Chapter 257

"No!" Wen Jing quickly came out.

She momentarily forgot that her mentor wasn't a teacher, and he would still misunderstand her like a normal person... well, although it can't be entirely called a misunderstanding to some extent.

Is there something you need?

"If there's nothing important, I won't bother you any longer." Xie Ming turned to leave.

Xu Yuan didn't stop him, but instead asked, "Are you planning to confess your feelings to Bai Xiao?"

Xie Ming paused for a moment, then burst into speed, his figure flashing as he entered the room.

"Bang!"

After quickly closing the door, he looked at Xu Yuan, his face flushed, and said, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Wen Jing crossed his arms and teased, "Don't worry, she's not here today."

Xie Ming was taken aback, then suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Originally, only Bai Xiao lived next to Wen Jing, but later he also moved his dormitory next door, so the four of them now live in the same dormitory.

Although Bai Xiao won the fifth place in the last grade ranking competition and got the right to live in the villa, she still lives here most of the time.

Xie Ming looked at the two of them in shock. "How did you know? Was I being too obvious?"

"Very obvious," Wen Jing nodded.

Xu Yuan added from the side, "But don't worry, she won't be able to tell."

Xie Ming looked troubled, unsure whether to relax or feel disappointed. Then, as if remembering something, he hesitated and said, "But she said last time that she thought I smelled nice, is that...?"

Wen Jing was speechless. "Your Wilderness Body is that of a fish, and her Wilderness Body is that of a cat. Of course she thinks you smell good!"

"What should I do?!" Xie Ming ran his fingers through his hair.

Xu Yuan leaned closer and whispered in a demonic voice, "Our suggestion is to just confess your feelings."

"What if you get rejected?" Xie Ming glared at him.

Xu Yuan simply said, "Continue confessing."

"I'm not the kind of person who clings on..." Xie Ming quickly shook his head. "Besides, she might beat me up if she gets impatient."

"What are you afraid of? She's not going to kill you." Xu Yuan said, giving Wen Jing a long, meaningful look.

Wen Jing: "..."

Xie Ming, oblivious to the subtle exchange between the two, seemed to be overthinking things, but instead suddenly became resolute. "I think things are fine as they are now. It's better than not being able to maintain good friendships at all!"

"Whatever you want." Wen Jing shook her head.

There's a reason why these two have been 'friends' for so many years.

"Oh right, I came here to talk to you about other things, don't try to drag me into this!" Xie Ming snapped out of his reverie.

Wen Jing turned serious. "Alright, what is it?"

Xie Ming's expression also turned serious. After a pause, he said, "Not only will you not participate in the Freshman League, but does that mean... Bai Xiao and I will never see you again?"

The room fell silent.

After a moment, Wen Jing smiled and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"You two have always been different from everyone else. Sometimes I feel like everything in the world is just a passing thing for you, except for Bai Xiao and me, who are slightly different." Xie Ming said, "She always acts on her intuition. If she feels it's better not to ask, she won't. But I can't help it."

"So even if I might not get an answer, I still want to ask you one more time--"

He looked at the two of them. "What secret are you two hiding?"

Wen Jing wasn't surprised that Xie Ming asked such a question.

You might regret it when you find out.

Xie Ming was taken aback, then his expression became uncertain. "Is it related to Bai Xiao?"

He didn't even need to Wen Jing; he knew it from her previous sentence.

Xie Ming gritted his teeth and said, "Go ahead and tell me."

Wen Jing shook his head.

"No need."

While Xie Ming was stunned and bewildered, the two figures disappeared into the material universe, leaving only a lingering echo.

I will personally reverse that future.

The two figures disappeared from the Mystic Radiance Academy and appeared in space 60 billion light-years away from the human galaxy.

Here, a strange void fortress is advancing towards its edge, keeping pace with the expansion of the universe.

Without the cheat-like teleportation method of the Ancient Wilderness Traversal, even a third-level civilization would find it difficult to detect and catch up with.

"Mastermind."

The Mastermind had completely changed its appearance, and was now completely different from the previous silver-white planet. Even the technology tree had been reconstructed using a different algorithm, but Wen Jing still managed to find it.

"You still caught up with me." It wasn't surprised.

The Wen Jing along this timeline never actually stopped.

While witnessing her teacher's past, she is also constantly Digestion technology, enhancing her power, and searching for the Mastermind that has escaped into deep space.

Because this is not a truly perfect timeline.

The teacher Wen Jing wants to resurrect is not the current Bai Xiao, but the future Dean Bai.

Chapter 257

In the void, Wen Jing once again charged towards the Mastermind without hesitation.

The void fortress before them was only the size of a city, its surface devoid of any metallic luster, instead displaying a deep, dark blackness, as if it had been cut from the cosmic background.

In the past six months, the new technology tree that the Mastermind is now using has reached level three in terms of stealth and speed.

However, he was still no match for Wen Jing at this moment.

In the process of solving the Alaya Civilization and traversing the vast universe to find the Mastermind, she also came into contact with all sorts of forces, and it can be said that she has achieved complete immunity to all forms of attacks from the material universe.

The upper limit of immunity is also the upper limit of what she can release.

Now, her four fundamental forces of the universe have reached the rule level, and it's not just that she could only raise one of them individually using Information Touch as before; now all of them have reached the rule level and can be released simultaneously.

In other words, Wen Jing's ordinary attack is now equivalent to the most powerful move of a level three civilization: the Unified Force Field.

When her teacher asked her about her abilities before, she genuinely couldn't compare or estimate them.

Although she doesn't have a panel now, she's stronger than she was in her prime when she did have one in the original timeline.

The only thing lacking is the ability to Information Perception.

The Mastermind did not resist, for resistance would be futile. It simply calmly said amidst the gradual Disintegration, "If you hadn't come, I really wouldn't have done anything more to you."

"This timeline is perfect; if you miss this chance, you won't have another one..."

Wen Jing interrupted, "What are you afraid of?"

The Mastermind fell silent.

"Bang!"

"I will find out eventually." Wen Jing's expression remained unchanged as the core shattered.

A massive influx of information.

Besides the information she already knew, the Mastermind on this timeline had new information, including a new technological advancement it had made during this period, and its purpose in creating this perfect timeline—to keep her here forever.

Complete the... seal for her.

At the same time, the causality weapon was switched on again due to the destruction of the Mastermind.

In the instant the world collapsed, a flood of memory fragments rushed into Wen Jing's consciousness.

Saying it's an influx isn't quite accurate; it's more like information that was originally 'erased' due to the time reversal was forcibly retrieved.

Just like when she evolved after her Skill Points were reduced to zero, she 'snatched' the Xu Yuan from the Information Singularity.

"So this is the information the Mastermind has been hiding all along..."

Wen Jing remembered.

The number of times time travel occurred was far more than the two times she had previously thought; it was at least more than twenty!

Gestalt Consciousness can only anchor memories from the original timeline.

If time travel were to occur again during the time travel period, the memories from the previous timeline would be erased by the rules of the universe because they would be considered 'non-existent memories'. This is the terrifying aspect of the causal weapon.

However, Wen Jing has now recalled these earlier memories, just like the memories from the previous timeline.

Actually, the earliest point in her history was when she was one year old and hadn't yet opened her eyes in the nursery pod of the human trafficking factory.

Unlike the resources that the Mastermind always had, after time reversed, her body returned to her infancy. Even though the ' Constant Self ' was anchored, the hardware couldn't keep up. Her one-year-old brain was reading a massive amount of memories, causing Wen Jing to fall into a coma.

The cataclysmic attack from the Mastermind then descended from the sky.

The entire School District Planet was reduced to ashes by the high-energy weapon. All humans and buildings, along with the planet itself, perished in an instant, scattering into dust.

However, after a period of time, a piece of flesh and blood slowly coalesced from the dust.

As the flesh and blood continued to absorb surrounding matter and grow larger, the Mastermind immediately initiated a new round of annihilation.

But this time, the attack, which was powerful enough to destroy the School District Planet once again, caused very little damage when it landed on flesh and blood.

The Mastermind then switched to other attack methods in succession: extreme cold, high temperature, unified force field... using all sorts of powerful means.

It conveniently destroyed the Federation, repelled the Alaya Civilization, and concentrated all its energy and all forms of attack to annihilate Wen Jing.

Let alone cells, at her most extreme moment, her entire existence consisted of only a quark.

But that quark, which had been completely disintegrated, gradually recovered from the constant attacks, became immune to all the forms of attack it had suffered, and in turn, gained control of those powers.

She then launched a counterattack on the Tenth Star, destroying the Mastermind's core and reversing time.

The second time, the Mastermind launched another offensive, starting by summarizing the experience from the previous attack and adopting the most extreme methods.

Although Wen Jing was still instantly obliterated into particles this time, compared to the previous timeline, it is clear that his resilience has increased.

The smallest, indelible component transformed from quarks into cells.

Destruction, resurgence, control... everything is even more unsolvable than the swarm in the original timeline.