Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

In the corner of the alley, the criminals in prison uniforms rose up and ran towards the exit of the cage against the doomsday sky.

The silver-haired girl chased after me, and rushed towards me through the sky.

The black cat waved its jade hand and propped up several black mist around it, connecting the space into a spiral tunnel. But for this move, she had to let go of me and Lin Yu. My body was a little unstable, I put my arm around Lin Yu's shoulder and took a deep breath, the scenery from a high place was dizzying.

I clenched my teeth for fighting up and down, and mustered up the courage to let go of Lin Yu's hand. After bouncing around several times, I finally flew in the air smoothly.

The mood of joy is just emerging——

[Su Huohuo~ I've always hoped that you would learn to fly before me, just take me wandering aimlessly, but now, I have to be your wings. 】

——Suddenly, words that seemed to come from a long time ago sounded in my ears through time, and I erased the curved corner of my mouth in a daze.

At the same time, those blue eyes have already caught up with us, and the voice with a nostalgic temperature shatters all illusions.

"Hey~ Su Luoyang, I told you, right? I don't like children in the rebellious period, and I don't like children who are too dishonest. You make your creator feel very uncomfortable by doing this! I admit you All kinds of behaviors really make me look up to you, but if you blindly destroy my plan, I will have to bear the pain and get rid of you."

"Even though you're saying this, you already want to kill me a thousand times in your heart, right?"

Gritting my teeth, I almost paused to avoid the lightning that was fired like a plasma cannon, and rushed into the black mist that the black cat had prepared in advance.

However, the moment I was about to walk out, my neck was suddenly squeezed tightly by a hand outside the black mist, and my body was pulled out suddenly, and I looked into those eyes.

"You said that parents in this world hate iron for being weak, and often beat and scold their children, wishing to beat them back to their wombs and rebuild them. As the creator, I certainly have the same emotion for my creations."

The black cat and Lin Yu charged forward, but I signaled them not to act rashly with my gaze.

"Su Ruoyang ❤ Those words before were all angry words, I hope you can understand my painstaking efforts."

"Don't insult the word 'parents', I don't think you are at all like a parent who expects their children to become a dragon..."

I grabbed Qianyan's cold hand almost instinctively, trying hard to regain my breath.

"Can't you understand? If you go too far beyond my control—for example, even your dreams shut me out, then you are undoubtedly a child who is in a rebellious period and needs to be corrected. You You shouldn't have any resistance to the fate I arranged for you."

"...Sorry, it seems that I made a mistake. You are similar to some parents in this world—for example, even want to control the will of children."

"I'm so stupid, I really can't communicate anymore." Her voice suddenly turned cold, and she raised my neck with more force, "Although I don't like this single-cell method, if we have to decide the winner , Only when you understand the fatal gap between the enemy and ourselves are you willing to give up, and I will grant your wish."

"what do you mean?"

"In order for you to fully understand your ignorance, I will let you experience for yourself that your Creator is an existence that cannot be disobeyed. In other words, no matter what you want to do today, I can't make you happy. You can put your own I attribute my powerlessness to fate as a lesson. After all, the so-called fate is my will.”

Qianyan glanced sideways at the sinner below, spread her five fingers to her mouth, and waited for my reaction mockingly.

"You guy, there is really no cure... Even if there is no omniscient, omnipotent, strategizing god, I don't think it is your turn to be on the throne of God. If someone asks me why the world is destroyed, I will not hesitate. Tell him hesitantly—because the world is crazy enough to be dominated by people like you, so its self-destruction will also push you off the altar!"

"You don't have the right to judge my affairs arrogantly."

As soon as the words were finished, Qianyan suddenly raised her palm, and the palm was above me. The plain white fingertips condensed enough energy to shake the world, and instantly formed a lightning strike that was far larger than ever before, and the electric current was about to move and roared. As her hand over my head is about to fall—

At this critical moment, Qian Yan's movements suddenly stopped.

I opened my eyes in a daze, and the girl in front of me blinked her pupils as clear as a mirror, and suddenly a strange color like a shooting star flashed through.

"Qian... Yan?"

For a moment, I tightened my shoulders, and couldn't help but pronounce this missed name. A hint of sadness flashed between the girl's frowning brows, and the corners of her pursed lips hesitated to speak, as if expressing my unexplained remorse, but in the next second, she raised her hand and pushed it towards my chest at a speed I couldn't catch. , that familiar strange force suddenly flew me to the black mist behind me.

Facing the force in front of my chest, I desperately stretched out my hand towards Qianyan in front of me, but my vision turned into pitch blackness on the black mist, and when the light entered my vision again, I felt a soft touch on my back , Qian Yan, who was not far away, stood still and looked at me, and after only a moment, her eyes were replaced by the strange look of the Creator.

The empty wind blew through my heart, and I came back to my senses one step later, only to see that the black cat caught my body and stared at me worriedly.

"Thank you, it really... helped me a lot."

I suddenly thanked the black cat earnestly, and looked back at her eyes motionlessly, causing the black cat to flush, she quickly looked away, and Lin Yu next to me nodded tactfully this time, expressing the same gratitude as me .

"No... What are you thanking me for? Because I saved your life from the evil spirit? You can pass this level without me, it just takes a little more effort...Anyone can do it just to catch you It just happened to be me standing here..."

The black cat began to speak incoherently. Although the tone was righteous, its eyes were blurred into continuously rotating circles.

I couldn't help laughing.

I have never found that a black cat can be so cute when it panics. Because she never expressed her true thoughts in the past. I think that the occasionally shy and occasionally distressed black cat may be her real appearance.

"If we continue to be half asleep and half awake like that, sooner or later our operation this time and our escape plan will all be lost."

So far, Lin Yu and I have only fooled the eyes of the Creator and completed the first step, but we are half asleep and half awake as if we are only one step away from success.

—Big mistake, now is the beginning.

"'Declaring war on my past self' is, in a way, my own problem. Fighting for unfair punishment, not for escaping guilt—precisely because we are all sinners. , that’s why there is such a resonance, let’s try it out.”

——This time it is not atonement, but against the self who has committed mistakes.

Despicable sinners, start now to challenge the Creator.

"Everyone obeys orders. There are two conditions for this victory."

Words spread to all sinners including Lin Yu and Hei Mao through "one person with thousands of faces" in just an instant.

"One: to lead sinners who have not sinned so far back to reality.

"As long as you cross the gate of Xinghai Tavern with a relatively clear mind, you can theoretically come to Dreamland on Rong Tan Street. Even if you fail to maintain a relatively clear mind, the gap between the two worlds is impacted and blurred, and the result is Waking up in the lab of the Core Research Society.

"In other words, we can return to reality no matter what, just separate the two groups of people: the criminals who came to Taoyuan are responsible for attacking the Core Research Association for rescue, and the criminals who woke up normally launched an attack inside the laboratory. escaped.

"Second: Invade the heart of the Creator and bring back the truth of the world.

"After March, the world will be destroyed. For this reason, we must know the reasons for the doomsday and the conditions to prevent it from happening. The only person who can do this is Lin Yu, but it will take time to complete this. Therefore, we must use Xinghai Tavern is the base, trying to buy time for Lin Yu.

"above."

After this fleeting announcement, the atmosphere seemed to be silent for a second, but only for a second, the unreasonable world burst into thunderous echoes. The sinners raised their right fists and shouted majesticly, and they walked with steps that were not uniform but seemed to be integrated. Missing the sculptures of the 12 previous dream madmen, the distance to the destination seemed to be close at hand.

"The world is destroyed? The world that has tricked me for half my life actually said that it is about to be destroyed?"

"It's a disaster without reason! The reality we live in is really getting more and more crazy—but, it's because of this that it makes sense to fight it to the end!"

Obviously there is not much progress compared to before, only our hearts have changed subtly, but now this kind of victory is in sight-human perception is really ambiguous.

"I don't understand you more and more..." The black cat lowered its head and smiled wryly, but had no choice but to do so, "It's another seemingly invulnerable gamble."

"It seems to be invulnerable, right?"

Almost as soon as the voice fell, the crowd advancing in the square tended to push and shoved. Some people were unable to stand still and almost fell, and were supported by the arms of the people next to them, but that person was actually fighting with that person. An unusual gravitational struggle.

At the same time, we who were walking in the sky were strongly suppressed by the airflow above, and almost fell from a high altitude to the bottom, but we were saved by the black mist.

"Theoretically, it may be invulnerable, but when encountering an almost invincible existence like the Creator..." the black cat stopped for some reason, took a deep breath, and said, "Besides, she is now a reality. They really want to compete with us, it is impossible to let anyone here go."

"...Did you take your anger out on these criminals?" Lin Yu frowned.

"No, she won't leave everyone here..." I suddenly groped for the path called "Breakthrough", and raised my eyes against the extremely oppressive gravity, "If it is the Creator, she must use despair Filled with hope, so that I gave up completely. In other words, she probably deliberately let a few people go, in order to leave us with little hope."

——If you want to suppress it, you will first raise it, this is the usual method used by the Creator to write the fate, and it is a feeling that I have fully experienced.

But now, it's time to use this to our advantage.

For this reason—even though I know that my body can no longer support the burden brought by the "Phantasy Clock", if I don't use it at this time, it will be meaningless for Xia Yinci to entrust it to me. Perhaps the current "fantasy clock" alone is not enough, so let's play it together with the card "one man with thousands of faces".

【No one grows up in a world where time is still. There is no reason for the world to temporarily stop changing for your growth. 】

I clenched my sore fists, and Lin Yu and Lin Yu exchanged glances, and then both of them looked at the black cat at the same time.

Is it possible? I have no idea. But dreams are the world of cognition—if we don’t make a fuss, it’s a waste of our imagination, isn’t it?

Facing our staring eyes, the black cat lowered its eyes silently. Facing the existence of the Creator, anyone would inevitably feel fear. Her undulating hands on her chest trembled imperceptibly, and she closed her eyes to adjust her breathing. But in the end, she still blinked her smart eyes and gave me a nod full of trust.

In just an instant, two black mist appeared behind us respectively. Lin Yu and I separated our eyes at the same time, slid into it, and entered the abnormally connected space.

According to my second guess, the only taboo of the Creator is that he cannot interfere with the "spiritual world" of human beings, just like Charte cannot control the will of the residents in his dream, and the children of the Violet City in my dream have freedom By analogy with our will, the Creator has no power to change our will.

At that time, Qian Yan said, "We can still walk, we can still reach out the window to touch the distant sea, and we can still jump off this train", I think this is what it means.

So the Creator cannot break into my extremely closed dream world. The reason why she stopped me outside the black mist just now is because she can't interfere with the space inside the black mist created by the black cat.

[Tell me, for this train that wanders in reality, why does lucid dream exist? 】

"Of course it's to explain our only freedom—"

I slipped into the black mist of space distortion and held the shining pointer on my chest again.

Pray in the depths of your heart, and grow flowers on the other side of your mind. The extremely hot temperature hit the eye sockets, and an ancient golden clock opened on his chest in an instant.

"Tick-tick-"

The pendulum swings from side to side, reminding me of the eternity of time. I held the pointer in my palm tightly, facing the rising heat, and pushed the time gear clockwise.

— 3:20. The moment the body rushed out of the black mist, it was swallowed by the next black mist, and Luo Lei almost passed by.

Although I can't stay in the black mist for too long, it seems that my guess is correct. I immediately threw the sickle out of the black mist with one hand, and the black mist that was swept by the blade suddenly drew the maximum amount of black mist within my ability. Lin Yu used this to rush into the black mist, turned to a position closer to the Creator, and opened the barrier the moment her lightning struck the sinners.

Lin Yu, who had succeeded in covering, didn't dare to stay, turned over and entered the black mist, but Qianyan suddenly chased after Lin Yu at full speed, her palm turned into a blade and pierced into the sparse black mist, grabbed his collar, and stiffened him. Pulled out the upper body, a hand knife fell with the lightning strike——

At this critical moment—perhaps influenced by the "fantasy clock", Xiao Lulu split off from the black cat unexpectedly, and the moment he raised his palm—the black mist appeared out of thin air and involved Lin Yu, Qianyan's knife landed on the soft black mist, and the falling lightning pierced through the black mist and immediately dispersed. In addition, the black mist in almost the entire venue was several times thicker.

"Lulu……"

Black Cat's tone was blatantly worried about Xiao Lulu. After all, she should have no memory of this period of time. No one can say whether she can accept the current situation, but——

"I understand, let's go together!"

——Xiao Lulu smiled, and the black cat hesitated for a moment, but also smiled back, turned around and handed over the evil spirits gathered by the Creator to Lulu, and then broke free from the control of gravity and jumped into the air lightly, flying around The rattan was thrown towards Qianyan, who was a few meters away, and the rattan sprouted buds all the way to cover Qianyan's sight, but was instantly broken by the opponent with brute force.

Lin met her out of the black mist, turned the barrier to Qianyan's side, and the rattan was ejected back to Qianyan's side to wrap around her arm.

"...Small tricks."

Qian Yan easily dragged the rattan to distance, broke free from the restraints and raised her arms, a beam of light visible to the naked eye was connected between the palms, and threw it towards the black cat with a flash of strange light. But the barrier behind her broke instantly and debris grazed her shoulders, and the burst of beam of light instantly reflected to Qianyan herself, causing rope-like lightning to bind her whole body.

The black cat and Lin Yu immediately took this opportunity to sneak down to distance them. Almost instantly, Qianyan clenched her fists, and all the lightning gathered on her body at the speed of light, and a lightning-like flame flashed in her eyes In an instant, all of them were absorbed by her for her own use. But when she turned away, dozens of thick black mist had been added to the sky because of Xiao Lulu.

Lin Yu and I shuttled constantly in the sky, not allowing Qianyan to have any chance to interfere. Qianyan's eyes followed our figure for two times, and then she suddenly looked away, and the jade hand ordered Luo Lei to come out of the clouds, catch up with her movements, and follow her direction and land directly on the No. 8 clock.

"What is she doing...?"

When he was confused, the deafening roar suddenly made Lin Yu turn around suddenly, looking out of the black mist. I saw a naked monster surrounded by flames stepping on the dial of the No. 8 clock and roaring, swinging in the air and whistling past, its figure was so huge that it almost filled our field of vision.

"It's the Devourer...!"

Lin Yu's expression was very complicated, as if recalling an unpleasant memory, he frowned and lowered his gaze.

The air in which the monster passed, together with the invisible walls, were all involved in the raging fire.

"Su Luoyang, can I leave this "Devourer" to you...?"

"……OK."

As if seeing my question, Lin Yu patted my shoulder, pursed his lips and let out a sigh.

"'The Devourer' is a combination of the wills of dead people who linger in dreams. Jiangcheng...and many people I know must be among them. Thinking of this, I can't attack my former companions. I'm sorry at this time You have to have selfishness...but if you abandon these feelings of being human, I feel that I have not grown any better than I used to be."

The will to respect the dead, I think, is our invaluable intelligence as human beings.

"I understand your thoughts, but..."

The victory that comes from abandoning our unique nature as "us" is never really a victory.

The traces of the pointer became hot on the palm, and the gears of time sped up again.

— 6:20. I stretched my hand out of the black mist, and suddenly felt a slight vibration from my sickle, and suddenly flew into the sky and passed under the "Devourer", spreading out a bright white curtain wall.

"Vientiane copy".

In an instant, an identical replica of the "Devourer" popped up from the other side of the curtain wall, resisting the approaching pace of the real "Devourer", the two sides immediately fell into a stalemate, and the saliva from the monster's mouth dripped to the ground, as if The fuel-like flame instantly formed a molten hole that became scorched black, and people ran away with their heads in their arms.

"Lin Yu, can I trouble you to maintain the existence of the screen?" I looked at Lin Yu and asked in a calm tone, "Let me do it, and you will maintain the follow-up offensive. You can't be regarded as the companion you killed with your own hands, right? Even so, will your sins be deepened?"

Lin Yu's eyes froze and wandered, but the sinners were shaking in the fear of death even for a second. The evil spirits blocked their way forward, and there was a torrential rain of flames behind them, but they still waited for us to boost their morale again—— —Courage is passing by every minute.

"It's true...! Anyway, I have already committed a heinous crime, so why should I be afraid of deepening my crime!"

As soon as the words fell, the flame of "one person with thousands of faces" reflected in his pupils, and suddenly flew towards my eyes, snatching Xue Xueer's mask away. The bright white curtain wall was shaken for a moment, and then stabilized by Lin Yu's open palm. The fake replica of the mirror wall fought to the death with the body of the Devourer.

And I once again held the pointer on my chest. This time, the temperature felt by the palm is no longer scorching, but the cold touch that comes from the palm of the hand every degree in the ward.

——At 7:40, the violet flames froze my eye sockets, and the noise of the half a year, the medical drip and the mechanical operation beside the hospital bed resounded in my ears.

"If it was you, brother, you would definitely be able to save me."

The words that seemed to have been heard before broke through the noise of the ward, and the freezing temperature grabbed my heart. I opened my eyes suddenly, and shouted desperately towards the criminals below——

"You who are not guilty of this crime, cry out! Fight to regain our freedom! Insensible people, wake up! Fight to fight against our destiny! Rebels, to make up for your crimes! Let's fight! Please redeem your sins, let's fight! Let's run toward freedom even if we sacrifice our lives!"

I never expected that one day I would muster up such courage and shout out words that I once felt extremely ashamed of. But now, the turbulent blood in my heart covered the flushing of my cheeks, and the moment the crimson flame escaped from my eyes, I spread my wings like wings, covering all the sinners below with unbelievable feasibility, shouting back my morale.

No longer an order, but an oath of the sinner's will. Just like the impact on the order of the dark knight at the beginning - "Devil King's Order" not only did not cause the slightest backlash to me, but hit the desire deep in our hearts, intertwined with beliefs to become an incomparably huge spiritual force. Taking firm steps towards the terrifying evil spirit.

The barriers laid at the right time separated the sinners on the ground from the sky, blocked the dripping flames, and blocked thousands of falling thunders.

I held up my palms high, and resisted Qianyan's pressure several times. The stalemate between two diametrically opposed dominations creates a countervailing effect on sinners.

The pace returned to lightness, but the moment it fell, it carried a steady weight—the sinners were entangled with the flesh-biting monsters, and the shouts broke through the gushing blood in an instant, and they forced a bloody path, breaking through the encirclement of evil spirits, and finally Into the sea of ​​stars at the edge of the world.

The walls that fell out of nowhere blocked the evil spirits, and the claws tore the invisible walls, watching the prey escape.

But what caught the eyes of the sinner was a vast expanse of stars beyond sight.

The thoughts that sink into the bottom of the sea sometimes roll up to the surface of the sea, and sometimes fade away with the star tide.

Countless stars are dead people, but not as good as those twinkling stars in the sky that call for help. They just pushed and shoved each other to form waves of coming and going, pushing to the shore wave after wave, as if they just wanted to check if there was anyone they knew in the passers-by. If it is, stay on the shore and watch for a while, if not, go with the tide, that's all.

People couldn't help but stop and watch, but just a moment later, the roaring thunder and lightning fell to the sea of ​​longing, and the surging waves hit the shore, destroying this hard-won scenery. Black clouds gathered on the shore, instantly causing a violent bombardment that lasted for tens of seconds, and then shot at the people on the beach, chasing the running figure.

Seeing this, I was busy looking for the black mist that was closer to the sea, and while holding the pointer in my hand, I was ready to walk over to support them.

"There's a hole in her heart! Right now—"

Lin Yu's hasty voice suddenly sounded in the back of my mind, and suddenly attracted my attention. I immediately stopped what I was doing, looked blankly at the figure in the gunpowder on the bank, and fell into a moment of hesitation.

— Please trust your own guesses.

The Creator will definitely let go of a small number of criminals before he wants to restrain himself. In other words, there is a high probability that the first batch of people who broke through will be deliberately let go.

In comparison, Qianyan's flaws are hard-won, so please trust the black cat and Xiao Lulu on the criminal side.

Believe in Lin Yu's "one person has thousands of faces".

Believe in my "fantasy clock"——

【At the end of the day, please believe in what you believe. 】

— 11 o'clock sharp.

The pendulum struck the ears and resounded through the sky.

The two girls with back to back turned to face each other, their palms pressed against each other pushed away like a gust of wind, their long purple hair fluttered, and the black mist in their palms quickly spread and turned into two black mist facing each other. The next second—the figures emerging from the black mist attracted each other like different magnetic poles, and their sights overlapped immediately along the flames in their eyes.

Lin Yu and I raised our palms towards each other, and the crimson flames hit each other's eyes, and then squeezed into the depths of the brain and stirred.

"One person has thousands of faces—"

——As soon as the voice fell, the two overlapping dominance abilities were released at the same time, and all the perceptions of the two were involved in the vortex of mutual perception. The resulting aftermath hit Qianyan in the sky like a thunderbolt, breaking into her consciousness deep. It was as if I stepped into her boudoir with half a foot, and my thoughts were like dreams and dreams intermittently.

"Super large evil spirits are behind you, please be careful to avoid dodging."

Suddenly, a strange female voice that I had never heard before sounded close to my ears, but I followed the memory in my head and read Baitu Yayi's name.

"Cough cough—please be careful to avoid dodge."

I came back to my senses in a daze, and screams came one after another from behind, intertwined together to form a thunderous roar. Suddenly realizing that the female voice just now came from "Absolute Observation", I dragged the air with my backhand and lifted it above my head, as if pulling an invisible rolling door.

"Lin Yu, borrow the mask of the black knight."

The wall suddenly rose out of thin air, fending off the "super-large evil spirit" formed by hundreds of evil spirits behind us. It hit the wall in front of us like a hurricane, and scattered a few black spots from time to time—in fact, Form a few super-large evil spirits.

"This anti-client posture, you are really rude!"

Lin Yu rushed forward and brushed against my shoulder, and threw the swing stick tightly in his hand forward. The moment the wall shattered, several shadows of evil spirits were broken, and he rushed into the super-large evil spirit's body in one fell swoop. Inside the body, two groups of evil spirits gnawed and tore each other's body, causing a collapse from within in an instant.

The super-large evil spirits turned into a gradually thinning group of evil spirits. They were sucked into the heat wave by the flames behind them, and burned to death in an instant. The flaming monster rushed into our field of vision screaming.

As if sensing the danger, the long-handled scythe flew back to my hand as soon as it cut through the body of the Devourer, and immediately put down more than a dozen barriers in its body, blocking the raging fire from separate areas, and rolled up a cyclone to weaken the fire. Lin Yu accepted and snapped his fingers, and the barrier immediately turned into a translucent white curtain wall, and the reflected cyclone quickly extinguished more than half of the fire.

"Hey—there is no omnipotent person in this world, and you are definitely not omnipotent either!"

Lin Yu spread out his empty palms forward and let out warm breath. He raised the corners of his mouth and spoke as if mustering up a lot of courage.

"You are worthy of this position, you are definitely the best leader in my mind... Ah, although you have to be ranked behind Brother William."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yu waved his hand, and the gradually extinguishing "Devourer" was embedded in the curtain wall and threw it over the sea of ​​stars. It almost turned into an extremely dazzling starlight when it fell to the surface of the water, and the light turned warm and moist Come down and sink quietly to the bottom.

There are no evil spirits, no gaps in the dreams of mourning and roaring, and it returns to relative silence again. I turned to look at the shore with a strange mood. The black cat sisters raised black mist and intertwined with vines. Open the door of Xinghai Tavern and break into it.

At such a moment, the thoughts are finally vulnerable. My field of vision turned into the gap between pitch black and pure white, and was dragged by Lin Yu's "one person with thousands of faces" into the personality palace where thousands of faces leaked a crack in the door. Lin Yu and I stood outside the gate of the palace, exchanged glances, and then sneaked into the room in one go.

The things in sight were taken away by the dazzling light in an instant.