Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

The weight of the scythe rests on the shoulders. The black pointed hat seems to fall off at any time, but it is firmly attached to the top.

"what's on your mind?"

A dignified but clear voice sounded in my ears, and I turned my eyes slightly. Xia Yinci leaned forward slightly, clasped her hands behind her back with her fingers crossed, her eyes were like the calm sea, just facing mine.

I stretched out my free right hand and caressed the brim of my pointed hat. While feeling this strange material from another world, he pretended to be relaxed and said:

"It's nothing.. I'm just guessing, is this top hat made of materials that don't exist in our world?"

"Hmm..." Xia Yinci pouted her lower lip slightly, and looked at me suspiciously.

I quietly lowered the brim of my hat, intending to cover my eyes, but Xia Yinci seemed to know what I was thinking, so she deliberately stepped up and walked in front of me, turned half a circle on tiptoe, and walked backwards facing me.

Her steps were not fast, and she moved back so slowly that I had to slow down.

"Walking like this... is it fun? Be careful not to fall if you don't watch the road."

"Well, you really talk like a grandfather." Xia Yinci raised her head towards the sky and said casually, "Since you are afraid that I will fall, then you will be my navigator. I will control my remote control The instrument is handed over to you."

"Give it to me? How do I control it." I thought it was a little funny, so I simply followed her words and asked.

"Hey... can't we all figure it out on our own without reading the manual?"

There was a slight smile on the corner of Xia Yinci's mouth, and her gentle and soft tone seemed to be the warm wind blowing through her heart.

"To be clear, who is "us" like you who are geniuses in inexplicable aspects..."

Without waiting for Xia Yinci's response, she stopped abruptly, her eyes fell on me frivolously.

"Someone is coming..."

As soon as the words fell, a strange figure appeared from the stairs of the underground shopping mall that was vacant by the street. A red-haired boy with hedgehog hair came up with his trouser pockets in his pocket, followed by a man with long hair and a beard in a black jacket. male.

"Ha, it looks like someone has looted the mall already..."

The muttering red-haired boy walked towards us, but made a gesture of ignoring us and talked to the man next to him.

Just when they were 10 meters away from us, they stopped suddenly and looked at us with fierce eyes. The young man laughed heartily, pulled his hand out of his trouser pocket, and seemed to throw something towards us.

I raised the scythe on my shoulder and took a pose.

But with a flick of his thumb, the cap of the drink bottle came out of his hand. No sooner had I wondered if he was joking than the bottle cap suddenly enlarged to a size that could be covered across the street.

Was it a plan to trap us in the bottle cap? I hastily held Xia Yinci's hand, and took a few steps back. The huge bottle cap hit the ground immediately, and its edge was within a few millimeters of my toes.

There is no room for our thinking, and the opponent has already circled the bottle cap and chased us. This convinced me that this meeting was not a coincidence, that these two men were here with us in mind.

The red-haired boy threw the small object again, but this time he didn't immediately magnify it. The decadently dressed man rotated his arm and snapped his fingers, and suddenly the trajectory of the object in the air changed into a strange curve and approached us.

The object thrown by the boy seemed to be controlled by the man, following the trajectory drawn by his fingers, circled half a circle in the air and came behind Xia Yinci and me, then suddenly accelerated and approached us.

This time the red-haired boy threw an unremoved rubber. Under his command to blow the whistle, the giant rubber crushed us and created a huge wind pressure. I immediately leaned down and hugged Xia Yinci sideways to avoid it.

"so close.."

The red-haired boy's ability is obviously to make small objects huge, but it should be limited to "small objects". The man's ability is similar to manipulating the trajectory of objects.

The offensive of the duo is indeed hard to resist, but thanks to their cooperation, the incident of "no longer manipulating the eraser after it becomes huge" revealed that the man can only manipulate the trajectory of small objects.

"Xia Yinci, when the time comes, please follow my command to change the gravity."

I put up an index finger, indicating to her that I will use gestures to remind her later. Xia Yinci's cheeks flushed slightly, her bangs on her forehead covered her warm eyes, she nodded hesitantly.

Never guess her mind. I simply put her weird reaction to the back of my mind for the time being, and put Xia Yinci down gently, while paying attention to the red-haired boy's actions.

When the boy pulled his hand out of his trouser pocket again, Xia Yinci and I immediately ran away around the bottle cap. The boy didn't catch up and threw the object in his hand directly.

So, the man jumped up and grabbed the upper edge of the bottle cap with his left hand, and controlled the object's trajectory with his right hand. He braced himself and jumped onto the giant bottle cap. I raised my eyes to meet him who was standing on a high place, and he really drew the object towards us.

"It's the bottle cap again...the purpose is to trap us, isn't it?" I said to myself.

I looked at Xia Yinci and pointed my finger upwards. Immediately afterwards, the mutated gravity took the lead in lifting the giant bottle cap on the ground. The man did not expect the change under his feet, and fell unsteadily towards the direction of the wall.

The index finger turned downward again, and the trajectory of the fall changed instantly. The man just landed on the huge rubber, and the giant bottle cap that flew into the air immediately fell, "swallowing" the rubber and the man on top together.

The flustered red-haired boy quickly snapped his fingers, turning the other bottle cap into a giant. This time Xia Yinci didn't wait for my instruction, she clasped my hand with ten fingers and pushed the gravity to the front of the street as hard as she could.

My body fell in the direction of gravity. If Xia Yinci hadn't held my hand tightly, I would have flown all the way to the end of the street with this gravity, but she controlled the force well and didn't throw me out .

The giant bottle cap on the ground rubbed against the ground, leading the people inside to slide out all the way, until it went far out of the control range, Xia Yinci changed the gravity to the front, back, left, and right in sequence, and I also swayed forward and backward according to the gravity .

The constantly changing gravity pulled the bottle cap and turned it in the air for a circle, so that the empty side of the bottle cap was aimed at the red-haired boy. The hand that Xia Yinci shook with me strengthened a little bit, and the other hand swung down quickly, aiming in the direction of the boy.

The gigantic bottle cap went straight towards the young man, and then followed Xia Yinci's downward hand to restore the original gravity at the exact time calculated, thus locking the young man into the bottle cap. Xia Yinci breathed a sigh of relief and let go of her hand.

As soon as I adjusted my steps and stood firm, the clapping sound made by vigorously clapping my hands appeared behind me along with the heroic footsteps. I immediately turned to the steps of the underground shopping mall behind me, and saw a young man approaching us calmly.

The young man wears thick-rimmed glasses, his dark blue hair is well-groomed, coupled with piercing eyes and two thick eyebrows, making him look particularly upright, which seems to imply to me that he has a character like steel.

"Thank you! This is really a very interesting battle."

Walking one meter away from us, the footsteps of the young man finally stopped together with the applause. He hugged my right hand with his left hand familiarly, and then extended his right hand to shake my hand. The violent action made my vision shake.

"I'm really sorry just now! Hello, I'm Zhihei, the No. 1 ruler of the No. 6 clock, who also serves as the leader. Those two are my companions. I did it without explaining anything clearly. Please allow me to apologize to you calmly. !!"

After finishing the long series of words in an always uplifting tone, the young man who called himself "Shihei" bowed solemnly, his forehead was so low that it could almost touch the ground. His appearance rendered a completely different style of painting from ours.

Xia Yinci and I looked at each other, and Xia Yinci blinked at me smartly, as if indicating that I should be our representative.

"This... the ruler of clock number six, what do you want us to do?"

I tried my best to recover from his violent reaction, Zhiping clenched his right hand and quickly straightened up.

"I'd be happy to explain it to you! But before that—" Zhiping waved his right arm, pointed to the two giant bottle caps on the ground, and begged passionately, "Can you please release my companion first?" ?”

It turns out that being overly cheerful can also lead to communication difficulties. However, compared to the autistic people who find it difficult to communicate with each other, Zhiping makes the people who communicate with him not know what to say.

I looked at Xia Yinci in embarrassment, but I still gave her the opportunity to communicate with Zhiping.

"It's ok..." Xia Yinci saw my difficulties at a glance, showed a friendly but somewhat distant polite smile, and waved an index finger to remind, "But... you'd better find a support Hold on tight."

As soon as the words were finished, Xia Yinci intertwined my fingers with ease and held each other's hands. Her palm felt a little cool to me, and I involuntarily squeezed her hand tightly.

"It's the move just now!! I understand!"

Zhiping still cheered passionately, stretched his elbows back and closed his fists, Mou Zuo bent down vigorously, and smashed his fists hard to the ground. Following a tremor that shook the ground, Zhiping's hands penetrated half a meter into the ground.

"You, most people will find a tree as a pillar..."

Gravity shifted from below to above, and the bottle cap on the ground instantly "falled" and flew to the distant sky. Xia Yinci immediately threw the gravity to her lower right, and two giant bottle caps fell to the nearby building, smashing out the incomplete pothole.

Xia Yinci lightly clasped her hands together, and the force of gravity finally returned to its original state, and then she naturally let go of my hand. But I always felt that I should seize this opportunity, so I clasped her little hand backhand.

The flustered Xia Yinci looked at me quietly, her cheeks flushed slightly, but she didn't say anything, and let me hold her hand, and then she moved up actively, finding the best position to hold me tightly.

"There's something I've been wanting to ask since just now!! You two cooperate so well, you really are a couple, right!!"

Zhiping confirmed our answers with bright eyes, but he didn't know that we both lost our voices when we asked such a question.

"Don't ask unnecessary questions." The red-haired boy moved his limp arms, walked towards us, and said word by word, "Now, let's get down to business."

In short, the red-haired boy rescued us from the embarrassing atmosphere.

"I'll introduce myself first. I'm really sorry for not being able to introduce myself first." The red-haired boy touched the back of his head repeatedly and bowed slightly to us. Dominator."

"You can just call me 'Blue Control'. Ruler No. 10 of Clock No. 6." The man introduced with a yawn.

"You are the masters of clock number two, right?"

Seeing that the two of them had finished their introduction, Zhiping grabbed the right to speak without leaving any gaps, explaining:

"We fought against Clock No. 1 not long ago. We didn't expect their strategy of using the power of the Devourer. Only the three of us survived and escaped from the claws of the Devourer."

His tone was consistently passionate, which made me realize slowly that he had stated the fact of his companion's sacrifice. Zhiping didn't intend to stop and say a few more words on this matter, so he skipped it hastily and continued.

"My companions are all excellent rulers, and it was a magnificent ending. So we can't stand still and think about what to do for their sacrifices. After thinking about it, we only have what we should do."

"So just now your companion...Tong Xing, He Kong Lan is testing us, right?" I asked, interjecting.

Zhiping had no intention of concealing his original intention. After nodding his head and admitting it frankly, he bent forward abruptly and made a perfect bow with no dead ends in all aspects with his unique Decepticon style.

"Please allow me to apologize to you again!!" Zhihei's voice was powerful as if gushing from his chest, "Also——the masters of Clock No. 2, please form an alliance with us and deal with them with all your strength!! "

"Who are 'they'? Clock number one?"

"That's right!" Zhiping kept pressing his forehead to the ground, as if we would never stand up unless we agreed.

"I don't understand what you mean..." I was curious why they thought we would agree to his request, "Even if the number one clock is stronger, there is no need to combine the power of so many clocks to deal with them, right?"

"If it's really a simple clock, then of course you don't need to go through so much trouble!!" Zhiping retorted in a louder voice, "The trouble is not with those rulers, but the leader of clock number one and the secret behind it! "

I don't know whether it was Zhiping's turbulent aura that frightened me, or his words themselves had irresistible force, I looked down at the back of his head, and the brief moment of stupefaction caused the air to be silent for a few seconds.

"You said, the secret behind it?" Xia Yinci was the first to come back to her senses, and she looked at Zhiping with a little arrogance.

"Yes! The first participant in this war of domination is the No. 1 ruler of the No. 1 clock. In fact, it has been the same in all previous years, but the first participant this time is entrusted to the observer's own opinion "cheater"."

"Observer? You don't mean the "Dream Madman" of the past?"

These short remarks elevate my understanding of Clock No. 1 from a team of interested rulers to the level of the calculation of the gods. In any case, once the observer as a judge is involved, it is a very serious problem.

"That's right. I don't know what the observers have in mind, but I can't accept the practice of taking the first participating ruler as their messenger to escort them to the final stage of the domination war!!"

"Could it be... that you have been focusing on Clock No. 1 and collecting information on them until today because you know these secret clues?"

"Hmm! It is precisely because we have this information that the "Fallen Soul" will target us this time. This is not only a dispute between the rulers, it has even risen to the level of a dispute between the observers who sent it!! "

Zhiping's waist, which had been bent for a long time, began to tremble, and his knees also trembled violently. I stopped questioning their thoughts and clenched my right fist calmly, while my left hand couldn't help reaching out to the brim of the hat and moving back and forth.

"Anyway... please stand up first. The leader of clock number six, you should know that no matter whether we have a common goal now, if we defeat the so-called fallen souls, we will immediately stand in the opposite position, right?"

Zhiping listened to my kindness, and slowly straightened his long bent waist. His movements were no longer as smooth as before, and his face was flushed with blood. At the same time, for the first time, Zhiping's eyes reflected a painful mood.

"Of course I know about this kind of thing! But our goal is no longer to win the domination war... It's better to say that we have persisted until this point because we can't bear this kind of unfair, cheating existence!"

Perhaps it was the sadness and grief caused by the death of his companion, but at this moment it turned into a fortitude that would not yield. Zhiping's eyes candidly express his mood and thoughts, just like his own steely personality.

"Actually, from the very beginning, we didn't come to this world to win."

——On the other side of reality, night fell quietly, and the moonlight sprinkled arrogantly on this rather modern building. Feng Chenghuan, wearing a white coat, scratched his head and approached the isolation window.

Through the glass Feng Chenghuan could see the young man in the hospital gown lying on the hospital bed, his frowning brows were unnaturally sunken, and his heartbeat was very slow.

The professor paced left and right, and finally reached the table where the research materials were placed. He picked up one of the materials marked "Dream Image Recording System" on the top.

"The most important thing is that the way to transform these pulse signals has not been found..."

The professor put down the materials with trembling hands, becoming more and more hysterical. His gaze passed through the glass, and the 12 rulers in the research room suddenly disappeared not long ago, and then nine corpses appeared on the bed one after another.

This means that there are still 3 rulers still alive in the cracks in the dream, and they are the last hope to bring back the information.

"Borrowing the text recorded in that leftover book, sending lucid dreamers who meet the requirements into different numbers of domination wars, I don't know whether this approach is right or wrong... How long do we have to wait?"——

Zhiping staggered my sight for the first time, the blurred focus fell on his clenched fist, and his eyes became firm again.

"We never came here to win a war of domination!!! Although we had a mission imposed by others at first, we wanted to fight for what we found ourselves. So.. please cooperate with us! If the time comes we If we are lucky enough to survive, we will voluntarily withdraw from the domination war and will not fight with you."

Having said that, Zhihei bowed his head slightly and stretched out his hand to me, expressing his request.

"Please—help us defeat the "Fallen Soul"."

It has already reached this point, not to mention that it is better to cooperate with them who have a lot of information than to refuse. So I breathed a sigh of relief, took his outstretched hand, and shook it up and down slightly.

"That's how it is... clock number six will cooperate with us." After returning to the stronghold, I briefly explained the encounter with clock number six to the people present, "there are only advantages and no disadvantages, so I agreed to him. "

"The leader of Clock No. 6 personally said that as long as we jointly defeat the leader of Clock No. 1—"Fallen Soul", they will voluntarily withdraw from the domination war, right?"

Hearing Alket's question, I turned in his direction hesitantly.

"Yeah that's right."

"What a pity."

Arquette gave a response I didn't expect. He rested his hands on the back of his head and looked towards me slightly. "I'm just the opposite of him. I'm looking forward to staying with you on the second clock until the end of this war of domination, and having a contest between alliances as the closing show of the war of domination."

"Tell me in advance...even if you have been allies for such a long time, I will never release water."

Chalt snorted coldly at Arquette, and stood up on his knees. Arquette turned her eyes to him, folded her arms around her chest habitually, and Arquette showed a cheerful smile.

"That's fine. Me too."