Meng Qing said, “Let’s have Chinese food. Let’s go to the restaurant where we celebrated after my first successful mission.”
They booked a private room at the hotel. After the dishes were served, they asked the waiter to leave. During the meal, Yu Yi casually asked, “Lin Bai, can’t your stolen terminal be located? Have you tried contacting Xia Xuanxuan?”
Lin Bai shook his head, “The less contact I have with her now, the better. We should no longer have any intersection.”
Yu Yi nodded and stopped asking.
As they ate and chatted, Yu Yi steered the conversation towards time paradoxes.
Lin Bai had previously said that time reversal was absolutely forbidden, that she couldn’t change events that had already occurred in her time-space. But when she had asked Lin Bai to send another executor back a year ago to warn her father, he had said:
“If I really find an executor to complete this mission, it would change many things in this time-space. Setting aside other changes, the biggest change for you would be that you wouldn’t enter the brothel, wouldn’t be desperate enough to want to commit suicide, the system wouldn’t choose you, and I wouldn’t have met you. This means this current commission wouldn’t exist.”
Lin Bai, having drunk some alcohol, was more talkative than usual: “If a person changes the past, some events that were supposed to happen won’t happen, some people who were supposed to meet won’t meet, and vice versa. Some events that weren’t supposed to happen might occur. A simple example: if someone goes back in time and changes their parents’ experiences, causing them to not give birth to him, that person would disappear because they would never be born.”
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Yu Yi asked in surprise, “Would the person themselves disappear? Just like that? What about the people who knew him? Wouldn’t they find it strange? Or would they just think he went missing?”
Lin Bai shook his head firmly, “No, no. People who knew him wouldn’t remember such a person ever existed. He would completely vanish, not just from the world, but from everyone’s memories, without leaving a trace. Because…”
