I am the former civilized hero.

"I always remember happy things very clearly. And Ryan, I've actually known you for a long time."

Have you known me for a long time?

Ryan was full of questions. He did ask about Vostok, but by that time Alicia had already traveled around the world, so he gave up the idea of ​​clinging to this thick leg and went to Shenzhou to find Hua instead.

Lovely Lisia didn't explain and walked slowly forward. Ryan had no choice but to follow her and focus his attention on the children.

"Hey, the stones have been brought in, and the leaves have been found as well."

"Yawen, make the leaves into a garden. Remember to make it neat." The pink-haired girl put her hands on her hips, like a designer giving instructions.

The chestnut-haired boy squatted down and worked seriously. Then he looked up as if he remembered something and said, "By the way, what's your name? It's so weird."

"She doesn't have a name. Mother Celia doesn't want any name at all. She's just a weirdo." A girl who was also delivering materials interrupted.

"Names are so important. I must choose the best and most beautiful one." The pink-haired girl said as a matter of course. She quietly walked over, hugged the girl and tickled her. "And Marianne, as a friend, don't say bad things about me!"

The girls were laughing and rolling on the ground. Looking at the two happy faces, the boys felt a little envious for some reason.

"Hey, can we be friends with you too?"

The pink-haired girl stopped, stared at the people in front of her with her gem-like sparkling eyes, and suddenly smiled with a mouthful of white teeth.

"Of course, I'll make friends with everyone!"

It turns out that this social phobia has existed since childhood, but at this time, Alicia is really happy.

Ryan quietly looked at the memories. Some adults came and gave gifts to the children in the orphanage. Of course, the pink-haired girl had the most things. Her hands were filled with various snacks, which made the other children jealous. The cute Lisia didn't notice any of this. She just jumped out of the sand pool and ran to the slide.

There were several children there, some in wheelchairs, some with missing limbs, some with burns on their faces or some with albinism. As humans are creatures that judge by appearance, normal children will not play with them and adults are too lazy to give them gifts.

As they watched, the pink-haired girl distributed all the gifts to the children, leaving only the bag of cookies in her hand, and waved to the woman who gave it to her.

"Aunt Cathy, I can't eat that much at my age. Instead of wasting it, why not let everyone be happy together?"

“This child is so kind.”

"She's very cute, and she's definitely a beauty. Ceria is amazing, and she hasn't been given a name yet."

"My Yawen must marry her in the future. I can tell she's a good daughter-in-law since she was little."

"Bah, what are you dreaming about? That's our daughter-in-law!"

Ryan was standing next to these people, with an aunt-like smile on his face. He turned his head slightly and saw Alicia's face flushed with shyness, and he was speechless.

This is a compliment to your childhood self, and now you are blushing like a bubble teapot.

"Ahem, I didn't expect you to have such a high EQ. Is this something you were born with?"

"No, I just felt the pain in the hearts of those friends, so I did it subconsciously." Alicia tilted her head, as if she thought of something, and raised her index finger, "But I also learned one thing."

"what's up?"

"Happiness needs to be shared. If one person monopolizes all the benefits, the taste of happiness will fade. Hurry up and keep up, let's continue watching."

Ryan was puzzled. A time traveler like him who had memories of his past life could not understand it. He would automatically enter a rational state. His innocence had long been worn away in his previous life.

So he followed Alicia's footsteps, watched the changing weather, the coming and going of spring and autumn, and listened to Alicia introduce the people and things in the town.

There is the tailor aunt who loves to give her cookies, the butcher uncle who likes to tease her the most, and of course the kind-hearted mother Celia, and the friends in the orphanage.

The pink-haired girl gradually grew up in a loving environment. She learned how to cook and clean, but she loved lying in the garden of the orphanage, smelling the fragrance of the flowers and swinging her legs.

This filled Ryan's eyes with warmth as he watched from the sidelines, and even reminded him of some of the bad things that happened in his childhood, when he just stood behind the girl and watched her scribbling.

The wonderful and pure days lasted for a while, and then the scene suddenly changed.

There were lightning and thunder, and heavy rain was pouring. The pink-haired girl was running in the mud, bringing hot soup to the adults who were building the dam. She fell down many times and stood up again and again, and her beautiful dress was covered with mud.

But she finally went to the levee and gave the hot broth to the adults. She was enjoying everyone's praise, and then her whole face froze.

Finally, the river burst its banks, and the roaring flood swept in, sweeping away the butcher uncle and others. The girl subconsciously wanted to jump down to save them, but was held tightly by Celia.

The director of the orphanage hugged the girl tightly, pressed her into his chest, and isolated herself from the outside world with a raincoat covered in mud. He only spoke to her over and over again.

"Don't be afraid, it will pass."

But this girl, who seemed to have been brought up in a warm home, was not afraid. Instead, she quietly went to see the screams of the drowning people, saw those who were unable to rescue them and were jumping in anxiety, and saw the beautiful houses collapsing like building blocks.

Ryan almost jumped into the water instinctively. With his strength, this kind of thing could be easily solved, but in the end he did not move.

On the one hand, because this is a memory, there is no possibility of interference. On the other hand, he also saw the girl's growth and hoped that she would understand:

This world is not only full of happiness, but also filled with helplessness and regrets.

The sky was gray. Several flatbed trucks passed by on the road, loaded with bloated corpses. Surrounded by crying family members, the pink-haired girl was unusually conspicuous. While all the children were hiding at home, she was looking directly at the corpses. In everyone's astonished eyes, she presented them with small white flowers that she had picked herself.

The girl understood death and realized that some things in this world cannot be recovered once missed. She looked death squarely and offered her blessings.

Ryan saw many things, such as the man who wanted the pink-haired girl to be his daughter-in-law, who drank all day after his wife was drowned and finally hanged from the beam, and the chestnut-haired Alvin sitting in the corner with empty eyes, and only the pink-haired girl gently covered him with a blanket.

Amidst his roars of 'get away' and 'I don't need pity', the girl remained calm and just accompanied him silently.

When the winter passed and time wore away the sadness, the boy was taken away by his relatives, his face flushed and he seemed to be saying something.

Then the pink-haired girl smiled and issued the first nice guy card in her life.

It was autumn again, and a passing human trafficker targeted the pink-haired girl and chose to take action one afternoon.

Even though he knew this was a memory flashback, when the human traffickers really kidnapped the girl, he had already drawn the Skyfire Greatsword. His rage almost set the mountains and rivers on fire, and he only regained his sanity thanks to Alicia holding him down.

Fortunately, the girl was very smart. She eventually escaped and rescued other abducted children. Then she returned to the orphanage as if nothing had happened and comforted the crying woman.

"Don't cry, Mommy Ceria. I'm very powerful. No matter how much darkness I see, I can shine my light like the sun to dispel it."

The girl realized that there is not only goodness but also evil in the world, and she had the courage to defeat evil. She then became more eager to take risks, to see the vastness of the world, and to come into contact with more human nature.

Good people, evil people, cruel people, kind people...but these ideas have one central point, which is to let the light of happiness shine on this colorful world.

So one morning, she found her mother, Celia, with her fair little hands raised high.

"Mother Ceria, I found my name."

"Hmm? How about letting me listen?" The kind woman who was cleaning turned around.

"That's the name of this fairy tale. I also want to create a beautiful paradise."

Ryan and the woman looked at the same time, and even though they already knew the result, they still read it out along with the childish voice.

"Eternal paradise, pure land of bliss—"

As soon as he finished speaking, a breeze blew in from the garden outside the window, and beautiful petals fluttered in the sky. The wind sounded like singing, and the petals sounded a horn. The heaven and earth seemed to be resonating and cheering the same voice.

"Alicia!"

Ryan closed his eyes and recalled his memory. The feeling was very subtle and he had experienced a similar feeling before.

Salute the birth of the 'Goddess'.

The world of memory was distorting, and the past was quietly disappearing. However, Ryan, who closed his eyes and felt it, did not notice that the Herrscher of Humanity, who was dressed in a gorgeous costume, and the pink-haired girl who was holding a fairy tale, bent their knees at the same time and saluted gently, as if saying goodbye to someone who was silently paying attention to them.

The only sound that enters my ears is a warm sound.

“I’m Alysia, and this is my story.”

Chapter 4: Carrying out the heart of the people from beginning to end (K)

A thousand days in a dream seems like a lifetime ago.

The memory recall did not have the sense of separation of mental illusion, and the sequelae were not serious. At least Ryan did not feel any discomfort. He just rolled up his sleeves and looked at his watch.

Only one minute and twenty-two seconds? It was as if he had experienced a complete spring, summer, autumn and winter. This authority was not simple, and it had a bit of the flavor of the Ruler of Knowledge.

As a hard-core man, he always focuses on how to fight, and feels that this authority is more than just a literal "link", it means a lot of things.

Is it possible to transcend time and space and connect the past with the present?

Ryan didn't know either. He looked not far away and saw a pink-haired girl swinging on a swing alone, humming an unknown song. Compared with the hustle and bustle and happiness just now, she seemed a little lonely.

So what did I get? What did I see?

Ryan thought back to that one minute and twenty-two seconds. From a rational point of view, it didn't seem to make much sense, but vaguely, he felt that he was closer to the "person" of Alicia, making the "Gate of Love" mentioned by the collapse scientist more vivid and realistic.

If you really see a girl blossoming from a bud from the perspective of an outsider, her unique personality and fiery passion will become natural. If you really want to explore it from a philosophical perspective, it only represents one truth:

Man is born good, and people are close in nature, but their habits make them different. She just carried out this original "true self" to the end.

"How does it feel? Is it like watching a movie? Some scenes are exclusively revealed." Alicia held the iron chain with both hands with a warm smile.

"It was an incredible performance that answered many of my questions." Ryan stepped into the sand pool, bent down, and rubbed the gravel where the girl had played with his palms.

"What's the problem? Tell me about it."

"People who are too perfect always have an empty image and make people feel that they are rational. But after looking back, I found that you are not perfect. People who are close to good people are good, and your worldview is also built step by step."

Ryan sighed, he finally understood why it was called the 'Herrser of Man' instead of the 'Herrser of Light'. Human nature was inherently complex, and Alicia did not come to be a savior with pure kindness. She came to this world, lived with ordinary people day and night, experienced kindness, and understood helplessness and evil.

The only thing that is very amazing about Alicia is that she is not like many people who jump back and forth. Sometimes she is stimulated by evil and wants to destroy the world, and sometimes she is cleansed by good.

After she found her ideal, she remained consistent and followed her own path without any change. Ryan then realized that the so-called "true self" was worth a fortune and belonged to the highest level of psychological level.

"So I am very grateful to Vostok for giving birth to you. Even though this small mountain village has experienced hardships, it is always full of kindness. I also have to thank Ms. Ceria. She is a very good teacher and inadvertently instilled gentleness and kindness in you."

"Ryan, I will blush when you praise me like this." Alicia held her cheeks and indeed felt a little hot. In fact, she didn't know why she had to link over, she just felt that she should do so.

As for the impact, time paradox, causal loop, why bother thinking about such troublesome things? Ryan is happy now.

The chirping of birds could be heard, echoing in the quiet town. Ryan also sat down next to Alicia, rocking her gently, just like the pink-haired girl's playmate in the memory flashback.

"Ryan, you're still playing on the swing, how childish."

"I'm only twenty-four. Not as old as you think."

"So that's right, you're younger than me. It turns out that too much experience will make you mature. Sometimes I even think of you as an old man."

"Although I don't have much vitality, I won't become an old man." Ryan rolled his eyes and thought to himself, I am still strong every morning when I wake up all year round.

"I take back what I said before. Ryan, you are indeed a restless boy, just like a teenager."

"Okay, you really used your authority to eavesdrop on my thoughts!"

Ryan didn't quite understand at first, but when he saw Alicia's face flushed, he suddenly became angry. He reached out his hand to rub that little face, of course not using much force. Looking at the bright little face changing shape, he felt that it felt very good, soft and tender.

"I just haven't gotten over it yet. It really wasn't intentional."

Alicia shook it off gently and finally escaped from the clutches of the devil. She said on the spot that she would definitely control him in the future and would never expose his evil thoughts again.

"You are not allowed to eavesdrop! My glorious image has been completely destroyed in front of you!"