Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

The hot summer sun hangs high above the sky, and the dazzling sunlight shines directly into the swimming pool of the water park, reflecting the same dazzling light.

The young Xia Yinci sat on the highest end of the water slide, and the extremely high drop from the water made her dizzy to the point of nausea, as if her body was protesting against herself. She turned back timidly, a woman was looking at her benevolently, her hands waving forward seemed to be signaling to Xia Yinci intentionally.

"Mom...can I...don't play with this...?"

Before the words were finished, Xia Yinci just said this, the woman's smile disappeared in a flash, the color in the pupils suddenly disappeared, and the slightly tilted neck caused the distorted gaze to stab Xia Yinci trembling coldly on the heart.

"You mean, don't you listen to your mother?"

"No... I didn't mean that..."

"I worked so hard to give birth to you, and you repay me by disobeying me, don't you!?"

It was like a lifeless rag doll again, with empty eyes. Whenever Xia Yinci saw her mother look like this, she knew that danger was approaching. She stood up instinctively, fear making her want to run back the way back. But the woman grabbed Xia Yinci's hair and pulled it back.

"I hate a rebellious child like you."

With the woman's force, Xia Yinci slammed into the two plastic doors at the entrance of the slide. She held her forehead in pain, and the venomous sunlight was captured by the woman who walked in front of her. stand behind.

The woman slowly raised her right foot in the high-heeled shoe, and kicked Xia Yinci's abdomen. Xia Yinci suddenly bent up with this force, and fell down the slide in despair. The cold water, The rust-like smell made Xia Yinci fall into the gray world completely.

"Hey! That child is dangerous! Whose child is that?"

Tourists near the water park pointed to the height of the slide and talked loudly. How many times the girl who slid down the slide was almost thrown out along the track of the slide. Once she fell from there, what greeted him was the cold and hard tile floor.

No one really came forward, only a man threw down the milk tea he just bought in his hand, he ran to the side of the paradise in a hurry, regardless of the milk that was spilled on the floor and even spilled on other people's clothes, the girl was also here When he fell into the pool and splashed water, the man immediately jumped into the pond.

When he took Xia Yinci ashore, Xia Yinci had already lost consciousness. He looked around in desperation, asking if anyone would come to emergency help. But the woman who caused all this showed a happy smile and ran to the slide to surf freely with the current. The nearby crowds are getting bigger and bigger.

"Hey, that woman up there...is she mentally ill?"

"It's terrible...I just saw that this woman pushed the girl down."

"The point is who brought psychosis to the water park?!"

"Yeah, if something goes wrong, who will be responsible?"

The sound of discussion surrounded the man's ears like flies, so he had no choice but to hug Xia Yinci tightly in his arms, kissing her forehead, and kept apologizing.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I shouldn't have left you alone with mom..."

Xia Yinci's mother came from a family with a genetic history of schizophrenia.

Her father, who had a persistent high fever in childhood, suffered from dementia due to delays in receiving treatment. Later, he was excluded in a factory for the disabled and suffered from mental illness. Her mother used this as an excuse to conceal the history of genetic diseases in the previous generation of the family.

Xia Yinci's grandmother thought that paper could cover the fire. After seeing Xia Yinci's parents got married, she finally couldn't bear the hard work of caring for the mentally ill and dementia patients all the year round, and passed away holding this secret.

Everyone thinks that Xia Yinci's mother is an attractive girl. Not to mention her good looks, her always energetic personality is also not to be bored. Xia Yinci's father was also attracted by her lively and cheerful appearance. No one expected that after she gave birth to Xia Yinci, her temperament would change drastically.

Perhaps it is the negative emotions that have accumulated all year round, which exploded due to the pain of childbirth. It's not as good as other mothers who will smile sincerely when they see their children. Although Xia Yinci's mother is also smiling, her smile is too penetrating. She stayed up for several nights afterwards, and by the time her father found out, it was already too late.

Xia Yinci's father hesitated for a long time because Xia Yinci had no one to take care of her, and finally sent her to a mental care center because of her friend's advice. After that, he hired a maid to take care of Xia Yinci's daily life.

When Xia Yinci was one year old, the nurse told her father that her mother had recovered from her illness. But after staying at home for two or three months, she went crazy again. After repeated this several times, Xia Yinci's father simply left her at home, because he heard from a friend that there were cases of patients being completely cured at home.

"It doesn't matter if you have children at home. Just give them different rooms and separate them, and you'll be fine."

He later regretted listening to the man's advice. Because he didn't hear until later that the child of that person was actually in a situation of worry and fear every day, and his good grades were getting worse and worse. The man thought it was because the child was playful and admonished him several times. The child did not say that he was afraid that the patient would go crazy and kill him every day. He was worried about the grandmother who took care of the patient, himself, and everyone else. He also ended up suffering from depression.

Similar things happened in Xia Yinci's family. Xia Yinci's mother always took the initiative to approach Xia Yinci, and her father didn't stop her at first, because he thought she might just want to get close to her daughter. Little did she know that every time she was away, she would abuse her daughter.

Xia Yinci clearly remembered that when she woke up one night, her mother was sitting beside her bed without saying anything, just looking at her. She was peeling the apple with a fruit knife in her hand, and she didn't care if she cut her index finger. Her gaze remained motionless, like an empty shell.

"Good boy, tell me where you hid my eyes. Tell me where the eyes are, and I will give you the apple."

Hearing her mother singing hoarse nursery rhymes, Xia Yinci finally cried out in fear, attracting the maid in the guest room. Xia Yinci hugged the maid and cried for a long time. She was frightened by her mother's ferocious eyes and the sentence "I'm so noisy! Cry again and I'll dig out your eyes." She held back her tears and could only sob softly.

Finally one day, Xia Yinci's father left with his mother. Before he left, he told the maid that her salary would be paid as usual, and hoped that she would take good care of Xiaoyin; and he needed to move out to take care of Xia Yinci's mother alone, because he understood how much living together would affect Xiaoyin.

"Until she recovers from her illness...until she returns to her former lively and cheerful appearance, I will bring her back and take care of Xiaoyin myself."

However, the young Xia Yinci only remembered that when she saw her father and mother leave, there was no reluctance or reluctance, only the peace of mind that she could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

perhaps..

In addition, she still has some thanks to her father.

...

There are pure white curtains dotted with floral flowers in front of the window. The afternoon sun shines in from the window, and pink lines bloom on the originally empty walls.

The photo frame that was originally placed next to the bedside table was hidden in the wardrobe by Xia Yinci. On the writing desk next to the closet, there are some strange books everywhere, and the display screen of the desktop computer is piled up under the books, even with a slight inclination.

She thought—it was about a year after she woke up from the coma, and the woman who took care of her daily life passed away peacefully. No one knew except Xia Yinci. Before she died, she still called Xia Yinci's name in a low voice, her voice was low and hoarse, she seemed worried that Xia Yinci would not take care of her future, and also regretted that she could not see her beautiful appearance when she grew up. When Xia Yinci wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, she closed her eyes forever.

Because of Su Guokai's work...or in fact, Su Guokai was worried that Su Ruoyang would remember the past when he was in the old place. In short, Su Ruoyang also moved. After that, Xia Yinci's opposite door lived in a couple who always stayed at home. She didn't meet them a few times, and she didn't think it was necessary.

Although my grandmother always told her that neighbors need to be kind and friendly, so they need to build a good relationship, but the concept of neighbors is becoming more and more blurred in this era, and her past concepts seem to have disappeared with her death. this era.

After that, whether it was in the corridor or Xia Yinci's house, there was always a deserted atmosphere. Only in the air of Xia Yinci's bedroom, there is still some smell of her nostalgia. Perhaps it was because the layout of the bedroom hadn't changed too much, and it still kept the original appearance, so it could be easily integrated with the layout in her memory. It makes her sometimes suddenly feel that her world has never changed.

Xia Yinci, who drifted between dream and reality in the state of a lucid dream, looked tenderly at Su Ruoyang, who was sleeping beside him and sometimes frowned, with her plain fingertips lightly brushing his cheek.

She remembered that before Su Ruoyang moved away, she would often come to her home to play. He really doesn't remember what happened before. Sometimes when he was tired from playing, he lay down on his bed and fell asleep. Quiet and quiet, it seems to be dreaming forever. Xia Yinci didn't feel disgusted either, and just quietly watched him from the side just like now. Although she also harbors the fear of that unpleasant memory.

It's been more than ten years... Contrary to the fact that Xia Yinci was accidentally involved in the domination war by Su Ruoyang many years ago, now it's Xia Yinci's turn to lead Su Ruoyang to the place called "the gap in the dream". world, making up for the number of Dominators missing from Clock Two.

Feng Shui flow. This may be what Qian Yan said, "destiny".

But if you change it to another word, it belongs to them, "script"...

During the three months when Xia Yinci fell asleep in her dream, she changed a lot because of what happened in her dream. For example, there will be scientific magazines or books on the table that were impossible in the past, and she can communicate with anyone fluently...or sometimes she will tease Su Luoyang, making Su Luoyang feel uncomfortable all over.

Suddenly, an itchy feeling in the abdomen pulled Xia Yinci's consciousness to the side of reality.

Xia Yinci hesitantly moved his gaze to the bottom of his field of vision. I saw Su Ruoyang's hand inadvertently stuck to his abdomen, just touching the scar that was born from him. Xia Yinci didn't know what Su Ruoyang saw in the dream, only that Su Ruoyang withdrew his hand suspiciously.

She looked at the sleeping Su Luoyang with a blurred vision, and showed a troubled smile.

...

Xia Yinci remembered the first time he met Su Luoyang. It is a small garden at dusk.

The setting sun dyed the slide, which had faded slightly due to the passage of time, into golden red, and the young Su Luoyang sat quietly at the bottom of the slide, as if he had no interest in the slide. His gaze was always inadvertently looking at the children playing ghost games in the square.

Xia Yinci was swinging alone on the lonely swing, her eyes fell on Su Ruoyang who was looking elsewhere. She felt that he was the same color as herself. As for what that "color" is, and why she feels that she is similar to him, Xia Yinci, who is still young, can't figure it out.

It's just this hidden "similarity" that made Xia Yinci have a one-sided intimacy with the boy, and made Xia Yinci, who never dared to raise his eyes, be able to stare at someone for a long time. But the line of sight was suddenly cut off by the figure of a certain boy, and Xia Yinci slowly hid her sight.

"We're going to swing too~ Can you come down after swinging for so long?"

Xia Yinci's eyes fell on the boy's chest. She had an impression of the white shark pattern on the boy's clothes. He was one of the children who played ghost hunting just now. She timidly left the swing, left it to someone else without a word, and walked to a side corner. Even though she didn't want to do it in her heart.

"Hey. Are you staying in a dark corner like me?"

"……ah?"

Suddenly the setting sun on the front side was blocked by someone's figure, Xia Yinci hurriedly raised her head, and looked at the young man who accosted her without warning.

"Why didn't you speak? You were looking at me just now, right? My feeling should be right."

"Why? I should have been very careful just now so I wouldn't be discovered..." Xia Yinci complained softly while dodging the young man.

"Because people of the same color can discover each other."

after that. The two who stayed in the corner stayed together, so they were no longer alone.

The young man always spoke words with unclear meanings, terms like "lucid dream", "subconsciousness" or "single world layer", Xia Yinci had never heard of them, but she still worked hard to understand what he meant.

In Su Luoyan's eyes, she is the second person who listens to her speech so seriously. Sometimes the way she stared at him with bright eyes made him so distracted that he forgot to continue talking for a moment, and looked at her in silence for a long time, until Xia Yinci showed a strange look, then he scratched his flushed cheeks and continued.

Then one day. Xia Yinci, who was staying at Su Luoyang's house, unintentionally leaned against Su Luoyang's heads and fell into a deep sleep.

At this time, the awe-inspiring voice seemed to reach her ears from far away, cold but with a clear outline.

"You finally came."

Although his tone was as cold as an iceberg, his words sounded like he had met Xia Yinci before.

Xia Yinci opened her eyes in a daze, and she found herself in a dimly lit room made up of interlaced black and white grids. The curved walls surround the room in a circular pattern, and the ceiling is a curved iron bar like a birdcage. A silver-haired girl leaned against the wall and stared at herself coldly.

"Have I... seen you before?"

"Oh. You too. So is he. Joining the domination war, the timing of your appearance is too early."

"I don't understand what you mean... Are you talking about Su Luoyang?"

"Now you don't need to know what I mean. Su Luoyang still hasn't understood the meaning of time, and she can't use her dominance ability to participate in a domination war rashly. It's pure courting death. So—"Registrar of the Illusory Clock", I need You start the hands of the clock at the expense of your dreamer, in his stead."

As soon as the words fell, Xia Yinci's pupils burst into lightning-like flames, as if she was using the words of the strange girl in front of her as an order.

It was at this time that Xia Yinci's controlling ability - "Reservation" was activated spontaneously for the first time. Xia Yinci, who has the ability to exchange her own dominance with others, subconsciously replaced her and the boy's dominance.

at the same time. Su Ruoyang's dream palace, in front of a crimson world gate.

"Impossible... how can a dreamer who can successfully enter a lucid dream not be able to use his control ability!"

Confused, Lin Yu supported Su Rooyang, who was exhausted due to excessive force, and glanced at Su Rooyang in disbelief. He grabbed the hair on his forehead irritably.

"Su Ruoyang, try again!"

Su Ruoyang nodded his head when he heard the words, and at this time he was also feeling a little uneasy. He was worried that if he failed to meet Lin Yu's request, Lin Yu would not take him to the other shore.

But before he tried again, a flame in the distance disappeared instantly at a speed that was difficult for the naked eye to catch, and went straight into Su Luoyang's pupils. Lin Yu frowned and took a careful look at the direction the flames were coming from, then looked at Su Ruoyang, and noticed an ancient clock with gradually changing colors in his eyes.

In the next second, Lin Yu was violently pulled to the ground by the sudden intensified traction of his feet.

"Is the storage period defaulted to three years? Then, I hope you can complete your task within three years."

Hearing the sound, Xia Yinci in the cage opened her eyes again. She vaguely saw the silver-haired girl resting her hands on her squatting knees, looking at herself with a hint of a smile in her eyes. She took off the hood of the sweater at some point, and Xia Yinci saw her beautiful long hair.

"'At the expense of the dreamer'...what the hell does that mean?"

The girl pursed her lips, and the figure suddenly disappeared from her sight, leaving only a cold voice.

"Well. At least as long as the fantasy clock is stored on you. I will stay by your side as your dream maker."

...

The bottomless seabed was like an abyss, the young man was crushed down by the heavy water pressure, and he couldn't help but waved his arms vigorously to climb up.

At the moment when the sky at the entrance of the cave broke, a tender little hand tightly grabbed the boy's falling wrist. The girl tried hard to grab the boy's hand to pull him up, but she couldn't take care of herself, but someone kicked her back hard, and the helpless girl fell into an endless abyss.

Despite this, Xia Yinci still held Su Ruoyang's hand tightly and refused to let go, her vision gradually became dim, and she gradually became unable to see clearly the face of the young man who was close at hand. The fear of the dark and the sadness of not being able to use it made her feel sore, and the tears blended with the water in an instant.

"I'm sorry, Su Huohuo... I dragged you down... It's my fault that it became like this, because I have never dared to tell you. If you have the dream clock that Qianyan said, if I If you don't listen to her and register the fantasy clock, your dreams will not be taken away, and you will not lose the ability to take it back."

Xia Yinci frowned hard, trying to smile at the boy. Although she didn't know if she succeeded in putting on a smile, let alone whether he could see her smile in this dark field of vision.

As if taking this opportunity to make up her mind, Xia Yinci moved her spare right hand to her chest, and carefully grasped the treasure left behind.

"Hey... think back to your hard work during this time, Xia Yinci..."

While she was praying, she raised her little hand and clenched the boy's other hand. Their palms touched each other lightly and moved to the front of their shoulders.

Just as the vision of the two of them was approaching darkness, Xia Yinci tightly closed her eyes——

"Even if I haven't been able to skillfully use this dominance all this time, the effort I put in is enough...Whether it's Qianyan or Su Luoyang, although their reasons are different, they are all by my side I look forward to being able to start the hands of the utopian clock. So, it’s okay, it’s definitely okay if it’s now. Recall all the hard work I’ve put in during this time... Chien—give me, come out!”

At this moment, a dazzling light burst out from the palms of Su Ruoyang and Xia Yinci's hands, and the surrounding world was instantly illuminated by it.

An inconspicuous flame is like candlelight in daytime, low-key but real, hidden in Xia Yinci's blue eyes.

"As the depositor, have you finally decided to return this dominance to him?"

A distorted sound came from nowhere, and was quickly washed away by the oncoming water. At this moment, time seemed to stand still, the water was no longer surging, and the boy and girl were no longer falling. In the scene where everything was a still life, only a silver-haired girl appeared lightly in front of Xia Yinci.

"That's right, it's already... alright. If it's now, he will definitely be able to use the 'Fantasy Clock'."

"But the time limit for storing the imaginary clock is three years." Qianyan's tone remained unchanged.

"Isn't it time to take care of this kind of thing...Su Luoyang said that the dreamer who loses the dream palace is equivalent to losing protection. Once he dies, he will really die...So please, Qian Yan. You don’t want him to die, do you?”

"You are the 'registrar'. You should count on yourself, not me."

"Tell me...how can I do it."

As if she had been waiting for Xia Yinci's awakening for a long time, Qianyan cast her cold eyes on Qianyan for the first time.

"Reserve the dominance ability of others in your own "position" and use the domination ability of others. This is your unique ability, but this is not an unconditional deposit. If you choose to "exchange", you must pay the corresponding price , and ignore the storage period, you will have to pay the price multiplied several times.”

In the absolutely still world, only the sound of bubbles bursting on the surface of the water rubbed against Xia Yinci's ears.

She didn't know what price she could pay for having nothing in her hands, but even so, she still gathered her almost loose eyes and looked at Qianyan.

"No matter what you want, everything about me——you take it all away."

In the next instant, the negative that fixed time suddenly disintegrated, and a clock pattern appeared in the turquoise sea water that wrapped the girl's body, extending from near to far from the girl's pupils to a distance that could not even be seen by the naked eye. The golden red flame distorted the nature of the intertwining of the two.

"Then, at the cost of 'your life', we will exchange your positions again."

The voice disappeared together with the voice of the silver-haired girl. The ancient clock depicted in Xia Yinci's pupils suddenly jumped out of her pupils and pierced directly into Su Ruoyang's right eye. The clock that appeared in the boy's left eye at an unknown time also turned into a dark red flame, slipping into the girl's pupil quietly.

"This is fate. ——The "registrant" of the fantasy clock will eventually hand over the fantasy clock to its true ruler."

This time, the voice came from Su Ruoyang's ear. On the contrary, Xia Yinci couldn't hear the girl's cold and clear voice this time.

"From now on. I will be your dream maker."

Suddenly, the clock in the boy's eyes began to turn counterclockwise.

As if affected by the clock, the scene of the young man being surrounded by sea water, like a video played backwards, quickly flew to the past.

"From now on. You will be mine, ruler."