The cold white mist dispersed, and the thin eyelashes dyed with a little water moved slightly, and the boy shrouded in white mist opened his eyes. Under the bright sunlight, the little sand-like drops of water on his eyelashes refracted a gleam of light, reflecting the black pupils as bright as a clear spring, like pitch-black pearls soaked in water, revealing a cold spring. The refreshing color.
The cold icy mist had dissipated, the glass cabinet was cracked downwards, and the warm sunlight shone on the body, making people feel warm. Mute slowly turned his head and scanned the surroundings.
The trees are shady, and in the small wooden house, a circle of streams surrounds it, and the green grass is dotted with small white flowers. When the warm wind blows, the dense canopy shakes, as if you can hear the rustling sound of the branches and leaves.
Mutt lowered his head and looked at his hands.
He saw that his complexion was very pale, an abnormal paleness, almost translucent, and he could clearly see the traces of light blue blood vessels under the pale skin. He shook his hand, and then opened it again. His fingers were not very flexible, and they were a little stiff at first. After he held and loosened them a dozen times, they finally became soft.
The body was not very flexible either, so Mutt climbed down from the silver-white metal glass cabinet with some difficulty, held on to the glass cabinet for a while, and then let go after confirming that he was standing firmly, and took a few steps forward.
He walked very slowly because his body was not yet listening to his commands. The soft sunlight shone on his pale and immature face. He opened his eyes and looked around with confusion in his eyes. The surrounding environment seemed a little familiar, much like the small courtyard of his house before, but for some reason it gave him a strange and awkward feeling.
That feeling... It's like everything in front of me doesn't seem real...
Thinking of this, Mutt's heart moved. He walked to the side of the joyfully flowing stream and bent down to touch the clear water, but his hand was not wet when he reached into the stream. The feeling is like touching the air.
He stretched out his hand again to pick up a piece of green grass by the stream, but his fingers passed through the grass and couldn't touch anything.
The boy stood up and looked around, the expression on his face became more and more perplexed. The warm wind with the smell of green grass passed over his cheeks, the dense branches and leaves swayed gently and made a rustling sound, the shallow stream was right in front of his eyes, and even the sound of the stream splashing against the gravel on the bank was close in his ears On the side, everything around looks so real, but when I reach out to touch it, there is nothing.
This is where
Is it a dream? Because it is in a dream, everything is illusory, so you can't touch anything
But just now he could clearly feel the coolness of the cold metal plate under his body.
where is he
why is he here
"Mute!"
Suddenly someone shouted his name in an excited voice, Mutt subconsciously turned his head.
He had just turned his head, and before he could even see who was calling him, a pair of hands stretched out and hugged him tightly. Those arms hugged him so tightly that it strangled him a little. The weak body aches.
But he didn't struggle, because that embrace had a very familiar smell. He was hugged like this, and his heart that was a little panicked just now felt at ease.
There was a choked sound in his ear, it was the low cry of the person holding him. Mute looked up from the man's arms, and what he saw was a woman with silver hair. The woman's face actually looked young, only in her forties, but her hair was already completely white, and that silver hair seemed to be filled with traces of the vicissitudes of her life.
She looked at him with tears in her eyes, and stroked Mutt's cheek with trembling hands.
The boy's pupils dilated slightly.
The face of the silver-haired woman in front of him and the kind and gentle face in memory slowly overlapped. Although there have been great changes, the only thing that remains the same is the woman's gentle gaze on him.
"… Mother?"
The tears in the woman's eyes fell out all at once. She looked at the child in her arms, choked up and couldn't speak, but kept nodding her head.
She lowered her head and pressed her tear-filled face to the boy's cheeks, the tears rolling down from the corners of her eyes wet the boy's temples. Her mouth was slightly open, trembling a little, she seemed to want to say something, but she could only make a choked sound, but nothing came out. She finally gave up what to say, just pressed her child's pale cheeks tightly, closed her eyes, a series of tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes, and fell on the boy's face.
"Mother."
Although I don't know why his mother's appearance has changed so much, Mute can feel that the familiar eyes and familiar embrace are the warmth he has felt in the past ten years.
He was obediently hugged by his mother, snuggled into her arms, the warmth from his mother dispelled the coldness remaining on the cold metal glass cabinet just now.
He said softly, "Mom, don't cry."
As the boy said, he raised his eyes, and he saw someone walking over. Although his appearance had changed greatly, he could also recognize the tenderness in the eyes of the middle-aged man when he looked at him.
"…dad?"
The man looked at him with a smile, didn't speak, just stretched out his arms to hug the mother and child together.
He lowered his head, resting his forehead on the top of Mutt's head, and turned it vigorously a few times, the child's soft hair covered his red eyes. He buried his face in his child's hair and rubbed it a few times, and a little tear from the corner of his eye soaked into the black hair without a trace.
"Welcome back, my boy."
said the man, trying to sound a calm, pretended calm voice.
It just didn't work out, the thick twang in his voice betraying what he was trying so hard to hide.
The woman burst out laughing, with tears in her smile. She looked at the boy in her arms, and refused to blink, as if she was worried that if she blinked, her child would disappear from her arms again.
She looked at the pale skin and thin cheeks of the child in her arms, her eyes were full of love and distress, but more of them were peace of mind and satisfaction.
Looking at the people around him, Mute also laughed.
That pale and immature cheek was brighter than the sun when he smiled.
He smiled and said, "I'm back, Mom and Dad."
...
…………………
When he learned from his parents that he had indeed been asleep for more than two hundred years, the boy opened his eyes wide in surprise with an expression of disbelief.
In his cognition, even with the gradual development of medicine, the longest human lifespan is no more than a hundred years. Since he really fell asleep for more than two hundred years, why did his parents...
After Mutt was frozen, more than ten years later, a shocking news suddenly broke out.
Human beings have cracked the lifespan code in the human gene—this means that humans can greatly prolong their lifespan by modifying the lifespan code in the gene.
The result was indeed as expected, the lifespan of human beings was directly extended from more than one hundred years to more than three hundred years. However, at the same time, the human reproductive ability also decreases significantly with the extension of lifespan. This is unsolvable. It is a rule of nature. Extending lifespan by modifying genes will inevitably lead to a reduction in reproductive ability.
…
The cracking of lifespan code is like a key to open a warehouse full of treasures. With the growth of lifespan, human technology has suddenly entered an explosive development. He died with regrets before completing a lifetime of research, but now that his life expectancy has increased, scientific research results have also frequently exploded.
In just two hundred years, the development of human science and technology has surpassed the development of the past two thousand years.
The exploration of the universe is progressing rapidly, and many planets similar to the earth that can be used for human habitation have been explored, and those that are not suitable for habitation can also be transformed into habitable planets.
With the rapid development of science and technology, medicine is also advancing at the same speed. As for the cause of Mutt, the couple have found out that it is caused by a special virus. One of the people whose body is affected, and Mutter is unfortunately one of the extremely low odds.
However, although the cause was found out and the virus was resolved, for some reason, Mutt still showed no sign of waking up even though the freezing sleep time set at the beginning had passed. He was not a special case. Most of the people who were frozen except him did not wake up, and many of them died directly. Although the instrument detects that Mutt still has some slight life symptoms, but he has not woken up, it is very likely that he is brain dead and will never wake up again.
Therefore, Mute woke up suddenly, and the couple who had almost lost hope cried with joy at this moment.
According to them, because of an accident in the building where the cold people were stored, they were worried that the same thing would happen, so they purposely found a remote and safe place and protected Mutt here.
The surrounding environment is all fake, and they are all stereoscopic projections, so Mutt can't touch it.
"You just woke up, and your body is still very weak. Although this place is remote and stuffy, it is safe."
The woman who was holding Mutt and refused to let go stroked his hair and said softly.
"You take care of yourself here first, and then we'll take you out."
Probably because she was worried that Mutt would be bored, she added.
"Your cousin has something to go out, and she will be back in two days. Let her accompany you then, okay?"
She smiled and looked at Mutt, pampering her to the fullest.
"Sister Tasha, she also..."
Mutt shut up after half a sentence.
His parents can live to this day, let alone the very young Tasha, but if the lifespan of human beings is only more than 300 now, then Tasha who is more than 200 years old may not be too young, I don’t know Is it the same as his parents.
When he thought of the young and beautiful girl in his memory who suddenly became the same age as his parents, he felt a little emotional. He has been asleep for more than two hundred years, and when he wakes up, things are different. Those friends of the same age have grown up, matured or even become old, only he stayed where he was, still the ignorant boy who was left behind by everyone.
Thinking of this, Mute suddenly felt a little uneasy, and subconsciously grabbed his mother's hand.
His mother looked down at him, her gaze was indescribably soft, she stroked his hair, and the movements gradually made him feel at ease. The boy squinted his eyes, nestled in his mother's arms, and enjoyed the warmth he had been away for more than two hundred years like a child.
It doesn't matter, no matter how long it has passed, no matter how big the gap is, his relatives still love him and are still by his side.
This is enough.
In his memory before he fell asleep, there were only his mother's crying face and his father's sad eyes, but now, he finally saw his parents' smiles again.
So, for him at the moment, enough is enough.
It was enough for his relatives to show him a smile.
...
For some reason, perhaps because his body hadn't recovered yet, he didn't feel hungry. His mother didn't let him eat, but let him drink a little light blue liquid slowly, which is said to be a special nutrient solution. After all, his current weak body is not suitable for eating solid food.
Although it is just a fake stereoscopic projection, it is exactly the same as the real scene, and it also has day and night. After sleeping in his mother's arms all night, shortly after waking up in the morning, his parents seemed to have left in a hurry because of something urgent. Although his mother was very reluctant to leave, after the man persuaded him, she could only hug him and whisper for a while before leaving. If something happened, just shout in the room, and they would receive the news, and they also said that they could bring Tasha to see him the next night.
As the woman said, the boy over there nodded obediently, and then watched his parents hurried to a place that looked like a deep forest vine in the projection, and then disappeared.
Intellectual brain system
The boy was a little curious.
Is it the intellectual brain mentioned in those science fiction novels before he fell asleep
He yelled softly while lying on the bed, and a mechanical male voice immediately answered his words.
"Hello, little master, congratulations on your recovery."
Although the mechanical male voice was very dull, he obviously had a human-like thinking.
"I am the housekeeping AHD-Ⅲ intelligent program, and I will serve you wholeheartedly."
Mutt was a little confused, the sound was like surround sound, he couldn't figure out where it came from. He looked up and looked around for a week, but saw nothing.
"Uh... is there anything I can see?"
A light flashed in front of Mutt, which startled him. When he took a closer look, he found that a translucent light curtain appeared in front of his eyes.
He thought for a while and asked, "Can I connect to the Internet?"
Although he has been asleep for a long time and has lost touch with modern society, but in Mutt's mind, if technology develops rapidly, then the network will definitely develop more powerfully than before. He has no idea about the current situation, anyway, he is idle now It's okay, you can first use the Internet to see how far society has developed.
"Sorry, this system cannot connect to the external network due to special instructions from the master."
The boy blinked, a little confused.
It should be his parents who can give special instructions to this housekeeping brain. Why did his parents deliberately cut off the connection between this place and the external network
He was still thinking here when he suddenly heard a rapid beep.
"Alarm! Alert! Intruder! Intruder!"
Before the boy could react, he only heard a loud bang beside his ear, and the rapid siren stopped abruptly, as if his brain had suddenly been paralyzed.
Suddenly, the world was turned upside down, and the stream and woods in front of him quickly faded away, turning into a gray tone. Mutt was shocked to find that he was in a huge metal box, and a corner of the metal box had been blown up. Broken, and smoke came out.
Before he could react, a group of heavily armed men came out of the gap. Those people were all wearing what looked like military uniforms, which were somewhat different from the Union military uniforms he remembered, and there were strange metal armors on the vital parts of their bodies, even the helmets were made of steel, and the whole body was tightly wrapped. In fact, each of them looks like a humanoid steel tank.
A pitch-black gun was aimed at the young man who was still in a daze.
The leader approached slowly with an extremely cautious attitude. Most of his body was covered by metal armor, facing the weak and defenseless young man in comparison, he seemed to be facing a formidable enemy.
Mute swallowed, watching the fierce tall soldier approaching him, sitting on the bed subconsciously wanted to hide back, just moved, the muzzle of the gun blocked his forehead.
He froze all over, and in the next second, someone shot from the opposite side. Mute only felt a pain in his shoulder, and he lost consciousness instantly.
...
I don't know how long it took. When he woke up from the darkness again, he found himself lying on the cold metal floor. Dialogue.
He closed his eyes, did not open them, and listened carefully to the conversation between the two men.
"The operation failed?"
"Yes, I am sorry, Colonel."
"The secret message that was finally intercepted... It was ordered by the Marshal himself to arrest..."
Although he was by his side, he still couldn't hear the voice very clearly. He could only hear the seriousness and dissatisfaction in the speaker's voice, which was still a little hoarse.
"The intercepted information is that those two people are hiding in that place, but maybe they also know about our actions. When we broke in, those two people had already left early."
Mute heard that the other person did not speak, and after a while, he hummed in a low voice, and then continued to speak.
"Who is this? Their accomplice?"
Mute's chest tightened, and he closed his eyes and lay on the ground on his side, not daring to move.
"I don't know, Your Excellency, this is a man captured from that place."
"Is it the same existence as them?"
"It's not clear, sir, because he showed no resistance when we captured him, and after the initial inspection, no threat was detected on him. But just in case, we put him on the Forbidden Ring."
"That is to say, he doesn't have a citizenship identification number on him?"
"Yes, sir, no."
"Then, monitor it first. If you really have something to do with those two people, you can use him as bait."
At this time, another voice sounded.
"Report to the Colonel! Your Excellency the Marshal is here!"
"Understood, I'll go there right away."
The hoarse voice replied, and then said, "You stay and take this child to the monitoring room."
Mutt heard footsteps and gradually moved away from him. He still closed his eyes and pretended to be in a coma. There was no pain or bleeding in the place where the shoulder was hit, and it seemed that the ammunition that hit him should be an ammunition such as an anesthesia bomb.
Also, the wrists of both hands felt cold and metallic, as if they were handcuffed or something like that, or maybe it was the forbidden ring in the conversation between the two people just now.
Although his eyes were closed, Mutt's mind was still spinning rapidly. Lying on the ground, he heard the footsteps of the man called the Colonel walking away. After a while, another footstep sounded, walking towards him.
The next moment, his body suddenly soared into the air, and he clenched his teeth so as not to cry out.
The soldier who stayed behind picked him up and walked out. As he walked, the hard metal shoulder guards on the man's shoulders squeezed his abdomen, hitting him extremely uncomfortable. But he didn't dare to move, so he could only hold back, and then slowly opened his eyes a crack, carefully observing the surrounding situation.
The soldier carried him on his shoulders and walked in a narrow metal corridor. That corridor was not the only one, and there were quite a few branch corridors extending in all directions. The soldier turned several corners, and after a while, he arrived at his destination, where there was a closed gate. The soldier threw him to the ground, then raised his hand to enter the password on the button next to him.
He didn't have much vigilance against Mutt, maybe because he felt that Mutt was still in a coma, maybe it was because Mutt had no power to fight back when he was caught, maybe it was because the instrument confirmed that Mute is not threatening, and it may also be because of the presence of the forbidden ring on Mute's hand-after all, generally speaking, a kid who doesn't even look like an adult can't be an opponent of a well-trained special warfare soldier.
Mutt knew it well, and it was true.
He and this soldier are the difference between an egg and a rock.
Mute lay on the ground, watching the door slowly open. He felt that he had to do something. Obviously, this person wanted to lock him in. If he didn't do anything now, he really couldn't do anything after being locked in.
He got up carefully, and while the soldier was still talking to his colleague in the video, he got up abruptly and ran back quickly. Soon there was a roar from behind, and hurried footsteps were chasing after him. Mute didn't dare to look back, but ran forward desperately.
Because the criss-crossed metal corridors were like a maze to him, he didn't know the way, he just ran in a random direction, and he didn't know where he was running.
The people behind him were getting closer and closer, and he became more and more anxious. He ran around like a headless chicken, but when he turned a corner in the corridor, his whole body hit a tight door. On the closed little door.
A dead end.
Seeing that the pursuers were about to catch up, Mute was in a hurry, and subconsciously hit the button next to him desperately to open the small door.
Suddenly, he didn't know where he pressed it, and the small door buzzed open, and he stepped out of it in one step—
A fierce wind came in through the door, howling and violently tearing at the boy's hair.
Mute stood on the platform extending out from the doorway, completely stunned.
It turned out that he was actually on a spaceship. When he walked out of the small door, he walked onto a small platform outside the spaceship.
What made the young man stupefied was not only the fact that he almost stepped on the spaceship, but also what made him stunned, and everything he saw—
The spaceship was flying high in the sky, and the boy stood on the spaceship, looking down at the earth.
It was a gray land, like the ugly color of scorched soil. From this high altitude, you can see countless steel and iron buildings standing on the ugly land full of ravines. The steel pillars criss-cross, like It is the spider's silk that spreads all over the earth.
The sky was gray, as if shrouded in thick smoke, and fine dust visible to the naked eye was flying in the howling wind. The land is covered with silver-gray steel and black-red scorched earth. There is no greenness to be seen. Except for the people walking back and forth like ants in the steel-strewn city, there is no breath of life on the land. There is no vitality, only a dead silence.
Mutt's breathing became rapid, and there was a faint stench in the air. The air was so bad that he felt uncomfortable every time he took a breath. Looking down, one could vaguely see several rivers flowing on the ground of the gully, but the river water was all black with dirty off-white foam.
This kind of place... what the hell is this place? !
Mut stared blankly at the ugly steel spider web land below, his mind went blank for a while.
However, there was no time for him to be dazed and dazed, the pursuers had already arrived. Hearing the shouts behind him, the boy turned around abruptly, looked at the soldier standing at the door, and subconsciously took a step back.
But he had already reached the edge of the platform, and if he took another step back, he would fall from a height of thousands of meters.
The boy's heart was beating violently, and the soldier at the door was yelling at him, but the howling wind outside was too loud for him to hear clearly. He could only stand on the edge of the platform, nervously watching the soldier's every move.
The soldier pointed his gun at him, shouted as if to warn him, and beckoned him back.
He stared at the man without moving, sweat was already oozing from his forehead.
After a stalemate like this for a while, the soldier seemed to be getting impatient, and as soon as he put down his gun, he made a gesture to walk towards him.
Mute's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously took another half step back, stepping on the edge, and at this moment, just before he landed, a gust of wind whistling with countless dust came suddenly—
The fierce wind made his already weak body suddenly lose his balance.
Mute only felt that his right foot slipped, and his whole body fell backwards—
A hand suddenly popped out from above.
He grabbed the boy's wrist.
That strong hand grabbed his wrist forcefully, dragging his whole body into the air.
The sound of the wind whistled past his ears, blowing Mutt's soft black hair into a mess.
The boy whose whole body was suspended in the air raised his head, and at that moment, his pupils dilated slightly.
He saw a pair of extremely familiar eyes... dark blue eyes, the depths of the deepest seabed, carrying the starlight of the stars and the ocean in the cosmic starry sky.
One glance is enough to take one's breath away from the blue eyes.
"... Michael... brother?"