Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

How did the ancients think of "the sky is like a round cover, and the earth is like a chessboard"?

Is it a conclusion based on experience and what one sees, or is it that people are born wanting to rely on external objects to reinforce their cognition of no fixed place?

I think the answer is more towards the latter. You see, the history of aviation has been more than 100 years ago, but there are still people who cling to the back of the seat when the flight takes off, and their feet are very unsteady.

The eardrum creaked and creaked, and the body was drowned in the pushing sensation from below and behind.

You watch the view from the window gradually move away from the ground, and a thumbnail image of the building group is reflected in the window. The tense heartstrings snapped, and the "world" that I mistakenly thought to be when I was a child was just a small town that couldn't be found on the map.

The world is farther away. Not in front, hidden in deep space.

The scenery swayed from side to side like a swing, gradually swaying above the clouds. So a bed of pure white cotton was spread underneath, and the sky against it was a bit dazzlingly blue. You stare into the deep sky, as if you will be sucked into the universe at any moment - the abyss called the world.

The sense of attachment to the earth arises spontaneously without knowing why.

Even if it lands, it can't get rid of the ethereal feeling of emptiness. Because the same is true for people living in the world, there is an unstable atmosphere everywhere. Even the ground we thought was solid under our feet turned out to be just a planet floating in the boundless universe.

I think that everyone believes that the ground under our feet is reality at the beginning, so we will feel at ease when we step on the ground.

But the more people grow, the more the world betrays their understanding. Even the earth, once thought to be immutable, is dragging us by thousands of miles. The sense of attachment to relocate has long been submerged in the endless wandering in the universe.

People once firmly believed that they stood at the center of the universe, and everything in the universe revolved around the earth. Although there are many fallacies in it, isn't their stubborn opinion not the last resistance of human beings who grow up and become helpless against the sense of insecurity of being betrayed by the earth?

If so. Lin Yu was determined to announce the outcome of that decisive battle, and it was also for the fate he had firmly believed in. Fight in the end, right?

All his hatred for me comes from the despair of being betrayed by the war of domination.

He wakes up the prisoner who is numb in peace, and disappears into the cage under the eyes of everyone, not to escape the prison, but to betray his fate.

"The cage built in the dream, even if you try your best to escape, you just run to the next dream and still can't wake up. The same is true for fate. There is no way to escape, it is difficult to escape."

The mirror wall cuts my field of vision and divides it into two sides. The black cat that was reflected in two copies stroked the hair that was brushed next to the cheeks to the back of the ears, and walked up to me with pretended light steps. Her jewel-like eyes still fell on me.

"...How do you decide, Su Luoyang?"

The sound, almost to the ear, seemed to melt my silence. Knowing the whole picture of Lin Yu's plan, my vision was shaking for a while. The soles of my feet seem to be soft cotton wool, and the moment I catch up with my steps, they are collapsing downward, bringing my sense of sight and sound to the endless abyss.

The light is fading behind.

"That means I still have the right to choose, right?"

Hearing the words, the black cat pursed its lips, and the arc of that smile became bitter. She shook her head very slightly, as if denying my words out of great reluctance.

"What Lin Yu meant was actually to let us take you there by force. As I said before, because Lu Lu found you unexpectedly... So Lin Yu thought that after he disappeared, Lu Lu would definitely take you with him Look for his whereabouts. And you said that you would look for him again, but you have not fulfilled the agreement. Therefore, you and Lulu will definitely find the restricted area in the end. As expected, you really chased her there. "

The black cat didn't go on talking, and looked at me with a rare wavering gaze.

I suddenly remembered the day I reunited with Lin Yu, I left him a sentence "I will come to you again". Immediately, the memory jumped back to the second when he met the black cat again, and the condensed black mist in the restricted area slowly dispersed under the beam of the flashlight. Everything suddenly became self-evident.

"... As long as you take away the dominance of my body at that time, you can send me to the battlefield designed by Lin Yu with full confidence. Is that so? Those people in the forbidden zone just now are waiting for you to do it, use Lulu Black mist sent me to Lin Yu, right?"

The black cat's eyes suddenly trembled, which was equivalent to a tacit answer to me. No wonder those people stayed in the restricted area with their heads bowed in silence, as if they were waiting for their prey to take the bait.

"Well... Lin Yu is already waiting for you there. As long as those followers receive the information that you have taken the bait, they will be responsible for leading all the criminals to your battlefield, and let them witness the real battle of domination instead of observers. ending……"

"I want to know more, why didn't you do it?"

I couldn't help interrupting the black cat's words, the black cat's eyes finally couldn't hide the panic, she bit her lips lightly, lowered her gaze to avoid my direct gaze. The calm and unhurriedness of the past slipped away in an instant.

Sure enough. Thinking about it carefully, the abrupt black mist could not have been left unintentionally by Lin Yu after he left. Otherwise, how could the prison guards not have noticed the trick? The only possibility is that after I got there, the black cat quietly replaced Xiao Lulu and dominated their shared body. She used Lulu's space-dominating ability to silently throw me into the final battlefield, that's why it appeared so close to me.

The reason why the black mist dissipated was because the black cat wanted to cover up the past love with lies, even if it covered its mouth, it would still run out of its eyes.

"Unexpectedly, in the end it was you who gave me the right to choose."

I suddenly smiled wryly. Apart from laughing at his vigilance against the black cat at that time, in fact, more of the wry smile came from the increasingly complex emotions he had unknowingly had towards the black cat.

"You didn't have to face me. The last lie you told me back then was that you were ready to never see me again, right?"

——【I just think it will be very interesting. 】

"Wrap me in the black mist as Lin Yu said, so you don't have to face me."

She repented at the moment she started, summoned up great courage, and stood in front of me for the first time since what happened that day.

I still hate her for harming Su Erin, but I have to have a different emotion for her.

"I didn't change my mind just because of you~"

Suddenly, the black cat who had been silent for a long time returned to its usual smile. It was as if that moment of panic never happened.

"Lin Yu's plan can be carried out smoothly, at least half of the credit is due to me. I have the right to interfere in this matter, so I follow the trend. That's all. So Su Luoyang, please don't think too much."

The black cat turned its back on me, not looking directly into my eyes. Because her sincerity is hidden in her eyes.

This is another lie of hers.

Obviously I told her at the time, "Stop lying". But this time I didn't think too much about it, and acquiesced in her hiding the truth of her love.

I suddenly remembered how I saw through the lies of the black cat at that time. In fact, the answer was very simple, in her eyes that were dizzy like dripping wet ink.

Lies are often more innocent than the truth. He kept silent in order not to reveal his willingness.

"Besides. I'm just on the side of the one who has a better chance of winning."

"You think I'm going to win, don't you?"

"I don't know. But if I told you some things, but didn't tell Lin Yu... your chances of winning will be much higher, right?"

The black cat suddenly met my gaze, and its moist pupils seemed to have the loneliness of a girl for the first time.

"As I said before, nuclear research locked me here to use me as an experimental material at any time. But the time here is slower than that over there, just because they haven't used my needs for a long time, so I've been here for so many years."

A brutal and unreasonable world. In what Lin Yu said, I alone admit that fate is unreasonable.

"Recently, Nuclear Research transferred me out once. Although it was only a few seconds, and it looked like a misoperation by the experimenters, I think the misoperation was evidence that they were about to use me. And even the dream experiment, It is impossible to escape from the real world. So, we may have a chance to escape."

"You mean... in order to transfer you to the place where the experiment is, they have to open a "door" like an entrance here?"

The black cat only responded to my question with a smile. Immediately move on to another topic. Or rather, she went back to the original question.

"Okay. Please choose, Su Luoyang. Do you want to find another way out, or go to the battlefield you are destined for?"

On the step-by-step one-way street, the black cat involuntarily stopped me who was going straight, and led me to the fork in the road.

As I said before, I didn't expect that the person who finally gave me the choice would be the black cat.

But--

"From the day I joined the Domination War, I have no choice."

The black cat responded with her trademark smile again. As if I knew my choice would be like this, but it still left me with a choice.

Although everything seems to be a matter of knowing the truth, I am sincerely grateful for the decision of the black cat.

"Su Luoyang, I believe that if you become a god, this world will definitely become more interesting."

"I just sent me such important information for nothing, and now I say such a thing, I can understand it as, do you believe that I am the winner?"

The black cat smiled and raised its white jade hand, and gently put its cold thumb on the center of my brow.

Black crystal-like mist emerged out of thin air, floating around her slender arms, approaching me consciously.

I closed my eyes in the spreading black mist, thinking about the reaction of the black cat just now, she really couldn't express her position directly. Just when I pulled the corners of my mouth helplessly, a coolness suddenly came to the back of my neck.

I opened my eyes in a daze, and the black cat stretched out the other hand to wrap around my neck, not allowing me to react to the plan, that hand immediately drew my sight closer to her pretty face. The warm breath was blowing on the tip of the nose, and the watery eyes were shining softly.

The soft lips are close to the cheeks, and the water is fleeting. Almost at the moment of separation, the black mist covered the field of vision, and the scene that was seen was hidden unexpectedly. It was too late to recognize the expression on the black cat's face, and the distorted space took me into the darkness first.

The moment the girl who discarded the lies stepped into the truth, all the pretense melted into the exposed lies.

Maybe she will

I won't lie anymore.

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It seems like a lifetime away. When the time flowed again, I opened my eyes suddenly, my vision was blurred by the exposure to the bright light, and I could barely make out the ridiculously high stage ceiling in the distorted aperture.

The memory seems to be covered with a veil, just like the feeling when suddenly switching to a new dream while dreaming. I raised my left hand to block the light, and stood up staggeringly propped on the ground. While turning the body, look around the environment.

The surrounding area was eerily quiet, only the ticking of the clock rang in my ears.

The eyes gradually adapt to the excessive light and can recognize nearby scenes. The first thing that catches the eye is the clothes on his body. After the black mist that spread all over the body gradually dissipated, the prison uniform was replaced by the prison guard's uniform for some reason.

The line of sight floats upwards, and high-intensity spotlights are hung high in the sky, illuminating the outlines of the things below, like an old photo that has been through the years, without any distinction of spatial levels. But in any case, this is obviously a completely different world from before.

"Tick-tack-"

The inexplicable sense of mission pierced the veil, and the dream-like memory passed through the abnormal space, forming a definite answer.

This is the battlefield between me and Lin Yu.

The previous conjectures all turned into reality at this moment. The place where Lin Yu was located was indeed another dream.

I stood in a circular boxing ring, and the spotlights on all sides were in the center of the ring. The arena is surrounded by side ropes surrounded by steel wires, and it seems that its sharpness will cut the skin if you touch it lightly. Looking around, there was no one in the auditorium not far away.

What I care most about is actually the "ring" under my feet.

The rotating pointer swept across my toes, as if hidden in the smooth screen under my feet. My eyes trace the tip of the pointer as it sweeps through the 12 Roman numerals one after the other. It was several times smaller than the dominator clock in the gap in the dream, but it was undoubtedly a ring made on the basis of the No. 2 clock.

It was also a fated contest, it was also the final showdown, and it was also Lin Yu's meticulous preparation. It's like going back to that day six months ago.

The only difference is that six months ago I was waiting for his appointment, but this time it was Lin Yu who was waiting for my arrival.

Therefore, Lin Yu must be hiding in a corner just like me in the past.

Suddenly, a dangerous gust of air blew across my back, I dodged instinctively to the right and back, the violent impact aimed at the back of my head passed by, and the protagonist of the ring finally came into my sight. Lin Yu turned his eyes sideways in my subjectively slowed-down shot, and met my gaze in an instant.

Like a connected circuit running through our same fate.

Almost at the same moment, a black mist spread over the empty auditorium, and when it dissipated, all seats were filled.

"Eh...we, did we really escape?"

"Hey, where is this place?"

"Wait, that person on the stage is Lin Yu, right?"

Countless people off the field looked at each other in blank dismay, and the confusion hovered in the sky seemed to be visible to the naked eye. I don't know what means those followers used to bring all the criminals here, let alone how the criminals will understand the battle between us.

"So many people are involved in our grievances, should it be said that you are the only one who wants to get this ridiculous plan...?"

I couldn't help sighing, while keeping a certain distance from Lin Yu. But Lin Yu's offensive was extremely fierce, he wanted to get closer to me, he tentatively punched a few jabs, and bounced his feet on the ground, ready to move. The two retreated and advanced, but unknowingly, the trajectories under their feet wound into concentric circles.

"There is nothing in this world more absurd than fate. So I can only smash it to pieces if I am crazier than it."

As always, it fits Lin Yu's fallacy.

"Really? When I saw me, I believed that we would not be able to escape the prison of fate, but now you deny it with your own actions. I heard that you have been depressed for three years, but the result is that everyone is worrying in vain. One game, Lin Yu."

"Thank you for your flood of worries, Su Luoyang."

As soon as the words fell, Lin Yu stomped on the ground and sprinted over, instantly shortening the distance between me and him. The two of us are like the two poles of a magnet, and the moment we loosen it, we immediately rush to the opposite pole.

The tight right fist approached my abdomen with a swooping momentum, even if I avoided it, I would only fall into his next attack. I immediately put aside the idea of ​​dodging, took a small step back, and decided to retreat, silently waiting for the moment when he attacked, and aimed at his head.

But the story didn't develop as I expected. The moment I aimed at his head to attack, my side waist was the first to receive a powerful impact, and I was caught off guard for a moment. His knees pushed me to the side rope with a strength beyond my expectation. The steel wire cut through the clothes on the back in an instant, sank into the skin and cut the flesh into pieces.

I instinctively took a step forward, and the tingling pain and the discomfort caused by the knee strike instantly filled my abdomen and filled my airway, coughing it out from my mouth.

The venue was instantly surrounded by boos.

"Cry out, sinless ones! There is a fight to take back our freedom! Awake, O numb ones! There is a fight to fight our destiny! Rebels, forget the false humiliation Peace, let's fight!"

The passionate words were deafening, breaking through the boos in an instant, making my ears ring with tinnitus.

This voice was one of Lin Yu's followers.

After a short period of silence, the audience outside the field integrated into the atmosphere of the fight to the death faster than I expected. The influence of the followers' rebellion made the criminals very easy to instigate. When they heard the words, they understood that I, who was wearing a prison guard uniform, was an opponent who prevented Lin Yu from escaping from prison, and they immediately applauded Lin Yu's offensive.

It seemed that the resentment that had been suppressed for so many years had finally found the opportunity to explode. The arena finally fell into a suspected carnival atmosphere.

"Hey, if you fall down at this level, what kind of pet is the creator? If we can't make our "observers" happy, and can't stimulate their recognition of my victory, then the outcome of this decisive battle will be Lost meaning."

Lin Yu deliberately slowed down his pace, shouted cheerfully to spread provocation, walked up to me and squatted down, then raised his arm high, ready for his elbow strike.

I resisted the tingling pain in my back, gritted my teeth and stood up on the ground. Lin Yu's elbow hit my back hard the moment it landed, and at the cost of it, I sprinted towards his abdomen, hugged his body, and ruthlessly led him to the ground behind.

At least he and Su Huilin can be regarded as being from the same school, and it would be shameful if they were reduced to a situation where they were beaten unilaterally.

Lin Yu failed to prevent the blow and fell backwards. I pulled out my right hand almost as soon as he hit the ground, and punched his face with all my strength when the back of his head hit the ground and rebounded.

"After so many years, I still like to underestimate others, Lin Yu! But I have met people who are hundreds of times stronger than you!"

Compared to Su Huilin's punch that day, Lin Yu's knee strike was nothing worth mentioning.

However, Lin Yu didn't leave me open as I expected. He turned his palm against the ground behind him, bounced up and knocked me out with his knee.

The moment his gaze turned to the sky, he was blinded by the blinding glare. I fell to the ground with a heavy wound on my back.

Lin Yu spat out the blood viciously, and approached me in three steps at a time. I hurriedly wanted to get up from the ground, but the violent and powerful impact hit my cheek first, and smashed me to the ground again when I just wanted to get up. I bared my teeth and pressed my elbows against the ground, and dodged Lin Yu's sinister kick to the right.

With this situation going on, it is only a matter of time before the result of being tired of defense. I hurriedly looked for a gap and stood up, but he stepped on my back again. Seeing that I was about to fall back to the ground again, I quickly took a step forward and grabbed the steel cable in front of me to prevent myself from falling.

The steel cable was completely sunk into the flesh, and I endured Lin Yu's weight to recover my staggering and embarrassed standing posture.

The moment his hand let go of the steel cable, the blood stained the scar, and he couldn't stop trembling.

I held back the pain and clenched my fists, the squeezed blood seeped out from the gap.

The people in the audience were almost frantically shouting words such as "give me down", and unconsciously formed a neat and consistent slogan. Like roaring waves, wave after wave. In addition to the boos, applause, and even laughter, they were all deafening back and forth.

"Lin Yu, the beloved son of the Creator... What exactly do you mean? Misfortune is brought to the east, and what is going on? What do you know?"

While speaking, dozens of dazzling silver lights flew in the air, and fell on the clock under his feet with a bang, and the sound was overwhelming. The people in the audience kept throwing sharp weapons such as daggers and crowbars onto the ring, and the metal was dazzling under the reflection of the strong light.

Someone shouted loudly, urging Lin Yu to pick up the sharp weapon.

Lin Yu seemed to fall into a brief silence because of my question. But the intensifying voices from the audience awakened the stubborn light in his eyes again, and he regained his stance, stomping on the ground and quickly getting closer to me. I wanted to lead him to the side rope, but unexpectedly I stepped back on the handle of the dagger. Lin Yu immediately took advantage of my short-term shaking, bent down and sprinted close to me, punching my abdomen while pushing me to the edge of the ring with all his strength.

I raised my hand and pushed his shoulder, and firmly planted my right foot on the ground, not allowing myself to step back. But Lin Yu suddenly let go of the hand that pushed me, and turned sideways to hit my body with his shoulder. In a hurry, I raised my left foot to step on his knee, but instead he quickly locked my left leg.

The body supported by one foot immediately loses stability, and the impending impact means that the back will use the weight of the whole body to press on the steel cable as the side rope——