Time: 8:09:44 AM, May 1, 2025.
Ling Yi and his two companions stood at the entrance of the lottery station, each Central City an extra lottery ticket.
Lottery tickets with identical numbers.
"You're not going to tell me this lottery ticket can actually win, are you?" Su Mu flicked the lottery ticket and asked Ling Yi.
"Today is Thursday, the day the lottery numbers are announced. You'll know after 8 PM tonight." Ling Yi casually put the lottery ticket into his pocket.
"You make it sound so real, so what's the prize pool for this lottery draw?"
Sixty million!
"So, that's twenty million?"
"No, it's fifteen million!" Xia Qianran said, putting the lottery ticket into her small bag.
"No, three people, 60 million, isn't that 20 million per person?"
"Four people. Did that person buy the same lottery ticket too?" Xia Qianran asked Ling Yi.
This woman is indeed clever.
There are three reasons why Ling Yi took the initiative to seek out Xia Qianran.
One reason is that Xia Qianran is smart enough that she can understand many things without much explanation, and she can apply what she has learned to other situations, just like she is now.
Another factor is Xia Qianran's identity; her wealth and power can help him.
The third reason is Su Mu!
Or rather, Ling Yi's main target was Su Mu, while Xia Qianran was just a side effect.
It's easy to persuade Su Mu directly, but it's very difficult to abduct Su Mu.
Although this woman can be a bit carefree at times, how could she not be capable enough to be Xia Qianran's personal secretary?
This woman is very wary.
But if you make Xia Qianran your target, things will be much simpler.
"Yes, he got the same lottery ticket too." Ling Yi nodded.
"This person's ending doesn't look good!"
"After buying the lottery ticket, he didn't pay too much attention to it. Buying lottery tickets had become a habit for him; he would buy one every day."
"I went to help a friend who's getting married this afternoon, and it wasn't until tomorrow morning that I remembered about my lottery ticket."
"After learning he had won the lottery, he didn't tell his wife immediately. Instead, he chose to keep it a secret, planning to divorce her before secretly claiming the prize."
"Hmph, you men, not a single one of you is any good," Su Mu said with disgust.
Ling Yi ignored Su Mu's Map and continued speaking.
"But what he didn't know was that his wife saw the lottery ticket last night while tidying his coat, and realized it was the winning number."
"His wife, wanting to keep the lottery ticket for herself, switched it with another one."
Su Mu: "..."
Okay, okay, not a single good person in that family. I made a sweeping Map too early.
"The husband wanted a divorce, and the wife wanted a divorce too. They had a token argument over some random excuse, and they'll be finalizing the divorce tomorrow afternoon."
For some reason, Xia Qianran and Su Mu felt something was off whenever Ling Yi mentioned tomorrow morning or tomorrow afternoon.
The normal narrative pattern is always yesterday, the day before yesterday, or a long time ago.
But Ling Yi's narrative time is tomorrow, the future.
"After leaving the Civil Affairs Bureau, the man went directly to the lottery station to claim his prize, only to find that his ticket had been switched; the one he had was simply an expired and invalid ticket."
"Now he finally understood why his wife had been acting so strangely today; she must be just like him, wanting to pocket the prize money all by herself."
But when I got home, I found the house was empty.
Around 10 p. m., the man found his wife at her parents' house. Enraged, he stabbed her with a dagger, but was killed by her family in a counterattack.
"My wife bled to death and died a day later. Her family members were also arrested and forced to work on sewing machines because of this incident."
Logically, Ling Yi should only be able to see the man's Death Preview, and the foreshadowing should end after the man's Death Preview ends.
He shouldn't have known the fate of his wife and her family.
However, even during the Simulation Rescue, Ling Yi was still able to see the numbers above the heads of others.
In other words, Ling Yi is able to see Death Preview for others during the Simulation Rescue.
However, you can only see Death Preview; you can no longer perform Simulation Rescue on others during the Simulation Rescue.
Death Preview plus Simulation Rescue —that's the future.
After all, no one stipulates that you have to save people during Simulation Rescue; you can do other things.
The Death Countdown continues until the target Simulation Rescue reaches its end.
In other words, Ling Yi can see a maximum of six days into the future.
Three days of Simulation Rescue and three days of Death Preview are enough for Ling Yi to do a lot of things.
However, this future is limited; it can only be a future related to Death Countdown, not a future for everyone.
Unless, the number of countdown days that Ling Yi can see increases.
"It's only fifteen million, is it really that big of a deal?" Su Mu couldn't quite understand the couple's thinking.
Ling Yi really wanted to retort at this moment, asking what he meant by "just".
However, considering the other party's status, fifteen million was indeed enough for her to say it was just a casual remark.
"It's not fifteen million, it's sixty million! When he bought the lottery ticket, there was no mention of us sharing the prize pool!" Xia Qianran corrected.
"Boss, is this the important point?"
Xia Qianran nodded. "That's definitely not the point."
Looking at the countdown on Ling Yi's phone, there were less than two minutes left until it ended.
"What will happen when the countdown ends?" Xia Qianran asked Ling Yi.
Ling Yi pointed to a young man across the street, dressed in a white tracksuit, who had just come out of a small shop.
"The countdown is over, he'll die!"
He paused, then added, "The following scenes will have some Masai; please be prepared!"
The young man must have just gone to the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and he's currently walking along, unpacking the cigarettes as he goes.
This person walks with a swaying gait, not properly positioned, and doesn't seem like a good person.
He knocked a cigarette out of the pack and put it in his mouth, but didn't light it. He just held the cigarette in his mouth, Ignore the passing vehicles.
Walk across the street, in the direction Ling Yi and the others are heading.
This wasn't the first time the other person had jaywalked.
This section of road is a speed-limited zone, so cars don't travel very fast.
As long as you are careful, there is basically no chance of danger. This young man's wishful thinking at this moment is also the wishful thinking of most unlucky people before something bad happens.
Sometimes, the unexpected happens right in the ordinary.
Xia Qianran and Su Mu were both very curious about how this person would die.
The young man had now reached the guardrail in the middle of the road. He stopped beside the guardrail and then took out Turkey to light a cigarette.
He stuffed the Turkey back into his shirt pocket, then Xiaosa flicked the hem of his shirt before leaping over the railing.
But the hem of his shirt, which he was swinging, got stuck in a gap in the railing as he climbed over it.
Due to inertia, he was pulled and tugged, falling headfirst onto the other side of the railing.
Just then, a minivan drove up close to the guardrail.
The man's head was shoved under a car wheel as if he had done so intentionally, a perfect deadly arrangement.
In an instant, the young man's head was crushed into Masai, like a rotten watermelon.
So what was Ling Yi doing at this time?
He took two steps back and covered his ears.
Although Xia Qianran didn't know why Ling Yi did this, she followed suit, taking two steps back and covering her ears.
Immediately following, Su Mu screamed, "Ah..."
This scream was absolutely Shaking Heaven and Earth, startling gods and ghosts alike, and shaking the very heavens.
It wasn't that exaggerated, of course, but that scream did make quite a commotion.
Even with Ling Yi covering his ears, his head was still buzzing.