Volume 1 Chapter 42: Murderous Intent
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With the Ninth-Time Shuttle beginning the memory-weaving reconstruction of World 87, the surviving humans of that world could finally live in peace.
Standing aboard the Time Shuttle of Team Eleven, Li Yan looked at World 87, his feelings becoming complicated.
Ye Lele’s reluctant gaze still floated through his mind.
Perhaps he would not be able to forget it anytime soon.
As for whether he would return to see her in the future, that remained unknown.
“I hope you’ll be all right. Now that you’ve forgotten everything, you can live a good life from here on,” Li Yan murmured to himself.
At that moment, Yue Chengze said, “Li Yan, you caused me quite a bit of trouble this time.”
Li Yan’s thoughts were interrupted. He looked at Yue Chengze in confusion. “Team Leader, what do you mean?”
Yue Chengze wore a helpless expression. “When you went to rescue Aaliyah’s team, did you expose your strength?”
Li Yan nodded. If he had not held back and fought with all his strength at the time, Aaliyah and the others probably would have been lost there.
“Aaliyah now knows that you possess the Four-in-One status. She offered to have you join their team. From what I can tell, as long as you agree to join them, most conditions are open for negotiation.”
Li Yan let out a helpless groan.
Yue Chengze and Wu Xu suddenly looked at Li Yan with amused expressions.
“From the way she put it, as long as you join their team, she not only wants to groom you as her successor, she even wants to groom you as her future husband.”
Wu Xu nodded. “Indeed. Aaliyah is outstanding both in figure and appearance. She’s one of the few great beauties in our Ninth Brigade. Li Yan, why don’t you think about it?”
Li Yan was covered in black lines. “Forget it. I’m still young. I’m afraid I couldn’t handle it.”
The three men from Team Three burst into hearty laughter unique to men.
The previously heavy atmosphere eased considerably.
As for that unfamiliar world, it was directly destroyed with the unanimous approval of the upper echelons of the Order Bureau.
The Order Bureau would never allow a breeding base for Void-Eating Beasts to exist, as it would lead to the destruction of many parallel worlds.
And so, the matter came to an end.
After uploading their respective reports to the Order Bureau’s archives, Li Yan could finally return to his own parallel world.
The temporal locator had marked the moment he left, so upon returning, he would still be on the same timeline.
In the parallel world where Li Yan lived, barely a blink of an eye had passed.
Yet in other worlds, he had experienced several extraordinarily complicated days.
He returned to the restroom of the Internet café. When he had received the Order Bureau’s summons, he had opened the portal there, so following the temporal coordinates, he could only return to the same place.
The moment he came back, he felt an overwhelming weariness spread through his body.
He had finally relaxed, and his entire body went limp.
Li Yan gathered his thoughts, trying to readjust as quickly as possible to the pace of life in this world.
But as soon as he opened the restroom door, his legs suddenly gave way, and he nearly collapsed at the entrance.
A young man who had been using the Internet happened to be waiting outside for Li Yan to come out so he could use the restroom himself.
Seeing Li Yan in that condition, the young man’s mouth twitched.
“Damn, bro, how many times did you go at it in there? You can barely stand. You’ve got to show some restraint. Don’t overdo it—your body can’t take that much.”
As someone experienced, he immediately figured out what Li Yan had been doing in the restroom.
Li Yan was speechless and explained, “I was just crouching for too long and got a cramp in my leg.”
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The young man clearly did not believe him. His face was pale, and he was still trying to lie.
Li Yan dragged his exhausted body out of the Internet café, hailed a cab, and went straight back to the hotel.
He needed to sleep soundly and think about nothing at all.
He had to digest everything that had happened recently, or he might suffer a nervous breakdown.
He did not know whether joining the Order Bureau had been a good or bad decision, but he felt that every member of the Order Bureau ought to receive psychological counseling. Otherwise, they would all end up mentally unstable.
Li Yan put his phone on silent and soon fell into a deep sleep.
In his dreams, he intermittently relived the battles against the mutated dinosaurs in that parallel world, along with Ye Lele’s beautiful face, her eyes filled with reluctance to part from him.
He had no idea how much time passed before Li Yan awoke from his sleep.
The morning sunlight shone across his face.
He had been too exhausted to close the curtains before going to bed the previous night.
He instinctively picked up his phone and glanced at it, then let out a startled curse.
Among his missed calls were thirteen from Luo Jiashuang, two from Zhao Zhengzhong, and one from his mother, Liu Tong.
In an instant, he felt as though the sky had collapsed.
Had Luo Jiashuang gone mad? Why had she called so many times?
He checked his QQ messages.
Luo Jiashuang: Li Yan, what are you doing? I miss you.
Luo Jiashuang: Li Yan, why aren’t you replying to my messages? I’m so bored. All the relatives at home went out to play mahjong. Do you know how?
Luo Jiashuang: Li Yan, what are you doing? Why haven’t you replied for so long???
Luo Jiashuang: Why didn’t you answer when I called? Where did you go?
Luo Jiashuang: Li Yan, I’m going to call the police. Have you disappeared?
Luo Jiashuang: Li Yan, open the door right now. I’m outside your room.
By the time he read that last message, Li Yan felt a chill run down his back.
Why did it feel as though Luo Jiashuang’s anger meter had already reached its limit?
To be honest, he was a little frightened.
He looked at the other messages.
Zhao Zhengzhong: Old Li, what major are you planning to apply for?
Zhao Zhengzhong: Hurry up and come out for drinks. There are tons of girls here.
Zhao Zhengzhong: Damn, are you with Luo Jiashuang doing something shady? You don’t reply to messages or answer calls. Couldn’t you at least say something during the break?
Li Yan rubbed his sleep-fogged head, and his stomach began to growl.
He was hungry.
He checked the time and discovered that he had slept from a little after four in the afternoon the previous day until eight the next morning.
He might as well get up and eat something, then come back and continue sleeping.
After a full night’s rest, Li Yan felt much better.
The events of his previous mission had also faded somewhat from his mind. That intense sense of disconnection was no longer so strong.
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Just then, the phone suddenly rang.
It was Luo Jiashuang.
Uh...
Should he answer or not?
Forget it. He would answer. If it was a blessing, he would receive it; if it was a disaster, he could not avoid it anyway.
The moment the call connected, he heard Luo Jiashuang’s icy voice.
“Awake? I’m outside your room. Open the door!”
Her tone was hostile, practically brimming with murderous intent.
Li Yan instinctively swallowed, then steeled himself and opened the door.
Luo Jiashuang stood outside with a dark expression. A storm was brewing on her delicate, pretty face.
“Move!”
She shoved Li Yan aside and marched straight into the room.
Then she went to the wardrobe, opened it, glanced inside, and closed it again.
Next, she bent down to look beneath the bed, only to find nothing there.
After that, she carefully inspected the bathroom.
In the end, she confirmed that there was no second person in the room.
Only then did the storm clouds on her face ease somewhat.
“Wait, are you checking for a hidden lover?” Li Yan asked, utterly speechless.
Luo Jiashuang angrily placed the breakfast she had bought on the table, then dropped into a chair.
“Whose fault is it that you didn’t answer your phone? Do you know how long it’s been? I thought something had happened to you. Here, I bought this for you. Eat.”
Li Yan closed the door and said, “I was just too tired and fell asleep.”
Luo Jiashuang studied him suspiciously. “Too tired? What were you doing?”
Li Yan felt helpless.
If things were already like this now, what would happen in the future? Would she check up on him every day?
No. He could not let her develop this habit.
He put on a stern expression. “What do you mean by that? I’m not even allowed to sleep now? Do I have to report everything I do to you and get your permission first? Luo Jiashuang, this is a sign that you don’t trust me. And I don’t like you acting this way.”
The moment Luo Jiashuang saw his stern face and heard his words, her eyes instantly reddened.
She remembered how that bastard had tried to break up with her not long ago.
Then he had stopped answering her calls and replying to her messages. She had thought he was deliberately giving her the cold shoulder.
Her mind had immediately begun imagining all sorts of possibilities. After all, in his previous life, Li Yan had been surrounded by women on both sides and had committed countless offenses.
One crystal-clear tear after another rolled down her cheeks.
She began to cry.
Seeing this, Li Yan felt helpless and somewhat flustered.
“Hey, don’t cry. That’s not what I meant. Oh, come on...”
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