My girlfriend died in the past

Chapter 257 Time goes back again
Zhuang Xiao closed the notebook and put it in his arms, then put the keys in his pocket.

Then he picked up the timeline detector, opened the back cover and took a look. There was no battery inside.

"Let's go." Zhuang Xiao said to the curious Dong Weirui, "Let's go back first."

Dong Weirui glanced at the charred body on the ground and asked, "Don't you need to go downstairs to check on your parents' house?"

"No, that's not necessary."

Zhuang Xiao waved his hand, "Time waits for no one, let's go back first."

Dong Weirui nodded in agreement, "Okay."

Half an hour later, they returned to the main floor.

That aloof Mr. Shu had already disappeared.

As soon as they entered the room, Dong Zeyu asked, "How is it? Did you gain anything?"

Dong Weirui roughly recounted what had happened over there.

Gu Shiyue nodded, "All Xiaodie are real."

At least it is true for Zhuang Xiao.

So she asked the same question Dong Weirui had asked before, "So, do we still need to save him?"

If all Xiaodie are real, is it necessary for Zhuang Xiao to save the "real Shudie"?

"We must save him." Zhuang Xiao remained unwavering.

Because that Shu Die is the Shu Die of this timeline.

Only she can move freely outside the range of the superimposed 'channel'.

"And it's not that simple." Zhuang Xiao sighed, handed An Lan's notebook to Gu Shiyue, and then said: "I told you before, the surveillance camera at the chicken farm will capture a group of mosaic figures moving in the warehouse at night."

Gu Shiyue lowered her head to look at her notes, and Dong Zeyu nodded, "Yes, what's wrong with that?"

"It's very simple. According to my guess and the information the two little butterflies told me, they can't leave the area where the 'shadow world' overlaps with the real world." Zhuang Xiao said calmly: "You know what this means."

Dong Zeyu was shocked, "The overlapping range of the 'shadow world' and the real world is expanding!"

"Yes." Zhuang Xiao said: "The superposition range is expanding. If the range continues to expand, what do you think will happen?"

"The world is destroyed! Or there will be chaos in the world! Then there will be countless Shudies appearing! Even many buildings will overlap each other!" Dong Zeyu shuddered at the mere thought of it.

Zhuang Xiao nodded, "Yes, think about it, for example, if a hundred Statues of Liberty overlapped each other, a thousand Eiffel Towers overlapped each other. Even if it's just Luoyang, where countless buildings and road poles overlapped each other, what would happen?"

Disaster, undoubtedly a catastrophic disaster.

"That's too scary," Dong Zeyu asked hurriedly, "So what should we do now? We have to find a way to get into the 'shadow world'! If we don't go in, we won't know anything about it!"

"Help me find some AA batteries first. They're in the cabinet over there." Zhuang Xiao pointed to the cabinet in the distance. "I'll deal with the rest after Yueyue finishes reading it."

"Okay! I'll go right away!" Master Dong quickly jumped over and got the battery back.

Zhuang Xiao unpacked the package, opened the back cover of the timeline detector and stuffed the battery in.

Then he pressed the green button.

The LCD screen on the detector lit up immediately, and then numbers appeared.

【1.8】

Zhuang Xiao was stunned for a moment.

"What the hell? Could this thing be the timeline detector that Brother Zhuang mentioned? It really exists! Where did you find it?" Dong Zeyu came over with a curious look on his face.

His sister answered his question, "It's in the desk in An Lan's bedroom. It was left by An Lan for him."

"That woman is really scary. She even planned for sixteen years later?!" Dong Zeyu was shocked and subconsciously shook off his fat.

Zhuang Xiao was speechless.

Yes, it was the first time they realized how terrifying An Lan was. They had to go through countless times of despair before they understood that.

Dong Zeyu raised his hand and pointed at the detector. "Brother Zhuang, what do the numbers on it mean? Is it the timeline?"

Zhuang Xiao answered while fiddling with the detector, "Yes, the number before the decimal point represents this timeline, and the larger the number after the decimal point, the farther the current timeline is from the 'historical' version."

Dong Zeyu scratched the back of his head. "So this '1.8' means it's very far off?" "Yeah." Zhuang Xiao nodded. "In fact, we can work it back. If I'm right, the original timeline should be that Xiaodie didn't disappear, and even An Lan didn't die."

There are a few points he didn't mention.

Shu Die's mother should have passed away, as well as Grandpa Zhuang Xiao.

Even now in 2025, Zhuang Xiao should actually be dead.

In the original "history", his life should have been fixed on December 2024, 12.

Dong Zeyu wondered, "What will happen if the timeline changes?"

"Who knows, but unless there is a major change that affects the world, the timeline will only be at '1' and will not jump to other places."

Zhuang Xiao opened the back cover again, then took out his mobile phone, pulled out the SIM card and inserted it into the SIM card slot of the timeline detector.

Then he nervously turned on the detector again.

The number reappeared, still [1.8].

Zhuang Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly, then he pulled out the small keyboard on impulse.

Then he tried to change the numbers on the timeline.

Unfortunately, it still cannot be modified.

Frowning and thinking for a moment, he saw the switch button on the keypad.

He had tried that button before, and it had no response at all, even after he had installed the four phone cards.

But now that An Lan said there would be a surprise, we might as well give it a try.

So he pressed the "Select" button.

The next moment, change happened!
The number originally displayed as [1.8] has become [2025.04.01.16.44]!
Zhuang Xiao was startled and subconsciously raised his wrist to check the time.

现在是2025年4月1日下午16点44分！
As the second hand completes a circle, the numbers on the detector become [2025.04.01.16.45]!
It's time!

Zhuang Xiao's heart moved and he pressed the delete key.

So the last "45" in the number became "4", and the "5" disappeared!

At the same time, there is a flashing cursor behind the "4"!
Zhuang Xiao took a deep breath and pressed confirm!
Suddenly the numbers became [2025.04.01.16.40]!
He subconsciously looked at his watch again.

"Ok?"

Strange, why hasn't it changed?

He looked up at the clock on the wall and it was indeed 16:45.

"Grandmaster, Weirui, what time is it now? Don't look at the clock on the wall."

The Dong siblings were startled, then each took out their cell phone and took a look.

"It's 4:45 in the afternoon, what's wrong, Brother Zhuang?" Dong Zeyu asked.

Zhuang Xiao waved his hand and then looked at Dong Weirui.

Dong Weirui said succinctly, "It's the same here."

Zhuang Xiao frowned and looked down at the timeline detector. The time on it had indeed been modified by him to 16:40, but why was there no change at all?
Just as he was thinking hard, his vision suddenly went dark.

When he came to his senses again, he found himself lying on the bed.

The three-fold Huazi placed next to it rang with the sound of a text message.

He subconsciously picked up his phone and took a look.

It was a text message being erased.

[Do you really have a girlfriend?]

As the text message disappears, today's time comes into view.

2025年4月1日，早晨7点32分。

(End of this chapter)