The blue light of the laboratory remained piercing at three in the morning. Lin Mo stared at his ten-years-older self in the holographic projection; the wounds on his knuckles had scabbed over, yet his heart continued to pound violently. The news footage from 2060 hovered in mid-air, reporting the details of Su Yuqing’s car accident—a tragedy that had not yet occurred but was already etched into his marrow.
"Who else is there?" he asked, his voice rasping and echoing through the empty laboratory.
The System Spirit descended from the ceiling, its translucent data stream forming a blurred, humanoid shape. "Only you," it said, its voice like an electronically synthesized sigh. "Only you can change this Timeline."
Chapter 33