Along with the scene replay, they quickly saw Baron Coleman frantically copying experimental data, seeing the corpse in shock, and backing out of the laboratory.

At an earlier time point than Baron Coleman...

They soon saw another man—another man swaggering away from the passage.

In this "rewound" world, he also backed out from the passage, holding a screen in his hand as if editing some message.

Then, his figure froze here.

The man was wearing a field operations uniform, had blood stains on his forearm, and an empty knife sheath at his waist—clearly the real murderer who killed Reed Christopher.

As if realizing everyone had seen "what they wanted to see," the Ancient Notebook stopped rewinding.

Not only that, the entire world froze.

Looking at this person's tall figure and uniform style, Pang Kedo spat in disgust.

"Field operations personnel, no sleeve insignia or shoulder epaulets, seems he knew he was doing something disgraceful."

"Originally modified specifically to deal with Great Wasteland people, now dragged into this internal strife, becoming a criminal who killed his own colleague... truly despicable."

Fu Luo stroked his chin: "So this guy should just be a tool, right? Who's the mastermind behind him?"

"This Ancient Notebook is quite considerate," Lin Yu stepped forward. "This guy is sending messages to the mastermind behind this... wow, not even encrypted, probably thought his phone was secure enough."

"Really a bit unbelievable, Ancient Notebook... even things clearly not in 'Baron Coleman's' memories can be restored, what's the principle behind this?"

Lin Yu asked with great interest.

But the principles could be explored later.

Investigating the real culprit was most important now.

Lin Yu leaned over to look at the communicator's screen, and the remaining three also gathered around.

A fully edited but unsent message leaped onto the screen.

"Mission complete."

And the contact who would receive this message, the name was...

"Minister Paris."

"Whoa—what a coincidence!"

Baron Coleman was somewhat surprised, but then calmly accepted this fact: "No wonder, no wonder he was so eager to hit someone when they're down, even pushing me to his opposite side."

"This matter was actually orchestrated by him when he was the Security Department Minister!"

As Baron Coleman spoke, he clenched his fists.

"Not bad though, after this trip, I didn't gain any additional enemies."

Pang Kedo shook his head: "Not exactly, there's still this actual executor... although the guy before us is just a 'tool,' I still can't forgive him—as a modified field operations personnel, actually taking on such despicable, dirty missions."

Saying this, Pang Kedo stepped forward staring at the other's hood, reaching out trying to remove it.

Strangely enough...

Right now they should clearly be in observer perspective, but the moment Pang Kedo acted, he successfully interfered with the field personnel's face mask.

"Hey, Pang Kedo, forget it!"

Baron Coleman spoke up to stop him, but it was too late.

The mask was lifted by Pang Kedo, revealing a young, thin face.

Pang Kedo was instantly shocked speechless, subconsciously stepping back.

Because the face before him was the same as his.

"Wh... what?"

Not only Pang Kedo, Baron Coleman also spoke with a trembling, disbelieving voice.

Their gazes met, but before they could react...

The entire world suddenly began to "distort"!

Unable to process the chaotic information in his brain, Baron Coleman subconsciously spoke.

"'Memory' seems to be ending... our consciousness is about to return!"

After the warning, accompanied by a "whoosh" heavy sound echoing in everyone's minds...

"Bang!"

Lin Yu regained consciousness, reopening his eyes.

The Ancient Notebook turned a page.

But before they could process the shock of the last scene they saw, their emotions were interrupted again.

"Awake?! If you're awake come help! I'm going to get beaten to death!"

A girl's sharp scream sounded as Li Nian was being chased and blocked by eleven burly men wielding batons—while Li Nian herself was holding eleven firearms, panting heavily but still dodging and weaving.

No time to hesitate, Pang Kedo immediately took action.

"Hey!"

He seemed to recognize the identifiers on those people, roaring as he charged forward, also drawing an identical baton.

But it must be said, the former Delta Team Leader exiled on the Despair Train was considerably stronger than these current Delta Team members!

Although Pang Kedo couldn't remember many things, his muscle memory and physical fitness hadn't been lost.

After entering combat mode, almost instantly, Pang Kedo took down two people.

Baron Coleman wasn't idle either—he tapped his temples, red light flashing in his eyes, causing the field personnel's movements to slow to varying degrees.

Lin Yu and Fu Luo also charged forward to join the fight—but Fu Luo ran back after just two steps.

"What am I doing charging up there, damn it!"

His earlier charge was completely instinctive.

After reason reclaimed the high ground, Fu Luo quickly found a corner to crouch down covering his head.

However, Lin Yu genuinely participated in the combat.

He took out the Fear Torch and lit it—this thing seemed to be these guys' natural nemesis, as just Lin Yu taking it out made these field personnel retreat as if they'd seen a ghost.

Not just these eleven armed personnel, even Pang Kedo and Baron Coleman seemed somewhat uncomfortable when getting close.

With the pressure suddenly reduced, Li Nian could take advantage of the chaos to start slashing people with her knife and stealing equipment from them.

The situation gradually descended into chaotic parity.

Just as the situation was developing into a melee...

Baron Coleman suddenly spoke loudly: "Paris, you know full well I've been operating on this train for a long time, wanting to kill me... are you only sending this few people?!"

As if venting some hatred, Baron Coleman slammed his hands together hard, his forearms trembling slightly.

"Come out, kill them all!"

Accompanied by Paris's low roar...

From the direction of carriage two came noisy, almost clamorous sounds.

Swarm-like micro robots poured in densely from the door, madly flying through the air, drawing chaotic trajectories as they rapidly pounced on the armed personnel.

"Die—!"

Accompanied by Paris's voice, these robots that had densely covered those people's bodies began glowing red at their tails.

Earlier they were like bees.

Now... they were like fireflies.

Fu Luo's face in the corner drastically changed.

"'Cataclysm Series'! Holy shit! The prototype of this thing is on this train?! You guys get farther away!"

Then, small explosion sounds abruptly rang out.