Time Thief
"It's me..."
Huo Chi repeated his words. His eyes turned red and the whites of his eyes were covered with bloodshot. He experienced the end of the world twice at once. The first time was when he knew that Jiang Ziyao would die in the future. He immediately swore in his heart that he would cut the murderer into pieces. The second time was when he found out that the bastard was actually himself.
Fuck him, it was actually him. Huo Chi’s expression collapsed.
"Brother Jiang, I'm the one who hurt you."
After a while, Huo Chi finally blurted out these words. He lowered his head, clenched his palms into fists, and dug his nails into the flesh of his palms. He pointed the sharpest tip of the knife at himself. He was like a vicious criminal who suddenly woke up and waited for judgment with guilt.
When Jiang Ziyao saw their expressions become strange, he guessed that as the one who left, he couldn't express much emotion.
Who has the ability to easily create a sea of fire? Huo Chi has it. He is proud of Huo Chi. Huo Chi's fire brings dawn in the dark night and saves him many times.
Jiang Ziyao said calmly: "At least I didn't die in the mouth of an alien species."
"Come here, what are you hiding from?"
The burning cracks on Jiang Ziyao's arms quickly faded, and his body didn't feel anything. However, Huo Chi had a frightened expression, nervous and not daring to look at him.
Jiang Ziyao said: "I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of?"
Huo Chi held Jiang Ziyao's hand and shook his head.
"Of course he would be afraid, an incompetent waste, an idiot who can't think." Huo Chi interrupted in his voice without any ups and downs.
When Huo Chi heard this, he stood up immediately and roared, "Who are you? Who do you think you are?"
He exploded instantly, he rushed over and easily pushed the older man away: "At least I won't hurt Brother Jiang!"
"What on earth have you done!?"
"How could you, how could you..."
Huo Chi vented his resentment on his other self. He did not admit that they were the same person, just as he did not want to admit that his lover's blood was stained on his hands.
Huo Chi was easily overthrown by him and he did not resist.
Huo Chi swung his punch, this time hitting Huo Chi firmly in the face. They were all covered in bruises, but it seemed like they had endless battles to fight, and they never showed mercy when fighting with themselves.
Huo Chi laughed when he saw him fall to the ground.
Huo Chi's smile was contemptuous and sarcastic, but his throat was very bitter, and his tongue was holding the bitter medicine, and he couldn't swallow it even if he wanted to.
"You can still laugh? Fuck you, what qualifications do you have to laugh!" This made Huo Chi even angrier. He looked down at his older self with disgust.
"You are me." Huo Chi's lips were covered with blood. He opened his mouth and said, "I am the murderer, and so are you."
Huo Chi did not deny that he was the one who killed Jiang Ziyao, and Huo Chi's heart turned completely cold.
Huo Chi was powerless to argue: "No, I'm not you!"
Huo Chi was laughing again.
Huo Chi seemed to hate him, "Okay then."
His chest was heaving violently: "I will kill you, I must kill you."
"Go ahead." Huo Chi continued to provoke him, "Kill if you want."
His expression was as if he was begging for death. Huo Chi's body was burning, and flames were coming out of his palms. Jiang Ziyao stopped him: "Stop it!"
"Huo Chi! There's no point in doing this!"
“It makes sense!”
Huo Chi stared at his other self and said paranoidly, "Kill him, and then I'll commit suicide, and there won't be any problems."
His lips trembled as he repeated, "Kill him, and then kill myself."
Bang——!
Jiang Ziyao slapped him directly: "What the hell are you talking about!"
Huo Chi's head was tilted by the slap. He was very stubborn and always had a one-track mind. Jiang Ziyao slapped him very hard, and the slap also brought out tears from Huo Chi.
Jiang Ziyao rarely hit him. Huo Chi paused before responding. He seemed to be more sober and asked Jiang Ziyao: "How could it be me...Brother Jiang, why was it me?"
"That's enough."
Jiang Ziyao held Huo Chi's face and touched his red cheek. He said softly, "I know you feel bad, but don't do anything stupid."
“Brother Jiang…” Huo Chi held back his tears, his eyes still burning with fire.
Jiang Ziyao leaned against his forehead and looked at him: "You know, this can't be your fault!"
"How could you hurt me? Hod is stronger than you, and you didn't even do anything to me."
Huo Chi covered his head and said, "I can't do it!" His face turned red and he cursed, "Fuck!"
"Something must have happened, and it's not your fault." Jiang Ziyao said, "Remember this, don't say such nonsense, I am the bastard."
"You're not!" Huo Chi retorted immediately.
"Let's listen to what he says first." Jiang Ziyao calmed Huo Chi's emotions. He stopped Huo Chi behind him and separated the two Huo Chis.
Jiang Ziyao looked at the older one: "I'm not curious about what happened in the future, I just want to know your plan. I'm already dead, how are you going to save me?"
Huo Chi stood up, brushed off the debris on his body with his hands, and looked at Jiang Ziyao in silence.
Jiang Ziyao said: "You seem very nervous because of what happened to me just now, why?"
"The time has come." Huo Chi suddenly became as quiet as death. He said slowly, "Time will take you back."
"In the two years since your death, the only thing I found that could save you was the power of time and space. There is no parallel universe in this world, and no one can create a new time and space line."
"Xi Feibai said he could help me, and then we came up with a plan."
"Using Jiang Ge as the key to advance time, I let the time of this land advance to five years ago, that is, 3908. Except for me, all people and things have returned to 3908. I did not destroy the world, I just paused its future."
"Xi Feibai from the future passed the message to his present self, and he quickly rejoined my plan. We created the Lost Land, and I saw acquaintances who had lost their memories and were following the script. This reminded me of you. I tried to change some people, but I failed. We can't play with time."
"There is no Jiang Ge in the time after the move, and these five years will pass quickly until the day Jiang Ge leaves in 3911. Jiang Ge's death is the end of this time. My goal is to cheat at the end, go back a little bit of time, and open a small door for Jiang Ge."
Huo Chi stared at Jiang Ziyao. He sighed and missed him at the same time: "The best outcome is that after time returns to normal, you use the opportunity I created for you to escape death."
"It's enough for us to finish everything, but I'm greedy."
Huo Chi said: "Brother Jiang, I wanted to see you again, so I didn't wait as planned, but stole you back from the hands of time. I am a thief, and I used this ring to bring you here from 3901."
"I've been watching you, through his eyes."
Huo Chi said that his eyes were in pain, his sadness became real, tears fell from his eyes, it was like he was shedding blood, his red eyes stared at Jiang Ziyao: "You left me nothing when you left, I dug for three hours, I remember every minute, every second, I know how I lost you, but in the end I didn't find the whole you."
Jiang Ziyao felt heartbroken.
Huo Chi questioned, "How could you be so cruel to me? You saved so many people, but you asked me to kill you with my own hands, and you didn't even leave me your body."
Huo Chi was accusing, and every word he said was like a sharp knife, throwing away the wound he had endured for many years. Jiang Ziyao felt that his future self might become a bastard. No matter what the reason, the one who is alive is always the most painful. More than ten years of love can crush a person.
The sadness in his eyes quickly engulfed Jiang Ziyao. Jiang Ziyao didn't know what to say. He only knew that they must be in great pain.
"Can what you did guarantee that Jiang Ge would survive?" Huo Chi only cared about this. He repeatedly confirmed one thing, "You can save him, right?"
"I can't save him! Only he can save himself!" Huo Chi roared angrily.
Huo Chi yelled back: "You've already been through it once, don't you know the solution?"
"I don't know!" Huo Chi scolded angrily, "Some cruel person only told me a location and gave me an order, but didn't tell me that he was there too! He allowed me to become a murderer! I can't hate him, I can only hate myself."
Jiang Ziyao just listened in silence.
"He must have done something wrong."
"You shouldn't hate yourself."
He felt a strong wind blowing on his face and rain falling on his cheeks. The cracks of flame appeared again, this time spreading across his face. Half of his face looked like a beautiful Lycoris radiata blooming.
"Brother Jiang..."
Huo Chi stared at him nervously.
Jiang Ziyao touched his face, which looked a little strange, and smiled faintly: "I don't have much time left."
Huo Chi said, "It is I who have not much time left."
There was not a single wrinkle on his cold brows. "I thought I could steal a little more time, but I found it was never enough. You are not my Jiang Ge, you are his."
"I said, I will fulfill your wish. I will send you back to the year 3901, back to that winter night."
"You don't have much time left? Why do you say that?" Jiang Ziyao frowned after hearing his words, "You have done so much, what will the price be?"
"I won't answer you." Huo Chi said calmly, "You can only discipline me now if you live for 3911 years."
Jiang Ziyao was very serious: "Huo Chi, is there something wrong with you?"
"Did neither of you take your medicine?"
"Don't tell me you'd do something stupid like die for me!"
"Don't worry about the idiot next to you, he will be fine." Huo Chi replied: "There will only be one Huo Chi in this world. As long as you are here, I am destined to cease to exist, and he will forget everything that happened here. You are the only variable that exists in time."
"Brother Jiang, only you can save me. This time you should kill me with your own hands." Huo Chi said: "There is no lost land, no H."
"Only Jiang Ziyao and Huo Chi."
"Can I propose to you again?"
Huo Chi grasped the ring hanging around his neck with his fingers.
"Even if I bring you here, time in Utopia is still passing quickly. Your day is coming soon. Time is warning me. Although I am reluctant, I must send you back. It must be me."
Jiang Ziyao sighed, he certainly wouldn't refuse, and even Huo Chi didn't say anything, they stood in the broken house, with a pile of rotten furniture and corpses under their feet.
Huo Chi took off the necklace, knelt on one knee, and still kissed the silver ring devoutly.
But suddenly, an uninvited guest interrupted the process.
The bullet pierced the kitchen glass, leaving a bullet hole on the opposite wall and glass shards on the floor. This could not be considered an attack. Jiang Ziyao did not feel any murderous intent. Huo Chi just frowned. The fact that he did not take action showed that he was a friend and not an enemy.
Soon, two faces appeared by the window. Jiang Ziyao was a little surprised by the arrival of the people: "Why are you here?"
The woman with a calm expression exhaled: "I'll take you back."
Wang Yu came to Utopia. She and Bian Chengsi held the wall with their hands and stood on the edge of the window. She held the Gatling gun in her hand and stared at Huo Chi. She soon saw the ring in his hand.
"It seems we came at an unfortunate time. Is he going to force you to be his wife?"
"Brother Jiang." Bian Chengsi followed suit.
Only two days had passed, but these two people had already changed.
Jiang Ziyao noticed that Bian Chengsi had grown a beard on his chin. He covered one-third of his face with a black hat, looking like a cold and mature man.
Jiang Ziyao thought they were friends, that's why they came here, he asked: "Is Utopia okay?"
"We will come here after everything is resolved." Bian Chengsi replied, and they passed through the window and landed on the ground.
"We have been planning to force our way in. We knew it was wrong when no one stopped us. We just want to ask you, do you want to go back?" Wang Yu asked, "As long as you say go, we will definitely take you away."
"Wait, am I dazzled?" Bian Chengsi, who had been on guard against Huo Chi, noticed Huo Chi and looked at the two Huo Chis, one big and one small, and asked, "What's going on?"
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