Lingering Doubts of the Past

Chen Chuan first told Nian Fuli and Yu Wan about the Great Collision. As relatives of a Fighter, they naturally had the right to know.

In truth, he could have let the family know about this back when he was Investigation Supervisor. He had not said anything before because he feared that Uncle and Aunt would only gain needless worries after learning the truth.

But as the Great Collision drew closer and they were about to move to Central City, he felt it was necessary to tell them.

Nian Fuli and Yu Wan were both deeply shocked after hearing this. It felt as if their entire understanding of the world had shattered.

Yu Wan asked, "Chan'er, is... is this real?"

Chen Chuan nodded. "It's real."

Nian Fuli calmed down quickly instead. "Xiao Chuan, hearing all this suddenly reminds me of my time in the army. For a while, we actually had no idea where we'd gone. We only knew that the sky was full of light, and everything around that battlefield was very strange.

"There were things I could never figure out before, but thinking about it now, the place we went back then was very likely the Convergence Zone you mentioned."

Chen Chuan's heart stirred slightly. "Uncle, I remember hearing you talk about this when I was little. Didn't you say you were sent to fight rebels?"

Yu Wan said, "That's right. Nian, I remember the newspapers saying that year that they were fighting rebels."

"The official explanation was that we were fighting insurgent forces in the Northern Lands."

Nian Fuli gave a bitter chuckle. "I was barely over twenty then. Whatever the higher-ups said, I believed. Wherever Shangguan told us to fight, we fought. The rest of the time, we were either digging trenches or building fortifications, exhausted