The Unruly Immortals

"Crunch, crunch." Chen Hongyu grabbed a bag of chips, stuffing a big handful into her mouth and chewing loudly. Her gaze drifted away from the TV towards Li Huowang, who was speaking passionately to Qing Wanglai and Zhao Shuangdian by her side.

"What's this kid raving about again?"

Zhao Lei's fingers, which had been rapidly tapping the phone screen, suddenly stopped. He glanced up at Li Huowang and then buried himself back in his screen. "He says he can reverse time. He's trying to convince them."

"Huh?" Chen Hongyu looked surprised at this. "I remember his special ability was creating something out of nothing. When did it upgrade? How come I didn't know?"

At this moment, Zhao Lei also couldn't be bothered to say anything further, keeping his head down with his phone, while the voice of Li Huowang continued to stream into his ears relentlessly.

"Everything I say is true! It's all true! Because this situation has happened before, that's why I am so sure. Why don't you believe me?"

"That factory is Fate Commander! By solving the issue with this Fate Commander, it will completely disappear from the source, including from your brains!"

Qing Wanglai listening to Li Huowang's excited words, leaned in to whisper something to Zhao Shuangdian, who nodded in agreement a moment later.

Though they didn't say anything, Li Huowang could tell from their eyes what they were thinking, having seen that look countless times before.

"What do you mean? Do you think I'm crazy?! I'm not ill!! No, wait! I am ill! But my illness only causes some delusions! There's no way it could erase everything related to Fate Commander from everyone's memory!"

Qing Wanglai raised his hands slightly, gesturing for Li Huowang to calm down. "Alright, Li Huowang, don't rush. We haven't said your condition is worsening, it's just that this matter is hard to understand."

Li Huowang stepped forward two steps, staring hard with bloodshot eyes. "What's so hard to understand? Because that factory is a projection of Fate Commander! The death of something like Fate Commander is to completely erase every cause and effect!"

"Fate Commander has no past, only now. These are its revelations! And now I finally understand what Zhuge Yuan had written on that fan back then!!"

"Hmm... Who is Zhuge Yuan? How come a new character appears while we're talking?" asked Wu Qi, joining in with curiosity.

"What is Fate Commander? Did you call us here just to have a fit?" Ba Nanxu, with a cigarette in his mouth, leaned against the wall, looking at the excited Li Huowang with impatience.

"I understand now, I get what he means," Qing Wanglai explained to the others: "What he's talking about is something within his worldview. Li Huowang seems to have realized some kind of truth within his worldview."

"Hah, how is this any different from what I said? Isn't he still having a fit?" Ba Nanxu blew a puff of smoke toward Li Huowang's direction.

"Shut up!! I'm already trying to understand your worldviews! So you should understand mine! Plus, this is very important and could affect the enemies we might encounter in the future!"

"You're not wrong in saying that, but you've talked about time reversal, which conflicts with our worldview a bit too much," Zhao Shuangdian pointed out the most crucial contradiction. "I've researched all worldviews, and none of them allow time reversal like you said."

"Is what you think necessarily correct? And this isn't the first time I've encountered this, it's the third! Only this time have I fully realized what happened before!"

Seeing Li Huowang still trying to argue, Zhao Shuangdian interrupted him, "Okay, I understand, you don't need to explain anymore. So you mean on the sixth of next month, you're sure you'll act with us, right?"

"That's not the main point right now! What I'm saying is—"

"Yes or no?"

"Yes."

Zhao Shuangdian's question left Li Huowang feeling like he punched cotton, feeling that even if he continued talking, she would only agree superficially but still not believe in her heart.

"Alright then, that's it for today, I have a meeting later, reach out on WeChat if anything comes up." Zhao Shuangdian stood up, placed a smartphone in Li Huowang's hand, and then followed the others, heading for the exit of Qing Wanglai's villa.

"Sister Zhao? You're leaving already? Not staying for a meal? Qing Wanglai is quite good at cooking." Wu Qi asked politely.

"No, trying to lose weight, skipping lunch, see you next month," Zhao Shuangdian said as she reached for the door handle.

"Wait!!" Zhao Shuangdian frowned and turned her head towards the direction of the voice, which was still Li Huowang,

"Your preferred weapon is a sniper rifle, isn't it?" The hall fell silent, only the sound of the TV remained.

Seeing Zhao Shuangdian stand there, Li Huowang smiled. This time it's different, this time is completely different from before, even though the past and future have been severed, they don't remember what happened, but he knows! He has retained some incontrovertible information from that experience!

"You never told me this, now you can guess, how do I know?" Li Huowang displayed a confident smile.

Zhao Shuangdian immediately looked at Qing Wanglai, "Did you tell him?"

The pleasant smile that usually hung on Qing Wanglai's face disappeared, and he shook his head slowly, "No, I didn't tell him anything about you."

As soon as Qing Wanglai finished speaking, Li Huowang continued, "Not only do I know you're good with a sniper, I even know you have a little girl with a bell by your side! She can lead us using a computer! And she's sick! Her face twitches!"

"Think about before! Clearly, you said nothing, yet how did I already know you planned to counter them?"

Li Huowang's words weighed heavily on Zhao Shuangdian's chest, simultaneously boosting Li Huowang's own confidence.

These things, if according to the normal process, the current Li Huowang wouldn't know. The fact that he does know these things means his claims are true, and Zhao Shuangdian's attitude has already said everything.

"Everything I've experienced is not fake!! Everything I experienced before was real!" Li Huowang declared emphatically.

"Wait for me a moment." Zhao Shuangdian opened the door handle and walked out. After a short while, she returned, carrying a laptop.

As she opened the laptop and her fingers tapped rapidly on the keyboard, Li Huowang knew she was taking it seriously now; she was finally starting to believe what he had said before.