Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

I forgot that a few days later, I went alone to Rongtan Street, the most distinctive folk scenic spot in Haibin City. The clumsy imitation of the novelties of various cultural circles at home and abroad constitutes the unique atmosphere of this street that seems to be another world.

It is said that the original domestic address of the "Core Research Association" is located here. Many people came today to visit the branch of the Institute of Nuclear Research.

Just passing by a bar playing jazz, I saw a slightly familiar figure. The other party's long brown hair was hanging on the back, and there was a little fat orange cat walking lazily beside him.

She seemed to hear someone calling herself, turned around and stopped at the door of a certain coffee shop, and had a conversation with someone.

I recognized the mole on the corner of her eye at a glance, it really was a tea cat.

Could it be that he and Lin Yu went out on a date on weekends? Curiosity made me follow, only to find that the person standing opposite the tea cat was not Lin Yu, but a very special couple. The face of the husband is obviously European, with particularly sharp outlines, and he is smoking a medieval-style pipe; but the wife is Asian, and her temperament is not like Chinese, but more like a married woman from Japan.

"You know them?"

The sudden sound next to me startled me. I turned around and saw a foreign boy standing next to me, who looked much younger than me. This made me admire his Chinese proficiency in my heart, and I almost forgot that he asked me a question.

"Ah... no, I only know the girl with the orange cat."

The strange boy looked sideways at my attire, then turned to the three people in front of the coffee shop as if nothing had happened, and the deer hunting cap on his head was bounced by his fingers.

"So she's your friend, right? I think you should persuade her not to have anything to do with this kind of person."

"Did they do something bad?"

Hearing this, the boy turned to me, and flicked back and forth the badge on my chest with two fingers.

"Didn't you come to visit the 'Core Research Association'? A freelance reporter?"

His words made me feel a little embarrassed. It might be better to say that this reporter's sticker was borrowed from Xue Xueer, because today is the triennial visit day of the "Core Research Association", which is unconditionally open to students with a bachelor's degree or above. It is an opportunity for the young people in the research institute to have close contact with and understand the working environment, and on the other hand, it is also a means for them to make a name for themselves.

I'm just a prospective college student, so I wanted to use my identity as a reporter to interview Professor Huan's team and take the opportunity to ask some questions about "HELLO NEW WORLD". But it seems that my homework was not detailed enough, and I did not recognize the couple and the young man I was talking to. They are all members of the professor's research team.

"Ah... are you Mr. Charter Andres?"

For some reason, the teenager frowned when he heard the surname "Andres".

"You can just call me Chart." He folded his arms, raised his head and pointed to the building on my right, and said, "You are the guy who contacted Watanabe last night, right? He is already waiting for you in the lobby."

The crowd under the building became obviously a little crowded. However, after entering the building, it is much more spacious. The person in charge of registering at the front desk is an old man with silver hair, but his movements are not slow at all. I recognized him as the second person in charge of the "Dream Image Recording System". His name has not been made public, and I only know that other staff members only call him "Silver".

In the reception area, a young man in a white shirt came up to me and firmly held my hand.

"I've been waiting for a long time. I'm Kaede Watanabe you contacted yesterday. You can call me Watanabe directly." The young man took me to a seat near the corner and warmly greeted me, "I haven't received a student as young as you for a long time. Now, if you can’t keep up with the topic of your young people, it’s okay for you to say it in person, but don’t laugh at me online?”

"No, Mr. Watanabe and I shouldn't be much older..."

I recalled the questions I prepared last night, and then asked a lot of questions about the interns in such a half-interview and half-chat atmosphere. Kaede Watanabe didn't care about me at all, and told me a lot of interesting things he encountered in his life, for example, one of his best juniors recently took a completely opposite position to him, and even said I like the private topic of my younger sister...

However, Kaede Watanabe did not mention which matter he had a disagreement with his younger generation. This reminds me of Chen Zekai's sorted out information, and Kaede Watanabe happens to be one of the members who objected to "HELLO NEW WORLD".

After several times of thinking, I finally didn't want to hide anything from this sincere researcher.

"Mr. Watanabe... Actually, I am particularly concerned about a new project that you recently announced. To tell you the truth, this is what I want to know most about you when I come here today."

"Did you say 'HELLO NEW WORLD'?"

I nodded seriously, Watanabe Kaede always had a smile on his face, and suddenly he moved closer to me, as if he was chatting with me in a whisper.

"Let me ask you, what do you think after reading the content of this project...?"

This question silenced me for a moment. It's not that I worry about whether I will say the wrong thing, but I just didn't expect him to be so straight to the point.

"From my own point of view, the dream is shaped into a world that is close to reality, and the "life" born from fantasy and fantasy is used as the object of the experiment...or in other words, the life conceived in the human brain is regarded as artificial. Intelligence, whether it is loaded into the machine system of the new era, or used as a simple experimental object, I think it is a bit too taken for granted.”

"You think we haven't thought deeply enough?"

"That's not the case. The understanding of a child like me is definitely not as deep as yours."

"Tell me what you think."

Watanabe Feng raised his head and smiled, signaling that I don't need to worry too much. I stopped hesitating and said what I really thought in my heart.

"From the inhumane human experiments in the past to the era when using animals as materials is considered cruel, in fact, I also understand that there are more and more taboos in scientific research, and the future may stagnate because of the so-called "humanity". This In this case, if there is a life that was born for experimentation, I really shouldn't have any objections. But I always feel that we are letting them develop and then depriving them of their will."

"You mean: we create a new world, let it develop various life forms, but in the end regard it as a tool to serve us, is it to rationalize the enslavement of life?"

"Well, this is just my own opinion." For some reason, unexplainable feelings gradually occupied my heart, "If I lived in such a world, I would definitely think of ways to get everyone out."

"Maybe they will follow the way we created them, and instead formulate their own 'Dream Migration Plan'."

A third person's voice suddenly sounded from between the two of us. I suddenly raised my gaze, and saw a middle-aged man with a beard squatting on the ground, with his hands in the pockets of his white coat.

"Student Su Ruoyang, is that what you imagined?"

"Ah... I, I also said that these are all my own opinions. It may be one-sided. I still have too much to learn."

"Yes. You're definitely not far off."

Feng Chenghuan's words suddenly pushed me to the bottom. Suddenly, I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that Xia Yinci had joined the Core Research Association, and the distance between me and her became invisible to the naked eye the moment I saw Professor Huan. I lowered my head involuntarily, and there were bursts of buzzing in my ears.

"So, student Su Luoyang, when your theoretical knowledge rises to a sufficient level in the future, can I ask you to be my experimental assistant?"

"Eh?"

"What I like about you is your ideological quality. We can discuss the salary again. How do you think about it?"

Feng Chenghuan stood up talking to himself, stepped back a few steps in big strides, and looked at me directly from a distance that seemed far away but actually close. Watanabe Feng obviously didn't expect Professor Huan to bring up such an abrupt thing, and looked at me again in disbelief, as if he didn't even understand the reason why I was favored by him.

"Ideological literacy... a lot of people have it, right? I don't believe I'm the only one in the whole world who doesn't support your project."

"I only believe in my eyes. And, of course, I'm not saying you can join us right now."

Feng Chenghuan said, the figure walked farther and farther away from us, suddenly turned around and opened his arms towards me, leaving behind an intriguing sentence——

"Go and take our winter exams and beat all your competitors. Nothing that awaits you here will be easy, and it may be a long, hard probationary period. But I look forward to seeing you at university Your performance, student Su Luoyang."

There are always some things that are obviously strange but very familiar to me, as if they had been familiar in the distant past. Although I don't believe in past lives, I do believe that the déjà vu that accompanies me is something that happened.

It's like meeting again like a reunion, like hitting it off at first sight.

"So you're really recognized by that professor who doesn't look like a professor?"

A few days later, in the library, it was me and Lin Yu again. Today is the last day of summer vacation, but it rained heavily last night, making people not in a good mood.

"Ah... Aren't you a teacher without a teacher?"

"I'm not as self-righteous as that guy. Even though I'm a scholar doing research, I have to stand in the spotlight and play the leading role."

Lin Yu waved his hand angrily, as if he no longer wanted to discuss anything about this person with me.

"Actually, I'm not recognized by the other party..."

"That's right, you were determined by him to decide the direction of the future."

"There's no need to say it so harshly."

It seemed that Lin Yu had a really bad impression of Professor Huan. Obviously he has never met the other person face to face, but only recognized the person's name through photos or descriptive texts. Should I say that he simply can't understand people who like to stand in the center of the stage? "

"By the way, speaking of it... I saw Teacher Chamao there a few days ago, does she know anyone from Nuclear Research?"

"Are you talking about two foreigners?" Lin Yu's face turned down again, and he curled his lips somewhat helplessly, and said, "I really don't like that guy named William. But after all, he is An acquaintance of Tea Mao in college. You said that this guy invited her to help him with his nuclear research project, and the project still bears his and his wife’s names, isn’t it too presumptuous?”

"Uh, but why are they looking for Teacher Tea Cat?"

"I haven't told you about this. The professor in her postgraduate period still asked her to stay in the school to study for a doctorate." Speaking of this, Lin Yu's tone was filled with pride, and he said, "So, If she hadn't come out to be a teacher, I would never have met her in my life."

"Then did she accept the invitation from an old acquaintance?"

"I refused. No fool would listen to that bearded old man's lies."

Now I finally understand why Lin Yu has such a big opinion on Feng Chenghuan. Most likely, it is because of this researcher called "William" that he blamed him.

"By the way. Speaking of which, you haven't delivered your gift yet?"

Hearing Lin Yu mention Xia Yinci again, I couldn't help avoiding his eyes for a while, and then smiled at him.

"Not yet, I'm going to look for her after I pass the exam."

"By then? She's already out of the country, right?"

"I believe that if we are truly destined, it will stand the test of time."

"What if she fell in love with someone else?"

"That only means that I'm giving her a token of love now, just to restrain her when she meets someone she likes."

"How could you think so..."

"Her flight is leaving tonight. It's too late to go now. I've already decided on these things."

I seem to use these words to block the other party's words. Lin Yu sighed as if he hated iron for being weak. I took my hand out of my pocket and put this box in the drawer tonight. Just thinking this way, the hand that pulled out of the pocket inadvertently brought out a piece of crumpled paper, which just landed at Lin Yu's feet. He reached out to pick up the paper and subconsciously unfolded it.

"What is written on this paper?"

With that said, he handed the spread paper in front of me. I suddenly felt that this memory became very distant, and it was the first time I saw the words I wrote on the paper——

【 Whether it is an unrealistic dream or not...... 】

【 Do not covet a unreachable stars, and do just cherish your reversible future. 】

【 If the clock of dominators works again, take it back to infinite point. Lest you but wait for a savior that never turns up. 】

"English poetry? Did you write it?"

I shook my head when I heard this, feeling an inexplicable sense of déjà vu in my heart.

"Not really. Lend me a pen."

Lin Yu took out a fountain pen from the drawer and threw it over. I smoothed out the wrinkled corners of the paper and tried to translate the poem that somehow existed in my memory.

Regardless of whether this is just a illusory dream.

Don't go after the distant stars, just cherish your future that can be reversed.

If the Dominator's clock is running again, turn the hands back to where they started.

People in the world are not afraid to experience a moment of darkness, but they are afraid that they will not be able to wait for the savior who will never appear——

"In my opinion, it's not a literal translation." Lin Yu held the pen and paper in front of him, and said while writing a few neat lines of text below, "The meaning of this poem, I think, is somewhat modeled after a Chinese poem. The meaning of an ancient poem. "Admonish you not to cherish the golden thread clothes, and advise you to cherish the youth; the flowers can be broken, and the branches will be broken." What do you think?"

I took the paper in Lin Yu's hand, read the four-line quatrains back and forth in a daze, and couldn't help saying it again and again.

After the poem, let the sound go.

The gentle sunlight swayed on the pen and ink inadvertently, and the handwriting of the poems reflected the brilliance like particles. The paper also added a few new wrinkles out of thin air due to the strength of the hands.

"Advise you not to cherish the distant stars that cannot be reached, and advise you to cherish the coming time that is still reversible."

The verse read again has changed. I picked up the pen by accident, spread out the folded paper again, swayed a few strokes, and wrote down the next two lines of text as if engraved in my heart.

——I am not afraid of long-lasting twilight, lest I never have a bright dream.

[I will complete the things agreed with you no matter what. 】

【Of course. But if you still can't do anything after putting in a lot of effort, I'm willing to die with you to break our agreement. 】

My vision was blurred for some reason, and the silence around me made me feel like my whole heart was drowning in the water.

The ringtone of the text message from my pocket suddenly brought me back to reality. I picked up the phone and saw the text message sent by Xia Yinci.

"It's almost my turn to take off. I don't know if you will take the initiative to contact me in the future, and I don't know if you will still read the messages I send you in the future. It's so strange, why do you have this idea. It's because Do you seem to be hiding things from me these days?"

"Su Huohuo, will you occasionally come to play with me in the future?"

The heart was throbbing, and the words on the screen were dazed by the dripping tears.

Obviously I didn't think so in my heart. No matter how our story ends, I obviously want to be by your side.

Why am I making it sound like she likes someone else willingly?

"She must be waiting for you, go!"

I clenched the small box in my pocket, couldn't hold back the thoughts that were locked in my heart anymore, threw down the pen and paper and rushed out of the library. The footsteps behind him caught up to the stairs, and Lin Yu's voice came from afar.

"You kid, don't back down again this time."

Yes, I dare not see you these days, but you have been waiting for me all this time, right? The past, from so far away that I can't even recall it, is waiting for me.

"Are you chasing your girlfriend at the airport? Mr. Lin Yu has already told me, get in the car!"

The taxi parked at the school gate rolled down its window and waved vigorously at me. It turned out that Lin Yu was already ready to push me. Without hesitation, I opened the door and sat in the passenger seat. The wheels ran over the pond after the rain last night, and the taxi to the airport was speeding on the highway. This strange driver drove me at almost full speed to chase the flight that might have already taken off.

Thanking this stranger from the bottom of my heart for making an exception, I silently remembered the name "Chen Yong".

Only crowds could be heard in the airport hall, and the see-off place was empty. I was stopped outside the waiting hall and stopped in my tracks. Xia Yinci's mobile phone number has not been connected since just now. Countless people around me passed the luggage conveyor belt, and no one's eyes stayed on me for half a second.

I was helpless, and stood there helplessly. I could only read the text message she left over and over again, leaving another regret——

Facing me, someone's footsteps stopped in front of me.

My heart skipped a beat for an instant, and I suddenly looked up. Her eyes were still rippling with clear blue, but with hazy tears, but she still looked down into my eyes condescendingly.

"Why are you here, Su Huohuo?"

Her voice, like breaking ice, made me feel as if a century had passed in a dream. Without hesitation, I took out the box from my pocket and knelt down on one knee in front of her.

"Xia Yinci, shall we get married?"

"Have you smashed your head?! We haven't even confessed, have we?"

The pupils of the girl in front of her eyes trembled. I opened the box in my hand in front of her, held the gift that I had spent almost the entire summer vacation and all the part-time wages in my hand, and then slowly spread my palm and showed it in front of her.

It was a pair of rings engraved with each other's names.

"I'm serious. Actually, I wanted to tell you last week, but it's because you said you were going abroad, right? I don't want to tie your life up with this ring."

She looked at me with slightly parted red lips, but didn't say anything. She reached out and carefully picked up the ring on my palm.

"Didn't you want to tell me? Why did you go back on your word?"

I gently squeezed Xia Yinci's hand, hung the ring on her fingertips, and looked back into her eyes.

"Because I am determined to catch up with you, and this time I will let you wait for me again, but I will definitely catch up."

Xia Yinci's little hand trembled, but held me tightly.

"It's so natural, how can I have the nerve to refuse you?"

"If you want to refuse, if you don't stay here and wait for me, I can't catch up to the plane, right?"

"I didn't wait for you! The flight was delayed!"

"Hey, it turns out that there are flights delayed by only one person in the world..."

"Su Huohuo, you are really too much!"

I was hit on the shoulder with a fist. Although it didn't hurt, I still deliberately made a fake action of being hit hard.

With a snort, she raised the corners of her mouth and smiled lightly with her blue eyes.

The ring that should have been given away has locked us tightly. The metal-specific coolness felt on the ring finger seemed to blow away the sweltering heat brought by summer.

"Do you still remember the bad-hearted joke you made with me when we first met? I still remember it until now."

"From now on, are you going to create memories in this dream? I don't think I'm wrong."

Xia Yinci snorted willfully. Taking advantage of her unpreparedness, I hugged her into my arms and kissed her red lips.

The suitcase fell on the conveyor belt, sweeping the orange-red light,

The wind without leaves and petals has to move silently,

Just like you and I can't see the distance,

The dark rain clouds that stayed overnight also disappeared.

Nothing is passing by in this era of hopeful weather.

From now on, let's create our own memories in this irreplaceable new world.