In the fifth holy battle, 200,000 gold sun wheels were buried in the crystal nest, and the emperor's death ended dismal.

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

In the middle of the night, Lin Song dragged his exhausted body back to the White Emerald Palace, only feeling that his internal organs were full of bitterness and soreness, as well as a deep sense of powerlessness.

Raising her head suddenly, she saw a bean-sized spot of light standing still on the opposite side of the darkness.

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

"Thank you, Lin Ge." Sylph said softly.

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

"Understood, Lin Song."

"Bad girl." Lin Song smiled weakly, and walked up the steps.

She saw Sylph's face clearly by the light of the suspended lamp, and there was an indelible shadow on that beautiful face, which must be exactly the same as her own.

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

"I know that I am talented in scientific research and academics, and I have put in enough effort. So when you were hanging your lives on the front line, when His Majesty said that I would just be in charge of the laboratory, I accepted it with peace of mind."

"But now, the people who protected me are leaving one after another, and I realize that it's not...it's not."

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

The three sat casually in the room of the palace.Jiang Jianming is braiding Sylph's hair, while Lai An has long curly hair loose and concentrates on peeling apples.

Still a young girl, Sylph blinked her eyes, and quickly stole a piece of apple with her little hand.

His Majesty was not angry, but instead fed a piece to the commander who couldn't spare, and then rubbed the man's lips with the juice from his fingers expressionlessly.

What about her?Maybe it's his teeth itching with jealousy, Lin Song thought to himself.

Yeah, one after another went away.So, it would have been nice to have been candid at the time, to have said more of what was on our minds before they left.

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

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

Lin Song stepped forward, and she hugged Sylph.

...

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

——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 Alien Omega in person, be the real leader of the base, and do more things 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 has not been completely stable, and people with ulterior motives are still watching for opportunities."

"In order not to cause unnecessary trouble, I will follow the example of the commander in the past, hide my name and cover my face with black armor."

"You are the light of the empire, and I will be the shadow of the empire. I will miss you on the other side of the star sea until the day of reunion comes."

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

"In addition, I have made up my mind not to undergo genetic surgery within a hundred years."

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

"Sorry, Lin Song."

"Goodbye, Your Majesty."

"Sylph——Sylph, come back!!"

It was just before sunrise, and there was still a chill among the golden rose bushes.

Lin Song was running in the empty palace, her black hair swaying loosely, she looked around, and shouted the name, "Sylph...!!"

When she came to the highest point of the White Emerald Palace, she saw a slender figure in a cloak walking down the long steps step by step, into the deeper shadows where the sunlight could not reach.

That was Sylph, she was leaving her, going to the far side of the star sea.The intimate embrace that night was the first and the last.

Lin Song stopped abruptly, and the light of the star rose up, illuminating the alleyways of the Star City 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, and she cried bitterly in a place where no one was around.

She's the emperor...she's alone.

The Fifth Sacred Battle seemed to be the final end to the troubled times. Year after year passed, and there was no further turmoil in the New Empire.

Although crystal disorder disease is still terminally ill, the number of new patients has decreased rapidly.Everything is thriving 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.

Over a long period of time, the red gold gradually faded from the edge to the center, becoming as colorless and transparent as the surrounding crystal nest land, which was the process of Kaios's consciousness being killed by the crystal nest Lingchi.

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

In its seemingly dead body, Jiang Jianming was still asleep.

The human body of the remnant crystal is weak and harmless, and the rich crystal particles pounce on this sweet prey, about to tear him apart——

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

Like an evil dragon whose scales have been touched, it let out a silent roar, shining brightly!

In an instant, with Jiang Jianming as the center, the area with a radius of several hundred meters was covered with red gold luster.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 vicious counterattack is over, everything returns to dead silence.

The red gold was eaten away by the crystal particles again, as if it was just the last reflection.

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

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

It deters with actions—I can be half dead, but if you dare to touch the crippled human being inside me, then I will crawl back from the dead and bite you viciously.

Was Jingchao moved?No, Crystal Nest dare not move.After repeated seesawing several times to no avail, in the end, we can only stay in this state, hoping for a longer time, and let the loneliness and darkness of tens, hundreds, and thousands of years wear away this unreasonable existence.

But the intruders, who were moths to the flame, made a comeback.

It was the humans in silver and black military uniforms, those humans stepped on the land of the crystal nest time and time again, fought, died, and caused scars that were difficult to heal to the crystal nest.

Their technology has improved, their weapons have become more useful, and their tranquilizers are different from before. It seems that they have completed a qualitative upgrade.

The crystal nest blocked the communication between the expedition ship and the interstellar fortress, so they set up temporary communication stations one by one, using short-distance communication relays to transmit encrypted data to distant places.

The expeditionary force was killed in Crystal Nest, and those data were 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 pitch-black armor, and the face mask and electronic voice changer made her unfathomable——

Sylph is thankful for this.If it wasn't so, when the video was cracked and she saw the red gold flashing across the surface of the crystal nest, the gaffe at that moment would definitely destroy the leader's image.

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

It's not wrong, it's really the color of Kaios's crystal bone!I don't know if it's her illusion, but the scarlet gold seems to be guiding the expeditionary army...

Your Majesty Keos is still here!?

...

"—You want to find the source of Kaios's consciousness and project him with spiritual consciousness?"

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

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

"But your experiments all require people to lie on the bed with this kind of tube connected to their head... this kind of thing."

Lin Song flicked his hands on his head indiscriminately, 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 physical 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 on the microscopic level can carry consciousness. If His Majesty's self-awareness can pass through crystal particlesThe two-way communication between the particle form and the Black Shark base is completed, and I may complete the projection for him!"

"How to communicate two-way?"

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 crystal nests."

"Hiss..." Xie Yuduo tapped his temple after listening, the expression on his face was indescribable.

"So according to your speculation, in addition to swallowing the commander, you also, uh, swallowed the equipment of the Black Shark Base!?"

Xie Yuduo showed an embarrassed but polite smile: "Then His Highness eats quite a lot..."

Although not in the normal sense of eating.

Of course, joking is just joking, Major General Xie actually understands in his heart.

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

Lai An stared at the display screen in the middle of the bridge, leaning forward slightly: "...Major General Xie, what you should pay most attention to now may not be my eating problem."

It was still quiet in the dark Yu Region ahead.But the three-dimensional star map has already shown the abnormality captured by the radar, and the red light of the alarm flashes.

The indecent smile on the corner of Xie Yuduo's mouth disappeared immediately, and the major general typed a few times on the virtual keyboard, and the three-dimensional star map expanded to the maximum multiple——

Ahead, distorted crystalline objects are converging into a large group, densely enveloping the Silver Beidou Fleet in the universe.

"It's really good, the treatment has been upgraded. When Yin Beidou came last time, he didn't have the current posture."

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

Lai An raised his hand and pulled down the levers of the highest alert and full combat status at the same time, and said quietly: "Maybe not."

In a few words, the attacker has moved forward on the three-dimensional star map by a grid scale... It's like a huge wave opening its mouth, trying to swallow the tiny fallen leaves on the water.

"This group of things is rushing faster than the fleet's maximum speed, and there is not enough time to open the jump wormhole... There is no way to withdraw."

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

"Major General! The concentration of crystal particles has increased sharply, and the remote communication equipment has received interference. It is currently unable to send messages to the empire. Our technicians are trying to find a way..."

"Damn it." Xie Yuduo's face turned dark, and he hung up the communication.

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

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

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Reality: Waking up inside him.

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