picked up a small spoon.
"Rumble..."
At this time, there was rolling thunder in the sky, as if something in the sky was being peeled off and torn apart.
Almost everyone looked up at the sky at the same time. The sun was shining brightly and there was not even a dark cloud. The thunder sounded strange.
"What a strange thunder, what did the weather forecast say?" Diana said as she stuffed the ice cream into her mouth.
"Okay... let's start from..." Wang Ailin just started to speak, and suddenly felt a discomfort in her throat, and all her organs were inoperable, as if her soul had shed its shell.
Everything around him seemed to have stopped moving, and even the hot wind that had been blowing ceased to flow.
She opened her mouth slightly, unable to make a sound, nor could she move her body, she could only move her eyes.
Diana, who was sitting opposite, stopped at the moment she raised her ice cream cup. The outline of a car passing by was still a blurry afterimage.
"Why...this..." Wang Aileen couldn't feel her heartbeat or her breathing. This feeling of stagnation scared her.
At this moment, the whole world was like a slideshow, turning black and then brightening, switching to another screen.
She found herself lying on the ground with another man in a black suit. Her right hand and the man's left hand were holding a candlestick that emitted a long blue light...
The surroundings were pitch black, and where the blue light shone, the walls and floors were covered with blood and internal organs. It looked like a research institute...
This picture was still and lasted only 2 seconds. After an instant, the scene switched back to reality.
As if falling from a high altitude, Wang Ailin's body bounced, fell from the chair, and suddenly fell to the ground.
"Eileen!" Diana was startled and stood up to help her.
Wang Ailin waved her hand to indicate that she was fine, then grabbed the table and returned to her seat.
"Are you... okay?" Diana was concerned.
"No...no...I...had a cramp in my foot just now..." Wang Aileen said with a smile.
She turned off the recorder, her heart still beating wildly, and a certain name appeared in her mind, as if she had known it for a long time.
Chapter completed!