Chapter 147: Call Me Daddy
When night fell, the hamster finally slipped out of Sakata Yuxo’s home, and by then, the police car had already stopped at Sakata Yuxo’s front door.
From the bench two hundred meters away, Wang Heng saw the police car flashing its lights, stood up, and stretched.
Sure enough, less than a minute later, the hamster returned to his feet.
Wang Heng bent down to pick up the hamster and asked, “What about the stun gun?”
Hamster: “Of course I disposed of it. When I handle things, rest assured.”
Wang Heng nodded and asked again, “Did that guy who wanted revenge on society persevere for so long under your tyrannical power?”
The hamster shook its little head: “Actually, shocking him twice was enough, but the stun gun’s power was a bit strong, so it took a while for him to wake up. Anyway, the result is good—he turned himself in. But attempted crime plus self-surrender, Sakura Island’s current laws definitely won’t give him a heavy sentence.”
“No relationship, as long as he can’t implicate innocent people anymore, that’s fine. I have no other requests and am too lazy to care about the rest.”
After speaking, Wang Heng walked toward the subway station.
As he walked, he pondered deeply. This time, the hamster’s action, along with the limitations shown by the ‘foresight’ ability, gave him many guesses. And one of those guesses, the more he contemplated, the more reasonable it seemed.
The hamster crouched in his palm, originally squinting its eyes to enjoy the human flesh sedan. But suddenly, it heard a question from Wang Heng and was startled, immediately standing upright.
“Are you really a time-space administrator?”
The hamster looked up and glared at him: “What, you doubt me?”
Wang Heng thought for a moment and said, “Blindly believing without reason is foolish. Actually, from the very beginning, I started to suspect. But in this half year, your performance… although you often screw me over, overall, you shouldn’t have any malicious intent.”
The hamster put its hands on its hips: “Of course!”
Wang Heng: “But your recent performance has made me suspicious again. If you were really a time-space administrator, you should be like the god of this world. But now it seems your abilities are quite limited. Apart from foreseeing the future, you’re just a bit stronger in mobility than ordinary animals, but no supernatural abilities.”
The hamster mocked: “What superpowers do you want? Do you really want me to generate electricity with my body and perform as Pikachu for you?”
Wang Heng shook his head slightly: “Okay, let’s take a step back and just discuss your foresight ability. Very clearly, this ability of yours isn’t perfect either. For example, this time, you had to wait until the first flight accident was prevented before you knew who the real culprit was. It’s like waiting for the river to change course before you know what’s at the riverbed. A time-space administrator shouldn’t be like that—your gaze should penetrate everything, seeing all events clearly.”
The hamster didn’t argue anymore, just gave him a sideways glance: “So what do you think I am?”
Wang Heng considered for a moment and said, “So your true body should be someone standing in the future. The history you can observe at any time is my future. That explains a lot of issues. For example, this time you didn’t know at first that the real culprit of the flight accident was the pilot, but after we prevented it once, the future definitely changed, so the real culprit was finally exposed in your post-event observation, and that’s how you knew.”
The hamster shook its head: “What rich imagination.”
Wang Heng: “Then, logically speaking, why did you choose me? A scumbag and four girls affecting the whole world? I don’t believe that. A more reasonable explanation is that this scumbag and the four girls’ future directly affect you.”
Hamster: “…”
Wang Heng snapped his fingers, inferring with certainty: “Why can I and they affect you? Unless there’s a direct causal relationship between you and us… So, you’re actually my son, right?”
The hamster immediately bristled: “What screw’s loose in your mind! Say it again—your reasoning is all nonsense, I am the time-space administrator!”
Wang Heng teased the hamster in his palm with his finger and laughed: “Good boy, call daddy.”
The hamster kicked his finger away and roared: “Get lost!”
Wang Heng: “Tell the truth, who is your mother?”
The hamster turned its back to him, patted its butt at him, indicating it didn’t want to deal with him.
As if having gained a point in the clash with the hamster, Wang Heng laughed leisurely and smugly, heading toward the inn where he was temporarily staying.
Wang Heng: “Good son, will you screw over your dad in the future?”
Hamster: “Get lost!”
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After the flight was delayed, Lu Qi wandered alone on the streets of Edo again.
Those male colleagues said they were going to Kabukicho to “gain some knowledge,” but she had no interest in that, and going along would only dampen their fun, so she could only wander alone.
While strolling to the doorway of an unknown park, Lu Qi’s mobile phone suddenly rang.
The caller was a colleague, the lead planner of the game project. As soon as the call connected, he anxiously said: “Director Lu, have you seen the news? It’s our flight again—another problem!”
“Okay, I’ll check right now.”
After hanging up, Lu Qi quickly found the latest social news report using her mobile browser and turned on the translation app to translate the page into Chinese.
【36-year-old captain attempts suicide, using the entire airplane as sacrifice!】
This shocking title immediately quickened Lu Qi’s heartbeat. Looking further, although the news didn’t explicitly mention the flight name, there weren’t many planes flying from Edo to the mainland at that time. Moreover, the news mentioned that the plane this captain was to fly had already had one issue, and police had found suspicious explosives on it, so it was delayed.
Undoubtedly, it was the plane she and her colleagues were supposed to take.
Putting away her phone, Lu Qi stared blankly at the quiet park ahead, her gaze flickering.
Such an anomalous low-probability event falling on her head, and both accidents’ dangers exposed in advance, gave her a feeling—as if some kind of will was invisibly preventing her from leaving Sakura Island?
But thinking again, Lu Qi self-mockingly said: “Overthinking it. I’m not some big shot—nothing that exaggerated… It should just be an accidental coincidence, right?”
She shook her head and walked into the park.
Suddenly, Lu Qi noticed something on the park swing. Anyway, she was idle now, so why not go take a look?
She walked to the swing, picked up the small thing that looked like a mini flashlight.
“What is this… a stun gun? Does Sakura Island law allow this maximum voltage?”
Suddenly, Lu Qi remembered something, quickly took out her phone, and opened that machine-translated news again.
“Suspect captain confessed that he witnessed a god manifest, in the form of a hamster. The god punished him with lightning strike technique, making him realize his own sins, willing to sincerely repent, so he turned himself in. Police also found stun marks on him, inferring the voltage… Such a coincidence?”
Lu Qi sat on the swing, carefully observing the stun gun in her hand. Suddenly, she noticed there was still unpeeled double-sided tape on it, with tiny rodent paw prints on the tape. Thus, she fell into contemplation.
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Third update, two more chapters to go…
