Future Calamity
When Lin Fan ran back to his rented room, he happened to run into the neighbor, Brother Hei opened the door. This put Lin Fan in a restricted situation again and reminded him of what the neighbor had said the night before.
"Xiao Lin, you gave a bit too much..." Brother Hei seemed a little embarrassed. Lin Fan was confused and was about to ask when the door next door opened again. Sister-in-law Hei pulled Brother Hei inside and continued, "He already gave it all, do you want to give it back? We're not..."
"What's going on?" The Lin Fan of the past didn't pay attention and pushed open the door to return to his rented room. But the Lin Fan of the present was confused by what he had just heard. When he came to his senses, he had already returned from the past.
It's almost 1 a. m., exactly a whole day since he left. He didn't get much time power this time, only 89 strands. But with the candle absorbing it, the time power that should have flowed to the higher-level mentor was absorbed by the candle. The wick above his head has started to smoke, but it just won't light.
As if remembering something, Lin Fan opened the door and looked towards Brother Hei's room next door. He wanted to knock, but he heard some noises coming from inside. So he quietly pressed his ear against the door. He wasn't trying to listen to the foot of the bed, but the sounds inside didn't seem quite right.
"I'll give it back..." It was Sister-in-law Hei's voice, but she seemed to be interrupted before she could finish her sentence. In a daze, Lin Fan seemed to hear a crisp sound, and then Brother Hei's room became completely An Jing.
After waiting for a while, Lin Fan, unsure of his own feelings, gently knocked on Brother Hei's door and asked with a hint of doubt, "Brother Hei, are you there? Sister-in-law Hei, is everything alright?"
"Brother Hei Sister-in-law Hei -law Hei, I broke down the door! Are you alright?" Lin Fan recalled the strange words Brother Hei had said to him the night before, and a sense of panic rose in his heart. He then rammed into Brother Hei's door.
Now, with the enhancement from the candle, Lin Fan's physical abilities are vastly different from before. After a couple of bumps, he broke open the door, and what came into view were the corpses of Brother Hei Lin Fan Sister-in-law Hei. Brother Hei had a bloody hole in his head, and as the blood flowed, a scarlet crystal flowed out. Sister-in-law Hei's neck was broken and she lay to one side. The crisp sound he had just heard was probably the sound of her neck being broken.
"Holy crap." Lin Fan slowly backed away. When he saw the red crystal, Lin Fan knew who had killed Brother Hei and the others—it was himself, or rather, his future self.
"Future Calamity? Damn, how could it be so soon..." Lin Fan turned his head and saw someone peeking out. He figured the noise he made when he slammed the door had disturbed others. In that instant, whether out of quick wit or something else, he laughed and said to the two corpses in the room, "Brother Hei, you always joke around. You should have said so earlier if you were home."
The man shook his head and went back to his room. Lin Fan also hurriedly went into Brother Hei's house, closed the door he had kicked open, and then looked at the two corpses on the ground, breaking out in a cold sweat.
However, although Lin Fan was sweating profusely, he still felt a force compelling him to do something. For example, he picked up a glass and looked at the clear fingerprints on it, which were exactly the same as the ones he had just made. He then realized that the person who killed Brother Hei definitely wanted to kill him.
"Even if I clean up the traces now, it won't help..." Lin Fan felt himself acting automatically and realized that his future self was controlling him to do this.
Lin Fan carefully cleaned up some of the fingerprints he had deliberately left behind, then put away the red crystal he had left behind, and then deliberately left some fingerprints that he should have left normally.
Then "Lin Fan" opened the wardrobe in Brother Hei's house, sorted through the clothes inside and found traces left by a person. Then, a force pushed Lin Fan out of Brother Hei's house and closed the door.
"It's no use, that person already saw it, I can't escape..." Lin Fan thought to himself, when he saw Sister Ma walking up from the other side of the corridor with her plump body.
"Lin Fan, what's wrong with you?" Sister Ma shouted, startling Lin Fan. He then realized that it was because he had transferred two months' rent to her earlier that day. Sister Ma's loud voice woke up some people, and some even opened their doors to complain.
Lin Fan scratched his head and walked forward, wanting to explain, but suddenly a loud noise came from Brother Hei's room, as if a wardrobe or something had been opened, followed by two screams.
Lin Fan turned his head and saw a person wrapped up tightly rushing out of Brother Hei Ge's house. The person's figure was seen and then jumped out of the window on the other side. Lin Fan's heart skipped a beat, and he understood. He quickly ran towards that side. When he got to the window, he saw the dark figure disappear, leaving behind a pile of clothes.
Meanwhile, a commotion arose from where Brother Hei was. Lin Fan turned around and saw Sister Ma and a group of people surrounding Brother Hei, with someone calling the police. This made Lin Fan nervous, but also relieved.
With so many people having seen the shadowy figure, his suspicions were largely cleared, and he was generally safe for the time being. However, something else made Lin Fan extremely nervous: his future self.
The police arrived shortly afterward. As expected, Lin Fan, being the last person to have contact with the deceased, was questioned and asked to sketch the killer. Lin Fan simply said he didn't know, since the person was wrapped in so many clothes at the time. Lin Fan used "I don't know" to answer most of the questions. It wasn't until five or six in the morning that Lin Fan was finally released, but he still had to wait to be summoned for questioning at any time.
Even with his current physical condition, Lin Fan was exhausted. After all, too many things had happened today. Why did his future self kill Brother Hei? What exactly did "himself" give Brother Hei? And why did his future self want to kill Brother Hei?
Back at the rented room, the place was still in an uproar. After all, people had died, two of them at that. Lin Fan turned on his computer and began researching the issue of Future Calamity.
According to the Ring of Time and Space, the past is the established time, the present is being established, and the future is yet to be determined. Therefore, the future has countless possibilities, and the Future Calamity is precisely because one possible version of oneself in the future, for various reasons, chooses to travel back in time to cause trouble.
Some future versions of themselves are due to self-destructive tendencies; others are due to mistakes they made in the present that their future selves cannot forgive and want to forcibly correct; still others are due to their future selves wanting to replace them and guiding the flow of time in that direction; and some are due to their future selves being infected by some evil force and turning into monsters.
However, traveling from the future to the present requires extremely powerful time manipulation abilities, something that is generally only encountered by people of the deacon level or higher. Why would a beginner like him encounter this?