The desire to go home reached its peak. Shi Niansheng sat on the meteorite with his hands on his chin, staring at a certain spot in a trance. His soft voice was filled with loss. "...I miss my dad."
[No.] Xulin placed his hands under Shi Nian's armpits, lifted him up easily, and held him between his arms. With a slight tap of his foot, he floated a long distance away. [It's only been a few hours, and you're thinking about your dad so soon. It's like I'm abusing you.]
Shi Nian raised his lowered head and looked at him accusingly. It couldn't be said that he was abused. At most, he was treated as space junk.
Xulin was very thick-skinned. He remained calm under Shi Nian's resentful gaze and took him around with him. "It's just that the starship is gone. It's not a big deal. We can go hiking."
At this time, he thought: "..."
It seems that this time I am really going to become cosmic garbage.
Xulin searched for the nearby jump point according to his only remaining memory. When he passed the meteorite for the third time, Shi Nian was convinced that Xulin might really be old.
Shi Nian was depressed for several hours, his little head drooping listlessly, without saying a word, and his anger was expressed quietly.
Xulin noticed the little guy was getting a little upset and reflected on it. He was indeed too impulsive to destroy the starship directly. He could only whisper an apology to Shi Nian, "Xiao Niannian, don't be angry. I promise, I will never let you go hungry or cold, okay?"
Shi Niancai didn't believe him and glanced at the desolate sea of stars around him. "Where can we find a place to stay? There's nowhere to find food here."
Xulin looked embarrassed. He held Shi Nian like a baby, rubbing his cheeks. "Don't be negative. I'm sure I can find a way."
Shi Nian raised his eyelids and looked at him without hope, sighed, and rested his chin on his shoulder. He said nothing, but it seemed as if he had said everything.
Xulin smiled awkwardly and passed the meteorite area for the fourth time while holding Shi Nian.
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He couldn't help himself and put his hand on his earring. [We're lost. I'd better call my dad...]
Xulin quickly grasped his hand, his expression on the verge of tears. "Xiao Niannian, you and I have only been gone for a few hours. If your father and the others knew we got lost in such a short time, they would definitely think I was even more unreliable."
Shi Nian pursed her lips and said sincerely, "But teacher, you are really unreliable."
Xulin rubbed his little face aggrievedly, "Old people have to respect themselves too, little Niannian, please~"
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Alas, what else can I do?
Shi Nian resigned himself to his fate and let go, not asking Shi Yiyu for help. He comforted himself that at most life would be a little harder, but it was not a big problem.
This idea was overturned the next day. Shi Nian followed Xu Lin and sneaked into the jump point to the second galaxy. He was tired and thirsty, so he lay down on the meteorite beside him, and became autistic like a pool of jelly, refusing to float away no matter what.
Xulin, unscientifically maintaining a spirited state, poked Shi Shi and thought, "I'll teach you a method to avoid hunger and cold. Do you want to learn?"
Shi Nian turned his head and blinked.
Xulin pulled him up, smiled mysteriously, and snapped his fingers.
Under Shi Nian's shocked gaze, his body instantly transformed into small particles that sparkled with subtle light, spreading out in this space. The deep and light blue colors formed stunning stardust.
Shi Nianqing couldn't help but raise his hand to touch it. When his slender white fingers touched the stardust particles, he felt a slight electric sting, and he subconsciously curled his fingers.
After Shi Nian saw this, the stardust condensed into Xu Lin's body. Xu Lin sat down next to Shi Nian. [This form won't make you hungry or cold. Want to try it?]
At this moment, his heartbeat quickened, and he nodded in agreement without even thinking, "Hmm, what should we do?"
Xulin: [Using mental power to decompose myself.]
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How does it sound similar to murder and dismemberment?
Xulin taught Time Concept step by step. The method he taught seemed tantamount to suicide based on Time Concept's previous understanding. However, since the beginning of this damn interstellar study tour, everything was challenging his common sense.
Shi Nian listened to Xu Lin's teachings and slowly dispersed his mental power.
Hands and feet began to disperse into small particles as the mental power spread, floating around. At that time, the mind lost control of various parts of the body, but consciousness became clearer and clearer, and the sight expanded infinitely.
This was a very novel feeling. He did not feel any rejection at the time. Instead, floating in the universe in this form made him feel more comfortable because all his sensory systems disappeared.
The stardust of time and thought was much smaller than Xulin's, like a delicate ball of light. He was confused by the changes in his body: [Do androids still have this ability?]
Xulin transformed into a larger ball of light, leading Time Thoughts forward. [No, it's probably just our race's natural talent.]
Shi? Thought: [Then what are we...? ]
"I don't know either. I only know that the first tower master was abducted from the universe by the founding emperor." Xulin told Shi Nian the past as if he were telling a story. "The emperor at that time was the sole ruler of the empire. He spent manpower and material resources to build the Tower of Apsu and imprisoned the first tower master inside."
The Tower of Apsu was originally a prison for the king's spoils of war.
Shi Nian had never heard of this past event, and it was different from what he had learned. [But history books say that Emperor Belit was a great king.]
Even the full name of the empire was the Belit Empire.
Xu Lin's light ball squeezed together and thought, "What good can a king have, especially one so powerful and utterly righteous, a disgusting thing."
The small ball of light of time and thought flickered slightly. [So what happened to the first tower master? ]
[Dead.] Xulin said calmly, [Bellit thought he could keep the universe by moving it to the Apsu Tower, but reality gave him a slap in the face. The first tower master used his own genes to create a half-bionic human offspring, and the first thing the child did when it grew up was kill him.]
Later, Belit divided the administrative, military, and legislative powers of the empire among his family members. He then committed suicide in the fuel chamber beneath the Tower of Apsu, transforming his entire spiritual energy into fuel for Apsu.
Shi Nian was silent for a long time. He remembered that there was a sea of stars on each floor of the Apsu Tower. His mind unconsciously sketched out the invincible king who painstakingly arranged each floor of the Apsu Tower.
He clumsily wanted to move the entire universe, eager to please the trophy that he had imprisoned in the tower.
At that moment, I felt a sense of inexplicable sadness. [Emperor Belit...did he like the first Tower Master?]
Xulin didn't say anything definite, but casually said, "Maybe, who knows."
Two balls of light, one large and one small, floated freely in the universe. If they were exposed in the universe in human form, Shi Nian and Xu Lin would need to avoid other starships to conceal their own uniqueness.
But this type of light cluster can pretend to be a naturally formed nebula in the universe, and as long as it moves slower, people won't notice anything unusual.
Shi Nian and Xu Lin were like two cosmic street urchins. When no one else was around, they would wander around like crazy. When someone was around, they would act like nebulae and then run away when the time was right.
Shi Yiyu and Yu Luhan often sent messages to Shi Nian asking how he was doing. Every time Shi Nian did this, he would switch into human form and tearfully type: "I'm doing fine. Don't worry. Teacher Xulin takes good care of me."
Shi Yiyu: [That's good.]
Xulin really did not lie to Shi Nian. As long as he had a bite of food to eat, he would never take a bite less from Shi Nian. So they starved together and had no food to eat.
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Six years later
Inside a civilian starship in a fringe galaxy, a bored child staring out the window accidentally caught a glimpse of a large ball of light leading a small ball of light jumping up and down.
She opened her mouth in surprise, tugged at her mother, and pointed out the window, "Mom, there are two moving nebulae over there."
The long journey had exhausted the woman. She glanced outside, only to see the usual galaxy. She held the child in her arms and patted her head, "Baby, the nebula is just thin gas and dust; it won't move. If you're tired, just take a nap in your arms."
The child held the doll and looked again, but the two nebulae had disappeared.
She leaned obediently in the woman's arms, mumbling, "Well, I'm sleepy, and my eyes are almost hurting."
Not far away, behind the meteorite, a small ball of light huddled up against the stone wall, trembling slightly. It watched the starship slowly leave before floating out and landing on Alpha's shoulder.
Xulin casually transformed into human form, his slender finger pointing at the small ball of light. "This starship may not return to Plante, so there's not much point in us following it."
The small ball of light angrily bumped his chin, and in a clear, youthful voice, its tone tinged with despair, "So what do we do now? We agreed to return in three or four years, and now it's already the fifth, almost the sixth, and we're still in the fringe system..."
Shi Nian and Xu Lin had a lot of fun in the past few years. Whenever they saw a jump point, they would rush in. As a result, in the fourth year, they suddenly found themselves in the edge of the galaxy, hundreds of billions of light years away from the first galaxy.
It is easy to come but difficult to go back. Shi Nian and Xu Lin tried to follow the passing starship back to the first galaxy, but every time they went back and forth between the edge galaxy and the eighth galaxy.
The most important thing is that Shi Nian's body has basically grown into that of a teenager. The clothes he brought with him are too small. Now he has nothing to wear and is shyly unwilling to switch back to human form.
Xu Lin sighed, finally gaining self-awareness. "Let's wait and see for a few more days. If all else fails, ask your father to send someone over. But it'll take several weeks to get from the First Galaxy to the Outer Galaxy."
Seeing Shi Mina, who had no clothes and could only use the form of a small ball of light, Xulin rarely blamed himself: [Alas... You really suffered by following me.]
It was obvious that five years ago, Nian was still a pampered young master on Plant Star, but in just a few years, he had become like a refugee after following him.
At that moment, I felt like tears welled up in my eyes. [Have you finally realized this?]
If he ran to Shi Yiyu like this, the other party probably wouldn't recognize that this was his own little Omega.
Xulin touched his nose guiltily.
Suddenly, a wave of air came, and Shi Nian turned his body to look. Three towering giant interstellar aircraft carriers slowly emerged from the void with powerful momentum, and countless small combat starships lingered around them.
Xulin instantly transformed into a nebula and hid to the side with the small ball of light. He said with joy, "It's the main fleet of the military. We can follow them back."
But the next second, two other teams appeared out of nowhere and started fighting fiercely in front of the interstellar aircraft carrier.
A starship rose from the interstellar aircraft carrier and rushed to the center of the battle. Then each side of the fight sent out a starship to follow the Empire's starship and land on the interstellar aircraft carrier.
Time thought stealthily stuck to the outer barrier glass of the interstellar mothership. When it saw the two Omega and Alpha in military uniforms leading the group, its body flickered with excitement. "Brother! Brother Yuan!"
His wandering life is finally coming to an end!
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