【Zhou Ye】The Foot of Time

When I saw Ye Xiu again, it was actually at the Library Star.

No matter in which era, physical books will never be outdated. Compared with displayed data, heavy things that can be held in the palm of your hand have more texture. Libraries will never disappear in civilization.And the library star is undoubtedly the largest library in the universe, it is so huge that it needs an entire planet to hold it, and even if you spend a lifetime, you cannot finish reading its collection of books—unless you can live as long as a time lord, but Even among the time lords with thirteen lives, there are not many people who can pat their chests and say that they have read all the books on this planet. Enough to last them a lifetime.

The division of book categories on Library Star is based on latitude and longitude. Zhou Zekai is now on the planet's meridian, at 32 degrees north latitude, which belongs to the history books area.When Zhou Zekai was queuing to return books at the self-service terminal, he saw Ye Xiu sitting by the window and concentrating on reading.There were many people in the library star, but with so many figures in between, Zhou Zekai still caught each other in the gap.

After stuffing the book into the terminal, Zhou Zekai hesitated for a moment after personal information and the words "Return the book successfully" appeared on the screen, but he still walked towards the exit - there is a small shop there.After buying two bottles of water, he walked over to the table where Ye Xiu was sitting.

Ye Xiu spotted him just before he arrived, raised his head and did not show any surprise that Zhou Zekai would appear here and now.Ye Xiu just smiled broadly, took the water from Zhou Zekai's hand very naturally, unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip, then continued to bury his head in his book.

The habitual action is obvious——Zhou Zekai has made a judgment—they have met in the library like this not once or twice, and even for Ye Xiu, today's meeting may have been agreed in advance.After all, all the seats around were full, but Ye Xiu still had a vacant seat at the two-person table, and would Ye Xiu mind a stranger sitting across from him? He must have rejected several inquiries asking if he could sit here People, because they knew Zhou Zekai would come.

Zhou Zekai was glad that this meeting was here. Keeping quiet in the library is a cosmic convention. Silence can cover up many unnatural things—besides silence, extreme excitement is also an excellent cover-up, just like when Ye Xiu It's just like a Christmas welcome party when we welcome him who knows nothing.

Zhou Zekai could tell which book Ye Xiu was reading just by looking backwards at the opened pages. After all, he had borrowed this book more than once - "Sunset of the Cyberman".This book is also collected in Garifrey's library, and compared to the last time Zhou Zekai borrowed it, it is undoubtedly a little thinner.

Ye Xiu still had a pile of books piled up in his hand. Zhou Zekai glanced at the spine of the books. They were all historical materials of various civilizations.He took the top one about the Child of Nightmare, flipped through a few pages but found that he couldn't read it at all.He suddenly remembered that he didn't need to put on a show at all, so he raised his eyes and looked at the person opposite.

The oblique light shines on Ye Xiu's body through the floor-to-ceiling windows, and nature adds a natural filter to him, as if the whole person is emitting a soft light.His pair of deep black eyes moved back and forth from left to right, scanning the words on the page line by line, but suddenly stopped, moved up slightly, and looked back.

Zhou Zekai realized that he was laughing.

Ye Xiu also raised the corner of his mouth, took his hand from the book, and hooked his index finger at Zhou Zekai.

Zhou Zekai was stunned for a moment, followed his will and leaned forward, leaning his head toward——

The large-faced book stopped abruptly, encircling a small world for them.In this space that belonged to them alone, they exchanged a short, soft kiss.

Ye Xiu leaned against Zhou Zekai's forehead and smiled lightly under the cover of the book, obviously knowing that this kind of cover was a bit of a cover-up, and anyone with a discerning eye could see what they did, but he just wanted to do it.So Zhou Zekai also laughed silently, just like every happy person does.

They sat at this table for more than an hour, Ye Xiu quietly read and took notes, Zhou Zekai turned a couple of pages from time to time, and looked at Ye Xiu most of the time, as if he couldn't get tired of reading.It wasn't until Ye Xiu closed the "Sunset of the Cybermen" that they got up and walked towards the restaurant together.

Ye Xiu opened his mouth as soon as he entered the public area.

"I've read almost all of the book, and I've told you a few times before, but now I can summarize it—although it's not obvious, there are still some small things that are really strange." Ye Xiu flipped through the book in his notebook. Two pages, "At first glance, the history of these civilizations in the past is very complete, but I found a few discrepancies—for example, here, "Nightmare Comes", it is said that the origin of the children of nightmares is 330 years of the universe calendar, and in In this book about the history of the Zagon people, it is mentioned that the Zagon people and the children of the nightmare once fought in the 320th year of the cosmic calendar. These two books are authoritative books. If there is any doubt, there will definitely be notes. In fact, there are not. There are also some customs that cannot find the source for no reason, or suddenly mentioned the names of people that cannot be found. There are very few such problems.”

"……so?"

"So during the defensive battle, what the enemy said should not be groundless—there is indeed something wrong with their history." Ye Xiu said his judgment, "As a bystander, I can find something wrong in the books, so their own It definitely feels more intuitive."

……I see.

Zhou Zekai understood why Ye Xiu and himself would meet on the library planet for a long time. Ye Xiu should have experienced the Earth Defense War not long ago, and learned from those alien populations that their history and existence are gradually disappearing— — This is also consistent with what the Zagon man they met when they went to participate in the exchange meeting of the folk mystery investigation team.This important defense war in the history of the universe is closely related to Ye Xiu. Of course, he will pay more attention to its cause, so he went to the place with the most complete data in the universe to search for clues.

"In this way, it makes sense for them to take me away." Ye Xiu closed the book and put it under his arm, "Their history must be changing because of the time war, right? They launched such a war , there will naturally be people who treat others in their own way and change their history. And I—you told me that everything that happens to me will become a fixed point. I think they must want to use me Strengthen their history and make their history a fixed point, so that they can be invincible. Unfortunately, what they didn't expect was that the defense war Garri Frey intervened, and even used the time lock. Even if you catch me, you can't take me away, and we turned the tables in the end."

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Lao Ye, your brain hole is quite big ╮(╯▽╰)╭ is far from the truth