Genius Club

"Therefore, how dare you wager on such an unrealistic thing? This game and battle is not child's play, and cannot afford any mistakes. The safest way is to immediately deplete the Space-Time Particle the instant the Time Shuttle Machine is created in 2234, leaving the enemy no chance to return to the past."

"Otherwise... you might be waiting for Liu Feng, but what actually arrives may be yet another Terminator, another Time-Space Assassin."

"This leads to an unsolvable dilemma."

Zhao Yingjun cautiously said:

"In 2234, the moment the Time Shuttle Machine was successfully created, Liu Feng used the sole Entangled State of Time-Space Particle. Which era did he choose to travel to?"

"He went to 1952, perhaps to learn the truth about the Millennium Stakes and the secrets surrounding Einstein. Then, extremely speaking, if Liu Feng insisted on living for 70 years, met you in 2025, and passed on the knowledge he gained to you, but... then what?"

"Are you certain you can accomplish the restoration of Chu Anqing and save humanity from apocalypse in the few decades left of your life after being infected with the virus?"

"This is assuming everything goes smoothly. If any part encounters a mishap, your future plans will be all in vain."

Lin Xian sighed.

Nodded:

"What you're saying is exactly what I'm worried about. Actually... you haven't touched the crux of the problem yet. The crux is that to realize these things, we must reach the [point of no return anchor]."

"And what does this mean? It means that we'll get infected with the virus in this era, then die, and 200 years later Liu Feng will awaken, pay respect at our tomb, and then use the Time Shuttle Machine to travel back, where he'll meet the past me..."

"The problem lies right here. The Lin Xian and Zhao Yingjun that Liu Feng sees aren't us, but another us from another time; just like Huang Que, when she returns to this era, she won't see her Lin Xian, because... her Lin Xian is already dead."

"Once we choose to hand over time and the future to someone else, it means that we on this world line have already given up, irresponsibly relaxed, choosing to enjoy our retirement and offloading the burden and responsibility to our other selves in other times."

"That's where the contradiction lies."

Lin Xian pursed his lips:

"That's exactly what Huang Que did, though she had no choice but to abandon her original world and leave hope to us in the next time."

"Moreover... before she died, she looked at me with eyes that almost begged me not to leave Yu Xi."

"Under these circumstances, accompanying Yu Xi and saving the future is like trying to have both fish and bear's paw."

However.

Zhao Yingjun shook his head:

"Lin Xian, think harder..."

"[Why did Huang Que come back?]"

Lin Xian raised his head.

He opened his eyes and looked at Zhao Yingjun.

This sentence.

Was the shout Chu Anqing made to a hesitant Huang Que while capturing the Space-Time Particle in outer space.

"Huang Que abandoned everything, came back to find you, was her purpose to ask you not to leave Yu Xi?"

Zhao Yingjun and Lin Xian exchanged glances:

"If it was only to accompany Yu Xi, Huang Que had no need to travel back... She could very well stay in her world and watch Yu Xi grow up."

"Losing her father was unfortunate for Yu Xi, but if Huang Que as her mother accompanied her, she could already provide warmth and happiness, preventing her from being used by Copernicus and trained into a Time-Space Assassin."

"But... what choice did Huang Que make?"

Her eyes were clear and soft:

"[Until her last moment in life, Huang Que never gave up on guiding you to save this world, to save the future of humanity.]"

She held Lin Xian's hand gently, and said softly:

"You have always been too deeply tied to the statement 'don't leave Yu Xi,' and have instead ignored Huang Que's fundamental intention."

"I can even imagine that in Huang Que's era, her Lin Xian, before he died, undoubtedly entrusted Huang Que with the same words... 'don't leave Yu Xi.'"

"Yet ultimately, Huang Que surely broke her promise."

[Broke her promise].

Suddenly.

Lin Xian suddenly recalled Huang Que's words:

"There is also something I must confess to you now... Actually, the reason I said I wanted to come to Copenhagen was a lie to you."

"That man never breaks his word, he absolutely does what he says. Hence, in the promise to go to Copenhagen and [many things]... the one who broke that promise was actually me."

Could it be.

At the Copenhagen Shallow Sea, the "many broken promises" Huang Que wanted to say but couldn't, are really like what Zhao Yingjun speculated just now?

Lin Xian held Zhao Yingjun's palm in his, looking at her profile:

"Then is it that we will keep breaking promises like this? Will Yu Xi always grow up without anyone by her side?"

Zhao Yingjun smiled a little, shook her head:

"Lin Xian, honestly, I am reluctant for you to leave, and I don't want you to abandon me and Yu Xi, and head towards that lonely future."

"It's a selfish thing to say, but as your wife, the mistress of the house, Yu Xi's mother... being a little selfish to family is understandable."

"Just now, when you told me these things, my first thought was to keep you, hold onto you, not let you go to the future."

"Really, this is completely the first reaction from my bones and mind, without any weighing and choosing, I just... purely want you to stay, stay with us, stay with Yu Xi, watch her grow up, grow old with me."