Trafford's Trading Club

Chapter 1461: Chapter 188: Back to the Past

Gathering the materials at hand, Luo Qiu stood up from his seat—class had ended, and the students began to leave the classroom… Of course, those without afternoon classes had likely already started wandering outside.

The university years were still quite pleasant… whether domestically or abroad.

At this moment, Boss Luo couldn’t help but think of some cynical advice.

You always say you regret not studying well, you always say if you could return to your university years, you would make the most of your campus life—don’t be foolish, even if you go back in time, you would still squander your days… because all your regrets are merely the reluctance to part with the leisurely days of the past; humans are innately lazy.

Lazy forever, comfortable forever!

Luo Qiu couldn’t help but smile slightly, finding this kind of mockery quite amusing… Experiencing campus life once more gave Boss Luo an inexplicable sentiment.

He then remembered, if he hadn’t entered the club over a year ago, he ought to be in his third year now.

At this moment the maid looked over in confusion… Like one with a Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart, the maid probably couldn’t guess what her master’s thoughts had expanded into at this moment.

“Does the master have a new discovery?” You Ye blinked her eyes, curiously asking.

They had spent the entire afternoon at the Butterfly Society researching information about Professor Xie Jiatu’s disappearance—though many directions were listed, they hadn’t yet determined where to truly start.

Of course, such leisurely conduct was natural because the club’s master and servant duo were not lacking in time.

“No, I just suddenly thought of something interesting,” Luo Qiu smiled and said, “If you could go back in time, what would you most want to do?”

I suppose no one had ever asked the maid this question—she clearly hadn’t considered it… For someone who had completed the unification of multiple worlds, the ununified past state evidently wouldn’t compare to the present.

Rational consideration showed that the present is better… However, when asked by the master, the maid was visibly startled, evidently seriously pondering the question.

“What does the master want to do?” The maid suddenly asked proactively.

“Me?” Luo Qiu was also startled at this point… Evidently, not only had the maid not thought about this, but even he hadn’t had thoughts on this matter.

If he could go back in time… what would he want to do? If he could go back in time, would he still enter the club on the commercial street?

Moreover, would he still stop in front of the shop… encounter You Ye, who was cleaning the display window?

If he could go back in time… which point in time would he choose to return to… or perhaps, to recover something he didn’t wish to lose?

And what about the future?

Luo Qiu’s mind was always rather scattered… he wasn’t accustomed to speculating entirely in one fixed direction—questions about returning to the past often led him to ponder future topics.

If there were regrets in the past, to stop them, one would need to return, but does the future also hold regret for the present—we don’t actually know whether every decision we make now is right or wrong.

Past, present, future.

Boss Luo suddenly blinked—as questions sprang to mind like a sudden flash, coincidentally aligning with today’s events after meeting Claudia.

Their discussion about “What is God”… Claudia’s perspective of “past,” “present,” “future” as “The Trinity”—or rather, the information left by Professor Xie Jiatu.

“Have you been to the future?” Boss Luo suddenly asked softly.

The maid shook her head, regretfully saying, “Even my soul seems unable to endure going forward in time travel… But if you ask whether I’ve peeped into the future, perhaps I’ve observed different developments of multiple worlds through dimensional gaps, but ultimately, different sub-worlds are originally not on the same timeline; they have been separate possibilities from the start.”

Upon hearing the maid’s answer, Boss Luo was stunned—because he hadn’t thought You Ye actually had peeped into the future.

“I can’t do it,” the maid looked at Luo Qiu and suddenly said solemnly, “But the previous owner had done it.”

Luo Qiu remained silent—in fact, he could basically only learn about the previous owner through You Ye—before today, due to constraints purchased by the previous owner, he had never actively sought information about the previous owner from You Ye… nor had he considered buying information about the previous owner from the altar.

Of course, when he realized this restriction in the Unhuman Domain and then unlocked it, he did consider buying more information from the altar about the previous owner.

Only evidently the previous owner had considered this issue… and had deleted his records in the club through a paid method.

Of course, there is a way to restore these records—just keep buying, sending time to the altar, can naturally recover these deleted records… after all, as long as the cost is enough, the altar can accomplish anything.

Anything at all—this was something Luo Qiu clearly realized the instant he became the club owner… and later proved through various subsequent events.

“The previous owner… went to the future?” Luo Qiu asked You Ye.

“I don’t know what time he went,” the maid shook her head, “He never told me these things, but I think since the previous owner could do this, then the master also can.”

Boss Luo suddenly curiously asked, “Compared to the previous owner… how far off am I now? I mean in terms of body abilities, not authority.”

The maid fell into thought for a while before slowly saying, “This is hard to compare… The previous owner’s body was very powerful, a real ‘Eternal Undying Body,’ even if I retrieved my body fully, I probably wouldn’t be able to harm him—I mean, without relying on the club’s absolute defense for the owner. As for you, Master… actually your current body is still quite vulnerable, at least someone like Ms. Ren could easily harm you.”

This world doesn’t have many people at Ms. Ren’s level, though… Luo Qiu thought, feeling that even without the club’s absolute defense, his safety level was quite high?

“…Of course, even if someone could kill your body, Master, you can still resurrect from the altar.”

The maid smiled and said, “So physical improvement is really unnecessary… Furthermore, you can do things the previous owner couldn’t… surely, you must have sensed it, Master? Your thoughts sometimes can directly warp reality, although now it can’t be done precisely or at will… but when you fully grasp this ability, even the previous owner’s ‘Eternal Undying Body’ likely won’t be a match.”

“Distort the attribute of ‘Undying’ into ‘Mortal’… something like that?” Luo Qiu thought for a moment and said.

“That’s correct.” The maid nodded, “Everything has its inherent attributes—this attribute determines its characteristics of existence. The trait of the ‘Eternal Undying Body’ is ‘Eternal’ and ‘Undying’. But in my opinion, Master, your ability to distort reality can completely change the nature of ‘Eternal’ and ‘Undying’.

“Hmm…” Boss Luo joked: “Why do I increasingly feel that my future might lead to a big devil that countless Transcendents from all worlds have to band together to defeat?”

The maid smiled without saying a word… but silently thought in her heart, if those so-called Transcendents from Sub-worlds really intend to do this, then she’ll raise her banner and cut them all down outside the door.

“Forget it, let’s stop this topic here.” Boss Luo shook his head, recalling the advice Black Soul No.9 once told him to not peek into the future, “After all, no matter how much I distort reality now, I can’t distort the past and future… Let’s head back to the manor; it’s about time to prepare dinner.”

“That’s true.” The maid slightly smiled… she also thought so.

If her master could already distort the past and future now… then he surpassed the achievements of his predecessor completely.

There was something the maid did not elaborate on, which was that after crossing the future once, the previous master almost exhausted the time he had earned.

Though she adored the current master and even mentioned that if Luo Qiu ever decided to leave the Shop, he should take her with him—clearly, as the Shop Owner only for a year, Master still had a vast distance to accumulate compared to the predecessor.

After all, Master didn’t follow the path of madly doing business.

Distorting the past and future… even Gods can’t achieve.

If creating life is a ‘Divine Sanctuary’ for humans, then distorting the past and future is a ‘Sanctuary’ for Gods.

She was very aware of this—because she once was a member of the ‘gods’!

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The silver-gray leopard brought Joe to the town’s beach. Just as Joe expected the big sister to ask him to put on a girl’s dress again, Nero instead brought him here.

“Big sister, why did you bring me here?” Joe couldn’t help but ask curiously.

Nero fidgeted with her ears and said, “I plan to drown you. I’ve heard that when people die, the Grim Reaper comes to collect their soul. Since we don’t know when Mr. Death is coming back, let’s drown you so when he comes to take your soul, we can see him!”

Upon hearing this, Joe started to shiver… Is this big sister serious?

But she seemed genuinely serious… Joe couldn’t help but recall the things this big sister has been doing—it seemed that whatever she said she would do, she would definitely do it, not joking.

Children indeed easily believe what others say because they can’t distinguish lies from truth… but at the same time, they are very sensitive to good and evil.

Joe was deeply puzzled; even though he was very scared, for some reason, he also had an inexplicable sense of safety within him—a feeling like he had nothing to fear as long as he stayed by the big sister’s side.

“Big sister… Are you really going to drown me?” Joe asked nervously.

“Of course.” Nero nodded and directly lifted Joe up, “Would you rather I press your head down to drown you, or throw you into the sea, letting you struggle and finally sink to drown? Of course, if you’re scared, I can knock you out and throw you in the sea… Choose one?”

“No!” Joe desperately shook his head… Having a mystical sense of safety is one thing, but really being drowned is completely another!

“So troublesome… Just throw you into the sea!” Nero glanced at the sea ahead, “Relax, there are no sharks here; you won’t be bitten to death… just close your eyes.”

“No—!”

Before Joe could say the word “want,” his body lost gravity-like feeling and was thrown into the sea ahead… tossed by Nero like a wild pitch.

His body plunged into the cold seawater… the water quickly filled his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, causing Joe great discomfort and forcing him to struggle instinctively, wildly moving his arms and legs in the water.

Nero was very satisfied watching this scene… At first, she was like this, even laughed happily.

But soon, she found herself unable to laugh—the reason being Joe’s body did not sink at all!

“Why haven’t you sunk yet?”

“Big sister, I can swim!”

Nero blinked, then sighed, and as she swung her arm, the Yama Sword shot from her arm, and without thinking, she slashed at Joe in the sea.

“What a madwoman!!”

Just then, a loud voice came from the distance—the blade light from the Yama Sword was about to reach Joe, when a shadow rapidly rushed from the surface of the sea, blocking in front of Joe.

Crossing his arms, he directly caught the slash of the Yama Sword, then reached out to scoop Joe from the sea, quickly returning to the beach, and glared angrily at Nero.

“Yo!”, upon seeing this figure appear, Nero raised her hand to greet… even sticking out her tongue.

Because the person who appeared and saved Joe was none other than the long-absent Old Ha… Hades!

Hades, now glaring at Nero, said, “Are you always so reckless?!!”