The girl was laughing, running back and forth in a field full of flowers, and leaping into the flowers.
She danced in the sunshine, weaving garlands with flowers, and had a great time.
At the same time, her sister was looking at the blue sky thoughtfully, with endless depth in her eyes.
"Morgan?" The girl approached her sister and put a wreath on her head: "It's such a rare good weather, why don't you enjoy it? Why do you have such a gloomy expression?"
"Because it's not worth it, Vivian." Her sister replied, "Because it's all fiction."
"...What are you talking about, Morgan?" The girl asked with a puzzled face: "What fiction? I don't understand."
"Everything." Her sister said: "From the earth under our feet to the sky we look up to. Every flower, every grass, every tree, even the insects, and even ourselves, are all fictitious things. We are just a cocoon of information.
Dispensable, redundant data. Everything in this world is controlled by those outside the world.
If they find it interesting, they keep reading. If they find it boring, they use [darkness] to destroy our world and reset everything.
And I... after learning all this, I cannot tolerate this behavior no matter what."
"So what are you talking about, Morgan?" Vivian asked even more confused: "The fever burned you down yesterday?"
"Just wait and see, Vivian." Morgan turned to look at her sister, her big black eyes revealing deeper depth: "I will... protect you. I will... let all of you, from
Get out of this endless cycle.
Even if it turns the world black, I won't hesitate.
You people who know nothing can just watch from there.
Anyway, it’s just a pointless struggle.”
"Morgan..."
What else did the girl want to say back then?
But the words "I don't know anything" from my sister's mouth deeply hurt the girl's heart.
(What does it mean to know nothing? Don’t think that you always know everything.)
(Watch it. I will understand it too.)
(Understand everything. Know all the truths in this world.)
From that moment on, the girl's thirst for knowledge began to awaken, and continued to expand as the years went by.
Vivian opened her eyes and felt like she had had a long dream.
The red light flickered. It flickered slowly in the darkness where one couldn't even see anything.
"Is it...you...?" She looked through the hatch of the survival cabin and saw the darkness outside.
And that red light flashing in the darkness is actually the little golem in the same medical room.
The golem's energy is about to run out. This is the red light on the battery box on its chest as a warning.
It was originally an engineering golem. It contained a powerful and extremely durable power source that allowed it to continue working for several months without the need to recharge. Logically speaking, the power source in its body could not be exhausted so easily.
Could it be that she has been sleeping in this darkness for a long time... months have passed?
No. Vivian glanced at the control panel next to her and confirmed the time...and the surrounding temperature. The mystery was solved immediately. Only a few hours had passed. But the temperature of this space had increased.
It reaches an unusually high temperature... twenty-five degrees Celsius. This is not at all like the temperature that the cold deep sea should have.
Then Vivian immediately understood that the little golem was using the energy in its own body to heat the surrounding seawater.
(What a little fool.)
There is obviously a temperature maintenance system in the life-support cabin, and there is no need for it to use up energy to heat the seawater. But it still does this... it uses up all the energy, regardless of the risk of permanent shutdown, and still does this.
At this time, Vivian didn't know that it was precisely because the little golem did this that it brought about a series of causal changes like the butterfly effect, and finally saved them.
A few seconds later, a huge robotic arm suddenly tore open the wall of the already damaged medical room.
Seeing all this through the life-saving cabin, and seeing the bright light coming from the bow of the huge ship outside, she just breathed a sigh of relief, and then lost consciousness.
I don't know how much time passed, but when Vivian woke up, she saw a kitten's face.
No, little leopard face. Her son's face.
"Mommy——" Seeing Vivian wake up, Hal protracted his tone, hugged his mother and shouted: "It's great that you're okay, meow~!"
"Silly boy, how could anything happen to mommy?" Vivian touched her son's head and whispered.
"But dad is better than him——"
"Palamedes..." Vivian was silent for a moment, thinking about how to explain this to the children.
"What's wrong with Dad?" Seifer and Seglade had already walked into the ward. "Why did Dad turn into a stone statue again in the life-support cabin?"
"He was defeated by...someone. In the thick fog of the [Nimulated Great Storm], someone..." Wei Wei'an tried to explain simply: "I am preparing for the ignition of the spacecraft engine.
Someone attacked us. He went out... to stop that person."
"Who is that person?"
"I don't know. They were fighting in the thick fog. When I found out that after the fight was over, the man came back with him who was defeated and dying." Vivian shook her head: "I only wanted to check Paramedis's injuries, not
As soon as he could see the man's face clearly, he ran away. And... the power of Palamedes' Emerald Knight was taken away, and he turned back into an ordinary person. Then he was seriously injured and began to petrify."
"...How is it possible, meow."
"I know this is impossible, but this is what actually happened. It stands to reason that the Green Knight's power is permanent and an absolutely irreversible process. But...but he just changed back. And he just...has nothing to do with it.
Logically, it turned into a stone statue again."
All of this has gone beyond the cognizable scope of science. Vivian thought she had studied all her life and knew a lot about the secrets of this world. However, when she actually faced these unsolvable mysteries, she realized how ignorant she was.
"Is there any possibility that the ancient gods and humans will intervene?" a voice asked, and the Knight King Arthur slowly walked into the room.
"I don't know. It's possible. If it's ancient people, they might be able to deprive Palamedes of the power of the Green Knight. After all, the demons are just a tool race of ancient people." The succubus tried to calm down and analyze.
Said: "But petrification...why? How is it done?"
"Is it possible that part of the Emerald Knight's power was left in his body, allowing him to petrify his body when he was about to die, to temporarily avoid the threat of death?" The King of Knights asked again: "Merlin Napala
The surface tissue of the Midis stone statues has been tested. The petrification is not like the petrification caused by keratinization after cell necrosis. It is more like the cells actively keratinized and "frozen" themselves. It is said that there is a way to this petrified state.
Cancel it?"
"I don't know. I... saw this phenomenon for the first time." The succubus was a little confused.
"Cheer up, Vivian!" the King of Knights urged: "If even you give up, no one will be able to save Palamedes!"
The succubus was silent for a moment.
She didn't know what to do. Everything was unsolvable and unknown. Her mind was in confusion like never before, because the terror brought by the unknown made it impossible for her to think calmly.
However, if she does nothing, Palamedes who turned into a stone statue may really die. Even if he does not die, he will be sealed in the cold stone statue for a long time, just like
Same as before.
She has been waiting for him to wake up from the stone statue for seven years. For seven years, she has been preparing for the worst all the time, and also has the most optimistic thoughts all the time. At the beginning, she was afraid of Para
Midis will suddenly break into irreparable stone fragments, and it is hoped that Paramedes will be able to lift the petrification and wake up one day.
It is a contradictory existence full of despair and hope. Vivian has been doing this for seven years. Will she do the same thing again, and she doesn't know how long it will last?
No! It’s time to make it stop!
She got up from the hospital bed.
"It doesn't matter if you get up now? It's better to lie down for a while." Arthur advised.
"My self-healing ability is fine." She said, "I'm just a little weak. I can recover after half a day's rest... I want to leave for a while and go back to the hometown of the Conwell family."
Arthur touched his chin: "Is there anything there?"
"Whether there is anything, I'm not sure yet." The succubus replied: "But I think the elders of the Cornwell family should know a little bit about the secrets of the succubus' blood. And the secrets they know may be able to
The petrified Palamedes recovered."
"It is logically correct, although there is no basis for it." The King of Knights blinked.
"Isn't science like this? Keep trying and verifying a hypothesis. If it fails, set up another hypothesis and continue to try and verify. [Try and Error], that's what it is." Vivian smiled bitterly:
"So I at least have to try first. If this hypothesis does not hold true, I will change to another hypothesis and continue to try. Until the petrification of Palamedes is lifted. I will not give up - because I am
,the scientist."
She turned to look at the three little leopards present: "I will leave your father to you to take care of him. Take good care of him until I find the antidote and come back, okay?"
"Of course, Aunt Vivian, meow." "Okay, meow." "Hal will protect daddy, meow!" the three leopard men said in unison.
Then little Hal naturally leaned into Vivian's arms and hugged his mother.
"You guys...want to give me a hug too?" Vivian asked with a smile.
"No need to meow..." "We'll forget about it, meow..." The other two leopards blushed and looked away. Hal was still a child, so he had no inhibitions, but the two brothers saw his younger brother's face sunk in front of Vivian.
I couldn't help but feel embarrassed in those two big spheres. They were adults, so they would naturally avoid it.
"Is it better for dad to just stay in the life-support cabin like this, or is it better to take him out of the cabin and put him on the hospital bed to rest?" Seifer asked.
"It's up to you to decide." The succubus replied, "I believe in your decision."