In the 65th year of the New Emperor Calendar, the capital of Aslan, Bai Emerald Palace.

The crimson veil was half covered, revealing a pair of graceful legs of the woman.The emperor sat on the emperor's throne deep in the palace, with a long knife across his knees to slaughter thieves.

Lin Song's fingers stroked the scabbard, but his gaze was leisurely looking out the window, thinking about the report on Space Pirates a few days ago.

... This bloody knife that contains hatred and sin may not last forever.

If the problem of Space Pirates can be completely solved, Jiang Jianming should be very pleased.Even if the memory of the previous life returned, with that person's nature, he should hope that she would let go of her obsession.

So the emperor was stuck in memory again, remembering in a trance the moment when Sylph called from the Black Shark base and told her, "What your majesty sent is the commander's spiritual consciousness".

She probably will never forget the feeling of trembling all over her body.

"You said that Jiang Ye is still alive and is also in the crystal nest!?"

She even remembered that there was a cool wind that night, and something jingled all the time.Hiding in the depths of the palace to communicate, I suddenly raised my voice and then lowered it: "Don't lie to me, isn't he dormant? What's more, his physical condition before dormancy...and in a place like crystal nest...he reallyStill alive!?"

The black-clothed leader on the opposite side stood guard in front of a large machine, and the old god said in an electronic voice on the ground: "Yes, but the current situation is a bit complicated, and it is difficult to explain."

"Judging from the deciphered consciousness information, I think His Majesty Kaios in the crystalline state swallowed the commander into his body, protecting him from external crystal particles."

Lin Song was dumbfounded, "Eat...!?"

"Don't show that expression, haven't you seen it before? Because the commander-in-chief and His Majesty have been integrated into one body all year round... Well, don't think about it, it's a literal fusion..."

"Isn't the literal meaning of becoming one is becoming one!?"

Lin Song was furious: "I'm going to fuck Kaios! He's going to be shameless, and he can talk to a comatose patient!?"

leader:"."

So it doesn't mean that...

"Forget it, let's put aside the matter of merging or not."

The leader had no choice but to break the can and said: "You can't understand the theory with His Majesty. In short, Keos asked to do the commander's projection first, and we matched the matrix."

"Matched!?"

"It's a pity that the technology at this stage can only start from the embryo, which can only carry personality and part of the subconscious, and cannot carry memory."

Lin Song said anxiously: "That's all trivial, I'm just asking if you've matched!"

Sylph: "Yes. Matched embryos are crippled."

Lin Song: "...Really."

——To this day, Lin Song still clearly remembers her contradictory psychology at that time: it was like a big stone in her heart fell to the ground, but it was covered with a cloud.

Oh, crippled human beings, she subconsciously thought almost despicably, then there is a legitimate reason to keep him away from the chaos of war, there is no way, it is God's will, right?

Compared with the era when Jiang Jianming was born, the disabled people this year should have a much better life, right?

At least the new law revision was passed the year before last, and new humans are forbidden to release crystal bones in public...

Then give him back his real name, give him back a healthy body that can taste the sweetness of apples and the fragrance of roses, find a guardian who won’t get sick and go crazy and beat children, and give him a warm and stable family.

He likes reading so much, he once said that he regretted not getting in touch with mechs earlier.He likes the vast starry sky, and the history of the past and present.

Now can give it to him. She is the emperor, and Sylph is the leader of the base. This time, can finally...

For an hour that night she babbled to Sylph about how to screen the guardians of that precious matrix.

Until the chief was forced beyond endurance: "Your Majesty! Don't you think your request is a little too high?"

But before hanging up, Sylph said, "...I'll keep an eye out."

That was all twenty years ago.

At the beginning of this year, the leader told her that the basic body project was about to be completed, and all the memories of the original body could be transferred to the basic body's brain.

By the time……

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty?"

The sound brought back the emperor's thoughts.In the blink of an eye, a black cane appeared on the floor in front of his vision.

An old man in a tall and straight military uniform stood below at some point, touching his chest and saluting.

"Forgive me, Your Majesty. The military situation is urgent. I came in by myself."

Lin Song immediately calmed down, and she put the slaughter thief aside: "What's the matter? The remnants of the Crystal Cult have been found, or is there any news about the disconnected expeditionary force?"

Old Marshal Chen's face was unusually heavy, "No...not at all."

"Emergency report from Alien Omega, Third Fortress."

boom……

Another mecha smashed into the ground of the crystal nest with billowing smoke.

On the vast crystal surface, the wreckage of starships, mechas and drones has been piled up.The bright light appears and disappears in the distance, and finally returns to nothingness.

Countless strange crystalline life forms wandered in their lairs, repeating the cycle of decomposition and recombination.

It is difficult to describe this life form so different from humans in words.

The aggregates of crystal particles are colorless and transparent like crystal nests, without a fixed shape, and all appearances that change—whether it is piercing sharp edges or turning into thick shields, are all for better counterattacks.Group of colonized people, human beings.

"Cough, bah bah..."

Two figures in combat uniforms supported each other and stood up.Overhead is the dark universe, looking around, there are no imperial soldiers around.

The chestnut-haired prosthetic female soldier spit out blood, wiped the blood from her forehead, and said with difficulty: "Sorry, Tang Zhen, the mecha seems to be unable to open."

"Nonsense, I'm not blind yet, I can see it!"

Tang Zhen's face turned pale, and he staggered a step forward, showing his crystal bones, and standing back to back with Bemaner.

Transparent crystal thorns are slowly emerging from around the two of them.

"Damn it, it's been a month, a month," Tang Zhen cursed in a low voice, "I've been tossing with these ghosts for a month and it's not over yet!"

The next moment, the crystal bones of both of them skyrocketed at the same time, fighting the "ghost thing" in front of them!

The moment the red-brown crystal bone collided with the colorless crystal thorn, Tang Zhen's facial features twisted, and a chaotic force spread along the crystal bone, causing him severe pain all over his body.

"Uh!"

His mind was buzzing, and countless negative emotions surged up like a tide, disturbing his spirit.

The crystal particles in the body...are being affected...

Even though they have been fighting in Crystal Nest for more than a month, it is still difficult for the soldiers of Yin Beidou to overcome this pressure.

It's a pity that the enemy will not show mercy. Thrilling battles are happening in every corner of Crystal Nest, and every day is more difficult than yesterday.

Inside the flagship of the Silver Beidou Fleet, Hara Nagasawa gritted his teeth and watched the fierce battle outside the porthole, holding a gun in his hand.

"Don't be impulsive, young master!"

Larry grabbed Hara Nagasawa's arm in panic, trembling all over, "If the mental consciousness projection technique is unreliable, you will be finished if you shoot this one shot!"

"Let go." Hara Nagasawa whispered, "Now the situation is much more serious than expected. The expeditionary army needs help. My death can bring the memory back to the Black Shark base... as long as His Royal Highness or Major General agrees..."

A bloody palm stretched out and pressed the black muzzle of the gun.

"Calm down, kid."

At some point, Xie Yuduo's mecha stopped behind.The major general had already fought for a round, his right arm was covered with blood, and he was panting violently: "It's not yet time, I don't agree."

"...But!" Hara Nagasawa trembled, "So many people have already died."

"War will kill people." Xie Yuduo said, "Hold on, the Silver Beidou is not as useless as you imagined, if you persist for a while, the large troops will be sure to withdraw from the crystal nest."

Larry breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly pressed Yuan Nagasawa's gun down.

But at this moment, the communication from the mecha Tianshu rang at the back - Xie Yuduo had just returned to the ship, and the military channel was still hung in the mecha.

"Report to Major General, we have detected a foreign object approaching the crystal nest, please instruct!"

Xie Yuduo: "Foreign object!?"

The opposite said: "It seems to be... a mecha. Yes, it has been confirmed, it is a mecha!"

Outside the starship, the soldiers fighting in the mid-air of the crystal nest or on the surface became restless.

They were the first to perceive that the frequency of the surrounding grains had changed.

Someone shouted: "Look!"

Tang Zhen and Bei Man'er had just finished fighting, and Yin Beidou's mecha formation also found them.When the two were about to evacuate with the large army, they raised their heads and looked up into the sky if they felt it.

I saw a tiny black spot on the zenith.

A mecha slowly approached from a distance.The cockpit is open, and a man in white is sitting there.

Bemaner took a closer look and said in amazement, "Gaius...!?"

Tang Zhen's nose was covered with sweat, and his face looked ugly: "It's him? Why is he alone?"

Archbishop of the Crystal Cult, traitor to the race against humanity, and the mastermind behind all the turmoil so far!

A touch of dark gold suddenly rose up and appeared above the crystal nest.

It's the L-Crown of Dawn of the Crown Prince!

Lai An No matter what the archbishop's purpose of coming to Crystal Nest alone was, he was not afraid, and went directly to greet him.The muzzle of the super S-class mecha gathers energy, and let's talk about knocking people down!

Gaius just glanced at it lightly, and there was a strange fanatical smile on his gentle face.He stretched his arms and leaned back like a puppet—

He fell straight down from the mecha!

The next moment, the land of the crystal nest was like a living creature waking up, and crystals thousands of meters high rose from the ground, even covering the starry sky of the Yu Region above the head.

"!?"

Lai An's expression changed, and the Crown of Dawn spun sharply, narrowly avoiding the huge wave-like crystals.

Looking back, saw that the ground below was deeply sunken as if it had been drained dry.The white crystal soaring into the sky turned into a huge piranha flower, which suddenly wrapped the falling Gaius——

From head to toe, swallow it whole!!

"Fuck!?" Tang Zhen's face turned blue.

"Swallow, swallow!"

Inside the starship, Hara Nagasawa stumbled and pointed outside.

Xie Yuduo was dumbfounded: "Could swallowing people still be a racial hobby of crystal particles??"

In the next second, a large piece of crystal smashed back to the surface, engulfing Gaius in the "belly" as if satisfied, and went to nowhere.

Lai An's face suddenly turned cold, and he raised his hand to grab a piece of real crystal, trying to blast the crystal wrapped in Gaius out of the ground.

But that thing was moving too fast, the crown prince flew all the way to catch the broken crystal but couldn't catch it, and soon he couldn't even see the shadow.

It is still unknown what consequences will be caused by a human being voluntarily joining the crystal nest.

Xie Yuduo put his hand on Yuan Nagasawa's shoulder.

Hara Nagasawa: "?"

Xie Yuduo was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly turned around with difficulty and smiled and said, "Ha, I'm sorry, Mr. Yuan, in this situation, you probably still have to be mentally prepared to die?"

It is night, and the crystal nest is deeper.

The black-haired disabled human being is wrapped in the center of a transparent and colorless crystal cluster.His handsome brows were tightly frowned, and his eyelashes kept trembling, as if he was going to suffer great pain even in his drowsiness.

The crystals in all directions became restless, even faintly stained with a few traces of red gold luster.

They, or "it", climbed onto the fragile body of man, clung to him tightly, engulfed him, and tried to give him some comfort.

Suddenly, the disabled human's lips moved.He tilted his head weakly, and made an indistinct voice: "... Lai... Lai An..."

"It" suddenly paused.

A few seconds later, "it" hung down a crystal bone limply, caressingly rubbing the disabled human's cheek.

"what!!!"

There was a scream, accompanied by the sound of splashing water.

In the dark depths of the laboratory, the lights flickered on and off, and several scientific researchers of the Black Shark Base huddled in a corner, looking in horror at the figure that crashed into the dormant chamber.

——It was a man in his thirties, lying awkwardly on the lid of the dormant compartment, gasping for breath.

"Hoo, hoo..."

He squinted his eyes and panted heavily, and the black shadows in his field of vision overlapped, and he could vaguely see those scientific researchers huh-lah-la-lah surrounding them, chatting about something in a hurry.

"It's Chang Ze! 002 is awake!"

"The 002 base body has been confirmed dead, and the original body has awakened!"

Changze... who is Chang Ze?

Memories collided crazily in the man's mind. One moment it was the sound of a gun being fired, and the next moment it became the muffled sound of the door of the dormant barn being knocked open.

Chang Ze covered his temples and groaned.

Yes, it's me. I'm Chang Ze, the experimenter of Black Shark Base, and I'm also Matrix 002, the well-known crystalless son of Glory Star City, Hara Nagasawa...!

I just died, I died in the nest, because—

Suddenly, the man suddenly raised his face and shouted hoarsely: "I ask for help!!"

"The leader... Where is the leader, please let me see the leader!"

Chang Ze's voice was hoarse because he hadn't used it for a long time, and his word order was flustered. He gestured with his hands in a mess, "It's Yin Beidou, and Yin Beidou's expeditionary force is trapped in the crystal nest..."

"Yes, I'm sorry..."

Suddenly, a timid female voice sounded.

Diana huddled in a corner, facing the substrate she was solely responsible for——Chang Ze, or former Nagasawa.

rumbling...

Chang Ze was taken aback for a moment, the sound of shelling coming from a distance made the laboratory tremble.

"That is to say, that, in fact, if you woke up five days ago, we could still help you, but now..."

Diana smiled dryly with a pale face: "Alien Omega was attacked by the enemy. Just five hours ago, the Black Shark base and the third fortress were disconnected."

"So, we may be a little bit, we can't protect ourselves...?"

...

At the same moment, another corner of the Black Shark base.

The crystal particles are abnormal, alien creatures are rioting, and this place has turned into a battlefield.

The ceiling was broken, and the wind was howling and pouring into it, and the smell of blood and potion was everywhere.

"Don't come...don't come!!"

The experimenter desperately stretched his arms, condensing out the crystal bone.Stand in front of an automatic door.

There was a low growl of an alien creature in front of him. The head was covered with tumors and crystals, and there were three eyeballs.I can't tell what species it was originally, can only smell the stench coming from face.

The experimenter was short of breath, his face was covered with fine sweat, and his legs were trembling with fear in front of the shadow of death: "Don't, don't..."

But those arms still blocked the door with force, motionless.

What's behind the door?

Behind the door is the most important core room of the base, the file backup library.What's more important is that there is a special dormant chamber in the deepest part.

When the alien creature jumped down, what the experimenter thought in his mind was: It doesn't matter if I die.

But don't break the door, don't go inside, the one in the dormant compartment must not be injured in any way.

If not, he will be ashamed of the leader and the empire after he dies, and he will die with regret...

The flash of light, the thought of life and death.

In an instant, the automatic door behind him suddenly opened.A force grabbed his neckline violently and pushed him to the side!

boom!The two rolled on the ground together, and the sharp claws of the alien creature narrowly brushed past their heads.

The experimenter screamed and closed his eyes, followed by four shots!

——Bang bang bang bang!!

There was no sound for a long time.

When the experimenter tremblingly opened his eyes again, he saw the corpse of an alien creature whose vitals had been pierced in front of him, and blood was still spraying out from the hole made by the bullet.

The life-saving hand slowly released him.

The experimenter was struck by lightning.

He turned his head stiffly to the side, and the first thing he saw was an arm holding a gun.

Straight and steady, with stretched joints under the pale skin.

A black-haired young man half-kneeled beside him with a calm expression.His emaciated body was only wearing a long white gown worn by a patient in sleep, his slender and tight arms and legs were wet and exposed, and transparent medical treatment fluid dripped continuously from his black hair.

"Is this the Black Shark base?"

Jiang Jianming looked ahead vigilantly, and said in a hoarse voice word by word, "Report the status quo."

Volume Six: Breaking the Night and Dawn