On a tranquil night, a deep blue light sliced through the darkness and landed in the palm of the female agent.
In the blink of an eye, a second-generation Resident Identity Card materialized out of thin air in her hand.
The name on the card was Feng Na, age twenty-one, with a registered domicile in Bincheng, Liaoning Province.
Although this ID was a forgery, future technology made it completely reliable. The moment the counterfeit card appeared, the national computer system would instantly synchronize Feng Na’s personal information, and with current technology, no one could detect any anomaly.
Precisely because time travel was so effortless and difficult to notice, many time travelers had appeared in the world. Apart from the officially sanctioned time travel by the Time Management Bureau, plenty of people had traversed time on their own.
For instance, Wang Mang, who usurped the Han Dynasty, was the very first time traveler.
According to declassified archives of the Time Management Bureau, on the world line Feng Na inhabited, there were no fewer than ten thousand time travelers, and many of them had become historically famous figures.
On other world lines, the problem of time travelers was especially severe. Those travelers willfully altered the original course of history, even causing jaw-dropping events such as the Ming Dynasty colonizing the Americas, the French Army marching into Berlin, and South American countries establishing a Socialist Federation to liberate North America.
A butterfly in South America flapping its wings occasionally could trigger a terrifying storm somewhere else.
On the current world line, there were also many singularities.
The Tsukiyuki Zaibatsu, as the foremost of J-Country’s Four Great Zaibatsu, was particularly suspicious. On other world lines, although Tsukiyuki was still the leader of the Four Great Zaibatsu, it was far from being as powerful as it was on this one.
7-Eleven laid out a cold chain industry, built aircraft carriers, acquired rare earth at rock-bottom prices, turned shattered glass into treasure to rake in massive profits, and purchased low-priced grain in distant South America to ensure strategic security…
Over the years, it was as if the Tsukiyuki Family possessed a “prophet” who could always make the most correct choice at the most critical juncture in history. After experiencing the Lost Two Decades, their industries had originally been on the decline and were gradually fading from the stage of history.
Yet on this current world line, they had achieved industrial transformation and upgrading, begun laying out the sources of industrial chains, and simultaneously opened new battlefields in key sectors of the national economy such as high-speed rail, chips, automobiles, agriculture, rare earth, and home appliances.
If this continued, most of the world’s capital would end up ruthlessly toyed with in the palm of that “prophet” of the Tsukiyuki Zaibatsu family, reduced to harvested leeks.
Should the changes on the current world line become too drastic, they would indirectly affect other world lines. At best, it would trigger an unprecedented economic crisis; at worst, it would ignite a Fourth World War. And if it really came to that, even if humanity didn’t go extinct, from then on it would completely lose civilization and technology, reverting to an agricultural age.
“Forget it, who cares.”
Feng Na understood all too well the consequences of leaving a single parallel world unattended, but even if other world lines were destroyed, so what?
She had returned to this world from the distant future precisely to bring happiness to Sister Xiaohe and Brother Sijin.
As for her Time Management Bureau mission, that could wait.
She didn’t care about other people’s lives or deaths; she only cared about those closest to her.
“Oh, right, there’s one more personal matter I need to take care of.”
Late at night, Feng Na hailed a taxi, destination: the hospital.
On this world line, Feng Xiaona had recently done something extremely impulsive at school – she had stabbed a female student in the eye with a pen, blinding her.
Actually, Feng Na didn’t dislike Feng Xiaona’s actions. If anyone dared to insult her nearest and dearest in front of her, she would go even further than Feng Xiaona. Sandalwood Torture might be a nice touch.
But that had to be done without causing trouble for the family.
As for the rule about not interfering with the past, she couldn’t care less. Killing an insignificant ant would have no effect on the world whatsoever.
Standing before the hospital bed, Feng Na wore a grim smile.
“Hello there, Classmate Chen Yun.”
The female student who had recently insulted Feng Xiaona’s sister by calling her a “whore” opened her one remaining eye, her expression one of sheer terror.
She could clearly sense the undisguised murderous intent from the person in front of her.
“Help!”
“It’s no use, Classmate Chen Yun. I’ve already set up a Barrier Field here. Your voice won’t reach outside. Let’s have a little heart-to-heart, shall we?” Feng Na sat by her bedside, her gaze icy.
“Feng Xiaona, I’m sorry…” Although the tall, golden-haired girl before her had a completely different aura from Feng Xiaona, the one-eyed student was not mistaken.
Back then, Feng Xiaona had worn the exact same terrifying expression.
“Classmate Chen Yun, if an apology worked, what would we need the police for?”
“You can’t do this, Feng Xiaona, I…”
“You shouldn’t be apologizing to me. You should apologize to my sister.”
“Sister Xiaohe, I’m sorry.”
“Forget it. I’m not interested in your apology. There’s not even a shred of sincerity in it.”
Feng Na fiddled with her phone and tapped an app on it.
The next moment, the body of the eye-stabbed female student began to convulse uncontrollably.
“This is the latest technology from the year 2090. It can control a monkey’s brain. Not bad, right?” Feng Na rested her chin on her hand and asked with a smile, “Tell me, don’t you really want to kill yourself right now?”
“What did you do?” she asked in horror.
“One eye is already blind, so you won’t be able to hook rich guys anymore. How sad. Living like this, you might as well just die.”
Feng Na said it in a mocking tone.
“Stop…”
The one-eyed student got up from the hospital bed and slowly walked to the window.
This was the fifth floor of the hospital.
“I’ve decided to forgive you. Be careful in your next life and keep your mouth clean. Bye-bye~.”
After saying this with a smile, Feng Na left the ward.
The female student’s body was already leaning out the window.
Even though she desperately tried to grab something with one hand to stop herself from jumping, it was useless.
The reason of that one hand could not overcome the desire of every cell in her body to jump.
“No, help, help!!!”
As Feng Na took the elevator downstairs, she heard the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground.
She felt immensely, thoroughly joyful.
