Who Was It?

"Finally finished..." The past Lin Fan saved the file, then shut down the computer. He checked the time; it was already 11 p. m. He turned off the lights and walked out of the office's surveillance range. Now that no one was watching, Lin Fan instantly felt the interference from his past self become extremely strong.

"Because the candles have strengthened me, I am now able to interfere with my past self..." Lin Fan sat in the elevator, feeling that he could do anything. He tried doing a handstand and had no problem at all. The shackles of the past could no longer stop him.

"In that case, we can take advantage of the past undetectable state to do some things..." Lin Fan thought of some sneaky tricks. After all, a day had passed, and he knew a lot more information, so he could make some changes that would benefit him without being observed.

Lin Fan kept making various movements in the elevator to change the past and steal the power of time from the past. However, when the elevator slowly descended to the first floor, a kind of constraint from the past bound Lin Fan again, instantly changing his state.

Because his clothes, which had been disheveled from the exercise, were restored to their original state, and his hair was straightened back to its original shape, Lin Fan realized that this was the last time he would see his hair, since he was going to have his head shaved tomorrow.

"Next is the way home from work, but there are surveillance cameras on the first half of the road, and fewer on the second half, since I live in a relatively remote area... and there's that candle!" Lin Fan's heart stirred. What he wanted to do now was not to throw away the candle, but to figure out what it was, since he was the only one who found it.

"According to the theory, if too much has been changed in the past, one will suffer damage from time. This damage does not affect the body, but rather the consciousness," Lin Fan recalled the information he had gathered.

For example, when he stepped out of the elevator, the surveillance camera showed that he was dressed neatly. However, he took advantage of the time inside the elevator to tear off his clothes. While this would certainly grant him a large amount of time power due to the change in time, he must be dressed neatly when he leaves the surveillance camera, because the past has already been determined.

Therefore, the power of time in the past will reshape his clothes, but it will also bring the impact of time. This impact is time itself. If he can withstand it, he will naturally gain powerful time power. If he cannot withstand it, his consciousness will be scattered by time, and he will become a puppet of time, going through the past according to the original script, and then die.

Therefore, the Time Ring Ritual is extremely dangerous. Those who are at the basic level of cultivation enter a secret room the day before to ensure that they are not disturbed by anyone before they can practice the Time Ring Ritual the next day. Although the time power obtained in this way is very scarce, it is safe. Lin Fan's current method is only something that those who have achieved a certain level of cultivation can afford to do. If it weren't for the enhancement of the candle, Lin Fan would probably have had his consciousness scattered by the backlash of time long ago.

"It's said that those at the deacon level have mastered even more advanced skills, such as Time Phantom and Time Clone." Lin Fan was filled with envy.

As people become more familiar with the Time Ring Ritual, they can travel to their past selves with a thought. There is a well-known case in the Ring of Time and Space: a person encountered a sudden event and was chased by several people. He had no chance of survival, but he traveled to the past and used his skill, Time Clone, to move freely in the past. He quickly went to the place where he was ambushed, set a trap, and then returned to the present to trigger the trap and kill his pursuers.

There are many similar stunts, all of which utilize the time difference between the past and the present to obtain information, travel back to unobserved places in the past to leave behind contingencies, and give people the ability to foresee the future.

Despite the enhancement from the candles, Lin Fan is still quite far from being as capable as these people. At least for now, he still needs the material, namely his hair, to activate the Time Ring Ritual. In the past, he also lacks any skills to complete the correct past.

Take the elevator example again. If he had the Time Phantom skill, he could create an illusion that would be observed by the surveillance camera. Because during that time, only the surveillance camera would be able to see him, he could deceive everyone as long as the surveillance camera's observation remained unchanged.

"The Magician of Time, that title is truly fitting!" Lin Fan exclaimed inwardly. If those deacons of the Ring of Time and Space were so powerful, then just how powerful was the Time-Space Circle they revered as a god? Or was the Time-Space Circle itself merely a rule of the universe?

"That's about it..." Lin Fan watched as some young men and women rode past him on bicycles, laughing happily. He took out his phone to check the time. As they disappeared into the distance, he was also out of the surveillance range. Lin Fan instantly felt the constraints of the past vanish, and he was free to move around.

"I remember there was a shooting star..." Lin Fan looked up at the starless night sky and quickly spotted the shooting star flying from afar. He also observed that the shooting star was intercepted by something and split into three parts, which then disappeared rapidly under the influence of some force.

"That's the power of time, the basic skill Time Acceleration!!" Lin Fan's mouth dropped open. The feeling of that rotating ring was exactly the basic skill Time Acceleration that he had studied. In other words, the people of the Ring of Time and Space accelerated the movement of the meteor yesterday, which is why the candle was not intercepted.

"Who is that person?" Lin Fan saw all three beams of light disappear, but one appeared in front of Lin Fan. It was the candle that had taken over his head. Last time, he had impulsively picked up the candle, which was why it stuck to his head. But this time, the candle simply turned into a phantom and returned to Lin Fan's head.

Lin Fan touched his head and discovered that he was now bald. A candle was stuck to it, and the wick was already hot to the touch. He estimated that if it were left a little longer, the candles would light.

At the same time, a force from the past began to impact Lin Fan, making him realize that if he didn't leave, time would force him back to his original past. If he couldn't withstand the impact, his consciousness would be scattered by time, turning him into a puppet and causing him to die.

"I rushed home last night, but I can't handle this kind of time pressure, so I'd better run faster..." Lin Fan hurriedly ran towards the rented house, finally feeling the impact of the time pressure lessen.

At the spot where he had found the candle, a figure flashed by, followed by a person who looked like a piece of paper descending from the sky. The person then transformed into a normal human, none other than Yang Li from the Countermeasure Bureau. He landed there with a gloomy face, clearly having found no clues.

"All traces have been erased, making it impossible to track down. Who could it be?" Yang Li looked around and hurriedly tried to retrieve the surveillance video from the first half of the road, but he was too late. He didn't know when, but all the surveillance footage had been Destruction, and all clues about the candle had been lost.