Chapter 40: The Bond of Higher Dimensions He entrusted the direction of his future destiny to her...
When she opened her eyes again, she was in a familiar laboratory.
A cocoon-like metal cabin stood in the center of the laboratory, its surface inlaid with various precision components, emitting a cold blue light. A display at the entrance continuously scrolled through the experimental data in real time.
She floated within the cabin, her hair swaying gently on invisible waves. Several thumb-thick white cables dangled from the ceiling, connecting to the back of her neck and her limbs, monitoring her energy status and vital signs in real time.
She was like a butterfly trapped in a spider web, unable to escape the fate of having her wings broken and her life severed.
Wen Yi opened her eyes wide, and the unforgettable past emerged in her mind. This was not the first time she had experienced this!
In this closed time loop, Gu Yifeng is not an agent of the Investigation Bureau, but the chief physicist who leads this project.
And she is his wife.
To save countless lives, they jointly planned the most insane attempt in human history - using the "quantum tunneling" phenomenon to open a huge wormhole, allowing the entire Qingluanshan Nuclear Power Plant to pass through the wormhole in a "non-physical state", instantly "leaping" from the real world to another time and space, in order to avoid the impending nuclear disaster.
And she volunteered to be the core of this experiment.
There was only one price - her life.
Inside the control room, eight holographic screens form a ring-shaped monitoring system, tracking the formation of the wormhole at the Qingluanshan Nuclear Power Plant in real time.
On the screen, next to the white reactor, a dark blue wormhole is steadily and slowly expanding.
Wen Yi spent countless days and nights in the cabin in a daze, her spirit gradually becoming numb from being overwhelmed.
Every time she woke up, she would look up at that corner.
Gu Yifeng was wearing a black shirt and a white coat, standing there silently. It seemed that he had been there for as long as she had been in the cabin, without leaving for a moment.
"How far is the wormhole open?" Wen Yi asked weakly.
He hadn't said a single word to her since she entered the lab. She thought he still wouldn't answer her, but unexpectedly, he actually spoke:
"85%."
"Well...it will be soon," she said casually, meaning that she was almost through with it.
She tried to turn her head and follow the other person's gaze, "You...you won't stand here forever, will you? I can't run away, you should go and rest for a while."
“…” He began to remain silent and motionless again.
"Professor Gu? Mr. Gu?... Please, please, please." She used her usual coquettish tone, revealing a long-lost tenderness.
"It's rare that you still remember that you are Mrs. Gu." Gu Yifeng slowly walked to the side of the test chamber, looked at her through the glass window, and said in a deep voice, word by word, "Wen Yi, marriage is a lifelong commitment. You vowed to be with me forever, but now you have decided my fate without authorization. Will you give me a chance to choose?"
“…” This time it was Wen Yi’s turn to remain silent.
"You know we can't stop the reactor right now." She paused. "If the nuclear power plant collapses, not only Qingluan Mountain but the entire region will suffer a devastating disaster. This is the best option."
"So," he looked at her, his eyes dead, "your choice was to break your vow and abandon me."
"I'm sorry..." She turned her head silently, "I know this will make you sad, but I have no other choice."
"So you made the decision for me." His voice became cold and hard: "Sorry can't change anything!"
She knew that Gu Yifeng was just saying that out of anger. It wasn't that he didn't forgive her, but that he couldn't forgive himself.
It's not that he doesn't want to save her, but everyone's hope is on him. His superiors ask him to start the experiment, and public opinion puts him on the moral trial.
He was forced into a corner and could only choose between "righteousness" and "personal feelings".
She couldn't bear to see him make this choice, so she made the decision for him.
"I hope you can forgive my decision." If there was still time, she wanted to say goodbye to him gracefully.
She tried to calm her voice, a hint of tenderness flashing in her eyes: "After everything is over, if I am still alive, take me to see the outside world. You have been busy with work, and we haven't had the chance to see the vast desert and the endless sea..."
She was lying to him.
Once the nuclear power plant is successfully relocated, her life will come to an end.
There is no future between them.
She knew it, and he knew it too.
Gu Yifeng's eyes gradually turned red, but he didn't even look at her and turned away.
"Wen Yi, listen to me." He suppressed his surging emotions and said, "I will always live in the day you left."
She was stunned.
"From conception to implementation, every step of the quantum tunneling project was designed and driven by me."
"Yeah..." She nodded quickly.
"I was the one who finally sent you into the experimental chamber."
She didn't react for a moment.
"Every second of pain you endure is caused by me." He clenched his fists, his voice hoarse, "I will watch with my own eyes as you turn into quantum physics and disappear between heaven and earth."
“…”
"I will never forget you, nor will I let myself go. For the rest of my life, I will suffer in pain during the day and struggle in nightmares at night."
Wen Yi's heart suddenly tightened.
"Morning and dusk alternate, spring and autumn turn, year after year... I will keep waiting until one day, in another time and space, I meet you again."
The fear of death in her heart disappeared with these words.
She stared at Gu Yifeng in a daze. He spoke heart-wrenching words in a calm tone, without a trace of warmth in his eyes.
It turned out that his indifference was not towards her, but towards the future without her.
*
She suddenly opened her eyes and her consciousness returned to the void.
It turns out that she is not a substitute, Yi Yi is herself. She and Gu Yifeng have gone through a reincarnation hand in hand.
Was the nuclear power plant finally relocated successfully? Unfortunately, she will never know the answer.
She finally realized clearly that she had died once.
Why does she have two completely different life memories?
Who is she? Is she Professor Gu's wife, who eventually dissipated in quantum tunneling, or is she the rookie who was bound by Investigation Bureau agent Gu Yifeng right after coming down the mountain?
If her previous life was an irreversible dead end, then this time, can she change her fate and rewrite the ending of her and Gu Yifeng?
She began to wonder what Gu Yifeng had done after her death that allowed her consciousness to survive and be precisely anchored at the age of 17.
Could it be that... he left his future destiny to her to decide?
Gu Yifeng, you want to be a hands-off boss, right? You push all the problems onto her!
Wen Yi suddenly felt powerless. Could someone at least give her some advice? What should she do next?
Wen Yi returned to Gu Yifeng with a heavy heart, but found that something was wrong with this man recently.
"Yi Yi," he said, his hand slowly unbuttoning the top button of his shirt, pretending to be deep, "You can see me, right? Will you peek at me while I change clothes?"
【Won't……】
Wen Yi couldn't help but roll her eyes. She had already watched the adult version countless times. Who would want to watch the underage version like yours?
"What about taking a shower? What about going to the toilet?" He deliberately dragged out his voice, his fingers vaguely resting on the waistband of his pants.
She was stunned for a moment: "Who are you? Give me back that aloof and abstinent Professor Gu!"
Before going out, Gu Yifeng stood in front of the mirror holding two T-shirts and asked, "Yiyi, do I look better in blue or black?"
【black】
"Okay, I'll wear black for you from now on," he announced proudly.
Later, she looked at the darkness in Gu Yifeng's closet speechlessly. It was like a black hole had opened up!
There's no need, there's really no need! This guy is so childish.
"38.6 degrees... Yi Yi, I feel uncomfortable." Gu Yifeng rolled around on the bed wrapped in a quilt.
Go to the hospital
"...I'd rather die than go." He continued to roll back and forth on the bed like a naughty child.
Wen Yi held her forehead with her hand. Are adolescent boys so difficult to deal with?
[Go quickly] She is going crazy.
"Then you're going to coax me?" The boy suddenly became shy and buried his face in the pillow. "Show me some coquettishness."
Wen Yi gritted her teeth and said, I will remember all my dark history for you!
After a long stalemate, she finally sighed:
Please, please.
In the early summer of that year, Gu Yifeng put aside his jokes and looked more serious than ever before: "Yiyi, I'm planning to change my major and apply to the police academy. Do you support me?"
Wen Yi was stunned. He doesn't plan to study physics anymore?
Maybe... fate changed quietly in this tiny deviation.
She looked at him and finally replied with only one word:
【good】
The moment the voice rang out, she suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of detachment.
Something is quietly changing, as if the entire space and time are adjusting to this choice.
Wen Yi gradually discovered that every time she guided Gu Yifeng to deviate from the path of his previous life, her consciousness became weaker.
She finally understood that changing one's destiny came at a price. She had heard him say before that maintaining each closed loop of time and space required a specific energy source, while breaking it required an even greater price.
As a new space-time loop gradually takes shape, the consciousness attached to the old loop begins to disintegrate.
Her time is running out.
That night, the boy mustered up the courage to confess:
"I said, I have someone I like."
【……】
"I think I will be with her forever in this way." His eyes were full of tenderness.
[……]But this tenderness should not belong to her.
"Will you stay with me forever? Yi Yi."
[……] How cruel fate was, making him fall in love again with someone who was destined to disappear.
Wen Yi sighed softly in the void.
Is this an irresistible mysterious force? I've already started over again, yet I've ended up with a similar ending.
That stubborn boy was determined to break the shackles of time and space, even though he knew that a butterfly could not fly across the ocean.
She looked at the burning anticipation in Gu Yifeng's eyes, and suddenly didn't want to worry about those questions about fate anymore.
So be it, let her accompany him for the last part of the journey and respond to his expectations with the rest of her life.
On Qingluan Mountain, Wen Yi watched Gu Yifeng rushing towards his fate, but she couldn't tell him that it would be a farewell forever.
Her consciousness was like a wisp of smoke about to be blown away by the wind.
"Yi Yi...we're almost there..." Gu Yifeng's voice was full of hope, as if he was certain that as long as they completed this task, they would have a future.
She watched him rush into the chaotic rescue scene.
Watch him shoot accurately and save people.
Watch him squat down, reach out and hold the girl's hand.
She seemed to hear the sound of the time loop breaking.
[She will...wait for you in the future.] These were the last words she left for him.
His consciousness gradually faded, and the last scene was him standing under a tree, looking up at the sky, with a smile on his lips - a smile that was uglier than crying.
She really wanted to tell him.
But she just smiled.
"Bye now……"
In the last moment before disappearing, she carefully traced the contours of his eyebrows and eyes with her eyes, wanting to remember him well.
Love is everyone’s lifelong luxury, but not getting it is not necessarily a regret.
She closed her eyes gently.
If fate permits, they will eventually meet again in another time and space.
*
Gu Yifeng suddenly opened his eyes.
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The author has something to say: This is not a science fiction novel with rigorous logic, it is pure nonsense from the author, please don’t criticize me if you don’t like it, thank you.
Regarding the explanation for the reverse reunion, it can be simply understood as follows: in Time Loop 1, after the heroine's death, the hero managed to retain a trace of her consciousness and return to the hero's 17-year-old state. This new time loop overwrote the old timeline until the hero rescued the little girl. Loop 1 was completely replaced by Loop 2, achieving a change of fate. This is a non-parallel time and space theory.
If you feel that the logic is not self-consistent, that is the author's problem. You can simply understand it as a past life and present life. Thank you for watching, and keep working hard in the future! Please don't scold me~ [star eyes][star eyes][star eyes]
I suddenly wanted to write a sequel about the CP in Time Loop 1. The aloof and abstinent physics professor seems quite interesting. If you are interested, let me know~
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