I Am A Killer

I AM A KILLER: CHAPTER 13 ♦ ACCEPTING CONDITIONS

Qin Ke Xuan waited till the two policemen left before asking Yin Xu Dong: "Do you know how to time-travel?"

Yin Xu Dong dug his ears, starting to seriously doubt his hearing. She had so seriously chased the two policemen out to talk just to ask him this kind of questions? Did he hear correctly? Really? "Why the sudden question, are you interested in time-traveling?" He caught a glimpse of a famous time-traveling novel on her computer screen.

"Mmh."

"My god! I think you've also been infected by the time-traveling bug!" Yin Xu Dong face-palmed, his head starting to hurt.

"I'm not infected." Qin Ke Xuan was very clear about her current health status and confirmed she had no symptoms of being infected by anything.

Yin Xu Dong nodded his head patronisingly, parroting after her: "Yes yes, you're not infected. People who likes to read time-travel novels would never admit they're infected. I'm just saying, you can't possibly believe what they describe in these books about time-traveling right?"

"You don't believe them?"

"Please! Those are just fictional stuff people came up with! How is it possible to have things like time-traveling happening? Let me tell you, you definitely cannot believe those stuff and decide to go jump off some building or suicidally go and crash into a car, you'll freaking die... My god, your accident last time can't be the product of your desire to time-travel, and you went to get into an accident on your own? OMG, how idiotic can you get? Be thankful you didn't die!" She didn't die, but her brain cells died.

But how could Qin Ke Xuan not believe that? Her existence was testament enough of the possibility of time travelling. Of course, that wasn't something she would tell others.

Yin Xu Dong, upon seeing Qin Ke Xuan quiet, thought that she was still stubborn about "dying". Hence, he continued educating her: "It's all those author's fault. How could they write out all these stuff that even they themselves don't believe to deceive gullible and innocent-minded little girls. Isn't that sending people to their deaths without retribution*? Let me tell you, only crazy or idiotic people would believe in such stuff, no one else believes these. Xuan Xuan, you're a clever girl right (how old do you think you are?), you won't believe in this stuff, right? Return to the past? Probably Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity** about if you can travel faster than the speed of light***, time will flow backwards, if that's the case, perhaps you can time-travel? But that's impossible since there's no such speed that's faster than light now!"

* 害人不偿命 = (lit.) sending people to their deaths without retribution; (fig.) inflicting suffering/harm upon others without paying with one's life.

** the speed of light is approximately 300,000,000 metres per second; the speed of fastest F1 race car is approximately 100 metres per second

*** Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity states that laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and he showed that the speed of light within a vacuum is the same no matter the speed at which an observer travels.

"Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity?" Qin Ke Xuan's eyes lit up, catching the keywords "What exactly is it?"

"Our high school textbooks only touched a little bit on the Theory of Relativity, you'll only understand it if you study deeper, so I, I'm not that clear about that either." The textbook only covered the very surface knowledge and introduction to it, if you wanted to completely figure out the Theory of Relativity, you probably needed to be as good as a physicist right? How would a student whose studies were beyond crap like him be able to understand such profound stuff?

Yin Xu Dong did not expect that his mention would result in Qin Ke Xuan specialising in physics in the future.

"Oh yeah, Xuan Xuan, why are the police in your house? What happened?" Afraid Qin Ke Xuan would continue asking him this stuff which he was unclear of, he forcefully changed the subject.