Talulah, I'm still a child.

The next moment, the Doctor finally realized something was wrong. If Mei Xue already knew that Number Ten was residing in Cecilia's body, how could he have been completely unprepared? Why hadn't she thought of this before?

"you!"

"Yes, I slightly disrupted the timeline. Although I didn't know who was behind it at the time, I already had a plan. It happened during the time when I restored the Nine-Tails and my sister went berserk."

"She took advantage of the chaos caused by her rampage to deceive all of us?"

The doctor couldn't help but clench her fist. No wonder, no wonder she didn't notice. At that time, Su Xue'er's sudden awakening exposed Terra's starry sky, making Mei Xue's intervention a matter of course. The range and magnitude of the spacetime fluctuations were too great for the equipment to detect.

"Damn it! Mei Xue, you've gone astray!"

"That's something I learned from a PhD student~"

The little fox stuck out its tongue at the professor and made a face, but soon revealed a mischievous smile. Looking at this smile, the professor realized that things were not as simple as she had thought.

At the top of the Shards in Londinium, Cecilia looked at the four rising pillars of aurora. Her expression changed from ferocious to panic. As a part of Mei Xue, Number Ten could naturally sense what those pillars of light meant.

“Those, all of them are…”

"Hmm, you probably didn't notice, did you? The Sun-Seeking Peak of the Great Yan, Rhodes Island currently anchored in Victoria, and the ancient clock tower of Laterano—what a pity, isn't it?"

Mei Xue was still smiling in front of him, even though Number Ten's consciousness was forcibly taking over his body through the wound.

"So that's how it is. The Lateran Bell Tower is the sixth, Sunseeker Peak is the fifth, Rhodes Island is the eighth... Aside from the original body damaged in the sea, you destroyed Ursus's fourth?"

"Because Article 4 is needed to fill those gaps in space."

Each time a wish is fulfilled, a tail is severed, which is a death for Mei Xue. However, death always leaves behind corpses, and those corpses are not without power. On the contrary, each of Mei Xue's corpses represents a timeline.

The skeleton the Sirens first encountered in the sea was Mei Xue's original body, with ten tails; the construction of Rhodes Island used his remains, which was the eighth tail; a thousand years ago, when Laterano had nowhere to go, the dying Mei Xue gave them his sixth tail as a clock tower to build their home, which is why he felt familiar and nostalgic about that clock tower when he was in Laterano.

Beneath Xunri Peak in the south of Da Yan lies Mei Xue's fifth tail.

"You lit them?"

"Yes, because the new world needs enough nutrients."

The little fox nodded. Number Ten realized something was wrong and sped up the process, forcibly suppressing Mei Xue's consciousness and separating her from Cecilia's body.

Exhausted and mentally traumatized, Cecilia fainted. Fortunately, Mei Xue caught her and carefully placed her beside her.

Her hair and tail turned a deep black from the tips, and the number of tails behind her increased to ten, signifying that this body was beginning to reverse. In the end, number ten could indeed be said to be the negative aspect of Mei Xue, an even deeper negative aspect than Su Xue'er.

Su Xueer represents the negative aspects of fate, while number ten represents all the severed world lines. Every time Mei Xue fulfills someone else's wish, it means that the world will be shortened in two from that moment on. He can naturally connect the past to the new future he has woven, but... this is equivalent to erasing all other possibilities.

He didn't pay much attention to Cecilia No. 10. If he could, he wouldn't have wanted to use this little girl in the first place. Although he had an irreconcilable conflict with Mei Xue, he also didn't want to hurt others casually.

"Now... it's time to stop all of this!"

Number Ten reached out to erase Cecilia's memory of what had just happened, and then went to extinguish the burning pillars of light. His eyes turned dark gold, but when his hand was about to touch Cecilia, he instinctively took several steps back.

With a "ding," the blazing demonic sword Levadin sank into the thick stone. Surtr landed lightly on the ground, picked up Cecilia with one hand, and raised the sword with the other, aiming at the person in front of him who looked exactly like Mei Xue except for her hair color.

"Give me back my brother!"

“…Sister Surtr.”

"Shut up, who gave you permission to call me that?"

Flames rushed past Surtr's feet at an unavoidable speed, but Number Ten had no intention of dodging, nor was it necessary; physical damage could not affect Fate.

However, the next moment, when the flames rushed towards him, he felt an unusual heat wave.

"Life……"

The flames engulfed what Number Ten was about to say, and then disappeared quickly as if something had suppressed it.

Number Ten's disheveled state was revealed. He looked at himself in disbelief; his hair and tail were singed, and his clothes were torn in many places, which was not how it should have been.

"How could this be?"

It wasn't until he had fully mastered the body that Number Ten realized something was wrong. The power was indeed there, but it was far too little, almost at the level of the Three-Tails, in other words, it was in a period of weakness.

"What an idiot! Since Mei Xue already knows that Cecilia is being held by you, how could she not be prepared?"

Surtr's feet began to turn crimson, the hard rocks could not withstand the high temperature and began to melt, the lava flowed downwards, and a large hand reached out from it, carefully holding Cecilia in its hands, the little angel not even much longer than that finger.

"Want to know why this body is so weak? Heh, do you want to guess where the remains of the seventh tail, besides the four and ten which have already turned to dust, are?"

"..."

For a fleeting moment, when Number Ten realized what was happening, even he, with his good upbringing, felt an urge to swear.

At least ten thousand years have passed since the seventh tail was broken off, and it exists only as a skeleton. How could it possibly still have much power?

In other words, it's unclear when this body was created by Mei Xue using the bones of the past. So where is Mei Xue's true self located...? Qingqiu?

"Could it be... Number Nine?!"

Number 10 looked up at the bright moon and realized that the moonlight tonight was so bright it was almost unbelievable, as if it weren't even the moon.

Chapter 132 The Doctor Who Was Scammed

"Really... indeed, as long as you live long enough, even a stone can become a spirit, let alone a fox spirit, which is known for its cunning."

Miss Doctor couldn't help but cover her face. Mei Xue's innocence came from his personality. Every time his wish was granted, the little fox would lose his memory, so he always had an extraordinary curiosity about the world. In addition, with the deliberate care and cultivation of Miss Doctor, Precys, and Su Xue'er, as well as his habit of not liking to use his brain, he usually appeared to be quite naturally cute.

But now that Mei Xue has regained her memories, how could she still be that silly and adorable fox? She's clearly a cunning and manipulative fox spirit. Moreover, Mei Xue's own abilities are extremely abnormal. She can observe all the lines of fate, pick out the one she wants, and then choose it. Until the future she chooses arrives, there are no other possibilities.

This is going too far. The Doctor was in a hurry to have Number Ten take action because he was worried that Mei Xue would completely master how to use his power. Now it seems that this little fox has many more tricks up his sleeve. He even kept the other Doctor, whom he trusted the most, in the dark.

"You are neither Xue Mei No. 9 nor an avatar. I never expected... but I didn't notice during this time that you would use an avatar to replace your original body. When did this start?"

All the equipment was functioning normally, and any unusual spacetime fluctuations would alert Miss Doctor. However, she did not discover when Mei Xue had started to carry out this "switching the cat for the fox" act.

"It started from... probably the day I brought Theresa's other half back."

The little fox wasn't surprised that her identity was revealed. She would have been surprised if the professor hadn't guessed it. The little fox readily admitted it.

Indeed, the person standing here is not Mei Xue's ninth clone, but his real self.

"After receiving Ahmoni that night and discovering the mysterious disappearance of the garrison in Little Hill County, I became certain of my guess."

The little fox nodded, and the golden bell around its neck emitted a clear and melodious sound that made one feel relaxed and comfortable.

"I see. We didn't have time to clean it up back then. You and Ahmoni arrived too quickly."

It was an accident, Miss Doctor couldn't help but think. That day, Number Ten did not control Cecilia's body, but the little angel was uneasy because she couldn't see Mei Xue. She rarely mustered up the courage to go out of the house, and then bumped into the Hillshire garrison and Colonel Hamilton, who were preparing to wipe out the party.

Because the colonel was in a bad mood at the time, and several of his subordinates had died inexplicably, he pushed Cecilia to the side of the road in a bad mood, soiling the dress that Mei Xue had given her. This also angered Number Ten, who was inside Cecilia's body. Number Ten and Mei Xue were exactly the same in terms of protecting their own.

"...So you didn't have a bell around your neck back then, because that thing, like you, was unique."

Just like the name Mei Xue and the person himself, once this bell was given to him and recognized as part of himself, it became one of Mei Xue's iconic features and became unique.

"Damn it, damn it!"

"Speaking of which, Doctor, this place shouldn't be just for you."

“It was indeed wrong, but after learning that you had regained your Nine-Tails, those guys didn’t dare to stay here any longer and ran away faster than the Kyrielords.”

Mei Xue was referring to the group of self-proclaimed observers who hid behind the star curtain to observe various civilizations. The doctor used "Ultraman Tiga" as an example. Back then, Mei Xue couldn't interfere with the fact that the previous civilization was destroyed, but now everyone can see that the little fox will come to settle accounts. It would be strange if they didn't run away. The group of people escaped at an incredible speed.

"It's okay, we'll settle the score with them later."

Anyway, there was no rush, and Mei Xue didn't want to cause trouble for the observers so soon. The little fox needed to take care of her own affairs first.

"Doctor, you and Number Ten are connected, aren't you?"

"Yes...we were both eliminated, but we got along very well."

"Now you must be wondering why I burned my own past remains."

The little fox's eyes were golden, but not dazzling. However, he was right. Miss Doctor was indeed very curious. Mei Xue's four ignited skeletons were either recently dead or attached to or buried somewhere, unlike the body that Number Ten was currently occupying. Not to mention the time, most of the energy inside had long been drawn away by the Nine-Colored Deer to maintain the nutrients of Qingqiu.

What is the new world?

"The New World is indeed the New World; as the name suggests, it's a completely new world!"

As he spoke, the little fox drew a circle in front of him with his hands, looking very happy.

"Unlike before, it doesn't cut off the possibilities of other worlds, but rather it's a wonderful world that starts from scratch!"

"...Do you know how much you'll have to pay for that?"

"I know, I'll die."

Even when death was mentioned, Mei Xue still had a smile on her face. A completely new world meant that Mei Xue had to start from scratch to write all the possibilities of that world, which was an absolutely enormous project.

"A new world, it sounds wonderful, but who can be sure that this world will satisfy everyone..."

As she spoke, the doctor's tone clearly carried a hint of gritted teeth. She had the right to say this. Her first wish was that Mei Xue would no longer be lonely, but it ultimately led to the tragedy of the siblings. Her second wish was that wisdom would give birth to civilization, but now many civilizations in this universe are imprisoned in cages, just like Terra.

“I listened; I heard the wishes of every single person in this world.”

As Mei Xue finished speaking, several people appeared behind him. These were his eight clones, ranging from the most cheerful and sunny number one who even greeted the doctor, to number eight who was disdainful and even somewhat disgusted by the doctor. Each of them stood behind him and then turned into butterflies shimmering with a ghostly light, flying back into Mei Xue's tail.

After the last butterfly circled around Mei Xue, gave him a light kiss on the cheek, and returned to its original position, Mei Xue's tail suddenly became full of life, swaying back and forth.

Previously, it was because his tail lacked such spirituality that Miss Doctor mistakenly thought that the little fox in front of her was just a clone, not Mei Xue's true form. In fact, she was deceived by Mei Xue's appearance and fell into a mental trap, forgetting that the current Mei Xue is not a complete nine-tailed fox, but only stronger than when she had eight tails. In other words, there can only be a maximum of eight clones.

"...It feels like watching Naruto."

"When the doctor time-traveled, the program should have already finished playing, right?"

"Yeah, the aftermath is awful. I can't bear to watch it. Tsk... You tricked me, and there's still no reaction after all this time. Your subordinates must be the ones keeping things busy with Su Xue'er's side, right?"

"Yes, Amaya and the others are working very hard."

Mei Xue did not deny this. Normally, Su Xue'er would have gone berserk long ago after such a big commotion. However, this time the Siren girls were prepared. The mental network they constructed could ensure that Su Xue'er could not perceive the situation outside. With some of his things along with them, the plan naturally proceeded smoothly.

The doctor tapped the screen a few times, bringing back the images of the deep sea of ​​Terra that had been thrown into the device to suppress Su Xue'er.

A semi-transparent glass dome, over a thousand meters long, covered a cloud of black mist. Two hundred sirens surrounded the dome, and a red oil-paper umbrella floated at the very top.

"Symptoms... No wonder, even if she went berserk, she couldn't break through."

Ultimately, the imprisoned Su Xue'er was merely a crazed body; her reason had long since vanished, mostly dissipating into calamities drifting through the universe. Such a lockdown was simply too forceful.

"My companion was that umbrella, my sister's companion was that folding fan... my first companion was that die."

That ten-sided die held a very special significance for Mei Xue. It could not only observe the development of different world lines, but also make the best choice, making it the best tool to bring together fate.

Su Xue'er's folding fan is the most lethal, Mei Xue's umbrella has the strongest protective power, and that die is a specially modified auxiliary item that can amplify the power of the two of them.

"That's right, but for Mei Xue back then, there was no need to use it at all."