Chapter 1286: Unexpected, Yet Reasonable

At the critical moment, Lin Lang's eyes widened. He had no time to think. He suppressed his surging killing intent and trembling, and suddenly activated his superpower of willpower, tightening his fingertips to adjust the angle of the car crash.

An invisible force instantly entangled the speeding Santana, forcefully deflecting the car's front end slightly, avoiding Shen Cuiping in the passenger seat, and forcing the driver's side to lock.

The next second, a loud bang!

The dull thud of steel colliding was painful to the ears. The front of the Santana slammed into the driver's side door of the Jetta, the dented metal twisted and deformed, and fragments of parts flying all over the ground.

Chen Bin was also seriously injured in the violent collision, but he was in a frenzy and didn't let up on the accelerator. The engine roared and the Santana continued to push the Jetta forward.

The roaring sound was filled with a stubborn ruthlessness.

"Fuck your mother, go to hell!"

With Chen Bin gritting his teeth and letting out a furious roar as if he were going to take everyone down with him, the Jetta sedan was rammed and pushed backward, its wheels leaving deep black marks on the ground.

Before Lin's father could even utter a sound, the steering wheel slammed into his chest, instantly staining the driver's seat with blood. He vomited blood and died on the spot.

The out-of-control Jetta was pushed toward the roadside by the huge impact of the Santana.

Shen Cuiping sat in the passenger seat, her face ashen, a scream stuck in her throat. The car was about to crash into the lamppost, and she was about to be squeezed between the passenger seat and the cold lamppost.

Just as his mother's body was about to be crushed by the car accident, Lin Lang, his eyes red, mustered all his strength to activate his time-traveling superpower and roared in his heart, "Mom! I'm here to save you!"

An invisible light instantly enveloped Shen Cuiping in the passenger seat, and in the instant the light flashed, Shen Cuiping's figure vanished into thin air.

The Jetta then crashed hard into the lamppost, and with a crack, the lamppost fell over.

The Jetta's body was completely deformed, while the Santana, whose front end was already smashed, continued to ram against the body until the engine completely stalled. Chen Bin then vomited blood and collapsed in the driver's seat, dying instantly without a trace.

The scene of the car accident was so horrific that it was unbearable to look at.

Shen's father never realized the true value of the old saying, "Adultery leads to death."

Unfortunately, although Lang Ge's scumbag father was also handsome, he didn't have a system to help him and ultimately fell victim to his fate of getting his just deserts as a scumbag.

Of course, he'll be a hero again eighteen years later.

If he's handsome in his next life, Lin's father can continue his carefree lifestyle.

Meanwhile, Lin Lang had already activated the [Space-Time Mass Teleportation] skill, taking his mother Shen Cuiping with him to travel to the summer of 11 years later.

It was the same intersection where the incident occurred, and it was the same night when the sun had just set.

However, due to the rapid development of Shanghai, the scene before Lin Lang's eyes underwent earth-shattering changes.

"mom!"

"Mom! Are you alright?"

Lin Lang rushed over immediately and reached out to steady Shen Cuiping, who was still dizzy from the time travel.

She swayed and stumbled into Lin Lang's arms. Her palms were still trembling uncontrollably when they touched his arm. Her body was covered with specks of blood, scrapes from the shards of glass that had been flying during the car accident.

Several shallow bloodstains were imprinted on his forearm, looking quite jarring.

What's even more heartbreaking is Shen Cuiping's face.

A shard of broken car glass cut her right cheek, leaving a not-so-shallow gash that stretched from her cheekbone to her jaw. Dark red blood beads trickled down her skin, blurring a small wet patch on her clothes.

Shen Cuiping's eyes were still lingering on the terrifying moment just now, her pupils were unfocused, and the scream that had been stuck in her throat seemed to have just broken free of its restraints, but it turned into a broken breath.

Her lips trembled, and she couldn't utter a complete sentence.

"Uh……"

Shen Cuiping subconsciously raised her hand to touch her cheek, her fingertips touching sticky blood, and the intense pain made her body tremble violently.

Then, she belatedly remembered the loud crash of the car accident and the image of her husband dying in the crash.

Overwhelmed by panic and grief, Shen Cuiping gripped Lin Lang's arm, her knuckles white from the pressure, her voice trembling uncontrollably: "This must be a nightmare, right?"

"Son, you look so much more mature now! You've grown taller and stronger!"

Lin Lang, with tears in his eyes, hugged his still-shaken mother, ignoring the stares of passersby, and cried, "Mom! The timeline is August 2007, you're not dreaming."

Shen Cuiping was stunned for a moment, then suddenly pushed Shen Lang away and looked at the man in front of her, who was both familiar and unfamiliar, with an incredulous gaze.

Although Lin Lang is now 29 and a half years old, he possesses the passive skill "Preservation of Youth," which keeps his face frozen at the age of 22, just after graduating from university.

At 22, Lin Lang still retained some of the youthful charm he had when he was 18 and had just graduated from high school.

Therefore, Shen Cuiping only needed to take a few careful glances at Lin Lang to be 100% certain that the man in front of her was indeed her son!

After all, during four years of university, unless a boy becomes extremely thin or extremely fat, his appearance will simply shed its youthful innocence and won't change much.

Upon confirming Lin Lang's identity, Shen Cuiping instantly burst into tears. Her hands trembled as she grasped Lin Lang's shoulders, sobbing, "Son, your father... he just..."

Before she could finish speaking, tears rolled down her cheeks and landed on Lin Lang's hand, burning hot.

Lin Lang felt as if he had been struck hard by a blunt object. He tried to suppress the tears welling up in his eyes and cried out, "Mom, Dad died in the car accident just now!"

Upon hearing this, Shen Cuiping's expression changed drastically. She felt as if all her strength had been drained away, and her body went limp. If Lin Lang hadn't held her tightly, she probably would have collapsed to the ground.

The sobbing finally broke through Shen Cuiping's throat, suppressed and desperate, making people's noses tingle.

"Son! How could your dad... how could your dad die in a car accident?"

Shen Cuiping stood by the roadside, looking around in a state of despair, only to be shocked to find that everything before her had changed beyond recognition.

Lin Lang helped his mother slowly sit down on the stone steps by the roadside. Cars and horns were constantly honking around them.

The crossroads are no longer what they used to be.

The widened asphalt road was smooth and wide, high-rise buildings rose from the ground, and the neon signs of shops were faintly lit up, a world completely different from the blood-soaked car accident scene just now.

But Shen Cuiping's cries were filled with the fear of what she had just witnessed, and the heart-wrenching pain of being separated from her husband forever.

Lin Lang supported his mother's waist with one hand to steady her, and carefully placed the other hand on the wound on her cheek, using very light pressure, and said in a tearful voice, "Mom, let me treat your wound and stop the bleeding first."

Shen Cuiping stared blankly at her grown-up son, tears streaming down her face.

Lin Lang suppressed his grief and immediately activated the [Healing Hand] skill, a faint, soft light that only he could see quietly emanating from his palm.

He pressed his hand on Shen Cuiping's cheek wound with increasing gentleness. The soft light seeped into her skin through his fingertips, and the wound, which had been oozing blood, was miraculously healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The everted skin and flesh slowly closed up, and the dark red bloodstains gradually faded.

In just a short while, the bloody wound that had spread from Shen Cuiping's cheekbone to her jawline completely disappeared, leaving only a faint, warm sensation, without leaving even the slightest scar.

Lin Lang then gently touched the scratches on his mother's forearm. The soft light swept over them, and the several glaring bloodstains were instantly smoothed out.

The scratches from the small shards of glass have all disappeared.

Shen Cuiping's skin became smooth and delicate again, and the bloodstains that had been on her skin became the only remaining trace.

"It's alright, Mom, I've healed all your wounds!"

Shen Cuiping was immersed in the grief of losing her husband when the sharp pain on her face suddenly disappeared. The burning sensation seemed to have been brushed away by a gentle breeze and vanished in an instant.

She was slightly startled at first, and her crying paused for a beat.

Then, Shen Cuiping raised her hand, unable to hide her shock, and carefully touched her right cheek. The skin her fingertips touched was smooth and even, without any trace of the roughness and stickiness of the previous wound, and she could not find even a trace of pain.

She hurriedly looked at her forearm, where the faint bloodstains from before had disappeared, leaving only the undried bloodstains on her clothes, reminding her that the terrifying car accident was not an illusion.

Shen Cuiping's eyes widened, tears still clinging to her eyelashes, her voice filled with astonishment and disbelief: "Son... how did you do that? This... this is too amazing!"

Lin Lang withdrew the gentle light from his palm, looking at his mother's face, which had returned to normal. The grief in his eyes faded slightly, leaving only warm tears in his eyes.

"Mom, so much has happened over the years, it's impossible to explain it to you in just a few words."

"You just need to know that I am still your son. It's just that I have had some extraordinary encounters over the years and have gained many extraordinary abilities. You don't need to be shocked or afraid."

Shen Cuiping's heart was still heavy with the car accident, but her son's miraculous skills also left her deeply shocked.

She gripped Lin Lang's arm, her knuckles still white from clenching his fist, her voice still trembling, but with a hint of urgent questioning.

"Son, how... how did you manage to take me from the scene of the car accident in 1996 to the future?"

As she spoke, she subconsciously looked up at the bustling traffic and neon lights of the surrounding buildings. The unfamiliar street scene crashed into her eyes, and when she recalled the suffocating feeling from the car accident, she couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

But the warmth of her son's arm in Shen Cuiping's palm reassured her somewhat.

Lin Lang squatted down in front of his mother, holding her arm with one hand and gently patting her back with the other, soothing his still-shaken mother.

The redness in his eyes could no longer be suppressed; a mixture of murderous intent and grief surged within his chest. Chen Bin's roar of suicide still echoed in his ears.

And the retribution his father received for his dissolute and frivolous life was like a needle, piercing Lin Lang's heart.

He gritted his teeth and replied with tears in his eyes, "Mom, I now have the superpower of 'time-space teleportation'. Just now, I traveled back in time and saved you from the car accident that originally killed both you and Dad."

Upon hearing this, Shen Cuiping stared in shock at her son, who was both familiar and unfamiliar to her.

Her lips trembled as she moved, and it took her a while to recover. She asked in astonishment, "Son, since you have such amazing superpowers, why did you only save me and not your dad?"

These words were like a knife to Lin Lang's chest, a truly excruciating pain!

Lin Lang's tears flowed uncontrollably like a tap that had been turned on. His voice trembled as he cried, "Mom, it's not that I don't want to save Dad, it's just that God only allows me to choose one of the two."

“One of you and my father will suffer a bloody disaster and die on the spot. Only then can the cycle of fate be closed. Otherwise, under the backlash of defying fate, neither of us can be saved.”

"I'm sorry, Mom!"

"I can only save one of you and my dad, sob sob..."

At this point, Lin Lang was already sobbing uncontrollably, heartbroken beyond words.

After learning the whole story, Shen Cuiping couldn't help but burst into tears and hugged Lin Lang tightly. She patted her son's back and comforted him through tears, saying, "Mom understands!"

"Mom understands!"

"Mom can imagine the agonizing decision you went through when you had to choose between saving only one of your parents!"

"Don't cry, son!"

"Mom doesn't blame you for not being able to save your father. Mom knows you must have done everything you could!"

"My dear son, don't cry!" Shen Cuiping choked with sobs, holding Lin Lang, who was crying uncontrollably, with heartache. Her heart was breaking.