Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

When the light began to slowly appear in front of my eyes, I saw a lead-colored sky. Gloomy as if nothing would happen in the next second. In addition, there are white flying catkins floating in the air not far in front of you. When you stretch out your hand, it will gently fall on the back of your hand, melted into water droplets by the weak heat on your body, and then wiped off by the back of your other hand.

I walked forward with heavy steps, and the snow behind me was covered with traces formed by footprints, extending to a distance that I could not see the end of.

"Su Huilin!! Where are you?" I stretched out my hands and shouted with all my strength as I walked forward. But all I got back was a dull echo, repeating my words irritatingly.

"It's so annoying..." I muttered softly, and then ran forward. But no matter where you go, there is only a layer of hoarfrost covering everything, and that leaden sky that is gloomy to the bone.

I suddenly realized that this has always been Su Huilin's dream world. To some extent, it is also her inner world. It's gray everywhere, not even a sparkle of color to be found.

The bell suddenly caught up with my steps. At the same time as it roared in my ears, it seemed to pull me hard in a certain direction, regardless of whether I wanted to do it or not. I guessed whether it would be the front or the rear, but I didn't expect the cold touch to spread from the bottom of the feet to the top, and now it has spread to the knees.

The moment I realized that I was being pulled down, the bell rang again. This time it seemed that I realized that the last time was not enough to pull me down, so the force suddenly increased...not only reached the loudness that made my brain throb, but also In an instant, I fell into the ice and snow, and in a blink of an eye, I came to a completely different situation.

For a while, I really stared at Venus. Dazed, I stood up, felt the familiar touch of the corner of the table, and glimpsed the unique classroom floor under my feet. I raised my head, surrounded by an environment I am not familiar with. It's just that the outside of the classroom is slightly different, it should be Su Huilin's classroom. In other words, this is the classroom in Su Huilin's impression. But she's not here either.

"Su Huilin!" I called out her name again, this time there was no echo, but a piercing silence that made people's ears ring.

I gritted my teeth and was just about to walk out of the classroom when I noticed a slight resistance from my clothes. I couldn't help but stopped.

"This is not your dreamland." A girl's clear voice suddenly came from next to my ear, but the tone was indeed familiar and cold, "Don't blame me for not reminding you. You can't dominate this world."

I was taken aback by this. Turning around, he glanced at Qianyan who had returned to her usual attire. Her cold eyes were staring at me. She was wearing a sweater that looked a size too big, so her fingers were hidden in the sleeves. The loose hood on her head slightly covered her forehead. s hair.

"In that case, then help me find her!" I don't know why, but I actually spoke to her in an orderly tone. It is also possible that this emotion was buried early and only now exploded.

"Why do you want to help you?" For the first time, Qianyan's eyes were no longer cold, but mixed with confusion and interest. It seems that I am very surprised why I have the confidence to say that.

"Qianyan, every time I face a difficult problem, you seem to appear beside me."

"It was your wish to stop time, and I will appear." Qianyan frowned reluctantly, and once again deliberately distanced her from me.

"Yeah, every time you told me that it was my own will that caused time to stop... it was because of the ability of the imaginary clock that you appeared here for me to see." I said this and moved closer to her , She even took a step back in panic, showing a vigilant look. I continued, "But I don't believe it. I don't believe it has nothing to do with you."

"So. What are you going to do?" Since I am much taller than Qianyan, when standing in front of Qianyan, she had to raise her head slightly to look at me. Thanks to this, this height difference suddenly reduced her arrogance and aloofness a lot. I was able to have the courage to say so much in front of her.

"I'm not going to do anything. I'm just telling you my guess. And now, I'm almost sure it's right—if I ever get into trouble, you're bound to get caught up in it too. .That's why you show up again and again. This time is no exception. Am I right?"

There are tiny raindrops mixed in the heavy snow blowing outside the window, probably because the closed windows of the classroom prevent the sound from outside the window from coming in. I lowered my head and looked at the twinkling eyes of Qianyan who was also looking at me. Compared with the previous situation of always obeying her, I was a little secretly pleased with this condescending situation.

"Since it's a guess, it has no definite basis." The girl's voice seemed to come from a street away, diluted by the sudden intensification of noise around her. Immediately afterwards, there was a sudden weight on my chest, and I felt powerless to resist. I followed this force and leaned back, and my back gradually approached the ground. Late in the future.

I blinked my eyes, only to find that everything had changed suddenly in just a second, the scene in front of me was no longer a classroom, but a snowy deserted street. The whole city was filled with the smell of depression. I raised my head slightly, and the lead-colored sky was suddenly torn and scratched by bright red, as if stained with blood left by a god who committed a heinous mistake.

His feet trembled uncontrollably, thinking that he was afraid. But when I lowered my head, I realized that was not the case—the ground was covered with jagged cracks like vines, as if you would only see it during an earthquake.

The next moment I was pushed up tremblingly by something. The "fragment of the earth" I was standing on was going straight to the sky, and everything around me became smaller in my field of vision.

Just as I was panicking, I saw a beam of light—the red light that pierced the sky was close at hand. The closer to the tip of that light, the brighter the color. Although the whole sky was dyed blood red because of it, it was as dazzling as a lost comet that accidentally brushed against this blue planet.

But I bumped into the tip of that beam of red light suddenly, and all my thoughts were fragmented in an instant, and what flashed through my mind were fragments that I had never seen before. But I can only see one of the pictures clearly - it is a space like a hospital ward, with messy equipment making noise, and the floor is covered with wires that are scattered like spider silk.

But before I had time to identify the people around me, the surroundings once again became a different scene—the snow had stopped at some point, and the basketball court was still empty under the gray sky.

I rubbed my dizzy forehead, and gently pressed my cold index finger against my temple. I was just about to stand up on the cold ground, but there was a strong resistance from my shoulders—the black leather boots were stepping on my shoulders. Although the girl in front of me didn’t seem to be using any force, how could I I can't break free, and even feel that I will sink into the ground. She seemed to be able to crush me.

"Your life and death have nothing to do with me. Do you understand? No matter what you get involved in, you won't implicate me." Qian Yan slightly lowered her body, her eyes piercing into my field of vision with piercing cold eyes.

"What I saw just now, is it what you want me to see?" I resisted the restraint of that force, and asked her a little stubbornly. As if hearing a dissatisfied answer, the weight on her shoulders increased several times in an instant, and there was a loud cracking sound from the ground. I fell into an endless dark abyss in an instant, feeling that I was constantly falling. It's like a never-ending fall.

I cried out, and the light appeared again. I fell into the gray sky just now, and returned to Qianyan in an instant. She stepped on my shoulders as before, and sat on the ground in a panic.

"Could it be that...the fragments I saw just now, as well as the terrifying city full of red light, were all you let me see unintentionally?"

Qian Yan's shoulders trembled as if she had been touched by something, she suddenly withdrew her right foot that was on my shoulder, and kicked towards my eyes.

While the sharp pain made me twitch numbly, I seemed to hear her murmuring - "That's why I don't want you to get close to me."

There was a burst of tinnitus occupying the brain in my ears, and there was a brief darkness in front of my eyes. In a blink of an eye, I opened my eyes again, and Qianyan stepped on my shoulder as before, looking down at me.

"It seems——this is the third time I was killed by you in a dream, and I came back to life, right?" I deliberately spoke to Qian Yan in a non-so-called tone, with an expression that I was thinking of something, "Oh, I see. You want me to think that you can kill me any time, and you want to prove that my life and death have nothing to do with you, right?"

This time Qianyan withdrew her right foot, lightly raised her hand and turned around, and suddenly there was a loud sound of cracking sounds in her ears. The surrounding buildings were stripped into steel and concrete, and they rushed towards me from all directions like a flood, pressing hard on my body, and finally a steel pipe was inserted straight into my head, and I was even agitated Pain in the brain.

open your eyes. wake up again. Leather boots on shoulders. Cold eyes. The disgusted look in his eyes showed a playful killing intent.

"Just because I hit your heart, are you going to kill me? Isn't that too domineering, Qianyan?"

Hit straight up with an uppercut and thrown back. I quickly shouted the words "time is still", the right foot I was about to kick stayed in place, and I took advantage of the still time to take a few steps back and circled behind Qianyan. Time passed again at this moment, I pushed hard towards Qianyan's back, the first thing that flowed into my palm was a soft touch from her skin, but not only did I not push her seemingly weak body to the ground , but stepped back a few steps as if touching a stone pillar rooted in the ground. This naturally means that my counterattack has failed.

The girl didn't stop because of this, the hood moved a little bit, she looked back slightly, and rushed towards me at a speed that my naked eyes couldn't catch, her elbow was broken violently and made a crackling sound, and the pain didn't even have time to get into her mind . After a while, the pain rained down on my body, and I didn't even have a chance to speak, so I lost consciousness again at the moment when I finally met the palm that hit my chest.

"Well... I feel that if Su Erin is here, I won't be beaten unilaterally by you." When I opened my eyes again, I endured the remaining pain and said again.

This time she didn't want to use more fists and kicks to increase the strength on her shoulders. I took a breath and returned to the situation a second ago.

Anyway, after that, I woke up from the scene just now several times. The beating of my heart was getting faster and faster, and the pain was more severe each time, so I couldn't help clenching my teeth. I don't know if Qianyan simply wants me to compromise or has other purposes. I really don't understand why she is unwilling to admit that my life and death are related to her. I don't understand whether this insults her bottom line or what, so she is so repulsive.

I don't know how many times this is, I opened my eyes again, staring at Qianyan in front of me silently. She put on such an impatient and disgusted look from beginning to end,

"Hey, Qianyan, help me find my sister." I took a deep breath, squeezed out a smile and asked Qianyan in a proposing tone. The strength on her feet increased a little more. Will do it all over again. I thought so, and simply closed my eyes. But this time the strength on the shoulders suddenly decreased a lot at this moment. The killing intent that filled the air just now has also been reduced to the point where I can't feel it.

Realizing this, I opened my eyes cautiously, but the scene in front of me made my heart beat faster for a moment, and my clear eyes stayed on my face, as if I wanted to ask for something. A burst of warm breath blew on my face, compared with the cold look, it was much warmer.

Qianyan hugged her knees and squatted in front of me, keeping a subtle distance from me. I couldn't take my eyes off her exquisite face for a while, and couldn't help thinking how intoxicated it would be to have a smile on her face. I've only seen her smile once before, at the time of the so-called "fantasy clock". time.

I tried to get up to avoid her itchy stare, but found it hard to move from the tingling in my shoulder. It was probably caused by being stepped on the shoulder hard just now. Just when I was confused——

"Explain in advance. I will only help you this time. Don't bother me if you encounter any problems in the future." The girl made such a strong statement without a doubt, so she stood up. Those eyes also suddenly disappeared from my field of vision, replaced by the silky smooth white skin between her skirt and stockings, followed by her slender legs wrapped in black knee socks.

I don't know why the leather boots under her feet disappeared, and she looked barefoot. Suddenly, William's voice echoed in his mind - "There is only one dream maker in a dream world, and they are the incarnations of the dream ruler's favorite image. Tsk, I didn't expect you to like this type?" Although he blindly denied it at the time This point, but I have to admit that sometimes Qianyan really fits the image I imagined best.

"What are you doing still in a daze?" came Qianyan's slightly dissatisfied voice. I froze and raised my head. Looking up from this angle, the seemingly small breasts show ups and downs with vigor.

"Ugh. You probably stepped on me too hard just now. You probably dislocated your shoulder." I hurriedly lowered my gaze and responded to her in a straightforward manner.

"You are so troublesome. Obviously everything in the dream is a free-wheeling existence dominated by "imagination", but you always restrict yourself by the rules you "admit"." Qianyan's tone was quite resentful. She bent down slightly, grabbed my collar, and I rose a certain distance with this strength, and she put down her hand when my knees just touched the ground.

Facing Qianyan in such a limp kneeling posture, does she really regard herself as my ruler? I was thinking about this and wanted to change this posture, but I never expected that she would suddenly raise her right foot and kick hard at my chest. As if his chest was pierced by a sharp knife, his vision was covered with a hazy veil, and he returned to the original scene in a blink of an eye.

Qianyan took back the weight on my shoulders. "In this way, your shoulder will return to normal." Her tone is really a posture that not only I should not blame her, but I should thank her.

Oh, is it possible that I should thank you for killing me for the nth time? I thought so in my heart, and stood up silently. Qianyan glanced at me, then walked forward on her own.

"By the way... didn't we waste a lot of time just now?" I couldn't help but think of Su Huilin's situation, and the time wasted in the dream still made me worry.

"No. Under certain conditions, every time you are killed, the time will return to the few seconds before your death." Qianyan explained rather reluctantly. I probably didn't want me to keep asking, so I answered so bluntly this time. Her answer reminded me of the term Qianyan once mentioned - "fantasy clock". Thinking about it carefully, what she is talking about now is probably the "fantasy clock", right?

"You have already satisfied the condition of 'sacrifice', now go break through the world's doomed matrix." Qianyan seems to have said the same thing. Now she also mentioned that the so-called "fantasy clock" can only be triggered under "certain conditions". Obviously, the condition she refers to is the "sacrifice" she mentioned earlier.

But what did I sacrifice? When I was in front of the Xinghai Tavern, I thought I would sacrifice four hours before the resurrection of me, Xia Yinci, and Elus. This time, I thought I would sacrifice Su Huilin because of Qian Yan time". But at the end of the day both times I didn't really make sacrifices. It's just that I thought I would sacrifice these.

In this way, it has something to do with "recognition" again, right? From this point of view, what the dream world needs is not "facts", but whether the person involved "admits" that it is a fact.

Tsk, that's why I say that the dream world is chaotic, and there are no rules to follow.