Genius Club-Chapter 534 - 1 History Lock_3

The air in the room became viscous.

It seemed as if it couldn’t flow.

Huang Que lowered her head:

"I can’t say."

...

Lin Xian let out a breath from his nose...

He remembered how on the Skyspace Aircraft, Chu Anqing had cried and held onto Huang Que;

He remembered the regretful and reluctant look in Chu Anqing’s eyes as she jumped from twenty thousand meters up;

He remembered that lively girl, Chu Shanhe’s pearl, the beloved little princess of East Sea City, just dispersing into dots of Blue Stardust before his eyes.

He couldn’t accept it.

He really couldn’t accept that the disappearance and departure of such a vibrant life could only be exchanged for a "can’t say."

"Huang Que."

Lin Xian looked up, his gaze firm as he regarded the woman across from him, both familiar and strange:

"I think I can guess who you are. I’ve asked you outright, even though you haven’t given me an answer, nor confirmed it for me. But I’m not a fool; I know who you are and why you’ve come, and I can roughly guess your purpose."

"However, allow me to speak frankly, I still can’t associate you two as the same person. I used to think you were very similar, but now I think you are nothing alike. You are you, she is she; I feel like you two are completely different people."

"I am also clear about the Space-time Law. I know about Space-Time Elasticity and Space-Time Exclusion. All those things that you didn’t let Chu Anqing and Gao Yang tell me, they told me anyway. So naturally, I understand that if you force out those words that touch upon Space-Time Elasticity, you’ll be hit back, you’ll suffer from Space-Time Exclusion, and you’ll be attacked by things like the law of causality..."

"But what about Chu Anqing? What about Zhao Yingjun from a certain future? What are they doing? What did they do? You once said that if we don’t catch this Space-Time Particle, everything, this whole world, would get unimaginably worse. Now indeed we have caught this Space-Time Particle... but I don’t feel like the result is much better."

"I’ve contacted Liu Feng; he conducted a simple test and check on the Space-Time Particle and found... that aside from being able to locate external spatial-temporal parameters and calibrate the ’[Space-Time Clock],’ this Space-Time Particle is almost useless now. The energy inside the Space-Time Particle is completely exhausted, it can’t play any role, and it has already assimilated with the current space-time. That means this whole capture operation’s sacrifices were so great... yet all we got was an uncertain universal function with no unique solution."

"I don’t know what your version of ’unimaginably worse’ looks like, but from my point of view, standing as an individual, with both VV and Chu Anqing having disappeared... I feel the current situation is already bad enough, so terrible that it’s unacceptable."

Pausing, Lin Xian turned around, prepared to leave:

"I came to you today, not to force you, not to pressure you into spilling those truths. Naturally, I would like to know the truth and the answers, of course, but you have your thoughts, your purposes, and your life. You are afraid of Space-Time Exclusion and unwilling to speak those things, which I can totally understand."

"You indeed have helped me a lot and warned me about many things. I can’t say that coming this far was wrong, but for me, the sacrifice was too great. If such a victory, success is the outcome you desire, then I’m sorry, this is not what I want to see, nor is it something I can accept."

"Since you’re unwilling to speak, then there’s nothing more I can say. Actually... my main purpose today is to say goodbye to you."

Lin Xian turned his back completely, walking toward the door:

"According to your words and plans, it seems like the Space-Time Particle is a magical weapon, a precious sword that can sweep away thousands of armies and emerge victorious in every battle."

"But if so many people, so many things, have to be sacrificed just to obtain this sword, just to achieve this bloodstained victory... then I’d rather not have it."

His right hand grasped the door handle:

"I don’t believe that your plan is the only solution to save the world or protect the future. It isn’t necessary to sacrifice certain things to save something; nor is it necessary to take up the bloodstained precious sword of the Space-Time Particle to achieve final victory."

Lin Xian pressed down with force, pushing the door handle down:

"[Even without this sword, I can still win.]"

Click.

The lock opened, Lin Xian pulled open the door—

"It’s different, Lin Xian."

Behind him.

Huang Que spoke softly:

"I’ve emphasized countless times; it’s not that I don’t want to say it, nor that I can’t say it, but that I have no way to say it."

She looked up, her pale blue eyes watching Lin Xian as he pulled the door handle:

"Can you truly understand what ’no way to say it’ means?"

Lin Xian turned around.

He couldn’t distinguish.

"Lin Xian, if it were just that I didn’t want to say it, I would have already told you. I’m not afraid of Space-Time Exclusion, nor am I afraid of these things backfiring on me. I’ve done so much already; why would I spare this tiny bit of time?"

Huang Que lifted her head:

"Look at me, Lin Xian."

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Their eyes met.

Lin Xian’s deep black pupils faced Huang Que’s deep blue eyes.

"Really look at me."

Huang Que stared unblinkingly at Lin Xian, uttering slowly, word by word:

"The Millennium Stakes are—"

Suddenly, Huang Que was like someone had choked her! She was silenced mid-sentence!

"What?"

Lin Xian thought he hadn’t heard clearly, and took a step forward.

Huang Que bit her lip, beads of sweat appearing on her forehead.

Her hands trembled as she reached behind to support herself on the table:

"The Millennium Stakes are—"