"Congratulations to Wen Xingze from Muse Empire—"
"The duel between the champion and His Majesty will be held in one hour, and the award ceremony for the final will be held after the duel. Please take a rest for the champion."
Wen Xingze: "???"
"..."
In the competition area suspended in the air, all the ruins, guns, and zombies quickly dissipated into fluorescent blue pixel blocks and dissipated.
Under the spotlight.
All the cameras in the audience were concentrated here. Wen Xingze's forehead was slightly wet with water droplets. He got up from his kneeling position, and the pure black dagger suddenly turned into a long sword. The remaining blood stains disappeared with the data.
Wen Xingze put his sword back into its sheath, and just glanced at the camera with aloofness and arrogance.
Mainly because I don't know what expression to make.
... The long silence was completely broken.
The barrage on the live channel exploded geometrically, and the atmosphere in the auditorium was excited to the extreme.
"Ah!!! So handsome!!!!!!"
Fireworks gushed out.
The colorful ribbons that had been programmed already floated in the sky, and the light effect surrounded the entire venue, and the passionate battle song sounded again.
The transparent stairs leading to the lounge descended, Wen Xingze walked along the stairs, and soon his back disappeared.
After another long while, the boiling blood of the audience slowly cooled down, and they gradually realized that something was wrong.
"Fuck."
"The champion this time is not a contestant at all..."
"He is the water spirit! They look exactly the same!!!"
"Wait, Muse Empire?? Wen Xingze???!"
Fully enclosed lounge.
It is an exclusive lounge for champions. Of course, it has the most luxurious treatment in Utopia. The floor is covered with dark red suede carpets. The floor-to-ceiling windows are the view of the highest point of Carriel, and there are champagne towers on the table. The door was already crowded with reporters from all walks of life. Fortunately, Wen Xingze had the right to refuse, so the waiter closed the door for him.
Wen Xingze collapsed directly on the sofa.
"Hoo..."
so tired!
The winning conditions of the killing show final are: 'destroy the cylinder that imprisoned the water spirit', 'rescue the water spirit' and 'survive to the end of the time limit with the water spirit'.
As for this water elf, although all the audience mistakenly thought it was a little mermaid... But of course Wen Xingze couldn't be a game npc. Wen Xingze guessed that the real water elf should be the little starfish that has been shivering against him.
... This little starfish is still lying in his palm, I don't know why it didn't disappear with the collapse of the competition area. The starfish was a chubby orange-pink five-pointed starfish. Wen Xingze looked left and right, and couldn't help but folded a pair of underpants for it with the light green handkerchief on the table.
Now Wen Xingze was finally satisfied.
He lightly hooked one of its corners and shook it: "I will call you Pai Daxing from now on."
Starfish: "..." Good guy.
In any of the rules of the killing show, there is no such thing as "you must be a contestant to win."
Of course, Wen Xingze didn't expect that as a person who traveled directly from the parallel universe, he could be directly judged as the winner by the system. It is worthy of being a simple utopia.
He just snatched the results of so many people's competitions... Isn't he a bit disrespectful of martial arts
"This trip is too sudden," Wen Xingze thought, "There is no notice of the time and place, and I am still shooting commercials, so I have to use a pocket watch to check the time when I go back."
And, 'the champion will fight his majesty'? !
Speaking of this, Wen Xingze suddenly missed Chi Yan. It was still difficult for Wen Xingze to connect the famous monarch with the man in their house who was wearing an apron and cooking soup with a cold expression, it was almost like two people with the same face.
Wen Xingze would miss him every time we separated, even if it was only for an hour or two. And the more troublesome things he encounters, the more Wen Xingze misses Chi Yan. I want to get into Teacher Chi's bed, smell the smell like melting snow, and be hugged by him for a good sleep... Wen Xingze thinks that he may be a bit addicted to Chi Yan, and there will be a withdrawal reaction if he is a little farther away. .
Wen Xingze felt that this was simply unreasonable. He and Chi Yan had been in a relationship for so long and had never had a fight, yet they wanted to fight under the eyes of the whole universe. Was this considered domestic violence and should it be announced to the world? He liked Chi Yan so much, he couldn't do anything to Chi Yan at all.
The more Wen Xingze thought about it, the more something went wrong, and he wanted to run away.
What Wen Xingze didn't know was that during the ten or so minutes he was in a daze, the news about the final night of the Utopia killing show and Wen Xingze's victory had spread rapidly on the Star Network, and the hot search list, with several A photo of the scene that is not refined is better than refined, which quickly aroused extremely heated discussions...
"How about I go first," Wen Xingze said to himself, "Pai Daxing, do you need me to take you back to the aquarium?"
Starfish was speechless.
Three seconds later, the little starfish suddenly stopped trembling, but gently floated up and swam towards the corridor,
"There are reporters outside the door, what are you going to do?"
Wen Xingze didn't know if Haixing could understand human speech, and soon he gave up this meaningless communication. Anyway, staying still has nothing to do, Wen Xingze decided to follow Haixing forward.
The lounge was extremely large, and the corridor was very deep. Wen Xingze walked into a place that looked like an elevator hall.
But this is not an elevator, it is a space transition portal, but I don't know where it leads.
The starfish clung to the door dejectedly, deflated.
Wen Xingze: "?"
"Jiujiujiu," Haixing waved his right horn and muttered in frustration, "Jijiujiu..."
The permissions set by this portal are extremely high. Only their monarchs in the country should be able to open it, and the encryption lock is the most advanced type in the security system of the entire universe. It took three days and three nights to break through...
In the next second, the door opened with a 'beep'.
starfish:"?"
The portal scanned Wen Xingze's pupils, and uttered sporadic words like "authority determination review", "highest authority", "engagement partner".
Then, open it.
starfish:"???"
"Don't you want to go? Let's go, goodbye Pai Daxing," Wen Xingze said, "Then I'll go back—"
Suddenly, a large group of reporters rushed over at the end of the corridor. I don't know if it was because there were too many people and directly broke through the waiter's defense line.
The reporters were very noisy: "Mr. Wen, please accept the interview." "As the monarch of a neighboring country but came to Utopia to participate in the killing show finals, is there some political consideration?" Explanation"…
Wen Xingze immediately changed his mind.
He put the little starfish in his pocket, stepped into the portal, and closed the door quickly.
"This transition device hasn't been used for a long time," Wen Xingze saw that the corner was rusty, and there were even beeping blue sparks when he opened the door, but the setting light screen popped out on time, "Strange..."
When Wen Xingze played "Desolation: The Awakening of the King" before, he used this kind of portal to cross the map. Before the jump starts, there will be a light screen showing the current coordinates and the destination coordinates.
But at this moment, on the light screen in front of him, besides the coordinates, there is actually a column of time.
A gentle mechanical prompt sounded:
"Current coordinates: Carriel Star, Floating Arena."
"Destination coordinates: Laboratory x901."
"Current time: November 243, Universal Era."
"Destination time: Universal Era 216, November. You can stay at the destination time for ten minutes, and you will be forced to repatriate if you exceed the time limit. Be careful not to change the established facts that happened in the past, so as not to cause a butterfly effect."
"The program is starting, please stand still and support—"
Xiao Haixing hooked Wen Xingze's little finger neatly and held it up.
Wen Xingze: "?"
Wait, this turned out to be a space-time double transition device!
What is the origin of this big star? Even if it's only ten minutes, Wen Xingze doesn't want to go back to the past at all, but it's too late for an emergency pause now!
The jump starts.
Because the space coordinates do not change drastically, the technology in this aspect of the universe is very mature now, and there is no serious sense of weightlessness.
Wen Xingze even thought he was taking an elevator.
... and when he stepped out the door, the outside environment had completely changed.
He returned to the planet Carriel in the 216th year of the Universal Era.
This year, the future Muse Empire is just a small village next to the garbage collection station, and the young king is running around for the mermaid clan; A shattered planet in war, misery and disease.
This is the second winter when the blind military officer Chi Yan left the Muse and went to the other side of the universe alone.
In laboratory x901, the instruments here look a bit worn out, and the underground is only illuminated by miner's lamps.
There is snow on the land, but this has nothing to do with the bottom of the tens of thousands of meters deep well, which is a secret hidden in the universe that has been forgotten.
The little starfish happily slid down from Wen Xingze's thumb, and floated in the air. Wen Xingze felt that it was necessary to say goodbye after sending you off for thousands of miles. After all, we just met by chance...
"I just stood here for ten minutes and didn't go out," Wen Xingze said, "I'm afraid of the butterfly effect."
Wen Xingze didn't want to cause a butterfly effect at all, causing some established things to change.
He wants to realize that he is living in a novel at the age of eighteen, download the mobile game "Desolation" on time at the age of twenty-one, and meet his parents and his Chi Yan at the age of twenty-four.
Wen Xingze is the one who hates the word 'miss' the most.
Little Haixing tried to communicate with him, but Wen Xingze refused to go out, so Haixing left dejectedly: "Jiujiu..."
As soon as he turned his head, he bumped into someone.
The little starfish floated down dizzy and limp.
Paji. fell to the ground.
Wen Xingze: "..."
The man was wearing a white coat, and he was not surprised by the flying starfish, a mysterious creature. Instead, he bent down to pick up the little starfish, wiped it, and then raised the miner's lamp to look at Wen Xingze.
The man was wearing a white coat exclusively for researchers, but the nameplate hanging on his chest did not have the scholar number transcribed, but instead had the words 'Experimental No. x01 (failed product)'.
His eyes were covered with pure black eyepatch, his complexion was pale, his thin lips were flattened, and he showed no emotion.
It is a very lifeless, cold beauty. In the tens of thousands of meters underground, he is like a ray of soul without belonging.
... With a distance of less than five meters, Wen Xingze was caught off guard and met Chi Yan from twenty-seven years ago.
"..."
ah ah!
This blindfold was given to him by Wen Xingze!
Wen Xingze was very happy for a moment, because he really wanted to see Chi Yan, whether it was twenty years ago or twenty years later. Then it hurts a little.
Chi Yan didn't seem to be doing well.
Chi Yan identified the location by listening to the sound, and handed the starfish to Wen Xingze.
Wen Xingze took the starfish.
Getting closer, Wen Xingze saw Chi Yan more clearly. Broken hair fell on his forehead, and the shadow under his eyebrows was as deep as a cold pool.
Chi Yan was originally tall, but now he looked very thin, with an unhealed wound on his brow bone, and the three words on the nameplate were indeed 'failure'.
After the blind officer left, Wen Xingze couldn't figure it out for a long time. He thought that the other party would be willing to stay and build this country with him.
Wen Xingze was reluctant to part with him, but he also understood the officer's choice, and often wished him a prosperous future with mixed feelings. But I still hope that if he has an unsatisfactory life outside, he will want to go back to Muse. No matter how far away, Wen Xingze will pick him up.
Wen Xingze almost wanted to ask, "You don't look happy, why did you leave Muse".
But Wen Xingze soon realized that if he got in touch with Chi Yan so early, would it cause a butterfly effect and cause the world line to change
Undecided when things happen, quantum mechanics... uh, I can't learn it.
Fortunately, Chi Yan is indeed invisible at this time, as long as he keeps silent, Chi Yan should not be able to recognize him.
"...Thank you." Wen Xingze felt sore in his heart, and finally he lowered his voice.
The lights were dim.
The miner's lamp above their heads creaked and turned at an angle.
"Ok."
Chi Yan nodded.
The corners of his lips were slightly pursed, Wen Xingze couldn't see his expression clearly through the blindfold. When catching the starfish, Wen Xingze's palm touched Chi Yan's fingertips.
Chi Yan's fingertips curled up for a moment, but they soon let go.
He didn't intend to say anything more to Wen Xingze, he paused for another two seconds, then turned and left.
"Really didn't recognize it?" Wen Xingze began to sigh in his heart, he really wanted to kiss Chi Yan, but Wen Xingze decided to save this kiss for a long time.
Now is not the time for them to meet.
Now Wen Xingze suddenly wants to receive the 'Championship Award' from Killing Show, this is the fastest way to meet Chi Yan. He walked back into the portal:
"Fast forward twenty-seven years later."
Portal: "..."
The jump starts.
the other side.
In a place that Wen Xingze didn't see, in the deep underground laboratory.
The experimental subject x01 in a white coat passed through the crowd indifferently. Wherever he passed, most scholars would suddenly silence, then turn around and discuss with their companions:
"It's that failed product again" "It suddenly disappeared for two years before, thinking it was thrown into the recycling bin, why is it still running" "... it's really scary".
The man ignored it.
Until returning to his narrow room, the man sat down silently beside the bed.
After a while, he took off the blindfold with great care, put it back in the box and put it away.
Experiment x01 let go of his hand, and the second finger of the right hand that touched Wen Xingze's palm not long ago fell beside him, still trembling slightly.
very hot.
He hadn't seen him for too long.
Two full years.
Every time I see Wen Xingze, the experimental product x01 always needs to sit for a long time to remember, think over and over again, use a magnifying glass to examine every point of temperature and all the touch sensations, and compare them with reality one by one.
—And 90% of the meetings happened in unrealistic dreams.