Cheng Cheng and the Cicada

Chapter 31 Reversing Cause and Effect! The Girl from the Future

Lin Xian gazed into Angelica's glazed eyes, listening to the familiar name, recalling past events with old acquaintances.

So that's how it is…

He had always felt that this trip to the United States to find Angelica to team up was all too smooth.

The other party, as the last member of the Seven Deadly Sins, had not made things difficult for him in the slightest.

Not only did she find him a place to stay, pick him up at the airport, and provide him with a pistol, but she even went to great lengths to disguise him in order to protect him from being discovered by the Space-Time Assassin.

Even more unbelievable was…

Just as Angelica herself had said.

She almost unconditionally believed in him.

Whether it was the information he provided, the plans he made, or even the grand promises he painted for her—

Telling her Copernicus's true identity and the murderer who killed Ji Lin's parents after officially joining the Genius Club and attending the gathering.

Although Lin Xian had said it with great certainty at the time…

In reality, this was a pie in the sky.

Who knew when he would officially join the Genius Club; who knew if there would be other tests after the three questions; who knew if he could find the murderer who killed Ji Lin after entering.

In short.

His promises were all empty words.

But Angelica just believed in him like that. Even if she herself thought that this pie was unlikely to be eaten, she still unconditionally believed in him.

Lin Xian guessed…

[Angelica probably overlapped him with the deceased Ji Lin to some extent, right?]

Ji Lin regarded him as his only friend, sharing their interactions with Angelica, telling her about their birthday celebration for Chu Anqing and the preparations for decorating the villa.

Although Angelica said she felt conflicted, she must have been happy for Ji Lin to have made a friend.

It was just that Angelica didn't know that beneath the facade of friendship between him and Ji Lin, hidden were murderous intent and calculation.

Now that Ji Lin was gone, many issues of stance were no longer so important.

Angelica, in her short twenty years of life, had experienced the deaths of all her relatives twice, becoming a lone wolf twice.

Although she appeared calm on the surface now, her heart must have long been burned by the flames of revenge, harboring a determination to shoot bullets into the chests of the Genius Club's murderers.

Perhaps, she wasn't really believing in him that much now either.

But it was under such circumstances…

That he, because of this relationship of being recognized as a friend by Ji Lin, had temporarily become the emotional support for her kinship.

Or even more so.

If it weren't for the reason that Ji Lin regarded him as a friend, Angelica would likely have found an opportunity to kill him long ago, right?

It wasn't impossible.

Lin Xian only knew that after Ji Lin was released from the police station, he wrote a letter to Angelica.

Lin Xian didn't know what was specifically said in the letter.

But he felt… there must be many things related to him, so Angelica, despite being on the opposite side from him, had such a partnership attitude towards him, even trusting him a bit too much.

Lin Xian recalled.

It seemed he hadn't done anything particularly noteworthy for Ji Lin.

It was nothing more than taking him to Chu Anqing's birthday party;

Nothing more than helping him decorate the birthday party;

Nothing more than playing a few childish tabletop games with him;

Nothing more than giving him a Gothic Lyngen cat figurine that he might not have even wanted very much.

Perhaps…

These things that ordinary people take for granted were indeed very precious to Ji Lin; just as kinship, which everyone most easily overlooks, always felt like fine sand slipping through Angelica's fingers, impossible to hold onto.

"Let's go."

Angelica packed up her things, stood up, and signaled Lin Xian to leave.

Lin Xian took one last look at the stranger in the mirror.

He bared his teeth.

He felt even his teeth were different, which in turn changed the shape of his mouth and face.

Disguise was truly amazing, truly magical.

But looking at the troublesome craftsmanship and techniques, this skill was not something that ordinary people could learn. It could only be said that the ever-changing sorceress Angelica was living up to her name, and this Oscar award was indeed highly valuable and well-deserved.

Out the door.

A bright purple Lamborghini sports car was parked in front, the low-slung body seemingly roaring with a hefty price tag and fierce power.

"You drive."

Angelica tossed a large electronic car key over, which Lin Xian caught in mid-air.

Then, the two crouched down and got into the car.

The roaring engine started with the push of a button, heading towards the darkness, towards the direction of the banquet…

"Tonight's plan is like this."

Angelica picked up an elegant pair of sunglasses from the passenger seat, put them on her pretty face, making her look particularly alluring:

"Jask's female secretary is looking forward to meeting me and is always sending me invitations, but I have never responded to her. This time is the same. She will represent Jask to attend a charity fundraising dinner at Princeton. She knows I live here, so she has been sending me private messages on social media for several days, but I have never replied to her."

"Playing hard to get," Lin Xian commented while turning the steering wheel:

"You know the art of war. Waiting for that lost, disappointed, and frustrated female secretary to finally discover your arrival at the banquet… I can't even imagine how excited she will be at that time."

"A sudden contrast and surprise are the biggest impacts on emotions. If you tell her in advance that you are coming, she won't have that emotional shock from disappointment to excitement. And once a person's brain is occupied by emotions, they will naturally lose some reason. Men always misspeak at drinking parties where everyone is praising them, probably for this reason."

"Aren't you very romantic?"

Angelica looked at Lin Xian through her sunglasses, smiling:

"Why are you always so oblivious?"

"I'm just doing a rational analysis," Lin Xian said, turning on the right turn signal, merging into the expressway, and entering the city:

"So tonight, my identity is your male companion, a wealthy royal member from who-knows-what country, who is just rich and nothing but rich, a sucker who has been hooked by you."

"That's right," Angelica laughed:

"This is in line with my persona. I'm always hooking suckers; of course, sometimes it's directors, politicians, congressmen, athletes, businessmen… You'd better act a little dumber, don't be so wooden."

"The United States is much more open-minded than Dragon Country. When you see a woman you like, go ahead and invite her to dance. Only when you integrate into the environment will Jask's female secretary have a chance to come and talk to me."

"I can't possibly take the initiative to approach her, right? I have to wait for her to take the initiative to find me, otherwise it will seem too fake. And as long as she takes the initiative to appear by my side… I can take her down, easily take her down. Using this kind of girl who wholeheartedly loves you is easier than spreading butter on bread."

Cough cough.

Lin Xian coughed lightly twice.

Taking advantage of waiting for the red light, he turned his head:

"In the end, it's actually the female secretary's sexual orientation that's the problem, right?"

"Hmm~"

Angelica tilted her head, raised her eyebrows, and looked at Lin Xian:

"Let me remind you, boy, in the United States, don't assume anyone's gender. Even if that female secretary is biologically female, it doesn't prevent her self-perception from being male; nor does it prevent my self-perception from being male, and her perception of me from being male… This point requires extra attention when living in the United States, otherwise, you will get into trouble."

"A very magical setting."

Lin Xian laughed:

"Then can my actual gender be a Walmart plastic bag, but my perceived gender be an armed helicopter?"

"Of course, you can~"

Angelica spread her hands and smiled:

"That's your freedom, this is the free America."

"Cool, long live freedom."

Lin Xian exclaimed, then stepped on the accelerator and sped through the green light at the intersection.

Angelica added lipstick in the passenger seat makeup mirror, pursed her lips to make it even, and continued:

"Then let me continue to talk about the plan."

"You just play your role well, and I will naturally wait for the opportunity to connect with Jask's female secretary, and then… abandon you and be with her. I may disappear with her for a while, but you don't need to worry, it's just a part of the plan."

"Anyway, play it by ear. I will send you information if there are any problems or needs. You have that American phone, right? You can use this phone during your time in the United States. Relatively speaking, it's safer."

"Then, did you write what I asked you to write yesterday? That is, when I am extracting information and guiding the conversation, in which directions should I guide? Which keywords should I pay attention to?"

"I wrote it."

Lin Xian replied, holding the steering wheel with his left hand, reaching into the inner pocket of his suit with his right hand, pinching out a folded piece of white paper from inside, and handing it to Angelica.

Angelica took it, opened it, then pushed up her black sunglasses, looking at the words written on the paper—

Genius Club, Kevin Walker, Super Artificial Intelligence, Girl Killer, Blue Eyes, Copernicus, Space-Time Particles.

"When you are extracting information, if you hear these keywords, guide the topic in these directions; if the other party never mentions these keywords, then you should take the initiative to find an opportunity and guide it from the side."

Lin Xian explained to Angelica:

"For example, regarding the Girl Killer question, you can jokingly ask if Jask is a lolicon or something, and see if there are any obviously abnormal, very young girls in his social circle."

"Regarding Copernicus, you can start from the perspective of which scientist Jask likes the most, and which great man he usually praises the most, and then inquire indirectly to see if you can find out any clues about the Genius Club."

Angelica looked at the contents of the paper again, then returned it to Lin Xian:

"Don't worry, intelligence gathering is my strength, I am better than you in this regard, just leave it to me."

"Over there, turn right ahead, go directly to the door, no need to go to the parking lot, there are parking valets to help us park."

Saying that, she took out a stack of green US dollars from her handbag and stuffed them into Lin Xian's pocket:

"The tip culture in the United States is very serious and very bad. But anyway, it is always right to use tips to pave the way. Don't feel bad, just give tips generously, after all, your current identity is an oil prince, and money in your eyes is like waste paper."

"Then take more waste paper," Lin Xian glanced at Angelica's handbag:

"You only gave this little, how can I sprinkle it? There is no way to get into the role."

"…"

Angelica looked at Lin Xian speechlessly, but still stuffed all the green US dollars in her handbag into Lin Xian's pocket:

"Let me remind you, those ways of giving tips in Hollywood movies… like Batman, are all exaggerated performances. There are no such stupid people in reality, and there are no such tacky actions."

"Even the world's richest man, Jask, also folds a 100 US dollar bill when giving a parking tip. Do you know why it is folded? It's just because it looks like more when it's folded… Who would really be so stupid as to sprinkle money at the door like playboys in movies?"

"Don't worry, I have a sense of propriety."

Lin Xian stepped on the brakes and parked the purple Lamborghini in front of the banquet hall. Then he looked up and glanced at the bearded, square-faced, long-eyed, deep-set, small-curled, oil-kingdom-prince version of himself in the rearview mirror:

"Although my acting skills are not as good as yours, I have also been specially trained by a certain Hollywood drama queen."

"Oh? Which one?"

Angelica asked with interest:

"I know all the drama queens in Hollywood."

Lin Xian shook his head and smiled:

"You really don't know this one."

Saying that, he pressed open the Lamborghini's scissor doors, opening them vertically.

The parking valet and receptionist immediately gathered around, extending white gloves to Angelica on the right, protecting the low car frame; then, outside Lin Xian's door, a parking valet was also bowing and waiting.

Lin Xian generously walked out of the car door, directly grabbed a few brand-new banknotes from his pocket, and put them together with the Lamborghini car keys in the parking valet's hand.

The parking valet's eyes widened immediately.

He hurriedly took it, bowing and thanking.

Lin Xian straightened his suit collar, walked directly to the other side, and also pinched a few bills for each of the waiters on both sides.

Then, he took Angelica's left hand that was handed over, held it, and stepped on the red carpet, heading towards the lively banquet hall together.

Along the way, Angelica was indeed a social butterfly, a queen of celebrities. Everyone who passed by, regardless of gender or age, greeted her warmly.

Angelica also responded with a smile.

Her proud figure, wearing a dark purple evening dress, had a rather strong and noble aura.

Unlike most women who put their hair up or wear it in an updo when wearing evening dresses, Angelica's smooth, soft brown hair, like a waterfall, was spread flat on her bare back, especially confident and composed.

Of course, Lin Xian didn't know anyone here.

He didn't even know himself!

So, whoever Angelica smiled at, he smiled at; whoever Angelica talked to, he nodded at, as if he understood.

Everyone in the venue was speaking English.

Lin Xian could still understand when they spoke slowly, but when they spoke quickly, or sometimes with inexplicable omissions and conjunctions in grammar, it made it difficult for Lin Xian to understand, half-understanding.

So, he simply kept his mouth shut, pretending to be an Arab prince whose English was not very good.

Anyway, holding Angelica, no one would question his identity.

Angelica was the best business card.

Enough to represent—

Daddy is rich.

The banquet began not long after the two entered the hall.

"Look, Lin Xian, over there by the stairs, that woman wearing a light yellow dress and with her hair up…"

Angelica held her wine glass, and taking advantage of the close proximity, whispered in Lin Xian's ear:

"That is Jask's female secretary."

Lin Xian also took the opportunity to take a wine glass from the waiter's tray and glanced towards the stairs.

There was only one woman wearing a yellow off-the-shoulder dress.

Easy to identify.

The woman's figure was also very tall and slender, looking about the same model proportions as Angelica… Sure enough, the selection criteria for the world's richest man's secretary were also so high?

Lin Xian believed that if this beautiful and hot female secretary also came to Hollywood to study, her achievements might not be much worse than Angelica's.

After all, how could a woman who could be the secretary of the world's richest man and be so trusted be an ordinary person?

Not to mention education and cognition, her ability alone must have far exceeded ordinary people. Otherwise… why would Jask choose her as his secretary?

There were many women in the world who were hotter and prettier than her, and Jask, this playboy, didn't lack beautiful girlfriends. Beauty, for the richest man, was precisely the cheapest commodity.

This couldn't help but make Lin Xian a little worried…

Could Angelica really handle this female secretary?

He carefully observed the female secretary again.

She usually had a habit of wearing glasses, but today, in order to attend the banquet, she wore contact lenses. But from the shape of her temples and her eye movements, it was not difficult to find traces of wearing glasses on a daily basis.

The female secretary's appearance was indeed also first-class beautiful. Compared to Angelica's sharp and handsome feeling, Jask's female secretary looked a bit more gentle and cute.

Her hair was also a standard golden yellow, shiningly pinned behind her head, a very formal banquet hairstyle.

"The person talking to her is also a senior executive of an internet company."

Angelica said softly:

"She probably hasn't noticed me yet, because there are too many people here. But that's only a matter of time… So let's start the plan, Lin Xian. I'm going to greet and socialize with all kinds of acquaintances now."

"You get into playboy mode as soon as possible, so that the female secretary has a reason to approach me, and also let me have a reason to abandon you and get together with her. Can you do it? I knew… I should have given you special training last night. It doesn't seem like you are the kind of man who is particularly good at pleasing women and making them happy."

Lin Xian snorted softly:

"It doesn't matter, anyway I have superpowers."

Angelica took a step back and looked Lin Xian up and down:

"What superpower?"

Lin Xian, just like Bruce Wayne in the Batman movie when Flash asked what superpower he had, pointed to the face that didn't belong to him:

"I am rich."

Angelica smiled knowingly, extended her index finger, and tapped Lin Xian's chest:

"Good luck, guardian of the night… I hope this is your invincible Gotham City."

"Goodbye, my dark knight~"



That's what she said.

But Lin Xian had never had the experience of actively hooking up with women at a banquet.

Every time he went to a banquet in the East Sea, he went with Zhao Yingjun, and was basically locked down, with no chance or thoughts.

The only two times he was invited to dance, one was when Zhao Yingjun took the initiative to invite him, and the other was when Zhao Yingjun rudely interrupted.

At this time, Angelica had skillfully disappeared into the crowd.

This kind of occasion was her home field, both in and out of the play.

For Angelica, there was no difference between in and out of the play. She had been acting, always acting. In the movie, she was a female agent, and in reality, she was also a female agent.

Perhaps her only truth was those years by Ji Lin's side; watching her favorite younger brother slowly grow up; watching the little boy in her arms become strong and wise; this was Angelica's only truth…

It was just a pity that this only, unique truth had now been ruthlessly taken away.

Her life was only left with acting.

"Hi~"

Lin Xian turned his head.

A beautifully dressed young girl next to him took the initiative to greet Lin Xian, who was leaning against the dining table:

"Hi."

The girl blinked her long eyelashes, big eyes, and asked shyly and expectantly:

"Excuse me… do you have time to chat?"

Lin Xian replied with a smile in English:

"Of course."

The two held their wine glasses and chatted for a few words. The girl introduced herself, and Lin Xian also repeated the persona Angelica had given him.

"Wow."

The girl was slightly surprised:

"So you are a prince… But the English you speak seems to have a unique Dragon Country tone, like singing."

"Because my English was learned when I was studying in Dragon Country."

Lin Xian shook the red wine glass in his hand with ease:

"I have liked Dragon Country since I was a child. I went to Dragon Country to study when I was very young. My Dragon Country language and English were both learned in Dragon Country, so naturally… it has the taste of Dragon Country."

"I see."

The girl smiled suddenly, and became more and more interested in the oil prince played by Lin Xian:

"Actually, the second foreign language I majored in in college was Arabic… So I thought about coming to say hello to you today."

"I like Arabic very much. I think this language… is really the most romantic language in the world. Don't you think so? Since Arabic is your mother tongue, you must have a deeper understanding of this language."

"What do you think is the most romantic Arabic sentence? Can you tell me?"?

I can.

Fishing law enforcement is here, right?

But… have all the movies Lin Xian has watched over the years been for nothing? Was VV's Hollywood acting special training in vain?

He didn't panic at all.

He leaned closer to the girl, looked down at her green eyes, and said in English:

"You have… captivating eyes."

"Oh, thank you." The girl's face was a little red, and she said softly with her head down:

"But this is an English sentence, not an Arabic sentence."

"That's right."

Lin Xian smiled confidently and nodded:

"But my English teacher told me… this sentence is the most romantic sentence in the world."

The girl was amused, laughed so hard that she trembled, walked over, and hooked Lin Xian's arm:

"You are really an interesting man! Let's go dance over there!"



With the girl's lead, Lin Xian was like a fish in water.

He took the opportunity to glance at Angelica.

He found that she had already connected with Jask's secretary.

Sure enough.

That secretary really liked Angelica too much!

At this time, she was excited with a flushed face, and she spoke stutteringly, even unable to resist jumping up slightly.

Angelica, on the other hand, was at ease, smiling as she watched the excited little rabbit, patiently listening to her speak.

After a while.

When Lin Xian came back to his senses and wanted to find Angelica and that female secretary again, he could no longer find them.

Did they go to the toilet?

They shouldn't need to go for such a long time.

He checked a few more places, but still couldn't find the two tall, beautiful women…

After a while.

The banquet dance party was about to end, but the two still hadn't appeared.

Beep beep.

The American phone that Angelica prepared for Lin Xian rang.

He picked it up and saw that it was a message from Angelica:

"I'm not going back tonight, drive back yourself."

Damn, awesome!

Lin Xian sincerely exclaimed, the Seven Deadly Sins really didn't keep idlers, and Angelica, codenamed Lust, lived up to her name, eating both men and women.

No, killing both.

If it doesn't work out, open a class, and surely many boys who blush when they talk to girls will especially need to sign up. The conquest is too fast!

However, this was naturally a good thing.

For Lin Xian, the faster Angelica conquered the female secretary and the faster she extracted information about Jask, the more favorable the situation would be for him.

"Bye bye, see you."

Lin Xian and the lively and cheerful girl exchanged contact information, then went out and left.

Since he didn't have to wait for Angelica and didn't have to be her driver, there was no point in him staying here… He should go back and rest early.

He came to the door, where the parking valet left the keys.

Before Lin Xian could say anything, the parking valet stood up straight, bowed, and handed over the Lamborghini keys with both hands:

"Sir, I wish you a wonderful night."

Lin Xian nodded and took the keys.

He saw that in the key box next to him, three rows of luxury car keys were neatly arranged, presumably belonging to the guests inside.

This tip didn't seem to be wasted. Although it was a bit expensive, he enjoyed the service.

Turned around.

Lin Xian took the keys and headed to the clubhouse parking lot.

The parking valet continued to bow halfway, watching Lin Xian leave. When he raised his body, he discovered… next to him, a small girl with an oriental face was standing!

The little girl was only fourteen or fifteen years old, looking very young, but her baby face was delicate and lovely, as white as snow, and extremely beautiful. Like porcelain, like a work of art.

He could tell at a glance that this kind of girl with such looks and temperament must have come from a rich and noble family, who could raise her so beautifully and delicately.

So he hurried to crouch down, smiling and looking at the girl with bright blue pupils that seemed to shine, seeming to flow:

"Miss, are you lost from your parents and family? Where are they? Would you like me to take you to find them?"

The little girl with bright blue eyes did not speak.

She was expressionless and did not move at all.

Even her black short hair that reached her neck seemed to freeze, not shaking at all.

She silently raised her right hand, pointed to the hall behind the parking valet, and did not say a word.

"Oh? Are your family there?"

The parking valet understood and hurried to turn around and look towards the hall.

However…

There was no one there.

"Huh?"

He scratched his head, at a loss, and turned back, looking down at the place where the blue-eyed girl was.

"Huh!?"

He opened his eyes wide and found that the cold and beautiful girl who was just standing here was gone!

Where did she go?

Did she find her parents?

The parking valet muttered in confusion…

Forget it.

She was a little girl in her teens anyway. It was impossible for her to get lost, and he didn't need to worry too much.

He continued to stand up straight and perform his work.

It was just that…

He didn't notice.

In the neatly arranged car key box, on the far right of the second row… a black Mercedes car key was missing.



The purple Lamborghini sped on the suburban highway.

Lin Xian looked out the window and sighed that the United States' geographical advantages were truly unique.

As far as the eye could see, there were plains everywhere here.

It was really flat.

Therefore, most of the highways in the United States were quite straight. It used to be said that you could even fix the steering wheel and sleep on the highways in the United States… Although this statement was definitely exaggerated, it also showed from the side that the geographical conditions in the United States were really good. The roads were flat and straight, making it easy to drive.

Along the way, Lin Xian didn't encounter any vehicles.

Sure enough, the population density and residential density were incomparable to Dragon Country.

See.

He finally encountered a car traveling in the same direction.

He glanced at the right rearview mirror… he could see that a black Mercedes car without headlights was approaching rapidly from behind.

Not turning on the headlights at night was one thing… why was it driving so fast?

Wasn't it afraid of rolling over?

Lin Xian still hated these dangerous drivers in reality. He snorted softly, withdrew his gaze, and habitually looked at the rearview mirror in the car again.

The rearview mirror in the car could better observe the blind spot directly behind the vehicle through the rear window glass, so as to judge the following distance.

Suddenly.

He felt a chill down his spine!

On the rearview mirror… the dark and lightless Mercedes car was already incredibly close to the rear of the Lamborghini.

Moreover, in the dark background, he could clearly see two bulb-like, bright, ghostly blue lights in the driver's seat! Ghostly blue pupils!

They were blue eyes!

It was that Space-Time Assassin!

She had actually chased him to the United States!

Boom——

The Mercedes car crashed directly into the rear of the Lamborghini as if it didn't want to live! Smashing all kinds of carbon fiber parts! And knocking off the right tire… This glass-cannon-like purple sports car was teetering for a while.

Lin Xian hurried to stabilize the steering wheel, avoiding a rollover, stepped on the brakes, and dragged a long strip of sparks, stopping the car on the side of the road…

What was going on?

Space-Time Laws, Forced Evasion, Space-Time Rejection, didn't have any influence on this Space-Time Assassin!?

In that kind of emergency just now, if Lin Xian hadn't had enough driving experience and knew how to deal with this kind of high-speed tire blowout… he might have already rolled over and died!

So the Space-Time Laws were completely ineffective?

Completely ineffective against this girl assassin, Space-Time Assassin?

If this was really the case, Space-Time Travelers could ignore the Space-Time Laws, destroy Space-Time stability at will, and arbitrarily change history… Wouldn't Space-Time and history be completely messed up!

Lin Xian, for a moment, really couldn't get around this bend.

In any case, he couldn't accept that a Space-Time Traveler could be so detached from the Space-Time Laws.

But now there was no time to think about the answer.

He saw from the rearview mirror that the girl had already opened the Mercedes car door, jumped out of the car, was expressionless, had ice-cold blue light in her eyes, and was running towards him quickly.

Click.

Lin Xian also quickly pressed open the seat belt, opened the car door, and got out of the car.

After going around the front of the car to a place with a wide view, he immediately took out the SIG Sauer-P320 pistol from the inner pocket of his clothes.

Opened the safety, racked the slide, gripped it with his right hand, and raised his wrist.

Everything was so skillful.

Everything happened in an instant.

Just as the girl had just reacted and was about to dodge, Lin Xian's Instant Shot Gun Skill! Had already aimed at the girl who was about to pounce towards the Mercedes car for cover!

"Too late," Lin Xian shouted.

His Instant Shot Gun Skill didn't need aiming time at all, he just needed to pull the trigger now, and it would be enough to blow her head off before the girl pounced to cover…

Faced with such a strong enemy, Lin Xian would not show any pity.

He steadied the aiming muzzle and pressed the trigger hard—

Dong…

The whole world, for a moment, was quiet.

Lin Xian's heart seemed to be tightly gripped by a fist, stopping beating, and his whole body was weak.

His ears couldn't hear any sound.

There was no taste in his mouth.

He couldn't even feel the night wind brushing against his face and blowing his hair.

His gaze was fixed on the front, and he watched helplessly as the Space-Time Assassin who had leaped into the air successfully jumped behind the Mercedes car to hide, avoiding the shooting cover.

And his right hand, tightly holding the SIG Sauer pistol, and his index finger, tightly on the trigger—

[But no matter what! He couldn't press it down! He couldn't press it down!]

It wasn't that he didn't want to press it.

Nor was it stuck by anything.

It was just that at the moment of aiming at the girl's head, his fingers were like being deprived of control! They were numb, uncontrollable, had no strength, and couldn't press down…

It wasn't just his fingers.

His limbs.

His neck.

His muscles.

His breath.

Everything in his body, all in that moment, didn't belong to him. He suddenly lost strength, and fell forward weakly…

He clearly wanted to reach out his hands to block in front of his head and support his body.

But he couldn't even do this most basic physical reflex!

He couldn't move a single hair on his body. Just like that, he fell down…

Bang.

Lin Xian's shoulder landed on the ground, and then his uncontrollable head also slammed on the ground.

He didn't die.

But like being petrified, being deprived of his soul and nerves, he completely couldn't control his body.

Even… at that moment, even his eyeballs were out of his control, and he couldn't even shift his gaze a little.

Suddenly.

He recalled the Oriole that day in the office, becoming transparent, being forcibly muted, and falling to the ground stiffly.

[Forced Evasion].

His current state was that he had triggered [Forced Evasion]!!

But!

He was a native of this Space-Time!

Why was Forced Evasion triggered on him?

No matter how you looked at it, it should have been triggered on that Space-Time Assassin, prohibiting her actions!

But looking at it now… everything was completely reversed.

No wonder that girl was so unscrupulous towards him. It seemed that her killing him wouldn't trigger any Space-Time Laws at all.

But he couldn't kill her! He clearly could have taken away this Space-Time Assassin with one bullet just now… but it was he who was punished by the Space-Time Laws, forcibly muted, forcibly stopped, forcibly locked down, and forcibly evaded.

At this moment.

It seemed that the Space-Time Assassin who had just leaped to the back of the Mercedes car had also noticed something was wrong with Lin Xian.

She quietly poked her head out.

A bright blue pupil was moved out from the back of the Mercedes car.

Even though Lin Xian was weak, he had recovered some control of his body.

He once again raised the SIG Sauer pistol, aimed at the half of the girl's head that was exposed, and attempted to pull the trigger—

Dong…

It was like a heavy hammer hitting his chest again.

His right hand, which had lost consciousness and could not be controlled, could no longer hold the SIG Sauer pistol, and fell to the ground with a clang.

And Lin Xian, like a sheep that had lost its spine and had its nerves removed, was tightly attached to the road surface, unable to move…

Sure enough, it was [Forced Evasion]!

Except that his body hadn't turned transparent, his current reaction was exactly the same as the Oriole who had been subjected to the Forced Evasion Laws that day.

But Lin Xian couldn't understand no matter what, why it was he who was subjected to Forced Evasion. This completely reversed the cause and effect!

Clearly he was a native of this Space-Time, and that Space-Time Assassin was an outsider.

But why!

In this matter, did the Space-Time Laws only protect that Space-Time Assassin, but not protect him?

Nowhere to appeal…

Lin Xian, who couldn't even appeal and couldn't even make a sound, could only watch as the girl with the dazzling blue light in her eyes stood up from behind the Mercedes car and walked towards him.

Was he going to be finished?

The other party was completely unrestricted by the Space-Time Laws, was so strong, and he couldn't move at all… Moreover, even if he could move, he would be inexplicably restricted by the Space-Time Laws and couldn't cause harm to the girl.

How could he win?

How could he possibly win?

"Lie down!!"

Suddenly!

Just as Lin Xian's hearing recovered!

A tender shout came from the rear of the road, accompanied by the violent engine sound that was coming:

"Lie down!!!"

Lin Xian didn't have time to distinguish and used the little strength he had just recovered… to tightly press his head on the road—

Boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A rapidly galloping Harley motorcycle flew from the air, directly over Lin Xian's head, and at a high speed that could only be seen by the naked eye, rushed towards the approaching Space-Time Assassin with an indestructible force!

Bang!

With a muffled sound.

The Space-Time Assassin, who had no time to dodge, was directly hit by the exaggerated Harley motorcycle. After flying out ten meters, she rolled several times on the ground before stopping.

She had just raised her brightly glowing blue eyes…

The crazy and violent Harley motorcycle swung around on the spot again and ran over the Space-Time Assassin again.

But this time, the Space-Time Assassin was prepared, and dodged the Harley motorcycle's crush with a timely leap.

Chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp——

The motorcycle brake discs burst out a series of sparks, and it was another tail swing, accurately parked horizontally in front of Lin Xian.

It was just that Lin Xian's body hadn't fully recovered its strength yet.

Although his eyeballs could already move his line of sight, he didn't have the strength to lift his head and couldn't see who was on the Harley motorcycle.

A small shoe stepped off the motorcycle.

Perhaps because the owner of the sneakers was not tall, the tall Harley motorcycle slanted completely.

A fair little hand grabbed the dropped SIG Sauer pistol from the motorcycle glove box, then immediately straightened the motorcycle and fired several shots at the back of