Chapter 1: The Dark Songstress
In the dim environment, the gemstone lamp on the top swayed, the light purple and azure light beams interlaced back and forth, and the bass drum began to beat.
In the quiet room, the drum beats, one after another, with an unchanging rhythm, struck into the hearts of every audience in this dim environment. The clear sound, even in such a dark environment, can still make people "see" the trembling eardrum, so clear and intoxicated.
This is an underground concert hall, with seventy or eighty audiences gathered in the small space. They stood in this dim and fluorescent environment, enthusiastically and restrained, watching the black songstress on the stage who was the only one to be noticed by the light.
The slanted light can only illuminate half of the girl's face. She has ice-blue eyes, long black hair, and pale skin like snow. Half of her body is in the light, and most of it is immersed in the shadows. But even so, this slender and charming figure still makes people fall in love with it.
The light pink lips like cherry blossoms opened slightly, and a slightly cold voice slowly sounded in the drum beats. Even if you close your eyes, you can still feel that this voice penetrates time and distance and reaches the deepest part of your soul.
It seems that every cell is swimming in this music and rhythm, and all the worries and restlessness in the world are gone, entering a distant, empty and cold world.
There is no passion in the song, no persuasion, and no comfort. There is only endless emptiness and remoteness, just like the insignificance and loss seen when looking up at the starry sky after stripping away all the trivial emotions of being a mortal.
The music does not stop. As the slender fingers pluck the strings, after a long period of emptiness, a lively and life-filled rhythm slowly sounded, so slow and so grand that the audience present could not help but cry.
Slowly, the music stopped, the picture darkened, and everything froze.
The finger that was swiping the screen stopped.
"Which big singer's concert is this? It seems to have a unique style." A slightly fresh voice came from the side.
You looked up, and the blonde girl with double horns beside you asked you. She was wearing a white dress with small flowers, and seven or eight black lines formed a grid on the hem like ink splashes, and the middle was filled with azure and bright pink. The contrast of contrasting colors made the dress look bright and lively.
"I accidentally found it on the Star Domain Network recently, and I don't know the details."
"Is that so? I also want to know who it is." She answered with a little regret, and the black curved horns in her hair also rose up, crossing a few strands of golden hair.
"Are you curious about my race?" As if she saw the curiosity in your eyes, the girl grinned and introduced herself skillfully.
"I was born in Jivilia in the northern star field of the Federation. I have the blood of the orc subspecies of the Horned Tribe. Now I come to the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Field for exchange study."
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"You ask me why I come here? Although the economy of the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Field is not very good, it also has a lot of history. I watched a lot of documentaries and TV dramas when I was a child, so I am very curious about this place and want to come here to see it. So this time I asked my family to agree to a two-year exchange study."
Looking at this girl of the same age who still has innocence and yearning, you can't bear to break her beautiful imagination. You can only nod slightly and then remain silent.
Outside the round window, a huge blue planet slowly approaches, chasing the eternally burning star. A golden light slowly rises on the distant horizon, and then illuminates this boundless and vast land.
Facing this endless blue and snow-white, the spacecraft slowly sinks into the atmosphere, and a shaking and trembling comes from the soles of the feet and the seat.
"The plane is entering the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region-B2-7621 (Emerald Skirt). Due to the impact of the planet's outer atmosphere, the plane will shake for a while. Please stay in your seats, open the safety arm, and don't walk around at will." The mechanically synthesized female voice echoed in the spacecraft. The hemispherical robots magnetically attached to the floor patrolled the middle aisle to check whether the passengers were all sitting in their seats or whether they needed help.
"I want a cup of yellow maple and cranberry juice." The girl from the Oxhorn tribe next to her was not nervous about the shaking of the plane. Instead, she waved to the robot passing by and made her request.
"Please wait." The hemispherical robot stopped the rollers, and a smiley face made of simple characters appeared on the black panel. Then it opened the hatch on its chest, took out a cup of juice that was still cold, and after inserting a straw, the robot handed the juice to the girl from the Oxhorn tribe next to it.
"Thank you~"
"It is our honor to serve humanity." The robot responded with a character expression, and then continued to move forward.
"Very cute little guys, don't you think?" The girl bit the straw lightly, and the ice cubes and orange-yellow liquid in the cup collided with each other, emitting a faint fluorescence.
She looked at the world outside the round window. The originally dark and endless starry sky outside the window was gradually occupied by the sea blue and white clouds on the planet, becoming brighter and brighter.
The Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region, the edge star region in the southern part of the Federation, contains three star systems, two large and one small. In the early years, it provided the Federation with many urgently needed industrial products, which greatly supported the front line during the Fifty Years Campaign.
Among them, the R3H412 Four-Leaf Crystal was an essential component for the axis main gun of the main battleship "Sigh Dragon" of the Federation at that time. Because the production process requires a large amount of liquid water and rare minerals, only a few areas can produce it. The Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region was located in a safe rear and happened to be one of the origins of the crystal. Therefore, it was greatly valued by the Federation at that time. Countless citizens immigrated here under the policy of the Federation, and various industrial groups also built supporting facilities here, which made the star region develop rapidly, and even finally used "Four-Leaf Crystal" as the code name of the star region.
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However, these are all past events hundreds of years ago.
Today's Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region is just a small star region on the edge of the Federation. The economy is lagging behind, the environment and facilities are backward, the pollution generated by industry has destroyed the environment of the planets inhabited in the star region, acid rain is continuous, and the governance funds are a bottomless pit that can never be filled.
In the early years, there were still people in the Federation who called for the protection and improvement of the environment of the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region, because this was the "hero" star region of the Federation and contributed to the Federation's most difficult period. However, with the passing of generations, the environment in the star region has never been completely and effectively solved. The large groups that once evacuated the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region have gradually become the "rust belt" in the Federation, a place that no one cares about and is backward and remote.
Nowadays, it is difficult to see news about the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region on the star network in the Federation. Perhaps only the locals are still obsessed with that distant and glorious era.
After entering the galaxy universe, although humans once had a glorious and shining era, just like the constant performance in history, all the light will eventually dim.
Along with the struggle for interests, all kinds of complicated and confusing concepts are flooding the information network. People are manic and numb. There is no corner that can escape the scouring and baptism of the times, and there is no quiet and innocence that is not tainted.
This is a sad world, a world that will slowly die out.
Looking at the world outside the window, you are in a daze until the spaceship slowly stabilizes, and the lights inside slowly light up, and the reflection on the window slowly reflects your face.
Soft gray hair, black pupils, simple and common student uniforms, and a slightly cute wide black bow behind the head.
If there is an analytical super-advanced AI that compares this face with the enchanting black singer on the screen before, it will be found that the two have many similarities and consistency in details, but the girl's common hair color and clothes have some special talents that greatly reduce her presence, making people around her unconsciously ignore her, just like an ordinary high school student seen on the street.
"By the way, I haven't asked your name yet?" Looking at the plane about to land, the girl next to her finally remembered something.
"Tilan, Heshia Tilan."
A long whistle cut through the atmosphere, accompanied by vibrations and slightly harsh brake sounds. The spaceship slowly landed on the runway and finally stopped completely. The safety arms on the seats in the cabin were deflated, then lifted and opened. The passengers talked busily, then stood up from their seats and walked towards the exit.
The top screen in the cabin also slowly changed, projecting the rare and clear blue sky. The white numbers on the side jumped, showing the current time.
[July 10, 1252 of the Sixth Era, Rose Federation-Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region-B2-7621 (Emerald Skirt), 2:41:54 p.m.]
(End of this chapter)
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