By the roadside.
Jiang Qiao revealed himself.
"Time anchor... Forget it, I'll just call it a rollback."
"What a strange feeling."
He had not left the building through the Ghost Domain. Instead, he had directly used the "Time Reversal" ability he had just obtained, reappearing at his original position.
"Although I got here in the blink of an eye."
"I could still feel time being plucked, and then I overlapped with a shadow."
"Was that shadow me from ten minutes ago, standing in this exact spot?"
To be honest.
This ability was a little sinister.
He could understand Time Reversal. After all, the concept of turning back time appeared frequently in both novels and movies, and was easy enough to understand.
So at first, he had thought that "rollback" meant establishing a fixed target on the Timeline.
It could also be called a save point.
Then, when the flow returned, he would arrive directly at the destination.
Returning to this point.
However.
It seemed now that his guess had only been half right. He had indeed established a save point on the Timeline, but this save point was somewhat strange.
It seemed... not to be himself?
No, that wasn't right either.
"This feeling is really strange."
"I feel like it's me, but I also feel like I'm not it."
"How contradictory."
Jiang Qiao frowned as he thought.
Was this what the Simulator meant by "being unable to determine whether that is you from the past or you from the present"?
It was indeed strange and difficult to understand.
That shadow did not belong to the category of a clone, either. He could genuinely sense that it was himself, yet at the moment they overlapped, something still felt awkward.
It allowed him to clearly sense that he was not it.
It