A journey into an infinite dimension

"What on earth do you want to do, you guy?"

Following Jia Ye to the central control room of the Babylon Laboratory, Xilin looked at Jia Ye's back with gritted teeth, wishing she could pounce on him and stab him to death.

However, it's not that she hasn't tried before, but each time she was easily defeated by the boy in front of her. In the end, she had consumed a lot of her strength, but the other party was completely unharmed and even didn't care about her attacks.

She clearly wanted to kill him, so why did he act as if nothing had happened? Did he look down on her and think that she could not pose any threat to him at all?

"Check the data of this laboratory."

Responding to Xilin's questions incoherently, Jia Ye operated something on the terminal controller at an astonishing speed that his hands almost turned into afterimages. At the same time, the screen in front of him was flashing all kinds of complicated data at a rapid speed that would make people feel dizzy at just one glance.

"Let me see it too."

Perhaps because she realized that Jiaye had no ill will towards her, or perhaps because she felt that he could easily crush her and therefore did not need to play tricks on her, Xilin squeezed onto the not-so-spacious console, standing on tiptoe to barely see the data on the screen in front of her through the gap between Jiaye's shoulders.

"Do you understand?"

Looking at Xilin speechlessly, Jia Ye gently bent his knees and lowered himself a little so that Xilin could see more clearly.

Although the above data is a bit too cruel for a thirteen-year-old girl, she can't understand it anyway, and even if she can understand it, it is her business. What happens after she understands it has nothing to do with him.

Jia Ye thought indifferently as he calmly turned over the sacrifice and experimental records he was previously reviewing.

【Hee hee hee. 】

Jia Ye pretended that he didn't hear the laughter of the other side.

His action of lowering his height also made Xilin feel a little surprised and annoyed.

Is this guy making fun of his own height?

Just wait for me, I will grow taller too!

Thinking unwillingly in her heart, Xilin looked carefully at the various words and symbols that kept jumping on the screen. Although she couldn't understand them at first, she didn't want to be looked down upon, so she pretended to look at them very seriously, until half a while later.

"I feel dizzy..." (@_@)

Circles began to spin in her pupils, and Xilin started drifting on the spot as if she had drunk fake wine.

Turn left, turn right, spin in place, tailspin————

"If you feel dizzy, don't force yourself to continue watching."

Shaking his head speechlessly, Jia Ye reached out to hold down Xilin's head which was about to hit the console, and then gently pushed her to the ground with his strength.

[Ohhhh, pushing down an underage girl, Jiaye is so bold. 】

[Shut up, you. 】

Ignoring Ge Jiuye's urging with a frown, Jia Ye helped Xilin lie down gently on the ground. He took off his coat, folded it up, and laid it flat under Xilin's head to serve as a pillow, and gave the order helplessly.

"Just lie down on the ground for a while and don't get up too quickly, or I won't care if you faint."

"I want...I want you to care..."

She felt a hazy vision in front of her eyes, with spots of light flashing from time to time. However, although her head felt particularly uncomfortable, Xilin still forced herself to speak to Jiaye firmly.

She didn't want to admit defeat to this guy!

"Yes Yes."

Ignoring Xilin's tone, Jia Ye stood up and returned to the console to continue his operations. However, compared to before, when he had already browsed through all the information in the entire terminal, this time Jia Ye only took one and a half minutes to read through all the information and data stored in the terminal.

Perhaps it was not Jiaye's illusion. He felt that his thinking speed seemed to have greatly improved compared to before. Other neural reactions and other brain-related factors had also improved to a greater or lesser extent.

Jia Ye also had some vague guesses about the cause of this situation.

This situation had only recently occurred, but he had not had any particularly unusual experiences recently, except for the death.

Of course, it could be due to another reason, but Jiaye's intuition told him that it was related to that death.

Moreover, there are actually quite a lot of mysteries surrounding that death, such as how he was resurrected. Another example is that Aziz Dahaka, who clearly had the physique of a dragon, died once under the power of the meteorite, but his body remained intact, and his body was not found when Aziz Dahaka was resurrected, and so on.

"...Hey, I say."

"Ok?"

Xilin's sudden voice interrupted Jiaye's thoughts. He looked back at her in confusion, puzzled by her complicated expression.

"Who are you? What's your purpose here? Why...are you so gentle to me?"

Silin asked in confusion while lying on the ground, silently reaching out and pinching the coat that Jiaye used as a pillow for her.

"I'm a passerby. I came here because I was lost. As for being gentle to you——"

Jiaye tilted his head in a slightly confused manner.

Am I gentle to her?

[Not exactly gentle, but definitely much better than how you treat other people.]

Ge Jiuye's voice, with a hint of teasing, sounded again in Jiaye's consciousness.

[Is it because you've been soft-hearted for a rare moment? Or maybe there's something else going on here, like this girl is just something you're drawn to?]

Are you seriously analyzing or just looking for trouble?

Although Jia Ye felt that it was a good thing to have another self who could help him analyze the things that his subconscious mind had overlooked, why did Ge Jiuye's words sound wrong?

[Of course I'm analyzing this for you seriously. What I just said is the conclusion I came to. Please don't take it as my personal opinion.]

Ge Jiuye smiled lightly, left a few words and then continued to watch the show in seclusion.

There's nothing wrong with being kind every now and then. Just do what you want. It's just a singularity that will be fixed sooner or later.

Kindness...? Meaningless stuff.

Jia Ye remained silent.

When his consciousness returned to reality, Jia Ye continued with what he had just said without noticing anything unusual.

"I think you may have misunderstood the meaning of gentleness. I am just treating you normally. There is no such thing as gentleness or not gentleness."

Tsundere...

After hearing Jia Ye's words, Xilin suddenly understood a new word without any instruction.

"By the way, according to the data, there seems to be the world's third largest Houkai energy reactor right under our feet. Your power should come from there. Do you need to recover?"

Not knowing that Xilin was thinking about something very rude to him, Jia Ye casually opened the map of the entire interior of the laboratory and asked Xilin.

"...You are such a weirdo."

Xilin's expression was a little complicated.

Even she knew that any normal person would feel great fear, disgust, and dread of her after seeing her kill someone in that way. Even if they wouldn't attack her, they would never suggest that she recover her strength.

However, the boy in front of her, who looked only two or three years older than her, did not have any of the above feelings towards her. Instead, he was quite considerate towards her.

This is the first time someone has been so nice to me, besides my mom and Bella?

Obviously... I have already decided to take revenge on humans. No matter how good this guy in front of me is to me, he will not allow me to do so.

We will still have to fight against each other in the future. If that’s the case, why are you being so nice to me now?

"Let me make this clear first. After I regain my strength, the first thing I will do is to kill all those hypocritical and filthy adults. Even if you stand in my way, I will not show mercy!"

She hated her current mood very much, perhaps to prevent herself from wavering, Xilin declared this to Jiaye viciously.

"With your strength, how many years do you think it would take to kill all seven billion humans on Earth?"

Jia Ye looked at Xilin with a strange look, as if he was looking at a naughty kid holding a nuclear bomb launcher and saying he wanted to destroy the world.

Don't be silly. Even if you launch all 1.5 nuclear bombs in the world, it will only clean the earth. You might as well use that time to think about how to detonate the earth's core.

Hearing this, Xilin's face suddenly turned red.

She seems... probably... should... perhaps... really hasn't considered this issue.

Based on the time it took her to kill 322 people before, she could kill about 1288 people a day. It would conservatively take at least 10,000 years to kill all seven billion humans.

This is really a bloody massacre.

After quickly calculating the answer using her brain, which had been enhanced by Honkai energy and whose performance was comparable to that of a computer, Xilin suddenly lost her motivation.

Ten thousand years is just an unattainable number for the short-lived species. Although she possesses extraordinary powers, Xilin is essentially just a little girl who longs for revenge.

Ten thousand years, just thinking about it made her feel a little discouraged.

Chapter 54: Come and sign a contract with me...

"So next time, before you propose a goal, think carefully about the process and means, and don't just think about fighting and killing all the time."

From the change in Xilin's expression, it can be seen that she has figured it out. Jia Ye shook his head slightly.

As expected, children are children, even an Avenger is still a child.

"You could destroy the economies of nations and let them starve to death; start wars and let humanity reduce its own numbers; incite volcanoes everywhere; melt the ice at the North and South Poles; or reverse the Earth's magnetic field—there are so many ways, and they're all so easy. Why choose to kill them one by one?"

"..."

With her cherry lips slightly parted, Xilin looked at Jia Ye in a daze as he explained to her seriously the "correct way to destroy humanity". She was confused for a moment.

No, isn't it you who should say such things? Aren't you also a human being?

Are you a pioneer and traitor sent by aliens to occupy the earth?

"I don't care whether humans are dead or alive. The people who are important to me are in another world anyway."

Reading Xilin's thoughts from her expression, Jiaye said indifferently.

He was completely certain that this was a singularity in a parallel world. Although he didn't know the reason for its appearance, his task was only to correct it. What happened in the process had nothing to do with him.

If Jiaye knew the importance of this singularity to human history, he wouldn't even pay the slightest attention to it.

Although what he really meant was 'This is not my world, so it doesn't matter how it gets messed up', to Xilin, Jiaye's words sounded like he was expressing a self-destructive meaning of 'The people who were important to me are gone, so it doesn't matter what happens to this world'.

Really? Are you the same as me?

At this moment, Xilin actually felt a sense of sympathy for Jiaye.

It felt like a lonely monster finding a lonely fellow; an extraordinary genius meeting a being of the same level; or the only remaining Pinta Island tortoise discovering a non-subspecies member of the opposite sex.

Perhaps, the reason is that Jia Ye is not the adult she knows, so she is subconsciously willing to accept him.

"Hey, do you want to come with me?"

Her cherry lips trembled, and she uttered these words as if possessed by some unknown force. However, it was not until the moment the words came out of her mouth that Xilin finally realized why these words were so ambiguous.

However, at this moment, her words had come to an end, and most of her meaning had been expressed. It was too late for her to stop talking now. She could only look at Jia Ye, who was stunned on the spot because of her words, with her face gradually becoming more and more rosy.

[Oh wow, I've successfully won the favor of a little girl. Should I really say that she is worthy of being my half-face?]

At this moment, Ge Jiuye's voice sounded to Jia Ye just like the relatives and friends who were responsible for making trouble and teasing at a wedding. In short, they were just there to watch the fun and stir up trouble.

【How about you help me analyze why she said that? 】

Selectively ignoring Ge Jiuye's teasing, Jiaye asked back.

"No, you have to think for yourself about this kind of thing. Otherwise, how can you make progress?"

The laughter faded into silence, and in the space of consciousness, the smile on her face gradually disappeared. Ge Jiuye watched the development of the outside world from a third perspective through the water mirror, but her eyes did not fall on Xilin or Jiaye, but looked in a certain direction.

"..."

Her expression was terribly cold and she seemed to say something, but no sound came out.

There was an unknown light flickering in his eyes. Ge Jiuye was silent for a while, then turned his gaze back to Jia Ye.

Naturally, Jia Ye would not be unaware of what was happening in his consciousness. At this moment, he looked at Xilin, whose little face was as red as an apple. Although she turned her head away, she frequently cast what she thought was a subtle look at him. He just thought that she hoped he could help her because of the various methods he proposed, and did not think about anything too complicated.

"I have my own things to do, so I can't help you much."

Shaking his head, Jia Ye spoke slowly in the face of Xilin's disappointed gaze.

"But before I finish my own business, I can still give you some help."

Jiaye's intuition told him that the main stage of this singularity was the Siberian snowfield. Although he did not understand how the history of this world had developed in the year 2000 AD, as long as it was a singularity, some things that would not normally happen would happen, so he just had to wait.

At the same time, he could also take advantage of this time to study the thing that he asked the young man to help him make in the previous singularity, so helping Xilin was really just a matter of convenience.

As for why he still agreed to help her even though he knew that his so-called "helping out" would result in huge sacrifices for the human beings in this world?

Jiaye said there was no big reason, it was just a simple whim and a bad mood.

After all, no one would feel good after seeing those lines of data on the terminal that were created with the sacrifice of countless young lives.