Because Xiao Lin could not stay in that world for too long, and Time Rewind had expended too much of his power, Bell did not cause him too much trouble, and she quickly brought him away from that world. After a brief blast of light, Xiao Lin once again stood in his dormitory, as if he had never left at all. However, with the exhaustion of his mind and the feeling of the shard in his body, he knew it was not a dream.
Bell had repeatedly warned him against exposing the matter to anyone. As for the shattered memory crystal, she would find a way to conceal the matter. Thankfully, in the recent few years, basically no one had been checking on it. As for what they would do in the future, they would leave the matter till then.
To Xiao Lin, the trip to the restricted area might have produced a lot of questions, but he also gained a lot of answers. The key seemed to still be Ivanovich. Just as the dean had said before he left, going to Ivan’s home might yield more findings.
To the current Xiao Lin, he definitely had Ivan’s old home in mind. It was possible there would even be more Shards of Creation there. Based on the man’s conversation with Ivan, it was not hard to determine that the Shards of Creation were definitely very important things, and Ivan had been collecting them back then as well. It was just a pity he did not succeed.
However, the dean’s words were very vague. Ivan’s home could have been a lot of things; it could be his home on Earth, Vonya Akademiya could also be his home, or it could even be where Ivan stayed on Planet Norma.
It was fine; thanks to Xiao Lin’s current ban, there was no way for him to go to the colonized territories, and wanting to go to another academy was an even more troublesome procedure that involved a lot of bureaucracy. There was no way for Xiao Lin to say that he was going there to find Shards of Creation, so in the end, his only choice was to go back to Earth.
However, when he mentioned it to the student union president, he was unceremoniously rejected. The president still had that innocent baby face on, but his tone was much more stern, “Xiao Lin! Did you forget everything I told you earlier? If you do that, do you know how much you would hurt those who care about you?! For you, your biggest task right now is to properly study! Even if heaven were to fall, we’re still here to hold it up!”
The president rarely got angry, and Xiao Lin knew that it was out of kindness, but he still remembered the dean’s last words to him. Some things have to be done by those with SS-rank talents. Only he could collect the Shards of Creation. If Xiao Lin’s guess was right, Lilith should be doing the same thing in Judge Academy as well.
Xiao Lin and Lilith had no grudges against each other, but on this matter, even if it was for the dean who had always cared about him, he did not want Dawn Academy to lose to Judge Academy.
Xiao Lin could not mention those reasons to the president, the less people who knew about the Shards of Creation the better, that was certain. So, in the end, he could only obstinately stare at the president.
After a few minutes, the president’s tone mellowed out as he sighed. “Don’t hold any wishful thinking. Let me tell you, two days ago Dawn City issued a ban on you. Other than the colonized territories, you’ve also been banned from returning to Earth in the next two years.”
This time Xiao Lin really did get angry as he stood up, asking accusingly, “Why is he doing this?!”
The president looked at him meaningfully, saying, “There are some things that you can’t hide from everyone. During that battle in the Pacific on Earth, the military sent a team of very perceptive people to investigate. They can find a person even with just a shred of a scent.”
Xiao Lin was stunned. The last time, he had hidden it from the academy when he went into Atlantis’s remnants deep in the ocean under the guidance of Silverlight. He had thought that no one knew, but he never expected that someone had found traces of him.
The president said, “Don’t worry, I don’t know the details, but this matter has already been settled. No one will do anything to you, but after that investigation, some people don’t want you returning to Earth in the near future.”
“Then what about my family?” Seeing as there was no way to do anything about it, Xiao Lin asked another question.
The president smiled. “You don’t have to worry about that, no one would dare do anything to your family. In truth, we’ve already sent some people to protect your family. Even if you can’t go back, you can still write letters every month, and get it sent by those on the Earth branch. No one would care about a small matter like that.”
“Fine!” Xiao Lin sighed.
As he was about to leave, the president suddenly coughed lightly as he put on a false smile. “What is it? Do you think differently of me?”
“Oh, that’s not it.” Xiao Lin knew that the orders definitely came from the new dean, the defense minister. Even the president did not have the power to change the orders.
“You really don’t trust me enough.”
“Is there still room to turn it around? If you want me to go and beg, then forget about it.” Xiao Lin felt that he still needed to have a bit of a backbone.
The president laughed. “Of course that’s not possible. There’s no way they would retract an order that has already been issued, but the orders also mentioned that exceptions could be made for special circumstances.”
“What kind of circumstances would be considered special?”
“An example would be the inter-academy tournament. At that time, we would definitely need to compete in the other academies, and we would usually go there through Earth.
Xiao Lin had a moment of realization; it was getting closer to the inter-academy tournament. Before that, he had been trapped in the Rosa Kingdom, and after experiencing a slew of things, he had almost forgotten about it. As the most outstanding new student, he was naturally one of the representatives of Dawn Academy, and would definitely participate when the time came.
“I understand. I will definitely prepare for the tournament properly.”
Xiao Lin gave the president a serious guarantee, causing the president to be relieved. After all, if Xiao Lin caused any trouble, he would be the one put in the most difficult position.
After that, Xiao Lin did not go to the restricted area anymore, but Bell regularly looked for him. He would open the door to his room to suddenly find a barefoot little girl making faces at him while floating in mid-air. After being scared a few times, Xiao Lin got used to it, and could not stop himself from thinking about Silverlight. The last person to scare him like that was definitely that Atlantean Princess.
Bell normally did not look for Xiao Lin for anything in particular, but Xiao Lin understood that the girl seemed to be very fixated on rewinding time, but it seemed to be for a reason that could not be spoken of. She did not say what part of history she wanted to change, and as the academy’s intelligence, Bell was harmless to humans, so Xiao Lin understood that she would not be doing anything too untoward. Xiao Lin would have more questions occasionally as well, and Bell would be able to answer a lot of them.
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