The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love

The blue lights in Old John’s eyes were suddenly extinguished when he heard Du Ze’s question, as if it had been through a great shock. After a long time, the blue lights of the machine flared again.

“You’re curious, child.” Old John’s voice was like a sigh: “As curious as they were … But sometimes being too inquisitive is not a good thing.”

Before Du Ze could process what Old John had said, the giant mechanical puppet walked forward.

“Come, what you want to know is in here.”

They walked down the street for a while until they arrived at another circular plaza. In the Kabbalah Tree of Life, this plaza was the location of the Sephirot of Understanding. In the middle of the plaza was a metal building that resembled a bud. Old John inputted several commands in front of the building, which then unfolded its outer shell to reveal its interior.

It looked like a research lab littered with stacks of data. Most notably, in the center of the lab was an enormous wheel. Its outer ring was golden and the disk was made of crystal. It was engraved with a circle of figures and runes along the outer ring. The whole round wheel looked like a giant clock, but without the clock hands.

“This is the wheel of time.”

Old John looked at the wheel and somehow, the blue lights of his eyes looked sad. Du Ze waited for a while but the mechanical puppet was silent, seemingly lost in his memories, unable to extricate himself.

Du Ze hesitated for a moment, then went into the lab and picked up some of the papers on the table. It was probably some research report since it was full of intricate drawings and terms that Du Ze couldn’t understand. Du Ze’s gaze fell on the lower right corner of the paper, which contained some of the researchers’ insights.

[Time is so wonderful, if _____ had not given us the wheel of time, we are afraid that we never would have been able to touch the law of time.]

[The curve is wrong, the time should not be decomposed. The decomposition function will be constructed again tomorrow.]

……

[We made a breakthrough today! With the wheel of time, we achieved the separation of time, the first separation of the ratio of 2:1. ]

[The time separation ratio was raised to 37:1, and the committee said that the separation of time could be put into practice by building the Gate of Wisdom.]

[If we don’t use a part of the wheel of time, we cannot achieve time separation, oh no! So frustrating!]

[We put the second hand of the wheel of time into the Gate of Wisdom, and achieved a 60:1 ratio of time separation. Now, the “time separation without using parts from the wheel of time” was established as a new topic.]

[Plan one: Using parts of the wheel of time to replicate time; Plan two: Finding alternatives to the wheel of time; Plan three: a thorough analysis of the laws of time. Plan one is the simplest but everyone is inclined to follow plan three and I agree.]

……

[We succeeded! It is now possible to separate time from the individual. The gnomes will be immortal!]

……

[No, impossible, it’s out of control! We have clearly rea- …]

The record came to an abrupt halt. The scribbled notes showed the confusion of the person who had written it.

“That day … the clock … shattered … they … broke down4 … they … disappeared.”

Behind him came Old John’s voice, which was like playing a broken video, intermittent and messy. Du Ze stared at that half-written “read” character and imagined a small figure writing it as he slowly disintegrated, the pen falling to the table, no one there to pick it up any more.

Du Ze shivered and put down the paper as though it was a hot potato. His line of sight inadvertently swept back to the first page and then paused.

[Time is so wonderful, if _____ had not given us the wheel of time, we are afraid that we never would have been able to touch the law of time.]

Du Ze stared at the blank. Based on the context, a name should be there. Du Ze was just going to ask Old John about it when he saw the baby Phoenix clumsily flying in. It’s goal was … the wheel of time.

Naughty bear child!

“Get back!”

The little Phoenix fell on the top of the wheel of time and then looked towards Du Ze, saying: “Chirp ~”

The wheel of time didn’t have any abnormal reaction. Du Ze just wanted to relax, but then he tripped over a stack of records that was near his foot and he fell down. His whole body fell onto the wheel of time.

Chapter 33.2 – Protagonist: I really want to make a chain and shackle you to me.