It was once a peaceful and beautiful planet.
In the dark cosmic starry sky, a smear of blue is dotted in the deep darkness, and the floating clouds are entwined, drawing pattern-like patterns on it.
The boundless sea of stars is vast and magnificent, and countless stars shine in it, which is breathtaking, but no matter how magnificent the endless starry sky is, it can't compare with the calmness and gentleness of this azure blue.
In the icy cosmic starry sky, only this touch of blue conceived life, its warm embrace was so serene, it conceived the sky and the earth, it took billions of years to conceive countless creatures.
The time to conceive life is so long and long, and the time to destroy it is but an instant.
When the crimson flame that seemed to come from hell roared up from the earth, tearing apart the sky, shattering the earth, burning up the ocean, and devouring the entire blue planet—the once colorful life was turned into ashes, and in an instant between.
Everything returned to dead silence.
Everything returns to zero.
The life born from this planet destroyed the planet that gave birth to them with their own hands.
...
The young man knelt on the cold metal floor, and the firelight cast from the cosmic starry sky reflected his bloodless pale face into a strange crimson, as if a flame was burning under his skin, like being burned by a flame. The gorgeousness of the last bloom before the devoured bud is about to be crushed.
His pitch-black pupils were also dyed crimson by the flames, and his pupils were slightly empty, so empty that he couldn't see anything.
The boy knelt there with a blank expression, like a lifeless puppet.
At this moment, he seemed to have forgotten everything, and he couldn't see anything else. He just looked at the burning star in the starry sky, and the flame seemed to be imprinted in the deepest part of his pupils.
... have to go back.
Mutt thought.
Mom, Dad... and Tasha... everyone is waiting for him...
He put his hands on the ground and wanted to stand up, but his whole body seemed to lose strength, and his arms were so weak that he couldn't exert any strength.
He held his breath for several times before he managed to get up from the ground. The young man looked like he was sleepwalking, and even his eyes were empty—but his empty eyes seemed to be looking at a distant place through the void. .
to go back.
he thought, stepping forward.
But a hand suddenly stretched out from the side and tightened his wrist tightly.
"where are you going?"
Someone's voice came from behind, so far away that it didn't seem to exist.
The boy didn't look back. At this moment, he couldn't see or hear anything except the red planet in his sight.
He just follows his instinct and desire from the heart to go where he wants to go.
"… go back."
The boy spoke in a trance, like a dreamlike language.
"I have to go home..."
go home.
Go back to the house where mom and dad are still there.
back to earth.
…
But can't move.
Something is grabbing him, something is shackling his body, preventing him from going home.
Look, there it is.
That planet, his home, was there, right in front of him.
But he can't go back.
Something held him back, preventing him from moving a step.
… no.
go back... must...
No matter what happens...
...
Michael firmly clasped the wrist he was grasping, the young man's wrist in his hand was extremely slender and fragile, as if it would shatter if he exerted more force.
But he didn't let go, instead he tightened his grip.
It was a premonition, like a premonition that the child would disappear without a trace in front of him if he just loosened his strength a little.
"...I have to go home..."
The language that seems to be talking in a dream is so soft that it seems that there is no sound.
Michael's chest shrank suddenly, and he saw that his clenched hand began to glow with a light blue light. The hand began to become transparent, as if it would disappear into the air in the next second.
Too late to think about it.
Michael's right hand stretched out at lightning speed, and pressed heavily on the back of Mutt's neck. An extremely thin needle tube popped out from his fingertips and pierced into the skin of the back of his neck. In just a split second, the stun potion was injected into the light blue blood vessels.
The blue gleam that had just appeared on the young man disappeared, and his body, which seemed to have lost all its strength, fell backwards and fell into Michael's arms.
After being silent for a while, Michael picked up Mutt.
The unconscious teenager tilted his head and leaned quietly in his arms, his slender eyelashes cast deep shadows on his pale cheeks.
There was a sudden sharp throbbing pain somewhere in the body.
The place he thought was empty when the first shot came, and there was nothing left.
He saw a tear seep from the corner of the boy's eyes that was leaning quietly in his arms, down the corner of his pale eyes, and fell into the socket of his neck.
... scalding.
...
Before the bright glass window, the crimson planet was reflected in the starry sky.
The human marshal stood quietly under the huge dead planet, the crimson flame illuminated half of his white cheeks, while the other half was plunged into pitch-black shadows.
The black cloak reflecting the firelight was scattered from his shoulders on the cold metal ground, motionless, like a sculpture. He stood there quietly holding the person in his arms, the shadow of fine black hair covered his eyes, making it impossible to see anything.
The surroundings are very quiet, nothing can be heard, nothing, as if everything ends here.
Long shadows were drawn under his feet, and the deep darkness seemed to lead to the abyss.
Michael stood there holding the boy in his arms. Perhaps, for him, time had stopped forever at this silent moment.
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……………
In the dark starry sky, countless ships are slowly sailing in the direction of Mars. Behind them, the flames of nuclear bombs are still burning on the planet that has completely fallen into silence, but no one will look back.
That's a choice made by humans, a choice made by all of us together, and they don't want to go back, and they never intend to go back.
The one-time space transition instrument on Mars that took countless resources to build slowly lit up, getting brighter and brighter, and finally turned out to be like the sun, so bright that people couldn't open their eyes.
Suddenly, there was a roar, and the space transition instrument that accompanied the spacecraft flying into space exploded. The strong energy fluctuation distorted the space, and the starry sky collapsed at the distorted point, forming a pitch-black wormhole.
It was like a vortex formed suddenly on the sea surface, collapsing into the abyss, sucking in everything around it.
[All move forward.]
The order to set off has been issued, and following this terrifying attraction, the countless human fleets slowly sailed into the pitch-black wormhole.
They will jump to the center of the universe through this wormhole, opening the way for mankind to conquer the universe.
The collapse of the starry sky and the distortion of space caused the connection between all the ships to be broken briefly at this moment.
No one has discovered it, and it is impossible for humans to discover it.
At the moment when the nuclear bomb exploded on the earth, in various places on the earth, a dozen faint blue light spots shot out from the planet like arrows leaving the string. Before that, those light spots had already left the earth and flew into outer space.
Those light spots are so small in the vast cosmic starry sky, they are not even comparable to the distant starlight, just like dust.
Those are the Jia who escaped from the earth at the moment before the earth was destroyed. The very few Jia who have extremely powerful power, their power has long been beyond the imagination of human beings. They can pass through the atmosphere with their own strength, Stay in the cosmic starry sky for a short while with your physical body.
At this moment, the dozen or so Jia who had escaped were suspended in the starry sky blankly. They looked blankly at their destroyed homeland, and their whole people were lost. Many people still maintain a dreamlike look on their faces. Even if they have seen it with their own eyes, they still can't believe what they see. They still feel that they are just dreaming, a nightmare.
However, there was not even time for them to mourn and realize the reality, when a sudden and terrifying attraction came from the other side of the starry sky.
Human beings have opened wormholes, and the shrinking cosmic space and vortex wormholes are indiscriminately sucking in everything around them, and they are already irresistible to be sucked in by the terrifying attraction of wormholes—
Among the group, Moti, who had been staring blankly at the destroyed earth, turned his eyes, and his slack eyes suddenly became sober and serious.
They can stay in the starry sky with their bodies for a while, but in the distorted space of the wormhole, even Jia, if they are sucked in with their bodies, there will be nothing left. Seeing that the wormhole was about to collapse, they absolutely couldn't bear the powerful attraction at the moment of the final collapse and would be sucked in.
They are the only living companions now, and they cannot all die in the conspiracy of human beings!
He turned his gaze, and landed on a spaceship at the end of the line that was sailing forward with the large army, his eyes were burning red, and he almost screamed.
"Go up! Take the ship!"
The exchange of thoughts is enough for a moment, and before the wormhole collapses, at the last moment when the attraction suddenly increases and swallows everything, Mo Ti dangerously leads the remaining companions to forcefully teleport to the ship he fancy. Inside the spaceship.
Taking advantage of the space distortion of the wormhole and the inability to communicate between the ships, they eliminated all the humans on the small spaceship and seized control of the spaceship.
They don't want to enter the wormhole, and they don't want to leave the earth, but even the spacecraft cannot resist the attraction of the wormhole. They could only inevitably be sucked in by the wormhole along with the large force of human beings, and the space jumped to the universe on the other side.
... ... ...
In the boundless cosmic sky, countless ships sail slowly among the stars.
This is already the center of the universe, and they have successfully jumped here through the wormhole, and the human ships are sailing towards their predetermined goals.
It has been more than a week since they left the earth and traveled through the wormhole.
"Your Excellency Marshal, no, this person's body is rejecting all external things, and it is impossible to infuse him with nutrient solution. If this continues, he may..."
The middle-aged military doctor frowned and stared at the young man on the hospital bed, showing a nervous and embarrassed expression.
"There is no other way."
He sighed and said, looking at the marshal at one side.
The man who is the current supreme commander of mankind stands quietly on one side, giving people a huge sense of oppression without making a sound. Wearing a straight black military uniform, a dark cloak hangs down from the golden epaulettes on his shoulders, covering most of his body.
The narrow and long phoenix eyes, the frozen ice blue eyes seem to be the deepest darkness of the abyss under the sea, without a trace of light.
He stood there, staring at the boy who was sleeping peacefully on the bed with shadowed eyes.
"You don't want to wake up?"
He said, with a low voice with a kind of metallic coldness.
His voice was so low that even the military doctor next to him couldn't hear what he was saying.
It was not so much that he was talking to someone as he was talking to himself.
"Then just keep sleeping."
...
In the huge hall, there is a dome-like hall with a hemispherical roof. Countless dense grids are neatly placed in the metal walls. The cold air permeates between the metal grids. The whole hall is so cold that people can't stop Trembling in the bones.
In the middle of the hall, the body of the boy who was sleeping peacefully and refused to wake up was slowly pushed into the cold glass metal cabinet that was one person tall.
The freezer was closed, and the cold air quickly wrapped around it, and the boy's cheeks under the transparent glass turned into a lifeless paleness like snow at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The hand in the snow-white glove stretched out and lightly placed on the bone-cold glass, and the black hair hung down, blocking the eyes of the marshal standing by.
Michael thought, the child would like to sleep here.
After all, this spaceship is the only one among all human ships that carries the brain of the Earth's memory. After all, the countless grids in this refrigerated hall are the genes of life on Earth.
Sleeping here is like sleeping on earth.
"Sleep until you want to wake up."
He leaned forward slightly, his slender eyelashes drooping down, half covering his eyes.
He looked at the white-skinned and lifeless young man under the glass who looked like an ice sculpture made of ice and snow, and he clenched his fingers tightly on the glass.
He said, "I'll wait for you to wake up."
—
"sneak into?"
"Yes, we have to return to Earth, no matter how long it takes, we have to go back. However, we don't have coordinates." Moti said, "So, if we want to return to Earth, we must first find the coordinates."
During these ten days or so, he and other companions had sneaked into other spaceships, using a companion's special ability to investigate the thoughts and memories of those soldiers. Then they discovered that the coordinates of the earth and all the information about the earth were forcibly blocked, and they were only kept on a reserve ship closest to the flagship of the Michael.
"Only on that reserve ship can we find the coordinates of the Earth."
"...we get it."
"That's the only way to do it."
"Just do it!"
...
... ... ...
"Your Excellency the Marshal! The Roy is under attack!"
The marshal, who was sitting quietly in the command seat of the flagship hall of the Michael, stood up suddenly, which shocked the subordinates who were reporting.
Following this marshal who has always been calm and emotionless for so long, this is the first time he has seen this lord make such a gaffe on the battlefield.
The reporting subordinate didn't have time to think about it. His boss' eyes were approaching. The terrible pressure he felt made him feel the air around him suddenly heavy, and his heart beat violently several times.
He hastened to continue: "Gar... In the interior of the attacked Roy, Jia's attack energy was detected!"
"Mobilize the Alpha Marines into the ship."
"Your Excellency, only one Jia's energy has been detected so far, and he just slipped through the net. Is it too much to mobilize the Alpha Marines..."
"Give me the order."
The trembling voice like ice made the subordinate's chest tremble, and he immediately stood at attention and raised his hand in salute.
"Yes sir!"
"Close to the Lowy, ready for rendezvous."
"W-Wait, sir, you're going to personally—no, it's too dangerous, you can't—"
Panicked subordinates do nothing to stop their bosses from doing their best.
...
No one knows why Jia broke into this ship suddenly. In the eyes of human beings, those monsters who call themselves Jia should have been destroyed together with the earth long ago, and human beings have completely got rid of the threat of those monsters.
No one thought that under such circumstances, Jia escaped from the earth and followed them through the wormhole to come here. And just before they were caught off guard, the dozen or so terrifyingly powerful Jia had already broken through the defense line and broke into the interior of this fortress reserve ship.
In order to confuse human beings, all the Jia gathered together as much as possible, and Moti amplified his own power as much as possible, which created the illusion that only one Jia's attack energy was detected in the monitoring.
When Jia and his party broke into the interior of the ship's refrigerated hall, Tasha's eyes suddenly widened.
The first time she saw the glass metal cabinet in the middle of the hall, the boy's cold and lifeless body was inside, as if lying in a transparent glass coffin, already dead.
"How could this be... how could..."
Before rushing to the glass coffin, Tasha knelt down next to it with her knees limp. She looked at the lifeless boy among them, and tears suddenly fell.
In the past, she watched her parents being killed. At that time, she couldn't save her aunt and uncle, but now, even her last relative had to leave her——
"Why, why is it like this... Mute, you are just like this... How could he treat you like this, that guy, that bastard—how could he—" Her eyes were burning red with hatred in an instant, and she turned to rush Going out, his expression was almost crazy, "I'm going to kill him! I'm going to kill that guy!"
"Calm down, Tasha!"
Tasha, who was about to rush out, was hugged by Moti, who followed closely. He tightly hugged Tasha, who was on the verge of collapse, and yelled in her ear.
"He's alive! Mut's alive! He's not dead!"
Moti's roar woke up the nearly collapsed Tasha.
"... still alive?"
Tasha's outstretched fingers trembled a little, and she pressed against the glass, feeling the shivering chill at her fingertips. She closed her eyes, and her consciousness stretched in, and she finally felt the faint consciousness of the boy who fell into a deep sleep under the glass.
Alive... Mut is alive.
Tasha exhaled in one breath, and she pressed her hands tightly on the glass, looking at her last relative inside, she couldn't stop crying.
"Don't be afraid... Mutt, don't be afraid, I'm here to save you... Don't be afraid."
She was talking incoherently to the sleeping person, and her messy mind finally woke up a little when it came to saving people, and hurried to find the switch of this device. But Moti beside her was already one step ahead of her, reaching out to check the freezing device, trying to unfreeze it.
"It looks like he was frozen again, as long as he is released..." Moti's face changed slightly, "Damn it! This setting is the release setting of internal induction!"
With the internal induction setting, only when the person in the freeze shows signs of wanting to wake up can the frozen state be released automatically, and the outside world cannot forcibly release the frozen state.
"Morty!"
A young man who was typing on the keyboard quickly in front of the large-screen console next to him turned his head and yelled at him.
"No! The coordinates of the earth are top secret! There are more than 90 keys or protection walls, and it can't be solved at all! What should I do?"
"Morty!"
A girl who had been keeping her eyes closed to detect the movement of the enemy with her consciousness opened her eyes and shouted anxiously.
"The human marines have already boarded this ship! It will be here in ten minutes at most! What should we do?"
"Mote! The flagship of the Michael is approaching here! It looks like it is going to join the ship—"
For a moment, the whole hall fell into silence, and everyone's eyes were on Moti, waiting for his decision.
Moti pursed his lips tightly and did not speak, his brows were tightly frowned.
The traces have been exposed.
Earth's coordinates are not available.
The human army is coming soon.
With only a few of them, it is impossible to fight against the thousands of human beings.
… How to do? Just escape like this
Yes, they still have time to escape. After escaping, they stay away from human beings and find a hidden planet to survive.
But if they escape like this, they will never find their way back to Earth.
[Well, I have seen the human star map.]
[I don't remember much, I just noticed the coordinates of the earth.]
Fragments of memories flashed through his mind like lightning, and the fire in Moti's dim eyes suddenly rekindled.
There is still hope.
He thought, staring fixedly at the sleeping boy, his eyes lit up.
right here! They still have the last hope of returning to Earth!
"Listen, take him away, use power together, and transfer Mutt into our spaceship together." He said, speaking extremely fast, "He knows the coordinates of the earth! He can take us back!"
Everyone looked at each other, and they all teleported to the surroundings of the glass cabinet. Pressing their hands on the glass, the blue light in their pupils burned hotly.
A circular blue halo emerged around them, enveloping them.
"Morty?"
Tasha turned her head, but found that Moti did not come to be with them, but stood at the door of the hall far away from them.
"What are you doing? Come here—"
The last leader of Jia stood at the door, looking at his companions from a distance, and his eyes fell on Tasha who was calling him anxiously, so there was a trace of tenderness in that perseverance.
He smiled at his companions.
"I can't go," he said.
"What nonsense are you talking about! Morty! Come here immediately!"
Under the release of Jia's power surrounded by the crowd, the blue light circle surrounded the crowd and the young man among the crowd, and soon, they would disappear here.
"I can't go," said Moti, smiling anxiously at his companions. "If I go, none of us will be able to go."
His voice sounded firm, carrying his determination as a man and as the final leader, but under that tough determination, there was also a slight tremor.
"Protect Mutt, you must protect him, listen, only he can bring us back to Earth!"
His voice gradually increased and became louder, until the last sentence was almost a roar.
"Live! Go back to Earth!"
The moment he finished his last word, the blue circle of light disappeared before his eyes along with his companions, leaving him standing alone in the huge hall.
Moti stood on the spot, staring straight at the place where his companions disappeared. He clenched his hands tightly, took a deep breath, and suppressed the deep reluctance in his heart.
He can't go, and if he goes, none of them can go.
In this hall, he could feel a bit of consciousness left by the human marshal.
It's just a human being who can leave traces of consciousness here, and he can imagine how much that human is obsessed with Mutt... If the marshal knows that they took Mutt away, no matter where they fled, that human will definitely Hot on the heels.
Therefore, there is only one way to let the companions leave safely, and to create opportunities for them to leave safely—to make the human marshal think that Mutt is dead.
and…
he thinks.
This place must be destroyed, all information here must be destroyed.
Only here is the information of the earth, and if this place is destroyed, human beings will never find a way back to the earth.
He will never let humans return to Earth again! ! !
...
... ... ...
"Stop him!"
"shooting!"
"Don't let him in!"
Countless laser laser shots came, like a rainstorm.
The young man walked forward slowly, a faint blue light curtain surrounded his body, but he could already vaguely see countless cracks on it. He walked very slowly, and the hanging black hair blocked his eye sockets, so that people could not see his face clearly, only the blood was continuously flowing from his temples, staining most of his cheeks red.
His body was already unbearably heavy, and he could only walk forward staggeringly. Every step he took would leave a clear blood-red footprint on the cold metal floor.
His chest was heaving violently, and he was so weak that he looked as if he would fall to the ground and stop breathing in a second, but at this moment, no one could stop his weak progress.
He was alone, under the siege of countless elite land combat human soldiers, and under the hail of bullets, he broke through the siege and broke into the depths of the ship.
The location of the main brain, which stores a huge amount of information related to the earth, is also the nuclear power center of the ship.
Moti staggered forward, leaving bloodstains behind him.
His consciousness has begun to blur, his vision has begun to darken, and he knows that he is exhausted.
But not yet, he cannot fall down yet.
He hasn't finished his mission yet.
To protect his companions, and...
Humans... Those humans don't deserve to go back to Earth.
He will never let humans return to Earth again!
Stumbling like this, he finally broke into the deepest part of the ship, broke into the location of the huge mechanical mastermind, and fell headlong on the cold metal shell.
Panting heavily, he leaned against the cold metal shell.
The human soldiers rushed in, and the mask around him finally completely collapsed and shattered under the intensive shooting of those humans.
Countless lasers and bullets pierced through his body one after another, and the spattered blood exploded in the air.
The hand he pressed on the metal shell shone with a bright blue light at this moment, as if it had burned the last of his vitality——
Under the blue light, a very shallow smile appeared on the young man's blood-stained face.
…
My companions, and the one I love, you must live.
Live, then, come back to our Earth.
…
The flames of the explosion illuminated the starry sky. Among countless ships, in a corner of the fleet, on an inconspicuous small spaceship, the girl and her companions stared blankly at the sparks that exploded in the starry sky.
The last consciousness of Jia's last leader before his death passed into the thoughts of all of them. It was extremely warm, full of nostalgia and reluctance for them, and nostalgia for that planet.
Tasha knelt on the ground and covered her face with tears soaking her hands.
... ... ...
"Your Excellency Marshal, I'm sorry, that Jia detonated the Roy and died with it."
As a subordinate, he is very fortunate that the Roy exploded before it could be connected to the ship, and the Marshal had not had time to board the ship, otherwise...
"..."
"Your Mightiness?"
"... back off."
The subordinate didn't dare to say anything more, turned around and retreated after bowing.
There was only one person left in the empty room, and there was no light on. Michael put himself in the shadows, and no one could clearly see his face hidden in the darkness.
He sat there, soundless, breathless, heartbeatless, as if there was nothing left.
It was impossible to tell whether he had blackened the shadow, or if the shadow had swallowed him.
[I'll wait for you to wake up.]
It's like grains of sand, the more you want to hold it tightly, the more it will fall from your fingers.
He gripped the last grain of sand tightly and refused to let go.
But at the end, the grain of sand still slipped silently from his fingers...
... ... ...
…………………
Human beings leave the earth and go to the universe.
It took a long time for them to become the masters of the universe and establish a huge universe empire belonging to mankind.
The human leader who led them to conquer the universe became the first emperor of the empire.
Time flies, and empires stand in the long river of time.
The generation that left the earth gradually passed away, and almost everyone kept silent about the affairs of the earth. After they passed away, the information about the earth became increasingly scarce.
In the long time, with the passage of time, human beings began to miss the earth again, and they began to yearn for their hometown, the planet that gave birth to them.
They began to frantically pursue everything related to the earth, and pursued the way back to the earth.
...
Time is too long, the boy has been sleeping, did not wake up.
In order to survive and protect this sleeping boy, the remaining gals had to hide their identities and integrate into human beings.
[Protect this boy well, one day, he will be able to bring us and our descendants back to Earth.]
Although they gradually separated from each other due to various unavoidable things in an extremely long time, this prophecy was still passed down from generation to generation, and the boy in the glass cabinet was also carefully guarded by them.
...
... ... ...
Later, after a long, long time, in that pirate's warship.
The tightly closed iron door opened, and a slender leg stepped into it, and the dark military boots stepped heavily on the metal floor to make a dull sound.
The teenager sitting in the corner with his knees crossed looked up.
The black-haired major general who walked through the door bowed his head.
Through the upright glowing laser railing, the boy's dark eyes and the young major general's dark blue eyes met at this moment—
[Memories. End]