novelsite Chapter 337 Playing with Time
Chapter 337 Playing with Time
Before arriving in Kosco, Song Juexiao never imagined that this mission would be so difficult.
For the people in the team, whether it was Lu Xianqing who had just joined or Pei Zhaoye who didn't have much direct combat ability, they were not exactly newcomers.
In a true comparison, the two with the least mission experience are Jiang Xingni and Xiao Jiming, who did not participate in this mission.
The remaining people were all trained as superhumans from a young age, carrying out missions for Taixu Academy or other organizations. In short, they have accumulated a great deal of experience by now.
However, this experience was rather bizarre in the eyes of this group of people.
No wonder they specifically requested that the mission be carried out by the best students in the academy, and even the tasks assigned to them were not overly difficult frontal combat, but rather the easier task of intelligence gathering.
The group, having smuggled themselves over from the academy under Su Yanzhi's supernatural abilities, were immediately stunned.
This is not their first time in Costa.
They still remembered what happened last time they came—out of curiosity about the Resident Evil and what zombies looked like, Su Yanzhi led them out secretly. They not only fought off the zombies but also stole a lot of guns. The whole city seemed to have been destroyed, with a desolate scene everywhere. There wasn't a single living person in sight, only zombies wandering around the roads.
The city's buildings were almost completely destroyed; glass was shattered, abandoned vehicles lay scattered on the ground, and supermarket shelves were overturned, but the goods were almost gone.
Now, Costa has returned to its original state. The modern metropolis is bustling with people and cars rushing by. They suddenly appeared on the sidewalk because Su Yanzhi's original superpower—blurring the perception of those around him—was in effect. They were not discovered by those around them. A group of people appeared out of thin air.
Everyone stared at Xie Yungui for a while.
Xie Yungui, who had just reminded Su Yanzhi to remember to activate the blur function, gave a perfunctory smile, pretending to be innocent and unaware of anything.
Song Juexiao silently rolled his eyes. Could his perfunctory act be any more obvious? Was there anyone else here who couldn't see through his pretense? Keep pretending.
By this time, they were simply amazed by the dramatic transformation of the entire city.
Realizing he had entered a modern society, instead of the place where he was cut off from the internet as before, Pei Zhaoye, who felt as if both his hands had been chopped off, finally perked up. He quickly reconnected to the internet, skillfully hacked into the Pentagon and national military data, and then casually searched for any data on VOID that had not been cleaned up.
Pei Zhaoye was very happy to roam the internet, feeling like a fish that had left the ocean and, after many years, had suddenly returned to the sea.
"Something's not right." Pei Zhaoye's relaxed expression faded as he flipped through the documents, and finally disappeared completely. He pursed his lips, his gaze focused, and fell on Song Juexiao.
Since Xiao Jiming is not here, their temporary captain is naturally Song Juexiao.
Song Juexiao randomly picked a coffee shop and sat down with his group of people.
Although it was indeed a large group of people, they were quite adept at concealing their presence. Once they sat down, their presence was almost nonexistent, as if they had never existed.
"Tell me, what happened?" Song Juexiao asked.
"The records of the nuclear missile launch are missing," Pei Zhaoye said succinctly.
One sentence was enough for everyone to realize the seriousness of the problem.
They remembered very clearly that the city was supposed to be destroyed by a nuclear bomb after the zombie outbreak.
If this were a zombie apocalypse comic, the nuclear bomb would definitely fail, the virus would definitely leak, and in the end, the zombies would contaminate the entire world.
Unfortunately, this world has superpowers, and they live in a shonen superpower manga, not a zombie apocalypse manga.
But how could any comic book develop like this, where after the nuclear bomb explodes, the entire city returns to normal as if the virus never leaked, the brief city apocalypse never happened, and even the records of the nuclear bomb's use have all disappeared?
It's as if time has reversed, and someone has reloaded their save file, while they still retain the memories from the previous save.
"Is there any record of our arrival in the surveillance footage?" Song Juexiao asked, his mind racing.
Pei Zhaoye had already considered this direction.
He immediately checked the surveillance footage and found no signs of alteration, but also no signs of the apocalyptic scene.
What should have been the time of the zombie outbreak in their memory was instead a peaceful scene in the surveillance footage, as if their memories were all hallucinations.
Song Juexiao felt a terrible headache.
No wonder the teacher had specifically emphasized before that this task was very difficult. If you can manipulate time, it would be strange if it were easy.
Su Yanzhi, resting her chin on her hand, added, "The place I chose is the same location we visited last time."
His original goal was that since they had already cleared out a batch of zombies last time, if this crisis was also related to zombies, at least they would have more security in their original location.
When they opened their eyes, apart from the text being in English, the city was not much different from where they came from, with the same surging crowds.
Everyone silently turned their gaze to Xie Yungui, the only one present whose superpower was related to time.
"Aren't you a prophet?" Lu Xianqing asked expectantly. "Then can you give us a spoiler?"
Of all these people, only Lu Xianqing arrived too late and never witnessed Xie Yungui's extraordinary power and ability to foresee the future.
Xie Yungui: ?
Xie Yungui considered it for a moment: "I can't do it."
He frankly admitted, "The timeline here is too chaotic. I can't peek into the future, nor can I go back to the past."
"All I can see is that this person is a master at manipulating time..."
If he had to find a point of reference, Xie Yungui felt that, in a sense, it was like starting this day anew at Lobotomy Corporation.
Virus leak, zombie crisis, nuclear strike—what impact will these events have on VOID?
So they ultimately chose to start over that day, going back in time to before everything happened, in an attempt to influence the series of problems that followed by preventing this event.
But how could playing with time be so simple without any problems?
Their memories—and not just their memories—have not been altered by time and the butterfly effect, nor have those of the rest of the country been altered by them.
Everyone's memory of Costa is that it was a city that was destroyed by a nuclear bomb some time ago. Only the people in Costa believe that they were alive all along, so why are the people in the outside cities so terrified of them?