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Chapter 250 Actions Before the Storm
The air in the hall seemed to freeze. Xiao Ran slowly loosened his clenched fist and stared at Xiao Ling, as if assessing the credibility of the prophecy.

Lu Zhao had already walked to the side, his fingers flying across his tablet as he accessed the city's weather model, but all official data indicated that it would be a clear evening.

“Trust her,” Su Wanqing said, breaking the silence. “We all have to trust her. There are still a few hours until 5 p.m., we can’t just wait around.”

She turned to Lu Zhao: "The fortress's defense system needs your improvement, especially the modules for energy interference and physical intrusion. Use all available resources."

Lu Zhao nodded and adjusted his glasses. "Understood. I will dedicate all the computing power of the mainframe to the construction of the defense array."

Su Wanqing then looked at Lin Che: "Lin Che, we need more basic medical supplies, especially antibiotics and medicines for treating external injuries. After the storm, these things will be more valuable than gold."

"Leave it to me," Lin Che replied decisively.

“Xiao Ran,” Su Wanqing said, looking at him one last time, “get your gear ready and get into the zone. You only have six minutes of window time, so there can’t be any mistakes.”

Xiao Ran didn't speak, but nodded heavily and turned around to adjust his tactical vest.

It was exactly 5 p.m.

The gate to the underground fortress slowly opened a crack. Su Wanqing stood in front of the control panel, where three planned routes were clearly displayed on the pale blue screen in front of her.

A road leading to a center for children with special needs is marked orange by the system as high-risk.

A chain pharmacy leading three blocks away is marked in yellow for medium risk.

The area within a 500-meter radius of the fortress is a safe, green zone.

"Go!" Su Wanqing gave the order.

Lin Che slung an empty backpack over his shoulder and was the first to dart out, disappearing into the shadows of the ground entrance.

Xiao Ran followed closely behind, but he did not leave immediately. Instead, he hid behind an abandoned newsstand next to the entrance, waiting for that moment that was precise to the second.

Su Wanqing's attention was entirely focused on the light screen. She lightly tapped Xiao Ran's orange line with her fingertip, and a line of finer text popped up:
[Optimal Action Plan: 17:17:03, the fire hydrant in the southeast corner of the target building will burst due to abnormal pipe pressure, creating a high-density water curtain for 34 seconds. It is recommended to cross the street at this time; 17:18:15, a municipal garbage truck will pass by the back door, and the noise it produces can mask the sound of breaking windows; 17:21:40, take the target away and evacuate through the north ventilation duct...]

This precise, second-level action suggestion made her realize that the system's ability to "weave destiny" was far more powerful than she had imagined.

It doesn't predict; it calculates and presents a predetermined script.

Suddenly, the yellow light representing Lin Che began to flash violently and quickly turned into a blinding red.

[Warning! At a critical juncture, 'Lin Che' has encountered a Time Observer, and his vital signs are rapidly declining! Should we consume 3000 rebate points to perform a basic 'causal intervention'?]

"Execute the intervention!" Su Wanqing said without hesitation.

Meanwhile, in a secluded alley, Lin Che was leaning against a wall, breathing heavily.

He had a deep, bone-revealing wound on his arm, from which blood was constantly seeping.

Standing before him was a man in a black trench coat. The man's face was expressionless, and his eyes were pure black, like two empty holes.

"Time anomaly... must be eliminated." The man in black's voice was completely flat, like an old tape recorder playing a recording.

He approached step by step, his movements somewhat stiff, yet incredibly fast.

Lin Che tried to raise his arm, but the man in black simply waved his hand, and an invisible pressure pinned him firmly to the wall.

Just as the man in black raised his hand to deliver the fatal blow, a window on the third floor of a residential building next to the alley entrance suddenly blew open, and a gas cylinder flew out with a whooshing sound, colliding with the wall in mid-air with a deafening roar. Boom!
The massive explosion and shockwave instantly overturned all the trash cans in the alley, and the scorching heat wave momentarily slowed the movements of the man in black.

He turned his head to look at the source of the explosion, and a flicker of data analysis seemed to flash in his pure black eyes.

In that brief pause, the purple lines on Lin Che's wrist suddenly lit up, and a force pushed him away from the wall.

Ignoring his wounds, he scrambled out of the alley and disappeared into the chaotic crowd on the street.

Inside the underground fortress, Su Wanqing breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the system notification: "Intervention successful, target has been freed from lock."

3000 points evaporated instantly, but in return, Lin Che's life was saved.

She switched her perspective and looked towards Xiao Ran. At 5:17 PM, the sky suddenly darkened, and small but dense raindrops began to pelt down.

Almost at the same moment, a fire hydrant in the southeast corner of the children's center burst open with a "bang," splashing water everywhere.

Xiao Ran's figure darted out like a cheetah, perfectly blending into the rain and water curtain.

Everything unfolded precisely as if it were a script.

Half an hour later, Lin Che staggered back to the fortress, clutching his arm, his face pale.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Ran returned, followed by an unusually quiet little girl.

The girl was about seven or eight years old, with a pair of large, bright eyes, but those eyes shimmered with a faint silver light that did not belong to her age.

She is Xiao Ran's younger sister, Xiao Yu.

Lu Zhao immediately treated Lin Che's wounds while listening to him describe the characteristics of the man in black.

"His attack method is very strange. It is not physical force, but more like a kind of... suppression at the level of rules."

Lin Che said with lingering fear.

At this moment, Xiaoyu walked up to Xiaoling. The two girls stood together; one had a red dot on her forehead, and the other had silver light in her eyes.

Lu Zhao's tablet computer suddenly emitted a rapid alarm sound.

He stared in astonishment at the frantically jumping data stream on the screen. "This...this is..."

Everyone's attention was drawn to it. The red dot on Xiaoling's forehead and the silver light in Xiaoyu's eyes seemed to be connected by an invisible line. An energy bond that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye formed between them and emitted a faint hum.

"Quantum entanglement! Perfect energy field synchronization and mutual amplification!"

Lu Zhao's voice trembled slightly as he stared intently at the data. "This is biologically impossible... unless... unless they are different aspects of the same being!"

As if he had just realized something crucial, he suddenly raised his head and excitedly explained to everyone, "I understand! Xiaoling can see the future, while Xiaoyu... she might be perceiving the past! Their abilities complement each other, together forming a complete closed loop of time perception!"

This discovery made Lu Zhao's breathing quicken. He put forward a bold hypothesis: "The reason we failed in our previous life was probably because our time anchor was incomplete and unbalanced!"

If we can utilize this resonance among them, perhaps... perhaps we can create an unprecedented, absolutely stable network of time anchors!

Su Wanqing looked at the two girls standing together in front of her, and then at the storm warning that had started counting down on her system interface.

Lu Zhao's words gave her the first ray of true dawn in the impending darkness.