Lin Qing suddenly understood the point in time he had arrived at:
The fall of the twin stars.
In the original story, Diego and Hot Pants had teamed up and headed for the train to assassinate Funny Valentine.
Both sides employed every means at their disposal, but Valentine ultimately came out on top. Diego died beneath the train's wheels, while his other teammate, Hot Pants, would likewise fall from the train and die moments later—
As Lin Qing recalled this, he saw a slender woman in a pink trench coat fall from the train a hundred meters away.
It was her.
Hot Pants was not dead yet, but she would be soon. She would probably breathe her last only moments before or after Lin Qing did.
Lin Qing tried to draw power from the Projection of the Past.
"No, it's too slow."
His previous vampire body had drawbacks—it feared sunlight and could be countered by Kars—but its physical strength and potential had been exceptional, allowing it to contain vastly more power from the Projection of the Past.
Even so, it had taken him dozens of minutes to complete the body's initial evolution, along with the life energy absorbed from nearly a hundred vampires and corpse-born.
But now, Lin Qing had at most a dozen seconds left to live.
"A medium-difficulty trial mission wouldn't give me a guaranteed-death opening.
"There must be a way for Lesson 4's Spin to break this situation. I just haven't found the answer yet."
"What exactly is the answer?"
Lin Qing's mind raced.
Suddenly, he saw the earth moving.
Not just the earth—the trees and animals upon it, the clouds in the sky, and even the distant ocean were all moving toward the train. More precisely, toward Funny Valentine aboard the train.
The power of the