Homomorphism
There was silence on the other end of the line for a long time, and Wei Shao was not sure whether Philo understood what he meant.
"Yes, brother." Philo responded.
Wei Shao felt a tightness in his chest. He actually wanted to ask what happened after he left, but now was obviously not the best time to ask this.
He was more concerned about——
"Where are you now? When will you be back?"
Philo said softly on the other end: "You forgot, I have to take His Majesty back to the palace. Brother, I'm a little busy here."
Wei Shao heard that he wanted to hang up, and thinking about what the system said, a very terrifying guess emerged in his mind. He felt a chill down his spine: "... Luo Luo, what are you going to do?"
Philo did not respond directly, but only said, "Let's talk about it later."
Any chance to talk later? Wei Shao called him sharply: "Lolo!"
The call was not disconnected, and Philo said "hmm".
Wei Shao's voice became even hoarse: "We are married. I love you very much. We still have a long future together."
This time, it was a long time before Philo said "hmm" again.
His silence made Wei Shao flustered. He was about to say something but was suddenly interrupted by Philo.
"I love you too, Wei Shao."
Communications were cut off.
It was like a farewell word, gradually overlapping with the voice I remembered hearing when I left.
Wei Shao was suddenly stunned, and tried to initiate a call like a madman, but the call was never connected. His eyes gradually turned red and he was about to burst into tears.
Everything in front of him was blurry. He blinked away the heat and wetness in his eyes and dialed Ludel with shaking hands.
Ludel was not with Philo at the moment, so his first reaction after hearing Wei Shao's almost collapsed voice was confusion.
After understanding what Wei Shao meant, he said in a strange tone: "You said he is in danger? That's impossible..."
Ludel was a little wary and a little hesitant - Wei Shao's attitude seemed like he knew something. Would Philo really be so angry as to tell Wei Shao all their plans?
While Ludel was staring at the signal mark sent from the internal line on the terminal, his other hand was lightly placed on the button of the signal transmitter, just waiting for the right opportunity, and their troops would come out in full force as planned.
At the same time, he halfheartedly replied to Wei Shao: "You think too much. The admiral is just going to carry out a very safe mission. If you miss him, you can wait for him--"
Ludel's voice stopped abruptly.
The signal mark suddenly flashed wildly and changed its appearance in an instant, but it did not mean that it was going smoothly.
Instead, plans changed.
At the same time, Wei Shao and Ludel's insiders received a secret letter at the same time.
Ludel’s was “The military power is handed over to you, support Wei Shao.”
Wei Shao's was a string of numbers.
It was... the day he left.
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In Star Element 3197, the aircraft carrying Emperor Satyad V and Imperial Admiral Philo exploded in the air.
The Fifth Emperor and several of his close ministers died on the spot, and Admiral Philo was seriously injured and unconscious, his life hanging by a thread.
The incident happened suddenly and the news could not be kept secret. Before long, the upper class of the Imperial Star and several neighboring countries got wind of it.
The cabinet and parliament were in chaos, and the Southern Liberal Alliance took the opportunity to attack again. Philo's subordinate Ludel and Admiral Otto, who temporarily stayed in the Imperial Star, led their troops to resist and barely defended the ruined Imperial Star.
The royal family headed by the fourth prince Adrian and the Capet family headed by Felix temporarily controlled the superficial peace of the parliament. Adrian quickly ascended the throne and announced the sad news of the unexpected death of the Fifth Emperor to the people of the empire.
Adrian in the news footage looked haggard, with sunken cheeks, and was obviously extremely worried.
When the reporter asked about the mastermind behind the accident, his eyes suddenly turned cold:
"The Imperial Security Agency is investigating fully. Everyone is waiting."
What are you waiting for?
There was something hidden in Adrian's words, and all parties had their own ulterior motives. Even if they understood, they pretended not to understand. Just as Adrian said, everyone was waiting.
After the aircraft crashed, Ludel led the 19th Army to act secretly and forcibly snatched Philo from the royal family. If the Southern Freedom Alliance had not taken advantage of the situation, there would have been another internal war.
Adrian officially ascended the throne, but he actually only had one army that he could directly mobilize. Philo's 19th Army and Otto's 8th Army were of the same origin and formed their own factions. The parliament and the cabinet were undercurrents, and there was a tendency for them to take sides.
Adrian repeatedly ordered Ludel and Otto to withdraw from the Imperial Star, but Ludel refused to withdraw on the grounds of "protecting the safety of the Imperial Star."
Adrian was so furious that he slammed the table at the emergency meeting and almost pointed at Otto and Ludel and scolded them for wanting to rebel.
But almost is always almost, and under the current circumstances, he doesn't dare to really do that.
For a time, the future of the entire empire became precarious and confusing.
The new emperor's foundation is unstable. If Rudel really launches a coup, the royal family may not be able to win.
But the royal family holds the lives of all the core soldiers and leaders of the army, which is equivalent to holding the lifeline of the army.
Once Adrian goes all out and kills all these male insects, what’s the use even if Ludel really breaks into the palace?
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In a private hospital thousands of miles away, Wei Shao stood alone in front of the recovery cabin, his eyes red, his face haggard, and his beard untidy, as if he had aged ten years in an instant.
The people in the cabin lay quietly, with almost no signs of breathing.
If the numbers on the cabin weren't still jumping, people would have believed that he was dead.
Ji Peiyan stood at the door with the food for more than ten minutes. Wei Shao sat on the ground from beginning to end, like a sculpture, without moving at all.
He finally couldn't help but stepped forward and said, "Do you want to work yourself to death and then let him see your dead body when he wakes up?"
Wei Shao finally turned his bloodshot eyes, but he did not look at Ji Peiyan, but instead fixed his gaze on Fei Luo's fragile neck.
"Will he never wake up?"
When asking this question, Wei Shao's condition was very strange. It seemed that he no longer felt sad, but instead exuded a strong sense of desolation.
Ji Peiyan had no doubt that as long as he answered "yes", he would be able to die together with the person on the bed.
When Ji Peiyan first met Wei Shao a few years ago, he had not yet been entangled with Chen He. At that time, seeing that this handsome guy looked heartless, he even thought about having a brief romance with him.
It turns out he is a romantic.
Ji Peiyan shook his head and sighed, "If you said you won't die, then you won't die. If you died, you and I would have returned to our hometown a long time ago. Didn't you say he was avenging you? If you torture yourself to death, all his efforts would be in vain."
Wei Shao's mouth had long been bitten beyond recognition, with white wounds all over it. Now there was another one, and blood was flowing down his cracked lips.
He did not respond to Ji Peiyan's words, but buried his face deeply in his palms.
If he didn't remember it, he would probably never understand what that string of numbers meant in his life.
In Philo's eyes, that was the anniversary of his death.
He used this string of numbers to open the encrypted file, and also used this string of numbers to open the cabinet in the storage room.
A whole cabinet of video archive readers contained all the memories of his and Philo's time together, from the first time they met to their separation.
After the spacecraft exploded over the abandoned planet, Philo rushed forward like crazy, his hands bloodied in the hot wreckage, searching for his body, but only found a piece of watch fragment covered in blood.
It turns out that the memory visualizer's reconstruction effect is so good that even the pain can be clearly seen.
Wei Shao almost didn't dare to recall Philo's mood at that time.
The team escorting Wei Shao left after confirming that there were no survivors on the aircraft. The pirates who landed saw the crazy Philo and thought he was a mad native. They kicked him to the ground and wanted to beat him to death.
Philo was like a fool and did not make any resistance, allowing them to punch and kick him. Wei Shao even heard a pirate mutter "Why aren't you dead yet" in the severe pain.
A series of deafening roars suddenly sounded from a certain direction. Philo, who had been motionless, suddenly opened his bloodshot eyes and looked towards the source of the sound.
That was the direction Luke and the others were in.
…
By the time the real quelling army arrived, no one knew how many days had passed. The entire base had become a complete ruin, with no trace of its former prosperity. The hungry refugees huddled in the wilderness finally dared to come out, with flesh and blood of their own kind still stuck in their teeth.
Philo lay among the corpses of his closest friends, constantly cutting his wrists and feeding the only remaining survivor with his own blood.
The tiny baby was curled up in his cradle, his fiery red hair like his dead father, his lips and face shape like the male insect next to his father.
His parents died in the same place, and he didn't even know what he had lost when he was born.
Wei Shao heard Philo's thoughts in the instrument.
hurry up.
Come quickly.
When will the rescue team come?
It's not because I want to live, but because I want to die too much.
As long as a real rescue team could save Ludel in his arms, he would be able to die.
Coincidentally, the soldiers who found him were those under Otto.
Otto rushed over immediately and ordered his men not to make any noise. He wanted to take Philo away, but was naturally rejected by Philo.
Philo handed Ludel to him, and when he stood up, he staggered due to excessive blood loss, but he seemed to be unaware of it. He just calmly instructed him on some matters, then turned and walked in the opposite direction.
When Otto turned around, he saw the broken watch fragments tightly clenched in his hand. He realized something and his heart skipped a beat. He immediately called his name.
However, Philo did not respond, nor did he pause.
Otto hurriedly chased after him: "He entrusted you to me back then!"
This time, Philo paused, but still did not turn around.
Otto thought it was over.
He looked at the base building that had been bombed into charred slag, and suddenly thought of something. He said loudly: "I still have a photo! It was taken in that bridge hole back then!"
After saying that, he looked at Philo's back nervously, feeling uneasy.
Will a suicidal bug change its mind just because of a photo?
Otto didn't know.
But soon, he found out.
Philo actually stopped.
He turned to look at Otto, tears slowly flowing from his hollow eyes, and asked softly: "Can you give it to me?"
Otto immediately understood what he meant, took a deep breath, and said, "Okay, but you have to come back with me to get it."
Before Philo could refuse, he seized the opportunity and said, "Come back with me. I'll give you the photo, and then we'll look for him together. If—if we can't find him alive, we'll find out the cause of his death and avenge him."
When Otto said this, he actually didn't believe there was any so-called cause of death. Too many innocent lives had died in this chaos, so how could there be any revenge? Who to seek revenge on. ”
He just wanted to find a reason to bring Philo back and keep him alive.
As long as you survive, time will heal everything.
…
There were more than 170 memory disks in total, some were long and some were short, and Wei Shao was unable to finish reading them.
The imager showed that each block had been read more than thirty times.
In addition to the number of reads from the existing disk, there are thousands of searches of the memory in the spiritual sea.
Wei Shao finally understood the purpose of the knives, stimulants and hallucinogens on the wall. He also finally understood how some memory disks that did not conform to reality came about.
How could he hate Philo's insectoid features...
That fool...
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