: If We Can See the Future, Why Not Worship?

The following day, the morning of the 25th.

Veronica sat in the car, lighting one cigarette after another, the driver's seat shrouded in smoke. Sunlight streamed in between the floating buildings, illuminating her slightly impatient mouth below the bridge of her nose through the anti-glare windshield.

Her deep blue eyes, hidden by the shadows inside the car, were fixed on the gray-hatted man who had been quietly watching Qiao Yuan at the east gate of Galaxy University.

It's already the second day.

She had never seen Murphy so cautious before. Was it Victor's death that had triggered this?

maybe.

She did remember that Murphy and Victor had a life-or-death bond, but that was ten years ago. Since Victor developed schizophrenia, he had no friends and had become increasingly slovenly.

It's a pity, Victor is really well-behaved, he's always been an obedient and good dog.

Especially that tongue... Veronica suddenly felt a tickle in her toes.

Although she frowned slightly, she didn't urge him; being cautious wasn't a bad thing.

Meanwhile, on Murphy's side...

Wearing a dark red mask, he continued to scrutinize Qiao Yuan like a superior, and his expression grew increasingly strange.

Since yesterday, he has been observing that the distance between him and Qiao Yuan has never exceeded fifty meters.

But the other party doesn't seem to have noticed.

He simply couldn't understand how such an ordinary student had managed to kill Victor.

Although Victor's schizophrenia had completely strained their relationship over the past few years, he simply couldn't stand Victor's other personality's constant nagging and bickering. They would argue every time they drank, and gradually they stopped seeing each other.

On the contrary, Victor's other personality is ruthless, possesses outstanding foresight and courage, and is far superior to the original XP who only knew how to lick feet.

So he was puzzled as to how Victor died. How could someone with two personalities make such a stupid mistake as waiting to die?

At 9:30 a.m., there was finally new progress. Murphy saw Qiao Yuan looking around.

"Well, you didn't keep me waiting for nothing," he snorted with a half-smile, which was even more intriguing.

In fact, he now has a new focus than the tasks Veronica assigned him.

His intuition told him that Qiao Yuan must have an even bigger secret, and although he didn't know what it was for the time being, it was worth taking the time to find out.

Today's military training involves practicing long jump on the east track. The path wristbands will record the distance, speed, and duration of each jump.

The biggest difference between those who have transcended and ordinary people is their ability to jump. They can often easily leap tens or even hundreds of meters in one step, truly possessing the ability to scale walls and move at high speeds.

Those advanced cultivators who break through to the hundredth level of physical constitution can easily fly through the sky and traverse the deep space like superhumans, relying solely on their powerful spiritual bodies, truly embodying the transformation of the godhood stage.

As usual, there was practice in the morning and an exam in the afternoon. Qiao Yuan practiced for a while and then looked around.

As early as 7:30, the first thing he did after waking up was to send an email to Tu Shanlin: "Lin, if you see that guy again today, just secretly tell me his location via email."

"If the other party's location changes later, please continue to provide me with that information."

Ten minutes later, he received a reply from Tu Shanlin, and everything was ready.

The leader of this devilish gang was very cautious. He knew that the other party was cautious, and the other party also knew that the other party was cautious, so he let the other party remain cautious.

After learning the other party's location, Qiao Yuan did not notify Yan Baobao.

After his initial movements, he continued jumping for another fifteen minutes before finally choosing to rest by the roadside.

This roadside is a broad-leaved forest and grassy area near the eastern edge of the school, which is now very close to Murphy, no more than twenty meters away.

However, Qiao Yuan was facing away from the other person, panting and drinking Sprite. Actually, he wasn't very tired; it was just that this place was the closest to where Murphy was.

His first glance was a test.

He tried to find out if Murphy would leave or move to another location, but he didn't receive any more emails from Tu Shanlin in the next fifteen minutes, which meant that the other party was still in the same location.

This is in the bag!

[Anchor point: People nearby who are watching me.]

[Time: One minute later.]

Qiao Yuan instantly strolled through the river of time, and when he reappeared, he was already beside Murphy.

He first sized up the other person with great interest, checking if there was a cell phone in the outer pocket, and the hands wearing dark red gloves, which were actually mechanical prosthetics, but very discreetly concealed.

Because the gloves extend all the way to the elbows, and feel like they're made of a special biological material that's very elastic, they have a bit of a bio-engineered feel to them, like they're attached to prosthetic hands, which isn't very common.

He then recorded the distance Murphy was located at the East Gate.

Finally, Qiao Yuan's gaze fell on the hovercar parked five or six meters away.

It was a silver-gray convertible sports car, an H600 produced by the Twilight Group, worth about two million, which is considered an entry-level luxury sedan.

Qiao Yuan wasn't sure if the car belonged to Murphy, although the other man seemed to really like gray, from his gray top hat to his dark coat.

Since they have dealings with the Hellish Cult, they must be keeping a low profile. I'll have to give it a try.

He searched the other car thoroughly, but didn't find anything for the time being. However, the ghostly scene suddenly made Murphy turn around in surprise.

"All done!" Qiao Yuan grinned.

As expected, the other person liked gray things. At this moment, staring at the gray cigar box in his hand, he subconsciously walked over, and with a wave of his hand, suddenly turned into pitch black, affecting reality.

That is the Eternal Night sequence.

This eternal night has nothing to do with the Mother of Night. It is a product of humanity's observation of the universe and its correspondence with the light sequence. Its initial abilities are to create darkness, extinguish light sources, amplify the power of night, increase its own speed, and reduce the speed and vision of enemies.

It's a lower-powered version of the Eternal Night spell, far less powerful than the Eternal Night spell which immediately seals off the five senses.

However, it's unfair to compare the Eternal Night Technique, which is a forbidden technique and a cult-like execution technique that would be used to kill someone.

The Eternal Night sequence may seem useless, but it's actually just a slightly weak start. Once it advances to a higher level, it's still terrifying, after all... darkness is the background color of the universe!

Whenever the starry sky is touched, the power of the Eternal Night Sequence will expand rapidly, with unlimited potential.

At that moment, Qiao Yuan threw the cigar box directly onto the elevated road, which was a hundred meters wide, outside the car.

Whoosh! The cigar box plummeted rapidly downwards into the bottomless abyss, leaving Murphy stunned.

"Who? Who's there?"

Murphy was terrified. He even turned around and glanced at Qiao Yuan, who was still drinking water by the roadside at the school, and felt even more frightened.

Who on earth is this person?!

Qiao Yuan continued to throw away objects, discarding anything useless or worthless.

This scene gradually made Veronica, who was in the bright blue sports car across the street, frown.

Gradually, Qiao Yuan actually found a letter; the wax seal was still intact.

He grinned and tore the letter open right in front of Murphy, enraging the latter, who then lunged forward to snatch it away.

Qiao Yuan dodged smoothly, activated his Demon Substitute, and fell backward from the car door.

Actually, he could just fly.

However, after experiencing a high-speed dive that night in the new district of Velen, this kind of extreme sport, similar to bungee jumping and skydiving, seems really cool.

Especially since he's currently in the future timeline, even if he were hit and killed by a car, he would instantly return to reality without any consequences.

He also discovered that the Devil Stand's durability is still 26%, and even if it's completely depleted in the future timeline, it won't change when it returns to reality.

Because nothing has happened yet.

At this moment, he was rapidly descending from Galaxy University at an altitude of 6,000 meters, and Murphy actually jumped down after him, it seems that the envelope in his hand is very important.

"Fuck, stop right there!"

"No matter who you are, you're dead!"

Murphy's aura was also at the third level, but it was stronger than Victor's. As his figure disappeared into the shadows below Galaxy University, the benefits from the Eternal Night sequence suddenly increased.

Qiao Yuan was very happy. Seeing how much the other party cared, he was even more determined to watch.

Without hesitation, he silently recited the incantation and quickly summoned a majestic head of the Graham race, which shot a black bolt of lightning at Murphy above.

If we can see the future, why not worship!

All the abilities he had created were still invisible, which caught Murphy completely off guard when the lightning bolt struck.

Boom!

Murphy's eyelids twitched rapidly. His perception under the third-order Eternal Night sequence was indeed considerable. He finally noticed the lightning when it was only three inches away from his eyes.

In his terror, his hands suddenly emitted a series of fine mechanical clattering sounds as they split open from his palms, stretching the dark red bio-gloves apart.

Inside Murphy's palm was a cannon-like device resembling a shockwave, capable of violently blasting away any matter in front of it. Especially when the bio-glove was stretched to its limit and became semi-transparent, it became a thin membrane at the muzzle, like the eardrum of a cicada's wing in summer, instantly amplifying the shockwave several times over and unleashing a piercing, sharp sound.

His top hat was ripped open by the tip of the lightning, his scalp was torn open, and blood flowed out, but most of the remaining lightning scattered in the hissing shockwave.

"Tsk tsk, you've got some skills." Qiao Yuan's eyes lit up, and his smile became even wider.

So that's what the dark red gloves are for. They mimic the eardrum of a cicada's wing, not only increasing power but also producing a highly destructive explosion. They're truly remarkable.

If you were caught off guard and hit at close range in real life, you might lose your hearing from the shock.

We'll have to have the baby remotely suppress it later.

Fortunately, we are born in the future, so we can experiment and make mistakes without limit.

Qiao Yuan increasingly realized the advantages of the future timeline, which could be used as an experimental field for infinite simulations. Whether it was the time with the bearded man or now, it allowed him to test the enemy's strength and methods in advance, truly gaining complete knowledge of them!

This is the right way to predict the future!

Without hesitation, he summoned another head with a compassionate face to control Murphy's prosthetic body.

Then, during the high-speed descent, he leisurely took out the blank paper from the envelope and began to read it.

I feel like something's missing.

Oh, it's missing a little bit of ceremony. If I were holding a cup of coffee in my hand right now, it would be perfect.

As Qiao Yuan thought this, his gaze was gradually drawn to the handwriting on the paper: "Interesting. So it's a love letter, the love of some Hellish nun. It seems my guess was right. Simon wants to infiltrate this guy into the Hellish Cult."

The letter mainly concerns the two individuals' illegal organ trafficking, including details about using orphans for biological experiments...

"Oh, dear Murphy, that's a sweet way to call you, but you're really ruthless." Qiao Yuan's face gradually darkened as unpleasant memories flooded back.

When he was a child at Grandma Xu's Starry Sky Welfare Home, he heard that some unfortunate orphans would be kidnapped by cultists and subjected to human experiments...

Since they are all orphans, no one would report them missing.

He wasn't in a hurry to go back.

He now wondered whether Murphy's caution stemmed from his acquaintance with Victor, or from instructions given by Veronica or Simon.

If it's the latter, then it's a bit tricky.

Let's wait a little longer and postpone it a bit more.

He instantly summoned the imposing mechanical head, nearly ten meters tall, and launched a series of attacks at Murphy, wanting to see what else would happen.

Everything he's doing now is happening in the future. Even if he consumes all these heads, they will still be there when he returns to reality.

As he unleashed his barrage of attacks, Murphy, whose mind was already being disturbed by the Sorrowful Head, was suddenly put on the defensive and began to angrily dodge.

"Who exactly are you?!"

"Damn it, my prosthetic body is malfunctioning!"

Amidst Murphy's impotent rage, a royal blue sports car appeared from above, inside which was a blonde woman whose presence made Qiao Yuan's eyes narrow slightly.

He suddenly turned and flew to the vicinity of the sports car, forcing the woman to cry out in terror, "This is... this kind of Caesar's summoning magic! Oh no, this is impossible, who are you to Caesar? Don't be impulsive!"

Qiao Yuan burst into laughter. "Oh, this blonde woman who looks so charming must be Veronica."

They came prepared, as expected.

If it weren't for the future, he really wouldn't have imagined that there was someone watching Murphy behind the scenes!

That was close!

If he had gone back earlier, or if things hadn't escalated so much, even if everything went smoothly from there, Veronica might have found out when the baby arrived, ruining everything...

It seems Simon is quite pleased with Victor's death and has become much more cautious.

Then he waited until half an hour was up. In front of Veronica, he shook the white paper in the envelope and let it fly to the street next door, ready to show it to passersby.

The bigger the commotion, the better.

Veronica's face had turned ashen. She glared in the direction of Qiao Yuan, though she couldn't see anything, she was still seething with anger.

Murphy jumped onto Veronica's car roof and closed the prosthetic body that had been extended: "Let's go, if we stay any longer the Embers will be here."

Inside the car, Veronica stubbed out her cigarette with a sharp pinch of her hand, her eyes filled with intense resentment. She then immediately called Simon.

Murphy's expression immediately changed, and seeing that Veronica wasn't leaving, he turned around and ran away on his own.

Qiao Yuan said with slight regret, "So easily frightened? Well, it means the information in this letter is enough to sentence Murphy to death."

It seems there's no third layer of surveillance, but he still intends to stay for the full half hour.

Time flew by, and when Qiao Yuan returned to the school track in reality, whoosh!

It would be so much fun to cause chaos in the future!

It's fun, I love playing it.

Now it's time to truly demonstrate his strength, and he's ready.

After finishing his mineral water, Qiao Yuan took out his phone, tapped the screen, put it back, and then got up to continue his jumping training.

He repeated this behavior every 20 minutes thereafter, taking out his phone and tapping twice.

This process made Murphy, who had been monitoring the school from outside, hesitate.

"What is he doing?"

"Has he already found me?"

"No... no, he just takes out his phone and taps the screen twice, or glances at it, more like he's checking the time. Hmph, is he afraid of being at the bottom of the rankings?"

10:00，11:00，12:00。

Even at lunchtime, Qiao Yuan was still trying to take out his phone to look at it and tap a few times.

Murphy was still hesitant, but nothing happened all morning. He thought about leaving at least five or six times, but nothing happened until the afternoon.

During the jumping test this afternoon, Charlie was unusually quiet and didn't want to compete with him.

Qiao Yuan looked on confidently. His physique had increased by more than two levels yesterday, so he couldn't possibly lose.

Seeing that Charlie didn't respond, he didn't provoke him either, after all, there were bigger things to do today.

Tu Shanlin, on the other hand, really loves eating fish.

I even emailed him around noon to ask if he still had blackfish soup today.

So cute!

In fact, Charlie was struggling at this moment. He was the one who brought up yesterday's competition, but it had been delayed until today. He had only witnessed Qiao Yuan easily breaking records time and time again, and he was starting to lose confidence. It was already unfair for a second-tier player to win against a first-tier player, and if he kept losing...

When Qiao Yuan looked at him just now, he felt very uneasy, afraid that Qiao Yuan would say something.

Fortunately, the other party didn't say anything in the end.

He felt he needed to buy a bottle of gene enhancement fluid; Qiao Yuan's improvement was too fast, and that guy was really annoying!

Hu Tu laughed and said, "Yesterday, the gene enhancement fluid increased my physique by 1.3, hahaha, I feel like my talent isn't too bad. But you've grown too fast, oh dear, I'm still at the bottom today."

Qiao Yuan coughed twice and comforted him, "Just run as hard as you can. Although Instructor Zhou said that military training is a reference for entering the Galaxy Class, it probably doesn't carry much weight. School hasn't even started yet, so they'll definitely have to see what happens later."

"Right, right, school hasn't started yet, haha," Hu Tu said, sounding somewhat relieved.

As the afternoon exams began, Murphy continued to keep an eye on Qiao Yuan, hoping to gain some new insights. He admired his own patience over the past two days.

Gradually, he stopped paying attention to Qiao Yuan's phone use and started thinking about finishing his task after school today.

It's time to end this.

If it weren't for Veronica's orders, he wouldn't have spent two days watching over a little brat...

By 5 p.m., after not receiving any new messages from Tu Shanlin, and with only a few kilometers left to go before reaching the finish line.

Qiao Yuan sent the message directly to Yan Baobao.

I took out my phone and tapped it only three times.

Double tap to unlock the screen saver, then tap send.

It's almost time.

Twenty minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

When Qiao Yuan reached the finish line, he received a call from Yan Baobao.

"Is it over?" he asked with a smile.

"Yeah, I just shot him remotely to tranquilize him, and then Captain He found the letter in his convertible immediately. Don't worry, this guy associates with the Hell Cult and is insane enough to conduct such experiments, he deserves to die no matter what."

"Okay, baby, you've worked hard."

Yan Baobao laughed on the other end of the phone, "It's just a warm-up. Captain He said you're our lucky star. The collective efforts of our Sixth Squad these past few days have made the other squads envious."

"But the woman in your sapphire blue sports car is still chasing after you; it seems like someone is waiting for her nearby."

"It's alright, it's not a big problem."

Qiao Yuan wasn't too surprised by Veronica; he had already experienced that in the future.

There were backups behind the Jiangnan Building. Although they were a little far away, the other party was a fourth-tier Ascension cultivator. They used a vial of potion to escape, making them incredibly fast.

Yan Baobao then said solemnly, "If we can't catch her, I will synchronize her vehicle and identity information to the mechanical dogs and bionic sparrows at the Ember Station in Jiangnan Building. If she reappears in the future, she will be directly locked down."

"Okay, received, Mr. Yan."

After hanging up the phone, Qiao Yuan's mind wandered, and he figured Simon must still like him.

After all, that's what Infernal Affairs is all about.

These are all necessary sacrifices, and the more he does so, the more valued he will be by the Tiandu Branch, and the more Simon will value him.

As for how Murphy lost...

It's basically the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".

He kept testing the waters from the morning, each time taking out his phone and tapping twice, accumulating dozens of taps in total.

However, nothing would happen after each time he tapped his phone, which gradually made Murphy lower his guard, to the point that he completely ignored it.

But in fact, every time he seemingly clicks on his phone, he is not doing something unconscious, but typing one word at a time!

I just haven't sent it to Yan Baobao yet.

The entire text message just now was:

[436 meters north of the east gate, gray top hat, remote control, retrieve the wax-sealed envelope from the silver-gray convertible sports car (required)]

These few words, just over twenty, were written from 9:30 in the morning until 5 in the evening, filled little by little through countless moments when I took out my phone.

Only when it is finally sent out does it become a complete and detailed message!

This method may not necessarily succeed, but it doesn't matter. Losing won't have any impact, and if you win, the other party is doomed. It's a highly profitable deal.

Meanwhile, Veronica, who had just fled in a frenzy, was now trembling with fear.

She couldn't understand what had just happened. The Ember Floating Vehicle appeared silently and fired a tranquilizer dart from a distance, hitting Murphy in the neck without any warning!

What she found most unbelievable was that her sapphire blue sports car had also been hit by a freezing bomb, which shut down the engine...

This is absolutely unbelievable!

Without saying a word, she got out of the car and fled. Fortunately, the attention of the Ember Squad was all on Murphy's convertible sports car.

Her mind was completely blank. Could today be just a coincidence? That couldn't be right.

Veronica felt increasingly confused. She didn't believe it was all a coincidence, but she couldn't find any evidence at all.

Damn it!

This can't go on any longer!

Her heart pounded, and she immediately dialed Simon's number; this matter was beyond her comprehension.