Liu A'dou lay on the platform surrounded by superheroes, his mind unable to calm down. So many superheroes needed him to save them, and this feeling of being important was no joke. It was quite something.
"Are you ready?" Professor X, wearing the brainwave amplifier from thirty years in the future, looked rather amusing. It resembled an octopus wrapped around his head, far simpler than the large machine from the previous room.
Liu A'dou nodded. "I'm ready."
Professor X placed both hands over Liu A'dou's temples. "Relax, follow my guidance."
Suddenly, Liu A'dou realized something—he had been told to find his daughter, but he didn't even know her name. "Wait, my daughter—what's her name?"
But it was too late. Liu A'dou felt everything go dark, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw a familiar face. "Ada?"
At this moment, Ada Wong had long hair, black hair tied at the back, wearing a light yellow and purple checkered shirt, a light blue open vest, and a white scarf around her neck. She wore brown long pants, white sandals, and nude-colored stockings. This outfit was very outdated, but Ada carried it with a simple kind of beauty.
"Did you really forget your daughter's name?" Ada's eyes were full of reproach. Their daughter had gone missing, and now the pillar of their family had forgotten her name. How could she not be angry?
Liu A'dou was still distracted, examining the room, which was full of 1980s style. Had he really traveled back in time?
"What's wrong with you?" Ada noticed that Liu A'dou seemed off.
Liu A'dou, now inspecting his own body, realized he was wearing an outdated jacket. "Ada, I'm not the me from thirty years later, I'm the me from thirty years ago."
Ada was confused.
Liu A'dou realized he hadn't explained clearly, so he continued, "Here's the thing. I originally lived in 2015, but the Flash from 2045, thirty years in the future, found me in 2015, then brought me to 2045. After that, Professor X sent my consciousness here. Ada, do you understand now?"
Ada, being extremely intelligent, understood immediately. "No wonder you asked about our daughter's name—because the 2015 version of you didn't know we would have a daughter."
"That's right. Ada, what's our daughter's name? Is she cute?" Liu A'dou felt genuinely happy. They had a daughter.
Ada, who had been married to Liu A'dou for thirty years, knew him well. "You're cuter like this," Ada sighed. After their daughter disappeared, her husband had become extremely agitated. While she also worried about their daughter, Ada at least remained calm, but Liu A'dou always wanted to find her as soon as possible, using all sorts of extreme methods.
Ada showed Liu A'dou a family photo. It included them both, and their daughter, Elsa, was wearing a Wonder Woman costume, smiling happily. She looked about seven or eight years old, with a round face and big eyes that seemed to speak. This was their daughter.
"What's her name?" Liu A'dou couldn't help but smile. She was such a cute girl, and knowing she was his daughter made him even happier.
"Nono, Liu Nono," Ada said.
"Such a simple name," Liu A'dou thought he would've had a more fashionable name in mind.
"That's the name you chose," Ada said, knowing how much her husband loved their daughter. "It's a shame that she's still missing."
Liu A'dou realized he didn't know the full story and asked, "Tell me what happened. I should be some big shot thirty years from now, so how did I end up with my daughter missing?"
Ada explained everything in detail. After hearing it, Liu A'dou could only say, "Well, well, well."
It all began with the Pandora Gem. The Pandora Gem sacrificed itself to give Liu A'dou an external advantage, absorbing knowledge from other worlds through the magic box space. But after Pandora disappeared, the portals didn't completely close. These portals became backdoors. Since they were so small, things with mass couldn't enter, meaning only weightless souls could pass through these portals connecting different worlds.
When Liu A'dou and Ada's daughter was born, the backdoor seemed to have transferred to their daughter, turning Liu Nono into something like a spiritual medium. However, she could only communicate with souls from other worlds.
And Liu Nono's disappearance was related to those souls.
"The soul we contacted this time has the ability to manipulate space and time, which is something no soul has ever had before. Our daughter is the one who crossed through time and space because of this. It took us six months to track down Nono, and we found that she ended up in 1985, but…" Ada trailed off.
"Still haven't found her?" If they had found her, the future version of himself wouldn't have gone crazy, and even the Flash wouldn't have been beaten up.
Ada continued, "We did make it to 1985, but our daughter wasn't on Earth. She was on Krypton."
"You mean Superman's Krypton?" Liu A'dou suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Exactly, and Krypton exploded the day before yesterday." Ada said this with a worried expression. How could she be at ease when her daughter's fate was uncertain?
"Then why not go back before Krypton exploded?" Liu A'dou asked in confusion.
"It's useless. Because Nono only stayed on Krypton for three days, we must first deal with the 'Intergalactic Travelers,' then go back in time to reach Krypton before it explodes and find our daughter."
"No!" Liu A'dou had come here to stop the Intergalactic Travelers. How could he allow them to succeed?
Ada said, "Why not? Although our daughter wasn't born in 2015, she's your daughter. Do you really want to ignore her?" Then she added, "You haven't told me yet—what was the purpose of X Professor and the Flash bringing you here from 2015?"
Liu A'dou thought that the Intergalactic Travelers were their only hope of getting their daughter back, but in the future, the Intergalactic Travelers became the main culprit of the destruction of Earth, so they were definitely not a good thing. But just speaking empty words wouldn't bring Liu Nono back. If he left like this, the future version of him might end up creating even more dangerous things to find their daughter.
"What exactly are the Intergalactic Travelers?" Liu A'dou cautiously asked.
Ada threw a neat folder in front of Liu A'dou. "This is what you designed—the Intergalactic Travelers."
Liu A'dou took it and saw many familiar things, but also many unfamiliar things. But one thing was certain: the Intergalactic Travelers were extremely powerful. They had stars as their nests, biological jump engines that allowed them to travel freely through the universe, and their appearance resembled a whale, though not very large. Clearly, the future Liu A'dou had just haphazardly put this thing together without knowing the flaws of the Intergalactic Travelers. Their reproduction speed was terrifying, almost like cancer cells dividing, and there were so many of them that even superheroes couldn't deal with them.
"This Intergalactic Traveler can't complete its purpose," Liu A'dou tossed the thing aside. "Because I came from after you came to 1985. In 2045, the Intergalactic Travelers will return to Earth and destroy the entire solar system. Even superheroes won't be able to fight them."
Liu A'dou expected Ada to be angry, but instead, she sighed. "Sigh! I knew the Intergalactic Travelers' manufacturing cycle was too short and lacked testing. It was bound to cause problems sooner or later. It's a shame you didn't listen. I know our daughter is important, but didn't you worry too?"
Ada's eyes filled with tears. She had been enduring the pain of losing their daughter and had been strong, not wanting to add to Liu A'dou's stress in the future world.
Both of them felt the loss of their daughter, but Liu A'dou, so focused on finding her, had overlooked Ada's worries. Ada not only had to worry about their daughter but also had to care for the increasingly crazy Liu A'dou. Her pressure was even greater than his.
"Ada." Even though everything had not yet happened to Liu A'dou, because he had not experienced so many things in the future, the Intergalactic Travelers had to be stopped, and another way had to be found to bring their daughter back. "I will find our daughter."
At that moment, Liu A'dou finally returned to his original self—the version of him that listened to advice. Ada felt a deep sense of relief.
Liu A'dou hugged the future Ada, kissed her deeply, and comforted her heart. He didn't know whether this counted as betraying himself.