Enforcer Manual
Chapter 519: January 7th (Complete)_1

Chapter 519: Chapter 519: January 7th (Complete)_1

"It’s okay, I don’t have any evidence anyway."

Facing Song Lan’s candid confession, Lu Xiang comforted him with a pat on the shoulder.

Moreover, under the theory of time rewind, this incident hadn’t truly happened today.

As more and more details emerged, Lu Xiang gradually speculated the cause of the time rewind, and with all the details she had obtained so far, she pieced together a complete character profile.

Someone who enjoyed the highest level of confidentiality measures from the United Government.

Furthermore, this person had the power to temporarily mobilize Six Stars rescuers, even bypassing the Review Meeting to decide on using weapons of mass destruction in District Seventeen.

Someone with such authority was a rarity even within the Review Meeting—undoubtedly one of the original founders of the United Government.

A name that was on the tip of her tongue...

At this thought, Lu Xiang suddenly froze.

She had gathered enough information that should have allowed her to precisely pinpoint someone in the Review Meeting, yet this name, which seemed ready to emerge, was as if shrouded in a sudden fog; no matter how she filtered through the information she knew, she couldn’t match anyone to it.

You can’t think of a person who doesn’t exist.

Yet more paradoxically, when her mind was a blank, her rationality kept telling her such a figure must have existed in the United Government, or at least "formerly" existed.

The blank in her mind perhaps explained why Qi He was the one who came to District Seventeen this time.

Because a non-existent person couldn’t possibly visit District Seventeen under the escort of Review Meeting staff.

"What did you do after that?"

Unable to figure it out, Lu Xiang could only turn her question to Song Lan, while realizing his ability might not be as simple as rewinding time to before the event.

"The downtown area."

The emergence of more and more details changed Song Lan’s previously relaxed demeanor; he realized what had actually happened on the previous "today."

The moment he returned to the hovering car, the premonition seemed to overlap with reality.

Through the transparent car door, he seemed to see the never-ending influx of mechanized troops into District Seventeen, and spectral airborne units zipping past them. Within a very short time, District Seventeen had turned into a battlefield.

The opponents of the mechanized troops were an overwhelming Bug Swarm.

This was the first time the Devourers had truly unleashed all the units they had researched till now. A relentless stream of "Flying Dragons" were being hatched, and as they gathered, they were like dark clouds on the horizon, quickly regaining air superiority.

This vast mechanized troop couldn’t withstand the relentless Bug Swarm; they were swiftly defeated and assimilated.

These apparitions from days gone by were now filling every corner of District Seventeen, yet this brutal war didn’t seem to affect the vehicles and pedestrians on the streets at the moment. They passed by the phantoms without noticing, continuing with their own tasks, and even Lu Xiang, who kept changing the navigation route of the hovering car, seemed to know nothing about it.

Unbeknownst to him, the hovering car came to a halt in front of the tallest building in the downtown area.

Through the glass, Song Lan seemed to see an old man sitting inside the building.

He watched the Bug Swarm crumbling outside with calm eyes, not flinching even in desperate straits.

"Flying Dragons" surged forward.

Just as he was about to be overrun by the Swarm, the old man pressed his right thumb to his chest.

The next moment, Spiritual Energy formed a storm that kept expanding, with the old man at its center, witnessing the storm sweeping through the city.

Then, whether it was an illusion or not, Song Lan felt that the old man looked towards him, seated inside the hovering car at that moment.

At that instant, countless thoughts flooded Song Lan’s mind.

Could it be that he had awakened a new ability facing the city destroyed by the Spiritual Energy storm on the previous "today," and rewound time back to this morning?

Time on both timelines ceased at this point.

The Spiritual Energy storm stopped spreading, but the cracks in space kept growing.

When those cracks merged into one, cleaving the entire world apart, what appeared before Song Lan was darkness illuminated by stars and the galaxy. Everything he had seen so far had been stripped out by the shattered space, and under this unique spatial condition, only he and the old man remained.

Immediately after, he remembered the old man’s name.

Langinus.

"Here, this is the world after the future."

Song Lan heard his own voice.

It was as if he had experienced the process of the world shattering and reassembling, a process that was not unfamiliar to him, as if he had already been through it many times before.

The strange events of today and the current scene were connected in his mind.

No, it was not that he had suddenly awakened a new power during the Spiritual Energy storm; rather, he had experienced a corresponding "side effect" from using his abilities.

For he heard his own conversation with Langinus that followed.

"This is the farewell gift I have presented to you, Langinus."

This time, Langinus made no response.

His consciousness seemed to have been Frozen in time right there.

"When different timelines connect, the set fate begins to change... yet a consciousness that is about to dissipate is destined not to be taken to a new world."

When the Black Hole devoured everything, the world began its process of reorganization and repair.

First came the vast cosmos, and following that, torn and shattered space returned to the same temporal node like pieces of a puzzle, the "Flying Dragons" in the sky turned into illusory shadows, retreating backward in time simultaneously. Their rate of retreat accelerated, and even the Sun traced a visible path in the sky with the naked eye.

Langinus also turned into a phantom along with it.

He and the myriad "Flying Dragons" turned to Nothingness amid the reversal.

As the Sun set, darkness once again enveloped the city.

It was the eve of dawn, and most of those who were champions at staying up late had also fallen deep into slumber.

It was then, in an apartment in District Seventeen, that Lu Xiang, who hadn’t gone to sleep yet, unlocked her phone screen, and a tricky alarm clock advertisement popped up in front of her.

...

"Hey, hey! Song Lan, are you all right?"

The pressure on his shoulder brought Song Lan back to reality, and what met his eyes was Lu Xiang’s concerned look.

"I’m fine."

Song Lan shook his head.

At that moment, he understood the premonitions surfacing unceasingly in his mind.

This was the "side effect" of the timeline change because theoretically, he who had not experienced "the future," could not accurately know what had happened in that excised segment of the timeline.

And before, he didn’t have Lu Xiang by his side to help him find the remnants of each "premonition."

But for the past him, that might not have been important.

As long as he reached the new timeline, his tranquil life could continue as always.

Eliminate the future that is not favorable to him, and fate will always stand on his side.

This was the inevitable outcome.

At this very moment, Song Lan’s heart, previously agitated by the strange "premonitions," finally calmed down.

"Langinus."

He told Lu Xiang the result of his investigation, "That’s the name of the big shot."

"Langinus?"

This answer made Lu Xiang furrow her brow; she looked at Song Lan with bewilderment, "I’ve never heard this name before."

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