Chapter 250 Actions before the Storm
The air in the hall froze. Xiao Ran's clenched fists slowly loosened, and he stared at Xiao Ling, as if evaluating the credibility of this prophecy.
Lu Zhaoze had already walked to the side, his fingers quickly operating on his tablet, calling up the city's weather model, but all official data showed that today would be a sunny evening.
"Believe her." Su Wanqing spoke, breaking the silence, "We all have to believe her. There are still a few hours between now and five o'clock in the afternoon. We can't just sit there and wait."
She turned to Lu Zhao and said, "You are needed to improve the fortress's defense system, especially the modules against energy interference and physical intrusion. Use all available resources."
Lu Zhao nodded and pushed up his glasses. "Understood. I will put all the computing power of the host into building the defense array."
Su Wanqing looked at Lin Che again: "Lin Che, we need more basic medical supplies, especially antibiotics and drugs for treating trauma. After the storm, these things will be more expensive than gold."
“Leave it to me.” Lin Che answered straightforwardly.
"Xiao Ran," Su Wanqing looked at him one last time, "Get your equipment ready and adjust your state. You only have six minutes to make the best use of it. There can be no mistakes."
Xiao Ran didn't say anything, just nodded heavily, turned around and began to organize his tactical vest.
Five o'clock in the afternoon.
The door of the underground fortress slowly opened a crack. Su Wanqing stood in front of the control console, and three planned route maps were clearly displayed on the light blue screen in front of her.
One leads to a center for special children, which is marked orange as high risk by the system.
One leads to a chain pharmacy three blocks away, marked yellow for medium risk.
The activity area within 500 meters of the fortress is safe green.
"Action." Su Wanqing gave the order.
Lin Che carried an empty backpack and was the first to flash out, disappearing into the shadow of the ground entrance.
Xiao Ran followed closely behind, but he did not leave immediately. Instead, he hid behind an abandoned newsstand near the entrance, waiting for that precise moment.
Su Wanqing's attention was focused on the light screen. She tapped Xiao Ran's orange line with her fingertips, and a line of more detailed text popped up:
[Best action plan: 17:17:03, the fire hydrant in the southeast corner of the target building will burst due to abnormal pipeline pressure, forming a 34-second high-density water curtain. It is recommended to cross the street at this time; 17:18:15, a municipal garbage truck will pass by the back door, and the noise it produces can cover the sound of breaking windows; 17:21:40, take the target away and evacuate from the ventilation duct on the north side...]
This action suggestion, which was precise to the second, made her realize that the system's "fate weaving" ability was far more powerful than she had imagined.
It's not predicting, it's calculating and presenting a predetermined script.
Suddenly, the yellow light representing Lin Che flickered violently and quickly turned into a dazzling red.
[Warning! Critical node 'Lin Che' encounters a time observer, and vital signs drop rapidly! Do you want to consume 3,000 rebate points for primary 'causal intervention'? ]
"Carry out intervention!" Su Wanqing did not hesitate.
At the same time, in a quiet alley, Lin Che was leaning against the wall, panting heavily.
There was a wound on his arm so deep that the bone could be seen, and blood was oozing out.
In front of him stood a man in a black windbreaker. There was no expression on his face and his eyes were pure black, like two empty holes.
"The time anomaly point... must be cleared." The black-clothed man's voice was flat, like an old tape recorder playing.
He approached step by step, his movements were a little stiff, but incredibly fast.
Lin Che tried to raise his arm, but the man in black simply waved his hand lightly, and an invisible pressure pinned him to the wall.
Just as the man in black raised his hand to deliver a fatal blow, a window on the third floor of a residential building next to the alley suddenly exploded, and a gas tank flew out with a whooshing sound, colliding with the wall in mid-air with a deafening noise.
boom!
The huge explosion and shock wave instantly overturned all the trash cans in the alley, and the scorching air wave caused the man in black to slow down his movements.
He turned his head to look at the source of the explosion, and a trace of data analysis seemed to flash in his pure black eyes.
It was during this moment of pause that the purple lines on Lin Che's wrist suddenly lit up, and a force pushed him away from the wall.
He didn't care about his wounds, he crawled out of the alley and disappeared into the chaotic crowd on the street.
Inside the underground bunker, Su Wanqing heaved a sigh of relief when she saw the system prompt [Intervention successful, target has been unlocked].
3000 points evaporated in an instant, but in return Lin Che's life was saved.
She switched her perspective and looked at Xiao Ran. At 5:17 in the evening, the sky suddenly darkened, and small but dense raindrops fell cracklingly.
Almost at the same time, the fire hydrant in the southeast corner of the Children's Center exploded with a bang, splashing water everywhere.
Xiao Ran's figure jumped out like a cheetah, blending perfectly into the rain and water curtain.
Everything was performed precisely like a script.
Half an hour later, Lin Che staggered back to the fortress, covering his arm, his face pale.
Soon after, Xiao Ran also came back, followed by an unusually quiet little girl.
The girl was about seven or eight years old, with a pair of big, bright eyes, but in those eyes there was a faint silver light flashing that didn't belong to her age.
She is Xiao Ran’s sister, Xiaoyu.
Lu Zhao immediately treated Lin Che's wound while listening to him describe the characteristics of the man in black.
"His attack method is very strange. It is not physical force, but more like a kind of...suppression at the rule level."
Lin Che said with lingering fear.
At this time, Xiaoyu walked in front of Xiaoling. The two girls stood together, one with a red spot on her forehead and the other with silver light in her eyes.
Lu Zhao's tablet suddenly issued a rapid alarm.
He looked at the data stream jumping wildly on the screen in amazement. "This... this is..."
Everyone's eyes were drawn to it. The red dot on Xiaoling's forehead and the silver light in Xiaoyu's eyes seemed to be connected by an invisible line. An energy bond that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye was formed between them, and a faint buzzing sound was emitted.
"Quantum entanglement! Perfect energy field synchronization and mutual amplification!"
Lu Zhao's voice trembled a little as he stared at the data. "This is biologically impossible... unless... unless they are different aspects of the same being!"
He looked up as if he had figured out something. He excitedly explained to everyone, "I understand! Xiaoling can see the future, and Xiaoyu...she may be sensing the past! Their abilities complement each other and together they form a complete closed loop of time perception!"
This discovery made Lu Zhao breathe faster, and he put forward a bold hypothesis: "The reason why we failed in our previous life is probably because our time anchor point is incomplete and unbalanced!
If we can harness their resonance, perhaps... perhaps we can create an unprecedented, absolutely stable network of time anchors!"
Su Wanqing looked at the two girls standing together in front of her, and then looked at the storm warning on her system interface that had already started counting down.
Lu Zhao's words allowed her to see the first real ray of light in the impending darkness.
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