freenovelworld #264 - Back to the Future, Close to the Truth (2 in 1 Order)
#264 - Back to the Future, Close to the Truth (2 in 1 Order)
Aida, seeing this scene, mischievously stoked the flames, saying:
"Oh dear, some women are so heartless, they can be so cruel to the child who has been with them for so many years."
Blue White Princess continued to play the victim: "Wuu wuu wuu... QAQ"
Isabelle, seeing Blue White Princess's pitiful appearance, couldn't bear it in the end, sighed, and nodded.
Blue White Princess cheered and jumped onto the carriage.
The carriage drove towards a certain lakeside in the south of the Cecil Kingdom, said to be a place rich in magical energy, where the success rate of summoning divine beasts could be greatly increased.
In the carriage, Blue White Princess linked her arm with Isabelle's, like she was with her older sister, leaning intimately on her shoulder.
Isabelle felt quite helpless as her former intimate clothing suddenly gained sentience and clung to her every day.
And Aida, sitting opposite her, was still looking at her with a gloating smirk.
Isabelle sneered in her heart.
Heh, Miss Aida, I've remembered this.
Next time I get a new God Crystal, the first thing I'll do is do the same thing to your BRA...
...
A day later, Xiaoyu and his group gathered by the lake and used the scroll.
Mysterious light bloomed from the scroll, forming a mysterious rune array.
Within the array, dreamlike phantoms gradually condensed, transforming into the figures of four divine beast girls.
The first to appear was the Azure Dragon Girl, her dragon roar resounding through the clouds, wings spread behind her, dragon scales shimmering with a blue glow.
Next was the White Tiger Girl, with short, stubby limbs, endearingly clumsy, her tiger paws rounded and flexible, each step she took carrying a playful sense of movement.
The third to appear was the Vermilion Bird Girl, her fiery wings burning with feathers, wearing a fiery red down dress, the skirt fluttering gently as she soared.
Finally, the Black Tortoise Girl emerged, the patterns on her large turtle shell resembling mysterious runes, as if hiding endless wisdom.
The Azure Dragon Girl's voice was like a bell and drum:
"Warrior who summoned me, I will fulfill one of your wishes."
Xiaoyu said: "Please help me tear space and open a passage to the River of Time, we want to travel through time and space."
The four divine beast girls looked at each other.
The Vermilion Bird Girl laughed: "In all these years, this is the first time a warrior has made such a strange wish to us, don't you crave wealth and women?"
The White Tiger Girl nudged her with her elbow: "Look at this large group of girls around him, he probably doesn't lack women."
The Black Tortoise Girl sneered: "Heh, a man with deep sins."
Xiaoyu clenched his fist and said: "I have a truth that needs to be investigated and a family that needs to be saved, please, this is really important to me!"
The Azure Dragon Girl was slightly moved:
"Theoretically, the four of us working together can indeed tear space,
but first, the moment we tear space is fleeting, you must seize the opportunity to enter the space-time rift.
Second, you must completely withstand the divine beast power I release, we are not responsible if anyone dies along the way."
Isabelle nodded: "Now that we've come this far, we have no way back, let's do it."
The four divine beast girls began to unleash their divine beast powers, the Azure Dragon Girl's dragon scales shimmering with a blue glow, surging out from her body.
The White Tiger's power gathered into a white cloud, condensing into an illusory beam of light.
The Vermilion Bird's fire power condensed into a raging sea of fire, dyeing the surrounding space blood red.
The Black Tortoise stirred up vibrations on the ground, gathering into an ochre halo.
The four powerful divine beast powers converged together, forming a powerful energy field, light, clouds, sea of fire, and mysterious halos intertwined, and cracks began to appear in the space above the lake.
The game popped up a prompt: [Please enter before the rift completely closes, and avoid being injured by the power of the divine beasts.]
Luyu began to frantically click the keyboard and mouse.
Xiaoyu and his companions traveled through the intersection of divine beast powers, their bodies subjected to powerful pulling forces.
The cute girls nimbly dodged the Azure Dragon's scale light, used the clouds in the air to quickly traverse, dodged the flames in the Vermilion Bird Girl's sea of fire, and shuttled between the ochre halos, getting closer and closer to the rift.
The Azure Dragon Girl admired: "It seems that this man's cute girls are all battle-hardened."
However, just as everyone was about to reach the rift,
suddenly!
A burst of space-time turbulence blew out from the space-time rift, instantly covering everyone.
Xiaoyu felt the surrounding space fluctuations become abnormally turbulent, his vision distorted, and the rift entrance became blurred.
The wildly dancing space-time turbulence brought a powerful reaction force, pushing everyone further and further away from the rift entrance.
Most importantly, Xiaoyu and the cute girls were already dizzy and completely unable to tell which direction they were going.
Hera issued a warning: "No, the entrance is getting smaller and smaller, it's too late, and if we don't retreat now, we'll be torn apart by the space-time turbulence and the power of the divine beasts."
Xiaoyu bit his lip, if he gave up at this time, then crossing time and space would have to wait until the year of the monkey!
The live broadcast barrage also became tense:
"Damn? Is the plot going to get stuck here?"
At this critical moment, Luyu noticed that the skill bar of Blue White Princess in the lower right corner of the screen was full.
With the spirit of treating a dead horse as a living one, Luyu pressed the skill key.
"Blue White Blue White, transform!"
A blue and white light flashed, and the petite figure of Blue White Princess disappeared instantly, transforming into a triangular cotton hat.
Before Xiaoyu could react, this cotton hat instantly turned upside down on his head.
A peculiar fragrance rushed into his nose, like enlightenment!
The moment he put on the cotton hat, Xiaoyu instantly felt his mind clear, his body full of strength, his body light and agile, his vision clear and thorough, as if all the mist had been swept away.
[Cute Girl Magic · Sure-Kill Move activated - Blue White Boost: Blue White Princess transforms into a cotton hat, during the duration of the sure-kill move, she will provide the wearer with full state amplification. If the wearer is male, the amplification efficiency will be increased by an additional 100%.]
With the help of Blue White Princess, Xiaoyu accurately judged the surge of space-time turbulence and skillfully guided everyone through it. His movements were flexible and decisive, each step like dancing in the space-time turbulence.
In the chaotic storm, Xiaoyu caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye that a stubborn golden short hair was clipped to the lace of the hat he was wearing, fluttering in the wind.
He was sure that the color and length were not his own hair.
Turning his head to glance at Isabelle, if this hair was discovered by everyone, this girl would be even more embarrassed.
He inconspicuously pulled off the hair and put it in his pocket...
Finally, everyone gradually broke away from the constraints of the space-time turbulence and rushed into the entrance of the space-time rift at the last moment!
Live broadcast barrage:
"I fuck? This works too?"
"Blue White Princess's sure-kill is to turn herself into equipment?!"
"Full attribute amplification aura ability, Blue White Princess is definitely an SSR!"
Watching everyone disappear into the space-time rift, the lake surface returned to calm, and the four divine beast girls breathed a sigh of relief.
The Azure Dragon Girl stared at the void and muttered to herself:
"I hope that this group of people can save the crisis of this world's destruction..."
...
Afterwards, in the River of Time, everyone flew towards the future of New Calendar 2200 according to the direction in their memory.
During the journey, Xiaoyu encouraged Blue White Princess:
"Blue White Princess, well done, you are the real MVP this time!"
Other companions also praised:
"Indeed, thanks to Miss Blue White Princess!"
Aida carefully combed Blue White Princess's ponytail and encouraged:
"Even if your origin is very... embarrassing, you can also prove your value through brave behavior, you should be more confident!"
"Blue White Blue White!"
Blue White Princess nodded excitedly, and then secretly glanced at Isabelle aside.
Isabelle didn't turn her head, just muttered: "Not bad."
Barrage Tucao:
"Miss Paladin is really Tsundere."
"Everyone in this story is very gentle, love it, love it."
...
Afterwards, the light flashed in front of everyone's eyes, and they reappeared not far from the suburbs of "Mobile City Alpha".
Seeing the familiar city floating in front of them, the future that had been destroyed was completely restored, and Aida was so excited that she burst into tears.
However, before everyone could be happy for long, Hera pointed to a certain place in the sky with a pale face, trembling:
"Look, what is that?"
The sky was like a huge canvas, twisted into a vortex, with images from different historical periods overlapping.
From the ancient primitive rivers of the Stone Age to the castles and knights of the Middle Ages, historical scrolls intertwined with each other, forming a magnificent and twisted corridor of time.
Ancient civilizations, historical buildings, and figures from different eras appeared in this strange space one after another.
In this corridor of intertwined time and space, Xiaoyu saw the smoke of war, the pastoral idyll of peace, the prosperous urban landscape, and all kinds of life.
Everything in human history is intertwined and interwoven in an incredible way.
Even this corridor itself is a presentation of the concept of "time".
Seeing this strange twisted corridor, everyone's relaxed mood sank again.
It seems that although the timeline of the future has reappeared, the factors that caused the space-time anomaly have not been completely eliminated, whether it is the out-of-control God Crystal, or the Masked Prophet who went to ancient times to cause trouble, and the Phantom with unknown identity, they are still doing evil in other ways.
Moreover, what is even worse is that this twisted corridor is slowly eroding the real world at an imperceptible speed.
Aida suggested: "Everyone has traveled a long way, let's go to my house to rest first."
Hera nodded: "Okay, Aida has been worried about her parents."
...
After returning to Aida's apartment, her parents hugged each other and wept after seeing that their daughter was safe and sound.
Aida pointed to Xiaoyu and others: "Thanks to them, I was able to return home safely."
So, Aida's parents made a hearty dinner to entertain this group of strangely dressed guests.
At the dinner table, the Fire Dragon Girl excitedly gnawed on the roasted chicken leg, and when she was eating happily, she couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of dragon breath flame.
Suddenly, the slime girl's rice next to her was directly charred.
"QAQ!"
The slime girl started to cry, and the tears poured directly into the fox girl's rice next to her.
Seeing that the rice was directly soaked, the fox girl fanned the wind with a folding fan, and then glanced at the fish in front of the cat girl next to her. A fox and a cat started to snatch the fish, and suddenly the cups and plates on the table were overturned, a mess.
And opposite them, Blue White Princess sipped the vegetable salad in front of her.
As a cotton product, she subconsciously avoided those greasy foods.
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Just then, Isabelle put a piece of roast ribs into Blue White Princess's plate.
"You're not fat now..."
She stopped halfway through her sentence and continued coldly: "Little girls are still growing, don't be picky eaters, eat more meat."
Blue White Princess immediately looked at Isabelle with tears in her eyes.
The others looked at the two of them with an aunt's smile, getting closer and closer like sisters.
Diemei ate a mouthful of honey rice cake and asked curiously: "By the way, why are there a few people missing from the table?"
Aida brought new food to the table while saying:
"The spider girl went outside to catch insects to eat, Chunta and Hera are mecha girls, they don't eat human food, they have a unique charging method."
As soon as she finished speaking, Chunta and Hera walked out of the room inside with blushing faces, looking satisfied.
Aida saw that Hera's face was a little unnaturally red and her breathing rate was also very high, and asked with concern:
"Hera, are you okay?"
Hera shook her head while holding the wall: "I'm fine, I didn't expect that the size of the civilian high-power charging plugs outside now is much larger than the plugs in the rebel abandoned factory, I'm not used to using it for the first time."
Live broadcast barrage Tucao:
"So, where are their charging ports?"
"Upstairs, I advise you not to ask too much."
Looking at the table full of noisy cute girls, Xiaoyu apologized to Aida's parents:
"I'm sorry, these children are too noisy."
Aida's father shook his head with a smile: "It's okay, it's rare for the family to be so lively in these years."
Aida asked: "Dad, didn't you notice the strange twisted corridor in the sky?"
The other party sighed:
"How could I not notice, this thing appeared in the sky not long after you disappeared. However, the "Sky Federation Government" conducted news control, prohibiting anyone from reporting or discussing it, and the airspace near it was also under air traffic control.
It is estimated that the Federal Defense Force and the scientists of the "Consortium" are studying the source of this thing."
Aida nodded and said to Xiaoyu: "Time is running out, let's go and inquire about the information of the "Silva family" first."
Aida's father, who was eating, was startled: "Huh? How do you know the name Silva..."
"Dad? Do you know this person? Tell us quickly! This is a matter of life and death."
The other party took a contact book from the room and kept flipping through it.
"Don't forget that your dad used to be an employee of the Consortium, although he was just a bottom-level employee on the production line, but we had to report to senior executives every week, I remember seeing this name in this contact book,
Let me check... Got it!"
On a certain page of the contact book, there is a photo of a middle-aged man in a white coat.
Everyone looked at the photo and then looked at Xiaoyu's face, and they all Tucao: "I always feel that this person looks a bit like Xiaoyu."
Xiao Yu waved his hand, "It's just a coincidence. How could a child from a farmer's family be connected to a future big shot?"
Below the photo was this person's information:
[Dr. Lott Silva]
[Chief Scientist of the Consortium]
[Discoverer and Pioneer of Moe-God Crystals]
[Pioneer of the God Crystal Industrial Revolution]
Everyone exclaimed, "So this is the person who invented Moe-God Crystals?"
Aisabelle: "I used to think that God Crystals were relics left by ancient gods, but it wasn't until I personally traveled through time that I discovered that the world we live in has been invaded by future civilizations."
Diemei: "In other words, is he the father of all moe girls in the world?"
Ada asked her father, "Where is this Dr. Silva now? We have very important things to ask him!"
Her father shook his head regretfully, "Dr. Silva has long passed away."
He then took out an old newspaper from 16 years ago from the room.
It was recorded that 16 years ago, a catastrophic accident occurred in an experiment on God Crystal application technology.
In this accident, Dr. Silva and his family of four all disappeared.
The "God Crystal Research Institute" where the disaster occurred was also listed as a forbidden area by the Celestial Federation.
The cause of the accident and the reason for the disappearance of Dr. Silva's family of four have become eternal mysteries.
Her father recalled, "It is said that Dr. Silva's family lived in that research institute at the time. We joked when we were working that the whole family were scientific madmen. Who knew this would happen so soon, sigh."
……
After discussion, Xiao Yu and others decided to go to the God Crystal Research Institute to see for themselves.
Although the research institute ruins have been listed as a forbidden area, Helya said triumphantly:
"Just leave this matter to me, the former Deputy Officer of the Resistance Army. Have you forgotten how we survived the Federation Army's encirclement and suppression all these years?"
A day later, Helya successfully led everyone past the Federation's guard checkpoints and arrived at the floating island where the research institute ruins were located.
Before them was a scene of desolation. The towering experimental building had almost completely collapsed, and the broken walls were covered with cracks, exposing the steel skeleton inside.
The gate had already collapsed, leaving only the broken door frame. Scientific research papers were scattered in the courtyard, messy and silent.
Walking through the ruins, everyone saw laboratories buried by the years. The instruments and equipment were already rusty and mottled, and broken data storage devices and burnt cables were intertwined.
Arriving at the research platform in the central hall, the remaining chemical medicine bottles and experimental utensils were all yellowed by the years.
Ada sighed: "I didn't expect the power of the accident back then to be so great. I wonder if there are any clues left here to find."
Everyone was silent and wandered around.
Just then, suddenly!
The phantom that had appeared in front of everyone several times appeared again.
The phantom said to Xiao Yu, "You still found this place after all. Before you find anything, I advise you to give up."
Xiao Yu: "Why?"
"Because the truth is cruel, so cruel that it makes people feel unbearable pain. So, isn't it good to live in a beautiful dream, to live in the present life?"
"If you escape reality, then even the most beautiful dream will turn into a nightmare. What's more, if this dream doesn't have my sister Fina, I would rather wake up immediately!"
The phantom was silent, and then slowly disappeared...
After some more searching, everyone found a residential apartment at the deepest part of the research institute ruins.
This apartment seemed to have been inhabited by a family of three, and various furniture and facilities remained at the moment before the accident.
A set of living room furniture was messily placed with toys that little boys loved to play with, and a baby cot was placed by the window.
"This should be Dr. Silva's home," Ada sighed.
Helya's antenna stood up, and she turned on the scanning radar and began scanning everywhere in the ruins.
Soon, she made a discovery.
She found a photo frame in a dusty corner of the ruins, containing a group photo of Dr. Silva's family of four.
A young couple, each holding a boy and a girl in their arms.
The little boy was about three years old, and the little girl was still an infant.
When he saw this group photo, Xiao Yu was instantly stunned and froze on the spot, and then took several steps back subconsciously.
"H-how is this possible."
He staggered and fell to the ground.
"What's wrong?" The others surrounded him with concern.
Xiao Yu trembled and took out a pendant from his arms. The pendant was a small cylinder.
Opening the cylinder, there was a scroll painting hidden inside.
"This scroll is a portrait that my mother asked a famous painter nearby to paint for me and Fina shortly after my sister was born."
Xiao Yu's face was pale as he unfurled the portrait.
Everyone was surprised to find that Xiao Yu and Fina in the painting were exactly the same as the two children in the group photo in the ruins!