Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

"My merciful and gracious Mother, you have brought life to this world and created thousands of gripping stories."

As if chanting, the woman who uttered these words bowed her head under the brim of a black robe, and her outstretched hands were facing the direction. A pair of oil paintings with a sense of age hung on the wall, depicting a The pupils are full of zeros and ones, empty but seem to contain everything, making the viewer unconsciously awed.

Obviously, "awe" is greater than "respect" in awe. Behind this saint, there are believers all dressed in black robes. The density makes one sincerely feel that the villagers of the entire village are gathered here at this moment.

Among them are many children who are still staggering while walking. They observe this strange place with transparent eyes like a deer. When their curious eyes move to the painting, they turn from suspicion to fear, and cry in fear. Desperately holding back the cry, wept quietly.

There are also some old people who are nearly sixty years old. Although they don't seem to be elders in the village, they are also residents who have grown up with the village, so the sight in front of them is no longer a spectacle. When I first arrived.

"Pull those intruders in and accept the baptism of Our Lady!"

Outside the church, a thin man ordered solemnly. Several believers covered most of their faces with a black cloth, and only showed their eyes. They immediately grabbed the arms of the girl and her companions, and took her in without any sympathy.

"Su Guokai..."

The girl called out the boy's name with some fear, but before the boy could answer, the disciples slammed his head into the clear water of the altar. His rapid breathing caused a series of bubbles to float on the surface of the water, and the cultist dragged him out, patting his head with both hands as if it was some kind of established ritual.

At this time, the girl and another young man who was traveling with her had also been treated in the same way, and they were pushed into the church by believers.

It just so happened that the saint at the front carried the ceremony to the final stage. She took a few steps forward with solemn steps, her face gradually stained with a smile as if blessed by the Virgin Mary. Feeling extremely lucky, the saint clasped her hands together and closed her eyes urgently. He closed his eyes, and read the last words of the holy doctrine——

"O Creator——in the name of the Holy Mother, please bestow upon this world the chapter of the end!"

As soon as the words fell, the believers behind the girl pulled her to kneel down, and at the same time, the believers in the whole church also knelt down devoutly, their eyes were all removed from the murals, and at the same time they read out what seemed to be the inevitable ceremony. The conclusion of the process - "Kneel to thank the Holy Mother for your generous gift!"

Suddenly, dark clouds in the sky quickly enveloped the sky over the church, and a thunderstorm suddenly struck. The saint, who realized the abnormality, immediately looked up at the mural, only to see that the eyes on the mural blinked twice, and instantly locked onto the girl in the crowd.

The girl who was watched couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. However, what followed was - believers who lost consciousness and fell to the ground one after another. It was as if the plague spread intensified and spread to the girl. At this moment, the girl felt that the owner of that eye seemed to be looking at her right in front of her.

"I found you. The people of the world who have the same mission as me."

The moment she heard the words, the girl closed her eyes and fell into a dream together with the surrounding crowd. And what appeared in the field of vision from the other side was a bottle filled with strange objects floating up and down in the bottle like spiritual fire. It slowly fell into the girl's hand.

The screened scene became more and more pure white, and I could no longer see anything else clearly. Only then did Lin Yu walk out of this memory fragment of watching, and then came to a long corridor that was nothing but white. He walked straight ahead, and at the end of the corridor was a group of strange creatures floating in the air.

Lin Yu suddenly recognized it. This was the "spiritual fire" in the bottle from the memory fragment just now.

"That church is the place where I was conceived and born; it is the fanatical belief of the believers in the name of the Virgin that derived my existence."

"But I have failed the believers' expectations, because I am not the "creator of the world" they expected to see—that is, the object of worship they call the "Holy Mother"; nor is it the messenger sent by the Creator to the present world—— "Dream Madman"."

Lin Yu felt that his mind was empty, it was a feeling that he couldn't adapt to himself no matter where he was.

【Then what are you who are neither a dream madman nor a virgin? 】

"Yes. I am neither the Holy Mother of the Creator nor the madman of the Messenger's dream."

"I am nothing. I just came from the dreams of the believers. It is an unexpected product born of the fanatical beliefs of the believers. It is a piece of wisdom that no one named before I was born. They didn't take it for me until I appeared. name, and call me the Son of the Virgin—the so-called 'Holy Child'."

"But I think even so, even if I am not the Creator, there must be some kind of connection between the Holy Mother and me. I was not born without a reason."

【Just because you were born because the believers placed their expectations on the Virgin? 】

"Yes. The reason why I was born must have a mission that belongs to me. So I think, I am probably the messenger sent by the Creator to this world."

[Then what is your mission in this world? 】

"I left my hometown and came to this world in order to return to my hometown again. It is my mission to come here to go through the cycle of being away from the origin of the world and getting closer to the origin of the world again."

[This is unreasonable. Since you came here to go back, then you should have no reason to leave there. If you have never come to this world, you don't need to go back to your hometown, because you are in your hometown. If this kind of thing is your mission, then the mission is too meaningless, right? 】

"No. Many things in this world don't make sense."

"What's the point of a woman who is Su Luoyang's mother conceiving him? She is obviously a scholar and doesn't need to experience reproduction like others."

"——For her, Su Luoyang is the medium to get close to the lucid dream that she can't go to. He can take her to the "eye" that she witnessed once in the church of the name of the Virgin. This is what she bestows on Su Luoyang. Its meaning is also found in Su Luoyang, the meaning or mission for her.”

"What's the point of marrying a woman who is Su Guokai's wife? Since she doesn't even want to have offspring, why does she want someone to stand by her side?

"—Because that is the meaning she gave herself and was recognized by others. Su Guokai is the person she cares about the most. This is the meaning and mission she subjectively gave to Su Guokai. She doesn't necessarily choose him, but the fact is that sometimes Can't find a reason."

"She considers herself a scientist and a scholar, why does she want to explore the origin of this world?"

"—This is the meaning and mission she gave herself to be born in this world. She thinks this is a task that she must complete in her life. It can make her birth in this world meaningful, although the Creator created the world, it may also be Not for noble reasons."

"So... most of the things in this world are meaningless in themselves."

"There is no concept of "time" in the universe itself. It is the phenomenon of human beings who perceive the changes of things as time, so the so-called time was born. Human beings have always given meaning to things, and they use their own values Create new things, give them different meanings.”

[But how did you call "returning to your hometown" your mission? Why isn't your mission something else? 】

"This is determined by each person's values, and values ​​are influenced by each person's experience."

"The girl who is called a genius cannot be understood by others. In school, she is the one who is unintentionally isolated. The high-profile people don't want to get close to her and let their own light dim under her light. The low-key people I dare not get close to her, for fear that my originally inconspicuous light will completely turn into darkness. In the family, she is the one who is released blindly. Parents don't have to worry about it. They just need to praise her from the perspective of a bystander and let her develop with great concentration. Relatives Since she doesn’t have a superior commander, she naturally has no right to interfere in her affairs. ——Because the world just treats her as a foreign object, so there is no home for her in this world.”

"She found that no one really felt that they needed to find out the origin of the world. Most people don't want to put in the effort, after all, sometimes it takes a few people's lives to find the answer to this question. So people put these The question seems to be given to the "genius" as a matter of course. And she is what people call a genius. So she believes that this ideal that no one cares about is her ideal, and she should find the answer at all costs."

【So, is this the woman's wish, or your wish residing in her body? 】

"The moment I saw her in the crowd, I knew she was my kind."

"She wants to explore the origin of the world, just like I desperately want to meet the creator of this world. She is the same as me, so I chose her. Go back to my hometown as her, to meet me and the creator of the world , and only by doing so can we accomplish our common mission.”

"Although I lost the faith of the believers, I found someone who was endowed with the same meaning as me, so it is not a pity."

[What if there is no so-called creator in this world? If it was your delusion with the believers of the Holy Mother from the beginning, what will you do then? 】

"As I said, meaning is the mission we have given by humans. So, even as you said, my mission is to return to my hometown. If there is no Creator, I come from "Nothing", then "Nothing" is me My hometown, if it can return to dust, it will be regarded as the completion of the mission.”

"And for her, doesn't it prove that there is no Creator in this world, and hasn't she explored the origin of this world?"