I loaded the dream game

Come to think of it, Brother Xia Zhi probably didn’t sleep much last night, right?

"Don't you need to sleep a little longer?" she asked worriedly.

"It's okay. I've already done my morning exercises and I'm full of energy." Xia Zhi replied proudly.

Mio's cheeks inexplicably turned red when she heard this... Although it was partly her own initiative at the time, she still felt shy when it was brought up in front of others afterwards.

Cong Yun tilted his head and a question mark appeared on his head.

"Oh~ so awesome!"

Nogi Sonoko seems to be interested

When I usually get up early, I can't recover so quickly.

"What is this morning exercise? Can you teach me?" she asked curiously.

Ah, this...

"Let's talk about it next time."

Xia Zhi said vaguely.

Nogi Sonoko tilted her head...she always felt that Brother Xia Zhi seemed to be just trying to please her?

On the other side, feeling the increasingly strange gazes from the side, in order to prevent the girl from continuing to ask questions, Xia Zhi waved to Cong Yun not far away.

Seeing his gesture, Cong Yun happily ran to him.

Xia Zhi touched her head, and along with the soft touch under his hand, the tree-shaped mark on the back of his hand also felt a slightly warm temperature.

He took a breath and turned to look at Tokisaki Kurumi who had been watching this side quietly since a while ago.

"Have you said your goodbyes yet?"

Tokisaki Kurumi had a playful smile on her face, and seemed to find it very interesting.

"I think you could say more."

This is probably what is called a fun-loving person.

"I think we should stick to the planned time."

Xia Zhi said that since the plan has been determined, it should be strictly implemented... although this time point was also randomly set by him last night.

"Yes, God~"

Tokisaki Kurumi didn't say anything else, but instead looked back at the green-haired girl in front of him and brought the topic back.

"So what should we do next?"

Xia Zhi did not answer her, but looked down at Cong Yun in front of him.

Noticing his gaze, Cong Yun nodded slightly.

After taking a deep breath, Xia Zhi placed his hand gently on her heart again, just like yesterday.

Congyun, who received and inherited all the things of the sacred tree, not only became the current "sacred tree"... Under the special mechanism of the dream game reconstruction, even without relying on the pseudo-cosmic being's convergence of multi-dimensional time and space, she also re-covered all the existences called "sacred tree" from back to front and became the only "sacred tree" for this world.

Her existence runs through the entire human history after the advent of gods, and following her "roots", one can establish a connection with the past.

...To put it bluntly, it is just a setting similar to that in various games that facilitates jumping between different dungeons.

In other words, with the help of Cong Yun's power, one can easily go to any point in time within the past three hundred years.

Feeling the young man's wish, Cong Yun gently closed his eyes, and a soft and holy light shone around him.

At the same time, the mark on the back of Xia Zhi's hand lit up slightly, and the original slight heat became a little hot.

A similar scene reappeared, and the illusory timeline unfolded in his mind, extending forward to the original "end" three hundred years ago.

Next, as long as Xia Zhi randomly chooses a time point, he can go to the corresponding era through Cong Yun's body, which is now rooted in the timeline.

...Why does this statement sound a bit weird?

He shook his head and pulled his thoughts back.

First stop

Xia Zhi thought for a moment

Logically speaking, it doesn't matter if you go to any singularity, since you have to go to all of them in the end anyway. But in order to make it easier to sort out the logic and avoid some confusion in thinking and perception caused by changing the past, why not start from the beginning along the timeline order?

Xia Zhi thought so in his heart, and cast his sights towards the first singularity of space and time.

however

"We don't go to any singularity."

Just when he was ready and was about to say hello to Mio, Sonoko and the others and was about to set off, Tokisaki Kurumi suddenly spoke.

"Because there is an elf who is not on this timeline."

Facing the boy's puzzled look, she explained softly.

"The first spirit appeared before the birth of the sacred tree, at a time point that the sacred tree could not reach."

That was the existence she failed to save.

At the same time, it was also the first destruction of this world...

After all, she relied on the power of the sacred tree to go back to such a long time ago and open the time and space barrier.

Without the help of the sacred tree, even if she went to that era, she would not be able to save the elf.

If we have to follow the order, then we should naturally start from the elf that appeared first, right?

Of course, this is not the most important reason.

"To a certain extent (Li Zhaozhao), the reason why we chose to use this method of separating time is also partly due to this reason." Tokisaki Kurumi continued talking about Jie.

Space-time singularities are a protection for the "current" world and a barrier to the "past".

Based on her explanation, Xia Zhi roughly understood that what they did with that period of time that was stripped away was more like excision than covering up.

Just like the filmed timeline of the real world, the stripped time also severs the causal connection between the two ends of time and space.

The four-dimensional space-time barrier not only protects the world within the barrier, but also blocks the destruction from the past.

If that history is not rewritten, even if the subsequent space-time singularity is eliminated, the destruction that was once blocked will once again overwrite the "future" that is reconnected to the timeline.

To avoid that situation

"First, we need to go to the original 'end'."

The time elf girl said this.

.......

Chapter 964: First Encounter from the Past

This is the era when the Age of Gods has not yet begun.

The war between the gods of heaven and earth has ended, but the struggle between humans and gods has just begun.

——July 2015, 7 in the Gregorian calendar.

Standing in front of a ruin that seemed to have been left after an earthquake, Xia Zhi looked at the strange world in front of him and the temple of the small shrine.

Was this place three hundred years ago?

"Three hundred and four years ago, to be exact."

The familiar voice of the elf girl echoed in his mind, which reminded Xia Zhi of the similar situation when he was in Aluko's body.

Only this time, he used his own body, Xia Zhi thought.

According to her, she chose to keep in touch with herself in this way in order to save energy.

Similarly, the reason why I came here first is the same.

"I don't have as much power as you gods, so of course I will save as much as possible~"

The girl said so.

"If you need strength, I can lend it to you." Xia Zhi said.

"Oh, thank you so much." There was a hint of smile in Tokisaki Kurumi's voice.

"But I have no plans to become someone else's believer for now."

In fact, you don’t have to become a believer. Xia Zhi is quite generous to his friends...that kind of thing is not valuable anyway.

However, since the girl refused, he did not care. He raised his head and looked back at the world in front of him that had just experienced a disaster.

This is the end of time travel. Before this, there was no concept called the "Sacred Tree", so even Cong Yun could not send him to a time point earlier than this.

According to Tokisaki Kurumi, their destination was even earlier. So this was not their final destination, but just a transit station.

At this time, you need to rely on the power of the time elf.

...Of course, Xia Zhi can also do time jumping, but as Kuang San herself said, why not save some points if you can?

Just as Xia Zhi was thinking this and preparing to say something to the elf girl in his heart, he suddenly heard a sound coming from the ruins of the half-collapsed shrine nearby.

“Crack…Crack…”

It sounded like gravel rubbing against each other, and something was being moved.

It sounds like there's someone else inside?

Xia Zhi tilted his head slightly, and then saw a white and tender little hand pushing away the broken wooden board blocking the exit over the ruins, and stretched out from inside...

……

The girl tightly held a rusty blade in her arms, pushed the collapsed stone slab away, and took a few breaths.

She didn't know why she suddenly came to such a deserted place, but she felt as if there was a voice calling her.

Looking back now, I must have been crazy at that time. I ran into this obviously dilapidated shrine regardless of the danger during such a severe earthquake, just for such a thing.

She looked down at the rusty blade in her arms and pursed her lips slightly.

Fortunately, the earthquake outside has stopped, and we need to leave here as soon as possible before the aftershocks come.

This place is deserted, and if the shrine collapses completely, no one will come to save her.

So... I can only rely on myself.

She panted slightly, and after feeling her body had regained some strength, she continued to walk outside.

it does not matter

She thought so in her heart, gritted her teeth, and moved away a broken pillar blocking the way again.

Anyway, I'm used to this kind of thing.

No one's coming to rescue or anything.

Finally, a ray of light appeared in front of her. She breathed a sigh of relief and came to the front of the light.

"so……"

The girl pushed open the broken wooden board, which she didn't know was a door or a wall, and looked at the hole in front of her leading to the outside. She finally felt a little relaxed.

However, just as she was about to move the last wooden board in front of the cave entrance, a "click" sound suddenly came from above her head.

Her heart tightened and she wanted to step back quickly, but the wooden floor under her feet couldn't hold on and broke.

"ah!"

The girl only had time to let out a scream before she lost her balance and fell to the ground.

……Oops.

She thought to herself, watching the beams above her head fall down.

All the girl could do was close her eyes tightly.

However, the expected pain did not come.

She felt a warm hand tightly grasping her wrist.

Then, a force accompanied by a feeling of weightlessness came and pulled her body out.

The surroundings suddenly became bright. Although it was a little dim because it was night, the bright moonlight in the sky still provided enough light.