Chapter 46 The Book of Fate
And so, the girls walked together towards the other side of the ruins.
Of course, along the way, Lonis was still worried about Elus’s mood, so she kept twitching her ears and wagging her tail, constantly trying to be cute and mischievous.
And while surrounded by foxes felt good, it was precisely because Lonis was too cute that Elus said:
“Hmph, you idiot fox, look at you, you don’t have a trace of being a man anymore. You’ve completely become this Master’s well-trained pet.”
“Huh?”
“The only thing you know is to make this Master happy. You’re trained so perfectly, so there’s no point anymore. I’ll give you away to someone else.”
“What do you mean ‘give me away to someone else’!”
…
Lonis blushed. Truth be told, at this point, she knew she was being a bit shameless.
She would casually act spoiled, and sometimes even being cute had become instinctual… No matter how you thought about it, it was indeed quite embarrassing?
…
“Waaah…”
“Hmph, Senior Isumi, do you want my idiot fox? Currently on sale, only 3 yuan.”
“Ah, I want to rent her for a few minutes, is that possible?”
“Oh, rental is free? You don’t even need to pay, just take her and play with her.”
“Saying it like that is too bullying, aaaaah!”
…
But even though Lonis was slightly displeased and “puffed up her fur,” Isumi, Bai Ye, and the others immediately hugged Lonis.
After all, a fluffy big tail was very healing, wasn’t it?
Whether it was stroking it in their arms or rubbing their faces against it, they felt their hearts being purified, as if all their worries had gone far away.
So…
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“Mm, I’ve almost calmed my mood.”
“Me too, Junior Lonis is amazing.”
“Big tail… Bai Ye also wants to have such a big tail.”
“Waaah…”
…
Although being hugged by girls made Lonis feel very comfortable, maintaining her tail to be soft and limp made her almost exhausted.
After all, her tail would always perk up at certain specific moments – if it poked a companion’s cheek when everyone was hugging her, that would be utterly embarrassing.
…
“Hmph, you look so pathetic, idiot fox. We’re almost there.”
“Ah…”
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Before long, the girls passed through a metal door and entered an area on the other side.
Compared to the Heretical Amplifier activated by Vice Admiral Saimang earlier, the atmosphere emanating from here was very peculiar—although their eyes could not see any light, their bodies felt as if they were strolling through a corridor composed of a galaxy, and even their bodies felt lighter.
…
“This place is so magical…”
“The composition of the power is somewhat similar to the Rainbow Abyss. Hmm, we’ve arrived.”
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The girls cautiously walked into the deepest part of this area…
And the scene that greeted them astonished everyone.
The walls of the entire room seemed to have disappeared, replaced by the vast universe—both the brilliant galaxy and the distant starry sky appeared so real, with virtually no difference from what they saw outside.
And most mysteriously, even the girls’ bodies seemed to be illuminated by this galaxy, transforming them into something else… For example, Elus seemed to have disappeared until she walked over and tugged on the fox-eared girl’s ear. Lonis then realized they were simply covered by the light from this universe.
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“Does this light have a physical form?”
“Hmm, it seems to be similar to the evolver’s light, occupying a space… but it’s harmless. Everyone remember each other’s positions and don’t wander off.”
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Under Elus’s command, the girls orderly walked to the center of the room.
And there, a book that almost merged with the universe lay quietly spread out.
The book was not large, only about the size of an ordinary A4 paper. But the moment Lonis saw its pages, her head buzzed as if it had been filled with a lot of jumbled things!
“Waaah!”
Lonis was startled, thinking her head was going to explode.
But then, Elus reminded her:
“Idiot fox, don’t look directly with your eyes.”
“Huh?”
“Look with your heart, just like when you copied the Dark Abyss back then.”
“!”
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Lonis was stunned, and after her emotions calmed down, she realized that she could finally understand what was written in the book.
Ordinary books are flat, composed of hundreds and thousands of planes to form a space, becoming three-dimensional creations.
But this Book of Fate?
It was three-dimensional.
Through countless parallel three-dimensional spaces, countless possibilities from humanity’s past and future, it formed something called time.
All the data within was enough to make Lonis gasp in astonishment. Therefore, she only took one glance and shifted her gaze away.
…
“The technology of the Supreme beings is truly amazing, isn’t it? Let alone using it, even understanding it has become a difficult task… Senior Isumi, did you find anything?”
Lonis turned her head, preparing to ask for Isumi’s opinion. But at that moment, she heard a muffled groan.
“Uh?”
“Senior?”
“No, it’s nothing… I just suddenly saw so much knowledge, I’m a bit… unable to accept it.”
The muffled groan came from Isumi. However, Isumi quickly shook her head and regained her composure: “Juniors, I’ve already seen it… Luo Bei was using the power of the Book of Fate to save all the crew members.”
“Ah?”
“Through the Book of Fate, she rewrote the destinies of herself and all the crew members. Originally, they were supposed to be turned into objects by the evolvers, but before that, she wrote that the Cygnus encountered rare time turbulence, and everyone ‘temporarily’ turned into particles and escaped into the void.”
“!”
“Actually, Captain Luo Bei’s approach was very clever. If she had our powers, she could have also saved all the crew members… However, she couldn’t decipher the Supreme beings’ text, so she had a fundamental deviation in her understanding of the concept of ‘temporary’.”
“Senior Isumi means…”
“Mm, Captain Luo Bei thought they would only be in the time turbulence for a few hours before returning. But for the universe, tens of thousands of years are just a fleeting moment.”
“Ah?”
“And according to my calculations, they will return to our reality after 3716114514 hours… and the location of each small Book of Fate is each person’s return coordinate.”
“3… 3716114514 hours?! How long is that?”
“About 424214 years?”
“400,000 years, then the Cygnus is definitely finished! When they return, they won’t even see this world.”
Lonis slapped her forehead. In reality, disappearing for such a long time was essentially no different from being dead—if human civilization survived until then, it would have either surpassed the solar system or ascended.
“Then what should we do?”
“We can only venture into the time turbulence and bring everyone back.”
Isumi took a deep breath and said, “Let me do this. After all, only my observation can…”
“No, Isumi, what are you talking about?”
“Elus…”
“Of course, we have to do this together. Little idiot, touch the Book of Fate. We’re going to start an adventure.”
