Restricted fantasy invasion

Chapter 408, Section 405: The Anti-Butterfly Effect

“Didi. Ta-da.”

As the invisible ticking of clocks passed over the surface of the world, Yan Huan's consciousness flickered between darkness and light in an instant.

In just a second, the real world where Ye Shiyu was still in front of him faded like an oil painting, eventually transforming into a different scene.

Before me was a small, enclosed rental room.

There was no strange smell in the room, but the windows and door gaps were visibly sealed with paper strips, making the room extremely dark due to the lack of light.

Yan Huan blinked, and only after his body moved slightly did he realize that he was still holding a knife in his hand.

He seems to.
They are on guard against something.

Right in front of him was a cell phone sitting on the table.

"."

Yan Huan stared blankly at the cramped room, clearly sensing the difference between this place and reality.

The only thing that remained the same was that the time had come to 4:45.

He has already entered the "if" scenario.

"Meow~"

On her shoulder, the black shadow gradually thickened until it materialized, revealing a pair of emerald-like cat eyes.

"Nyan-chan."

"Meow, in this 'if' scenario, you look a little chubby, meow!"

"."

Yan Huan touched her chin and indeed felt some soft flesh.

Moreover, I could feel the stiff stubble, as if he hadn't shaved for a while.

Which "what if" scenario have I traveled into?
Yan Huan was a little curious, so she picked up her phone.

Inside, his reflection showed his own disheveled appearance, with heavy dark circles under his eyes and a full beard.

Ok?
Immediately afterwards, the phone unlocked, revealing a dense stream of plane-related messages.

They were all sent by Hitomi Sakuramiya.

"Honey, let me explain."

I didn't mean to spy on you.

"I originally just wanted to see what you were doing. It's just that the situation has gotten serious recently."

"I was worried about you seeing other girls, that's why..."

"Especially lately, since you've been seeing other girls again, I'm living in fear at home."

"Please reply to my message, honey, I was wrong."

"I won't spy on you anymore, really, I swear."

"Honey, tell me, where are you?"

"Where are you?"

"Where are you?"

"."

The last message was sent seven days ago.

Looking at the messages inside, Yan Huan quickly turned her phone upside down and took a deep breath.

He seems to know what kind of "if" statement this is.

Fortunately, he is now in a safe place, and he only needs to stay there for one day.

"call"

He took a deep breath and looked at Miao-chan beside him.

"Alright, from now on, you have to listen carefully to everything I say, meow!"

Meow-chan wagged her tail and quickly got to the point.
"First, remember this: like now, if you directly 'substitute' yourself into any scenario, it means you're in an 'if' loop, meow!"

Yan Huan nodded. If Miao Jiang said that, then the key point was in the second half of the sentence.

"So, if I were to travel to the real timeline, I wouldn't be able to switch places, right?"

Meow-chan nodded seriously and then said,

"That's right, meow! Everything in the 'if' scenario is fake; it only becomes real temporarily because of your arrival."
"But the real timeline is different. You really travel to a period of time that has already happened, so of course you will encounter things that happened before and the people involved."
"Including yourself!"

Upon hearing this, Yan Huan pinched her chin and thought for a moment, then felt a headache coming on.

He had watched many science fiction movies, and when this kind of thing happened, the famous "grandmother paradox" would occur.

"...It's best to avoid meeting my past self, since this time the target is only related to Bai Yi, right?"

To minimize trouble, Yan Huan made this decision.

Miaojiang nodded and said,
"Great! You've already developed a basic 'travel safety awareness,' meow!"

"Safety awareness during crossing."

"Wait a minute, meow."

As she spoke, Meow-chan stood on her hind legs, and touched her belly with her two front paws.

Then, just like Doraemon, it pulled out a golden gear-shaped ring.

"Put this on, meow, Yan Huan!"

"What is this stuff?"

After accepting the ring, Yan Huan asked this question.

Meow-chan, having regained her balance on all fours, enthusiastically explained things to Yan Huan.

"This is a tool used to observe world lines, meow. With this, you can not only choose the time period to travel to, but also check whether the world line is stable."

Stablize?

"Yan Huan, you must remember meow, changing the timeline is like replacing parts in a pre-built set of building blocks."

Contrary to the common perception of the 'butterfly effect,' the operating logic of the world line is the 'anti-butterfly effect,' which aims to maintain the stability of the system as much as possible.

"It is very difficult to completely change what has already happened; you have to try to correct it little by little at different points in time."

"At the same time, the more things you change, the more you will be hindered by the world line."

"I don't know the specific methods of obstruction either; you'll have to figure that out for yourself."

Miao Jiang looked at the gold ring, then gazed at Yan Huan with great seriousness.

"If you act too hastily and change too many variables at the same point in time, it will cause the system to collapse, which is the annihilation of the world line."

Annihilation?

"What would happen then?"

"It'll be completely ruined, meow! I'd rather have a cheat engine come along, meow!"

"."

That's very serious.

"The problem is that I only have two master keys. I used them once in the 'what if' timeline, and then I have to use them again when I travel to the past. It's not a one-time solution. How can I fix this?"

"Meow"

Upon hearing this, Miao-chan's eyes widened in shock.

It really is!
"Tap tap. tap."

Just then, thanks to her extraordinary physical abilities, Yan Huan faintly heard a soft footstep coming from outside the door.

And
The sound of a knife dragging on the ground, making a slight scraping sound.

Yan Huan narrowed her eyes, then suddenly asked Miao Jiang,
"By the way, what happens if the 'if' line is false and you die here?"

"It will really die, cat."

"."

Upon hearing this, Yan Huan sat up silently and looked towards the door.

"dong dong dong"

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Yan Huan cleared her throat and asked,

"Who?"

"It's me, my husband."

It was Hitomi Sakura's voice, though it was trembling slightly.

Yan Huan walked over there without hesitation.

"Click."

He pressed the doorknob and was about to push the door open.

But Meow-chan's eyes widened; clearly, it too had heard the sound of knives scraping against each other outside the door.
"Wait, Yan Huan! You..."

Sure enough, as soon as Yan Huan pushed open the door, she saw Sakura Miyako standing at the door with a similarly dejected look on her face.

She held up the knife, her eyes bloodshot, and looked at herself.

"Honey, have you been cheating on me these past few days when I haven't seen you?"

"."

Yan Huan didn't reply, but just looked at Sakura Miyako in front of her and sighed.

His lack of response seemed to be taken as an admission by Sakura Miyako, and tears immediately welled up in her eyes.

"no, do not want"

At the same time, she gripped the knife tightly and charged towards Yan Huan.

Yan Huan didn't even look at her, but simply reached out and gently pulled her.
Indeed, even in the "if" scenario, Sakura Miyako's physical abilities are ridiculously weak. With a gentle pull, Yan Huan knocked the knife out of her hand, which she could barely hold.

Sakura Miyako let out a sob and tried to bend down to pick it up, but Yan Huan was quick and picked it up first.

Immediately, he raised it high above his head.
"Give it back to me! Give it back to me!"

Before her eyes, Sakura Miyako, who was not yet up to Yan Huan's chest, narrowed her eyes and reached out, jumping up and down to reach it.

But where can one reach it?
Instead, she jumped around a couple of times, but then she was so exhausted that she had to stand there panting for a long time after each jump.

"Haha. Give it back to me."

"."

Upon seeing this, Yan Huan's face darkened, and she even felt like laughing.

"Hitomi, you're really not suited for the yandere role." He sighed, and the next second, he gently reached out and patted the back of Sakuramiya Hitomi's neck.
"Snapped!"

In an instant, Sakura Miyako lost consciousness and collapsed on the spot.

"."

Inside the cramped rented room, Yan Huan supported the unconscious Sakura Miyako, while she and Meow-chan stared at each other in bewilderment.

"Now...it seems safe, meow."

"It's definitely safe now."

Yan Huan glanced at her fingers and saw that she only wore a ring on her ring finger, unlike in the previous "what if" scenario where she transformed into the Lord of the Rings.

In this "what if" scenario, it seems I only married Hitomi Sakuramiya.

"Boom"

After putting down the unconscious Sakura Miyabi Hitomi, Yan Huan put on the ring that Meow-chan had given her earlier to observe the world line.

"buzz"

In an instant, Yan Huan's eyes were tinged with a dazzling golden light.

Before his eyes appeared a golden river composed of countless threads.

The river flowed ceaselessly and steadily before him.

If you look closely, your vision seems to transcend dimensions, unfolding along the scales of time and space to reveal a series of three-dimensional images.

This is... the world line?
Yan Huan found it hard to understand, and it hurt her eyes to watch.

Fortunately, Meow-chan reminded us at just the right moment.
"Don't bother looking at the cats, just focus on whether the golden rivers are calm! The exact time of travel can be determined when you travel."

"Hiss, but didn't you say before that my physique makes it impossible for me to travel through time? What method have you come up with?"

"This method!"

Upon hearing this, Meow-chan wagged her tail.

Immediately afterwards, its size suddenly expanded dozens of times, turning into a black cloud, and swallowed Yan Huan whole.

Yan Huan's eyes widened. Before she could react, she felt her body seemingly melting away in the dark clouds.

Although it didn't hurt at all, Yan Huan still felt incredibly strange.
"what are you doing?"

"I'll merge my body with yours, meow."

Meow-chan's voice echoed in Yan Huan's mind, and at the same time, Yan Huan's body began to shrink little by little.

"In this way, you can acquire the properties of my body and the power of the gods, and use that to travel through time and space, meow!"

Deity.
power?

Yan Huan blinked, and the next second, its form gradually solidified, transforming into a...
A white cat.

"Meow?"

Yan Huan subconsciously meowed and looked down at her body.

Before it could even speak, Sakura Miyako, who was unconscious beside it, frowned and instinctively rolled over.

The arm that was flipping over reached towards the ground, and Yan Huan didn't even have time to react before being slapped away by Sakura Miyako.

"Boom!"

After rolling twice on the ground, Yan Huan was filled with shock.

"This is the power of the gods?!"

Did Hitomi slap him away?
That's very powerful.
"This was an accident, meow. It must have been because I used up too much power trying to melt with you."

"Boiling mist!"

"You promised you wouldn't call me Boiling Mist!"

"That's what Yan Huan said. Now that I've merged with you, consider it you're cursing yourself!"

"Meow?!"

Yan Huan ignored the meow-chan in her mind that seemed to be saying "You can do that too," it simply stretched its body and muttered,

"Is this all there is to it? It's just one cat, how can it change the past?!"

"This is the best solution I can think of, otherwise you wouldn't be able to travel back in time at all. While I'm working on improving the fusion technology, I'll see if I can unlock more abilities for you."

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No matter how much you do, it's still just boiling fog, isn't it?

Yan Huan was speechless, but could only squat down and silently look at the clock beside her.

But then again...
With the master key in his hand, he can only travel through time once. As Miao-chan said, the margin for error is indeed too low.

He suddenly had an idea.
I just don't know if it will work.

Anyway, let's give it a try.

“Didi. Ta-da.”

Yan Huan, who had transformed into a cat, sat in place, anxiously waiting for time to pass second by second.

In the early hours of the morning, Sakuramiya Hitomi, who had been knocked unconscious, woke up.

"husband"

"Meow~"

She looked around, only to find that Yan Huan had already disappeared.

In the cold room, only a cute white cat with golden eyes remained.

For some reason, looking at the white cat, Sakura Miyako suddenly felt like crying.

She lowered her head and sobbed for a long time, which Yan Huan couldn't bear to see, so she went up to comfort her.

Even so, she still left at dawn, and no one knows where she went.

"."

Yan Huan followed, wanting to confirm whether her house in this "if" scenario had a secret room with a modifier item like in the previous "if" scenarios.

When they arrived, they looked around and found nothing.
Sigh, it seems not every "if" scenario offers a reward.

Yan Huan was somewhat disappointed, but she didn't linger there any longer. Instead, she went to a secluded place to wait for 4:44 the next day.

It waited in the tree for a while with its hands tucked in its sleeves, and then, at some point, the ticking of a clock, like water droplets, came from around it once again.

“Didi. Ta-da.”

"It's time, meow, Yan Huan!"

"I know"

Yan Huan stood up, summoned the last universal key in her mind, and then activated the worldline observer in her eyes.

At that moment, countless golden lights shimmered on the surface of that world line.

Like the ocean boiling, it exerted all its strength to boil out a single, dazzling bubble.
Is that the process of generating a new if line?
Yan Huan wasn't sure, but she used her consciousness to turn the gear-shaped ring.

In an instant, the ring emitted a golden light, gradually forming an illusory golden pendulum clock in front of Yan Huan.

The pendulum swings left and right, propelling time forward.

Above the pendulum clock are imaginary arrangements representing "year, month, and day".

Yan Huan recalled the time when the accident happened, but then she couldn't help but feel puzzled.

The current timeline was altered once by Bai Yi. At that time, he died in a car accident, but Bai Yi changed it so that he was fine.

Then, Bai Yi disappeared again, and the result of that car accident was still that he survived.
So, if we jump back to that day, will we still be able to see Bai Yi?
"Click-clack."

Yan Huan was skeptical, but she still chose to push the clock to set the time.

As time turned, the pendulum below swung rhythmically.

"clang!"

To the left, a striking scene unfolded: Yan Huan was being hit by an ambulance, narrowly missing it.

"clang!"

On the right, there was another scene of him being hit by a car, covered in blood, and then being single-handedly killed by Bai Yi through CPR.

! !
you can!

You can see Bai Yi!
Wasn't the timeline record overwritten?

"."

Yan Huan was surprised and uncertain, but she still raised her paw and pressed down the time for that day.

Then, the pendulum suddenly stopped.

The surrounding scenery shattered instantly, creating an extremely terrifying suction force that pulled Yan Huan's body into it.

"hiss!!"

Yan Huan suddenly felt immense pressure on his body. Fortunately, at this moment, the cat's body acted like a diving bell, protecting him amidst the turbulent flow of time and space.

“Didi. Ta-da.”

And then, the next second, Linmen, drenched in the rain, reappeared before his eyes.

That was the day he died in a car accident.

At this moment, the rain curtain covering Linmen gradually overlapped with the illusory ticking of a clock, outlining an eerie concerto in the dim twilight.

Across from the villa in Beihai District that was previously hit by an ambulance, a stunningly beautiful figure emerged from the darkness.

Her face was pale, and her eyes were glistening with tears.

"No, no. Yan Huan, oh!"

Bai Yi's beautiful face was covered with tears. She held the pocket watch in one hand and tried to wipe away her tears with the other.

But the tears seemed impossible to wipe away; the more you wiped, the more they flowed.

"thump!"

"woo woo woo woo."

After taking several steps, her body gradually went limp, and she sat down on the ground.

The next second, a white cat passed through the many veils of time and space, gradually descending into reality amidst the illusory shadows.

"Meow~"

It stared wide-eyed, and only after landing safely did it turn its gaze back to the person in front of it.

At this moment, reflected in its golden cat eyes
It finally saw it again.
That still-existing, exquisitely beautiful face.

"woo"

It’s Bai Yi.

(End of this chapter)