【Zhou Ye】The Foot of Time

It was only when Zhou Zekai arrived at the square of the capital at night and closed the door of the TARDIS that he suddenly remembered that Su Mucheng should be on vacation at this moment—at least the Su Mucheng who had just parted with him not long ago.The possibility that Su Mucheng would be at home for another period of time could not be ruled out, but Zhou Zekai, who had calmed down a bit, decided to choose a safer way - to send an email to Su Mucheng's TARDIS.

The Time Lord has a unique mail system, which is not used by Zhou Zekai to receive missions - it is for the government.The Time Lord can put his mind into a special container, a small white box with light, and then release it in the universe. It can travel through time and space to find the set goal.

"I have urgent inquiries about Ye Xiu. I am Zhou Zekai."

He put the sound in the box, not only the sound, but even his emotions are completely placed in it.Zhou Zekai believed that once he received this email, Su Mucheng would definitely rush to where he is now.

Zhou Zekai's judgment was correct. The moment the box disappeared from sight, the sound of the TARDIS's engine came from behind him.

A long-haired woman walked out of Mu Yuchengfeng, which had changed from virtual to real, with delicate makeup on her beautiful face, honey-colored curly long hair tied on one side, and sparkling gem hair ornaments adorning it.She was wearing a gorgeous and complicated evening dress, holding the hem of the skirt with one hand and high heels with the other, and looked over with those not-young eyes.

Zhou Zekai suddenly felt that his throat was so dry that he couldn't speak.

"What's urgent?" She tilted her head slightly, "I left Ye Xiu alone at the ball because of you."

"...Windsor Castle?"

Su Mucheng nodded: "You know? It seems that you have seen him at that time, I guess, you should be quite young now?"

Zhou Zekai lowered his eyes and squeezed out an "um" bitterly.

The ball in Windsor Castle, the second meeting, Ye Xiu in a dress.Another thread was connected in series, Zhou Zekai seemed to see that time had made a big net, and covered him with his head.He wanted to untie it, but the net was tightly stitched, and there was nowhere to start.

Seeing Zhou Zekai's obviously suppressed expression, Su Mucheng had a look of as expected: "Meeting you guys was a mess...then how old are you now?"

"130 is six years old."

"130... that should be the time when we went to the centaur to perform missions together? At that time, I didn't know that Ye Xiu and I liked you, and I didn't know that your lover was him." Su Mucheng's face was obvious. There was a look of nostalgia, "That time when I was still on vacation, I went to Earth to find Ye Xiu to play games. He told me that he fell in love with a handsome Time Lord, and was thinking about how to catch him..." She The voice sounded like a sigh, "It's been so many years... I never thought I could still receive an email so early."

"I... want to ask..."

"You want to ask Ye Xiu about something?"

"……Yes."

"You want to lift the fixed point?"

Zhou Zekai nodded.

"I can tell you, it's just that the story is a bit long." She didn't mind soiling her dress at all, and sat on the ground directly, patted her side with a hand wearing a gauze glove with a hollow pattern, "Sit down. "

So Zhou Zekai also sat down.

They sat together in a corner of the huge square with almost no lights, only the Dancing Rain with the door open behind them cast a beam of light on them.Only a few hundred meters away were the Time Lords walking back and forth, without anyone noticing them.

"Actually, it's not that difficult to create a fixed point..." After watching the night sky for a long time, Su Mucheng finally said, "You also know that my brother died because of the assassination of time, but few people knew that at that time he was already I have been reborn twelve times, and it is my last life—to some extent, it can be regarded as the death of my life..." She chuckled suddenly, "After all, my brother is famous for being a little expert in death. After rebirth, I don't know Can you find a worse reason for rebirth than a new body that is allergic to seafood and eats itself to death?"

Although it was a question, Su Mucheng didn't expect a reply, and continued without a pause: "When I met Ye Xiu, he had been reborn eleven times. At that time, Lord Grim was assassinated because of time. The damage was severe, and the communication system and positioning system were unable to operate. This made us unable to return to Gallifre, and we could not ask for help. We had to make an emergency landing on the time rift in Hangzhou to absorb energy, and slowly repair the damaged system through charging. , except that it takes at least three years.”

She brushed the hair on her sideburns with a hand wearing a gauze glove with a hollow pattern: "So in order not to be discovered by the enemy when we were on Earth, we all used the deformation arch."

deformed arch.

That is technology that can alter the DNA of a Time Lord and give it new memories.They can store their original biological information and memories in the pocket watch, turning the Time Lord into a creature of another race. The only way to change back is to open the pocket watch.It's just that after using the deformed arch, the brain will be injected with extremely strong hints, so that they will not easily touch the pocket watch that is always with them.This is a good way to hide your name, but it is also extremely dangerous-after all, human beings are too fragile, once they die under such circumstances, they are really dead.So Zhou Zekai understood that at that time they had been cornered.

"Then we became a pair of brother and sister without father and mother, living in Hangzhou as a game booster. At that time, we met Ye Xiu who ran away from home in an Internet cafe and came to Hangzhou alone." Su Mucheng gestured at Zhou Zekai, "He was 15 years old at the time, about this tall, and his face is much rounder than now."

"Then the three of us lived together, playing games together, and even said that we would become professional gamers in the future. During that time, we were really poor. If the owner of the Internet cafe didn't take good care of us, Ye Xiu would have been stunted. You You know, my brother and I almost sold our pocket watches once, and it was really close. If it wasn’t for our intuition and Ye Xiu’s obstruction—he thought it was a relic of our parents—we would probably have become human beings. If you die of old age, there will not be so many things behind."

Zhou Zekai asked cautiously: "...An accident?"

"Yeah. Three years later, my brother was hit by a car. Either it was an assassination, or... it should be considered an ordinary car accident—the driver ran a red light, my brother failed to get out of the way, there was no earth-shattering conspiracy When getting into the ambulance, the pocket watch slipped out of my brother's pocket and fell to the ground, and when I picked it up, I accidentally opened it."

"...rebirth."

"Well, my brother regained the biological signs of the time lord, and completed the rebirth in time." Su Mucheng smiled at Zhou Zekai, "Sorry, I'm not very good at telling stories, so I'm not very good at telling stories."

Zhou Zekai shook his head at her.

"Anyway, the medical staff in the ambulance were terrified at that time. As soon as my brother was born again, he took Ye Xiu and me to run away. I don't know how this matter was handled in the end, probably Glory helped wipe his ass. Anyway, at that time, Lord Grim also automatically repaired it, so we simply took Ye Xiu on the road together. You can imagine Ye Xiu's first time seeing the Tardis—" She raised three fingers , "I said 'the inside is bigger than the outside' three times."

"……Um."

"So my brother was left with his last life. Because we took Ye Xiu with him for another three years, we thought we were out of the scope of the assassination, so we took Ye Xiu to travel together and went to many places he was interested in. It really feels great to travel with human beings who are new to everything. No wonder everyone loves to find companions on the earth, and Ye Xiu is undoubtedly the best kind of person-accepting everything, imaginative, and human. Well. Those seven years of traveling together, I think I can count 7000 years, if I live that long."

"You must have heard about the last thing. We were hunted down by Dalek. My brother died, and I was sent to the Shadow Alliance—this is a well-known version. It's just that Ye Xiu was omitted from this version."

She inhales deeply.

"...Did I say it before? It's actually not that difficult to create a fixed point - just one life, and a TARDIS. It's just that this life... is my brother's last."

Su Mucheng didn't give Zhou Zekai time to digest, so she continued to speak. It seemed that this memory was obviously too bitter, so bitter that she had to finish it as quickly as possible: "Ye Xiu is a human being, and he was the first to be killed. Yes, my brother was also injured, but that was already his No.13 life, and he could not be reborn. In that case, how likely is he to escape with me? So he made the most daring choose."

"He looked into the TARDIS heart."

The heart of TARDIS... that is the source of TARDIS energy, the most mysterious collection of time energy, known to all time lords, a place that cannot be looked at directly - too powerful energy, even if it is Even the Time Lord's body couldn't bear it.

"Time is the most terrifying force in this world. It can make a dead planet gradually give birth to life, and it can also make a star that has burned for hundreds of billions of years explode and die. All life and death cannot escape time. So my brother used That force revived Ye Xiu, revived him forever, and fixed him in this universe, so that he could protect me and take me away from a Dalek army. He succeeded, I survived, and Ye Xiu forever survived, only he died in the devouring power. (Note 1)”

Her lips, which were painted with bright red lipstick, opened and closed. It was such a warm color, but it made Zhou Zekai feel icy cold.

"So, if you want to change, you only need to look at Tardis's heart once, and you will probably find a way. However, at the moment when Ye Xiu is not fixed - he has been dead for thousands of years, do you think..."

"Enough!" After shouting these two words, he repeated in a very low voice, "Enough..."

"...I'm telling you because I know you will give up. I don't want you to end up looking at each other far away in time, but I don't want Ye Xiu to die." Su Mucheng stood up and put her feet back on Back into the high heels, lightly brushed the dust off the skirt, "Looks like I won't be able to go back to the ball, my expression must be ugly now, Ye Xiu will see it - he has endured enough, I can't Again……"

She walked to her TARDIS, leaving Zhou Zekai sitting alone on the side of the road with her eyes hidden under the brim of her hat.

"Goodbye, young Zhou Zekai. Next time you see me, say hello to the young me."

With a "click", the door closed, also blocking the only light that shone on Zhou Zekai's body.

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Note 1

The person who became the fixed point of time and space in Doctor Who was Jack Harkness, and the person who saw the heart of the Tardis at that time was the doctor's female companion Rose Tyler. Rose wanted to revive Jack and succeeded.But because she didn't know how to manipulate this power, she couldn't tell the difference between resurrection and eternal resurrection, which made Jack a fixed point.But in this article, Brother Umbrella is the Lord of Time, I think he should know how to use it, but he deliberately made Lao Ye a fixed point, otherwise Lao Ye will kneel again when Lao Ye is revived.