Chapter 249 Xiaoling's Prophecy

Xiao Ran's words echoed in the hall. He pointed at the already cold corpse on the ground and looked at the light curtain in front of Su Wanqing.

"I am confident that we can bypass the defense system on that road. We must get the high-frequency energy suppressor. That thing can interfere with them."

Lu Zhao pushed up his glasses and swiped his fingers across his tablet. "It's theoretically feasible, but the 90 percent risk factor is no joke. This means there are variables that we can't predict, and they are likely to be time-related."

"We have to go no matter how risky it is." Xiao Ran's tone left no room for negotiation.

Su Wanqing looked at the crimson trajectory and was about to use system authority to attempt risk intervention when the lighting system in the entire fortress lobby suddenly flickered and a soft electronic sound came from the speakers embedded in the wall.

[At 10 am, the fortress system prompts: "The prophecy node" has been activated, and the key person "Xiao Ling" is about to arrive. Please be prepared to receive him. ]

The three of them looked towards the spiral staircase at the same time. Lin Che asked, "How did she know this place?"

"I left her my address last night." Su Wanqing explained, "We agreed to meet today, but I didn't expect her to be so punctual."

Before he finished speaking, there was a slight sound of footsteps coming from the stairs. A moment later, Xiaoling's figure appeared in everyone's sight.

She was wearing a simple white dress and her hair was tied in a ponytail, but her whole temperament was completely different from before.

Her eyes were calm, not like the calmness of a teenage girl, but more like the calmness of an adult who had experienced countless hardships.

The most eye-catching thing is her forehead. In the middle of her eyebrows, there is a very faint red mark, like a cinnabar mole, which is faintly visible under the light.

"I'm here." Xiao Ling's voice was soft but unusually clear. "We don't have much time to waste on arguing."

She walked in front of the crowd, her eyes swept over Xiao Ran, then the corpse on the ground, and finally stopped on Su Wanqing's system screen.

"The matter of the military warehouse has to be put on hold for now. Something more troublesome has come knocking on our door."

Xiao Ran frowned slightly, "What?"

"Time Observers." When Xiao Ling said this word, the red dot on her forehead flickered slightly, "They are not a unified organization, but multiple factions from different reincarnations with different purposes.

Some just want to quietly record the end of this time, while others... want to accelerate our collapse. They have already begun to act."

Lu Zhao immediately asked: "How do you know this? Your ability..."

"I can see more pictures, but they are also more fragmented." Xiao Ling raised her hand and gently touched the red dot on her forehead, "They are like broken mirrors, each piece reflects a possibility.

I saw them like a group of black shadows, searching for 'time anomalies' like us in every corner of the city."

Her words were like a switch, and a huge three-dimensional city map projection quietly rose in the center of the fortress hall.

This was generated by Lu Zhao's device connected to the bastion host. On the map, several areas began to flash faint red light.

"The news said that flocks of migratory birds in the west of the city collectively flew into skyscrapers this morning. The veterinary hospital in the south of the city has received a large number of reports that domestic cats and dogs have become extremely aggressive."

Lin Che swiped the screen of his mobile phone and read out several city news push notifications that he had just received. "The weather forecast has also changed. It says that there will be extremely abnormal weather in the next few days."

These signs indicate that beneath the surface of the city, a certain imbalance is accelerating.

Just then, a shrill cell phone ring broke the solemn atmosphere.

It’s Xiao Ran’s cell phone.

He glanced at the caller ID and answered the call, but didn't turn on the speakerphone.

"Hello, Teacher Li."

The voice on the other end of the phone came faintly through the receiver and sounded very nervous.

Xiao Ran's expression grew darker as the other party continued to speak.

His hands unconsciously clenched into fists, his knuckles turning white.

"Okay, I got it, thank you, keep the line open."

He hung up the phone, looked up, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth. "The Center for Special Children, my sister's place."

"What's wrong?" Su Wanqing asked.

"Two people went to the center today." Xiao Ran's voice was low, "They were wearing black clothes and claimed to be government workers, but they couldn't produce any ID.

The teachers at the center did not let them in, nor did they reveal any information about Xiaoyu. "

"They are very strange," Xiao Ran repeated his teacher's words, "their eyes are almost completely black, and the way they speak is also very strange, with no ups and downs in their voices.

They kept asking if my sister had any 'special abilities' and if she had ever 'seen the purple light'.

The weirdest thing was that after they left, all the electronic equipment in the center was down for about an hour.”

"It's an observer." Lu Zhao made a judgment immediately.

Without saying anything, Xiao Ran turned around and walked towards the stairs. "I have to pick her up, right now."

"No!" Xiao Ling suddenly spoke, her voice not loud but powerful, stopping him.

"They are waiting outside the center. If you go over now, you will only be followed and led directly here."

Xiao Ran stopped, turned around and looked at the girl who was only a few years older than his sister, his eyes full of suspicion and anxiety.

Xiao Ling ignored his gaze and closed her eyes. The red dot on her forehead lit up again, brighter than before, as if an eye was about to open.

She stood motionless for a few seconds, then opened her eyes and gave an incredible time in a calm tone.

"Wait until 5:17 in the evening. There will be a sudden heavy rain, not heavy, but dense enough. The heavy rain will last for a full six minutes. That is your safety window. Use those six minutes to pick up the person and come back immediately."

Xiao Ran was stunned. He couldn't understand this prediction that was accurate to the minute.

"How could you possibly..."

"What she saw was not possibility, but fact." Lu Zhao walked up to him and explained in a low voice, "Xiao Ling's ability has been greatly enhanced in this reincarnation.

She no longer simply 'predicts' the future, she can now actually 'see' the various fluctuations and established nodes on the timeline.

The rain at 5:17 in the evening was, in her eyes, an event that had already happened.

Everyone was silent. The teacher's phone call, Xiaoling's prediction, the strange situation in the city... all of these were connected.

The enemy is no longer a distant, conceptual "Weaver", but has infiltrated the city and begun to actively seek out and eliminate their "Time Watchers".

Each of them is a target. Actions must be taken with greater caution.