Li Mi quickly held up his fingers and began:

“First, let Xiao Yushan’s team surround the headquarters of Hall’s group and find that woman.”

Luo Bin’s eye twitched slightly. “I was just about to say that. What are the other two options?”

Morrie had been chosen by Xiao Yushan originally to help his team manage time sequencing and storage in a Grade-A interleaving zone. It was only after successfully stabilizing that large interleaving zone that they finally arrived at Hub Town. Subsequently, the training contract obtained by Xiao Yushan’s team carried the most gratitude content, ensuring that asking for their help wouldn’t be met with refusal. This was the first thing that naturally came to either man’s mind.

Li Mi continued, “For the second option, it’ll cost us some favors. We get Zhu Yin to mobilize the security team, who will enter City 27 alongside me to escort Mr. Morrie to Hall’s residence. But if we do that, there’s a chance that Ms. Julia might suddenly die of an illness. Of course, the first option carries that possibility too, but with a slightly smaller probability.”

Luo Bin lowered his head slightly, deep in thought.

He was also clear on the contents of Morrie’s phone call—after all, Yang Zicang had previously extracted information from him. The Morrie from the future had indeed told the Morrie from six months ago that his fiancée had run off with someone else.

But somehow, there was also talk about her not coming over from Earth; it was all quite baffling.

Luo Bin simply attributed this to Morrie having false memories, most likely due to errors or confusion later on after Hong Haocheng’s interference.

But now…he speculated that what the future Morrie had seen was very likely a fake Julia!

The counterfeit Julia, fearing that Morrie would discover her true identity, chose to immediately sever ties with Morrie after their meeting, pretending to have run off with someone else. However, in the end, “future Morrie” developed doubts about this but was too uncertain to voice his “speculations” as “conclusions,” for fear of misleading his “past self”—hence his vague account.

[I shall invest 1N of principal to extract intelligence.]

[Position Expansion, Thousand-rank.]

[I have gathered intelligence on Julia. Julia, formerly known as “Lina Walker,” has recently recovered.]

A chill shot down Luo Bin’s spine.

Someone is targeting Yang Zicang’s team!

The fat man in the car cast a glance at the piles of bulky metal scrap cluttering Li Mi’s room, then fixed his gaze on the young man before him.

“Hmph, someone’s daring to set their sights on a buddy of mine… Li Mi, what’s your third plan?”

“Simple—get me a better Demon Nightmare radio. Ideally one that can reach about two to three hundred kilometers.”

“What do you need it for?”

“To disillusion Morrie.”

Luo Bin slowly exhaled the warm breath from his lungs, forming a puff of mist in the frigid air.

“Don’t bother me with any ‘most ideal’ plans—I want them all! Anyone who schemes to harm Morrie must be wiped out completely—make an example of them!”

Having said this, Luo Bin’s chest lit up with a ring as he contacted Xu Aiyuan. As for Demonic Nightmare radios, Red Hub Town should be a better place to find one.

The air rippled as the Demonic Nightmare train transformed into a dark beam of light, tearing out of the old-factory-like room and speeding across the wasteland toward “Li Sumei Station.”

Three hours later, the train delivered to Li Mi a Demonic Nightmare radio and an arm-length shortsword shimmering with gray ripples.

This sword was a 50N Timeline Weapon infused with 15N of Virtual Zero Sequence.

Such shortswords, extremely suitable for concealed personal carry, are favorites among the girls of Rose Creek.

“This one’s for your protection. If Mo Li ends up safe this time, it’ll be yours for good.”

Li Mi’s hand trembled slightly as he took it.

[I have obtained a Virtual Zero Sequence Timeline Weapon.]

“Thank you.”

In less than half an hour.

After getting in touch with Zhao Xuemei and notifying the deputy captain in charge of security management, Mr. Qi, Li Mi and his group passed through a tunnel door at the edge of a hub town, emerging directly near a concealed entrance in a ruined area within City 27.

At that moment, Morrie was still traversing an A-level crisscrossing zone with Hall, having covered only slightly more than half the distance back to the city.

Fine snow drifted down.

In the faint light before dawn, Li Mi turned to look at the thirty-plus people behind him.

They all stared straight ahead at this lean youth dressed in black-gray cotton clothes.

Behind Li Mi, one person put on a black glove and said, “Xiao Li, tell us what to do, and we’ll follow your lead.”

“Thank you all for your help.”

“No, it’s your foresight this time.”

Li Mi nodded and replied, “I’ll start the operation just before Morrie comes out, to avoid hurting Morrie by mistake if they run into each other in the crossover area.”

“Understood.”

Time ticked by, minute after minute.

A group of people stood in complete silence.

Occasionally, scavengers from this city would pass near the ruins and, upon spotting the group of people standing with vehicles and weapons in the wind and snow, would take a wide detour around them.

Just as the sky began to lighten, Xiao Yushan and others ran over to whisper in Li Mi’s ear:

“We’ve tracked it down—it’s the ‘Supreme Python.’ Also, we’ve found traces of those who might be Julia, more than one of them, including three corpses.”

“Corpses.”

The thirty or so people behind him immediately exchanged a few whispers. Zhao Xuemei’s face turned icy as the frost; the wind and snow swirled around her, rising and falling, as if gathering her anger into an even bitterer chill.

Li Mi stood at the forefront, listening quietly. He made no comment on the murmurs of anger from those behind him.

He simply waited for the sunlight to grow brighter, waiting for the one who would traverse the A-Level Cross Zone to arrive.

[Hub Town marks the imminent appearance of key individuals in City 27.]

Faint coordinates surfaced in Li Mi’s mind—the location of the entrance to the A-Level Unusual Space where Morrie was.

“It’s almost here, Li Mi.”

“Mm, time to move.”

The security team behind him, led by Xiao Yushan and others, quickly boarded vehicles and cleared the way toward the location of “The Supreme Python.”

As time ticked by, Li Mi watched the second hand of his Hamilton mechanical watch circle around again and again. After a dozen rotations, he patted the Demonic Nightmare Mimicry Device beside him, which looked like a massive speaker — only this dead Demonic Nightmare could be brought into other cities.

With the jagged line’s piercing, a recruitment declaration instantly spread out, covering over three hundred square kilometers.

{I am Li Mi of Hub Town’s security team. To everyone in the city: anyone who finds Julia will be rewarded with nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years of lifespan.}

He raised a lifelike portrait.

{Anyone resembling Julia will be rewarded with five thousand years of lifespan.}

{Those who harm Julia will die.}

The city erupted into chaos instantly.

“Julia, who’s that?”

The crowd in the city responded with confusion.

……

“Morrie will be here any second. Niccolò, you really did it, hahaha!”

Niccolò, with his thick black short hair, smiled faintly, rolling a Born Treasure radiating a soft glow between his fingertips.

“As long as we have Morrie, Yang Zicang will be putty in our hands.”

“With Morrie in our ranks, from now on, besides Xiao Yushan and those lucky ones, we’ll be second only to them in this city. Everyone else will have to steer clear of us.”

“We’ll become first soon.”

The group waited in the room for Morrie’s arrival, while a trembling woman hid her face in someone’s arms, too afraid to speak.

This was unmistakably Julia’s appearance.

The stocky team leader looked at her and reminded her again:

“Julia, remember what we told you? You’re supposed to be madly in love with this Ruby from now on! When Morrie shows up, you know what to do, right?”

The somewhat haggard woman nodded quickly.

Suddenly, a line expanded, and everyone who sensed the content of this slit instantly widened their eyes—this was a funding declaration.

At the same time, another line shot in like lightning, connecting to the dark-skinned man sitting in the main seat.

{Hello Boyle, this is Xiao Yushan.}

[Xiao Yushan wants to make an active investment in me.]

The dark-skinned man’s face showed shock.

On the sofa, Niccolò paused the gem shining in his hand.

Suddenly, the ground shook violently!

Boom!

Several beams of light smashed through the house, and two figures outside were reduced to ashes before they could even understand what was happening.

The dark-skinned man let out a scream, while the outside world had somehow already become a land of ice.

A frosty-faced woman with flowing hair raised her longsword high, like a queen in the snowstorm!

Her longsword pierced the sky!

Crack! Crunch!

Frost and snow instantly spread and diffused.

Niccolo, hiding under the sofa, unhesitatingly used up the time sequence contained in the coins in his hand.

“Die!” Enraged like never before, Zhao Xuemei’s delicate shout resounded across the plains.

The ethereal snowflakes transformed into steel flakes, spinning and expanding wildly!

In an instant, heavy snow surged crazily, their faint golden virtual flames flickering with dense red light!

Rumbling, banging, crackling…

The ground seemed struck by ice-and-snow artillery shells, bursting into frozen flowers spreading a hundred meters. Inside the house, shivering and terrified, the woman was the only one left alive—no one else remained.

……

“Mr. Morrie, soon you’ll see your Julia,” Hall said with a smile.

Morrie, following the one thin and one tall man ahead, was stirred with excitement; the long-awaited scene was about to appear!

“My beloved Julia…”

Spotting the entrance right before him, tears welled up in Morrie’s eyes, and he dashed forward quickly with the suitcase in hand.

Suddenly, Hall froze.

His expression changed drastically; he turned to the tall guy beside him: “Cherry, quick, let’s go back.”

“Go back? Aren’t we heading back right now?”

“Back to Hub Town! Hurry!” Hall, flustered to the point of losing reason, grabbed the lanky tall man and scrambled to run toward the rear.

“Are you insane? What did the captain say?”

The tall Cherry slapped Hall across the face, a heavy blow that left him instantly stunned.

At that moment, Morrie had already touched the door of the crisscross space. He turned and said, “Why aren’t you coming?”

“We can’t go out!”

Hall shouted, “Wait, Cherry, our team… the team is already…”

It was too late.

This young man, who only knew to follow his boss’s orders, had already used an A-level frequency crystal from this space to open the passage door.

Then, they saw several figures standing waiting for them outside.

Morrie, holding his suitcase, looked suspiciously at Li Mi standing by the door. Had he gone the wrong way? Was this the entrance to Hub Town?

“Why are you… here…”

Li Mi didn’t speak. He stepped aside, clearing the view for Morrie, who was standing right at the cave entrance.

Among the crowd blocking the light up ahead, there appeared a figure he had been longing for day and night.

Then followed a second, and a third, a fourth, a fifth…

The smile on Morrie’s face gradually stiffened.

Several Hub Town security team members rushed from beside the stunned Morrie into the cave behind him, pinning the stunned and scrawny-faced man to the ground.

Eight Julias looked up at Morrie, who was holding a suitcase.

Several girls who didn’t have Julia’s face but bore the name Julia also looked at him.

“This…”

Morrie stared ahead in shock.

“Julia?”

With a blank mind, Morrie slowly stepped through the crack in the wall, only to stumble and fall to the ground, his legs giving way.

He scrambled to his feet in panic and looked at the Julia on the far left, dressed in a red shirt.

“Ah…”

Morrie, as if about to lose his mind, examined her closely, then turned to the right—this one was slightly shorter. “Yo-you, how…”

Morrie shuffled over to the third Julia.

This Julia had the best figure—long legs, slender waist, rosy lips like apricots, and skin that was delicate and fair. As Morrie stared at her like an infatuated fool, she lowered her head shyly.

The man then turned his gaze to the fourth and fifth!

Slowly looking over these seven or eight graceful figures with similar faces, he let his suitcase fall to the ground and spread his arms wide!

“Julia! Your… your mystic energy, can it create clones?!”