Wei School's Three Good Students

Chapter 299: Seeking the "Present" Through "Past Vision" and "Future Vision"

Xuan Chong's "pencil box" tool allows for the drawing of auxiliary lines. Ma Feiyan's current spacetime ability is actually based on pre-setting "auxiliary lines" in spacetime.

As Ma Feiyan activated the time-space traverse and gazed at Xuan Chong, Xuan Chong was measuring the data of everything around her.

Because the ruler in his hand, after touching Ma Feiyan, gave him an additional mathematical coordinate axis, and this mathematical coordinate axis was in the time dimension.

Xuan Chong picked up his watch and slightly adjusted the time axis, centering it on Ma Feiyan.

Xuan Chong was then able to simultaneously enter "other times," and after entering these other times, his original self was frozen in time, which was like a "mini time travel."

Meanwhile, Ma Feiyan first activated "Past Vision," meaning she wanted to see what Xuan Chong was like in the past.

In the "past" point in time, Xuan Chong was standing alone on the sand table, scribbling away, when Ma Feiyan quietly walked up behind him, just like a mischievous kitten.

Ma Feiyan outwardly appears unapproachable, but no one knows what she is like during the processes of "viewing the past," "viewing the future," and "time standing still."

Just as she was about to secretly draw a turtle on Xuan Chong's back, Xuan Chong suddenly turned around and looked at her, catching her red-handed.

Ma Feiyan's "past vision" is to open a new timeline, but if she is interested in preserving the physical effects of her "past vision," she can "screenshot and paste" them onto certain people and objects in the present.

For example, her current act of drawing a turtle on Xuan Chong's back is something she intends to preserve.

In the present normal timeline, because the "past" has been altered, a turtle will remain on Xuan Chong's back.

However, she was caught red-handed. When Xuan Chong saw Ma Feiyan suddenly appear behind him with a pen in the "auxiliary line spacetime", he couldn't help but rub her white hair with his hand.

Just as Xuan Chong was about to touch her hair, Ma Feiyan trembled slightly, the timeline of "past" abruptly ended, Ma Feiyan disappeared, and Xuan Chong's "time axis" also disappeared.

Next, Ma Feiyan activated "Future Vision" and entered a two-hour time loop. Xuan Chong followed along as well, and the two watched the preview of "Time" together.

Liu Yi ended the conversation, and after Xuan Chong declined the sinecure, Liu Yi began to consult with the Emperor on how to deal with Xuan Chong next.

…Planning from within the well…

Xuan Chong is currently with Ma Feiyan.

Xuan Chong developed his "measurement" capabilities and squeezed into the "future vision" guided by Ma Feiyan.

He already knew the outcome of the meeting that the Dragon Group was preparing to host but hadn't even started yet.

But is the future we see really the future?
In the "future vision" timeline, Ma Feiyan tilted her head and looked at Xuan Chong, who stared at her intently: "How much of your future will actually come true?"

Ma Feiyan moved slightly closer to Xuan Chong, but maintained a gentlemanly demeanor as she said, "What you are seeing now is a projection of what will happen three hours later, a reflection of what happened a second ago (at the coordinates called 'now')."

"And our new 'now' has a new future because we already know what will happen three hours from now, and we decide that future."

Xuan Chong nodded, but answered irrelevantly: "Mao Mei, you're a really nice person."

Ma Feiyan nodded: "Of course. By the way, what is a Russian girl?"

Xuan Chong looked at her milky-white skin and rubbed her face: "I won't tell you."

Ma Feiyan pouted: "No one can hide anything from me. If you don't tell me, I'll find out myself."

She then used her time-space abilities again, and the two fought across twenty past and future timelines. Xuan Chong and Ma Feiyan exchanged blows.

Ma Feiyan was very excited, and even acted somewhat wildly during her conversation with Xuan Chong.

Meanwhile, Xuan Chong's watch displayed a series of time markers. He also marked the spatial parameters of all the minute matter in red—that's right, in terms of spacetime parameters, in the past, moving two steps on the spacetime line caused a greater spatial fluctuation than moving one step.

The "watch" worn by Xuan Chong clearly records the moment when Ma Feiyan opened the past timeline and the future timeline.

Following the use of rulers to measure space, protractors to measure angles, and pencils and erasers to draw force markings, watches have also begun to measure. —There are also some calculable parameters in space and time.

In the twenty-third timeline simulation initiated by Ma Feiyan, Xuan Chong clearly felt that Ma Feiyan's spacetime range was shrinking.

Xuan Chong noticed that Ma Feiyan's time perception had a spatial range. At the beginning, each "future vision" covered a range of seven or eight kilometers, but after twenty-three times, both "past vision" and "future vision" were limited to a range of five kilometers.

This shows that time is being consumed.

After the final interdimensional confrontation, both sides returned to the real timeline. Xuan Chong immediately realized this was reality upon landing, but Ma Feiyan seemed somewhat dazed, still immersed in the exchange they had just had. This led her to display a very emotional expression in front of everyone for the first time.

After time travel, upon returning to the original timeline, can one's actions be seamlessly integrated into the perspective of others, maintaining a normal state? It's like someone who has spun around in mid-air several times before returning to the ground—can they stand firmly on their feet?

For the first time, Ma Feiyan felt disoriented in time and space. After returning to reality, she stared at Xuan Chong and said in a resentful tone, "Are you slandering me?"

Xuan Chong: "Bang? (The 'bang' in 'bang' meaning 'to rely on' or 'to rely on' a wealthy person)"

Unaware that in the Northwestern dialect of this time and space, "slander" is more often used instead of "scolding," I was immediately bewildered and then shook my head.

Ma Feiyan pursed her lips and asked, "Then what exactly does 'Mao,' um, 'Mao Mei' mean?"

Xuan Chong paused for a moment: "The Russian girl I'm referring to is the Rakshasa woman."

Then, before she could detach herself from the ruler and flash again, she added, "The Rakshasa is very beautiful."

At this moment, the scene was extremely quiet, and the Tiger Group members looked at Xuan Chong as if he were a dead man.

Ma Feiyan revealed her previously unseen canine tooth and, with her extremely unpredictable way of thinking, said, "So, you'll marry into the family, and I'll spare you?"

Suddenly, she realized something, feeling that this wasn't "Past Vision," but rather the present. Her face flushed red, and she subconsciously wanted to activate "Past Vision" to reset everyone's memories, but she had already consumed too much "Space-Time Power" playing with Xuan Chong in time and space, and couldn't do it.

The "conflict" between Xuan Chong and Ma Feiyan was quickly stopped by Liu Yi.

The idea of ​​him marrying into the family was, of course, a joke for now. Liu Yi knew that Liu Dangzhen only had this one son. And Liu Haoxing was currently in a promising future, not at the point of "selling himself." But what about a marriage alliance? That wasn't impossible.

Thinking of this, Liu Yi felt a chill and couldn't help but glance at Ma Feiyan. She thought to herself, "How did these two manage to spark so quickly?"

…"Present" and "Past" and "Future"…

The airship began its patrol, and the group fell silent. Xuan Chong and Ma Feiyan were together, and every five minutes Xuan Chong would be dragged to the future.

Previously, Xuan Chong had been using measuring tools to measure Ma Feiyan from a distance.

Now that they've gotten closer, it's Ma Feiyan who's increasingly curious, looking at Xuan Chong from multiple perspectives of the "past." It's like a girl receiving her first doll and examining it from every angle.

Today, Ma Feiyan was very happy. She said, "Because he's different, truly different from others."

Before this, in Ma Feiyan's eyes, everyone was a "line" that could be moved at will, and she could change a person's choices by simply shifting the timeline slightly.

This is her strength, and also her tragedy. Essentially, she has no family or lovers, because they would all become puppets if she so desired.

The other superhumans in Hanne also discovered her interference ability. While they could use certain methods to prevent her from interfering with them, they were powerless and had no interest in wasting time with her. So, they ceded the western area to her and let her enjoy her own private domain.

This is the loneliness brought about by the master of time and space. But as the master of time and space, she is also very clear that from the very beginning of her power, there was an "observer" in this world who could define her.

In the past, this "observer" had been far away from her for years, so much so that she had long been ready to meet him, but she kept putting it off. While waiting, anxiety, unease, and other complex emotions had been building up.

Ma Feiyan liked Xuan Chong.

This is similar to how humans like things that are "orderly and can automatically restore their balance," such as a spinning top, which breaks the balance when touched and then recovers itself.

Xuan Chong, on the other hand, is now a stable "gyroscope" in spacetime.

Every time Ma Feiyan touches upon time and space, Xuan Chong can always stand on the present, no matter how the "future" or "past" is touched, he will always be firmly in his own position.

Ma Feiyan has a firm grasp on the "past" and the "future." Xuan Chong, on the other hand, is firmly positioned in the "present" on the timeline! It's extremely difficult for her to be disturbed by her "past" and "future."

Xuan Chong's "present" is constantly "observed," unlike ordinary people who take a casual look at the present. Xuan Chong uses powerful "measuring tools."

A large number of detailed measuring torques were deployed around Xuan Chong's body. Every tree swaying and every grain of sand around him was being measured and calculated.

Therefore, with each return of Ma Feiyan from the "past" or "future," Xuan Chong would review and calculate the spatiotemporal deviation data, the sand trajectory, and the different paths of the atmospheric flow, all based on the present moment.

Ma Feiyan's every little action in the "past" that she tries to reflect in the "present" moment will be caught red-handed.

After Ma Feiyan brought back information from the "future," Xuan Chong was even clearer than her on which elements remained unchanged in the present if this "future information" were to actually appear.

…“Space” is king, “time” is supreme. Ma Feiyan: I thought I would never have any friends in my life.

About six hours later in real time, Ma Feiyan once again expressed her thoughts to Xuan Chong in the "future": You and I each have our own "present," and we don't bother each other, but in the "future" and the "past," would you like to date me?

In the "past perspective," that is, three hours earlier in time, Ma Feiyan took out a handkerchief embroidered with crookedly embroidered mandarin ducks, clearly something she had just learned. As for the handkerchief, no one had ever seen it before.

Xuan Chong paused for a moment, while Ma Feiyan (in a past-view perspective) simply stuffed the handkerchief into her pocket. This is a unique expression custom of modern Han women.

Returning to the present, Xuan Chong felt something in his pocket. This thing (a handkerchief) was left in his hand by "the past." From the perspective of others, Ma Feiyan still had a cold expression, full of indifference towards the world and a slight disdain.

Return to the normal timeline.

Before Liu Yi could suggest giving Xuan Chong a sinecure, Xuan Chong said he needed to stay and handle some matters first. Liu Yi paused slightly and put away her original invitation to Xuan Chong to go to the rear city of Elizabeth to inspect the war reserve warehouse.

After all, Xuan Chong had things to do, so it would be a bit abrupt for him to extend another invitation.

Liu Yi was unaware that Xuan Chong and Ma Feiyan were "in sync" across time and space.

But Liu Yi noticed that Xuan Chong and Ma Feiyan were unusually in sync. This filled Liu Yi with great apprehension.

Inside the fortress, the corpses of several beast leaders, including Kaudike, were preserved in formalin. The coroner from the Dragon Group had already conducted a preliminary examination of these beasts' conditions.

Some characteristics have been discovered that are difficult for biologists to understand. In the dissections of ordinary wild animals, the muscles and internal organs followed a relatively standard arrangement. However, in these Orks, whose bodies are significantly larger than other individuals, the arrangement of certain organs, like their weapons and equipment, shows arbitrary additions and subtractions.

For example, the blood supply system in the center of the chest is similar to a heart. The heart inside the Cordike is responsible for supplying blood, and its ventricular muscle has 67 layers, while other ordinary Orcs only have 7 layers. This is equivalent to the heart of other Orcs being a regular single-cylinder internal combustion engine, while the heart of the Cordike is a gas-fired internal combustion engine with densely packed blades.

And some glands that may control the body's burst of hormones, those in large Ooks have two sets of glands.

After opening the abdomen, the coroner in charge of the autopsy mumbled, "Damn, a double-yolk egg, um, this is a triple-yolk egg."

Xuan Chong paused upon hearing this analogy, then nodded. "Yes," he thought, "chickens and ducks can lay triple-yolk eggs, so the way these Orks double their organs as they grow is probably a similar evolutionary adaptation."

After learning about Oak's "random" physiology, Liu Yi, who was in charge of combat, said to Xuan Chong: "In combat, only hitting the head can cause fatal damage, right?"

Xuan Chong paused for a moment: "Not necessarily. In the battles these past few days, we've found some orcs with their heads tilted and dented, which must have been caused by bullets hitting their heads. This shows that a severe head injury isn't necessarily fatal. It has to be a high-powered bullet that causes serious damage to their body."

Logically, artillery shells are the most lethal, while light weapons should use heavy dumdum bullets and close-range shotgun shells.

Liu Yi put away the documents: "Yes, that's right. A monster that can grow two sets of organs means it has a very strong regenerative ability."

The leader of the Dragon Group then got busy and told Xuan Chong to do as he pleased.

After receiving Liu Yi's permission to "do as you please," Xuan Chong submitted the report to the court three hours later, announcing that his mission was complete.

...Turn in the quest...

Just as the imperial court accepted Xuan Chong's resignation, before it could make further arrangements for him, the Tiger Group urgently recruited him under the pretext that the Gaotianling mission was underway—and so Xuan Chong was separated from the Dragon Group.

Twenty hours after leaving the Dragon Group, Ma Feiyan was released from emergency orders after the imperial court issued a tacit approval document. Xuan Chong had completely completed the handover of his mission.

According to the normal departmental procedures in Han, Xuan Chong, who is assigned to the Dragon Group, cannot leave without authorization.

Unless the department undertaking a more important military task happens to be in a work coordination phase. —Ma Feiyan's current Taigeng Brigade is undertaking the clearing mission around Gaotianling.

Therefore, she helped Xuan Chong escape the Dragon Group's dogmatic military control. Theoretically, after Liu Yi realized this, he could rejoin the Tiger Group after the mission against Xuan Chong ended.

Time and space are time and space after all. When Ma Feiyan chose to lift Xuan Chong's mandatory mission when Liu Yi was at her busiest,

Liu Yi was dealing with the mischief of the young military generals in the court and had no time to attend to anything else, so he missed the handover.

No matter how rigorous the current Han Dynasty's regulations are, they are still riddled with holes in the eyes of those with time-space abilities.

This is why both the emperor and Liu Wang in the southeast turned a blind eye to Ma Feiyan's behavior. Because they couldn't control her!
Both the Emperor and Liu Wang were quite surprised; it seemed that the Tiger Group leader had truly taken a liking to the Crown Prince of Dongtu.

The Emperor knew that Xuan Chong wanted to retire, but he didn't want Xuan Chong to retire! Lin Sima was the maternal relative he used to interfere in military power, but this maternal relative was too powerful, which did not conform to the Emperor's authority.

(End of this chapter)