Chapter 255
Chapter 255: You Never Disappoint!
Before, when Du An Rao read the book, she had skimmed through it and never knew the truths hidden behind all these events. She had only felt a strange shock and secretly sighed that this really lived up to an infinite stream story, where even the male and female leads could be thrown away at will. When the author decided they would die, they just died, and so casually too.
Before the final moment, no one could say for sure who would be able to laugh at the end.
Now that she knew the whole beginning and end, she only wanted to say one thing – the author was amazing!
Whether it was the matter between Liu Tian Yuan and Mr. Liu’s family, or the story with Dr. Du and the rich kid, the lawyer, the female reporter and the others, or even the foreshadowing in the Ghost Domain Village, everything was tightly connected.
Those who harm others will be harmed in return. If you go around doing bad things, you will have to pay for it sooner or later.
Once you get dragged into the game, it is like sitting down at a gambling table. All advantages are only temporary. There is no real winner, and no one can stay the winner forever.
After sighing, Du An Rao started to sort out the key points. She was not sure if things like infinite stream instances would really appear in the real world, but since Liu Tian Yuan had already appeared, she had to guard against it.
Thinking it through, she realized she was now standing at the crossing point of all kinds of events. According to what Ms. Qi had just said, Liu Tian Yuan was already seventeen and would turn eighteen after this year. That meant there was less than a year before he went to college – to be exact, only seven or eight months left.
When Liu Tian Yuan first appeared in the plot, which was when he went to the Ghost Domain Village, the little ghost had already merged with him and recognized him as its master. That showed that, at that time, Mr. Liu and his wife were already dead. Liu Tian Yuan and his parents had somehow managed to temporarily suppress the little ghost and make it change masters to Liu Tian Yuan, so he could use it.
If that was really the case, then Liu Tian Yuan would most likely enter that instance within the next few months.
Before that, she would help Mr. Liu and Ms. Qi solve the fate pattern swap, then help them send this poor child away. If Liu Tian Yuan lost his biggest support, would he still enter that instance world? Without Liu Tian Yuan’s help, could the Protagonist Team still safely get out of that village?
The butterfly effect would surely bring huge changes. But putting all her hopes on things that had not happened yet did not feel reliable at all.
Who knew whether, after the butterfly flapped its wings here and there, the plot would not just flap back to the original storyline?
Besides, those people were the Protagonist Team. The main characters could die, but they had to at least last to the end before they died. Otherwise, who would carry the plot in the second half?
Du An Rao had a feeling that even without Liu Tian Yuan as a cheat, the Protagonist Team would still find some other way to return to reality from that ghost domain instance. So them bringing something out from there was bound to happen, and the huge disaster that followed was also bound to happen.
The best plan would be to find someone to keep watch on these people and, the moment they returned from that village to the real world, control them right away, stopping the tragedy at its root.
Right now, what bothered Du An Rao the most was…
[How am I supposed to make the people in power pay attention to this group? I can’t just run to the front gate of the government building, block people, and tell them these are dangerous people who must be locked up at once, or the whole world will be thrown into chaos soon because of them, right? They would treat me like a lunatic and lock me up instead, wouldn’t they?]
Du An Rao paused, then seemed to think of something and shivered all over.
[No, even if they really did get locked up, no one can promise that only they will clear that instance and that there won’t be any other teams. What if they manage to stop this group, but the plot starts up somewhere else? You can’t guard against that at all.]
Xi Jing Yue frowned slightly. He also felt that Du An Rao’s worries were not groundless.
But because of that, the matter seemed to be stuck.
They clearly knew that some huge, unpredictable disaster would happen in the future, but they were helpless. Did they really have to watch it all happen?
[Got it! That Dr. Du whose research was stolen and who was forced to death!]
In the original plot, before the male lead died, he had a moment of regret. He regretted not stopping the others when they went after Dr. Du, letting them go too far.
Otherwise, as the real boss who had developed those results, if Dr. Du were still alive, he might have been able to bring everyone a sliver of hope.
But now, that hope had already been wiped out back when they had returned to the real world and were proud and full of themselves.
Although the male lead had not taken action himself in the first murder, and had at most just watched coldly from the side,
as one of the people who gained from it, Du An Rao did not feel his regret was very sincere.
He was just scared – scared of death, scared of pain, scared of getting hurt. If the people they had killed had not been this powerful, they would never have felt even a bit of regret. That was reality.
But his words also gave Du An Rao a reminder. If she could find a way to save this Dr. Du, then no matter where the source of the problem was, maybe she really could find a sliver of hope through him.
[Wait, why does this doctorate also have the surname Du?]
It was like Du An Rao had just noticed this overly sensitive surname. Her eyes widened without her meaning to.
[I have a very bad feeling about this.]
Xi Jing Yue: == Very good. Let me see what other poor fish in this little girl’s family have not been dragged into trouble yet.
Du An Rao and Xi Jing Yue had clearly thought of the same thing. Thinking it over, the only ones still in school right now were her third brother and her fourth sister. The plot had mentioned that this Dr. Du was a man, so ruling out her fourth sister, there was only…
[My third brother is only two or three years older than my fourth sister. He’s only in his junior year now. At most, he’ll be a senior a year from now. How could he be some doctorate? It has to just be a coincidence.]
Xi Jing Yue: “……” By normal logic, that was true, but you really could not look at her family with normal logic.
After they sorted out the Liu family’s matters and the related plot, Du An Rao noticed that the car was still circling outside.
“Mr. Xi, your car seems a bit slow today.”
Xi Jing Yue kept a straight face and said: “There’s more traffic at this time. Once we pass this intersection, it’ll be fine.”
“So that’s it…” Du An Rao did not doubt him. She had just gone quiet when her phone rang.
“Granduncle? Oh, there’s a bit of traffic here. I’m almost home. What did you say? Really? That’s great!”
Du An Rao’s cheerful voice kept coming from the seat beside him, which made Xi Jing Yue curious. Before he could ask, his own phone rang.
“…They found a gold mine in the wasteland in the Northern Suburbs of City B?” Xi Jing Yue turned to look at Du An Rao. “Got it. I’ll call you back later.”
As soon as Xi Jing Yue hung up, Du An Rao smiled and praised him: “Mr. Xi, your information network is really good. You already know about the gold mine in the Northern Suburbs.”
“…You know too?”
“Granduncle just called to tell me.”
“Then how are you planning to deal with that piece of land?”
“Of course I’ll…”
“Hm?”
Du An Rao raised her head high like a proud rooster and said: “Turn it over to the country!”
Xi Jing Yue: “……” You never disappoint.