Chapter 791: The Suicide Squad is Formed
Chapter 791: The Suicide Squad is Formed
"Not necessarily."
Lyon patted Miss Collision's shoulder, signaling her to remain calm, then glanced at Joshua, whose face was ashen. He spoke calmly, "Although in the future Joshua saw, you, I, and that village girl were all hanged by the people of the Maiden Nation, it doesn't mean we're definitely going to die..."
"We will die! We're definitely going to die!"
Before Lyon could finish, the spotted prince, curled up on the large bed in the bedroom, screamed in despair, "I saw it with my own eyes! You, me, and that peasant girl next to you, we were all hanged together! Our tongues were sticking out!"
"It doesn't matter, even if you're not dead, you can still stick your tongue out."
"That's not the same thing!"
Joshua, on the verge of a breakdown, shouted, "You don't know what I saw! I... your faces, they were definitely the faces of the dead! And what I saw is a future that will definitely happen! We're as good as dead!"
"Calm down, time isn't as absolute as you think."
Lyon pointed to the chair in the bedroom, gesturing for Miss Collision to sit down. Having experienced 'time' issues multiple times, Lyon explained calmly, "To put it in terms you can understand, time is like a horizontally growing tree. The past is a relatively fixed trunk, and in most cases, there's only one fixed path.
The future, however, is like a lush canopy, branching out into countless possibilities. The scene you witnessed is just one of those possibilities, the most likely one at the moment."
"But I..."
"Don't you remember? You've already changed the future once."
Lyon reminded him, "When the former queen secretly conspired with the ministers, planning to involve you in her scheme again, you saw her failure and reported her, right?
So we don't need to worry too much about this bad news. After all, the moment you jumped out of time and saw a glimpse of the future, it already started to change, creating the possibility of being altered."
"It's different this time! It's not the same!"
The spotted prince, with one side of his face swollen, shook his head, "I've seen it over a dozen times! The outcome is always the same! Even if I make up my mind to jump off the building and break my leg, the future I see doesn't change. I'll still be hanged with you!"
"That's because your decision has very little impact on this future."
Annoyed by Joshua's hysterical state, Lyon walked over, pulled him off the bed, and frowned, "Just like how the former queen's plan couldn't succeed whether you participated or not, went to report her or not, your influence on the outcome is minimal. And when your own strength is insufficient, the impact of your changes on the result is naturally limited.
The situation with the Maiden Nation is a bit special, likely involving more than one Pillar God... You don't need to understand what a Pillar God is; just know that they're difficult to handle, and I'm not powerful enough to deal with them.
In any case, to change this future, we need someone of sufficient 'weight'. Otherwise, even if you're beaten to death here, someone will carry your corpse and hang it on the gallows... Do you understand?"
"No... I don't..."
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What a waste of my breath! Lyon couldn't help but click his tongue in frustration. Turning to his clueless brother-in-law about Anomalies, Lyon decided to take a different approach and raised his right hand towards Joshua.
"If you keep howling, I'll test you a hundred more times! Understand?"
"!!!"
Tsk, it seems that a slap is indeed the most effective method.
Seeing that his words had scared the spotted prince, who was covering his left cheek tightly and no longer daring to wail loudly, Lyon couldn't help but roll his eyes. He then patiently asked, "Aside from the three of us being hanged, what else did you see?"
"I... I also saw many people watching from the side... There were men, women, even old men, and they were all there."
"That's not what I want to hear."
Rubbing his temples in frustration, Lyon said, "I want to know about something specific, something we can use."
"Hmm... What do you mean by 'something specific'?"
"..."
You really have a way with words... I must have been out of my mind to think your administrative abilities were worth a 7 out of 10.
Sighing helplessly, Lyon explained, knowing that Joshua's face was indeed a valuable source of information, "I mean something very special, something that stands out as abnormal. Like a dog biting a person isn't particularly useful news, but if a person bites a dog, then that's valuable information."
"Oh..."
Joshua nodded, pretending to understand, and then tried to recall while covering his face. After a moment of hesitation, he spoke, "There was something like that... Aside from the three of us, there was another person who was also hanged on the gallows, probably to be executed with us."
"But the people of the Maiden Nation didn't seem to pay much attention to him. After hanging the three of us, they surrounded two people and left, cheering all the way, completely forgetting about that man on the gallows."
"I didn't pay much attention... I forgot about him... Hmm... It sounds a bit familiar."
After listening to Joshua's description, Lyon furrowed his brows, trying to remember something vague in his mind but couldn't quite recall what it was.
Meanwhile, Miss Breakthrough, who had been pondering alongside him, suddenly exclaimed, "I know! That person! He was there too!"
"That person! That's the one!"
Seeing that Lyon still looked clueless, Miss Breakthrough reminded him, "He's the one from our Bureau... I forgot his name, but he's the one I was chosen with to join the Virgin Division on the same day as me!"
Ah, right! That's him!
With Miss Breakthrough's reminder, Lyon suddenly realized who it was. Before Aquarius Director ascended to the palace, the Director had once tasked him with the "recruitment" work for the Virgin Division.
After receiving a pile of "resumes," Lyon spent two days examining all the targets and finally selected Miss Breakthrough, who always appeared at critical moments, and another man with a low presence.
As he couldn't locate the man's anomaly, he didn't obtain enough information to activate Materialism. Consequently, he also overlooked the man, and even after several days of joining the division, he forgot to assign him an office.
His name was... Max... Max... Mel, wasn't it?
(End of Chapter)
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