Mission Reward (Part 2)

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Xu Yun looked at the words floating before him and unconsciously squeezed the Light Orb in his hand.

It was actually a fragment of Evelyn's soul.

Though he kept jokingly asking, "Who's Evelyn?" day in and day out, he had never truly forgotten the girl he'd met in the 1850 Instance. In a sense, she was one of the reasons he'd kept doing his best to complete his missions.

The most basic reason Xu Yun wanted to bring Evelyn back to life was, of course, that the necklace held a living soul. He couldn't simply turn a blind eye to something like that.

His next reason was...

He wanted to give Evelyn's life another possible path.

After all...

The soul sealed inside the necklace hadn't been tainted much by the world.

According to the halo's calculations at the time,

after "Luo Feng" died in the Instance, Evelyn devoted the rest of her life to adopting orphans from Huaxia. She never married, and passed away at the age of eighty-one.

That was an inevitable part of history, something Xu Yun couldn't change. It was just like Old Su in the 1100 Instance: when you crossed paths with someone who didn't belong to that era, it was inevitable that the people on that timeline would be left with regrets.

However...

The Evelyn inside the necklace was different.

In the 1850 Instance Xu Yun had experienced firsthand, someone had organized an attack on Prince Albert the night Xu Yun left.

The bullet fired by the attacker, Bekki Smirnov, had missed Prince Albert and struck Wilshire Kennedy in the head instead, setting off a series of events.

But in another parallel world,

Bekki Smirnov's bullet hadn't missed. Prince Albert had died on the spot.

As a result, Bekki Smirnov and the others hadn't