Back to the Future 1999: Raining at the Same Time

"Tilium, it was exposed after all."

After making sure he had walked far enough, Chen Xi stopped and looked in the direction he came from.

"Sure enough, this can't fool her at all, right? Should I be happy or unhappy?"

I smiled helplessly. It seems that having someone who shares the same thoughts as me is not always a good thing.

After straightening his clothes, Chen Xi opened another portal.

"Now I'm just like I was before, I'm alone.

You are right, Xu Hai."

Chen Xi murmured as he stepped into the dark golden portal.

"I have to trouble the bad woman again."

……

"Hi!"

"Hey, what brought you here?"

"What's wrong? If nothing goes wrong, I can't come to see you."

"Of course, my child. It's just that I haven't been here for so long that I thought you had forgotten me."

"How could that be? After all, you have been taking care of me for a long time.

Mother Arcana~"

"!"

Although he had imagined this, when this name came out of his mouth directly, the lethality was beyond Arcana's imagination.

Arcana blushed slightly and turned her head to the side, then asked:

"Tell me, what do you want from me?"

Throwing himself on the sofa, Chen Xi said with a hint of joking:

"Why, can't I come to see you if I have nothing to do?"

Arcana smiled without saying anything, just put down the pen in his hand and walked to Chen Xi.

Chen Xi also tactfully moved his body to leave her space.

However, Arcana did not sit down directly. Instead, he lifted his legs and sat directly on Chen Xi's body, looking down at Chen Xi's eyes.

In an instant, all smiles disappeared, and she slowly reached out and grabbed his neck.

Chen Xi still looked at Arcana calmly, even though his hands had already firmly tied around his throat, strangling his life at the moment.

Slowly exerting force and slowly contracting, Arcana felt the strong beating of blood vessels, the delicate touch of skin, and the Adam's apple, a unique male feature, slowly sliding up and down.

Arcana still didn't let go, even though Chen Xi's face had turned red and his pupils had begun to dilate slightly, she still didn't let go...

Qi, it’s air, no, it’s gas.

The lack of oxygen in the brain made his consciousness blurred. After the restraint on his throat was released, Chen Xi gasped violently. After taking the first few breaths of air and starting to regain some consciousness, Arcana's lips came close to him.

Even though the mind refuses, the body, which is still deprived of oxygen, still demands it hungrily.

He greedily took everything from her mouth. After a long while, their lips separated. Arcana wiped the liquid from the corner of his mouth and said with the same heavy breath:

"I'm really crazy to fall in love with a kid like you."

She stood up and left, transforming back into Arcana with the Reshaping Hand and sitting back down at her desk.

"Tell me what's going on."

Sitting up, Chen Xi directly put forward his request without hesitation.

"Find me a place where I won't be disturbed by anyone, and that place is either empty or well-built."

Both of them tacitly agreed not to dwell on what had just happened, and exchanged their conditions like in a negotiation.

"What can I get?"

"My secret."

Chen Xi waved his hand, and strands of black liquid oozed out of his skin and floated around him.

"That is……"

"Your mystical skills are quite useful, and... they are strangely compatible with my abilities."

With his palms clenched, the few drops of black liquid quickly shrank and disappeared, as if they had never existed.

Copy... no, reproduce?

……

"How long will it take you? Do you need food?"

"I'm not sure about the time either. Food...why not leave it outside the door? Maybe it's needed."

"Ah."

With a final nod, Arcana returned to his desk, burying himself in a pile of documents.

Chen Xi didn't bother her anymore and turned to walk towards their destination.

……

Can I only say that it truly is worthy of being called the Hand of Reshaping...

Chen Xi stroked the black liquid on the wall that seemed to be dancing, and couldn't help shivering.

Although I want to find a place that is more durable, but this place... why is it so sanity-depleting?

He held his forehead and smiled bitterly, but now was not the time for Chen Xi to dwell on this. He had more important things to do right now.

Finding a place in the middle of the room and sitting cross-legged, Chen Xi tried his best to relax and expand his consciousness, blending his thoughts into the background sound like a beating heart, allowing his consciousness to gradually spread out and become thinner.

Until—it completely dissipated like death.

"call……"

When I opened my eyes again, the surroundings were already pitch black.

"Come out and have a good talk, Xu Hai."

"Oh my, you actually found the secret to getting in here. Not bad, not bad. You're even better than I thought."

A black shadow suddenly rushed up from behind Chen Xi, lay on his back, and stretched out its hand to stroke his chest.

Chen Xi slapped Xu Hai's dishonest hand away and stood up without even looking at Xu Hai, who was floating behind him with a wicked smile.

"I came here to find the 'past', you know what I mean."

"Hmm~ What gives you the courage to talk to me like that?"

With a somersault and a dive, Xu Hai came in front of Chen Xi, hooked his chin with his hand, and looked at Chen Xi's proud eyes with a smile.

"Is this the power I gained when I accidentally peeped into your memory?"

With a wave of his hand, a hazy picture like a heart map appeared, flashing with the memories that Chen Xi had seen last time.

At the same time, an irresistible pressure suddenly descended upon Chen Xi, knocking him down before he could react and making him lie prone on the ground.

"Or is it the dust you picked up among the debris?"

With another wave of his hand, several balls of light flew out from his palm, and the memories of Anya, Daowu, Anma and others kept flowing in them.

"Xu...Xu Hai!"

Ignoring Chen Xi's incompetent shouting, Xu Hai continued to increase the pressure.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

The bones creaked under the weight, and finally with a loud bang, Chen Xi's left hand was completely crushed. The blood and flesh were spread out into a strange and distorted abstract painting under the extreme pressure.

It hurts, it really hurts, but Chen Xi doesn't even have the strength to move a finger. It takes all his strength just to keep his consciousness from dissipating.

"Or maybe it's because I haven't made a move on you for so long that you have the illusion that I'm an easy-going person?"

He flipped over, floated in front of Chen Xi, and stepped on his head.

"Don't be so self-righteous!"

He stepped hard on the head that was already pressed to the ground, and said viciously:

"I really want to, really want to just crush your head right now."

Some cracks began to appear on the ground below Chen Xi's head.

"what--"

With a long sigh, Xu Hai snapped his fingers, and there were three more roars, corresponding to Chen Xi's remaining three limbs.

The blood gushing from the broken limbs spread out, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Looking down from the sky, it looked like a blood butterfly painted with flesh and blood.

The person flapping his wings in the middle was Chen Xi.

The removal of gravity gave him a brief chance to breathe.

But Xu Hai had already squatted in front of him, using the shadow of his body to block out all the light in Chen Xi's eyes.

"Remember to be polite when you enter someone else's home next time, you self-righteous child of destiny."

Xu Hai put his finger into the pool of blood, dipped a little and wrote a name.

"Tell me, why did you come to me?"

V

"V…Veldin."

e

It had become very difficult for Chen Xi to speak, and he would spit out blood every time he uttered two words.

"After...seeing her again..."

r

“The sense of disharmony is getting stronger.”

t

"Come... the feeling of rejection from reality is getting stronger and stronger, cough cough."

i

"And the you inside me...seems to be rioting as well."

n

After writing the name, Xu Hai seemed quite satisfied. He slid his bloody finger from left to right, and as if they were being scratched, the six letters were strung together by the bloodstains and slowly floated up. Xu Hai grabbed a corner of it and held it in his hand.

"Want to know?"

Xu Hai's tone sounded quite excited, as if filled with joy and happiness, but if Chen Xi still had a little strength to look up, he would be able to see the pair of eyes buried in the shadows, flashing with such terrifying madness and coldness.

"If you want to know, just go and see for yourself. After all, isn't this what you came here for?"

As he said that, he inserted the blood talisman into Chen Xi's forehead and, ignoring his screams, forced it into Chen Xi's brain.

"Let me show you with your own eyes a small part of what happened back then."

When Xu Hai stood up again, Chen Xi under him was already dead, lying in a pool of blood.

"You are really fragile in this reincarnation."

Xu Hai clapped his hands as if he was sweeping away garbage. The blood behind him dried up and the muscles withered. Within a few seconds, the body turned into a wisp of ash and completely dissipated here.

Yawning, Xu Hai fell backwards and floated up again.

"Let me see what anchor points this guy left so I can have some fun with them."

By triggering Chen Xi's memory, Xu Hai quickly locked onto an individual who had been recalled by "Heavy Rain".

"This is good, hehehe..."