His gaze lingered on the lapping waves before him, and Alice's voice came to his ears:
"Detective."
Su Ming'an stiffly raised his head, as if controlling a vegetative state. He felt everything around him was extremely cold, as if ants were gnawing at his heart. Even though he had already escaped that fear, it was still difficult for him to recover as before.
He was still shocked by Chao Yan's final act— she deliberately placed her head on his abdomen, right where the bomb was the closest.
So that when the bomb exploded, her death was one second faster than his.
It was this one second— due to the mechanism of "killing someone will gain the memory of that person," Su Ming'an gained her entire memory in that one second. Although it was just a fleeting glimpse, with only a second to browse, he already knew what had happened in the past.
— She walked between loops, retaining memory.
