146 Call Me Dad
When night fell, the hamster finally slipped out of Sakata Yuto’s house. At this time, a police car had already parked in front of Sakata Yuto’s house.
On a bench two hundred meters away, Wang Heng saw the police car with its flashing lights, stood up, and stretched.
Sure enough, less than a minute later, the hamster returned to his feet.
Wang Heng bent down to pick up the hamster and asked, “Where’s the taser?”
The hamster: “Disposed of, of course. I handle things, you can rest assured.”
Wang Heng nodded and asked again, “Did that guy who wanted to take revenge on society last so long under your might?”
The hamster shook its little head. “Actually, shocking him twice was enough. It’s just that the power of the electric shock was a bit strong, so it took a lot of time for him to wake up. But anyway, the result is good. He turned himself in. However, with an attempt plus surrender, the current laws of Sakura Island definitely won’t give him a heavy sentence.”
“It doesn’t matter. As long as he can’t implicate innocent people anymore, I don’t have any other demands, and I’m too lazy to care.”
With that, Wang Heng walked towards the subway station.
As he walked, he pondered secretly. The hamster’s actions this time, and the limitations shown by the ability of ‘foresight’, made him have many conjectures. And one of these conjectures, the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed.
The hamster squatted in his palm, originally squinting and enjoying the human sedan chair. But suddenly, it heard a question thrown by Wang Heng, was startled, and stood up straight.
“Are you really a Spacetime Administrator?”
The hamster looked up and glared at him. “What, you doubt me?”
Wang Heng thought for a moment and said, “Believing without reason is foolish. Actually, from the very beginning, I started to doubt. It’s just that your performance in the past half year… although you often screw me over, generally speaking, there shouldn’t be any malice.”
The hamster put its hands on its hips. “Of course!”
Wang Heng: “But your recent performance has made me start to doubt again. If you were really a Spacetime Administrator, you should be similar to a god of this world. But now it seems your abilities are quite limited. Besides predicting the future, you just have stronger mobility than ordinary animals, but no supernatural abilities.”
The hamster mocked, “What superpowers do you want? Do you really want me to generate electricity with my body and act as Pikachu for you?”
Wang Heng shook his head slightly. “Okay, let’s take a step back and just discuss your ability to predict the future. It’s very obvious that this ability of yours is not perfect either. For example, this time, you didn’t know who the real culprit was until the first flight accident was prevented. It’s like knowing what’s at the bottom of the river only after the river has been diverted. A Spacetime Administrator shouldn’t be like this. Your gaze should be able to penetrate everything and see all events clearly.”
The hamster didn’t defend itself anymore, just looked at him askance. “Then what do you think I am?”
Wang Heng considered his words and said, “So your main body should be a person standing in the future. The history you can observe at any time is the future for me. This can explain many problems. For example, this time you didn’t know at first that the real culprit of the flight accident was the pilot, but after we prevented it once, the future must have changed, so this real culprit was finally exposed in the subsequent observation, so you knew.”
The hamster shook its head. “What a rich imagination.”
Wang Heng: “Then, logically speaking, why did you look for me? A scumbag and four girls will affect the whole world? I don’t believe that. A more reasonable explanation should be that the future of this scumbag and four girls directly affected you.”
The hamster: “…”
Wang Heng snapped his fingers and deduced with certainty, “Why can they and I affect you? Unless there is a direct causal relationship between you and us… So, you are actually my son, right?”
The hamster’s fur instantly stood on end. “Which screw is loose in your brain! Say it again, your reasoning is all nonsense. I am the Spacetime Administrator!”
Wang Heng teased the hamster in his palm with his finger and smiled. “Be good, call me Dad.”
The hamster kicked his finger away and roared, “Get lost!”
Wang Heng: “Tell me the truth, who is your mother?”
The hamster turned its back, patted its butt at him, indicating that it didn’t want to talk to him.
As if he had won a round in the confrontation with the hamster, Wang Heng smiled leisurely and proudly, walking towards the hotel where he was temporarily staying.
Wang Heng: “Good son, will you screw over your dad in the future?”
The hamster: “Get lost!”
**
After the flight was delayed, Lu Qi wandered the streets of Edo alone again.
Those male colleagues said they were going to Kabukicho to “see the world,” and she wasn’t interested in that. Following them would only spoil their fun, so she naturally could only wander alone.
When she strolled to the entrance of an unknown park, Lu Qi’s phone suddenly rang.
It was a colleague, the lead game designer, calling. As soon as the call connected, he said anxiously, “Director Lu, have you seen the news? It’s the flight we were going to take again. Something went wrong again!”
“Okay, I’ll check right now.”
Hanging up the phone, Lu Qi quickly found the latest social news report using her mobile browser and turned on the translation app to translate the page into Chinese.
【36-year-old captain attempts suicide, using the entire plane as a sacrifice!】
This shocking headline made Lu Qi’s heart beat faster instantly. Reading further, although the news didn’t explicitly mention the flight name, there weren’t many planes flying from Edo to China at that time. Moreover, the news also mentioned that the plane the captain was going to fly had already had a problem once, and the police had found suspicious explosives on it, so it was delayed.
Without a doubt, it was talking about the plane she and her colleagues were going to take.
Putting away her phone, Lu Qi stared blankly at the quiet park ahead, her eyes flickering.
Such abnormal, low-probability events falling on her head, and two unexpected dangers exposed in advance, gave her a feeling—in the dark, there seemed to be some will preventing her from leaving Sakura Island?
But on second thought, Lu Qi mocked herself again, “Thinking too much. I’m not some big shot. How could it be so exaggerated… It should just be an accidental coincidence, right?”
She shook her head and walked into the park.
Suddenly, Lu Qi noticed something seemed to be placed on a swing in the park. Anyway, she was free now, so why not go and take a look?
She walked to the swing and picked up the small thing that looked like a miniature flashlight.
“What is this… a taser? Is this maximum voltage allowed by the laws of Sakura Island?”
Suddenly, Lu Qi remembered something, hurriedly took out her phone, and opened the machine-translated news again.
“The suspect captain confessed that he witnessed a god manifesting in the form of a hamster. The god punished him with lightning techniques, making him realize his sins and willing to repent sincerely, so he turned himself in. The police also found traces of electric shock on his body, inferring the voltage… Is it such a coincidence?”
Lu Qi sat on the swing, carefully observing the taser in her hand. Suddenly, she found that there was still unpeeled double-sided tape on it, with tiny claw prints of a rodent attached to the tape. So she couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.
