“Yes.”

Xia Zhi bent down slightly, gently embraced the girl, stroked her back, and whispered in her ear:

“So…it’s okay. I’m here.”

After receiving the boy’s affirmative answer, sadness, grievance, and joy, as if all the complex emotions that had been suppressed before suddenly surged into her heart, blurring the girl’s vision.

Feeling the warmth that was exactly the same as her memory, she hugged the boy tightly, as if she was greedy for the warmth that embraced her.

The dependence of her other self on him has now become the support that supports her heart that is about to fall into despair. It is the only sustenance and support she can find.

Her body trembled slightly, and she asked in a voice that suppressed her emotions:

“Can I cry?”

“It’s okay.”

Xia Zhi gently stroked her hair, allowing her little head to rest against his chest, and gave her affirmation and permission:

“Cry if you want to. It’s okay to cry however you want in front of me… It’s okay to vent all your emotions to me… So, cry if you want to.”

“…”

Listening to the boy’s words, the girl’s small hands tightly grasped his clothes, and suppressed sobs began to appear between her slightly opened lips.

“Woooo…”

Subsequently

“Wuwu… Wuaaaaaaaa——!”

As if the emotions had burst through a dam, her heart was overwhelmed, tears could not stop flowing down the girl’s cheeks, and soon soaked the clothes on her chest. At this moment, she seemed to have turned back into another person in her memory, and she entrusted all her inner feelings to this boy she “met for the first time”.

Holding the slightly trembling, sobbing and choking little body in his arms, Xia Zhi felt that this scene was somewhat familiar.

……never mind.

He shook his head, not caring too much for the moment, and turned his thoughts back to the girl in his arms.

“……It’s fine.”

Xia Zhi gently stroked the girl’s back and whispered in her ear, following his past experience of comforting his crying sister.

“Don’t worry, leave everything to me…”

Gradually, as if she had calmed down, the girl’s crying became quieter.

“Um……”

I heard her soft response from my arms.

“I will… leave everything to you…”

Everything……

She thought so in her heart.

In exchange

“…if you really are a god.”

She raised her head, her delicate face still stained with tears, and her blue eyes with slightly red eye sockets looked at the boy, and asked with a hint of hope:

“Can I ask you for… a wish?”

……

PS: I’m a bit stuck, sorry to take a day off, there’s only one chapter today. As compensation, I’ll upload two chapters about Xia Zhi in the related works later, which are the abridged versions written before, and will also include a new avatar of Xia Zhi. Friends who are interested can go and have a look~ As for the full version and the original picture, they will still be placed in the old place.

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Chapter 1205: The City That Should Not Appear

Xia Zhi knew that he was doing useless work.

It’s not that the “protagonist” of this time and space node is not Origami, but another girl.

If possible, he wouldn’t mind making some preparations for future strategies in advance.

It’s just… the prerequisite for making preparations is that the preparations made need to have practical significance.

“…”

Taking his eyes away from the silver-haired girl who had fallen asleep on the bed due to exhaustion, Xia Zhi looked out the window at the scene in the distance that was still burning fiercely… He had just arrived in this time and space and encountered this situation. Although he was mentally prepared, he was still a little confused.

Before going here, Tokisaki Kurumi had warned him that the situation this time was very special. It was so special that she didn’t even have time to try too much, and after paying a considerable price, she chose to give up saving this time and space.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, the situation here should eventually become similar to that of the Seven Sins.

Originally, Xia Zhi thought that he would meet that group of gods again this time.

however

After covering the girl with the quilt and touching her little head to comfort her, Xia Zhi came out of the house and looked at the city in front of him that seemed to be submerged in a sea of ​​fire. He fell silent.

…Ms. Kuang San, you said it was special, but you didn’t say it was this special?

He couldn’t help but complained in his mind.

Although many houses, trees and blocks were burned beyond recognition by the blazing flames that seemed to never go out, it can be seen from the general distribution of buildings, road planning and landmark buildings.

The city before him was not the Shikoku he was familiar with.

Even though the city planning may have changed over the past three hundred years, at least he remembered that some iconic terrain and buildings had not changed.

the most important is……

Xia Zhi raised his head and looked into the distance.

On the other side of the burning city, beyond the staggered high-rise buildings, the sky and the ground merged into an arc-shaped skyline.

This originally very ordinary scene is not ordinary at all in this world… or it can be said that something very important is missing.

There, there are no walls.

The wall surrounding the four countries is proof that the sacred tree protects the four countries. Unless there is violence or the sacred tree takes the initiative to remove it, it should exist there no matter what.

All this made Xia Zhi clearly realize that this was not the Four Kingdoms.

He should be in another city that is completely unfamiliar to him.

“…Do you know where this is?”

Xia Zhi asked the girl in his heart, but the only response he got was silence.

The elf girl who had always been by his side in his previous journeys through time and space seemed to be disconnected at this moment and did not give him any response.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that main missions one and four did not fail, so the girl should be fine.

In other words, it should be me who is in trouble.

Xia Zhi sighed helplessly.

Well, it seems I can only rely on myself for the time being.

Because she had not tried and contacted this place too much, Tokisaki Kurumi did not know much about this place. Before she set out for this place, the only information she could give to Xia Zhi was that this place seemed to have been shrouded in an illusion world constructed based on someone’s memory.

Except for the existence of the subject, everything else should be illusory.

This is one of the reasons why he just said that what he was doing was useless.

…However, Xia Zhi gradually realized that it was not just an “illusion”.

He thought to himself, stretched out his hand and gently drew a line in the air before his eyes.

Following his seemingly casual movement, a dark crack appeared in the space in front of him, and then quickly closed.

The touch of the space was extremely real, and coupled with the “insurance” he had taken out for himself, he shouldn’t fall into hallucinations that were enough to drive him insane and yet be completely unaware of them.

Since it is not an illusion, then this should be a “real” world. The answer from the dream game also confirmed his guess.

If this is the case, it probably explains why I can’t contact Tokisaki Kurumi.

Although the connection between her and me can transcend time and space, it is not enough to transcend the world like the contract with Eluk.

…Could it be that I have left the copy world?

After briefly confirming with the dream game again, Xia Zhi got a negative answer.

However, he did not feel much joy when he got this answer.

This is troublesome…

Xia Zhi frowned slightly.

They did not leave the original world, but the four countries that were supposed to exist turned into another strange city.

And the name of this city…

He stopped and looked at the words written on the shaky road sign in the distance.

“Nanko Town”

A place name that had never been heard of in either Shikoku or Chiba. Coincidentally, Xia Zhi had a slight impression of this place name.

If I remember correctly, it should come from another city that shouldn’t be here.

——Tiangong City.

“It’s troublesome.” Xia Zhi sighed again.

It is no wonder that Tokisaki Kurumi came to such a conclusion without having much contact with 903.

Compared to herself, she must be more familiar with this city, and she is also clearly aware that it is impossible for it to appear in this world.

Therefore, it is natural to conclude that “all this is an illusion world constructed based on someone’s memory.”

Humans always tend to use knowledge and theories that they can understand to explain unknown things, even elf girls are no exception.

…Of course, Xia Zhi, who thinks he is still a human being, is not much better in this regard. It’s just that compared to Tokisaki Kurumi back then, he got more information.

After shaking his head slightly, Xia Zhi fell into thought.

Since both are true, there is only one answer left.

There is a certain force that, using someone’s memory as a medium, created the city before our eyes. It descended in the form of a real world, replacing, or… eroding this space and time.

And it is possible that there is also a “motivation” to do this kind of thing

…Apart from the dream game, there must be some kind of anomaly, right?

The next moment after Xia Zhi came to this answer in his heart,

[You have triggered a new side quest]

A new task prompt popped up in front of him…

…….

Chapter 1206: Special Abnormal Side Mission

【特殊支线任务：找到未知异常正体（0/1），了解其全部特性（0/1），保证其被安全稳定地控制收容（0/1）】

[Task Reward: 1000 Dream Points/Complete a goal; If Dream Points are not used in the process of completing this task, the final reward will be calculated as the number of completed goals x2, and a new random game function will be unlocked]

“…”

Looking at the two subtitles appearing in front of him, Xia Zhi fell into deep thought.

There are so many points worth noting.

First of all, the special mission prefix points out the special nature of this side quest.

As far as Xia Zhi can remember, the Dream Game has never used a similar prefix for any other tasks.

…Is it because of the abnormality involved?

If you think about it carefully, it’s not that there haven’t been other anomalies in the previous copy world, but those were either created by Xia Zhi himself, or created by the dream game, or simply brought directly from the real world.

And those anomalies basically have one thing in common… they are already or can easily be contained or controlled.

So there are no special missions issued that require you to understand containment yourself?

Xia Zhi thought.