Those who travel back in time

Chapter 28 Chasing the Murderer

"Aoko! Open the door!"

"Please! Let me in!"

"It's your brother! Open the door!"

Chen Qing suddenly opened her eyes and found herself lying in a hospital room. The ceiling was a pure white plaster ceiling with soft LED light strips embedded in it. The light fell evenly and was not dazzling, but it made the whole space bright.

He turned his stiff neck slightly and saw medical tape on the back of his left hand. A transparent tube extended from the back of his hand, connecting to the IV drip above, where cool liquid was being injected drop by drop into his veins.

"Mr. Chen, you're awake?" A voice came from behind him. Chen Qing turned his head slightly and saw Li Qilin walking over.

Li Mengfei was also with him.

"Mr. Li, what time is it now?" Chen Qing asked, enduring the pain in her body.

"It's May 17, 2025, 8:5 PM." Li Qilin glanced at the Rolex on his wrist. "Mr. Li, after we last parted, I thought I would see you again soon, but I didn't expect it to be three years later."

"It hasn't been that long for me; I just saw you a month ago." Chen Qing propped herself up and sat up. "Mr. Li, my body is a little different from normal people's. I wonder if any doctors have been alarmed by this?"

"Mr. Chen, don't worry, I've arranged everything." Li Qilin sat on the edge of the bed. "You haven't been to this hospital today, and apart from Mengfei and me, no one will mention you."

"Mr. Chen, you were the one who saved me at Xinyuan Building seven years ago, weren't you?" Li Mengfei asked, biting her lip with a complicated expression.

"It's me." Chen Qing nodded, looking Li Mengfei up and down. "When I met you at Xinyuan Building, you were just a little girl. It feels like yesterday to me. You've grown into a young woman after just one night's sleep."

"Did you go to Xinyuan Building specifically to rescue me, just like at Jiangxin Airport?" Li Mengfei said, her eyes slightly red. "How could you be so foolish? How could you use your body to block bullets?"

At Jiangxin Airport, Chen Qing told her about time travel and the end of the world, but she never believed it.

It wasn't until today, when she saw her uncle, who had been shot seven years ago, appear before her and be rescued seven years later, that she truly believed in the existence of time travel.

It wasn't that Li Mengfei was too naive to realize the truth now, but rather that Li Qilin had been avoiding telling her about the end of the world, and even deliberately concealed it, fabricating other reasons for Chen Qing to know about the plane crash.

This truth is too cruel; it's better not to know.

But those who need to know will find out sooner or later, and now Li Qilin has nowhere left to hide it.

"I went to Xinyuan Building for someone else; running into you was just a coincidence," Chen Qing said to Li Mengfei, then looked at Li Qilin: "Mr. Li, after we parted ways in 2022, I wanted to go back to the day Sun Fan traded the serum in 2017 to get my hands on it, but for some reason I didn't return to 2017, but instead returned to April 1, 2018, half a month before Sun Fan's death. Mr. Li, regarding Sun Fan, the Sun Fan I saw in 2018 was very different from the information you gave me; even his appearance was different."

"They all look different?"

"I went to Sun Fan's home address and workplace, but there was no one named Sun Fan there. So I joined that company, where there was a guy named Zhou Tao, who is completely unrelated to Sun Fan. It wasn't until April 15th that I found out Zhou Tao had changed his name to Sun Fan. I originally wanted to ask him about the serum, but I ran into Meng Fei along the way and ended up in 2025, so I still don't know if the Sun Fan who changed his name is the one I'm looking for."

"Mr. Chen, please wait a moment." Li Qilin then took out his phone and dialed a number.

Without Li Qilin even needing to relay the message, Chen Qing's exceptional hearing allowed him to hear the entire conversation clearly and understand the reason for Sun Fan's unusual information.

Sun Fan is a very common name, and there are many people with the same name. But coincidentally, in 2018, two people named Sun Fan died tragically. The person in charge of checking the information was Li Qilin's butler. He had also drunk some alcohol that day, so he mixed up the information of the two Sun Fans and pasted the photo of the other Sun Fan onto the information.

The butler soon realized his mistake, but in order to keep his job, he did not admit it and instead chose to conceal it.

This incident caused the housekeeper to feel guilty for many years. Now that Li Qilin has discovered it, he called to inquire and told him everything.

Not only did he admit to the error in the documents, but he also confessed to another thing he had been hiding.

Li Qilin also entrusted the task of finding Li Mengfei's savior to the housekeeper. The housekeeper quickly found Chen Qing, but because Chen Qing and Zhou Tao worked for the same company, he was afraid of attracting Li Qilin's attention and discovering that he had made a mistake in the information, so he lied and said that he could not find it.

Even when Li Qilin asked others to find people, he would secretly mislead and obstruct them.

After the call, the housekeeper sent Sun Fan's correct information, and the photo was indeed Zhou Tao's.

Now it's confirmed that Zhou Tao is indeed Sun Fan, the one who sold the serum.

After being shot, Chen Qing stayed in the hospital for four whole days.

Li Mengfei came over every day for the past four days, staying by his side almost every day. She even refused to leave at night, and Li Qilin had to drag her away by force.

If an ordinary person were shot like this, they would be half-dead, if not killed.

However, Chen Qing recovered in just four days.

"Mr. Chen, you're a real-life Deadpool!" Li Qilin was stunned. Others might not be able to heal a cut on their finger for four days, but this guy was shot in the back and healed in no time!

"Death squad?" Chen Qing hadn't seen the movie and didn't know what Little Jerk was.

"A character in a movie has superhuman healing abilities," Li Qilin explained briefly, then asked, "Mr. Chen, what's next? Will you go back to 2018?"

"The assassin missed Mengfei with his shot, he should still be alive. I need to go back to 2018 to stop him," Chen Qing said in a deep voice.

At that moment, Li Qilin drove Chen Qing to Shuguang Hospital and buried a box with a note on it asking Fang Xiande to send him back to 2018.

This time, Chen Qing appeared on the 8th floor corridor of Xinyuan Building. While he was still dizzy, he caught a glimpse of a figure flashing by out of the corner of his eye.

Without saying a word, he took off after him.

Clang!

During this process, he accidentally knocked over a trash can placed against the wall.

The figure dared not wait for the elevator, pushed open the stairwell door and ran into the stairwell, and Chen Qing followed.

The figures scurried up the stairs, and Chen Qing gave chase.

After chasing up several floors, the dizziness in his head subsided, and he began to clear his head. Only then did he realize that the fleeing figure was very familiar to him. It wasn't the gunman; it was Zhou Tao!

"I chased the wrong person!" Chen Qing immediately turned around, wanting to return to the eighth floor.

boom!

A gunshot rang out.

"Ah!!!!!" Li Mengfei's scream came as expected.