“Shh—keep your voice down, don’t get so excited. You’ve always been my good brother. What I meant was that as long as you’re still the team leader, I can find you to save me if something happens to me.” Meng Qing felt warm inside and smiled, patting Lin Bai’s shoulder.
“That’s more like it.” Lin Bai opened the terminal while speaking, “If you need help, you must find me.”
Meng Qing blinked and found himself in an extremely dark place with not a single ray of light. He pulled the corner of his mouth: “Lin Bai, when I said to send me somewhere without people, I didn’t mean inside a tomb.”
“Which eye of yours saw a coffin? Or saw burial objects? This is clearly just a basement.”
Meng Qing turned on the terminal and shone it around, discovering several wooden boxes in a corner against the wall. He walked over, casually brushing away the dust and cobwebs from the boxes, then sat down on one and used the program to hack into the Temporal Management Bureau’s system.
He was surprised to find that the Temporal Management Bureau was not as uninformed about Yu Yi as Lin Bai had said.
The files recorded all the missions she had ever been on, including those she completed independently and those with him as a partner. The recent addition was her assassination of Chen Gao and the alteration of the temporal process.
However, these files did not record Yu Yi’s personal affairs, which meant the bureau did not know she was married to him.
Meng Qing was unsure how the Temporal Management Bureau achieved this. Perhaps they had a special method to preserve the original mission records in a specific time and space, unaffected by temporal process changes. This would allow them to trace the source of any temporal anomalies and prevent people like Yu Yi from changing historical processes without their knowledge.
The bureau had not immediately arrested Yu Yi because the Investigation Department had conflicting opinions about her actions. One view was that the crime of changing the temporal process was committed by Yu Yi when she was an executor, but that Yu Yi had disappeared. Strictly speaking, she “has not yet committed a crime” and has no concept of time travel, so she should not be arrested.
