Chapter 246 Intuition

The black shadow stood on the edge of the roof for a moment, and then disappeared quietly like a drop of ink blending into the night.

The glaring red warning in front of Su Wanqing also returned to light blue.

“He’s gone.” Lin Che whispered, staring in that direction.

Su Wanqing did not respond, but quickly swiped her fingers across the system interface.

She pulled up the city map and saw a few faint spots of light appearing on it.

Lin Che, Xiao Ling, Xiao Ran, and the last one, Lu Zhao.

“Shall we go find him now?” Lin Che asked.

"Yes." Su Wanqing closed the interface. "It's meaningless to confront the Observer head-on. We need a brain that can connect all the clues now."

The lecture hall of the Physics Department of City University was full of people. On the podium, a man was writing a long list of complex formulas on a huge blackboard with his back to the audience.

He was younger than when Su Wanqing first met him, but the tired look on his body was still the same, and there were two obvious dark shadows under his eyes.

Su Wanqing and Lin Che sat in the last row, almost being drowned in the crowd.

"...So, we can boldly put forward a hypothesis." Lu Zhao turned around and tapped the blackboard with chalk. "Quantum entanglement is not just an instantaneous effect between particles. At the macro level, it may constitute a bridge for information transmission between different universes. I personally call it the 'residual memory effect'."

There was silence in the audience, followed by a few whispers between professors.

This theory was too advanced.

Lin Che's body moved slightly. He turned his head and mouthed two words to Su Wanqing: "Same."

Su Wanqing nodded slightly. That's right, this is exactly the core theory that Lu Zhao proposed when he was studying the Weaver in his previous life.

Time was reset, but some things, as Lu Zhao said, were brought back as "remnants".

The lecture was over and the students left one after another. Lu Zhao ignored the professors who came forward to ask questions and just sorted out the thick stack of lecture notes and experimental data on the table.

Su Wanqing and Lin Che walked through the crowd and came in front of him.

"Professor Lu," Su Wanqing said directly, "I would like to ask for your opinion on the 'Weaver Protocol'."

This technical term that should never exist at this point in time made Lu Zhao's hands, which were organizing his lecture notes, stop in mid-air.

He slowly raised his head, pure disbelief in his tired eyes.

He looked at Su Wanqing's face carefully, as if searching for something in a blurry old photo.

"Where did you hear this term?"

Su Wanqing did not answer, but took out a small box from the tactical backpack and placed it on the podium.

"Professor, I need you to help me analyze this. It concerns the safety of the entire city."

Inside the box was a dull piece of metal. It was a physical sample of the Weaver's technology that she had brought from her previous life.

Lu Zhao's eyes fell on the fragments. He stretched out his hand, and the moment his fingertips touched the fragments, his whole body froze and his eyes became unfocused.

After a few seconds, he pulled his hand back suddenly, and his voice sounded a little hoarse due to the slight tremor.

"I always thought those were dreams... those formulas, those devices, and... the doomsday scene."

He raised his head and looked at Su Wanqing and Lin Che, and there was finally a clear understanding in his eyes.

"We've met before, at another...time?"

"It's not a dream, it's a memory." Lin Che answered on behalf of Su Wanqing, "In a month, the end of the world will come."

Lu Zhao did not show any doubt. Instead, he let out a long breath and his whole body relaxed, as if a taut string had finally broken.

"So I'm not crazy." He muttered to himself, then quickly took out a thick notebook from the bag under the podium and opened it.

It was filled with complex calculations about time theory and quantum mechanics. On one page, there was a structural diagram of a core resonance amplifier that was exactly the same as the one built by Lu Zhao in his previous life.

He pointed at the fragments on the table. "This is 'their' technology, right? I've dreamed of this material. It can warp time and space."

Half an hour later, the three of them were already in Lu Zhao's temporary laboratory, a hotel suite that he had rented for long-term use.

There was no trace of life in the room. The walls, floor, and table were covered with all kinds of formulas and charts.

Lu Zhao used a simple set of equipment to quickly test the fragments, and then listened to Su Wanqing's brief account of the reincarnation process.

He digested it all quickly.

"According to my calculations, this is not simple time travel, but a complete universe reset."

He pointed to a diagram on the wall. "But certain key information is woven into the quantum layer, like a code, so we retain these fragmented memories."

He dragged out a half-finished prototype of the device from under the bed. Although it was simple, its core structure was surprisingly similar to the device in Su Wanqing's memory.

"System upgrade, ten times rebate, thirty days preparation period." Su Wanqing informed all the information she had currently.

Lu Zhao immediately stood up and paced back and forth in the room, his brain working rapidly.

"Resources. We need more resources. The fragments of the Weaver's technology must be integrated together to form an effective defense.

Last time we failed because we ran out of time. This time, we must be one step ahead.”

He grabbed a pen and quickly wrote out a long list of materials and equipment on a piece of white paper, showing the precision of a person who had already understood the crisis.

"And Xiao Ran and Xiao Ling," Su Wanqing added.

Lu Zhao wrote two names at the end of the list and then drew a circle to circle the five people together.

"A complete group of five... this is no coincidence. It is time itself that is pushing these key nodes back together."

After saying that, he suddenly stopped writing and turned to look at the light blue system interface on Su Wanqing's wrist.

He frowned, as if he had thought of something.

"Let me see your system data."

Su Wanqing called up the interface, and Lu Zhao moved closer, gesturing with his fingers in the air and doing mental arithmetic while muttering to himself.

After a few minutes, his face became very solemn.

"Ten times the rebate is not a reward," he said in a deep voice, "it's a warning."

He pointed to a string of energy conversion rate values on the interface that Su Wanqing had never noticed before.

“You see here, at this energy conversion rate, time is not running steadily, it is collapsing at ten times the speed.

The Weaver may have already begun the final harvest, but we are in the eye of the storm and cannot feel it for the time being."

He swiped his finger across the interface, and a hidden, inconspicuous countdown appeared.

The numbers above are jumping rapidly.

"This is the spreading speed of the time corrosion frontier, which is ten times faster than in the previous life."

Lu Zhao's voice became urgent, "We don't actually have thirty days, we may only have three days!"

He turned quickly, tore a city map off the wall and spread it on the table.

"We must find Xiao Ran and Xiao Ling immediately. The five key points must be activated at the same time to form the most basic protection network."

He quickly drew several circles on the map with a red pen.

“According to my calculations, these locations will be where the time field is weakest, and the first wave of anomalies will begin here.

The most dangerous are the water conservancy projects in the southwest, where heavy rains are likely to arrive early."