I weave my destiny in parallel time and space

Hearing this voice, the men in black immediately turned their heads and looked at Nico.

A man who looked to be in his twenties and was wearing different clothes came out from behind the men in black.

Nico knew this man from the neighborhood.

Nico has behaved differently since he was a child because of hallucinations, and was rejected by some peers. There are also some gangsters who like to bully him, and this is one of them.

"Hey, isn't this Nico?" the man joked, "he's grown so big."

"Jerry?" Nico frowned, "Don't you know this is my home!?"

"Don't be so angry." He said, "Have you seen a little girl, about your age?"

"What girl, don't change the subject for me!" Nico suppressed his anger and said, "You made a mess in my studio and broke my airship. What do you mean?"

"Isn't it just a model?" Jerry said disapprovingly, "Look at how anxious you are."

"Who told you this was a model?" Nico said displeased.

"Oh?" Jerry's face showed a hint of amusement, and he looked at the photo hanging on the wall.

It was a black and white photo mounted in a frame. Amidst the huge dense clouds, a huge island was looming, only half of it could be seen, while the other half was hidden in the clouds.

Some buildings can be clearly seen on the island, especially a huge sky tree that stands out.

He reached out and took the picture off the wall.

"Are you, like your uncle, believing that Sky Island exists?"

"Sky Island exists!" Nico said excitedly, "This photo is proof!"

"Pfft hahahaha!" Jack couldn't help but laugh out loud, "You are just like your uncle, you are really the lunatic of the whole family!"

"Who are you calling crazy!?"

Nico finally couldn't suppress the anger in his heart and rushed directly towards Jerry. However, his body was too thin and he was kicked into the corner by Jerry.

He coughed violently several times, feeling a burning pain in his chest, like an old puppet, out of breath.

Jerry seemed to want to go up and beat Nico, but was stopped by one of the men in black.

"Okay, we don't have time to bully kids here with you."

Compared to facing Nico, facing these men in black, Jerry had a different face, becoming very flattering.

"Yes, let's leave here and I'll take you to other places to search."

As he spoke, he threw the photo frame on the ground, and the glass on the photo frame was shattered.

He simply ignored Nico, turned his head and led these people away from here.

After an unknown amount of time, Nico regained his composure, struggled to get up from the ground, touched his painful chest, and closed the door again.

He took out a box of matches from his body and lit the kerosene lamp hanging on one side. With the light, he silently picked up the glass on the ground, carefully took the photo out of the frame and placed it on the table. Press firmly with pliers.

Then he began to clean up the tabletop that had been messed up by the brutal search by the men in black, stacked the scattered drawings in order, and placed the tools on the ground in the tool cabinet.

He has some obsessive-compulsive disorder and everything must be put where it belongs.

So when he packed his things, an hour had passed. The night outside the window had become even hazier. The weather today was not very good. There were no stars and moon in the sky. Looking through the window, the surrounding forest was silent, with strange insects. The roar of the beast echoed in the forest, which was terrifying.

But Nico is very used to it. In the past, when his uncle was still alive, he often came here with his uncle, lying here at night watching the stars and listening to his uncle talk about his past travel experiences.

While his uncle was an engineer, he was also an adventurer and often traveled to many places by airboat. It was through him that Nico learned how colorful the world was.

A gust of wind blowing through the forest gently blew through the leaves, bringing with it countless rustling sounds and slapping the windows of the wooden house.

Nico shuddered slightly and touched his arm.

He picked up the matchbox on the table, walked to the fireplace on one side, opened the lid of the fireplace, and put the wood on one side into the fireplace one by one to make it easier to light.

Then a pile of flammable materials was placed under the logs.

He took out a match from the matchbox, slid it on one side of the matchbox, and the flame caught fire.

He reached into the fireplace with a match. With the light brought by the flame, he saw a frightened face looking at him in the chimney above the fireplace.

Her hands and feet were supporting the furnace wall. There seemed to be a protruding place where she could easily get stuck, but even so, her arms were shaking slightly.

But Nico was not surprised. His keen senses had already detected the rapid breathing.

"Come out." Nico said, "They have gone far away, and they shouldn't be coming in a short time."

The girl climbed down the chimney and out of the fireplace.

Nico also successfully lit the fireplace with the match. The flames burned the wood and made a crackling sound, which dispelled the chill in their hearts.

The girl's skirt, face, and arms were almost covered in soot.

She looked to be about the same age as Nick, and although she looked very embarrassed with a gray face, it still couldn't hide her beauty, which at least looked good to white people.

"You already knew I was here?" the girl said angrily.

Nico's calm expression said so, and letting her stay in there for so long, knowing she was in the chimney, was obviously toying with her.

"Who knows if those people are still around here," Nico said.

He walked to the corner where some pots and pans were placed on one side, took some water from the water tank on one side and poured it into the kettle, and then poured some water from the bag placed on the table on one side. Something like tea leaves was put into the kettle and placed in the fireplace.

Seeing his calmness, which was completely opposite to his irritable look just now, Nauda seemed to have thought of something.

"Did you do it on purpose just now? To eliminate suspicion?"

Nico didn't answer, just asked.

"What's your name?"

"Nauda," the girl said.

"Why are they looking for you?" Nico asked curiously.

But Nauda didn't answer, just remained silent.

Nico shrugged indifferently, "It's up to you if you don't want to say anything."

He took out a piece of black bread from the cupboard above where the kettles and saucepans were placed, cut a few pieces with a knife, and handed a piece to the girl.

"You haven't eaten for a long time, right?"

Nauda hesitated for a while, but still took the black bread from Nico's hand and started to gobble it up, even eating the crumbs. It seemed that she must have suffered a lot along the way.

Nico put the black bread into his mouth in a few bites, then came to the workbench and re-framed the photo.

Although the glass was broken, the whole picture frame was still usable, and he hung the picture frame on the wall again.

Nauda looked at the pattern on the photo frame curiously.

"Is this a painting?"

"No, this is a photo," Nico said, looking at the painting.

Nauda looked at the islands floating in the sky in the clouds with some astonishment, and couldn't believe it.

"photo.?"