Told You I Can Turn Back Time
Chapter 465 - 376 Old Friend and Execution

Chapter 465: Chapter 376 Old Friend and Execution

East Sea City outskirts.

In the past, it was a sparsely populated and vast suburb that is now occupied by crisscrossing dense buildings everywhere, seemingly every inhabitable place was already crammed with people.

This was because even though the continuous years of war had caused the population to plummet, important cities like East Sea City saw a population explosion over several years due to relocation, escape from calamities, and transfers for various reasons.

At this moment, on a suburban street.

Lin Xing walked under the dim light, and an old sedan sped past him, splashing muddy yellow-green water all around.

However, no one noticed that although some of the dirty water also splashed toward Lin Xing, it coincidentally avoided him, not leaving a trace on his body.

Shortly after the sedan drove away, several drones had already followed, chasing in the direction the sedan had gone.

"Although surveillance seems to have improved a lot, the security situation seems even worse than before," Lin Xing looked up at the sky, but under the shelter of the numerous buildings, he could only vaguely see a crack leading to the night sky, unable to see the Moon.

The voice of the Broken Sword came from his mind: "Under the growth of evil energy, whether it’s the common people below or the leaders above, all are full of evil thoughts. How many can control the restlessness in their hearts? No matter how much regulatory efforts improve, they can only suppress and delay, but they can never stop the overall trend of the world."

Yiyi’s voice came from his heart: "What’s the use of saying all this? Jing Shiyu is still missing, who are we going to look for next?"

Lin Xing slightly frowned upon hearing this, as he had come to East Sea City specifically to locate Jing Shiyu.

He had just scanned the Quantum Intelligence Research Institute using his psychic sense and found that the entire Institute had been rebuilt, with its internal structure completely revamped. The room that originally belonged to him was gone, and Jing Shiyu was nowhere to be found.

Yiyi said, "Could something have happened to Jing Shiyu?"

Lin Xing shook his head slightly: "The person I left behind should be able to protect her, but we need to confirm her location again."

As they passed a food truck, steam kept emerging from inside, and although the greasy, dusty sign still bore the words "delicious fried chicken cutlet," what was being sold inside was small bowls filled with something unknown, continuously emanating a fragrance.

Lin Xing, smelling the aroma of the food, suddenly remembered that it had been a really long time since he last ate.

Especially during these six years on the Moon, his physical body had already become like an Immortal Artifact. Even without eating or drinking for a hundred years, he wouldn’t die; his Primordial Spirit could maintain its activities based on various cosmic radiations, solar brilliance, and especially his own strong intentions.

Seeing a customer approaching, the owner of the mobile food stand, rubbing his hands and breathing out warm air, immediately perked up and asked, "What would you like?"

But Lin Xing thought to himself, "I want to achieve my goals and complete the ultimate breakthrough without revealing my identity, so I must avoid doing illegal things and minimize the risk of exposing intelligence..."

"No, I never break the law; it’s just that some places have problematic laws."

"The problem now is, I at least need money to solve some basic problems, lest I always have to resort to breaking the law over trivial matters..."

And indeed, one of Lin Xing’s goals in searching for Jing Shiyu was exactly this.

Through Jing Shiyu’s connections, he could conveniently refine his body artifact and complete the final breakthrough without revealing his identity.

However, since he didn’t find Jing Shiyu at the Quantum Intelligence Institute, he needed to change methods to find her.

Like right now, he wandered around the periphery of the Quantum Research Institute, looking for a suitable entry point.

Just then, Yiyi’s voice rang out: "Lin Xing, look at the woman coming out of the intelligence institute!"

A tall woman with fair skin was walking out of the institute.

Lin Xing scanned the woman with his psychic sense and slightly frowned, "She looks familiar, do I know her?"

Yiyi said helplessly, "How could you forget again? That’s Mo Xingye, Jing Shiyu’s mentally unstable subordinate, Mo Xingye."

"Mo Xingye?" Lin Xing’s mind stirred, and his powerful Primordial Spirit began searching through past memories.

"I remember now, there was such a person. She was one of the native inhabitants of Mirror World initially captured by Quantum Intelligence Research Institute, wasn’t she? Back then, inside Marshal Zhang’s Mansion, Jing Shiyu even impersonated her."

Lin Xing remembered Mo Xingye as always acting insanely, but at this moment, in his psychic scan, the person was dressed in a jacket and jeans, wearing black-framed glasses, carrying a shoulder bag, looking like any of the countless workers of East Sea City, showing no signs of her previous identity as a mentally unstable person or a native of Mirror World.

"To think that a former mental patient has now been promoted to a staff member of the quantum institute, is it really a case of being cured from a prolonged illness? Or is it because of Jing Shiyu?"

"She should know Jing Shiyu’s current whereabouts."

...

Inside a stairwell where the lights dimmed and brightened intermittently, Mo Xingye yawned as she headed to her dormitory.

"How long has this light been broken? Hasn’t it been fixed yet?"