He explained gently and patiently. He seemed to have a good temper and looked at her with beautifully shaped but extremely cold eyes.
"I know everything about you and can travel through time, but I cannot enter the time and space before I was born, so I cannot set foot in your world."
Tang Rou's hands and feet were cold and she was trembling slightly.
Here it comes again, this kind of biological instinctive oppression and fear.
He was born in the future, Tang Rou recalled that he seemed to have revealed this information before.
Looking up at the beer billboard, Tang Rou remembered something again and turned to ask him,
"So, was it you who showed me the destroyed Ocean Research Institute before? Why did I see the future?"
Narcissus did not speak. He lowered his eyes and studied the pot on the table with a curious expression.
"I've never tasted this, is it delicious?"
"It's quite delicious." Tang Rou did not forget her question, "You haven't answered me yet."
He raised his hand and touched the copper pot. The hot pot embedded in the center of the table and filled with sticky, stale and unknown substances instantly took on a new look, except that it was empty and lacked ingredients.
Narcissus raised his head and asked curiously, "Do I need to put something else in? For example, human food."
Tang Rou stopped talking.
Facing her eyes that insisted on getting the answer, he finally gave up and sighed.
"You have his blood in your body, and because of his rebirth, you will be affected."
He looked thoughtfully at the billboard not far away and said softly, "I just let you activate that ability in advance. As for what you will see, I can't predict."
So, he is gambling.
Tang Rou noticed something was wrong, "You want to change the future? Why?"
Looking at the billboard that had changed compared to the last time, she vaguely guessed the answer, "Because...me?"
He stopped smiling and raised his eyes that reflected no shadow to look at her. His abyss-like eyes revealed complex emotions that she couldn't understand.
And, sad.
"Can you tell me what happened?"
He shook his head, "That would be breaking the rules."
Tang Rou wanted to say something else, but she felt a sense of dizziness coming over her face. The world in front of her was like the moon in the water being disturbed, spreading for a moment and then slowly gathering again.
"Time is running out. If he notices that you were brought here by me, I may never see you again."
Narcissus smiled and said to her, "Next time, when you are not with him, I will come to you again."
…
"Welcome to my world."
As the mermaid said these words, his lips were close to her forehead, and he touched her again, then let her go.
But when he touched her eyes, the upward curve of his lips froze.
Cold fingers touched Tang Rou's face, and the metal eye mask almost stuck to her face.
"Rou, where did you go just now?"
Tang Rou asked back, "Have I not always been here?"
The future Narcissus said that if he was discovered by a mermaid in this time and space, she might never see him again.
But it was obviously difficult for the mermaid to deal with it with just one sentence. His lips pursed slightly and there was no warmth anymore.
He didn't allow the unknown threat that was out of his control to appear next to her, but before he could do anything, she was embraced by her and cast a restraining spell.
Tang Rou hugged the mermaid's broad and cold shoulders, hugged him into her warm but thin arms, buried her head in his neck, and asked softly, "Why did you bring me here?"
This is an active hug.
It was enough to make him forget everything for a short time and not be able to ask another word.
"Because it's very quiet here."
The mermaid bent down to meet her embrace, feeling the warmth of this moment with great nostalgia.
He waited for her all day, because she said she would come back to see him soon, so he sat in front of the sofa and waited.
But she never came, and he waited until he could "see" what she was doing with his own eyes, almost burning his sanity with jealousy and anger.
He moved closer to Tang Rou's neck and rubbed it gently, indulging in the light fragrance coming from her hair, the cyan blood vessels flowing with blood, the slightly beating pulse, and all these elements he liked, a complete
she.
Tang Rou patted his back, like a trainer who had mastered the art of smoothing the fur of wild beasts.
Maybe she is such a breeder herself.
Tang Rou stroked down through the shirt on the mermaid's upper body and touched the fish's tail exposed under the shirt, which was slightly dry and cold.
"Didn't you take a dip in the water?"
He shook his head, "Waiting for you."
"Then you have to soak in water." Tang Rou thought of the phrase 'giving up control of the soul', and felt a pain in her heart for no reason, "You should love yourself more and protect yourself."
There is half a chain hanging on the beautiful fish tail, and there is a chip embedded in it that will explode if you are not careful.
"This way, people who are worried about you won't feel sad."
She closed her eyes and said softly, "So, don't get hurt, okay?"
The mermaid hummed softly.
There is no light in this world, which is similar to the world created by Narcissus in the future, but not the same.
That world is vast and no different from the real world.
But now the world is completely dark outside, and it doesn't seem to have spread to more places.
So these two are not the same place.
Tang Rou let go of her hand and asked the merman, "Can you see the future?"
The mermaid suppressed the sadness caused by leaving her embrace and said warmly, "See part of it. When you were young, you could see many futures, but you can't see them now."
"Why?"
His thin red lips curled up in a lingering arc, imagining something that made his heart soften.
"Because I can't see my own destiny. It seems that your future is closely connected with mine." His smile widened, becoming more and more like a living creature with emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy. "I'm very happy, Rou."
Tang Rou's heart dropped.
In the future, he will "give up" control of his soul, and "giving up" is a very subjective act.
Why would he give up?
Why commit suicide?
Why don't you want to live anymore?
Why...can't we see her future?
Tang Rou fell into a kind of panic. She couldn't bear the weight of a life, and she couldn't even imagine the possibility that the mermaid gave up control of her soul because of her.
She began to desperately recall every moment she had spent with the future Narcissus, recalling everything he had said.
When they first met, Narcissus once said that in that world, people might meet people they have missed, people who have died.
The ones with clear shapes are the dead people, but because Abel was still living in another world that day, his shape was not clear, and he looked like he was embedded in the wall.
Tang Rou asked him at that time, "What about you? Your form is also very clear. Are you a revenant?"
His answer was——
"Except for me, I am not in the boundary between life and death."
So... where was Tang Rou at that time? Was she within the boundaries of life and death?
Tang Rou remembered again that he said——
-"Actually, I only met you once."
-"That's you, a clone of your own kind."
-It was a humanoid weapon they made with their own hands and was dubbed the "Savior" to control us."
For a moment, she seemed to have a glimpse of the future.
Tang Rou guessed it.
Why can she always see untimely loneliness in the person in her dream?
Why does he always say, come watch the stars with me;
Have a drink with me;
Take a walk with me;
Stay with me for a while;
stay with me...
…
Why?
He often pulled her into that future world and observed Tang Rou's every expression with curiosity.
Tang Rou behaved impatiently most of the time, like a sloth with fried hair, irritated but silent.
But no matter how bad she looks, the other person seems to be very happy.
I like teasing her and even look forward to seeing more of her expressions.
Now, she seems to understand a little bit.
Because, that world does not have her.
Before reaching the future where he is, Tang Rou is probably dead.