A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

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At 5:55, the sun has started to set.

Beside an oasis twelve kilometers away from Rhode Island, it was like a family going out for a spring outing. Yabu had already put on the same outfit he came with, and sat on a blanket with the doctor and the little ones. above, quietly watching the light and shadow of the setting sun reflected on the lake in the center of the oasis.

Although in the background of dusk, there is an oasis in the front and a desert in the back, it is somewhat abstract to say that this is a spring outing.

Among the children, apart from Ifrit and Crystal Taldalia, the hidden heroes in this game, Rosemary is also here at the moment, growing like a plant on Yabu's body, motionless and not knowing what she is doing.

Yes, rosemary is there too.

The doctor thought that Yabu was just saying that he wanted to find Rosemary to apologize. Unexpectedly, in the last moment, he asked the doctor to bring Ifrit and Dalia over, and then he actually went to find her. A trip to rosemary.

Hey, you are really not afraid of death. Do you know what she proposes to do to you? Do you know that this child is the extreme of extremes? What do you think? Can you convince me with just a few words of apology...

Ah, convinced.

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Just when the doctor was already thinking about whether to go over and fish out the cloth, the other party came back with rosemary. It even seemed quite harmonious, like an old father carrying his daughter.

Looking at Rosemary with her hands around Yabu's neck, she seemed to have suddenly flipped from the back to the front of a coin at this moment. She directly betrayed her advanced status as an extremist and quietly pulled and lived on Yabu's body. It was as if he had turned into a good boy who was harmless to humans and animals and could not even hit a goose.

At least, that's what it looks like on the surface.

...This little guy is really good.

Doctors who are similar to each other when it comes to Yabu can feel that this little guy is definitely not as calm as he appears on the surface. He defected immediately because he knew that Yabu would definitely go back and couldn't stop him. It was better to stay here for the last time. Make a good impression.

But I know that the speed at which this person changes his face and defectes... A cat with a height of 1.4 meters 1.4 must have at least [-] meters [-] height.

"How long will it take for you to go back?"

Originally, due to the road conditions, the drive might take more than ten minutes, but with the help of Rosemary, it was reduced to 2 minutes, successfully allowing Yabu to accompany them to see the oasis in this last moment.

2 minutes is better to consider the bodies of Yabu and the doctor, otherwise it can fly faster.

"Eight, um..." Yabu covered his forehead and used his feelings to guess how long the time was left, "Maybe there are still 9 minutes."

"Really...there's only so much time left."

Yabu turned his head and looked at Dalia beside him. This little guy was using his Origin Stone skills to pull a water ball out of the lake. He was boiling the water ball to play with the beating flames in Ifrit's palm.

In order to make up for the link of transmitting passive information, Yabu has learned about Dalia's goal from Ifrit.

——I want family and friends.

I want someone to accompany me who won’t hit me, scold me, or dislike me.

When a child is about to die, what he holds in his heart is not his own life, but a desire for someone to accompany him. Such a goal really makes people feel indescribably bitter.

It may sound difficult to achieve this goal, but in fact, it can be said that there is no simpler or even humble goal than this goal.

Just tell her that you want to be friends with her or that you will stay with her in the future.

From beginning to end, all it takes is this verbal word to accomplish this goal.

"Second brother, drink water."

"...Second brother is not very thirsty now, why don't you ask your eldest brother."

Looking at the ball of boiling water as hot as if it had just been boiled, Yabu, who had a clear understanding of his human identity, politely rejected the little guy's enthusiasm and reached out to rub the other person's head.

Except for Dalia, who still didn't know what was going to happen, and talked to Yabu from time to time, everyone else was unusually quiet. Even Ifrit rarely spoke except for occasionally interacting with Dalia. What.

If this was some kind of spring outing, it was really bad. There was no food in bamboo baskets. It was close to dusk, so the surrounding scenery was not bright, and the atmosphere was not very good. Even one of the people... Gone.

"Tell me, a person who has been lost in the desert for too long and is about to die will still be willing to leave the oasis and continue moving forward after encountering an oasis..."

"You can rest, or rather take a good rest, but you have to keep moving forward."

"You are really determined to go back... It's already here, and you're using things to describe people. Can't you fool me with a few words?" The doctor glanced at the cloth with a wry smile, and sighed to the side. , thinking back on the experiences of the past few days.

Maybe something was wrong from the beginning...

Of course she knew that force was not feasible, and that force and imprisonment would only make people want to escape.

But when the doctor really faced Yabu who insisted on going back to the past even though he knew he would die if he went back, the feeling of losing once made her unable to bear it a second time.

There are as many extreme methods as there are. If you are willing to be a heinous person, threaten the child's life, get rid of Dalia, or even use your own death as a bargaining chip to make Yabu speak, these are all ways to get rid of Dalia. Yabu's method of forcing him to death.

But the doctor chose the most common method of imprisonment. At least for her, this was the most common method among all the methods she could think of.

She did this just because extreme methods might make Yao Bu hate her, and she wanted to lock Yao Bu here first so that his spirit could accept staying here under her guidance.

But now it seems that this is not possible at all... In other words, no matter what method it is, it is destined to fail from the beginning...

Ah...it doesn't matter...

"I don't want to worry about time now, or whether you will definitely go back. I don't want to know anything else right now. I just want your answer. Is there any possibility that you will voluntarily stay with me here?"

"I will be with you, always."

"Ah, it's that story about you staying with me in my past again..."

"Doctor, I didn't mean to say that." Yabu stretched out his hand to signal the doctor to stop, looked at the doctor and said seriously, "I will accompany you, but not the me in the past."

"What did you say?"

There were no other sounds around, and in this open field, Yabu's not-so-loud voice sounded extremely clear.

Looking at the other party's cloth that seemed to be about to explain something important, the tacit understanding between the two made the doctor's whole body feel as if an electric shock was transmitted from his spine to his brain. The doctor's eyes, which had no hope of living life, slowly condensed. Really became serious.

She slowly sat up straight and looked into Yabu's eyes, indicating that she was listening.

"Children, you can also listen to these words. I don't have much time to explain them to you. I can let the doctor explain them to you later."

"Then, doctor, what I want to say is indeed a possibility. Now, you can think about it slowly."

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*it's over?Time to leave?

*The next step is to begin.

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Chapter 95 I just know a little more

Everything seems to be over.

Yabu was released from captivity, and the doctor gave up trying to force Yabu to stay. Everything seemed to be getting better, and Yabu seemed to just need to wait for the time to be repatriated, and then go home.

...but is this right?

Look at the atmosphere around here. The doctor's expression at the moment is lifeless and lifeless, as if there is nothing left of a person who is hopeless in life. If this continues, he will only be an empty shell that can live in peace.

This is wrong. The current situation should not be the result.

From the beginning, Yabu wanted to break away from the doctor's imprisonment just to be able to communicate with the doctor, not to break away for the sake of breaking free.

For Yao Bu, everything he is doing now is just a prerequisite, all in order to make the doctor listen to what he is going to say next.

While not letting people dwell on the past, they should also leave people with hope for the future.

"You're sure I'm dead, aren't you, Doctor?"

"......"

Although the doctor knew clearly, it was because there was not much time left, so Yabu, who wanted to explain the matter quickly, was a little bit more direct in his words.

But when faced with questions like Yabu's, the doctor's expression fell unconsciously. He waved his fingers resentfully and kept pointing at Yabu: "Yes, he's dead! You will leave me forever. You abandoned me and promised to be a part of my future, but you bastard was absent! Liar!”

"That, no, I mean..."

"Okay, no need to explain, I understand why you said that." After a few fierce words, the doctor sighed softly, "You did die. In order to help others, you were killed..."

"Stop, doctor." Yabu stretched out his fingers and put them on his palms, making a pause gesture.

After hearing Yao Bu's stop, the doctor did not ask why. Instead, he immediately stopped talking and then looked at Yao Bu with a puzzled look, signaling for the other party to explain.

"...You don't need to tell me Doctor, it's enough to know this."

"Why, if you know why you died, maybe you can change it a little bit..." But then, the doctor understood, "Ha, that's it..."

What cannot be changed is that everything is doomed.

What the time traveler does is part of history. Whether he tells it or not, the final choice has already been determined, because that is how history is.

This may be a powerful tool for making a comeback at certain times, but it also gives people a deep sense of emptiness. Everything they do and the next thoughts are just what has happened in the past and will continue step by step.

"No, no, that's not why I won't let you say it, Doctor." Yabu quickly shook his head to deny the other party's negative thoughts and let the other party's attention return to himself.

There are two reasons why she couldn't let the doctor tell her why she died.

One is because, according to what the doctor said, he might have died while helping someone, or he might even have been killed by the person he was helping.

If he knew that it was a person in need of help who killed him for whatever reason, then he would inevitably be pre-emptive and wary when he saw the person.

She killed me, why did she kill me, was she an unstable person, did she have any hidden problems...

Such thoughts and first impressions are too damning for a stranger who already needs help.

What's more, sometimes it may be because you want to change a certain prophecy too much that your own actions actually contribute to the occurrence of that prophecy.

Instead of struggling like this in embarrassment because you want to change the future, thus involving those who need help, it is better to give your sincerity to those who need help.

However, this is for the sake of people who need his help in the future, but it is not what Yabu wants to tell the doctor now. What Yabu wants to tell the doctor is another reason, a reason to leave possibilities.

"Before that, let me answer your previous question, Doctor. I am indeed afraid of death, but it is nothing. Doctor, if you think about it from another angle, all of us will die, but the way and time may be different. , now I just know a little more.”

"No, others know that they will die, but their future is still full of surprises. They may die suddenly in the next second, or they may be able to enjoy their old age."

The doctor, who was good at using language and had almost never lost in normal battles with Yabu, immediately pointed out the problems in Yabu's words and refuted them.

"It is precisely because you don't know whether it is far or near that you don't worry. But you are different. You know that you will die, and you can tell it by looking at my or Rosemary's appearance and age. Death is about [-] years away from you. How far is it, aren’t you afraid?”

Sometimes, knowing more is not necessarily a bad thing.

"No, doctor, I don't know much, I only know one thing." As if waiting for the doctor to say this, Yabu smiled and stretched out his index finger towards the doctor, "I only know that I will be here Die helping others some time in the future.”

But what else?

"I asked you not to tell me, which means there are still many things that I don't know at all."

I don’t know how I died, I don’t know where I actually died.

Even more importantly.

"Doctor, are you really 100% sure of my death? Don't answer me. Think about it yourself."

"...?" The doctor held his chin with his hand, his eyes drifting downward, lost in thought.

"Similarly, next I will ask you a few questions, Doctor. Don't tell me the answers. Think about this problem yourself."

One.

"Doctor, did you hear the news of my death from someone?"

two.

"Have you really seen my death?"

three.

"Even if my death is confirmed, have you seen my body?"

Four.

"And the most important thing, and the last thing, is that even if you really see my body..."

Yabu put down the four raised fingers, raised his index finger and pointed at himself.

"Have you ever gone back to check anything? Have you ever looked for anything related to me in this world?"

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*There are still unknowns, which is a good thing.

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Chapter 96 The unknown is no longer a mystery

I don’t know if it’s influenced by a novel in which the mascot is a giant octopus. People always seem to associate the unknown with fear.