Those who travel back in time

Chapter 43 Something's Wrong with This Time Travel

"You're asking for death!" Chen Qing was furious and darted to the white-haired man in two quick steps, as fast as lightning.

The white-haired man raised his gun to shoot Chen Qing, but Chen Qing raised his hand and struck the man's wrist, sending the gun flying. Chen Qing then punched the white-haired man in the chest, and with a crisp crack, his chest caved in. The man was sent flying five or six meters away as if struck by a giant hammer, spitting out blood and foam. It was clear he was going to die.

"Uncle Li!" Chen Qing ran back and looked at the dying Li Qilin, feeling as if her chest was about to explode.

"Chen Qing, don't, don't be sad, I won't die." Li Qilin was quite optimistic.

"Uncle Li, I'm so sorry, I've gotten you into this." Chen Qing picked up Li Qilin and ran towards the white coat she saw, calling out, "Doctor!"

"Chen Qing, medicine can't save me anymore. Only you can save me. Let's go back to the past and start over." Li Qilin closed his eyes.

"Yes, it's not over yet, we can start over." Chen Qing turned to look at the gun he had knocked to the ground earlier, and thought about shooting himself to trigger the time machine's alarm and pull him back.

But the next moment, Chen Qing felt a violent dizziness in his brain, and an extremely bright light burst in front of his eyes. In an instant, he lost his five senses; he could neither see, hear, nor smell.

When his five senses returned, Chen Qing found himself sitting at a table with several steamers of buns in front of him.

"Brother Qing, this mushroom filling is delicious. You should try it. It's so delicious it makes me want to cry," Li Mengfei's voice rang out.

陈卿看了李梦菲一眼，连忙摸出手机，上面显示的时间是2025年6月30日9:17。

"Chen Qing, are you getting used to living here? Would you like to move to another place?" Li Qilin's voice rang out.

Chen Qing looked at Li Qilin, the scene of Li Qilin's tragic death just flashing before her eyes: "Uncle Li, I'm sorry."

"Apologize to me for what?" Li Qilin didn't quite understand Chen Qing's words.

"You just now..." Chen Qing was about to tell Li Qilin what had just happened, but suddenly felt something was wrong.

Why did I return to the moment when Li Qilin and his daughter came to the apartment to have breakfast with him?

That was indeed his plan at the time, but now he didn't return to 2044; instead, he went directly from the hospital back to an hour earlier.

Technically speaking, a time machine could send him directly from one past to another.

However, he didn't return to 2044, nor did he bury the box. How did Fang Xiande know that he wanted to travel through time?

"Could it be that Dr. Fang discovered Li Qilin's death in 2044, and thus placed me back an hour earlier?" This thought popped into Chen Qing's mind again.

But he quickly dismissed the speculation.

impossible.

How could Fang Xiande use the time machine because of the deaths of others? In his eyes, these people were all dead in the past, and he only cared about himself.

"No!" Chen Qing suddenly stood up: "No!!!"

"Brother Qing, what's wrong with you?" Li Mengfei had a steamed bun in her mouth when Chen Qing startled her and made her drop it. "I've felt something was off about you since just now."

"Mengfei, do you remember what happened this morning?" Chen Qing asked.

"My dad and I came to see you, and then we had breakfast together."

"Did I leave your sight during this time?"

"We've always been together."

"Did you see another version of me?"

"no."

"Did you see me suddenly appear here?"

"Why did you suddenly appear? We came here together. Brother Qing, what happened? Why are you saying such strange things?"

Chen Qing frowned.

The biggest problem with traveling back an hour this time is, where did my past self go?

Logically speaking, if he traveled from the hospital to an hour earlier, then the people sitting here now should be Li Mengfei from an hour ago, Li Qilin from an hour ago, and himself from an hour ago.

But Li Mengfei and Li Qilin from an hour ago are both there, only I from an hour ago am not.

Because he traveled back in time and was seen by his past self, a time paradox was triggered, causing his past self to disappear?

Not right either.

The time paradox is that what disappears is the future self, not the past self.

Moreover, if the past self disappears, how could the future self still exist?

Furthermore, Li Mengfei didn't see herself time-travel. She had been with her the whole time, so she should have seen her suddenly appear at this table.

But in her eyes, nothing happened.

"Chen Qing, what's wrong?" Li Qilin also noticed Chen Qing's unusual behavior.

"We had breakfast here, and after that we drove to Tianhai Hospital. There were people from Tuibeilou in the hospital who killed Uncle Li, and I came back to this table." Chen Qing briefly recounted the death of Li Qilin.

"Brother Qing, you've traveled back again? How is that possible?" Li Mengfei said. "If you suddenly appeared on this table, how could I not see you? Besides, if you really traveled from the future one hour later, there should be two of you."

"Black yoga pants, red hat, flyer in left hand," Chen Qing said suddenly, glancing at the time on her phone.

"Huh?" Li Mengfei was stunned, and then she saw a girl of about twenty years old walk out from behind Chen Qing. She was wearing black yoga pants, a red hat, and holding a stack of flyers in her left hand.

"Handsome, how about trying out this new workout routine?" Chen Qing added two more lines: "Handsome, don't you think you're a bit too thin? You're so handsome, if you were a little more muscular, you'd be even more attractive to girls."

Li Mengfei watched as the girl in yoga pants walked up to Chen Qing and said, "Handsome, interested in this new fitness trend?"

Chen Qing clutched her phone in her hand: "No need."

"Handsome, don't you think you're a bit too thin? You're already so good-looking, if you were a little more muscular, you'd be even more attractive to girls."

Li Mengfei's mouth dropped open. Chen Qing had "predicted" the girl in yoga pants' actions perfectly.

What Chen Qing said is true!

"Chen Qing, it seems you have indeed experienced these things. It sounds like you've traveled through time, but it's different from your previous time travel experiences," Li Qilin said.

Chen Qing was completely baffled as to why he had returned to an hour earlier, but he didn't have much time to dwell on it, as the task at Tianhai Hospital was still pending.

"Uncle Li, you and Mengfei can wait outside this time. I'll go in alone." When Li Qilin arrived at the hospital entrance, Chen Qing stopped him as he was about to change his clothes.

"Chen Qing, I'll avoid that old lady this time and just make sure she doesn't bother me," Li Qilin said. "As long as the fake serum isn't discovered, I'll be fine."

"Even without that old lady, there might have been other accidents. That person at the Tuibeilou building is too dangerous." Chen Qing still refused. "I can manage the hospital by myself."