Chapter 721: Chapter 1: The Real and Fake Yu Xi Chapter 721: Chapter 1: The Real and Fake Yu Xi Lin…Yu Xi?
Is this one real or fake?
Lin Xian, with a knife pressed against his neck, couldn’t raise his head, but he heard everything the Time-Space Assassin girl reported loud and clear.
She had just gone ahead and placed a small camera on the hood of the Tesla, aiming it this way.
Clearly, the Time-Space Assassin girl planned to record her own arrest scene, to submit as some sort of “evidence” to some law enforcement department.
So who was she reporting to?
And who sent her to capture him?
Lin Xian rapidly thought through things in his mind, laying out all the clues he knew so far…
The Time-Space Assassin mentioned two terms unfamiliar to him: Space-time Courthouse and Space-time Police Bureau.
These organizations definitely didn’t exist in the current era, 2024.
Considering that the Time-Space Assassin came from a distant future, it wasn’t hard to guess…
Perhaps in a few hundred years in The Future World, humanity had completely mastered Time Travel Technology and had established a legal system to maintain the stability of space-time, creating a Space-time Courthouse to judge space-time criminals and a Space-time Police Bureau to capture them.
Completely correspond with his Fourth Dreamland!
Every time he entered the Fourth Dreamland, he was surrounded by a group of fully-armed soldiers, and the leader would throw out what looked like an official arrest warrant, saying,
You are hereby arrested for crimes against humanity, endangering Earth, and distorting space-time!”
Fully matched what the Time-Space Assassin girl reported while recording the arrest video.
[The Time-Space Assassin girl and the armed soldiers in the Fourth Dreamland belonged to the same organization—the Space-time Police Bureau!]
Due to the highly limited and precious nature of the Space-Time Particles, it was impossible for every member of the Space-time Police Bureau to travel back to 2024 to capture him; thus, the well-informed Space-time Police Bureau began a “Pincer Strategy”.
Pincer Strategy is a strategic term meaning a crucial tactic.
It involves splitting one’s forces into two directions and attacking the enemy simultaneously from both.
This forces the enemy to stretch their line of defense, making them fight on two fronts, and avoids the resistance and damage that a “swift sword strategy” might bring.
The Space-time Police Bureau’s Pincer Strategy, splitting forces in two ways, was arranged as follows:
One group was responsible for controlling him on August 28, 2624, in The Future World, the very day he could freely visit in his travels.
The goal of this group was clear, to completely seal off his Dream World, greatly weaken his fighting capability, and prevent him from developing and obtaining future information beforehand.
It must be said, this move was indeed very effective, virtually restricting Lin Xian’s movements both in the dream and in reality.
The second branch of the Pincer Strategy was the Time-Space Assassin girl right in front of him.
In his eyes, she was a sinister Time-Space Assassin.
But in reality, she was a third-level detective from the Space-time Police Bureau, a bonafide partner of justice.
Her task and mission were to capture him in 2024.
Indeed, he was right from the start, the Time-Space Assassin girl did not primarily aim to kill him; her duty was only to arrest him and send him to the Space-time Courthouse for trial.
However, it was clear that the Time-Space Assassin girl was also granted high authority.
As a police detective chasing criminals, she would inevitably face various dangerous situations; thus from the tone of her report it was clear…
even if she injured or disabled him in the process of capturing him, it was completely acceptable.
Even accidentally killing him during the arrest would still count as completing the mission, merely skipping the step of trial at the Space-time Courthouse.
From the perspective of police investigations and arrests, this was also quite reasonable.
Some criminals are extremely violent and ruthless, resisting strongly during capture and possibly taking hostages to endanger public lives…
It’s not uncommon to shoot such fugitives on the spot.
But Lin Xian never imagined that one day, he too would bear such charges, becoming a space-time fugitive with a reward for his capture, dead or alive, just like Kevin Walker.
Lin Xian had clearly analyzed the Space-time Police Bureau’s arrest plan of attacking from both the past and the present.
On one hand, blocking his future dreamscapes;
On the other, deploying a Time-Space Assassin (Time-Space Detective) to the real world to capture the main culprit.
Arresting from both ends, this move was indeed very harsh.
Moving on with the deduction.
Who is controlling the Space-time Police Bureau and the Space-time Courthouse?
Whoever controls them is probably the one who set the charges against him.
The answer is obvious…
It must be that mysterious old man!
It was he who charged him with crimes against humanity, endangering Earth, and distorting space-time, making him a historical criminal.
It was he who commanded the Space-time Police Bureau to launch a two-pronged arrest and also send Lin Xian of 2024 to a future Space-time Courthouse for trial.
It was also he who lured him in the Dream World 600 years later, intentionally uttering Kevin Walker’s lines, making him focus all his attention on Kevin Walker…
ultimately leading to this whole chain of events.
But who exactly is this mysterious old man?
Lin Xian couldn’t be sure yet, as the potential suspects were simply too numerous; it could possibly be Jask, or it could be Copernicus, whom he had never met but had only heard of; it could be anyone from the Genius Club, or even someone outside the Genius Club…