The Wheel of Chronos

By the time the car drove into the gate of Spencer's residence, the time had reached 23:52 in the evening.In fact, the Deer Hunter's Bar is not such a long drive from the Spencer Mansion, but in order to prevent being followed, Uncle Zhou deliberately drove a long circle before arriving.

When getting out of the car, Sharon's bracelet rang, and it was a strange caller ID.She hesitated for a moment, then connected the phone.On the opposite side, someone cursed angrily:

"Sharon Spencer! Who the hell did you lure to my bar, and you'll pay for all my losses tonight!"

Sharon showed a gratified smile, and said happily, "That's great! You're still alive, Pistol."

"Of course I'm still alive! If I die, I'll be looking for you even if I'm a ghost!" Pistre said ruthlessly, "Sharon, wait for me, I'll go find you in two days, and prepare compensation for me Gold!"

After that, she hung up the phone.

Xuelun stood where she was, slowly lowered her wrist, and let out a long breath.Tianyang stood beside her and said with a smile:

"Now you can rest assured."

Sharon looked up at her, smiled slightly, and walked straight into the main house without saying a word.Tianyang followed her, the evening wind blew, the hem of Xue Lun's coat was slightly raised, Tianyang looked at her back, and suddenly said:

"Actually, the Earl is not as cold-blooded as he appears on the surface. You are so worried about hurting innocent people, isn't it very humanitarian?"

Sharon didn't look back, but sneered suddenly:

"If you have to divide people into cold-blooded and hot-blooded people, I probably belong to the former. Just tonight, I brought disaster to everyone in the bar, but my heart will not be shaken in any way. Everything No obstacle can prevent me from achieving my goal. Isn’t it absolutely selfish and cold-blooded to sacrifice ten thousand people to make one perfect?”

"What happened in the bar tonight is not your fault. The death of those people in the bar is the sin of those who caused the explosion, and they should naturally bear it. In fact, they have already taken part of it, and we have eliminated part of the crime tonight " Tianyang said, her tone was calm and her expression was firm.

"Princess, you are really an idealist who can distinguish between black and white." Sharon smiled, "But you don't understand me, you don't understand me too much. Before the explosion in the bar, I had already seen death for a dying person I can't save him, I know he will be killed in the next second, but I sacrificed him to protect myself without changing my face." Xue Lun said.

Tianyang was silent for a while.Sharon opened the gate of the mansion and walked straight in.

She led Tianyang through the lobby and walked to the large living room on the right. Through a door on the east side of the large living room, Sharon came to the corridor covered with high-quality carpets, then walked southward to the end of the corridor, opened the A door at the end.This is the study of Spencer's mansion. It is three floors high, with a large area and an extremely rich collection of books.So many paper books have almost become an invisible spectacle in people's homes today.Even the royal collection may not have such a large amount.When Tianyang walked in, he couldn't help opening his mouth in amazement.

As expected, Old Jack was working at his desk in the study, holding an old-fashioned pen in his hand and writing something on paper. Next to him was a laptop computer that is very rare nowadays.Seeing that Sharon opened the door and came in, bringing such a distinguished "uninvited guest" as Tian Yang, Old Jack was startled.Hastily stood up and bowed to salute:

"Miss, you are back. Good evening, Your Royal Highness."

"Hello, Mr. Jack." Tianyang responded very politely, "I'm sorry to bother you."

"Uncle Jack, pack your things. We're going to leave here and go to the safe house. Inform the others so that they won't come to work recently. Especially Aunt Joan, she will be back in two days." Sharon said.

Jack opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't ask any more questions, and bowed and said, "Yes."

"Oh, by the way, arrange a place for Princess Tianyang to live. I would like to trouble Princess to feel wronged here today, and we will be responsible for sending you back tomorrow." Xue Lun ordered.

Jack said: "You two wait a moment, I'll make tea and prepare everything." After saying that, he exited the study.

Xue Lun made a gesture of invitation to the sofa in the study, and Tian Yang went to sit down. Xue Lun asked:

"Do you want me to entertain the National Security Special Service that protects you?" Sharon asked.

"No, they are patrolling around the mansion tonight to protect the mansion. You don't have to worry about them, this is their job." Tian Yang said.

Sharon shrugged, inserted her walking stick into the stick rack next to the coat hanger in the study, took off her coat, coat and scarf and hung them on the hanger.The shirt sleeves were unbuttoned and rolled up, exposing the forearms.Tianyang noticed her right arm and couldn't help asking:

"Count, I have never seen a person like you who can use mechanical prosthetics like arms and fingers without any sense of disobedience."

Sharon said, "Thank you for the compliment."

"I modified the stick sword and stick gun by myself. If I'm not wrong, the count's fighting ability should also be quite powerful. How many hidden skills does the count have that he hasn't revealed yet?"

"No, that's all. There are also some basic reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance skills, which are not worth mentioning." Sharon said lightly.

"Really?" Tianyang asked noncommittally.Then, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally, he glanced at the pocket watch chain on Sharon's suit vest pocket.

"Princess Tianyang, I have a question to ask." Xue Lun said, "Are you really unwell tonight?"

"Aha..." Tianyang smiled, "It's true that I'm uncomfortable. I was so uncomfortable in the bar that I had hallucinations. I felt that the scene in front of me was going backwards. I didn't mean to vomit in front of you to attract You pay attention. But the uncomfortable feeling is only for a moment, and it will pass quickly."

But Xue Lun froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.

"Count?" Tianyang looked at her strangely.

"The scene...regressed?" Sharon asked hesitantly.

"Yes, and played it backwards twice. It's strange. I wonder if I'm dreaming. This has never happened before." Tianyang said.

Sharon's hands clenched involuntarily.

At this time, Old Jack brought the freshly brewed black tea and poured tea for the two of them.

"The room is ready, but the princess is going to rest now?"

"No, I'll chat with the Earl for a while, thank you, Mr. Jack." Tianyang said.

Old Jack bowed and backed out again.

Tianyang looked at Xue Lun, and after a while she said:

"What happened? Why did you go to the Deer Hunter's Bar tonight? Who did you sacrifice to protect yourself? Who caused the explosion in the bar? Can you tell me?"

Xue Lun was silent for a while, Tianyang frowned and said: "This matter is no longer something you can handle alone. I have also been involved, and I have the right to know everything."

Xue Lun sighed deeply, lowered her head, and said:

"Princess, I can tell you everything, but this matter is beyond the scope of common sense, you have to be mentally prepared. I know you will go to the front line in a few days. I didn't want this to affect you, but it backfired. I am afraid that this matter has already had an inseparable relationship with you."

"What do you mean?" Tianyang became more and more confused.

Xue Lun took out her pocket watch, pressed it open, and displayed the dial in front of Tianyang.Tianyang found that the shattered dial of the pocket watch was gone, only the pointer was left bare, but it showed the current time exactly by one second, and the second hand was diligently walking, never delaying or advancing a little bit.

"This……"

"It all started with my visit to the watch shop 'Time' on Parliament Street last night..." So Sharon told what happened last night, what happened at Eton this morning, and what happened at the Deer Hunter tonight. narrated the matter in detail, except for what Bob said to her for the time being, and finally emphasized:

"My preliminary judgment is that I have mastered some kind of power to make time go backwards. But this power is limited. I can only use this pocket watch to move the minute hand back one space, which means it can only go back one minute. I can't affect the second hand and the hour hand , and can’t move the minute hand forward.” As she spoke, she demonstrated in front of Tianyang that she really moved the hour and second hands with her hands, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t move these two hands.She also tried to move the minute hand down one notch, but it also failed.

"But you have the ability to directly observe the scene of time going backwards. I don't know what's going on, maybe it was caused by the fact that we were on the balcony outside Westminster Abbey that day, and each other's hands touched the pocket watch at the same time. influence." Sharon said.

"Also, I am not affected by the backward time, and can move freely in the backward time." Tian Yang added thoughtfully.

"Princess, don't you think I'm talking nonsense?" Sharon smiled wryly.

"No, I believe you. It's interesting, isn't it?" Tianyang laughed.

You have a big heart, we are playing with time!Xue Lun was crazily complaining about Tianyang's inconsiderate attitude.

"Now step back a minute and show me." Tian Yang pointed to Sharon's pocket watch with a curious expression on his face.

Sharon immediately refused: "No, I will only use this ability when necessary. I have a bad feeling that if I overuse this ability, it may bring bad consequences."

Tian Yang didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "It's a high-sounding statement, if you taste the sweetness, I'm afraid you won't be able to control yourself at all."

"I won't." Sharon replied solemnly.

"Pfft..." Tianyang laughed out loud, "Count, you are such an interesting person." Rolling her eyes, she said:

"Have you ever tried to destroy this pocket watch?"

Sharon shook her head.

"Come on, let's try."

In the next hour, the two tossed countless methods, including fire, soaking, strong acid and strong alkali, hammering, chainsaw, electric shock, welding... almost tried everything they could try, but the pocket watch was not broken at all.At first, Sharon was timid, for fear of destroying the most precious gift her sister left her.In the end, she became numb to the pocket watch.What's more strange is that when Sharon indirectly touches the minute hand of the pocket watch with a tool, she cannot move the minute hand backwards. It seems that only when Sharon's fingers touch the minute hand at zero distance can the time be reversed.Of course, Tianyang has no ability to cause time to go backwards, she is just an unaffected observer.

"This watch... has basically been out of the physical realm, and doesn't exist in this world. Except for your body, the outside world can't affect it at all." Tian Yang collapsed exhausted in the underground work room of the Spencer Mansion. Said on the sofa.

Xue Lun felt that Tian Yang probably told the truth.

"The Wheel of Kronos..." Sharon murmured.

"what?"

"Tim said, this watch is called the 'Wheel of Chronos'."

"Cronus? Isn't that the supreme god in ancient Greek mythology? Orphism, one of the three mainstream sects in ancient Greece, believes in a super-primitive god. He is the first cause of the world, the root of Chronos, The creator of chaos and order." Tianyang said.

Sharon looked at her. This was the first time she knew the origin of the word Kronos.Tianyang explained with a smile: "When I was in military school, I also studied an ancient Roman military philosophy, which mentioned the influence of Romans and Greeks' theological beliefs in war. At that time, I remembered a lot of Greek gods. .”

Sharon laughed. She knew about this course, but she didn't feel interested, so she didn't take it.Princess Tianyang is a famous genius, as long as she wants to remember the knowledge, she will never forget it after just reading it once. Xue Lun is not surprised at her rich knowledge reserve.

"You don't have to worry too much. Although things are developing supernaturally, since we can't change it, we can only let nature take its course." She comforted Xuelun, paused, and Tianyang then said:

"So, what did that Mr. Bob tell you?" She obviously didn't intend to let go of this question.

Xue Lun's expression became serious, and she sorted out her thoughts. She told Tianyang what Bob said as detailed as possible, and finally said:

"I can't confirm the facts, but I think he has no reason to lie to me. The NSA should be corrupted inside, and they are in danger, and they may be killed at any time. Just like tonight, the killer dressed as a bartender , I saw him eavesdropping at the door and poisoning the wine with my own eyes." Sharon pointed to her right eye wearing a monocle, and she saw the waiter standing outside the door go The whole process of alcohol poisoning.

"But you didn't stop him, and you didn't remind Bob that you deliberately said out loud that you didn't trust Bob, and let the killer kill Bob. Because you knew that if you showed even the slightest sign of trusting Bob, the killer's The spearhead will be aimed at you in an instant. At that time, you chose to sacrifice Bob to escape, right?" Tianyang said.

Sharon didn't speak.

"But you still haven't been able to protect yourself, and the other party still wants to kill you, because you have indeed completed contact with Bob and obtained verbal information. Cutting grass and roots is the style of those people." Tian Yang's expression finally became serious, and she Standing up and wandering for two steps, said:

"I will tell the Empress about this as soon as possible, that Bob... I have to check his background."

"He should still have a companion alive, you have to protect his companion as soon as possible."

"Well, I understand." Tianyang nodded, and then she looked at Sharon, and said seriously: "Count, you don't have to make redundant self-conclusions, people are diverse and complicated, and you can't even understand yourself deeply. You say You're a cold-blooded person, I don't think so. You may be an egoist, but you're not against altruism, are you?"

Sharon was noncommittal.

"If you don't mind, I'll call my mother, the Queen Mother, and report the situation."

"Please." Sharon said.

When Tianyang passed by her side, he suddenly stopped and said, "It's a pity."

"What regret?" Sharon didn't react for a moment.

"If it's not just 1 minute, if we can go back six years, wouldn't we be able to save everything?" Tianyang said, with an indescribable sadness in her tone, "There are no miracles in this world, only cause and effect. And we are in the present situation In some queer karma."

Sharon slowly clenched her fists.

"You are absolutely not cold-blooded. I am the most affectionate person I have ever met." After saying this, Tian Yang patted Xue Lun's left shoulder, and quickly left the underground workshop.

The author has something to say: These three chapters have basically explained the setting of the time regression of Sharon and Tianyang clearly.Sharon is a manipulator who can directly go back in time, but she herself is affected by time backtracking, and she will inevitably go back to the state she was in 1 minute ago.And Tianyang is the observer of time regression, she herself is not affected by time regression, and can move freely in the process of time regression.