Fang's True Motive!

Fang Linyan had earned an S rating because he had escaped a blind spot in his thinking.

The task given by the space had placed him directly opposite the hijackers. So naturally, even Fang Linyan himself had initially assumed that what he was doing was righteous, and that made him a hero.

But in reality, he had entered in降临 mode, and this body's hidden identity in this world was none other than the deputy leader of Al-Qaeda's 7th Armed Group!

So what he had done wasn't an act of heroism. He had abandoned the dark and turned to the light.

Thinking about it carefully, the space had actually given him plenty of hints:

First of all, the space had already offered a subtle hint when it gave Fang Linyan information about this body.

His name was Jerry Lin. He was twenty-three, and had always been in poor financial circumstances, belonging to the bottom rung of society. He had once worked as a mechanic, and his family seemed to live thousands of kilometers away. He had said he was traveling when he applied for his visa.

At first glance, there was nothing wrong with this profile. But if you looked closely, you would notice that the character actually had two major suspicious points. First, he had Basic Shooting LV2. Second, he had the tag: Golf LV2.

Shooting and golf might seem like they had nothing in common, but they shared one key trait: both required money and free time, as well as long-term, consistent practice.

Marksmanship was built on a steady diet of bullets. And although the United States had legal gun shops and shooting ranges, they were expensive. A regular bullet cost around two to five dollars, and a single trip to the shooting range could easily make several hundred dollars vanish.

Reaching LV2 in Basic Shooting required at least a week of intensive training and a large number of shots fired!

There was no need to mention golf, which was known as a rich man's sport and was just as costly.

How had Jerry Lin, who was in such poor financial circumstances, managed to achieve a certain level of skill in both? They were skills you had to build with dollars. Clearly, some external factor had played a part!

Of course, claiming that Jerry Lin was a terrorist based on this alone would have been too hasty. Still, it was undeniably a major suspicious point.

The second suspicious point was that after Jerry Lin had ambushed the terrorists on the plane, their expressions had all been extremely complicated. In the end, without exception, they had turned furious. Even the Mutant who had been parasitized had reacted the same way, fixing Fang Linyan with an unwavering glare of hatred.

Everyone had their own habits and style of dress. As an Asian, Fang Linyan also had very different tastes from Jerry Lin, who had been steeped in the local culture. So at first, his accomplices hadn't recognized him after his appearance had changed so drastically. By the time they did, there had been no chance to say anything.

When life and death had hung in the balance, Fang Linyan hadn't had the time to dwell on these details. But now that he thought about it, why had their hatred been so wild and unrelenting?

It was because they had felt the shame and pain of betrayal so deeply. They believed that Jerry Lin's betrayal was what had caused the entire operation to fail so miserably. And a traitor had to die!

If these two suspicious points weren't enough to prove anything, the third was even more obvious. The terrorist organization had planned and prepared for this operation for a long time, taking just about every detail into account.

So, based on Fang Linyan's deductions at the time, first class was a key location for controlling the plane, connecting the cockpit to the regular cabin. There should have been at least two terrorists there, watching each other's backs.

But in reality, from beginning to end, Fang Linyan had only flushed out the middle-aged man who looked weak but was actually a powerful fighter. Now it seemed that Fang Linyan's deduction had been right! There really had been two terrorists in first class. The second terrorist had been Fang Linyan himself!

Taken together, these three suspicious points had convinced Fang Linyan that he had been a terrorist, with the odds at least eighty percent. In particular, he simply couldn't forget the venomous expressions of the man and woman he had shot down in first class. Their hatred had seemed like the kind that would haunt him for a thousand lifetimes.

Under these circumstances, Fang Linyan had to take a gamble. Fortunately, the unlikely outcome hadn't occurred. His judgment had been right, and he had earned a generous reward.

By then, Fang Linyan could feel several people carrying him onto a stretcher. His body swayed, and he heard a cacophony of voices. Red and blue patches of light seemed to dance before his eyes, probably from the police lights and ambulance.

"This man's badly injured. Make way, make way!"

"He's a hijacker! Be careful!"

"No, he tried to hijack the plane, but those people would've succeeded long ago if it weren't for him. He isn't a criminal. He's an angel sent by God to save our lives!"

"..."

Hearing the arguing, Fang Linyan smiled faintly. Then he felt a slight sting in his neck, and a drug was injected into him. The hallucinations and chill faded somewhat. They must have injected him with adrenaline, pulling him back from the brink of death.

Then a series of messages appeared on his retina.

"Would you like to claim the reward for the main mission: Reverse History?"

"Notice: You have 142 hours, 5 minutes, and 47 seconds left before the final deadline for leaving this world. After claiming this mission reward, you will leave this world within one minute. Would you like to claim the reward for the main mission: Reverse History? Yes/No."

Fang Linyan was stunned. He had always had one question on his mind: why had Fang, a veteran Contractor, come to a world where the difficulty had been judged to be far below his power?

Although Fang Linyan didn't yet know much about this mysterious space, he could tell from the milestones he had obtained and his main mission rating that its principles were simple: rewards were proportional to difficulty.

The last milestone on the list required a life-or-death fight against the other Contractors!

The rating for the main mission, Reverse History, was also tied to difficulty.

It wasn't hard to infer that since Fang was far stronger than the others, his actual rewards here should be poor. What's more, before he entered this world, there had been a clear notice that Fang seemed to have used an item called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Amnesty Warrant to get in! That item couldn't have been cheap, so he had clearly planned this carefully and for a long time.

So what was his motive?

Fang Linyan seemed to have found part of the answer. After completing the main mission, it seemed that he could stay in this world for a long time—over a hundred hours! Add in any time he might have been able to free up earlier, and he would have had nearly a week to take on some side jobs!