The Wheel of Chronos

Xue Lun couldn't forget the expression of Josephine who watched her at the main gate when she followed her father into the car at the main gate.Although Princess Tianyang's death was kept secret for the time being, the whole family of Spencer already knew about it.Josephine looked at Sharon, as if she was asking if she could bear it, as if caring if she was sad, and as if to keep her from leaving, as if Sharon would never come back after leaving.

Perhaps she guessed right, before Sharon set off, she had already put the group photo under the Christmas tree in her pocket.It's just that she hasn't decided whether to go back or not.Her mind was in a mess at the moment, and the impact of Tian Yang's death made it difficult for her to keep calm.She couldn't figure out where she triggered Tianyang's immediate death condition before, even if she went back, the tragedy would repeat itself.She knew she couldn't easily go back in time again.However, if she figured out the key point here, she should also go back, she knew that she couldn't just let Tian Yang die like this.

There was a demonic voice in her head all the time speaking to her:

【Can you really not let her die?Isn't it good that she died?Maybe this is also a relief, you don't need to have any burdens anymore.She is very pitiful, but she sent you to Lemuria, jumping back to 6 years ago, not only out of feelings for you, but also a national mission, she is an imperial princess after all, she will not act completely according to her feelings .What's more, the previous b world line ceased to exist when it lost its observers, and the current world line is the only one that exists. You have to be realistic, value the present, and come back after all kinds of hardships, isn't it? Are you going to fail Josephine again because of a person who only lives in your memory? 】

[No, it's not...] Another tiny voice retorted weakly.

[What's not?Am I wrong?People do not kill themselves, you will not get any return for your efforts, and no one will understand your choice. When you become an observer of the world line, you are destined to be like this.What does it matter to you when she is dead? 】

【It was I... who killed her by flapping the butterfly's wings. 】

【No!You prevented the collapse of time and space in this world, and the death of Tianyang is the price you paid for it.We have compensation for everything we do. You can't just get benefits without paying anything.No matter how many times you backtrack, this is the result.You didn't kill her, she is a hero, she sacrificed for this world, isn't this what she aspired to do since she was a child?She is righteous, she is selfless, and she is destined to dedicate her life to the empire. 】

[Whether to save the world is something she decides for herself, not for me to decide for her.I don't have any right to force her as compensation for saving the world. 】

[Fool, then what do you want to use as compensation, your own life?Where is Josephine?Are you leaving her alone?Then what's the point of you coming back?Are you sorry Josephine?And is it worthy of Tianyang of the b world line who sent you back through all kinds of hardships?Just to be worthy of today's Tianyang and your own poor conscience, can you feel sorry for Josephine?This is not selfless, it is not noble at all, in the end you are only worthy of yourself, you are a selfish person! 】

[No, it's not...]

"No, it's not..." She stared blankly at herself printed in the car window, and murmured.Nurent, who was sitting beside her, looked at her, frowned, and asked:

"Sharon, are you okay?"

"No...it's not..." Sharon repeated these words unconsciously, like a wind-up doll.

"Sharon?" Nurent put his hand on her shoulder, forcing her to turn her head. "Pa-ta", a teardrop followed Sharon's sudden turn of the head, and fell on the back of Nurent's hand.Nurent looked up at the teardrops on the back of his hand in surprise, and was shocked to see that Sharon was already in tears.But that face is not a sad and weeping face, dull like a lost soul.Tears seem to roll down automatically, but the person who shed tears is not crying.

"Xiaoxue... What are you... What's wrong with you..." Nulent panicked, and his heart suddenly tugged at the appearance of his daughter.

"No...no..." Xue Lun seemed to not be able to hear her father's voice at all, and tears poured out like a floodgate, but she still repeated the three words "no" like a repeater.

"Xiaoxue...don't scare daddy." Nulent's whole heart ached, he had never seen his daughter like this, so that he forgot to pretend to be a strict father in front of his daughter, calling her He also used his childhood nickname.The daughter's full-bodied sadness and despair, even a big man like Nulent, was infected in a trance. He couldn't say anything, but he could only hug his daughter's broad shoulders and hold her into his arms.

"Father..." Xue Lun finally stopped repeating the words "no" and whispered to her father, then closed her eyes, clutched her father's clothes tightly with both hands, and finally cried out silently.The suppressed sobbing really hurt to the bone marrow, making people cry.

Old Jack, who was driving ahead, looked at the scene of his father embracing his daughter in the rearview mirror, and his eyes were wet with tears.Although they didn't know why Sharon was in such pain and injury, but Sharon was their dearest relative, and if they could, they would rather suffer instead of her.

……

The car drove into Zhaoming Palace and stopped at the entrance of the atrium under the guidance.Sharon, Newrent, and Old Jack got out of the car, and the three of them walked into the atrium together.But Nurent and Old Jack were stopped by the special agents of the National Security Bureau on the periphery, and only Sharon walked in alone.In the pavilion not far away, His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire was sitting alone in front of the canary screen full of Chinese style. Xue Lun couldn't see her face clearly. bluestone trail.

The tears have been wiped away, the emotions have calmed down, the eye sockets are still red and swollen, and the heart is still confused.But at least she knows that she has to face everything, at least there are relatives who love and support her.No matter what choice she will make in the future, she hopes to have a clear conscience.Thanks to having her father by her side this time, otherwise, she really didn't know if she could get out so quickly, or she might have been sinking into that state of being possessed, always arguing with herself from the bottom of her heart.Refutation is useless, perhaps before such a difficult choice, even all thinking and measuring are meaningless.All she can do is to act from the heart, without regret.

She walked into the gazebo and saw clearly the face of His Majesty the Emperor.She still looks so young and handsome, her face is calm and stable, her eyes are calm, she doesn't look like a person who just lost her daughter, Xue Lun can't help but feel that she doesn't have a daughter at all, and the one who died today is a complete irrelevant others.

Seeing Sharon walking in, she pointed to the stone bench beside her and said:

"Please sit down."

Sharon sat down as promised.

"I'm looking for you today, and your father must have told you the reason. You may be very surprised, you and Tianyang have never met, why did I find you the first time something happened to her?" His Majesty the Emperor Said straight to the point.But the next sentence brought Sharon a great impact and shock:

"I think you know very well why I am looking for you. The butterfly effect caused by your return caused her to have an accident."

Xue Lun's pupils shrank suddenly, and she subconsciously held her breath, not daring to look into His Majesty's deep black eyes.

Mu Li clicked on the desktop of the stone table, and the control panel of the holographic screen appeared on it.She called up some information screens and texts from it, enlarged one of the photos, pointed and said:

"See, this is a picture captured just before the accident on the Goddess of War. There is a small black spot on the side of the wing."

Sharon squinted her eyes and indeed saw a black dot.

"This is a swallow falcon, which appeared very suddenly on the route of the Goddess of War. Before the test flight, when the large-scale airspace was cleared and the birds were artificially relocated, its existence was never found. After the airspace was blocked, it It is also impossible to come in. But the strange thing is that it did enter out of thin air. The Goddess of War had no time to dodge at 4 times the speed of sound, and directly hit it. Under the high speed, the right wing suffered a huge impact. At that time, the whole aircraft The control system has completely failed. Then, the body was completely uncontrollable, and within 3 seconds, it showed a parabola, hit the mountain wall, and exploded quickly. The sun disappeared in an instant."

As she spoke, she played the last captured image, the final image of the Goddess of War breaking its wings and crashing into the mountain, which made Xue Lun feel cold all over her body.

"We analyzed the source of this falcon and came to the conclusion that it was a falcon with disabled wings left by the artificial migration of birds before. It could not fly, and it probably would not live long, so we did not take it out. Take it away. However, under the intervention of an unknown force, its disability was healed, and it was able to fly. And on the day when this little falcon was flying, it happened to crash into the flight test of the Goddess of War."

Sharon was silent.

"This time, there was no emergency rescue signal at sea, and Tianyang did not turn its aircraft around and fly to the sea for rescue before it hit the bird. Why was there no rescue signal at sea? Because Lemuria did not try to attack us. Why? The mainland of Lemuria didn't attack us? It's because your father didn't try to press the button of time-space explosion on the private plane, so the Lemurians didn't need to send aircraft to stop your father. Sharon, this is the butterfly The effect is the end of the world line."

Sharon's lips were trembling, and she asked intermittently in a hoarse voice:

"How do you know so much?"

Mu Li remained calm, she said:

"I think you see someone." Then she turned her head in the direction of the screen and said, "Come out."

Sharon turned her eyes to the edge of the screen, and there was a slight sound of footsteps, and then, a woman appeared from behind the screen.She was wearing a hoodie, jeans, biker boots, and had short hair and a baseball cap.

"You are..." Xue Lun showed shock on her face, she recognized that this woman was the woman in the hoodie she met in the airport in the last world line, she warned herself that Tianyang must survive.

"Let me introduce you. This is Eve, who came from the world 30 years later. She came by time shuttle and arrived at Zhaoming Palace after Tianyang's accident. She told me everything about you."

"Eve..." Sharon was speechless, murmuring her name, her eyes firmly locked on her face.This young woman, who looked to be in her twenties, had such a familiar face that, in a trance, it overlapped with the two old people she had known.

The woman smiled and said hello:

"Hello, Aunt Sharon, I finally see you."

"You are……"

"Yes, you should have guessed it, I am Eve, the daughter of Miranda Walker and Claude Williams."

The author has something to say: I know some people will say that it is very similar to "Stones Gate", but read on, although it is similar, it is actually different.The name Eve implies a lot. Her arrival is also a turning point and hope.