Burn:1

June 30, 1908.

Earth_Russian Empire_Siberian Forest

"Can you really stop it? Today's experiment is very dangerous. ”

The tall trees are covered in a warm layer of sunlight. It was a wonderful morning. But what caught the boy's eyes was a hellish scene.

In that hell, hot vapours float from the surface, distorting the visible vision to the point of being unrecognizable. The boy vaguely saw another self standing opposite, but it was distorted and blurred by the heat. The surrounding dead branches centered on him and fell outward in a radial pattern. The opposite self looked at the scorched branches under his feet, his eyes blank.

"I've handled your experiments so many times, and I've never missed a beat. The man outside the illusion replied to himself, his voice soft and calm.

The magician closed his eyes and shook his head, escaping from the illusion. The hell around it has been restored to a green forest full of business.

"So I'll get started?"

"Well, let's get started. ”

The so-called [reason] is a process, a process of creation. On the earth, which currently has a population of 1.7 billion, there are only half a hundred people who can freely use [reason]. When the science of ideas was first proposed, many scientists scoffed at the lack of scientific rigor in experimentation, and called it pseudoscience. But since the advent of quantum mechanics, many people associate it with some mysterious religions, superstitions. Begin to grope for ways to get closer to the truth: the mind can change objective matter. But this 'change' is very small, and it takes thousands of people to barely observe that subtle change with the help of technology.

But that's just because they got it wrong.

True creativity also requires combining something else. It can 'magnify' small changes into a series of giant reactions.

[Butterfly Effect].

Through reverse reasoning, we can know which subtle particles should be changed in order to form a chain reaction to achieve the desired goal. The [mind] drives the element, and the [effect] amplifies the element to form a visible change, which is the [reason]. It has a very high demand for will, only absolute belief, and grasping the occasional coincidences to design, deduce, and try to accumulate enough experience over the years. to be able to drive it.

In the eyes of outsiders, what they see is nothing more than 'superpowers'.

……

(??????? — but this time, it seems to be a little different. )

……

His memories of this world began when he climbed up from the sea. Every day is an aimless wandering, using his own reason to create magic effects for entertainment in order to make a living. At present, there is no concept of [reason] on Earth, and 'superpowers' are as sci-fi as aliens to people. People called him the magician, and he gave it his name. In the middle of a performance, she appeared. Like a city manager catching a hawker, he picked up the magician and rushed out of the door...... Then he was given a warm home - in the deep mountains and old forests, inaccessible and isolated from the world.

She just explained that it was for world peace. If someone finds out that this is magic and not magic, a group of strong men will take you and dissect you. The magician is frightened and does not dare to reappear, so he can only pass the time by researching new magic tricks. And she always stood by quietly, both to clean up the aftermath of the failed magic experiment and to make sure that there were no other witnesses to the deserted test site.

- However, this is not the complete truth. What we are going to do today is probably the most dangerous experiment.

"Did you start? Hey—"

The delicate hand shook in front of his eyes, interrupting the magician's memories.

"Ah, sorry, I remembered the past. I started. ”

澾, this girl. She took two steps back and said worriedly, "Aren't you amnesia, where do you have so many memories of the past......

"I'm wondering why it's a bunch of strong men who want to catch me for dissection......"

"That was a long time ago. ”

After finishing the memories, the dew drops on the grass around the magician broke away from the tips of the leaves and continued to float up like hydrogen balloons, eventually disappearing from view. In order to imprison the subjects, they must use the low temperatures at high altitude to condense into ice. At the same time, a special magnetic field should be set around it. And there's more to take into account.

"What time is it?"

"Hmm...... I'll see, it's seven o'clock, three minutes more. ”

"It's been a long time, so let's go a little higher. ”

The test subject is trapped in the ice of the vacuum by the magnetic field, which also ensures that the ice cube is not squeezed by the air pressure, and then the ice prison around the test subject is allowed to evaporate instantly. The 27-meter-diameter ice cube moves in a circular motion at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and the ice reflects a part of the sunlight and blends in with the color of the sky, making it difficult to spot even when an airplane patrols nearby. At most, it is disturbed by magnetic fields.

"Evaporation in an instant...... Sure enough, it is still faster to rub against the atmosphere. ”

The magician raised his hand and reached out to the vast sky. It was as if the hands had been washed in a pool of clear water in winter, and the mist was quietly emanating. The invisible trace elements interact with each other under extremely precise control, causing the 'reason' that supports the ice prison in the air to quickly dissipate, and the experimental subjects inside are ready to move.

The experimental subjects who have been restrained by layers of rationality, like demons in prison, are about to break through the shackles.

But the magician and the saki froze in amazement—

A pair of eyes appeared behind them!

Immediately, both of them were pushed the back, and they stumbled forward. The delicate logic in the sky collapsed in an instant, and the huge wave of air and high temperature rushed downward, only to disappear in an instant with the deafening explosion. His closed eyes clearly perceived the alternation of bright light and darkness. For the two, the world fell silent.

The appearance of a third party was not even noticed by Tsuki.

And the out-of-control experiment instantly destroyed all the terrain in that area.

Burn: 64

June 30, 2028.

Earth_Russia_Siberian Forest

The magician planted himself headlong in the grass. But he heard the sound of falling twice. I got up and looked around, and I saw the woods in the illusion. The blackened branches fell to the ground in a radial pattern, and there was no one in the center, replaced by a few dead thorns like toothpicks, all of which had been removed by the explosion. Standing alone in the wasteland.

"What's going on......"

"What's going on? Apparently I saved you!"

The strange man he had just glanced around spoke up. Turn around to make sure: it's a white-haired young man who doesn't seem to have woken up, wearing an old trench coat. Tired demeanor and voice, but speaking in a pretended relaxed tone.

"You saved us, you say?"

"Yes. The man replied.

The magician immediately rolled up his sleeves and showed his fist: "Do you know what the situation is, just run up and make some fun, I almost killed you!"

The white-haired man replied indifferently: "Do you know the current situation? Your reason has failed, and the plants around it have turned into charcoal." But the three of us were safe. Do you know whose credit it is?"

"All I know is that experiments fail because of you. The magician said to the white-haired man, still with some annoyance in his expression.

But the man in front of him didn't answer, his eyes were distracted, and he didn't move, like a statue. A pained expression appeared on his face, and he squatted down tremblingly with his hands on his head. The magician didn't know whether to continue to ask or care about this sudden situation, so he had to look at the person sitting on the side with a pleading gaze.

She looked serious, cold-eyed, and very well-behaved. It seemed that she didn't know what was going on, and she had been sitting there without saying a word since she woke up.

The magician still chose to go up to check the situation with concern, and as soon as he took a step closer, he felt a moment of trance in his spirit. It was the other party who was releasing [reason]! He immediately became alert, he should have thought of it a long time ago...... It is impossible for a normal person to appear without being aware of it, let alone say something like 'your reason has failed', because ordinary people don't have the concept of [reason] at all!

"It turned out to be an experiment...... Sorry, I just wanted to help. The other party suddenly blamed himself and said in a low voice, "I saw that thing was about to explode, so I jumped out of the grass next to me to help you block it." I didn't expect it to be too much......"

The white-haired man stood up and turned around, the clothes behind him had been blasted out of a large hole, the broken fabric adhered to the blackened edges, and the skin on his back was also scorched red, as if blood would spill out at the slightest touch. He didn't look malicious, and his expression was full of guilt. Seeing this, the magician was embarrassed to say anything more, just scratched his head and sighed. "Forget it. ”

He didn't think the experiment would be successful. Now I have accepted defeat in advance.

"We're halfway there—" muttered the white-haired man. Then he suddenly said to the two of them very seriously, "Then, the previous explosion will soon attract the country's strong men, even if the investigation team has not yet come, the reporters should come." Before I do that, I'll have to ask you to leave, and I'll leave the rest to the two of us. ”

“…… Wait a minute, I haven't kept up with this thinking, who will I ask to leave?" the magician asked, "don't worry about this, is it okay with your injuries, let's deal with it first." ”

The white-haired man waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay, my [Li] can heal the wound, this little injury will heal soon, but you go quickly, the people of the country will be here soon." ”

Zemo, who had been sitting on the side for a long time, finally stood up. Bystander Qing, she was silent for so long, just observing the mysterious person who suddenly appeared in front of her. The free time of an ordinary person's life is only enough to refine one theory, but this man is more than just self-healing. He can evade Ze's perception, understand the danger of the experiment, and most importantly-

Zemo can perceive plant life. But when she woke up, she found that the surrounding plants had been dead for more than a hundred years, and obviously, this could not have been caused by the explosion. "Let's get straight to the point. She said warily.

Unexpectedly, the serious and serious image of the white-haired man disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by depression and anxiety. Like a mathematician who has a headache for his children who can't learn simple arithmetic, he said to the magician: "Ahh ”

The white-haired man reached out and pushed the magician, who staggered back two steps, and the air behind him suddenly rippled and fell into half of his body. Frightened, he tried hard to get out of it, but his body couldn't pull it out in the slightest. Seeing this, Tsuki, who was sitting upright, took a step forward sharply, and reached out to lock the neck of the white-haired man. The magician must have fallen into the white-haired man's 'reason'. Reason operates by the mind, and as soon as it suddenly destroys the releaser's train of thought, that is, interrupts his thinking, the reason will be lifted.

"What are you doing all of a sudden!" the magician was startled, and he only had enough time to finish those movements to scold.

"Why do you know so much!Where did you get your information about us!What is your purpose!" he continued. But he couldn't shout anymore. He watched in horror as Tsushi's hand passed through his neck without any contact. The white-haired man flew up and kicked the magician into the fluctuating air.

The magician disappeared from here.

The white-haired man instantly turned around and stretched out his hand to cover his mouth: "Shut up and listen to me, I don't want to kill him yet, I just sent him to wander somewhere else." ”

He had just been blocked by the white-haired man's body, so he didn't know what was going on. But she quickly deduced the development of events from the white-haired man's movements. Zaki's expression instantly turned cold: anyone who can use reason, once she hurts others, is her enemy.

"Don't be so fierce, it's really just a portal. The white-haired man raised his right hand, but the entire arm gradually disappeared as if it had been swallowed, the break was covered with pitch-black particles, and the disappeared right arm was pinched on his left hand. "Relieved, aren't you?"

"Disgusting. Tsubaki replied. The voice was cold, as if it were coming from the depths of an ice cellar. The hand that the white-haired man used to cover his mouth just now was his right hand, and this right hand was now on his left hand.

"Don't call me a white-haired man, just call me Burn. Our names are all one word. ”

"No one calls you a white-haired man. ”

"Then let's settle the matter before the investigation team arrives. ”

"The investigation team will not come. I know it all, about you. ”

He withdrew his right hand, and a terrifying smile gradually appeared on his face: "Ahhhhhhhhh I still haven't been able to fool you—yes? I can't fool you, after all, all plants can be considered your 'reason', I know very well. Next, announce the remaining half of the mission, which is to make you disappear from this world. ”

Zaki vaguely remembered the whisper he had heard earlier, but it didn't matter.

As soon as the words fell, it was Yu who made the first move. The scorched earth rose from all directions, enveloping the flames in an instant. A ball of earth formed in the center of the huge depression of the ground, and after a moment of silence, there was a muffled sound and it exploded!

"Well, don't try to catch me at this level. He looked at Tsuba, but saw nothing. The sky was dark, and even though it was noon, I couldn't see my fingers. He paused and chuckled, "That's—"

He tilted his head slightly, and a chill passed across his cheeks. A few seconds later, the dull sound of something piercing into the soil echoed through the pitch-black enclosed space. He raised his right hand, and the translucent white flame wrapped around his hand converged into his palm, forming a ball of light. He shone around with a ball of light like a flashlight, shouting, "Hey, where are you—"

Echoes poured into his ears from all directions: "Hey—where are you—hey—where are you—hey—where are you?"

"Sure enough, don't answer, it's pretty smart......" But he also heard some subtle murmur in the echo, it was the sound of running footsteps! This startled him, and he tried to distance himself but was tripped by a plant, which grew rapidly and wrapped his whole body tightly.

"Here. She emerged from the shadows, her hands also wrapped around plants, in the shape of a meter-long giant knife. She held the long plant knife to her neck and said quietly, "It's over." ”

"Wow! Wait a minute, I'm not ready, this plant is as cold and hard as iron, can you take it a little farther away, it's scary!" said Sue hurriedly.

But the face did not change color, and waved the long knife.

She didn't notice that the flashlight-like white light had somehow turned a dull dark blue and was quietly shrinking.

The sky is the same as before, and it has not turned black. Tomorrow hangs in the sky, and the sun gently clings to the scorched earth. Strangely, in the place where the explosion had occurred, a huge hemisphere appeared, made of earth, the height of the dome seemed to touch the puffy clouds—it cracked, the dark blue fire roared outward, and a large amount of earth was blown into the sky by the explosion, and the shattered sunlight illuminated the two small ants on the ground.

"They all said that you should stay away, it's terrible. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he quickly jumped back, and the footprints left in front of him quickly collapsed, and several sharp thorns broke through the ground, and if he had reacted a little slower just now, he would have been pierced by these thorns.

"Hmm, haha! missed!" he happily spun around, reaching out to touch the thorns in front of him to see how it felt.

Balls of plants emerge from the dust and smoke, and staggered branches and vines unravel from top to bottom, revealing the enveloping Tsuki. In the moments leading up to the explosion, the plant giant knife quickly made the right change and became an indestructible shield. And she is now ordering the thorn piercing raid underground.

"Hahaha, that's interesting!" The staggered cyan thorns kept attacking the fire, but for some reason they were all cleverly dodged, "I, I'm truly free now, unrestrained, and can confide in you any secret! You have a headache, you're confused, uncomfortable, and uneasy, aren't you? Just now you were hiding in the shadows and trying to endure it, right? Even if you show it! I know it all! I know everything! I know everything!"

As he watched as he fled in a panic, his movements avoiding the sharp thorns that were close at hand became more and more reluctant, and his mouth became more and more free. But he did run a little far. It was gradually impossible to hear what he was screaming.

"The battle with you is the only time in this boring gray world. The self-indulgent suddenly sighed.

It was indeed said by Tsuba, and Zao was very confused from the beginning. There was always a feeling that something was increasing in her head, and her thinking was not clear, and the reason she used was weakened, but she seemed to be able to see something, and at the moment of using reason, she saw that he easily dodged. She immediately changed her attack, but she was dodged because she was too slow. None of the attacks imaginable seemed to hit him. The imaginary dodge in the brain is intertwined with the dodge seen by the naked eye.

It's like ...... comes to mind. A short future that is foreseen.

"Tell you, I'm the big boss of this world! The whole world will run according to my wishes, even myself! Do you know under what circumstances you can openly reveal any secrets? It's when the other party is about to die! Anyway, you're going to disappear, and it doesn't matter if you know that~"

Is it going to disappear, is it going to disappear when you see those fictional images?The boss of the world...... It doesn't matter if you know something...... Is this the important information in his mouth? No, he unconsciously took this guy's crazy words seriously...... No, is this nonsense true? My head is starting to hurt again...... It seems that he saw something again, will he avoid it this time, will he dodge?

He couldn't dodge! The spikes that pierced the sky engulfed him, blood sliding from the spikes.

This...... It should be dead.,Those brazen words before were not realized after all.,Ze felt a little empty for no reason.。

Really dead? so suddenly? not by her backhand or killer move, but by the fact that he was accidentally stabbed to death while dodging his stabs that he could easily dodge?

"yes, yes. It's so noisy, look, kill me. ”

Thorn walked out of the thorn, thorn was fine, Thorn was fine. Just like when he was trying to stop him from releasing Reason, he pierced through the past.

"I can't help it, I'm too tired to hide while making noise, I'm overdrawn, and I feel like I'm going to go into shock......" Tsui simply lay down on the ground and rested. Several green thorns pierced and withdrew from him, thorny vines tying him to the ground, but only he sank into the ground. Like a magician's portal, he sent away everything that came into contact with him. It is impossible for human beings to reach this level, even the world's top capable people cannot reach this level, this is ...... The most dangerous existence in the world.

This time, he was really helpless, and the fire lying on the ground was unscathed, not even covered with dust. There was only a trace of blood on his face, which was still the damage caused by the sneak attack inside the dirt ball. She still has a headache and can't release a more powerful reason, and even if she does, it may not be effective. She scooped it up, and the dirt around her seemed to be echoed, flowing and wrapping him around him, forming a small mound of dirt, out of sight is clean, she thought to herself.

But why did the sneak attack hit? Did he let his guard down, or did the portal-like reason not last long, or was it ...... Something to do with his sight?

He must have been in a relaxed state at this point, and his sight had been taken away as early as the first two layers of dirt balls. It was pitch black, but it was still ...... No, his first instinct was to light a lamp with a flame? Why? Why......

At this time, Shan suddenly sat up from the mound of dirt: "What are you doing! Can't you take this pile of soil back properly after the attack?

…… Could it be?!

That's why he has to hide...... It's stupid, he's hiding until now, isn't the answer obvious...... There was no air in the sealed mound, he couldn't breathe, he couldn't see anything, if he could use this piercing skill for a long time, then why dodge the attack?

What to do now? Cover him with solid clods of dirt? But he'll get out. Expanding the coverage? The whole forest doesn't know if it's enough. Truth be told, their battles are out of the realm of normal. There is no change that allows an item to behave as it wishes. The will itself is extremely small, and it is only by relying on the right time and place that the slightest change can be achieved that is visible to the naked eye. They used every theory that humans could not do, whether it was a free-growing plant or a sudden change in the land.

But they did, they could have fought like a doomsday science fiction movie, but Zai's mind was disturbed and he couldn't use more powerful abilities. It can be like this purely because she is not a human being, she is a physical soul, a will itself.

Then it's time for the fun to end. Unfortunately, it was my turn to make a move. ”

The scattered clods of dirt suddenly floated into the air and quickly flew to their original location, and the two of them in the huge pit were quickly drowned in dirt and rubble. The ground was leveled, and the mess of vines and thorns on the ground was withdrawn, and it was back to its pre-battle state. can do this, and the other party is not human nine times out of ten.

A giant bud as thick as one broke through the ground and sent Tsuki back to the ground, and Tsuki was already standing in front of her waiting for her. He reached out and grabbed her by the neck, and forced her to her feet.

"Then I'll give you back the last words you said. A blue-white cigarette poured out of Tsumi's hands, "It's over." ”

……

Feeling that although this ending was cool, it was not shocking enough, so he scratched his head with his free hand and continued: "Now you have to listen to it if you don't want to." Well, you see, I was talking during the whole fight, or would you say a couple of words? Isn't that what you say, last words? Yes, leave your last words. ”

"Got you. He replied simply.

The right hand that grabbed her neck must have been physical, and she grabbed her right hand and squeezed it with all her might, freeing herself from the restraints, and the wisp of blue and white smoke disappeared. Then there was a movement that could not be captured by the naked eye, and he only felt that his knees and stomach and the back of his neck were hit three times very hard, and he was under control.

"Uhh

"What time?"

"Hmm, what time is it?" said Tsumi, retracting his look of suffering, and straightened up easily. The restraints that originated from the 澍 seemed to be gone, but the sand was pulled to get up.

"Hahaha! two sentences at once! I earned it~" Shan laughed happily like a child, but it became cold in a blink of an eye, "I said that the whole world will run according to my wishes." I had a lot of fun, but I was going to keep playing for more time than I was allowed. It would ruin my plans. ”

"Only the Overlay has access to the Overlay. This new term sounds strange, doesn't it? Because I made it up myself, I don't need to explain the specific meaning, but to put it bluntly, there are only three people. And in my plan, all three of them must be erased. ”

With a force far superior to Zagi's, he quickly robbed her of her mobility, and then he leisurely put his hand into Saki's head, his fingers bent as if grasping something.

"The plan is ......"

"It doesn't hurt to tell you, the name of the plan is - Eternal Rebeginning. ”

Then, he pulled the blood-stained thing out of Tsuki's brain.

"The brain, to put it bluntly, is a parasite. Hiding in the skull, manipulating a huge flesh machine. I'm sorry I received your last minute message. ”

"Hmm...... I didn't have time to get her to say something like, 'All my attacks are poisonous, and you have less than ten minutes left to live when you're scratched.'" But she doesn't say so much at once, does she? It always feels a little empty......"

He reached out and wiped the blood from his cheek, which had been cut by a sharp spike inside the pitch-black ball of earth. The skin was covered by blood, but there were no scars.