Chapter 72 I don’t dare to gamble, I just hope I can hold your hand and walk through this together...
"Since you know who he is, why don't you just tell him?" Wen Yi asked.
"This man is about to reach the pinnacle of power. He absolutely won't allow what happened back then to affect his political career." Guo Qingyu's tone was filled with helplessness. "How desperate am I to confront him head-on?"
Wen Yi was silent for a moment. "If we can't fight head-on, what else can we do? What's your plan?"
Guo Qingyu raised the corner of his mouth slightly, then immediately rubbed his face. "I want to find the 'critical point that caused the error,' and then gently push it in the other direction."
"Isn't that what Project Zero is all about?" She frowned slightly. "But I... failed."
"There is a difference." He shook his head. "You failed because you didn't find the variable node that could truly influence the future."
Wen Yi was stunned, and suddenly remembered what Zhang Mingyuan once said. Certain nodes on the timeline cannot be changed, but as long as those variable nodes are found and promoted, it is possible to change history.
"Then how did you do it?" she couldn't help but ask.
"Remember those two scientists in my lab?" Guo Qingyu looked at the two working outside the lab. "Xiao Yishan is able to construct precise mathematical models to simulate changes in the timeline and identify key nodes that can be intervened. Lu Zhiyu, on the other hand, can use physical principles to verify and optimize these mathematical models, ensuring their feasibility in practical applications."
He spoke with pride, "Simply put, they can help me identify the key nodes that change my destiny."
Wen Yi listened intently, her eyes filled with admiration: "Are they... actually so powerful?"
"Because they are not ordinary people." Guo Qingyu chuckled, "They have special abilities just like us."
Wen Yi opened her eyes wide in surprise. She was about to ask something, but before she could say anything——
The red light suddenly flashed, and the alarm sounded throughout the underground experimental facility.
【Warning: External intrusion detection】
"He's here." Guo Qingyu leaned back in his chair, his expression calm and composed with a hint of understanding. "I knew he wouldn't let me go."
Although he often spoke half-truths, he was right this time - the person who came to him was Gu Yifeng himself.
Unlike his former self, hampered by the various forces within the Bureau, Gu Yifeng is no longer just another agent, relying solely on his brains and skills. He holds high-level authority and access to the Tenth Bureau's cutting-edge technology. A mere laboratory security system would be of little use to Director Gu.
One second, Guo Qingyu had just noticed someone invading the lab, and the next, he felt an overwhelming murderous aura, like a tidal wave. The infrared surveillance, electronic access control, and alloy bulletproof doors were all useless.
Director Gu, with his hands behind his back and steady steps, strolled into the core area of Guo Qingyu's underground laboratory as if he were in an empty garden.
The black figure flashed and appeared in front of the two of them in an instant.
Wen Yi suddenly stood up from the chair, her heart almost skipping a beat.
"Mr. Guo, I'm afraid you didn't listen to what I said last time." Gu Yifeng took a step forward. His expression didn't show, but the murderous intent on his body was undisguised, as if he would draw his gun and shoot Guo Qingyu in the next second.
"Hey... last time I fell into the pond, I really didn't hear what Director Gu said." Guo Qingyu still smiled easily.
"His ears and eyes aren't working well. He always looks at people he shouldn't look at." Gu Yifeng glanced coldly at Wen Yi, then looked at Guo Qingyu, "I think it's useless to keep it. It's better to dig it out and give it to someone who needs it."
"No, no, no." Guo Qingyu took a step back. "Don't tell me, my eyes and brain are still useful and can make a small contribution to society, so I won't donate them for now."
"The brain is useful?" Gu Yifeng sneered, "I don't think so."
"Director Gu is a law enforcer after all. If you want to arrest me, you have to first tell me which law I broke." Guo Qingyu knew he couldn't defeat Gu Yifeng head-on, so he simply started a verbal battle. "If people knew that Director Gu abused private punishment for a woman, I'm afraid it would affect my career. It would also be a waste of your superiors' hard work, right?"
"Mr. Guo can still think so much when he is about to die. It's not just talk that shows that his brain is useful. But if you use your brain in the wrong place, it will only make you die faster." He looked at Guo Qingyu as if he was looking at a dead person.
Gu Yifeng said calmly, "You said this simply because you knew my wife would stop you." He was ruthless and the next second he drew his gun and aimed it at his heart. "Do you think I won't kill you just like that?"
The moment the trigger is pulled, "bang——"
With a loud bang, the bullet whizzed towards Guo Qingyu.
Wen Yi was completely shocked. She never expected that Gu Yifeng would actually kill someone in front of her!
Guo Qingyu stood there with nowhere to escape, watching the bullet coming towards him. He moved backwards, trying to dodge, but the office was so small that there was nowhere to hide.
At the critical moment, the power in Wen Yi's body suddenly erupted!
The flow of time suddenly slowed down, ripples appeared in the air, the gravity field under her feet was disturbed by her gravity, and the trajectory of the bullet shifted an inch upwards.
The bullet barely grazed Guo Qingyu's left shoulder, leaving a bullet hole in the wall. A gash opened on his shoulder, and blood trickled down his arm.
Guo Qingyu: “…”
He glanced at the wound sideways and said nothing, perhaps because it was too painful to make a sound.
Wen Yi had already closed her eyes tightly out of fear, the sound of the gunshot still echoing in her ears, and the faint smell of gunpowder lingering in her nose.
If... she hadn't taken action just now, would Gu Yifeng really have killed Guo Qingyu?
He made her feel strange and scared.
The office fell into deathly silence.
"This shot is to teach you a lesson." Gu Yifeng calmly put away the gun, "Don't have any thoughts that shouldn't be moved. Take care of yourself."
"Wen Yi." He spoke in a low voice without looking away, "Come back with me."
Guo Qingyu looked into Gu Yifeng's cold eyes through the thick smoke, his face showing no trace of sadness or joy. Finally, he sneered, "I've learned a lesson today, Gu Yifeng... We'll see what happens tomorrow."
After coming out of the underground laboratory, they returned to the platform of Yunhu Bridge subway station. Gu Yifeng held her hand and slowly walked through the crowded crowd.
When she walked out of the subway exit, the day was bright and the breeze was blowing on her face, but Wen Yi felt as if a stone was pressing on her chest and she couldn't breathe.
She turned around and vaguely noticed that several figures were following them, not far away. Some of them looked familiar. Wen Yi frowned slightly, trying to recall for a moment, and suddenly realized that these people were the passers-by who had escaped the apocalypse with her at the subway station earlier.
Wen Yi walked a few steps silently, then suddenly asked him in a low voice, "Those people behind me...are you the agents you sent to follow me?"
"It's protection." He said it lightly.
She sighed in her heart.
It turned out that from the moment she came back, Gu Yifeng never really trusted her and had always sent people to follow her. No wonder he could find her so quickly no matter where she went.
Is he afraid that she will run away?
Gu Yifeng did not rush to take her away in a car, but walked with her on Yunhu Bridge, as if he was just taking a walk with her.
Yunhu Bridge, as its name suggests, is a small bridge over a river. Under the bridge is an unknown stream, the gurgling waters of which carry a faint smell of mud and the hustle and bustle of the city.
Wen Yi followed Gu Yifeng quietly all the way. He was dressed in black and walked slowly in front of her, which inevitably reminded her of the time when she followed him to the Yunhu Traffic Police Station a few days ago.
But when she followed him that time, she felt at ease, but now, she only felt scared.
Halfway across the bridge, he suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Wen Yi also stopped and looked at him in confusion.
"Wen Yi." He held her hand and said in a low voice, "Do you still remember this place?"
"Why do I remember this place?" She looked around blankly. Was this a special place? Was it the place where they had pledged their love? If she couldn't give him the answer he wanted, would he be angry?
The small bridge looked old, but there was nothing special about it; it was just a constant stream of traffic. Gu Yifeng held her hand and pointed to a newly repaired guardrail on the side of the bridge. "A few months ago, there was a car accident on this bridge. A No. 44 bus suddenly lost control on the bridge, flipped over, and fell into the river."
When Wen Yi heard about the car accident, something flashed through her mind. She tried to capture that fragment, but it slipped away like sand through her fingers. When she saw Gu Yifeng looking at her, she turned her head and looked back, meeting his gaze.
"Wen Yi, the night you were kidnapped and put on the ice cream truck, I was here investigating the bus accident."
Something quickly connected in her mind, and she suddenly looked up at the river in front of her.
Although the scene was different from that at night, she recognized it - this was the place where the bus she had taken fell into the river!
But...how could he know this? That was her experience in the past timeline.
"I was there because I saw you on that bus."
She blurted out: "Impossible!"
"Why not?" He held her hand, took a step forward, and held her tightly in his arms. "You are not the only one who has experienced this."
His voice was hoarse: "I have witnessed every step of the way you came here."
"In the past that you don't know, I have been chasing you."
"Ever since you first appeared in my life and then disappeared, I've been searching for you."
"Wait until you show up again."
Wen Yi couldn't help but hold his hand tightly, her heart was in turmoil but she couldn't find a way out.
How much does he really know? Does he actually remember what happened in the past timeline?
Gu Yifeng let her hold on tightly, interlocking his fingers with hers.
"Actually, I knew it from the first time I saw you."
"Know what?"
"This isn't the first time we've met."
“…” Her breathing stagnated.
"I often have the feeling of living my life over again. It's clearly an unknown life, but it feels like I've already experienced it."
“…”
"Every detail is as clear as if it were reproduced yesterday."
“…”
“Until I finally found the answer—it turns out that the life memories I carried with me were not delusions, but the reality I had experienced.”
"you……"
"I know you weren't on the bus when it fell into the water. You were sleeping soundly at home."
“But when I learned about the accident, I still came.”
"Because I remember you were in that car, right?"
Wen Yi was speechless and wanted to take a step back, but he held her tightly in his arms.
"What if?" He stroked her back gently, looking at the river in front of them, his voice low and hoarse, "What if you encounter unexpected changes while traveling through time and space, and there is danger? Will it affect our present?"
"I wouldn't bet."
"So I can only keep following my memory to find your whereabouts."
"Just hope that this time, there won't be any more variables."
"I can do this, holding your hand, and live my life well."
"Until that day, when you came to Dai Yiming to find me, you looked at me as if you were looking at a stranger."
“…”
"At that moment I knew...I had lost the bet."
He stopped talking.
Wen Yi leaned in his arms, watching the river under the bridge slowly flow, eventually flowing into the sea. It was like fate, adding fuel to the fire, never making sense, but pushing her towards him again and again.
"Let's go." He took her hand and said, "I'll take you home."
His tone was as gentle as if he was coaxing a child, but the strength he held on her wrist was irresistible and strong.
She looked at him, but felt a little uneasy.
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Author has something to say: Gu Yifeng: I'll kill you with a bang
Guo Qingyu: Why do I only get the chance to be beaten? Director! This isn't fair!
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