Chapter 61: Starlight Leads the Way. Stars are born and destroyed, just to find...

Screams rang out all around. Passersby rushed to the riverbank to look, some called the police, and some prepared to jump into the water to rescue people.

Wen Yi looked down at her hands, her fingertips still trembling slightly.

She had already left, so why did this happen? Was it because of her?

She wanted to leave quickly, but the unresponsive passengers on the bus flashed through her mind, and she really couldn't pretend that she didn't see anything.

The river didn't look deep, and a small part of the bus was still exposed above the water.

Wen Yi gritted her teeth, walked around the onlookers, walked a little further away, stepped into the river, and quickly swam several meters away. She was a good swimmer, but she had just used her abilities, her body was severely hypothermic, and she was injured, so cold that her teeth were chattering.

There were no streetlights along the riverbank, so she had to poke her head out every few strokes to check her position. Several people stood on the shore, loudly directing her. "Just a few meters ahead! Right! Right there!"

The car window she had smashed now became the best escape route. She reached out, felt the window sill, and grabbed it hard, feeling a sharp pain in her hand.

Without time to think, she plunged into the water, and the strong smell of muddy earth and turbid river water hit her in the face.

The river was dark and she couldn't see anything. She could only keep touching it with her hands.

The broken glass on the windowsill scratched her hands and feet. The feeling of suffocation and pain all over her body made her head dizzy.

But she gritted her teeth and persisted, with only one thought in her mind: to rescue the people in the car!

Under the dim starlight, a pale young woman emerged from the water.

"She's out!" passersby shouted excitedly, "Look! She rescued someone!"

Wen Yi pulled out an unconscious young woman, carried her on his shoulders, slowly swam to the shore, and handed her over to the people waiting on the shore.

She and two or three other enthusiastic people dived into the water again and again, and pushed the rescued people ashore again and again.

It was not until the last passenger was pushed ashore that she finally collapsed on the muddy river bank, soaked all over, almost exhausted, and unable to move even a finger.

The crowd kept exclaiming in amazement, and many people applauded this heroic act.

"This little girl is amazing. She saved so many people by herself!"

"Yeah, that's really brave!"

But at this moment, a young man suddenly took a step back and pointed at her in horror: "You, you are... I saw it all!" His voice trembled, "It was you who broke the bus window and jumped out... It was you!"

Wen Yi was stunned, her lips slightly parted, but she could not refute it.

The atmosphere, which was originally filled with gratitude and warmth, froze in an instant.

"Oh my God! Did she cause the bus to overturn?"

"It must be related to her, otherwise why would she be the first to jump out and save people?"

"...When the police arrive, we must explain the situation."

Whispers spread like poisonous snakes.

Wen Yi quietly looked at her hands that were mottled by the cuts from the glass. The skin on her hands had turned white after being soaked for a long time, and was oozing with a faint blood.

The shrill sound of sirens came from far away, piercing the night sky.

Wen Yi's heart tightened, knowing that she couldn't delay any longer.

She endured the severe pain in her body and slowly stood up. Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she was blocked by a middle-aged woman.

"Hey... How can you leave when you haven't understood the situation yet?" The aunt's tone was stern, but there was a hint of uneasiness in her eyes.

"Yeah." Someone nearby immediately chimed in, "You were involved in the accident. Don't leave yet! Wait until the police come!"

Wen Yi's chest heaved violently, and her extremely aggrieved emotions almost overwhelmed her rationality.

She waved her hand and was about to push the middle-aged woman away, but saw that person was blown away by an invisible force and fell heavily to the ground with a dull thud.

Everyone was stunned.

Wen Yi took a step back with a pale face. The power in her body had just spread out due to her anger, and she accidentally hurt innocent people.

The middle-aged woman lay motionless on the ground, her voice filled with tears: "Help, someone is killing someone..." She opened her eyes slightly - but met Wen Yi's cold eyes.

At that moment, her heart skipped a beat. This was not someone she could easily offend.

She trembled and climbed to her feet, her lips shaking: "...What's going on?" She glanced around and stammered, "Everyone, stay away from her!"

Before he finished speaking, the crowd that was still watching seemed to be awakened and began to retreat, with many people even turning around and running away.

Faintly, voices could be heard from the crowd: "Superpower!", "Murderer!", "Monster!", "Stay away from her!"

Every word was like an invisible knife, cutting Wen Yi's heart one by one. She felt cold all over and her heart felt like it had fallen into an ice cave.

She took a deep breath, turned around and disappeared into the night, exhausted and bruised.

At this moment, no one dared to stop her.

Wen Yi walked alone along the Qinghe Highway on a moonless night, the sky above her filled with stars. Her steps grew heavy, and finally, she felt too weak to walk any further. She knelt down and looked up at the crescent moon hanging high in the sky.

The night breeze was cool, the stars shone brightly, and in the distant sky, were there any immortals overlooking the world? Would they also laugh at her now, daring to defy fate with a mortal body?

The Milky Way before her eyes was as bright as a painting. Suddenly, her mind flashed back to what Wen Zhiyao had said to her before they left Yuexi Mountain: "When you are lost, look up at the starry sky, follow Vega, and you will be reunited with the one you miss."

She brushed her messy hair and looked up to carefully identify the stars in the sky.

There is no light pollution here, and the night sky is so clear that you seem to be able to see through billions of light years at a glance.

Finally, in the vast sea of ​​stars, she found the brightest star - Vega.

It hangs quietly high in the sky, silently guarding those who walk at night and illuminating the obsession and courage hidden deep in their hearts.

As long as it keeps shining, those who miss each other will eventually meet again.

Wen Yi looked at the star, her eyes slightly warm.

*

Gu Yifeng stood by the window, his eyes fixed on the deep night sky outside.

It had been several days since he returned to the lab from Lin Yan's place, and he had been tracking Wen Yi's whereabouts day and night. However, as time went by, the lab was already buzzing with discussion.

Wen Yi has been out of contact with them for a long time, her whereabouts are unknown, and her life or death is uncertain.

When the news reached Moongap Mountain, even her parents began to waver, and even advised him to learn to let go.

Let go? How is that possible?

He always believed: nothing happened to her. She would come back, she was just... still on the road.

He slowly raised his head, looked towards the sky, and found the brightest star in the depths of the galaxy - Vega.

Few people know that on the other side of the Milky Way, there is a white giant star silently guarding her. If Vega dies, that guardian star will no longer exist.

Just like if she were gone, his world would collapse.

*

Wen Yi walked all the way in the direction of Vega, her steps extremely firm.

She didn't know what was waiting for her ahead, but as long as she looked up and could see the star, she was full of courage.

There were few vehicles on the road and the surroundings gradually became quiet, with only her footsteps echoing in the darkness.

The roadside gradually grew desolate, with trees and overgrown weeds, like a long-forgotten path. The occasional low growl of an animal added a touch of terror and mystery.

The road ahead became increasingly desolate, and fear crept into her heart. Wen Yi looked back from time to time, always feeling that something was lurking behind her.

If we continue like this... can we really see hope?

Even she herself could hardly believe it.

Just as she was about to stop, a familiar silhouette suddenly appeared in her sight on the roadside not far ahead.

A silver truck sat quietly there, its body half hidden in the shadows.

Wen Yi's heart suddenly tightened, and she almost suspected that she was hallucinating.

It was that... ice cream truck again.

She took a few steps closer, held her breath, and looked carefully.

That’s right, that ice cream truck!

Her breathing suddenly became rapid, her legs unconsciously took a step back, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably.

What the hell? Is this fate, or the final step in the purge mechanism?

She stared at the car in a daze, and the nightmare she had just experienced not long ago was slowly reappearing.

Just as she was stunned, the door of the ice cream truck suddenly creaked open.

The man jumped out of the driver's seat and walked quickly towards the woods.

Wen Yi suddenly came back to her senses and almost instinctively hid behind the nearest big tree.

The night breeze rustled the leaves, masking the sound of her footsteps. The man seemed oblivious to the noise and continued walking deeper into the woods, humming a tune under his breath.

She held her breath, leaned out quietly, and looked at his back through the gaps between the branches, her heart beating like a drum.

He stood motionless beside a tree in the distance, as if he was just standing there in a daze. She frowned, thinking he might be urinating.

She turned around again and glanced around the road. There were no police cars nearby and no movement at all, only the rustling of wind and the faint chirping of insects.

It seems that Gu Yifeng and the police have not arrived yet, and it will take some time before the person in the car is rescued.

She stood there, her fingers tightly clutching the corner of her clothes, and countless possibilities flashed through her mind.

Fate brought her here. Was it to make her disappear or to let her find her way home?

She doesn't have much time left, the man may come back at any time.

So the question is -

What should she do now? Should she hide far away and wait for Gu Yifeng to arrive? Or should she take the opportunity to sneak into the car?

At this moment, the man was squatting in the grass to urinate, too busy to pay attention to what was behind him. Wen Yi gritted her teeth, took a deep breath, and then held her breath as she tiptoed quickly towards the ice cream truck.

She moved very lightly, not daring to disturb even the air.

He came to the truck, quietly opened the passenger door, and crawled in.

Before gently closing the car door, she glanced at the man in the woods and found that he still had his back to her.

Good, not discovered.

After closing the door, pop music she had never heard of before was playing in the carriage. The air was filled with a faint sweet smell. The memory of being kidnapped flooded into her mind again. Her face turned pale and she instinctively felt a little nauseous.

She tried to calm down, turned around and looked out the small window on the partition into the rear compartment, but she could not see anything in the darkness, only the vague outline of the metal shelves.

Wen Yi curled up under the passenger seat, listening attentively to the movements around her.

In her memory, "herself" at this moment was trying to save herself, using the metal accessories on the frozen female corpse to cut the cable ties.

She and her own self in this time and space were already very close, separated only by a thin metal partition. But strangely, despite being so close, she did not experience self-annihilation.

why is that?

Could it be related to the self-awareness of this "self" in this time and space? If she had not been seen or recognized by that "self", would she not have been annihilated?

Wen Yi made wild guesses while quickly planning her next move. According to her memory, the man should soon return to the back of the car and engage in a brawl with "her." Should she intervene then?

Although she couldn't see her exact location at the moment, she knew that they were both holding their breath waiting for that moment to come.

Before Wen Yi could fully figure out how to respond, a sound of footsteps interrupted her thoughts.

With a click, the trunk door opened.

The man is back.

So fast!

Her heart instantly tightened. Just as she was about to check the situation in the rear compartment through the small window, she suddenly noticed in the rearview mirror that several dazzling headlights were slowly approaching!

It's a police car.

Two, no, several!

In the night, red and blue police lights flashed silently on the road.

Gu Yifeng...they've finally arrived! The moment that decides their fate is at hand.

She clenched her fists nervously, her palms were already covered in cold sweat, and even her breathing became cautious.

Suddenly, there was a sound of something heavy falling to the ground behind me.

"Damn it!" the man shouted.

Wen Yi held her breath, her heart beating like thunder, it’s coming!

This was followed by rapid breathing and scuffling, and the carriage began to shake violently.

Bang!

There was a dull thud, like the sound of a head hitting a metal wall, when "she" was pinned to the ground by the man.

Soon, the noise in the rear compartment gradually calmed down.

Wen Yi waited and waited, but there was no movement in the car, only a dead silence. Instead, she saw in the rearview mirror that the police had quietly gathered, only a few meters away from the truck.

What's going on now?

Wen Yi couldn't help but hold her breath and stared at the scene through the small window behind the driver's seat again.

The murderer was seen pressing "her" under him, strangling her neck with both hands, while "she" was trying her best to kick her legs to resist, trying to pry the man's arms with both hands and digging his arms with her fingers, but the strength disparity was too great.

She watched her former self with pale face, her hands weakly slapping the man's arms, her struggles becoming weaker and weaker, her eyes gradually becoming unfocused, and finally her hands drooping weakly.

The carriage returned to deathly silence.

Wen Yi's heartbeat seemed to stop for a moment. What the hell...what's going on?!

"She"... was strangled to death?! Shouldn't she activate her supernatural powers to save herself at this moment?

How could this script be wrong again?!

What if “she” was strangled to death like this?

What about her? Will she still exist? No, no, no... This can't be!

Wen Yi only felt that the power in her body was restless, and something was tearing at her consciousness.

Before she could react, the familiar power surged out wildly.

In an instant, thousands of light cones flashed before her eyes, and countless timelines flashed in her mind, like nodes of fate extending infinitely, each leading to a possible ending.

She saw herself die in the carriage, and she also saw herself escape alive; she saw the man laugh, and she also saw him die;

She saw that she had never been kidnapped, and also saw that she had never awakened... and at this moment, all the timelines began to collapse and finally converged at one point.

The lights on the roof flickered on and off, and there was a hissing sound of electricity, as if some energy from a higher dimension was trying to penetrate reality.

The man who had fallen into madness finally realized that something was wrong.

The hand that was originally tightly pinching "her" neck loosened for a moment. He gasped and looked around vigilantly, with a trace of fear in his eyes.

The next second, a huge burst of energy suddenly erupted! The lights on the roof went out with a snap, and darkness instantly swallowed everything.

The man panicked and tried to struggle to escape, but was pinned to the spot by some irresistible force. His eyes changed from horror to despair, his pupils kept shrinking, and even breathing became difficult.

Wen Yi looked at his expression coldly, and her mind flashed back to the five innocent women he had killed. They had also done the same thing, closing their eyes in fear and dying in despair. Their families would live in pain for the rest of their lives.

They should have been alive, but were strangled to death by this man himself. They never lived to see the day of justice.

She wanted to save that "her" and also seek justice for them.

This time, she wants justice to arrive in time.

Right now, right here!

Gravity was superimposed layer by layer under her will, like the nested layers of space, and finally twisted into an invisible and huge force, sweeping towards the murderer.

Instead of killing him with one blow, he was twisted, torn and broken apart bit by bit.

In the darkness, she blinked, hearing the sound of bones snapping and an endless rain of flesh and blood. The carriage seemed to be filled with the shrill screams of five wronged souls, but when everything returned to silence, all she could hear was the rustling of leaves outside.

Justice finally arrived.

The air was filled with a strong smell of rust. Wen Yi frowned and waved away the bloody smell in front of him with his hand.

At this moment, the air around him seemed to be stirred by an invisible hand, and the air in the car twisted slightly, rippling like water waves.

Wen Yi's heart was shocked. This time it wasn't her.

Instead, the "self" lying on the ground finally began her performance - she stared at the faint blue light spot in the center of the rear compartment, and a miniature wormhole quickly opened, staring at the world like a cold eye.

It turns out that this is how she tore time and space apart at that time.

Wen Yi looked at everything in front of her and finally understood what fate had arranged.

The dark blue wormhole opened slowly, its center seemed to have no end and was bottomless, yet a light that did not belong to this world could be seen faintly.

Circles of light spread out like ripples, like the ripples on the lake, reflecting the reflection of fate.

She slowly turned around and looked in the rearview mirror at the figures approaching the truck. The police were approaching step by step through the night.

She said goodbye softly: "Goodbye, if fate permits, we will meet again in the future."

She had no time to say more, nor could she bear to look at him any longer, for she was afraid that she would waver.

Now is the time!

Wen Yi fiercely kicked open the partition between the cockpit and the rear compartment, and leaped towards the dark blue vortex.

Everything in front of me suddenly collapsed and my consciousness returned to nothingness.

The wormhole in the air slowly closed, like an eye gently closing.

The carriage immediately began to shake violently, the sheet metal creaking and twisting, and the entire space seemed to collapse inward. The window glass exploded one after another, and the fragments hung in the air. Time seemed to freeze in that moment.

The girl lying on the truck floor suddenly opened her eyes.

*

When Wen Yi woke up, she found that she still hadn't returned.

She was trapped in a void with no boundaries, no direction, only that huge cube of light.

Her consciousness floated above countless cones of light.

This is a higher-dimensional space-time, so I still failed to return home?

She looked at the nothingness, feeling a sense of powerlessness. She leaned against some invisible "edge" and murmured to herself:

"It's ruined. Let's destroy it."

Her consciousness was like a drop of ink falling into water, slowly spreading and gradually blurring.

At first, she still remembered who she was and what she wanted to do, but gradually, those memories became distant and no longer felt like her story.

She began to lose track of what was her real experience and what was just other people's stories observed in a higher-dimensional space.

She forgot why she came here and where she should go.

even……

She began to doubt whether she really existed.

Memories are like a handful of sand in the palm of your hand, leaking through your fingers and disappearing bit by bit.

She didn't want to struggle anymore, nor did she want to think. She just floated in the cone of light, letting time swallow everything she had.

I don’t know how long I was in a daze, maybe just a few minutes, or maybe many years passed in the blink of an eye.

Until one moment, a faint but familiar energy wave streaked across her remaining consciousness like a meteor.

It wasn't an illusion; something really broke through the dimensional barrier and touched her.

She suddenly felt her heartbeat clearly.

Bang, bang, bang...

One by one, just like every day in reality before.

It turns out... she can still feel alive, as a person but not as a conscious being.

She didn't know where the wave came from, nor could she trace its source, but that power could travel through time and space to find her.

Like a pair of hands reaching out from the darkness, gently supporting her falling soul.

She seemed to remember that it was someone very important to her who was waiting for her to come back.

Who is it?

With a flick of her fingertips, the cone of time's light fell into her palm. As long as she wished, she could enter any time and space in the form of consciousness, piecing together the past from countless intertwined memories and finding her way back.

A picture appeared before my eyes——

That day, after she woke up from the ice cream truck that kidnapped her, before she could figure out what was going on, a policeman indiscriminately handcuffed her and put her in a car.

That policeman, what was his name...

The scene changed to a quiet office in the police station.

The call with his superiors had long since ended, but the officer still sat there, flipping through the pages of her file on the computer terminal, not getting up for a long time.

His eyes were calm, but there was a subtle emotional fluctuation between his brows.

What is he thinking about?

She continued to read, but she didn't expect the next scene to shock her.

The stern man frowned and thought for a moment. Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he quickly opened a new document and carefully typed four words:

Supervision Agreement

A memory was resurrecting: "...Until the case is solved, you will be under my supervision."

The man stared at the screen for a long time, seemingly dissatisfied with the content, and then opened the search engine and typed:

“How can we build trust between regulators and those being regulated through daily supervision?”

Wen Yi sneered: Give up, you have already lost my trust.

Suddenly, a firm and powerful promise echoed in my ears: "You can try to believe me..."

He scanned the results, frowning more and more, and changed the search to:

“Design regulations that encourage supervisees to actively approach their supervisors.”

Wen Yi was surprised:...What about building trust first?

Who is getting closer again and again?

More memories came to mind, and his voice was hoarse, filled with suppressed pain, but he hugged her tightly from behind: "I will not leave your side."

Did he say that that day?

The man's eyes were deep, his fingertips tapped the keyboard, and he changed the search terms:

“The design should give the supervised person no reason to refuse to be in the same room.”

Wen Yi was horrified: Oh no, your thoughts are a bit dangerous! Call the police!

In the memory, he shook his head again and finally typed in the search box:

“How can we conduct necessary and compliant physical contact during the supervision process?”

Wen Yi had a blank expression:… Hey, you’re not even going to pretend anymore?!

Finally, she watched in amazement as Gu Yifeng printed out the serious and nonsensical supervision agreement, reviewed it repeatedly, and left with satisfaction.

Wen Yi: ...So, the supervision agreement was compiled on the spur of the moment?

The scene changed again, and outside the car window was a curtain of rain falling backwards. He leaned in closer, holding her fingers tightly: "Wen Yi, the supervision agreement has never been a fair and impartial matter. It was my blatant selfishness."

At this moment, her memory broke free from its shackles, and she whispered his name with her lips: Gu Yifeng...

She finally remembered his name and pieced together the complete memories between them. She looked at him with anger and amusement, as he used tricks again and again to get close to her, his cunningness tinged with a hint of ridiculousness.

You deceived me so badly! Gu Yifeng! You are dead!

At that time, she didn't understand why the director of an investigation bureau would be so concerned and cautious about a suspect.

Now, she finally understood.

Thinking of his more than ten years of hopeless waiting, I feel that it is all understandable. Perhaps he did all this because he was afraid of losing.

Some injuries, once done, take a lifetime to heal.

It doesn't matter, she will stay with him and spend the rest of her life healing him.

Since her consciousness and memory have been restored, why hasn't she gone back yet?

She still remained in the higher-dimensional space, as if she was tied down by something and could not really fall back into that world.

The scene shifts to a morning a few days later.

She watched "herself" packing her luggage in the hotel, preparing to leave the city with Wen Chi.

She suddenly remembered that she had really planned to leave that day and bid farewell to this chaotic and dangerous relationship. But at the last moment, a mysterious force forced her to change her mind.

The "self" in front of the floor-to-ceiling window was still hesitating, his fingertips hovering over the phone screen, as if he didn't know how to reply to Gu Yifeng's message.

Wen Yi stood at the edge of the two spaces, watching everything quietly.

She moved her fingertips gently, causing gravity to lift the water in the cup and lead it to the travel album on the table. One drop, two drops, slowly soaking the two words on the paper:

【Leave】

Everything was developing just as she remembered.

The "her" in the past was so frightened that she grabbed her suitcase and tried to run away.

"She" screamed and stepped back, her face turned pale, and she almost ran out of the door.

But just when “she” was about to leave——

She retracted her hand slightly in the air, and the suitcase was pinned to the ground by the invisible force of gravity, motionless. It was like an invisible hand gently pulled "her" - allowing "her" to stay.

"She" was so frightened that she almost fell down.

Wen Yi curled her lips, a sly smile flashing in her eyes. Scaring yourself is really crazy and exciting.

If she had really left like this at that time, once she set out on the road back to Yuexi Mountain, she would probably never see Gu Yifeng again in this life.

The choice made at that moment changed the course of the entire future.

She once thought that she was forced to go back to the past, but now she finds that those chaotic, broken, and even absurd fragments of time actually came from herself - the bombing was closely related to her; the ice cream truck was the springboard she paved for herself on her way home; even the mysterious power that kept her here came from her future self, holding her past self at the critical moment.

She seemed to be looking back to the past again and again, but in fact she was trying to move step by step towards a future with him.

Guo Qingyu once said: Time is never a straight line, but a circle. And now, this circle has finally been closed by her own hands.

After doing all this, she faintly felt the energy in the void begin to fluctuate.

It was as if an invisible thread gently lifted her up and pulled her out of the chaos.

From this moment on, she was no longer a shadow wandering in the cracks of time, but returned to being a person with flesh and blood, a heartbeat, and concerns.

She closed her eyes and felt a familiar gravity slowly enveloping her. It was a call from the real world, her anchor, waiting for her return at the end of her destiny.

The sound she heard in the higher-dimensional space-time rang in her ears, like the wind blowing through the treetops, or like the resonance between heartbeats:

"Can you hear me?"

"Don't sleep, open your eyes."

"You said you'd come back."

That was Gu Yifeng's voice, low and restrained, yet with a slight tremor.

The light and shadow flashed, and the whole world suddenly turned upside down, and she fell from the void into reality.

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