King of 25 Cubs

On Fyodor's desk is a "page" - the same page he stole from the orphanage many years ago and created Maria.

He looked at this "page" silently, as if he was in deep thought, hesitating for something, and tapped his finger on the "page".

After a long time, he stood up and put away the "pages", left the room, and rang the doorbell of the orphanage next door.

Takaho Ikue was not at home, she went to the supermarket to do some shopping, and it was Dmitriev who opened the door.

Seeing this thin, sickly and beautiful young man who even coughed from time to time, but was always smiling, he froze for a moment, then smiled politely: "Please come in."

The dark shadow behind the boy floated into the door.

It was like a demon followed in.

·

"Then here's the question, who am I?"

Gogol teased the children with a smile, and he raised a finger: "There is a reward for guessing right~"

——I haven't seen you before, how could I know who you are!

Maria pouted and said inwardly.

But she was curious about what the reward would be, so she thought about it and said, "Are you a clown? I've seen circus performances, and those clowns wear clothes similar to yours."

Then she was a little uncertain, and gestured with her hands: "But their noses are red and round, and their faces are painted with colorful oil paints. You don't have any of these."

"Those don't matter anymore, I'm the clown!"

Gogol opened his arms and turned around on the spot, then squeezed his chin again: "Well, what reward should I give you?"

Maria was tired from running for so long, she sat on the snow, raised her head and said innocently: "The reward is... marry me!"

Gogol was rarely stunned.

"Doll, do you know what marriage means?"

"You know, Fedya told me! After marriage, the other party's things will become your own."

The little girl stretched out her hand and tugged at Gogol's silver-white hair: "Then will your hair become mine?"

"...Is that what he said?"

Maria nodded.

"That's a really simple and self-serving statement."

Gogol muttered something in a low voice, and then asked with interest: "Why do you want my hair?"

"I like silver-white hair." The little girl said seriously, "I won't take advantage of you, and I will give you my parents."

Gogol couldn't help but laugh: "How can you have any parents?"

"I can ask the dean and his wife of the orphanage next door to be my parents." The little girl said solemnly: "Aunt Yujiang said that she can be regarded as my mother!"

Gogol laughed "chichi", squatted down and asked calmly, "Then A'Tuo is going to become our neighbor?"

The little girl frowned: "Is the neighbor not good?"

"Excellent!" Gogol's tone was a bit subtle, and he rubbed the little girl's hair: "But let's talk about this kind of issue when you grow up."

"Then I will be the dean's and his wife's child when I grow up." She turned her head to look at the sky: "It will be dark soon, I have to go back."

In the little girl's mind, the concept of "running away from home" is to go out for a while, and then go home after dark, because the children in the town do the same.

Gogol squatted down, poked the little girl's soft face, bent his eyes and said, "We're not going home, how about I take you to play?"

Maria scratched her head: "But Fedya will be worried if he doesn't go home."

Despite the quarrel, her first thought was Fyodor.

"A Tuo asked me to play with you."

Gogol reached into the cloak, pulled out, pulled out a mobile phone as if by magic, and showed Maria the message sent by Fyodor.

"Maria ran out and helped me take care of her for a day.

——Fyodor D”

"Wow, is your cape Doraemon's pocket?"

Maria seemed to be attracted by Gogol's skill of pulling things out of the cloak, and immediately forgot about Fyodor, pestering Gogol to make more "magic" for her.

So Gogol took her to the forester's hut and gave her a solo magic show.

Finally, Maria, who was tired from playing, fell asleep among a bunch of strange things that Gogol conjured up.

At the foot of the mountain, the Maria Orphanage caught fire at some point.

The fire became more and more serious, and even swept into the neighboring house.

·

The next day, Gogol didn't take Maria back to the town, he used his powers to jump to Moscow several times.

"Aren't we going back?"

Maria asked.

"If you don't go back, I'll sell you."

Gogol joked casually.

Maria opened her eyes wide in surprise, and tears quickly filled the eye sockets.

"Wow, you're a bad guy, I won't play with you!"

"Why are you still crying...Okay, okay, I'm here to take you to A Tuo~"

"Really, really?"

"It's fake."

"Wow...!!!"

"Do you think it's true or not?"

"I don't guess woo woo woo!!!"

Crying the little girl again, Gogol was content to stop teasing her.

"A Tuo will live here in the future."

"Why don't you live in a small town?"

Maria is still a little bit reluctant to part with everyone in the orphanage.

Gogol's eyes fell on the newsboy on the side of the road, he noticed the newspaper in the boy's hand, he narrowed his eyes, and showed an inexplicable smile.

"Because the city is more convenient."

·

Fyodor was reading a newspaper when Gogol took Maria into the base of "Five Decays of Heaven and Man".

Newspapers reported the fire at the small town orphanage—

"The head of welfare killed his wife and then set fire to himself, no children in the hospital were injured"

Seeing Gogol holding Maria, he put down the newspaper and folded it carefully.

His calm eyes fell on Maria, and he didn't mention the matter of "running away from home" yesterday.

"Feiya, Feiya, I'm back!"

Maria is a child at heart, and she has long since stopped being angry with Fyodor. She quickly ran over and hugged Fyodor's arm: "I miss you so much!"

In any case, she couldn't really be mad at Fyodor.

no matter what he did.

Loyalty to this person is like a code written into Maria's brain, engraved into her instinct long ago.

It made even the thought of rebelling feel sacrilegious to her.

"You dare not tell Maria that you killed the couple in the orphanage."

Later, Gogol said with Maria behind his back, in a lively tone.

"No, you made a mistake."

There was no wave in Fyodor's eyes: "I didn't do anything."

Dmitriev set the fire, and Takasu Ikue was also killed by Dmitriev.

Fyodor only said a few words to the dean.

- That 'page' was stolen by your wife.

—and now it's in my hand.

"Dmitriev only told his wife the truth about the 'pages'. After the 'pages' were stolen, he suspected Ikue Takaho. It's just that Ikue Takaho never showed any abnormalities over the years. There is also a missing child in the hospital, and his suspicion gradually shifted to the missing child."

"I didn't do anything, I just resurfaced my suspicions."

"As for why the 'page' is in my hand..."

Fyodor tilted his head: "My hair is black. It just so happens that Takaho Ikue's hair is also black. What kind of distorted associations would a man with low self-esteem have?"

"Takaho Ikue is a person whose emotions are greater than reason. Her husband's suspicion will make her think that she has been insulted, and she doesn't even bother to defend herself. And there is a dark side in Dmitriev's heart that has been suppressed for a long time. If he is not so fragile, If they can face the dispute calmly enough, I don't think it will end like this in the end."

But for Fyodor, such an ending is inevitable.

The couple who knew the truth about the "pages" must die.What's more, their influence on Maria has exceeded expectations.

"No matter what, it's you, A Tuo, who are behind this."

Gogol smiled, and there was a kind of understanding in his playful eyes: "Really not to tell Maria?"

"Don't tell her, just because she doesn't need to know."

Gogol seemed to have heard some joke, and suddenly covered his mouth and laughed: "Admit it, you just don't dare to let her know the real you."

Fyodor fell silent.

"A Tuo, I suddenly found that you are quite interesting."

Seeing Fyodor raise his eyebrows, Gogol said with a smile: "I only want an item for you to use, but I gave the item the ability to think. Isn't this a self-contradictory instruction?"

"Why did you set human attributes on a prop in the first place? Is it because of the loneliness that no one understands? Or do you want to find an interesting adjustment in your long life? Or... the goal that is too easy to achieve is boring, so cultivate yourself a enemy?"

Fyodor showed an impeccable smile: "You think too much, she just has the ability to think, and it can't affect my plan. She is destined to play her role according to my arrangement."

"A creature with the ability to think means that it has uncontrollability, and it can't just be treated as a prop."

Gogol lowered his voice and dragged his tone: "Fyodor the Devil, I'm waiting for the day when you will be stabbed in the back by your own doll."

·

Maria didn't know what happened to the orphanage.

Since being sent to the base of the "Rat of the Dead House" in Moscow, she has met a lot of new people, and it is said that they are all Fyodor's "friends".

There is Mr. Gogol, the clown who likes to do magic tricks; there is Sigma, the yin and yang brother who obviously feels very ordinary, but works overtime at night to catch up with others with his efforts; The sycophant of your "master"; and Pushkin who lowered the appearance of the entire organization...

"That potato guy is no friend."

Gogol specifically emphasized this sentence.

"That's a thug your family A Tuo dug out from somewhere."

He was talking about Pushkin.

The little girl nibbled her fingers like Fyodor, and quietly looked at Pushkin who came to give a report.

——In terms of appearance and hair color, she doesn't belong to the same family as us.

Maria complained silently in her heart.

Although the little brother named Sigma has just arrived, but for some reason, when he saw the little girl for the first time, his eyes were very strange, both intimate and complicated.

Gogol said: "It was the look of finding the organization."

Maria looked puzzled: "Organization?"

"He is also a child born by the 'book'." Gogol smiled and beckoned Sigma to come over: "Sigma Sigma~Call me sister!"

Maria: "???"

Sigma couldn't help complaining: "What does it mean to be born by a 'book', is the 'book' our mother?"

Gogol covered his mouth, showing exaggerated surprise: "Oh, isn't A Tuo the father of Maria, and the step-father of Sigma?"

"What kind of chaotic human relationship is this?!"

Sigma showed an indescribable expression, but in the end the "sister" still didn't call out.

Maria was quite happy to have these playmates all of a sudden.

Among these "friends", the little girl likes Gogol the most, because he can do magic tricks, make children happy, and always bring her gifts when he comes back.

Sometimes it's candy, sometimes it's a balloon, sometimes it's a kite, and sometimes it's a book.

The book he brought was The Shawshank Redemption.

"Why does Andy want to escape? No one else wants to go out." The little girl still can't understand this kind of book: "Is it because he was beaten?"

"why?"

Gogol repeated it, saying meaningfully: "Because there is a little bird yearning for freedom living in his heart."

He reached out and rubbed the little girl's hair: "I hope you can be like Andy in the future."

Maria nodded half-understanding.

The weather turned cold, and gradually warmed up as time passed, and many flowers bloomed on the roadside.

Seeing those flowers, Maria thought of Takaho Ikue, so she went to Fyodor and expressed the wish of "going back to the town to visit the dean and his wife".

"But the organization now has a new mission."

Fyodor said gently: "I'll take you back after finishing the task, okay?"

Maria nodded obediently.

Unfortunately, after this, she never had the chance to return to that small town.

Fyodor and his friends suddenly became very busy, and no one could play with her as before, and no one could take her out without Fyodor's permission.

She didn't quite understand why he locked her in the house now, even though Fei Jia would take her on trips a few years ago.

Maria hasn't been out of the house for a long time.

"Doll, read a book if you're bored." Gogol suggested privately.

She had to stay in the house and read a lot of books.She has a good memory, and can remember written information as long as she reads it once.

After reading a certain number of books, a large amount of information instilled finally allowed her to begin to understand everything in the world.

She read all the books in the study room, and not long after Christmas, Gogol gave her a smartphone.

This mobile phone allowed Maria to open the door to a new world.

Cell phones are so much fun too!

She is like a sponge, frantically absorbing all kinds of information and knowledge.

Suddenly one day, she tugged at Gogol's sleeve and asked him in a low voice, "Is the orphanage in that small town still there?"

Gogol opened his eyes wide in an instant, then bent down and couldn't help laughing.

There was even a bit of madness and joy in this laughter that Maria couldn't understand.

After laughing enough, Gogol wiped the physical tears from the corners of his eyes: "It's great, little Maria has grown up too."

His long and narrow eyes fixedly looked at the little girl whose appearance had not changed, but whose eyes were much calmer, and the ending sound was like a hook: "It's gone, the night before you left the town that year, the orphanage caught fire. "

He didn't say how the dean, his wife, and the children were doing. Maria just kept silent, and finally didn't ask any further questions.

"What is Maria going to do?" Gogol asked with great interest.

The little girl pursed her lips and said solemnly: "I will stand by Fei Jia's side unconditionally. Fei Jia is my... most important person."

Gogol narrowed his eyes slightly, and finally sighed, unable to tell if he was still disappointed.

"Did he even expect this? No wonder he didn't stop me..."

He shook his head: "But Maria, for A Tuo, the most important thing is not you."

Maria lowered her eyes.

"I know."

——I know, but that person is above all else to me.

Not long after, Maria picked up a wounded bird.

She took the bird home and bandaged it with medicine. When the bird recovered, she couldn't bear to keep the bird in the cage, but in the end it was taken away by the wild cat.

Still later, she made a new friend, a friend who did not belong to Fyodor's social circle.

I don't know why, but suddenly one day, that friend never contacted her again.

After several times of trial and error, she gave up and did not take any other actions.

But even so, she still couldn't feel bad for Fyodor. This instinctive loyalty was like a strong bond and a solid cage, making it impossible for her to resist or refuse.

It's okay, she told herself.

The so-called "hibernation", isn't it now?

Andy had spent years digging tunnels, so could she.

Spring goes and autumn comes, time flies, and three years pass in a blink of an eye.

Because of being well-behaved and obedient in the past three years, Maria has a little more freedom than before.

Of course, such freedom is under the acquiescence and control of Fyodor, and if he wants to take it back, he can take it back at any time.

Fyodor's ideal is being realized step by step, and Maria, who has started to contact the "Five Decays of Heaven and Man" project, has also learned the secrets of many other organizations and supernatural beings.

For example, the strongest supernatural being "Natsume Soseki" in Yokohama, Japan turned out to be a three-flowered cat.

For example, the leader of the American psychic organization "Combination", his wife can spend super money!

"The ability to change into a cat is great. Can I masturbate myself when there is no cat? Well... this man named 'Fitzgerald' is very good at making money. You can buy some shares in this company."

Maria felt that she had become a money addict. After all, economic independence is the prerequisite for freedom.

Then she became a little discouraged.

"What are you thinking? I don't have any money."

Of course, the conflict between her and Fyodor deepened.

Maria watched the other party fall into the mud, and watched the original dream of saving everyone gradually changed its shape and was stained with blood.

Many thoughts kept coming up in her heart, but even Gogol didn't tell her about these thoughts.

When Gogol mentioned "The Shawshank Redemption" again, and even mentioned the word "backstab", she smiled softly and harmlessly.

"What are you talking about, I don't understand."

A few months later, Fyodor finally got the complete 'book', and his dream was about to come true.

"Will the ability really disappear from this world?"

Maria asked him.

"Well, the history of this world will be changed, all traces of the existence of abilities will be erased, and all persons with abilities will disappear."

Fyodor smiled, with a relaxed tone: "Of course, I will disappear too, and we will all disappear."

Maria suddenly reached out her hand and grabbed Fyodor's sleeve.

"Give up, okay?" She sniffled and said in a low voice, "I think it will be the same as before, we will travel, just the two of us."

"So give up, okay?"

These words are like her last attempt and effort.

Fyodor looked at her quietly, without speaking or moving.

The light in Maria's eyes disappeared bit by bit.

She lowered her head and slowly let go of her hand.

"Why?" She said softly, "Why did you give me humanity? Why didn't you stop me from growing? I'm obviously just a tool for you to realize your ideals..."

"Feyya, I'm so sorry."

The little girl's jewel-like eyes seemed to be fogged: "Did you not teach me what 'sad' is, just to let me feel it again and again?"

Fyodor picked up the pen again, turned the pages, and stopped suddenly when the tip of the pen fell on the page.

He smiled, sighed, and said softly in his voice, "Maria, that time was also different for me."

He wrote quickly and resolutely, as if a faint golden light seeped out of the paper, and quickly faded into darkness.

"I'm sorry, all your sadness was brought to you by me."

With the first "snap", the pen fell to the ground, and Fyodor disappeared.

The last words he left before he disappeared were: "Be an ordinary person in the future, you are free."

The changed history covers the previous history, and there will no longer be supernatural powers and supernatural beings in this world.

Probably because Maria and Sigma are "products" of the "book", they did not disappear directly like other supernatural beings.

Sigma knelt down to pick up the pen that Fyodor had dropped. He looked at his palm and said, "Maybe it won't last long."

Maria closed her eyes, and at the moment Fyodor disappeared, she suddenly felt that some kind of shackles that had been imprisoning her were broken.

Maria was always loyal to Fyodor.

If Fyodor disappears, if Fyodor never shows up, then that loyalty will be gone too.

She could do anything, anything against Fyodor's will.

"I won the bet."

Her tone was even calm, and she no longer had the sadness she had before, as if all the complicated feelings for "Fyodor" were stripped away the moment he disappeared.

"We are really different from everyone else."

"Have you decided?"

As if knowing what she was going to do, Sigma asked softly without stopping her.

"It's decided, I want to start all over again."

"In the past, I was born because of him, and now, I will live for myself."

How to start over?

As a screenwriter herself, Maria weaves a future for herself.

She wants to be a real human being.

She wants to have many friends, to be Takaho Ikue's daughter, to have silver-white hair, and to travel to many, many places to experience all kinds of different lives.

She has been to many places with Fyodor, and now she wants to go further.

I heard that there are parallel worlds, so it would be great if I could go and see... Well, if you want to travel to other worlds, the current level of technology should not be enough... Can you be friends with intelligent AI from the future?

She also wants to raise a bird, a bird that doesn't need to be kept in a cage. It stays when it's happy, and flies away when it's not happy. It can fly wherever it wants.

"Do you have any wish?" Maria asked Sigma.

"Me? I'll let it go."

Sigma looked a little dazed: "My wish, the 'book' can't help me realize it."

"If possible, I wish I had never been born."

Maria leaned over and stroked Sigma's hair.

"If you are lucky enough to meet again, my sister will protect you."

She put down her pen, looked at the ink-stained words on the page, and took off the golden pocket watch on her chest.

"Extraordinary ability - "Bell of the Dead". "

Time reset, the second week starts now!

In the dark and empty space, the book trembled suddenly.

The page of instructions written by Fyodor contradicted the instructions Maria had just written.

One is to change social history and eliminate supernatural powers.

One is to change Maria's fate after resetting the time.

Which of the two contradictory instructions should be executed?

It fell into confusion and split in two with a "hiss".

The "book" carrying countless if worlds split apart, directly causing this world to split into two parallel time-spaces:

The existence of supernatural powers has been erased in World A, and history has been overwritten. Even if Maria resets the time and returns to the past, she is still just an ordinary person.

——This world is exactly the "ideal" world after Fyodor changed it.

World B retains its abilities, and everything develops in the way Maria expects.

——It’s just that Fyodor’s order came first and was executed first. Maria stayed in world A, and world B did not have her existence.

But it doesn't matter, there is still an AI friend from the future who did not appear, anyway, one day it will come to the door and take the newborn Maria on a time and space journey.

When the AB world is completely integrated, the book will also be restored to its integrity.

At that time, Maria, who is already Yuka Takaho, will not only be the glue between the two worlds, but also become a new beacon for positioning the "book".

·

A repulsive force pushed me away from the gold pocket watch.

I quickly lifted off, and saw countless memory fragments flashing in the white light just like when I came here.

From being alone with nothing, to being surrounded by many friends and standing in the middle of the bondage net.

I was like an invisible gas, being sucked back into that dark space uncontrollably, and then repelled by this space again.

When I first got outside, I felt a bit cold.

No, it's not a little cold, it's very cold, and my whole body is almost frozen!

There is also a strange smell at the end of the nose, a bit like the fishy smell of frozen meat and fish.

The surroundings are still pitch black, but this pitch black is different from the previous pitch black.

I tentatively stretched out my frozen, inflexible arms.

With a "chuck", I pushed open a door.

The light was a bit dazzling, I closed my eyes for a while, and when I opened them again, I found myself buried under a pile of frozen goods.

As soon as he lowered his head, the frozen mackerel slid down from the top of his head.

I:"???"

I raised my head and looked at Gaosui Carambola holding a milk cup not far away.

She saw me, petrified for a few seconds, and then spat out a mouthful of milk.

"Cough cough cough... why are you in the refrigerator?!!"

I was at a loss.

refrigerator? ? ?

Another glance at the frozen fish jelly and meat jelly dumplings that almost drowned me...

What wicked thing put me in the freezer?

Come out quickly, I will never kill you!

The author has something to say:

Maria: I arrange myself.

Book: It's so hard, I'm cracking!

————感谢在2020-06-1318:29:51~2020-06-1713:39:45期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!