A Slacker, a Nobody, but the Mother of Monsters
Chapter 202

Dinner, do your best to become a delicious dinner...

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"Sister Xiu" and the man looked around to confirm that the fieldwork could be completed, and then got into the car together. "Sister Xiu" got into the driver's seat, and the man got into the passenger seat.

There were four people in total on this trip; one of them had already driven away with the body of the person who jumped from the building.

Ye Jiang stood there watching them get into the car one after another, wondering whether she should jump onto the roof of their car and ride with them. She was inexplicably interested in the girl named "Yan Ran" and wanted to learn more about her.

As they were considering the feasibility of this, one of the closed car doors opened again, and Yan Ran poked her head out. "Little sister, would you like to get in? We'll give you a ride."

Ye Jiang paused, looked at her, Yan Ran smiled at her.

Ye Jiang stepped forward with Rong Yin and got into the car. She was about to check on Rong Yin, who was still outside, when Yan Ran pulled the car door shut. The car started moving, leaving the young man behind. Fortunately, Ye Jiang soon saw his figure leaping between the tall buildings through the car window. Rong Yin hadn't been left behind; he had kept up with the car, moving with composure.

Ye Jiang was focused on Rong Yin outside and forgot one thing: she forgot to tell the group of humans who were giving her a ride her her destination, even though she didn't have a destination and just wanted to follow them.

The humans seemed to have forgotten as well, simply driving silently along the city streets.

Not long after they started driving, the car suddenly came to a screeching stop. Ye Jiang seemed to have no inertia and remained perfectly still.

"We're here! We're here!" Yan Ran, the human sitting next to Ye Jiang, exclaimed excitedly. She opened the car door, smiled sweetly at Ye Jiang, and said, "Little sister, get out of the car."

Ye Jiang glanced at the buildings outside, only managing to make out the words "police station" before being gently pushed out of the car. Then, with a "bang," the car door slammed shut in front of her. Yan Ran, Sister Xiu, and the middle-aged man inside the car didn't get out; they simply opened the windows and watched her from inside.

A young man in uniform ran over and stood in front of Ye Jiang.

"Hey, is that you? The citizen who needs some psychological counseling?" the young man said to Ye Jiang. "Come on, let's go inside."

Inside the car, Yan Ran waved to Ye Jiang: "Go on, little sister, the consultation is free. Don't feel pressured, just chat with her."

Ye Jiang remained silent, then suddenly realized that these humans hadn't fully believed her explanation at all. They had secretly contacted people in this place called the police station and brought her over to them.

No wonder they didn't ask her where she was going; it wasn't that they forgot.

Ye Jiang: "..."

Her face was expressionless. Yan Ran waved to her with a bright smile. The car window rolled down and the car started moving. Ye Jiang turned her gaze from the departing car to the young man in uniform.

"I don't need..."

Bang!

Ye Jiang wanted to tell the young man that she didn't need consultation, but a sudden loud noise interrupted her. She paused, slowly looked up, and saw a government vehicle that she knew all too well twisted and deformed, engulfed in flames, flying up before rolling and crashing into a nearby office building, exploding with a bang.

The car...

It was engulfed in flames.

"Look what you've done! You've killed someone! You're finished!"

"So what if he was killed? What's the big deal!"

At the scene of the accident, two men were arguing.

What's the big deal?

Sister Xiu, "Live well and wait for happiness to come!"

The man said, "Please give me a chance to hear your grievances and your troubles."

And then there was that person, lying on the ground, her eyes filled with sorrow. "Don't jump. It's cold... it's very cold here."

Humans who were alive and well just a moment ago are now engulfed in flames.

The darkness in Ye Jiang's eyes surged like ink, her human eyes were distorting, and her hand, which was hanging by her side, flicked, her finger slowly pointing at the man who looked completely indifferent.

In that critical moment, she felt a familiar power.

Energy particles drifted in from who-knows-where, and in a daze, she seemed to feel a mountain breeze blowing on her face.

She paused slightly, then suddenly realized that the young man in uniform beside her had vanished into thin air.

Something's starting to go wrong.

She stood still.

Bang--bang--bang--

She heard the sound of fireworks exploding.

She turned her head, and with her excellent eyesight, she saw the central square in the distance, where the fireworks, which should have stopped long ago, had started blooming again on the high-definition screen around the square.

"Oh oh!!"

She heard the cheers of the crowd.

A dark shadow plummeted from a building more than twenty stories high, quickly passing through the exploding fireworks screen, and crashed to the ground, eliciting screams from the crowd.

Ye Jiang's eyes flickered, ripples spreading through her heart. A premonition rose in her mind. She stood there quietly, listening intently.

Unbeknownst to us, a voice rang out, amplified by a loudspeaker:

"Hello, hello—everyone, the central square is now under lockdown. The reopening time will be announced later. Please go home and find your mothers... Ouch!"

They've arrived.

She said to herself.

Chapter 146 Let's work hard for dinner, make it a delicious dinner...

Time seemed to have reversed, returning to the moment when the fireworks burst on the giant screen in the square, back to the time when those few humans were still alive.

The stagnant lake of his heart was stirred by the fallen leaves, and his dormant heart began to pound violently, thump-thump-thump, echoing intensely in his chest, as loud as fireworks exploding.

In a flash, Ye Jiang disappeared, her figure appearing in the square in the blink of an eye. She looked up and saw two public officials setting up a cordon at the site of the accident. One was serious and rigid, the other was gentle and kind. The evacuation that had already taken place was underway again in the square. The crowd moved away from her and into the distance. In a daze, she finally realized that her heart was beating too fast, excitedly celebrating the fact that several people she had just met were still alive.

She raised her hand to her chest, feeling somewhat unfamiliar with herself at this moment.

A group of young people stopped as they passed by her. They looked at her expression, hesitated, and asked her what was wrong, and whether she wanted to evacuate with them.

Ye Jiang's gaze lingered on the group of young people for a few seconds, recognizing them as Ming Chun she had just transmigrated from.

The group of people asking about the time.

Ye Jiang told them she was fine and to go ahead. The young people seemed hesitant to speak, and although they eventually left, they kept turning back, looking very worried about her condition.

Ye Jiang only withdrew her gaze from them after they had walked away.

Time has indeed flown backward.

Ye Jiang confirmed it.

However, the time that belonged to her did not flow back.

Ming Chun's was the same; neither Ming Chun nor she returned to this square at the moment time reversed.

Ye Jiang looked around and saw the young man's figure leaping towards her from a distant high-rise building. She now had another point of reference, but the young man's time did not reverse.

Why is this happening?

Is it because they are time travelers? Does this mean that time travelers' time doesn't flow backward along with this place's timeline?

Ye Jiang wasn't good at thinking, but she still tried her best to think: if the time travelers weren't affected by this time-space reversal, then to what extent would the native humans be affected?

When Ye Jiang was first born into the world, she watched a lot of movies and TV shows. In human movies and TV shows, time travel is not a rare theme. There are many related films and TV shows with all sorts of descriptions. One popular saying is that although time can be reversed, the fate of a life in reverse is already predetermined, and it is difficult to change it even if you have to do it again.

So, although Yan Ran and the other humans have been brought back to life, will they ultimately meet their end by being killed by two men?

Thinking of this, Ye Jiang immediately frowned, not really wanting to accept this explanation.

She didn't want to see those humans die.

Something was strange, Ye Jiang thought to herself. She felt a little strange. Subconsciously, she thought she should be a monster who viewed life and death as a natural law, like the blooming and withering of flowers, and who was not moved by the sorrow of things. But what was wrong with her mood now? Her heart was slightly constricted and she felt uncomfortable because she thought of the images of those human deaths.

Ye Jiang was lost in thought for a moment, and just then Rong Yin came over from a distance and came to her side.

The young man remained calm, showing no surprise whatsoever at the idea of time travel.

He approached, bowed slightly, and said to Ye Jiang, "Those two human men not far from the police station are time travelers."

Upon hearing this, Ye Jiang's eyelashes fluttered. A transmigrator?

"Why do you think that?" she asked. Was it because he found evidence in those two people that their time hadn't reversed?

No, what Rong Yin discovered was. "There are superhumans among them. I saw a human with Blood Moon symbol on his hand."

I see.

The evidence that superhumans emerged during the Blood Moon on the Disaster Day, and that the catastrophe has not yet occurred, is strong enough.

There are a surprising number of time travelers here.

Ye Jiang thought to herself.

However, upon closer reflection, it makes sense. Before the transmigration, the personnel from the Ability Control Bureau had mentioned that several humans had disappeared while crossing the Watch Mountain Range. Now that I think about it, those people were probably taken by the energy particles in the mountain range for a time-space travel. I just don't know if everyone entered the same time-space. I don't know if Xiao Pei, who was on a mission, is still here, and whether Ming Chun, who went to look for her, will come up empty-handed.

Mentioning the Ability Control Bureau, Ye Jiang couldn't help but think of one thing: which city three hundred years in the future was the city she had transmigrated to? At first, Ye Jiang assumed it was City M because she had transmigrated from the Watch Mountain Range outside City M, which was a stereotype. However, when she jumped onto the tall building next to the square and sat on the roof, she saw a completely unfamiliar cityscape. There were no continuous mountain ranges around the city, so she didn't know if this was City M or not.

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