PFC Chapter 536 Brand
Chapter 536 Brand
"Yes."
Diablo gently tossed the Time Stone in his hand, his scarlet eyes gleaming with an all-seeing light.
"The flow of time is not static; it contains countless 'nodes' and 'possibilities'. Ordinary interference is like throwing a stone against the current; it will only be dispersed and corrected by the torrent of time. But if the interferer himself is an indispensable link in this cause and effect... then, change becomes 'destiny' and 'brand'."
"So..." Her voice was a little dry, "I didn't change history? I just...made what was supposed to happen happen?"
"... your anger, your revenge, perhaps only a latent spark within the previously blurred trajectory of history. But when you returned here with the aid of this fragment, and witnessed the sordid truth with your own eyes, when the fire in your heart was fully ignited and you swung that decisive sword, you, Peruvian, were no longer a bystander to history."
He looked at the Time Stone, as if peering into her memories.
"Do you remember? Two years before you participated in the trial, you and your companions returned here. The scene heard from the neighbors then was not much different from now: the blood-stained orphan Dan, Tartuffe with a pierced heart, and the two men in black lying here."
"Their speculation at the time was that the men in black wanted to force Tartuffe to sell the children from the orphanage, but he refused. A fight ensued between the two sides, and in the chaos, they both perished."
"Hmph." He suddenly chuckled. "Don't you think so? There are too many loopholes. Since the men in black originally wanted to use the children in the orphanage as human traffickers, why didn't they just rob or steal them? Why did they have to go through all this trouble? Isn't that just intentionally giving them something to hold against them?"
"Furthermore," Diablo added with a hint of mockery, "it's a joke that two professionals, brave enough to do such a thing, could be so easily 'killed together' by a pampered orphanage director.
He then walked towards the two criminals.
"So, what you did wasn't a change, but a completion. You completed a missing, true, bloody page in history. The cause of Tartuffe's death went from a vague 'battle' to an undeniable judgment brought on by his own crimes. This is cause and effect, and your actions became a part of it, imprinted in the vein of time." Diablo's voice carried a strange echo, as if proclaiming some established truth.
"It's actually like this..." Pelville looked at the two men in black who fell to the ground and fell into deep thought.
Cause and effect changed cause and effect, so Tartuffe's ending was written by himself. Does that mean...
Suddenly, Diablo interrupted her thoughts again.
"Of course, having said that, please don't dream of changing other time periods. After all, not all results will change. The direction of history has been determined. Even if you are extremely unwilling, it has to be this way." He explained with his hands spread out.
"Oh, yes, there's one more thing." He looked at the Time Stone in his hand again, "Although you have changed the current ending, the fragment you call the Time Stone cannot send you back to the original timeline."
"Why is that?" asked Peruvian.
"Because the activation of this fragment caused you to travel through time, it was due to your wish. Therefore, before your 'wish' was fulfilled, this fragment was just an ordinary piece of stone."
As he said this, he threw the Time Stone to Peruvian, and then turned his gaze to the blood-stained scene.
"So, I don't need to tell you what to do next, right?"
Pervelly took the fragment and glanced around, but when she looked up again, Diablo was gone.
"Where's he?" She looked around and asked, "Oh, he just left like that. He's really a strange guy, but..."
She looked around again.
"What should we do next..."
In reality, in his own impression, whether it was the description of the neighbors or the investigation results of the vigilance group, Darduff sacrificed his life and died together with the criminals, so this meant that he had to falsify the scene and hide the trace of himself as the fourth person.
Although doing so is equivalent to indirectly putting on the cloak of a "hero" for the devil Tartuffe and burying the dirty truth forever, he must conceal his own existence and this time gem.
After all, it can travel through time. Not to mention whether it will fall into the hands of others, even if any news leaks out, it will be coveted by others, so no matter how reluctant she is, she must do it.
"Heh." She sighed heavily, her left hand holding the Time Stone falling to her side. "How ironic! You're the villain, yet you're labeled a good person in the end... Heh, whatever..."
Peruvili walked to the side and picked up the orphan transaction form on the table that Bedardov had knocked over. Unfortunately, his signature was also on the transaction form, but fortunately, the signature was in red.
She picked up the transaction slip, walked over to the pool of blood, and deliberately dipped the side with the writing into the blood that had not yet completely solidified. The dark red blood quickly soaked the paper, blurring the writing and covering up the evidence of the dirty deal.
Then, she calmly handled the scene. She thrust the weapons of the two men in black into Dalduffer's hands, creating the illusion of a struggle. She also repositioned the bodies, making it appear more like a violent clash, a mutual destruction. She even carefully erased any traces of her own footprints and battle.
After doing all this, she truly left the room and never looked back.
……
Back in the downtown area again, she was like a lost traveler, walking aimlessly among the bustling crowd.
She looked up at the sky, as if recalling and hesitating.
Finally, she let out a soft sigh.
"Oh, let's go back to the starting point first. Maybe they've returned there too." She folded her arms and thought, "Tsk, I should have booked a spot with them before leaving. Never mind. I can only hope they've thought of that."
Peruvian frowned slightly, feeling a little annoyed at her previous negligence. Then, she turned and walked towards the area she had been teleported to.
When she arrived at that area, she saw two figures from afar looking around anxiously. They were Mo Yan and Kailin.
"Miss Peruvian!" Kailin was the first to spot her, darting and waving. She quickly pulled Mo Yan over, "You're here! We were worried we couldn't find you!"
Mo Yan stood aside with his arms folded, waving at him along with Kailin.
Seeing this, Peruvian frowned slightly, but her expression was somewhat relaxed.