Crimson Embers Chapter 42: See you later, dear
"Fox Nest Headquarters issues a warning to all planes. 30 minutes left until the sixth impact...codenamed 'Final Impact'!"
A crisp reminder sound came from the watch, causing Mason, who was lying on a beach chair leisurely basking in the sun, to blink his eyes. He stretched and sat up, then reached out to take off his sunglasses.
On the beach with blue sky and blue sea in front of her, Halle, wearing a red swimsuit, is running around barefoot on the beach, with three dogs following behind her, playing and walking in the waves.
It's said to be walking the dog, but in fact it's more like having fun.
"Why is she so energetic? She was the one who was the most active last night, wasn't she?"
Mason rubbed his sore neck and sighed:
"So if your brain is broken, your physical fitness will be greatly improved? It's said that fools and lunatics don't feel tired. Is this actually true?
Is this some kind of damned use it or lose it, too?"
"Although it's not nice to make dirty jokes at this time, I still have to remind you that you are the one who has put in the most effort during this honeymoon, right?
How could she be tired?
She is enjoying it. Perhaps for Harry, who has the simplest mind, this kind of life is the beautiful life she desires most, and she will never get tired of it for the rest of her life. "
The sunglasses that were placed aside twisted their shape and turned back into a gray wizard's pointed hat, and he commented in the tone of a satisfied and kind old man.
The old hat has been sewn up by the tailor using Lv11's super skills. Although it still has the classic old style, it has become a brand new magic hat.
The luxurious yet low-key gold rims, the mysterious yet powerful inscriptions, the hidden yet outstanding enchantments, even the two gold rings on the upper and lower parts of the wizard's hat and the small pearl pendant on the brim are all made from materials derived from the craftsmanship of blacksmiths and jewelers.
Although it does not care about its own grade, with the joint efforts of a group of master craftsmen from the Mason family, it is no problem to call it a magic artifact now.
It's like a real transformation. If you throw your current hat into the sun, it will last for at least five or six years.
Perhaps because he was in a good mood, this old man was still in the mood to make such a joke that was not suitable for his status. He was probably hinting that the young man Mason should learn to be restrained.
But when I think about the fact that this guy has three beautiful wives, I know that such persuasion is futile.
"That's true, but I don't hate my life these days, even though it's a bit too idle. I started building sand castles with Quinn last night."
Mason shrugged his shoulders and did not continue to discuss the issue. He picked up the watch and tied it on his arm. He said:
"I'm leaving in 30 minutes. Are you sure you want to go back to the new Hogwarts School? Not with me? Aren't you interested in the scenery outside the world?"
"Of course I'm interested, but I know that only by rationally suppressing my curiosity can I preserve it until a more distant future."
The old hat formed a vague human face, and it said calmly:
"They said that the key can only be used by you, which means that 'they' have no intention of welcoming other guests. Under such circumstances, if I continue to follow you on the adventure, I may end up becoming a 'collection' of some dangerous guy.
And you will come back.
We will meet again someday, and I can satisfy my dangerous curiosity through your description. Don't you plan to say goodbye to the others?"
“That’s not necessary.”
Mason sat in a beach chair in a relaxed posture, staring at the rising and falling tides in the sun in front of him, and said:
"I will come back, just like going on a long journey, meeting some new friends, and settling some long-delayed grudges. I think I will never be able to return to the home in my memory.
So this is my home.”
"Maybe there's a better place waiting for you."
The hat whispered:
"It's like the paradise in the legend..."
"But I didn't work hard to build heaven, so that strange and beautiful place won't give me much affection in return. Although there is a lot of work to be done here, I spent the most important time of my life here."
Mason curled his lips and said:
“Who would despise their own home? I don’t know whether the next era will be good or bad, but I believe I have the right to spend my destined long life in the future I have been pursuing.
Besides, my wives are still here, where can I go and leave them behind?
Don't worry, Hat, I'll be back.
Maybe one day, maybe one month, the worst case scenario is only one year...
Those guys needed me, they put me here to let experience mold me into what they wanted me to be, forged from the past to answer their call."
The hat fell silent.
It was the first guy in Mason's experience who knew that Mason was from the outside world, but it never revealed this secret. It kept the mystery for Mason just as it protected its own existence. From this point of view, the captain's trust in the hat was not groundless.
"Shua"
In a flash of silver light, Ciri appeared behind Mason's beach chair, holding a tray with freshly squeezed lemon juice in her hand. The hunter shook her long hair and handed the drink to her husband.
She glanced at the shining Eye of Time and Space in the sky and suddenly asked:
"After the universe is completed, will this thing still be hanging above our heads? Although I have long been accustomed to its existence, this eye-like thing is indeed annoying after looking at it for a long time."
"Probably not?"
Mason took a sip of lemon juice. The sour taste refreshed him. He stood up and said:
"In the new era, there will no longer be a chaotic plane system. The Speed Force, as a basic cosmic force, will spread throughout the new system. New dimensions will overlap with the 'One and Only Earth' as the center, and the Eye of Space and Time will collapse as a result.
The stable new system will be more solid than the chaotic parallel world. At that time, it will be much more difficult for us to travel through dimensions than it is now. Perhaps the researchers in Fox Nest will develop new ways to observe overlapping dimensions.
But that's their business.
I'm leaving now, aren't you going to say anything to me, wife? "
He turned his head to look at Ciri, who stood on tiptoe and kissed Mason on the cheek, then reached out to stroke his hair and said:
"Be safe on the road and go home early."
"Hey, this kind of conversation between an old couple is a bit too much."
Mason winked and said:
"It's only been a few days, has the passion faded and we've switched to living together? I was expecting to see you begging me to stay with tears in your eyes."
"You are crazy!"
Ciri rolled her eyes, pushed Mason away, and said:
"Do you really think of me as Harley or Quinn? I am tied , Mason. Even if you can't come back, I can still find you. I can feel your presence when I close my eyes.
Even in the infinite and unfamiliar sea of stars, it is like a lighthouse on the sea. As long as you can feel it, you will be able to find it.
So don't worry, I have already prepared a 'Mason rescue plan'... I have made three plans."
"Then you are really amazing."
The captain laughed, drank the lemon juice in his hand, pursed his lips with a strange expression, and spit out a strange thing from his mouth.
He took the small black thing in his hand and looked at it, then looked suspiciously at Ciri who turned her head away.
"Is this a surveillance camera? Is it this big? Do you think I would really drink this? It would tear my stomach. Isn't your method of placing the surveillance camera too low? Master Hunter.
If you really want to do this, please inform me in advance. I have a nano-level monitor that I can share with you."
"whispering sound"
Ciri turned her head away from him, thinking that these bat cubs were really annoying.
Mason glanced at the time on his watch, released the World Gate from his bag and threw it on the beach. The gate was still wrapped with X-metal chains and many sealing magics, but the death force on the other side of the gate had calmed down a lot recently, probably because they realized that they could not break through and stopped waiting for the final fusion to be completed.
In the last fusion of the final impact, the death plane will inevitably be incorporated into the new universe system, and this sealed door will completely lose its effect after that.
"Where's Quinn?"
The captain asked, and Ciri shook his head and said:
"She was still washing up when I came out, but are you sure it's okay to open the door with the key you made? The jeweler is still polishing that thing, right?
Can you catch up?"
"Don't doubt their skills in manufacturing. If he says he is sure, then he is sure."
Mason is very optimistic.
He patted the World Gate itself, feeling a little excited when he thought that he would leave the universe and head for an unknown place through this gate in a dozen minutes.
"Sweetheart!"
Harley ran over from the beach and rushed into Mason's arms with cheers. She took the initiative to give him a passionate kiss without caring that Ciri next to her was looking at them as if they were "a couple of bastards".
She even somewhat enjoyed the gnashing of teeth from her love rival. This little cutie must have done it on purpose. She had been provoking Ciri in this way over the past few days, including but not limited to suddenly popping up during Mason and Ciri's date, and even physically "interfering" when the relationship was at its peak to make Ciri so angry that she wanted to bite her.
"You must come back as soon as possible."
Harry stood by the Gate of the World, with his hands on his hips, and said to Mason:
"Don't hang out with those bad guys for too long, they will definitely corrupt you, and that bastard who smashed the bottle on your head, you must beat him up to vent your anger.
Maybe I should go with you, so you won’t be bullied by those bad guys.”
"Stop it."
Mason touched Harry's head and said:
"Just wait here quietly. I'll be back after I finish these personal matters."
"call"
A gust of wind blew past the three people who were saying goodbye. Amid the vibration sound of the sonic boom channel opening similar to that of the mother box, the yawning jeweler appeared in it and without any further ado, raised his hand and threw a box to Mason.
Inside was the crystal key he had polished.
"I have tried my best to make it perfect. The inscription master assured me that the coordinates are accurate, but there are indeed some errors. The main reason is that it is impossible to simulate the magical characteristics of the man in the light.
But these errors should not cause you to step into a black hole in another universe."
“I think it’s perfect.”
Mason held the crystal key in front of him and examined it carefully. Then he glanced at the jeweler, who looked tired, and said:
"Are you sure you don't want to come with me? Although we are all independent now, you are separated from me after all. The limitation of being alone should not hinder you."
"But what if?"
The jeweler curled his lips and said:
"Who can guess what a dangerous guy like that is thinking? What if the guy on the other side hates clones? Then we're doomed, right? We might get killed in the first encounter.
It's really wrong to take such a risk just to satisfy curiosity.
We have agreed that after you leave and the era change is completed, we will complete the interstellar journey that has been delayed for a long time, and everyone except you will go together.
Your story has ended, but ours has just begun, so don't expect everyone to spend their time protecting you.
When I came, they asked me to say goodbye to you and express our best wishes.
Be careful when you are not with us, Mason. If you get beaten up, you won't have your whole family to support you."
"Understand."
Mason made an OK gesture and inserted the crystal key in his hand into the keyhole of the Gate of the World. It fit perfectly. He glanced at the time on his watch and saw that there were still five minutes before the final impact.
He must leave this universe before the final impact occurs, lest his existence affect the process of era change.
"Isn't Quinn showing up yet? What is she doing?"
The captain asked Harley a question, and the little cutie tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said seriously and firmly:
"She must have caught a cold last night. The sea water is very cold at night. She loves playing in the water so much and always plays in the water with you..."
"A-choo"
At this moment, Quinn, who was sitting on the toilet in the bathroom of the beach hut, suddenly sneezed. She wiped her nose and complained that it must be Harley saying bad things about her again.
But Quinn didn't have diarrhea nor did she catch a cold. She had already finished washing up and was now in a strange daze.
She stared at the pregnancy test stick in her hand, wiping her eyes repeatedly as if she had seen something incredible, but my dear, the two red lines on this thing won't lie!
"What the hell, she was right. Does this count as me being a surrogate mother for her?"
Quinn muttered to herself and pinched her cheek, then stood up irritably, showered and changed her clothes.
She was in a mess. After all, as a non-marriageist, she had just broken her own rules and married Mason, which was too much. Now there was such a "big surprise" falling on her head.
Maybe it’s better to say that the alchemist’s potion is too powerful?
How long has it been...
wrong!
If calculated by the time of her menstrual period, she might have already won the prize before she and Harry went to the alchemist for help.
It is obvious that the probability of sweetheart's triple helix gene combining with ordinary genes is countlessly low, so is this child the chosen one in every sense?
"Quinn! Quinn, come out! Sweetie has to go back to her parents' house to see his family."
Harley was knocking on the door and the dogs were barking, which made Quinn open the bathroom door with a cold face and throw the pregnancy test stick in her hand over there.
Harley wanted to get angry but when she saw the two red lines, she was struck by lightning and fell to her knees like a loser. Then she pounced on Quinn with gritted teeth, grabbed her neck and howled that the child should be hers.
Jealousy had completely changed the crazy beauty, but the two of them at least remembered the business. They rushed out of the cabin quickly and saw Mason turning the key and the doorknob.
As the time on the watch entered the last thirty seconds, at the moment of the final impact, the resonant fusion frequency of the cosmic tuning fork also took effect at the same time.
White light covered everything in sight.
Mason, standing in front of the World Gate, seemed to see the cheering crowd in front of the New Osborn Tower, the old man and Catwoman hugging each other in Wayne Manor, Star-Lord Black Panther and his father-in-law Thanos gazing at the sea of stars, and the Queen of Justice holding a crying child while Gray Bat and Lord Chao were busy looking for diapers and bottles for the child.
The images of friends and companions flickered in the white light, just like the MVP settlement screen after completely clearing a level.
Sister Ka, old Luther, the old man, Martha and other people all flashed before Mason's eyes, and the last frame of the picture was when Black Strange threw away his Soul King cloak, and with a smile without any reluctance, poured all his evil god power into a complicated ritual.
That guy is also looking forward to Christine's rebirth and future.
The last scene was the moment when the door to the world opened. Mason vaguely saw the goddess of death in a black robe looking back in the gap of another starry sky.
The two of them were like two sides of a cloud. The moment their eyes met, the sealed plane of death was covered and submerged by white light.
It was like white fire, blending the black death into it.
"Sweetheart! Look at this!"
The moment Mason stepped into the gate of the world and embarked on the road back, Harley pulled Quinn, whose eyes were red, and screamed at him, waving the two bars in her hands.
The captain was also shocked when he turned around.
Before joy could well up in my heart, the time on my watch reached its final reset to zero at this moment… White light covered everything, completely dispelling the gloomy haze, and the night dissipated, and dawn appeared.
The future reflected in his and others' eyes has arrived.
