Chapter 18 Who is the Bait? Wen Yi desperately blocked the bullet flying towards him...
The moment Wen Yi was "invited" into the car, the hydraulic lock of the door "clicked" closed and the air pressure suddenly changed - the signal shielding system was activated.
She looked up at the sky, speechless. How could she be locked in a truck again? Last time it was an ice cream truck, this time it was a modified municipal emergency vehicle.
Wen Yi tapped the bulletproof glass window with her fingertips in disgust: "Do you men have some weird habit of locking women in the car?"
She had thought Guo Qingyu would take her to a futuristic cyberpunk base filled with all sorts of large supercomputers, waiting for her to die in a torrent of data with a snap of his fingers. Unexpectedly, she was taken to another car.
The car was dark, with only a few ambient lights emitting a cool, pale blue glow. The center console had been transformed into a quantum computer array. A large AR projection adorned the roof, constantly refreshing the surveillance footage and data streams.
Guo Qingyu, wearing a black T-shirt, leaned against the center console and pressed a button. Screens of all sizes automatically lit up, simulating a virtual world filled with birdsong and flowers.
"I've finally waited for you...little troublemaker." He said with a smile.
"What do you mean?" Wen Yi looked at the terminal in the car warily: "Mr. Guo, what are you waiting for me to discuss? Are you seeking revenge because I dug out your garbage?" "Revenge?" Guo Qingyu pushed up his glasses. "How could that be? On the contrary, I want to thank you."
Wen Yi asked doubtfully, "Thank me for what?"
"Do you know why I was able to awaken my abilities?" He suddenly looked serious. "Because that day, you broke into my world."
Wen Yi was puzzled. "What does this have to do with me?"
"That year, at the high school gate, I felt the resonance of the Wen family's bloodline. That day, it was you, wasn't it?"
Guo Qingyu lightly swiped his fingertips, and a surveillance footage appeared on the screen. The boy on the screen was at the school gate and suddenly looked up as if he sensed something. At this moment, ripples appeared on the screen.
"I'm just recalling my memories," Wen Yi shook her head in disbelief. "How could I possibly resonate with the people in my memories?"
"No." Guo Qingyu suddenly leaned closer, his voice low and firm, "It has something to do with you. You naive idiot, what do you think your power is?"
"Isn't this recalling memories?" Wen Yi subconsciously took half a step back.
"That's just your superficial understanding." He tapped the screen, and the entire car suddenly darkened. Countless stars were spinning on the screen, and a wormhole model slowly unfolded in the center - two dark blue vortices stared at each other, forming a glowing bridge at the intersection, like two nebulae kissing in the universe.
"In fact, I've known you for a long time and have been aware of your abilities." Guo Qingyu glanced at her. "You are an extremely special existence. Your consciousness itself is the most stable generator of space-time curvature."
"What, what does that mean?" Wen Yi stared blankly at the countless physical formulas flowing on the screen.
"Your consciousness can transcend the limitations of time and space and enter a higher-dimensional world." Guo Qingyu raised his head, a wormhole model reflected on his glasses. "Going back to the past or heading into the future is just a matter of a change of mind. Recalling memories is just the tip of the iceberg of your abilities."
Wen Yi was so shocked that she couldn't speak.
"Are you sure you're talking about me?" The village mascot actually has such abilities?
"Thanks to a certain naive person who wandered into my time and space," Guo Qingyu observed her expression with amusement. "The resonance of our blood ignited me like a spark and made me who I am today. You changed the entire trajectory of my life." He shrugged. "Thank you."
"How could I possibly run over there and awaken you?"
"Time is never a straight line." Guo Qingyu tapped his fingertips, and the carriage was enveloped by a glowing Möbius strip. Timelines intertwined and intersected, eventually connecting end to end, weaving a perfect closed loop.
"It's just a time paradox. The past me was saved by the future you."
Wen Yi looked up and the Möbius strip on the screen shattered into stars in the sky.
Guo Qingyu suddenly leaned in, his glasses reflecting the starlight. "Would you like to work with me? Your space-time abilities combined with mine."
The screen suddenly switched to a projection of a futuristic city, with countless fiber optic cables connecting the sky and the ground.
"We can change not only the present, but also the infinite future." His voice was filled with excitement.
Under the starlight on the screen, Wen Yi narrowed her eyes slightly: "How can I trust you?"
"I won't hurt you." He leaned closer. "We'll only make each other better."
"Why don't you explain the body in the nursery first?" Wen Yi looked him straight in the eyes. "I won't cooperate with a murderer."
"That rubbish Lu Chen?" Guo Qingyu's voice suddenly turned cold. "If you knew what he did, I'm afraid you wouldn't let him go."
Then he looked at her seriously and said, "One day, you will know that this is not the first time we've met. Then you will understand why I do this."
Wen Yi was confused and frowned slightly: "What on earth did he do?"
Guo Qingyu turned around and retrieved some files. "A few years ago, the Investigation Bureau secretly searched for people with time and space abilities. They wanted to go back in time and change the course of events. But even if they enter a higher-dimensional world, the past cannot be changed. They haven't given up yet, and many people with abilities continue to disappear, including many branches of the Wen family. Didn't your Director Gu tell you about this? I advise you to stay away from those people in the Investigation Bureau. They are not good people."
Wen Yi's pupils shrank suddenly. She vaguely remembered Wen Chi mentioning this matter. This time he came down the mountain for this very reason. Could it really be related to the Investigation Bureau?
She suddenly remembered her original intention: "Oh, you haven't told me yet, so how can I control my power?"
"Just like me back then, you need a spark to ignite your potential."
"What kind of fire?" Wen Yi asked.
"You'll understand when your Director Gu arrives." He raised an eyebrow. "Ask yourself, why do you need power?"
“Ding ding ding—”
The car alarm sounded and a red light swept across the faces of the two men.
"Speak of the devil, the devil appears quickly." Guo Qingyu's lips curled up into a smile, "Then cooperate with me in acting, silly and sweet."
*
The moment Gu Yifeng discovered that Wen Yi was missing, the whole world seemed to be muted.
He stood in the empty apartment, holding the note between his fingertips, his knuckles turning white from the strain.
"Very good," he said softly.
For the next few hours, his rage was felt throughout the seventh inning.
"Looking for her." He only said this one word to Gao Yiyuan, but the look in his eyes sent chills down everyone's spine. Xiao Gao checked the traffic surveillance footage and confirmed that Wen Yi had finally boarded a municipal emergency vehicle and then vanished.
Gu Yifeng stood at the place where she was last seen, his voice frighteningly calm: "Check the GPS records of all municipal vehicles. I want the driving trajectory of each one."
When they found the municipal emergency vehicle on the side of a quiet road, Gu Yifeng was standing there, exuding a chilling low pressure.
Under the cover of night, he drew his gun and approached the truck where Wen Yi was imprisoned.
"Bang--" His pupils shrank the moment he kicked open the car door. Inside the truck, Wen Yi and Guo Qingyu were standing opposite each other, and at this moment they turned around and looked at Gu Yifeng at the same time.
Guo Qingyu's fingers were on the center console, and Gu Yifeng seemed to have remembered something terrible.
"Wen Yi!" Gu Yifeng aimed at Guo Qingyu, his voice trembling slightly, "Come here!"
"Gu..." Before Wen Yi could speak, Guo Qingyu suddenly put his arms around her waist and whispered something in her ear.
Their bodies touched, their breaths intertwined.
"Don't be impatient." Guo Qingyu turned to look at him. "Your detainee just now...voluntarily came with me? Is that illegal?"
"You're looking for death!" Gu Yifeng seemed to be stabbed by something, his eyes full of anger, and he pulled the trigger the next second.
"Bang--"
Guo Qingyu turned his head, and the bullet grazed him and exploded in the enclosed space, hitting the metal wall and scattering in all directions. The fragments kept bouncing and refracting between the metal walls.
The moment the gunshot rang out, a familiar cone of light flashed before Wen Yi's eyes. She seemed to be observing the world in front of her from another dimension of time and space.
She could see the curve of Guo Qingyu's mouth, and she could also see a sharp piece of shrapnel whistling towards Gu Yifeng's carotid artery.
don't want!
At this moment, she understood what Guo Qingyu meant, and she needed strength to protect him!
As her consciousness crossed dimensions, her body seemed to be awakened by some unknown force and ran wildly in reality.
"Be careful!" Wen Yi pushed Guo Qingyu away.
At the critical moment, she threw herself into Gu Yifeng's arms with all her strength, and the whole world seemed to have pressed the slowdown button at this moment.
Time slowed down, the air seemed to freeze, and the shrapnel slowly but unstoppably hit his neck!
She reached out and tried to change its trajectory, but that only slowed it down, not stopped it completely.
Still a step too slow——
But the body moves faster than the mind.
Wen Yi reached out her hand desperately, grabbed the hot metal, and held it tightly.
"hiss!"
The palm of his hand was immediately cut into a bloody mess, and there was a severe burning pain.
"Tick-tick--" Blood dripped onto the floor of the truck.
"Wen Yi!" Gu Yifeng's angry roar pulled her back to reality from her free state in the high-dimensional space.
She blinked. Is it over?
Before she could come to her senses, Gu Yifeng pulled her into an almost suffocating hug.
The smell of gunpowder on him mixed with the smell of blood on her body, and their heartbeats intertwined, making her eardrums hurt.
"How are you?" He loosened the distance and immediately held her face in his hands, examining her face, neck, shoulders, and almost every part of her body. "Besides your palms, are you injured anywhere else? Speak!"
Wen Yi only then realized that she had just caught the exploded shrapnel with her bare hands.
She looked down at her blood-stained right hand—the edge of the wound on the palm was scorched. The high temperature of the shrapnel had burned the flesh, and the sharp edge had cut a deep gash.
She tried to move her fingers and immediately gasped in pain.
"I..." She forced a smile, but her voice trembled with pain, "It's okay, it just hurts a little."
Gu Yifeng's eyes instantly turned cold. He held her bleeding palm and whispered, "Just bear with it. We'll go to the hospital right away."
"Guo..." Wen Yi turned around to search for Guo Qingyu, only to find that he had disappeared at some point.
"Don't worry, he can't run far." Gu Yifeng glanced at her along her line of sight, "Take care of yourself first."
She was just about to say it was okay, but the next second, her body felt lighter and Gu Yifeng actually picked her up.
In full view of everyone, he carried her out of the car.
"Enough! Gu Yifeng! My injury is my hand, not my leg!"
The author has something to say:
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Ahhh, does anyone like the data maniac Guo Qingyu?
Here is an explanation for the heroine's golden finger, which is just elementary school science fiction level to serve the plot.
I hope you guys don’t take this too seriously.
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