Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 573 - 150: Talk About Something I Don’t Understand

"What will become of the Shen Family?"

Wang Yunxiao remained silent for a long while before asking the question that mattered most to him.

The dissolution of the Special Service Section didn’t seem like a big deal to him, it was just being fired, really.

He had his hands and feet, and a group of brothers to back him up, he wouldn’t starve no matter what he did.

Earning twenty bucks a month fighting tooth and nail at the police station or licking Eldest Miss Li’s feet, it was all the same twenty bucks.

What was the big deal?

But when it came to the issue with the Shen Family, he still wanted to get to the bottom of it.

Otherwise, it would not sit well with him.

It wasn’t just about the Imperial Jade Seal, but also those other messy things that were found out later.

If the Shen Family were allowed to escape punishment, Wang Yunxiao would not be able to accept it.

Without our official robes, wouldn’t we brothers still be able to smash their kiln?

He believed that this would also cure Guozi’s heartache without the need for medicine.

"Shen Jianzhen swallowed a gun and committed suicide this morning."

"Ah?"

Wang Yunxiao was shocked by the news that Liu Zhihan suddenly blurted out.

Truth be told, he had never even met Shen Jianzhen and had no idea what the old guy looked like.

But based on his stereotype of the man, he didn’t seem like someone who would commit suicide, did he?

How could he just die like that?

Was it suicide or ’suicide’? The kind where you’re shot eight times in the back?

Wouldn’t that be letting him off easy?

"Qinghe Middle School has two Zhou Qings, the Shen Family has two Shen Qingxis."

Liu Zhihan said, "You should be well aware of why such a strange occurrence would happen."

"The tides of time and space?"

"Right, Shen Jianzhen actually knew that, but he refused to accept it. Because the second Shen Qingxi was too outstanding, too perfect, unlike the Shen’s breed. So when the Shen Family faced a severe ordeal, he chose to sacrifice this Shen Qingxi as cannon fodder first."

"You could say it’s human nature, but in reality, it’s a difference in perception."

"As a man of the old times, the sci-fi concept of time-space tides was too advanced for him. He couldn’t understand it, couldn’t accept it, and ultimately made an irrational choice."

"And such a choice ultimately led the Shen Family down a path of no return, completely losing any chance of a comeback."

Is that so exaggerated?

Wang Yunxiao thought it was just the death of a granddaughter, why was it being treated as if the nation was destroyed and the family was ruined?

There’s a saying that only those with practical experience have the right to speak. It was because he had actually investigated the Shen Family that he knew how deeply rooted this great tree was.

"There are some things you don’t understand because you’re not well-educated, and you wouldn’t understand even if I told you,"

Liu Zhihan spoke indifferently, yet Wang Yunxiao felt insulted.

Laozi may be a transmigrator no matter what...

Alright, if you insist on putting it that way, I have no choice but to agree.

You are my teacher, and you have the right to speak.

"To put it in terms you can understand," he said, "Shen Qingxi had received a call from Shen Jianzhen before she was murdered and returned to the Shen Mansion. After she was murdered, the Imperial Jade Seal went missing."

What does ’missing’ mean? The Imperial Jade Seal is such a large object...

Wang Yunxiao still remembered Cheng Xuefei saying that her team was responsible for guarding the Imperial Jade Seal. Now that it was lost, there were only two possibilities: either Cheng Xuefei had stolen it under her watch, or Shen Qingxi had taken the Imperial Jade Seal back to the Shen Mansion the night before.

In all fairness, he was more inclined to believe the latter.

That "Jishan Academy Interest Group" led by Cheng Xuefei was made up of young masters and mistresses. The Shen Family could, of course, shift the blame and pin the responsibility on these young masters and mistresses, letting them play detective games.

But if they were to shift blame this way, it would be tantamount to setting the Shen Family against other emerging prominent families.

At the time of Shen Qingxi’s murder, other families, out of sympathy, would speak for the Shen Family. If you dared to play this game, who would stand by you?

Thinking about it this way, the consequences were indeed serious.

But it wasn’t so dire that Shen Jianzhen would be driven to commit suicide by swallowing a gun.

There must be things that Wang Yunxiao didn’t know, or rather didn’t understand, but Liu Zhihan was unwilling to say more.

"Teacher Liu, I’d like to hear something I don’t understand," he said.

Wang Yunxiao really wanted to say scram away from Tianmen, you riddler, but if he really said that, most likely, he would be the one having to leave.

Yet he couldn’t contain his curiosity and could only resort to throwing a tantrum.

Liu Zhihan put down the file in her hand and hesitated for a moment before she said solemnly, "You can listen, but what I’m about to tell you involves the utmost secrecy of the highest level. You cannot reveal a single word to anyone. Not even to your brothers, understand?"

"Understood!"

Wang Yunxiao thought to himself that her worries were entirely unnecessary; they had no interest in hearing these things.

"I have already explained to you the concept of time tides, but there are some points of knowledge that I cannot tell you, as knowing them would not benefit you at all. Take, for example, the Great Tide."

"How big is it?"

"So big that you may wake up to find that there never was a President establishing a new government, and that the Tianmen People are still living in misery."

Isn’t that just traveling back in time!

"The Shiyan we are facing is not a conceptual entity that exists on a physical level, like a Great Demon King, but a terrifying natural disaster involving the entire timeline. This disaster related to time originated from the end of the future and spreads towards the beginning of the past. We are not just beginning to fight now, but are struggling against this disaster along the entire timeline."

Liu Zhihan said seriously, "According to the Astronomy Bureau’s observations, the Signal Flag has been lit. This means that the next Great Tide is looming. It may be in three to five years, but it won’t exceed ten years at most."

"If we can’t prepare enough anchors to secure our historical line before the Great Tide arrives, everything we have now will vanish in the Great Tide, leaving no trace of what might be twisted and reformed."

I really don’t understand.

Wang Yunxiao felt a deep sorrow for his own level of cultural understanding.

"I still don’t quite understand, what is the Signal Flag? How does it relate to the Shen Family?"

"It’s a complicated thing to explain. You can think of it as a special device created by humans of the future, with a very complex self-correcting system and protective mechanism that can withstand the erosion of the time tides. Such a device can even travel upstream along the timeline with the time tides, projecting to a certain point in the past."

"Shen Qingxi is such a Signal Flag. Her arrival is like the Western Great Powers using their warships and artillery to force open our country’s doors sixty years ago. And Shen Jianzhen is just like the people of our country back then, only seeing the power of the artillery, disdaining the advanced science and culture of the West as mere clever but useless tricks, discarding them like worn-out shoes. Naturally, the ultimate outcome is self-evident."

"This is the limitation of perception."