When the magic stick summons cute pets

The moment Ye Changsheng saw the blood jade, his mind was almost blank.

The blood-red jade the size of the little finger was clear throughout, exuding a lustrous luster in his hand.The color of the jade was extremely pure and rich, and it looked like it was a piece of evil treasure that could only be obtained after being buried in the woman's mouth and soaked for thousands of years.

But now holding the jade in the palm of his hand, he only felt that the jade was warm to the touch, not only was it strangely devoid of the slightest bit of coldness and evil that should be there, on the contrary, it vaguely revealed a hint of auspiciousness and blessing.

Ye Changsheng gripped it tightly, making sure that this was the blood jade he had lost at some point before.After all, there is probably no one else except He Jiuzhong who can eliminate the evil and resentment on this most evil thing so cleanly.

Countless scenes flashed through his mind quickly: the static 59:[-], the music fountain where he went back and forth but could not get out by himself, and his inexplicable fainting in front of the wooden house before... Each picture was composed of The dots are connected into a line, flashing in his mind like a revolving lantern, making his eyes darken instantly.

The feeling of being vaguely close to the truth did not make him feel relaxed. Instead, it was as if a huge boulder was pressing heavily on his chest, which made it difficult for him to breathe.

He took a breath, barely restraining the uncomfortable feeling of depression in his heart, then lowered his head slightly, took out his phone and glanced at the time again.

59:[-].

A strange light flickered in Ye Changsheng's dark pupils: this was exactly an hour behind the time when he was refreshed outside the room.

Correct.

- Refresh.

Putting the blood jade back into the shirt pocket inside, he leaned his weight on the door frame and stood, with his eyes half-raised a little, looking carefully at the densely packed space in front of him that made him unable to see clearly. The fog in the street did not move for a long time.

The white air mixed with his breath and air only flashed in front of him for a moment, and then was quickly swallowed up by the surrounding white mist.Ye Changsheng half-pressed his eyelids again, and the long and dense eyelashes covered his eyes, making it impossible to guess the real expression in his eyes at this time.

If his guess is correct—Ye Changsheng thought, the place they are staying at now is indeed not a real world.

Or rather, not the so-called real world in the general sense.

In fact, this should just be a parallel interlaced space built on the basis of the real world.

In other words, theoretically, this place should really exist, or at least once existed, but it should not appear in their current time and plane.

But now, it has been artificially distorted—using some unique method to transform this place into a closed and independent world.

He is still not sure what the rules of this world are, but what he can know is that in this world, his time axis has begun to go out of order.

Ye Changsheng subconsciously touched the piece of blood jade that he had stuffed into his shirt pocket through his thick coat, and then let out another breath, continuing to sort out his chaotic thoughts, trying to sort out what he now knew and what he had deduced. Things are simply sorted into a thread.

His blood jade has always been worn next to his body, and when he clearly found that the jade was gone, it was after he woke up from a coma in front of this house last time.And now, he has found his jade here again.

Ye Changsheng slightly shook the hand holding the door frame. Although his idea might sound absurd, he really couldn't find any other reasonable explanation - there was no other surviving Or, the person who knocked on the door just now is actually himself an hour later!

In other words, when he left the musical fountain at 59:59 at the previous time and marked the way to find the wooden house, the one who opened the door for him was none other than himself at [-]:[-]. .

He didn't know what caused the timelines in this world to be completely messed up and intertwined, so that two of him on different timelines would meet on the same plane, but obviously, for such a bug The rules of the world do not allow it.

So when the two him met, due to the "immutability" of history, the one who was relatively late in the timeline was directly forced to refresh by the rules, before the two him on different timelines met, and re-appeared. He teleported back to the musical fountain where he was supposed to be at 59:[-].

Thinking about it this way, many things can be explained.

Ye Changsheng thought about the old couple he saw at the musical fountain at first, and then thought about the miserable death he saw after being "forced to refresh" by the world, but all the traces of the tragedy disappeared in an instant The middle-aged man in front of him had a slight wrinkle between his brows.

So the question now is, if his guess is right, what should he do next?

Even if he knew that all the timelines in this closed space might be disordered, what could he do?

Not to mention whether there is any way to correct these disorders, what he is worried about now is a little bit lower-if it is said that when the two timelines meet, one of the timelines will be refreshed, how can he now? Guaranteed that I will not meet the earlier self in the turbulent flow of time, and then be forced to refresh and start over by the rules again as a bug?

As Ye Changsheng thought about it, he felt his head start to ache again.

The people in the room put out the lit candle on the table and put it away. The old couple watched Ye Changsheng stand in front of the door without saying a word for a long time, looked at each other, and then walked slowly together. She walked over and stood behind him and patted his shoulder lightly: "What's wrong with you, young man, why are you standing at the door in a daze."

The old lady looked out of the room through his body, and seeing that there was no one there, she couldn't help being a little strange: "Who was outside the room just now?"

Ye Changsheng's thoughts were temporarily interrupted by them, his eyes moved slightly, then he turned his head to look at the old couple with a smile, and said lightly, "It's probably because I'm too tired, I can't help but feel a little tired after standing outside for a while." In a trance." Then he reached out and closed the door, "I don't know who it is, there was no one outside when I opened the door, maybe we heard it wrong."

After hearing Ye Changsheng's words, several people in the room couldn't help but glanced at each other, with subtle expressions on their faces.

If it is said that one person heard it wrong, it is still excusable.But the knock on the door just now was heard by everyone in the room. Could it be that everyone heard it wrong?

But after all, there are already enough weird things here. If I think about it now, I am afraid that my psychological defense line will collapse first.

The old man looked at Ye Changsheng, hesitated for a while and suggested: "Then do you want to rest in the house? Anyway, it's still some time before dark, or you can sit here for a while, and wait for the rest go again?"

Ye Changsheng shook his head and smiled at him: "No need, I feel much better now. And time is precious, so there is no need to waste it in this kind of place."

Then he said to the others: "Let's make sure now, who is willing to go outside with me to see if there is any other way out?"

The girl who was the first to propose immediately stood up and walked to his side, and said firmly to him, "I want to go together."

Ye Changsheng nodded, then looked at the others: "Is there any more?"

The man in the suit seemed to be hesitant, but the old couple walked up to Ye Changsheng: "Let's go with you, our two old bones. Anyway, there is a possibility of danger wherever we stay. We're a little more proactive now, and maybe we can help you young people a little bit."

Ye Changsheng laughed and did not refuse: "Well, then there are four people now?"

Shen Wei has been watching them from the side, and when the discussion on the other end seems to be almost done, he got up and walked over and said: "Then add me too. The five of us will go out and have a look together."

Ye Changsheng didn't seem to expect that he would choose to agree to go out with them, raised his head slightly, fixed his eyes on him, and then said with some doubts: "The daughter of Mr. Shen..."

Shen Wei smiled helplessly, then turned sideways to look in the direction of the bald man and the man in the suit, and said, "I want to find the exit as soon as possible for my daughter. It's just that she is too young, and I can't take her out. While we're out, can you two please help me take care of her for a while?"

Hearing that they had been tacitly regarded as staying in the house, the expression of the man in the suit seemed to reveal a slight relief.He nodded and said to Shen Wei: "Don't worry, we will wait here for you guys to come back with good news."

The bald man didn't speak, but silently raised his eyes to look at them, which was regarded as a tacit consent to Shen Wei's request.

Seeing that everything was well arranged, Ye Changsheng and his party of five began to prepare to leave.

They found some ropes and embroidery threads from the house, first tied and fixed the left hands of the five of them with ropes one by one, so as to ensure that they would not be washed away in the dense fog, and then tied the thin embroidery threads Wrapped thinly around the doorknob of the house.

"At least in this way, if we want to come back, as long as we follow this embroidery thread, we won't get lost." The girl stretched out her hand to touch the embroidery thread, and her eyes showed some relief.

"And this can also prevent us from frequently going astray as much as possible."

Ye Changsheng nodded and added.

Seeing that the five people who were about to go out were all ready, Shen Wei said: "Then let's go now."

Everyone responded, and then they stumbled along the extended embroidery thread and walked towards the thick fog outside.

The fog was even thicker than before. Five people stood in a row, and the people in the middle could only see the faces of the two people on the left and right. If they looked to the side, they could no longer see clearly.

In order to cover up the fear in their hearts, the people around them began to desperately find topics to chat about, trying their best not to feel lonely in this dense fog that covered the sky and the sun.

But Ye Changsheng remained silent because of the previous speculation in his heart.

Before he left, he checked the time, and it was already [-]:[-]. If his own timeline was correct, then they should return to the musical fountain in more than half an hour.

If it goes well this time, his own time should officially start at 59:[-].

He gently held his hand in the gap of the rope tied to his left hand, and continued to think according to his previous thoughts: If the same person on two timelines meets, the one that is refreshed and reset will always be the later timeline It means that although the 'future' can be changed, the past 'history' is established.

They fell off the cliff at around 09:30, and the time went backwards after he was refreshed at 59:59.In other words, as long as he doesn't meet him before [-]:[-], the timeline he is in now will be stable for the time being.

Thinking of this, Ye Changsheng finally felt a little relieved: After all, he was probably still in a coma during that short half hour, and he didn't know how to walk around, which meant that he was walking around the street. The probability of encountering the previous self in time is almost negligible temporarily.

Shen Wei seemed to sense his strange silence, glanced at him, and said with a slight smile, "What are you thinking?"

Ye Changsheng looked back at him: "I'm thinking about the space-time paradox."

Shen Wei raised his eyebrows, and a question just right flashed in his light-colored eyes: "What do you mean?"

Ye Changsheng lowered his head, smiled and said, "Suppose that I escaped from this place two hours later, and then that me went back to a day ago and told me a day ago not to get on the bus leading to the Sky Garden, Then I wouldn't have gotten into that goddamn traffic accident and ended up in this inexplicable place."

Shen Wei followed his words and continued with a slight smile: "But if you didn't get on the bus, you wouldn't get into a traffic accident, fall off a cliff, or escape successfully later. Then you've never experienced this experience before." How can you go back to telling yourself a day ago that you are about to face an accident?"

Ye Changsheng shrugged his shoulders, and said lightly: "So this is the paradox of time and space. When the current world cannot explain this paradox by itself, the anomalies that appear will be forcibly modified by the rules of the world, and the 'parallel space theory' will also be changed. Come here."

Shen Wei looked at Ye Changsheng with great interest: "So you think this place we are staying in is the so-called 'parallel space'?"

"I'm just bored by myself, just thinking about it casually." Ye Changsheng sighed, looked up at the thick fog around him, and his expression was a little self-deprecating: "Parallel spaces are just It’s the most friendly idea. Think about it another way, with a bit of malice, maybe this is just a special simulation test box built by some people to pass the time to observe how the mice escape?

——Like those main gods in online novels who always take pleasure in teasing others? "

Attracted by Ye Changsheng's words, Shen Wei couldn't help but raised the corners of his lips: "Do you mean that our group of people are those unfortunate mice?"

Ye Changsheng looked up at him, but there was no smile in his dark eyes: "I mean, someone deliberately created this closed world."

"For fun?" Shen Wei repeated what Ye Changsheng said before.

"I can't think of any other reason." Ye Changsheng stared at him closely, as if he wanted to see something from his pupils, "Does the 'God' need a reason for doing things?"

Shen Wei couldn't help laughing: "Mr. Ye, so I think you may have read too many online novels and your imagination is too rich. How can there be any 'gods' in this world?"

Ye Changsheng slowly took his gaze back from him.He touched his lips with the tip of his tongue, and chuckled after a while: "Who knows."

A group of five people groped forward in the fog, and they stopped until they ran out of embroidery threads.

The dense fog obscured their vision so that they could not see where they were, but the ground under their feet changed from bluestone slabs to a unique cobblestone road.

The round Yuhua stone is inlaid on the ground. Even through the thick sole, people can still feel the obvious unevenness when stepping on it.

Although I haven't seen the real thing yet, through the thick fog, there is melodious and brisk music coming from the other end.

Ye Changsheng glanced at the time: 57:[-].

Sure enough, there may be variables in the future, but for him, everything before 59:[-] is actually just "established history", and the rules will not allow history to deviate.

The old couple and the girl obviously recognized the place, and they looked a little depressed. The girl walked towards the fountain, looked up at the beautiful goddess statue in the center of the fountain, and sighed: "It looks like, We didn’t get much out of this trip.”

The old couple patted the girl's shoulders comfortingly: "It's not nothing. At least we know that the roads on this street are distributed horizontally and vertically. On the premise that we don't repeat the journey, from the cottage to We can roughly calculate the distance here.”

The girl nodded when she heard the words, and frowned, "What we need now is more things that can be marked. After all, these lines are still too short."

Ye Changsheng didn't join their conversation, he was standing with his back to the Neng Goddess statue, his eyes were fixed on a certain direction.The girl walked up to him and followed his line of sight to look there, but she couldn't see anything except the white fog.

"What are you looking at?" the girl asked curiously.

Ye Changsheng slightly lowered his eyelids and looked at her, his eyes were obviously pure black, but at this moment, there seemed to be some kind of strange light, and the girl seemed to see something flickering in the bottom of those eyes in a daze. Swimmed for a while, but disappeared in an instant.

"hold on."

Ye Changsheng didn't explain it carefully to her.

He himself is also waiting for a result, waiting to verify that his previous memories really happened, not out of his imagination.

The girl felt that Ye Changsheng's attitude was a bit strange, but seeing the slightly dignified expression on the other end, she thought about it and didn't ask further questions, just stood beside him and waited for a while with some curiosity.

Only about ten seconds later, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps from the direction Ye Changsheng was looking at.

The girl froze for a moment, subconsciously raised her head and glanced to her side.I saw that the young man beside him seemed to have finally arrived at something, the expression on his face relaxed a little, but his brows were still frowning.

The hurried footsteps were getting closer and closer. Through the thick fog, the girl saw a black shadow approaching them. When she got closer, she could see that it was a middle-aged man covered in blood.Glancing at his face again, searching for vague memories, she immediately combined the image of the man with the passenger who was only one aisle away from her on the minibus.

However, before she recovered from the joy of finding a survivor again, the man stumbled up to the two of them and began to shout incoherently: "Help...help...I don't want to die! "

The exact lines revived Ye Changsheng's memory in an instant. He stretched out his hand and pulled the girl standing beside her who hadn't figured out the situation, and took a few steps back. Me, save me!" At that time, he quickly raised his hand to cover the girl's eyes.

The sound of the body exploding was a bit ear-piercing because of the closeness. Even though Ye Changsheng's kindness prevented her from witnessing the tragic scene with her own eyes, she just listened to the sudden explosion sound in her ears and sniffed the air floating in the air. With the strong smell of blood that was almost nauseating, the girl could already imagine what happened in front of her just now.

Someone died!Right in front of her!

The extreme fear of death occupied every cell in her body in an instant.

If it was said that when she found herself falling into this strange place before, she was just a little panicked, but now, after facing a death that is close at hand for the first time, she began to fall into a fear that was almost hopeless among.

Ye Changsheng naturally sensed that she was already on the verge of collapse, and his eyes lightly passed over the puddle of meat on the ground, sighed, then continued to cover her eyes, and half-dragged her to the fountain the other side of the

The old couple who were standing on the other side heard the commotion and immediately walked over. They looked at Ye Changsheng, their faces were pale and their eyes were straight, and they kept trembling slightly. The terrified girl couldn't help asking: "What's wrong? There's a lot of movement over there. It sounds like something exploded?"

As he said that, he looked over there, as if he wanted to go over and see the situation.

But before they could pass by, Ye Changsheng raised his hand to stop them, shook his head and said, "It's not a sight worth seeing, don't pass by." He glanced at the girl beside him again, sighed and pressed her Sitting by the edge of the fountain pool, she wrote a small word "po" in her palm with cinnabar, said a spell quickly in a low voice, and then slapped her head and forehead suddenly.

Ye Changsheng's strength was not strong, but the girl was tilted towards the fountain pool by his two slaps.The old lady at the side saw it, and quickly reached out to support her, so that she barely let her fall into the pool.

"This is..." The old gentleman on the other side looked at the woman's face, which had obviously improved a lot after being hit by Ye Changsheng twice, and a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes.

"It's just some emergency measures. After I was attacked by evil spirits when I was a child, my family used it to call my soul." Ye Changsheng smiled and said lightly.

Shen Wei just came by, glanced at the small characters written in cinnabar that had not been wiped off the palm of Ye Changsheng's hand, slightly raised the corners of his lips, and said, "It seems that you have learned well."

Ye Changsheng smiled and said: "Being a good doctor after a long illness, at least I have seen it so many times with my own eyes. The person who taught me is not as kind-hearted as Mr. Shen, and he is a little clumsy. I am afraid that he will still suffer in his hands."

Shen Wei looked at him for a while, then asked with a smile: "Is that the person you said is very similar to me?"

Ye Changsheng didn't make a sound, he wiped off the small letter on his hand, noncommittal.

The girl sitting by the fountain slowly regained her senses at this moment, she blinked slowly, and her whole face finally recovered a little.

It's just that his face was still extremely ugly, his lips were trembling slightly, as if he was still confused by the previous scene.

The old lady sat next to her and patted her head lovingly: "Good boy, good boy, don't be afraid... tell grandma what's wrong?"

The girl cried "Wow" as if she couldn't stand it at last. While wiping her tears with the back of her hand in a panic, she pointed at the other end tremblingly with the other hand, and said somewhat confusedly: "Someone... ...someone died...just now, right in front of our eyes...his body exploded...dead!"

As soon as he said this, the old couple were taken aback for a moment, then raised their eyes and looked at Ye Changsheng as if inquiring, and saw that Ye Changsheng nodded slightly, their hearts sank suddenly, feeling that the situation in front of them might be It's even trickier than it is now.

They just thought they were lost in this strange, uninhabited town. Although they couldn't find a way to the outside world for the time being, at least their safety should not be a big problem.

But obviously they were wrong.

The whole body exploded?What a tragic death that must be!Before this, they never even thought that people would die in such a weird and grotesque way.

Is that what this place brings too?

Standing aside, Shen Wei seemed to think that what the girl said was very interesting, he walked around the four of them, even after the smell of blood, and walked straight to the place where the flesh of the corpse remained on the other side.

Ye Changsheng narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Shen Wei's back, his face became a little serious.

The girl cried for a while, it seemed that she had vented most of the pressure accumulated in her heart through crying, and now her mood eased a little.She choked and sniffed, then raised her head to look at Ye Changsheng and said, "I saw you standing there, as if you were waiting for something... What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for him?"

Ye Changsheng seemed to be thinking about how to answer so that his answer would not appear so absurd, but after thinking for a while, he still decided to tell the truth: "Yes, I was waiting for him."

The girl froze for a moment, as if she didn't expect him to answer her question so bluntly. She opened her eyes and seemed a little puzzled: "You...knew he would come? Why did you know?" Remembering that before the man died, Ye Changsheng pulled her aside very quickly, and even covered her eyes intimately, and stopped sobbing in surprise, "You knew he was going to die?!"

Ye Changsheng nodded, and honestly admitted: "Yes, I know."

The girl and the old couple looked at each other, and countless guesses could not help but emerge in their hearts for a while.

Seeing this, Ye Changsheng scratched his hair, and then smiled helplessly: "Now, stop those weird conspiracy theories in your mind. Even if everything we are encountering now is a disaster If there is a well-arranged conspiracy, then I can't be the leader. I'm just like you, just an innocent traveler."

Short sat next to the girl, turned his head to look at her and said, "I will know what happened there, it's just because that man has already died in front of me once."

The girl froze for a moment, as if she didn't understand: "What do you mean?"

Ye Changsheng explained as briefly as possible: "If you can understand this as a parallel world created by time-space chaos... When did you first meet me here?"

The old couple thought for a while and said, "I met you shortly after we woke up...it should be around ten o'clock?"

Ye Changsheng responded, and then corrected: "It's 59:59." He looked at them and sorted out the timeline he had experienced, "You came to this musical fountain at 59:4 and met me, but, Just before you all appeared, this man died in front of me in exactly the same way as before—the time was [-]:[-] two hours later. That is, [-] minutes ago."

"Oh my god." The old couple felt a little dizzy from Ye Changsheng's words. They thought for a while before they managed to understand the logical relationship in his words, "You mean, when we met you Before, you have already experienced the time period of 59:59, and experienced the death of that man, and then for some reason, the time was suddenly moved back to [-]:[-], and then you met us?"

Ye Changsheng just listened to their retelling, and felt that this fact really sounded very ridiculous.He sighed, and said with a little helplessness: "First of all, I must thank you for your excellent understanding ability. Although I can't make you believe me right away, this is indeed the truth."

The girl remained silent when Ye Changsheng was speaking, and for a while, when the other end had finished speaking, she raised her eyes to look at Ye Changsheng, and asked a little abruptly: "When I was in the room before, who came to knock on the door?" Man, who is it?"

Ye Changsheng seemed a little surprised by the girl's sensitivity, he smiled slightly, but now he didn't choose to hide it: "It's me at 59:[-]."

"Actually, when I woke up from the coma, my time was fixed at 59:[-]. I tried to find a way out during the period, but I always came back here again inexplicably." He breathed a sigh of relief Explaining, "The last time I tried to find that wooden house, but the moment the door was opened, I fell into a coma again... After waking up, I met that man, and after that, you all know knew."

The girl thought for a while, then looked at the other end and asked, "How can you be sure that the one knocking on the door is you?"

Ye Changsheng took out his blood jade from his shirt pocket and spread it in his palm: "Because I found this outside when I opened the door just now."

"This piece of jade has always been with me, but it disappeared during the last coma, and now, it appeared outside the door."

The girl was silent for a long while, pursing her lips. There was no special expression on her face, but the way she looked at him seemed to indicate that she had begun to believe these words.

"The rules do not allow time paradoxes, so you were forcibly cleaned up as a bug in the operation?"

Listening to her deduction, Ye Changsheng twitched his brows slightly, smiled in surprise, and said, "How can you believe this? If I didn't experience all this myself, and someone told me so, I would definitely think that he Already having hallucinations due to mental torment."

The girl looked at him and forced a smile: "I used to be an avid science fiction fan."

Ye Changsheng nodded, and comforted her with a little pity: "At least in your life, you have already had a wonderful experience that other science fiction fans can't experience."

The old couple standing on the other side looked at the two young people who seemed to have reached a consensus between the question and the answer, their minds were confused for a while, and they didn't know what to say.

Ye Changsheng didn't expect everyone to believe his words, no matter what, at least the first half of his inference was indeed correct.As for the second half-it was now 59:[-], and his time successfully crossed [-]:[-] and began to flow backwards.

Although the parallel spaces may occasionally intersect, the time is only a few minutes at most.In the parallel space created by artificially using the chaotic time axis like they are now, all kinds of balance should be more unsustainable in theory.

Just give him a little more time, just let him find out the key points——

Ye Changsheng took a deep breath: In the future, as long as he is careful not to repeat the previous activities, avoid the places he has already passed, and be careful not to meet his past self in a certain place.

Well, if it happens...

Ye Changsheng felt his head ache again: as long as he didn't reset him back to 59:[-] and start over completely, he felt that he could accept it.

Moreover, what he is more concerned about now is whether he can't summon He Jiuzhong because of the difference in strength. This artificial parallel world knows that it can't carry his power, so at the moment they fall at the same time, this parallel world itself will Refused to integrate him into this space?

If it is said that they are really not in the same plane now, then it is indeed justified that the call does not respond.

But what if he could escape the rules through some gap and get in touch with He Jiuzhong again?

The question is, is he the one who can temporarily evade the rules?Where should he look for it?

Moreover, if his conjectures are correct, is the purpose of this parallel space just to separate him from He Jiuzhong?What's the point?

Tentative?

Test what?

——Is He Jiuzhong's identity?

The more I thought about it, the more problems would follow. My head, which was just aching in the past, was almost about to explode, and the pain was so excruciating.

He lightly hammered his sore temple with his hand, and decided to put these things aside for now.He was about to put the piece of jade in his hand into his pocket, but his hand slipped slightly, and the piece of jade rolled straight down along the smooth material into the fountain pool behind him.

This is called a house leak when it rains all night, and if you are unlucky, you will get stuck between your teeth when you drink saliva.

There was a trace of helplessness in Ye Changsheng's eyes. He had said long ago that his luck had never been very good since he was a child.

He glanced sideways at the fountain pool, and the water inside looked very clear, and he could see the bottom at a glance.Looking at the waterline again, it doesn't seem to be very deep.His blood jade was lying tightly on the bottom of the pool, and it seemed to be shining with a magnificent color.

A gust of wind blew, and the cold Ye Changsheng couldn't help shivering.In February, although it is said that it is the beginning of spring, the weather is still frighteningly cold.He was hesitating whether to take off his coat and go into the water to catch jade in the danger of freezing to death, when suddenly, at the moment when his hand touched the water surface in the fountain pool, a familiar voice came with an unfamiliar anxiety. It exploded deep in my mind.

"—Longevity?!"