Whether it’s your own city or going to other cities farther away, “traveling” in this way is a new and novel experience that you have never had before…so it doesn’t matter where you go.

The girl suddenly realized something.

…Now, it seems that I can only let him take me somewhere else.

Thinking of this, she blinked and shrank quietly into the boy’s arms.

Without paying attention to the girl’s little movements, Xia Zhi sped up amid her unexpected little exclamation and flew with her towards the western sky.

The howling wind was blowing. Although the girl could clearly hear the sound of the wind and feel it brushing against her cheeks, she did not feel cold at all. It was as if a mysterious force was protecting her.

Is this something that can be achieved through practice?

She didn’t ask this question out loud, but just watched the scenery below rapidly receding, and an inexplicable sense of security arose in her heart.

Not long after, the two arrived in a new city.

Of course, there was not much difference to Xia Zhi. After all, he was very unfamiliar with both Tiangong City and the city below.

The important thing is…

“Do you know this place?” he asked.

“I don’t know…” The girl shook her head gently, looking at the strange city below, her eyes full of curiosity.

Obviously, even though it was just a neighboring city, it was still a strange and unknown area that she had never been to at such a young age.

Speaking of

“Where do you live?” She looked at the boy and asked curiously.

“Not here.” Xia Zhi replied.

“Is it in heaven?”

“It’s farther than that.”

Where is the place further than the sky?

The girl wondered in confusion, but soon her attention was drawn to the dark blue that quickly appeared at the end of her sight.

“Look, it’s the sea!”

she shouted excitedly.

It turned out that they had arrived at the seaside without realizing it.

Compared to the excited girl, Xia Zhi was thinking about something else.

…The current distance is not only beyond Tiangong City, but also far beyond the original radius of the four countries.

However, he still did not feel the boundaries of the world, as if he had really left the original world.

While he was thinking in his mind, he continued to fly forward.

Although he had been trying hard to control himself, Xia Zhi was still flying very fast. It wasn’t long before he passed over the beach and landed on the sea, leaving only the girl’s happy and excited shouts in the sky.

“Have you ever been to the beach, Xiao Qinli?” Xia Zhi asked when he saw the girl in his arms so excited.

“My mother said she brought me here, but I don’t remember clearly.”

The girl shook her head, calmed herself down a little, looked at the turbulent sea below, and asked curiously:

“Can we see whales?”

When she was in school, she learned that there were creatures called whales in the ocean, which were the largest animals in the world. However, she heard that there were very few of those big guys, so it would take some luck to see one.

She didn’t have high expectations at first, she just suddenly thought of asking out of curiosity, but she heard the boy’s voice in her ear

“Shall we go down and have a look?”

“Eh?”

Xiao Qinli was slightly stunned for a moment, and before she could react, she felt that the boy changed the direction of his flight and fell towards the sea below.

“Whoa-!”

The cold sea water surrounded them, yet they were separated by a magical force.

Not only that, the moment she crossed the dividing line of the sea, the girl felt that the world in front of her eyes suddenly became brighter. Although she was under the sea in the middle of the night, she could see the things around her clearly.

At that moment, what appeared before her eyes was a wonderful scene that she had never seen before, like a dream.

There are schools of small fish surrounding the white and fine sandy beach and rocky coral reefs, various shells and mollusks are sleeping in the sand, and transparent jellyfish are floating with the water, emitting wonderful little lights, as if forming the starry sky under the sea.

Continuing forward, the ground on the seabed suddenly sank like a slope, and it looked like falling into a bottomless abyss.

Looking at the dark abyss with no end in sight, Kotonoha couldn’t help but hug the boy tighter.

But then, she soon saw a small black dot appear in the distance.

It looks like a fish in shape, but it is much bigger than the fish we usually see.

The girl opened her eyes slightly

“Look, it’s a whale!”

It looks like a humpback whale.

Looking at the whale that was wandering outside in the middle of the night without sleeping, Xia Zhi thought to himself.

As for the evidence… he didn’t know either, he was just guessing.

Xia Zhi “swam” to the whale with the girl who was excited after seeing it

As they got closer, the size difference between the two became more obvious.

In front of the whale that was more than ten meters long, both the girl and Xia Zhi looked like children. At this time, the difference in size between them seemed negligible.

This was the first time that Kotonoha felt the gap between herself and large creatures so intuitively.

The huge monster in front of her, just swimming slowly and leisurely in the sea, gave her a sense of psychological oppression.

Although she was a little nervous and scared, with Xia Zhi’s gesture and encouragement, she still plucked up the courage to reach out and touch the whale’s skin.

It feels a little cool when you touch it, and it feels very smooth and soft. It feels like it will sink if you apply a little force.

“It’s like a sofa stuffed with sponges.” She couldn’t help but mutter.

“Do you want to lie down and sleep?” Xia Zhi suggested.

“No, the slippery feeling is disgusting.”

The girl showed a look of disgust.

He was looking forward to seeing her just now, but now he feels disgusted with her… He gets bored with the old and loves the new so quickly, he’s just like a child.

Xia Zhi sighed in his heart.

Since the girl had lost interest in whales and they had already seen the most interesting offshore continental shelf area, he simply decided not to stay on the seabed any longer. He chose to float up with the girl, broke through the water with a “splash”, and continued to fly towards the distance.

This time he chose to speed up a bit, and soon he crossed the ocean and reached the other side. Countless mountains, rivers, plains and cities passed below them.

Cities with bright lights, highways dotted with light bands connecting cities and villages, endless forests and mountains, wide lakes as calm as mirrors surrounded by mountains, towering snow-capped mountains, deep and narrow canyons, and deserts that stretch as far as the eye can see… The girl opened her eyes wide at the endless novelty of the sights along the way, and her voice of excitement and happiness never stopped.

As they continued to move forward, golden sunlight gradually rose in the distant sky.

“Is it daybreak yet?” The girl rubbed her eyes, which were stung by the sunlight, with her little hands and asked in confusion.

“We caught up with the sun.” Xia Zhi replied.

After hearing his answer, the girl realized that the sun rises in the west.

This was the first time she saw the sun rise from the west… Today, she had experienced too many firsts.

“This is the time difference I told you about before.” Xia Zhi said, touching her little head.

“Ok, I know.”

The girl nodded slightly and tightened her arms around him.

“Later, I asked my teacher about it myself and also looked it up in a book about ‘jet lag’.”

…Not only does he remember himself, but his memory of what happened in between has also changed accordingly.

The girl in this world is more than just a continuation of memory.

Xia Zhi thought to himself.

And, more than that.

Whether it was the city next to Tiangong City, the various scenes on the seabed, the look and feel of the whales, and everything she saw along the way, they were all things the girl had no memory of, or even things and scenes she had never seen before.

Although it has always been said that human imagination is infinite, this is not actually the case. Limited by their own physiological limitations, all the things that humans can imagine are just the arrangement and combination of materials seen in the objective world, and they cannot imagine things that they have never seen before.

Indeed, it is not impossible to construct a world outside of the girl based on what she has seen in the past. But the world created by imagination is prone to have some loopholes, and it is difficult to perfectly coincide with the original reasonable natural world, so that even Xia Zhi can hardly find any flaws.

If, as previously speculated, this world was really created simply according to her memory, then how do you explain the things she saw along the way that she should have never seen before?

Combined with Kotonoha’s own peculiar existence and her strange behavior regarding her own memory, Xia Zhi came up with a bold guess in his mind.

This place… is probably not just a real world in form compared to the “illusion”.

Maybe even, true “history”.

If this is really the case…

“It’s like a dream…”

The girl in his arms looked at the golden sun in the distance and murmured to herself.

Whether it was the appearance of the boy or everything she experienced tonight, it all seemed like a dream to her, beautiful yet fragile…

“…If you wake up from the dream, will you disappear?”

She looked up and asked Xia Zhi:

“Like last time?”

“…I’ll come again.”

Xia Zhi withdrew his thoughts, looked at her red eyes that reflected his face, rubbed her hair and said:

“As long as Xiaoqinli behaves well and is a good child.”

Hearing this, the girl’s eyes lit up first, and then she asked anxiously, “Really?”

“real.”

“really?”

“Really, really.”

Despite this assurance, she still looked a little worried… Children of this age, especially girls, always care more about gains and losses, and are more likely to be anxious about the things they like.

“If you’re still worried…”

As Xia Zhi spoke, he simply tied a white ribbon he had taken out from somewhere around her wrist.

“Let this serve as a witness to our agreement… It’s the first gift I give you, so don’t lose it.”

“…”

The girl looked at the white ribbon tied on her hand and smiled happily again

“Ok!”

She clenched her ribbon-tied hand slightly, placed it gently on her chest, and responded:

“I won’t lose it.”

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PS: This chapter can also be considered a two-in-one chapter.

PS2: Also, Xia Zhi’s extra story has been updated, which can be regarded as a free additional plot supplement, and is placed in the work related~

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Chapter 1212 “A Promise Across Time and Space”

In the process of sending Kotonoha home, the sun, which had originally been heading west, turned and gradually “rose” and set again, and the familiar night sky once again covered the sky.

It was clearly the same day, but the girl experienced two consecutive sunrises and sunsets. She felt a little strange.

But for her, there were so many wonderful things she experienced today that one or two like this would not be a big deal.