【Zhou Ye】The Foot of Time

Chapter 25

If he gave up so easily, Zhou Zekai wouldn't be Zhou Zekai anymore.When everyone told him that it was not feasible, and his previous knowledge told him that it was not feasible, he could only turn his attention to the unknown—Galifrey Central Library, second only to Library Star, the second largest in the universe. scale library.If you want to get a solution or clues to solve the problem of the two people's timeline, this is the only choice.

Zhou Zekai almost buried his entire vacation in it.

There is no useful information in the electronic books, Zhou Zekai can only place his hopes on the oldest paper books, files, and even the words recorded on non-paper materials.But in the end, there is still no news about the fixed point of time and space—as Su Mucheng said, creating a fixed point of time and space is very simple, at least no one has ever done it before. It seems that Ye Xiu is the only example in the universe.

Except for asking the person involved, Zhou Zekai couldn't get more clues from other channels.

"You already know how I became a fixed point?"

Zhou Zekai nodded.

"It seems that we will have to accompany you next time we meet..." Ye Xiu smiled wryly, "And you want to know something specific now?"

"Hmm...what's the difference?"

"Are you talking about before you became a fixed point?" Ye Xiu was still smoking, "There really isn't much difference, eating and sleeping are the same, of course it's okay if I don't sleep, but I need a way to relax my brain. Of course The biggest difference is death and injury, and you know it. By the way, every time after death, resurrection takes time, depending on the difficulty of the body's repair - the current experience, suffocation takes eight seconds, and the brain is shot It takes 15 seconds, and the electric shock takes about 30 seconds."

Zhou Zekai wrote it down, thought for a while, and asked, "Death...how does it feel?"

"Before death, it hurts. After death, I don't know anything. During the period from death to life, I didn't feel it at all. Every time I closed my eyes, I opened them immediately and lived again. The time was told by others. Mine." Ye Xiu looked at the smoke between his fingers, lost in thought, "The first time I died—I mean before being turned into a fixed point, it was the same. Before I died, I thought, ah, I should go home and have a look Yes, and then I woke up again immediately, but Mucheng said afterwards that I had been dead for more than half an hour. Then when I was injured, the wound healed immediately. At the time, I didn’t think about it so much, I thought that I had been improved in self-healing ability or something Yes. Relying on this point, he rushed out with Mucheng, and sent Mucheng to the Shadow Alliance with Jun Moxiao's emergency procedures. But because I was a fixed point, Jun Moxiao rejected me very much, and almost used the way of crashing It fell into the hall of the Shadow Alliance, and after throwing Mucheng out, it led me uncontrollably to Jianguo. After that, I didn't dare to touch it at all. Even if the time was wrong, it was still on Earth anyway. Wherever I go, I am prepared to die before I am born."

"Being shot, bombed, starved... Anyway, after being alive again and again, I know I can't die. After decades, I still look like this, and I found that I won't grow old. After that..." He He closed his mouth abruptly, shook his head, and said, "I won't talk about the future."

The pen stopped on the paper, blurring a piece of ink.

Although Ye Xiu didn't say it, Zhou Zekai already knew the meaning behind it—the rest must have been his own participation, so Ye Xiu didn't say it, because once he said it, he would add more to the already indestructible fixed point. Put on a lock.Although they all knew that it didn't make much difference whether to say it or not, Ye Xiu still swallowed the rest in order to take care of Zhou Zekai's feelings.

Zhou Zekai felt a dull pain in his heart.

"Anyway, when I met you, I have been a fixed point for a long time." Ye Xiu deliberately used this imprecise description, "So even if the status of fixed point was lifted at that time, I would probably It turned into bones in an instant. If I didn't fix it right now, my body has been broken so many times, and it probably turned into ashes right away?" Ye Xiu flicked the cigarette ash, "If this can still make me come back to life, then wouldn't it be It's called resurrection, it's creation."

——That is beyond the scope of time power.

Zhou Zekai knew this better than Ye Xiu.

"How about it? On a fixed point, did you come up with a solution?"

Zhou Zekai hoped to find a way, but he had no clue.

Ye Xiu sighed: "You're already pretty good. You know more about this than I do, so you don't have to try what's available."

"...You too?" Knowing that he shouldn't ask himself about the future, Zhou Zekai couldn't help it.

"Of course I will try. In fact, my reaction is much more intense than yours." Ye Xiu shrugged with a smile, "I am not your Time Lord. I have accepted the fact that many people will walk ahead of you since I was a child. I am a human being. Birth, old age, sickness and death are hurdles we can never overcome. At that time, I finally accepted the fact that I had to watch my family leave, and told me that the lover I thought could live forever with me would be separated sooner or later. We will never see each other again..." He said in an almost teasing tone, "I wish that the long-term pain would be better than the short-term pain, so we can break up earlier."

"……Um."

"What are you thinking, can't you tell that I'm joking?" Ye Xiu rubbed Zhou Zekai's hair heavily, "If I was willing, I wouldn't be here with you now. There is no way, we will not give up easily Everyone has to come here once, and they will never give up until they have tried all the methods, won’t they?”

Zhou Zekai hugged Ye Xiu's waist violently, and buried his head in his neck.

The lover who was too old sighed: "I can't tell you what to do as someone who has experienced it. You have done a good job. Although I hope that now you can not spend too much time on these useless work, but with you. I went on a trip together, obviously we still have so many places to go.”

Zhou Zekai knew, otherwise Ye Xiu wouldn't have said those words the last time he met.For Ye Xiu, he left this time to study the solution, and the next time he reunited, he would see himself in a hurry, running around for a fixed point and a timeline.

Rather than a sweet relationship between lovers.

Time is ticking away, the number of times we meet is getting less and less, and there is still such a period of time in the few times, how can it not hurt him?

Fortunately, the holiday was extended again, which gave Zhou Zekai enough time to travel between the library and Ye Xiu's place again and again.Once they even almost quarreled, but Ye Xiu gave in first - of course Ye Xiu made the concession, after all he had seen Ye Xiu before so cooperatively.

Gallifrey's library was searched, and he went to the library planet, but there was still no record of the fixed point.But regarding the timeline, Zhou Zekai found some information in both places.

Due to the uncertainty of time travel, all kinds of dumbfounding situations caused by time confusion abound—for example, the best friend who grew up with me is actually my daughter (Note 1).What's more, it is a narcissist who everyone thinks is lonely and suddenly falls in love with a human being. As a result, everyone discovers that the human being is the future him who used the deformation arch.But not all chaotic timelines will just make a harmless joke for you - some time lords have chased an enemy for centuries, only to find that the enemy is a reborn self with indescribable difficulties.

"We call ourselves Timelords, and we want to be the masters of time. But in the end, we're just prisoners walking in chains of time."

After reading such a sentence, Zhou Zekai could clearly feel the helplessness and unwillingness of the person who wrote it.If you have never been exposed to the mystery of time and live your life in a daze, you will feel that you can make countless choices at the crossroads of life.But once the hands and feet are entangled by the dense silk thread of time, it can only be used as a marionette, walking according to the established script, unable to break free.

He and Ye Xiu are each other's cause and effect - when the effect has become a fact, the cause is destined to happen.

The world calls it destiny, but Zhou Zekai knows that everything is just the footprints of time, leaving deep marks one after another in the future, past, and present.

Those chaotic timelines, people have no choice but to adapt and accept.Despite such a desperate fact, Zhou Zekai gradually read out hope from each incident, and the hope only existed in his and Ye Xiu's situation.

There is no other way but to conform to the timeline that has become a foregone conclusion.It's just that beyond the known facts, there are infinite unknowns.In this unknown, there are countless possibilities, and even time loopholes can be exploited.For example, when we met last time, Ye Xiu's plan for the double solar eclipse trip, as long as he bypassed the timeline he knew and avoided encountering each other, he would be able to arrive at the capital of Gloni Star on that day again, and even in Dined at the same restaurant.

From the first time he saw Ye Xiu to the first time Ye Xiu saw himself, this period of opposite timelines between the two of them could not be changed.But when this timeline is over, what happens after that, there are too many variable factors-why can't they make a detour?Why can't Ye Xiu meet his young self after seeing his young self, and he can't meet again, and then walk on the most normal timeline?Even on the day of the double solar eclipse, the three Ye Xius who appeared in the coffee shop, who can guarantee that it wasn't Ye Xiu's prank on a whim?

Known to make it happen, but the reason for it to happen, this is where loopholes can be exploited!

It's just that when he went to find Ye Xiu happily with the news, Ye Xiu's mood had nothing to do with being happy.

"...What do you mean, no matter what, first complete the current timeline, and then find a way to find me who also completed this period?"

Zhou Zekai nodded affirmatively.

Ye Xiu frowned: "Okay, let's not talk about anything else—why did you tell me this? Because you have been studying how to solve the problem of reversed timelines?"

"...Yes." Zhou Zekai understood, "After that, did I?"

"Well, you didn't before." Ye Xiu sat back in the chair and shook his head several times, "So no matter what, we have reached an agreement at this meeting, let's not think about these things and live a good life, so you continue to talk to me in the past. Wandering around. And I'm going to be tortured by you who study these things, right?"

Zhou Zekai also sat down a little frustrated, no matter how hard he struggled, time would always run ahead of him.

"Okay, Xiao Zhou, let me ask you a question, how long has it been?" Ye Xiu asked, and immediately said, "Forget it, you better not tell me, it's better if you don't know so much."

Zhou Zekai let out a muffled "hmm".

"...It's just Xiao Zhou, it's not that I want to hit you. Your idea is very good, but you told me that even if we finish the opposite part, we still won't have a chance to meet in the future."

Zhou Zekai frowned—did my future self tell Ye Xiu that?Then there are only two possibilities, either the future self learned of this situation through other people's dictation, or the future self met an older self and learned this.In short, Ye Xiu saw that he hadn't experienced the days after the separation, so he must have learned about the situation through indirect means. Since it was indirect, there was a possibility of lies and misunderstandings.

"When you see an insider, don't listen."

If he meets a visitor from the distant future, no matter whether it is someone else or himself, he will not listen to the other party mentioning anything about himself and Ye Xiu.

"Listen, you can change it."

Even if he listened, after he changed everything and asked that person to lie to his original self, the timeline would be rounded.

feasible!

Zhou Zekai suddenly felt that the sky was bright.

"Okay, let's talk about the future later." Ye Xiu immediately put down the future he didn't want to face, laughed, and raised the two TARDIS keys strung together in his hand, "Since we have It's decided, let's go to eat. Brother Ma will be clouded for a long time, but let me have a good meal. We must grasp the moment, don't we?"

Dazed by Ye Xiu's smile, Zhou Zekai collected himself before answering: "Darillium, the Twin Towers of Song, the hotel terrace. (Note 2)"

"Did you make a reservation there? I heard that it's very difficult to book that hotel, let alone the location of the terrace." Ye Xiu raised an eyebrow at him, "Sugar-coated cannonballs, huh? As an apology for torturing me for so long?"

"...I've always wanted to go together." Zhou Zekai didn't regret what he had done and what Ye Xiu was about to face.Although he knew that Ye Xiu was very sad, he had to do it, let alone he found a feasible solution.And Ye Xiu didn't need his apology either.So this wasn't an apology, it was Zhou Zekai's desire to stand with Ye Xiu in the afterglow of the setting sun and listen to the beautiful melody of the evening wind blowing through the two stone towers, that's all.

Since it is necessary to go through this opposite timeline, then the only way to do it is as Ye Xiu said, grasping the present moment, isn't it?

So Ye Xiu stood up and stepped into Zhou Zekai's TARDIS: "How long can we see this side?"

"Until the task is issued." Zhou Zekai followed.

Ye Xiu entered the geographic coordinates of Star Darillium on the bridge, and handed over the remaining time coordinates to Zhou Zekai—after all, he is the one who knows the scheduled time, and said, "Oh, I knew it was my birthday that I should make a wish to the universe. Peace. As long as the holiday is long, we can live there for a few months, listening to the wind singing, enjoying delicious food, and the hotel's Kingsize bed..."

When Ye Xiu was about to press the start wrench, Zhou Zekai put his hand on it.Ye Xiu turned his head, and they looked at each other, playing the unique melody of the TARDIS engine together.

As long as there is hope, as long as the hand is the palm of the other party, Zhou Zekai will not be afraid of the twists and turns in the middle.

He firmly believed.

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Note 1 The best friend who grew up with me is actually my daughter:

A tribute to the original Doctor Who.In the original book, the daughters of Amy and Rory, the companions of the 11th Doctor, were named after Amy's best friend, but their daughter was taken away.Later they found out that the daughter who was taken away was sent to the past and grew up with the two of them. She was Amy's best friend. [Then their daughter married the doctor [they became the doctor's father-in-law and mother-in-law] [So I really like River.The doctor took River, whose time was roughly opposite to his own, to the place where he booked the terrace of the hotel to see the singing tower, and that was the last side of River before his death... [The 2-year Christmas special is really vomiting blood == ======

I finally wrote this paragraph... I cried and lay down...