There must be something wrong with me-Chapter 712 - 265: Past Formula and I Am a Genius

Zhang Feng affirmed his own deduction.

Only this theory could connect these things together.

At that moment, the approaching footsteps disrupted Zhang Feng’s thoughts.

Zhang Feng quickly regained his composure and turned his gaze back to the corridor outside the door.

The owners of the footsteps came into view.

They were three researchers in white lab coats.

Each of them was holding a few paper reports, and they seemed a bit hurried.

Captain Li, who hadn’t gone far, also seemed to have received some news and was waiting for them here.

"Captain Li, please take us to the entrance of the South District."

When the two parties approached, the leading researcher politely asked Captain Li for help.

After all, there were quite a few hidden rats in the South District.

Therefore, Captain Li, with his rich combat experience, naturally became highly valued.

Most of the combat personnel in the South District received similar treatment.

But in truth, the researchers’ rank was higher than that of these squad leaders.

The Emperor Dynasty also continued the former hierarchy, emphasizing the high to low order within the court.

For example, a Shangguan would definitely not show excessive respect to a subordinate, because it didn’t conform to etiquette.

However, the current South District was in a ’wartime’ state.

Even civil servants would be courteous to soldiers.

They valued reality over formalities.

Meanwhile,

Zhang Feng merely watched the scene silently, without any intention of ’saving’ anyone.

He allowed the three researchers to follow Captain Li away.

It wasn’t that Zhang Feng was being cautious; rather, these three researchers seemed off.

During their conversation,

Zhang Feng sensed a familiar, faint fluctuation with his mind, probably some spiritual thought transmission.

It’s a pity he currently had no spiritual qi, so he couldn’t understand what they were saying.

But through the fluctuations, he recognized their identities.

So Zhang Feng remained in his disguise.

Otherwise, he would have attempted to waste one resurrection to try and save the three researchers, hoping to obtain some research reports he couldn’t access otherwise.

However, they were also researchers, and then there was the kitchen incident a few days ago.

Zhang Feng realized the two things he cared about the most had surfaced.

Those were food and knowledge.

But Captain Li was in charge of both.

Going there meant certain death.

Intellectual duels lost all significance in the face of absolute power, not to mention the ruthless rats.

Even exposing Captain Li’s identity would be pointless and might put him in even more danger.

After all, the rats could perfectly mimic everything about humans.

So people would definitely trust the higher-ranked Captain Li rather than a Frozen Person like himself.

That’s the unsolvable big problem.

Of course, revealing his own knowledge to the spaceship could lead to promotions, but the risk was very high as well.

The rats’ nickname was ’Prisoners.’

Now they seemed to be playing a Werewolf game with the spaceship’s crew, but it was more like being imprisoned.

In humans’ view, they were slowly eroding the rats while controlling the situation.

But Zhang Feng knew rats had a strong reproductive ability.

Disabling surveillance and stabilizing the situation could mean they were quietly breeding somewhere.

Eventually, it was uncertain who would win.

They were all experts, all calculating.

To them both, everything seemed under control, and that wasn’t wrong.

From Zhang Feng’s perspective, none of them seemed like ’good people.’

Reflecting, Zhang Feng watched Captain Li and others leave.

But ironically, where there was food, there was Captain Li, and where there was knowledge, there was still Captain Li.

If not for the randomness of words, Zhang Feng would think this implausible coincidence was intentional.

But now, according to the theory of cause and effect from the past and future.

And the saying that this world was the past.

Zhang Feng felt that words were the ’clever result’ now, placing him at a time node where a cause would inevitably happen.

This cause-and-effect relationship used the ’past’ to change the ’future.’

Zhang Feng understood it now and could see it, but couldn’t describe the specific talisman formula.

Similarly, Zhang Feng also thought this world might just be a basic lesson on the ’past.’

Or, there had been similar coincidences in previous worlds too.

But back then, he wouldn’t trace effects back to causes, nor understood future formulas, so everything seemed blurry and normal.

For example, interactions with key characters would inevitably trigger related main and side quests.

In gaming terms, it was simply following the storyline.

In the formula of the divine way.

That was the starting point of all outcomes.

Though the future had more variables and was unpredictable.

He had actually already mastered some uses of past formulas, which were resurrection and retrospection within the words.

That was the power of past rules.

A capability of constantly altering variables, making everything evolve according to one’s wishes through continuous modification.

But the biggest issue arose as well.

Although Zhang Feng was reluctant to admit such absurd matters, the current situation was that words with resurrection abilities were indeed a Saint.

The more critical issue was, it saw his weakest self in the past.

The one who would ’shake to download games.’

According to normal logic and the established time paradox theory.

He couldn’t become a Saint, and as long as there were the Divine Hall of Space-Time with resurrection abilities, plus resurrection cheats and hacks.