【Zhou Ye】The Foot of Time

The leader of the council, the wise men, the generals... Everyone present is an important figure. When Zhou Zekai sat down, he realized that the person on his left was Su Mucheng, and the person sitting diagonally opposite was Huang Shaotian. Zhou Zekai couldn't even connect them with the people in his memory with the name tags in front of them - they had all been reborn, it was obvious.

As soon as her body touched the chair, the female Time Lord with long honey-colored hair, who was still beautiful no matter how she was reborn, turned her head slightly.Although her face has changed, Zhou Zekai can still vaguely see the shadow of her past. Taking a closer look, the reborn Su Mucheng is about six or seven points similar to the Su Mucheng in his memory, but those eyes... are even better than explaining Ye Xiu to him. How to become old at that time, too old too much.

And now she is frowning slightly.

Apparently, the time lord who was familiar with him immediately noticed his mistake.Zhou Zekai could only turn his head slightly, and nodded at her almost invisible.

Looking at each other, Su Mucheng frowned even tighter.

"If we could do something, we would have done it long ago." The chairman of the council standing in the middle of the huge hollow round table shook his head, "Time cracks cannot be controlled by human beings—if the universe is a coordinate axis, everything in the world is on it The point that the crack swallows is the coordinate itself, which cannot be controlled by the point on the coordinate, and it is not a level at all."

"Then do we have to wait to die like this?" Huang Shaotian was indeed one of the first to speak, "Then there is no need for us to sit here and have a meeting, we might as well live as we should, anyway, we will be swallowed by the crack No one else will remember the person, and they won’t even feel sad.”

"I agree." A wise man sighed, "No one but us can figure out the principle, and only we have the possibility to prevent the collapse of the universe. If we all give up, then this universe, there is really no Saved. The 50 people sitting at this table are the smartest and most experienced people in the universe, and the three youngest generals are also [-] years old, so we have to try our best to think about it now."

"We've been thinking about it for many years..." A general grabbed his hair, "We haven't had an answer for so many years, can we figure it out just by sitting here staring blankly?"

Su Mucheng also opened her mouth: "Then you have to think about the last second. At least it has been proved that blindly repairing the timeline blindly can't keep up with the speed of the cracks. Hasn't the council always had a backup plan?"

"This is already our best plan." The voice of the chairman of the council was weak and hoarse, "We have also tried to directly prevent those assassinations that have already occurred, but that would only tear the cracks even wider. Even worse Earlier, there were people who tried to sew up the cracks, but they were swallowed by the cracks as soon as they approached, and the people around them forgot about him, and sent new people to sew up the cracks, and then they forgot, and then sent people... until this action All the members of the group almost disappeared, and when there were only two people left, they finally realized that it was unreasonable for a group with such a small number of people to be equipped with such a large laboratory and so many chairs. Things, forever vetoed the plan."

Such a terrible fact made everyone on the round table silent for a few seconds.

"Let's do this." The head of the council suggested, "It's too easy to deviate from the topic and cause quarrels. The time we are in now can only last up to four hours, and there is no time to waste. Now, we will Write down the possible entry points that you think, and then show them one by one, so that everyone can discuss the feasibility together? In terms of time, each person should have 5 minutes.”

This suggestion was supported by everyone, and it had to be said that it was enough to give the bewildered Zhou Zekai some time to breathe.But before he could digest it properly, Su Mucheng's note was handed to him.

"How old are you? Why are you here?"

Zhou Zekai glanced around and found that everyone was thinking hard or scribbling on the paper in front of him. No one noticed that the two of them had deserted at such an important meeting, so he picked up his pen.As soon as he wrote down the three-digit number, Zhou Zekai heard Su Mucheng's gasping sound beside him, and then he briefly explained what happened.

When he motioned for himself to finish writing, Su Mucheng immediately snatched back the pad and wrote messily, "How is this possible? Why did you let the old you..." She crossed out the words at this point , and then wrote, "Why did you in the future let your past you come here? This is something that must happen on your timeline? But what can you do here at this age?"

Zhou Zekai smiled wryly - he didn't know either.

Su Mucheng's pen paused, then continued to move: "You can't change your timeline, so for you, you really came here at this age, so you must be here The reason, maybe things will turn around, it's on you, do you have any ideas?"

Zhou Zekai shook his head slightly. This matter had shocked him too much. Now his mind is in a mess. What can he come up with?The universe is about to die completely, everything will die.That's good, he doesn't have to think about what will happen after the timeline of the two of them is over, will it still happen?He will definitely disappear before Ye Xiu, because Ye Xiu is a fixed point, as long as there is a small piece of the coordinate axis of the universe, he will exist, and then he will disappear from Ye Xiu's memory...

Thinking of this, Zhou Zekai felt heartbroken that he was about to die.

and many more……

Suddenly, Zhou Zekai frowned.

The opposite timeline between him and Ye Xiu has not been completed yet.His past and Ye Xiu's past were spliced ​​into this timeline. If Ye Xiu's past hadn't happened yet, where did Zhou Zekai's past come from?Then it becomes a paradox, is it because Ye Xiu is a fixed point in time and space?His timeline is too difficult to shake, the rift will swallow everything that has nothing to do with Ye Xiu first, and then swallow Ye Xiu's timeline at the end?Then if he leaves this meeting, will he still have time to finish that period of time before the universe collapses completely?

Could it be... is this the reason why I told Ye Xiu that after walking through the opposite section, the two of them would never see each other again?Because the universe will come to an end after the end of this timeline, so where is the future?

Zhou Zekai felt that he had found the answer.

fair enough.

Zhou Zekai closed his eyes.

Then at least the two of them will be the last people to disappear in the universe, and before disappearing, they will still remember each other.That's why he came to this court at this age, so that he can put everything aside to cherish their last time...

"It's time." The leader of the council standing in the middle showed his answer, apologizing to everyone, "Although I proposed this method, but... I really don't know, sorry."

It was blank and nothing was written.

And he wasn't the only one, more than half of the people present didn't leave a single word on the paper, which made Zhou Zekai and Su Mucheng, who hadn't thought about this question at all, look unobtrusive at all.

Huang Shaotian wrote a lot on the paper, but in the end he only circled the three words "big bang", and spoke at the first moment: "I think that the universe has no way to bear so many cracks now, except to return to zero. There is no other possibility for a subsequent big explosion, so what if this explosion is controllable?"

"What do you mean?"

"I know what General Huang means—theoretically speaking, we can deduce everything in the universe from an atom." A black-haired wise woman said, "So if this atom is used as the core of the explosion, maybe we can replicate a The exact same universe. Unfortunately, this is only theoretical, we have thought of this plan before, and the conclusion is that it cannot be implemented.”

The wise man who let Zhou Zekai take his seat nodded solemnly: "That's right. Even if we really started such an explosion, where did the atom at the center of the explosion come from? Cracks have already spread all over the time and space of the universe. We cannot find an atom that has nothing to do with the cracks in time, and the universe created after the explosion will still be full of cracks, and nothing can be solved.”

Huang Shaotian nodded: "I know, but what about using the explosion to fill the cracks directly? Directly repairing the cracks will only make people go nowhere, but what about directly hedging the explosion and the crack? It's not a big explosion, but a local targeted one." A small explosion that releases what it devours will cancel out the crack, right?"

"Sure enough, you are still young..." The black-haired wise woman sighed before retorting, "Of course we have thought about this, but we still can't implement it. We can use this method to crack the crack that only serves as a door." Fill, because this kind of crack is fixed, it will not move - but this kind of crack will not cause the universe to die, we don't need to fill them at all. And time black hole cracks, they may appear in any place, and then do not Keep jumping, no one can accurately measure them in time, how do we make small explosions against them? Unless someone can go deep into the time storm connected to all the cracks, and repair those cracks one by one at the center of the time storm, that may It will take tens of thousands of years—but no one can enter the time storm even for a few seconds, so how about tens of thousands of years? This is a dead end!"

Halfway through the hearing, Huang Shaotian's brows were still tightly furrowed, but when he heard the last few words, an expression of astonishment suddenly appeared on his face, and then he immediately turned his head, across the open space in the middle of the hollow round table, He cast his eyes on Zhou Zekai.The moment he received his gaze, Zhou Zekai was also stunned, then turned his head, and met Su Mucheng's equally astonished eyes on the left.

There's someone who can do it, someone they both know, someone they both think of together for a split second.

But... in this case... no...

Zhou Zekai felt that what was flowing all over his body was no longer blood, but a bitterly cold river of glaciers, flowing to his limbs and bones, completely freezing him.He had this feeling before, the first time he knew Ye Xiu was a fixed point, the first time he witnessed Ye Xiu's death——

"Woo-hoo-hoo-ooo-hoo-ooo-"

The sound of breathing like flickering suddenly resounded in the council court. This is a sound that every Time Lord is very familiar with, and it will never be mistaken for the movement—the sound of the TARDIS engine.

In the open space in the center of the round table, a vending machine gradually changed from phantom to entity following the rhythm of the sound.

Zhou Zekai, Su Mucheng and Huang Shaotian all stood up in an instant.

"This is impossible. All the councilors have already arrived, and no one will enter the council chamber again..." The councilor standing next to this TARDIS opened his mouth wide, and he didn't understand why someone would disturb him at this moment This is a crucial, arguably life-or-death meeting of the universe.

Under Zhou Zekai's almost desperate sight, its door opened, and a puff of smoke came out, and a figure coughed and jumped out in embarrassment, complaining: "Ahem...fucking laughing You...cough cough...where did you send me...where is this place, this—Mucheng?"

The visitor stiffly turned his head slightly at an extremely small angle, his lips trembled for a while, and then he spoke softly in a sleepwalking voice, as if he was afraid of disturbing something——

"Xiao Zhou?"

Zhou Zekai could completely feel the trembling of his body - it was Ye Xiu, that was Ye Xiu...but this Ye Xiu, his eyes...

Ye Xiu stood at Lord Grim's doorway, his face full of disbelief, and then he seemed to want to laugh, as if he was pleasantly surprised, but before the smile was fully formed, it turned into anger.

The next moment, Zhou Zekai felt Ye Xiu's tight grip on his collar.

"Zhou Zekai, you bastard! How dare you change our timeline! Are you crazy?! It was you who told me that the timeline fixed in time and space cannot be changed, and that the universe will explode in an instant even if you move it even a little bit—how dare you? !"

Faced with this roar, Zhou Zekai was completely speechless.He just stared fixedly at this face that was close at hand, those eyes were older than when he first saw them, and even everyone present was more vicissitudes of life.

He saw himself in these eyes, with a face full of bewilderment, as if he was about to cry the next moment.

After reading his expression, Ye Xiu let go of his hand suddenly, and took a step back: "You...you didn't?" He looked around, "This is Garifrey?"

"Ye Xiu——" Su Mucheng finally came back to his senses, "Get out of here soon, the universe is about to collapse, you go back first..." The voice of this eight thousand-year-old general actually carried a trace of cry.

But Ye Xiu didn't move, he just looked at Zhou Zekai, as if he was looking at another person, a shadow on Zhou Zekai, a person he hadn't become yet.

"...You didn't change my timeline."

He spoke hoarsely.

"It is inevitable for me to appear here, but you never told me. You told me that the first time you saw me was the last time I saw you, and there was no possibility of seeing you again. For more than 2 years, I only Dare to look at you secretly, and even go to see you four or five times with the same one."

"But you lied to me. You are now—your eyes, you are only about 500 years old? You already knew that we would meet again after the opposite time line was over, and there would be this meeting, but you didn't Tell me—I just want a reason."

He laughed.

"The universe collapsed...Xiao Zhou, I will die here, right?"

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Goodbye world.