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Startled by the boy's unprecedentedly intense behavior, and coupled with the eerie atmosphere she had sensed on the street, Haruhi Suzumiya, despite still harboring many doubts and questions, ultimately followed Kyon's instructions and led her still bewildered sister upstairs: "You absolutely must explain this to me clearly later, or I won't let you off the hook!"
The boy, who had been watching the two run up to the second floor and block the door, breathed a sigh of relief: "If only there were a future."
"Thump————————"
The impact coming from half of his body made Ah Xu feel uneasy. Before he could think of a better way to deal with it, there was a new commotion outside.
"Who are you?!"
"That voice... is it Koizumi?"
Unlike Haruhi Suzumiya, who remains completely unaware of the true identities of everyone in the SOS Brigade, Kyon, despite being just an ordinary person, gains the trust of an alien (Yuki Nagato), a time traveler (Mikuru Asahina), and a psychic (Itsuki Koizumi). It is they who tell Kyon about Haruhi Suzumiya's abilities and a part of the truth about this world.
Kyon breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Koizumi Itsuki's voice, but was also somewhat worried.
After all, in his understanding, it was true that Koizumi Itsuki was a superpowered person, but at most he was just an ordinary member of the "organization," and his abilities seemed to only be usable in "closed spaces." He didn't know if he could deal with the monsters outside...
Just as Kyon was hesitating about whether to open the door to help Koizumi Itsuki, the series of explosions outside made him abandon the idea.
"Sorry, as an ordinary person, I really can't join the battle between you superpowered individuals and monsters."
Upon hearing Koizumi Itsuki's still powerful voice, Kyon breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly ran to the second floor where Haruhi Suzumiya and her sister were: he couldn't fight, but he could at least get the two ordinary people without fighting ability to a safe place—which he believed was what Koizumi Itsuki wanted him to do.
Haruhi Suzumiya and Kyon, who had run up to the second floor, also heard the explosion outside. Just as they were about to turn back to see what was going on, Kyon appeared in front of them: "Hurry up, while Koizumi is busy with him!"
"Koizumi? Koizumi Kazuki?"
Realizing he had let something slip, Kyon had no time to continue concealing the truth: even that kind of monster had appeared and was openly fighting in the real world instead of in a closed space, so who knew what the outside world had become?
He immediately explained, "Koizumi Itsuki is a psychic. He joined the SOS Brigade to protect your daily life. He's blocking the monster at the door right now, so let's leave quickly!"
"Wait, why is Koizumi a psychic? Does he have psychic vision and can see Saya?!"
"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Why would Koizumi, a psychic, be involved with that fleshy monster named Saya? And why are you walking with that monster—"
The lack of information between them meant that communication could not be established. Of course, given enough time, they would realize that they only had partial and false information about each other. At that time, it was unknown whether Haruhi Suzumiya's cognitive correction could completely reverse this world that had fallen to the brink of collapse. However, they did not have that time.
"boom------!!!"
The violent explosion destroyed the front half of the house, and behind the raging flames, Haruhi Suzumiya and Kyon witnessed a scene they did not want to see.
In Haruhi Suzumiya's eyes, the battered Saya still stood firmly in front of the crazed Ichiki Koizumi, while in Kyon's eyes, it was the psychic with a peaceful smile who showed his "warrior" side in the fierce battle, using all his strength to destroy that mass of flesh and blood that would drive anyone mad just by looking at it.
The next moment, as Koizumi Ichiki threw out the fiery red spheres that appeared in his hands, an even more violent explosion obscured everything in front of him.
……
He didn't know how much time had passed, but when Kyon, who was protecting his sister, regained his sense of his surroundings, the house where he had lived for fifteen years was now only a small section where he was standing, which still retained its basic structure. The rest of the house had been burned in flames along with the other two surrounding buildings, as well as the scattered remains of the third and fourth buildings.
Watching Koizumi Itsuki, unaffected by the flames, steadily approach, he subconsciously exclaimed, "Amazing..."
"Um... Onii-chan."
"—! Little sister, are you alright?!"
"Ugh, I feel a little dizzy..."
Relieved, Ah Xu comforted him, "It's okay, it's over now. You'll feel better after a good night's sleep."
"Um……"
Carefully setting down the girl who had fallen into a deep sleep again, Kyon pushed aside the pile of clutter around him and walked toward Koizumi Itsuki. He had many questions he wanted to ask him.
"Koizumi, where have you been these past few days? What was that thing you were fighting just now? Aren't your abilities supposed to be unusable in reality? This time, Suzumiya saw you—"
"Get away from him, Kyon!"
Is it Haruhi Suzumiya?
What is she saying? Guquan is on our side—
"boom------"
Watching the figure fall to one side in the explosion, Haruhi Suzumiya felt her body grow extremely cold.
Very unusual.
This development is very abnormal.
When exactly did it begin?
What was Ah-Xu's strange reaction just now?
What was the strange atmosphere when I brought Saya here?
Or did it begin the moment I met Saya?
No, it should be earlier... R'lyeh's dream, the strange superpowered person... that cryptic text message!
From the moment she received that message, Haruhi Suzumiya's daily life began to go off track, veering from monotonous routine towards collapse, and what ultimately led to this was all that was happening now—
"Haruhi Suzumiya... I've finally found you..."
Lifting the collapsed Haruhi Suzumiya up by the hand, Koizumi Itsuki, his face contorted with madness, scanned the surroundings warily while urgently demanding, "Hurry—give me that! It's coming soon!"
"That...what is it..."
Because her throat was being choked, Haruhi Suzumiya was unable to speak properly.
"I don't know, not endless lifespan, not infinite power—those things are meaningless before it—but something more direct and profound—"
One hand involuntarily pressed against his head, and in Haruhi Suzumiya's horrified gaze, it seemed as if something was constantly wriggling inside Itsuki Koizumi's head.
"Quick...quick! It's here! Give it to me!"
Uncontrollable panic compels the mentally broken Koizumi Itsuki to take action. He presses his hand against Suzumiya Haruhi's throat and squeezes it repeatedly, trying to obtain "that" that he doesn't even know what it is. As suffocation and death approach, a familiar figure suddenly appears out of the corner of Suzumiya Haruhi's eye.
"Let her go!!!"
The thick frying pan slammed hard against Koizumi Itsuki's face. On that distorted face, Suzumiya Haruhi could clearly see fragments of teeth spurting from his mouth. Then, the hands on his neck involuntarily loosened and he fell to one side under the force.
As Haruhi Suzumiya breathed fresh air again, she coughed incessantly, finally managing to utter that name after a long while: "Cough...cough cough...Kyon..."
It was clear that although he blocked the attack with his hand at the last moment, Kyon's condition was still not good. That attack had exhausted all his strength, and he immediately sat down on the ground, panting heavily.
"Huff...huff...quick, get out of here...that guy Koizumi has gone mad..."
Just as Haruhi Suzumiya was about to respond, the sudden dimming of the sunlight in the sky caught their attention.
Not only them, but countless others living in this city, this country, this land—this planet, and even the entire world—have seen the figure of the "invader."
Endless black clouds surged in from "the other side." As the volume of the black clouds rapidly increased, people realized that they were not black clouds at all, but countless huge chunks of flesh floating in the air. Tentacles extending from the chunks of flesh reached out to the planet beneath their feet like thirsty travelers catching food, grabbing tiny figures and throwing them into the big mouth of the black cloud that dripped with viscous fluid.
This terrifying scene drove many people mad. They calmly and desperately tried to escape the "dark cloud," but its vast size made escape impossible. Some tried to flee underground—a place beyond the reach of tentacles—but when they did, an even more terrifying scene unfolded.
The hard land had somehow become soft, and something like blood vessels spread and covered the entire land. When the outermost layer of disguise was torn away, tentacles and chunks of flesh rose from beneath the earth and invaded the world where people had lived for thousands of years—even faster than the sky.
This is Shub-Niggurath.
Born from Azathoth, the source of all things, symbolizing "earth," one of the three pillar gods in charge of "fertility."
The goddess of darkness and abundance, the supreme mother goddess of life, and also the black goat of the forest who gives birth to countless offspring, devours everything, covers everything, and then gives birth to everything.
Shouting the name of the evil god, Koizumi Ichiki was swallowed up by the crack that split open in the ground. Haruhi Suzumiya and Kyon watched this scene, unable to move. Whether in the sky or on the ground, everything that was happening before their eyes had pushed their spirits to the last limit.
At the same moment, the "ground" that Shub-Niggurath was looking at began to disintegrate and crack, revealing the figure floating in mid-air below.
Looking up at the countless eyes staring at him from the sky, Lin Yi smiled: "Welcome, and then—"
In the distance, Haruhi Suzumiya's figure was swallowed up by overlapping flesh and blood.
"Goodbye."
Time stands still.
P.S.: 3000 words, fourth update, please give me some criticism!
Information Integration Thought Entity: Chapter 692 False Evidence Exists
The weather in May is unpredictable; one moment it's sunny and the next it's overcast. This forces Yu Tai Shinichi, who has to continue searching for someone in the pouring rain, to... Oh, he's dead, or rather, he never existed.
Standing in the light drizzle, my illusory shadow gazes at the building before me, which differs considerably from my memory.
On the fiftieth cycle, something seems to have changed.
Before reaching this point, the Transmigrator Alliance calculated the point of qualitative change in the negative state under the superposition of cycles—from the first cycle to the tenth cycle, the power against star-level beings would be limited to the power against national-level beings, and the power against human-level beings would be limited to the level of ordinary people. Even the most basic tools would be unusable. In order to avoid meaningless losses, the Transmigrator Alliance established the entry of human-level transmigrators to a standstill in the tenth cycle.
During the eleventh to twentieth cycle, the power against stars will be limited to the level against cities, and the power against armies will be limited to the level of ordinary people. In case of unavoidable circumstances, the Transcendent Alliance will raise the lower limit of the prohibited entry to the level against armies.
Then came the twenty-first to thirtieth city-level battles...
The 31st to 40th confrontations at the military level...
Forty-one to fifty times against human opponents...
On the fiftieth cycle, even the strongest interstellar transmigrators in the known scope of the Transmigrators Alliance would become ordinary people who couldn't even use items after stepping into this world due to the "debuff" stacked fifty times. Would they continue to invest in the mission that they couldn't complete even at their strongest?
The answer is clearly no, and the building in front of us, which differs from what I remember, is the best evidence of that.
In the forty-eighth and forty-ninth cycles, this building served as the base of the Transmigrators Alliance in this world. However, in the fiftieth cycle, which is now, Lin Yi could not see even a trace of transmigrators in it.
They seemed to have never existed in this world, vanishing without a trace along with the cycle of early May, leaving only a dreamlike, illusory shadow wandering aimlessly in this empty world...
Looking at his increasingly illusory body, Lin Yi now has two choices.
First, give up. Leave this world with the evacuating transmigrators, establish a perimeter for observation, and hope that one day they can find an anomaly in the endless "looping plot" and discover the true location of the "fragment".
Or perhaps, by consuming "oneself," one can find a possibility as a completely "ordinary person" in the last cycle where one can still remain.
"...Therefore, those who are ahead of the pack never have a good ending."
The illusory shadow gradually solidified, and a large amount of information filled the surface. Under the suppression of the "setting", the information, which could have easily covered an entire world, only managed to maintain its existence in the eyes of others without being exposed.
In addition, the information that was constantly being offset by Lin Yi's presence clearly gave a final deadline: 2160 hours.
Not one point too much, not one point too little.
I took a luxurious three seconds to think about what these 90 days meant to me, before turning my attention back to the building in front of me.
The Transmigrator Alliance did exist, but they chose to leave after their last bit of power was restricted in the fiftieth cycle—but they did not completely give up. From Sigtel's few words during the forty-ninth cycle, it can be confirmed that they did have the means to intervene in this world again, but such means might have to come at a price, or they might be time-limited, so it is impossible to use them rashly without sufficient intelligence and guarantees.
As a result, Lin Yi had to face the reality that he was the only "otherworldly person" of unknown origin left in the entire world. Previously, there was an organization above him who not only protected Lin Yi from interference by other forces, but also allowed him to interfere with them to a certain extent without being retaliated against.
For example, during the forty-eighth cycle, the contact with people from the future, although it provoked a fierce reaction from the "mechanism," ultimately failed to actually attack him. The root cause of this was the existence of the Transmigrator Alliance, an "otherworldly organization."
For example, the manipulation of Haruhi Suzumiya during the forty-ninth time was achieved using an encrypted tool provided by the Transmigrator Alliance. Otherwise, Lin Yi would have been immediately exposed the moment the information was sent to Haruhi Suzumiya, let alone the subsequent actions.
These conveniences have clearly disappeared with the departure of the Transmigrators Alliance. The identity of "otherworldly person" can no longer serve as protection and may even provoke hostility from the natives. After all, the antagonism between the natives and the invaders will not disappear with the cycle, but will only become stronger as one side weakens.
"Perhaps I should change my identity?"
As Lin Yi pondered, he instinctively reached for his phone in his pocket, only to find it missing. After transforming into a "human," his senses and abilities had weakened to the point of being no different from those of an ordinary person, or even worse. Naturally, he was unable to perceive everything around him in detail.
This unexpected reality caused Lin Yi to frown slightly.
If the disappearance of the Transmigrators' Alliance was somewhat within the realm of calculation, then the fact that the Transmigrators' Alliance's items also disappeared seemed rather illogical.
First, it can be confirmed that, apart from the "Closed Space (Alienated Version)" which has been completely exhausted, the other items obtained from the Transmigrators Alliance are not time-limited consumable items. In other words, they are reusable items that can exist indefinitely as long as they are not actively damaged or discarded.
In Lin Yi's memory, he was certain that he had not damaged or discarded it, since it still had some use value. However, the current situation was that this item, which still contained the contact information of the SOS Brigade members recorded from the forty-eighth and forty-ninth cycles, had disappeared along with the departure of the Transcendent Alliance.
But when Lin Yi tried to recall the information he had received from Tsuruya-senpai on two separate occasions, the blank memory made him subconsciously think of a certain situation.
"Is there false evidence?"
As the fiftieth cycle arrives, many things remain unchanged. Haruhi Suzumiya's daily life continues, while aliens, time travelers, and espers remain active in the shadows of the world.
But with the arrival of the fiftieth cycle, many things changed again: the disappearance of the Transmigrator Alliance, the erasure of the traces of the otherworldly people, and even whether they ever existed in this world became false evidence.
Information Integration Thought Entity: Chapter 693 Nagato Yuki (Part 1)
For the next three days, Lin Yi did not actively try to get closer to the "plot," but instead spent his time searching for confirmation that the Transmigrators Alliance had ever existed in this world.
The results were quite contradictory. All traces of the Transmigrators Alliance—that is, the people from another world—that existed in this world were erased, including but not limited to the things they left behind, the impact they caused, and the consequences they caused. However, on the other hand, the conclusions they reached in this world still retained their original validity.
It's as if the Transmigrator Alliance has confirmed information during the forty-nine cycles in this world, such as that it will rain on the third day of May, who Haruhi Suzumiya will contact on the seventh day of May, and where Haruhi Suzumiya will go and what she will do on the ninth day of May...
Under such circumstances, the existence of the Transcendent Alliance in this world seems to become a false concept. It cannot have any impact or produce any results. It can only obtain information and then feed it back, becoming a false evidence that cannot even be confirmed to exist.
If it ever existed, then the information it left on Lin Yi should not have disappeared. But if it never existed, then what is the memory that exists in Lin Yi's mind?
"Or perhaps, everything before was just an illusion, a dream, and the Transmigrators Alliance never actually entered this world; only this time is real?"
The aftereffects of losing "power" are beginning to appear. With all information used to maintain his own existence, Lin Yi has almost lost all ability to perceive the outside world. He can only obtain information through sight, hearing, smell and touch. When the source of information becomes narrow, all kinds of doubts cannot be answered. Confusion about the current situation and hesitation about the unknown arise.
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