Chapter 107 Promise Date
Aboard the Expedition. Bridge.
The conversation between Chris and Albert was coming to an end. These two people, who had completely different principles and social classes, obviously had differences over some points of view.
"Fitz is the pinnacle of the evolution of the 'Gerald Bloodline' so far. Every bit of his flesh and blood is being watched by countless forces. If he wasn't strong enough, he would have been chopped into countless pieces. It has been very difficult for us to come this far. The upcoming dispute, whether it is him or the interest groups you and I represent -"
“Can’t lose.”
"He's just an omega. What's wrong with what I said?"
"So how can you say I'm cold-blooded? You're such a hard-headed person, and you only make important decisions based on your emotions," Albert defended himself with almost blood-sucking patience. "If I don't consider everything, who else can?"
Chris took a deep breath and controlled the impulse to punch. She said impatiently: "Okay, then go on! Fitz asked me to trust you, so I want to hear your next 'consideration'. Go ahead!"
Albert was used to her behavior and continued with a sigh, "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 a breakthrough, the experience of wandering in time often destroys not only the body but also the mind first."
"How can an omega's mind last for such a long time? Didn't the first breeder in history who broke through the spiritual power level completely collapse after experiencing a 'time corridor'?"
Chris looked at the alpha who was trying to convince her to unify her thoughts by using both reason and facts, and he remained silent.
"What else is there to consider? Keep going!"
"The biggest possibility is that the Sun Swallow only took His Highness back, so we also have to consider," Albert groaned for a moment, "the unpredictable reaction of a crazy alpha after losing his omega."
"Although I believe that Fitz can handle his emotions well with his rationality. But just in case, I plan to ask Mentor Edelman to come after receiving the return signal..."
"Edelman?" Chris: "If it is true as you guessed, 6S all-around Edelman is strong enough, but I don't think that just as a mentor--"
"What about as the one-fifth blood donor?" Albert told all his thoughts. "Besides, Edelman has also come out of a similar situation. If he can't do it, I can only..."
"One-fifth?" Chris sneered. "You think too much about all aspects. Why don't you also count the other one-fifth of Queen Mary? After all, as a precious species, the current Queen has a spiritual power rating of 3S!"
"Oh! And His Majesty Anthony."
Albert's face turned pale. He knew Chris was mocking him. But he wanted to get angry but didn't want to confront her in public. Usually, he would be the one who was suppressed by violence and would be the most embarrassed.
Chris saw that he was frustrated, then laughed and patted the blond colleague on the shoulder. Before leaving, she said to him, "Just wait and see! I am particularly interested in that omega lady."
"If they come back, show them some respect!"
After waving her fist in protest, Chris turned around and strode away. She admitted that Albert's considerations were not unreasonable, but Chris, who had a rough mind, did not intend to engage in those complicated checks and balances and human calculations. She would only use fists to fight fists.
She thought, not without some rudeness, that it would be better to gather together all the elites that she had raised privately!
If... things really get that bad.
As he thought about it, Chris licked his lips excitedly. It had been a long time since he had a real fight with Fitz. The level gap was too big and it was as meaningless as instructing Seth.
For an alpha, there is no pain of loss that cannot be resolved with a fight.
Didn't Edelman, who rebelled and destroyed his glands after losing his omega, return to human society after crippling the alpha of an entire fleet? Moreover, after becoming Fitzgerald, the responsibilities he shouldered would not allow him to spend too much time ruminating on his loss.
Carrying and awakening genetic memory, hasn't he experienced enough 'loss'?
Whether as a subordinate or as a friend, she could only do her best to ensure that he got through the initial difficulties.
As long as you get over the initial 'loss', there will be nothing that cannot be relieved in the dilution of time.
Time is always the best medicine to heal everything.
*
However, for the Great Desolate Star Region located at the edge of the desolate universe, the unpredictable variable of "time" is a sharp dagger that decisively separates it from the entire smooth and normal cosmic carpet.
Due to the supernova explosion and the Zerg's interference, the entire Great Wilderness Star Region is now shrouded in a hazy nebula. The distorted space and time block any effective means of detection by humans.
The humans on the Expedition had decided to wait for three months and set up a space outpost. The main force returned to the First Fortress in batches after an interstellar month.
In the isolated Great Wilderness Star Region, the broken core of the planet BV32-II is still floating on the edge of the star region.
The inner core of the 'planetary consciousness body' is only 2,100 meters in diameter and is covered and hidden by the thick outer core. The vast and magnificent planetary energy inside is in a state of contraction, maintaining gravity to absorb stardust along the way to mold the outer layer of this reborn rocky planet. Su Xi, who is inside, has completely entered a state of assimilation with the 'planetary life body'.
Her human body sank into the hibernation chamber in the core module, being carefully watched over by another person.
In Su Xi's consciousness, the broken core that she assimilated was like a tiny speck of dust. In this closed and turbulent star field, it was hiding in the violent energy chaos. When it had a clear advantage, it would devour and absorb other weaker substances with all its strength. They were carefully playing a game of "life and death dodgeball".
This feeling made Su Xi's human consciousness, which was in a state of "assimilation", recall the three gambling games she played with Edelman at the Arale Space Station.
'Gerald's Attack', 'Howl of the Beasts' and 'Game of Gods'.
Regardless of the rules of each game, the movement of the sphere is controlled by the mind, and the force field is chaotic. The only difference is——
When she first fell into this interstellar era, she was so weak that she could only rely on the "weakness of human nature" to win the only victory. But now, she is the diamond-shaped "fate pointer" in the hands of the banker. She plucks the strings of the universe and directly confronts the energy of the same level in the state of "assimilation".
When the human factor does not exist, the only way to win is to have the strength to directly confront the hard ones, a little bit of mobility, and of course the mind to endure loneliness.
Is this life form in the form of a 'planet' lonely? She asked herself.
The vastness of the universe is both lonely and magnificent. In the long life span, this is a kind of loneliness worth enjoying. What we gain and pursue is a deep bond with the entire universe.
See planets leap, stars reborn, black holes devour everything, and galaxy-level collisions will cause the entire universe to be reborn again.
These secrets were revealed to her bit by bit in the whispered narration of the 'planetary life form'. And tempted her to go deeper and deeper in this state...
But--
She was almost completely assimilated, but suddenly she remembered the promise she had made to a human being, the blurry and swaying figure, the strong arms, the affectionate words...
Su Xi couldn't help but feel dazed.
The unconscious fluctuations caused by distraction were transmitted, and the magnetic field of the planet was shifted and trembled. The originally damaged BV32-II was passing through a gray nebula belt, and the planetary accretion disk that had just been formed was completely disintegrated because of the awakening of "Su Xi" as a human consciousness.
Su Xi sighed in regret, and felt an icy blue spiritual wave coming gently towards her. She hurriedly distracted herself and responded to the nervous inquiry of the alpha in the core cabin.
'I'm fine, I was just distracted for a moment.'
She stretched out a golden spiritual beam and rubbed it against him. Then, in reality, Su Xi opened her eyes slightly in the hibernation capsule and vaguely caught a glimpse of Fitzgerald's always resolute face, staring at her closely with an unclear expression. Su Xi moved her fingers slightly and smiled soothingly.
She remembered that she had made a promise to that man. She would not leave him, would not abandon him, and she promised that this would last until the end of her life.
Before she could fully smile, the environment outside the planet changed, and Su Xi's human consciousness was once again pulled into the depths of the planet's consciousness.
Due to the slight adjustment of the planet's magnetic poles just now, they deviated from the optimal route. Under the influence of the chaotic gravitational storm in the star field, when they passed through the area of intense energy collision, the spherical mass that had just been replenished was completely torn and plundered when passing through the orbit of a massive planet.
If the "planetary consciousness" had not deliberately manipulated and avoided it in the assimilated state, it would probably have been captured by the massive planet in the perihelion orbit and become its vassal satellite.
For Su Xi, who was immersed in the planetary consciousness and in a semi-assimilated state at this moment, it was a very wonderful experience.
Driving a huge mass of stellar matter in such chaos seems to be no different from racing cars and colliding with each other at high speed?
The brown-haired girl in the hibernation capsule pulled up a slight smile, but it was extremely dazzling in Fitzgerald's eyes. He turned around and glanced at the image of the simultaneous monitoring of outer space on the light screen.
He stroked the transparent cover to cover her facial features. He knew that her five senses as a human were still open. The red-haired alpha's magnetic voice narrated in a low voice:
'Re-correct the route now and recalculate the docking point with the Sun Tun. I will synchronize the frequency with you in two minutes.'
'Su Xi, hold on a little longer.'
Fitzgerald stared at the scene of the planet's outer shell peeling off in the light curtain with great pity, even though Su Xi sent him a soothing text message through the mental interface of the hibernation module.
'Planets don't feel pain, it's fine. I don't feel any pain.'
The red-haired alpha pursed her lips in pain. If she really didn't notice anything, why would she deliberately block the direct entry of his mental power?
Originally in Fitzgerald's plan, after Su Xi successfully communicated with the planetary life form and established signal contact with the Sun Devourer, he advocated using all the energy to directly break through the turbulent energy chaos and directly connect to the Sun Devourer.
This plan is risky, but it does not require Su Xi to use her abilities. In Fitzgerald's original thinking, even after such a rough connection, with the energy maintenance of the planetary consciousness and the power of the escape capsule, Su Xi's chance of survival is the greatest.
As for himself? He erased the information about his own survival probability from the intelligence computer report.
Su Xi disagreed. She was sharp and exposed his intention to whitewash the situation. During the stalemate, Su Xi hugged him softly and whispered, "Fitz, I also have the right to decide my life or death."
The tall figure stiffened for a moment, then he gave in. He saw in her eyes what she had not yet said.
Obviously, as the heir to the empire, Fitzgerald, who was used to having his word be law and had never accepted any rebuttal when commanding the armies, had never encountered such doubts and difficulties.
No matter how angry he was with her and how cold he was to her, he still couldn't beat her. In the end, Su Xi proudly took the most realistic report from the intelligent computer. The optimal result obtained after countless deductions was indeed the plan with the highest survival rate of the group only if Su Xi participated.
This led to the current situation. He was responsible for calculating and planning the route, receiving the signal from the Sun Tun, and calculating the best time to connect with the Sun Tun.
Su Xi is responsible for entering a state of assimilation with the planet at the most critical moment, and adjusting the planet's orbit very minutely and precisely through the release of magnetic poles and energy.
And when necessary, the energy of the 'planetary life form' can be used to offset various unexpected disturbances in time and space.
According to the calculation of the intelligent computer, due to the chaotic situation in the Great Wilderness Star Region, the timing of the connection has always been a fluctuating variable that makes people headache, and the value will continue to change with the passage of time.
That's why the situation just happened. If there was any deviation, Fitzgerald would have replanned and recalculated.
In this plan that Su Xi insisted on, the current survival probabilities of her, him, and 'Him' were completely tied together.
*
When the couple had their quarrel, Su Xi, as the one with higher emotional intelligence, jumped onto the tall alpha and gave him various kinds of delicate comforts, until she wasted a lot of time and energy, and until she completely comforted the bad-tempered alpha, Su Xi officially entered a state of resonance with the "planetary life form".
And when the planet's core was 'deliberately driven', they left the zero-dimensional state and followed the planet to drift in the Great Desolate Star Region, experiencing the chaos of time in this chaotic star region together.
The quantum clock ticks, and although the time in the core capsule is less affected by the outside world in the planet's energy body, it maintains a relatively normal flow of time. However, outside the planet's core, there is a "fast time zone" and a "slow time zone" that bumps and wanders.
It was not until they had passed through the chaotic and intense gravitational field and the mass accumulated by the planets along the way was almost stripped away again that their luck completely changed for the better.
The broken core of the planet drifted again through a relatively stable area. The gravity of its rotation automatically absorbed the surrounding stardust to make up for the lost mass. Gradually, the broken core of the planet was filled into an elliptical sphere with a diameter of about 8,000 kilometers. This was finally much better looking than the shape of half a watermelon at the beginning.
But during this floating and wandering process, the core of the planet was basically repaired, but the outer three thousand interstellar years passed in the blink of an eye.
Fortunately, deep inside this complementary elliptical rocky planet, in the small core module isolated by magnificent energy, the flow of time is relatively normal. But even so, Su Xi and his team waited for fifty-nine days before they were able to receive the positioning signal that the Sun-Swallow was sending everywhere in the chaos of time and space.
At this moment, the supernova explosion in the Great Wilderness Star Region has entered a stable period. The core of the planet BV32-II hiding at the edge of the star region has been completed and can enter the next short space-time jump.
*
In the core cabin.
The red-haired alpha silently supplemented the navigation log, manually marking the docking points one after another that were getting closer and closer to the Sun Swallow.
The faint light flickering from the instrument outlined his resolute profile.
'Beep - the core module's energy consumption is approaching the warning line, and the aging rate of the food and drinking water circulation system is 30%. Please pay attention to the efficient use of energy.'
The AI computer sounded a cold reminder, echoing hollowly in the core cabin.
The inner cabin was trapped in low-energy operation. Apart from the faint light of the sleeping cabin, there was only the residual light of the magnificent energy of the "planetary consciousness" outside the cabin. But he only turned on the state when she woke up, and most of the time he was alone in the darkness.
He removed the mental interface that connected to the inner cabin and indirectly confirmed that she was in good condition. They had just passed a group of rapidly rotating meteorite zones, and the rock surface that had just been restored in the planet's core was destroyed again.
Fitzgerald frowned. He knew that for her in the assimilated state, everything the planet was wandering and enduring was exactly what she could feel.
'The part that requires your participation has been completed. When will you wake up?'
His slender fingers lightly brushed over the outline of the sleep capsule. He slowly put his head against the transparent capsule cover, staring at his lover who was still sleeping and occasionally smiling.
This dodgeball game in the chaos of time and space. In the beginning, Su Xi needed to enter the "assimilation" state more frequently, and she always woke up very quickly, the shortest was about six hours, and the longest was no more than three days.
However, as the frequency of entry decreased in the later stages, the time of assimilation became longer and longer, and an inexplicable shadow lingered in Fitzgerald's heart.
This time, she has been in planetary 'assimilation' for almost ten days.
After traveling through countless chaotic flows of time, he found that he could not endure another hour, so he concentrated his mind and forced his way into her world of consciousness.
Fortunately, she continued to trust him and opened her most private spiritual entrance to him.
'When will you wake up?'
He closed his eyes and explored gently. Her mental power was more solid and powerful than the last time he entered, which made him feel a little more assured and allowed him to increase the force of the touch.
However, in her sea of consciousness, a human figure formed by golden light happily flew towards him.
'Fitz! Fitz! Isn't it good for us to just exist like this?'
During the assimilation process, Su Xi became more and more familiar with the state of assimilation. This time, Su Xi was even too lazy to simulate the human form. The gorgeous golden light was flowing, but the red-haired alpha was firmly maintaining the human form. His indifferent eyes were stern, but deep in his eyes was the fear of losing that he didn't want her to discover.
'No, remember what you promised me.'
The tone was cold and stiff.
But Su Xi was not angry. In her "absolute realm", Fitzgerald could not hide his true emotions. So the gorgeous golden light slowly stopped its joyous fluctuations, and very slowly, the gorgeous golden light gradually returned to its familiar appearance before his eyes.
'sorry.'
She lowered her head and spoke softly. Apparently, after regaining consciousness as a 'human', she completely remembered what promises she had made.
'The hibernation chamber that keeps your body in place is only valid for one thousand years. After several adjustments, I think it can be extended to three thousand years, but it is still far from enough for our next journey.'
"I have activated the remaining 'accelerator ring' material to accelerate the formation of the fifth orbital gas giant planet. In our timeline, large-scale gravitational tides will occur in less than 24 hours."
'Next, we can wait for the long taxiing process and automatically connect with the Sun Swallow.'
"Hmm... I understand."
Su Xi took the initiative to hug him, and then felt his mood ease.
'I know,' she nuzzled him, 'this is the last state of assimilation.'
She kept saying, 'Just like last time, you tell me the coordinates, I adjust the magnetic pole direction, and then we can rub against each other's gravity -'
Just like——
Su Xi suddenly smiled, she recalled the distant memories, just like when she was a child playing the game of "floating on the water" on the turbulent river surface. As long as she skillfully grasped and adjusted the angle of a pebble, she could fly to a far place by rubbing on the water surface.
When I was a human, I looked up at the starry sky and felt the vastness of the universe. But during the journey of assimilating with the "planetary consciousness", I traveled freely in the interstellar space in the state of planetary consciousness, and I felt that the stars were more brilliant. My original perspective and senses as a human were indeed too narrow...
Such a gap in feeling, the moment she returned to her body, Su Xi occasionally asked herself, why? Maybe it was the "promise", or maybe it was the indescribable look she faced every time she woke up. The hot intensity of the tight embrace, and the lonely back that made her heart palpitate when she occasionally looked back.
However, Fitzgerald noticed that the word "opposite" she said often refers to "peers" in the interstellar language. This subtle change made his aura even more gloomy and cold.
Su Xi noticed sharply that in her sea of consciousness, all the thoughts of this alpha were very clearly displayed in her perception, not to mention that he did not deliberately restrain his unhappiness.
Su Xi blinked, hooked his little finger, then intertwined her five fingers and placed her hand completely in his palm, looking up and smiling.
Then she pulled out her childhood memories from the depths of her memory and showed them to him. On the turbulent river, Su Xi, wearing a pigtail, was playing the game of "floating on the water".
This action gradually improved the mood of the alpha opposite. Fitzgerald stroked her human-shaped outline and whispered: "Wake up."
'I miss you.'
"Okay, I'll listen to you." She agreed crisply, tiptoeing and giving him a soft kiss on the face.
"According to your plan, when we pass by the gas planet in the fifth planetary belt, I will complete the last 0.5 degree magnetic pole adjustment and completely end this state of assimilation with the planet, and then..."
Fitzgerald lowered his eyes and looked at the omega in front of him who was smiling at him very sweetly. She said:
'I'll always be with you.'
Before he could answer, Su Xi's eyes were blank, and she sensed that the core of the planet she was driving had entered the gravitational range of the fifth planetary belt——
'He' is about to pass by a gas planet that is nearly 6,300 times larger than 'himself', and a game between gravity and tidal forces is about to begin.
Su Xi looked back and smiled, then gently pushed him out of her mind.
Su Xi turned around and immersed herself in the deepest part of the 'planetary consciousness'. In this duel with a mass difference of more than 6,300 times, she couldn't lose!
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