Chapter 13: No Need to Thank You

The animals chatting together walked past and didn't notice the animals coming towards them.

The two sides collided with each other, and the opponent suddenly retreated three or four steps, finally stopping, and almost fell to the ground.

"Sorry, are you okay?" He apologized quickly.

The animal that was hit just raised the black hood that covered its entire body, and the voice from under the hood was hoarse and old: "It's okay."

When he walked away, the topic of the two animals inevitably drifted to him: "Hey, did you see it clearly just now?"

"I see clearly. How can there be such an old dolphin? I've never heard of dolphins in the Forest City."

The discussion between the two animals yielded no result. However, the dolphin, shrouded in darkness, saw its own reflection in a water hole when passing by it.

Old, skinny, and half-visible nose, the wrinkled skin was like a pocket hanging loosely on the bones, even shaking slightly.

Even he himself found it scary.

Jiang Haozhi returned to his family's earliest house, which was still an uncultivated wasteland at that time.

He sat down on the lawn and thought about his mother, who was not yet born, and his mother, who would soon die.

He couldn't help but reach out and touch the inner pocket on the chest of the poncho. The familiar outline made him feel a little relieved, but he was also worried about how hot the item would be.

At midnight today, he would have celebrated his nineteenth birthday.

Moreover, the first eighteen years of Jiang Haozhi's life were ordinary, boring and repetitive.

As the only son of a single mother, his family was not wealthy, so the only way for him to advance was to study, and his mother only hoped that he would get good grades.

Unfortunately, he had no talent in studies and was troubled by this. However, after learning painting from his neighbor Uncle Tsukida in private, he could not help but fall in love with this art that he might be praised for his talent and have a bright future.

Except that he lives next door to a wealthy man who is very friendly to him, he is really an ordinary boy in Forest City.

Even the night before the accident, his worry was how he was going to get a cute cake to go with his birthday present after giving his saved pocket money to Uncle Tsukida and asking him to buy him handmade hairpins from a shop that was open during his school hours.

He wanted to give his mother a happy birthday and tell her that he was an adult now and would be able to share the burden with her in the future.

But that night, he woke up from a severe pain and suddenly found himself in the past.

It was a swimming competition in elementary school. He saw a little dolphin in the pool far ahead. His mother on the shore cheered for him loudly, and when he reached the finish line, she rushed over and hugged him.

He only stayed there for a moment, about five minutes, before returning to the present.

After making sure it was not a dream, Jiang Haozhi thought of what Uncle Tsukida had casually mentioned to him - some animals have special powers that other animals will never have in their entire lives. If he could have them, he could live a good life and his mother wouldn't have to work so hard.

Jiang Haozhi never doubted what Uncle Tsukida said. It was natural for a philanthropic, kind and wealthy animal to be exposed to things he didn't know.

Therefore, not wanting to worry his mother and with the excitement of becoming a special animal, he quietly went to find Uncle Tsukida.

What followed was a nightmare.

Uncle Tsukida gently taught him how to use his ability to travel through time, and then took him to shoot and kill a famous wealthy businessman in Mori City.

Five minutes later, they return to the present.

Tsukida Osamu was surprised to ask him if he was okay, then he ecstatically praised him for his great talent and took him to the headquarters of the Shikenkai.

Jiang Haozhi did not dare to refuse, or even show any sign of resistance. He was afraid that his mother would be hurt, afraid of Tsukida Osamu's mysterious power, and afraid that his pectoral fins would be numbed by the gunshot.

The animals in the Shikenkai were satisfied with his performance and believed that he had been tamed by Tsukida Osamu, so they accepted him as a new member.

Only then did Jiang Haozhi know the secret of the Shiyan Society.

It turns out that the Time Research Society was originally just an animal trading organization on the black market that obtained a treasure that actually had the power to control time.

But unfortunately, not all animals can use this treasure, and it costs a huge price to activate it once.

Not willing to stop there, the Time Research Society began to search for animals with the gift of time ability, and invented corresponding methods based on the treasures, which can accurately collect every animal that will awaken in the future.

The problem is that most of these animals are very weak, and will die from exhaustion after just one or two jumps.

Not to mention bringing energy to the treasure, it can only be used as a disposable item for the Time Research Association to make money by assassinating across timelines.

And Jiang Haozhi is the most powerful one so far.

He then jumped through time four more times in the "company" of other animals from the Time Research Society. Apart from being unable to go to the future, nothing unusual happened to his body.

Finally, after having him carry out several missions to confirm his loyalty, the Shiyanhui gave his mother a sum of money under various pretexts before revealing the treasure to him.

It was an empty hourglass.

When he jumped time with this hourglass, it would automatically capture some sand, which was what most of the animals he traveled with before did.

As for what would happen when the hourglass was full, the Shiyanhui did not tell him.

This time, the Shiyan Society will still give the hourglass to his fellow animal to carry, and encourage him to work hard, so that he will have the opportunity to touch and even use the treasure in the future.

No one expected that Jiang Haozhi never belonged to the Obsolete Research Association from the beginning to the end. He deeply hated this organization and Tsukida Osamu who brought him into the abyss.

When the news that Jiang Haozhi killed his companions and stole the treasure came back to the Time Research Society, the Time Research Society could no longer use his mother to control him.

Because Jiang Haozhi went back to the past and killed nearly half of the members of the Time Research Society that he knew, intimidating the Time Research Society. But he also knew that once he returned to the present, he would be hunted down by the Time Research Society.

The two sides remained at a stalemate.

Tsukida Osamu lived next to the Matae family from middle age to old age. During the past 30 years, the Time Research Society, which had lost its treasure and could no longer obtain information about talented seedlings in advance, had hardly any new members. Matae Hiroyuki overdrawn his vitality and hid in the cracks of time to survive.

Actually, only one year has passed since Jiang Haozhi awakened his time ability.

This time he had to go back.

Because his life has been almost overdrawn and is about to come to an end.

He wants to give the hairpin that he didn't give out that year back to his mother whom he hasn't seen for many years. He wants to hide this indestructible treasure that will automatically appear in the correct timeline if thrown in the gap of time or in the past, or give it to the right animal, and completely destroy the Time Research Society.

This was his last jump.

Come see when nothing exists.

When the time came to midnight, the black figure like a shadow in the grass was pushed back to the present by the timeline at exactly five minutes.

While he was planning how to avoid the spies of the Time Research Society and the Black Organization and go to the animal hospital, he saw several huge fireworks suddenly exploded in the Forest City.

Tsukida Osamu.

The headquarters of the Times Research Association.

Also, an animal hospital.

Jiang Haozhi's heart almost exploded. He no longer cared about anything else and rushed there with all his might. However, he met a group of strange animals at the hospital entrance.

There is the dusty Miss Squirrel pushing a wheelchair, the furry Samoyed dog that looks like an angel, the elderly dolphin fixed in a wheelchair, and the black cat Detective squatting on the back of the wheelchair.

In an instant, Grandma Youjiang, who was still dazed in her wheelchair, saw him and shouted without needing confirmation:

"Haozhi!"

Jiang Haozhi burst into tears again.

The black cat detective waved his paw at him. "Now is not the time to reminisce. However, if you can leave your troubles to me, then you will have plenty of time to reminisce with Grandma Youjiang."

Instead of doctors and patients rushing out of the hospital to seek shelter, a team of animal police came.

"By the way, I think you have seen my sincerity towards you, right?"

Two groups of animals dressed differently but holding weapons rushed out from both sides of the street and surrounded Jiang You and his group.

On one side is the Time Research Society, and on the other side is the Black Organization.

"If you want to see more, I can also show you the fireworks from the winery."

The black cat detective narrowed his golden eyes and seemed not to notice the tense atmosphere at the scene and the gun aimed at him.

He pulled the cape on his back and raised it up, then very handsomely used his pads to hit his thumb, which was impossible to hit. At the same time, he easily avoided the Samoyed's attempt to grab the remote control and pressed it down.

The light that illuminated the sky of the Forest City and the hot blast that seemed to smell like gunpowder made the faces of the three animals turn red.

In the eerie silence, Black Cat Detective is proud of his deerstalker hat:

"We detectives are like this. We won't let any criminal go. Don't thank me too much."