185 The Flow of Time on the Other Side Part 2 (2/2)

It was a once very familiar face, although he had not seen it for one and a half years...

The man, who was standing across the street and holding a stack of books in the crowd, was Tony Twain's former body… the real Tang En! And evidently, because he was staring too intently, he also attracted attention to the opposite Tang En. The two of them looked at each other across the street. Even the cars passing by in the middle could not interrupt them.

Such an encounter was so inconceivable, that Tang En could not describe this moment. Even though he was Tony Twain in appearance, he was still Tang En on the inside. Therefore, since he was still Tang En of China, then, who was that Chinese Tang En standing across the street? A Tang En, who had the same thinking, same memory, and same character as himself?

How could there be two identical Tang Ens in the world?

Besides, I have traveled back to 2003 from 2007, which is three years later, so ... what happens to Tang En after 2007? Does he just disappear into thin air? Death? What happens to Tang En before 2007?

He had also lived through the period from 2003 to 2007. So, why did he not remember meeting a foreigner, who was staring so intently at him?

If he continued to delve deeper, if the time really progressed in a linear fashion, then it meant that, changing the past could affect the future. Could changing the future also affect the past?

Just like him, coming from the future, and then squeezing someone in the past out of his ”place”, and then replacing that person... How would this kind of thing impact the person who had been squeezed out? In other words, when Tang En suddenly came to Nottingham in 2003, from China's Sichuan Province in 2007, and possessed someone else's body, what was the fate of the man whose body had been possessed by Tang En? The same one who had suddenly come to Nottingham, England, in the 2007, from Sichuan, China, in 2003, to the other person? Did he disappear into thin air? Could a person's consciousness really be discarded, just like that?

The thought of it made Tang En shiver a little. He seemed to feel that he was touching a door, which had been strictly forbidden, and that what was behind that door ... he did not know.

The middle-aged woman, who stood on the side of the road to maintain order, blew the whistle in her mouth, and then made way for the pedestrians. The crowd from both sides of the road merged together, and crossed the main road, which was not too wide.

Shania was going to walk over, but she found that Uncle Tony did not move beside her. He just stood there, and frowned, staring at a particular spot in front of him. She followed his gaze, and saw that there was a man on the other side of the street, who looked over at this side with the exact same expression.

Tang En realized that the other man had noticed him too. Suddenly, a seemingly preposterous, but entirely probable, idea jumped out in his mind: He had inexplicably transmigrated from 2007 to 2003, and possessed an Englishman Tony Twain's body. And, the soul of the Englishman Tony Twain, whose body was taken over, possessed the body of the Chinese Tang En in 2003!

As to where this 2003 Chinese Tang En had gone, perhaps he had transmigrated to Sichuan, China in 2007, in order to fill in the gap first left by Tang En. Once he had woken up, he would be stunned that he had traveled to the future. However, Tang En, who transmigrated from 2007, could not think about this matter now.

It sounded like a very complicated matter, but if one did not look at ”time” as a single line, but rather as a net, then this problem would be better understood. In other words, Tang En in 2007 and Tang En in 2003 were not on the same timeline.

Even though they all looked the same, that was just looking at their appearances, as in actual fact, they were not exactly the same. Then, there was a division point in the timeline of Tang En in 2007. From this point, the original timeline splintered into several different directions, one of which was folded into the timeline of Tang En in 2003.

Meanwhile, in England in 2003, Tony Twain's timeline was splintered, when he first coached the Forest First Team, and one of which bent towards Tang En in 2007, and merged with Tang En's splintered timeline. This was why Tang En had transmigrated and possessed another stranger's body.

While this 2003 timeline was not done splitting yet, the other timeline flew towards the timeline of Tang En in Sichuan in 2003. At the same time, in Sichuan, China, that Tang En's timeline also similarly splintered, one of which turned towards Tang En's timeline in 2007.

After the divergence, it merged perfectly with his main timeline in 2007, and continued to progress in the original direction. Hence, he had replaced his future self!

Like the Chinese character ”爪”, it was split into several lines in the middle, and then countless characters of ”爪” were lined up in an array. They were connected to, or parallel to, each other, forming an intricate relationship.

Tang En was not a scientist, nor did he have any theoretical knowledge. He simply imagined it, solely based on the novels, movies, and comics that he had read in the past.

When the cars moved again at the intersection, many pedestrians gathered on both sides of the road, waiting to cross the street. Tony Twain was still on this side, and Tang En was still over on that side. There was a road between them, but it looked like the flow of time in between.