Chapter 248: Marching (5)

The fifth sacred battle, with 200,000 golden sun wheels buried in the crystal nest, and the death of the emperor ended bleakly.

The turmoil within the empire can be imagined. The few insiders can only suppress the truth and swallow the tears in their stomachs.

In the middle of the night, Lin Ge dragged his tired body back to the White Jade Palace, only to feel that his internal organs were filled with bitterness and soreness, and he felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

Suddenly raising her head, she saw a black clunk on the opposite side, where a bean-sized light spot stood still.

Lin Ge walked over step by step with a long skirt he was not used to. She saw Sylph standing under the steps of the new emperor's bedroom, with silky silver hair scattered on her smooth shoulders, her eyes as blue as the sea, and a slender palm supporting a floating lamp.

"It's hard work, Lin Ge." Sylph said softly.

"You can't call me Lin Ge in the future, I am His Majesty the Emperor, and you are the Empress Dowager."

"Got it, Lin Ge."

"Bad girl." Lin Ge smiled feebly and walked up the steps.

She saw Sylph's face clearly through the light of the floating lamp. There was an indelible shadow on that beautiful face, which must be exactly the same as herself.

"All this time," Sylph said suddenly and calmly, "I seem to be protected by someone."

"I know that I have talent in scientific research and academia, and I have put in enough effort. So when you were hanging on the front line, when His Majesty said that I should only be in charge of the laboratory, I accepted it with peace of mind. "

"But now, after the people who were protecting me were leaving one by one, I discovered that it was not... it was not."

Lin Ge listened quietly, she didn't say anything, but there seemed to be a warm evening that forgot the date in front of her eyes.

The three sat casually in the palace room. Jiang Jianming was braiding Sylph, while Ryan had his long curly hair loose and concentrated on cutting apples.

Sylph, who was still a young girl, blinked and quickly stole an apple to eat with her little hand.

His Majesty didn't get angry, instead, he fed a piece to the commander-in-chief who couldn't make it, and then expressionlessly rubbed the man's lips with the juice on his fingers.

What about her? It was probably because his teeth were tickling with jealousy next to him, Lin Ge thought to himself.

Yeah, one by one gone. So, it would have been nice if they could have been more candid at the time, and if only they could have said more from their hearts before they left.

The two entered the door together, and Sylph drew the heavy curtains and dimmed the light of the floating lamp beside the bed. She turned around and stretched her soft arms towards her.

"Lin Ge," she said softly, "I know you're sad, and so am I. So hug me, it's just the two of us next."

Lin Ge stepped forward, and she hugged Sylph.

...

"I'm sorry, when you read these words, I'm leaving your side too, Lin Ge."

——At dawn three days later, the new Empress received a letter from the Empress Dowager.

"I don't want to stay in the comfortable palace anymore, and I don't want to continue to be protected by you. I will go to Omega Alien in person, be the real leader of the base, and do more things that I can do."

Sylph wrote in the letter.

"Over the years, His Majesty Kaios has trusted me with all his heart and handed over the core technology of the empire to me, but I know that the relationship between the Glorious Dominion and the empire is not completely stable, and people with ulterior motives are still waiting for opportunities."

"In order to avoid creating unnecessary trouble, I will follow the commander's example, incognito and black armor."

"You are the light of the empire, and I will be the shadow of the empire. I will miss you beyond the sea of ​​stars until the day of reunion comes."

The paper letters were scattered all over the place, and Lin Ge ran out of the room.

"In addition, I have made up my mind that I will not undergo genetic surgery for a hundred years."

"Genetic surgery seems to be a wonderful way to stay youthful, but it is easy to forget the passage of time. I want to use my body to remember the years, and also remember the people who can no longer feel the years."

"I'm sorry, Lin Ge."

"Goodbye, Your Majesty."

"Sylph - Sylph, come back!!"

It was about the time of the sunrise, and the golden rose bush was still lingering in the cold.

Lin Ge was running in the empty palace, her black hair was swaying loosely, she looked around in hesitation, and shouted the name in a loud voice, "Silf...!!"

When she came to the highest point of the White Jade Palace, she saw a slender figure in a cloak walking down the long steps step by step, into a deeper shadow that could not be illuminated by sunlight.

That is Sylph, she is leaving her, to go to the distant sea of ​​stars. The intimate embrace that night was the first and the last.

Lin Ge stood abruptly, and the light of the stars rose, illuminating the alleys of Xingcheng below the palace.

Her five fingers were clinging to the palace wall, and suddenly she couldn't hold back the churning emotions in her heart, so she burst into tears where no one was there.

She's the emperor...and alone.

The Fifth Holy War seemed to bring the turbulent times to a close, and year after year passed without another turmoil in the new Empire.

Although crystal disorder is still a terminal illness, the number of new patients has decreased rapidly. All things are prosperous and the people are happy.

In the distant crystal nest, the cluster of red-gold semi-crystalline life forms is being swallowed up bit by bit.

With the superposition of a long time, the red gold gradually faded from the edge to the center, becoming as colorless and transparent as the surrounding crystal nest earth, that is the process of Kaios' consciousness being killed by the crystal nest.

Until the end, it was completely eroded by the crystal nest, leaving only a fist-sized meager red gold hanging in the transparent body cavity, beating weakly like a heart.

In its body that seemed to have froze, Jiang Jianming was still asleep.

The body of the residual crystal human is weak and harmless, and the rich crystal particles pounce on this sweet prey, and they will tear him apart——

Just before the crystal particles were about to touch the prey, the faint consciousness woke up.

As if it was an evil dragon that had been touched with reverse scales, it let out a silent roar, and the light was brilliant!

In an instant, with Jiang Jianming as the center, the area with a radius of several hundred meters was infected with red gold. More than a dozen crystal bones rose from the ground, causing the ground of the crystal nest to crack in all directions, and the crystal particles vibrated miserably.

When this fierce counterattack was over, everything was dead again.

The red gold was eroded by the crystal particles again, as if it was just the last flashback.

However, a few months later, when the crystal particles re-invaded Kaios' body and approached the man who was sleeping, the same situation happened again.

The monster woke up without warning, flashing its furious fangs at the crystal nest. It protects its lover in its arms, and destroys the surrounding crystal nest land.

It threatens with action - I can be half dead, but if you dare to touch the crippled human being in me, then I will crawl back from the dead and bite you viciously.

Is the crystal nest moved? No, Crystal Nest dare not move. After repeated tugs and saws several times to no avail, in the end, they can only stay in this state, hoping for a longer time, allowing dozens of hundreds of thousands of years of loneliness and darkness to kill this unreasonable existence.

But the moth-to-the-flame attackers made a comeback.

They are humans in silver and black military uniforms. Those humans stepped on the crystal nest again and again, fought and died, causing irreversible scars to the crystal nest.

Their technology has improved, their weapons have become better, and the tranquilizers are different from the previous ones, and it seems that a qualitative upgrade has been completed.

The crystal nest blocked the communication between the expedition ship and the interstellar fortress, so they established temporary communication sites one by one, and used short-distance communication relays to transmit encrypted data to a distance.

The expedition was killed in the crystal nest, and the data was captured by the third fortress and sent to the Black Shark base.

At that time, the leader of the base had already put on a jet-black armor, and the mask and electronic voice changer that covered her face made her unfathomable——

Sylph is grateful for this. If not, when the video was cracked and she saw a flash of red gold on the surface of the crystal nest, the gaffe at that moment would definitely destroy the image of the leader.

She cut back to that video over and over, watching it over and over again.

That's right, nothing wrong, it's really the color of Kaios' crystal bone! don't know if it's her illusion, the red gold seems to be guiding the direction of the expedition...

His Majesty Kaios, he is still here! ?

...

"—Do you want to find the source of Kaios' consciousness and project his spiritual consciousness?"

That night, the empress who had just completed a gene repair operation locked herself up and exclaimed at the leader in the projection, "Is this possible!?"

"It's possible." Sylph's original excited voice turned into a flat, waveless mechanical sound after passing through the voice changer.

"But don't all your experiments require people to lie on the bed with this kind of tube attached to their head... this kind of thing."

Lin Ge made random gestures with his hands on his head, and said in a daze, "Even if Kaios is still conscious, his brain and body are gone!"

Sylph: "The core of spiritual consciousness projection technology is spiritual consciousness, not the body. It's just that for human beings, the area that carries consciousness is the brain, so various instruments are connected to the human head."

"But His Majesty's situation is different. He is 000, an existence that combines the characteristics of both human beings and crystal particles. You know, every crystal particle at the microscopic level can carry consciousness. If Your Majesty's self-consciousness can pass through crystal particles With the two-way communication between the particle form and the Black Shark base, it is possible for me to complete the projection for him!"

"How to communicate in two ways?"

Sylph was silent for a moment and said, "I don't know, this will be the next research target of the Black Shark Base."

"...Complete a system that can extract human thoughts from crystal particles and send them into the crystal nest."

"Hi..." After Xie Yuduo heard this, he tapped on his temple, with an indescribable expression on his face.

"So according to your guess, in addition to swallowing the commander-in-chief, you also, uh, swallowed the instruments of the Black Shark Base!?"

Xie Yuduo showed an embarrassed but polite smile: "Then Your Highness eats a lot of things..."

Although not in the normal sense.

Of course, joking aside, Major General Xie actually understood in his heart.

In a place like Crystal Nest, at the core of the enemy, it is not easy to open up a space with one's own body as a fortress for more than fifty years.

Ryan stared at the display screen in the center of the bridge and leaned forward slightly: "...Major General Xie, what you should be most concerned about right now is probably not my eating problem."

The dark space ahead is still quiet. However, the three-dimensional star map has already shown the abnormality captured by the radar, and the alarm red light flashes.

Xie Yuduo's unruly smile disappeared immediately, the major general tapped a few times on the virtual keyboard, and the three-dimensional star map expanded to the maximum multiple——

Ahead, distorted crystalline objects are gathering in large groups, densely surrounding the Yin Beidou fleet in the universe.

"It's really good, the treatment has been upgraded. When Yin Beidou came last time, it was not like this."

Xie Yuduo's face turned blue and he murmured, "Your Highness, if we are heroic, can you still do the third projection?"

Ryan raised his hand and pulled down the levers of the highest alert and full combat state at the same time, and said faintly, "Probably not."

In a few words, the attacker had already moved on the scale of a grid on the three-dimensional star map... It was like a huge wave opened its bloody mouth and was about to swallow the tiny fallen leaves on the water.

"This group of things is rushing faster than the maximum speed of the fleet, and there is not enough time to open the warp wormhole... It is impossible to withdraw."

Xie Yuduo tuned a channel and shouted to Mai: "Communication team! Is the communication team alive!?"

"Major General! The concentration of crystal particles has increased sharply, and the remote communication equipment has been interfered with. Currently, it is impossible to communicate to the Empire. Our technicians are trying to find a way..."

"Damn." Xie Yuduo's face darkened, and he hung up the communication.

The crown prince stood up and shook the crystal bones on his wrists coldly, "Don't expect reinforcements, let all the Yin Beidou line up to meet the enemy."

"Rush over, the crystal nest is in front."

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