Soul Patch

Chapter 301 Spirit Stones Possess Spirituality

In the darkness, Yang Shanshan snuggled closer to Wenjie.

"Wenjie, are you sure those people in the guardhouse were coming for us?"

"Sure!"

He could hear their babbling Japanese from a distance. Who were these people? They were so serious... He was both annoyed and amused.

"Where are we going?" Yang Shanshan looked at him pitifully.

Wenjie pulled out his police badge from his pocket and said half-jokingly, "How about I treat you to the presidential suite tonight because of this?"

Yang Shanshan was amused by Wenjie and pouted, saying, "What you're doing is abusing your power for personal gain!"

He's using his position for personal gain; he has no interest in what kind of place to live now.

He was thinking that once the guards launched a pincer attack from both inside and outside, the group would probably be almost wiped out.

This method of using violence to quell an explosion is exactly the same as the one he used to deal with Zhao Xiaolong. He didn't correct the key timing, and it's unclear how the system will judge it.

Furthermore, once a fight breaks out, those people will either be arrested or killed, which objectively means that the threat to Yang Shanshan's life will be completely eliminated.

That means we can release system patches now.

Once they exit the system, he and Yang Shanshan don't know what kind of real world they will be returned to.

Thinking of this, he put his arm around Yang Shanshan's shoulder: "I hope that after I exit the system, I can still see you. And when I see you, will you still recognize me!"

Yang Shanshan looked into Wenjie's eyes and forced a smile at him: "It's been such a long time since I last saw you in 2009, and it's been so long since I last saw you."

Wenjie wanted to say that after he quit the system that time, he followed Yang Shanshan all the way to 2019.

For about a month, the two were dating... but those feelings were completely erased as their lives took a different turn.

Apart from what he remembered, the system data was stored, and no one else knew about it.

Yang Shanshan escaped the system's elimination and returned to her original life trajectory.

He slowly said, "Yes, a very, very long time has passed."

Yang Shanshan suddenly seemed to realize something, tilting her head and asking, "You mean this mission will be completed soon, which means we won't be able to find Li Shiman and Soul through this mission?"

Wenjie nodded silently. Although he was very interested in those things, he didn't insist.

Everything depends on fate.

What is meant to be yours will be yours, sooner or later.

Even temporary possessions that are not yours will be lost, without exception.

Seeing that Wenjie had tacitly agreed, Yang Shanshan's face instantly turned bright red, and she stammered, "No, no! I remember when Li Shiman and I were searching for the Soul last time, she said that this matter needed to be resolved as soon as possible!"

Wenjie, thinking of the impending separation, was overcome with sadness. He didn't pay much attention to Yang Shanshan's suggestion to find Soul as soon as possible, casually asking, "Why?"

"It was James who said that he could foresee what would happen in the future, and that he saw the end of the world before he died."

The end of the world?

The Mayan prophecy predicted that 2012 would be the end of the world, but everyone is still alive and well.

Wenjie thought this was a bit far-fetched and chuckled dismissively, "Some prophecies don't actually happen. Prophecies generally have a certain accuracy rate. If you predict ten things and seven or eight of them come true, then you're a truly remarkable prophet."

Seeing that Wenjie didn't believe her, Yang Shanshan became a little anxious. "What you're talking about is a prophecy, a prophecy of ordinary people. The James we're talking about now is someone who has a spirit stone and can see future events! These are not the same thing!"

These words stunned Wenjie for a moment.

He had always felt that Yang Shanshan hadn't explained clearly what abilities this James possessed. However, he did understand what Yang Shanshan had said in her haste.

His spirit stone—though he doesn't remember where he placed it, which gave him the ability to travel through time and space.

But most of the time, he goes back to a certain point in the past.

After the online mission, it never touched upon future time and space again.

In single-player mode, there were a couple of instances where I traveled to the future, but the system's setting was very limited, confined to the people and objects around the mission objective, lacking the sense of building a macrocosm. This made the entire system feel very unreal and surreal.

James's magic stone allows him to see future events, predict good and bad fortune, and seek advantages while avoiding disadvantages.

In other words, his spirit stone and James' spirit stone complement each other perfectly.

He corrected his life trajectory by changing the past; James, on the other hand, guided his life trajectory in advance to avoid deviation by predicting the future.

After the two spirit stones resonated with each other, which was after Li Shiman returned to China and was hired by Huahai International, the system was at its most stable, and that's when the online system was activated.

Let him know that there is a whole new world outside of the standalone system.

At that moment, a bold idea popped into his head, and it gave him a thrill.

He was so excited that his breathing became rapid: "Shanshan, I've got it. The two spirit stones can not only sense each other, they can also merge into one."

This system could alter history and predict the future—it possesses a complete timeline.

Yang Shanshan seemed to understand but not quite, then after a moment's thought, she seemed to grasp something: "That's exactly what I meant, I was talking about that James..."

What did you say...? Wenjie stuck out his tongue.

This made him think of a strange question. He looked at Yang Shanshan and said, "But Li Shiman had the spirit stone, yet she was still murdered. Obviously, she didn't have the ability to predict the future... Why is that?"

Yang Shanshan looked up at Wenjie, silently repeating his question in her mind: Yes, why? Why doesn't Li Shiman have this ability?

She said she had a premonition that she would be murdered, so she just had to stay away.
Suddenly, she remembered a phrase that Li Shiman had repeatedly said, and her thoughts became clear.

She waved her arms and pointed to herself: "I've got it! I'm so smart... Wenjie praised me!"

Wenjie looked at Yang Shanshan with a puzzled expression.

She didn't mind and continued to dance around there.

"Please, just say it already!" Wenjie urged impatiently.

Yang Shanshan then stopped, coughed twice, and said in a deep and solemn voice, "Because spirit stones have a spirit!"

Wenjie thought there was more to come, so he stared at her intently.

But Yang Shanshan didn't seem to want to say anything. She looked at Wenjie, who was waiting there dumbfounded, and then pulled up her eyelids—making a face!

At such a serious moment, she actually made a funny face!

In other words, the answer is that simple?
Seeing that Wenjie didn't seem to believe her, Yang Shanshan put on a poker face, narrowed her eyes and said, "What, judging from your expression, you still don't believe me? This isn't what I said, it's what James said!"

James?!

(End of this chapter)