Chapter 920: Order

Suddenly forced to stop by another vehicle, Li Huowang was visibly enraged, regardless of how anyone else might have reacted. "How are you driving?!" he yelled. "Are you trying to crash into me head-on?"

When the car driver opened his door, Li Huowang was shocked to discover it was none other than Dr. Yi Donglai, a physician from the White Pagoda Correctional Facility!

He had never imagined he would encounter his own attending doctor in such a place.

"Do you really think I wouldn't notice if someone tampered with your medical records?" Yi Donglai explained, making it clear he had secretly followed him.

Li Huowang gripped his motorcycle handlebars tightly, quickly scanning his surroundings, wary of the orderlies who could appear at any moment to take him back.

"Stop looking, it's just me today," Yi Donglai said. "I want to have a good talk with you. Li Huowang, I'm genuinely curious: How did you escape from White Pagoda Prison? That's a prison, after all."

Yi Donglai genuinely wanted to know why Li Huowang always managed to escape, no matter how strict the security. This wasn't the first time.

"How did I escape?" Li Huowang retorted. "Because I had help! Because everything that happened in the past was real! None of it was an illusion!!"

"Dr. Yi, you're a good doctor, but on this matter, you are wrong, and spectacularly so!" Li Huowang stated with absolute certainty.

Hearing this, Yi Donglai smiled. He paid no attention to Li Huowang's accusations, focused solely on his objective: to bring Li Huowang back by any means necessary, cure him, fully restore his own reputation, and reclaim what was rightfully his!

"Do you truly believe that?" he challenged. "Then do you dare to say it again to your mother's face?"

With that, Yi Donglai raised his phone. On the screen was the tear-streaked face of Sun Xiaoqin, looking even older. "Huowang, Huowang, where are you?" she pleaded. "Please come back, your mother is begging you. When I see your eyes, my heart bleeds."

Li Huowang's head began to ache more intensely. His expression twisted in agony, and he clenched his teeth, desperately clutching his head.

Just as Yi Donglai, still holding his phone, walked towards Li Huowang, there was a soft click, and the phone screen instantly turned black.

"Damn it! What happened?! At this precise moment!" Yi Donglai exclaimed, indignantly slapping his phone.

However, when he saw Li Huowang had stopped struggling, he immediately tossed his phone aside and instantly regained his composure. "Li Huowang," he said, "no matter what you've experienced, remember one thing: You are ill."

"All your logic, and all the bizarre things you've experienced, could be your delusions!"

"No, you're wrong! You're ridiculously wrong! Come with me, I'll show you what's real! Though it sounds outlandish, it *is* real!!" Li Huowang pulled Yi Donglai towards the Qingwanglai Villa, determined to make him fully understand that the people he spoke of truly existed; they were real, living individuals!

As they walked quickly, Li Huowang somewhat incoherently but rapidly recounted everything he had experienced to Yi Donglai.

"Ha! You kill a 'Si Ming' and you can turn back time? Do you really find that believable?" Yi Donglai scoffed, clearly unconvinced. However, seeing that Li Huowang was actively talking to him, he rationally didn't resist and continued to walk alongside him.

"If the world we live in can actually reverse time, and is even idealistic," Yi Donglai continued, "then you might as well say the world we live in is completely fake."

"Think about it," Yi Donglai pressed on, "even a world with magic would still have logic, and everything would be very rigorous. If a world truly were as you describe, where even fundamental concepts like time and causality could be arbitrarily altered, then such a crude and unstable world couldn't fundamentally stand."

As soon as Yi Donglai finished speaking, Li Huowang's hand recoiled as if shocked. He looked at Yi Donglai with a rare flicker of fear in his eyes. "What are you talking about?!" he demanded.

"What I'm trying to say is there are only two possibilities here," Yi Donglai explained. "Either everything you saw was fake, all your own delusions, or what you're saying is true, and the entire world is fake!"

"Isn't that what you were saying before?" Yi Donglai pressed. "It's not you who's wrong; it's the whole world."

"Li Huowang," Yi Donglai asked, "which of these two possibilities do you think is more likely to be real right now?"

Watching Li Huowang clench his jaw, Yi Donglai raised a finger, pushed up his glasses, and a hint of confidence appeared on his face.

Just as he was about to say something more, he saw a test tube fall in front of him, shattering into pieces and spilling its liquid contents.

The next moment, he knew nothing.

Qingwanglai walked up to the unconscious Yi Donglai and spoke to Li Huowang over him: "Don't let Order get close to us; their presence will destroy everything we have."

"I've told you, Order won't help you," Qingwanglai continued. "Even if you don't trust me or Zhao Shuangdian, you should at least trust yourself." Qingwanglai's expression was very serious, entirely devoid of his usual approachable smile.

After saying this, Qingwanglai knelt on one knee and began searching Yi Donglai's body. He found a recording pen and then more than one tracker. This guy had definitely come prepared.

"Our plan needs to be moved up," Qingwanglai declared. "Order is spreading. Let's get out of customs first; then we'll talk."

Li Huowang looked at Yi Donglai on the ground, helped him up, propped him against something nearby, and then quickly rode away on his motorcycle.

He wasn't sure if it was due to the shock from Yi Donglai, but Li Huowang's mental state was much better than before; at least his head no longer ached.

Leaving early was fine for Li Huowang himself, but Yang Na couldn't manage it; she needed someone to look after her.

Fortunately, Zhao Shuangdian arrived and helped with this. "I can have my nanny look after your girlfriend for a while," she offered, "but Li Huowang, since you'll return to the previous timeline sooner or later, what difference does this make?"

Her words didn't interrupt Li Huowang and Yang Na's quiet conversation. After much persuasion, Yang Na finally agreed to have the Unborn Old Mother help remotely, and only then did they prepare to leave.

"We don't actually need to rush so much," Ba Nanxu suggested. "Just kill that doctor and bury him somewhere." Her words made everyone else look at her.

"No," Qingwanglai firmly stated, "temporarily cutting off Order is meaningless. That would only attract more of Order. Let's go." His decision was final, and everyone got into the car heading for the dock.

On the way, Li Huowang's mind raced, pondering the causes and effects of the entire situation, as well as the words Yi Donglai had spoken.

Just then, Zhao Shuangdian's voice reached his ears from beside him.

"Li Huowang," Zhao Shuangdian began, "regarding what you said about time reversal, I have another hypothesis. Do you know about parallel worlds?"

"Perhaps you're not reversing time. Perhaps the 'us' you interacted with before were in another parallel world, and because something happened—maybe the death of Si Ming or something else—"

"—you were moved by this force to the next parallel world, to meet a new 'us' and restart the same events."