Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

"'Go. Go find your lost memories.'"

"That strange voice said so, so I turned around on the runway extending to the future, turned my feet forward, and ran towards my past at the fastest speed."

The girl closed the book in her hand with a "snap", gently placed it on the table at the front desk of the hospital, and walked towards the center of the hall. The blue-haired boy standing in the middle glanced at the girl and smiled at her.

"It's really a beautiful story. No wonder you always hold that book."

She ignored the meaning of his casual evaluation, but gracefully squatted down, stroking the empty ground, as if someone was sleeping there.

"This boy...will also try his best to run towards his past just like the protagonist of the story..."

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In the brightly lit room, a woman in a white coat smiled like a flower. She sat beside my bed with a loving mother's attitude, and gently stroked my sweaty hair. I stared at the woman in front of me obsessively, and was a little lost in thought for a while. I don't know if it was because I kept staring at her, she suddenly frowned and stopped her movements.

"What's the matter, Xiao Yang? You seem to be absent-minded, so Mom will be very worried."

My mother's gentle murmur instantly made me wake up with a shake of my head. A strange thought flashed through my mind just now, and I found the word "mother" to be a mouthful for no reason.

"Ah...this...maybe it's because I just woke up!"

I quickly responded with a smile, trying to take the opportunity to fool the past. How could I tell her that just now I suddenly felt that the word "mother" has become unfamiliar? Speaking of it, the perception of time is still quite hazy, and I can't even remember the year of this year. Trying to think back, I don't know what happened to me, as if my existence has become a blank sheet of paper.

"Although it's strange to ask...but I still want to ask you what year is this year?"

as expected. The mother's expression became very surprised. She put the back of her hand on my forehead and paused for a few seconds. After a few seconds, she muttered "I don't have a fever..." and gently put down her hand, looking at me with a little worry.

"This year is 2006... Where did you hear about this brain teaser?"

"This... ah... that's right! It's a brain teaser, that's right!! The correct answer is actually 'this year' Oh, Mom, you got it wrong."

I quickly picked up what my mother said, and my mother's complexion improved a lot because of this, and she smiled easily. At this time, a nurse approached, she took off the hanging water bottle hanging from my hand, looked at it twice, and signaled to my mother that it was over. After getting permission from my mother, she carefully pulled out the needle and asked me to press the cotton ball on the back of my hand to stop the bleeding.

"It's almost time for you to go home... Your dad will call me again later."

As soon as the words fell, the strong light on the ceiling suddenly went dark.

I hummed and nodded my head, jumped off the bed and stretched, followed my mother, and walked out of this room that was suspected to be a ward, but not a ward.

Outside the institution's facilities, the sky really has melted into black.

My mother would usually send me to the foot of "Yuqing Bridge" on Long'an Road, and my father would drive there and wait there. Today was no exception. Dad tapped the steering wheel with his index finger while looking around the window anxiously. He stopped when he saw my index finger and heaved a sigh of relief. My mother watched me get into the car, then put her hand into the pocket of the white coat, turned around and walked away with steady steps.

"Where did your mother take you today?"

Father looked serious as always, obviously he always looked like a fool on weekdays. I don't know why he is always wary of his mother, and I didn't answer him truthfully - because my mother told me that their current relationship is not the same as before, so I hope I can keep it a secret.

This time, I still prepared an excuse in advance, and casually told my dad the name of an amusement park. Dad tapped the steering wheel again with his index finger.

"Is it an amusement park..."

Dad glanced at me keenly, and I instinctively retracted the back of my hand with a little blood stain, purposely reached into the pocket of the coat, and looked at the scenery flying away outside the window.

In my opinion, adults are always suspicious and suspicious of each other, and my father and mother are naturally included. I, for one, would not side with any of them. I would never speak of the secret my mother asked me to keep, and every time my father asked me to tell my mother, I would tell her in detail. As long as you play the role of not offending anyone, you can live in peace.

The car backed up and bumped slightly against the bumper. After getting off the car, I followed my dad into the newly built unit building in the community. The newly renovated elevator still smells of paint. The numbers stopped slowly on the 11th floor, and just as the elevator door opened, a stone hit the tiled floor in front of the elevator, bounced to the direction of the stairs, and rolled down.

I hesitated for a while, and walked out of the elevator door, but the next stone hit my trouser leg lightly, and then fell to the ground without strength. I looked towards the source of the stone throwing, and saw a girl with a single ponytail looking at me arrogantly. The blue eyes seem to reflect the entire vast ocean.

The body gradually passed the girl, and I waved my scissors to my side to hint that we would meet at night. After seeing my gesture, the girl sitting on the steps of the house opposite me looked at me without saying a word and followed me into the house. I don't know if she understood or didn't understand me. She didn't look away before closing the door.

The girl who lived next door was named Xia Yinci. At first I thought she was a cold-hearted guy, because I always saw her sitting on the steps doing all kinds of small movements boringly, and I never had a conversation with her. But later, after the blonde elder sister and her daughter Su Huilin moved into our house, the three of us played together inexplicably. Occasionally, when she fell and scratched her skin, Xia Yinci would take out the Band-Aids she had prepared with her, carefully align the wound, and stick the Band-Aids gently. Only after this did I realize that Xia Yinci's character is actually very gentle.

"Well... it's just that you're gentle and a little arrogant at the same time..."

"What are you talking to yourself? You look stupid."

I looked in the direction of the sound. Su Huilin, who was rarely dressed in a princess outfit, was leaning uncomfortably on the side of the writing table, and the gesture of embracing her hands almost became her signature gesture.

"Never mind your business! Be careful, I'll beat you up!"

"If you can beat me, I'll talk." Su Huilin inadvertently sarcastically made me unable to find any words to fight back. "Ah... sorry."

I clenched my fists and angrily followed her to the back of my room. Seeing her disapproving look, I couldn't help but scratch the hair on the back of my head.

As you can see, my relationship with Su Huilin is not as harmonious as that with Xia Yinci. When we met Su Huilin for the first time, the two of us fought, and this guy at home was unexpectedly strong and terrifying. In the following days when I got along with her, she always mentioned my failure intentionally or unintentionally, and I always quarreled with her because of this——

Suddenly, there was a flick of the finger on the back of the head. I quickly covered my head in pain and lowered my head.

"Be gentle with your sister! Dad squatted down in front of me, and seriously criticized me, "No matter what, she is still your sister."

"If I could choose my younger sister, I would definitely choose Yinci as my younger sister! Girls like Su Erin are simply demons!"

Another flick of the finger slammed into the forehead. I vaguely saw the corners of Su Erin's mouth curled up quietly. If she didn't smile because I was criticized, I would definitely hold it up as an angel's smile, but now it doesn't matter how good the smile is! I firmly believe that that kind of gloating is definitely something that only demons can do!

"Forget it... wait until the dream, I promise you will see it."

After washing up, I deliberately opened the door of Su Erin's room, stuck out my tongue at Su Erin who was leaning against the bed, made a grimace, and walked into the room angrily. I walked to the end of the bed, lay on my back on the bed, rolled around twice so that the quilt wrapped my body.

Although I was stuffed in the quilt and made a "huhu" sound from my throat to express my dissatisfaction, but after a while I felt my brain was dizzy and fell asleep in a daze. I was able to fall asleep so quickly, which is probably due to the infusions given to me by the institution managed by my mother.

In a blink of an eye. Waking up in the usual blood-colored world, I quickly pulled up my increasingly flexible body, ran up the huge and rusty pointer, and jumped off the huge ancient clock that was difficult to measure in distance units. When he was about to fall to the ground, he suddenly issued an instruction to his body to rise, and his vision suddenly turned upward.

——This kind of falling experience is really tried and tested. In my opinion, it is far more fun than any roller coaster in an amusement park.

Now I am in a dream world called "Dream Gap". This is the game map of the "Game of Dominators" for dreamers. There are no superfluous rules in the game. As one of the participants, I just have to keep killing everyone else here to win the game one day--that's what I think.

The height of the dive was getting closer and closer to the sky, and the sea of ​​stars hanging in the sky beckoned to me anxiously, and the light streamed out from the crimson sky. I stretched out my hand to touch the stars that were only the size of my fingertips, but my fist hit the invisible barrier and it was difficult to move forward a centimeter. Immediately, my body fell back, and the top of my head fell to the ground more and more quickly.

Every time I reach this height, I can no longer take a step closer to the end of the sky, as if the sky consciously pushed me away. That may be the limit that our rulers can touch.

The moment I was keenly aware that the top of my head was about to touch the ground, I swung my right arm towards the sky with all my strength, the gravity of the fall suddenly weakened, and then there was a sound of "ting", as if the earth had patted my head very gently Melon, I naturally lay on my back on the roof tiles.

At this time, the sound of mighty footsteps not far away suddenly braked, and someone's urgent order came from somewhere on the ground——

"Everyone - stop!! Everyone go back the same way, hurry up!"

The tone is as if encountering a hunter's weak prey. I suddenly felt energetic as if charging was completed. I sat up and turned my eyes to look around. I caught a certain number of troops in the direction of the "Y" intersection at a certain distance. The corners of my mouth raised involuntarily. Hesitantly turned in their direction and chased after them.

"What's going on!" When the rest of the people were reluctant to follow suit, a red-haired boy put on an extremely repulsive look, and quickly grabbed the leader's shoulder, "Why did you go back the same way now! ?Give me an explanation!"

"Don't worry about why! My control ability has sensed... that [Black Death God] is nearby!!"

"Damn it! Just because we keep avoiding that guy, we have fallen into a passive position!"

"Let's go back and discuss this kind of thing!"

The leader's young man quickly dropped these words, grabbed the red-haired boy's hand and ran in the opposite direction. At this time, a small black figure wearing a black windbreaker suddenly stopped him in front of his way, and squeezed out a happy smile, and at the same time, I said in a cold tone——

"Ah~ the leader of clock number one~ when guests come to the door and leave without saying hello, is this your way of hospitality?"

The leader's face suddenly turned blue, and he quickly took a step back with the help of instinct. Facing a child like me who is much smaller than them, showing such an expression of fear, is it really embarrassing to a certain extent? What's more, just now they were discussing about fleeing without fighting, just a child with the title of "Black Death".

I can't understand how a child like me can scare them to such an extent?

Maybe it's not me that they fear, but anyone with this title, because they demonized "Black Death" too much.

"It can't be called hospitality. After all, this is not our domain."

"If you want to delay time, it doesn't matter if you delay for another ten seconds."

As I spoke, I stretched out my palm and counted down from 10. The leader tightly clenched his fist sticking to the edge of his trousers, and with his other hand, he tightly grabbed the red-haired boy's arm that was about to move. His gaze was fixed on me but he never moved. Finally, when I counted to 5 unhurriedly, the red-haired boy who was next to him was the one who took the lead.

Without saying a word, the young man broke free from the leader's hand. He didn't run straight towards me, but circled around me on purpose. A fiery red light suddenly shone in his eyes, and then his originally alone figure turned into a As a phantom, when I put away my thumbs, and only the index fingers of my two hands were still bound, the figure of the boy scattered into dozens of circles and surrounded me.

"Clone? It's a pity. The one I'm best at suppressing is the ruler who wins by numbers."

Having said that, I immediately retracted my index finger, and suddenly pressed my hands down to my waist without leaving any space between them. The surrounding gravity field was suddenly distorted, and the strange pulling force turned me into dozens of red-haired youths who hesitated. The leader and the people hundreds of meters away from me who followed the leader's order to retreat quickly were all crushed to the ground.

"Damn guy! What "Black Death"... Manipulating gravity or something is a despicable domination ability!"

The voices of the red-haired teenagers in different positions shouted angrily at the same time overlapped. Among the many figures, only one is still very clear, and the rest are blurred. I walked towards the clear figure and pulled his hair a little harder. Gravity and my upward pull tore the boy's body apart, even though he clenched his teeth, a few moans slipped out of his mouth.

"Sorry, but this is actually not the most despicable thing."

After I finished speaking, I swung my hand down, and the bridge of the red-haired boy's nose hit the ground directly. The sound of a suspected fracture accompanied by a roar of pain and unwillingness filled the surrounding air. I moved my hands unhurriedly to my ears, and my palms met lightly. I suddenly felt that my eyes were hot, and a young and vicissitudes of life came from the depths of my brain.

"Huh? Did you notice something else, Black Reaper?"

"Don't call me by my name in a joking tone!! The prey from clock number one are here, if you don't come, I'll deal with it myself."

The other party naturally understands what I mean by "handling". All I have is the special ability to manipulate gravity, so I can't kill other Dominators with that ability. Therefore, I can only kill as many of these Dominators as possible while maintaining the abnormal gravity, and I have to leave time for myself to escape.

"Hey, don't be like this! I'll send people there right away, just wait for me!"

The signal stopped abruptly, and I can no longer actively contact the other party. However, this also shows that he is indeed rushing here at full speed. The man I talked to just now seems to be able to connect the inner thoughts of the designated person to each other, so we can connect with each other at any time. Personally, I think he has the dominant ability of "information sharing".

After a while, the mournful cries of the slaughtered rulers trying their best to ask for help came from a distance. The cleaved muscles burst into bloody flowers, dyeing the time that was originally shrouded in the red sky even more bloody. When I was thinking, the killing spread to the vicinity, and I immediately slowed down the surrounding gravity, and the arrows of more than ten bows and arrows precisely pierced into the red-haired boy's chest.

"Absolutely... will definitely find a way to take revenge on you."

Dozens of teenagers staring fiercely stared in my direction, no matter whether they were clear or blurred, they all gradually dispersed into particles and disappeared.

In just a dozen seconds, besides me, only the leader of the No. 1 clock was left, and the bright red bodies of the others all turned into dust and scattered upwards.

The archer, one of the slayers who accomplished this series of feats—a young man with curly blond hair, jumped off a nearby roof with some satisfaction, and came to me. He calls himself "Mirror Master" and has the ability to "mirror mirror". On the other side, Sakurako, a girl with cherry pink long hair in a maid outfit, also stepped over the corpse that had not completely disappeared, and walked over in a nonchalant manner.

Aware of the dangerous smell, leader No. 1 hurriedly supported his arms and stood up, turned around and wanted to escape, I pressed down my right hand without hesitation, and the figure desperately mobilizing my legs to escape became heavy Dozens of times, he was crushed to the ground severely. Jingshi and Yingzi were also oppressed instantly, and their right leg sank when they stepped forward, and they almost fell down.

"Hey...!" Mirror Master bent down on the ground unwillingly, and shouted, "Can't this strange gravity field exclude me?"

"My ability to control can't do whatever I want to the extent that I can designate someone not to be affected."

As I said in a slightly complaining tone, I walked up to the leader's head, grabbed his hair a little rudely, and lifted him up. While removing the twisting gravity, I threw him directly in front of the mirror master. Yingzi rubbed her knees in displeasure, bit her lower lip lightly, raised her eyebrows and asked me:

"Then why aren't you under the control of gravity yourself?"

"Can you pull yourself off the ground by your own hair?"

"Really..." Yingzi gently raised my chin, I couldn't help but instinctively rejected her, and immediately waved her hand away. I heard her say again, "Being teased by younger men will make my sister feel uncomfortable~"

The Mirror Master on the other side shrugged his shoulders, showing an unfriendly smile. At the same time, he stepped on the leader who was crawling to escape, then bent down, grabbed the man's collar and lifted him up.

"Don't be so scared, we have prepared the best room for you. You will be safe until you find a way to kill the Dominator."

"Wait! It's not good for you to capture me now!!" The leader waved his hands hysterically in a gesture of resistance, "Your strength alone will never win against the 'Dream Stealer' and the 'White Ghost'." ! Instead of making enemies everywhere, why don’t we form an alliance? You can let go of the past for killing my teammate just now!”

The Mirror Master didn't respond, he just grabbed his collar and walked towards our stronghold. Yingzi snapped her fingers to summon more than a dozen fully armed battle maids.

"If you don't believe me, I can tell you information about other forces! For example, the true identity of the "White Specter"—she is a woman named Baitu Mei. Also, Baitu Mei often hangs out with the "King of Dream Stealers" Together……"

It wasn't until he spat out the information that the mirror master lightly let go of his hand, but he was not moved by the information, but was closer to the emotion of giving him "alms" for the sake of his persistence. He came up to the leader suddenly, and the smile on his face was joking and crazy.

"Hey...if I told you that the purpose of our participation in the domination war is not to win, what would you think?"

As soon as the words were spoken, the leader's eyes were suddenly filled with astonishment, and after a few seconds, his astonishment turned into fear mixed with half-belief.

In fact, the Mirror Master hadn't lied to him. For other rulers, the domination war is life and death. To us, the ruler of clock number three, the domination war is just a crazy game. We may have different goals, but neither of us wants to win the war of domination. Just like I was half for my mother's experiment, Lin Yu and the others wanted to "kill the gods".

That day. As usual, I manipulated my dreams as a "lucid dream" (previously I named this phenomenon lucid dream to myself, which means lucid dreaming, and my mother later told me that phenomenon is called "lucid dream" ), creating mottled and colorful worlds one after another.

When I laughed out loud and hollow, and fell from the sky, about to fall on the limp donuts—

"Myths are dreams shared by everyone in the world, and dreams are private myths."

The strange male voice suddenly and abruptly destroyed all the dreams I had constructed, and my vision was plunged into darkness. After a few short seconds, a few starlights dotted the darkness, and gradually the number of starpoints became extremely large, and the fleeting light from time to time made my heart flutter with incomprehensible throbbing, as if I was in an infinite universe. .

"Ah...Although it seems a little sudden, I still want to take the liberty of asking this question—"Have you ever thought about controlling this mythology that belongs to you?"

I carefully considered the sudden sound and the surrounding scenery, and thus confirmed that I had never created such a character and such an environment. Therefore, this world should and should not have such a person, but the fact is that this uninvited guest came to my world without warning as an intruder wearing an old phoenix suit.

"Who are you!?"

"I asked you the question first, shouldn't you answer me first?"

"But this is my dream world, should you, the guest, answer me first?" I said this angrily, frowned, and then sat down cross-legged bored. But there is no sign of falling, "Forget it...to answer your previous question, I am already controlling my own "myth".

I somehow don't want to drive away the intruder, because once he is driven away, it may be difficult for such unexpected existences to appear in the future, right? After all, one day I will get used to this dream world where everything is at my disposal, and I will get tired of it by then. Finding extra fun before this happens may delay the deadline for feeling bored.

"Indeed. Anything is possible in a dream, and you created a world where you rule everything?"

The young man showed a sharp fang that only vampires or werewolves in movies have, and smiled meaningfully at me.

"In dreams, we are usually guided by the dream and at the mercy of it, so dominating the dream is not something that everyone can do, but you did it."

"I don't think it's something to brag about."

"A natural lucid dreamer is like a person who is gifted in other areas? Geniuses are always unaware that they have the gift of God, and they don't realize that this is something that other people may not necessarily get if they are eye-catching." Youth His tone was slightly joking, and I felt a bit uncomfortable because of his words.

"Is that so, I don't welcome guests who are hostile to me."

I waved my fingers, restored the surroundings to their original appearance, stood up and stepped on the donut forcefully, the jumping force beyond my imagination threw me into the sky, and I stepped on a piece of chocolate that was half unpacked On the way, I saw the young man followed me stubbornly. He shook his head at me and followed me around the world of sweets.

"Well...how can I not be hostile to you? I'm just curious."

"What are you curious about?"

"Even if you are a genius who can control dreams, you still can't guarantee that you can distinguish between reality and delusion after a long dream trip, right?"

These slightly meaningful words made me turn around and look at the young man. I really can't understand his intentions, but the more I can't figure it out, the more impatient I feel.

"What are you trying to do in my dream?"

"Um?"

"If you just tell me such inexplicable things, I will ask you to leave here."

I dropped this sentence and snapped my fingers. The door leading to the world beyond my dream world appeared behind Lin Yu, and he couldn't react immediately. He was pulled to the other side of the door by an abnormal gravity that I turned to the side without saying hello.

Seeing that the heretic youth finally disappeared before my eyes, I was relieved, turned around and jumped off the lollipop ball to leave——

"Hey hey hey! Can you be a little more patient!"

The young man's tone was a little hasty, and he clung tightly to the edge of the World Gate. The moment I hesitated because of this, the gravity returned to normal briefly, and he also took the opportunity to pull his arm up, jumped back to the gate of the world, and waved his hand complainingly. However, a ray of light like a prairie spark ignited in the pupil.

"I'm not so bored that I went to someone else's dream to be a guest just to say these things. I don't want to be chased away by the owner of the dream for no reason!"

The other party's words made my heart suddenly filled with indescribable excitement, and I whispered to myself in a low voice, "Is it really possible... to go to other people's dreams?"

"Oh, you don't know about this kind of thing?"

I didn't expect him to hear what I said, but it's not inconceivable if you think about it carefully.

The way of talking in dreams is quite different from reality - in reality, you must speak through your mouth before the other party can hear what you are saying; in dreams, no matter whether you really speak or not, and no matter how loudly you speak, As long as there is a willingness to tell the other party, the words will be transmitted to the other party's "ear" in a more straightforward form, so even language barriers can be overcome.

"Aren't you surprised how I know what you're thinking? Shouldn't there be a response like "How do you know what I'm thinking?" or "Do you have mind reading skills"! You are too unreasonable Let’s play the card, just now! Even though I was thinking that “an unexpected existence rarely appears” in my heart, I suddenly drove me away without warning!”

"Oh... I thought it was the peculiarity of the dream itself. I didn't expect that the reason would actually come from you."

"Sure enough, you still don't know much about dreams..." The young man muttered thoughtfully, and raised his eyes to look at me.

"So what is the purpose of your coming here? If you don't say anything else, I really want to ask you to leave."

"Ah...sorry. I only came here for the sole purpose. Please forgive my unfeeling request——would you like to join me in a game exclusively for dreamers?"

"A game exclusively for dreamers..." I thoughtfully repeated this combination of words I had never heard before, but his gloomy gaze whetted my appetite. I understood that he possessed the power of mind reading, so I naturally knew what was going on in my mind, so I asked him frankly, "So... what game is it?"

The young man raised the corner of his mouth evilly. Like a vampire who finally hunted its prey, it smiled happily in front of the white and tender neck.

"—The 12th session, Domination War, it's a game of...domination, or being dominated~"