Those who travel back in time

Chapter 39 Destroying the Serum

"There's a gunman in the factory. The only way to deal with this is to lure my past self out so the gunman can shoot him. It'll just be a bullet to the shoulder, nothing serious." Chen Qing thought about the shooting he had experienced before and felt this was a good idea.

But he was some distance from the window, so he couldn't just run; he had to slow down.

How to slow it down?

Chen Qing's gaze fell on the stun gun in his hand.

"Is this why I'm attacking myself?" Chen Qing raised his hand and pulled the trigger on his past self.

Sizzle~

My past self convulsed and collapsed to the ground.

Chen Qing stood up from behind the table, took off running, and climbed out of the window.

He could feel his past self chasing after him, getting closer and closer.

He could certainly widen the gap, but he can't.

boom!

Finally, just as her past self was about to seize control of her, Chen Qing heard a gunshot.

He stopped, turned around, and saw that his past self had disappeared.

Looking around, he could only see the bulging cylindrical ventilators on the factory buildings, but he couldn't see anyone.

Not knowing whether the gunman was friend or foe, Chen Qing dared not linger in the open and ran back towards the white house.

That was the only shelter.

boom!

However, before he could reach the White House, a gunshot rang out, and he was shot again.

2044 years.

Drop drop-

The alarm sounded again.

"Brother Chen is injured again!" Ah Jie, now experienced, immediately summoned Chen Qing back.

After Chen Qing walked out of the cabin, Fang Xiande hurriedly went over to check again.

"Dr. Fang, I got it!" Chen Qing pulled the safe key out of his pocket. "The serum is almost here."

"There's a very high chance the key to this safe contains antivenom." Fang Xiande examined the wound. "It's a penetrating wound. Who injured you this time?"

"It's the same gunman on the roof. He shot me after he shot me in the past." Chen Qing looked at the key in her hand, completely ignoring the wound on her shoulder. "I just need to go back one more time, find the safe, destroy the serum, and the mission will be over."

"Once you've recovered, go back again." Fang Xiande paused, then added, "Chen Qing, what do you plan to do first when you go back?"

"Take care of the person shooting on the roof first."

"Chen Qing, you still haven't figured it out."

"What do you understand now?"

"The person who fired the shot on the roof was you too."

"Me too?"

"That guy shot you twice, both times in the shoulder, both penetrating wounds. Why don't you think he shot you in the head?"

"Maybe he doesn't want to kill me?"

"Chen Qing, to make things easier to understand, I'll assign you numbers. You were number 1 the first time you entered the White House, and number 2 the second time. What do you think would have happened if the gunman on the roof hadn't shot number 1?"

"Number 1 will catch up with Number 2, causing a time paradox."

"Clearly, the gunman's goal was not to kill Number 1, but to injure Number 1 and send him back to 2044 to prevent the time paradox from occurring."

"If Number 1 has already returned to 2044, avoiding the time paradox, why would the gunman still shoot Number 2?"

"Naturally, it's also to allow Number 2 to return to 2044, because if Number 2 doesn't return to 2044, he can't go back to be the gunman, and then no one will shoot Number 1 to stop the time paradox."

A day later, Chen Qing's wounds healed, and he returned to that suburban area.

This time he didn't go to the White House, but instead climbed onto the roof from outside the factory and hid behind a ventilator.

boom!

When he heard gunshots coming from the factory below, he knew that the "show" was about to begin.

I perked up and started paying attention to the open space under the factory.

A moment later, he saw "Number 2," whose head was wrapped in bandages, run out of the window by himself, and soon "Number 1" also chased after him.

boom!

Chen Qing first aimed at "Number 1" himself, shot him in the shoulder, and watched him disappear.

Then he fired a second shot, hitting "Number 2" in the shoulder.

After both versions of himself disappeared, Chen Qing went down from the roof and entered the factory.

As soon as Li Mengfei saw Chen Qing, she rushed to his side: "Brother Qing, someone's firing shots from the roof!"

"I know, it's mine," Chen Qing said to Li Mengfei. "Let's go."

"And what about them?" Li Mengfei pointed with her chin at the man with the middle part and the man with the buzz cut. The two immediately cried and begged for mercy, pleading with Chen Qing to spare their lives.

"Zhao Dezhu died right here. Take care of the aftermath." Chen Qing walked up to the two men, looking down at them. "If the police find me or my friends because of Zhao Dezhu's death, I will come looking for you, understand?"

"Don't worry, we'll handle it perfectly, leaving no trace," the man with the middle parting assured him. "We don't want to deal with the police either."

Because Bian Meihong had arranged to meet friends at home, it wasn't convenient for them to talk about these things, so Chen Qing met Li Qilin at his apartment this time.

"Minister Chen, how did things go?"

"Uncle Li, I found this." Chen Qing took the key from Zhao Dezhu and handed it to Li Qilin.

"The key to the safe?" Li Qilin glanced at the key and immediately noticed something amiss.

"Dad, can we find the safe using the key?" Li Mengfei also peeked out from the side.

"This is the Matson logo," Li Qilin pointed to a small pattern on the key. "Matson is one of the most well-known brands. Their safes are highly professional; customers cannot install them themselves and must have them installed and maintained by their professionals."

"So finding the construction workers means finding the safe's location?" Chen Qing felt he was getting closer and closer to the serum.

"That's right."

"Are construction workers hard to find?"

"I own several safes from Matson, making me one of their biggest clients. I've met their installation workers more than once."

Li Qilin arranged to meet with the construction workers from Meisen and used his financial power to overcome their professional ethics, eventually obtaining the exact location of the safe.

The location was quite unexpected; it wasn't in any of Zhao Dezhu's properties or in the company building, but rather below his vegetable market stall before he made his fortune.

Open the safe with the key, and sure enough, there was a specially made silver box inside.

"The serum must be in here!" Chen Qing tried to open the box, but found that it had a combination lock.

"This box is also from Meisen." Li Qilin saw the logo on the box and called Meisen's construction workers again. They came over with professional tools.

Upon opening, a test tube appeared, filled with a deep blue liquid.

"It's serum!" Chen Qing's spirits lifted.

"Great, we found it!" Li Mengfei was also very happy.

"Go to the Qilin Building. There's a device for destroying serum in the laboratory." Li Qilin closed the box.