Did You Destroy the World Today?
Chapter 30: Time Pincer Attack!

Xu Jin is a fugitive?!

Lin Xu clearly remembered that the captain leading the quick reaction force had told him, "Xu Jin has already received the appropriate punishment."

But in the police system, he was still listed as on the run?

The police system’s information couldn’t be wrong. So that means the captain lied?

Indeed.

Back then, Lin Xu thought he was retaliating against Xu Jin's extremist civilian organization, so the "comforting" answer seemed reasonable.

But what exactly had Xu Jin done?

He wanted to click into the case file details, but the refreshed interface was completely blank.

In the center of the blank space were two words.

Insufficient permissions.

A basic police officer did not have the clearance to view Xu Jin's case file information.

That explained a lot...

If it was just a simple terror attack, the police system should have had access to it since it was still a social criminal case, and police officers would have jurisdiction.

But Xu Jin’s case had clearly transcended the scope of a “social criminal case.”

What, did he also attack the aerospace base planning to steal a spaceship to Mars?

Lin Xu was overwhelmed. He went back to the main page and continued searching for information on Xu Jin.

This time, he focused on the basic information.

No past work history was found, but family and social relations information was available.

Parents, spouse, children...

Previous workplaces, religious beliefs, political status...

Records of public security penalties, lawsuit records...

Lin Xu quickly memorized all the information he saw. Just then, he suddenly heard footsteps approaching from behind.

He glanced at the time displayed on the police handheld device.

11:58.

No time left.

So be it.

He exited the search page and turned off the device’s screen.

Then, he stood up and faced the police officer who was escorting the fleeing squad member back, pretending to be a helpful citizen as he waved.

“Officer, are you looking for this?”

The officer looked at Lin Xu’s hand and asked,

“Where did you find it?”

“Picked it up right here. He bumped into me and dropped it.”

The officer took the police handheld device from Lin Xu and grumbled,

“Damn, these drunkards are getting more and more lawless... By the way, don’t go yet. Come with us to assist in the investigation. I’ll give you a certificate of valor.”

“No need.”

Lin Xu waved his hand.

“I don’t have time.”

“You must have time.”

The officer’s face turned cold.

Lin Xu froze for a moment.

He understood—they had figured out he was an accomplice.

He originally wanted to get close, see if he could fish some useful information from the other side.

Judging by the situation, that was definitely hopeless.

So Lin Xu gave up.

He deliberately walked ahead of the officer, heading toward the police station.

Skull Head, who was still arguing with the officer at the entrance, saw him and his eyes flickered with surprise.

Lin Xu read the unspoken words.

It was a “beating a fool in frustration” look.

He smiled and said,

“It’s fine, the time’s up anyway.”

“Officer, the apocalypse is coming soon, at most in 20 seconds.”

“If you’re still alive then, can you answer me one question?”

“Remember, my question is: do you know Xu Jin? What did he do?”

As the words fell, the officer’s expression immediately changed.

It was like looking at a madman.

But at that moment, a flash of white light appeared.

Lin Xu collapsed in pain, and in his last fading moment of consciousness, he heard one sentence.

“I don’t know!!”

......

Lin Xu opened his eyes and woke up again in his own bed.

It was already 1:30 in the afternoon, and his stomach was growling loudly.

While ordering takeout on his phone, Lin Xu updated the clues document with the information he had found about Xu Jin.

[First, Xu Jin is still on the run, not captured]

[Second, what Xu Jin did is not an ordinary social criminal case, probably more than just a “terror attack,” so the ordinary police system cannot access the case files]

These two points were crucial, especially the first.

Think about it— even in 2025, it was extremely rare for someone to live domestically while wanted. Twenty years later, with AI and information systems further popularized, it was even less possible to hide in the country.

Either he had fled abroad.

Or... maybe, like Jiang Xingye, he was really already on Mars.

Unbelievable.

You lunatics from the Planetary Reincarnation organization, one by one, really made it to Mars, really crossed over to the other side, huh?

Lin Xu shook his head, then updated the document with some less important but freshly noted information about Xu Jin.

Father Xu Qianlin, mother Zhang Wan.

Only one workplace: Nanjing Materials Research Institute, but only until the end of 2028.

So it was possible he left the institute in 2028 and joined the Planetary Reincarnation organization?

Uncertain.

Marked as "secondary important information" for now.

Most of the new information and clues were sorted out, and at that moment, his takeout arrived.

He opened the door to get the food and ate while pondering the next plan.

Actually, by now, he could basically tell that the path to find information and clues through the Bracelet World was basically blocked.

Whether Jiang Xingye or Xu Jin, their information was classified and highly sensitive.

Once touched, alarms would sound.

As for his own information?

It was even more of a black box.

Although he could find his resume online, and after confirming that he had once served as the CEO of Tianqiong Technology, Lin Xu also tried searching his name online while returning to the Bracelet World to look for data.

No matter how he searched, all he found was an ordinary “career growth history of a professional manager.”

Besides these public channels, his future self of twenty years later had left no information for his past self.

Not even a single diary.

Well, who writes diaries seriously anyway?

To understand himself would require a similarly cumbersome, complicated process.

Therefore, his information was actually in the same state as Jiang Xingye and Xu Jin.

It wasn’t that it couldn’t be found, but the marginal utility was too low.

He might need to explore several times, even more than ten times, to find a bit of useful trace.

Instead of that, it was better to start over.

Changes in the real world could affect the future world, but only if certain key nodes were reached.

Since that was the case, he would temporarily focus on “changing the real world.”

What was this called?

Time pincer attack!

Lin Xu swallowed the last bite of pig’s trotter rice with satisfaction. The number on his Bracelet was 2, and the number on the computer clock was also 2.

Before meeting Jiang Xingye in the evening to eat with her, he still had time to enter the Bracelet World once more.

Lin Xu relaxed his stomach slightly and lay on the bed, about to raise his hand to touch the Bracelet to enter another world, but at that moment, he suddenly, as if possessed, took out his phone.

Immediately, he opened the browser and typed “Xu Qianlin” into the search bar.

—He always felt this name was somewhat familiar.

But he didn’t know where he had seen it before.

Half a second later, the result popped up.

Lin Xu’s eyes instantly widened.

“Xu Qianlin: Researcher at the General Department of the China Space Technology Research Institute.”

“Chief designer of the ‘Zhurong’ Mars rover.”

Zhurong!