Chapter 43: Starting from zero, I can finally become one with you...
"Those lunatics are more trouble than help! If it weren't for their disturbance, would we have to bear such a huge consequence?!" Wen Yuzhong gritted his teeth and said, "If you ask me, they deserved to be arrested by the Investigation Bureau for experiments. They should work hard to eliminate the karma they have accumulated!"
"Yu Zhong!" Wen Yunzhi's eyes suddenly turned cold.
Wen Yuzhong closed his mouth, with a look of intense anger and unwillingness on his face.
The hall fell silent. While the others remained silent, their expressions indicated a growing discontent with the extremists' constant provocations and extreme behavior over the years. The current crisis had thrust everyone into the spotlight.
Wen Yi stood in the corner, her hands clasped tightly. Gu Yifeng gently covered her hands, slowly unfurling her stiff fingers and clasping them together again.
He looked down at her and mouthed to her: It's not your fault.
"Everyone, now is not the time to blame each other." Wen Yunzhi's majestic gaze slowly swept over the crowd, "We just need to answer: What should we do?"
After a brief silence, someone whispered, "What about the government? What have they done? Why are they letting us do this?"
Wen Chi sneered, "Besides protective isolation and evacuation, they're probably thinking about how to block the news and control public opinion. Let us do the dirty work, and they'll take the credit."
"Wen Chi." Wen Yunzhi gave him a faint warning look.
"We can't count on help from the outside world. According to the secret agreement, we are obligated to help the government resolve extraordinary disaster crises, not to mention that the Wen family is involved in this crisis. We must rely on our own abilities to resolve it." Wen Yunzhi continued.
"What if we try to isolate the source of the pollution with a gravitational field?" a white-haired elder spoke first. He was a master of the Wen family's "Space Folding" ability. "We could enclose the entire nuclear power plant in a closed space and compress it to cut off the radiation's path."
"That's not feasible." Wen Yunzhi shook his head, his tone calm but firm. "Space can't be sustained indefinitely. Once the energy is exhausted and the nuclear reaction continues, the hidden danger will eventually erupt. This move is just a delay. Furthermore, once the space is folded, it's impossible to enter. The time gained can't be used to repair the nuclear power plant, and it won't solve the fundamental problem. I don't think it's appropriate."
"Then I'll do it." Wen Yuzhong proposed another plan. "I can build a 'gravity barrier' outside the nuclear power plant to isolate the exchange of external matter and energy. This will alleviate the pollution."
"It's the same problem." Wen Yunzhi sighed, "Once the barrier is broken, the consequences will be even more serious. And your body can't withstand this level of consumption."
Wen Yuzhong gritted his teeth but did not argue any further.
"What about the people affected by the disaster?" Wen Hong, who had just spoken to Gu Yifeng, stood up. "We must at least find a way to treat those who have been exposed to radiation."
"I can try." It was Wen Jingyi who spoke. "I can perform a short-term reversal on an individual, returning their body to a state 'uncontaminated'."
"This method can only handle one person at a time. It's a long process and consumes a lot of energy." Wen Yunzhi spoke in a low voice, "And there are many people. You can't be sure when they were contaminated."
Wen Jingyi said, "I can form a medical team with tribesmen of the same origin and go down the mountain together. We can definitely help."
The hall fell silent again. When disaster strikes, any remedy is like a drop in the bucket.
"I have an idea." Wen Yuzhong suddenly said, "If we can't stop the reactor from continuing to operate, what if we let it explode prematurely?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole room was in an uproar.
"You mean... detonation by humans? Is that feasible?" someone questioned.
"It's a controlled explosion." Wen Yuzhong's eyes were cold. "Release the energy within a controllable range to eliminate all hidden dangers at once. We will erect a gravity barrier on the periphery to isolate all contamination."
"That means the entire Qingluan Mountain will become a restricted area." Gu Yifeng said at this moment, frowning, "And who can guarantee that the results of the explosion can be controlled?"
——No one can guarantee it.
In the silence of everyone, Wen Yi slowly stood up. Everyone's eyes fell on her.
She took a deep breath, a resolute yet calm light flashing in her eyes: "If we can't change the present, then I will change the past."
The hall was silent.
"If we can prevent a disaster before it happens..." She looked around the room, "wouldn't it be more meaningful than trying to fix it now?"
"You mean... traveling back in time?" an elder said in shock. "No, that's impossible. You can't change the past. Many people have tried to change their fate in the past, but they all ended in failure."
"It's not simply about changing the past." She shook her head, "It's about breaking that closed loop of time and establishing a completely new closed loop."
“What I want to do is not to correct the mistakes, but to establish a timeline in which no mistakes happen.”
"I agree." Gu Yifeng suddenly spoke in a firm voice, "This will be a crazy attempt, but if successful it will solve all problems."
"How do you know she will succeed? What if she fails?" Wen Chi immediately objected.
"Because I know she succeeded once." Gu Yifeng stood up and stood shoulder to shoulder with her. He turned to look at Wen Yi with a gentle but firm gaze. "If you want to do this, I will accompany you. From one world to another."
Wen Yi nodded: "I am not going back to the past, but starting from a point in the past, I constructed a completely different timeline. The old timeline still exists, but we no longer belong to it."
Wen Yunzhi spoke slowly, "Wen Yi, you must find the turning point that can change history. If you change insignificant events, it will have no impact on the future, and it won't create a new closed loop of time."
"But if you really did it... maybe we'd never be able to return to this timeline."
"Then don't come back." Wen Yi replied, "We will completely escape this fate."
He paused and added, "Think carefully, this may be a journey from which there is no return."
"good."
It's just a word, but it carries a lot of weight.
The hall fell into silence again.
Before anyone could digest this heavy burden, Gu Yifeng stood up and said in a calm but firm voice: "The best way now is to cooperate with the Investigation Bureau and participate in their Zero Plan."
He glanced at everyone present and said, "We already have a preliminary understanding of their plan. Xiao Gao, you tell us."
"Ah! Good!" Gao Yiyuan, whose name was called, picked up the tablet and explained, "They do have a method to stabilize wormholes—a device called the 'Time Anchor'. It uses a powerful gravitational field to fold spacetime to achieve time jumps, and quantum entanglement to enable data intercommunication. However, due to technical limitations, they can't go back to any time. Only by combining it with Wen Yi's ability can they lock onto a specific point in the past and form a stable time channel."
Wen Chi frowned and said, "What if something happens to her over there? How will she come back after completing the mission? Who can guarantee her safety in the Investigation Bureau?"
"I will stay with her." Gu Yifeng took Wen Yi's hand, his tone firm, his eyes looking at her intently.
"You?" Wen Chi scoffed. "If I remember correctly, you were already a 'brain-dead' useless person in the Investigation Bureau."
Gao Yiyuan and Ni Qianfan also looked worried. If their identities were exposed, the consequences would be disastrous.
"Just say that someone from the Wen family is going with Wen Yi!" someone suggested.
Wen Chi shook his head: "The agents of the Investigation Bureau are not vegetarians."
At this time, Wen Hong stood up with a confident smile on his face: "This is easy to do. Don't forget my ability."
"yes!"
"Aunt Hong, this is possible!"
Gu Yifeng frowned slightly and whispered in Wen Yi's ear, "What do you mean?"
Wen Yi whispered, "She's a local time displacer, able to manipulate the flow of time for an individual. Everyone calls her Aunt Hong. Can you guess how old she is this year?"
Gu Yifeng glanced at Aunt Hong, who still had her charm, and asked tentatively, "35? 40?"
Wen Yi covered her mouth and whispered, "In terms of seniority, I should call her Grandma Hong. She is of the same generation as my grandfather."
Aunt Hong turned to Gu Yifeng and smiled, "I can replace your body's age state with a certain point in your past." She winked at him, "For example... your teenage years. That way, you won't be someone from the Investigation Bureau, but a younger member of the Wen family's side branch."
Wen Yunzhi nodded: "As long as he can fit in with this identity, he shouldn't attract attention."
"It sounds like it's getting smaller." Gu Yifeng raised his eyebrows.
"To be more precise, it's about becoming a younger version of yourself." Aunt Hong's smile deepened. "Think about it, if you were to transform into a teenage boy and accompany Wen Yi to the Investigation Bureau as her cousin, who would recognize you?"
"What's the appropriate age?" someone started joking.
"Twenty years old? Wouldn't that be too close to his current appearance?"
"It's not okay to be too young, there's no threat." Guo Qingyu said seriously, "Twelve is just right, he can take care of himself and can take the blame."
"...Don't think I don't know what you are thinking." Gu Yifeng gritted his teeth.
"However, there is a problem." Ni Qianfan frowned, "Young Gu Yifeng, is his fighting ability too weak? What if he encounters danger?"
Wen Chi chuckled, "Are you kidding? Middle-aged Gu Yifeng's fighting ability is also very weak."
Gu Yifeng glanced over coldly.
Wen Yi looked at Gu Yifeng with a complicated look in her eyes: "Are you really willing to accept it? It seems difficult for me to accept you calling me sister..."
"I'm very happy to be able to become a family with you in a legitimate sense." Gu Yifeng smiled faintly, but his tone was serious.
Wen Yi was stunned, her face slightly hot: "You...why did you suddenly say such a thing?"
The hall was suddenly filled with joyful laughter, and the atmosphere was finally no longer so depressing.
"Then it's settled." Wen Yunzhi nodded slowly. "Wen Yi will participate in the 'Zero Plan' to try to break the time loop; Gu Yifeng will accompany her disguised as a young man from the clan. During this special period, Wen Chi and I must remain in the mountains and cannot travel together."
"I understand." Wen Yi agreed.
"Please rest assured, even though I'm just a teenager, I know how to protect her." Gu Yifeng looked directly at Wen Yunzhi, "I will use my entire life to protect her."
The meeting ended and the tribesmen dispersed one after another.
There were only a few people left in the hall. Hong Yi looked at the two of them and asked seriously, "Have you decided? How old do you want to be?"
Wen Yi and Gu Yifeng looked at each other, the corners of their lips slightly raised, and they said in unison:
"Seventeen."
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The author has something to say: In the next chapter, our hero will become a 17-year-old boy~ Sister-brother love is quite interesting.
The paranoid old man turned into a loyal boy, and he can even change his identity when he falls in love.
Gu Yifeng: "Director, the age can be reduced, but the height and certain key positions can remain unchanged."
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