Chapter 24: The Eighteenth Cycle of Time

Chapter 24: The Eighteenth Cycle of Time

"From the only data available, it's impossible to tell whether we've stopped the time loop or just stopped time going backwards; if it's the first, that means we only have one chance to fix this ......"

Boy looked at the time with a heavy expression, "But it's 13:22 and I was in such bad shape earlier that I wasted too much time and we may not have enough time."

It is not enough, it is simply the same as waiting to die.

"If it's just that time has stopped going backwards, we have to think about why that's happening."

He was nervous, but forced himself to calm down and continue to deduce, "There are two possibilities for time to stop at this stop. The first is that we have succeeded in finding the explosives, and we have succeeded in finding the culprit, and the only way to think about it is that maybe because we have 'met' a certain condition, God doesn't feel the need to give us time to try again and again ......"

"The second possibility, maybe because the 'source' of things is at this stop." Boy shuddered, "Then we have to consider what happened at this stop. For example, the older woman with the pressure cooker got on at this stop ......"

Since the tragedy was caused by the bomb in the pressure cooker, there was no point in going back in time, and it made sense to think of it in this way.

Li Shiqing understood, but her mood became more flustered.

"We have to think the worst."

She suppressed the panic and uneasiness in her mind, "If we disregard the latter scenario, if we're really in the last sequential time loop this time, what would it take to stop this explosion now?"

"It may not be the first case, it's all the more reason why we can't deflate ourselves at this point, not to mention that the situation isn't too bad at the moment."

Boy glanced at the East River Road station he had missed and steeled himself to explain to her, "...... The explosion just now also gave us a lot of information."

"First of all, the explosive was a pressure cooker that's for sure, and the way I visually saw it start was by pulling the pressure limiting valve. So we should never let the older woman touch that pressure cooker during any of our operations."

Boy lowered his voice and whispered in Li Shiqing's ear. "This older woman is cold and wary, and won't even pay attention to your attempts to get attention, so there's no way to 'outsmart' her, you can only 'force' her."

"The good thing is that she's only a thin, middle-aged woman, so if we both go together there's a good chance we'll succeed in taking the pressure cooker."

"Are you sure it's going to work?"

It's not that Li Shiqing despises Boy, but Boy's 'force value' has been particularly worrying.

The masked man the masked man can't fight, and the old grandfather the old grandfather can't grab.

The middle-aged woman looked thin and frail, as if the wind would blow her over, but could someone ruthless enough to hold a bomb and die with the people in the bus really be handled that easily?

"I was trying to 'confirm the situation' before that, and this is a different thing from actually fighting for my life."

Boy knew what Li Shiqing was worried about and rubbed the top of her head, saying in a very sure tone, "I know what's in that pot, and with your safety and my future at stake, it's definitely going to take all the courage and strength you can muster."

"Since you think it's okay, I'll go ahead and assume we can successfully grab the pressure cooker. So what do we do after we succeed in snatching the pressure cooker?"

Li Shiqing hit the nail on the head with the most practical question, "We can't keep carrying the pot around, can we? Even if we call the police now, it's definitely too late."

"Given the time constraints, here's my initial idea."

Boy took out his book and started writing again, starting his 'plan pass' again.

"Here, this junction, I've observed that many times before we've had crashes at around 13:29, and if the driver isn't distracted, this junction can usually be crossed without incident, so we can't strike near this point in time, once we cause the driver to be distracted, it's easy to hit the tanker again for no apparent reason... ..."

Just as Boy was beginning to look pleased and ready to wait for his companions to throw the pot as originally agreed, a sudden change occurred!

The older woman, who had been violently struggling under Boy's stranglehold, fished a fruit knife out of some pocket and stabbed Boy viciously in the waist with her backhand!

Boy didn't expect the older woman to carry a "murder weapon" with her, and the knife struck him firmly in the right side of his waist, causing him to flinch and letting go of his strength to trap her.

"You ...... it!"

Before he could react, the older woman had broken free of his shackles and twisted around to draw her knife and stab again!

Boy was not expecting this and was stabbed in several places, including his arm and thigh, and the woman, whether she was vicious or frightened, kept repeating the "stabbing" motion with her knife, moving so fast and hard that several bloody holes appeared on Boy's body in almost the blink of an eye.

All of a sudden, Boy's mind went blank, staring at the blood on his body as if the ability to think had drained out of the wounds along with the blood.

Seeing such a horrific "death" in the car, those who thought the "bomb" was a joke finally got scared, and all of a sudden the carriage was in chaos, not to mention going to stop it. People were trying to stay away from these "madmen" and crowded to the door of the car.

Some of them screamed, others shouted "murder", and several demanded that the driver stop and open the door immediately, despite the fact that there were cars in front and behind them on the whole bridge.

Li Shiqing was already stunned by the sudden turn of events.

"Leave me alone, pot ......"

Seeing his companion seemingly stunned, he shouted weakly, but his breath was so weak that no one could hear what he was saying except himself.

The grim-faced woman had pushed Boy, who was badly injured, out of the way and was heading straight for Li Shiqing with her knife.

Seeing the older woman covered in blood and coming at her as if she were a demon from hell, Li Shiqing subconsciously ran away, still clutching the safety hammer in her hand.

The safety hammer may have proved useful for knocking on the glass, but it made no sense at all to fend off the knife-wielding assailant, and she didn't even make it two steps before she was overtaken by the older woman who lunged at her like a madman.

"Ah!"

A sudden sharp pain in her back made Li Shiqing stiffen, and then her scalp felt a strong pull of some kind.

She was yanked by her ponytail and had to suck in a backwards breath forcing her head backwards, the short but sharp fruit knife already across her throat.

A face with a twisted expression appeared in front of her eyes.

"Help, help ......"

Li Shiqing was so frightened that she broke down, tears and snot flowing out of her eyes.

Someone please save her ......

The older woman's eyes were insensitive from start to finish, even with a knife to a young girl's neck, the expression was similar to that of an ordinary housewife preparing to kill and bleed a chicken before cooking.

Wait, kill the chicken and bleed it out?

Li Shiqing The thought just came to her mind, and the fear in her heart finally reached its peak at this moment ......

There was a chill in her throat and she lost consciousness completely.