Xingtetsu: You are not included in Elio's script!

"How do you feel?" Ruan Mei's voice sounded calmly, but Lin Yu could hear a hint of subtle concern in it.

She handed over a warm drink scented with soothing herbs.

Lin Yu took it, thanked him, and took a sip. The warm current slid down his throat, slightly soothing his mental shock.

"It felt like I was swimming in the sea of ​​stars and was almost swept away by the waves." He tried to describe it in a relaxed tone, but the shock that remained in his eyes betrayed him.

"Those 'traces' are so real, especially the last one... it's like background noise."

Heita was concentrating on browsing the data stream that was refreshing like a waterfall on the main console, with a gleam in his eyes, and he was obviously in a highly excited state.

"It's more than just real! Energy signatures, consciousness resonance patterns, information entanglement... these data are enough for me to reconstruct a high-precision model of at least three types of Star God's influence! Especially the 'unknown existence' you mentioned, its energy spectrum shows an unprecedented 'inclusiveness' and 'hiddenness', which may very well point to a dimension of destiny that we have not yet recognized!" She spoke very quickly, with the enthusiasm of discovering a new continent.

Yu Qingtu leaned lazily on the instrument beside her, gently waving her round fan, and looked at Lin Yu with a smile, "You can escape from the 'shadow' of those big guys and bring back such interesting 'local specialties'. Little brother, your resilience is stronger than I thought." Her eyes were meaningful, as if she could see through the ripples in Lin Yu's spirit that had not yet subsided.

The experimental data collection is now complete.

The Black Tower needs time to digest this massive amount of information, and Ruan Mei also needs to adjust the cultivation parameters of the Star Seed based on the new data.

Everyone agreed to discuss the follow-up research plan the next day.

After leaving the laboratory, Lin Yu did not return to his room immediately, but went to the main control cabin.

My daughter Lin Ruanzheng and Ester were huddled together, cheering and talking over a newly arrived star orchid, whose leaves trembled slightly with the sound. Their two young faces were filled with pure curiosity and joy.

Seeing Lin Yu, Lin Ruan immediately flew over like a happy little bird and told him about the magic of the new plant.

Looking at his daughter's carefree smile, Lin Yu's heaviness caused by the experiment and the vague lingering "sense of being watched" dissipated a little.

He chatted and laughed with them, patiently answered Lin Ruan's various wild questions, and enjoyed this ordinary yet precious warm moment.

Ester smiled at the side, occasionally stealing a glance at Lin Yu, with a hint of subtle shyness and concern in her eyes.

In the evening, Lin Yu sent Lin Ruan, who was tired from playing, back to Ruan Mei's room.

Ruan Mei seemed to have just come out of the data analysis, with a trace of fatigue on her face, but when she met Lin Yu's gaze, she nodded slightly, silently communicating a tacit understanding.

She didn't ask about the details of the experiment, but just said softly, "Have a good rest."

Back in my room, the space station entered simulated night mode, the "starry sky" outside the window was low and silent.

After washing up, Lin Yu lay down, and the fatigue of his body quickly dragged his consciousness into a deep sleep.

However, this sleep was not a restful one.

His consciousness seemed to be pulled away from his body by an invisible force, falling into a chaotic space with bizarre lights and blurred boundaries.

There is no up or down, left or right, no sense of the passage of time, only distorted light and indescribable whispers swirling around.

Right in the center of this chaos, he saw a familiar yet unfamiliar figure.

It was a seemingly young girl, wearing a colorful and playful amusement park clown costume, curled up in an out-of-place high-back chair.

She lowered her head, her soft hair covering most of her face, and her whole body exuded an inextricable sadness and silence that was completely opposite to the name of "joy".

It’s the Joyful Star God that I haven’t seen for a long time...Aha.

"Aha..." Lin Yu's consciousness trembled, and he could hardly believe his eyes.

Ever since she reversed time to save herself from Kakamu, she has disappeared. No matter how Lin Yu tried, he could not contact her again.

The warning she had mentioned about "being 'watched'" now hung like a dark cloud over her heart.

Lin Yu subconsciously wanted to get closer.

"Don't... come over..." An extremely weak voice, as if it would break off at any time, sounded directly in his consciousness. It was Ah Ha's voice, but it had lost all its former vitality, leaving only fatigue and pain.

"This is just... a... projection... My real body... is 'nailed'..."

"Who did it?" Lin Yu forced himself to calm down and asked anxiously with his consciousness.

He thought of Dr. Original's obsession with the Tree of Imaginary Numbers and the Quantum Sea, and of those dangerous plans.

"Is it the remnant of the original Doctor? Or... the 'watcher' you mentioned when you saved me last time?"

The corners of Aha's mouth twitched with great difficulty.

"Doctor...? Huh... He didn't even touch the threshold..." Her voice was intermittent. "It's the backlash of the joyful destiny itself... It's the price of 'fun'... gone too far... I reversed time... interfered with 'cause and effect'... caused a slight 'ripple' between the 'tree' and the 'sea'... This in itself... is the ultimate 'fun'... But I'm not the only one watching this fun..."

She explained that the act of reversing time to save Lin Yu was itself a huge, "joyful" paradox.

But the "ripples" created by this paradox attracted something far beyond imagination.

Those who truly "live" in the depths of the tree of imaginary numbers and the quantum sea, maintaining some kind of greater "order" or watching everything that happens - the "watchers".

The "Blade of Paradox" may be the self-purification mechanism of Joyful Destiny for this kind of "excessive" behavior, or it may be the "punishment" bestowed by those "watchers" through the rules of destiny.

"What exactly is the 'Watcher'? Is it a star god? Or something else?" Lin Yu asked, he felt that he was approaching the ultimate secret of the universe.

"I don't know... maybe it's the embodiment of rules... maybe it's an even older 'resident'..." Ah Ha's voice grew weaker. "I can only feel... a cold... indifferent 'gaze'... just like looking at... microorganisms in a lab dish..."

"Saving you... is like putting a cross... in 'Them''s' experimental records..."

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!

A dazzling crimson light, imbued with pure negation and end, suddenly condensed into a dagger in front of Ah Ha and stabbed into her chest! Ah Ha's body convulsed violently, and the faint light around her rapidly dimmed.

Lin Yu was awakened and sat up suddenly from the bed, with cold sweat soaking his forehead.

Outside the window, the "night" of the space station was still quiet, but the terrifying scene was deeply imprinted in his mind.

This was not a dream, but Aha's warning to him, and it was also the real suffering she was enduring.

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