novelsmap Chapter 20 Fei Lian
Chapter 20 Fei Lian
The melodious and gentle sound of chanting poems passed through the treetops and pushed the huge and delicate hands on the clock tower.
A blue crystal is inlaid on the top of the clock face, as if there is fluorescence surging among them.
Su Ling stood beside Xiao Huaiyan, just in time for the shadow to block the sunlight.
Among the neatly lined up crowd, Ou Chuchu was sharing his knowledge with Lian Xiao.
"...I heard that the fragments of the distant star sea picked up by the Freedom Ship during the transition were specially donated to our Imperial College."
"What's so strange about this? There are a lot of debris in the star sea. To put it bluntly, it's space junk." Someone beside him replied.
Su Ling looked up at the blue crystal.There was an unknown tremor in the depths of my mind, but it turned into nothing the moment I touched the contract.
This kind of subtle grasping and chewing is very uncomfortable.
As if he should know something.
Xiao Huaiyan glanced at him lightly.
On the platform at the waist of the bell tower, the gray-haired principal was speaking.
"...everything in the universe was born in the dust, and sooner or later it will return to the dust, and it will soon return to the dust."
The black crowd below repeated it.
Su Ling looked at the pointer turning again, and fell into a daze.
"...What is time? If there is no time, will everything stand still?" Rachel Yang clasped her hands and said in class.
"Not necessarily." Su Ling replied.
Rachel Yang smiled slightly: "That's right. It is written in ancient records that the arrangement of events is not necessarily in chronological order, cannot be measured by a huge clock, and does not even form a four-dimensional geometry. It is a A network of quanta, infinite and disordered." (Note 1)
When the bell for the end of the history class rang, Xiao Huaiyan, who had already changed into his fighting uniform in the fighting class two wide roads away, heard the discussion inside before he approached the holographic simulation cabin.
Before he got close to the holographic fighting cabin, he heard a few people talking.
"Yesterday's game was really exciting—hey, but if I say it, it's a bit unfair for Su Ling to play."
"Isn't that right? Why should he compete with us? At best, he's just a bed companion, so he must have good skills."
"Keep your voice down, that's the one who's with you."
"Then what's the matter, maybe it's a spies planted here... Who knows what those dead bugs look like." A senior boy with yellow hair, stretched his hands and jumped off the platform.
At this moment, with a bang, the door was kicked open.
Xiao Huaiyan put his hands in his pockets, the headband raised the broken hair on his forehead, his eyes were sharp and indifferent.
The few people who spoke just now looked at each other in blank dismay.One of the brave ones immediately put on a smiling face, and greeted him flatteringly: "Young Master Xiao, are you here?"
"Just said, who is the spy?" Xiao Huaiyan asked.
"Me, them... this is nonsense, no one, no one."
Xiao Huaiyan easily jumped onto the fighting ring and waved at them.
"come over."
No one dared to move.
He was a little impatient: "don't make me say it a second time."
The yellow-haired man was obviously a little scared, but he was pushed up anyway.After all, he has the best physique among this group of people.
Just kidding, who wants to fight Xiao Huaiyan because he thinks he doesn't live long enough.The classmates who took this class with Xiao Huaiyan before changed again and again, and finally transferred Xiao Huaiyan to the senior class.
"Are you ready?" Xiao Huaiyan stood in front of Huang Mao, tightening his gloves with a half-smile.
"Okay, okay."
As soon as the words fell, the wind of the fist came from bottom to top, and then there was a "bang", the yellow hair fell on the platform in all directions, like a bastard.
"Get up." Xiao Huaiyan remained expressionless.
Huang Mao reluctantly supported the cold ground, finally got up, and punched again without warning.
Xiao Huaiyan seemed impatient to wait, and said coldly, "Next."
With a "ding", the holographic screen in the center of the venue lit up.
[Second round, knockout round]
[Suling: 6/6 have been killed, 4/4 in the ring battle]
【Suling: current ranking, 001】
On the scrolling interface, [Timeout] appeared behind the "Xiao Huaiyan" that was originally listed in the front, and was immediately overtaken by a series of names.
Su Ling had just come out of a holographic scene of a burning factory, and his wet hair was brushed behind his ears.
He took off the nano-device, ignored the microphone handed by Frank amidst the screams like a tsunami, and left.
"Cool~" Frank smiled and lit a firework bomb for him.
Look at that charming skill, quiet demeanor, hmm... It's really a waste for Xiao Huaiyan.
The soft sunset fell in front of the door of No. 12 in District N, and Su Ling sat on the steps in a daze.
Not far away, the orange cat planed the small bowl of food and ate to its heart's content.In the end, it walked over and rubbed Su Ling's leg as a way of repaying the other party's tribute.
The cold fingers on its head slid slowly down its neck, then its legs.It got along fairly well with that mechanical leg, and its reaction became more and more sensitive.
When Xiao Huaiyan came back, what he saw was a large one and a small one sleeping at the door.
The purr of the orange cat can be heard clearly ten meters away.
Su Ling woke up when he opened the door.
And Xi Zidu and Lian Xiao happened to come over with a pile of various gift boxes.There are pink bows, bear dolls, food, and even handwritten love letters.
"Boss, these are gifts for Su Ling. His performance today is really wonderful!! It's a pity that you didn't go, Su Ling is simply invincible!"
Seeing Xiao Huaiyan raised his head slightly with a bad expression on his face, the two put down their things knowingly and slipped away.
"You still know to come back." Xiao Huaiyan stood in the shadows with an unclear expression.
Behind Su Ling, the color of the setting sun gradually faded and dimmed.
Xiao Huaiyan walked into the house and threw the coat on the sofa.Then he turned his head, slowly raised his chin, and looked at Su Ling: "What do you really want?"
Su Ling remained silent.
He knew what Xiao Huaiyan was talking about.But the choices that are thrown are not inherently called choices.Because it makes no sense.
Besides, that night, Xiao Huaiyan ordered clearly: "Don't leave me."
The existence of the contract made him related to Xiao Huaiyan - this is the only person he knows so far who is related to him.
Xiao Huaiyan's expression was haughty, and he smiled on the surface: "I will find a way to terminate the contract. But before that, you must listen to me."
The cold voice fell down: "Stop participating in the holographic simulation competition."
This kind of indirect instruction is different from direct instruction, and to some extent, it cannot produce corresponding effects.
Su Ling said, "Don't you like the holographic simulation competition?"
"...It's not this question." If Su Ling didn't know how to lie, Xiao Huaiyan even felt that he was playing stupid.
Su Ling blinked.His eyelashes are long and dense, making him appear innocent.
"Forget it, you don't understand." A self-defeating muffled voice.
Xiao Huaiyan snorted coldly: "Don't stay at Imperial Academy. You pack up your things and go back to live in Syracuse first."
Su Ling thought for a while and asked, "Is it because of the chief?"
The person who was about to step up the steps stopped, and the tails of his long and narrow eyes lowered.
"……what do you know?"
The last ray of afterglow flowed from the crack of the door to the foot of Su Ling.Let the outline of the whole person be softened.
"After hearing about the chief and his wife, you were very nervous," Su Ling described succinctly, "You came to Imperial College because of this. It is because you want to control the development of the situation."
His voice was ethereal and ethereal, but his tone seemed to state some obvious fact.
"Have you said enough?" Xiao Huaiyan finally couldn't hold back, and was furious, "Don't think that you know me very well. You are not a human being, what do you know. At least people will correct their mistakes and make amends, what about you?"
Su Ling stood where he was, pursing his thin lips tightly.
Xiao Huaiyan calmed down for a moment, tried his best to suppress his tone, and turned his back to Su Ling: "If you insist on going to the holographic simulation competition, then pack your things and get out of my sight before dawn."
After he slammed the door, Su Ling stood there for a while, then returned to his room quietly.
If judged by human standards, Xiao Huaiyan is definitely not a good-tempered person, he is unpredictable, arrogant and irritable.But for Suling, this is not something unacceptable.
...It turns out that the truth can make humans angry.It even makes people expose their weaknesses.
But it's also very real, imbued with a raw vitality.
Like plants and trees growing towards the sun, hunters wait for the rabbit, the tide rises and falls, the sun changes and the stars move.
Filled with countless possibilities.
Su Ling stood by the window.The bell tower in the distance was facing his line of sight.
The hands are turning slowly, tick, tick.
The blue crystals glowed with a layer of fluorescence under the moonlight.
He could still see it at a glance.
I don't know how long I stood there.
Su Ling waited until the moment when the hour hand pointed to zero.
...is it time to leave?But where can he go.
The sound of the bell ringing unselfishly prolongs the sound in the silent night, wandering alone in the empty world.
At this time, his door was pushed open.
Su Ling turned around subconsciously, frowning slightly when he looked at the person coming.
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Note 1: Carlo Rovelli's "The Order of Time"