dark.
It was dark all around.
"anyone there?"
"Is anyone here?"
Celia panted and looked around in a daze, but the surroundings were completely invisible. He tentatively groped forward for a while, and only after walking for a while did he see a faint light appearing in front of him.
what is that
Celia hurried forward, and at some point began to stagger and run. That ray of light became bigger and brighter, and finally, he suddenly realized that he had rushed into a piece of water!
The light blue liquid was as warm and clear as amniotic fluid, and Celia struggled upward reflexively, only to hear the world around her shatter!
"It's out!" "Sample No. 1 is out!" "The medical team is on standby, ready to start a full-body scan!"
Countless people in a trance were running and shouting, and many feet were running around on the ground in front of his eyes. Celia closed her eyes dizzily, then opened them again, and after repeated several times, she suddenly heard a crisp voice from her side: "Are you out?"
He raised his head in a daze, his wet hair drooped in front of his eyes, and vaguely saw a little girl in a bubble skirt squatting in front of him.
"What's your name?" she asked.
"..." Celia opened her mouth, but for some reason, she couldn't make a sound from her throat.
"Stay away from Edna." At this moment, an old man stepped forward and pulled her up from the ground, looked down on her for a while, and then said in a deep voice, "His name is Gavin—"
"Gavin Celia, the White Eagle in Old Earth, the god of battle."
half year later.
The mint field was full of sunshine, the sky was as clear as blue, and several silver-white mechs hovered high in the sky like falcons.
The young Gavin was sitting on the edge of the field, and a few staff members walked out of the laboratory not far away. When they saw him from a distance, they walked around in a big circle.
"..." Little Gavin lowered his face, and after a while secretly raised his head to look at the sky full of longing. The mech was flying freely in the high sky, he swallowed unconsciously, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to the sky—
If only I had that too...
If only I could fly too...
This thought was so clear and strong that it occupied all of his mind, so that he didn't realize that those mechas fell from the sky at some point!
The silvery-white shadow became bigger and clearer in the retina, and at the same time, the roar of flight also moved from far to near, and the rapidly falling body wiped out several scorching lights in the air—
Suddenly there was a commotion among the staff in the distance, and they turned around and rushed over at the same time!
"Stop!" "Grab that monster, quick!" "Come on, someone—"
Little Gavin turned his head in horror, and before he could stand up, he was slapped heavily by the rushing person!
With a slap, his eyes went black, and he almost lost consciousness for a few seconds; at that moment, the mechs brushed past the ground, pulled up rapidly, and drew an extremely thrilling U-shape in the strong wind!
The staff yelled, "What are you doing!"
Gavin was stunned: "I..."
The man raised his hand and wanted to hit him, but his colleagues surrounded him and stopped him. Everyone's eyes were full of undisguised guard and disgust. Gavin opened his mouth in vain to explain something, but he couldn't utter a single word under such gazes. Tears kept rolling in his eyes, and finally he lowered his head muttering. .
"They say you're a freak." Little Edna stood in front of the petri dish, tilting her head in doubt: "What's a freak?"
Little Gavin lowered his head with a blushing face, saw Edna's big innocent eyes from his reflection, and for a while he shrank into the water sadly.
"I'm asking you something," Edna asked with her arms on the edge of the petri dish, standing on tiptoe, "where are your parents? Why were you born in a test tube? They didn't allow me to play with you, are you Didn't you make adults angry by doing bad things?"
"..."
"Why ignore me, can you talk?"
"..."
The room was silent, and the two children looked at each other across the water. After a while, Edna laughed and pointed at him with her tender fingers: "Little dumb, you are a little dumb!"
"I... I'm not..."
"Aren't you? Then why don't you play with me? Why stay in the water?"
Gavin blinked his eyes in bewilderment. He didn't know why he spent so long in the petri dish every day. It seemed that he would feel uncomfortable otherwise. Edna's green eyes were round and round, like shiny green gemstones. Gavin looked at her fascinated and longingly. After a while, he cautiously poked his head out and stood up from the water.
Crash!
The high-concentration culture solution splashed on the ground, leaving a few dark blue traces.
But the two children didn't pay attention, Gavin jumped to the ground foolishly, Edna wiped his face with a snow-white seersucker skirt, and then ran hand in hand to play in the sunny mint field outside the laboratory. The fresh and fragrant fragrance of flowers floats in the air, and the gorgeous hummingbirds fly across the field ridges quickly, and the airflow created by their wings makes countless small flowers sway. Edna wove a flower crown out of the branches and leaves Gavin picked, and twirled it happily on her head: "Is it nice? Gavin? Is it nice?"
Gavin nodded vigorously, his little heart bursting with joy.
They played on the ridge for a long time that day, until Gavin finally felt a little uncomfortable. The evening sun was like an endless pool of golden water, Edna's little face flushed with excitement, but he only felt waves of indescribable exhaustion oozing from his bone marrow, and every bone in his body ached from the cold.
For some reason he wanted to go back and lie in the petri dish, wanted the dark blue liquid to soak him all over, but Edna didn't say go back, and he didn't want to.
It felt so good not to have to suffer alone, he would rather endure the growing pain and discomfort in the depths of his bones.
What Gavin didn't expect was that the pain would soon become unbearable—the setting sun cast the last ray of light in the sky, and the instant interlacing of light and shadow seemed to be some kind of signal. At that time, Edna was laughing and throwing the flower crown at him. Reaching out to pick it up, my heart suddenly twitched!
At that moment, he couldn't even make a sound, he staggered to his knees, and fell to the ground with a bang!
"... Gavin? Gavin! Wake up! Wake up!" Edna squatted down and pushed him twice. Seeing his blue face, she burst into tears and ran to the research institute, sobbing: "Grandpa! Grandpa! Help, come quickly—"
Gavin lay down on the icy ground, trying his best to see her distant figure clearly, but with all his strength, his eyes were blurred.
That night, the research institute was brightly lit, and the researchers increased the concentration of the nutrient solution to 400%. Countless people stayed up all night, and it was almost dawn that the news that sample No. 1 had resumed breathing came. At that moment, the laboratory was full of applause, and everyone stood up to congratulate. Only Gavin slightly opened his eyes in the huge petri dish, staring blankly at all this.
He didn't know how deep the water was hidden behind this incident, and he didn't know that he had walked back and forth on the line of life and death just now.
After that incident, all relevant personnel were punished, and many people have since disappeared from Gavin's sight. His treatment has improved a bit, too—most notably, the Institute regularly sends him to psychologists to talk to him.
However, this little benefit did not attract him too much, what Gavin was most looking forward to was Edna's arrival. This little girl has a sweet smile and lively breath, she is like a dream of his, entrusted with many dreams that even he himself can't tell, but he is extremely looking forward to and longing for.
This life continued until the end of their childhood, when Edna was caught off guard for the first time in heat at the age of fourteen.
The sound of running resounded in the alley, and Gavin dragged Edna across the corner. A few meters behind him, a few panting Alphas strode forward, roaring wildly, and the chaotic figures twisted into a ball on the wall.
"I can't run anymore, Gavin... Gavin... leave me alone..."
"Shut up! Run!"
At this time, there was only a roar, and the Alpha who was running in the front jumped towards them! Edna screamed, and the three fell down at the same time. Then Gavin got up and pulled Edna behind him: "Don't look back! Run!"
However, Edna couldn't run anymore, she knelt on the ground and sobbed in despair, the smell of Omega pheromone made those Alphas completely lose their minds. They rushed forward screaming and screaming, and at that moment Gavin saw their faces—red eyes and ferocious expressions, like a group of terrifying wild beasts that couldn't wait.
Gavin calmed down after the extreme fear in his heart. He clenched his teeth, as if a strange yet familiar force was screaming and waking up in his blood, making his outstretched hand tremble violently: "Phoenix...Phoenix—Phoenix!" !"
That sound was weak and full of hesitation, and there was a slight inflection when listening carefully to the ending; but at the moment when the words came out, the pendant on his chest rose without wind, and suddenly burst into brilliant silver light!
Edna raised her head suddenly, and said heartbreakingly, "Gavin!!"
When the parliamentary guards arrived that day, Gavin was still standing in front of Edna, the saber in his hand seemed to have been washed with blood. Several Alphas fell down on the dusty ground in the alley, rolling and howling. Gavin panted and looked down at them. A few drops of blood were slowly streaking across his white side face. His eyes were cold and heart-wrenching.
The guard subconsciously took half a step back, and then reacted, rushed forward and exclaimed: "Miss Ai-Edna!"
With a bang, Gavin threw the saber to the ground, staggered to the corner and sat down.
That was the first time Gavin had done anything to someone.
It was like some kind of signal, and like an opened floodgate, releasing the soul full of anger, injustice, sadness and irascibility in his heart. Years of hostility and utter loneliness finally warped him, and the moment he realized he had power, he couldn't wait to stick a spike at the world.
On the tarmac of the Egret Star Experimental Base, Edna looked at him with tears streaming down her face in the heavy rain: "Do you have to go?"
Her voice was very hoarse, Gavin waved at her casually, and walked towards the lonely small spaceship in the distance with his bag on his back.
"Why do you have to leave! They don't like you, you still have me! What should I do if you leave like this, Gavin!"
The youthful figure didn't stop, he strode towards the spaceship with his bag on his back, pulled something from his neck, and threw it over without looking back. In the torrential rain, a silver light flashed, Edna reached out to catch it, and forgot to cry in surprise: "This is... this is Phoenix?"
"I don't need anything from the Alliance anymore," Gavin's cold voice came through the rain curtain, "There is always a place in this big universe that can accommodate me. Goodbye, Edna."
"—You! Where are you going?!"
What answered her was the sound of torrential rain all over the world. Gavin walked to the front of the spaceship, slipped into the hatch and disappeared.
What Edna didn't know was that Gavin flew out of the Milky Way in this small spaceship, and came to a certain mysterious star among the hundreds of billions of planets in the distant galaxy.
He made an emergency landing on this unknown planet due to a spaceship crash, and was rescued by several men in black armor and robes with masks covering their faces. He came to the military base on this planet with these black armor men, and learned that the place where they were was called—Dark Star Warrior Hall.
The Dark Star Samurai Hall, which became notorious many years later, but was unknown at the time, was the headquarters of the number one terrorist organization in the universe; it was also the starting point of Gavin Silia's glorious life.
On the resume officially announced by the league, Celia's personal history began with Walton, the "Saint of the Desert". After Walton was killed, he returned to the league, from a major to a marshal, and finally ended on Red Saturn. A life of war.
And the people he met in the Dark Star Hall in his youth, the things he experienced, including all kinds of intricate hatred with the Dark Star warrior Yunes, will never be known to the world. Even Edna and Kaleyan, who were closest to him during his lifetime, and the Galactic Emperor Heinrich who later put him to death, only dug up the distant place from the deepest part of his memory half a century after his death. scene of—
"—you are amazing, may I know your name?"
The flames filled the sky like a vast fireworks, and the young Dark Star apprentice under the high platform tried his best to raise his head, his eyes were full of shock and admiration that could not be concealed.
"I'm Celia..." Hundreds of years later, the star of the sky, Celia lay on the floor of the cab, and said hoarsely: "What's your name?"
Not far away, on the cold mecha shell of the Heiman Snake, the corpse with a different head slowly sat up, and a black gap was torn open in the space with the neck as the cross section, and the gravity sucked the head at the corpse's feet: "My The name is Eunice..."
All the scenes quietly overlap with the scene under the starry sky hundreds of years ago.
"My name is Yunes," the apprentice stammered, holding out his hand expectantly.
The young Gavin jumped down from the high platform, and the two of them clasped their hands tightly.
"My name is Valery Younes. The elder said that we will be partners from now on."
Hundreds of years later, on the plain, Yunes's blood-stained head was sucked up to the top of the neck by the crack in space, and then slowly fell, fitting tightly with the fractured neck. Younes rolled the whites of his eyes to reveal his eyeballs, and turned his head like a robot, with a strange smile on his face stiffened by death.
He stretched out his hand, and the long knife that was sent flying behind him earlier floated up automatically, cut through the sky and flew to his hand, and was grabbed by him.
On the ground not far in front of him, Osrod leaned against the edge of the rock for breath without noticing, exhaustedly thinking about the difficult situation at hand. Younes is dead, but Elder Manditilas is also dead. How should I tell the elders when I go back? At this moment, he looked up and saw the black robe of Mandytilas left in the distance, an idea popped up in his mind, and he stepped forward to get it.
However, the moment he got up, his heart suddenly felt cold.
"..." Osrod lowered his head in disbelief, his eyes trembling slightly because of extreme shock, and after a while, blood gushed out from the corner of his mouth: "... Yunes?!"
Yunes withdrew the knife from the back of his heart, a large stream of blood spurted from Osrod's chest, and he fell to his knees on the ground with a plop.
"Stupid," Younes said flatly, "You were never worthy of being my opponent."
Osrod's eyes were about to split, but he couldn't turn his head anymore—he fell heavily on the desolate plain of Nether Sky Star, his body convulsed violently a few times, as if he wanted to make a final futile struggle; Paralyzed, eyes open and stopped breathing.
Younes watched him die indifferently, and then stepped forward to cut his black armor with two knives, picked up his heart, hands, feet, helmet and other parts and threw them far away. Immediately afterwards, he pierced the head of the corpse with a knife, and the force was so great that the skull was split in half on the spot.
"You won't come back again." Younes said indifferently, turned his head and looked at the motionless red boa on the wasteland, and cast his sword-like eyes on the small cockpit entrance high above.
"Celia..." He laughed and shouted, "Celia!"
The wind from Nether Sky Star howled, and the overwhelming memory fragments instantly drowned him!
·
"—one day I will return, as the real Gavin Celia... Until then, please keep my most precious inheritance, and everything is entrusted to you..."
Time flies, Marshal Celia stood fifty years ago under the starlight, and the wind from the starry sky gently brushed his hair: "Why, Human Marshal? Death is like a lamp going out, and your soul will be completely intact." Returning to the depths of the universe, what else do you wish to leave behind?"
Celia remained silent. At that moment, countless long-term pictures flashed before his eyes, some of which were blurred, while others were still as clear as yesterday; those memories that came one after another quickly settled deep in his mind, and in the end there was only one scene The scene stays in front of me for a long time—
Huo Xing, rainy night. Gavin hid behind a huge outcropping, his warrior black robe drenched by the heavy rain. The cold wind howled across the plain, and lightning cut through the night sky like a swarm of snakes, turning his tense face pale.
The sound of thunder and footsteps sounded together, and Walton walked behind Gavin, sighed and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't wait, he probably won't come."
"But I obviously left a note..."
"He saw it but didn't report you. Isn't that enough? People always choose their own path, and Yunes just chose the one opposite to yours."
"..."
"You have been waiting all night, let's go, the patrol warriors are coming!"
Gavin stood up trembling, and looked back at the rock three times a step at a time, but Yunes never appeared. The downpour washed away everything that happened late that night. Gavin cried bitterly when they boarded the spaceship and left Huo Xing. He knew that this was an eternal parting. From that day on, they finally parted ways and walked in completely opposite directions.
Between extreme light and total darkness, there is no turning back.
"I..." Celia moved her lips, as if she wanted to say something, but finally swallowed it back.
The wind of Youkongxing passed by his ears, as if gently waiting for something. After a while, Celia spoke again, and said in a low voice: "After I die, the secret of the alliance's patron saint plan may be lost... The technology that so many people have devoted their efforts to forging should not disappear with the collapse of the alliance. One day more people will benefit from it... If there are new visitors landing on Nether Sky Star in the future, please tell them that the core of the Patronus Project is on Egret Star, the laboratory where I was born, and there is a miracle that breaks through the limits of human power... "
The sound of the wind faithfully recorded everything, and buried Celia's secret deep in the desolate plain.
Only three months after this conversation took place, Celia died in battle on Red Saturn, and Heinrich ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor; the alliance was completely destroyed, and the Gemini Empire became the new overlord of the galaxy.
Egret Star was designated as the capital of the empire. Since then, power and wealth have been highly concentrated, and earth-shaking changes have taken place in just a few years. The mint field where Celia was born had long been destroyed in the flames of war, and even the last trace of it disappeared in the post-war reconstruction and was buried underground in the bustling city.
No one noticed how deep the secret was hidden under their feet, no one—even the Dark Star Hall, who was struggling to pursue this secret, knew nothing about it.
It's like Yunes didn't know about that pouring rainy night, and that whole night of desperate waiting.
Everything is buried in the heavy pages of history, and as time goes by, it flies to the sky in the wind of the starry sky.
·
"Silia..." Yunes' voice lowered and eventually turned into an inaudible whisper.
The Youkong Starman dispersed in the wind, and quickly floated in all directions. Yunes grasped the handle of the knife so hard that it turned white, but he couldn't stop the violent trembling of his whole body. He covered his eyes and knelt on the ground.
"I didn't see... I always thought..."
"It's too late, Yunes." Celia stepped out of the cockpit at some point, leaning against the door with a pale face, shaking her head slightly and sighing: "Hundreds of years have passed in a blink of an eye, and you thought we could return to the cockpit?" By that time? It's too late..."
Younes suddenly hissed, "Is it because I didn't come that night?!"
"No, you know that's not the root cause." Celia was quiet for a moment, then said slowly: "We were going to come to the day when we turned against each other. No matter what happens in the middle, the ending will not change."
They stared at each other, Yunes' eyes were red, but Celia's face was tired and calm. Heinrich jumped down from the cockpit, his eyes wandered back and forth on the faces of the two of them suspiciously, and his thick eyebrows twisted into deep marks like knife-cuts.
This time he didn't see the memory displayed by the Youkong Starman—maybe because his mental threshold has dropped a bit, after all, it has been a while since the last mark; High, his spiritual threshold has not yet reached that limit. However, even if I didn't see it this time, the memory content shouldn't be much different from what I saw last time. Why is Yunes' reaction so... strange
Heinrich recalled what he had seen, and he didn't think there was anything in it that could touch Yunes so much.
He frowned vigilantly.
"...I didn't see the note..." Yunes gasped and shook his head, asking, "Where did you put the note?"
Celia said calmly: "I have forgotten, but that is not the point."
"No! Where did you put it?!"
"I really forgot."
Yunes' lips moved, and he asked desperately, "You really waited for me all night?!"
Celia was silent for a while, then nodded.
The cold wind blew across the wasteland, mixed with the laughter of the star people in the sky, and went away. Celia sat down slowly by the cabin door, and said tiredly: "I wanted to ask the master to take you away with me, and he agreed, so... But then I was always grateful that you didn't report me, really. I don't know You didn't see the note."
Younes said hoarsely, "Even if I saw it, I wouldn't report you."
Celia was noncommittal, "Really? Then why did you kill Walton later?"
Younes was silent, looking at the wind and sand in the distance with red eyes, stood up after a while and said, "So you are right, everything is irreversible."
The movement of him standing up made Heinrich stare, and immediately took two steps towards Celia with the knife in hand.
However, Yunes didn't respond. He even smiled with a strangely gentle voice: "I've got what I need, Gavin, and I already know where the secret is. This idiot Osrod and Mandy Tiras to kill themselves together, no one can be my constraint now, what do you think I will do next?"
Celia's eyes moved in a blink of an eye, and he suddenly understood what was going on.
That's it... that's it!
The traitor of the Nether Sky Star, the arrival of Younes, the memory of preparing for the stage in advance... All the factors are combined together, this is indeed Gavin Silia's handwriting!
Although there were a lot of mistakes in the middle, the final result was to come to this point by accident—before he died, he really set up a plan for the alliance that would last for a hundred years in the future!
Celia's breathing became slightly heavy, but no one noticed it amidst the wind. After a while he opened his mouth, his voice was calm and there was no abnormality: "Just do what you want, do I have the ability to stop you now?"
Yunes suddenly burst into laughter.
It is hard to describe how many different emotions are contained in that laughter, such as the bitter and unspeakable loss, the regret that can never be recovered, the ecstasy of getting one's wish, the smug ambition... all kinds of complex and opposite emotions are entangled together, and he He laughed so hard that he lost his composure, and even the corners of his eyes were filled with unnoticeable tears: "I knew you would say that, Gavin, you are selfish—you are—"
Younes pointed at Celia, shook his head and couldn't speak, but Celia just looked at him coldly.
"In this case, we will see you later," Younes managed to stop his laughter, straightened up and said, "I hope this day will not be too far away, maybe we still have time to cooperate."
"I don't think so," Celia said decisively.
Younes didn't answer, just looked at him ambiguously and smiled. Immediately afterwards, a black gap several meters long cracked in the air, and he stepped backwards with one foot. Heinrich grabbed the knife and wanted to rush forward, but Celia grabbed him.
"you… "
"Let him go," Celia said softly, "I'll tell you why later."
The smile on Yunes' face deepened, and when his eyes swept over the emperor, he was a little smug. Immediately, the black hole suddenly expanded, and the space crack engulfed his figure, and then disappeared into the void without a sound.
"—why let him go?" Heinrich asked.
Celia looked up at him with an indescribable look in his eyes, "When will the Ninth Fleet arrive?"
"... If it wasn't for the Legion of Glory blocking the way, I think they would have arrived long ago. What?"
Celia didn't speak at first, and seemed a little embarrassed. The two just stared at each other for a few seconds, and then Heinrich's face changed: "You—are you going to—"
He grabbed Celia, lowered his head and sniffed the back of his neck a few times, swallowed his saliva and asked, "Are you going to be in heat?!"