[Comprehensive British and American] The predecessors are missing one

I stare at Clark, holding my breath, waiting for what he has to say.

"I've been wondering when you'll show up." Clark continued, looking at the statue on the tombstone. "You're late, Barry."

"Tell me what happened," I said emphatically, "Please. Let me understand."

Clark stared at the tombstone, silent for a moment.

"I don't know either," he said.

This answer cracked me up a bit.I tried very hard to control my maddening emotions.

"How could I not know. You have been here all the time, right?!"

"I am!" Clark replied, his voice raised in a rare way. "I didn't know that you went back and falsified certain things until the day before your wedding. You didn't say it very carefully. You were drunk that day and were saying goodbye. At the bachelor party. I am very happy that Yili can find happiness, and I believe that you will protect her, and it happened the next day."

"It was just an ordinary battle. We were protecting a treasure chest, and the enemy was a group of mechanical aliens. Suddenly, the ego gem disappeared from Yili's chest, and her ability was greatly weakened, and she was stunned. He was hit by a shell and died instantly..."

Clark said he died at the scene.

My gaze unconsciously drifted to the hanging bouquet aside.

Unfinished wedding.Presumably, that's why the out-of-fit bridal bouquet appeared in the cemetery.

"How come..." I muttered, shaking my head violently, "No, I didn't change the past for such a stupid thing. How is it possible? Why is the ego gem on her?"

Clark stared at me, frowning. "The ego gem was on her all along. That kept her cursed and still alive."

My eyes widened immediately.

"She's still cursed?!"

Clark examines me suspiciously. "She was cursed at the succession ceremony. Immediate, fatal. To save her life, Zeus and Gaia had to put the ego gem into Ellie, prolonging her life."

I took a deep breath, touched my forehead, and felt dizzy.

good.Now things make sense.

If I tamper with the past, because of another curse, Yili will have to rely on the self-gem to continue her life; and my behavior of tampering with the past will cause the self-gem in Yili's body to disappear, indirectly causing her...

No.I can't keep thinking about it.I feel like I'm going to have an emotional breakdown.

I paced back and forth by the tombstone, my head in my hands. "What do I do? What do I do...no, I can't let this happen. I have to do something..."

"Are you going to change the past again?" Clark asked.

I looked up suddenly.

"Eli dated you?"

Clark hesitated for two seconds, then nodded, "When I was in college. You also knew about it."

It looks like this part hasn't changed.I continued to ask: "Eli and I both went to Imperial University?"

Clark shook his head, "No, you read Midtown, she read Empire. You two are in a long-distance relationship."

It seems that the problem lies here.I thought to myself, for things to go back to the way I knew it would end, it would have to be exactly the same in this part.

"There's one other thing I think I should let you know," Clark added. "At the party, you told me that you finally made it through this time."

I squint suspiciously. "I told you so?"

Clark nodded. "right."

I said goodbye to Clark and turned to leave the cemetery.

This time, subtle words.

Maybe I need to go to the future again to find out what happened in the middle...

Back to the future, such behavior is highly risky.I get it, but I decided to do it.I may go to a parallel time and space, and I may not know where I am at all, but I have to do it.

I want to keep Eli.

I'm going to keep Eli.

Luckily, I found a Midtown apartment for me and Ellie.The lights on the entire floor were not turned on, the glass windows were dark and covered with dust, and the plants on the window sills were almost withered.

I turned on the light, but couldn't dispel the dead stillness in the air.Warm yellow lights illuminate fine, airborne dust, and all the furniture is covered with plastic covers.

... what's wrong here?

My palms were covered with cold sweat, and my heart was beating wildly.No, not like that.I came at the right time...

Someone opens the door.I turned around abruptly, and amidst the balance of light and shadow, the other party slowly walked into the room.

It's my future self.

Long hair, unshaven beard.Wearing an old jacket, the muddy water on the jeans shows that the pants have not been washed for a long time.

I don't want to believe what I see.

The "future me" gave me a light look.We looked at each other, and the cold silence quickly expanded in the room.

"...Give up." He said, his voice was low, as if there was a heavy stone stuck in his chest, "You can't save her."

"Why?!" I didn't understand, and I didn't believe it, "It shouldn't be like this, when I came last time──"

"When was the last time you came?" The "future me" repeated, like a sneer, "How many times have you been here? I'm afraid you can't even remember."

I narrowed my eyes and frowned, "...what do you mean?"

"We've been doing the same thing." "Future me" said, eyes drifting to the French windows, "changing the past, confirming the future, changing the past, confirming the future... so many times that no time and space can bear. A black hole appeared in Midtown , if we don’t stop, the black hole will swallow everyone──”

"That's why, you don't have the original memory."

"Barry Allen, you and Eli are destined not to be together."

I looked at my "future me" in disbelief.At that moment, an extremely ridiculous emotion rose in my chest.

"No." I shook my head and took a step forward, "I don't accept this kind of thing."

The "future me" just looked at me coldly.silence.

"I want to know the part of me that lost my memory," I continued, almost wanting to rush up and grab my "future self" and shake it, "tell me. Just find that point in time and I'll be able to do things right, or learn To accept this pain or something──」

"In the beginning, we never broke up," the "future me" said, interrupting me.He tilted his head and began to recall, "It didn't matter that she moved. I found her and made her understand that the distance would not change my feelings for her. We fell in love all the way, walked into an auditorium after college. Things were going well until Guy Ya and Poseidon came to her door, and at her succession ceremony, Thanos appeared and snatched the ego gem. Yili sacrificed her life."

I'm doing a quick calculation in my head; well, here's the first version.We have never broken up, the succession ceremony is delayed, there is no curse, and Yili, who is not yet good at magic, has become a victim of the battle for gems.

"In order to save her life, I chose to go back to the past... But no matter how many times I do it again, I can't prevent her death, and instead attract Thanos' attention."

"My future self" can't say anything about the latter.His voice gradually choked.

"She died in front of me. She was no match for Thanos."

Looking at my future self, I can't imagine such a situation, but I can understand such heartache.

Suddenly I realized; the "future me" was still willing to tell me this, which means he still had hope in this whole thing, right?

Things are not really unsolvable.

"I see." I muttered, remembering when Yili just transferred to another school, "No wonder I couldn't find her then..."

"I made a little move," said "future me," turning sideways. "I thought it was best to keep her distance. But I didn't expect so much to come."

I am definitely looking forward to the "future me". "That means we and Ellie are destined not to be separated like that, isn't it?" I said, and my tone became firm. "When is the key point?! Tell me, I will succeed. I can do it."

However, the "future me" just turned its back on it.

"Learn to let her go," he said, with solid sadness in his tone, "cherish the time spent with her every day, and then, learn to let her go. It will be better for everyone."

"That's not the answer I wanted!" I yelled.

"I can't give you the answers you want," he replied, "because I don't know myself."

I watched my future self leave.Depression and despair overwhelmed me.I peeled off the plastic cover and sat down on the sofa.

No.I do not believe.Eli needs me.What will happen to her if I leave her?

Now I'm on my own.

if i go back in time...

No, nothing more can be changed.The tragedy of space-time collapse cannot be repeated.

So what if I just let things go and let Eli go?

Not a good decision, but one I could think of and try.At least I'll have to try it out.

I re-entered the space-time tunnel, found the time point at the banquet, and hesitated whether I should choose this time.

Then, I choose to skip.

Time continues to go back.I saw us applying to different universities, seeing us enter high school; at that time, Ellie really loved Clark, and Iris and I had an affair.I saw Ellie arguing with Clark, I saw myself turn down Iris and make a disappointed Iris choose other boys.

Go back in time.I go back to eighth grade and see Ellie transfer schools and see me take Ellie to prom.

She was so beautiful that day.All the people in the audience, I can only see her.She stood on the dim dance floor, like the only light in the night sky.

If she wears a wedding dress, she will definitely be more beautiful.

Time kept moving forward, until the day before Yili and I met.I stop here.

good.Just start here.

I show up in my room.I was playing video games in the seventh grade, and when I appeared suddenly, he was so frightened that he dropped the joystick in his hand.

"Wow!"

"Don't!" I quickly stopped my seventh-grade self from yelling, "Shh! I'm your future self, don't call Joe up."

In the seventh grade, I still looked shocked, but I have recovered the ability to complain, "It seems that this can explain you suddenly appearing in my room and killing my game characters."

I twitched the corner of my mouth.

"I'm not kidding, you better listen. You're going to meet a girl in a few days, who's kind of weird but really cute. You're going to protect her from breaking her heart for the rest of your life, and you're going to love her."

When I was in seventh grade, my reaction was hilarious when I heard these words.His whole face was crumpled.

"What the hell?!"

"Yes, you heard me right, you will fall in love with her. You will cherish her very much, and you better spend your time with her, don't waste a second, or you will regret it in the future. Because one day, you have to Leave her, and accept your parting with joy."

In the seventh grade, I was at a loss.Me too, actually; I have no idea what I'm talking about or if it's going to work, I just... I can only take a gamble.

"What the hell are you talking about. Do you mean that in a few days, I will meet the love of my life?!" I asked in seventh grade, rolling my eyes, "No, I don't believe this kind of nonsense. "

"Although you look very similar to me, it is almost my concept and what I will be in the future, but, I'm sorry, I think you are talking nonsense."

"Soon you'll know I'm not bluffing you." I looked at him without changing my expression, "Just wait. The only thing you can do is not keep going back in time and trying to change everything, but to be sure that you can be with her." Every time we spend together, we live every day as if it were our last.”

"Here's what you can do. Advice from the future."

The author has something to say: it should be the end of the next chapter.

It's a little touching that I can finally focus on writing about Clark...

No epilogue.have nothing to say.I'm super tired these days, the colleague next door

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