Chapter 106 Detention Date

Aboard the Expedition. Bridge.

Captain David stood straight in front of the screen, listening to his subordinates report the losses and damages of the battle. Albert stood shoulder to shoulder with him, while Chris stood far away in front of the large transparent floor-to-ceiling window, looking in the direction of the Great Wilderness Star Region.

At this moment, the Expedition had just sailed out of the antimatter isolation zone in the end of the universe, waiting for David to confirm a certain signal before returning to the First Fortress.

The huge fleet of mankind is parked in an orderly manner at the junction of the Desolate Zone of the Universe and the Alpha Galaxy. On one side is the cosmic desert with scarce matter, and on the other side is the shining civilization society with bright stars and nebulae in the distance.

After discussing the aftermath of the routine war, the two men also walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, and looked up at the artificially created "supernova flash" and the flickering interstellar light with Chris one after another.

Albert: "The signal has been analyzed. It's good news. The battle went smoothly and His Highness is safe."

David nodded. "It's still a miracle. It makes me think the word 'miracle' could have its meaning changed in the dictionary."

"Miracle?" Chris's mouth twitched. "There has never been a miracle without paying a price. Which miracle has not had a terrible price behind it?"

Albert was silent for a moment, and said, "No one expected that the Zerg would rather give up this last chance to break out of the universe. The interference of the massive Zerg Star has completely led to the time and space chaos that is happening in the Great Wilderness Star Region. The Great Wilderness Star Region is now a self-contained time and space system. Even the Sun Devourer, which has the most accurate time and space positioning system, and the Sun Devourer beast core as an engine is enough to break through the multi-dimensional chaotic time and space..."

"Although His Highness has provided the coordinates for the location, it is still difficult to locate and capture it in this state."

"Can we just wait for them to figure out a way to dock with the Sun Swallow?"

"In theory, yes."

"Before the time-space storm subsides," David frowned, "no one knows what the situation is inside."

"Chris, has there been any news from the Sun Swallow?"

Chris called up a small light curtain. The Sun Devourer, which was temporarily modified to incorporate the core of the Sun Devourer, was two sizes larger than the shuttle. However, the light curtain only showed the last frame of the ship breaking through the storm and entering the planetary orbit. Half of the ship was submerged in the storm that was like the mouth of a giant beast.

Chris said in a low and anxious voice, "There is no signal. When we first entered this temporary space-time black hole, we lost all contact."

"I hope the Sun Swallow can find them after a long cruise through time and space, just like last time."

"I hope so."

“This is the only hope.”

As he was speaking, Captain David's communication reminder rang, and the signalman asked for instructions: "Report to the commander, Yin Du called to inquire about the latest battle situation."

David turned to Chris and Albert and said, "I'll deal with it. The Sun Swallow is not under the jurisdiction of the expeditionary force. I will not respond to any actions of Your Highness or the Sun Swallow. But if the inquiry is dialed to you..."

David smiled sympathetically at Chris and said, "Then you figure out how to deal with it."

Chris nodded without commenting.

Seeing David walking away, Albert looked at the twinkling stars in the distance and suddenly said, "Back then at the entrance of Zhou's Tomb, it was only you and I waiting outside."

"Yes. We were only on guard outside for three months," Chris said with nostalgia in his eyes. "The long years have passed, evolution has accelerated, and the one who returned is no longer 'Hall' himself. You say -"

"How long will we wait this time?"

"How long will they be in there?"

"What will happen when we return?"

Chris paced anxiously as he spoke.

Albert on the side did not answer, but tapped his hands behind his back. He was obviously thinking about another problem. The layout of Yindu, the peaceful and prosperous central galaxy, and the hidden rapids.

Outside the porthole, stars were twinkling, and occasionally a cruise ship passed by, with light and shadows flickering. The two people looked at each other in silence for a long time.

Albert said, "The only person you should be worried about is 'him'. Most likely, there won't be 'them'."

Chris was stunned, but she reacted quickly.

Albert had long noticed Chris's unusual protection for Su Xi, and now he was deliberately reminding her just to give her the correct psychological expectations when facing the final outcome.

Noticing her worried look after she realized it, Albert continued, "As the heir of the most outstanding 'Gerard bloodline' in history, the death part has long been eliminated from His Highness's genetic design. This kind of time chaos is just a mental training for him. And on this point, neither you nor I doubt his ability."

"After all, this level of time chaos is far less terrifying than the situation in the Tomb of the Universe..."

"So what you should worry about is the omega lady you care about."

"The life span of an omega is only one-third of that of an ordinary alpha. Even if, as you said, she can withstand more pressure from time acceleration after reaching a higher level, the experience of wandering through time often destroys not only the body but also the mind first."

Chris looked at Albert's calm analysis sentence by sentence, and his heart slowly became heavy like a lead ball.

Yes. The Great Wilderness Star Region has now become a large-scale "time prison" under the Zerg's final retaliatory interference. For those waiting outside, it may take three months, three years, or three hundred years or even longer for the storm here to subside.

Trapped in the "time storm" of the Great Wilderness Star Region, even if they successfully waited for the Sun-Swallow to pick them up, they would still have to spend at least a length of time measured in "thousands of years" on their personal timelines.

For an omega, three hundred years is the limit of its lifespan. And the hibernation chamber model loaded in the core module is only good enough for a thousand years.

Chris once again looked at the last frame of the image before the Sun Devourer's return signal disappeared.

The force field torn by the space-time storm distorted the surrounding nebula matter, and the terrifying black hole twisted open. The Sun-Swallow entered the only place of life, and the center of the eye of the storm from which there was no escape.

The appearance of the ship is half a teardrop, and the tiny flash of light is like the last glimmer of extremely slim hope in the darkness.

*

The Great Wilderness Star Region. The compressed supernova continued to erupt violently, burning the entire star region, and the violent energy flow was like the worst scene in hell.

The energy that cannot diffuse collides with each other in the small star field, causing a huge and chaotic space-time difference between regions. This is the so-called space-time storm.

In the core cabin.

Su Xi, who had already woken up, lay in her sleeping bag, holding a small half-sachet of nutrition supplements in her mouth, and watched the alpha, now dressed neatly and with a serious and cold demeanor, busying himself at the operating table. She took two more puffs and put the liquid back into the space button.

He didn't elaborate, but she knew they were probably trapped in this 'time zero' state for who knows how long it would last.

I don't know if he has the habit of hoarding supplies, but it helps if he can save as much as possible.

Anyway, she couldn't do the high-intensity exercise just now, the brown-haired omega made a decision secretly while lying in her sleeping bag. Fitzgerald, who turned around and walked towards her, had no idea that in just a moment of turning around, the next benefit was unilaterally rejected by his own omega.

Holding her in the sleeping bag, the red-haired alpha lowered his head and touched her forehead, carefully feeling the condition of his omega. It was a kind of intimacy of nose-to-nose contact, and he had no intention of torturing her any further, but just looked at Su Xi's flushed face and confirmed that her energy and strength had recovered well.

He pecked the omega's soft cheek with satisfaction, and then said, "With His help, the signal has been sent out. If I'm not mistaken, the Sun Swallow should have entered the Great Wilderness Star Region, but it has not been able to locate us yet."

"Next we need to get out of this zero-dimensional state, otherwise we won't be able to dock with the Sun Swallow normally."

"Then..." Su Xi asked, "Do you need me to do anything?"

"I can feel that you've encountered a difficult situation." Su Xi was now more sensitive to the subtle changes in his pheromones. It was when the two of them were naked facing each other that he no longer deliberately restrained his pheromones. All the emotional changes in the passionate and domineering alpha pheromones were revealed to her without any concealment.

She was also sensitive to the fleeting worry and bitterness after those extremely joyful aftertastes. It was like the worry left between the fingers after the tobacco burned out, or the lingering bitterness of the base of coffee. That taste was in the ups and downs of the passion between him and her, and it would never go away even in the sweetest and most joyful moments.

Su Xi was very concerned about the worries he hid in his heart and never told her.

"I think there must be a place where I can make a difference. Don't exclude me from our shared plight, okay?"

Fitzgerald's eyes flashed with surprise, and then he realized that she always seemed to be like this, and had no awareness of being an omega under the protection of his alpha. According to the gender division of ABO society, such an overly nosy omega was not pleasing, but he didn't mind.

Even looking at her serious eyes, whether it was her facial expression or her body language, she was always telling him how much she valued him and how nervous she was about to be. This made him feel extremely happy, so happy that it filled his entire heart and it felt like it was about to overflow.

It was a feeling of "the person I love also loves me." It was an experience I had never had before, either in my long life or in my awakened "genetic memory."

However, whether it is his self-esteem as an alpha or his own personality, he does not have the habit of telling others about his difficulties and asking for help, especially in front of an omega.

"Did I ask something weird?" Su Xi couldn't help but touch her face as he looked at her so hotly. She said modestly, "Although I don't understand a lot of things, I'm not completely useless. At least I can still communicate and drive the 'existence' outside."

She reached out her slender naked arms from the sleeping bag, pulled the red-haired alpha's head down, looked him in the eyes very seriously, and said, "Fitz, don't take this alone. I'll be worried. Let me know what's going on, okay?"

He smiled and kissed the tip of her nose, and soon realized that he could not refuse any of her requests. So he briefly analyzed the external difficulties he was facing.

"So," Su Xi's eyes were serious, "no matter how many times you calculate, after we leave this state of 'rest', we must go through a 'time gap' of at least 30,000 years? In order to successfully connect with the 'Sun Swallow' that comes to pick us up? And the time of the return trip is completely unpredictable before the connection?"

"Yes." He bent down and kissed her worried face, his expression was complicated and the emotions in his eyes were unclear.

"Then... let me give it a try? In the current dimension, with the help of His resonance, I can transmit the positioning signal."

"I promise!" Su Xi held his face and promised: "I will come back before I am completely assimilated!"

"My life span is not that long. Even if I wait for the external storm to subside in this state, I can't hold on for that long—"

"Stop talking!" Alph Xisu, who had been relatively calm, suddenly became furious like flaming coal. He hugged her tightly, opened his mouth and bit her naked shoulder, grinding it lightly with his sharp teeth, but he controlled himself rationally and carefully and did not hurt her.

This kind of instant out-of-control behavior is part of the beast's hunting instinct and part of the male gene's deep possessiveness. When the prey is in their mouths, they want to swallow it whole, but they are also very cautious and reluctant to finish it in one bite.

At first, Su Xi was so excited by his sudden action that she wanted to draw her sword and attack him, but she reacted in an instant, only because the fear of "fear of losing" hidden under the cold undercurrent also deeply affected her through the pheromones mixed between the two.

But if we think rationally, since he was able to transmit the positioning signal through the 'planetary consciousness' the first time, he must have tried many times afterwards. There must be some reason that prevented him from communicating.

As for the communication with the planetary consciousness, since she succeeded twice, the probability of success for the third time is also very high. But he didn't want her to use her ability again. Even in this situation, he was reluctant to let her take any more risks. Su Xi said that this mentality was really incomprehensible.

If all alphas in this interstellar age are like this, and if this is regarded as the mainstream value, then she will probably have to spend a lot of energy to adapt.

She had no intention of going against the values ​​of the interstellar society, but she had to reach agreement on basic concepts with the person in front of her who was so closely related to her.

After figuring it out, Su Xi took a deep breath, reached out and hugged him back tightly and passionately.

What else can you do? You can only stroke the hair until it is smooth.

Su Xi stroked his tense back and played with his half-long red hair with her fingers. While she soothed him slowly, she was thinking about what to say to achieve her goal.

But how to say it?

As Su Xi patted her and kissed her cheek, she felt the body close to her relax a little bit. Before she could think of what to say, she heard his sighing whisper in her ear: "I promise you, but don't try to leave me, otherwise--"

I don't know what I will do.

Su Xi blinked slightly in surprise, as if she could decide her own life limit and fate of life and death, but she did not intend to compete with this alpha who had fallen into an extremely childish state.

Su Xi responded softly: "I promise you that I will not leave you until the day I die."

At this moment, Su Xi obviously didn't understand that this was very different from the bisexual love she had experienced on Earth, the kind of "getting together if we're compatible and breaking up if we're not." In a gender relationship with a perfect AO match rate, the perfect match between the marker and the marked is not just pheromones.

Especially since she had his spiritual imprint at the very beginning, and was tainted with the flavor of his spiritual body at the beginning of her promotion... What does this deep bond mean to an alpha? For an alpha who has eliminated the death fragment in his genes and will be close to immortality as long as his mind does not collapse, what does such a bond mean?

She doesn't understand.

But now she was frightened by the despair and misery of the Alph in her embrace. Although he had no expression on his face and his breathing was only slightly rapid, she, after being marked and fused with the Alpha, was obviously more sensitive than anyone else and understood every subtle change in his emotions better...

So, what did she say? Su Xi endured his sudden kiss, which was as fierce as a bite, while she was vaguely thinking, was it the word "end of life"? But everyone will face this problem...

Su Xi didn't understand.

But Fitzgerald understood it very well. He knew that what he was pursuing was a short-lived firework.

How satisfied and happy he felt at the moment, how eternally cold and lonely he felt after the fireworks died down. But what could he do? After his racial genetic memory awakened, he was undoubtedly the last sample of the pinnacle of human genetic evolution. The racial responsibility engraved in his genetic design drove him to move forward alone. The moment he possessed it, it was already a violation of his duty and a violation of his extravagant desires.

In this respect, his situation is no different from that of the last Golden Queen of the Zerg.

The last of the Gerald bloodline, the pinnacle of evolution, the curse of eternal immortality.