Even Ying Feng, who was reincarnated by Lone Star with incomplete emotions, felt this lack from the depths of his soul, as if a place of belonging suddenly disappeared. Even though his feet were his own land, he had a strong sense of wandering.
It suddenly occurred to him that Fu Yao said that the traction of the soul is limited by the distance of the lighthouse, so what will happen to the Tiansu people who have lost the lighthouse
He turned around and looked around, people supported each other in grief, but some people were kneeling and refused to get up. His eyes fell on someone, he suddenly rushed over, and clasped Dai Xuan's wrist. In his weak and boneless hands, he held a sharp dagger tightly.
"You're crazy," he snapped. "You're going to blow your mind by doing this."
At this moment, Dai Xuan raised her head and looked at Ying Feng who was aloof. Her face was covered with tears, and her voice was so suppressed that she couldn't bear to listen.
"Then if you continue to live, won't you lose your soul?"
Ying Feng was at a loss for words, and even clasped the opponent's hand froze, not knowing whether to hold or let go.
Fu Yao came over, took the dagger in her hand without saying a word, and threw it aside at will. Ying Feng let go of her hand, this time Dai Xuan didn't pick it up again, but lowered her head again, Ying Feng could clearly see the tears falling silently on the ground below her.
"Who is it?" Fu Yao asked, Nie Yun also came over at this time, and they forced the jump back at the risk of hitting the ground, but they still didn't catch up with the last moment of the enemy's self-explosive attack.
Ying Feng also knew very little about this, "It's the same race as us, not afraid of injury, not afraid of death, even if you die, you can reincarnate your soul."
Everyone who becomes an admiral will be told the truth of the Tiansu race, and will pass on the secrets of the base from generation to generation. Fu Yao naturally knows that they are not a natural species, but the Tiansu people have eliminated their creator. At the moment, only Ying Feng knew the truth through Ling Xiao's senses, and he didn't tell anyone afterwards, not even Fu Yao.
"Could it be that our genes were cloned?" Nie Yun's first reaction was also this.
"Impossible," Fu Yao firmly denied the possibility, "I'm sure that no one has disappeared during this period."
The last time someone tried to take Tiansu hostages, it was Taiyin and Huangsu people to calculate Yingfeng, that was decades ago.
"Then what are we going to do now? Is it really just..."
Waiting to perish? Nie Yun was rarely at a loss for the future.
Fu Yao took a step forward with a dignified expression, looking at the direction where the soul tree fell. The enemy was also completely destroyed in the devastating attack just now. Who is this person who will destroy them at all costs
Ying Feng always felt that something was missing around him. He kept looking around until Nie Yun asked him what he was looking for, and then he suddenly thought, "Have any of you seen a gray wolf?"
Fu Yao and Nie Yun looked at each other inexplicably and shook their heads in unison.
Ying Feng was very worried, he left Fu Yao and the two and hurried away, rarely asking anyone, but no one noticed Xiao Hui's trace.
He remembered that Xiao Hui had been following him to the base before, so he followed the same path, and daggers fell on the ground along the way. Every dagger was a life.
The base was destroyed beyond recognition by the war. Ying Feng still remembered the shock of those majestic buildings when he first came to him when he was young, but now he is only full of desolation.
He walked among the rugged rubble and potholes, calling Xiao Hui's name as he walked, and there was a dead silence around him, and even the rustling sound caused by the wind blowing through the leaves of the fallen Soul Tree was very clear.
Only then did Ying Feng realize that he had walked in front of the tree of souls. He originally thought there would be no one here, but he didn't expect two people standing in front of the tree's body with their backs facing him, one standing in front with his hands behind his back, and his hair was A very rare pale yellow, another person was standing straight behind him.
"I'm sorry, may I ask you..."
He stopped abruptly in the middle of his sentence, and the man standing in front turned around slowly when he heard the sound. When his true face was refreshed in front of Ying Feng, Ying Feng involuntarily opened his eyes wide.
"Zhu Yue? How could it be you?!" Since the Kao Ying self-destructed, he has no news of this person.
Zhu Yue's temperament was different from the last time he saw him. At that time, Ying Feng thought he was a madman, but the person in front of him was full of danger that Ying Feng could also perceive.
Compared to Ying Feng's alertness, Zhu Yue gave a faint smile and took two steps forward. The person behind him also turned around. Although he had the same face as the Pillow Crane, his face was expressionless and his eyes were cold. There is no human temperature to speak of.
Ying Feng had an intuition that he was not a good person, "Why are you here?"
"Come to pay homage to the tree of souls," Zhuyue said without changing her face, her tone did not fluctuate at all, "Long time no see, the sunglasses on your face are really ridiculous."
Ying Feng was reminded of the past by his words, and his eyes darkened, of course, Zhu Yue couldn't see it.
"Where's Ling Xiao? Did you die in that explosion?" Zhu Yue knew nothing of what happened after he left, "It's really pitiful to die as a baby."
He paused and asked again, "What about you? After so many years, you still haven't formed a contract with anyone? Otherwise, your sunglasses would have been taken off long ago." He lowered his head, "I used to The person I disdain is willing to lose my soul for another person, even if Ling Xiao is gone, I am still a little jealous of him."
Ying Feng calmly glanced at the Pillow Crane, "His eyes are black."
"Ah," Zhu Yue didn't deny it at all, "because he's not a pillowed crane. Although I still call him the same name, it's either or not. I know this better than you."
"What about the Pillow Crane Man?"
"Like Ling Xiao, the soul is gone, right in front of me." He narrated this matter expressionlessly, as if he was talking about someone who had nothing to do with him.
Ying Feng didn't say anything, let alone correct him, but Zhu Yue continued talking, as if she had waited too long and desperately needed an audience.
"I think you must be wondering, where did we go after that?"
He lowered his eyes and fell into memory without waiting for Ying Feng to ask, "I forced the pillow crane to form a contract, and he has never forgiven me. Although I am the contract owner, I am wary of my contract child day and night, but how can I I didn't expect that he would rather lose his life and die with me."
"After my plan failed, I was calculated by him during the escape. He set the destination of the escape ship to Mars, a place that the Celestials can never reach. Breaking through the distance of the soul, our bodies will gradually Decay, not even the soul can return."
"Although I can't move, my senses are still awake, so I can see every detail of his departure clearly," he lowered his head and giggled strangely, "The fragments of his soul just disappeared into the vast universe, Can't gather again, as a Qizi, he is not even as resistant to the soul pulling, do you think it's ridiculous?"
Ying Feng was so cold with laughter that his hair stood on end. If that Zhuyue was a paranoid lunatic back then, he would have completely lost human reason today. What was thinking in his mind was completely incomprehensible to normal people. He was immersed in his own world, either driving the people around him crazy or killing himself.
"Ying Feng, I admit that I was infatuated with you when I was young, but I can only say that the loyalty code engraved in the Tiansu people's genes is so powerful that even an impure Tiansu person like me is influenced by it, even if I use it with myself. People who were with him gradually began to be single-minded about him.”
"I believe he treats me the same way, but he can't let go of the hatred in his heart. He loves and hates someone. What does it feel like? I think it's probably the same as when you first formed a contract with Ling Xiao, and I felt the same about you. ."
He raised his head, "Ying Feng, do you remember what you said to me at that time? You asked me not to interfere in your housework, even if you were forced to come together without any emotion, you would have To regard him as a writer is from that sentence, so that I can't forgive you no matter what."
"I have nothing to do with you." Ying Feng didn't interrupt until then.
"You're right," Zhu Yue continued, "I've been weaker than others since I woke up. The gap is so big that I can't catch up with my efforts. People either laugh at me or bully me. Saved me at that time. My wishful thinking about you started from that time, no matter how I was ridiculed and bullied after that, as long as I hide in the fantasy of being with you, everything around me is not so important, even the fist and the fist. It doesn't seem that painful."
His naked confession made Ying Feng uncomfortable, but Zhu Yue was not ashamed.
"I know you must think I'm disgusting, but I do have fantasies about you, so that I can spend every day in elementary school with hope. I know that even if you save me, you still despise me in your heart, even me I feel disdain to take the initiative to ask for blood, only Ling Xiao, who is on par with you, can get more attention from you."
"And I, no one has ever looked at me, no one has encouraged me, although I have acquired the ability of the natted crane, and even recovered the memory of being an ancient Tiansu person, I still can't get rid of the old psychology, no matter what the situation is. On occasions, no matter who you are facing, don’t dare to raise your head.”
"The first person who told me to walk with his head up and down was the Crane. No matter if he was out of malicious sarcasm or whatever, at least he really changed me little by little. He will continue his days in Bikong, but he gradually regained his self-confidence under his whip, and finally he can look directly into the eyes of others."
It was only then that Ying Feng realized that the words just now were said by Zhu Yue staring into his own eyes. This simple thing to others had only briefly appeared many years ago when he had the courage to confess. , but even then it was flickering and restless. The pillow crane really left a huge mark on Zhu Yue, and Ying Feng finally knew what the most obvious contrast between the two periods was.
Zhuyue closed her eyes, as if returning to many years ago, the familiar voice gritted her teeth and reprimanded him, you have acquired my ability, and you are so timid, even I am ashamed of you!
- If you don't want to be looked down upon forever, just raise your head and walk. If you can't raise your head yourself, who will look at you!
"He was the first person to see me," Zhuyue muttered to herself, "Maybe I'm so lonely, even if it's just that, it's enough to satisfy me, the genetic code is loyal to each other or something, It's all an excuse for self-deception."
"And you," he slowly opened his eyes again, "the only person you see from beginning to end is Ling Xiao. From a certain point of view, we really have some kind of similarity."
Ying Feng didn't want to listen to his crazy memories anymore, he only cared about one question, "Then how did you survive?"
"Me?" Zhu Yue said lightly, "I was rescued at the last minute. You must have heard of them. They are the descendants of the ancient Tianju people who immigrated to Mars thousands of years ago. They It will not only continue the racial blood of the ancient Tiansu people, but also develop into a prosperous people, a prosperous country and a strong people, which is absolutely impossible for the rebel army back then."
"For them, I am also a compatriot who was forced to use Lone Star to survive. My good colleague who escaped from the Academy of Sciences had already secretly copied Lone Star's code, not to mention my joining to reshape artificial intelligence. It's so easy for people."
Ying Feng was startled, "Those people just now, could it be..."
"That's right," Zhu Yue admitted frankly, "I've been dormant for so long, just to give you this fatal blow. What we created is Lone Star, the original version of you. They have no feelings, absolutely obey, and have no soul. The existence of traction, even if the order is self-destruction, it will not hesitate to follow."
"So this person is the Lone Star you cloned by imitating the Naked Crane?" Ying Feng couldn't understand, "Why don't you give him human feelings, so that he will be closer to the person you miss?"
"Emotions?" Zhu Yue repeated it disdainfully, turning her head to look at that face fascinatedly, but this look could never be answered, "What's the use of feelings? Without feelings, there is no betrayal, and he will always obey the Me, no matter what I say, he will execute it without a second thought."
He turned back and said, "It was the worst decision I made to let you guys have feelings. If it wasn't for being too confident in the ability of human beings to control, the tragedy of the creators being annihilated by the products would not have happened."
After saying this, he grinned, "But everything ends here, you were born in my hands, and you end in my hands, lose the tree of souls, no lighthouse, and souls lead Symptoms will soon appear in every Tenju. You will lose your mobility little by little until you are completely dead. That feeling, I have experienced it first hand, like the battery slowly running out of power, I promise you that It's not a good taste."
"You don't have to delusionally immigrate to Fire Pleiades and repeat history. In order to prevent you from doing this, I personally modified the function of the lighthouse. Only the soul of Lone Star can be guided, and we are firmly excluded."
Ying Feng noticed that his pronoun changed from you to us, "If you do this, you won't be able to reincarnate yourself."
"I'm just an ordinary human being. Without you, I would have died of old age more than 4,000 years ago. I've lived so long and I've been content. Someone once buried me with their souls, but I couldn't die. Today, I want to be fully alive. The soul of Tiansu will be buried with you."
He had already said all the words he wanted to say, turned around and walked towards the small aircraft parked aside, Ying Feng realized that he couldn't let him go.
"Don't go!" He rushed up to stop him, but the fake-crowned crane stood in front of him. After such a delay, he had already boarded the aircraft.
"We're almost at the end of the line, does it make a difference if you kill me now?" Zhu Yue finally turned around and said, "But unfortunately, I still want to stay for a few more days to see the end of Tiansu people's demise with my own eyes. ."
He raised his voice, "Come back, Pillow Crane."
The person who was given the same name took a few steps towards Ying Feng and closed the hatch soon after entering the aircraft. Ying Feng was just hesitating, and they left in front of him, followed by Fu Yao and others. Only one shadow was captured.
"Who was that just now?" Fu Yao asked Ying Feng.
Ying Feng calmed down and sorted out Zhuyue's words, and repeated the key parts. Sure enough, all the people who heard it were horrified. The facts were so shocking that even well-trained soldiers couldn't accept it for a while.
"I believe what he said is true," Fu Yao's eyes fluctuated rapidly, which was a manifestation of his thinking, "but we can't sit still like this."
He thought deeply for a moment, "Although this is a bit risky..."
"No matter what you want to do, I'll follow." Nie Yun stood up without hesitation.
His loyal subordinates also stood up one by one, "Marshal Long Yin is no longer here. You are the new marshal. No matter what the marshal's orders are, we will obey them unconditionally."
Fu Yao nodded solemnly to everyone's trusting eyes.
"The military once had a tree species, but its whereabouts are still unknown. Although the properties of the Fire Pleiades Lighthouse have been modified, there must be a soul tree there, and it was planted in a short period of time. It is impossible to grow quickly."
"I know the odds of getting it are very slim. It's very likely that we won't come back this time, but as long as one person can bring it back, those who stay here will survive."
"Since staying is also dead, and leaving is also dead, we can only survive by death and gather the remaining forces of the military. As long as anyone is willing to go together, one more person will increase the probability."
Ying Feng took a step forward, "I'll go too."
"You're still a baby." Nie Yun retorted him subconsciously.
"Up to now, is there still a difference between the infant state and the young state?"
Fu Yao hesitated, "Are you sure? You waited for Ling Xiao at the risk of losing your soul for decades, maybe he will come back the next moment, if he comes back and you leave, what else have you been waiting for for decades? significance?"
Ying Feng's expression was calm, "If he went back and saw that I was living alone before the national crisis, he would also be disappointed for me."
Fu Yao contradicted for a moment, and finally made a decision.
"Okay, I respect your choice."
The surviving forces of the military came from all directions, Ying Feng reunited with his former classmates, Bing Can, Hong Mao, Yu Ji, Shuang Feng... Their hands were tightly clasped together. to die together.
Yuji misses Xiaohui in his heart. Apart from Ying Feng and the pastor, he is the closest person to him for so many years.
This once again reminded Ying Feng of Xiaohui's disappearance, he reported it to Fu Yao, and several people went to look for it separately.
Today was probably the day when Ying Feng took the initiative to talk to different people the most. A burly man was not far away, Ying Feng walked over and asked him.
"Excuse me, have you seen a gray wolf nearby?"
The man turned around, and Ying Feng was stunned for a moment. This rare person taller than him actually had a pair of light gray eyes. Even Ying Feng, a well-developed deed master, had to look up. What kind of deed owner would have such a heavy taste.
When this burly Qizi saw Ying Feng, there was a hint of fear in his eyes, and he leaned back subconsciously.
"No." He replied in a standard Tiansu language.
Ying Feng, who had something in his heart, didn't notice that much. He just noticed another person behind him. Just now, he was completely blocked. It can be seen how thick the person in front of him is.
Will he be the owner of this man? Ying Feng looked at the man's back uncertainly, obviously he looked a few centimeters shorter than himself, but thinking of Fu Yao and Nie Yun, he thought it was not impossible.
Ying Feng asked for the answer. He should have left here and went to look elsewhere, but for some reason, he stood firmly on the spot, his eyes were always on the person, and the more he looked, the more familiar the back was.
"Excuse me..." He opened his mouth in a deep voice, and the person who had always turned his back on him also slowly turned around in his voice. The face that he had missed for decades miraculously appeared in the in front of you.
"Ling Xiao!" Ying Feng couldn't believe his eyes, and subconsciously took a step forward, but stopped abruptly.
Ling Xiao, who had already turned around completely, still had his old appearance and his iconic smile, but the light gray eyes that Ying Feng had become accustomed to, were now pitch black.
And Ling Xiao, who turned around, saw Ying Feng, the corners of his mouth curved even more, revealing a mouthful of white teeth playfully, his eyes blinked like slow motion, and his slender eyelashes seemed to be able to Stir up the air and instantly fan the scalding temperature around Ying Feng to freezing point.
"Hi," Ling Xiao said with a smile to the dumbfounded Ying Feng, "Long time no see."