Chapter 96 The Tree of Life

"The river of souls has arrived." Ziyao led the crowd to walk along the river for a while, until he came to an old man with white hair and chicken skin.

"Elder You." Zi Yao respectfully bowed to the old man.

"Your Highness the Prince." The old man returned a salute, looking warily at the two unfamiliar faces in front of him.

Aaron was taken aback by the old man's address to Zi Key. Although he had already noticed that this young man was an extraordinary person, he never expected that he would be a descendant of the royal family.

"We are here for the test of the river of souls." Colin stepped forward and said politely.

Elder You looked at the two outsiders with some disdain, but after his eyes touched Aaron's pendant, he showed an expression of surprise that he couldn't hide.

"This is..." Elder You swallowed back the words that came to his lips amidst Zi Key's heavy coughing.

"It's the two of you who are being tested?" He immediately changed the subject awkwardly.

"The three of us." Zi Key replied calmly.

"Are you going to take part in the test too?" Elder You was a little surprised, and then nodded as if remembering something: "Ah, you are already an adult, it would be better to accept the test of the River of Soul earlier."

As he spoke, he raised the scepter in his hand and tapped it on the ground, muttering mysterious spells silently in his mouth.Several warriors circled around the three people who participated in the test and danced in a weird way, as if they were performing some ancient ritual.

"The river of souls...my belonging...please test the souls of the descendants..." Elder You's chanting ended: "It's time to start!"

He used his fingers to touch the foreheads of the three people, and Ziyao was the first to step into the river of souls.

Aaron watched Ziyao go straight into the depths of the river of souls, and he stood in the torrent of radiance, letting them wash over his body.Many light blue light clusters stagnated around him, circling him round after round, and surrounded him in the middle after a while.

"How do you pass the test?" Aaron asked, and Zi Key's personal participation reassured him.

"The River of Soul will give you the answer." Elder You said, pointing in the direction of Purple Key.

The blue light around him had gradually dissipated, and Zi Key stood there with tears streaming down his face.

"Are you okay?" Aaron asked the situation of Purple Key with concern on the shore.

The other party didn't speak, just shook his head silently.As if he had grown up many years in an instant, there was a hint of maturity and indifference in his eyes that did not match his age.

Ziyao stood in the river of souls and sorted out his mood for a while, then wiped away his tears and returned to the shore along the original path.Elder You and the surrounding warriors knelt down on one knee, and sincerely congratulated another person who passed the test of the river of souls.

"I'll go first." Colin said as he jumped into the river first.

Although Ziyao successfully passed the test of the river of souls in front of them, no one knows whether the river of souls will treat them equally to foreigners.In order to ensure Aaron's safety, Colin decided to go ahead and explore the depth of this river of souls.

The moment he stepped into the river of souls, Colin's eyes darkened, and the people and scenery on the bank disappeared in place. Only a ray of light led him forward until he came to the middle of the river.

"Who are you?" The first tortured voice sounded from his ear.

"I'm Colin Chris." He didn't move his lips, but the answer sounded automatically in his heart.

"What do you want?" The voice of the second torture was deafening like a drum.

"What do I want?" Colin froze for a moment.After hesitating for only a second, his eyes blurred.The whole person kept falling until his thinking was completely in chaos.

...

In October 273, the first year of Interstellar, in the classroom of Alliance First Military Academy, Mundra looked at the scene in front of him in a daze.It has been a full year since the First Military Academy of the Alliance was formally established.However, I don't know why, sitting in the classroom, I seem to be very strange to the teachers and classmates in front of me.

"Students! This is the territory of our alliance!" The blue-skinned instructor turned on the old-fashioned projection screen and circled a small star map on it. This star map includes the central area and the Hilda star.A small star field.

"Next, I'll invite a few students to come up and plan to see where our alliance's troops should be deployed."

The students were called to the podium one by one, and some of them arranged the army in the central area.Some deployed their troops around the perimeter of the territory, while others deployed their troops on the periphery of the alliance.

"Mundra, can you come up and arrange to have a look?" The teacher finally found Mundra who was in a daze in the corner.

Mundella, who was called suddenly, frowned and walked up to the podium, and took the pen from the previous classmate.He looked around, and always felt that there seemed to be something missing in this star map.The scope of the alliance should be larger, here and there... The signature pen in his hand fell far outside the star map.He drew a large circle freely and freely, and didn't stop until the entire marginal galaxy was enclosed in the star map: "Here is the future territory of the alliance, and I want to deploy the army around this area."

"Hahaha..." The students laughed from all directions.

"Papa papa!" On the contrary, the instructor suddenly stood up and applauded: "Mundra, you are very ambitious! Although the current territory of our alliance is still small, the power of human beings is unlimited. Hundreds of years ago, weFlew out of the small Milky Way and seeded human civilization into the current star field. I believe that in the near future, as the highest life in the universe, we will be able to control the entire universe and let more higher life cooperate with us.Let’s build a better future together.”

"Yes, instructor!" Mundra gave a military salute.An impassioned emotion overflowed his chest.To conquer!Own more territories!Humanity is sure to win!At the same time, another faint melancholy, a distaste for killing and worries about the future of the alliance, poured cold water on their heads like a pot of cold water.Two extreme thoughts split in his mind, as if they were going to tear the whole person in half.

No!I am not wrong!Everything I do is for humanity!Headache!I really want to breathe!

Under the surprised eyes of everyone, Mundra hugged his head and ran to the door of the classroom.Forcefully opened the closed classroom door...

In June of the first year of Interstellar, two hundred and eighty-five years, in the council hall.The main station faction represented by Mundra and the anti-war faction represented by the parliament are in a heated debate!

"War brings us nothing but death and hatred. We can completely communicate with higher life forms in other star domains and jointly develop the entire interstellar world."

"You have been communicating for hundreds of years! But you still get nothing!"

"In the past few hundred years, our population has tripled. However, the territory of the alliance has only expanded by a few hundred stars!" Mundra said impassionedly: "The resources on the existing alliance map are completely unable to satisfy everyone.The needs of citizens. Outward expansion is an inevitable trend of human beings. When you vested interests live in your own luxury villas and enjoy high-end services, there are union citizens on the edge of our territory who have to work all day for a bite of foodThirteen hours."

"Forget it, Mundra! Careerists always have various excuses to encourage people to die, and then profit themselves. You and I both know that it is not peace that brings poverty, but discrimination."

"Since we can't convince anyone," Mundella said, "use the voting mechanism, a referendum. Let the people decide for themselves and see which side is more supportive of going to war or maintaining the status quo!"

...

Three days later, the referendum for the entire alliance ended, and Mundella won the diplomatic discourse of the entire alliance in a landslide victory.The low-level citizens of the alliance have been oppressed for too long, and they urgently need a change, a chance for them to change their destiny.Even if this opportunity is based on the cost of slaughtering other higher life forms...

In July 323, the first year of Interstellar, on the desolate planet, there was dust and green blood all over the ground, and the corpses of Carlo star people who died tragically were everywhere.The young Kaluo star was prostrate on the ground, while Mundra was driving the mech, raised his sword and landed, and the other party lost his life before he could whimper.Mundra slowly pulled the blade out of the young corpse.

"Marshal! Congratulations on conquering another star field!" A team of mechas drove up in the distance, and a blue-skinned officer walked out of the mechas: "We have wiped out all the higher life forms in the currently known star field.In the future, no one will be an enemy of human beings in the entire star field."

Victory!Humanity has finally conquered the entire universe!Mundra, who was over seventy years old, looked blankly at the corpses of the Carlos who died under his sword.He looked down at the current territory of the league, and the dream of his youth had already come true.But why is his heart still not half happy?

...

In December 350, the first year of Interstellar, the 105-year-old League hero Mundra was lying in the intensive care unit of the nursing home. In the League, where the average life expectancy is now close to 140 years old, justMundra, who was over a hundred years old, was already terminally ill. He was lying on the bed as stiff as a withered branch, completely losing the vitality of his life.

"Quick! Ventilator!" "Pacemaker!"...

The panicked and busy sounds of doctors and nurses can be heard next to my ears.

Mundella's eyes were numb and he didn't know where to look, and the memory in front of him ran quickly like a revolving lantern.Are you finally free?Looking at his own life, Mundra felt excited!

He fought bloody battles in the first half of his life, laying a vast territory for the alliance.But every minute of the second half of my life is lived with the guilt of killing every living life.

"If you were given another chance to choose, would you repeat the path of the past?" An ethereal voice from afar rang in my ears.

"I don't know..." "I won't!"

Two answers sounded at the same time.

"Who are you!" Mundra asked loudly, eyes wide.

"I'm Colin!" replied the young alpha.

With a whoosh, a blue phantom flew away from Colin's body.The Union's first marshal, the great military strategist Mundra, died.

At the same time, more blue lights scrambled towards Colin's body.

In April of the first year of Interstellar, eight hundred and sixty-six, Chris's a.

"Hello, first time meeting. I'm Julian from the Leicester family." Omega stretched out her right hand timidly.

His hands are really thin, and the smell is quite good.While thinking about it, Roland snorted coldly with red ears and turned his head away.

At this time, the league has just passed the 20th year of the omega affirmative action movement.Because of the production of pheromone inhibitors, unmarked omegas who could only live in nursing homes can finally go to school and fall in love like ordinary people.

At the moment when almost all omega are engaged in free love, Roland looks down on a cowardly omega like Julian who obeys family arrangements.

Julian, who was looking for boredom, retracted his solitary right hand. Feeling the disdainful expression of his fiancé, he lowered his head, and his eyes were secretly red.

Why is it so easy to cry?Useless!While thinking about it, Roland took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to the other party: "Don't make a crying expression at every turn, making it seem like I'm bullying you."

Although his tone was full of disgust, Julian still took the handkerchief in great surprise.

"Thank you." The blond-haired Omega grinned softly, like a sweet toffee, and the curvature of her lips made Roland's mood soar.

In August of the first year of Interstellar, Roland Chris, who graduated from the military academy, and his fiancé, Julian, held a grand wedding.In October of the same year, Roland entered the military department.In August of the following year, Julian successfully gave birth to a healthy alpha baby boy.

Roland, who had become a lieutenant general, was so happy that he couldn't speak from ear to ear when he heard the news. He specially asked the officer for leave to go home and visit his relatives.

"Master Julian, Lieutenant General has arrived at the door." The young butler came to report.

"Help me up quickly." Julian, who was a little haggard, quickly picked up the baby in his arms.He was still in the recovery stage after giving birth, but he hadn't seen his partner for nearly a year, so he couldn't help being excited when he heard the news that Roland had returned home.

"Master Julian..." The butler hesitated to speak, looking at Julian who was sorting out his description in the mirror.

"What's wrong?" Julian, who vaguely sensed something was wrong, stopped.

"The lieutenant general...brought another person back." The embarrassment on the butler's face was almost unbearable: "You also know that in a place like the fleet..."

The smile on Julian's face faded away.How could he not have thought of this... The current military ethos is exactly like this, every alpha officer without exception will find one or more beta lovers in the fleet.What's more, he and Roland were originally married in a family, and the other party has always treated him indifferently, without any special feelings.

When Roland pushed the door and entered the room, what he saw was the scene of Julian holding the child sitting on the bedside with no expression on his face.

"Thank you." He looked lovingly at Julian's obviously paler face and the blue-black traces in his eyes.

Omega was originally very thin, but now she looks even weaker.

I must take good care of his body, Roland couldn't help stretching out his hand to caress the other's cheek while thinking, but Julian turned his head and hid directly.

"Don't touch me with dirty hands that have touched other people." Julian bit his lip.

"What's wrong with you?" The other party's stubborn appearance made Roland feel furious.

All the officers in the fleet will have several beta lovers, one is to relieve loneliness, and the other is to foster each other into the most loyal force.Compared with others, he was already restrained, and finally he was able to ask for leave to go home, but Julian got angry with him because of this trivial matter.

"If you don't touch it, don't touch it!" Roland stood up with a livid face: "I have already seen the child. Since you don't welcome your partner so much, then I don't have to waste such a vacation."

"Roland..."

Regardless of Julian's persuasion behind him, the young and energetic lieutenant general turned around and left mercilessly, leaving only a lonely figure behind him.

In February 814, the first year of Interstellar, Roland immediately left the fleet in a panic after receiving the notification that Julian was critically ill.

Five years later, his position has also been promoted from lieutenant general to general.However, he spends less and less time going home every year. Except for the fixed holidays twice a year, he has never even taken a family leave.

"How is Julian?" He anxiously asked the doctor who was consulting.

"His body is very weak, and many organs have failed." The doctor shook his head and said, "Since he gave birth to a child a few years ago, he has fallen to the root of the disease, and he has not been recuperated properly. Coupled with depression...there is still a lot left."For the last month, let him rest at home..."

"How is it possible!" Roland grabbed the doctor's collar in disbelief: "How could it be possible to suddenly deteriorate so badly? He has never told me about his condition before."

"Admiral..." The steward hurriedly stopped Roland, and rescued the trembling doctor from the other party's hands: "Master Julian has indeed been ill since the birth of the child! As soon as you left on the front foot that day, his back foot became ill."It's the master who won't let anyone tell you about it..."

Roland was stunned. He remembered that since that day, he and Julian had been in a five-year cold war. During the five years, the total number of words he had spoken to him was less than a hundred sentences.So I didn't even know that he was sick a long time ago, so he became depressed and became ill.

Arriving at the sleeping Julian's bedside, Roland looked at Julian's pale face, which had become thinner and thinner, and his dazzling golden hair had also lost its former luster due to the disease.He twirled a lock of hair with his hands and kneaded it gently, recalling the first time he met the other party, how Omega's eyes were red because of his words...

"You're back..." Julian finally opened his eyes.

"Well, I miss you." Roland leaned over and kissed Julian's face.

Julian's eyes widened, their sockets moist.

"Just come back." He said with red eyes, "I...I shouldn't have been angry with you before..."

"Stop talking!" Roland gently blocked Julian's unfinished words with his hand: "It's my fault, I shouldn't have treated you that way."

Julian burst into tears: "Are you sympathizing with me? Because I am dying."

"No," Roland shook his head, "I love you, but I realized it too late."

"I love you too." Julian said, "Actually, I met you at school a long time ago. So when my father proposed to marry you, not only did I not object, but I was secretly happy. IRecently, I have been thinking, if I could be more frank and express my love for you earlier, would you also be able to fall in love with me earlier, would we not have to take so many detours..."

"Let the past pass by, let us cherish the last time..." Roland held Julian tightly in his arms: "I swear to you, from now on, there will never be the first time in my life."two people……"

In September of the first year of Interstellar, Julian finally passed away.I don't know if it was because Roland was always by his side, but he lived a year and a half longer than the doctor expected by one month.

After holding a simple funeral for Julian, Roland, as he swore, lived a life like a monk and never remarried.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a hundred years have passed, and the great-grandson of Roland and Julian has already reached the age of starting a family.

Before dying, Roland called his son, grandson, and all the descendants of the Chris family to his side, and took out a framed family motto.

"The tenth rule of the Chris family's family motto, you must be loyal to your partner at all times." Roland on the sickbed pointed to this text and said hoarsely: "This is a new addition by me. It is between me and Julian.The heaviest lesson in the world! In the future, the descendants of the Chris family must learn from it and abide by this family motto..."

Roland's memory left Colin's body circling in his deep voice.Immediately afterwards, there were dots of blue light surrounding him one after another.

Colin experienced the ups and downs of life again and again in the memory fragments of the river of souls.Sometimes they are important figures in the history of the league, sometimes they are the mysterious ancestors of the Chris family.

Countless chaotic memories flooded into his brain at the same time, and the huge flow of information made him have a splitting headache.

Who are you?What do you want?The ancient voice from afar tortured his soul repeatedly!

In the dark, a spiritual light flashed in front of his eyes.

correct!What I want is the peace of the alliance!It means that everyone no longer needs to be shrouded in horse leather and die in battle!It is the peace and hope after the smoke clears...

The chaotic scene in front of him gradually disappeared, and he finally had a definite answer to the second torture in his heart.But it's too late to catch my breath...

"What can you do?" The third tortured voice rang in his mind.

This time, he no longer hesitated: "I will do my best and do everything I can. Even a little starlight can eventually become a bright light in the long dark night."

Colin slowly opened his eyes, and the light blue glow gradually disappeared from around his body.His soul already has the memory of a hundred generations, but in reality, only a moment has passed.

"How are you?" Aaron looked at his partner in front of him worriedly, Colin was still the same Colin.However, there seemed to be something different in the other party's bones from the past.

"Don't worry." Colin stepped out of the river of souls, hugged Aaron tightly, as if he hadn't seen him for many years, and wanted to rub him into his own flesh and blood.

"You're right." He leaned close to Aaron and whispered in Aaron's ear: "The river of souls cannot judge good and evil, it can only let people see other people's memories. People who are not mentally strong enough will be forced by chaotic memories.Crazy, this is the truth of the river of soul test..."

Aaron opened his eyes wide in surprise, but he didn't expect his speculation to be completely consistent with the truth.

It turns out that the river of souls is a high-density magnetic field formed by superstrings with memory electromagnetic waves.Those who enter the river of souls can see the memories of their predecessors that match their own wavelength.

He looked up at the purple-black clouds of electromagnetic waves and the blue glow that flowed into the river like a meteor shower.

Why can everyone's superstrings gather here?Why do these superstrings come together to form rivers?Why does such a place exist in the universe?If someone has a universal wavelength, can he see everyone's memory?One question after another arises in his heart, each one is an unsolvable mystery...

Aaron's hairs stood on end with curiosity.He can't wait to enter the river of soul immediately, and solve all his doubts from it!The desire for knowledge swept through his heart like a storm.

Step into the torrent of the river of soul without hesitation.Countless light blue superstrings flew towards Aaron, they surrounded him like fireflies, gently supporting his body.Then rolled up Aaron and flew quickly along the direction of the torrent, and disappeared at the end of the river of souls after a while.

"Aaron!" Colin immediately jumped into the river of souls, chasing after his lover in the direction where he disappeared.

"How is this going?!"

Zi Yao and the warriors on the shore were shocked by the scene before them.Even if they didn't pass the test of the river of souls, those who were tested would just go crazy on the spot.They had never seen anything like this.

"That's the direction of the tree of life!" The well-informed Elder You said, pointing to the direction where the river of souls extends: "I always thought it was just a legend: those who are chosen by the river of souls can see the tree of life,If you eat the fruit from the tree of life, you can understand the mysteries of the entire universe."

"The mystery of the entire universe?" Zi Key frowned and asked puzzledly: "We are the guardians of the river of souls, why did it choose another outsider to understand the mystery of the universe?"

"The tree of life has its own considerations." Elder You said, "Let's go, let's go along the direction of the river to find them."