There was a slight fluctuation in the projection, which was then transformed into an image.Among the large transparent crystals, the figure can be clearly seen.

It was a man who died standing up.

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

The night outside the window squeezed in like a tide.All of a sudden, he felt a heart-piercing pain going all over his bones, and at the same time, he also had a strong sense of absurdity.And the powerlessness mocked by fate that has been too long.

Has he forgotten.

Because this lost and regained dream is too happy, and the embrace of the lover is too warm, and the days of being cared for are fascinating.

It made him gradually forget the days when he walked alone, the bloodstains spreading in the sleeping mecha, and the four lines of last words that he still doesn't know the meaning of.

How could he forget?

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

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

But that body seemed to be torn apart by some huge force, and no torture in human history could cause such a tragedy.

Through the crystal clusters on the surface of the body, one can see the torn flesh, the torn abdominal cavity, half of the viscera smashed into a meat paste, and dislocated and crushed bones.

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

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

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

The crown prince's face was also broken, and the once handsome young prince had turned into a bloody mess.Falling platinum curls concealed a hideous, distorted visage.

He raised a bloody arm that was twisted at a strange angle, and his fingers stretched in a certain direction.It seems that he wants to guide the way for future generations, and it seems that he just wants to hold some ethereal existence.

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

There was a long trail of blood behind him, and 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 the void, flooding every inch of flesh and blood like greedy locusts, and finally sealed the broken body in the crystal block.

Click.

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

Jiang Jianming turned his eyes blankly, and saw Lai An... Lai An beside him staggered a step, he stared blankly at the projection, his face was as tight as iron, and his eyes remained silent in a terrifying way.

Even though his memory is still blank, he has already believed and accepted the identity of Leian Keos, 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.

Let’s say, the remains of Crown Prince Leian Keos have been recovered.

So the current "Imperial Crown Prince", the current himself——

who is it?

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

Floating in mid-air was still Xie Yuduo's haggard face, the major general's eyes were full of bitterness, and he spoke every word with difficulty.

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

Although he didn't know about the projection technology of spiritual consciousness, let alone the White Bird Project, the Major General always believed that Garcia was Lai An.

When Jingchao saw that scene with his own eyes, how could he express the shock and shock in his heart in a few words?

Xie Yuduo closed his eyes, and rested his forehead with his hands: "That's why I dare 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 time and time again, and has never complained about taking his life to fill the universe."

"In this expedition, we sacrificed nearly a thousand more people, and they will soon become the names on the heroic monument. The officials don't even know how many people are still alive when the fleet actually returns to the fortress."

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

That sense of grief and indignation almost turned into a sharp sword to pierce the cold night.

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

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

When he spoke again, his lips trembled, and his voice seemed to be trembling, but in fact it didn't.

He said: "At least, please answer: Is our sacrifice 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 listened to the young general's accusation, and whether there were waves in his heart.Or simply because the time had come and the emperor made his decision.

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

"yes."

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

Lai An directly turned off the virtual screen, turned her back to Jiang Jianming, and stood motionless by the dark window.

Jiang Jianming was already in a daze, but now he regained consciousness instantly as if a bucket of cold water had been splashed on his face.

He couldn't panic, if he wavered first at this time, what would Lai An do?

"No, Your Highness."

Jiang Jianming calmed down and said calmly: "You are indeed the projection substrate of His Royal Highness Lai An. All the evidence points to this conclusion. There should be some misunderstanding."

"..."

Lai An 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, so it doesn't matter who I am."

Jiang Jianming gasped lightly, only to feel that his chest seemed to be filled with sharp shattered ice.

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

Jiang Jianming insisted on speaking, and he controlled his tone as gentle as possible without looking deliberate, "Wait here for my return, just like in the black shark base that day, is that okay?"

"It's not necessary," Lai An said hoarsely, looking at the night outside the window, "unless you care."

Jiang Jianming: "Then I care."

He turned and went out.

Lai An closed her eyes heavily.In my memory, the blizzard of Alien Alpha seemed to be sweeping over, and it turned into a picture of myself dying in a bloody and miserable state.

The feeling of being thrown back to the origin all of a sudden also engulfed him.

After an unknown amount of time, the wind outside became stronger, making the window panes rattle slightly.

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

... No, why did he just let Jiang Jianming go for a night walk alone.Suffering such a big stimulus suddenly in the middle of the night, how can the body with chronic crystal disorder bear it?

What's more, the day before yesterday, he and Chen fought outside with crystal bones, and the sensor light on that piece should have been broken together with the rain screen film. Jiang Jianming couldn't go there.

Thinking of this, other things are no longer so important.

Lai An pursed her lips, and wanted to follow quickly, but just as she reached the door, a sudden, unexpected and irresistible headache hit her!

"……Well!!"

Lai An knocked the cabinet sideways with a bang, half knelt on the ground, and pressed her forehead in pain.

The headache pulled his consciousness more violently, turning into an unknown black hole, trying to suck him into another time and space.

It was not a power that could be resisted by will or patience at all, the luster in Lai An's emerald green eyes faded, and she lost consciousness in an instant.

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

Black Shark Base.

The alarm sounded suddenly, and the leader Sylph, who had just finished the meeting and led Diana out, suddenly turned his head!

At the same time, the expressions of senior researchers at all bases also changed.

They recognize this particular siren and know what it means!

The leader ran towards the elevator leading to the ground, and the researchers also rushed over.Only Diana, who had just entered the base, looked bewildered.

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

What's the matter?

"That... that, leader... Excuse me..."

Diana was in a daze and wanted to cry, but she was squeezed around in circles.A few seconds later, the elevator arrived, and she was squeezed out again by the flow of people.

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 displayed inside, transmission tubes of unknown purpose spreading like capillaries on the smooth metal textured walls, leading to the huge central machine.

"leader!"

The guarding researchers are in a state of panic.Seeing the iron door open, they all called out as if they had found the backbone, "Come and see, the frequency of No. 000 is disordered, and the projection of consciousness is very unstable!!"

The base leader, who has always been calm, took off his mask, and when he saw the data, he showed a rare face of astonishment.

Sylph flicked 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 startled 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 was only anxiously fiddling with the machine.

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

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

It's like a trapped beast is frantically biting some kind of cage, desperate to break free!

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

She shook the instrument, "Be sober, stop, stop! Can you still hear me!?"

What?Is this really possible to talk to?Is this really a conversation?

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

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

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

"—Answer me, you're going to see the commander, aren't you?"

Diana's eyes widened!

She fell into that stunned sleepwalking state again.

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

On the cold instrument, the frantic data suddenly fell silent 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 deep and one foot shallow. At this time, there was no one around, but his mind was in a mess.

He didn't want to think about it deliberately, but that image had already been firmly burned into his mind, together with the large bloodstains in Crown of Dawn, it kept reappearing in front of his eyes.

He once resented the little Highness for dying alone, was annoyed at the other party's concealment and parting, and even ridiculed him in his dreams.

——I doubt that you really still have bones?Three years have passed, have you been eaten by vultures and jackals?

He was wrong, Jiang Jianming thought to himself heartbroken.If he went back to the past, even in a dream, he would definitely never say that kind of thing again.

Because now he doesn't want to collect the corpse anymore, he wants to get rid of all the blood, tears and flames of war, and when he reaches the end, he can bring his Highness home...

He coughed twice, feeling hot and cold all over his body.

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 purple, and he panted mechanically repeatedly, and only the sound of his own breathing could be heard in his ears.

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

But his thinking was completely entangled, and he didn't even realize that his steps forward became more and more vain, until he couldn't walk, and slowly sat down.

What if Lai An is really dead?...No... no, it won't be like that.There is no result of cranky thinking, he has to ask clearly...

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

It's so dark, why is there no light.

He felt in a daze that he shouldn't be sitting here, and wanted to stand up, but his legs gave way and he fell back to the ground, coughing while pressing his chest.

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

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

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

According to His Excellency Lopez tonight, 000 is the first substrate to start the substrate plan, earlier than 002.But Hara Nagasawa was brought up like an ordinary person since he was a child, he should be about the same age as himself, so the No. 002 base body was born about twenty years ago.

And "Garcia" was born three or four years ago, so reasoning, "Garcia" really cannot be the No. 000 substrate!

Cold sweat rolled down the black hair, Jiang Jianming's eyes were lost, his lips were opened, and his body convulsed unconsciously with rapid panting.

Anyone who passes by here and sees his appearance at this moment will know that it is 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 he can survive it.

Organ failure and death.Or turn into an acute crystal disorder, and die suddenly in a few minutes in an inhuman tragedy, it is all possible.

But at this time and this place, no one passed by.

The author has something to say: I originally thought that the plot point of the emperor’s forced online launch would be a kind of crazy criticism, but I never expected that with Miss Diana’s complaints, the effect of the writing is actually a bit funny (.

Lai: Meow, you five scared him!!Give me the number, give me

Lai: guna!!Who on earth died so badly that he was so frightened that he was about 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 with ooc fine points, and the memories of both parties will be merged in the end, it is 1v1 not 3v2)