Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

The eyes of the two people in love are like dazzling light, and they can't help but squint their eyes when they see each other.

If you want to ask me why I say this, it is because the two people in front of me are living examples.

to be honest. The 8-foot-tall man's nonsense and coquettish behavior really disgusted me. But the tea cat doesn't think so. Lin Yu's soft and hard tricks have been tried and tested for her time and time again. Gao Leng and Lin Yu's crooked personalities clashed fiercely. It's raining.

but. Having said that, I always feel that after Lin Yu and Chamao agreed to get engaged, their mutual status changed drastically.

In the past, Lin Yu was in a relatively strong position, but now it's just the opposite.

I wonder if Xia Yinci and I will have similar changes in the future. I don't care. After all, I seem to be in a weak position on our side. Of course I don't mind turning over as a serf and singing, on the contrary, I really want to know what will happen after Xia Yinci and I switch places.

"I'm sorry, Su Huohuo, forgive me~"

Hey hey. No need to think about it, she must be super cute like that!

"Su Ruoyang...why are you giggling alone again?"

"It's okay." Hearing this, I quickly put away the smile on my face and said calmly, "I'll get down to business this time, do you have any objections?"

"..."

Xue Xueer froze on the spot, a little dazed, as if she was thinking seriously about my words, opened her lips in a daze for a long time, and finally nodded with half push and half. And the tea cat once again played the exemplary role of a textbook, and followed my sentence to get down to business, and the topic of the holy baby continued.

"...The Holy Infant can be regarded as the product of the will of the world. It also has a faint relationship with the domination of war, because it is also a concept that has been recognized by everyone. Probably there is such a similarity between the two, the Holy Infant Can perceive the state of the Domination War, including the follow-up Observer War.”

For some reason, Lin Yu sighed softly. He leaned against the table and crossed his arms, pointing at the glass vial in the tea cat's hand with only his index finger.

"It was this inexplicable will-o'-the-wisp that informed the tea cat observer about the war and led her there."

I see. No wonder Lin Yu was displeased with the existence of the Holy Infant.

"Hey, but I was the one who finally agreed to let it go. In this way, you two won't have to engage in meaningless struggles, and the 14th Domination War will naturally lose its value of existence. This is the end of the god's boring game, There will be no new victims, and we will meet in the distant future... That's what I thought at first."

As for what happened afterwards, we have all experienced it firsthand——Lin Yu met me who was in prison, regained his fighting spirit and planned a decisive battle with me in the imaginary domain, which led to the unfinished 14th. The domination war regained the value of its existence.

At the same time, Tea Mao won the observer war but lost to the creator Xia Qianyan, leaving Lin Yu the key to confront the creator head-on.

In the end, under Xia Qianyan's urging, Lin Yu and I started the final decisive battle. Lin Yu found the truth of the world, and I won the domination war by accident.

"However, the reason why the domination war regains its value may not only be related to Lin Yu..." Tea Mao's expression gradually became serious, and his sleepy eyes like a cat became alert, and said, "The last time I met the Holy Infant During the exchange, I learned another thing... In short, this matter is related to Arquette Belmont."

The moment I heard the name Arquette, my whole body seemed to be held in place by a spell, and the thoughts in my head started to run wild.

Arquette, who also came from the outside world, met me once when he was dying. Or maybe he came to me on purpose, expecting me to know something that only he knew.

After all. At that time, why was he in the cracks in the dream?

"...Arket is a human being from the outside world, who has part of the management authority of the computer in the world. His death did not take away his life, but instead reminded him of sporadic memories from the outside world. Although he came here The reason is to assist nuclear research to regain the dominance of the world, but he seems to be affected by the memory here..."

"Abandoned his original mission, didn't he..."

It's like my memory of Su Luoyang from the outside world is not in common. Alcatel's memory must also be isolated from the outside world, and from this, the idea that it may go against the will of the outside world arises.

"Hey...well, yes." Tea Mao didn't seem to have thought of my interjection. After a moment of silence, he continued, "After awakening his memory, he used administrative authority to divide the world into areas that outsiders cannot know. As long as If the supercomputer can operate normally, it can maintain the operation of this part of the area, so as not to be interfered by the outside world and Xia Qianyan."

I suddenly remembered the conjecture just now - the new world will be completely independent from the existing computer world, and become a reality of the same dimension parallel to the outside world.

Could it be said that the "creator" who prompted the derivation of the independent new world was actually Alcatel Belmont.

"...Arket is sometimes influenced by his will from the outside world, and his internal and external memories interfere with each other, which prevents him from freely carrying out his plans.

"While trying to negotiate with the outside world, Arkat's consciousness was inadvertently connected to the growing Holy Child, and out of his own concerns, he informed the Holy Child of his plan. Arkaite hopes to control the spoils won by the war—— "Free Will"—transforming the crevice of dreams into a refuge at the end of the world."

Questions that spanned the ages have finally been answered.

At the beginning, because of the black cat's sneak attack, even though he maintained his own life through authority, he still couldn't change the fact that he was defeated in the domination war.

He was feared by the creator Xia Qianyan, and was hunted down by her all the time. Afraid that his life would be taken unknowingly and his plan wasted, Arquette conveyed his will to the Holy Child in advance to ensure that someone could inherit his mantle after his death.

after this. Alone and helpless, he needs someone to carry out the plan with him. Therefore, I, the ruler who is also from the outside world and has not withdrawn from the domination war, is targeted as his first choice. I hope that I can rely on "free will" to separate from the will of the outside world and complete the plan that he cannot accomplish alone.

so--

No matter what mission Arquette has in the outside world, he here really wants to save our world.

When I understood Alket's decision, my beating heart seemed to be hit by a tsunami for an instant, and even my vision trembled with this strong shock.

Although I didn't understand his intention at the time, in the end his will was conveyed to me by chance.

What I want to do now is what Arquette did back then.

"But," Lin Yu, who hadn't spoken for a long time, bit her nails, raised her eyes and expressed her inner doubts, "Why did Arquette choose the gap in the dream?"

The tea cat bit its lower lip lightly, and Sakura Pink's lips turned a little fishy white due to the force.

"Our world is a unity of multiple world layers, including parallel realities and parallel dreams. But different world layers have only one thing in common."

Sensing the gaze cast by the tea cat, I raised my head in confusion to respond to her gaze, then turned to meet Lin Yu after a long time, and my confused voices were almost unanimous.

"Is there anything the world has in common..."

Lin Yu and I were stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something, pointed to each other and gave the only answer.

"It's between dreams, and there's the Xinghai Tavern!"

"That's right~ Since my dream is an extension of reality, we won't discuss it for the time being." The tea cat paused for a while, adjusted its gentle breathing, and then said word by word, "Including the gap in the dream Including the singularity and the reality we live in, there are infinitely many parallel real world layers in the world.”

This statement put me briefly in a predicament. According to Xia Yinci and I's plan, we need to relocate all the people in the catastrophe to my dream, but we seem to have ignored the problem of multiple realities - I don't know how to connect different world layers, and I don't know myself Can your dreams hold an infinite number of universes.

"The destruction of the world..." Lin Yu asked, "Is it the ablation of all world layers?"

"Eh, you can put it that way. However, even an infinite number of world layers is essentially the result of a deviation in the synchronization rate. When calculating the problem of how to develop the world, it is dispersed into multi-dimensional realities, trying to synthesize answers from different possibilities. get the best solution."

Infinite programs, eternity in information processing.

We are all fleeing on the calculation ring of the world, and even Xia Qianyan, the god of creation, has difficulty jumping out of this ending ring.

The personal experience of the world is just the relentless computer's persistent pursuit of problems.

Since we are all playing our respective roles, how can we explain the emotions we experience firsthand?

"The moment is eternal. The world extends infinitely towards the end in a second, and countless parallel realities are scattered like fireworks. If it can be expressed intuitively, it is like a horizontal plane that proliferates towards the upper and lower sides, and finally turns into a huge castle. Bar."

The tea cat rubbed its drooping hair, tilted its cheeks and looked at the peaceful scenery outside the window.

After the rain, Rong Tan Street is filled with the fragrance of green grass, and the sudden sun and rain wash away the winter scenery, ushering in a long-lost early spring. Many shops opened their shutter doors bang bang bang. There are sporadic customers, peaceful but not lonely. The occasional chatter is reassuring.

"Even if it's just my metaphor. Even if everything in the world is the result of complicated calculations by computers. As long as we can still feel the temperature, hear the sound, and see the color, I think the world will have an incomparably wonderful scene."

The tea cat narrowed its sleepy eyes like a cat, and a faint smile curled up at the corner of its mouth. Like a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world, she misses the world occasionally, leaving tenderness in the cold.

"An incomparably wonderful scene...?"

I turned around in a daze from my confused emotions.

Lin Yu, who was beside him, suddenly showed a bright smile with a faint ruffian.

"I didn't expect you to be quite romantic."

"Huh?"

"Although I'm not a romantic, I quite agree with you. No matter what we mean to the world and to the human beings outside, the key is how we view this huge castle and how we view the dusty things in the castle. Us, and those feelings that are as insignificant as electric sparks in those machines."

There was a clear light in Lin Yu's eyes as he spoke, he squinted at the warm temperature, and smiled at the tea cat.

I pressed myself against my chest secretly, feeling my heartbeat and body temperature through the skin, and my heart trembled as if I was greatly encouraged.

"Our various emotions must have meaning for this eternally passing world, right?"

"Of course, we are real human beings!" Lin Yu put away his fists and hammered his chest vigorously, and said the confession as if it was a declaration of counterattack, "We are no different from those outsiders. Never inferior to others, but also a life with intelligence.”

Lin Yu's body seemed to be shining with fighting spirit, but he didn't know that the tea cat was always watching his direction without saying a word, and there was silent love in the corner of his eyes. After a while, he looked back dully and smiled at the tea cat, still oblivious to the tea cat's gaze just now.

Still, the two can bask in each other's smiles for similar but slightly different reasons.

No matter where you go after death, this life is not in vain.

I think I finally understand the meaning of Lin Yu's words.

But at this moment, the door of the conference room was pushed open violently by someone, and the four of us couldn't help looking in the direction of the door at the same time, only to see a familiar figure standing at the door. He raised his hand and flicked the brim of his deer hunting hat with his fingers.

"Yoho. Show me how much you two love each other when we first met, you're still the same old annoying guy."

As the other party spoke, he took careless steps and chose a seat by the window at random. Holding the handle of the swivel chair, he sat back with his legs crossed with ease, turned his back to us and dragged the swivel chair, and slid to us while turning around in a showy manner. The whole set of movements was done in one go.

I tried my best to recognize the European appearance of the other party, and slowly recognized his identity from his distinctive attire.

"Ah, Chart...?"

"Long time no see, Su Luoyang." Chalt snapped his fingers casually, leaned on the arm of the chair and propped his cheek while looking at me, and said maliciously, "Just now a guy who is always annoying is too ostentatious Pay attention, I almost forgot to say hello to you. I'm sorry."

I couldn't help but gasped. This seems to be an apology to me, but it is clearly a provocation directed at Lin Yu.

I didn't expect Charte to fight against Lin Yu as soon as he came up. Don't they need to prepare for the confrontation between the two? But things didn't go as I expected. I thought that Lin Yu would scold back immediately not to be outdone, but he just stood there and didn't move.

"...Why are you pretending to be deep all of a sudden?"

I stared at Lin Yu who didn't say a word, and really couldn't figure out what was going on with him. However, when my eyes turned to Chart, I suddenly remembered the matter of Bai Tu Mei, and immediately understood the reason for Lin Yu's silence. Could it be that he is struggling with the grievances with Charte, or is he feeling guilty?

Just when I was thinking about how to ease the embarrassment between these two people. Lin Yu clapped his palms suddenly, as if remembering something unimportant, pointed at Charte and opened his mouth wide.

"Oh! It's Telza! I almost didn't recognize you!"

As soon as these words came out, the effect was immediate. Chart stood up abruptly, his knees bounced the swivel chair a few meters away, the back of the chair hit the corner of the table with a dull sound, and slid away along the corridor.

"Oh, it's been a long time, I almost forgot about you."

"Eh...you forgot your name, right?"

I have to say that Tea Mao's complaints hit the nail on the head, and she let out a helpless sigh of relief. On the contrary, Lin Yu, he didn't know whether he was unaware of Chaerte's twitching brows or deliberately provoking him. He casually approached Chaerte and put his hand on his forehead, as if he was comparing himself with the other party. height, so he laughed contemptuously.

"What? I got a beard on my face, but my height hasn't changed at all."

"Are you blind! What do you mean no change!?"

"Ah...that seems to be a bit of a change." Lin Yu put on a look of suddenly noticing the point, and looked at Chaerte seriously with his chin. After a while, he suddenly realized, pointing at Chaerte and shouting, "...you This guy is much shorter than before!"

"I @! # $% YOU \u0026?!?? BASTARD YOU MOTHER $%^\u0026!!"

Seeing that Chaerte was so angry that he was about to hit him, someone outside the conference room immediately rushed in, hurriedly stopped his arm and dragged him back. As a result, Charte simply used both hands and feet, kicking the air repeatedly, but was dragged away by the people behind him to the other side of the table, and had to yell at Lin Yu across the square table.

"I must beat him bastard to death! Don't fxxking try and stop me !

"What's the matter, what foreign fart are you doing!"

It seems that just now I thought that Lin Yu would feel ashamed about Baitu Meiyi's matter. I was overthinking it. I'm afraid Lin Yu is the type that no matter how much guilt he feels in his heart, he won't write it on his face.

"Mr. Lin... are you short-hearted or what's going on?"

In short, the farce ended in Chartres' (forced) compromise.

Watanabe Kaede, who had just stopped Charte, let out a long breath, and sat beside him looking very exhausted. The conference room finally fell silent. Xue Xueer next to him quietly squatted down beside Feng Watanabe. Seeing that the scenery under her skirt was so unobstructed, I had no choice but to walk to her side and replace her skirt as a shield from the wind and rain.

"So...Watanabe-san, are you the new Guardian of Chart?"

"Are you talking about Elus...?" Watanabe Feng glanced at Xue Xue'er sleepily, and said each word while holding his forehead, "I really don't know how Elus could bear such a strange temper before. I feel like I'm really one step away from being legally recognized as a guardian. This guy is in his twenties and impulsive like a kid."

"...Thank you for your hard work."

At the same time, by the window of the conference room. Lin Yuzheng tugged at the tea cat who was too lazy to talk to him, and pointed at Charte without knowing it.

"This guy Techal...!"

"It's Chart."

Even though Tea Mao showed extreme reluctance on his face, he still had no choice but to correct Lin Yu's name.

"...I don't care if he's called Techar or Chatel! He's ready to hit me the moment we meet, and he farts on me."

"Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

It seems to be the case, but there are so many slots... so many that I don't bother to complain. I always feel that there is an atmosphere of delusion and intelligence in the air. Do people in love really become stupid?

No, this map gun seems to have encircled myself. I quickly shook my head to drive out the burst of demonic energy that invaded my brain.

"By the way... all three of you are members of the Core Research Association now?"

This statement caused the three of them to cast their gazes at the same time. The first thing I noticed was Xue Xueer who was squatting next to me regardless of his own image.

"It's a long story. After Lin Yu disappeared, I found insignificant clues in his house——and found the Core Research Association."

"Are you talking about the cigarette butt...? I mean the one with the nuclear research logo on it."

"Eh? How did you know?" Xue Xueer's tone of voice suddenly became "tea cat", looked at me very surprised, and murmured, "Could it be that you also met that fake policeman? But he is already dead, You have no reason to see him..."

"Dead?" I wondered.

"Well... I didn't control my strength when I forced him, and my body was completely necrotic."

I really can't imagine how hard a normal person can destroy another person's body to complete necrosis. I just think that Xue Xueer's degree of danger is really much higher than that of the black cat, or second only to Su Huilin?

"Anyway... I really appreciate that you didn't use force to extract a confession from me."

Xue Xueer looked at me with a vague smile, and scratched her cheek in embarrassment. I helplessly turned my gaze to Watanabe Kaede beside her.

"Me. I wanted to prevent you from killing each other. I didn't want to see you repeat the mistakes I made with Heyan-kun, but I didn't expect that the domination war would end without end. There are no clues anywhere, and I don't know if you have escaped. Destiny. What's more, I and you belong to different real worlds. There is no trace of what happened that day. Later..."

"Later, I invited Kaede Watanabe to come here." Chart, who was on the side, jumped at the topic and said, "Kaeda Watanabe is very obsessed with Kazuhiko Sato, and he insists on continuing to explore the truth of the world. The Nuclear Research Institute believes that he knows a lot What they don’t know yet, let me invite him to stay at the headquarters of the Nuclear Research Institute to assist in the research.”

"...That's what he said."

Kaede Watanabe raised his eyebrows and spread his hands at me, indicating that Chalt had finished all I had to say. So it was Chatter's turn to exchange pleasantries, and he folded his arms with the legs of the chair up.

"I was in the Core Research Association when I woke up. The matter of Elus, the matter of my father... these all made me very distressed. I didn't do anything on the day I woke up, and I was almost in a daze all day. At night After thinking about it for a long time, I felt that my long-winded father must say that I was immersed in the past and had no present and future, so I decided to find something to do.”

"What he found is the final experimental plan of the Core Research Association. Besides Chart, Xue Xueer and I also participated in it." Watanabe Feng glanced over abruptly, and explained in a timely manner, "As for the core research The subjects of the association’s experiment this time are all human beings.”

"All humans!?"

"The name of the project, 'HELLO NEW WORLD'."

Another boy's voice came from outside the door. I searched for the sound and looked towards the door. The young man walked into the conference room with a smile on his face.

I followed his figure blankly, and the bright blond hair reminded me of this young man.

"Yo, you're finally here...Chen Zekai." Chalt held the back of his head and turned the swivel chair to face him, glanced at the door, and asked displeasedly, "What's going on over there?" Why isn’t Feng Chenghuan coming here?”

"A considerable number of people outside came to us from the Xinghai Tavern. The leading girl made a mess in the hall of the headquarters. He and Chen Xue are still dealing with it."

Chen Zekai's clear eyes squeezed out a smile, and looked in my direction vaguely, as if asking me if this incident had something to do with me. But my thoughts drifted to other places, and I suddenly remembered what Xia Yinci said to me in the ward. She said that when I saw Chen Zekai, I would know what the plan she made before she was looking for me was going on.

"Meet you again, Su Ruoyang."

Chen Zekai nodded to me sunnyly, and I returned a slightly hasty smile in a daze.

After all, his anger in the restaurant that day was a big shock to me, and my psychological quality was not good enough to ignore this matter and communicate with him as if nothing had happened.

But it seems that Chen Zekai doesn't seem to remember my irresponsible words at that time.

"From your reaction, Xia Yinci hasn't told you yet?"

"You mean...she has been in touch with you for the past six months?"

"That's just part of the story."

Chen Zekai had a smile on his face, which seemed to be playing tricks. At the same time, Xue Xueer pulled Lin Yu out of the conference room, and was going to explain the situation to the black cat in the hall. The tea cat naturally followed Lin Yu. And Charte was restless, so he went out to confirm the situation in the hall, but Watanabe Feng also had no choice but to accompany him to leave.

The five people ran out one after another like this, and only Chen Zekai and I were left in the huge conference room.

"What's going on with 'HELLO NEW WORLD'?"

"That's a long story."

I didn't have time to accompany him to tell the truth, so I asked straight to the point:

"So...Chen Zekai, what kind of plan did you make behind my back?"

Probably because my tone was more urgent, Chen Zekai put away his posture of whetting my appetite, and beckoned to me, and the two sat down facing each other near the door.

"Then I'll start from the beginning."

December 8, 2018.

Chen Zekai and Xia Yinci reported on my situation last month as usual, but the difference this month is that I tend to immerse myself in lucid dreams. At Xia Yinci's suggestion, Chen Zekai decided to visit me. After five months, I decided to talk to me about Su Erin for the first time.

As a result, at that time, I seemed to have stepped into the sunshine again on the surface, but actually I was immersed in the illusion and failed to recover. Chen Zekai was released from the detention center that afternoon. He informed Xia Yinci of my situation by phone, and then he set off for the Core Research Association alone.

【During these four months, I never gave up looking for a way to wake up Su Huilin! 】

——Chen Zekai received news from the Core Research Association a few months ago, and they claimed that they had a way to help Su Huilin wake up. But in fact, the hospital Su Huilin stayed in was the affiliated hospital of Nuclear Research.

In retrospect, the doctors who were responsible for ESS were probably members of the core research association.

Chen Xue is now here to take care of her father and Xia Yinci, also because she has had an inseparable relationship with Nuclear Research. The core research association has long been permeating every corner of my life without my knowledge. But I didn't realize this in time at the beginning, and now I don't know whether they are enemies or friends.

Contrary to me. After Chen Zekai parted from me that day, he decided to believe the news of the Core Research Association, and met with Watanabe Feng who had invited him.

On the same day, Su Huilin was taken away by unknown forces.

Knowing that Chen Xue left around 2:30 every day and the security of the hospital was not strict, the opposing force broke into the ward when it was unguarded. It was obviously a premeditated action.

Although I don't think it can be ruled out that the core research association is self-directed and self-acted. But according to the speculation of the Core Research Association - Su Erin's subsequent movements are related to the religious organization "Mother' Anonymity". In other words, it was Su Erin who was taken away by "Mother' Anonymity".

Chen Zekai judged that he could not fight against the name of the Virgin hidden under the water by himself, so he offered to assist the Core Research Association to complete the final experimental plan.

a week later.

My dreams were invaded by the remnants of the Dream Stealers, and I haven't woken up for a whole week in reality. My father sent me to the hospital for treatment on the grounds of ESS extreme sleepiness. Xia Yinci returned to Haibin City on the same day and took charge of my nursing work. But she worried that history would repeat itself, and began to formulate relevant preventive measures in advance.

"The homogeneous reincarnation of the world is an inevitable result caused by the inertia of computers processing information. Therefore, Xia Yinci's solution is to deceive fate."

"Cheating fate...?"

Chen Zekai found a piece of white paper from the drawer of the square table, picked up the fountain pen in his breast pocket, and marked dozens of black spots on the white paper. The tip of the pen touched the black spot on the corner of the paper.

"Assuming this is the starting point of the trajectory of fate, we want to reach the end of the center." Chen Zekai said while waving the tip of his nose to draw a curve along the black dot, "No matter what the trajectory is, no matter what it takes to complete this work How much time passes, the only requirement is to go through all the black dots on this paper."

"...Every black dot on that paper will become a destined node."

"exactly."

The pen tip passed through the adjacent black dots, and soon passed all the nodes on the paper. The trajectory of fate circles around like this, and is about to reach the end point in the center of the paper, but at the moment of touching it, Chen Zekai suddenly stops the tip of the pen for a moment, and slides to the end point of the trajectory after a few seconds. The position where he had just stagnated thus leaves a new black spot.

"Pass through all the black spots as required, but the order and number of nodes have changed. This is the principle of deceiving fate in Xia Yinci's mind."

I watched the patchwork world track on the paper, and suddenly understood Xia Yinci's intention from the new node——