Chapter 392 Vanguard (10,000!)
Under the blazing sun, the twin towers of Dawn City sparkled brightly. The huge steel city was like a mechanical heart standing in the center of the Yunjiang Plain. It was the capital of Dragon Kingdom, the hub of the hinterland, the crown of civilization, and the last watch for millions of people in Asia and the Pacific under the day of apocalypse.
The towering hundred-meter-high city wall is like the backbone of a giant, its surface covered with bullet holes and claw marks. Last night's bloody battle has carved new scars on the metal. The army is operating mechas and drones to clean up the corpses of the strange bodies beside the city wall and collect blood essence at the same time.
The soldiers of the Iron Guard Brigade stepped on the bloody mud, silently searching for survivors. The mecha kicked open the head of a monster, revealing the face of a young girl with her eyes still open. In her hand was a crumpled permit to enter the city, although this thing was no longer useful after the parliament was dissolved.
"What a fuck!" The soldier controlled the mecha and stomped on the strange creature's head hard, cursing angrily.
After the construction of City Wall No. 1 and City Wall No. 2, Dawn City had never faced such a large-scale attack. The Federal Parliament was dissolved, panic and turmoil arose, chaos poured into the outer city area, and night fell early.
The polar night attacks from the three star abysses No. 5, No. 7, and No. 8 caught millions of survivors off guard. The night patrol regiment and the city defense battalion collapsed and fled. The 130,000 garrison troops fought all night and finally held the line with high walls and abundant firepower.
Woo~
Lin Xian landed on the deck of the Zhentian ship in a flying vehicle, and was led by the guards to Ye Lan's office. The transparent window curtains could almost overlook the entire Shuguang City from high in the sky.
He looked at the devastation outside City Wall No. 1 and the thick smoke that had not yet dissipated, and a few ripples appeared beneath his calm expression.
At this time, Lin Xian was attracted by a green potted plant on the desk. There were several red tomatoes growing on the small plant. Lin Xian reached out and picked one, rubbed it on his body, and put it in his mouth. It was sweet and sour, juicy, refreshing, and looked very tempting.
"They call it a cherry tomato. It's self-pollinating and one of the few varieties found to grow and bloom in soil that has been invaded by darkness."
A voice was heard, and Lin Xian looked in the direction of the voice, only to see Ye Lan taking a book from high up next to the bookcase. Lin Xian walked in without even seeing her.
"Is it tasty?"
Ye Lan took the book, turned around and looked at Lin Xian calmly.
"You are much younger than you look in the profile."
This was the first time she met the young man Lin Xian. He had sharp eyes, an upright stature, and walked with caution.
"Not bad." Lin Xian was a little embarrassed. He thought there was no one here, but he was caught eating secretly... Seeing Ye Lan's calm expression, Lin Xian knew that she didn't care, so he glanced around the office and found that the interior was very simple. The main contents were books, a desk, and a simple single bed.
Ye Lan came over and put the book on the table. Lin Xian took a look and saw that it was a book called "When the Stars Shine".
"The Phoenix Order has reorganized the federal cabinet officials. Some of the senior officials who colluded with Zhou Mingyuan to persecute the survivors have been arrested for crimes against humanity. According to preliminary statistics from the Night Walker Organization, the casualties of last night's attack exceeded 30,000. Most of them were ordinary people from the outer city who were swallowed up by the darkness before they could enter the city."
"Is it because of the Dark Mark?" Lin Xian frowned. "The outer city of Dawn City has been defending for so long, how come it suddenly suffered such a large-scale attack?"
“That’s exactly what we wanted to know.”
Ye Lan sighed and said, "Star Abyss No. 5, Dark Erosion Cells, Mycelium Consciousness Connection, our battle with darkness is in a silent and passive state. If we regard darkness as a civilization invasion, then the war between humans and dark civilization has already begun. This is the first time we have faced such an enemy. Only with information parity can we seize the initiative."
She looked at Lin Xian and said, "Chu Zhaonan also knew this, so while he was fighting a desperate battle, he chose to open the city gates to allow people from the outer city to enter the city for refuge."
"The Crimson World dispatched a group of red ghosts and undercover personnel to carry out a sabotage operation last night. A large number of vehicles were destroyed, resulting in a large number of people being unable to evacuate. This is exactly what the Crimson World wants to see."
Lin Xian looked out the window at the huge Shuguang City area and said, "Professor Ye, with so many people, is it possible to evacuate in time?"
"If we can't evacuate all at once, we'll have to mobilize in multiple batches and race against time." Ye Lan said at this time: "The garrison army and the Iron Guard Brigade will continue to guard Dawn City until everyone has evacuated."
Lin Xian clenched his fists slightly when he heard this. The situation before him was the same as when he was at the airport.
"My fleet can help with the transfer if necessary."
Ye Lan looked at Lin Xian: "I called you here because I want to talk to you about the Crescent Moon Project."
Lin Xian frowned: "The Crescent Moon Project has failed. Julius at the Targon Launch Site is dead. He may know some information, but he obviously doesn't want us to get it."
"Have you ever wondered why he doesn't want us to have it?"
"Because he is a pervert and a scumbag." Lin Xian smiled coldly.
Ye Lan didn't say anything.
"Using human bodies for experiments, creating a new world civilization, burning vehicles, and leaving these people here to die, I don't think perversion needs a reason." Lin Xian couldn't control his emotions and sat directly on the sofa: "Maybe they didn't get any information at all, and they are just playing tricks on us. It may be meaningless to pin our hopes on such judgments!"
"Judging from the abnormal attack last night, breaking the sky curtain and connecting the darkness must have had an impact on Xingyuan." Ye Lan said calmly.
"But why me!" Lin Xian suddenly shouted
"Such an important mission, it's about the survival of human civilization, it's about humanity's last chance, does this have anything to do with me, just because I'm a mechanical mutant?!!"
Ye Lan calmly watched Lin Xian vent his anger. The young faces of the Crescent Moon Operation seemed to reappear in front of Lin Xian's eyes. He also saw the look Chu Yan gave her before she died, and his heart was extremely heavy.
The office was very quiet, and there seemed to be a pleasant smell of books in the air. Lin Xian took a deep breath, and his restless emotions gradually calmed down.
"Of course they don't want us to get it. They want to conduct experiments or something. They hope that all of us humans will die out soon, so that they, the so-called 'new civilization', can be free... right?"
Ye Lan observed Lin Xian's expression and said
"We cannot treat our enemies as madmen, nor can we treat darkness as pure disaster."
Lin Xian chewed on these words, his eyes narrowed.
"Either Julius knows nothing, or he needs to protect this information, to protect their 'god'?"
Lin Xian exhaled heavily: "Okay, I know the direction of the Crescent Moon Operation is correct, but now, the result is like this, what else can we do?"
He looked at the sky outside the window and smiled bitterly, "I don't know whether we should be happy or desperate about the success of the Pioneer Project. I feel like I've been abandoned. But I never understood why she said that to me in the end, asking me not to give up on her."
"Whether to give up or not depends on our own perspective." Ye Lan said this and pressed a control button on the table.
Chi.
At this time, an automatic door next to the office opened, cold air surged, and a freezer equipment slowly flew out.
Lin Xian's eyes froze when he saw it, because the person lying in the freezer was Chu Yan.
Although there was no sign of life, the blood on her body had been cleaned up very well, and she lay there quietly, as if she was asleep.
"As a psychic, Chu Yan has achieved extraordinary results in countless battles with the Crimson World." Ye Lan looked at Chu Yan in the cryochamber and said to Lin Xian, "Before this operation, she talked to me about the connection between her and you. She said that it made her anxious and frightened. Whether it was because of her identity as an operator or as a woman, she couldn't face it calmly."
"When I discussed Operation Crescent Moon with her, she also raised this question, that is, we cannot be sure of the real target, or whether the information about the target is valuable. But now the changes in the three star abysses show that the influence of consciousness connecting to darkness exists, so we must strive for this information. This information may be of great significance to the survival of human civilization."
Lin Xian shrugged helplessly and said, "But what else can we do?"
"You know what?" Ye Lan looked at Lin Xian and said to him seriously, "Chu Yan cannot invade the consciousness of two people at the same time."
Lin Xian was stunned when he heard this, and his face was full of confusion.
"What do you mean? She only hacked the real Julius?"
"I believe in Chu Yan. She has always been very clear about her judgment of the situation, so I really want to know what you communicated and what you saw before she died, and why she made such a choice?" Ye Lan said.
Lin Xian shook his head, his expression solemn at this moment, and said while recalling
"We determined that Julius's real body must be among them. In order to control the Galaxy Heart of Dawn City, he uploaded Crimson III to the internal network and waited for the Gray Mist Messenger's launch port to open so that he could take over the entire city's central network. The root server system of the Targon Peak launch site needed his identification and authentication. Chu Yan determined that Julius wanted to protect the dark information, so we used this to find the real body, complete iris recognition, capture Crimson III, and take over the Galaxy Heart again."
"So Chu Yan's choice was random?" Ye Lan suddenly asked a question that puzzled Lin Xian.
"No, the mental power fluctuations of the two Julius are not much different. Chu Yan thinks that the other party may have undergone some kind of training, or..."
Lin Xian opened his mouth, and suddenly his expression changed, and he recalled Chu Yan's words.
“I can scan the differences in mental fluctuations between individuals. Clones will be different due to time and training, but these two seem to have undergone the same training, or they are not Julius himself.”
Thinking of this, Lin Xian suddenly became confused.
"If neither of them is Julius himself, then she is indeed a random choice."
"No," Lin Xian refuted his own words and pinched his eyebrows: "I forgot one thing. She said that the target cannot be mind-stealing when he is awake."
“But this won’t work…” The more Lin Xian thought about it, the more strange it felt: “At that time, both Julius…”
"Stealing minds is a very dangerous thing. Even if you catch the target, you have to do it when the other party is unconscious. A sober person's mental strength is very strong, not to mention that the mental strength of humans is constantly increasing. So the most I can do is to give you a headache. Only in dreams is my home turf."
Lin Xian's face was solemn. If Chu Yan could not steal the minds of awake people, then the mental attacks she used on the two Julius were all feints. The purpose was to expose their flaws and let Lin Xian know that the one who was killed was the real target for iris recognition.
But the paradox is, if Chu Yan didn't perform mind stealing, how could she die after the target was killed?
"This explanation doesn't make sense!!"
Lin Xian looked at Chu Yan lying in the freezer with an anxious look on his face, and said to himself: "Why, why did you die?!"
"Maybe you missed something." Ye Lan looked at Lin Xian calmly.
"Impossible, I saw her die with my own eyes!"
Lin Xian paced back and forth, his eyes never leaving Chu Yan, and the words Chu Yan had said to him kept echoing in his ears.
"The most important goal of Operation Crescent Moon is to obtain information, and I am the main direction of action."
“Listen to me. I will control Julius and you scan his irises immediately.”
"Even if his brain dies, his brain cells will not lose their activity immediately. The micro-electrical signals of each neuron will be completely cut off, and all his "thinking", "memory", "judgment" and "organ perception" will remain for a few minutes..."
"This is... the only... choice... Lin... don't... give up on me..."
Chu Yan's cries before her death echoed in Lin Xian's ears, like a loud bell. Lin Xian's lips were dry at this moment, and he stood there in a daze.
"What am I missing?"
"What am I missing?!!!!"
Lin Xian stopped.
Boom!
In an instant, Lin Xian's pupils suddenly relaxed, and the scene in the office in front of him was like a black hole that tore and stretched the light. All the memory fragments kept going back, back to the launch of the Vanguard Plan before dawn, back to the weapons in Dawn City were offline, the whole city was panicking, back to the blood-red flowers blooming on Chu Yan's face before her death, back to the white hall, hundreds of Julius clones floating, time kept going backwards in front of his eyes, back to Jinhai where thunder was exploding!
Ding Junyi told him: "Now humans can separate dark energy from cold dark particles. This is essentially the energy conversion form of dark invasion. You can think of it as a higher purity cold dark reagent that can be absorbed by humans. According to Shinji Mochizuki's calculation formula, 18% is the current limit of human energy conversion. This limit is also a critical value for the evolution of psychics. So in principle, except for forced filtration by the human body, there is currently no material on Blue Star that can isolate or store this energy."
Shinji Mochizuki told him: "Judging from those colony suppressors and restraints, the Crimson World was tailor-made for it, but this monster is dead to begin with. Why do you think they put these things on it?"
Chu Yan told him: "So the S-level we see is like a god to the Crimson World. If they want to connect with this god and spy on the life form and civilization of a completely different place, they can't let ordinary people or experimental subjects do it."
KIKI told him: "I understand, just like the Red Man Gui, they connect with the S-level not only to exchange information, they also want to use this model to become an S-level lifeform?"
His memory went back to the time when he and KIKI took off into the air, and he looked at the giant colony corpse under the Jinhai. On the armor that had no power output at all, there were only colony suppressors and restraints, and...
Mycelium brain-computer device!
"I know what I missed." Lin Xian lost his composure and said slowly.
"The Veil Breaker was launched as the first sequence of the Vanguard Project. It was to revive or reconnect the S-class action brain. Their previous test only connected half of the action brain. Julius said that 145 clones died in this attempt alone. I have always wondered about one thing. Whether the Crimson World is competing with us for the Heart of the Galaxy or the so-called dark information, or kidnapping the entire city or destroying the vehicle, he has never threatened to... destroy the Vanguard Project. Why is Chu Zhaonan so sure that Julius will allow the Gray Mist Messenger to be launched smoothly?"
“Because…Julius himself is on the Gray Mist Messenger!”
Lin Xian swallowed hard, his eyes fell on Chu Yan, and he sighed and murmured
"Your only choice at that time was because after the launch, you captured the mental fluctuations of Julius who was taking off, so the one you actually invaded was the Gray Mist Messenger!"
call……
Lin Xian took a long breath and sat back on the sofa in disbelief.
Half of the action brain can kill 145 people instantly. He now finally understood how such a powerful Chu Yan died in that instant. Before she assisted Lin Xian in completing the feint attack on Julius, she had already determined the possible ending she might face. That was not being killed by the man with red light, but being swallowed by the gray fog.
Thinking of this, he looked up at Ye Lan and said with a complicated expression: "You have already thought of this?"
Ye Lan said: "Chu Yan told me that if the operation fails and she can't get any information from Julius, she will use hacking into the S-level action brain as a follow-up plan. She is not afraid of death, but is only worried about how to pass on the information she obtains."
"So she chose me." Lin Xian said.
Ye Lan looked at Lin Xian: "She said that every time you are on the verge of death, you will connect with her consciousness. This may be a commonality."
Lin Xian stood up and walked to the window, looked up at the blue sky, and smiled bitterly: "There is only one way to verify it."
After saying that, Lin Xian immediately turned around, his eyes determined: "There are still unfinished small starships in the starport, let's borrow one!"
Ye Lan didn't stop him.
Afterwards, he came to the star port and found an unfinished Manta-class starship at the construction port. This starship was 40,000 tons, but only the main frame had been completed. Lin Xian directly raised his hand to activate the Black Star Forge, and the violent mechanical space door opened wide, slowly swallowing the starship in.
Lin Xian clenched his teeth, losing a lot of energy. He looked at the huge space of the Black Star Forge, and his breathing became heavier. He did not consider whether he could complete the transfer, nor did he know whether this would succeed.
He now felt anxious and tense. He had to see if the woman was still alive!
Empty, empty, empty!
The hydraulic columns in the berth area hummed, and a huge starship was directly transferred into the Black Star Forge by Lin Xian. After the mechanical door was closed, Lin Xian was already covered in cold sweat, and finally his eyes went black and he slowly fell down.
Buzz, buzz, buzz.
The sound of the empty space roared and echoed in the skull, as if one was in an endless, vast, empty, cosmic abyss.
Lin Xian tried to open his eyes, but found that he could do nothing. He only felt a dull earthquake deep in his head and a huge sense of peeling.
After adapting for a while, he could finally feel his own existence, so Lin Xian opened his eyes.
In an instant, the pupils shrank sharply!
At this moment, he was standing on the head suppressor armor of the Gray Mist Messenger. This S-class flesh-and-blood colony suit, which was hundreds of meters high, was covered with a thin layer of white frost and floated in the dark space.
The sun's radiance was like a golden wheel, making Lin Xian's eyes burn. He raised his hand to block it, but found a figure accompanied by a large amount of debris floating past him.
Lin Xian was shocked to find that this was actually a young man in a starship uniform, who was already dead. As he looked around, more and more dead crew members appeared in front of him, and in the space around the Gray Mist Messenger, countless starship fragments were floating. Looking up, in front of him, the wreckage of four 300,000-ton starships were scattered in the void of low-Earth orbit, like toys crushed by gods.
The bridge of the Star Shepherd was broken into two pieces, and the exposed keel was like a torn fish bone, shining with a cold and hard metallic luster. The fusion reactor of the Ark was completely pierced, and the melted armor solidified into a hideous black tumor, like a burnt heart. The engine array of the Stars was completely disintegrated, and tens of thousands of thruster nozzles floated silently...
Countless modules, corpses, and broken structures were floating around, like a tragic scene after an interstellar war. There was a bloody glow at the edge of the atmosphere, which was the burning debris falling from orbit.
Lin Xian turned his body and then froze.
people.
Tens of thousands of corpses floated in the vacuum, like a strange deep snow. Among them were many people who had died in the hibernation capsules. The youngest one was a red-haired girl who looked no more than eighteen years old. Her braids were loose, and her hair was dancing slowly like jellyfish tentacles. These people were the elites selected for the Pioneer Project, the seeds of human civilization, young and energetic. They were pioneer leaders and martyrs of exploration.
It was hard to imagine what had happened here a few hours ago. Further away, Lin Xian saw a super-large starship that had completely disintegrated. It was the Pioneer of Civilization. At this moment, the space propulsion compartment at the rear was all broken apart, and the supply propulsion compartment was gone. The huge bow of the ship was still raised towards the direction of the distant star orbit, and there was a dead silence.
Lin Xian turned his head and saw the blue planet floating below him. This huge planetary home was dazzlingly blue in the sun. Storm clouds were hovering over the Pacific Ocean. The outline of the continent was still clear, and he could even recognize the former city clusters. However, at this time, on the continental shelf of Asia-Pacific, several "scars" like black holes were entrenched on this planet.
The closest one is Star Abyss No. 5, which looks like a black tumor growing on a planet. The black sky spreads out, swallowing up even the atmosphere and clouds!
This was the first time that Lin Xian saw the entire picture of Xingyuan. The horrifying scene made his teeth tremble. At the same time, in the direction of the dark sky, it was pitch black and empty, but there seemed to be some kind of grief coming from the darkness, as if it completely surrounded the entire blue star, cold and empty, just like an abyss!
"Lin Xian!"
Lin Xian suddenly heard a voice. He was definitely not mistaken. It was Chu Yan's voice!
Turning back, he saw the shadow of a woman standing quietly on the Gray Mist Messenger's suppressor device.
"Thank you for not giving up on me."
Chu Yan looked towards Lin Xian, her eyes unable to conceal her excitement, but Lin Xian could also see that Chu Yan's consciousness was extremely unstable at this moment, pale, flickering, as if it would disappear at any time.
"Actually, it's Professor Ye..."
Lin Xian smiled self-deprecatingly, thinking to himself, I've already put you in a body bag.
Chu Yan shook her head. "Listen to me. Julius's consciousness has been uploaded into Gray Mist's action brain through the mycelium. Although he is connected, he must be assisted by the host of Crimson No. 3. This host is the same as your Grace, named 'Viola'. Now I have used my mental power to directly seize his control and steal all his most confidential information about the connection with darkness and even the Crimson World Organization."
"But at what cost?"
"It's not important!" Chu Yan said to Lin Xian, "Listen carefully to what I say next, remember everything, and tell Professor Ye and General Xu!"
"Okay, I'll listen." Lin Xian looked serious.
"The Crimson World connects to the S-level brain through hyphae, and what it gets is not information, but a signal. This signal is very complex. Through the analysis of human experiment data from Viola and the Crimson World, it is found that this signal may be an emotion!"
"mood?"
"Yes! There are two emotions, or wills, coming from Xingyuan. The first is fear, and the second is doubt!"
"What are you afraid of?" Lin Xian asked.
"There is no subject. This fear is derived from human experiments. In the eyes of the Crimson World, the invasion of darkness is a kind of fearful force. This makes sense for the principle that humans mutate after a mental breakdown. But the problem is that it is impossible to determine whether this fear is from humans to darkness, or from darkness to humans."
Lin Xian frowned: "Darkness is also afraid of humans?"
“Don’t understand it from a subjective perspective.” Chu Yan looked at the huge abyss on the blue planet. “From the perspective of observing from inside the abyss, if we explain it from the perspective of civilization, humans are also an existence that cannot be understood or recognized by dark creatures. They don’t understand us, and we don’t know how they exist or how they were born. This is a relationship that cannot be communicated or proven.”
Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian: "Do you know the Rosetta Stone?"
"Know."
"Two completely unfamiliar civilizations generally have two ways of communicating without a translator. The first is to use pictograms, which doesn't work between us and the darkness. The second is the behavioral logic chain! It was through this that we discovered the Dark Mark. You know this, right?"
Lin Xian nodded.
Chu Yan continued, "So if there is only one signal, then this signal has no reference significance, because it is not certain whether it is a human experiment or comes from darkness, and this cannot form a logical coordinate system, but the most critical thing is the second signal!"
"Confused." Lin Xian said.
"Yes!"
"The Crimson World discovered this, so they determined that the subject that sent the signal came from the dark life, or Xingyuan. If we substitute this signal into the gray fog and the current changes in Xingyuan No. 5, No. 7, and No. 8, this behavior is very likely that Xingyuan discovered the existence of Dawn City by connecting with this consciousness, and this discovery is not as simple as just the dark coordinates!"
Lin Xian frowned: "So the black tide attack last night was most likely not just caused by those people carrying the mark."
"Yes! If it was just a mark, with the firepower of Dawn City, it could have been cleared in advance, but the three Xingyuan's dark riots attacked for a whole night!" Chu Yan said sternly: "This means that Xingyuan is doubting and testing!"
Lin Xian felt his scalp tingling: "So Xingyuan's expansion speed is actually..."
"It can be done without restrictions." Chu Yan said seriously, "It won't take a year or four months. As long as they find out the coordinates, they can cover the entire Blue Planet in just one night!"
Lin Xian's eyes were filled with astonishment: "No wonder Star Abyss No. 5 is moving strangely. Star Abysses all over the world are speeding up. Is this a kind of coordinated relationship?!"
"Have you ever experienced a power outage?" Chu Yan continued, "When the room is pitch black, if you are not familiar with the environment, you can only rely on your hands and feet to try to walk, which may be slow, but if the lights are turned on, or you are familiar with the location, you will be able to walk there quickly!"
"So the monsters are using dark marks to locate humans. No wonder after the black tide attacked last night, large numbers of S-class monsters and corpse drivers were found in the three directions of Xingyuan." Lin Xian looked helpless: "It's over now. We thought we would have plenty of time to transfer the people evacuating the city. So, we may encounter a catastrophic disaster of corpse drivers and S-class monsters tonight..."
"Julius knows this, so he wants to use the entire Dawn City as a test site for the Apocalypse Day. They want to study the true evolution mechanism as soon as possible, and transforming themselves into a weird body and a human weird is actually the second choice. There is another important information, which is that the original purpose of the Crimson World was not this."
Chu Yan said to Lin Xian: "The original purpose of establishing the Crimson World was to provide a way for digital life and mechanical ascension, but the Crimson World began to get out of control and developed in the direction of superpowers, colonial clothing, divine elections, and angels. The Crimson World was first established by an organization called the SIID Foundation, which was an extension of the world's largest Luofei Consortium. It controls a large number of the Federation's economic lifelines. You may have heard of it."
Lin Xian was stunned: "Not only have I heard of them... I've also come into contact with them."
"Lin Xian, you must quickly inform Professor Ye and General Xu of the situation, otherwise it will be too late!"
Lin Xian looked at himself after hearing this and shrugged helplessly: "You know I can only see you when I am completely exhausted and can't control myself to wake up."
"What should we do then?"
“What else can we do…” Lin Xian smiled bitterly: “I was thinking, even if the whole city knows the news and we escape, but according to this statement, once Xingyuan succeeds in its exploration, then even if we flee to the Pole, it will be meaningless, and we may even be out of the speed of Xingyuan’s expansion.”
Chu Yan was slightly startled when she heard this, and then stood there with a lost look on her face.
"Lin Xian."
"Um?"
"If the world were to end tonight, would you be afraid?"
"A little bit at first." Lin Xian looked up at the starry sky and smiled defiantly, "I'm not so scared now. I can be considered an astronaut for once in my life."
Chu Yan admired his optimism and sighed helplessly.
Lin Xian looked at Chu Yan's current state and simply sat down: "Since I can't go back, I'll chat with you."
"What are you talking about?"
"Like, are you really dead?"
Chu Yan's expression was complicated. "My spiritual consciousness is now invading Julius' body, borrowing his vitality to survive. He keeps himself in an advanced life chamber. I will survive in this state for a short period of time, but after my spiritual power disappears, I will completely die."
Lin Xian opened his mouth and suddenly smiled.
"why are you laughing?"
"I was thinking, I wonder if there is any other way to save you, but then I thought, the world may end tonight, and we may not even live as long as you."
Chu Yan smiled inexplicably when she heard this. She looked at Lin Xian with a bright gaze, and after a while, she said
"Thank you, Lin Xian."
"What is there to thank me for? You helped me take the Heart of the Galaxy, saved the entire city, and even sacrificed yourself. What else do you need to thank me for?"
"Thank you for appearing in my consciousness, for being able to complete this task with me, and for being here and talking to me..." Chu Yan said.
Lin Xian sighed deeply: "It's a pity that our consciousnesses are entangled. Otherwise, it would be great if we could have a drink in this situation."
Chu Yan looked at the sky full of starship wreckage and countless martyrs of the Pioneer Project, and said to Lin Xian: "Oh, there is another very important information. After the Pioneer starship sequence broke through the sky curtain, I received a message from Chu Jing, the captain of the Civilization Pioneer, to Dawn City through the Common Star Channel. But at that time, this place was swept by the dark energy storm zone, and all the information could not be sent out."
"What message?"
"It was the Pioneer of Civilization that successfully obtained the energy data of the dark erosion cells absorbing the dark invasion when it broke through the sky curtain through the dark erosion cell breaking curtain activation monitoring experimental device. If the dark erosion cells are used to convert the potential energy of the dark invasion, they can filter and purify water 100% like dark creatures. If the energy microwaves are stimulated with the help of the same potential device, it can also help humans completely shield against the dark invasion and solve the mutation disaster!"
Lin Xian's eyes changed when he heard this, isn't this his Heterogeneous Rubik's Cube? Moreover, it is even more powerful than the Heterogeneous Rubik's Cube because it can filter out the dark invasion in the water!
"So that's the purpose of that device!"
Chu Yan said to Lin Xian seriously at this time: "When the Vanguard Fleet encountered the dark energy storm, the [Civilization Pioneer] was actually the only starship that could escape the storm, but a large-scale mutation occurred on the [Civilization Pioneer], so Chu Jing finally chose to launch the only two remaining supply propulsion ships to push the [Natural Selection] and [Deep Blue] out of the dark energy storm area, and prepare to turn the [Civilization Pioneer] back..."
"He wants to transmit the data back to Dawn City!?" Lin Xian asked in surprise.
Chu Yan nodded.
"He wanted to leave hope for human survival."
"He doesn't want to give up on humanity."
Afterwards, Chu Yan told Lin Xian how, after her consciousness invaded Julius, she broke through the invisible sky curtain with the posture and perspective of the first ship of the Broken Curtain Project. From Chu Yan's description, Lin Xian seemed to have witnessed the epic and magnificent scene with his own eyes. Seven doomsday starships carrying tens of thousands of people, as well as human frozen embryos and civilization libraries, rushed at full speed towards the sky curtain that might directly destroy them. Within 30 minutes after encountering the dark energy storm, the captains of the seven ships fled for their lives.
It was an extremely tragic yet unswerving scene, with countless young lives disappearing in the cold universe. Lin Xian could not imagine how Chu Jing made the tragic decision to launch a supply propulsion ship to send off the Natural Selection and Deep Blue, knowing that he would survive. Perhaps it was as resolute and determined as when he commanded the Civilization Pioneer to rush to the forefront of all starships.
Lin Xian looked at the huge, fragmented "Far Star" class starship in the distance, which symbolized the glory of human technological civilization. It was floating quietly in the vacuum with its bow held high.
Like a shining flag.
(End of this chapter)
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