Chapter 254 National Memorial Day
Qiao Susu turned her head away, trying to avoid the question.
However, Zongfang, contrary to his usual behavior, pressed forward step by step.
"According to what you just said, in the second timeline, you discovered that Luka was gone, and then you went back to the past to try to change things, which led to the third timeline. So what happened in the third time that made you go back to the past again and again?"
Qiao Suisui opened her red lips slightly, but hesitated to speak. She didn't dare to look Zong Fang in the eye, but now all the men's eyes were on her, making her feel a little pressured.
Karl couldn't bear it any longer and stood in front of her to block Zongfang's gaze. "What are you doing? Normally, if someone says something harsh to her, you look like you're going to kill someone. What are you going to do now? Don't force her."
Zong Fang grabbed Karl's collar and pushed him aside in frustration, "If you don't ask clearly, what if she goes back someday?"
Karl was startled, frowned slightly and stopped talking.
It was very unusual for Luka not to step forward to stop it immediately. Instead, he stared at Qiao Susu closely, waiting for her answer.
Zongfang knelt in front of her and grabbed her shoulders, not giving her a chance to dodge.
"Tell me, why do you keep going back?"
Qiao Susu lowered her eyes, the corners of her eyes were red, her eyelashes were trembling, and she still said nothing.
Seeing that she was about to cry but refused to speak, Zong Fang was furious, but he always restrained the strength of his hands, not using too much force but still holding her tightly.
"If you don't say it, I'll say it for you."
He took out a letter and held it in front of Qiao Susu.
"In the first timeline, Anubis died and you were very sad, so you followed him." Zong Fang gritted his teeth and swallowed the word, very evasive, and continued: "But for some reason, you came back again. You went back to the past to find a way to save him.
In the second timeline, you failed and even changed Scorsese's ending, so you went back to the past. The same thing happened in the third timeline, until you returned to school and gave your past self this letter. Every key point written here is something you have experienced before. You know the best choice, so you teach it to your past self, trying to change the future by changing the past.
You were trying to save Anubis the whole time, right?
You've risked your life for him time and time again, but you've never thought of telling me, right? You don't believe I can solve these problems with you, right? "
"No!"
Under the constant questioning, Qiao Suisui silently shed tears. Her eyes were red, her voice was a little hoarse, and her volume unconsciously increased: "You are gone, Luka is gone, Ash is gone, you are all gone, what should I do! What can I do?"
The pressure since the time travel began was like a taut string, which broke with a buzzing sound.
Maybe she was too tired, maybe she was lucky, or maybe it was because they were all by her side at the moment, and everything finally returned to what she wanted. Qiao Susu broke down and cried, almost unable to breathe, but the sadness, sorrow, and heaviness that had accumulated in her heart were swept away by the tears, like a release of pressure.
Zong Fang had already hugged her tightly the moment she said it, protecting her head with his big hands and kissing her forehead with tears in his eyes.
Luka immediately stepped forward, squatted beside her and kept stroking her back to help her calm down.
Liberi stood there in a daze, his head buzzing, and he couldn't hear anything around him. He could only see Qiao Suisui, who was crying.
What had she just said? She said she was gone, so she kept going back to the past. Was it because she couldn't accept the fact that he was dead that she kept changing? She also said she had died before. What happened in the first place? So, was everything today the result of her persistence and never giving up?
Carl's pupils trembled, and he immediately thought of countless things, "Photos."
Then he suddenly turned his head to look at Anubis and asked in a trembling voice: "Which day did she return? Which day was it when you saw her?"
Anubis said, "National Memorial Day."
Carl's figure swayed.
The day the former leader was assassinated was designated a national memorial day, requiring all citizens of the Federation to observe a moment of silence. On that day, he experienced memory loss, and a photo of Zong Yan at the crime scene appeared in his mind.
His words lost all joking and irreverence, becoming toneless: "Who killed the former leader?"
Qiao Susu raised her pair of red eyes with a determined expression.
"I killed him. And Li, I also killed him."
Hearing this, Karl raised his head and gasped heavily. He felt a sharp pain in his heart. When the other men heard her words, their eyes were filled with shock and heartache.
"You also erased my memory?"
"yes."
30 minutes, he and she had been together for 30 minutes. In those 30 minutes, she killed two people, kidnapped Zong Yan, and before leaving, she even left him a bargaining chip to gain his freedom!
Karl looked at Qiao Suisui, his eyes full of pain. He screamed hysterically: "Why...why didn't you tell me? I can kill him. Just tell me! I will do it! Why do you have to do this yourself?"
Carl's first murder occurred as a child, when he and Kay were training as Boy Scouts for the Commonwealth. Their first target in shooting practice was a living person. Although they were both incarcerated for crimes, shooting at a paper target felt completely different from shooting at a real person. He killed the man, shooting him in the chest.
Snow leopards have very sensitive hearing, and Carl hates this sensitivity.
Because he could even hear the "pop" sound when the bullet pierced through the flesh, hitting the flesh and then passing through the chest cavity and out.
After that day, he gained some knowledge: when a person dies, blood gushes out, not splashes out as he had imagined.
He vomited for ten days afterward, regardless of any nutrient solution. After this, he lost all desire for any food or nutrient solution other than what was necessary for growth, especially when on missions; he would avoid eating if possible.
This is what it feels like to kill someone.
Carl knew that he had become numb to the feeling of killing because he had gotten used to it and swallowed it over and over again in subsequent training and missions, but that didn't mean it wasn't scary.
But the person he had always protected, the person he held in his hands, the person he had to cover her eyes even when seeing cruel scenes, the person he was afraid would melt in his mouth, actually killed someone, and even took pictures of the bloody scene with his own hands, just to leave him a handle for negotiation in the future.
Carl was so heartbroken that he collapsed to his knees.
After hearing her words, Luka's fingertips couldn't help but tremble slightly, and he hated himself at this moment.
He held Qiao Susu's cheeks with his hands, and guilt overflowed in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, it's my incompetence."
(End of this chapter)
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