Chapter 172 Time Travel

It was 2 minutes past 11, in an open-air restaurant on the street of Lafite Road.

Wang Ailin, wearing a red silk armless shirt and a black skirt, and brown high heels, sat in her seat, waiting for Diana.

The white bag was placed on a chair beside her, and two cups of chocolate ice cream were placed on the table.

Perhaps because the Opportunity City is close to the inland sea, the temperature rose sharply at noon today, and the air was hot and humid. Small beads of sweat appeared on her forehead and nose bridge, and her neck and collarbone were also wet.

Wang Ailin took out the wet wipes she carried with her and wiped her face, helplessly watching the cream mountain in the cup slowly melt, and the chocolate beans dotted on it were like crying eyes.

She sighed, took out her makeup box and took a picture. The lip gloss seemed to be a little faded, so she took out the lipstick to touch up.

Bang!

Suddenly, she felt that her left elbow was touched by someone, and her whole arm was unconscious for a moment, and the expensive lipstick fell to the ground.

Wang Ailin frowned at the strange feeling and looked behind her. She didn't see anyone. She bent down to pick up her lipstick, but the other hand picked it up before her.

"Hey, your lipstick fell off." Diana appeared from Wang Ailin's right side, put the lipstick on the table, and then sat on the opposite seat.

"Diana! When did you arrive?" Wang Ailin was startled. She noticed that Diana had a splint on her left arm.

"You just arrived not long ago. You seem to be scared by me?" Diana smiled and looked at Wang Ailin.

She picked up the spoon on the table with her right hand, stirred the ice cream in the cup, picked up a piece and put it in her mouth, with a happy expression on her face.

"Great, chocolate flavor." Diana said intoxicatedly.

"It's so hot today. I'm hallucinating. Is Opportunity City always so hot?"

Wang Ailin said as she put the makeup box into her bag.

"I would rather it be summer forever, so that I can eat chocolate ice cream every day." Diana smiled.

Wang Ailin shook her head. She reached out and poked Diana's bandaged left arm, with a distressed look on her face.

"Don't be nervous, Ailin. It's just a dislocation, not a serious injury." Diana patted her hand and continued to enjoy the chocolate ice cream.

Seeing Diana eating so happily, she was relieved, so she turned the topic to the point.

"Come on, tell me about the gun, Diana, what did it look like when you saw it?" Wang Ailin moved closer and took out the recorder.

"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 embarrass myself." Wang Ailin turned on the recorder.

Diana reached out and pinched the microphone of the recorder, and then said: "Then I have to make it clear first, the relevant information about the Xijin Building case is confidential."

"I understand, Diana, I promise not to leak it out. I will convert the recording into text when I go back and delete the file." Wang Ailin promised.

"And... you can't quote this information in all your research." Diana said cautiously.

The written reports of the Psychic Research Institute usually indicate the sources of various cited information, because if a research topic is quoted, the Administration will find that Diana is secretly leaking confidential information to her classmates. Although the probability is small, it is not impossible.

"There will be no written report. We have always been cautious and will not bring you out." Wang Ailin said.

"And..." Diana said halfway.

"Two more cups of chocolate ice cream." Wang Ailin said to the waiter.

Diana hesitated, leaned back in the chair, and made a gesture of invitation.

"Okay, let's talk about the gun Diana, the gun... you told me last time that its registration time was wrong..." Wang Ailin asked.

"That's right, but it turns out that it was just an information entry error. Later, the gun storage department modified the information. The gun is now lying in the evidence room." Diana said.

"Did you see anything strange when you saw the gun?" Wang Ailin 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 thief left it for us on purpose." Diana answered.

Wang Ailin shook her head. This was not what she wanted, so she asked: "Is there anything more bizarre? For example... did it make you feel that this gun is not something from this time..."

Diana was stunned for two seconds, then laughed and said, "I know what you mean. You mean this gun came through time and space? Humph..."

"I'm not kidding, Diana... Information about the gun may be related to the investigation results of Parker's body." Wang Ailin frowned.

"Parker? The body is still..." Diana was stunned.

"Now, it has turned to ashes... But we can still detect signs of life from the ashes, Diana, this is strange, I think the gun will give me the answer." Wang Ailin said.

Diana looked at Wang Ailin's expression and didn't seem to be funny. She suddenly remembered that she had been to Weber Spiritual Property before and looked for Parker's information accompanied by the CEO, but she didn't find it at that time.

"You scared me, Irene. Do you mean that Parker really traveled through time and space? Is he a time traveler from the future to the present?" Diana laughed awkwardly.

"It's not impossible, but it's very likely." Wang Irene 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. If you want to make a data wrong or make a person non-existent, there are many ways.

"And time travel is exactly what psychic energy can do..." Wang Ailin said.

"Time travel will bring paradoxes. If there were real people who traveled through time, the world would have been in chaos long ago." Diana shook her head.

"Time paradox was just a hypothesis before, but if it really happened, then how would it appear? No one in this world has ever seen a real time paradox, maybe Parker is it?" Wang Ailin 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 believe in time travel.

Time travel, rebirth back to the past, this is equivalent to starting over again. If there really is someone who has the ability to travel through time, 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' assumptions about time travel are reliable, the world should have been in chaos long ago if there were time travelers.

However, it didn't.

This world only has weird psychic powers and the unknown void.

"If possible, can you lend me the gun for research for a while?" Wang Ailin didn't want to discuss too much on the topic of hypothesis. She just wanted the gun.

"I really want to help you, Ailin, but the Administration is very strict about firearms, especially this gun has been lost once..." Diana shook her head.

"Can you replace it? Apply to use the gun as your sidearm and take it out of the Administration." Wang Ailin didn't give up.

"You may not know that the agents of the Administration and the investigators of the Spirit Enterprise are divided into levels, and the guns are also divided into levels. It is impossible for agents to apply for the investigator's weapon as a sidearm." Diana sighed.

At this time, the waiter brought two cups of chocolate ice cream.

"So slow?" Diana said.

The waiter showed an embarrassed expression, put down the ice cream, and ran away immediately.

"The chocolate ice cream here is great, but the order is too slow..." Diana complained while picking up the small spoon.

"Boom..."

At this time, the sky was filled with rolling thunder, as if something in the sky was peeled off and torn apart.

Almost everyone looked up at the sky at the same time. The sun was shining brightly, without even a dark cloud. The thunder was weird.

"What a strange thunder. What did the weather forecast say?" Diana said as she stuffed the ice cream into her mouth.

"Okay... then we start..." Wang Ailin just opened her mouth and suddenly felt uncomfortable in her throat. All the organs in her body were out of control, as if her soul had shed its shell.

All the surrounding scenery seemed to stop moving, even the hot wind that had been blowing just now stopped flowing.

She opened her mouth slightly, unable to make a sound, and her body could not move. She could only move her eyeballs.

Diana, who was sitting opposite, stopped at the moment when she raised the ice cream cup. The outline of a car passing by was still a blurry afterimage.

"Why... this..." Wang Ailin couldn't feel her heartbeat or her breathing. This stagnant feeling scared her.

At this moment, the whole world was like a slide, black and bright, switching to another picture.

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...

It was pitch black around her. Where the blue light shone, the walls and floors were full of blood and internal organs. It looked like a research institute...

The picture was still and lasted for only 2 seconds. After a moment, the scene was cut back to reality.

As if falling from a high altitude, Wang Ailin's body bounced and fell off the chair, and suddenly fell to the ground.

"Ailin!" Diana was startled and stood up to help.

Wang Ailin stretched out her hand and waved, indicating that she was fine, and grabbed the table and returned to her seat.

"Are you... okay?" Diana asked with concern.

"No... no... I... just had a cramp in my leg..." Wang Ailin smiled.

She turned off the recorder, her heart still beating wildly, and a name appeared in her mind, as if she had known it for a long time.

The name was Chen Ke.