Bai Ye frowned deeply as he looked at the faceless man before him. His face was smooth and flat, covered by a thin layer of skin, with no eyes, no mouth... nothing at all.
A muffled voice sounded, as though coming through a covering.
"Doctor Yi... who is that?" the faceless man asked calmly.
Bai Ye didn't answer. He simply watched him.
The faceless man didn't seem to mind the lack of a response and went back to work in the crude laboratory.
Bai Ye knew that the man before him wasn't Doctor Yi, but a historical projection.
He finally knew what he had forgotten.
He had forgotten a person, someone very important, someone the entire world had forgotten-Yi Jingran.
Bai Ye instinctively touched his face, then gave a soft chuckle. "So that's it."
He had prepared thoroughly for this trip through space and time, yet he had kept feeling that he had forgotten something important. Now it seemed he had forgotten to change his face to White Ze's.
Because he had forgotten Doctor Yi, he had overlooked that step.
Strangely, though, System Error hadn't warned him about such a major oversight.
This was enough to trigger a temporal paradox.
Time travelers had to avoid influencing history as much as possible. At best, a paradox would erase their existence; at worst, space and time would collapse.
Bai Ye knew perfectly well the consequences of revealing his true face. If he operated under his own identity decades in the past and made enough of an impact to become famous, Black Gun: Little White would cease to exist decades later.
The logic was simple. A wasteland boy in Gray Soil Town with the exact same face as a major figure from decades ago would inevitably throw the entire course of history into