He was dreaming again.

I don't know why, maybe it's because of the anesthesia, maybe it's because of excessive exhaustion and blood loss, or maybe it's because of the brutal mental shock of the battlefield for the first time.

This time the dream was weird and continuous, like waves of tide engulfing Jiang Jianming's consciousness.He could only be in a daze, sinking incessantly.

Sink, and sink.

Until I forget my name, my future and my destination.

...

In the late winter evening, shooting stars streaked across the night sky overhead.

The young black-haired child curled up in a dark corner, his cheeks were pale, and he coughed laboriously from time to time.As far as the eye could see, the ditch filled with garbage was emitting a stench.The sensor light is broken, and the darkness on all sides has been smeared to the end of the line of sight.

The crow is asleep, and the wild dogs in the distance are still barking.The old red blanket on his body was unable to resist the cold winter's minions, and the sick black-haired child shivered from the cold and snuggled up to another one beside him.

Warm palms fell on the child's back, and the child raised his head dimly, and saw a pair of deep brown eyes, the eyelashes curled sadly and firmly.

It was a woman in the same shabby clothes. The cold wind blew her black hair like a dead branch. The mother held her child in her arms and patted it gently. The sadness in her eyes lasted for a long time.

The cold wind blows the garbage on the street corner, and the woman opens her beautifully shaped but chapped lips.The singing voice flowed out of her throat lightly, flowing under the oppressive dark winter night.

"The black sky embraces the earth,

The white starlight kisses the raindrops,

"When the distant mountains lose their birds,

When does the dawn rise?

"Don't cry, don't cry,

Let me keep you forever..."

Mother sang an unknown lullaby with a gentle and mellow voice.The ethereal and melancholic tones come and go, like the stitches of this worn red blanket.

Gradually, the black-haired child in the woman's arms stopped coughing.He quietly looked at the night sky above his head, with a kind of peace in his eyes that is hard for a child of this age to have.

"The black sky embraces the earth,

The white starlight kisses the raindrops..."

The woman was singing, and the child suddenly asked:

"Mom, is Xing Xing available even on rainy days?"

sand……

The bleak wind blows to the horizon, and the dust is flying.

The flaming torch fell from his hand and landed on the worn red blanket.The young man ignited the past, and the cold wind rushed from behind him like a huge wave, blowing the dirty cloth cloak and the black hair under the hood.

He turned around and looked at the open field in front of him, pulled the cloak on his body, walked forward indifferently, and never looked back.

"Xing Xing will always be there, my baby."

Under the dark night, the flames after the explosion flickered on the wreckage of the starship, which lasted for a long time.

The apple fell from between pale and skinny fingers, rolling on the ground.

First, it rolled around the dust, then rolled into a pool of blood, and finally stopped next to the blood-stained platinum long hair.

"It's just that Xing Xing is covered by the thick dark clouds... Baby, if you want to see the stars, you have to go above the clouds..."

"Mom, we've been above the clouds."

The torrential rain fell from the dark clouds, mercilessly hitting the abandoned land.

"No, it's not enough. You're going further afield."

He knelt in the rain, his eyes were dark and dull.Thousands of starships broke through the clouds, turned into streaks of blue light, and disappeared into the sky.

Until the sound of hurried footsteps sounded behind him, someone trampled through the accumulated rain and rushed towards him.A graceful cloak covered the top of his head, and a pair of strong arms wrapped around him, pulling him up forcefully.

"—get up! stand up!"

"What are you looking at... don't look at them, look at me!"

The boy bowed and gasped in the rain, hissed loudly, his cold eyes were like a wild beast that chooses to eat someone——

He has a pair of emerald eyes, and a storm is blowing deep in those eyes: violent, crazy, with the urge to destroy everything.

"I'll take you to a place farther than those starships!!"

In the long time ago, beside the dark alley corner, the woman was still singing softly for her child:

"Don't cry, don't cry,

Let me keep you forever..."

In the end, consciousness sank into pure whiteness.

In the snow-white laboratory, a mutilated figure was leaning against a pool of blood, smiling weakly and reaching out to him.

"I had a very long dream."

The voice was very hoarse, with a lingering and sad nasal tone, "In my dream... I haven't met you yet."

...

"what……!"

Jiang Jianming yelled unconsciously, his fingers twitched and grasped suddenly, and he woke up from his lethargy in cold sweat.

There was a sticky blackness in front of his eyes, and he couldn't tell where he was.Limbs were immersed in the unknown liquid and trembled intermittently, Jiang Jianming stood up and panted heavily, like a dying fish thrown ashore.

What... what are those?

Dream?

Can there be such a bizarre and clear dream?

The warning light came on, and the darkness in front of him opened a small window, and there were only a few people outside the window.

"Your Excellency, don't be nervous, you are in the treatment cabin of Yinbeidou Fortress." A female voice called, "I will give you some oxygen, please try to breathe slowly."

"..." Jiang Jianming closed his eyes and opened his mouth to breathe, his body was limp and weak, and the wound on his side began to hurt clearly at this moment, causing fine beads of sweat to break out on his forehead.

As the memories in the dream quickly dissipated, the muddy mind regained consciousness.

Only then did Jiang Jianming realize that he was indeed just lying in the treatment cabin, but the bed in the cabin was tilted.

He was stripped of his clothes and soaked in medical fluid from the shoulders down.In order to protect the patient, a layer of opaque screen film was raised on the hatch cover, and only then did the horror scene of just waking up in darkness appear.

Outside the treatment cabin, several full-time female nurses, including the head nurse of the medical area, stood by worriedly.

The head nurse couldn't help but whispered: "How do you feel? If the wound hurts badly, we'll add some more painkillers."

It has been three days since the fierce battle between Yin Beidou and the space bandits, and the story of this young lieutenant has almost spread throughout the fortress.

Even if the Space Pirates conspiracy was solved in time, the ambush location was predicted, and the avalanche was used to deliver the news, some people still couldn't believe it.

But under the watchful eyes of everyone, the feat of this disabled human driving a small machine to collide with l-Hephaestus, as well as the tacit cooperation with His Royal Highness, the mech manipulation was deeply imprinted on the hearts of everyone present.in the eyes.

Not to mention the two shots in the face of the leader of Space Pirates, plus one or two strokes of heroism such as "after being seriously injured, he insisted on staying silent until the mecha landed"...

one turns to ten, ten turns into a hundred , the story is always getting more and more exaggerated as it spreads.

In the end, it has rapidly evolved into various wonderful versions that Jiang Jianming himself would not think he was talking about himself.

And the doctors and nurses in the fortress have a deeper understanding. They have stayed in the distant interstellar space for a long time, and they usually treat new humans... Suddenly there is a disabled human being pierced into the body by the real crystal.I was quite frightened.

Not to mention that this legendary lieutenant was so young, handsome, pale and thin, and everyone was terrified when he was carried in unconscious.

At this time, people finally woke up, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

In the treatment cabin, Jiang Jianming shook his head and said in a low voice, "Thank you...you don't need to add medicine."

His eyes fell on the liquid that almost covered his whole body, and suddenly his eyebrows moved subtly, and there was a trace of uneasiness in his eyes.

The head nurse is in her fifties and sixties, at the age when her love is overflowing. First she saw Jiang Jianming wake up from sleep in panic, and then saw him calmly enduring the pain. For a while, she admired and loved him.

She couldn't help but slow down her voice: "Your Excellency, don't worry, we will watch over you outside, and the call button is on your right."

"Because of the high-concentration crystal particle environment and the stimulation of the crystal particles released from the real crystal, you were in a dangerous situation when you were just sent back to the fortress. So we put these medical liquids in the treatment cabin, which is the most advanced medical method nowOne, can..."

"I know...don't say it."

In the treatment cabin, the legendary young lieutenant suddenly interrupted.

There seemed to be some pain in his expression, and he whispered: "The liquid filling mode of the advanced treatment cabin starts at 200,000 coins, and 80,000 a day."

"?" There was a hint of confusion in the head nurse's loving expression.

While there is nothing wrong with it, there seems to be something wrong.

Seeing that Lieutenant Jiang closed his eyes shyly, he sighed, closed his eyes and turned his head in a despaired manner, "Sorry, I won't pay this money, and I don't have 200,000 if I sell it."

The head nurse was even more confused, subconsciously said: "You, don't worry, more than 90% of the medical expenses in the fortress will be reimbursed..."

Jiang Jianming said quickly: "That's also 20,000. Impossible, I don't have one, please stop the treatment cabin, and the major general will pay for the expenses already incurred."

As he spoke, he resolutely reached out to touch the button next to him, trying to press the stop button of the treatment cabin.

——No money, no cure.

The nurses instantly turned pale with horror:

"Hey, don't move around—"

"No, no, sir, calm down!"

"The cost issue is easy to talk about! Lie back first—"

In the treatment area, there was a sudden burst of chaos.

Even when Major General Xie heard the news and came to visit in a hurry, the head nurse blocked the door and scolded him before he entered the inner area.

"Your Excellency, Major General, what is the treatment of your officers now?" The head nurse wiped tears from her eyes and said angrily, "The heroic soldiers of the empire can't even cure their illnesses?I have worked as a doctor and nurse in the fortress for so long, and I have never seen such a ridiculous thing!"

Xie Yuduo: "?"

The head nurse took out a tissue and blew her nose, and continued to say with red eyes, "This child is suffering too much and is too strong. He wanted to come out of the treatment cabin just after waking up. Just now, a group of girls under me were secretly crying......"

Xie Yuduo: "??"

"——Oh, major general, you pay the fee first, the activation fee of 200,000 coins, 80,000 a day, today is the third day, minus 90% of the reimbursement for the fortress, plus the scattered equipment and medicines, noA lot, just over 50,000 coins."

Major General Xie, who was at a loss, was dragged by the head nurse just like that, and lost more than 50,000 coins in a daze.

The major general thought in a daze: Didn't His Royal Highness Garcia insist on opening this thing at first, why did he end up reimbursed it in the end?

...

In a single room.

After arguing with the doctors and nurses, Lieutenant Jiang finally didn't drag his wounded body out of the treatment cabin.

The medical solution was removed, and his body was covered with a soft quilt and a thermal blanket. He was still lying down, thinking about the strange scene he dreamed in a coma.

It is almost impossible for a man to remember his dreams, and his memory of them fades rapidly.

The only thing deeply etched in my mind was the trembling feeling of "this is absolutely abnormal" when I first woke up.

Jiang Jianming felt unreal: he had lived with his adoptive father since he could remember.Living up to the age of twenty-one, the most unusual thing have experienced is that somehow fell in love with the prince of the empire, and then went all the way to fall in love and talk about marriage.

He has never been subjected to any weird human experiments, he has never experienced fragments of memory, he has never experienced any abnormalities around him... No matter how he thinks about it, he is just an ordinary military cadet, that's all.

Jiang Jianming frowned and thought to himself: Could it be related to his biological parents who have no sense of existence?Could it be that he is really not an ordinary military student?

——Then why did he fall to the point where he had to rely on blackmailing the chief to pay for the medical expenses.

Jiang Jianming was immersed in inexplicably complicated emotions when there was a knock on the door outside the ward.

It was Major General Xie who pushed the door in.

Jiang Jianming tried to get up, but Xie Yuduo strode up and held him down: "Don't, don't move around, lie down and lie down—if the wound is opened, I have to pay another medical bill."

Jiang Jianming had no choice but to fall back, dumbfounded, and raised the bed in the treatment cabin a little, making him half-lying.

The two briefly said a few words, basically Xie Yuduo cared and Jiang Jianming was perfunctory.

After chatting for a few words, the latter asked naturally: "Speaking of which, where is your Highness?"

He had been awake for a few hours, and even the busy Major General Xie knew that he had come to see him, so there was no reason for Garcia not to show up.

Thinking of this subconsciously, Jiang Jianming was startled in his heart: something is wrong with him, since when did he acquiesce that Garcia would care about him so much?

This is not when he was with Lai An back then. He and the current Garcia can be regarded as a subordinate relationship at best.

And His Highness protected him on the battlefield and fought non-stop for almost a whole day, so it was perfectly normal to go to rest now.How big is his face, and he still wants the dignified prince of the empire to keep an eye on his side?

Jiang Jianming was subtly annoyed, of course he was angry with himself.At this time, he couldn't take back the words, he only hoped that Xie Yuduo would not be too embarrassed.

Unexpectedly, Xie Yuduo showed a helpless wry smile, and said: "Your Highness, he has guarded you for two days and two nights, and his expression is too scary this morning. I was afraid that he would make trouble for me, so I pushed him outsideSleep in the treatment cabin for a while."

"..." Jiang Jianming was silent.

"I also swore to him that you would not be able to wake up today. I didn't expect..."

Xie Yuduo touched his nose with his index finger guiltily, pulled a chair and sat down beside him, "Your Highness, he was so angry that he couldn't keep you awake, if you come to kill me later, you must plead for mercy."

Jiang Jianming pursed his lips, and there was a flash of absent-mindedness in his eyes.

He quickly changed the subject, and his fingers silently landed on the bandaged wound on his abdomen: "... Cough, I didn't expect it to be so serious. I slept for three days and thought it was only a minor injury."

The black-haired young man lowered his eyebrows, "I'm sorry, Major General... I still caused trouble. I'll think of a way again and adjust my status as soon as possible."

"Your Excellency Jiang Xiao, what are you talking about?" Xie Yuduo was taken aback, "Without you this time, the five hundred people in Yinbeidou would all be dead, and I don't know what will happen next."

"Your military achievements are extraordinary. According to the past, you can even apply for special promotion. However, this is not something that I, a fortress commander, can decide. I have to go to the military headquarters and have Marshal Chen stamp it."

Jiang Jianming suddenly remembered and asked: "Speaking of which, your military will always..."

Xie Yuduo: "Oh, I'm late, but I didn't delay the big event, but skipped the official nonsense that made people's ears callous, not bad."

He said it lightly, but Jiang Jianming couldn't help laughing.

——In the middle of the solemn and dull interstellar meeting, the projection of Major General Xie suddenly appeared with a bloody and murderous look from the battlefield, and greeted a group of old-fashioned people with a wicked smile...

This scene must be chic and interesting.

Xie Yuduo happened to be Marshal Chen's favorite general, and it wasn't a year or two since the old marshal indulged his temper, and in the end it must end with the result that the old-fashioned people dared not speak up.

The curvature of Jiang Jianming's lips deepened.

In the next moment, the door of the ward was pushed open again!

No knocking, no nurse to lead.

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Jianming knew who it was first, and he heard Xie Yuduo call "Your Highness".

Then he raised his brows and eyes slowly.

Garcia held on to the door frame and panted slightly. His clothes were thin and disheveled, which was brightly illuminated by the light from the corridor outside.

The luxurious long hair was not tied up, and it was lazily curled all the way down on the shoulders and back, shining brightly.

He stood still at the door, with a trance in his eyes as if he had just woken up from a big dream, and he floated in the depths of the ward.

The prince is used to being cold and noble, but at this moment he actually showed a naive and misty expression, like a younger boy.

... This person probably just woke up, Jiang Jianming thought to himself.He looked into Garcia's eyes quietly, and couldn't tell what it was like in his heart for a while.

With a buzz, Jiang Jianming opened the hatch of the treatment cabin and slowly stretched out an arm.

The pale and thin arms without a single thread connected to the thin wrists and slightly raised fingertips.

Jiang Jianming reached out to Garcia.

With a smile at the end of his eyes, he said, "Good morning, Your Highness."

When he said these two words, something new came out of his heart silently.

They have passed through such a life-and-death bloody battle, and now they can still greet such an early morning and say good morning with the sleepiness of waking up.

It is a very beautiful and happy thing.

Garcia quickly lowered his head in silence, and quickly took two steps forward, picking up Xie Yuduo and pushing him aside.

Then he knelt down halfway, held Jiang Jianming's hand firmly, and said nothing more.

In the treatment cabin, there seemed to be a faint light in Jiang Jianming's eyes.

He curled his fingers and gripped back. Although he was not as strong as Garcia's, he still held it all the time.

The silence lasted for two or three seconds, the prince raised his head slowly, his thin lips were slightly curved, his eyes were deep and gentle, like a midsummer night.

"You laughed just now." He said in a low voice, unaware that his eyes were also smiling imperceptibly.

"what are you laughing at?"