Soul of Burning Steel

This is a story about a little boy that happened a long time ago.

That year, the boy was nine years old. There was a father who was a technical director in a big company, a mother who wrote full-time at home, and a sister who was four years younger than him. The four lived in a small country in the middle of the mainland, and their lives were peaceful. Without ups and downs.

The father is generous but busy, and the mother is strict at home. The five-year-old sister is well-behaved and sensible, but occasionally adds chaos to the family. The boy’s life is not perfect or miserable. It is just an ordinary, normal family, normal. Happiness.

But there is one thing that always makes boys feel distressed, and that is the expectations of their parents, teachers, and even classmates and playmates.

——What do you want to do in the future? What are you interested in? My child is so smart, and he will definitely be able to go to a good college. My student's grades are not bad, so I should work hard in this area.

This is the habit of the Siberians. They like order and a life that can be predicted and controlled. From social engineering, national construction, to child training, planning for the future, no matter what, they always like to make a lot of preparations in advance, through various techniques and arrangements, to make everything proceed according to their own ideas.

The Sibyans can make everything run according to their own ideas, even in the world—this is what the central government boasted in the news at that time. At that time, the Sibyans had developed facilities that could control the weather and suppress earthquakes. They boasted The whole nature has been in human hands.

So the Siboyans should be like this.

You should do this, you should do that, you should be such a person, you should be such a person-under the arrangement of parents, young boys study mathematics, practice musical instruments, he thinks about exercises, studies physics, and he is tutoring Accompanied by books in the class, transcribe notes in the school, he travels back and forth in various places every day, following the requirements of his parents to learn one knowledge after another, striving to become the person they look forward to.

As for his own ideas, the boy hasn't yet, and he doesn't care, because he doesn't mind living according to other people's plans. This is true for most of the Siberians. At home, they must obey their parents, at school, they must obey their teachers, and if they work in society, they must obey their bosses and officers. Most Siberians live according to the ideas of others. It is the norm in society.

The boy is not dissatisfied with this. He earnestly follows the advice of his elders and accomplishes what they expect, and life continues in the ordinary like this. If there are no accidents, the boy should be a step by step with him in the future. Father-like high-level technicians become part of the middle and high class of society.

However, this peaceful life did not last long.

On a calm summer night, a huge meteor shower that suddenly obscured the entire night sky and even the entire sky of the Siberian World fell from the sky. Its appearance was completely beyond the expectations of the Central Observatory, and there was no warning before this.

In the exclamation of the pedestrians on the roadside, streamers flashed across the sky, these colorful, almost no meteorite with the same color appeared out of thin air, and then disappeared out of thin air, obviously everyone has seen these meteors from the sky. Descending, but no one found even the slightest fragment of meteorite.

That year, the boy was ten years old. It was his tenth birthday. When he was looking up at the meteor in the night sky with his parents on the balcony of his home, he saw a meteor shining with deep blue light descending from the sky and falling into his eyebrows.

And the next day, the world was changed.

Because, in the past, the ‘super powers’, who only existed in legends and movies, appeared in this world without miracles.

The so-called superpowers are those who possess abilities beyond the ability of ordinary humans. The first discovered superpower was a drunk middle-aged man, probably because of socializing, but he drank too much alcohol in his sleep and lit a big fire in his sleep. The blazing flames spewed out from his mouth and nose with his snoring. The entire bar and even the surrounding half of the block were burned to the ground, and hundreds of people died as a result. This immediately caused a great social panic and made the central government quickly heightened vigilance against the existence of superpowers.

The whole world has shown great yearning and fear for this kind of unknown power that can easily kill other people. They want to get it for themselves, but they don't want others to get it. In order to judge whether this middle-aged man should be sentenced to death, The lawyers from both sides launched a long tug of war in the Siberian Grand Court, which aroused great social discussions.

But soon, no one paid attention to that man anymore...because after that, other kinds of superpowers began to appear in front of the stage.

Some of them have physical abilities beyond ordinary people, some can control water flow, some of them can become thunder and lightning, and some can fly into the sky invisibly... Thought power, frost, mind peeping, memory manipulation, gravitational repulsion, transformation and transformation... People with these superpowers come from all corners of society, including high-level officials of the central government, and homeless people nestling in the corners of the street. Since the emergence of these superpowers, they have quickly disrupted social order.

Some of them rely on their abilities to do evil, and some rely on their abilities to do good. For various reasons, superpowers soon started fighting with each other. They fought in the streets and fought in the square. The government was helpless, the police and The military may have a little deterrent to those with weaker superpowers, but for those with powerful capabilities, they have nothing to do. They are no longer afraid of normal weapons of war, whether missiles or lasers are useless, even if It is a long-range sniper that will be discovered by a strange sixth sense, even if the most powerful ones are attacked by fission bombs, they may not die.

The emergence of super powers and the contradictions between them have quickly affected the stability of the entire society, even if the government has begun to incorporate some ordinary super powers on a large scale, because there are still a steady stream of super powers awakening, and nothing Irregularities, including criminals, mental patients and anti-social lunatics. Their existence has caused the entire central government to be overwhelmed. The Sibyans without superpowers are collectively panicked. They feel that their peaceful life can no longer be controlled. His life is also in the hands of a super person who doesn't know if it is a lunatic.

But the boy has a lot of free time because of this. The cram schools on the streets have almost all closed, and many schools have even lost their normal teaching functions. Countless students can only stay at home and wait for the day when classes are reopened, but this day is nowhere in sight, because of super ability. The relationship between readers and ordinary people is gradually intensifying.

As long as individuals have wisdom, personality, and different positions and thoughts... As long as there are ‘different’ between individuals, there will be conflicts between individuals.

And the huge gap in strength brought about by superpowers will magnify the contradiction hundreds or thousands of times.

Before there were superpowers, there was a quarrel between the two people. As long as it was not too intense, no one would choose to do it, because they could all be injured and both could be punished.

But if one of the parties has superpowers, he only needs to move his fingers and take a look at a distance across a few streets, or he can send his power into the opponent through the crowd and choose the time to explode. Easily kill the unpleasant guy in front of you, and no one can find evidence. Superpowers are too convenient and powerful. Before their abilities, ordinary people are probably not much stronger than ants. This is still an ordinary energy system. If it is a superpower of the spirit system, perhaps a look is your self. Personality will completely collapse and become a puppet licking each other's shoes.

If there is a conflict between the two parties, would those who have the ability not do it? Perhaps, there are always people who want to believe in the qualities of others and pin their lives on the morality and self-control of others.

All in all, the world today only maintains a fragile balance. The relationship between super-powers and ordinary people is tense, but the relationship between super-powers is also extremely contradictory and cannot be united.

And the last straw that overwhelms this fragile balance is a few simple messages.

Through battles, those with the most powerful superpowers discovered that their abilities can actually be improved by killing other superpowers and absorbing the origin of the opponent’s abilities - and at the same time, by not knowing who it is. According to the clues, they also discovered that the central government was secretly conducting research on the "anti-superpower interference field" in an attempt to wipe out all superpowers.

Thus, the war between super-powers and super-powers, between super-powers and ordinary people, began abruptly and unnaturally.

That year, the boy was twelve years old. On the day the war began, he was at home with his parents, celebrating his sister’s eighth birthday on the second floor of the house. While cutting the cake for his sister and lighting the candles, the boy inadvertently turned his head and looked out the window. Then, he saw a piece of cake. Red light flashed, and hot rays passed through his home from left to back, shredding all the walls on the first floor.

At the moment when it was too late to exclaim, the boy’s home, as well as the entire surrounding street, were completely destroyed and began to collapse rapidly, but at this extremely dangerous moment, the boy found that he was curled up because of sudden fear. The body, at this time, has re-unfolded, and he felt an inexplicable force spreading through his body, which made his speed many times faster, and actually avoided all the dangers directly, making everything around him seem like slow motion. Like.

At this time, the boy's eyes were shining with magnificent blue light. This energy overflowing light is the most obvious feature of the "superpowers"!

At this moment, for the boy, time seemed to stand still. After realizing that his home was being attacked by a superpower, he immediately turned around nervously and looked in the direction of his parents and sister. At this time, the boy's parents were being attacked by superpowers. The collapsed ceiling of the building pressed their legs, their expressions were horrified, they seemed to be exclaiming, their eyes were filled with confusion and fear, and his sister had been buried by the broken rock and bricks, only a small hand was left exposed. ...

The cold in my heart from the beginning, I gradually became hopeful. Although I don’t know why and don’t understand what his abilities mean, the trembling boy now knows that now he may have the ability to help his loved ones. At this time, he just wanted to save his relatives as much as possible. Thinking of this, the extremely nervous boy immediately ran to the nearest sister, and ran to the layers of bricks and tiles.

The boy wanted to clean up the debris and rescue his sister from the debris, but it was not until he struggled to carry a large gravel away, the boy understood.

He can't save anyone.

Even with the awakening of super powers, he is just a twelve-year-old boy, a teenager. His instinct tells him that now he has maintained this state for less than five seconds at most, and for five seconds, he can’t move. The gravel on the younger sister's body, there is no way to drag the parents who were held down by the ceiling from the weight... He can't save anything.

The rock was pressed down at an extremely slow speed, and his sister's hand twitched at an extremely slow speed. The boy turned his head blankly and looked at his parents. Even if his time was accelerated, he could see his parents clearly. The slow change of expression in his eyes was caused by the gradual change from being helpless to fear and panic...despair.

The dazed fear of being attacked and the unawareness of awakening ability. Therefore, I think of the horror of my parents and sisters when they are killed, and feel the joy of saving them, and now, little by little, waiting for the last moment to come—the time is prolonged. It is meaningless, he can't redeem anything, he can only let himself be tortured by the pain that has become more permanent-the boy suddenly roared, he absolutely does not admit this fact!

Five...four...three...two...one...the boy crazily wanted to remove the gravel from his sister. He shouted desperately and threw a rock brick behind him with all his strength, but The time is too short and there are too many debris. When the duration of the ability is over, the time starts to flow again...Bright red blood spills from the cracks in the rock, and the little hands convulsively lifted, and then stopped convulsing, while the parents groaned in incomparable pain. It also echoed in the boy's ear.

Bang.

The boy sat amidst the rubble and gravel. He was exhausted. A strong sense of exhaustion from nowhere spread throughout his body. He stared blankly at the pile of gravel overflowing with blood in front of him, watching himself being drawn by the rocks. With a mouthful of hands, he looked at his parents whose legs were crushed on the side, and listened to the cry of pain and wailing, his mind was blank... At this time, a violent explosion sounded in the distant city, igniting a raging fire, and it was bright. The light of the fire made the surroundings look like daylight, and under the orange-yellow fire light, the boy's distressed and desperate eyes shone with dimmed blue light.

Inside the pupil, the pointer of the clock rotates, and even if it delays, it will never stop.

It's like fate.

And this is the war, and the prologue to the boy's story.

...

In the vast hall of the palace, the majestic forty-two metal iron pillars support the towering dome, making it gradually disappear into the dark shadows. On the slightly sunken floor of the hall, rows of mysterious and complicated runes extend toward the center. , The magnificent array formed by countless regular patterns is shining with light blue light at this time, and countless light particles are floating and disillusioned in mid-air while the energy is surging, making the magnificent hall of the palace almost dreamlike.

But now, there is a ‘person’ slowly awakening from the throne in the middle of the hall. He opened his eyes little by little, and there was a trace of undetectable light and dark fluctuations in the flashing dark blue pupils, and the hands of the clock rotated. But soon, these sorrowful fluctuations dissipated and turned into incomparable indifference.

"dominate."

The voice of the immature little girl rang in his ears. It was a petite soul puppet floating in mid-air. At this time, the puppet’s calm and seldom ups and downs came from: "The 319th world line replacement failed. , Your observation failed, and you fell into a dream of the possibility of a long river of time collapsing."

"is it."

Above the throne, the man was silent. After a long time, he turned his head and said in an indifferent and calm voice like the soul puppet: "I have another dream that I can't even capture hope."

The man kept silent, and the hall of the hall was suddenly silent. The slight buzzing caused by the flow of magic power echoed between the light particles of magic power and the dark dome. It can be seen that their light is gradually fading, as if they have lost some important support, and the hall In the middle, the feeling of dreams also faded quickly, as if returning to reality from an unknown field.

And just before the light was about to dissipate completely, he spoke again.

"Then start the 320th time."

The man’s voice was calm, and because of his words, the surrounding time seemed to stop. Whether it was the fading magical light or the fading dream, everything was frozen and stagnant. The only exception was the petite floating beside the throne. The soul puppet, and this soul puppet is also respectfully in the air at this time, bowing his head and kneeling: "Follow your instructions,'Time Turner','Master of Destiny,' Your Majesty Fatrolvi."

"Now we are preparing for the 320th World Line replacement~www.novelmtl.com~ to link the river of existence, start to ignite the initial light, and start the ‘observer’ system."

In the huge and magnificent hall of the hall, countless stars lit up, the light blue light flourished, and the mysterious runes surged layer by layer, forming two mighty streams of light, one surging and the other unwavering. Up.

And above the two rivers, the dome shrouded in dark shadows began to glow, with millions of light clusters that were like souls being ignited, and billions of stars bloomed in turn, as if the dome forged by the stars showed a magnificent posture. ——Starlight flickers, it seems to shroud everything in the world, reflecting the entire world and the multiverse.

And under such a dome, the river of light that was originally unreliable and calm as stagnant water finally began to tremble slightly, as if a drop of water fell in the middle of the river surface, and the layers of concentric circular ripples began to spread. Until it covers the entire river surface.

Until then, the calm and unwavering voice of the soul puppet came.

"Start the 320th observation."