Jim Becker is a very popular guy.

At Kitchener Far Mountain High School, you just mention his name and no one will say they don't know him.

Of course, at this moment, you all already know him.

So, I don't need to go into more detail about him.

Occasionally, in our lives, we come across a situation where when you see something, or experience something, you will have a subtle "sense of déjà vu" that you will feel ...... It may seem familiar, but your memory tells you it didn't happen.

You think it's a delusion, but it's actually ...... It's probably because there's another you in a vanished timeline, or in another alternate universe, that has already had a similar experience, and you've been affected as well.

On this Friday afternoon, this "sense of déjà vu" visited everyone on the planet.

However, most people don't notice this subtle sensation, because for the vast majority of people, what they did on this day has been doing for years...... Going to school, going to work, doing housework, drinking afternoon tea, etc., these things have been done countless times, even if someone really notices the sense of déjà vu, they will find it not strange.

And what about people who happen to be doing things they've never done before? It may be easier for them to see the existence of déjà vu, but people still largely ignore this kind of "illusion" that cannot be explained.

It was in such an afternoon, in an alley, that a fight was going on.

You all know the sides of the fight...... It's Becker and Adams.

Things were no different from the "last time", when Becker punched Adams in the face with a punch in the face as he was already unsteady on his feet.

In Becker's view, this is a punch that "ends" the opponent; Of course, at this time, all he wanted was to end the fight, and he didn't expect that this punch would end Adams' life.

At that moment, I saw Adams roll his eyes and stagger back with his feet weak.

Seeing that he was about to fall face back onto the road, suddenly, a figure flashed out from the sidewalk next to the alley, blocking Adams, a high school student who was more than 1.8 meters tall.

It was at the same time that the man stopped Adams that a school bus drove down the street behind them.

"Hey! What do you do? The passer-by who held Adams first looked at the one beside him, then at Becker in the alley, and said in an uncle's tone and earnestness, "Young men, it's okay for young people to fight, but look at the occasion and pay attention to proportion......

"......Shh With that, he turned and wanted to leave.

Adams, who was rescued by the passer-by uncle, after this moment of rest, also recovered from the punch just now, he immediately broke free from the uncle who was holding him by the side, chased forward, and shouted at Becker: "Don't go!" You make it clear ......"

"Fuck off! You loser! Becker didn't wait for the other party to finish shouting, turned around and kicked it away with the soles of his feet against the approaching Adams, "I don't have anything to say to you, do you still want to be beaten?" ”

Adams already had no strength, and the other party's kick made him fall on all fours, and the last strength he lifted was also dissipated, and he collapsed to the ground.

The passer-by standing at the end of the alley, or rather...... Uncle Xue, after seeing this scene, didn't say anything or do anything, just left silently.

Uncle Xue's plan is like this; He just wanted to stop the accident that was going to happen next, and thus stop the catastrophic killing that it caused.

As for the cause and effect of the accident, the grievances between the parties, and what kind of monster was in that school bus...... He didn't want to know, and he didn't want to care.

"Don't dig deep into any part of the butterfly effect, let alone invest any personal feelings in it" - this is Uncle Xue's most valuable experience as a person with the ability to "go back in time".

This experience is undoubtedly the ...... brought to him by practice

A long time ago, Uncle Xue was also a person who wanted to "do things right", but when he began to use his ability to help others, he found ...... That's impossible.

You go back in time and save one person, only to have that person's survival lead to the death of several others; You go back in time and save those people, only to find out later that they were all murderers; And when you go back and let those people die, maybe you will realize in hindsight that these people are also excusable and involuntarily......

Destiny is like a canvas made of countless intertwined threads, and the most magical thing about this cloth is that it ...... No matter how much you ink, the final result will be a work called "Cruel Joke".

Uncle Xue had seen too many such things, and slowly ...... His understanding of "right" and "wrong" changed.

What is the "right" way? For those who can't "start over", this problem is simple, as long as they have a clear conscience, even if the result is not good, it can be said to be a trick.

But Uncle Xue ...... It is possible to "start over", for him, there is no such thing as "doing one's best, obeying the destiny of God", theoretically speaking, he can try countless different decisions to achieve a result that he thinks is the most "perfect".

It's just that...... Try like that, and he'll die.

There is no doubt that Uncle Xue's ability comes at a price; Each "rewind time" consumes the same amount of his life: if you go back to a day, his life span will be reduced by one day, and if you go back a year, it will be reduced by one year...... Of course, his current ability is only a parallel, and even if he wants to, he can't go back as long as a year (the limit of his ability to parallelize is about twenty hours).

To sum up, considering his lifespan, Uncle Xue actually rarely makes a move; He will only ...... when necessary For example, when a major event with a large number of fatalities occurs within the range of one's own actions...... will use the ability.

And he doesn't go after a "perfect" outcome, he doesn't think about doing the "right" thing, and he doesn't put too much personal emotion into the people he comes into contact with or dig into their motives.

Or it can be summed up as - treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

It's not that Uncle Xue doesn't want to "cure the root cause", it's just that he has seen through the things in this world, "people" can only "treat the symptoms", and to "cure the root cause", they have to seek "higher strength or existence", anyway, he can't.

Therefore, he also handled today's matter in this way.

Uncle Xue is already mentally prepared, even if he sees on the news tomorrow that the high school student he saved kills another one, he will not have any opinion.

He is the one who holds the lever in the classic "rail problem", the one who has to "make a choice", and his criteria are very clear: it is better to die one than to die a group.

Therefore, after saving Adams, what Uncle Xue has to do is completed.

But...... There was still an anomaly that made him feel a little uneasy in his heart - the black SUV that was supposed to come from the opposite lane at the time of the accident on the "second" Friday of the thirteenth...... Didn't come.