When I got home saying goodbye to Nagato, after dinner, I went back to my room to read the foreign science fiction book that she had almost shoehorned into me. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Just as I was dizzy in the dense sea of words divided into upper and lower columns, and I couldn't help but flip through the pages and wonder if I could finish the book, an unusually clear illustration appeared. You know, this is pure hard science fiction, I haven't seen any illustrations before, and even the cover is just a simple title with a geometric pattern.

What surprised me even more was that the illustration depicted the emaciated figure of a young girl alone on a wooden bench in the park. There was a street lamp next to her, illuminating the side of her face. Although I only saw half of the face, I was sure that it must have been Nagato. The girl in the painting exudes an inorganic aura around her body, which is impressive. Next to the bench there is a marked clock that points to seven o'clock. Why does Nagato sit on a park bench at seven o'clock in the evening? When I looked closer, I felt that the background behind the street lamp was somewhat familiar - wasn't this the nearby station?

"At seven o'clock in the evening, I will be waiting for you at the park in front of Gwangyowon Station. ”

It's really strange why most of the illustrations of foreign science fiction works are the parks of Gwangyoen Station in modern Japan! What the hell is going on? I thought for a moment that it was some kind of prank, maybe Nagato had torn off a page of the book and inserted it herself. But the back of the painting is still well written with difficult scientific terms and often translated sentences.

Well, let's not go into how the book was printed. Now it's important to think about what the painting represents. Nagato kept asking me to read this book, what exactly was it for?

Soon, an incredible idea popped into my head.

Perhaps, this is a new form of invitation. Nagato meant to let me go to the park at seven o'clock in the evening. However, I took the book a few days ago. So it's seven o'clock in the evening, is it seven o'clock that night, or is it seven o'clock tonight? Could it be that she thinks I'll see this illustration one day, so she's waiting in the park every day? Nagato wants me to read this book tonight, does she think I'm going to find this page of illustration tonight? In that case, why don't you just tell me? And I don't understand why she told me to go to the park at night?

I looked at my watch, and the time was just after 6:45. Gwangyangen Station is the closest station to the school, but it takes 20 minutes to get there by bicycle from my house.

I thought about it for about ten seconds. Then he put the book down, rushed out of the room like a rabbit and went down the stairs, and when he passed the kitchen, he happened to meet his sister who came out biting a popsicle.

"Ah Xu, where are you going?"

"Station. ”

I hurriedly got on my bicycle strapped to the entrance and rushed to my destination.

If Nagato wasn't there, I'd have to laugh a lot.

Looks like I can't laugh.

Carefully following the traffic rules, I didn't arrive at the park in front of the station until 10:70. Because the park is a bit far from the main road, there are usually few people at this time. Amid the noise of trams and cars, I led my bicycle into the park. Under the streetlamps erected at equal intervals, I could faintly see Nagato's slender body sitting on a wooden bench in the park.

She's such a girl with a thin sense of presence. Sitting quietly in the park like her, uninformed people may think that she is a ghost!

Nagato slowly stood up like a puppet manipulated by a thin thread.

She was still wearing a uniform.

"I'm glad I'm finally here today, right?"

She tilted her head slightly.

"You don't think you're waiting here every night, are you?"

She shook her head, then nodded again.

"I didn't have evenings in the days you wouldn't come. ”

Is this girl really speaking Japanese, and why can't I understand it at all?

"Anyway...... Is it something you can't say at school?"

Nagato nodded and walked in front of me.

"This way. ”

After dropping these words, she stepped forward. She walked like a ninja, with no footsteps at all. And I had no choice but to walk behind Nagato, which melted into the night. After a few minutes of walking away with her short hair swaying gently in the breeze, we came to a sub-sale apartment very close to the station.

"This is it. ”

I saw Nagato take out the pass and swipe it at the electronic sensor at the entrance, and the glass door opened. I put my bike next to me and followed closely behind the long door that was already heading towards the elevator. When riding the elevator, Nagato was thoughtful but didn't say a word, just staring at the number buttons quietly. The elevator finally led to the seventh floor.

"Excuse me, where are we going?"

It was too late, but I asked anyway. The long door that walked slowly on the promenade opened.

"My home. ”

I came to a screeching halt. Wait a minute! Why does Nagato want me to come to her house? Pause, pause, here we must take advantage of the night breeze to let the bean blossom-like brain of the male high school student settle down. I remember a famous person who said that a man has a beast in his heart, waiting for the right moment to show his claws. Are you going to show it now? Straight to it?

It's seven o'clock in the evening, and I'm walking with a girl in the same grade on the way to her house. Whatever you think, you probably mean that to me. If it had been Asahina who had invited me, I might have pounced by now. If Asakura had invited me, I would have waited for her to pounce on me with open arms by now. If it's a spring day - well, let's skip this one. It's a pity that it's Nagato who is walking in front of me right now. I've been in contact with her a few times, and I can't figure out what she's thinking. plus the aura of cold field that often surrounds her. Yes, I calmed down.

We're just classmates, and now we're just visiting her house, and there's absolutely nothing to ......

"Don't worry, I don't have anyone at home. ”

Wait, what does that mean? The beast inside is already scratching the wall!

Nagato opened room 708 and turned to look directly at me.

"Let's go inside. ”

Really?

I tried to be as calm as I could, and then cautiously walked inside. As soon as I took off my shoes and stepped inside, the door slammed shut. Suddenly, I felt like I had stepped onto a thief ship by mistake, and I hurriedly turned my head with an ominous premonition that swelled up at the sound of the door closing. The beast in my heart fell asleep, and if I looked closely, didn't I already go into hibernation? Threatening female high school students and coercing them to commit crimes. Maybe a few hours later, the ransom phone call will reach my house. Speaking of which, how much should a "Ah Xu" be worth?

If it's less than 5 million yen, please make me cry for a while.

"Inside please. ”

Nagato ignored the subtle changes in my feelings, just said it lightly, and then shook off his shoes. If it's dark inside, I'll take the opportunity to escape. Unfortunately, it backfired, and at the moment the house was brightly lit, illuminating the wide house even more openly. This is about a 3ldk (three-bedroom, two-living room and one-bathroom house) house, right? and in front of the station, I believe the house price must be very expensive.

But why does it feel like no one has lived in the house?

There was nothing but a warm quilt table in the living room that I had just passed. There were no curtains, and the 10 tatami wooden floors were not carpeted, revealing a brown wood grain.

"Sit down!"

Nagato said this before entering the kitchen, and I had to sit cross-legged at the warm table. Just as I wondered why Nagato had invited me to her house while my family was away, she brought the hot coffee to the table like a tea doll, and sat down facing me. Shouldn't tea be poured at this time? Why coffee?

After that, there was an unbearable silence.

She didn't even pour me coffee, she just looked at me with a blank face. Seeing her like this, I became more and more uneasy.

Let me start with something!

"Ah...... Where's your family?"

"Nope. ”

"Well, I know they're not at home...... Are they out there?"

"I was the only one from the beginning. ”

This is the first time I've heard Nagato speak such a long sentence.

"You're not going to live alone, are you?"

"That's right. ”

Wow, a girl in her first year of high school lives alone in such a fancy apartment! There must be some special reason, right? However, I was relieved that I didn't have to meet Nagato's family. Uh, no!

"By the way, what the hell are you looking for me?"

Nagato poured coffee into his cup as if he had suddenly remembered, and pushed it in front of me.

"Drink. ”

I obediently drank my coffee. However, Nagato kept looking at me like a giraffe in the zoo, and I couldn't concentrate on drinking.

Oh no, it's poisonous! Of course it's impossible!

"Is it good?"

For the first time, she spoke to me in questioning sentences.

"Hmmm......"

It's honestly okay. I don't usually like to drink coffee without sugar and milk, but I don't hate it when I drink it from Nagato.

When I finished my hot coffee and put the cup on the table, Nagato immediately filled it for me. Since she's all gone, I'll have to drink it. When I finished drinking, she poured me a third cup, and when the pot was empty, Nagato got up and looked like he was going to refill it. Seeing this, I hurriedly stopped her.

"Don't pour me coffee anymore, can you please tell me why you brought me here?"

When I finished, Nagato immediately stopped moving, and sat back down like a rewind of a videotape, but she still didn't speak.

"What can't be said in school?"

I asked tentatively. Finally, Nagato moved her thin lips.

"It's about Haruhi Suzumiya!"

She straightened her back and sat elegantly upright.

"And me. ”

She paused.

I couldn't understand the way she spoke.

"What does Suzumiya have to say to you?"

At this time, Nagato showed a slightly embarrassed expression. This is the first time I have seen her on such an expression since I knew her. However, the emotional fluctuations on her face were only a few millimeters of difference, and it was absolutely impossible to see without looking closely.

"I can't put it into words, and there may be some mistakes in conveying the message, but please listen first. ”

"Haruhi Suzumiya and I are not ordinary people. ”

Her split is an inexplicable word.

"Well, all in all, from the atmosphere, you can feel that you are not ordinary people. ”

"No, I mean, none of us are scientifically defined as human beings in this world. Neither she nor I think of you as an ordinary human being, please take it purely literally. Nagato stared into my eyes and said, "I can't define the existence of Haruhi Suzumiya, she's beyond my comprehension, and understanding her is my biggest task at the moment." And I should be said to be a kind of 'superman', or a kind of 'superlife'. When the information contained in a living organism reaches an almost absolute perfect closure, an independent system will be formed. Entropy and enthalpy changes within this system will violate the general law and cause a series of special critical phenomena. I call a living being in this state a 'superlife'. Or it's easier to describe it in terms of your culture. 'Superlife', let's say I'm a demigod. Suzumiya Haruhi, an incomprehensible existence, is the root or the truth. ”

“……”

"My existence is constantly spiraling with the fluctuations of the cosmic heat. I was born in another universe, but I was cast into this universe, and in the middle of that time I awakened my consciousness. I wandered through this universe, seeking a way to transcend myself. As the cosmic heat fluctuates, so does my consciousness. In each cosmic boom cycle, a new self is born. I have lived through six cosmic boom cycles, and the person I am talking to you now is my seventh consciousness. In the midst of this cosmic boom cycle, I woke up three years ago. What woke me up was Haruhi Suzumiya, whose fluctuations echoed the ups and downs of the cosmic craze, or she was the initiator of the cosmic craze. I immediately realized that she was the truth in this cosmic boom cycle. ”

“……”

"I want to be elevated from a 'demigod' to a 'true god' and no longer be at the mercy of the cosmic heat. The way to do this is to 'interpret the meaning of truth as a human being'. In other words, I have to understand the existence of Haruhi Suzumiya in order for me to become a true god. So for the past three years, I have been silently observing Haruhi Suzumiya. I've been like this for the past three years since I came back to consciousness. In the past three years, there have been no special uncertainties, and it has been very stable. However, recently, it has been discovered that there are many abnormal factors around Haruhi Suzumiya that cannot be ignored. ”

“……”

"That's you!"

After that, I listened carefully to Nagato's long commentary. According to her understanding, this universe has a so-called "cosmic boom cycle". The so-called cosmic boom cycles and cosmic boom surges seem to be somewhat similar to the "Big Bang" theory. The Big Bang Theory holds that the universe was formed by the expansion of a dense, fiery singularity after a Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. With the Big Bang, there will also be a massive collapse. It's a hypothetical future state of the universe, where today's expansion stops, reverses, and then all space and matter collapses together;

Nagato believed that the universe would explode from a singularity and then shrink into a singularity. Then the singularity explodes again, and then shrinks into a singularity. Such an explosive contraction is called a "cosmic boom cycle." It is said that it is called a cosmic boom because the contraction of the explosion is related to "heat" and "entropy". Things in different cosmic boom cycles are theoretically irrelevant. Because after the singularity, any information and existence is reconstructed. Even think of different cosmic boom cycles as different worlds.

"On a very macroscopic scale, the shape of the universe would be completely contrary to the logic of ordinary people. Nagato explained, "You might think that the universe is hanging low in the dimensions of time and space like a hemp rope full of dead knots. The place where the dead knot is tied is a 'cosmic boom cycle'. But in reality, the whole universe is more like a plate of dumplings. The place of the belly of the dumplings is the universe in an explosive state, and the place where the tip of the dumplings is the singularity. At the same time, all the dumpling bellies are connected, and all the horn tips are just one horn tip - that is, there is only one singularity from the beginning. It's like a dot exploding from all directions, and then shrinking into itself—I can't draw this figure in a low-dimensional space, so I ask you to rely on your imagination to understand it. ”

I don't understand it at all!

"All in all, if you push strictly according to time, you can get through one cosmic boom cycle after another. From singularity to explosive state to starting point to explosive state ......"

It sounds a bit like a dance machine. Walk around the middle upper, middle left, middle bottom, middle right, center, right, right?

"That's right. If you can understand the time dimension, you should be able to understand the space ......dimension," Nagato said, "If you can continue to advance space without changing time, you can still pass through one cosmic boom cycle after another." From singularity to explosive to starting point to explosive ...... This is due to the fact that the temporal and spatial dimensions are perfectly symmetrical. Or, if you move fast enough, you can travel all the way north to another cosmic boom cycle. It's like going around the singularity. It was this method that I escaped the terrible cosmic singularity without being destroyed. However, as a price, after each cosmic boom cycle, I need to replace all the matter in my body with the matter of this cosmic boom cycle, and the replacement process is very difficult, I will lie dormant and then wake up. Moreover, the change of body must affect the structure of the spirit, so every time I come to a cosmic boom cycle, I will generate a new self. ”

Sounds like you're having a hard time.

"I've come to this cosmic craze, dormant for billions of years, and use it to adjust myself. The six consciousnesses generated in the previous world took turns to operate and began the process of material replacement. At the same time, my new consciousness in this world is being constructed. But just three years ago, I was suddenly awakened. The new consciousness - that is, I am only halfway through it. When I woke up, I discovered the existence of Haruhi Suzumiya, whose fluctuations were so conspicuous in the entire universe - she was the singularity. The moment I saw her, I understood. This is my best chance to transcend myself – if I can understand the existence of the singularity, I will be able to free myself from the cosmic boom cycle...... Haruhi Suzumiya may be the universe itself. A single thought of her can destroy hundreds of millions of planets, and when she's in a bad mood, the cycle of cosmic booms accelerates. But the good thing is that most of the time the cosmic boom cycle is stable until you appear. I realize that you are the key to the chain of ascension, and you can help me rise to the rank of true god. ”

“……”

I couldn't answer at all.

"Suzumiya Haruhi is the truth, everything, and the root. I'm just a lost little scholar snooping at the contents of the Gate of Truth. Or like a carp that leaps over the dragon gate, seeking to evolve - that's why I'm here, and that's why you're here. ”

"Wait a minute!" I interjected, my mind in a daze, "I'll just get to the point, I don't understand what you're saying." ”

"Trust me. ”

Nagato looked at me with a serious expression that he had never seen before.

"I don't understand, why did you find me? Even if I believe that you are some kind of 'superlife' who wants to jump through the dragon gate, why did you tell me about it?"

"Because you were picked by Haruhi Suzumiya. Whether she is intentional or unintentional, she can influence her surroundings as a singularity of her own will. There must be some special reason why you were chosen. Although I don't understand it, this reason must exist, but it is beyond my comprehension. ”

"It's not there!"

"Yes. Perhaps for Haruhi Suzumiya, you are an important key figure. Both you and Haruhi Suzumiya have endless possibilities at your disposal. ”

"Are you serious?"

"Of course!"

It's the first time I've looked at Nagato's face so seriously. Nagato, who thought he hadn't liked to talk for a long time, finally opened the conversation, but I didn't expect it to be enough not to speak, and as soon as I opened my mouth, I said something I didn't understand. Although I originally thought she was a weird person, but after listening to what she just said, I realized that her weirdness was far beyond my imagination.

Cosmic Boom Fluctuations?

What an idiot!

"By the way, I think you'd better tell Haruhi these things directly, she'll be happy. To be honest, I'm sorry that I'm not really interested in these topics. ”

"According to simulation calculations, if Haruhi Suzumiya perceives the value and ability of his existence, there will definitely be unpredictable dangers, so at this stage, I will only observe from the sidelines. ”

"Maybe I'll tell Kasuga everything I've heard! I really don't understand, why are you telling me this?"

"Even if you tell her, I'm sure she won't pay attention to it. 60% of the computing power in the simulation is studying your influence on Haruhi Suzumiya. After much verification, I decided to clarify everything to you. ”

It's really possible, it's not a day or two since that woman in Haruhi didn't listen to people.

"There is only so much information that can be conveyed in words. I'm not like the previous Sulfona, who has a lot of experience and experience. Because I was accidentally awakened by Haruhi Suzumiya, my consciousness construction is not complete, and I myself feel that I am a defective product. I really can't fully convey what is in my head to you, and I hope you will understand. ”

Even if you say that, I still ...... Wait a minute......

"I think I heard that ......," I asked hesitantly, "what did I mean by Sulfona before?"

"That's the consciousness I have generated in other cosmic boom cycles. I use the name 'Sulfona' in all of the cosmic boom cycles, and it is the imprint of another universe on my existence. I've lived seven cosmic boom cycles, so there are another six sulfona. I am weak and unwise compared to them, please forgive me. ”

That is to say...... And six sulfona?!"

"Yes, haven't you seen a third one before?"

My God, this can't be Asakura Sina! My impression of Nagato Sina suddenly lowered: How can you say that you are twin sisters? Maybe not twin sisters, but they must be related by blood. In short, Nagato's statement was too rude to Asakura.

I stood up.

I can't do it.

I quit first, the coffee was very good, thank you for your hospitality.

Seeing that I was getting up to leave, Nagato did not stop me.

She just lowered her eyes and looked at the teacup, her expression returning to her usual indifference. Eighty percent of it was my delusion! I thought she looked a little lonely.

When my mother asked me where I was going, I casually answered and went back to my room. Lying on the bed, I began to recall everything Nagato had said.

If I had believed her, wouldn't Nagato Yuki be a life form that surpassed human beings, that is, gods? Although she said that she was a demigod, she had always felt that her power was no worse than that of a god when she traveled through space and time.

That's the incredible thing that Haruhi Suzumiya looks forward to day and night, and pursues with all his might!

I can't imagine that the horizon is far away, and it is close at hand. It's really useless to step on iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.

…… Hahaha! Wow, what an idiot!

Out of the corner of his eye, he found the hardcover novel that had been left in the corner. I took a look at other illustrations by the way. There is a new illustration behind the illustration of Nagato sitting in the park, and Nagato is seen sitting alone at the glass table, and there is a cup of white steaming coffee on the opposite side of her, but there is no one. And although there were people sitting on her side, there was no coffee on it. Nagato had a tome in her hand, and she didn't mean to read it at all. On the wall in the illustration, the clock points to half past nine.

What a strange illustration.

It's a weird illustration.

I muttered to myself over and over again, and I resisted the urge to look at my watch.

Nagato must have had that strange delusion because he was always locked up in his apartment reading novels. Presumably, she must not have spoken to anyone in the classroom, completely shrunk into her shell. She should put the books aside first, relax and make some friends, and enjoy the fun of normal campus life. Her expressionlessness is a fatal wound in getting along with people, and I think her smile should be cute.

After all, he has the same face as Asakura.

I'll take the book with her tomorrow and return it...... Forget it, since you've borrowed them all, let's just read them!