The Wheel of Chronos

At 21:44:06, Tianyang sat in the booth, just put down the wine glass in his hand, as if affected by some kind of deep feeling, he lowered his head and glanced at the time displayed on his bracelet.

In the next second, she suddenly found that something was not normal around her. The scene in front of her was like an old-fashioned tape that had been stuck and paused, then started to rewind.A bartender who passed by him stepped back with an empty wine glass until he reached the seat of the table where he took the glass away before, and put the empty glass back again; the classical symphony playing in the bar was played backwards , it sounded like a strange noise; the bartender who was making a cocktail in a gorgeous way at the bar in the distance flipped the mixing jar in his hand, falling from the direction of throwing it, and throwing it from the direction of falling...

Not long after, the retrograde spectacle ended, and everything around him became normal again.The waiter took away the empty wine glass, the classical symphony restored its elegance, and the mixing jar in the bartender's hand was still flying gorgeously without violating the laws of physics.

Tian Yang froze on the spot, because she had a top-notch mentality, so she didn't know what happened for a while.Could it be that she drank too much and had hallucinations in front of her eyes.

She frowned and felt her heart feel stuffy. She lowered her head, kneaded the space between her brows, and instantly saw the time displayed on the bracelet on her wrist—21:43:11.

what happened?

……

Sharon froze in place, not knowing what to do.Just as she was hesitating, the sound of fighting next door had become more intense, and the familiar sound of a mirror breaking quickly came.

Sharon suddenly raised her hand and patted herself on the cheek, then quickly turned around, rushed out of the women's room again, and broke through the locked door of the men's room.She knew that if she didn't act, it would be too late, and there was no time to confuse herself. If this was an opportunity God gave her, she must seize it.

However, this time he broke in, just like last time, it was too late.The man in the camel coat was bleeding profusely and fell to the ground, dying. The assailant picked up his things again and jumped out of the window, fleeing quickly.

Sharon didn't throw out her stick sword, but squatted directly beside the dying man in the camel-colored coat, and asked in a deep voice:

"Is the collapse of Westminster related to Latia? Why did that person attack you and what did he take?"

"Hard...hard..."

"Is it a hard drive?"

"Ah..." The man tried to say something, but he couldn't make any sound.

Without hesitation, Sharon immediately took out her pocket watch.When she turned the minute hand of the pocket watch, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Pistol walking into the men's room, only one step away from herself.

She held the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, but she didn't expect that what she had speculated would really happen again.The minute hand turned back one notch, and the eyes were once again shrouded in white light, the voice receded like a tide, and fell into absolute silence.Her soul is out of her body, not knowing whether she still exists in the world.Then, after a long or short period of time, she found herself on top of the toilet in the women's toilet again.

She stood up abruptly, put on her pants as quickly as possible, flushed the toilet, then rushed out of the cubicle and went straight to the men's room next door.As soon as she opened the door of the women's room, she heard the sound of locking the door from the men's room next door.She made a decisive decision and kicked the door of the men's toilet. There was a loud "bang", and a male cry of pain sounded from inside the door.It was the man in the camel coat. He had just locked the door and before he left the door, he was suddenly hit by the open door and fell to the ground in pain.

Sharon ignored him, rushed in, and drew out her stick and sword to defend herself. When she walked to the corner, the sharp-edged cold mango really flashed in front of her eyes, "Dang", she blocked the dagger with her sword, Sharon faced the man in black with the hood.The man was agile, but not very powerful, and his fighting skills were good, but the short blade was only suitable for assassination, and it was too disadvantageous for the long weapon.After two fights, he lost the wind and could only retreat steadily.Xue Lun held the sword in his left hand, and with a twist of the tip of the sword, he swung his dagger away.Immediately, the sword blade slashed at his shoulder, tearing the clothes on his shoulder and leaving a gash in his skin.Under the pain, the man felt that he could not be entangled, so he leaped out of the window immediately and escaped again.

Sharon didn't plan to really catch him back, she knew that now she might be involved in some very dangerous trouble, and she would not be pursued by the poor. If there were his accomplices around here, then she would be hard to beat with two fists.

Only then did she notice that the window glass in front of her had been neatly cut off and disappeared.

The design of the bathroom window in the Deer Hunter Bar is mainly for lighting. Due to the high concealment and safety requirements of the bar, in order to meet the specified safety factor, the entire window glass is made of toughened bulletproof glass, and only the uppermost transom window can be opened. , a normal adult cannot pass through the narrow opening of the transom without breaking the window completely.So the man in black obviously did not enter through the right way, but used special tools to remove the entire window glass.

And this person ambushed here, obviously he knew that someone would come here.But he didn't come to kill, but to grab things.It's just that this matter was destroyed by Sharon first.

"Damn it!" The man in the camel-colored coat who fell on the ground got up, ignoring the bruises on his nose, rushed to the last compartment of the men's toilet, opened the lid of the toilet tank, and saw that there was nothing left on the bottom of the lid. He froze for a moment after the remnants of tape, and immediately put down the cover.Just as he was about to make a call with his bracelet, he suddenly realized the existence of Sharon, so he gave up temporarily.His complexion was very ugly, he stood there staring at Sharon for a while, and said:

"Your Excellency, is it the Earl of Sunderland?"

"Yes." Sharon replied very simply, she knew that the other party should know her, and maybe he came here on purpose to ask her to meet.

"Just call me Bob." He held out his right hand to Sharon.

Sharon deliberately reached out her left hand to shake him, and Bob showed a slight embarrassment.But soon he said:

"As you can see, the very important thing I want to give you today has been snatched away."

"What?" Sharon asked.

"A mobile hard drive contains very precious data, all of which are the data of the National Security Agency's investigation into the collapse of Westminster Abbey six years ago." Bob said.

"Why..." Sharon's question was only halfway through when there were footsteps outside and two men talking with drunken laughter.It looks like someone is going to the bathroom.

"This is not a place to talk, let's talk in another place." Bob walked to the door of the men's room first, and went out.Xue Lun followed behind him, seeing the strange eyes of the two men going to the bathroom who had just arrived at the door of the men's bathroom, she left quickly with a blank expression on her face.

Bob walked in front, and it was no accident that he ran into Pistol who was standing at the aisle from the bathroom to the outside bar hall.Bob pulled her to whisper a few words, Pistre's expression froze, and then she called a waiter and asked him to take Bob and Sharon to the box that had been arranged earlier.She herself used the walkie-talkie to call the security personnel and rushed to the men's toilet.Sharon knew that she went to deal with the missing glass window in the men's bathroom.

She followed Bob into the box, and the two sat down. Bob was probably in a bad mood and wanted to have some wine, but he was afraid that alcohol would affect his thinking. In the end, he only ordered a low-alcohol mixed cocktail, and Sharon ordered one. For black tea, the waiter quickly returned after receiving the order.

"Mr. Bob, as far as I know you are a former NSA investigator with access to the Westminster Abbey collapse investigation, which I understand. But what I don't understand is why you would want to report the accident Give me the information of the investigation. Why is the information in the water tank in the bathroom? Also, who is that person?"

"The Earl of Sunderland, don't be impatient, I will explain. It is like this, I am not really retired. To be precise, I actually have five days to retire, and the National Security Agency just took over the church collapse six years ago. I was in the investigation team during the investigation mission. I followed the case for two years, and then I was transferred from the team. It was not just me. During that time period, most of our first investigators were transferred separated."

"why?"

"Because at that time we could already confirm that the collapse of the church was not detonated by a terrorist attack, but by the collapse of space."

"The space is collapsing?!" Sharon's eyes widened.This is the first time she has heard of this statement.

"Yes, but as far as I have come into contact, I only know that the collapse of the church is due to the collapse of space. I don't know whether this collapse of space is a natural phenomenon or caused by man. After the investigation team, several of my old brothers and I have been brooding over this case. But those of us who work in state secret agencies deeply understand things that we should not know, and we must never ask nonsense, otherwise There was going to be a murder. For the next four years, I only occasionally inquired about the progress of the investigation of the case, but you know, I couldn't ask anything.

I should have retired in comfort and enjoyed my old age.But just a month ago, something happened inside the National Security Bureau. "He paused, his voice seemed to be lowered:

"A month ago, the operational submarine conducting monitoring work on the bottom of the Atlantic sent back a set of strange pictures. A plant rhizome with a diameter of tens of meters thick appeared within the scope of the submarine's searchlight and killed a large one. The huge sperm whale has been absorbing its flesh and blood. According to the internal judgment of the National Security Bureau, the alien spore troll integrated with the Atlantis continent on the bottom of the sea seems to be waking up after sleeping for hundreds of years. And right there In the sea area near the area where the spore troll is located, we have detected strange space-time phenomena. The space displacement and time disorder make that sea area look extremely strange.

The message sent back is classified as the highest level of confidential information and conveyed to the superior.But because one of my old brothers works in the Atlantic Section of the Marine Monitoring Service, I have access to first-hand intelligence.And told us so we can know.We have discussed that this incident may be related to the space collapse in Westminster six years ago. Currently, human technology cannot artificially cause space collapse. This may be caused by a higher level of technology. result.Facts have proved that after comparing the space detection maps of the two, we found that the basic topological relationship between the two is consistent.

Two weeks after the news was reported, there was no movement at all.Not only did none of the royal family members know about this situation, but none of the cabinet ministers received the news.It wasn't long before a few of my older brothers and I discovered that our daily movements were being tracked.We noticed that something was wrong, and after discussing it, we thought that maybe the National Security Bureau had an insider, and it was very likely that it had something to do with the third princess Latia of Atlantis, and someone inside became a lackey controlled by this woman without knowing it. .The scariest thing was that my old brother who worked in the Atlantic Division got into a car accident out of nowhere and just disappeared.We know that our wealth and lives are being targeted, and the killer is always by our side, making it impossible to guard against.So I pretended to retire early and started going in and out of this fairly high-security bar, planning to use it as a base for our exchange things.My brother who works in the data management department decided to copy the Atlantic monitoring intelligence and all the investigation reports on the collapse of Westminster Abbey and report it directly.However, due to various complicated reasons, we failed to succeed.Then, we found out that someone was also investigating the collapse of the cathedral that year, and this person had the opportunity to directly contact the royal family. "After that, he nodded to Sharon.

Sharon looked at him with a sinking face.

"Our lives are at stake, and we are under surveillance all the time. My brother in the data management department took a great risk and stole the data and stored it in the men's bathroom here. My task is to get Get the data, connect with you, and secretly hand over the data to you for safekeeping. But unfortunately, this matter has obviously been exposed now, and the data has been lost. "

"I want to know what you are trying to do by taking the risk to investigate this matter and handing over the data to me."

"Picture what?" Bob laughed. "I don't want anything. I'm just doing my job. This is my last job before I retire. You know, I work for the National Security Agency. My job is It's national security. I'm just doing my best to get it done, that's all."

Regarding his statement, Sharon didn't say anything.

"Earl Sunderland, if you still care about the future safety of the empire, please help us. This is closely related to your sister's death that year."

However, Xue Lun stood up, patted the folds of her clothes, and said softly:

"I don't want to get involved in more complicated matters. There is no basis for my words, and I have no reason to trust a stranger like you. How my sister died, I will investigate by myself. This matter is as you said, very serious. Dangerous, I thought, I'd better take my leave."

Probably because he didn't expect Sharon to behave like this, Bob froze for a moment, staring at Sharon, as if he wanted to see what kind of person she was.

Sharon opened the door, and stood at the door without paying attention. The waiter who was about to push the door in, walked out without hesitation.Bob's complexion became gloomy. The waiter brought the wine to his hand. He picked up the glass and drank the contents in one gulp, his thick eyebrows frowned.Not long after, his face suddenly turned ugly, his throat seemed to be blocked, he subconsciously raised his hand to scratch his throat, his face quickly turned purple, and then he died quickly, and fell on the sofa in the box.

The waiter quietly took away the wine glass, walked out of the box calmly, and closed the door behind him.Soon, he disappeared from the bar.

On the other side, just as Sharon walked out of the bar, the cold wind blew in, stinging her skin, and she wrapped her coat tightly.Unexpectedly, someone bumped into her from behind, and when she turned her head, she saw Tian Yang hurried past her, walked quickly to the electric pole not far away, bent down while holding on to the electric pole, her face was pale, alone He covered his chest with his hands, looking uncomfortable.

Sharon frowned, hesitated for a moment, stepped forward and asked:

"Princess? What's wrong with you?"

"Ouch!" Her answer was a painful retch.

The author has something to say: interesting things are yet to come.Sharon's ability to turn back time is limited, at present, it is only 1 minute.