"Okay, Ling'er, don't look at me with that expression." Lu Yuan flicked his little disciple's forehead, "Just laugh if you want to. If you have anything to say, tell me right away. I'll give you ten more Five minutes.”
"Pfft~! Hahaha, Master, you died so badly!" Zhao Ling'er suddenly laughed so hard that she couldn't stand up, leaving Lao Lu speechless and looking at the sky... I should teach her to study well, not learn these things Messy "internet complaints". No, I shouldn't have brought her here in the first place!
The night wind on the top of the skyscraper is as cold as a knife! But Lao Lu felt that his face was burning up. Well, it was indeed a bit unkind to die.
It was past 12 o'clock, "Lu Yuan" was confirmed dead, and his body disappeared from the world a few seconds later - the beginning and end of everything. Lu Yuan's scrutinizing eyes scanned the entire world. All the traces left by his predecessor in this world were disappearing at an inhuman speed. Even Master Yuqing, who had just awakened, "ascended" together with Zhang Yaoqing in the next moment and was pulled away from this world.
I believe that it won’t take long if this continues, and no one in the world will be able to clearly remember Lu Yuan...except maybe Lu Dongbin.
"Master," the little disciple finally had enough laughter and stuck out his tongue, and quickly grabbed his sleeve to show off his cuteness.
"Master, what's going on with that box? I remember you once said that you got a box of the dead in the Caribbean world. Could it be this one?" Since Lu Yuan planned to bring Ling'er aboard the Dawn, naturally he couldn't Would hide anything from her again. In the past ten years, whenever he had free time, Lu Yuan would tell Zhao Ling'er stories about his travels in various worlds. Therefore, Ling'er is very clear about his experiences.
"Don't worry about those little things - Ling'er, you have to understand that there are too many unknown problems in this world, but not every problem has a solution! Not every problem is worth investing in! These coincidences, crossed timelines, cause and effect Paradoxes, what a mess, can be collectively called fate! Regarding fate, whoever wants to worry should worry about it! Love whoever you want! All you need to know is that this is a bottomless sinkhole, and we will never touch it, do you understand? "Lu Yuan solemnly warned.
"Yes." Zhao Ling'er immediately stopped laughing and nodded in agreement very formally - this is Zhao Ling'er's biggest advantage, knowing when to be obedient and not willful - better than Lingmeng, that naughty child who told her to beat the dog but chase the chicken. Much stronger!
What is destiny?
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow are fate; the division and reunification of the timeline is fate; the ebb and flow of the Source Sea is fate; even a certain main god is so boring that he is imprisoned by his subordinates and usurps the throne... These are all fate! In destiny, people like Lu Yuan can't help but fall into one circle after another, and even produce paradoxes of cause and effect. Even if Lu Yuan doubts his life because of this, in terms of fate, it may be a tiny to invisible dust.
Why do swimming fish care about how vast the sea is, and mayflies don't need to care about how long spring, summer, autumn and winter are - since even the Lord God cannot escape fate, it must be a sinkhole! Why does Lu Yuan care about that? As for things that "do not make sense logically", actually just ignore them. Many worlds are composed of physical laws and energy laws, and there are absolutely no "logical laws" among them.
"Logic" is a tool created by human beings to study nature, and we must not put the cart before the horse.
"Master, what I want to ask is actually what should I do after I get on the boat?" Zhao Ling'er twirled her fingers and said sheepishly, finally revealing her little daughter's appearance at this moment. "I'm really worried."
"It doesn't matter, everyone will feel worried when facing the unknown." Lu Yuan fondly touched his little disciple's forehead. He guessed this and deliberately stayed in this world for a while longer. "Don't worry, your wife will take care of you when the time comes."
"...Wait! I have a master wife?!" Ling'er's eyes suddenly widened, "Why haven't you told me before? She...what's her personality like? Will she like me? When we first met, I You should prepare gifts! What does the master's wife look like? Master's wife..." Ling'er suddenly fell into a great panic.
"Which one are you asking about?" Lu Yuan was a little shy. "Although they both like you very much, their personalities are different."
"I have so many mistresses?!" Ling'er's expression looked like it was the end of the world ahead.
"There are also Reimu Hakurei and Suika Ibuki, my two daughters." Lu Yuan seemed to feel that this was not enough, and added two more weights!
"You still have a daughter..." At this time, Zhao Ling'er felt that she would never love again, and the world was full of malice. What do you mean by the lonely old man’s master (isn’t this your setting? He actually has a family and two children? “It turns out that I am the only one who is superfluous. It seems better to go back to Fairy Island.”
"Stop feeling sorry for yourself, silly girl!" A pair of arms stretched out from the side and picked up the girl, holding her tightly!
Hiding in Master's warm embrace, Zhao Linger's cheeks quickly turned red, but she was reluctant to break away at all. This posture seems to be what Master said, that princess hugging or something...ah, so embarrassing. The two of them stayed in this position for a while, and Ling'er realized something was wrong when his mind started to spin again. "Ah, the Hakurei Reimu and Ibuki Suika you are talking about? Aren't they the adopted daughters you adopted in Gensokyo?" Zhao Ling'er just thought of this, and then thought of more. Could it be that the ladies are also people in the story?
Based on some unspeakable rules, although Lu Yuan could tell Zhao Ling'er things about the other world as stories, he could not describe the Lord God himself too much to Ling'er who had not yet left the world. Therefore, everything that involves the Lord God, that is, the ending of each world, he mentions in one stroke when telling stories.
But now is the time to say it.
"So, Mu Xing, Anni, and Zhao Min are all my mistresses?" Ling'er asked with a pointed finger, and Lu Yuan nodded. "What about Marshal Li Huamei and Captain Shepard?" "No, not Shepard. There is no relationship between us." Zhao Ling'er seemed relieved and asked two more names. Intuitively, the two women felt something was wrong. . "What about Yakumo Murasaki and Kazami Yuka?"
Lu Yuan suddenly showed a very painful expression, "Yakumo Purple... It doesn't matter. As for Youxiang, if you call her Mistress, she will probably be very happy, and then directly hit people." Thinking of Youxiang's arrogant character , and patted the little disciple heartily. "Don't worry, you're hitting me."
*****
Dawn Fortress, on the bridge.
Everyone knows that today is the day that someone is going to come back, so in addition to the people who must appear, the main god Elona, the host Ms. Dawn, and the acting captain Yakumo Purple; no matter who has a close relationship with Lu Yuan - like Zhao Min, Annie, Li Huamei, Du Dao, etc.; they all came specifically to see the excitement - Ke Xue, Misaka, Catalyst, etc., all gathered on the bridge in twos and threes after breakfast, waiting for the man to leave San Officially returning later in the year.
The flow of time on both sides was unequal. Lu Yuan spent nearly three hundred years in the other world; while in Dawn Fortress, almost three years had passed. If Alona hadn't fast-forwarded the more than two hundred years since Lu Yuan and Ren Shou's affair, I'm afraid this side would have consumed more than three years.
Because Lu Yuan suddenly cut off contact with the Dawn before the decisive battle, he was basically out of contact later. Although he later requested the Dawn for support when traveling in reverse direction to let everyone know that he was safe and sound, nothing else was known about Lu Yuan's situation. Now that everyone is gathered here, although no one said it, everyone definitely wants to confirm Lu Yuan's health first. Secondly... it is to see if he has brought anything he shouldn't have brought back, and then decide whether it is Tianzhu, Still Heavenly Punishment, still Heavenly Punishment...
As for what Lu Yuanzao said before, "Looking for a way to fight the Mona people", they are currently ignored by the collective.
"Why did they become so...serious all of a sudden?" a man's voice said - it seemed like something strange had sneaked in on the bridge?
*****
Two men wearing "Iron Man" armor sat and stood on the bridge. The one who was sitting had a standard military posture and was silent; while the one who was standing was a handsome middle-aged man with a neatly trimmed beard and no helmet.
There couldn't be anyone else but Tony Stark.
"I know, I know, the person who can make the decision is finally coming back, right?" He continued talking to himself, his voice getting louder and louder, as if he was giving a lecture. "But ladies and gentlemen! Time waits for no one! While you are eating breakfast and sitting around, Manhattan is burning! New York is burning! America is burning! We need support!"
Anne looked at him casually, then turned away and continued what she was doing. His attempt at incitement elicited absolutely no reaction.
"Well, there's a lack of resonance," Stark shrugged awkwardly and whispered, "It seems there are no Americans here." He looked at Ms. Dawn who was closest to him and continued to chatter. "Madam, are your ancestors Dutch? British? German? e_on, judging from your appearance, you must have earthly blood - I have studied genetics, and I can tell by looking at your eyes and hair - —You can’t lie to me! Oh..."
Ms. Dawn smiled politely at him, and Stark realized how beautiful the woman he was nagging was! He was instantly stunned by the smile, and his brain was stuck for a moment. But Stark being Stark, he adjusted his demeanor in almost three seconds - as for the end of the United States... he was instantly forgotten.
"Ma'am, please allow me to introduce myself. Tony, Tony Stark, but people like to call me 'Iron Man', I like this title. You know, to maintain world peace, punish evil and promote good, I This is my lifelong mission." Keenly aware that Ms. Dawn seemed to have no interest in this topic, Stark immediately changed the topic, "Although I don't want to say it, you know, I have a building named after me in Manhattan. …Oh, sorry, it probably doesn’t exist now; okay, but I’m still number two in the U.S.… Wait, damn Google! Number three… Wait, damn it!
Fourth, I swear I kept my fourth spot! "
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Stark." Ms. Dawn looked a little embarrassed.
"Tony, you can call me Tony." Stark was still trying to be courteous.
"Sorry, Tony," Ms. Dawn said gently and gracefully, "due to your rising hormones, I have to tell you in advance that everything you are thinking is wrong - I am an artificial intelligence."
"...o...k...This is great, artificial intelligence. I mean, this ship is great!" Stark quickly turned around in a half circle and quickly moved away from Ms. Dawn. He muttered awkwardly. "Damn, the AI is so good? Jarvis, why don't you grow up faster? Make the AI a female, God that's a good idea... Hey, sorry, I didn't mean to."
He walked fast and urgently, and inadvertently blocked the path of a certain Misaka sister. Misaka's Ice Sight was activated, and Stark failed the save and failed to express his feelings for two rounds. Stark, who was always personable to women, immediately apologized and extended the invitation again without giving up. "I am Tony Stark, inventor, Iron Man, and the fourth richest man in the United States! Miss, may I have the honor of inviting you to dinner?"
Sister Misaka remained expressionless as always and said in a tone with no rising or falling tone, "I'm not an adult yet, uncle, I won't date you."
Stark was killed instantly again!
He fled far away in embarrassment, "This is impossible, look at those mature breasts." He made incredible gestures on his chest with his hands, "Are all girls nowadays so exaggeratedly developed? What's going on in this world?"
"Sir, your behavior has already caused harm to Misaka." The woman next to him with her back to him turned around, and it was another beautiful Misaka sister!
*****
"Back!" Alona suddenly stood up and said in surprise.
The light suddenly brightened on the bridge, and two figures gradually emerged.
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