Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

Most events in the world can be predicted.

People sum up systematic principles and apply them through daily experience, or mastery of purely perceptual practice makes perfect, or even occasional predictive dreams... They are all predictions of which set of programs the world uses to deal with corresponding problems.

"The predictability of these similar events comes from the inertia of the world's information selection process."

But we cannot know the sequence of events, nor can we avoid them.

"This is the disorder and inevitability of the calculation process."

Fixed programs are very likely to give the same answer when faced with the same problem, but which information is preferred in the process of processing information will change according to conditions and circumstances. The factors of these changes may come from the outside world, or they may be the result of the traces of the same problem that was dealt with last time.

Xia Yinci, who has the memory of the world, and Qianyan, the dreamer who stole the authority of the world administrator, are the "traces" that make the world diverge.

In other words, they are the "marks" of the lost world.

"You mean: the unknowability of the sequence of events and the inevitability of the events themselves... are the reasons why new events will occur after each RESET, but somehow have the same ending?"

The sky outside the window has been covered by dark clouds unknowingly, and the sunlight hitting the girl's body has gradually faded and become eclipsed.

Only the order of events has changed, and we in the circle of reincarnation mistakenly believe that new events have occurred. But in essence, computers are still seeking answers to the question of "how the world is born, developed, and continued". Among them, the nodes that cannot be violated like fate for us are the necessary process to solve this problem.

[No matter where the trajectory of life is drawn, fate always determines its nodes, and the trajectory will eventually return to the nodes when it comes and goes. 】

Just like what Lin Yu said at the beginning, the trajectory takes the nodes as the goal, no matter how far it is drawn in any direction, it will definitely pass through each node and then go to the end.

"Well. It's like the doomsday after March. No matter how many times the world reincarnates, no matter how many precognitive dreams you have in advance, and then how much preparation you make based on the results of the foresight, in the end we can only delay this matter at most, but forever It’s impossible to avoid, and theoretically impossible to even delay an event like the end of the world.”

Xia Yinci forced a smile on the corner of her mouth, the sadness and even sleepiness in her eyes had nowhere to hide, and she frowned exquisitely.

In the gloomy sky, the torrential rain fell like bullets, sweeping the windows with a strange rhythm.

That's exactly what she said. The essence of a new event is a "change in the order of events", and "the end of the world" is the last thing that happens in the world, and there is no later event than this. In this way - the past 1590 reincarnations will all end at the same time and enter the next reincarnation.

This is the truth of "world fatalism".

Xia Yinci, who has 1590 world memories, must understand this truth better than anyone else, and she has a deeper understanding of the fact that "the destruction of the world is an inevitable fate"——

"However, our destruction is not a preordained future."

——But she gave such an answer in the end. I thought that the thunderstorm that invaded the city did not come, but the dark cloud was like a joking fairy, laughing and pulling out the clouds to see the sun, and raining lively rain under the shining sun. I stared blankly at the girl in front of me who was smiling all over the city in the sun, and she turned my gaze with a smile to appreciate the strange scene outside the window.

"It's like I came back to you, didn't hold back at the last moment, and let fate take advantage of the opportunity. But even so, even if you still stabbed the blade into my body, our history has already happened. Change!"

I didn't understand the meaning of her words for a while, and after being stared at by her hopeful eyes for a long time, I suddenly remembered the important words that I had ignored.

[In a short while, you will reproduce the tragedy of 10 years ago—killing your childhood sweetheart unintentionally. "

kill.

I accidentally killed my childhood sweetheart.

But she is sitting right in front of me right now.

Fate was the blade that pierced her body, not the girl's death.

[The you now, in a place that none of us have ever reached, in front of you is a future where no one knows the ending. 】

My history and even the future are completely different from the previous reincarnation history.

"Actually, I'm not so stupid that I came back unprepared. After all, our enemy is this unnatural world, and it is impossible to defeat it no matter how rashly or timidly. I will see you, Chen Zekai, later. will know."

"Chen Zekai...you and him made a plan in advance?"

"Well. It was beyond the plan. Maybe I was lucky enough to have a fortune that surpassed the world that day. It was destined to be your sleepwalking symptoms that day. Uncle blocked the most fatal blow to me for me. Thank you uncle for saving me. We shared a fatal injury in one person, and we all survived."

Courage + planning + fortune = life that lasts.

The world finally lost to the girl's persistence.

Even with such an incredible formula. But if there really is a God of Destiny that transcends the outside world, I think we must have been favored by Him in the final reincarnation, right?

The god who entrusted the future of the world to the A and B keys in the young man's hands is irresponsible and willful, but he is not useless.

"Hey, how's it going, Su Huohuo? Are you confident that you can complete the agreement before you die in love with me?"

Xia Yinci leaned in front of me and pulled my thoughts back to reality in an instant. The soft light flowing in her eyes, and the indescribable expression are a bit itchy.

"...From winning the battle to saving the entire world, the span is really not small, isn't it?"

"Ah, do you have an opinion?"

"It's okay. I just want to express that this is in line with Xia Yinci's out-of-the-ordinary temperament, just like your thoughts are jumping."

"No, are you praising me or scolding me?"

Xia Yinci became confused by my unclear words, and stared at me with blinked eyes, as if she could see something. I was a little nervous for no reason, but she was still not sure which side my heart was leaning towards, so she simply gave up and continued to struggle with this matter, and narrowed her eyes ambiguously as if she suddenly thought of something else.

"Speaking of...so I'm your last key to TRUE END? Hehe."

My cheeks felt hot all of a sudden. Today is the countless times that Xia Yinci has teased her so that her heart beats faster. Even though he was unwilling, he couldn't get angry with her when he saw her smile, so he stretched out his index finger to scratch his warm cheek, and his eyes wandered to the corner of the room to avoid her. Unexpectedly, she also used the ADV game as a metaphor, and it coincided with her somehow.

"Well, that's because, I really like you...the kind of love that I want to marry you."

"Huh!?" Xia Yinci suddenly became flustered, and her voice began to fluctuate, "You, what did you say all of a sudden?"

"For a long time, when I saw you, I thought about what we would look like after we got married. We would have many, many children, and we would still live a life of two people loving each other."

"Kid...baby...baby...kid!?"

"Aren't you willing to have a baby?"

"It has nothing to do with this!"

"Well, then I will respect your choice. I like children quite a bit, but only our children. It's fine if you don't like children, I only like you."

I mustered up the courage to raise my gaze to face Xia Yinci squarely. She has already shyly hid under the quilt, peeking at me cautiously with only her eyes exposed, and accidentally met my gaze, steam was about to come out from the top of her head, and she was wrapped in the quilt within half a second of her drunken red face protruding out, His mouth seemed to be humming softly.

"Why are you crying...? If you don't want to—"

Suddenly, an intoxicating breeze passed in front of me, blocking my words. When I realized it, Xia Yinci was already crying and threw herself into my arms. I put down my hand hanging in the air in a daze, and gently put it on her back. But she raised her head and looked at me unpredictably, with unspeakable throbbing in her eyes.

Her tears did not seem to contain sadness, but something beautiful.

I stared at Xia Yinci's unbelievably beautiful face, her red lips parted slightly. The rain facing the sun outside the window stopped slowly at the right time, spreading a warm radiance.

"Su Ruoyang. I will leave my life to you. I like you."

— at that moment.

The tension in my heart suddenly turned into happiness, and the world was dyed with colors I had never seen before.

Like that incredible rainbow in the sky after rain.

Like the calm sea near sunrise, like the soft light flowing from Xia Yinci's eyes when she gathers her courage.

Like the petal of cherry blossoms floating in from the window, and like her kissing my lips.

That is the most happy color I have ever seen in my life.

I was speechless and speechless. Even after decades, it is still as emotional as seeing it for the first time, and it is impossible to describe the love.

She hugged my neck tightly and kissed me, while I hugged her delicate body and felt the fragrance of her body. Gradually, I seemed to lose my strength, and I let myself fall into her gentle sea, and fell backwards with the girl in my arms. Her long strands of hair fell down my cheeks and it tickled me.

Even I, who was completely unaware of the changing seasons, felt that spring had arrived.

Lip points. She looked into my eyes from top to bottom in a daze, holding my rippling mood tightly.

The two stared at each other for a long time, and the hot lips touched each other again, dragging each other's breath and falling into the bottomless deep sea.

Even though there are a sea of ​​words in the world, there is no other language to express love at this moment.

This is our last spring.

And from now on, what greets us must be a happy Yongxia.

There seemed to be an intermittent storm settled in his chest, his steps wobbled like a clumsy dance, and he walked out of the ward with a vague sense of happiness.

Xue Xueer stood by the wall and looked sideways at me, smiling maliciously and raising her eyebrows.

"...You're not eavesdropping outside, are you?"

"It's not eavesdropping~ After my request, Xia Yinci allowed me to attend your two-person meeting, and you also acquiesced, didn't you?"

No wonder Xia Yinci's previous reaction was so shy and unbearable. It turned out that she knew that there was a third person monitoring our conversation. On the contrary, did my unscrupulousness make her mistakenly think that I was proposing in public?

It's not bad, but... so embarrassing.

"No, when did I acquiesce?"

"Didn't I say that this is an interview?" Xue Xueer gave me a strange look, as if it was me who said something strange, but she ignored my flushed face and suddenly remembered something else Clap your hands, "That's right! The result of the interview is 60 points, which is just a pass, and you can send the important task of saving the world. I am the one who judged, and the reading is over."

"What's the situation! Isn't this your personal interview with me? Why did it look like a big company's entry test? And how did I pass it?"

To be honest, I don't even know the content of her interview. I don't understand how the interview ended after I went to Xia Yinci's ward.

"Well, the basis of the judgment is your promise to your lover. Because your inner obsession has been stabilized, right? As for this interview, it was indeed my personal request. I wanted to use Xia Yinci to test your thoughts. But the core The Research Association also wanted to know your determination, so they entrusted me with the task of testing you. From my point of view, you did a good job!"

I suddenly lowered my gaze in embarrassment. Although after the kiss, we discussed the specific implementation plan with Xia Yinci, what is needed for nuclear research is our plan. But I seriously doubt that Xue Xueer's "good job" refers to things before the formulation of the plan. Otherwise, how could she show such a sly smile.

"Can't you avoid such a personal topic?"

"How can you avoid it? It's because of your privacy that you can see what you really think." Xue Xueer suddenly brought out her reporter-style nonsense, and at the same time stepped forward and set off in the direction she came, and said to me, "But you just now I will help you keep the story of bravery secret! I guarantee that only the three of us will know about it."

"...You are an intern in the news department anyway, to be reasonable, the guarantee from the reporter always makes people feel uneasy."

I followed Xue Xueer to leave, and happened to pass by the ward where my father half-opened the door. At a glance, I saw my father quietly giving me a thumbs up, his eyes full of hints of knowing.

Well, I now have a 100% hunch that it won't be long before this spreads to everyone I know.

"Hehe, the secret of the three of them has been shattered so quickly..."

"ah?"

"It's okay, let me calm down."

I stopped my shaky steps, covered my hot face with both hands, my heart was filled with rippling itch, and I couldn't help laughing as if my body was broken. The sense of happiness overflowed uncontrollably, and the storm in his chest made his heart beat like spring thunder. What a pretty bad reaction, it went down quicker than I thought it would.

"Hello, Hello?" Xue Xueer raised her hand and shook it quickly in front of my eyes, then shook my shoulder, "It's broken... Is this stimulated?"

"No." I pretended to be calm, took a deep breath and put down my hands that felt nowhere to rest, and said with a forced smile, "Speaking of which, where else do you want to take me?"

"Core Research Association. After all, you passed the test. According to their plan, I will take you to the conference room to discuss the next three months."

Hearing the name of the Core Research Association, I immediately put away the last bit of laughter that I couldn't restrain. I calmed down and couldn't help but think of the conversation I had with Xia Yinci just now.

"The doomsday after March is the fate of the world, the unavoidable final node of that trajectory, but our destruction is not a predestined future... So we must save those who are in the doomsday while not affecting the established fact of the world's destruction. People. What do you think we should do?"

The key is to let the world annihilate naturally. To find a refuge for all mankind before the doomsday comes, not only must it be able to accommodate a huge number of people, but it must also allow everyone to have the willingness to take refuge in advance. Regardless of others first, I must first ignore the world.

[Only now, you still have time. Please recognize the world you live in, let go of the attachment to resettlement, and remember the essence of reality you believe in. 】

——Give up the attachment of "relocating the land and relocating". In other words, let me give up the world we live in now, and die for it.

【We grew up under the betrayal of the world, we are always in a place of nowhere, so give up relying on those seemingly reliable external objects. Whether it is the earth or reality. 】

But the essence of reality is a thousand faces and a dream. Then the refuge where we migrate must be another dream equivalent to reality, replacing dreams with dreams.

【It's not too late this time, you have enough time, if not enough, to save your loved ones, and yourself. 】

To save Xia Yinci, Xia Qianyan, and the world they created.

Insufficient but sufficient time, that is alluding to what I can do within three months.

Is there anything I can accomplish within three months that meets the above requirements...?

[Find the exit and leave here. 】

exit. Escape from the reality that is about to be destroyed - lucid dream, beyond the control of the outside world and the Creator, a world that can be independent of any personal will in the future.

Save Qianyan Yimeng, replace dreams with dreams.

"So...it's pretty obvious what we're going to do—"

First of all, save Xia Qianyan who is sleeping in the reality of the outside world.

The way is to let her give up the obsession with dying with the world, and choose to accept the advice of the outside self to wake up from the dream.

Afterwards, due to Xia Qianyan's waking up, the world will carry out "RESET" as usual to reset the control authority of the computer, so that the core research association outside can regain the dominance of the world. The consequence of this is that we in the inner world all belong to the wild, and the world after the restart is completely reduced to artificial life experiments for outsiders. so--

Secondly, to save the world who were displaced and fell into nothingness during the "RESET" period.

The method is to replace dreams with dreams and lead the world to live in a new world that can replace reality. The specific destination is my dream world.

As a reward for winning the war of domination, I obtained "free will" beyond the existing reality, and thus created an independent world dominated by myself, whether it is virtual or not.

This newborn world exists beyond the control of the creator Xia Qianyan, and Xia Qianyan has the administrator authority of the supercomputer of the world. In other words, this nascent world may not be directly related to the computer world, but a nascent reality that truly exists independently.

It's ridiculous to say. The outside world—the high-dimensional reality for us, creates our reality, but by chance, it derives a world of the same dimension as them.

If it develops according to my prediction, the new world will not have any impact due to the "RESET" from the outside world. In this way, we can save the people of our inner world from the hands of human beings outside. Henceforth, the two of us may become independent parallel realities, with no relationship of subordination or dominance.

"Then, Su Huohuo, let's act!"

As soon as I finished speaking in my memory, the door Xue Xueer pushed open brought me back to reality, and she waved at me with ease. I followed her hesitantly into a room that seemed to be a conference room, with some concerns about the Core Research Association in my heart.

After all, there is another core research association in the outside world. No one knows how it is related to the nuclear research in the inner world, let alone Xia Qianyan mentioned Feng Chenghuan's name when talking to me from the outside world. He was thrown into the inner world by the outside world to fight against Xia Qianyan One of the experimenters, what if he was the one sent to take back control of the system, to cooperate internally and externally?

I can't rule out such a possibility, so I can't dispel my doubts about nuclear research. Besides, Xia Yinci said this to me in the ward——

"Su Huohuo, if you want to carry out such a plan, you must consider cooperating with the great forces in our world."

——So whether to believe in the Core Research Association or Mother' Anonymity, or to find someone else, the answer cannot be determined immediately.

"Su Ruoyang? The distinguished guest Feng Chenghuan mentioned is indeed you!"

However, as soon as I entered the meeting room, the scene before me left me speechless: Lin Yu was tied to death on the swivel chair behind him by thick hemp ropes, and he was kicking the floor hard to bring himself to the corner of the table, ready to use brute force Saw the rope. And he has messy shawl hair, like a young bankrupt bum.

The tea cat next to him tilted his head in confusion, letting his right hand be handcuffed to the window, disturbing his messy hair.

"Xue Xueer, you're here too! Come here and help me!" Lin Yu asked me as he ordered, while sawing the rope with his backhand that didn't show any signs of loosening, and wrestling with the seemingly sharp corner of the table, he asked me Said, "Speaking of which, Su Ruoyang, why didn't you tie up...?"

Driven by Lin Yu's urgent tone, Xue Xue'er ran over to her side, but I was still standing there in a daze.

"...I was going to ask why you were tied up by them."

"ha?!"

Lin Yu's eyes widened exaggeratedly, but before she could speak, the rope tied to her body was pulled into two pieces by Xue Xueer with only a light force, and then hooked the remaining rope with her index finger, and directly tied it together. All torn off by brute force. Lin Yu and I stared blankly at Xue Xueer, speechless for a while.

Xue Xueer was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized that she had done something unbelievable, she blushed and avoided Lin Yu's line of sight, faltering and hawing.

"...Actually, you don't need to help him untie it."

A weak and lazy voice floated from the corner, which attracted the attention of the three of us. The tea cat looked out of the window with half-raised face, looking like it was not motivated. She raised her arm slightly to indicate the chains of the handcuffs, and explained as if she was extremely tired.

"Professor Huan released all the criminals in the laboratory as a condition, and let Lin Yu and I stay here temporarily~ I agreed to his request to stay."

"Then how did you all get tied up?" I asked.

"Hey, no matter how bad I am, I'm a demigod after all... They were worried that if I didn't agree with each other, they would lose their face on the spot, so I locked my hands by the window to show my sincerity."

The tea cat lowered his arms as he spoke, as if raising his hands was also an extremely hard physical work. Then her tone began to change sharply, from laziness to faint resentment, her eyes glanced at Lin Yu with a little coquettish meaning.

"...the staff brought Lin Yu here, but he didn't listen to their explanation at all. When he arrived in this conference room, he fought violently. So they sent more people to tie him up."

"What... They obviously did it first!" Lin Yu raised his voice to defend, but his voice gradually lost his confidence as he spoke, scratching his hair and muttering, "I just want to slip away." Go out and see what kind of wishful thinking Feng Chenghuan is planning."

"Hey, then why did you knock the staff at the door unconscious?"

"When Feng Chenghuan came to find me, he didn't say anything, and called more than ten people to do it directly."

"...I can't compete with you."

The tea cat turned his head away, pouted in displeasure. I didn't expect the tea cat to have such a suspected angry reaction.

And Lin Yuzheng's arguing momentum was immediately thrown thousands of miles away, and hurriedly ran to the side of the tea cat, scurrying around her like a wolf dog that annoyed its master, and whispered to her Words we can't hear here. But it seemed that he was confessing his mistake to her.

Obviously, the tea cat's temperament couldn't attract Lin Yu's soft-heartedness, so he put down his posture after a few back and forth, and looked at Lin Yu's eyes and quietly raised the corners of his mouth.

Tsk... Feed me dog food in disguise everywhere. If it wasn't for a reason, I would definitely stay far away from them.

However, speaking of it, I just proposed to Xia Yinci, and I don't seem to be qualified to question them.

When I think of this, I can't help but chuckle. He even regards Lin Yu and Tea Mao as us in the future...

"Su Ruoyang..."

"Um?"

"You... why are you staring at them and giggling...?"

Noticing Xue Xueer's slightly disgusted tone, I quickly woke up from my fantasy, and inadvertently found the glass vial that I had an impression on the table.

"It's nothing. Let's get down to business...what's in that bottle?"

"Are you changing the subject? Let's get down to business, we haven't started the topic yet..."

Xue Xueer's eyes are full of question marks, it doesn't look like she deliberately made things difficult for me. It was only then that I realized that she, who was born in the news department, might not know much about the world, and felt somewhat similar to the love and affection for the juniors.

"That... Sister Xueer, since you know that others are changing the subject, you should treat it as if you don't know at a time like this, and it's more polite to follow other people's topics."

"Hey, that's the wisdom of the Holy Child."

The sound that seemed to be blown away by the wind came again from the window. I don't know if the tea cat was born with a long reaction arc, and responded to the topic I raised more than ten seconds ago in a timely manner, which made me immediately point to the tea cat as a walking textbook for Xue Xueer.

"Look! This is a textbook-level teaching example."

"...Is that so? She is gentle and considerate, no wonder Lin Yu likes girls like this."

I always feel that the effect is not quite the same as I expected. Xue Xueer's eyes twinkled with stars of admiration, looking longingly at the extremely graceful tea cat by the window.

"Thank you... I understand the gap between me and tea cat sister."

"Not only are you different from what I expected, I don't even know what aspect you are talking about now..."

When Xue Xueer and I were chatting across channels, Lin Yu walked to the side of the glass vial in silence, gently picked it up and put it in front of his eyes, his eyes passed through the glass bottle and became big-eyed cute. And in the center of the liquid in the bottle floated a bluish-purple flame like a spiritual fire, swaying and exuding a holy light, which was daunting.

"I have to say, I have grown up a lot compared to before..." Lin Yu couldn't help sighing, and looked at the tea cat next to him, "Is it the wisdom to grow on its own?"

The tea cat carefully took the bottle in Lin Yu's hand, and the tiny light spots suddenly appeared through her fingertips, hanging above the bottle, guarding the unknown life form in the bottle like an elf.

"The wisdom of the Holy Child was born from the fanatical belief in the ideal gods of the believers of Mother' Anonymity, but the origin of its emergence is life from the outside world."

"To be precise... Humans from the outside world were born into the computer world through a dream-immersive VR device, and they happen to exist in this form of intelligent consciousness."

I made corrections based on the scarce information from the outside world. The tea cat rarely gave an agreeable opinion readily, and the scorpion raised its head slightly in response.

"In the beginning, the Holy Infant, as an invisible consciousness, chose your mother, the president of the Core Research Association, as its parasite. Because they have the same goal of exploring the source of the birth of the world. The two parties finally found themselves in the other side of the dream. Dispersed during the battle, I preserved the remaining spirit body of the Holy Infant, and now it has grown to the point where it can communicate."

I suddenly remembered that Xia Qianyan mentioned that the body of the Holy Infant outside was in a state of coma. Now, maybe it's because his consciousness is still in the inner world, in this glass vial! Thinking of this, I immediately turned my attention to the tea cat, faintly feeling that we can use the holy infant as a means of negotiating with the outside world.

"Can I talk to it now?"

"Not for the time being. The Holy Infant needs to sleep for a long time every day, and today is not the time for it to wake up."

I nodded thoughtfully, thinking that the plan has not been announced to anyone other than Xia Yinci, and I don't need to worry about not having the means to communicate with the outside world at this moment. On the other hand, Lin Yu, who was next to him, felt unhappy and cast a blank glance at the holy flame.

"Tch... Trouble! You're obviously a bunch of nondescript half-bads, yet you can tell how noble your family is."

Lin Yu impatiently buried the holy baby in the bottle, but didn't want the tea cat to stare at him displeasedly for a long time without saying a word.

"What... what's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

stare--

Still no words. The tea cat just watched Lin Yu silently, her cherry lips were tightly closed, and her lazy eyes looked a little displeased at this moment. This made Lin Yu bow his head like a child who did something wrong, so he had to raise his hands in surrender.

"I'm sorry... I take back what I just said, so please forgive me."