"Is this what I have to become? Just a cat, how am I supposed to change the past?!"

"...This is the best method I can think of, Meow, otherwise you wouldn't be able to travel back to the past at all. Give me some time to improve the fusion technology and see if I can unlock more abilities for you..."

"..."

Your abilities, no matter how many you have, aren't they just useless?

Yan Huan was speechless and had no choice but to squat on the spot, silently looking at the clock nearby.

But then again...

With the Universal Key he had in his hand, he could only traverse once, as Meow said, the margin for error was indeed too low.

He suddenly had an idea... 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

He just wasn't sure if it would work.

Anyway, he decided to give it a try.

"Tick... tock..."

The cat that Yan Huan had transformed into sat there anxiously, waiting as time passed by slowly.

In the early hours, Sakuragi Hitomi, who had been knocked out, woke up.

"Honey..."

"Meow~"

She glanced around, only to find that Yan Huan was nowhere to be seen.

In the cold room, there was only a cute white cat with golden eyes.

For some reason, looking at that white cat, Sakuragi Hitomi suddenly felt like crying.

She lowered her head and sobbed for a long time, which made Yan Huan feel sorry, so he went forward to comfort her.

But even so, she left when morning came, without saying where she was going.

"..."

Yan Huan followed her, wanting to confirm if there was a modifier tool secret chamber in this if-line like there was in the previous one.

But after circling around, he found nothing...

Well, it seems not every if-line has rewards.

Yan Huan felt a bit disappointed but didn't linger and instead went to a secluded place to wait for 4:44 AM the next day.

He clasped his hands and waited in the tree for a while, then, at a certain moment, the sound of a clock ticking like water droplets came around him again.

"Tick... tock..."

"It's time, Meow, Yan Huan!"

"I know..."

Yan Huan stood up, summoned the last Universal Key in his mind, and then opened the world line observer in his eyes.

At that moment, countless golden lights flickered on the surface of the world line.

Like a boiling ocean, from which an incredibly dazzling bubble was steamed out with all its might...

Is that, the process of generating a new if-line?

Yan Huan wasn't sure, he just turned the gear-shaped ring with his consciousness.

In an instant, the ring burst into golden light, gradually forming an illusory golden pendulum clock in front of Yan Huan.

The pendulum swings left and right, propelling time forward.

And above the pendulum, arranged are the illusory representations of "year, month, day".

Yan Huan recalled the time of his accident, but upon thinking about it, he couldn't help but be puzzled.

The current world line was altered once by Bai Yi, at that time he was killed in a car accident but Bai Yi changed it so nothing happened.

And soon after, Bai Yi disappeared, yet the result of that car accident was still that he wasn't run over...

So, would he still be able to see Bai Yi if he jumps to that day?

"Click-clack..."

Though doubtful, Yan Huan still decided to push the clock to align with the time.

And as the time rotated, the pendulum below also swung rhythmically.

"Dang!"

On the left, the scene that appeared was of Yan Huan narrowly missing getting hit by an ambulance.

"Dang!"

On the right, it was the scene of him being directly hit by a car, covered in blood, then being resuscitated one-on-one by Bai Yi.

!!

It's possible!

Can see Bai Yi!

The timeline's records weren't overwritten?

"..."

Yan Huan was both startled and uncertain, but he still raised his paw and pressed on that day's time.

Soon after, the pendulum suddenly stopped.

All the surrounding scenes instantly shattered, bringing an extremely terrifying gravitational pull that engulfed Yan Huan's body.

"Hiss!!"

Yan Huan immediately felt an immense pressure on his body, fortunately, the cat's body at that moment was like a diving bell, sheltering him in the chaos of space-time.

"Tick... tock..."

And then, the next second, Linmen, drenched in rain, reappeared in front of him.

That was the day after he died in a car accident.

And at this moment, the rain covering Linmen gradually merged with an illusory ticking clock sound, sketching an eerie symphony in the dim twilight.

Across from the villa in North Sea District that was hit by an ambulance, a stunning figure appeared in the darkness.

Her face was pale, her eyes still glistening with tears.

"No... no... Yan Huan... sob..."

Tears were streaming down Bai Yi's stunning face, with one hand squeezing a watch and the other trying to wipe away her tears.

But the tears seemed unable to be wiped away, the more she wiped, the more there were.

"Plop!"

"Sob... sob..."

After walking a few steps, her body gradually gave way, and she sat down on the ground.

And in the next second, a white cat passed through the veils of time, gradually descending into reality from the shadows of illusion.

"Meow~"

It widened its eyes, and when it landed safely, it placed its gaze back on the person in front of it.

At this moment, reflected in its golden cat eyes...

It finally saw once again...

That still-existing, incomparable face.

"Sob..."

It's Bai Yi.