"Already, very close to the answer."

Leon looked left and right, stepping on the handwriting all over the floor, strolling through the laboratory, standing between the two operating tables, turning around and looking at Alice standing at the door, "How many cycles is this?" ”

"Five thousand five hundred and thirty-two,"

Alice, who looked like a doll, pressed her hands in front of her long black dress and replied softly, "Father, this is our 5,532nd conversation. ”

“...”

Leon said, "Can you keep all your memories?" ”

Alice nodded calmly, "I'm a doll made by my father,

No hunger, no thirst,

As long as there is energy and maintenance tools, it can always exist.

Although I have the ability to learn, I am not like a real human being.

Able to break through oneself and create at will.

The only one who can help my father,

Probably using a memory storage device to store all the circulating data. ”

“... Thank you for your hard work. ”

"It's fine."

Alice shook her head and said, "Protecting this family is the meaning of my existence."

So, Father, are you going to start experimenting? ”

"No, not anymore."

Leon let go of his palm and let all the letters fall to the ground.

He strode out of the lab, the transparent lettering in his suspended line of sight clear.

[Three-stage mission objective completed]

[Player restrictions have been lifted]

[Four-Stage Mission Objective: Terminate the Cycle]

Alice leaned sideways and let Leon pass, "What are you going to do?" ”

Li Ang asked rhetorically, "What time is it now?" ”

Alice replied, "March 4, 10:25 p.m." ”

Leon walked out of the stone wall and asked, "Where is Ciri at this time two days before the normal timeline?" ”

"In her bedroom, above room E."

As if realizing something, Alice followed Leon and added, "I slept with her at the time, reassuring her that there were no monsters in the cupboard. ”

Leon used the key to open room E, pushed the door in, and stood below the middle of the ceiling of room E, "How do you open this trapdoor in the ceiling?" ”

Alice hesitated, "Use the key to the E room, close in, and press." ”

"Hmm... If it were a normal 'me', I wouldn't have been able to open this door without losing my memory and using alchemy. ”

Leon shook his head and threw a few plant seeds in his hand.

The seed sinks into the floor tiles, grows when the wind blows, and instantly shapes a step under his feet that leads to the ceiling.

He climbed the stairs and pressed the key against the square metal plate in the middle of the ceiling.

Buzz –

The metal plate shook and retreated to one side,

In the exposed dark space, an oblique metal ladder extends.

Alice looked up at Leon, "What are you going to do?" ”

"End this."

Leon reached out and grabbed the metal ladder and climbed into the darkness.

————

Bang.

The wardrobe door opens from the inside,

The puppet girl who was lying on the bed and reading a fairy tale to her sister in the orange light immediately dropped the book and bounced off the bed.

Obviously he was still wearing pajamas, but there were countless delicate mechanical arms extending from the back of his hands and feet, each of which was equipped with a bladed dagger and a miniature barrel.

"It's me."

Leon, who stepped out of the closet, smiled at the frightened Ciri on the bed, and the vigilant Alice, "Sorry to scare you." ”

He walked over to the bed, and through his gloves, touched the soft hair of Ciri, who was a little timid and cowered under the covers, with only his head exposed.

"Long time no see."

He smiled at Ciri, and countless miniature plant fibers pierced through the glove, carrying a tiny amount of paralyzing toxin, piercing the back of Ciri's neck, replacing her blood and curing her ailment.

"Father..."

Alice put away all the mechanical arms in some confusion and stood on the bed, like an ordinary girl, "How did you come out of the closet and still wear this dress..."

"Because this is the Hailan House, the man's wardrobe. Isn't it normal to hide men? ”

Li Ang said casually, withdrew the plant fiber, raised his hand, and stood up as if nothing had happened, "Okay, in this case, it should be fine." ”

He smiled at his two daughters, turned around and walked into the closet, said "good night", and closed the closet door under the puzzled eyes of his daughters.

Follow the secret passage and slide down the ladder to return to the room.

"Ciri's illness, I've been cured,"

Li Ang said calmly: "Is the button to end the cycle at the end of the corridor?"

Let's go and put an end to this. ”

Alice was silent for a moment, "How do you know..."

"Because the answer is written in your heart."

Leon smiled, turned off the [Secret Digger] effect, walked out of room E, and came to the end of the corridor with Alice.

Behind where Alice was standing, there was a red button hidden under a clear plastic cover.

Leon opened the plastic cover and stood against the wall, looking at Alice, "What will happen to the world after pressing the button?"

There will be one more pair on the surface,

Or will it leave us with empty seats? ”

"I don't know,"

Alice shook her head, "However, no matter what decision you make, Father, I will stand with you. ”

"Is that so..."

Leon nodded, "Then, let's get started." ”

He threw his fist and slammed it down on the button.

————

The door of the warehouse at the back of the suburban villa was slammed open,

A middle-aged man with blond hair in rubber clothes and a smell of burning,

and a girl in a black dress and an eye patch,

Supporting each other, they staggered out of the warehouse.

At this time, it was noon, and the fierce sun shone on the middle-aged man's thin face, making him almost unable to open his eyes, which was already weak.

"Father, please hold on."

His daughter whispered,

But as if he hadn't heard, his feet softened, and he leaned against the wall of the building next to the warehouse.

His eyes were blurred, and his mouth kept muttering, "Time... It's time now..."

"Morgan! Alice! You two! Where the hell did it go?! ”

An angry woman's voice sounded in front,

The alchemist's wife came running briskly and kept complaining, "I haven't been able to find you since last night, do you know how worried Ceri and I are?" I almost called Scotland Yard and asked them to come over and help find someone...."

The moment the woman approached and saw her husband's tragic condition, her eyes widened, her mouth closed, and she squatted down without thinking, reaching out to hold her husband's face, and using alchemy to relieve her husband's chapped lips.

She looked up, her anxious gaze wandering between her husband and her eldest daughter, "You... What's going on? ”

"It's just a little bit of a long way out."

The alchemist named Morgan coughed twice and asked bitterly, "What about Ciri?" ”

"She's upstairs,"

The alchemist's wife paused, "Her illness... It seems to be a lot better, is it something you did? Hey, what are you laughing at? ”

"Nothing..."

Morgan wiped away his tears, looked up at the eaves and the sky, and clenched the palms of his wife and daughter tightly, "It's nothing..."