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Chapter 7 Did I Time Travel?

Xu Lun continued, "These shadowy figures neither speak nor have eyes, but they can sense this thing."

He pointed to the gold bracelet on his left wrist.

The woman nodded, but didn't interrupt.

"These shadowy figures are strange. When they are still, they are like mannequins, without any reaction."

But once it moves, it looks quite bizarre... Sometimes it crawls around on the wall like an animal...

Sometimes, they just stand there wandering around like a bunch of zombies...

But once they lock onto their target...

Xu Lun swallowed hard, unable to help but recall the scene of him escaping from the alley on his bicycle:

The shadowy figures watched him run further and further away, then suddenly exerted their strength and pounced on him like ghosts...

Xu Lun snapped out of his daze and couldn't help but shiver.

Seeing this, the woman comforted her:

"Don't worry, you're safe now."

And just like I said, when we found you, you were just lying unconscious on the ground, and you were not seriously injured.

However, based on the current description, we cannot determine the exact origin of the dark figures you mentioned.

And as for the bracelet on your wrist, we know nothing about its origin.

Believe it or not, we don't even know why Yami took this thing to the [616] universe.

Therefore, your information is very important to us.

After escaping from the alley, you ride your bike wildly through the streets, dodging the pursuit of those shadowy figures.

We did see it by reviewing the surveillance videos along the street.

But the place where you finally collapsed is more than two kilometers away from the alley where you met Yamei, even in a straight line.

Moreover, as I mentioned earlier, an unusual energy fluctuation occurred where you collapsed, impacting the entire street's power system and rendering all the cameras in that area unusable, leaving no valid video recordings.

According to our subsequent investigation, you should be a food delivery driver, right?

The last shop you stayed in was your food delivery station.

"What happened there? Could you explain?"

Xu Lun remained silent. He looked at the document on the other person's lap and realized that his personal information had probably already been obtained.

Actually, it's nothing. I'm just a working-class person, an ordinary citizen. What problems could there be?

However, there was something strange about the way this woman spoke, it was as if...

It's as if she doesn't belong to this world.

Her understanding of the world seemed to come entirely from the information she possessed.

She simply read the contents of the book verbatim.

Xu Lun's gaze shifted once again to the vast sea of ​​stars outside the window.

Could this woman be an alien?

But the colleague she mentioned, Yami, that girl spoke with a thick Japanese accent and didn't look like an alien.

Could it be another world?

The woman didn't pay much attention when Xu Lun stopped talking.

She knew that the other person was just an ordinary person from Universe 616, and he needed some time to process this information.

So the woman remained silent and continued looking at her documents.

After a moment, Xu Lun suddenly spoke:

"By the way, if you can see the surveillance footage near the alley entrance, didn't you... find any trace of your colleague?"

The woman paused slightly, then instantly understood his meaning and said:

"I understand what you're trying to say, but Yami... she has some special methods to evade our tracking."

Otherwise, we wouldn't have gone through so much trouble, and still have no clue whatsoever.

In the end, she laughed at herself, a laugh tinged with helplessness and a hint of speechlessness.

Yami really messed up this time, catching the department off guard and causing widespread panic.

If they catch her...

The woman dared not think any further.

Xu Lun listened to her explanation but didn't say anything. Whether it was true or false, it wasn't something a commoner like him should care about.

He just wanted to figure out his situation.

"I went back to our station, rested for a while, and then those dark figures came knocking on our door."

Xu Lun continued to recall.

"I remember that the bracelet was still glowing back then."

Glowing light?

The woman frowned.

Xu Lun nodded, showed his wrist with the back of his hand facing the woman, and explained:

"It was this crystal-like part that suddenly started to glow, a blue light, flashing like a breathing light."

Then I realized something was wrong outside; it was too dark and too quiet.

Our station manager was still outside at the time. I called him twice, but there was no response.

Oh, right...

Xu Lun seemed to have suddenly thought of something.

"Is our stationmaster... alright?"

The woman shook her head:

"Let's not talk about him. We've investigated and found no casualties."

The stationmaster you mentioned was buying cigarettes at a nearby store at the time.

When we arrived, he had only just returned to the store.

So at the time of the incident, you were the only one in that store, and no one saw what happened.

Moreover, it seems that no one else has seen those shadowy figures you mentioned, except for you.

So the current situation is that you are our only witness, and you are our only source of information.

Upon hearing this, Xu Lun fell into deep thought.

No one was injured, and no one saw the shadowy monsters...

But Yami, she could see that she had asked her at the time if those dark figures were coming for her.

And speaking of injuries, if no one else is injured, then what happened to my hand?

Even if his left hand was blown off and it was just a hallucination, the shadowy figure had grabbed his arm before that.

Xu Lun still remembers that heart-wrenching pain.

But looking at his arm again, there wasn't even a mark left, which was truly unbelievable.

Unless, of course, the bracelet possesses some kind of magical regenerative ability that rapidly repaired his injured arm.

Seeing that Xu Lun was silent again, the woman thought he was suspicious of something, so she explained:

"Don't misunderstand, it's not that we don't believe what you're saying, it's just that this matter is too strange, and you are our only clue."

In fact, your information is very important to us. Before we found Yamei, we could only learn about the situation from you.

So we really want to know, what exactly happened back then?

What caused that unusual energy fluctuation?

Could it be related to the bracelet you're wearing?

Xu Lun snapped out of his daze, thought for a moment, and said:

"I'm not sure if the energy fluctuation you're talking about is the same thing I'm seeing."

All I know is that those shadowy figures want this bracelet, and I'm just an ordinary citizen; I don't want to get involved in this kind of thing.

The woman nodded: "I understand."