【Zhou Ye】The Foot of Time

For a long time to come, it can be said that it will remain unchanged.Sometimes Zhou Zekai even has the illusion that time has already been frozen into ice, standing still.

He still does those tasks.Although he has become a general, he is still a long way from being able to enter the parliamentary court to issue orders. Zhou Zekai still needs to experience and accumulate meritorious deeds in the front line for a long time.He began to take some young time lords who had just joined the army and were not yet a hundred years old, teaching them how to turn wisdom into the sharpest weapon, how to be intimate with his TARDIS, and how to survive in the most difficult circumstances. survived.

That Ye Xiu at the center of the time storm is still doing filling work, Zhou Zekai can't help much, the only thing he can do is to try to bring the falsified history back on track, reduce the scale of the new rift, and give love to his lover. Lighten up a little workload.

When there is no mission, he will secretly follow Ye Xiu—the young Ye Xiu who travels alone.The Chameleon system of Tardis has no effect on the owner of its key, he cannot hide in Cloud Piercer, and can only take the most primitive method.But it's not difficult, Zhou Zekai still has a lot of means to keep the other party from discovering him, not to mention he is destined not to be noticed by Ye Xiu.At the beginning, he was not quite used to it. When following the other party, he always hoped to find an opportunity to jump out, stop Ye Xiu in front of him, and let the other party discover him.In the end, these ideas gradually dried up and withered, and he no longer held those unrealistic fantasies.

The only thing that Zhou Zekai couldn't get used to was one thing - before parting with Ye Xiu, he only met his older self once, and then met his younger self once, and even these two times could be merged into one side.But ever since he started following Ye Xiu, meeting people of all ages can be called a common occurrence.

But Zhou Zekai is not good at communicating with himself, he is not a talkative person, and it is not like when he first met another self who was confused about the situation and had something to ask.He—no matter what his age—would only nod to himself as a greeting, and sometimes he wouldn't even give him a look, refusing to waste any time on himself, and only let Ye Xiu's figure occupy the center of his retina.

Zhou Zekai thought that if it was Ye Xiu, the scene would definitely not be as embarrassing as his own.When the few Ye Xius got together, they would definitely discuss, secretly watch themselves recall the past, and even tease each other.

He would also often go to the Medusa Showering Waterfall, and stop Cloud Piercer with the door open in front of one of the most beautiful scenery in the universe. Sitting at the door by himself, he could stare at it for a long time.The seat at the door of the TARDIS is quite comfortable if one is sitting alone, but Zhou Zekai shrank to one side, keeping his shoulders and arms tightly against the door, leaving the other side empty.Sometimes when I get up after sitting for too long, there will be obvious door frame marks on my body.

Often, he would try to call out his lover's name, put his voice into the mail box, and then let it fly towards the entrance of the time storm.The small box glowing with white and soft light will be torn to pieces as soon as it plunges into the Medusa Waterfall.

Zhou Zekai was very clear about the ones that couldn't be delivered, but he never tired of it.

The rest of the time is the earth.Yes, Zhou Zekai would still return to Earth, but he avoided places where Ye Xiu might haunt.Occasionally, he would send messages to his friends in Glory to get in touch.These people knew about his and Ye Xiu's situation, and they were very happy to tell him about Ye Xiu's recent situation.

Of course, Su Mucheng and Huang Shaotian were the ones who shouldered the most important responsibilities.

Needless to say how close Su Mucheng and Ye Xiu are, I don’t know how diligent they are on the earth; Huang Shaotian has the relationship between Yu Wenzhou and Wei Chen. After Zhou Zekai left, he naturally took over his job and became Consultant Huang, who has won glory—Of course, Huang Shaotian always finds this title strange, and has been working hard to get a minister.And both of them are Zhou Zekai's compatriots and colleagues. In Galli Frey, when receiving tasks, they always looked up and down.

These two time lords have almost become the only channel for them to learn about each other's recent situation across a long distance.

"...You really don't need us to deliver a letter or a video for you?" Su Mucheng couldn't help but sigh later, "I'm not impatient, it's just that such a loophole can still be exploited, right? ?”

Zhou Zekai could only smile and shake his head at her—if it wasn't for the meeting he attended when he was four years old, if he hadn't heard the eight thousand-year-old Su Mucheng say that they would not even dare to let her write a letter for a long time Pass it on, this loophole can be exploited, and they can even chat through the terminal, that would be great.

But no matter how much Zhou Zekai wishes it to come true, it can only be a hypothesis after all.

He still goes into that dream from time to time.

The universe is boundless and all-encompassing, and it is never possible to count how many stars there are.But in Zhou Zekai's dream, this universe, which can actually be described as lively, is full of loneliness.Zhou Zekai knew that this was his own subjective emotion. No matter how far away those stars were, they still existed.But for him, apart from the hourglass and his box, he has nothing else in this dream.

He hugged his square box and sat with his back against the hourglass that had leaked out long ago—actually, he didn’t know how he could maintain the sitting posture. There was nothing to support him, and all the slabs disappeared. , not a single piece remained.But this is his dream, how can he discuss science with a dream?

I don't know if it's because of my state of mind, but the chattering box also fell silent.This makes every time he enters this dream, it is like a boring silent movie, starring him, the box and the hourglass, not only does not have a line, he does not even move, he always closes his eyes, not even a look I can't give it.

But suddenly one day, when Zhou Zekai thought he was going to spend another night in the dead silence, his box opened his mouth after a long time.

"How many years have we been doing this?" The box arched in his arms.

Zhou Zekai failed to answer immediately.

So the box continued: "Time is too difficult to perceive. Sometimes I feel that 5000 years have passed, but when I look at it-hey, it's only 5 minutes! But it's also because the length of time doesn't matter to me. Does it make sense? I usually run from this time to that time... In fact, I have the least concept of time and distance. If you ask me to say how far it is from here to there, I can’t tell. If not With coordinates, you will never know where I can take you. Well, in fact, we are all road idiots, otherwise why do we need coordinates? My partner is also, he is even more road idiot than me, and he can jump to other places with coordinates land……"

Zhou Zekai finally interrupted its rambling: "3000 years."

"Ah, it's only been 3000 years." The box's voice dropped instantly, "Why is it so slow..."

Zhou Zekai touched the top of it.

"When will you be able to enter the parliamentary court... It should be soon after you enter the parliamentary court?"

Zhou Zekai thought about the rating criteria and said, "Let's finish the next task."

"Hey, can I enter the parliamentary court after finishing the next task? That's great. Once you enter the parliamentary court, you can monitor the cracks and maybe find some clues. How many times have you watched "The Setting Sun of Man!"

"It's sunset."

"Don't pay attention to these details!" The box raised the volume to protest, and the next sentence lowered the voice again, even a little cautiously, "You said...through the crack, can we see them...even if If you can't see the figure directly, it would be nice if you could give me some sign that my partner is there!"

Zhou Zekai closed his eyes: "...Maybe."

But Zhou Zekai didn't think about it, before he entered the court, he really touched the trace of Ye Xiu's existence, so close that he almost thought he could hug him the next moment——

That was on the battlefield of the mission.

This task is actually not too difficult, after all, he still has two children who have just joined the army for less than ten years.The young time lords were always jumping off the hook. It wasn't long before they were able to drive the TARDIS by themselves, and their brains were in a state of extreme excitement—it must be said that Zhou Zekai back then was a very rare example.But no matter how easy the task is, when there are two energetic children, it is easy to go wrong, which is why the recruits are always led by the general.

And this mission, the mission that will allow Zhou Zekai to enter the parliamentary court after the completion of the mission, has gone wrong.Before the enemy's bullets from all directions arrived, Zhou Zekai activated the emergency safety protocol for these two reckless children and sent them back.Just when he was about to teleport back, he realized that the terminal on his wrist was shattered by a bullet, and because Cloud Piercer was supporting the shield, he couldn't respond to the key's call to pick him up. The recruit's TARDIS is also immobile.

He stood in the middle of a hail of bullets, with no cover, just two guns and a sonic screwdriver.Just want to repeat the old tricks and shoot myself, there is no time for rebirth.

At that moment, Zhou Zekai's mind went blank.

He cannot die here, nor can he die here.His future—at least the future before the age of [-]—has absolutely no danger to his life. That crucial meeting was related to Ye Xiu. He knows better than anyone how impossible it is for someone or something to be connected to a fixed point in time and space. Change.

How could he die here?

Seeing the fastest bullet spinning towards his eyebrows, he closed his eyes reflexively.

The expected pain did not come, he had the experience of being shot into the brain by a bullet, but he did not relive that feeling.The moment he realized that things had changed, he opened his eyes again, and what he saw was an unbelievable scene——

With him as the center, it seems that something invisible is spreading to the surroundings, and those countless bullets disappear instantly after being touched, as if they never existed.And the thing that can't be discerned by the naked eye didn't stop after devouring all the bullets, and was still expanding its territory outward, rushing into the Santa people who surrounded and shot him.

Those Santa people didn't even have time to scream, and they disappeared. For a while, Zhou Zekai could only hear the sound of guns falling to the ground.

— as if erased with an eraser.

For a moment, the battlefield was as silent as a cemetery.

"..."

He opened his lips and moved a few times. Two words were about to come out, but he couldn't make a sound.He staggered a few steps forward, looking around in a panic, and tried again, but still couldn't force a word out of his throat.So he gave up speaking, and staggered around the battlefield, turning around while walking, for fear of missing something in the blind corner of his vision.

But no matter how hard he tried to find it, everything around him was dead, and he walked through a painting that was only black and white, and no one would add a single touch to it.

After an unknown amount of time, he was tripped by a gun and fell to the ground, and the palms of his hands were rubbed heavily on the gravel ground. The pain made him cry out in an instant.

Only then did he regain his voice, and spit out those two words that had been brewing for a long time.

"Ye Xiu..."

He asked almost as if begging——

"is it you?"

It was still the dead silence that answered him.

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Even if you can't touch him, he who is in the center of the time storm still guards you.