Chapter 154 Returning home (2)

The projection fluctuates a bit, which translates into an image. In the middle of the large transparent crystal, the figure can be clearly seen.

It was a man standing dead.

Jiang Jianming's mind went blank as if he had been hit hard.

The night outside the window squeezed in like a tide. Suddenly, he felt a piercing pain running through his bones, and at the same time a deep sense of absurdity. And the powerlessness mocked by fate that is too long ago.

Has he forgotten.

Because the lost and found dream is too happy, the embrace of the lover is too warm, and the days of being cared for are addictive.

Make him gradually forget the days of loneliness, the bloodstains spreading in the sleeping mecha, and the last words of the four lines whose meaning is still unknown.

How could he forget?

So is this retribution, Jiang Jianming thought in a trance.

The tragic image burned into his eyes, and he recognized it at a glance. It was indeed Ryan Kaios, his little highness.

But that body seemed to be torn apart by some huge force, and no torture in human history could have caused such a tragic situation.

Through the crystal clusters on the body surface, you can see the torn flesh, the torn abdominal cavity, the half-crushed organs and the dislocated and crushed bones.

Among the broken corpses, there are faint flickers, which are crystal bone fragments.

Jiang Jianming's pupils tightened, and his whole body began to tremble. How dare he believe it. That is a crystal bone that is so powerful that it can destroy hundreds of starships in an instant, and it is also the crystal bone that has embraced him countless times, actually... actually...

In the end, there were only a few fragments left, and even if they were put together, they might not be the size of a fingernail.

The face of the crown prince is also broken, and the handsome young prince in the past has turned into a bloody appearance. The dreadful, distorted features were obscured by the falling platinum curls.

He held up a bloody arm twisted at an odd angle, his fingers pointed in a certain direction. It seems that he wants to guide the way for future generations, and it seems that he just wants to grasp some ethereal existence.

But his emerald green pupils are calm and distant, as if looking at the other end of the star sea.

With a long trail of blood trailing behind him, he died of exhaustion on the way to the depths of the crystal nest.

He was alone, and he died in the crystal nest.

The crystal particles took advantage of it, drowning every inch of flesh and blood like greedy locusts, and finally sealed the broken body in the crystal block.

hum.

There was a soft sound, which was especially abrupt in the empty office.

Jiang Jianming turned his eyes blankly and saw Lean... Lean next to him staggered a step. He stared at the projection in a daze, his face tense as iron, and his eyes remained silent.

Even if the memory is still blank, he already believed and accepted the identity of Ryan Kaios, long before he learned about the Matrix plan today.

But he knew one of the most basic laws of mental consciousness projection technology: as long as the original body dies completely, the base body will also die.

Suppose, the remains of Crown Prince Ryan Kaios have been recovered.

Then the current "emperor crown prince", the current himself——

who is it?

In the projection, the bloody and disgusting image has been cut off.

Xie Yuduo's haggard face still appeared in the air, and the major general's eyes were full of bitterness, and he spoke with difficulty.

"Commander, I know that this communication will be handed to you first, and then it will never be seen by the second person in the military."

Although he didn't know the mental consciousness projection technology, let alone the Shiratori plan, the major general always believed that Garcia was Ryan.

When Jingchao saw that scene with his own eyes, how could his inner shock and the blow he suffered can be explained in a few words?

Xie Yuduo closed his eyes and put his hand on his forehead under the messy hair: "That's why the lower official dared to say something that shouldn't be said..."

"Commander, Xie Yuduo's loyalty to the empire can be learned from the sun and the moon. Over the years, Yin Beidou has died again and again, and he has taken his life to fill the universe again and again, and he has never complained."

"In this expedition, we have sacrificed nearly a thousand people, and they will soon be turned into names on the Heroic Spirit Tablet. The officer doesn't even know how many people are still alive when the fleet really returns to the fortress."

Suddenly, the major general raised his bloodshot eyes and roared: "We are the people who gave our lives for this country, old marshal!!"

That grief and indignation almost turned into a sharp sword to pierce this desolate night.

"I just want to know, what exactly are we facing, why did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince die, and what exactly is Crystal Nest...!"

Xie Yuduo couldn't go on, he looked like he was about to cry, but he didn't.

His lips trembled when he spoke again, and his voice seemed to tremble, but it didn't.

He said: "If at least, please answer: Are our sacrifices meaningful?"

Xie Yuduo said: "As long as you say 'yes', I will believe it." The communication ended and the projection disappeared. At the end of the virtual screen, Old Marshal Chen's reply to the communication was also displayed.

I don't know if the old man, who had always been hard-hearted, had a wave in his heart after hearing the young general's accusation. Or just because the time has come and the emperor has made a decision.

His reply to Xie Yuduo was very brief, only two lines.

"Yes."

"When you come back, the Empire will give you the answer."

Ryan directly turned off the virtual screen, turned his back to Jiang Jianming, and stood still by the dark window.

Jiang Jianming was in a daze at first, but at this moment, it seemed as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on his face, and he immediately woke up.

He can't panic. If he shakes first at this time, what should Ryan do?

"No, Your Highness."

Jiang Jianming calmed himself down and said calmly: "You are indeed the projection base of His Royal Highness Le'an. All the evidence points to this conclusion, there should be some misunderstanding."

"..."

Ryan lowered his head slowly, the corners of his eyes were red, he gritted his teeth and sneered, "It doesn't matter."

Taking a deep breath, he said, "Anyway, that one is dead. It doesn't matter who I am."

Jiang Jianming gasped lightly, only to feel that his chest was filled with sharp crushed ice.

"Then I'll go and ask His Majesty. She was ready to confess just now. If you hadn't insisted on taking me back to sleep first, the problem might have been solved long ago."

Jiang Jianming insisted on speaking, and he controlled his tone to be as gentle as possible without appearing deliberate, "Wait for me to come back here, just like in the Black Shark base that day, okay?"

"There's no need for that," Ryan said hoarsely, looking at the night outside the window, "unless you care."

Jiang Jianming: "Then I don't care."

He turned and went out.

Ryan closed his eyes deeply. In the memory, the snowstorm of Alpha Alien seemed to sweep over, and it turned into a picture of himself dying in a bloody tragic state.

The feeling of being thrown back to the starting point all at once also engulfed him.

I don't know how long it took, the wind outside became stronger, blowing the window glass softly.

Ryan suddenly opened his eyes, raised his hand angrily and hammered the wall.

...No, why did he just let Jiang Jianming go on a night walk alone. In the middle of the night suddenly suffered such a big stimulus, how can the body with chronic crystal disorder endure it?

What's more, the day before yesterday, he and Chen had a fight with a crystal bone outside. The sensor light in that piece should have been shattered together with the rain screen. Jiang Jianming couldn't go there.

Thinking of this, other things don't seem so important anymore.

Ryan pursed his lips, and tried to follow quickly, but just before he reached the door, a sudden, unpredictable and irresistible headache struck!

"……Well!!"

Lean slammed into the cabinet with a thud, knelt on the ground halfway, and held his forehead in pain.

The headache pulled his consciousness even more violently, turning it into an unknown black hole, sucking him into another time and space.

That is not a power that can be resisted by will or patience at all. The luster in Lean's emerald green eyes dissipated, and he lost consciousness in an instant.

But just seconds later, his closed eyelids reopened...

Black Shark Base.

The alarm sounded suddenly, and just after the meeting, the leader of Sylph, who was walking out with Diana, suddenly turned his head!

At the same time, the senior researchers of all bases also changed their faces.

They recognize this special siren and know what it means!

The leader pulled his legs and ran to the elevator leading to the ground, and the researchers rushed over too. Only Diana, who had just entered the base, looked blank.

She was still at a loss, and in the blink of an eye, she had been pushed by the crowd and stood on the elevator dizzy.

What's wrong with this?

"That...that, chief...excuse me..."

Diana was in a daze, crying without tears, and was spun around. A few seconds later, the elevator arrived, and she was pushed out again by the crowd.

This is an underground laboratory that has never been seen before, and the iron doors are quickly opening to both sides. Diana followed blankly.

She saw countless flickering machines on display inside, and transmission tubes of unknown purpose spread across the smooth metal walls like capillaries, leading to the huge machine in the center.

"leader!"

The guarding researchers were frantic with anxiety. Seeing the iron door open, they all found the backbone and called out, "Come on, look at the frequency of No. 000, and the projection of consciousness is very unstable!!"

The leader of the base, who has always been immobile, took off his mask, and the moment he saw the data, he showed a rare face of consternation.

Sylph threw the mask to the ground, and she rushed anxiously in front of the central machine and shouted, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!? What are you doing!!"

His Majesty?

Diana was surprised at first, but soon, she realized from the attitude of the leader shouting at the instrument and the atmosphere that no one around tried to contact the imperial family, but only anxiously fiddled with the machine.

No, the person the leader is calling now is definitely not the emperor of the empire!

So... She looked at the instrument screen tremblingly, Diana didn't know what it was for, but judging from the frequency of the data surging and the violent beating of the waveforms, she could also sense the power contained in it.

It seems like a trapped beast is frantically biting at some cage, trying to break free!

Sylph was anxious and angry, and patted the screen of the instrument: "Kaios, are you completely crazy, you can't do this!!"

She shook the instrument, "You wake up, stop, stop! Can you still hear me!?"

What? Is this really talkable? Is this really talking?

Diana is going to faint, brother, please save her, where did she come to!

Suddenly, Sylph moved and realized something, "—Could it be that he saw you!?"

Her face became sad: "Isn't it? He saw you die in the crystal nest, didn't he, so you're going to see him?"

"—answer me, you're going to see the commander-in-chief, aren't you?"

Diana's eyes suddenly widened!

She fell into that state of shock and sleepwalking again.

By the way, did the leader just call... Kaios? ?

I saw that on the cold instrument, the scurrying data suddenly calmed down for two seconds, and then resumed beating in a more disorderly manner.

Empire Aslan Star City, the military headquarters in the early morning.

Jiang Jianming walked out with one foot and one foot, but no one was around at this time, but his mind was a mess.

He didn't want to think about it deliberately, but the picture was firmly etched into his mind, and together with the bloodstains in Jin Xiaozhi's crown, it kept appearing in front of his eyes.

He once complained that the little Highness died alone, was annoyed by the other party's concealment and parting, and even mocked him in his dreams.

- I doubt that you really still have a corpse? Three years have passed, have you been eaten clean by vultures and jackals?

He was wrong, Jiang Jianming thought to himself. If he went back to the past, even in a dream, he would definitely not say such things again.

Because now he doesn't want to collect the corpse, he wants to put aside all the blood, tears and war, and when he comes to the end, he can take his Highness home...

He coughed twice, feeling hot and cold.

Calm down, calm down... Jiang Jianming kept breathing rapidly, but he couldn't feel the air being sucked into his lungs at all.

His face was pale, his lips gradually turned blue and purple, and he repeatedly gasped, and only his own breathing could be heard in his ears.

If he can still think rationally at this time, he will realize that he is going to get sick again under the huge stimulation.

But his thinking has been completely stumped, and he didn't even notice that his steps forward were getting more and more vain, until he couldn't walk, and he slowly sat down.

What if Ryan was really dead? ... no... no, it won't be so. There is no result in cranky thinking, he is going to ask clearly...

Jiang Jianming looked up absentmindedly, the night was long, only the mottled tree shadows and the outlines of buildings in the distance on both sides, no one was there.

It's so dark, why are there no lights?

He felt in a trance that he shouldn't be sitting here, and wanted to stand up, but his legs fell back to the ground, and he coughed against his chest.

The dark liquid ran down his fingertips, and several drops fell to the ground.

Without the light, he didn't realize it was the color of blood.

Think calmly... Jiang Jianming repeated to himself, he was still caught in his own confused thoughts.

According to His Excellency Lopez tonight, 000 was the first base that the base plan started, and it was earlier than 002. But the original Nagasawa was raised like an ordinary person since childhood. He should be about the same age as himself, so Matrix 002 was born about twenty years ago.

And "Garcia" was born three or four years ago, so reasoning, "Garcia" really can't be the 000 matrix!

Cold sweat rolled down his black hair, Jiang Jianming's eyes were absent, his lips opened, and his body spasmed unconsciously with the rapid breathing.

Anyone who passed by here and saw what he looked like at the moment would know that it was time to call for first aid.

The onset of chronic crystal disorder is very dangerous. If the patient cannot get treatment as soon as possible, no one can tell whether it will be able to survive.

Organ failure and death. Or it is possible to turn into an acute crystal disorder, and die violently in a few minutes in an inhuman state.

But here and now, no one passed by.

The author has something to say: I originally thought that the plot point of the emperor's forced online would be kind of crazy, but I never expected that it would have some effect when it was matched with Miss Diana's complaints.

funny

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Lai: Meow, you five frightened him! ! give me the number, give me-

Lai: guna! ! Who the hell died so tragically that people are scared to get sick, now I'm going to chase him, don't grab my number and give me guna——

(It is still a small theater of ooc fine points, and the memories of both parties will be merged in the end, it is 1v1 not 3v2)