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Chapter 20: A Dreamland That Even Hope Can't Capture 5000

This is a story about a little boy that happened a long time ago.

That year, the boy was nine years old, with a father who worked as technical director in a large company, a mother who wrote full-time at home, and a sister who was four years younger than him. The four lived in a small country in the central part of the mainland, and their lives were calm and without ups and downs.

The father is generous but busy, and the mother is strict at home. The five-year-old sister is well-behaved and sensible on weekdays, but occasionally causes some chaos in the family. The boy's life is not perfect, nor is it miserable. It is just an ordinary, normal family, and normal happiness.

But there is one thing that always makes the boy feel distressed, that is, the expectations of parents, teachers, and even classmates and playmates for themselves.

What do you want to do in the future? What are you interested in? My child is so smart that he will definitely go to a good college. My students have good grades and should indeed work hard in this regard.

This is the habit of the Siberians. They like order, and they like life that can be predicted and controlled. From social engineering, national construction, to child training, and planning for the future, no matter what it is, they always like to make many preparations in advance, and through various technologies and arrangements, everything will be carried out according to their own ideas.

The Siberians could make everything work according to their own ideas, even the world was the same. This was the words of the central government boasted in the news at that time. At that time, the Siberians had developed facilities that could control the weather and suppress earthquakes. They boasted that the entire nature was already in the hands of people.

So the Siberians should do this.

You should do this, you should do that, you should become such a person, you should become such a person. Under the arrangement of his parents, young boys learn mathematics, practice musical instruments, he thinks about exercises, and studies physics. He is accompanied by books in cram schools and copied notes in school. He runs back and forth around the world every day, learning one kind of knowledge according to his parents' requirements, and striving to become the person they expect.

As for his own thoughts, the boy has not yet, he doesn't care, because he doesn't mind living according to the plan of others. This is the case for most Siberians. At home, they have to obey their parents, at school, and at work. If they enter social work, they have to obey their superiors and superiors. Most Siberians live according to the ideas of others, which is the norm in society.

The boy was not dissatisfied with this. He listened carefully to the advice of his elders and completed the things they expected one by one, and life continued in simplicity. If nothing unexpected happened, the boy should become a senior technical personnel like his father in the future and become a part of the middle and high-level social class.

However, this peaceful life did not last long.

On a calm summer night, a grand meteor shower that suddenly appeared, covering the entire night sky and even the entire Siberian world, fell from the sky. Its appearance was completely beyond the expectations of the Central Observatory, and there was no warning before that.

As the pedestrians on the roadside exclaimed happily, flowing lights crossed the sky. Almost no meteorite of the same color seemed to appear out of thin air, and then disappeared out of thin air. Everyone clearly saw these meteors falling from the sky, but no one found even a single piece of meteorite fragment.

That year, the boy was ten years old. It was his tenth birthday. When he looked up at the night sky with his parents on the balcony of his home, he saw a meteor with a deep blue light falling from the sky and falling into his eyebrows.

And the next day, the world was changed.

Because, the "Super Powers" who used to exist only in legends and movies actually appeared in this world without miracles.

The so-called superpower is a person who holds abilities beyond the ordinary humans' ability. The superpower who was first discovered was a drunk middle-aged man. Perhaps because of social engagements, he lit a fire in his sleep. The raging flames spurted out of his mouth and nose with his snoring, burning the entire bar and even half a block around him. Hundreds of people died suddenly triggered great social panic and made the central government quickly become vigilant about the existence of superpowers.

The whole world showed great yearning and fear for this unknown force that could easily kill others. They wanted to obtain it themselves, but they did not want others to obtain it. In order to sentence whether this middle-aged man should be sentenced to death, the lawyer teams of both sides launched a long tug-of-war in the Siberian Court, which caused great social discussion.

But soon, no one paid attention to the man again... because after that, all kinds of superpowers began to appear in front of the stage.

Some of them have physical abilities beyond ordinary people, some can control water flow, some can turn into lightning, and some can fly invisibly... Mind power, frost, mindful peeping, memory control, gravitational repulsion, transformation... People who hold these superpowers come from all corners of society, including senior officials of the central government, and homeless people living in the corners of the streets. Since these superpowers appeared, they have quickly disrupted the social order.

Some of them rely on their ability to do evil, while others rely on their ability to do good. For various reasons, the superpowers quickly started fighting each other. They fought on the streets and fought in the squares. The government was helpless against them. The police and the army may have some deterrence to those weak superpowers, but they have no choice but to those powerful people. They are no longer afraid of normal weapons of war. Neither missiles nor lasers are useful. Even long-range snipers will be discovered by some strange sixth perception. The most powerful ones may not die even if they are attacked by fission bombs.

The emergence of superpowers and the conflicts between them quickly affected the stability of the entire society. Even the government has begun to recruit some ordinary superpowers on a large scale, because there are still continuous awakening of superpowers and irregularities, including criminals, mentally ill patients and anti-social madmen. Their existence makes the entire central government anxious. The Siberians who do not have superpowers fall into panic. They feel that their peaceful life can no longer be controlled, and their lives are also in the hands of a superpower who don’t know if they are crazy.

But the boy has been much more idle because of this. The cram schools on the street have almost closed down, and many schools have even lost their normal teaching functions. Countless students can only stay at home and wait for the day when classes are reopening, but this day is far away because the relationship between the superpower and ordinary people is gradually intensifying.

As long as individuals have wisdom, personality, and different positions and ideas... as long as individuals have ‘different’ existences, conflicts will inevitably arise between individuals.

The huge gap in strength brought about by superpowers will expand the contradiction hundreds or thousands of times.

Before there was no superpower, there was a quarrel between the two people. As long as it was not too intense, no one would choose to take action, because they could be injured and punished.

But if one of them has superpowers, he only needs to move his fingers, take a look at him from a distance from a few streets, or send his abilities into the other party's body through the crowd, and choose the time to explode, and he can easily kill the unpleasant guy in front of him, and no one can find evidence. Superpowers are too convenient and powerful. Before their abilities, ordinary people are probably not much stronger than ants. This is still an ordinary energy system. If they are a spiritual superpower, perhaps with a look, your self-personality will completely collapse and become a puppet licking the other party's shoes.

If there is a conflict between the two sides, will those with ability not do this? Perhaps, there are always people who want to believe in the qualities of others and place their lives on the morality and self-control of others.

In short, today's world only maintains a fragile balance. The relationship between the superpower and ordinary people is tense, but the relationship between the superpower is also extremely contradictory and cannot be united.

And the last straw that overwhelms this fragile balance are a few extremely simple news.

Through repeated battles, the most powerful superpowered people discovered that their abilities could actually be improved by killing other superpowers and absorbing the source of the other party's abilities. At the same time, through clues that unknown who said, they also discovered that the central government is secretly conducting research on the "overpowerful interferometer field" in an attempt to capture all superpowers in one go.

So, the war between the superpower and the superpower, the superpower and ordinary people began suddenly and unnaturally.

That year, the boy was twelve years old. On the day when the war began, he was at home and celebrated his sister's eighth birthday on the second floor of the house. While cutting cakes for his sister and lighting candles, the boy turned his head inadvertently and looked out the window. Then, he saw a red light flashing, and a scorching ray passed through his home from left to back, cutting all the walls on the first floor.

At the moment when he was too late to exclaim, the boy's home, as well as the houses on the surrounding streets, were completely destroyed and began to collapse rapidly. However, at this extremely dangerous moment, the boy found that his body, which was curled up due to sudden fear, had already unfolded again. He felt an inexplicable force spreading in his body, which made his speed many times faster, and actually avoided all dangers directly, making everything around him look like slow motion.

At this time, the boy's eyes were flashing with magnificent blue light, and the light that was overflowing with energy was the most obvious feature of the "superpowers"!

At this moment, for the boy, time seemed to be still. After realizing that his home was being attacked by a superpower, he immediately turned around nervously and looked in the direction where his parents and sister were located. At this moment, the boy's parents were pressing their legs by the collapse of the building's ceiling. They looked frightened and seemed to be screaming, their eyes were full of confusion and fear, and his sister had been buried by broken rock bricks, leaving only a small hand exposed...

The heart became cold from the beginning and gradually became hopeful. Although I didn't know why, I didn't understand what my abilities meant for the time being, but the trembling boy knew that he might have the ability to help his relatives now. At this time, he just wanted to save his relatives as much as possible. Thinking of this, the extremely nervous boy immediately ran to his sister closest to him, and ran towards the layers of bricks and tiles.

The boy wanted to clean up the miscellaneous items and rescue his sister from the miscellaneous items, but it was not until he tried hard to carry away a large piece of gravel that the boy understood.

No one can save him.

Even if he awakened his superpowers, he was just a twelve-year-old boy, a teenager. His instinct told him that his current state was now maintained for less than five seconds. In five seconds, he could not move away the gravel on his sister's body, nor could he drag his parents, who were pressed by the ceiling, away from the heavy pressure... He could not save anything.

The rock was pressed down at an extremely slow speed, and the sister's hand twitched at an extremely slow speed. The boy turned his head blankly and looked at his parents. Even if his time was accelerated, he could see the slow changes in his parents' eyes and expressions. It was the gradual change of his helplessness to fear and panic...despair.

The confusion and fear of being attacked, the uncertainty of awakening ability, the fear of thinking about the death of parents and sisters, and the joy of being able to save them. Now, the powerless time waiting for the last moment little by little is meaningless. He cannot save anything, and can only make himself tortured by the pain that lasts for a longer period of time, the boy roars suddenly, and he will never admit this fact!

Five...Four...Three...Two...One...The boy was frantically trying to move away the gravel on his sister's body. He yelled desperately, throwing the rock bricks behind him with all his might, but the time was too short and there were too many debris. When the time of the ability was over, time began to flow again... Bright red blood spilled out from the cracks in the rock, his little hands spasmed and then stopped twitching, and the parents' moans of pain echoed in the boy's ears.

Pop.

The boy sat in the rubble and gravel, exhausted, and a strong sense of fatigue from nowhere spread throughout his body. He stared at the pile of gravels that were overflowing with blood in front of him, and looked at his hands that were cut by the rocks, and looked at his parents whose legs were broken on the side, listening to the other party's wailing, his mind was blank... At night, a violent explosion sounded in the distant city, igniting a raging fire, and the bright flames made the surroundings look like day. Under the orange-yellow fire, the boy's grief and despair flashed with blue light of uncertainty in his sad and desperate eyes.

On the inside of the pupil, the clock's hand rotates, and even if it delays, it will never stop.

Just like fate.

And this is the prelude to the war and the boy's story.

...

In the vast hall hall, forty-two majestic and solemn metal iron pillars support the towering dome, making it gradually hide in the dark shadows. On the slightly sunken ground of the hall, rows of mysterious and complex runes extend towards the center. The spectacular magic array formed by countless regular patterns shines with light blue light at this time. As the energy surges, countless light particles float in the air and disillusion, making the hall hall magnificent almost dreamy.

But now, a "person" slowly woke up from the throne in the center of the hall. He opened his eyes bit by bit, and there was a trace of undetectable light and dark fluctuations in his pupils, and the clock's hand rotated. But soon, these sad fluctuations dissipated and turned into incomparable indifference.

"dominate."

The young little girl's voice sounded in his ears. It was a petite soul puppet floating in the air. At this time, the puppet's calm and slight ups and downs came: "The world line replacement failed for the 319th time, your observation failed, and you fell into a dream of the possibility of the collapse of the long river of time."

"Yeah."

On the throne, the man was silent. After a long time, he turned his head and said in a cold and calm voice that was exactly the same as the soul puppet, "I have another dream that I can't even capture hope."

The man kept silent, and the hall hall suddenly became silent. The slight buzzing caused by the flow of magic echoed between the magic light particles and the dark dome. It could be seen that their light was gradually weakening, as if they had lost some important support. In the hall, the dreamy feeling also faded rapidly, as if it was retreating from an unknown field to reality.

And just before the light was about to completely dissipate, he spoke again.

"Then start the 320th time."

The man's voice was calm, and because of his words, the time around seemed to stop. Whether it was the dim magic light or the gradually fading dream, everything solidified and stagnant. The only exception was the petite soul puppet floating beside the throne. This soul puppet was respectfully in the air at this time, lowering his head and kneeling: "Follow your instructions, 'Time Turner', 'Director', His Majesty Fatlorvi."

"Now the preparation for the 320th world line replacement is carried out, starting to link the river of existence, starting to ignite the initial light, and starting to start the 'Observer' system."

In the huge and magnificent hall hall, countless stars illuminate, light blue light is magnificent, and mysterious runes are surging layer by layer, forming two vast streams of light, one surging, the other turbulent.

Above these two rivers, the dome shrouded by dark shadows began to shine, accompanied by millions of light balls that seemed to be souls, and billions of star rays bloomed one after another, as if the dome forged by stars showed its grand posture and starlight flashed. It seemed to cover all things in the world, reflecting the entire world and the multiverse.

And under the cover of such a dome, the river of light that was originally unpredictable and calm like stagnant water finally began to tremble slightly, as if a drop of water fell in the middle of the river surface, and layered concentric circle ripples began to spread until they covered the entire river surface.

Until then, the sound of the soul puppet calm and without ups and downs came.

"Start the 320th observation."
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