Three days before Shi Deng's birthday, everyone started preparing.

It is now the end of July, the time when sunflowers are in full bloom. However, Shiguang's body has not fully recovered, so everyone tacitly did not travel far and prepared the birthday party in Yuanguang.

Although it was called a party, there were only a few of them participating.

Needless to say, Yuan Ting, the other two, and Chi Yu helped Uncle Fu prepare dinner.

"This is actually the birthday of the three of us. Brother Shi, Xiao Deng, do you have any birthday presents you want?"

Shi Deng has turned Xiao Deng back into human form these days.

When Xiao Deng first appeared, Cen Le was surprised and thought Xiao Deng was Shi Ge's child.

Although Shi Ge did not refute, Shi Deng still noticed that he was a little depressed, so he explained with a smile, saying that the three of them were brothers.

The three brothers with such similar faces shocked Yuan Ting and the other two. However, after two days of surprise, everyone accepted this explanation.

Shi Ge said: "You are the only one who is celebrating your birthday."

Shi Deng raised his eyes.

The young man pulled Xiao Deng up from the bed and dressed him while saying to Shi Deng, "Xiao Deng is the past, and the past cannot celebrate the future's birthday. I am the future, and the future cannot celebrate the past's birthday."

The time is now.

Shi Deng understood the words that sounded like a tongue twister. "Brother Shi, don't be so serious. After going back in time, my appearance hasn't changed much. Time has also stood still for me."

Shi Ge: "If it was really still, your hair shouldn't have turned white."

Xiao Deng jumped twice on the ground, then put on her shoes, "I think Shi Ge is right."

Shi Deng: "You always say whatever he says is right, you are such a clingy person."

Xiao Deng hugged Shi Ge's legs and made a face at him: "I am you. You said you are clingy, so I am a clingy person~"

Shi Deng complained: "Brother Shi, look at him."

Shi Ge: "Why are you arguing with him?"

I don't know who this sentence is directed at.

Shi Deng pinched Xiao Deng's face and said, "If you don't listen, I'll turn you into a cat."

After they made a lot of noise, Uncle Fu called them out for dinner.

For the next three days, everything was normal.

On the birthday, Shi Ge went out under the pretext of buying a gift for Shi Deng.

Since the day Shi Deng said he had thought about it, he often locked himself in the room and no one knew what he was doing. He said he was preparing gifts, but now he was out buying them.

Shi Deng smiled at him for a long time and told him to come back quickly, otherwise he would miss the evening fireworks.

Brother Shi looked at him for a moment, smiled, and said okay.

——

Sky Valley.

The treatment I received this time in Tiangu was obviously different from usual.

The leader of Tiangu, who was rarely seen, came to greet the guests in person: "Mr. Shi, you are finally here."

This was the last energy transmission. Although I don’t know if it would be useful in resisting the dissipation of the essence, it was a hope. Having hope was always better than waiting to die.

Besides, they don't want anything from Tiangu.

Leader: "If Mr. Shi doesn't come soon, it will be too late. No matter what, the Yuansui should be escorted to the sea tomorrow at the latest according to the original custom."

"Although I don't know if the result will be better, after all, it's up to fate."

Brother Shi walked in front. His identity was kept secret from most people, and he still wore his hood.

The young man said calmly: "This is the last energy transmission. Don't bother the senior leaders of Tiangu. Just leave one behind."

This was agreed upon beforehand, so the leader naturally agreed, and his expression became more serious: "Don't worry. Also, is your husband feeling better?"

Shi Ge: “Yeah.”

Leader: "That's good, that's good. I'll take you here. Hope everything goes well!"

He held out his hand, and Shige briefly shook it.

The leader took everyone else away, leaving only Shi Ge and Chi Yu here.

The rear door was tightly shut.

In front of us is a vast square with a clean, majestic black stone surface, and complex patterns and flashes of light faintly visible inside.

A pure energy faintly emanated.

The essence is right below here.

Shi Ge stood aside and did not move for a long time.

Chi Yu glanced at him and said, "You seem very quiet today."

Although he doesn't talk much normally, this guy gave him a different feeling today.

He took a puff of cigarette and said, "This is different from what you said before. At the beginning, you didn't say that you would transfer energy once every one or two months. This last time, you delayed it for a long time."

"You're not hiding anything from me, are you?"

Shi Ge: "Just leave some time for yourself to make a choice."

Later than: "Choice?"

He didn't ask what the choice was, but just narrowed his eyes and asked, "What's your answer?"

Shi Ge walked to the center of the black table and sat down with his legs crossed.

He simply instructed: "If anything unexpected happens later, use space transfer to transfer me to your side. Don't worry about the rest. I will explain it to you when I wake up."

No matter how much energy is injected into the marrow, it will dissipate when it is time to dissipate.

He is not doing useless work, he is just establishing a peer-to-peer energy exchange link.

Before I could even ask what the accident was, the young man closed his eyes.

A blood-red stream of water gradually appeared around him, with a few green leaves floating on it, and a vast aura of life and death spread.

Suddenly, at a certain moment, the aura of the Yuan Sui weakened.

Shi Ge groaned, and the thin stream of water surrounding his body turned into a wide water curtain in the blink of an eye, enveloping Chi Yu who was at the edge of the stone platform.

Chi Yu looked at the blood on the young man's lips and his heart skipped a beat: "Hey..."

He didn't know whether it was because he was too strong or because he was trying to save face, but he had never seen this guy spit blood before. He must have been unable to hold back and was showing this expression.

After a few seconds, the weakened Yuansui Qi reappeared.

The young man's body gradually leaned back, and his whole body floated up. His wide hood slipped off, and several chains suddenly emerged from the void and tightly entangled him.

His waist was tightened into an extremely tough arc, rising upwards.

The chain was transparent white with strange red patterns on it. He had seen it before in Fengcheng. It was called the Time Chain. He counted them carefully and found that there were eleven in total.

At the same time, a dark crack suddenly appeared in the sky. The eleven chains that emerged from the crack were strangling the young man and suddenly rushed towards the crack.

In a moment of surprise: "!"

Without even having time to think, he instantly used space transfer and transferred the young man to his side a second before he sank into the crack.

Then he grabbed the young man's shoulders tightly.

As soon as he started, he realized that the huge force was still pulling Shi Ge into the crack. He finally managed to stabilize himself with all his strength, but his feet were still sliding towards that direction.

He couldn't help but take a breath of cool air.

Fuck, with this kind of force, this guy's waist won't be torn apart, right? !

Chi Yu hastily stretched out a hand to grab the chain on Shi Ge's body. As soon as the chain touched his palm, a piercing pain like needles penetrated into his mind.

He was caught off guard and startled, almost crying in pain, but he held it in, gritted his teeth and pulled it back with force, veins bulging on his forehead.

"Hey! Wake up! What are you doing?"

"If you don't wake up, I'm going to be eaten by this crack!"

As a top-level psychic, he was unable to do anything about the eleven chains. He watched helplessly as he and Brother Shi got closer and closer to the chains.

The deeper you go, the stronger the attraction becomes, becoming a force that cannot be defied.

What the hell is this?! I was late to think about scolding my father.

Just a hair's breadth away from the crack, Shi Ge's body was already halfway submerged. Chi didn't let go even though he was cursing, holding him tightly. He accidentally looked up at the crack, and his pupils shrank. He saw this scene in the crack -

[It was a dim yellow continent, and the blood-red sky was shrouded in an unknown atmosphere.

Black crows hovered over the dry bones, and the smell of pollution filled the air.

Not far away stood a city with two big characters on the city gate: Fengcheng.

Someone pushed open the city gate and walked out of the city. The young man's clothes could no longer be seen in their original color, his face was splattered with scattered bloodstains, and the aura around him was indifferent and numb.

There was also a trail of blood behind him.

But the young man did not show any sign of weakness, nor was there a single scar on his body.

He looked up at the sky expressionlessly, his eyes were lifeless, a dull gray-blue, like a blue gem covered in dust.

The young man stretched out his hand and tapped lightly in the void. Suddenly, a long and majestic river appeared around him. He seemed to be hesitating. He did not make the next move for a long time, and frowned slightly.

However, the next moment, something strange happened.

The river of blood he summoned spread out rapidly, and the ground in front of the young man began to collapse, as if the world began to collapse, and all the scenery in front began to turn into nothingness.

And in that void, countless time chains suddenly appeared, and then a young man's low voice came: "Time goes back."

The young man raised his eyes, and as if possessed by a magic power, he grabbed one of the chains.

The figure disappears instantly.]

The moment the young man disappeared, I finally saw his face clearly, and it was Brother Shi.

As Chi's mind was shocked, his hands loosened and the young man immediately sank into the crack, and the crack disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"grass!"

·

Abyss light.

Shi Deng felt a slight pain in his heart, his fingers trembled slightly, and the cup was knocked over and fell to the ground with a bang.

Uncle Fu groaned, "Chief, be careful."

Shi Deng suppressed the inexplicable uneasiness in his heart: "What time is it now?"

Uncle Fu checked the time: "Four sixteen in the afternoon."

"How long has Brother Shi been out?"

Uncle Fu: "He left at noon. How could it take so long to buy something?"

The sun is already setting, and if we are any later we won't be able to catch the fireworks show in the evening.

Shi Deng called, but the call didn't go through. He then called Chi Yu, but that didn't go through either.

The young man frowned, and was visibly anxious.

Xiao Deng patted his leg and said, "Maybe Brother Shi wants to give you a surprise?"

Shi Deng pursed his lips and said, "There is nothing he has promised me that he cannot do. Shi Ge said that if he likes fireworks, then he can definitely do it."

·

Abyssal underground.

The black mist surged for a moment, and the voice was somewhat puzzled: "The essence seems to have become weaker...?"

Yuan tried to breathe in the polluted air on this continent, hoping to break free from the shackles of the time chain in advance, but the next moment he felt the suffocating pressure that belonged only to his essence again.

It cursed, thinking it was a human conspiracy, and stopped trying.

·

Sky Valley.

A pale hand stretched out before the crack was completely healed, and then another hand appeared and forcibly pried open the two sides of the crack.

Two or three seconds later, the crack was torn apart again in the stunned eyes.

The young man took a step forward, each of his steps was extremely slow. After he completely stepped out of the rift, Shi Ge turned around and expressionlessly summoned the time chain to seal the rift shut. He was no longer seen.

The eleven chains on his body disappeared in the blink of an eye. Shi Ge fell to the ground, his face pale, his Adam's apple rolled, and he swallowed the fishy sweetness that welled up in his throat.

Shi Ge: "Did you see it?"

The scene behind the rift.

Chi Yu was really confused: "I say, what's going on with you..."

Shi Ge found a place to sit down casually. He didn't have much strength at the moment, so he said calmly: "That's what Shi Deng will look like in the future."

That is the future when the light does not choose to save the world.

Chi Yu was shocked: "But what I saw was clearly your face. Could it be possible?"

Shi Ge: "I am his future."

“…”

This news made Chi a little dazed. He took a long time to think about it and said, "You are his future, and Xiao Deng is the past? How is this possible? Although it is a time power, it is unheard of for them to exist in the same time and space together."

Shi Ge: "When the time lamp chose to go back in time, his future and past were separated. The crack you just saw is the break between the future and the present."

"To repair the fracture, I must be pulled back into the future."

The little lamp has not experienced a rift, because the past to the present is sequential, while the future to the present is reversed.

Reverse order is not allowed.

Except for the first time he went back in time, he appeared next to the Tokido unexpectedly. In the subsequent eleven times of going back in time, each time he came next to the Tokido, he went upstream.

Chi Yu: "Then those eleven chains on your body, are they pulling you back? I just saw that they didn't seem to disappear, are they still entangled with you?"

They just can't see it.

Shi Ge: "That's a small matter. Apart from some negligible pulling sensation, there is no impact at all."

There is always a price to pay for going against time, and this price is already very small.

Slowly fell silent.

Negligible pulling sensation?

It might even be able to tear a person's limbs off.

Why didn't he realize that this guy was so concerned about his reputation before? It's not like he had touched those chains before. Just holding them in his hands was like being pricked by needles. With eleven chains entangled around his body, this guy could still talk to him so calmly.

"...I saw from behind the rift that you also walked out of Fengcheng in the future. Then you summoned Huangquan."

I suddenly want to ask, why will you also walk out of Fengcheng in the future?

Did you also experience those things in Fengcheng?

Why did he summon Huang Quan after leaving Fengcheng, but there was no further action?

future.

What a mysterious and intriguing word.

Shi Ge: "At that time, I was faced with a choice and was a little entangled, so I held on to the time chain from the past."

"But I already know the answer."

Brother Shi seemed to have recovered a lot. He stood up, looked at the sunset rising in the sky, and smiled.

"The fireworks ceremony is about to start. If I'm late, someone will get angry and it will be hard to appease them. Let's go."

·

[Fuck, Bald Pen has not shown any scenes about Brother Shi, but this good guy shows off his ultimate move QAQ, what is he beating!]

[It is obvious that Shi Ge had also walked out of Fengcheng in the future. When he first revealed his identity as the leader of Shi Deng, he said that he wanted to get an answer from Shi Deng, so he let Shi Deng enter Fengcheng as well.

When Shi Deng came out of Fengcheng, he did not choose to hold Shi Ge, but held the illusory sunset. For Shi Ge, this is a choice, right?]

['The fireworks ceremony is about to begin, if I'm late...', Shi Ge has clearly been swallowed into the rift of the future, but he later tore the rift open again and walked out. Is it because of the agreement with Shi Deng? QAQ]

[Except for the first time he returned to the present, was it Shi Ge who took the initiative to run towards the Shi Deng in the following eleven times?]

[The eleven chains correspond to the eleven rushes, and the chains wrapped around the body are the price.]

[#图#The pulling force I felt when I caught Shi Ge late.

#Picture# The expression of pain when he was slow to grasp the chain.

#Picture# When Shi Ge said there was no impact at all, he looked very calm.

I mean, the chain that appeared when Shishige played the Two Worlds song is not a good thing. If you have this thing wrapped around you, won’t you be miserable every day?]

[The past is going to the present in order, without cost, so Xiao Deng is safe. The future is going to the present in reverse order, against the rules, so Shi Ge has a chain like punishment on his body]

[What Shizai thought was companionship was actually someone coming back to him time and time again. If Shizai knew about this, he would be heartbroken.]

[Is it possible that Shi Ge did something to the Yuan Sui? Shi Zai seems to be hiding something as well. I bet that after Shi Zai’s birthday, someone will definitely be killed in the Yuan Sui incident.]

[Be brave, maybe two people.]

[I just want to see how the bald man can be treated. The worst that can happen is that everyone dies. If I cry, I will kneel down and call everyone daddy.]

A question popped up quietly:

[Li Tao, Brother Shi walked out of Fengcheng without any injuries on his body, so the bloody trail left by Brother Shi, was it because the people of Fengcheng hurt him, or did he kill everyone in Fengcheng?

Or maybe, the people who survived in Fengcheng were actually people with special powers, and Shi Ge killed them all, intending to destroy the world?]

As soon as this question was raised, a heated discussion immediately broke out.

Each side held its own opinion and the argument continued.

But their discussion was doomed to be fruitless, as Bald Pencil did not depict all that Shi Ge had experienced, and the future would always remain a mystery.

No one knew what the young man, who always had a cold expression but occasionally showed a hint of tenderness, was thinking after he walked out of Fengcheng.

·

Shi Ge's going out to buy gifts was just an excuse.

He went out at noon, and now the sun was setting. If he returned without a gift, Shi Deng would inevitably become suspicious.

He asked Chi Yu to go back first, and he went for a walk on the streets on both sides of the Tiangu Training Base.

This place was very familiar. He had walked here countless times with Yuan Ting and the other two. He had also been an instructor here and had walked here many times with Chi Yu.

Shi Ge's sight fell on a street light.

He suddenly remembered that it was here, in the winter two years ago, that he picked up a kitten who was depressed because the name on the ID card did not glow.

The scene seemed to have happened yesterday, and the young man's mouth curled up slightly.

He retracted his gaze and walked along the street, inadvertently glimpsing a flower shop. Under the warm setting sun, the sunflowers in front of the flower shop were particularly beautiful.

Shi Ge stopped for a moment, then he walked in.

The wind chimes in the flower shop chimed softly, as if welcoming the hooded young man.

Shi Ge: "Anyone here? Buy some flowers."

There was a figure behind the half-beaded curtain. It should be the boss. The flower shop owner was wearing a straw hat that flower farmers usually wear. He seemed to yawn, and the sound was unclear. "...Well, take it yourself. I'm too lazy to move."

Brother Shi didn't want to ask others to do it for him, so he carefully picked a few sunflowers, wrapped them in floral paper, tied a pretty bow, and cut off the excess branches with scissors.

The young man lowered his head, lightly touched the warm yellow petals with the tip of his nose, and smiled.

"how much?"

He took out his phone, but found it was turned off and couldn't transfer the money. Shi Ge was stunned: "Sorry, my phone is out of battery. Can I pay by credit card?"

Flower shop owner: “It’s for you.”

Shi Ge: "Send it to me?"

Flower shop owner: "Yes, it's for you."

It is dusk now and few people come to the flower shop. It is not uncommon to give a few flowers to people you like.

Shi Ge didn't hesitate and said politely, "Thank you."

He walked out of the flower shop and the wind chimes rang again.

Shi Ge seemed to have sensed something. When he turned around, the bead curtain inside the flower shop was shaking. The shadow of the flower shop owner standing behind the curtain was still silent.

At one point he wanted to go back to pay, but he saw the automatic door of the flower shop slowly closing, and a sign saying "temporarily closed" appeared inside.

The young man paused, lowered his eyes, held the flower in his hand, and lightly touched the petals with his fingertips.

On the far floor above, the clock showed a minute past six.

The fireworks ceremony will be at six o'clock.

In fact, he was facing a choice just now. If he chose to go back and pay in a troublesome way, he might miss the fireworks gift.

And if he hesitated, he would not have the chance to go back and pay.

Shi Ge's figure disappeared around the corner.

In fact, there are some choices that he doesn't need to worry about, as they are already destined from the beginning.