I can travel to the past and the future

Ouch, it's so cold!

Qiao Yuan couldn't help but sneeze.

At this moment, he looked around and found that snowflakes were flying everywhere under the night sky. The bright neon lights of Huanxi State at midnight were now covered in a silvery white. This floating city on the outer ring, which is located two thousand meters high, was already ten degrees below zero.

The hotel is undergoing renovations due to its age. The windows on the sixth-floor rooftop corridor are still empty, and the biting north wind is blowing in.

He was in his true form, still wearing a sleeveless summer vest, shivering from the cold.

Damn, I'm afraid I'll freeze to death in half an hour. Can we end this early after we find a clue?

He swiped the panel in front of him twice and actually found it: there was an option to "Return Now". This made him feel a little more at ease.

The stealth feature is quite strong; besides being invisible, footsteps and voices will not be detected or affected.

It feels like the past timeline was already predetermined. He can see, he can hear, he can flip through books and use a computer to search for clues at will. If someone bumps into him, they probably think they've encountered a ghost.

He understood the butterfly effect.

It has both advantages and disadvantages; the advantage is that all the secrets of the past have been opened to him.

If you visit enough times, you can become omniscient and take the initiative in any event. If you add a future timeline, you will basically be omniscient and omnipotent.

The downside is that the timeline cannot be altered, but the advantages of the future and the past can be used to rewrite reality! This allows for the rewriting of future variables and the rewriting of past destinies.

Especially once the future timeline is unlocked, any future event can be previewed in advance, allowing for complete understanding, risk avoidance, and seizing opportunities.

There was a half-hour countdown on the panel in front of Qiao Yuan's eyes, and two minutes had already passed.

We need to find some clues.

His anchor point was the demon substitute, which means he should be able to find its exact location. Once he has this clue, he will have a chance to survive, since the white rose cares about him a lot.

He is now at the corner of the corridor on the sixth floor. He has been working there for half a month, but he still remembers it well. The monitoring room is at the end of the corridor, with four luxurious presidential suites on both sides.

At that moment, standing at the entrance to the monitoring room, he suddenly saw a slightly younger version of White Rose, still wearing a black coat, with two fully armed bodyguards standing behind her, talking to a fat man.

He took two deep breaths and walked towards the monitoring room, gradually making out the conversation.

"This is what you owe me. I should have killed you directly. You killed Zhang Hai! My Zhang Hai, that was his precious legacy that he traded his life for!" White Rose glared coldly at the bald, bearded man in front of her.

"I'm sorry, Sister Bai. Zhang Hai is my best brother. That night, the hovercar broke down halfway and we missed it. I'm guilty. You can run away without worry. I'll keep this keepsake safe. Can we just hide it in the hotel? Because of my relationship with Zhang Hai, the Embers will probably search my house too."

"I hope so. I've already sent someone to take your daughter Xinran away. Don't try anything funny with me!"

"No! No, Sister Bai!" The bald, bearded man cried out in alarm.

He reached out to grab Bai Meigui's sleeve, but was kicked away by her: "Zhao Hu, remember your promise. I will come back. If your daughter is still here, then her belongings are here. Otherwise, don't blame me."

After White Rose finished speaking, she and her two confidants quickly boarded the hovercar parked outside the corridor. With a burst of blue flames, the hovercar sped towards the distant horizon and gradually disappeared into the snowy night.

Bald Zhao Hu finally knelt down in the corridor with a thud, his eyes bloodshot, filled with regret, and he murmured, "Xinran, my Xinran!"

Qiao Yuan stood quietly to the side, watching. In fact, he was already stiff from the cold, his hands and feet were icy and trembling, so he had no choice but to do push-ups right next to the other person.

After a long while, about ten minutes later, Mr. Zhao, the owner of the Rebirth Hotel, stood up, took something out of his pocket, thought for a moment, and walked towards the data center.

"The belongings are in the server room?" Qiao Yuan, slightly out of breath, stood up and walked beside the man.

Zhao Hu walked into the server room and muttered to himself, "This isn't good. Maintenance personnel occasionally come and go from the database, and an office that's too conspicuous isn't appropriate either. It needs to be hidden somewhere that no one would think of."

After thinking for a while, he finally came to the monitoring room. The man looked at the mahogany bed in the corner and gradually had an idea: "This is it. I also like to watch those couples' rooms here. It's the most private place."

Qiao Yuan was stunned.

He stared in disbelief as Zhao Hu laboriously lifted the leg of the mahogany bed, drilled a hole with a hole drill, inserted the black ring-shaped relic into it, and then sealed it with paraffin wax.

Good heavens! He spent over ten days in the monitoring room, sleeping on this bed every single day!

That old pervert is something else. Nobody would have thought of this place, and nobody would even care if it were sold as old furniture someday.

Sure enough, there were hidden cameras in the hotel. The owner had this kind of fetish, liking to watch couples' rooms from the monitoring room. Damn!

He said that when he came to work last month, he found that many windows on the monitoring system could not be opened. At that time, the lobby manager told him that he needed the boss's highest level of privileges to open them, but he didn't think much of it then.

He's so rich, he could play with women all the time, never the same one twice a day, yet he still peeped!

Qiao Yuan looked disgusted. After staying a while longer, he decided to return to reality because after hiding the belongings, the old pervert started watching the surveillance footage from the couple's room...

That's disgusting.

Whoosh, as the river of time surged and the scenery changed, the view from the hotel's monitoring room gradually appeared in the surrounding landscape.

After returning to reality, he had made a point of noting the time before entering, and now, looking at it again, reality had indeed paused!

He had stayed there for 10 minutes in the past, but in reality, not a single second had changed.

It's as if he has never left reality, or exists simultaneously in the past and the future, which is very mysterious.

But now we have to race against time.

The white rose has just given the order, and her subordinates will likely arrive soon.

He quickly took a screwdriver from the drawer, went to the bedside, and lifted the bed legs.

Paraffin wax is a very easy material to store, possessing many advantages such as being an insulator, temperature resistant, moisture-proof, and having low activity, and it is also easy to remove.

Qiao Yuan's heart raced as he looked at the black ring that was finally taken out, the relic of the so-called "Devil's Substitute," and without hesitation, he put it on his finger.

Because... there were already hurried footsteps and the banging of the door opening outside.

He had no choice!

His original idea was to use the belongings as leverage, but after witnessing White Rose's ruthless methods in blackmailing the hotel owner's daughter, he felt that his previous idea was very naive.

The other party has already killed someone in the hotel, how could they possibly let him go? At most, they'll take his belongings and then kill him again, they'll never let him leave.

[Relic: Demon Substitute.]

[Rank: First-order Dark Side.]

[Effect: Summons the undead demon from the relics, controlling it as a substitute, granting complete control over offense and defense, making it as natural as an extension of one's own limb, and achieving perfect harmony with one's will.]

[Characteristic: The Demon Stand possesses taunt; during its duration, any enemy attack will hit the Stand first, preventing it from reaching the main body.]

[Durability: 85.2%]

The moment he put it on his finger, a series of tempting messages popped up in front of him.

"Holy crap, it's mockery!"

Qiao Yuan grinned unconsciously; it was truly a case of "after the darkest hour comes the dawn," and he had struck it rich.

At the same time, the explosion-proof door of the monitoring room was quickly forced open.

Two burly men dressed in black, armed with guns, stormed in. One had a prosthetic arm implanted, and the other had a prosthetic eye implanted.

The dreadlocked man with the prosthetic eye paused for a moment upon seeing Qiao Yuan, then whistled excitedly, "Wow, I didn't expect this kid to be so handsome! Damn! Let me have some fun first."

Qiao Yuan frowned slightly? It's gay!

"Boss is angry right now, I'll find you some ducks later," another bald man said, brandishing a submachine gun, and shouted at Qiao Yuan, "You little brat, you've been watching too much, haven't you? Time to hit the road."

"It's time to hit the road."

"What did you say?" the bald man asked, frowning.

"Now it's my turn! Come forth, undead demon!" Qiao Yuan suddenly raised his hand and clenched it.