Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

"The change in the order and number of nodes is a negligible calculation inertial deviation for computers, but it is an earth-shaking future for us, right?"

Since fate is unavoidable and must happen, then we can deceive our fate without interfering with the established nodes.

"That's right. For example, if the world passes through the node where you met Xia Yinci first, and then passes through the node where you sleepwalked and killed someone, and there is no node related to Xia Yinci after that, then the world is very likely to be calculated based on the calculation of the remaining nodes." It's the result of Xia Yinci's death because of your sleepwalking murder."

Chen Zekai flicked the button at the end of the pen, the color of the pen and ink was changed to red, and the marked arrows were drawn on adjacent nodes.

"But what if you sleepwalked and murdered someone first, and then met Xia Yinci? And then you have something to accomplish together? What would happen?"

——Obviously, the possibility of Xia Yinci's death was completely sealed off.

In the previous 1590 reincarnations, Xia Yinci often tried to prevent me from sleepwalking and murdering from happening. But the possibility of bypassing the node itself is very small, almost impossible, so the tragedy is unavoidable and inevitable like fate.

But this time she chose to do the opposite and stopped giving me any hints, let alone having a second meeting with me before going to bed that night to prevent me from having sleepwalking symptoms.

Xia Yinci judged that there must be a world node event between me and her, but she couldn't be sure what it was. So she chose to keep most of what she did to me in her past reincarnations, leaving our hand in the distant future.

At the same time, she intentionally performed behaviors different from those in the past, just like the tip of a pen on a white paper pauses briefly before reaching the end point, creating a new node before reaching the next node.

【If possible, I really want to die in love with you. 】

As a result, the order in which the nodes pass changes, leading to a future in which none of us knows the ending.

[After all, our enemy is this unnatural world, and it is impossible to defeat it no matter if we act rashly or fearlessly! 】

Don't act rashly, and don't be intimidated. Therefore, Xia Yinci took the initiative to trigger the nodes of "Sleepwalking Killing" to change the order in which the nodes passed. At the same time, we have no chance to start over, we must ensure that the plan can guide the trajectory of the world to the future she wants.

December 16, 2018.

Chen Zekai in the Core Research Association received a call from Xia Yinci and agreed to assist her in her plan to "deceive fate". The two met nearby to discuss the detailed plan. But accidentally, he was bumped into by Chen Yong, who was also on Rongtan Street that night, and heard the content of their conversation.

"So... is Chen Yong also involved in your actions?"

I suddenly remembered the evening when I woke up from the extreme sleep disorder, the last meeting with Chen Yong near the Xinghai Tavern.

【How long do you want to follow me? 】

【No, I'm just...】

"Chen Yong is only responsible for observing the timing of the trigger node. I don't know what kind of past happened between you, but he really wants to atone for your past. The person who finally decided to ask him to help is Xia Yinci, she must She has her own considerations."

December 30, 2018.

Our fate, the night when the node is triggered. Xia Yinci and I got out of the car and parted ways, and started their respective plans tacitly.

I went to the dreamland alone, fighting against the insomnia consciousness, and fighting the invading dream stealers. In this way, challenge the gods who caused this series of disasters and fight against fate.

Xia Yinci, who rushed to the night together, sent me an unexpected confession of love, and took the initiative to declare war on the gods for our turning lives. So deceived the inescapable fate.

Time is approaching the eternal night of reincarnation.

——The young man raised the scythe of the god of death aloft, and slashed at the fate that played with him in the palm of his hand.

——The girl quietly waits for the trajectory of fate, and turns to escape from reincarnation to the expected future.

【Hello! Su Ruoyang... what are you going to do? 】

Suddenly, the inevitability called fortune came quietly. The sequenced nodes lead to completely different endings silently.

[Put down the knife for me! 】

A deadly silver light swung at the unarmed girl. Su Guokai hurriedly quickened his pace, and ran from the stairs to the living room at the fastest speed in his life.

【Su Ruoyan! wait wait wait! ! Don't do it! 】

The moment Su Guokai's voice fell. The blade pierced the snow-white skin, and the splashed blood stained the fabric red.

It's just that the silver light that attacked had missed the point, and had an extremely subtle deflection. The blade finally cut through the skin of the girl's abdomen and pierced into Su Guokai's arm.

The absent-minded young man pulled out the blade fiercely, and bright blood bloomed on the floor. The blood-red youth launched an offensive and charged towards the two of them again.

The girl looked at Su Guokai who stood in front of her in a daze. The dishes and knives were hit and scattered on the ground. Among the noise, only the girl's weak voice was extremely clear.

【For...why...】

The double blades of the sprint are approaching death.

Su Guokai tried his best to grab the boy's left arm, but the boy's double blades had already pierced him and the girl's abdomen without sparing any effort.

【Stop me...】

The girl's face turned pale, and the boy suddenly regained the color in his eyes, and hugged the girl who fell on him helplessly. His breathing became heavier and heavier, and he felt that the strength holding his left arm was gradually losing. When he woke up, his father had already fallen in a pool of blood.

"Quick, hurry over here! Are you here now?"

There was a quick but low voice from outside the window. Chen Yongqiang endured the fear surging in his body, and confirmed the situation to the other end of the phone.

【Hey... What the hell is this...】

Amidst the blood, desperate cries resounded through the side of the window, breaking through the fate that had run through 1590 times.

The neon lights crossed the street and came into Chen Yong's field of vision. The boy broke through the door with the girl in his arms, and the police car and ambulance stopped one after another on the deserted street.

【Hey... Even this kind of thing is part of your plan... Tell me! 】

The boy shouted angrily in the direction where no one was there. His father and the girl were carried on a medical stretcher by nuclear research doctors, sent into an ambulance and driven to a branch hospital affiliated to nuclear research. Surrounded by police officers, the teenager struggled desperately and eventually lost consciousness due to the drug pierced into his neck.

Time passes forever.

The fate that seems to be the same as usual leads to a completely different future. Next, what awaits you is the eternal night that lasts for half a year.

——Until the end of the eternal night is the tomorrow when we meet.

I gently pushed the pen away, and lifted the smeared drawing paper. What kind of scenery should be drawn on the drawing paper on which our destiny is written today?

After thinking about it, I still can't imagine what our world will be like in the eyes of people in high-dimensional space. But I don't feel any sadness. I just feel from the bottom of my heart that it must be a scene that can surprise people from the outside world, even the gods will marvel that these tiny beings can actually control their own destiny.

The imprint lost in a corner of the world has already constituted the beautiful scenery of the future.

"HELLO, NEW WORLD..."

I couldn't help expressing the exclamation from the bottom of my heart, blurting out the extremely shocking mood, which caught Chen Zekai's attention. Perhaps the words I used to sigh coincided with the name of the nuclear research final plan, Chen Zekai showed a little bewildered smile——

"As for the "HELLO NEW WORLD" matter, let Professor Geng explain it to you personally."

——It seems to have caused Chen Zekai's misunderstanding. However, I don't feel alone.

It is the first time in my life that the emotion is so strong that it can be directly expressed in words. I couldn't help laughing and put down the drawing paper in my hand. The gentle sunlight after the rain inadvertently swayed on the pen and ink, and the patchwork trajectory reflected the brilliance of particles. A wonderful feeling suddenly rose in my heart, it was incredible.

Hello, new world!

On the intersecting tracks, I seemed to see my father looking out of the window in a daze, and the mother who turned back into a baby sitting in the laboratory and watching the white coats coming and going.

Lin Yu and Chart were bickering in the corridor, while Watanabe Feng and Chamao followed behind exhausted. Xue Xueer, who was at the end of the team, was still in a daze, and Chen Xue walked beside her, looking at her curiously. Chen Yong, who was far away, was writing at his desk, worrying about whether the situation on our side is safe now.

I saw Su Huilin who didn't know where she was waking up from her sleep, looking for me in a daze, but then went back to the town of her dreams half asleep and half awake. Seeing Xia Yinci rubbing her blue-black hair, her warm gaze stayed on the ring finger that had not yet left a mark, and her face was full of longing for the future.

I also saw a void of ice and snow. Xia Qianyan hugged her knees alone, her dim eyes were still waiting for someone to come.

The rest of the world, ignorant of the imminence of the end, is living a normal life today.

I smoothed the white paper on the table, when there was a slightly noisy human voice at the door.

As I expected, the door of the meeting room was pushed open by Lin Yu soon after, and Charte and Charte sat in the seat furthest away from each other arguing. Tea Mao and Watanabe Feng had no choice but to walk to the two sides, and sat down with them in turn. Xue Xueer naturally sat next to Tea Mao.

And Chen Xue ran to my side briskly, stuffed a lollipop into my palm, and gave me a bright smile. I was half-pushed by Chen Xue and sat next to Xue Xueer, while Chen Zekai went to sit next to Watanabe Feng on his own. So I was bombarded by Chen Xue's "Deadly Serial ANIKI" as a matter of course.

During this period, from time to time, there was a pair of hostile eyes looming at the door, and when I turned around, I found a purple-haired girl lying on the edge of the door, staring at the direction of the two of us with puffy cheeks, and said "Woo, woo " hummed.

"...Why don't you come in?"

"If you mean to invite me, I'll come in."

"ANIKI, ignore her!" Chen Xue grabbed my arm without saying a word, stuck out his tongue at the black cat at the door, and shouted, "You can't get in!!"

"So, you mean you haven't beaten enough yet?"

"Oh? If I remember correctly~ You were the one who had the upper hand just now, right?"

The black cat clenched its fists angrily and raised it to its cheeks, Chen Xue stood up not to be outdone and looked directly at her. I vaguely saw electric sparks in their eyes confronting each other, as if they were about to rush over and wrestle like wild cats with fried fur in the next second.

I tried to stop them, but they never gave up, so I had no choice but to look at Xue Xueer next to me with pleading eyes. She stared at me and tilted her head for a while, then suddenly realized "Ah", hurriedly He got up and stood between the two of them, spreading his arms to keep them at a certain distance.

"Okay, okay...don't fight over such trivial things!"

"We want to fight!"

At this time, the two of them spoke in unison, and looked at Xue Xueer in a blink of an eye and said excitedly. Xue Xue'er was overwhelmed by the momentum of the two, helplessly folded her hands and put them on her chest, she glanced at me quietly, then her eyes suddenly lit up, and she opened her lips to the two of them again.

"Then if you really feel itchy, you can find me as your opponent, is that okay?"

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the two of them suddenly changed, and they lost all momentum like a discouraged ball. Although Xue Xueer seemed to be just saying this casually, the black cat had seen Xue Xueer's ruthless appearance in the Sea of ​​Violet, and Chen Xue might also know about it, so her words unintentionally played a great deterrent effect.

The black cat and Chen Xue glanced at each other, and the eyes of the two sides were in a stalemate for a moment. At the same time, they snorted and turned their heads away. They coincidentally sat on both sides of me, exuding an unfriendly aura towards each other through me, making them in the middle I got nervous.

I glanced back at Xue Xueer, she seemed to be distressed by the fact that the black cat had unintentionally taken her previous seat. I suddenly had a plan, and exchanged glances with Xue Xueer, so I stood up without saying a word and gave up my seat to Xue Xueer. As a result, the black cat and Xue Xueer were shocked, the murderous look in their eyes disappeared, and they all turned around in a panic. Opened the line of sight.

"Wait!" Chen Xue suddenly realized that I might be sitting next to her, he looked at the black cat triumphantly, and deliberately asked me, "ANIKI, where are you sitting?"

But I pointed to the seat next to Chen Zekai wordlessly, and watched Chen Xue's expression turn from surprise to disappointment, and he put his chin on the table in dejection. The black cat recovered from the loss, with a sweet smile on the corner of its mouth.

"Tsk, you guys are really capable of making a fuss."

Just as I sat down beside Chen Zekai, there was a rather impatient voice at the door. The figure in a white coat put one hand in his pocket, scratched his neck in an extremely restless manner, and led Xiao Lulu into the meeting room. Xiao Lulu quietly slipped over to move a stool, and the seat was squeezed between the black cat and the tea cat.

And Feng Chenghuan went straight to the square table, suddenly turned over and jumped over, walked to the projection direction of the meeting room and stood still, throwing the dust off his body.

"Honestly, I couldn't have gathered you here for a meeting if I hadn't had to... I don't even trust you."

"I'll give you double the same amount." Lin Yu shouted out his displeasure loudly, "I absolutely don't trust people who take people away by force with dirty means."

"That's really helpful. Since you said so, I don't have to feel guilty about my prejudice against the ruler. After all, we doubt each other, so let's treat it as a courtesy."

As Feng Chenghuan spoke, he pulled out the swivel chair and sat on the short side of the square table, and put his hands on the table slightly forward, his contemptuous eyes swept over us one after another.

"In that case, there should be no need for you to talk to us, right?"

Thinking of Lin Yu who has been imprisoned for 40 years, there are still countless lucid dreamers who have been placed in the laboratory as experimental materials. I couldn't help protesting out of my inner displeasure at being slighted and teased. Feng Chenghuan's gaze fell sideways on me, he scratched his hair vigorously, and suddenly laughed fiercely.

"Did I say it? I have no choice! I believe that you and I don't see eye to eye with each other, but the situation insists that we sit together to fight against foreign enemies, so what can I do? Ah, let me explain to you in advance, I don't believe your words That fatalism! The reason why I believe that the world is about to end is because there is conclusive evidence before me."

After finishing speaking, Feng Chenghuan took out a book from his white coat and threw it on the table, then tapped his fingers lightly, and whispered what seemed to be a spell.

But when I listened carefully, the incantation made my thoughts suddenly sober ahead of me.

"HELLO, NEW WORLD!"

The books on the table seemed to be flipped open consciously, and the unfolded pages bloomed like flowers. The curtains were drawn in an instant to block out the sunlight outside, wrapping the room in darkness. Immediately afterwards, the projector on our right projected light, swept to the white screen behind Feng Chenghuan, and projected the content of the book to the extent that we could clearly see it.

"Decades ago, your Su Luoyang's parents and I broke into the religious village in the name of the Virgin—the island that is now Seaside City, and took this strange book out of the dream palace guarded by the local villagers. I snatched it out. Along with it, I also brought out a conceptual body called "Raw Stone of the World" and an intelligent life form from a dream."

Hearing this, the tea cat clenched the glass vial a little harder. What is contained in the bottle is exactly the intelligent life form Feng Chenghuan said, "Holy Infant".

"This wisdom was accepted by your mother, and their consciousnesses were interlinked and merged into one. After leaving nuclear research, your father took away this book called "World Device" that originated from a dream, and took the "Raw Stone of the World" "Leave it to me for safekeeping. However, half a year ago, the name of the Holy Mother broke into our headquarters and snatched the "Ruin Stone of the World" back."

May 2018. In the name of the Holy Mother, who caused the collective nightmare, she broke into the headquarters of the Nuclear Research Institute under the guise of my father, and snatched back the "Raw Stone of the World" that belonged to them.

"The original stone of the world you mentioned..." Lin Yu frowned and asked suspiciously, "What exactly is it?"

"To be honest, I don't know the exact answer. All I can tell you is that it is a strange stone that looks like a meteorite. Our nuclear research has spent decades studying the Stone of the World, but in the end we still haven't understood its internal structure .”

Having said that, Feng Chenghuan paused meaningfully for a moment, and his eyes settled on the book projected on the white screen behind him.

"The research on the Stone of the World has yielded nothing, but this book has provided us with a lot of useful information."

——The event beyond the dream. The president of the Core Research Association, that is, my mother, lost all her memory due to the separation from the wisdom of the Holy Child, and her mental level returned to that of a baby. But before that, in order to obtain the key of the "world device", she performed a memory spying operation on my father's brain, and the information was stored in the computer in the laboratory.

Later, Feng Chenghuan obtained the key stored in the computer, namely "HELLO NEW WORLD", and opened the book that had been dusty for decades.

"When I opened this book, I actually thought it was Su Guokai's prank. Did he drop his bag without anyone noticing it?"

Because this book is a planning statement about an experimental project, and this experimental project is not recorded in the nuclear research archives at all, and all information including the person in charge and the project serial number cannot be verified. The name of the project is "Dream Immersive Virtual Reality Project".

"However, in case I missed vital information, I spent two nights studying the content of this book."

As a result, Feng Chenghuan found out. The details of the plan are unbelievably detailed. If it is not limited by today's technology, perhaps the plan of "using computers to reconstruct and reality a new world with real ones" mentioned in the plan is really feasible. Feng Chenghuan delved into this out of deep curiosity, but the more he went on, the more weird he felt.

The level of technology used in the project is too advanced, but the signature is a document of the Core Research Association.

"Finally, after several months of research, I finally got an incredible answer. Our world is a huge computer, and there is another nuclear research outside. And this "world device" is stored in this computer by the nuclear research of the outside world. The backup file of the computer contains a proposal titled "Dream Immersive VR Project".

How much equipment will be used in this experiment plan, how many experimenters will be used, and the conditions required for the final selected experimental subjects. It is very detailed in this book. The real purpose of this project is to explore the possibility of giving life to machines and try to establish a new era of intelligence in which robots have autonomous consciousness.

For the human beings outside. This is their key to the new world.

"The following is my personal speculation as a scholar-the Stone of the World is an item from the outside world, so it cannot be analyzed with our technology. Combined with the content of this book, I think its essence is similar to the memory chip of a computer. The "truth" of this world is stored...or in other words, it is the rule program that this world runs."

The contents of the pages are projected onto a screen, showing chip-like objects in perspective. Suddenly, my eyes seemed dazzled, and I saw the binary codes arranged on the right side of the chip according to some rules. The oppressive feeling brought by the dense numbers made me turn my eyes away, and stared at the drawing paper of fate nodes on the table.

In any case, what law the world uses to draw its trajectory, the answer lies in that piece of rough stone of unknown origin.

"We don't know what kind of problems will be caused by taking back the original stone of the world in the name of the Virgin..." Kaede Watanabe broke the silence in a timely manner, explaining, "We don't even know what purpose they have. Such an important thing falls In their hands, what will they use it for? I can’t figure it out, but I feel inexplicably uneasy.”

"This matter... maybe I know the answer."

I thought of the scene I saw through Lin Yu's one person and thousands of faces before, and I clenched my fists tightly against my thighs. Watanabe Kaede cast a surprised look, waiting for my further explanation.

"Hey, wait..."

Lin Yu suddenly stopped me who was about to speak across half the table, his expression still showed a strong sense of distrust.

"Are you sure you can tell him about this?"

Can you tell Feng Chenghuan?

To be honest, I can't make up my mind.

The Core Research Association and the name of the Virgin, I should not believe anyone. As I said in previous reincarnations, I cannot rely on any external objects including reality. But we are absolutely unable to save all the world by ourselves, we can only seek help from external forces.

As Feng Chenghuan said, the current situation is unavoidable.

As for whether my current decision is correct, I don't know, all I can do is believe what I believe at the end of the day.

"Compared to the name of the Virgin Mary, we can only choose the Core Research Association, right?" I exhaled heavily and asked, "Did you see the scene at that time, Lin Yu?"

Under the prayer in the name of the Virgin, the blue sky was torn on both sides by bright red, and the world came to an end.

What those believers long for is the last chapter of the Holy Mother who created the world, rather than waiting for someone's salvation. In other words, the name of Our Lady stands opposite us.

There was silence in the conference room. Feng Chenghuan waited for my speech without saying a word. I swallowed the tension in my throat and made a final question.

"Before explaining our choice, I would like to confirm the position of the Core Research Association, is that okay?"

"It might be an exaggeration for us to say it's a position."

talking. Feng Chenghuan slowly raised his gaze and looked up at the ceiling of the conference room. The light projected in the darkness, like the eternally fleeting light in the universe, brushed past him.

"We want to witness the future, our children, and even the things that can be seen by the generation behind that, a world that we can no longer touch after a mere hundred years. How will people live in the future? What is the social system? Energy What about it? Will the panic and war continue until then? Will human beings perish, and will the universe end?”

Feng Chenghuan looked up to the sky and exhaled a faint breath, the gas drifting upwards gradually dissipated under the dim light, leaving only nothingness.

"If yes, what about the next universe? There are endless mysteries about the future, which are thousands of times more unknown than the ones facing today. If the world ends today, the infinitely possible future will become Bubbles. We don’t want to see the world come to an end in this way, that’s all. If we want to talk about a bigger ideal, I want to be an observer of the endless history and witness the world going to a more distant future.”

Farther, farther, farther into the future.

What kind of scenes do people living in such an untouchable world see every day?

"...You want to witness an end farther than the end of the world, don't you?"

Everyone more or less wants to know the distant unknown. I lowered my erratic eyes in a daze, and there was an inexplicable throbbing feeling deep in my heart.

"This kind of insatiable ideal is really in line with the style of your core research association."

Lin Yu's tone was still firm, but the firm distrust finally weakened a lot after Feng Chenghuan's confession.

"So what? If you can't understand our thoughts and feel very ignorant, then let's take a detour—"

"I can understand your thoughts. It is better to say that as a scholar, it is understandable to have such a desire to explore. But I only have one question: Even if the world will not be destroyed, the lifespan of human beings is only a mere hundred or so years. What do you want to do?" Witness to the end of the universe?"

Feng Chenghuan narrowed his eyes with interest, as if he was seriously considering my question, but soon he laughed again.

"Have you heard the story of Yugong Yishan? Although I died, there are still sons; sons beget grandchildren, grandchildren beget sons; sons have sons, sons have grandchildren; sons and grandchildren are infinitely scarce. Ideals are ideals after all. It may not be possible to witness the end of the universe. But my will will definitely be conveyed to the next generation, and as long as human beings survive, they will be able to witness a future that is closer to the end."

The moment the voice just fell, the rhythm of the heart seemed to miss a beat. I suddenly realized that human beings can live forever in this world through blood passed down from generation to generation.

"May I ask the final experimental plan of nuclear research—the "HELLO NEW WORLD" plan for all human beings, is it actually a plan to save the world?"

Suddenly, the tea cat who had never said a word suddenly inserted into the topic between us. Hearing this, Feng Chenghuan closed the book on the table, and nodded without saying a word.

"As the president of the core research association, my personal thought is: since the outside core research association created our world through this proposal, can we create a brand new world in the same way? Is there a way? How can we make the world we create a world parallel to the outside world, existing independently of outside manipulation?"

The answer is, no, but it exists.

In order to find the possibility of such a world, Feng Chenghuan decided to get involved in the domination war.

But Feng Chenghuan, who does not have a lucid dream physique, is not qualified to participate, so he can only use cheating means-to recruit willing lucid dreamers to join the domination war, use the "dream image recording system" to reproduce the image of the dream, in a waking state Next, manipulate the characters in the dream like a video game.

In the 12th Domination War, Feng Chenghuan, who belongs to the White Ghost camp, joined in this way.

Therefore, Feng Chenghuan came to the conclusion through all-round research on the crevice of dreams: the crevice of dreams is a world that is isolated from the outside world and controlled by the Creator.

During the 1590 reincarnations, the dream gap will not be reset after each RESET. In other words, the gap in the dream we see has a history of 157.68 million years, and has experienced far more than 12 times, with a total of 22,260 domination wars.

——In the sea of ​​stars of the dead, there are thoughts and imprints that span hundreds of millions of years.

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