Chapter 170 The Sky Falls (5) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

The man's hands were frighteningly cold, and he came closer suddenly, causing Bai Jinshu to frown involuntarily.

The chill seemed to emanate from within his body. The silver-white clothing on the outside stuck tightly to his skin and was wrinkled. It did not look like an ordinary piece of clothing. Instead, it reminded people of the layer of tin foil wrapped around food before putting it into the oven.

This silver-white costume almost covered his entire body. The high collar fit his Adam's apple and wrapped around his entire neck, while the rest of his face was completely covered by the mask. Only a small section of pale skin could be vaguely seen through the gap in the mask.

Bai Jinshu looked up at him and could only see two display screens sticking out of his strangely shaped mask.

Where the eyes should be, two blue display screens flashed, which seemed to perfectly reflect the protagonist's anxious mood.

He seemed to be very different from the man in silver-white clothing I saw two days ago, and at first glance he looked like he came from a different future.

"What do you mean?" Bai Jinshu didn't say anything. Ning Xiao, who heard the previous sentence, suddenly became excited. He took a few steps forward and wanted to grab the man's hand, but was forced back a little by the cold air. He had to say excitedly, "The person you wanted to kill was Ren Zhiling? She is the important person?"

"It's too late! I'll take you there!" The man hurriedly repeated the sentence again, sounding extremely anxious, "I know she has met you, she is going to give a speech now, right? If we don't stop her now, it will be too late!"

"Hurry up! Hurry up!" He said as he grabbed Ning Xiao's arm, "Follow me!"

"Ah——" Ning Xiao uttered a cry and staggered due to his strength.

"Ye...Brother Ye?" Yin Liantao, who had been silent, did not rush to follow him. She turned her head and glanced at Bai Jinshu, who had not moved yet. "It's this person... Is there any problem?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the excitement on Ning Xiao's face suddenly froze.

He shook his arms and took a cautious step back, moving a little further away from this future man.

Although he has been in the foundation for so many years and believes that as a mid-level player, he is only one step away from an invitation letter to the high-end space, and he has no superstition about the abilities of high-end players. However, in addition to being a high-end player, Ye Dian has another identity that no one else has.

Did you notice something wrong from the magic?

Ning Xiao looked in the direction of Bai Jinshu nervously.

Bai Jinshu still stood there without moving.

"I know you must be full of questions right now, about Ren Zhiling, about me, and other things. I will tell you whatever you want to ask later, but you have to stop Ren Zhiling from being killed first!" The man saw that Bai Jinshu was unable to move, and the remaining two exploration team members were unwilling to leave, so he couldn't help but said urgently, "I came back from the wrong future! It will be too late if we don't stop it now!"

The comments on the barrage were also blank.

What is going on?

[Why doesn't Ye Dian move? ]

[The current situation should be that people from the future traveled back to the past and tried to change the future by assassinating someone or preventing something from happening, right? ]

[It should be. ]

[From what this person said, it seems that the people who wanted to kill yesterday and the day before yesterday were actually Ren Zhiling, and Xi Enze was just an innocent person affected, just like the researcher who followed behind Ren Zhiling? ]

[In other words, this person actually came from a future where Ren Zhiling was successfully assassinated, but the attack on the first day seemed to be aimed at Xi Enze, so everyone mistakenly thought that Xi Enze was the important person, which led to Ren Zhiling being attacked and killed today? ]

[So the person who appeared now is from the future where Ren Zhiling was attacked and killed. It seems that Ren Zhiling's death brought about a worse development. They made a mistake in trying to change the direction of the future, so now they go back to the time before they assassinated Ren Zhiling to prevent the tragedy? ]

【It should be like this. 】

[So why didn't Ye Dian move? ]

On the screen, under the gaze of three pairs of eyes, Bai Jinshu moved his frozen wrist: "Tsk."

He raised his head and showed a very calm expression: "Although I believe you are from the future, why should we believe you?"

"With your status?" He lowered his eyes and scanned the man from top to bottom with an emotionless gaze. "We don't know much about the future, but you know us. You know we are protecting Xi Enze, but you say Ren Zhiling is the key."

"What if your actual target is still Xi Enze, and Ren Zhiling is just an excuse to divert us, and your real purpose is to divert the guards who caused the previous two attacks to fail, so that Xi Enze can be successfully attacked by your other teammates?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of the remaining two exploration team members suddenly became alert.

"This is simply impossible! I don't have any teammates!" The man in silver clothes said excitedly, "Going back to the past from the future is not an easy task. After decades of experiments, I am the only one who succeeded!"

one person?

Bai Jinshu's eyes flashed.

The man's tone was still very urgent: "You...if you don't trust me, you can only let one person go with me, and the rest of you stay!"

"It's almost too late! It's really too late! No one can prevent Ren Zhiling's death except you!"

The man spoke in such an anxious tone that he almost sounded like he was crying, and this method seemed to work.

If he wanted to lure the exploration team members to attack Xi Enze, then he only needed to leave some people behind.

Ultimately, they don't have enough information at the moment and are completely unable to determine who the focus of the rules is. If this world is a witness protection type, then they cannot afford to lose any important clue person.

"Brother Ye?" Ning Xiao looked at Ye Dian as if asking for his opinion.

Ye Dian now lowered his head, as if judging the truthfulness of his words and the feasibility of this method.

"Okay," he raised his head after a moment, "Then Ning Xiao and I will go, Yin Liantao, you stay and send a message to Xu Zichen and the others, asking Lu Changfeng to come over, Xu Zichen will follow us, and you stay here to protect Xi Enze."

"It's okay, right? It should be okay now, right? Hurry!" Seeing that they had reached a conclusion, the man urgently grabbed Ning Xiao's arm and went straight in the direction where Ren Zhiling had left.

"I'll send a message in the group to ask Brother Lu to come over!" Yin Liantao took a look at the situation in the classroom through the back window. After confirming Xi Enze's safety, he quickly opened the backstage and said.

As the two people ran away, Yin Liantao's message was also released: [We met the man from the future. ]

The two people still in the classroom responded the fastest.

Fu Yandong: [! ]

He was sitting in the last row of the classroom, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the back door. Yin Liantao was standing outside the back window, pointing at his watch.

Yin Liantao: [He said he came back to stop Ren Zhiling's death. Ren Zhiling's death was the wrong direction. Brother Ye didn't trust him and thought that his appearance might be to lure us away from Xi Enze, so he left me and Ning Xiao to follow him to the concert hall.]

Song Jirou: [Is it okay for just two people? ]

She sat in the first row, and even if she turned around she couldn't see outside, so she could only lower her head and reply to the message: [Xi Enze, just leave three or four people here. Fu Yandong and I are still in the classroom, so just leave one or two outside.]

Ning Xiao: [Brother Ye asked Xu Zichen to come to the concert hall to meet us, and Brother Lu stayed to protect Xi Enze's safety.]

Xu Zichen: [I'll be there soon.]

There was a light sound of landing outside the window of the classroom near the stairs. It should be Xu Zichen jumping off the windowsill and landing on the corridor next to it.

The students in the classroom didn’t know what was happening outside. Lu Changfeng replied in the group with a message that he was still clinging outside the window, and there was no other reply.

Song Jirou, a teacher, sat in the first row and could not move easily, but Fu Yandong, who sat in the last row, ran out from the back door and exchanged seats with Yin Liantao.

From where he was standing now, he could no longer see Bai Jinshu and the others running away.

The silver-white future man in front was running very fast. Ning Xiao couldn't keep up with him when he lowered his head to reply to the message. He could only put down his left hand and catch up quickly.

The camera on the screen quickly followed them, and on the screen, the man in silver-white clothes had arrived at the door of the concert hall.

As he ran along, his strange attire and the mask on his face had attracted a lot of people's attention. There were already quite a few people standing at the entrance of the concert hall. Seeing such a strangely dressed person, many people subconsciously took out their mobile phones to take pictures.

Facing a bunch of cameras, he subconsciously turned his face away, then straightened it back after realizing that he was wearing a mask.

The distance from the teaching building to the concert hall is not long. When Bai Jinshu and the others arrived at the door, Xu Zichen was almost there too.

The future man leading the way seemed impatient and kept checking his watch. He ran to the entrance of the concert hall and checked his watch again before he breathed a sigh of relief and said one word to the two exploration team members following behind him: "Follow me."

He seemed to be very familiar with the place. He went around all the crowded places and entered a very narrow path.

Then he walked past the main entrance of the concert hall, chose a small path where there were few people, and disappeared in a flash.

Ning Xiao chased after him and found that he had climbed over the wall next to him, from the main entrance of the concert hall directly to the other side of the wall.

Xu Zichen, who had just arrived here, was not very clear about the current situation. He looked at Bai Jinshu, followed him to the end, and saw the man in silver-white clothes stopped in front of a very narrow door.

The man pushed open the small door, and a little white light faintly shone through the gap.

This turned out to be a small side door leading into the concert hall.

"Fortunately," he looked around the concert hall, "I made it in time."

Looking through this small door, I saw Ren Zhiling standing in front of the podium in front of the concert hall, and there were many students sitting below the stage.

"Now you can explain it clearly," Xu Zichen was the most confused of the three. "What exactly is going on?"

"We are not sure either..." Ning Xiao spoke first, "It's this future person... uh, what's your name?"

He looked up in the direction of the future man.

"Liu Yi." he replied.

The name sounds random, like it was just made up.

"Let me tell you about myself," the display screen on his mask vividly lowered his eyes, "I come from five hundred years later."

Although everyone had guessed this, when he actually said it, everyone was still shocked.

"The world five hundred years from now... well, it's on the verge of destruction," he thought for a moment and used a very general term to describe it. "I don't know why the world will be destroyed, nor do I quite understand the principles of this disaster. Those are things that scientists should study. I only know that in order to deal with this unchangeable disaster, people who can no longer find effective organizational methods have begun to place their hopes on the past."

"What disaster?" Xu Zichen interrupted.

"The sky," Liu Yi looked a little nervous, shaking uncontrollably, "Suddenly one day, someone discovered that the distance between us and the sky seemed to be getting closer and closer."

"The first to discover this disaster were the space agencies of various countries," he anxiously looked through the crack in the door again and again, his voice rising and falling, "One day, the space agencies that launched various satellites into space discovered that we seemed to be getting closer and closer to the sky."

"What do you mean...getting closer and closer to the sky?" Ning Xiao couldn't help but ask.

"It means literally," Liu Yi gave an example, "In your era, the distance between the ground and space is 300 kilometers, but in my era, this distance has become 100 kilometers. The sky has collapsed."

"Ah...?" Ning Xiao couldn't help but let out a very confused sound, "You mean, the atmosphere in your era was shrinking?"

"Maybe," Liu Yi thought for a moment, his voice trembling, "I don't know how to describe this phenomenon. I haven't studied it. I only know that since I was born, the distance between the sky and the ground has been getting closer and closer, to a very dangerous level. People can't hope to solve the problem of the sky getting closer, so they hope to go back hundreds of years to when the sky was not close to the ground to prevent the disaster from happening."

"And then you found the key person, Ren Zhiling?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows. "How did her research lead to the disaster?"

"I don't know," Liu Yi said sincerely, "I don't know how she caused this disaster. All I got was the result, which is that Ren Zhiling was related to the disaster."

"Then...then what do you know?" Xu Zichen frowned and thought about it.

Liu Yi didn't know why the sky was falling, nor did he know the principle behind it, or even why Ren Zhiling caused it to fall.

They couldn't say how much they trusted Liu Yi, who claimed to be from the future, but the information they could get from him was surprisingly little.

If he didn't intend to conceal it, it only means that as the executor of "killing Ren Zhiling", Liu Yi obtained very little information.

In fact, he might not know more than they do.

At least they can get the two pieces of information, namely, Tiankong's fall and Ren Zhiling's being important personnel, on their own as long as they are given enough time and assassinated by future people.

In this situation, is it because Liu Yi's identity is special and he is indeed unaware of some things, or is it that Liu Yi's channels for obtaining key information have been deliberately blocked?

In the concert hall, Ren Zhiling seemed to tell a joke, which caused a burst of good-natured laughter from the students.

Amid the lively laughter, Liu Yi lowered his voice and answered, "I know that everyone initially believed that as long as Ren Zhiling was killed, the world would definitely be a better place in the future."

"I should have killed Ren Zhiling before," he raised his head and looked at everyone very sincerely, "but the future...did not get better."

The members of the exploration team looked at each other and almost believed it. Ning Xiao asked first: "What will the future look like?"

"I'm talking about the future. I don't know what it will be like before the change," Liu Yi said the words "I don't know" for the third time. He was shaking more and more, as if the future him existed in the past and had a huge rejection with the past world. "Once the past is changed, the future will change with it. Everything in the future world, including people's memories, will change. My memories have also changed."

"I don't know what the world has become like in the original world where Ren Zhiling didn't die. I only have the memory of this world."

Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows slightly at this very novel statement.

"It's like a save point?" Ning Xiao tried to understand. "Every time you change the future, no matter what you do, once you return to the future, all your memories will be overwritten by the changed world of this world line, and you will forget everything in the previous world line."

But the traces he left in the past will not change, and the future will change according to the bifurcation of these choices. So once the candidate is locked in, based on the records left in history, for example, the meeting attended by Ren Zhiling was stopped due to an attack, people in the future will be able to infer that in the previous world line, they attempted to assassinate Ren Zhiling and failed.

"Yes, that's right." Liu Yi paused. "From what I remember this time, the information I know is that the anomaly in the sky is related to the death of scientist Ren Zhiling."

"I only know that based on the reconstruction of history, this doesn't seem to be the first time we have used a time travel machine. The last piece of information about the key figure Ren Zhiling is that she died during a speech at her alma mater after returning to China. The records of the attack she left behind can prove that this attack came from the future."

"This means that in the previous world line, my goal was to kill Ren Zhiling," he raised his head, "but this direction was wrong."

So in order to prevent the disaster from happening, he went back to the past and tried to stop himself in the previous world line from killing Ren Zhiling.

"Hmm..." Xu Zichen tilted his head slightly, "What do you two think?"

He was really bad at handling this kind of time-related content, and what he received now was only Liu Yi's one-sided statement.

Without waiting for Bai Jinshu to answer, Liu Yi spoke first. He was shaking more and more violently, and the eyes on the display screen of the mask on his head squeezed out a few tears vividly: "It doesn't matter if you don't believe me. I don't have enough time. I have to go back. Whether you believe it or not, as long as you see another me coming to assassinate Ren Zhiling, you can be sure that Ren Zhiling is the one who caused the disaster in the future, not Xi Enze, right?"

That's true.

Putting aside what Liu Yi said, as long as we see that the people from the future assassinated Ren Zhiling in a very targeted manner, the idea that Xi Enze is a key figure will be completely eliminated.

"I have a question," Ning Xiao thought for a moment, "Since you knew that Ren Zhiling would die today, why didn't you stop your former self yourself?"

"The paradox of not being able to meet yourself after traveling through time and space?" Xu Zichen stroked his chin and thought for a while, "This is quite common. What I want to know more is how you know us?"

"Ye Dian, what about you?" He turned and looked at Bai Jinshu.

He turned his head and saw Ye Dian with his bony hands clasped under his chin. He looked absent-minded and didn't seem to be listening to what Liu Yi was saying.

"Hmm? Me?" Bai Jinshu tilted his head slightly. "If I must ask you a question, I want to know the reason why you traveled to the past..."

He was interrupted by Liu Yi's suddenly raised voice when he asked half of his question: "Quick! I saw me!"

His high-pitched voice startled everyone inside and outside the screen.

Looking through the door that Liu Yi had suddenly opened, a silver-white figure appeared on the highest step of the concert hall. Liu Yi's trembling voice rang out: "You saw it! You saw it!"

"Ren Zhiling cannot die. If she dies, the sky will fall!" He was almost curled up, and as he spoke he bent lower and lower. By the time he finished his sentence, Liu Yi was leaning against the wall with his hands on his stomach, his whole body shaking wildly.

"Are you...are you okay?" Ning Xiao, who was about to enter the concert hall, was startled and paused. "Is it an immune rejection reaction? A side effect of time travel?"

"Don't worry about me..." Liu Yi's voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, "Go and stop the old me... Quickly..."

A red light was already shooting towards the stage from the back of the concert hall.

Song Jirou's description was too vivid. It was indeed a very transparent red light, which was directly reaching the forehead of Ren Zhiling who was already standing on the edge of the stage.

What the hell is this red light?

The moment Ning Xiao turned his head, his hair stood up.

This thing is a crosshair for aiming!

What kind of weapons will be developed in the future?

Before he could react, the next second, a blue arc of light followed the channel constructed by the red light and went towards Ren Zhiling.

In a flash, Xu Zichen fired a shot at Ren Zhiling from the angle at the door.

Ren Zhiling was hit and fell to the side of the stage, where she was caught by Ye Dian who was waiting below. Her face was full of confusion, and she had no idea what kind of fate she had just passed by.

The blue light landed on the stage half a second late.

There was a teeth-grinding creaking sound and the rise of dust, followed by a suppressed groan.

Before the students in the audience could react, Ning Xiao subconsciously turned his head and looked behind him.

The place where a living person was standing just now is now empty, with only an empty small corridor left.

Liu Yi disappeared and returned to the future timeline.

The author has something to say:

First 20+ random 20 red envelopes. Why am I getting later and later in writing? Chapters like this with 800 pieces of information in one chapter are the easiest to get stuck on. I have to go back and look at the outline to sort out the time when each piece of information appears.

There is a very confusing dark line in Skyfall. If many people can't understand it, I will post a Weibo and use my lousy drawing skills to draw a diagram to explain it (gestures and strokes)