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"Are you from the One Hundred Demons Night Parade?"
"Oh? I didn't expect that the teacher could actually guess it~"
When the girl heard the teacher say which school she belonged to, she was slightly stunned, but soon a playful smile appeared on her face again.
"...Now is not the time to chat. Can you tell me why I can't go back to the past by jumping into that hole?"
"I don't understand either. After all, I was summoned here when I was sleeping, and then some strange knowledge came into my mind. I can only tell you this: there is currently no way for the teacher to return to the past, because the time of that cave has been reset. Now I have just returned to its original place."
"Can't go back..."
Hearing the result here, Zhang Xinyuan couldn't help but clench his fists.
Although I have done many things, if what she said is a foregone conclusion, then wouldn't everything I have done be unable to overturn the fact that Meng has died?
"but."
Suddenly, the girl in front of him stretched out her slender little hand, grabbed the teacher's big hand, and then placed it on her forehead.
"Teacher, have you heard of 'Schrödinger's fox'?"
Chapter 90: Let’s meet next time in Abydos
"Schrödinger's fox? Isn't it Schrödinger's cat?"
"Phew~ It doesn't matter. I am the little fox in the teacher's hand~ I can be a substitute."
The girl gently poked the teacher's chin with the mouth of her pipe, and then continued in a playful tone: "Although there are many strange records in ancient books, it seems that this incident is the only one that fits today's situation."
"But that incident was used to refute quantum mechanics. Even if you come to be a cat, in Kivotos, established facts should not be changed."
"Well, the teacher is right~ The established facts cannot be changed... Hehe~ I'm afraid I'll need to find that guy Trinity to catch up later~"
Holy Trinity?
Hearing the Holy Trinity from the girl's mouth, Zhang Xinyuan unconsciously recalled the night when he was sick and hospitalized. In his dream, he seemed to have forcefully kissed a student, and he also couldn't see her face clearly...
"Um...girl classmate, could you please tell me briefly how to save him?"
Zhang Xinyuan, who was confused by what he heard, couldn't help but speak.
"Generally speaking, this is a time rift created by the power of the teacher. Here, everything has infinite possibilities. Although the enemies we encounter later..."
When the girl was about to continue speaking, she suddenly felt a tightening in her chest, followed by a dazed feeling that came over her body, and the girl smiled awkwardly.
"Oh, sorry, teacher, I'm probably about to wake up, so..."
Staring into the teacher's eyes, the girl leaned forward with a smile and then kissed him directly.
"Well?"
"Huh~ I didn't expect the contract signing to be like this... It seems that the rumors are mixed with a lot of the teacher's real situation~"
The sweet taste and the fragrance of cherry blossoms were like a spring breeze. Zhang Xinyuan didn't expect that she would suddenly kiss him.
"Hmm? I feel like there's something extra in my body..."
However, after being kissed by the girl, Zhang Xinyuan felt as if there was some extra energy in his brain, as if it had the power to pull a person back from the brink of death.
"Phew~Okay, my responsibility ends here. Then, teacher, you can jump from here and go wherever you want. But this time, the teacher cannot be observed by the other world because of some complicated factors. If the teacher is discovered, the past facts will be corrected immediately and there will be no next time...I wish the teacher good luck."
"Hey! Wait a minute! I haven't asked you your name yet!"
At this moment, the body in front of him suddenly emitted a faint light, as if it was about to disappear. Zhang Xinyuan subconsciously stretched out his hand to grab it, but at this moment the girl's body had completely disappeared.
"Hehe~ I'll tell you again when we meet next time."
After saying this, Zhang Xinyuan was the only one left in the world.
"...Is this the world I created..."
Unconsciously, I walked to the edge of the door frame, no, perhaps it was the edge of the cliff. At this moment, unconsciously, the darkness inside had spread out, and the darkness inside continued to pour out a sticky liquid. Even though there was no wind here, under my gaze, it was like an endless black sea below, and the surging black waves revealed an ominous atmosphere.
Zhang Xinyuan slowly closed his eyes, recalling the smiles of every student in Kivotos, the daily life he and his students had together, and every...
"Huh~ Come on, overturn the fact that Yume is dead! As a teacher, if you can't save your students..."
Zhang Xinyuan opened his eyes again, his eyes full of determination. He jumped and plunged into the place where he had the hope of saving his dreams.
...
The body was constantly reorganizing and decomposing. In the only consciousness left, a bubble with memories appeared in front of Zhang Xinyuan. As the bubble disappeared, Zhang Xinyuan could see that Xingye was constantly working hard to save Senior Meng. On the other side, Zhang Xinyuan saw that Xingye took Baizi and others to the desert to find the truth. Finally, Xingye came to his room at night and seemed to say something in his ear. Finally, he left a letter and left.
Don't go...
The words were in his mouth but could not be conveyed. Looking at the distressed eyes of Hoshino who was going to save Senior Meng, and the lonely eyes of the other side who was about to leave Abydos, Zhang Xinyuan reached out desperately, trying to grab those tender little hands.
"boom!"
In an instant, the darkness around him shattered like a mirror, and the sky became clear again as before. Feeling the remaining warmth on his hands, Zhang Xinyuan lowered his head, only to see a scene that broke his heart.
"Dream..."
Feeling something blocking his throat, Zhang Xinyuan clenched his hands tremblingly in extreme sadness, and clenched his lips tightly, fearing that he would lose his composure and be discovered by the world.
Watching Meng lying quietly in the desert, Zhang Xinyuan gently stroked the little face stained with a trace of blood. He was clearly the lively and cheerful child who stayed by his side yesterday, but now he was lying here quietly, without the vitality of the past.
"The aura is broken..."
Zhang Xinyuan noticed at this time that the halo above Meng's head had turned into a solid entity at some point, and it turned into fragments and lay in front of Meng.
"Oh, right, energy..."
As if he thought of something, Zhang Xinyuan hurriedly came to the halo and reached out to touch the broken halo. In an instant, Zhang Xinyuan felt a force being drawn away from his body, and the halo in front of him was being reorganized in a miraculous way. In an instant, a brand new halo appeared in front of Zhang Xinyuan's eyes.
Zhang Xinyuan put the halo on with expectation, and saw the halo floating lightly above Meng's head, but the halo did not look as bright as before, even if it recovered, it would only be a dull color.
"Why? The aura has been restored?! We said we could save Yume!"
Seeing that Meng never woke up, Zhang Xinyuan hugged Meng's body in pain, praying that Meng would wake up.
"Hi! Ah!"
In an instant, Zhang Xinyuan felt that his eyes were constantly flickering. At this moment, Zhang Xinyuan seemed to be excluded by this world and did not want this established fact to be changed.
"Give it to me, stop it!"
Zhang Xinyuan held Meng in one hand and opened his eyes that were covering his pupils with the other hand. Zhang Xinyuan looked upwards angrily. A powerful force of time emanated from Zhang Xinyuan's body. In an instant, the whole world fell into silence.
"Ha~ha~ Meng, it's okay. No one can take you away... Hmm? This is..."
Zhang Xinyuan, who had used up all his strength, collapsed on the ground. Just when he was about to see what Meng was like, a small door appeared in front of him, and a little man poked his head out. When he saw the teacher, the little man suddenly glowed, and then ran towards the teacher babbling, and then jumped happily on the teacher's hands.
"Dream?"
Looking at the dream-like appearance, Zhang Xinyuan showed a puzzled expression.
"Yeah!"
However, the little man did not answer the teacher's question. He just jumped onto Meng's body. Then Meng began to glow. Then he jumped onto the teacher's hand and kept making strokes.
"Are you trying to say that you want to carry the body of Dream..."
"Yeah!"
Seeing the little man nodded, Zhang Xinyuan was stunned for a moment, then let go of Meng's hand.
As the teacher let go, Meng's body slowly entered the narrow door. The little man also jumped onto the teacher's forehead and bumped into the teacher. Suddenly, Zhang Xinyuan had a lot of information in his mind.
"...Because the world's ability to correct things is intertwined with my own power of stopping time, in order to fully revive Yume, I have to bring her somewhere... I understand."
Zhang Xinyuan stood up, held the cute little man in both hands, and then smiled gently.
"Have a good rest, Yume. Later, the teacher will definitely find a way to truly revive Yume. By then... I will accept many students from Abydos with you~"
"Yes! Teacher! Thank you, teacher!"
Suddenly, Meng Huohuo's voice came to his ears. Zhang Xinyuan was slightly startled. Looking at the little man who was waving goodbye at the door, Zhang Xinyuan also waved goodbye.
Chapter 91 Return
"Senior Meng, where on earth have you been?"
In the setting sun, the sound of the wind in the distance sounded like a wail, constantly hitting the Abydos School.
Hearing the roar that sounded like a wild beast, Hoshino, who had been buried under his knees, raised his head blankly, thinking that other people had returned, but looking at the closed door, he couldn't help muttering.
As if he had thought of something, Hoshino struggled to stand up and walked to the table, looking at the blood-stained schoolbag again. With lifeless eyes, Hoshino couldn't help but shed tears again.
Three days have passed. On that day, he tried his best to rush to the place where Senior Meng disappeared for the last time, but in the end he only saw blood-stained backpacks and piles of mechanical corpses. Hoshino didn't know how long he had been searching there frantically, but he couldn't find any trace of Senior Meng.
Although he fantasized that nothing would happen to Senior Meng, the longer time passed, the slimmer his chances of survival became. Hoshino had no idea what to do and could only stay in the school office in a daze, waiting alone for news from Senior Meng.
"Bang~"
At this moment, something fell out from under the table. Looking at the three familiar little figures, Hoshino subconsciously picked it up and held it in his arms.
"Teacher, have you left us too? Why did you leave us when we needed you the most? Why..."
Recalling that these three items were figurines made by someone else when they first played, Senior Meng said that he wanted to have a figurine of the teacher by his side, so that there would be traces of the teacher's life in their Abydos.
Thinking of this, Hoshino looked at the little teacher, then angrily threw it directly into the corner.
"Adults are all liars..."
Hoshino looked at the broken little man in the distance in pain, but then showed a horrified expression and walked directly to the place where he had thrown the little man away. Looking at the little man that had been torn into pieces, Hoshino hugged him tightly with his trembling little hands.
"Senior Meng, Teacher, what should I do..."
After saying this, Hoshino fell asleep unknowingly due to excessive sadness.
Zhang Xinyuan: "..."
At this time, Zhang Xinyuan, who was in a spiritual state, could only watch Xingye crying silently. The only thing he could do now was to accompany Xingye until that classmate arrived.
...
One day, two days, three days... I don’t know how long it took, but Abydos welcomed spring again, and spring is the time for enrollment.
"Hmm~ Abydos, I can finally come here to attend class~"
At the school gate of Abydos, a beautiful figure appeared at the door. Looking at the sign that had not been cleaned for a long time, the girl smiled and gently wiped away the thick dust with her hand.
"Hmm! Looks like we need to do some more cleaning!"