Let the system try to save the world

A showbiz professional raised his hand anxiously, "Excuse me, did you write this script, kid?"

"Not exactly." Xing Fengchen shook his head while holding the microphone. "I don't like the ending of the story of The Little Mermaid. It was Brother Meng who helped me complete most of the details."

"Brother Meng asked me to ask his friends." Xing Fengchen's blue eyes looked towards the last row of the stage, "Do you like this story?

"Like it?" Xitong was stunned. Logically, this should be a good story, but as for his likes and dislikes... he couldn't tell.

Xing Fengchen had already left the stage, and other children took over the stage to perform a chorus that sounded like the theme song of a cartoon.

"Vampire Knight!" a little child shouted excitedly.

"A child died of illness not long ago." Several adults whispered.

“This was his favorite cartoon when he was alive.”

Before Xitong had time to think about the hidden meaning of this reversal of the Little Mermaid story, he stood up abruptly.

Meng Ruyan, who was sitting in the first row, was missing.

Although he focused most of his attention on the stage, given the carefulness of his systematic observation, even if it was the end of the world, he would not watch a living person disappear under his nose and remain indifferent.

"Did you see why Meng Ruyan is missing?" Xitong asked Gu Yugui.

Gu Yugui also shook his head, "No."

The fog was thick, Xitong made a prompt decision, he grabbed Gu Yugui's hand and said, "Let's leave."

"Where are you going?" Gu Yugui asked.

"Go outside." Xitong replied, "Aren't you in solitary confinement for escaping prison? There must be something outside that they don't want us to know."

And it must have a lot to do with Meng Ruyan's disappearance out of thin air and the spatial turbulence in the Love Orphanage.

Xitong raised his head. The midday sun was shining brightly above their heads. He remembered that it was dark when he first came in. When he arrived beside Meng Ruyan's body, the light of the morning sun shone into the room.

No, no, if the morning sun rises from the east, how could it possibly shine on Meng Ruyan’s body to the west of the dormitory building?

So that was actually... the sunset!

Xitong patted his face to keep himself awake. He knew that Meng Ruyan made up that story to remind him of something.

Xitong lifted Gu Yugui's chin, and sure enough, the wound on his neck that had just been cut by Shen Fuguang had healed.

The pool of blood and sword marks that disappeared in the corridor, the plum candy that Gu Yugui received from Shen Fuguang, and his recovered eyes.

"The time here... is reverse, right?" Xitong grabbed Gu Yugui's shoulders and asked.

"That's right." Gu Yugui nodded, "You have seen it, these are actually two parallel spaces."

"Only 'things' communicate with each other, but living beings do not."

"No wonder..." Xi Tong said in disbelief, "So Meng Ruyan is not resurrected, but time is going backwards."

"If the time flows according to the correct direction, where would he be now?" Xitong said to herself.

No wonder they destroyed the electrical box, but the power was not cut off when Xing Fengchen was performing.

The normal sequence of events should be the performance, the power outage, Meng Ruyan running into the dormitory building and dying.

"Why didn't that person and Meng Ruyan meet at the beginning?" Gu Yugui asked.

"Because he was involved with us, Shen Fuguang was in the confinement room at that time." Xitong replied.

"Where did the glass fragments on the ground come from?" Gu Yugui asked.

"The glass cutter I just made." Xitong replied.

"This is Meng Ruyan's plan. He turned his body into a clue for you. Only the body is a 'thing'." Gu Yugui saw that Xitong completely understood, and he breathed a sigh of relief, "You are smarter than we thought."

"What we are going to do next is..." Gu Yugui said, "a rescue operation from the future to change the past."

"I see." Xitong said, "If I do what you call the right thing, the end of my time will be the beginning of Meng Ruyan's time. By that time, the three of us will leave this space, and his 'death' will naturally not happen."

"That's right." Gu Yugui smiled, "Come on, according to the timeline, we will break out of the prison now, and then 'I' will go to the confinement room."

"Meng Ruyan's fate is already determined. I am an NPC in this orphanage." Gu Yugui said, "You are the only variable in this gamble."

"We both gave you our lives as bargaining chips." Gu Yugui wanted to pat Xitong's shoulder, but in the end he could only pat the back of his hand, "Don't be so reckless."

"Meng Ruyan...he is an excellent tasker." Xitong said in a daze.

He openly mocked fate in this way, and placed his life on the chessboard as if it were a chess piece, risking everything on it.

Meng Ruyan was confident and bold enough to treat himself as a chess piece. Was it because he had calculated that the next clash between the black and white pieces would not hurt his life? Or was it because he trusted Xitong's chess player too much?

These are unknown to Xitong for the time being.

Humph, a few days ago you were still saying nice things to persuade me not to joke with my own life, Xitong thought to himself.

Tasker T233, Meng Ruyan, I will deduct one hundred world bubble points from your performance!

The two came to a low wall. It looked like there had been a fire and the wall was burned black.

Gu Yugui gritted his teeth and patted his shoulder, "Come on, step on my shoulder."

Xitong gestured to Gu Yugui’s height, which was less than his chest. He took two steps and jumped directly onto the top of the wall. “Although I am not a human, I am not completely without humanity.”

"What's outside?" Gu Yugui asked.

"Ah..." Xitong let out a long sigh.

In front of him was a red scale that stretched for who knows how far. Xitong gathered his spiritual energy into his eyes so that he could see very far away.

A giant dragon coiled around the Love Orphanage, and in the distance there was a white mist. This white mist was not the watery mist like Lou Shen's, but was like an empty white canvas.

It is the breath of nothingness. No one is more familiar with this white than Xitong.

The dragon's head is not the traditional horse head with deer antlers, but a human face. It is impossible to tell whether the face is male or female. His eyes are drooping, and his only remaining eye reveals a sense of compassion.

Half of the dragon's face had been swallowed by nothingness, turning into a thin form like white paper. His slightly open lips were exhaling an almost invisible breath, which was proof that he was alive.

Nothingness... can it be resisted by the flesh? Although this dragon should die soon, this fact has once again impacted Xitong's worldview.

The dragon is using its body to protect the Love Orphanage.

"Xitong...Xitong!" Gu Yugui's voice came from far away.

Xitong woke up from his dream. He turned around and jumped off the wall. "What happened?"

"Look at the position of the sun." Gu Yugui pointed to the sky, "It's almost morning... no, it was the night before yesterday. You stood on the wall for more than three hours!"