Chapter 720 The Great Chrono-Leak

Si Fengwu was slightly surprised, "All killed? Weren't they your compatriots? Why kill them all?" Si Fengwu wasn't soft-hearted, but he knew very well that Lu Qingwan was not a bloodthirsty person. If she suddenly wanted to kill all those people, there must be a reason. "It doesn't matter if they are from the same hometown or not. What matters is that they are all a group of people who committed crimes using their special skills. After their crimes were exposed, they voluntarily sent themselves to this era to escape legal punishment. They appeared here simply because they couldn't agree on terms with Meng Fuyuan, not because their conscience suddenly kicked in and they decided to stop harming the world. Such scoundrels are a menace wherever they are. Eliminating them here can be considered my contribution to my homeland." Lu Qingwan's words were filled with disappointment, but her face showed no sympathy or regret. Instead, Si Fengwu was extremely astonished, "There were over a hundred people in there, and so many of them were criminals?" This outcome was hard for Si Fengwu to believe. Lu Qingwan, however, was very rational, "A total of seventy-six people, plus those previously executed by Meng Fuyuan and Liu Hanyan for various reasons, there have been at least three hundred people in the past thirty years. I know it sounds incredible that over three hundred transmigrators are all criminals. But try to think about it from another perspective: if you saw these three hundred people in the imperial prison, would you still be surprised?" Whether something is reasonable or not depends not only on the thing itself but also on the background and environment in which it occurs. In an ordinary person's life, even three criminals appearing would be a major event capable of changing the course of a life, let alone three hundred. But if all these people appeared in prison, it would seem quite reasonable. Si Fengwu naturally understood Lu Qingwan's meaning, and he said somewhat dazed, "I'm not surprised by that. Criminals exist in every era. I'm just surprised that there can be so many transmigrators in this world." Before meeting Lu Qingwan, he had never even heard of the concept of transmigration. But ever since he met Lu Qingwan, it felt as if the river of time had become a sieve, letting anyone through. The transmigration of souls also felt as trivial as child's play. Even someone as knowledgeable as Si Fengwu found his worldview challenged. "Under normal circumstances, there shouldn't be so many transmigrators, but if it's artificial, it's very easy to explain." Lu Qingwan squeezed Si Fengwu's hand heavily, as Si Fengwu usually comforted her, "Don't worry, after this battle, this temporal loophole will be sealed. New transmigrators might appear in the future, but there will definitely not be any more such bizarre anomalies." She said it with a light tone, but Si Fengwu inexplicably heard a sense of detached magnanimity. For some reason, he suddenly asked, "Are you going to do something again?" The person who had been relaxing and cozy in his arms suddenly stiffened all over, then poked his chest with some helplessness, "Really, nothing can be hidden from you." Her frankness made Si Fengwu's heart skip a beat. He hooked her chin, forcing her to look at him. Their eyes met, and he felt a little more at ease, "Tell me, is what you're going to do dangerous?" Lu Qingwan looked at his anxious appearance with some helplessness, pried off his claws that were tensed to the point of constricting his force, and smiled, "Don't worry, I won't be harmed at all." Si Fengwu looked at the clear finger marks on her chin and realized that in his anxiety, he had forgotten to control his strength. He gently stroked her smooth chin with concern, "Since you won't be harmed, why are you so serious? Are you deliberately trying to scare me?" "Not at all?" Lu Qingwan sighed sadly, "I just didn't expect that after always holding onto a glimmer of hope, the day to accept reality would finally come." Having confided in each other for many years, Si Fengwu didn't understand everything about Lu Qingwan's past, but he knew quite a bit. Hearing Lu Qingwan's melancholy, he understood what was going on. "Have you found any clues about your grandfather and your friends?" He remembered Lu Qingwan telling him that her transmigration was due to an accident while she and her comrades were on a mission. And besides those comrades, the person Lu Qingwan cared about most was her grandfather, who had always doted on her. When that person deliberately provoked Lu Qingwan by mentioning her grandfather and comrades, Si Fengwu knew that no matter how unwilling he was, Lu Qingwan would have to face the past she least wanted to confront. Lu Qingwan didn't deny it, "Before, he said that my grandfather donated his body for me, and that Little Snake died for me. I still held onto some hope then. I thought he hated me to the bone and was deliberately saying that to make me sad. But under soul-searching, there are no lies. After I used soul-searching on him, his story remained unchanged, and he even revealed many things I didn't know." From Lu Qingwan's reaction, Si Fengwu knew without thinking that the other party must not have said anything good. Not wanting Lu Qingwan to be consumed by guilt and grief over her grandfather and comrades dying for her, Si Fengwu tentatively asked, "According to you, all the secret agents you worked with underwent basic training in drug resistance and anti-interrogation. Is it possible that the person wasn't actually subjected to soul-searching, but merely pretended to be, saying those things to deliberately provoke you and get revenge?" After all, Lu Qingwan herself had said that the person was her grandfather's assistant and was very familiar with her past. Si Fengwu thought it was not impossible. Lu Qingwan shook her head, "Anti-interrogation training might allow him to withstand ordinary interrogation, but the soul-searching technique of our psychic group is not so easily resisted. Someone might be able to play dumb, but he's not qualified." She paused and continued, "Do you know, when the mission failed, I should have died there. It was my grandfather. He made a deal with those people in the laboratory with his own life, asking other seniors in the psychic group to help me survive. To ensure I wouldn't be bullied in another world, he even forcibly gave me his innate spatial laboratory. The spatial laboratory exists in the heart and grows in the consciousness. To forcibly tear it away is a torment a hundred, a thousand times more painful than death..." Si Fengwu suddenly understood. In fact, what that person said was not important at all. Lu Qingwan understood her grandfather and her comrades. She didn't believe the person's words, but she believed that they would go to such lengths for her. He swallowed the words of comfort he had painstakingly formulated and only said weakly, "Since they tried so hard to let you live, you must live a brilliant and unrestrained life, living for them as well." "I know, but before that, I need to seal the temporal loophole. She said, not being polite at all, "I was still planning to have someone bring Xiao Yuan'er back. Si Fengwu, this time, you have to accompany me to the Hall of Reincarnation yourself."