Arknights is too real, right?

Some people say that everyone will die, but it is just a matter of time. In the long river of history, the sun and the moon change, and the flowers bloom and fall, but they are as small as dust.

However, the person who said this sentence also thought out such a profound philosophy with his "small" existence, didn't he?

From this point of view, the fact that life is short is actually not trivial.

Because we all only live in the present.

Xia Feng believes that the soul has memory, and this memory is not limited to things, appearances, and words.

This kind of memory will transcend the limitations of time and space and exist eternally.

"Squeak!"

The door was opened passively, and Xia Feng could no longer remember how many times he had come to Styx's home.

All he knew for sure was that this was the last time.

Styx was still sitting by the window in the room, still holding the silver coin in his hand, but this time, his room had undergone slight changes.

Light came out of the dim room, and for some reason, Styx opened the curtains.

The sky outside was covered with gray clouds, but even so, the light from the windows illuminated the entire room.

Leaning on the chair, Styx followed the window with an expressionless expression and cast his gaze to the sky.

"I have forgotten how long it has been since I saw the sky."

Xia Feng stood quietly at the door without saying a word.

From Styx's face, he saw that this "person" who had lived for an unknown period of time was passing by quickly, just like a vampire who wanted to feel the sunshine before dying.

"Wow!"

Taking a step forward, Xia Feng walked to the window and pulled the thick curtains, and the room fell into darkness again.

"What are you doing? Do you want to die?"

A faint smile hung on Styx's pale face.

"Actually, you are not worried about my life or death. You are just worried that if I die, your last hope will be shattered, right."

Faced with this sentence, Xia Feng chose to acquiesce.

Styx retracted his gaze and looked at the silver coin in his hand with a soft voice.

"As long as you appear in front of me at this point in time, everything is not over yet."

These words were like a shot in the arm, instantly making Xia Feng's eyes glow.

"real?"

The sound of Styx became softer and softer.

"Heir to the black and white twins, do you want to hear a story?"

In the dim room, Styx told an incredible story in a weak voice.

This is a story about persistence and salvation, faith and perseverance. This story is very long, but it has no ending.

Yes, this story is absurd. Until the end of the story, Xia Feng still didn't know whether "persistence" made sense.

However, he got the answer he wanted from this story.

Meaninglessness is exactly the meaning of the protagonist's existence in the story, because everything is still going on.

Styx told him something in disguise in this story.

Only people with "special" genes can inherit ancient stones. However, not everyone can inherit only one. In other words, as long as the necessary conditions are met, a person can inherit the power of two ancient stones at the same time.

For example, [Black and White Twins] and [Fire Demon], [Li Sha] and [Fire Demon], [Black and White Twins] and [Li Sha].

Four ancient stones can be constructed in various combinations, but only one will trigger the ability to subvert the world.

That is the combination of [Black and White Twins] plus [Styx].

[Styx] has the ability to freeze life and death, but this is not all of it. At the same time, the successor of [Styx] also has a fatal weakness, that is, it does not have any conventional self-protection capabilities.

Therefore, Ming Shuang and Ming Xue from before appeared in this house to protect its safety.

The power of the ancient stone is powerful. Regardless of acquired factors, it is powerful enough in itself. While [Styx] has the ability to freeze, it actually has unconventional special abilities to protect its successors, but it is not similar to [Black and White Twins]. ]’s self-healing power.

This special ability is that when the successor dies unexpectedly, there is a chance that the "passive" ability of [Styx] will be triggered. The specific manifestation is that the physical body can go back in time.

To put it bluntly, when the successor dies unexpectedly, [Styx] will have a chance to return the successor who has lost vital signs to a state where he is still alive.

And the length of this time is uncontrollable.

Therefore, because of this special ability, a more special and common-sense "miracle" evolved.

That is, [Black and White Twins] and [Styx] exist in the same body at the same time.

The powerful power of [Black and White Twins] can bring [Styx]'s backtracking ability to its extreme, and by self-destruction, it can even expand the scope to include the entire world.

The time limit for looking back is from the successor's initial existence in this world.

At that time, the sky and the earth, life and death, everything, will all go backwards in an instant, achieving a true reversal of time and space. Even the ancient stone itself cannot resist this retroactive ability.

Including the memory of the heir.

In a dark room.

After Styx said these words, he was so weak that he closed his eyes.

Xia Feng, who stood in front of him and listened to this quietly, seemed to have recalled something.

It turns out that was not a dream.

At the end, Styx used the last bit of strength in his life to say the last words.

"Xia Feng, actually I don't know how to predict the future. Just like you, I have some misty dreams. It's just that I'm better at analyzing and reasoning about the relationship between dreams and reality. Xia Feng, next, this world will Reset, how you rewrite it this time is up to you.”

After saying this, Styx's dry arms hung down from the chair.

"Ding!"

The silver coin fell to the ground.

At the last second before Styx's breath disappeared, Xia Feng placed his palm on his chest.

"Thanks."

A burst of black mist spurted out from Xia Feng's body, surrounding, swallowing, and merging all of Styx.

On the last day of the Terra calendar year 1096, a traveler from another world learned the secret that had always happened to him.

When Xia Feng walked out of Styx's home and stood on the quiet street of Baigui Street, the pupil of his left eye had turned blue.

Styx once said that he would kill everyone, but he misunderstood this sentence at the beginning.

He will indeed kill everyone, but to be precise, he will erase all traces of everyone's existence. All entanglements of love and hate will disappear in an instant, and everything will return to a specific point in time.

This was what he had to do, and because he had to, his heart was surprisingly calm at this moment.

However, this calmness caused uncontrollable waves when he saw the person appearing across the street.

Across the street from Baigui Street, Wei Na was looking at him blankly. That look made Xia Feng, who loved her deeply, extremely heartbroken.

He promised Wei Na that he would marry her when he came back.

But now that he is back, he has not fulfilled this agreement.

"Summer breeze."

Vina obviously already knew what happened in the Agor Sea. Her eyes were red and she stared at the person she loved most with great sadness.

Everyone died, and only her beloved came back alive, but she, who knew Xia Feng's nature best, knew very well how painful it would be for Xia Feng to lose all his companions.

"Xia Feng. Give up. It's over. I'm with you. I'm still with you in this world. Don't think about changing anything anymore. I don't want you either."

"Vina."

The suppressed grief finally reached its limit. Standing across the street, Wei Na yelled uncontrollably.

"Xia Feng, I don't want to lose you!"

Along with Wei Na's desperate cry that echoed through the sky, Xia Feng walked quickly to her and hugged her tightly into his arms.

Lying on Xia Feng's shoulder, Wei Na cried heartbreakingly.

"Xia Feng, let's stop here. Please, so many people have died. Don't try anymore. Please, please, don't worry about this world anymore. Whether it's destruction or collapse, just let it go. Go ahead, I just want to be with you, let’s, let’s get married, oooooooooo.”

Listening to Wei Na's sad words, Xia Feng didn't shed a single tear at this moment.

"Vina, do you still remember the question I asked you before?"

Vina hugged him tightly.

"What, I don't know."

"I once asked you, if time could come back again, would we still meet in Chernobog?"

"I don't remember, I don't remember, why do I have to bring this up now, woo woo woo."

Xia Feng hugged Wei Na tightly, with a sad smile on his face.

"But I remember."

The gray sky shone brightly, and a gap appeared in the clouds that had been gloomy for months.

The golden sunlight shines down from between the clouds, shining on the cold Baigui Street and the two people hugging each other at this moment.

Holding Weina in his arms, Xia Feng's voice revealed an indescribable firmness.

"Vina."

"kindness?"

"do not forget me."

"What?"

"Don't forget me, and I won't forget you, Ursus, Chernobog, I'll be waiting for you in that warehouse."

"what are you saying?"

Hearing Xia Feng's inexplicable words, Wei Na wanted to break away from his arms, but Xia Feng held her tightly.

"Vina, listen to me."

"What are you talking about, Xia Feng, what's wrong with you?"

"Vina, I'm sorry, I failed, I failed to change the world, but it doesn't matter, everything is not over yet, as long as I am alive, I will never give up, no matter it is once, 100 times, 1000 times, 10,000 times, I will save everyone until I succeed."

Wei Na struggled hard in Xia Feng's arms.

"What's wrong with you? What do you mean? Xia Feng, what do you want to do?"

In my ears, Xia Feng's last affectionate voice came.

"Vina, I love you, goodbye."

After saying that, Xia Feng straightened up and pushed Wei Na away in his arms with all his strength.

The next second, the sharp Shenyue knife brought out a cold light and cut across his own throat.

Hot blood spilled into the sky.

At this time, he did not have any source stones around him that were enough to trigger the black power. In other words, the white power could not heal him. This kind of injury was already fatal enough.

If Styx is right, he who has inherited both the Black and White Twins and the Styx will trigger a "reversal of time and space" at the moment of his death.

Then, the world will go back according to the established trajectory, and everything will return to the starting point.

Blood spurted out from her throat, and Wei Na, who was pushed away by him, was completely stunned by the scene in front of her.

Desperate cries resounded across the sky.

"Xia Feng, no!!!"

This was the last sound heard in his ears as he fell backwards.

Then, the scenery in his eyes became distorted, and endless darkness enveloped him.

Gone, everything is gone.

The future is also the past, and the past is eternity. If Styx did not lie to him, death must also be rebirth!

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Xia Feng felt like he was surrounded by darkness. Then, his spirit gradually pulled away and his consciousness became blurred. In a daze, he felt like he was spinning constantly, as if his whole body had lost gravity.

At the same time, a distant voice came from my ears.

"Her ideal is to save everyone. Even if she is not understood, even if she will be reduced to ashes, she will not waver. She is really a naive and silly girl who does not know her own abilities. As a human from another world, I have only one request. Before she Please save her before she turns to ashes to save everyone."

This voice seemed to come from deep within him, echoing in his mind.

who is she?

The darkness disappeared instantly, and then white light filled the space between heaven and earth. Soon, Xia Feng felt his feet stepping on the ground again.

Slowly open your eyes.

At this moment, what appeared in front of him was a completely different scenery.

Under the gray sky, there is a prosperous town. The architectural style on both sides of the streets is very special. The walls are carved with exquisite geometric patterns, and the various pilasters and the semi-arched front door are painted with rich colors.

"Where am I? What happened?"

The memory in my mind returns again, just now

Just now, he was lying on the bed at home, playing Arknights, and then strange words appeared on the screen.

Then, then, what happened, how did it happen, this is time travel?

etc!

No, something seems wrong.

Was he really playing with his mobile phone at home just now?

Trying to recall it in his mind, the answer he got was still yes, but besides that, there seemed to be something else, something very important to him.

However, he couldn't remember anything.

Faced with this unreasonable supernatural phenomenon, Xia Feng froze on the spot and didn't even notice that there was a fruit stand of destiny in front of him.

At this moment, he was barefoot and wearing big pants, standing on a strange street in the cold weather.

"Ah~~ah~it's so cold!"

At this time, a cheerful voice came from behind.

"Buckle~knock~da~yo!"

Someone with squinting eyes told him that this was Chernobog in Ursus.

The owner of the fruit stand told him that the current time was 1093 in the Terran calendar.

Xia Feng stood blankly on the cold and windy street, his face full of disbelief.

"Usas, Chernobog, 1093, this... this is not a dream, I really traveled through time! Damn, Arknights is too real!"

The ninth volume of this book [Dark Syndicate] is completed.

Next is the final volume, which is also the core main line of the book. The foreshadowing chapter has ended, and we can finally start writing the main text.