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Until this moment, the vague premonitions and guesses that Last had in his heart in the past were finally confirmed as reality.

This is a burning border town, with the black and red sky reflecting the bloody earth.

The ruins of Canaan.

And the experience of struggling to survive buried in the ruins in his memory was not an illusion caused by being trapped in Deep Blue Harbor for more than three hundred years...

That was a scene that actually happened.

Rast looked up at the dome of the watchtower, the dark steel sky.

He recalled the scene that had flashed back countless times in his dreams at midnight.

Under the sky that was illuminated black and red by the fire, the woman who found herself still alive in the burning ruins smiled sincerely and hugged herself tightly.

A woman who calls herself "Shore Keeper".

To this day, those distant memories have long since faded with time, and even the woman's face has become blurred...

But Rast still remembers that smile, perhaps the most beautiful smile he has ever seen in his life.

At this moment, the female figure in the memory slowly overlapped with the gray-haired girl named Gray, exactly the same.

"Grey."

He whispered, "So it's you..."

All the memories of the past are finally connected.

Including the heart-wrenching pain and the ideals that have been eroded by three hundred years and still exist even though they are broken.

The entire library fell into a long silence. Even Dean Yin, who was usually the most active and impatient, did not speak.

It just squatted silently on Rast's shoulder, feeling the boy who was like a machine, and for the first time, he showed a look of hesitation and fragility.

……

"I thought that after making a wish, I would be able to see Brother Rast immediately."

After a long time, Gray's voice was heard again along with the burning ruins in the light curtain.

"However, what I saw was the burning ruins of a small town engulfed in flames."

"Actually...I should have discovered it earlier."

Gray's words were also filled with an undisguised hesitation.

"Brother Luster, the knowledge you passed down to me through the 'Library of Fools', everything about it is so advanced...it's like it came from the future."

"So when you disappeared, Brother Last, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find any trace of you... because you don't exist in the Sixth Epoch's timeline, and you don't exist in this era."

"And at this moment, I made a wish to fate to see you again... Under the influence of the great power of fate, this wish was distorted—"

"It means to summon you, Brother Last, along with the entire town you will live in in the future, through time and space, to the Sixth Epoch, which is the past history for you."

Her voice paused for a moment.

"And in that timeline that belongs to you, you have not yet traveled through time and space to meet me, and you have never known the ideals of the shore guardians—"

"Back then, you were just a child living in the small town of Canaan, leading an ordinary but still happy life."

"However, your life, Brother Luster, was destroyed by my own hands—only the burning fire and collapsed ruins remained, tearing the once peaceful daily life into pieces."

"After discovering the truth of everything and what kind of stupid thing I had done... I tried desperately to make amends, but to no avail."

Gray's main perspective was presented on the light screen.

She kept walking among the burning town, the collapsed ruins filled with smoke and hot wind, trying to rescue the trapped residents from the ruins.

However, beneath the collapsed ruins, all that responded to Gray were bloody and mutilated human figures.

"Under the mighty force of fate, the entire town of Canaan suffered the aftermath of 'spacetime annihilation' and 'spacetime collapse'."

"That's traveling from the future back to the past, thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, spanning an entire epoch... Traveling through time and space over such a vast distance, even an angel like me, whose destiny is in the order, would put a considerable strain on my body when traveling back in time."

"And what about those ordinary people in Canaan, who were helpless and lived peaceful lives? The vast majority of them didn't die in the fire, but from the aftereffects of 'time travel'."

"I traveled all over the ruins of Canaan, but in the end, I only found two living survivors."

"The first one is you, Brother Luster, when you were little..."

"Although you were much younger and more immature than the boy I remember, the moment I found you from the rubble of the fire, I knew it was you... No matter what you looked like or what age you were, I would never mistake you."

"Perhaps it's because you, Brother Rust, are the subject of the wish I made... or perhaps it's because you, Brother Rust, will become the heir to the 'Library of Fools' in the future. This fate transcends time and space, and does not distinguish between past and future."

"Anyway, Brother Luster, your body is fine and you haven't suffered any aftereffects from the 'space-time collapse'."

"And the other survivor of Canaan—"

Her voice paused slightly. "It was a little girl named Amys."

"That is, what you, Brother Last, said..."

"Xiao Ai."

……

Hearing the name "Amis" from Gray's mouth, even Dean Yin couldn't help but glance at Last under him.

It had heard the name "Amis", or "Xiao Ai" for short, from Hiltina a long time ago.

That person seemed to be very important to Last. It was precisely because of his reliance on the other person that even though Last had been trapped in the Deep Blue Harbor for more than three hundred years, his mind had never wavered or collapsed, and he had never fallen into the abyss of self-destruction.

But even if it was Hiltina, even if it was Dean Yin, these people who were very close to Last in this world and knew many of his secrets...

My understanding of "Amis" is just hearing her name.

This seems to be the most secret and most important thing in Rast's heart. He has never told anyone the meaning of this name.

And under Dean Yin, the moment he heard the name, Last subconsciously closed his eyes.

The truth about Canaan and the woman in her memory who rescued her from the ruins of the fire is Grey's business... In fact, hints have been given from various clues from the very beginning.

After all, there have only been a handful of people throughout history who have earned the title of "Shore Keeper" and possessed the "Library of Fools," and even fewer of them are women.

Last had already made guesses and inferences about these things in his mind a long time ago.

Hearing Gray's statement just now only proved my own guess, and it was not a groundbreaking cognition.

This time he entered the night world and came to the Mechanical Research Institute in the Watchtower.

What I really want to explore is actually something about Xiao Ai.

It can even be said that the reason why Last chose to join Star University and become a Night Traveler in the first place was to find the truth of this secret.

And at this moment, the truth that he had been searching for was finally within reach.

Rast closed his eyes, feeling the timidity and nervousness that rose up involuntarily in his heart due to the homesickness.

He was a little worried that the answer he heard was not what he expected.

But in the end, Rast opened his eyes again.

At the same time, Gray's voice finally rang out again.

"When I found Amis, barely breathing, in the ruins, I couldn't believe my eyes."

"No one knows how that fragile little girl named Amys managed to endure the severe strain of space-time collapse, something even adults, or even low-level transcendents, would find unbearable."

"However, even so, Amy's physical condition is extremely grim."

For some reason, there was a strange feeling in Gray's voice.

"Even though she relied on some extraordinary perseverance and persistence to avoid immediate death in the disaster... she was ultimately just an ordinary little girl—"

"Caught in the aftermath of the time distortion, she experienced a time travel spanning tens of thousands of years in an instant. How could she not pay a price for such a huge burden?"

"The burden of traveling through time and space, the condition known as 'space-time collapse syndrome', is still taking its toll on Amis."

"Her entire body, every inch of flesh and blood, every cell... was distorted during the process of 'space-time collapse,' her DNA was broken, and she could not heal, let alone repair herself."

"This is a truly terminal illness, far more deadly than cancer... With the technology of the Sixth Epoch, even the most severe cancers have treatments, enough to prolong life for decades—but with Amis's condition, even the best hospitals and doctors in the Federation are powerless."

"Even my 'time reversal' is ineffective. No matter how serious a common illness is, as long as I can reverse it and return the body's condition to the state before the illness, everything will be fine."

"But Amys is different. Her condition is the aftereffect of experiencing 'space-time collapse'. If I were to use replay on her, not only would it not improve her condition, it might even worsen it."

The scene on the light screen changed.

This seemed to be a room somewhat similar to the ICU in Rast's previous life, the highest level intensive care unit in the hospital.

Countless medical instruments are densely placed in the intensive care unit.

In the center of the intensive care unit, a small body lay on a clean white bed, its frail arms plugged with all sorts of infusion needles and life-support equipment.

Last recognized the name of the thin blond girl on the hospital bed—

She is Amys.

Chapter 210: Replace Me, Accompany Him (Two in One)

Bright incandescent light shone in from the ceiling, illuminating the girl's thin white cotton hospital gown, making her slender arms seem transparent.

Last's gaze remained fixed on the petite body for a long time.

"Xiao Ai..."

A hoarse call came out of his throat.

This was the first time since he was trapped in Deep Blue Harbor that Last saw the girl named Amis in the land outside of "Canaan" that was located between the night world and the real world.

On the bed in the intensive care unit, the little girl looked much younger and thinner than in Last's memory.

The petite figure was submerged in the azure medical gel, the white sheet covered her chest, and there was no trace of blood on her thin lips.

Anyone can tell that the girl in the intensive care unit is already terminally ill.

However, even though the body was already in tatters.

Even though it was covered by medical tubes and a ventilator, only half of the face was visible, as pale as paper.

However, the girl's sky-blue eyes were still bright, like the clear stars reflected at the bottom of the lake.

The image of the girl in the small town called Canaan, who always had a bright smile and loved playing the bagpipes and cooking, slowly overlapped with Rast's memory, exactly the same.

"The aftereffects of experiencing 'space-time collapse' have caused Amis's body to become incompatible with the space-time of the entire Sixth Epoch."

"In other words, her body is constantly being rejected by the world."

"At every moment, every organ in Amis' body is decaying and weathering uncontrollably... continuously moving towards death."

"Even the Sixth Epoch's most advanced medical technology can only delay the 'aftereffects of space-time collapse,' the body's progressive decay... but this is ultimately just a temporary solution, not a cure."

"Ever since she came into this world...she has been suffering from a terminal illness, and it is in the advanced stage that can never be cured."

Gray's voice rang out next, carrying with it an indescribable wave of emotion.

"As an outsider who has not experienced it firsthand, I can never imagine what kind of torment and pain it is."

"I can only lie in bed, watching my organs wither away bit by bit, my flesh and blood gradually wither away, my body slowly decaying and aging... but I can't do anything."

"Even the medical team responsible for treating Amys in the hospital couldn't help but feel despair when they witnessed the irreversible terminal illness."

"But even so, as a patient who had personally experienced such pain... Amys always smiled and cooperated with the treatment, and often even encouraged the medical staff who couldn't bear to face her."

"It's hard to imagine what kind of thing is hidden in her heart that could allow a delicate girl who has lived in a small town since childhood and has never experienced pain to persevere through such pain—"

"Now that I think about it, even though she's just a little girl, Amys is...clearly stronger than me."

Along with Gray's words.

Ripples like water waves also appeared in the light curtain.

The scene was still the pure white intensive care unit, but the busy staff around the ward were missing.

This seemed to be Grey's own perspective. She was sitting next to the bed solidified with blue medical gel and talking to the little blonde girl on the bed.

Compared to the most serious period, Amys's complexion on the hospital bed seemed to be slightly better. She was even able to take off the ventilator for a short time and talk to others with clear consciousness.

However, anyone who has had the experience of accompanying a patient in the hospital for a long time knows that such a short-term improvement is just a fleeting flash of light.

No one knows when her condition will take a turn for the worse.

"Sister Gray..."

"It's probably impossible to heal this body of mine, right?"