Chapter 104 Marking the Date
The core module just happened to be docked at the interface of the outer core. In an environment of external tearing and internal shaking, they happened to be at the most ingenious balance point.
It is like the calmest center of a storm.
However, various values on the surveillance screen lit up with red warning signals.
Fitzgerald absentmindedly paid half of his attention to the obvious changes outside, and silently counted down in his heart for the best time to make the transition.
The person in his arms distracted him, and he stood still, allowing her to kiss him bit by bit.
But he soon realized something was wrong. She smiled at him, and her soft lips had just left the corner of his lips, and her sweet breath was still there.
However, the amber eyes suddenly became empty.
Fitzgerald slowly turned his gaze to the strange, pulsating mass at the center of the Earth's core on the monitor. Overactive long waves and chaotically dissipated energy... In his mind, there was only one explanation for its existence in this state.
"Planetary consciousness?"
His heart sank, and the look of anger on his face was indistinct.
No, even if it was the pull of the 'planetary consciousness', it would not make her lost a second time, just like it is impossible for a person to step into the same river a second time.
The only thing that could put her in danger this time could be caused by "herself", by the "exploration" that was forcibly interrupted by him during her last "loss".
Deep in her mind, that 'answer' must be a thousand times more important than his.
Fitzgerald kissed her lightly on the center of her forehead with a hint of bitterness, then held her more firmly. After glancing at the decision tree, he took the initiative to contact the Expedition.
Aboard the Expedition.
Albert immediately received the audio-only quantum communication signal and asked excitedly in a low voice, "Fitz! How are you doing now?"
"It's not bad."
Fitzgerald paused for a moment and continued, "I have seen the latest battle situation. Everyone has performed very well!"
Even though they knew that the other party on the audio link could not see their movements, Captain David and the crew on the bridge still saluted in unison.
"The worm bridge that the Zerg are currently building and the move to suspend the competition should be due to the special 'existence' in the core of the earth."
Fitzgerald briefly explained the situation observed in the core module.
"In this case, I have modified the turning point of the original decision tree,"
"At present, not only does the 'accelerator ring' have to use its maximum power, but each unit will be detonated immediately after it is in place, regardless of the original time point."
"Something happened, and everything that happened afterwards was disrupted."
"The only thing that cannot be disrupted is that the Zerg must be completely locked up in the antimatter isolation zone at the end of the universe."
"No matter the cost!"
Sentence by sentence, Fitzgerald explained all the arrangements in the quantum communication.
All personnel on the bridge of the Expedition, including David, immediately followed the instructions and updated the values. When a special probability number appeared, Albert asked in a lost voice: "But in this case, your chance of survival is only 3%!"
Fitzgerald's calm reply came through the quantum communication: "3% is already a very high probability."
"Go ahead."
"yes......"
*
The Great Wilderness Star Region at this moment.
The rapidly expanding stellar wind has completely destroyed the third planetary belt and is now eroding the fourth planetary belt.
The human fleet opened its shield and had already safely anchored on the original fourth planetary belt, preparing to deploy the second wave of star drops.
The 'accelerator ring' also started to work. Although it looked similar to the 'stellar ring' Mary mentioned, both were ring-shaped Dyson devices, but the 'accelerator ring' was always a disposable item that could be used immediately, and it was not as time-consuming and precise as the 'stellar ring'.
As long as it appears within the gravitational range of a star, it will automatically function.
The expanded white dwarf has turned into an orange-yellow color that is almost red, like the eyes of a ferocious beast, violently venting the brutal energy that has been forcibly awakened.
Against the backdrop of the vast universe, the silvery-white material of the 'accelerator ring' flies like snowflakes toward the expanding white dwarf. Countless heavy-matter projectiles with a cold sheen pass through these snowflakes.
Nuclear fuel material that is hundreds of millions of times heavier than the 'fuel' dropped in the first round, and a 'time acceleration ring' that accelerates the stellar expansion reaction.
Soon, the most spectacular "stellar flash" will be ignited in the Great Wilderness Star Region.
That will be a light that can be detected in every corner of the universe.
*
On the Expedition, the battle report informing all combatants was resounding throughout every corner of the ship.
Chris, who was in the boat modification workshop, threw his protective helmet to the floor!
She pulled her hair in annoyance and muttered, "Are these methods useful? The connection between the Sun Devouring Beast Core and His Highness... this is just a bunch of nonsense made up to deal with doubts!"
The blond adjutant picked up the protective helmet on the ground and handed it to her: "Your idea is indeed unreliable."
"But since a miracle has already happened, why not give it another try?"
Albert forced a smile at her, and it was obvious that he was in a very heavy mood.
"What?"
"A faint hope."
The two looked at each other. Albert said, "Don't you think it's strange that he gave you the mecha button?"
Chris' tone turned cold and he gave Albert a disdainful look: "Is it weird? The genetic backup is still in my hands, isn't it even weirder?"
"You misunderstood," Albert said. "I mean, after Zhou Mu returned, Hall inherited Gerald's bloodline. You can no longer simply regard him as a 'person' like you and me."
"Whether he was acting consciously or unconsciously, all of his actions revolved around one goal."
"That is to constantly explore the limits of human 'evolution,'" Albert said calmly, "and the premise of evolution is to ensure 'survival' in the present."
Chris was silent. Another important point is that the genetic setting of the Gerard bloodline has long eliminated the "self-destruction" program of the original human gene. As the heir of the Gerard bloodline, he will only be destroyed by the failure of evolution, not deliberately seeking "death", no matter what the reason.
However, this behavior clearly deviated from the core setting of Gerard's genes.
So, she looked up at Albert, and at the same time understood why he began to have secret hostility towards Su Xi, whom he had never met.
"Although I don't want to make friends with another Fitz like I did with David. After all, the one who will be resurrected from the gene culture dish will only be Fitzgerald, and there will not be any trace of Hall."
"By then, without 'Hall', the oath we three made at the entrance of the Tomb of the Universe will no longer exist..." Albert paused and his tone became cold. "And between you and me, there will only be different interests left."
Chris knew he was telling the truth, and by then they would no longer have any personal relationship.
The black-haired beta confronted Albert with a strength that was no less than that of the alpha.
Albert: "So, even though the 3% chance is slim, I choose to do exactly what he wants and let you do whatever you want."
Chris smiled, "Wow! Thank you so much!"
"If David hadn't let you do what you want, you would have been court-martialed for your arbitrary use of military supplies."
Chris raised his eyebrows, turned around and shouted at the busy Allen and the others: "Don't stop for me! I'm the boss before the court!"
"Then you try to stop me. Your Majesty has divided the Sun Devouring Beast Core into the assets of the Empire, but in my eyes, I only recognize the most ancient principles of the competition between the heirs of the Empire. It is just your personal trophy."
"If you want to punish me, wait until the day when His Highness returns!"
After saying that, Chris turned around and walked towards the modified Sun Swallow, but before he took two steps, he was stopped by Albert. The blond alpha smiled helplessly, stuffed something into her hand, and said, "Take my ID card with you, or are you really going to force your way in?"
Chris was stunned for a moment, staring at him in surprise for a moment. After reacting, he elbowed Albert! Then he grabbed his neck and punched him again.
Although there were thumping sounds, there was no force used to injure any bones.
"Thanks! Good buddy!"
As always, Albert bent down, covered his stomach and shouted exaggeratedly: "Ouch! It hurts!"
The tense atmosphere of confrontation eased during the play. David saw this scene on the monitor and just shook his head as if he had expected it, then turned his attention back to the ongoing star explosion.
*
At this moment, there is still half a star time left until the last moment of the second wave of star explosions.
Observed from the perspective of the vast universe, the silvery-white "acceleration ring" has now expanded and is ready at the star's acceleration position. Under the blowing of the stellar wind, the thin snowflake-like material expands into a diamond-shaped sail with the four corners connected to each other, like a hollow fishing net that is gradually covering the entire restless white dwarf.
After the Zerg's "heavy tank" star failed to stop the human battleship fleet, it immediately returned to defense and tried to break through the human blockade on the seventh planet. At the same time, the Zerg also accelerated the decomposition of the planet's exterior and the cannibalism of the "planetary consciousness".
At the outer core interface of planet BV32-II, the human core module remained stable amid the shaking inside the planet.
The smile on Su Xi's lips was still there, and her soft lips had just left him, with the warm breath still lingering around.
However, the amber eyes were filled with emptiness.
She was now in a very strange state of perception, as if she was at the two ends of a mirror, looking closely at the girl leaning against the red-haired alpha.
However, on the other side of the mirror, there was only 'her', with only a void behind her.
Su Xi blinked very slowly, and then felt the long waves deep in the earth calling her, and felt a wail full of dull pain conveyed in the waves.
That familiar wave was what she had heard since she first landed in the wasteland of the lifesphere. It was a noise mixed with the wasteland, the sound of the life cycle of those who died and struggled to survive, and the cry of the essence of this planet.
'She' turned around and glanced at the scene on the other side of the mirror. The red-haired alpha looked at the girl beside him with a serious expression, and his index finger was slightly raised to touch her forehead... But this static scene only made 'her' hesitate for a moment, and then she made up her mind. She must respond to the call she had responded to before, and must ask the 'existence' that summoned her for the truth of a fact!
What is the connection between this planet and the place where she once was? !
In such a microscopic and ethereal state, the 'perception of time' is a hundred billion times faster than in the real material world. She just needs to return as soon as possible.
After figuring it out, Su Xi resolutely turned around to look for the direction of the wave that was calling her and chased after it.
The mirror behind her switched, and she was once again immersed in an extremely microscopic world.
Dancing and shuttling in the planet's vibration waves, this time she clearly felt her solidified spiritual body. Under a wonderful resonant melody, it vibrated and became empty, and then became solid... Between the emptiness and solidification, a unique wave was formed...
At this moment, with Su Xi's 'consciousness' fully participating, she clearly controlled the mysterious frequency between 'virtual-real' -
She just needs to respond to the other person at the same frequency.
She simulates everything, and she only needs to "read" and "tune" to the corresponding frequencies of everything.
In a sense, it is a power similar to that of a god, if there is such a thing as a god in this world.
When this thought flashed through her mind, Su Xi, as a spiritual body, suddenly felt a golden glow on her forehead. She and the incomplete consciousness of the planet began to resonate in a wonderful high note, and then she entered a deeper level of memory about the planet.
She was fully aware and roaming freely in the 'memory storage' of this planet. The overlapping layers of rock sheets recorded billions of years of past history, the residual fluctuations of life, the flowing energy and billions of years of memories, and the immeasurable amount of information, all of which now crazily poured into her 'spiritual body'.
This planet, which was coded as 'BV-32II' by humans in the interstellar space, was like a huge history book with pages turning automatically, revealing all its secrets.
The gold sand on her forehead was hot, and the pages of the book were turning, condensing into pieces in front of her.
She stepped into the page she was most familiar with. The red sand was gleaming, as dazzling as a lighthouse in the dark night.
There was that familiar dizzy feeling of consciousness being pulled away again.
She once again stood on the mountaintop where she had stood before, but when she looked up at the sky, there was an almost identical reflected world there, with the same 'her' in essence, also standing on the mountaintop in surprise and confusion.
But there are still very subtle differences between the two reflected worlds.
She looked down at where she was standing, and immediately "read" the name of the towering peak beneath her feet -
Tears of disbelief welled up in my eyes.
She looked far ahead and saw familiar movements in the towering mountains. Spiritual songs lingered in the air, colorful Tibetan banners fluttered, and crowds of people prostrating themselves on the ground, as humble as ants, stretched out in an endless stream. A jeep on the side of the road screeched to a halt.
A young backpacker got off the bus, waved to his fellow passengers, and turned to look towards the top of the mountain where "Su Xi" was.
Su Xi, who was on the top of the mountain, felt the backpacker's gaze and looked back. After a moment of detachment, she met the young backpacker's distant gaze looking up at the mountains. Her amber eyes were full of yearning and admiration. Looking closely at the female backpacker's face, she had long straight black hair and sun-tanned wheat-colored skin. That was——
Herself!
This is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the last third of her travel calendar that was forced to be interrupted after the car accident on Earth, and a pilgrimage to the plateau that has not yet happened.
Su Xi followed the backpacker's line of sight and looked towards the distant Himalayas. In the retreating "sight", the glimpse that happened on the spot quickly disappeared.
She still stood alone on the top of the mountain, looking up. The reflected world in the sky was still changing in the same way.
Until everything in the reflection world is destroyed and reborn again.
until--
Same mountain.
On the other side of the same time dimension, the scene of the same pilgrimage.
Instead, it was a bloody fight between two tribes that ate raw meat and drank blood, fighting frantically for a black stone ball.
Su Xi closed her eyes and felt it for a moment, then sent out a wave of doubt, and the 'planetary consciousness' that showed her all this silently gave her an answer.
Su Xi "read" His display. She now exists in a singularity that exists temporarily due to the disorder of time and space. The two reflected worlds are parallel universes with the deepest connection. They are derivative products of each other for some "reason"...
The two scenes she saw were either a journey that had not yet taken place or a bloody scene of orc tribes fighting each other.
In different universes, events occur at the same parallel and intersecting time points.
However.
What about the 'me' now?
What kind of existence is it?
As her doubts arose, the gold sand on her forehead began to roll and heat up, and the "forehead wheel" gradually ignited, and the liquid gold sand permeated her eyes bit by bit.
Thus, the two chaotically reflected and intersecting worlds were abstracted into a series of planes in her eyes.
The incomplete 'planetary consciousness' gave the desired response:
"One more step forward."
"You are the 'consciousness' I need. You just need to take one more step forward..."
'Assimilate with me'
'Stay with me forever'
Should I take another step forward? Su Xi hesitated. Her doubts were answered in a seemingly plausible way. She knew that she could not step into the river she had been to again. Any attempt to return would only open up a new dangerous and disappearing detour.
There is no need to dwell on it.
But she, who resonated deeply with the planet, could not break her promise, nor could she turn a blind eye to his trembling pain.
At this moment, Su Xi exists in a peculiar perspective. Deep in the core of the planet, her spirit body roams freely, while her physical body still maintains clear five senses. Multiple perceptions allow her to clearly understand all the information that is happening at the moment.
Under the dual effects of human stellar projection and the "accelerator ring", the white dwarf outside the planet has now reacted like a red giant star. The star has been completely ignited! And it has completely swallowed up the sixth planetary belt. In the hellish flames, humans and Zerg are fighting on the seventh planetary belt, the last line of defense...
The planet BV32-II, which was completely captured by the 'heavy tank' of the insect planet, is now being cut by the full energy of the dragon. The crust and upper mantle are gradually exposed layer by layer. The planetary material is ejected into the deep space of the universe and evaporates into hazy stardust. Before it can completely dissipate, it is sucked up one by one by the tentacle-like insect bridge of the 'heavy tank'...
And at the deepest part of the planet's core, the 'planetary consciousness' that responded to her was being eroded by the golden larvae without any chance of escape.
She "understood" His urgency. The incomplete "planetary consciousness" only had memories and dull instincts. Now He needed the most core "consciousness", just like a lost ship needs a small and most precise compass.
Once the incomplete consciousness is completed, he can get rid of the current predicament. And she, who has the same origin, becomes the most suitable "consciousness" to fill in the current situation.
'No'
"Cause and effect have no beginning or end... it is just a spiral... a corridor of time..."
'And you are the only one'
'Please assimilate with me'
At this moment, Su Xi is faced with a choice. She can choose to completely synchronize with the life waves of this planet, and become one with the dust of the universe, a moment when the universe lasts forever.
You can also choose to turn around and leave.
Back into the arms of the alpha who was calling her.
In the core cabin.
In the brown-haired girl's confused eyes, the red-haired alpha's eyes also flashed with the same confusion... and a trace of fear he had never felt before. In her eyes that were gradually losing their spirit, he understood her choice.
"Listen, Suxi!"
His voice was hoarse with pain, almost close to shouting: "Don't go!"
"I'll take you to the Tomb of the Universe—"
Fitzgerald blurted out a promise that he himself could not imagine, and then a look of enlightenment flashed across his face.
He lowered his head, put his lips to hers and said:
"The Tomb of Zhou."
“That’s the best vantage point. It has all the answers you want to see.”
"Explore the limits of our evolution as human beings."
"As long as you are strong enough."
With a very complicated mood, he repeated one sentence after another, telling his experiences in the Tomb of the Universe, experiences that he had never revealed to anyone. He knew she could sense it because her hand was slowly raised and gently brushed his hair.
Su Xi in the core cabin blinked very slowly, and a relaxed smile appeared on the red-haired alpha's usually resolute face.
However, it seemed like less than a blink of an eye.
The eyes of the omega in my arms were dyed golden brown, and with his rapid breathing, his pupils kept expanding and contracting, opening and closing rapidly.
It was as if I saw an existence that I was extremely reluctant to give up, but had to abandon.
The golden sand on his forehead was boiling, and instantly became liquid and spread all over his body.
ah--
She raised her head and screamed.
*
For Su Xi, who was traveling freely in the planetary resonance wave, she had just made the decision to return the moment before, and the next moment she was forcibly pulled into the past of another time period of that gravel.
That is the memory of Su Xi's original existence on Earth.
But at this moment, 'she' was looking at her past from a strange upward perspective.
A young woman held the hand of eight-year-old Su Xi and taught her to write on the sand stroke by stroke: "A grain of sand is a world, a flower is a paradise, seeing 'me' is seeing the Tathagata."
Su Xi, who exists from the perspective of a "gravel", is tossed back and forth by her past self.
The young woman gently stroked the 'little girl's' hair and smiled as she advised her, "It's just this one sentence that you wrote wrong. Getting the bronze medal is already an excellent achievement. Shall we continue to sign up for the next Chinese studies class?"
Eight-year-old Su Xi tied her hair into a bun, squatted on the ground, shook her head and said something without seeming to be very interested...
The random swing of the wooden stick interrupted the view of the red "gravel".
He was showing her that, although it was difficult to go back in time, it was not impossible; one could not step into the same river, but the river's existence was 'unique';
'So, what do you choose?'
The past scene suddenly shattered.
Su Xi's mental body was in complete disarray.
Until the cool, ice-blue spiritual body completely enveloped her, entangled with her endlessly.
In the core cabin, Su Xi's eyes were full of struggle, and tears gradually fell. If she didn't come back, he would never be able to come back again after forcing himself to "mentally dissociate" by relying on the last thin connection of the "fragment".
She can assimilate with the planetary consciousness and exist in another state, and he...
Such behavior is almost like giving up on yourself.
Why?
Big tears soaked her cheeks, flowing from hers to the corners of his eyes. At this moment, their cheeks were touching, and he kissed her with a vicious, swallowing force.
"Just come back."
"Stop crying."
He said hoarsely, "If you cry again, I'll bite you."
Su Xi wanted to laugh. She hadn't recovered from the planetary resonance that she had blocked. She thought vaguely, "Still biting? Kindergarten kid?"
childish!
She gave him a mocking smile and scratched his nose with her weak fingers, but someone obviously misunderstood the true meaning of this smile and action.
"You agreed."
The voice was even darker and deeper, and it seemed to carry a hint of masculine arrogance and complacency.
So when Su Xi's senses had not yet fully recovered, she vaguely felt the flame-colored hair brushing against her neck. Hmm. It was a little itchy. Although she was used to being kissed by him, she also wanted to remind him not to kiss her randomly. She raised her fair hand slightly and grabbed his flame-colored hair. Before she could make more active movements, she was tightly and completely suppressed by the man's hot body in an absolute possessive posture!
Neither of them was in full arousal at the moment, and this environment was clearly not the perfect moment that Fitzgerald had carefully prepared for.
But who cares? Immersed in the great joy of his beloved omega's agreement, he licked and kissed the delicate points one by one in a slightly anxious manner, and then went straight up and buried his head in Su Xi's neck, which exuded a rich and innocent fragrance, the sweet spot he had coveted for a long time.
He unceremoniously stretched out his sharp teeth and bit into her gland. Although the omega's gland was not fully mature under his clumsy teasing, it still had a bit of green fruit flavor and was far from the most beautiful moment, but the mutual affection made him linger endlessly. The usually cold and abstinent alpha was now completely infatuated.
Reason reminded him to just mark it for a moment, but the sweet 'biting feeling' and the 'possession' of marking made him turn into a beast at this moment, relying on instinct, and only wanted to pour more vigorously!
Until she was completely and more imbued with his scent.
ah--
Su Xi, whose mark was suddenly bitten, raised her fragile neck and screamed hoarsely. The delicate omega was stimulated to the point that her whole body was twitching, but she was being held down by someone who was about to lose his mind, so she couldn't escape.
The bitten area was stained with blood, but it attracted even more passionate and lingering licks and kisses.
For an omega, this kind of thing was not enjoyable for the first time. Especially for Su Xi, who was not mentally prepared, the hot and stimulating alpha hormone seemed to be poured in endlessly, stimulating her to the point that she almost fainted.
Su Xi, who had always been well-educated and never cursed, now wanted to curse loudly in her heart!
Holy shit, it actually bites!
It hurts!
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