Li Xin's eyes lit up, but quickly dimmed again.
Beside him, Gu Qiansheng shook his head. "Too much time has passed."
Reversing time around someone's death was difficult to begin with. Far more than half an hour had passed between Academician He's death and their return, so after Sheng An came back, Hao Jingye and the others had not even brought it up.
But-
Gu Qiansheng looked at Sheng An. "Can you reverse time for the meteorite fragments?"
The fragments had vanished into thin air inside the box. How could they get them back?
By reversing time to before the fragments disappeared!
Li Wanyun's eyes lit up as she looked at Sheng An. "Sister Sheng, is this why you aren't worried about the missing fragments? As long as we establish roughly when they disappeared, Captain Qi's King's Anchor can help you turn back time and recover them all?"
Sheng An had not seemed particularly anxious about the missing fragments. Those who knew her well could all see that.
Yet Sheng An shook her head. "We may not be able to recover the meteorite fragments by reversing time."
"Why not?" Jiang Yu asked, puzzled.
Qi Lingwu said, "We can consider whether Time Reversal will work later. Sheng An isn't anxious... because the fragments are probably still inside the Meteorite Research Institute."
Everyone froze.
Even Hao Jingye looked baffled for a moment.
Then he slapped his forehead. "Right, that's very likely!"
Li Xin and Jiang Yu exchanged a glance.
-Oh no. Time to expose our intelligence again.
As Sheng An examined Academician He's body, she explained, "Before today, Academician He showed no signs of being controlled. His anxiety in the Laboratory came from something he had discovered. Meanwhile, although he had put the fragments away, he still checked them from time to