On may 18th tong yang experienced two cycles.
The first time, she was killed by the jerk of a mother from the parallel world because she wasn’t mentally prepared.
The second time, not wanting the butterfly effect to affect others, she killed the jerk mother out of a strong desire to survive. After that, she wasn’t sure if she died from excessive blood loss or fell into a deep coma, entering the loop.
On June 3rd, Sun Ye fell to his death. To test if deep sleep could enter the loop, she tried again and returned to ten minutes before Sun Ye’s death.
On June 8th, during the last comprehensive science exam, the invigilator took advantage of the situation and killed everyone in Exam Room 1209, causing her to fall and enter the loop.
On June 25th, she thought Tong Le had drowned and repeatedly entered the time loop.
In the early hours of August 13th, she entered the time loop again at a murder mystery venue.
Connecting all these events, after the people in the real world she was involved with before and after the loop died, they would definitely regain their memories at the moment of death, except for those children who fell into a coma before drowning and had no idea they had died once.
However, the corresponding situation was that the humans in the parallel world did not regain their memories due to the time loop.
Whether it was the jerk mother from the parallel world, the order maintainer from August 13th, or the enforcers and residents of the parallel world who were killed by them in several loops, none of them regained their memories at the time of death.
This meant that after Tong Yang entered the time loop, only the people from the real world could regain their memories at the time of death.
But Ye Huai regained his memory!
This proved that he was not a person from the parallel world!
The reason he could take them across the world barrier without being punished like He Jingjing was that he originally wasn’t a person from the parallel world!
The reason Ye Huai could take them through the time barrier coincided with Tong Yang’s previous guess!
Meng Xiao had said that if people from the parallel world and the real world exchanged organs, the understanding of the world barrier would become chaotic, and no matter which world they died in, the body would not return to its true world.
“Ye Huai, you are not a person from the parallel world,” Tong Yang said without warning.
“What?” Ye Huai was stunned.
Tong Yang raised her hand to cover her eyes and gradually smiled. She thought she was at the end of her rope, but unexpectedly, it made her think of a solution.
A part of Ye Huai’s body belonged to the parallel world, so he could take them back and forth between the two worlds.
In this case, since everyone didn’t have the conditions to gather together to receive guidance to leave the parallel world, only she and Tang Shuyan had enough time to use the intercom to guide them out through the broadcast.
If one of them could be made like Ye Huai, wouldn’t that work?
The conditions needed to traverse worlds were darkness and quiet. Since it was daytime now, it didn’t meet the conditions, so they needed to find a suitable place.
When the script said to kill in the venue, the conditions weren’t that strict; it didn’t have to be done in a completely dark and closed space.
“Chu Shiyu, is your basement space enough?”
Chu Shiyu replied, “The basement is very large, with nothing in it, it’s enough.”
“Xu Junyue, find a room with poor lighting. If there isn’t one, block all the light with bodies.”
“Ye Huai, there’s an independent garage on the right side of the study. The key should be with the safe key. You can try to open it now and see if the space is enough.”
Ye Huai said, “Okay.”
“What about us?”
“What about me? Sister Tong Yang?”
Ye Huai, Chu Shiyu, and Xu Junyue had already regained their memories at the time of death and knew that Tong Yang had probably thought of a solution after entering the loop, so they didn’t interrupt.
“You drive the car in.”
“Yan Qing, you don’t need to worry.”
The armored vehicle, like the previous times, drove into the base gate.
“The garage can be opened, it’s empty, and the space is enough.”
Xu Junyue said, “I also found a basement.”
Tong Yang smiled, “Then please die once more.”
“Huh?”
“Okay.”
“Alright…”
Gunshots rang in the headphones as the three committed suicide again.
Tong Yang had a solution, but implementing it wasn’t easy.
She needed to replace a part of herself or Tang Shuyan within a few minutes to turn them into confused people like Ye Huai, so she could guide everyone out through the broadcast.
If this were in the real world, such a thing would be absolutely impossible.
But this wasn’t the real world.
This was a parallel world with gene drugs and bodies that could heal automatically.
When she cut off Aunt Liu’s head and inserted it into the flowerbed, the flesh that had completely separated from the body was still growing, proving that the gene drug’s effect wasn’t limited to a single organ but to the entire body.
Since the growing flesh couldn’t find other body parts, it couldn’t complete the healing.
So, if Aunt Liu’s head were placed on another body, would the flesh connect and heal with the other body?
Just like grafting plants, if it were placed on another plant, would they grow together?
If it could be done, a person who had injected the gene drug could complete healing in a few minutes and could guide everyone back to the real world through the broadcast at the command base!
The armored vehicle sped to the internal door of the base, and Tong Yang skillfully jumped out of the car window, saying to Tang Shuyan, “Block them.”
“No problem.”
Using her ID card to open the internal door, Tong Yang hurried to conduct the experiment, grabbing a blonde technician and slicing off a piece of flesh from her shoulder, picking up the bloody piece of meat, and walking to another technician, mimicking the grafting method to cut off the same piece of flesh from him. Then she pressed the wriggling, growing flesh of the woman onto it, and surprisingly, they slowly fused together!
It worked!
As long as they used this method, they could become like Ye Huai!
The current situation was clear; the only person suitable to use this method was her.
The other enforcers in the base, Tang Shuyan drove to block them to prevent them from breaking in, while Tong Yang couldn’t drive.
After all, they would have to enter the loop at least once more, so why not make good use of it?
The two pieces of differently colored skin fitting together were a bit too obvious.
Tong Yang frowned, realizing that having her replace the organs in her body was simply impossible. Even she might not be able to endure the pain of peeling her body to extract organs, but…
She looked around the base and found no one with a skin color similar to hers. She didn’t want Tong Le to see her; he would definitely overthink it. If the fusion happened in an invisible place… no, just thinking about it made her feel sick.
Tong Yang thoughtfully looked at the foreign woman’s hair. Besides her, the command base was filled with men. If the fusion didn’t continue to grow after, it would be a disaster. She actually preferred long hair over short hair.
Moreover, the woman’s hair color was quite nice, and the quality was good. Even if Tong Le and others asked, she could say she dyed it on a whim.
She just didn’t know if replacing a part of the scalp would allow her to be like Ye Huai.
“Forget it, let’s give it a try.”
Tong Yang grabbed the woman’s hair and cut off a palm-sized piece of scalp from the top of her head, looking at the wriggling flesh inside, her face showing disgust.
Next, she just needed to cut open her own scalp…
Tong Yang gritted her teeth, thinking she should have asked them for some compensation before coming in. She didn’t need to think to know how painful it would be.
Tong Yang even thought about pulling Tang Shuyan down from the armored vehicle, but the situation outside was chaotic, so she let him block for now. Besides, if she could traverse the world barrier herself in the future, she wouldn’t need to trouble the sickly Ye Huai anymore.
If she cut off her scalp, wouldn’t that leave a pit in her head? If this woman died later, wouldn’t her scalp disappear too?
It shouldn’t, Meng Xiao had said that as long as the woman died in the parallel world, her organs in the real world wouldn’t disappear.
Now, if she killed her, the scalp wouldn’t disappear.
Damn parallel world, one day she would make sure to kill them all.
Before long, Tong Yang entered the loop again, returning to the armored vehicle.
Her face was pale, and her hands tightly gripped the handle above her seat.
“Five hundred thousand…” Tong Yang’s voice was hoarse, “No matter if you have money or not, after leaving here, you need to give me five hundred thousand.”
“Okay…” Chu Shiyu replied in a low voice.
Even if they hadn’t fully regained their memories, they could guess how many times Tong Yang had entered the loop.
“You should be regaining your memories soon. Before the self-destruct program starts, I will guide you back through the broadcast. There is only one chance. If you stay here, I won’t do it again.”
“Okay.”
“Understood.”
“I can’t believe it! I remembered! I’m going to the basement now!”
Ye Huai paused and asked, “How will you guide us out?”
“Let’s talk after we go out.”
“In two minutes, I will cut off the central satellite receiver. You use the key to open the safe and let Yan Qing out, then just take her to the garage.”
Ye Huai said, “…Okay.”
“Quickly.”
“I got it.”
Yan Qing was confused, “Why can’t I understand what you guys are saying?”
Among these people, only she and Tang Shuyan hadn’t experienced the loop.
However, even if Tang Shuyan didn’t have the memories of the previous loops, he had guessed some things.
Tong Yang pulled out the grenade pin and threw three or four of them inside in one go.
Tang Shuyan drove straight to the internal gate of the base, running over two enforcers, and Tong Yang immediately jumped out of the car window.
Using her ID card to open the base gate, the broadcast sounded again.
“Attention all residents of District One, the time anchor has successfully invaded the command base. We will urgently seek assistance from superiors to destroy it.”
“Attention all residents of District One, the time anchor has successfully invaded the command base. We will urgently seek assistance from superiors to destroy it.”
“Attention all residents of District One, the time anchor has successfully invaded the command base. We will urgently seek assistance from superiors to destroy it.”
As she walked towards the blonde woman, she said to the others, “Turn off the central satellite receiver.”
“Yes.”
“You all hurry to the basement and garage,” Tong Yang said into the headset.
Before her words finished, the call was already cut off.
Tong Yang grabbed the woman’s hair and cut off a palm-sized piece of scalp from the top of her head, her golden hair and Tong Yang’s hands stained with blood.
“Bang——”
Tang Shuyan had killed most of the enforcers and blocked the internal door of the base with the car, jumping out of the front door.
“Tong Yang…”
He looked at this scene in shock, the rest of his words stuck in his throat.
Tong Yang leaned against the control panel on the ground, her right cheek stained with blood, her lips as pale as paper, breathing weakly.
She held a bunch of black hair in her hand, and the hair on the right side of her head had turned golden, wriggling and drilling into her scalp.
“What are you looking at?” Tong Yang’s voice was calm, her expression indifferent, but she was already drenched in sweat.
Tang Shuyan was stunned, and when he saw Tong Yang trying to stand up from the ground, he immediately stepped forward to help her.
“Is this the method you thought of?”
“Yeah.”
Tong Yang used his arm’s strength to stand up, the blood and flesh on her head not fully fused, the pain mixed with an unbearable itch as if countless ants were crawling on the wound.
“Open the air raid shelter.”
Tong Yang said to the technicians.
“Yes.”
Not far away, a hidden door slowly opened.
Tong Yang held the intercom connected to all broadcasts in District One. After experiencing two excruciating pains, she was somewhat unable to hold on and was too lazy to move, saying, “You carry me in.”
“Okay.” Tang Shuyan bent down and carried Tong Yang on his back, walking into the air raid shelter with a complicated mood.
“There’s a switch on the left, turn off the lights.”
“Okay.”
Tong Yang lay on his shoulder, her breathing so light it was almost imperceptible.
Before the last loop, Tong Yang used the “elevator game” to return to the real world alone, just to test if replacing the scalp with the technicians from the parallel world could achieve the same effect as Ye Huai.
The fact proved that this was enough.
She successfully returned to the real world.
Three minutes had passed since the central satellite receiver was turned off, and the others should have entered their respective places where they could play the “elevator game.”
They could safely return to the real world with high-quality gene drugs and Yan Qing.
Tong Yang opened the intercom, her voice echoing throughout District One: “In ten seconds, I will guide you back to the real world. If you fail, I won’t do it again.”
“I am the time anchor; try to kill me.”
The second sentence was what Tong Yang said to all the residents of District One and the entire parallel world.
Because of these damn things, her peaceful life had been destroyed.
“Please close your eyes.”
Tong Yang and Tang Shuyan closed their eyes simultaneously, and the surroundings fell into darkness.
The glass dome above District One had already begun to crack.
“Please do not turn around, take ten steps back.”
Tang Shuyan, carrying Tong Yang, steadily stepped back.
Unclear if others had completed it at the same time, Tong Yang paused for a few seconds before speaking again.
“Please walk forward four steps.”
“Please do not turn around, take twelve steps back.”
“Please walk forward four steps.”
“Please do not turn around, take twenty steps back.”
“Please walk forward ten steps.”
At this point, they had already entered the world interlayer.
“Please choose to move forward or take twenty steps back.”
“Please choose whether to open your eyes.”
Tong Yang’s voice suddenly became distant.
She slowly opened her eyes, and in front of her was a bright subway passage.
Tong Yang knew they had successfully returned.
Before entering the parallel world for the second time, they had already cleared the location of District One in the real world with the police. The subway had long stopped running, and the subway passage was empty.
“We’re back?”
“Put me down.”
“Okay.”
Tong Yang supported herself against the cold wall of the subway passage, threw away the intercom, took out her phone, and dialed the group chat.
The phone signal had been restored, though still unstable.
She tightened her pale lip line, and the golden hair had completely fused with her scalp, showing no signs of injury, as if they were born as one.
Tong Yang looked at the screen, and as the dialing time increased, messages gradually popped up.
【Ah ah ah ah so boring】
【What is Sister Tong doing? She hasn’t come out for a long time】
【I thought nothing happened in the capital in September】
【@Learning is for making money@Learning is for making money@Learning is for making money】
【Sister, are you still alive? Just say something】
Learning is for making money: 【Yes】
【？？？】
【You are still alive?】
【Hahahahaha】
【Sister Tong, what have you been doing these days? You’ve been offline for so long】
【Exactly】
【As your most loyal leg accessory, I’m particularly worried about you】
Learning is for making money: 【I went to the parallel world】
【Ah？？？】
【I’m shocked! Sister Tong is doing big things quietly!】
【My sister, you really can’t sit still】
【Are you okay?】
【Sister, should I help you check if anything has happened in the capital recently?】
Learning is for making money: 【No, school starts in a few days. Don’t tell me anything except for the Earth exploding】
【Okay!】
【Received!】
【Understood!】
Ending the topic, they remained true to their original intentions, enthusiastically discussing what ridiculous things had happened around them. Tong Yang glanced a few times, found it uninteresting, and exited the chat box.
During this time, she had met quite a few people, and the list had many unfamiliar avatars sending messages. Tong Yang didn’t know who was who, casually picked a few to reply, and unexpectedly found that the admissions teacher from Qing University had sent her a message a few days ago, saying that it was still not too late to regret choosing Qing University.
Tong Yang smiled and didn’t reply.
Exiting the chat box, she suddenly saw that a person with the nickname “A Little Pink Flower” had accepted her friend request a few days ago.
Tong Yang frowned, remembering that it was the group owner of the gossip group she had added about half a month ago.
He actually accepted?
Learning is for making money: 【Who are you】
Tong Yang immediately sent a message.
Thinking the other side wouldn’t reply, the message rang less than half a minute later.
Little Pink Flower: 【Hello】
Learning is for making money: 【Who are you?】
Little Pink Flower: 【Sorry, I can’t tell you】
Learning is for making money: 【What is your purpose?】
Little Pink Flower: 【Perhaps our purposes are the same】
Learning is for making money: 【Do you know about the parallel world?】
Little Pink Flower: 【Yes, I know】
Learning is for making money: 【Why is there a time displacement?】
Little Pink Flower: 【Wormhole effect】
Wormhole effect?
From what Tong Yang understood, this was an unproven tunnel that could connect two different times and spaces.
Many scientists believe that wormholes can allow time and space travel, and Tong Yang had also studied the wormhole effect in her spare time, but she didn’t have that much professional knowledge. Given the current level of human science, it was almost impossible to prove the existence of wormholes.
Recalling the age in his profile, Tong Yang asked: 【Are you from 120 years later?】
His profile age was indeed 120 years.
In over a hundred years, perhaps humans in the real world would be able to achieve time travel through wormholes.
Little Pink Flower: 【No】
Learning is for making money: 【But your profile says 120 years】
Little Pink Flower: 【……】
Little Pink Flower: 【I’m from twelve years later】
Tong Yang furrowed her brows. The “Water Friend Gossip 007” group chat was created in 2026, two years later, and the group members had seen that the group had been created for ten years. The group owner indeed came from 2036.
Learning is for making money: 【Are we in the same world?】
Little Pink Flower: 【Yes】
Learning is for making money: 【Did you deliberately gather us in this group? Am I related to the time anchor?】
Little Pink Flower: 【You will find out】
Learning is for making money: 【Why can’t you tell me now?】
Little Pink Flower: 【I am a time traveler. Revealing too much to you will make the future uncontrollable due to the butterfly effect】
Learning is for making money: 【If you can’t say anything, why accept the friend request?】
Little Pink Flower: 【…… I haven’t talked to you for a long time】
Learning is for making money: 【Do we know each other?】
Little Pink Flower: 【You don’t know me】
Tong Yang had always been a bold person, so she simply made a video call.
As expected, the other party hung up.
Learning is for making money: 【Don’t you want to meet me?】
Little Pink Flower: 【…… No】
Learning is for making money: 【Why? You don’t need to tell me what you know, and it won’t create a butterfly effect】
Little Pink Flower: 【You don’t know me】
After that, no matter what Tong Yang sent, the other party didn’t reply again.
Tong Yang felt a bit baffled and couldn’t find any clues for a moment.
She didn’t know him, but he knew her? Who could it be?
However, there should be many people like that. After all, she had been on trending searches a few times, and sometimes people would recognize her on the street and ask for her contact information.
She looked at the quiet phone screen, gradually falling into thought.
A time traveler who established a group chat through a wormhole, knew about the parallel world and the time anchor, probably deliberately set the time anchor on her.
The same purpose…
Wanting to fight against the parallel world with her?
Had the scientific level in the country developed to such an extent twelve years later? Could they really use wormholes for time travel?
But so many people had been killed by the parallel world; why did they choose her to be the time anchor? Was it just because she had good grades?
If it was just to fight against the invasion of the parallel world together, why not say it directly? After all, she survived because of the time anchor; she would help him even to survive.
“What are you thinking? You look so deep in thought.” Chu Shiyu came out after taking a shower and asked when she saw Tong Yang lost in thought.
Tong Yang asked, “Do you believe in the wormhole effect?”
Chu Shiyu said, “I didn’t believe it before, but now I do.”
Tong Yang felt she was asking a pointless question.
The parallel world and time loops had appeared, proving that the wormhole effect existed.
Was the reason humans from the parallel world could traverse between the two worlds related to the wormhole?
Tong Yang lowered her head and opened the learning website to search for videos of Peking University professors explaining wormholes.
Chu Shiyu rolled her eyes beside her. During this time, she had completely realized what Tong Yang could do for her studies. It wouldn’t be surprising if the country awarded her a national best effort award.
After all the hard work to come out of the parallel world and experiencing things that ordinary people couldn’t bear, she could just sleep and be fully revived. It was truly admirable how diligent and hardworking she was.
However, Tong Yang had always been like this; she never allowed herself to have a half-hearted attitude in anything. She had to reach the peak and do it to the extreme.
On September 6th, Friday.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, Tong Yang, along with Chu Shiyu and Xu Junyue, appeared at the gate of Peking University Affiliated Primary School.
They had already informed Yang’s mother in advance to take Tong Le and Yang Lin out for dinner before returning.
At three-thirty, the school bell rang.
Since they were not in the same teaching building and were quite far apart, first, Yang Lin and a few classmates came out together.
“Sister Shiyu, Sister Tong Yang, Sister Junyue.”
Yang Lin obediently carried his backpack and walked up to the three, greeting each of them.
“Yang Lin, we’re leaving.”
“Okay.”
“See you on Monday.”
“See you on Monday.”
After saying goodbye to his classmates, Yang Lin ran to Tong Yang and the others.
“Sister! Sister Shiyu, Sister Junyue.”
Tong Yang lifted his backpack, but he immediately stopped her.
“Sister, my backpack is heavy; I’ll carry it myself.”
“Alright.”
Tong Yang didn’t insist and let go.
“Sister, what happened to your hand?” Yang Le frowned, noticing the bandage wrapped around her hand.
Chu Shiyu said, “She accidentally burned herself while pouring water; it’s nothing serious.”
Yang Le looked gloomy, “Sister, be careful! Does it still hurt…”
“It doesn’t hurt.” Before he could finish, Tong Yang interrupted, “Let’s go, let’s go shopping at the mall, and then I’ll take you out for dinner tonight.”
Xu Junyue hooked her arm around Tong Yang’s shoulder and said, “Lele, how does Sister’s hair look?”
Yang Le looked up and nodded, “So pretty!”
Yang Lin said, “I think it’s very pretty too.”
“Right? I think so too!”
“Shut up, let’s go.”
A new arcade had opened at the nearby mall, and they planned to take the two kids to relax.
Once they arrived, they bought several hundred yuan worth of game tokens and let them find the games they wanted to play.
Tong Yang’s hand was injured, making it inconvenient for her, so she wandered around a few times and let Chu Shiyu and Xu Junyue accompany them to play.
As they passed the resting area in the middle, she caught sight of someone sitting in the corner out of the corner of her eye.
The boy was wearing a black T-shirt, a baseball cap, and a mask, with only some fine hair showing on his face, leaning against the seat with his head down.
Tong Yang paused her gaze and turned to walk over to the resting area, sitting directly next to the boy.
The boy stiffened, seemingly not expecting her to approach suddenly, and immediately buried his head lower.
“We’ve met twice, once when you were feeding a little black cat, and another time when I passed by on my bike,” Tong Yang said lightly.
The boy stiffened, turning his face to the other side, mumbling, “Sorry, I don’t remember.”
“Is that so?” Tong Yang extended a hand towards him, “Then can we be friends? I’m Tong Yang.”
The boy almost buried his head into his chest, his ears and the exposed part of his face turning red, “I was just passing by…”
“We meeting is also fate, and I think you look a lot like someone I know.”
The boy was taken aback and instinctively turned to look at her.
Tong Yang noticed that not only was his face red, but his eyes were also red.
“Sister.”
Yang Le came running to the resting area, holding a doll.
The boy immediately lowered his head, seemingly planning to get up and leave.
“Don’t move,” Tong Yang said lightly.
The boy instantly froze in place, not daring to move.
“Sister, I caught this for you! Here!”
It was a cute SpongeBob SquarePants doll.
“Thank you.”
“Sister, your hand hurts and you can’t play. Do you want any dolls? I’ll catch them all for you!”
Tong Yang said, “You don’t need to worry about me; just have fun.”
“I want my sister to be happy too!”
Tong Yang suddenly raised her hand into the air, her tone serious: “Tong Le, stretch out your hand.”
The boy’s body trembled.
“Oh…” Yang Le nodded.
Suddenly, before he reached out, another hand stretched out from beside Tong Yang.
