The scene at this moment was a torrent of devastating debris rushing towards us, like the end of the world when the heaven and earth collapsed.
"Huo Xianfeng!!!"
The young man opened his eyes a little, and saw only a tiny bit of silver in his chaotic and blurry vision, like a faint star, slightly emitting a dim light in the raging hurricane.
Snapped!
A hand tightly grasped him. The fierce wind blade carried unknown metal fragments, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of bloody marks were cut on the arm!
"… "
An inexplicable sense of familiarity swept over me like a tidal wave, causing even my soul to tremble slightly.
It seemed that once upon a time, there was also someone who rushed towards him without caring about anything.
Who is it
Huo Xianfeng couldn't remember anything, so he just closed his eyes and fell into a dark chaos.
The endless darkness seemed to last for a long time, yet it seemed to last only a short moment, until Huo Xianfeng heard a dull knock.
Boom boom!
It was like someone was tapping on a glass box filled with water.
[I'm back.]
This voice belongs to a boy, strange yet familiar.
The sound was like a stone falling into a lake, creating ripples in the eternal darkness. In an instant, the entire dark world became bright along with this sound.
—This is a huge laboratory.
The walls, floor, and ceiling are all silver-white, which looks like a very holy decoration.
Countless quiet experimental instruments are parked here, and on the screen, dense data streams shuttle quickly, like a fast-flowing river or sea.
In the middle was a huge spherical culture chamber filled with light blue nutrient solution. In the very center, curled up was a child about four or five years old. There were more than a dozen thin tubes inserted from the back of his neck to his spine, making him look extremely terrifying.
At this time, the boy in a white robe stood in front of the incubator, stretched out his hand, tapped the glass lightly with his knuckles, and then placed his warm palm on the cold glass surface.
[I'm back.]
His voice was a little childish, but his tone was very gentle, like the gentle mountain mist in the early morning.
Huo Xianfeng quietly stared at the profile of the young man in white robe. It was easy to recognize that this should be Huo Chao as a child.
After escaping from the Earth, he had consciously searched for photos of Huo Chao, but most of them showed Huo Chao's appearance as an adult. He was majestic, cold, and steady, an image that was very consistent with the commander-in-chief of the alliance.
But if you look at Huo Chao at this time, there is a big difference between him and the future commander of the alliance. He now looks only eight or nine years old, with a childish but handsome face, which makes people not feel on guard at all.
At this time, there were slight ripples in the incubator, but Huo Chao did not get a response.
He was not annoyed, but just gently stroked the cold glass and muttered to himself,
[Today I met a very interesting person, his name is Jiang Jinsheng.]
[He has silver hair and crimson eyes. He is very special and very self-initiated, but he is actually very smart. He is the smartest one among the children selected by the church this time...]
[Yesterday was the beginning of spring. Many flowers will bloom in the capital soon, but Changyun doesn’t like them very much because he is allergic to pollen. These days will probably be very difficult to endure… ]
The boy in white robe talked a lot, but most of it was about insignificant daily things.
Huo Xianfeng frowned slightly, feeling that he seemed to have heard these things before, but when he thought about it carefully, he hadn't.
It was very strange. If he was Huo Chao, if... all these things in front of him were his memories. Huo Xianfeng felt that they should at least be presented from the first person's perspective.
Instead of being like now, he stood in the third perspective, quietly watching the gray past buried in the torrent of time, as if watching an absurd holographic movie.
[Your Highness Huo Chao,]
Huo Xianfeng and young Huo Chao turned around at the same time and saw several people in white coats standing at the door. They bowed their heads slightly and looked very respectful.
Your Highness.
Huo Xianfeng knew that people in the church called the Pope "Your Majesty". As for the title of "Your Highness", this proved that Huo Chao's status in the church was probably second only to the Pope.
The leader in a white coat took a step forward and seemed to be reciting a verdict.
[-Time is up.]
Boom!
These words were like a heavy hammer, hitting Huo Xianfeng's brain hard.
The scene before him stretched like blurred pixels, leaving only a bloody and crazy blur.
The intense pain was like a sharp needle piercing his back and brain.
It felt like something was being extracted, and at the same time, something was being injected.
The extreme pain made Huo Xianfeng unable to even scream. He could only kneel on the ground, and his spasming fingers scratched countless messy and crazy bloody marks on the metal floor.
At this moment, he couldn't see anything, and of course the scene in front of him was also blurry. He could only hear some intermittent and indifferent conversations.
[Begins extraction of... neural fluid... Overlord...]
[Monster… Huo Chao… Compatibility…]
[Test... Mental Power Threshold Increase... Breakthrough...]
Extreme hatred and pain seemed to fill his chest at this moment, like a hellfire suddenly erupting in the dark jungle, vowing to burn everything to ashes.
[Aaaaah!!!]
Huo Xianfeng heard two hysterical screams, one came from Huo Chao, and the other was the language of the Zerg.
It was the voice of a larva, very immature, even younger than those he had heard on Earth. If it were a human, it would probably be equivalent to the cry of a one or two year old baby.
Huo Xianfeng was sweating profusely, and the suffocation in his chest became stronger and stronger, as if he was struggling and drowning in a raging tsunami. This strong and stimulating hallucination seemed to last for a very long time, and it seemed to be just a moment.
He slowly raised his head, and the blurry scene in front of him finally became clear.
It was still the same scene, the same place, but Huo Chao's height was slightly different each time. He always spoke seriously to the silent incubator for a long time, and the names he mentioned most often were Pei Changyun and Jiang Jinsheng.
Occasionally, the young Huo Chao would bring some things, such as toys that human children liked, or some beautiful candies, but nothing came of it.
Until one day, he carefully brought the rose flower.
The silent King Bug cub responded for the first time, and the strange language was clearly transmitted to the boy's mind.
[Humans, listen up!]
[One day, I will personally make your race... ]
The golden vertical pupils were cold and fierce, with undisguised murderous intent, and he spoke word by word.
[—Eliminated from the universe!]
"… "
Click.
The beautiful flowers fell to the ground.
After a moment, a difficult and suppressed sob sounded in the silent space.
The broken flowers were picked up by the trembling little hands covered with scars, and in an instant they were covered with big, hot tears.
"Huo Xianfeng... Huo Xianfeng...?"
It was the first time that Jiang Ci saw the boy’s painful expression. He seemed to be trapped in some terrible nightmare and unable to break free.
He looked around anxiously and found that this seemed to be a life planet that was not recorded in the empire's register.
No signal, no coordinates.
Looking up, one can see lush forests of giant trees and all kinds of strange and huge plants. If Jiang Ci did not remember clearly that he and Huo Xianfeng fell into the space crack opened by Leinster, he would even think that he had entered a holographic ancient Earth world to experience the game.
"rustle-"
"rustle-"
The shadows of the trees danced, and the dense leaves rubbed against each other, making strange sounds. It seemed that there was a faint roar coming from a distance, but when you listened carefully, it seemed like an illusion. In short, this weird atmosphere was like the silence before the climax of a horror movie, which made people's hair stand on end.
Jiang Ci tightly grasped the pistol that Bai Ze had transformed into, half-knelt beside Huo Xianfeng, and looked around vigilantly. He had a bad premonition, but he didn't notice anything.
In this strange, unknown and dangerous environment, of course the first choice is thermal weapons.
The silver-haired major general maintained this posture for nearly twenty minutes. Only after he confirmed that there was no unusual movement around him did he put down his weapon slightly and prepare to find the medical equipment to check what was wrong with Huo Xianfeng.
But at the moment Jiang Ci put down his spear, he felt a cold wind whistling from behind, and in an instant a terrible chill ran directly from his spine to his scalp.
The silver-haired major general twisted his wrist and through the reflection of the side of the pistol, he saw a huge black shadow swooping down from a high altitude, roaring straight towards him.
At that moment, Jiang Ci felt a chill in her heart, and for a moment she couldn't tell whether the shadow was a human or some strange monster.
In a flash, he rolled on the ground and shot directly.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The sound of the gunshot was very small after being silenced, but all three shots hit the target!
A large amount of blood suddenly exploded in the air!
"Roar!!!"
The black beast roared in pain, and a bowl-sized hole appeared at the location of its heart. Smelly blood spurted all over the ground. He staggered back, struggled madly on the ground, and finally died unwillingly.
Only at this time did Jiang Ci see the true face of the attacker.
-chimpanzee.
In the Capital Zoo, you can see genetically cloned chimpanzees.
Jiang Ci was not interested in the animals on Earth and had never been to a zoo. The reason she knew about this kind of thing was because He Zhun had mentioned it accidentally.
[Aci, do you know which animal is most similar to humans in terms of genes?]
The friend nonchalantly wrote a series of genetic equations on the electronic version that Jiang Ci could not understand.
[It's the chimpanzee. There's only a 2% genetic difference between them, but it determines that one can only be an animal, while the other has become the master of the earth.]
At this point, He Zhun tapped the electronic version with the tip of his pen and uttered a soft "hmm".
[If anyone wants to do human experiments, these guys should be the best genetic research materials.]
At this time, Bai Ze suddenly spoke, his tone was very solemn,
"Aci, I detected that the mental strength threshold of the chimpanzee just now has exceeded the D level."
You know, generally speaking, the average level of ordinary people is only D level, and those who can enter military academies are B level or above.
A-level is for a minority of elite people. If it is S-level, then you have to be someone like Zhou Jiuya.
but-
Chimpanzees are animals!
Even in an era when humans have evolved six genders and mental powers, animals are still animals. Although they also have brain waves, they can never reach a level that can be called mental power.
This animal was clearly extinct on Earth a long time ago. Even if it was cloned again using the genes it brought out, how could it have reached the mental strength level of an ordinary person? !
"… "
Jiang Ci suddenly began to doubt whether every word that He Zhun had said seemingly unintentionally was some kind of hint. Otherwise, how could he have given him perfect hints so many times.
Whoosh—
Whizzing-
The silver-haired major general clenched his weapon. Now he could see countless black shadows in the woods, roaring excitedly. In other words, there was definitely more than one, probably a group.
Jiang Ci looked solemn. The situation was unclear. He didn't know whether he had reached the church's territory or not. Therefore, he couldn't rashly use large-scale thermal weapons to avoid exposing his position.
In addition, Bai Ze had gone through two battles and only had 30% of his energy left. As for Xiao X, because he had previously served as the core of the Forbidden Abyss, his energy was only 10%. Jiang Ci had been lying in the infirmary for three days and had not had time to replenish the energy of the two mechas.
He quickly observed the dark shadows in the jungle and finally found the one that might be the leader among a group of chimpanzees.
It was such a terrifying monster, nearly three meters long, like a black mountain of flesh.
"Xiao X, open the shield and keep an eye on him!"
Jiang Ci stood up, and without waiting for a reply, he immediately raised his gun and pulled the trigger—
Bang bang bang!
But this time, the opponents were already prepared and dodged quickly. Excited and angry screams came from all directions. Jiang Ci nimbly slid on the ground and dodged the first two that pounced on him. Without even looking at them, he fired two blind sniper shots and actually shot them in the head accurately.
"Roar!!!"
Perhaps sensing the provocation, the chimpanzee leader roared and pounced on Jiang Ci when he just finished firing. The latter rolled on the ground, narrowly avoiding the opponent's claws.
"White Pond!!!"
Shua—
The pistol instantly transformed into a two-meter-long silver spear. With a "pop" sound, it pierced the chimpanzee's head from his left eye socket, spurting out a large amount of smelly animal blood.
Wow!
At this moment, all the chimpanzees froze suddenly. They finally realized that it was impossible to succeed. They stood there screaming in fear and anxiety for a long time, and finally left unwillingly. They even dragged away the corpses of their own kind.
Jiang Ci initially thought that this was some kind of camaraderie, but this thought did not stay in his mind for too long. When he was leaving quickly with Huo Xianfeng, he looked back and found that the chimpanzees had torn off the heads of the corpses and were actually eating the brains of their own kind.
—This scene is simply creepy.
He didn't look back, suppressed the urge to vomit, unfolded Bai Ze's half-completed form, and immediately left quickly.
It was not until nightfall that Jiang Ci found a hidden and safe cave. He settled Huo Xianfeng down, who seemed to have a fever and showed no sign of waking up.
In the Star Age, humans have undergone several generations of genetic modification and rarely get sick. Even their lifespan and youthfulness have been extended to hundreds of years.
This was something that was simply unimaginable in the ancient Earth era.
—Could it be a virus or parasitic infection
Jiang Ci thought of the thing that Leinster had stabbed into the boy's arm, the golden, living, unidentified object that looked very much like some kind of parasite. He pursed his lips, hesitated for a minute, took out the medical instrument, and tested his blood.
Didi—
Jiang Ci was originally prepared, thinking that the other party might have some special features. After all, an ordinary human being cannot break the gravity magnetic field with one punch, or even knock an S-class mecha away.
But the medical instrument gave the test results.
—All values are normal.
At this time, Huo Xianfeng seemed to be trapped in a nightmare. Cold sweat wet his forehead and his furrowed brows revealed a look of pain.
Jiang Ci was slightly startled.
This was the first time he saw the other person so vulnerable. Ever since he first met Huo Xianfeng, the latter seemed omnipotent and in control of the overall situation.
Jiang Ci hesitated for a moment, but still reached out her hand and gently wiped away the boy's wet hair, but unexpectedly, there was no sour smell of the alpha soldier's sweat, only a faint scent of pheromones.
Jiang Ci's Adam's apple moved slightly, which was a great temptation for the omega who had already been marked.
But the other person still has a fever.
He closed his eyes tightly, trying to suppress the strange feeling of heat.
Because the cause of the disease could not be confirmed, Jiang Ci did not dare to give the boy medicine rashly, and could only choose the most primitive method. He found some alcohol cotton pads and carefully wiped the boy's forehead and palms to cool him down physically.
Huo Xianfeng had torn off half of his sleeves before, and after being swept by the black hole, his shirt had long been tattered. Jiang Ci simply cut off his clothes and wiped off the dust and blood stains on his skin with alcohol.
The boy's upper body was completely naked. It was a very young and handsome alpha body, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. The muscle lines were not exaggerated but just right. The abdominal muscles were thin and beautiful, and they felt soft and flexible. One could sense the terrible explosive power hidden in them by just touching them.
But his beauty is even more amazing than the top male models on Zhixing.com.
Jiang Ci suddenly thought of the night when he woke up in Huo Xianfeng's room. Jiang Ci should have been covered in blood, but he was clean when he woke up.
What it means is self-evident.
"… "
Jiang Ci's breathing was a little irregular, but there was no other expression on his face. He just helped wipe her upper body and planned to cover her with an emergency blanket.
But at this moment, Jiang Ci suddenly discovered something. He was silent for two seconds, then reached out and slowly pulled down the boy's pants a little bit. He saw some mysterious and strange black lines appearing below his tight belly.
It looked like some kind of tattoo, going deeper along the mermaid line.
—That is actually the insect pattern unique to the king insect.
But Jiang Ci didn't know. He recalled carefully that when Huo Xianfeng took off his clothes and exposed his upper body in the desert before, there was no tattoo. It was only a few short days, and Huo Xianfeng was almost always with him, so where would he get a tattoo
Moreover, the people in the church would also develop some similar golden lines. Jiang Ci immediately became alert. He reached out and touched it, and found that those black tattoos seemed to be native to the skin. They would not move or grow, and there was nothing strange about them.
Jiang Ci frowned and tried to pull his pants open a little to take a closer look.
"Well… "
At this moment, Huo Xianfeng let out a low hum.
Then, the boy slowly opened his eyes. He lowered his head, his blank eyes falling on Jiang Ci pulling at his waistband.
Huo Xianfeng: “… ?”
Jiang Ci: “…”
(End of this chapter)