This Time, She Came to Take Him Home.

Elysia sat upright beside the bed, blinking as she stared at the other person's face for a while. Under the orange-red nightlight, the boy's sleeping face was bathed in a soft glow, his long eyelashes, fair skin, rosy lips, and graceful contours all appearing both clear and hazy.

Yes, very cute!

What bad intentions could Pink Fairy Lady possibly have? She simply left a note for Mei because she had never faced Su Qing'an directly for very long and was extremely curious.

The girl had no strange intentions whatsoever. She simply poked the other person's cheek out of boredom, with a gentle and careful touch. After feeling the soft skin, she showed a satisfied expression, her lips slightly upturned, and her smile radiant. She was clearly in a very good mood.

Elysia said:

"Isn't he much easier to bully than Kevin? Why didn't you seize the opportunity to try him out before?"

But then she thought about it again and sighed:

"It doesn't seem so."

"Little Su was so cold and aloof when she grew up; she wasn't nearly as fun as she is now."

Elysia considers herself a good girl. She didn't have any dirty thoughts about stealing Fu Hua's man, or secretly leaving Mei alone in the Golden Courtyard to stage some annual N/T/R drama. The reason she did this was probably just out of some subtle, wicked sense of humor.

In reality, the girl simply took out her phone and snapped a few photos of Su Qing'an sleeping, pinched his cheeks for a while, counted his eyelashes and lip lines, touched the boy's hair, and then smiled and said goodnight. After that, she closed the door and let him rest well.

I didn't do anything really bad during this process.

Raiden Mei then successfully found the Pink Fairy Lady was spacing out somewhere in the Golden Courtyard, and began to settle accounts with her expressionlessly.

Meanwhile, Su Qing'an, who was the main body, was completely unaware of this, and simply sank into the swamp-like chaos as she drowsily rested.

The next day.

The boy opened his eyes, his consciousness half-clear and half-clouded, like a lost soul whose past was obscured.

To be precise, the intact self that retains [thought] is examining itself from a higher-dimensional perspective, but due to the incompleteness of the soul, the inability to readily embed [thought] causes the behavioral logic and mental state to be strangely halved.

Su Qing'an is normal, yet not quite normal.

To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, it's like you have a full sanity bar, but due to the sanity bar's limit, a large amount of it overflows.

In short, he will remain in this extremely strange state until he obtains the other part of his soul.

Now.

The boy rubbed his eyes expressionlessly, threw back the covers, and walked barefoot to the window where a few rays of light were falling, trying to look out, but he could only see a white mist and an illusion.

"Xiao Su, you 'Awakened?"

Su Qing'an turned to look at the source of the sound. There was a girl with long purple hair. Her eyes were a light and gentle purple. Her slender figure was clearly outlined in her home clothes. She was taller than Su Qing'an and had to tilt her head up slightly to meet her gaze.

The boy turned his gaze back to the hazy view outside the window and said softly:

"Um."

Good morning, Mei.

Raiden Mei walked up to him. She hesitated for a moment, unsure of his state, and asked directly:

"How are you feeling?"

"[[Ashes]] said that a part of you is still in the outside world, which may have some impact on your sanity, but he doesn't seem to know the specifics."

Su Qing'an glanced at her and said softly:

"I don't know, or rather, everything about me is like light shrouded in thick fog, and what I can currently show is only a faint glimmer scattered through many mediums."

"Even this current conversation is a forced representation of myself, a suppression of this chaos, which will likely disappear again in a moment."

The young man said calmly:

"I'll have to trouble you then, Mei."

Raiden Mei was able to glean a lot of information from the other person's tone. Based on her understanding of Su Qing'an, he was currently in a very incomplete state, like a doll missing some parts, and his movements were clearly uncoordinated and unnatural.

He's at least much better than before; at least he'll explain things clearly instead of remaining completely silent and confused.

She asked:

Would you mind if I let you see Mobius?

"She has questions she wants to ask you. After she finishes asking, I plan to take you away from here to the outside world to find your body."

"Also, if your current Soul State doesn't return to your body, will something bad happen? If there's a specific time limit, my way of interacting with the outside world will also change accordingly."

Upon hearing this, Su Qing'an thought for a moment.

This Sea of Quanta is a possibility that emerges after being influenced by Personal Record and continuing along the timeline of the civilization in which the individual existed.

So it's only natural that Mobius and the Flame-Chasers here recognize him, but what's rather awkward is that he himself doesn't recognize everyone here.

He himself didn't have much of a lingering fear about meeting Mobius, especially since he was currently in Soul State while the other was a memory entity, so he felt perfectly safe.

However, Su Qing'an's ability to maintain a normal thought process was indeed limited, and he was still somewhat resistant to meeting acquaintances in that state.

Raiden Mei is the kind of person who can take him to the outside world under these circumstances, so he naturally has to show her this side of himself.

First of all, Mei has a gentle and kind personality. With high emotional intelligence, she is also very considerate. This means that even when she presents herself in front of others, she doesn't seem particularly unappealing.

Su Qing'an just needs to act as if nothing happened.

But the others are different.

Putting aside Elysia, who kept taking pictures of herself and pinching her cheeks yesterday, the feeling of having her "idol image" forcibly removed in front of other acquaintances was just strange.

But...

Doctor Mobius was not the type to kick someone when they were down in such a situation.

Rather than that, she was more interested in the rest of the things and information.

Therefore, the boy gave an affirmative answer:

"If you don't mind, I can go see her."

He then turned to answer another, more important question:

"As for time constraints, in a sense I am now a container split in two, and the inner self is like a broken hourglass. The reason I feel drowsy is essentially a protective mechanism of the self, making the contents leak out more slowly."

Su Qing'an used his tattered Manas consciousness to calculate the exact time and said calmly:

"About three months."

"I can still exist normally for the next three months, but every day after that is a countdown to my own collapse."

Raiden Mei estimated the number, but found it difficult to define whether it was sufficient. She asked:

Can you sense the connection to your own body?

Su Qing'an's eyelids drooped, showing some drowsiness; it was the side effect of forcibly regaining his past thinking beginning to appear. He said:

"Yes, I can now vaguely sense my body's location."

He finished speaking.

The weariness on the boy's face faded, and his eyes regained their original innocence and purity. He no longer spoke, but stared blankly at the hazy white mist that he couldn't quite make out.

Seeing this, Raiden Mei stopped asking further questions, roughly understanding that the other party was saving time for normal communication in order to see Mobius, and therefore allowed herself to enter this state.

She glanced at Xiao Su now, a sigh like that of a mother hen, then squatted down, tugged at his sleeve, and asked:

"Xiao Su, can you come inside and watch TV with me?"

Su Qing'an hesitated for a moment, stared at the girl's face, then nodded, and obediently let the other person take her hand and walk outside.

The girl had him sit on the sofa and turned on the virtual projector directly opposite him, starting to play movies and TV shows from the database left there. She breathed a sigh of relief when she realized that he didn't seem to mind.

When Raiden Mei realized that Su Qing'an Awakened, her first thought was to make breakfast. However, she then realized that as Soul State, Su Qing'an and herself, who was in a strange state, did not need to eat, so she gave up on the idea.

She secretly glanced at Xiao Su, who was engrossed in watching cartoons.

Wow, this child has such long eyelashes.

Did Elysia really not do anything strange to him?

Although she wasn't used to taking care of children, Su Qing'an, being cute, pretty, obedient, and quiet, obviously didn't need to deliberately get used to it.

She glanced at the video playing on the virtual screen, thought for a moment, and then took out the earring that Mobius had given her.

It's best to resolve this matter sooner rather than later.

Thus, guided by the [Infinity] imprint and a portion of the memory itself, almost within minutes, the number of people sitting on the sofa watching cartoons increased to four.

Elysia, Su Qing'an, Raiden Mei, Mobius.

Yes, three adults are watching cartoons on a sofa with one mentally immature adult.

The boy's aloof and innocent demeanor, sandwiched between the older women, was particularly eerie. This sense of impending doom, as if he might be ridden on at any moment, was something rarely seen in normal times, making it a rare and delicate scene.

Even someone like Mobius, who had seen countless grand occasions, never expected to witness the bizarre scene of this stern-faced guy's physical age regressing and him intently watching a childish cartoon on the same day he saw Su Qing'an resurrected.

The amount of information in this scenario is simply overwhelming.

At least, Mobius had never seen Su Qing'an's cheeks puff out slightly as he ate fruit candy.

But she saw it today.

Strangely, they received candy from the other party and a completely bewildered look in their eyes.

The girl's captivating, serpentine eyes, a blend of blue and pink, met his gaze at that moment, revealing a complex emotion unlike anything she had shown before.

Those vertical pupils, once as terrifying as an abyss to so many, have miraculously revealed an indescribable gentleness to us.

At this moment, she looked down at the unopened candy wrapper in her palm, and all the doubts and entanglements in her heart mysteriously vanished. The depression that had once troubled her was like a joke so simple that it didn't need any answer. As long as she saw the fact that this person was alive, it melted away like frost under the scorching summer sun.

It turns out that [truth] and [infinity] have never died.

Even if his physical body was annihilated, his soul was worn away, and even the condensed spacetime axis was reduced to ashes, he still returned successfully after completing the Ascension Scene, just like a snake that never yields to death, stubborn and unyielding.

She glanced at the Herrscher who kept his promise and said softly:

"You mean, everything here is an illusion created by him?"

"And you must take him to the unknown outside world, to find the missing part of himself, and help Su Qing'an complete his resurrection."

Raiden Mei looked at the other person with some wariness.

Mobius's reaction has been completely unexpected from the beginning until now.

The girl had expected that Mobius, as a genius scientist who seemed like a madman, would show more intense emotions and reactions, but in reality, she was as quiet as a female student sitting in a classroom turning the pages of a book, and apart from asking rational and low-pitched questions, she had no other reaction.

She could see that Mobius's emotions were fluctuating, but that was all she could see. It was like a calm ocean, but even without any waves, one could not be sure that there were turbulent undercurrents hidden beneath.

Raiden Mei hesitated for a moment, but still answered:

"Yes, that's right."

"Since he Awakened, the seal on the Sea of Quanta has been broken. In reality, rather than being freed from its shackles, it's more like the interface with the outside world was only created after he Awakened."

"Upon reaching the sacrificial site, looking up, one can see that the original walls have vanished, replaced by dark eddies and a distant, sunless sea."

"I think the entire Sea of Quanta exists within an extremely rudimentary World Bubble, where the barriers are almost non-existent."

Mobius pondered the meaning behind the other person's words and analyzed:

"The spacetime axis of higher-dimensional beings is different from ours; it is independent and offset."

"He can even attempt to manipulate the spacetime axis of the entire Proper World."

"Given this premise, it's not incomprehensible that your statement about the collapse of the records in his soul causing the non-existent Sea of Quanta, and you yourself, to defy the logic of reality and arrive here."

She didn't doubt the truthfulness of the other party's words, because once Su Qing'an appeared alive and well before her, many things didn't need explanation.

Mobius had questions for [[Ashes]], but now he realized that if he met the person in person, those questions and confusion would be unnecessary.

She could also be Mobius, who scorned her own choice to leave in that way, or she could be the Ouroboros, who, even as a memory, still believed herself to be the only and true one.

Mobius smiled, seeing right through the defensiveness in Raiden Mei's eyes, and said:

"Don't be afraid, Herrscher sister."

"Didn't you see that Elysia isn't nervous at all?"

Raiden Mei glanced at the Pink Fairy Lady next to her who was feeding Su a bear-shaped biscuit.

Yes, she really wasn't nervous at all.

The girl countered with a question:

"It sounds like you've seen her nervous because of you before?"

Mobius decided to skip the topic and stated directly:

"I look forward to the moment he returns to his full form more than anyone else, so I won't stop you from leaving the Sea of Quanta. After all, even though he's become like this, given his personality, it would be a very troublesome thing for him to take over your body."

Even without knowing Raiden Mei and Su Qing'an's past, Mobius believed that the other party would still not tolerate the fact that the other party, who was almost a reincarnation of Mei, had their body invaded.

In a sense, this violated the other party's taboo.

After all, the keywords "Herrscher," "acquaintance," and "consciousness replacement" were enough to trigger severe PTSD in Su Qing'an.

She had no intention of being his enemy, nor did she have any interest in struggling within the illusion, so naturally she didn't want to provoke him.

So these are all pure truths.

After saying this, Mobius unilaterally ended his conversation with Raiden Mei.

She turned to the boy and said with a smile:

"Su Qing'an, don't you want to know what Mei and I did to Fuxi in the end?"

The boy's consciousness briefly returned to normal. He silently pushed away Elysia's attempt to feed him and replied earnestly:

"I heard from Mei that you have something to ask me."

Mobius said with a smile:

"It's gone now, it was gone the moment I saw you."

"Don't you want to hear about the so-called 'ant killing a mammoth' feat?"

Su Qing'an said softly:

"I already know that from your memories."

"Doctor Mobius"

The boy's lips curled slightly, revealing a gentle smile. His fragmented consciousness, having witnessed the doctor's years of tireless dedication and painstaking effort, spoke:

"Thank you, and thank you for everything you've done for humanity."

Mobius paused for a moment, then responded:

"You're still the same as before, ridiculously stupid."

She seemed to linger on him for a while before getting up and leaving the resting place, disappearing without a trace, her departure so swift and decisive that it was hard to comprehend.

Su Qing'an gazed at the girl's black dress trailing on the ground and her gradually disappearing figure. The melancholy in his eyes faded into emptiness, and he whispered:

"We should go, Mei."

"I want to see how China is now, and... how the outside world has changed."

If time continues to change in the outside world, and if the world line continues to fluctuate, could a completely different future emerge?

Chao Xian City, Taixu Sect.

The vast Shenzhou, it remains to be seen whether it will Schicksal to develop along its original path.

Senior Sister Shishi and Rongyue, who have probably already passed away, and Immortal Chi Yuan, who may still be working hard to collect the remains of demons.

And, everyone I used to know...

After speaking, he returned to his original state.

The girl savored the vicissitudes and emotions in the man's tone, and softly replied:

"Good."

This time, she came to take him home.