Enforcer Manual
Chapter 90: The Secret of Time_1

Chapter 90: Chapter 90: The Secret of Time_1

The flickering light of the flames froze at this moment, even the sound and heat wave that should have rapidly spread throughout disappeared.

He...

Was this a dream?

If he hadn’t witnessed this scene with his own eyes, he would find it hard to believe that such an image could appear in real life.

Yes, the scene before his eyes was like a film being paused, as if someone had used a force outside of the movie world to pause the impending disaster at a specific instant.

Yet, time was still ticking away, minute by minute.

He was acutely aware of this. He could still control his own limbs and took a reflexive step back at the sound of the explosion.

Clearly, the epicenter of the explosion was only tens of meters away, but what he felt on his face was a cool breeze.

For some reason, he felt as if time was flowing unusually fast. Under the illumination of the flames, his senses became extraordinarily clear.

He saw the leaves swept up by the evening breeze as they slowly flew over his head.

Oddly enough, he followed the trajectory of these fallen leaves with his eyes.

The next moment, his eyes narrowed.

He distinctly saw that a couple of leaves skipped the process of falling, and directly came to his feet, while the rest of the leaves hummed and danced in the evening breeze above his head.

The leaves at his feet told him one thing.

Just now, time had jumped.

Almost instinctively, he looked towards the venue bathed in firelight. He could hear the sound of flames blazing, but the first wave of explosive noise caused by the explosion had been skipped along with the time jump.

"Although you may not believe it, I had genuinely considered letting you live."

The voice was right beside him.

Just like the leaves at his feet, the process of the other party approaching him was skipped as well.

As he turned his head, he met a smiling false face. Dominas and the mayor of Lyon City, who had fallen into a coma, were lying quietly at the other party’s feet.

"That night, I had actually given you a hint. If you had spared a thought to it, you would have known that the theoretical model of the ’bullet trajectory’ was flawed from the start. Unfortunately, you missed this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

.........

At the same time, in the Sixth District.

Even though it was late at night, an excited shout from a man erupted in one of the offices. He had become obsessed, repeatedly playing the footage on the computer screen, repeatedly playing the scene that had been repeated countless times, "I understand, I finally understand!"

The content of the video wasn’t the car accident that night, but a high-end apartment.

It was footage taken from the security cameras at Dominas’ residence after the car accident took place.

Just like the accident scene, time also experienced a jump in some floor, he had repeatedly played this video and finally discovered the secret hidden in the video.

At the same time the video tape mysteriously appeared at Dominas front door, the surveillance also caught another detail — a transparent empty wine glass seemed to have been knocked off the edge of the windowsill by the evening wind.

These two miraculous occurrences took place at the same time. According to his "bullet trajectory" model, after a time jump, the video would directly skip the process of the empty wine glass falling, and go straight to the end where the glass is shattered.

But in this piece of footage, the wine glass hanging in the air was seemingly frozen during the time acceleration, and only began to move again after the time jump ended.

The falling transparent wine glass unveiled the secret of that 0%.

It was because they had incorrectly understood the ability of the "good Samaritan" from the very beginning, unconsciously believing that the other party could not control the details within the time acceleration process.

However, this footage clearly showed that the car suddenly appearing next to the hobo after the time jump was an illusion deliberately left by the other party.

During the time jump, the other party could control the speed of any object within their ability’s range.

This deduction fundamentally overturned the possibility of killing the other party within the "bullet trajectory" model.

Because even if they were to stumble upon an unexpected bullet, he could still stop the bullet in mid-air. Even if someone were to drop an explosive that could directly level the entire area, he could still reach a safe area before the explosion and heat wave arrived.

The time jump was just the result that they could see, the real situation was that during the time jump, the speed at which objects maintain is not the same, and in some cases even come to a standstill.

The reason for such a misunderstanding was because he had built all his theories on a certain premise.

Namely, that this ability user could be beaten.

In the textbook "How to systematically kill an ability user?" it is pointed out that all ability users have their weaknesses.

But this time, they may have encountered an exception.

.........

Meanwhile...

"I had once seriously considered this issue, killing you all would be useless since the Foster family could always send more people to take your place. A new High Prosecutor, a Modified Person with a high degree of prosthetics, or an unknown Ability User..."

"What, what are you talking about?"

His mind was blank.

"I’m just saying that I don’t want to get involved in your family feud, and I would like to live a peaceful life. Wins and losses, and gains and losses, are what I least like to be calculating about because that would only bring me trouble and make enemies. I’m just that sort of contented person."

Song Lan sighed, he didn’t want things to end up like this.

But life is full of disappointments. Compared to High Prosecutor Dominas, the person who voluntarily lurked behind the scenes as his follower was probably the real spy of the Foster family in this city.

Lu Xiang once mentioned that in the seventeenth district, there were no registered ability users.

And the ability to interfere, could easily stir up the situation in the seventeenth district without being discovered, and guide the future of the city towards the direction the Fosters wanted.

He didn’t know if the follower had any high-tech prosthetics implanted, or if he had any long-distance information receiving devices that could live broadcast their current conversation to the Fosters who were in the core area.

But, none of that mattered anymore.

"If I must take action I do not intend to lose to anyone."

As the voice sounded, his pupils constricted.

Time, once again, made a leap.

He heard what was originally the voice from directly in front of him, suddenly coming from behind.

He instinctively wanted to look back, but all strength was drained from his body at that moment.

Under the moonlight, he saw a right hand slowly withdrawing from his chest in his peripheral vision.

"As for the secret of my ability..."

As his consciousness was being engulfed by darkness, he heard one last voice, "Why don’t you ask Chai Ke and the others directly?"

"Thud..."

With a familiar dull sound, his body lost support and slumped forward.

However, this time, before the dead body hit the ground, a beam of light shone on his face.

"You..."

Lu Xiang, who was holding a flashlight, stopped in his tracks. The distance between the two of them was less than ten meters.

"It’s you, you’ve come at the right time."

Song Lan glanced down at Dominas and the mayor of Lyon City, who were both unconscious, and said, "I’ll leave them to you."