The Wheel of Chronos

Sharon arrived at the Deer Hunter's Bar after 9 o'clock that night. She came alone and did not let Old Jack follow.

The Deer Hunter is located in the southwest of London, not a short distance from Spencer House.Sharon didn't drive, but took the subway.On the way, she unsurprisingly spotted the stalker.She didn't deliberately get rid of these stalkers, pretending not to notice, and led them all the way to the Deer Hunter's Bar.

This bar is well-known in the upper circles of the London area, and the membership system provides the nobles with high-quality and secret services.The security personnel arranged by the bar have a deep community background, and they can take both black and white, so they cannot be easily offended.Xue Lun showed her bracelet at the door, and the other party recognized the electronic membership card after scanning it, and then let her in politely.She didn't go in in a hurry, but turned around, smiled at the figures hidden in the corner of the street in the distance, bowed her body, and then walked in.

This action of hers obviously made those stalkers completely passive, and the security personnel also noticed those who followed Sharon. Once they tried to enter, the security would definitely use all means to ask them to leave.

The man in charge of following Sharon in the corner clicked on his bracelet and reported:

"The target has entered, Team A has completed tracking, and is on standby for surveillance outside."

……

The light in the bar is always very dim, but the Deer Hunter Bar uses the dim light to the extreme, creating an extremely luxurious and ambiguous atmosphere.Sharon walked through the long corridor. During the process, her whole body was scanned and it was confirmed that she was not carrying a weapon.When she pushed open the retro wooden door, elegant classical music flowed into her ears like water.

The space inside the bar is very large, divided into three floors. There is a circle of dance floor on the first floor, many booths are scattered around the dance floor, and a circle of long bar counters in the northeast corner.Xue Lun walked straight to the bar. At this time, there were only three or two individual customers on the bar. She deliberately kept a distance, and sat in a corner by herself.

The bartender was a tall, androgynous beauty, but Sharon knew she was a woman.Seeing that Sharon was sitting down, she stepped forward to say hello:

"Lord Spencer, what would you like to drink today?"

"Lager, Banpin, thank you." Sharon said softly.

"Okay." The bartender nodded, and skillfully picked up the beer glass and poured it for her.Just as Xue Lun picked up the wine glass and was about to take the first sip, someone patted her from behind and said:

"Drinking so stingy? Give her some gin, isn't it your favorite drink?"

Sharon signaled the bartender not to do it, then cast a glance at the people around her, and said:

"I didn't come to you today to drink, Pistol."

The woman next to her gave her a beating smile. This was a blonde woman with long hair tied behind her head. She was of medium height and plump. She was wearing a black A-line skirt and heavy makeup. She was very coquettish and charming.She sat beside Sharon and said:

"The person I want to introduce to you hasn't come yet, so you drink it first. I've bought this glass of wine."

Xue Lun snorted softly, took a sip of the wine in the glass, and thought: This miser probably aims at the expensive wine that she won't drink tonight.

"How are you doing recently? I still abuse myself every day."

"What are you talking about?" Sharon said, "I did it to maintain my physical fitness."

"Yes, yes, you are the best at fighting. You are probably the only martial arts master among the Earls. You also roam the streets and alleys every night to fight against evil forces. Zorro is really alive." Pistol laughed. road.

Listening to her nonsense, Xue Lun felt a little more relaxed, and a smile appeared on the corner of her lips.

Unexpectedly, Pistre yelled immediately after finding out:

"Hey, I've made it through. I didn't expect to be able to make fun of you, a thousand-year-old ice cube, one day."

Sharon's smile disappeared, she stared at her and said:

"To shut up."

In the midst of the trouble, Pister's bracelet rang, and it was the security foreman at the gate calling. After she connected, she said:

"What's wrong? Someone is making trouble?"

"No trouble, but one non-member insisted on coming in."

Pistre said impatiently: "How long have you been working here, and I need to teach you what to do? If no one brings you in, you won't be allowed in."

"No, no, boss, but this person is Princess Tianyang."

"What?" Pistor was taken aback, and subconsciously glanced at Sharon.Sharon remained calm and said:

"Let her in, I'll be her guarantor, you can get her a card."

"Sure, my lord earl, I'm familiar with the princess now." Pister laughed, "Sit down for a while, I'll go and greet the princess."

With that, she got up and walked towards the door.

Xue Lun sat in the corner and observed silently. After a while, Princess Tianyang was indeed ushered in. Pister stepped forward to talk to her, and Princess Tianyang was immediately taken to the service desk to go through the formalities.

Princess Tianyang's private clothes were a little unexpected to Xue Lun. She didn't expect her to be so capable. Inside the black slim coat was a light gray turtleneck sweater. Her long hair was loose, and she looked simple and elegant.Probably seeing that Sharon didn't intend to talk to Princess Tianyang, Pister was very exquisite, and took the princess to a booth far away from the bar to take a seat, and invited her to have a drink.

Xue Lun thought that this miser was really wasting money tonight, so she leaned the bracelet to the payment area by the bar and paid for her own drink and Princess Tianyang's.Then she got up and left the bar, heading for the bathroom.

At the same moment as she left the bar, Pistre, who had just served the princess, received another message from the security guard at the door that the retired old investigator from the National Security Bureau had arrived at the bar.Pester hurriedly turned around to look for Sharon, but saw that she had disappeared from the bar.

"This man, why is he running around?" She complained, and went to meet the old investigator first.

"Mr. Bob, welcome." Pester raised a smile.

"Miss Boss, you are still beautiful today." The person who came was a tall man in a camel-colored coat, with a mustache on his lips and a vicissitudes of life.He took off his wide-brimmed hat and smiled at Pistol.

"Mr. Bob laughed at me, please come in, I have prepared a box for you."

"Oh, no, I want to go to the bathroom first. I just had dinner. I don't know what I ate. I feel sick to my stomach. Hahahaha..."

"You please."

……

Sharon pressed the flush button, walked out of the toilet cubicle, and washed her hands in front of the dressing table.The illuminated mirror reflected her features.She washed her hands, took out a piece of paper to dry, and threw it into the wastebasket.Then he stared at himself in the mirror.

The person in the mirror has a serious expression, his eyes are cold and stern, and the monocle in his right eye reflects the icy light.She raised her hand and slowly took off the monocle, revealing her right eye.The mechanical prosthetic eye is done so well that you can hardly see the difference unless you look carefully.But it is still not comparable to real eyeballs.Without the monocle, she can see clearly, but with the monocle, she can see the full range of the digital world provided by the digital prosthetic eye.Everything in front of her is being scanned and filtered, and functions such as infrared perspective, night vision, and location tracking can be turned on at any time.Originally, she wanted to combine all the functions into the prosthetic eye, but in doing so, her brain had to be semi-mechanical, which was unacceptable to her.In order to reduce the burden on her brain, she chose to work with a monocle and a prosthetic eye.

Checking her digital eye, she puts her monocle back on.And habitually took out the pocket watch from his pocket.Press the pocket watch, and the exposed hands are precisely indicating the current time—21:43:32.

She was just about to close her pocket watch when she suddenly heard a miserable howl from the men's room next door. The sound seemed to be choked out just after it came out.Sharon concentrated her mind and leaned close to the wall to listen carefully. Then she heard what seemed to be a fighting sound. At first it was just the sound of the body hitting, but soon there was a "crash", as if the mirror was broken.

Xue Lun grabbed the cane on the sink, rushed out of the women's room quickly, and came to the door of the men's room. The door was locked. She raised her right foot and kicked hard, and the door of the toilet opened in response, with a terrifying look on her face. The scene came into view.I saw a man in a pitch-black sweater with a hood on his head to hide his face, holding a blood-stained dagger in his hand behind his back, and put a man in a camel coat to the ground in a posture of strangling his neck behind his back.The man in the camel coat was lying in a pool of blood. Several bloody holes had been stabbed in his chest and abdomen. He could only breathe out but not in.The man in the hood picked up a small box-shaped thing from the ground and stuffed it into his pocket. Just as Sharon rushed in, he was startled, and immediately turned and ran towards the window.

"Stop!" Xue Lun strode forward, grasping the body of the stick with her right hand, and the head of the stick with her left hand, and pulled out forcefully, "Clang", a delicate sword was pulled out of her stick.As she rushed forward, she threw the sword out.

But the man in the hood was one step ahead, leaping out of the toilet window, Xue Lun's sword hit the window frame, and when it fell to the ground with a clang, she also rushed to the window.She leaned over the window and looked out, only to see that the man in the hood had quickly rushed out of the alley outside the toilet and disappeared.

Instead of chasing him, she picked up the sword on the ground, put it back into the staff, and then turned around to come to the man in the camel coat.

"Sir, hold on, I'll call an ambulance right away." Sharon clicked on the bracelet, but the man grabbed his wrist with all his strength.He opened his mouth with difficulty and said:

"Atlantis...Latia...Westminster collapses...time...when..."

After uttering a few broken words, he couldn't move anymore, his eyes were wide open, and he stopped breathing.

Xue Lun froze on the spot, the man still held her hand tightly, what did he mean by these words...?time?What happened to the time?She subconsciously took out her pocket watch, and the hands on the dial showed 21:44:07.

She was in a daze when someone patted her behind her unexpectedly, and then Pister's voice sounded behind her:

"Hey! What's going on!"

Xue Lun didn't have time to turn her head to look at Peister, because she was taken aback by Pister's sudden slap just now, her finger that was hovering over the pointer of the pocket watch flicked, and suddenly touched the minute hand, and instantly turned the minute hand back to the clock. Dial it.Immediately, a strange thing happened, she only felt that her soul was out of her body, her eyes turned white, and she couldn't see anything immediately.All the sounds in my ears disappeared, and I fell into absolute silence.This silence seemed to have lasted for a century, but it seemed to only last for a moment. Her heart was slowing down, her heartbeat almost disappeared, and she was not sure if she was still alive.

Then, the silence ended, and the ticking sound of the pointer rang in her ears, and then other sounds gradually recovered, the white in front of her eyes disappeared, and she saw the outside world clearly again.

Then she was surprised to find that she was sitting on the toilet in the women's bathroom...

what happened?She was completely dumbfounded.

She immediately realized, could it be a pocket watch?

She hurriedly took out the pocket watch from her clothes pocket and opened it. The pointer moved steadily one by one—21:43:11, which looked normal.But this is the biggest anomaly, because she found herself back to nearly 1 minute ago.No, if you add the three seconds she was in a daze, she did go back to 1 minute ago.

"I'm not... dreaming..." she murmured.

She stood up in a daze, put on her pants, flushed the toilet, walked out of the cubicle, and went to the sink to wash her hands.The more she thought about it, the more wrong it became, she took off her monocle lens a little annoyed, scooped up a handful of water to wash her face, and thought to herself: Probably because I've been a little tired recently, and I'm really daydreaming.

But then, she once again heard the sob in her throat from the men's room next door.

"Heh!" She gasped, her whole body was terrified, her hair stood on end, and she froze in place for a while, unable to move.

She is not dreaming!

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