Puppeteer [Interstellar]

This night is very long, but no matter how long it is, the morning light is slowly filling the sky, and the brilliance spreads from the other end of the earth bit by bit, the rocks and soil are sprinkled with golden colors, and the temperature gradually changes from Extreme cold picked up.

Aban lifted the hat on his head slightly. He raised his head and looked at the huge cargo ship in the sky. There was smoke from the cargo ship, and it was only possible to suspend above the sky by power. In the place where the Alliance Army fleet fired countless high-energy bombs, those bombs rushed towards the lonely cargo ship with flaming tails, and bombarded frantically.

The cargo ship's defense is obviously not enough. In addition, the defense cover has been exhausted by the Zerg before. At this moment, it is even more unable to withstand the bombardment of the alliance army. Soon, the alliance army used the principle of spaceship folding and jumping to create a Out of a wormhole.

The wormhole is like a huge circular channel of another dimension torn open in mid-air, with a strange shimmering light, while the inside of the wormhole is pitch black.

The alliance army blasted the entire cargo ship into the wormhole with bombardment cannons. Even though he stood very far away, Aban could clearly see the whole process of the bombardment. The cargo ship kept moving backwards due to the impact of the shells. , and the attraction of the wormhole is also frantically attracting it in, and the cargo ship is quickly completely swallowed by the darkness of the wormhole.

In the gradually rising morning light, the wormhole tore a huge gap in the air, like the big mouth of an invisible monster, devouring the sky and the earth, like a scene of doomsday hell.

Aban couldn't describe his state of mind when he saw all this. He walked a few steps in the direction of the swallowed cargo ship, and muttered in a low voice: "Arnold."

Even if he didn't witness it himself, Ban had a terrible intuition that his brother was on that cargo ship, that cargo ship that was swallowed by gunfire and wormholes, and Arno was there.

I don't know why this feeling is so real, and it makes Aban feel a suffocating pain in his chest.

Aban has never faced up to his feelings for his younger brother. He feels that there is no need to face up to it, because the foundation is there. They are blood-related brothers, relatives who have lived and died together countless times.

Aban believed in Anuo, he knew that his younger brother would not die. At the beginning, Aban sent his younger brother to the alliance to be a puppet master, just to keep him from dying. As long as he has a puppet, at least his life can be guaranteed at least. Other things , Aban felt that he could fight for it slowly.

Because of this, Aban always thought that even if he died, Arnold would not die.

Only occasionally, Ah Ban would feel a little scared. He would think back many, many years ago, when his parents passed away, and he was only 12 years old. Crying behind my brother's ass, crying for my mother.

A-Ban once hated him, hated this younger brother, he felt that this kid dragged him down.He once thought about abandoning him countless times in the most difficult and dark times, but in the end they all failed. Aban failed to do it, not only failed, but Aban also tried his best to fight for Arnold's survival Opportunity, in his dreams, he hoped that Arnold could survive smoothly.

Even living on this broken planet.

After his parents left, Arnold was his most important relative, his everything, his world, and the person who supported him until today.

What should be done so that Aban will never lose again?

"Ban!" Aban stared blankly at the huge cargo ship that was almost swallowed by the wormhole in the distance. When he was in a daze, a familiar and subtle voice suddenly came from behind him, and someone ran quickly. He came to his side, stretched out his hand to hold him down, and made him prostrate on the ground.

When Aban was forced to lie down on the ground, a big worm happened to pass by not far away. The worm seemed to hear something and turned its head towards Aban, but it hesitated for a long time, and finally did not Come here, because the attention of the bugs was attracted by the exploding cargo ship in the sky, and they all ran in that direction in unison.

After the bugs passed by, Aban looked back at the people around him who were holding him down. Upon seeing it, Aban suddenly became a little annoyed.

"Alice!" Aban tried his best to restrain himself from scolding this woman who could do whatever she wanted. He was indeed a bit miscalculated. He clearly knew that Alice had always had this kind of personality. She must do the things she decided to do, but she was very capable. , It can be done successfully every time.

But this time Aban felt that she couldn't be so willful: "Did you forget what I said!? I let you stay in the base! Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your children, right?"

Alice was lying on the ground with Aban, using rocks and sand to hide her figure. When she heard Aban's question, she turned her head and smiled at Aban. This woman is beautiful, and she looks good no matter how she smiles: "But I'm worried about you .”

The corners of Aban's eyes began to twitch: "What do I have to worry about?"

Alice said: "You just stood there in a daze. If I hadn't held you down, you would have been discovered by that bug. How dare you say that there is nothing to worry about?"

Aban was speechless for a while, and retorted after a while: "It was just my miscalculation..."

"One wrong step, one wrong step." Alice said in a dignified manner, "You have been spoiled too much by your guardian."

When mentioning Aban's guardian, Aban remembered the kiss he had with Osway before, and couldn't help blushing slightly on his face, although it was not obvious: "Why do you want to involve him?"

"Because it's all his fault. He has been pampering you with all his strength and pampering you with everything, which makes me feel that as long as you leave him, you can't do anything well." Alice laughed Then he told Aban frankly his first feeling.

"It's impossible." Aban retorted subconsciously.

"Nothing is impossible." Alice said, and paused for a while, "And I don't think he can worry about you, maybe he will follow me after a while."

When Alice said this, Aben looked behind Alice subconsciously, but there was an empty flat land behind, all of which were desolate rocks and sand. Although it seemed that there was nothing on the surface, Alice said so Ah Ban always felt that Oswell would pop out of nowhere in the next second.

Aban turned his head back, shook his head, and then looked at the cargo ship in the sky that was basically swallowed by the wormhole, and the alliance warship approaching in the distance, Aban was a little worried: "Don't mention him, our The focus has to be on that."

Alice also followed Aban's gaze to look at the Alliance fleet over there. Her expression was a little serious. She sighed and said, "I'm a little worried about Lyle."

"Why are you so worried about him?" Aban suddenly felt a little strange when he heard Alice's words, "You and him just met by chance, and we have gone through such a stage together on the way to escape, and we are no more than strangers to each other. How much you are more familiar with, you obviously don't have to worry about him."

Alice answered irrelevantly, she said, "Do you remember what I told you before?"

"I am an abandoned child raised by my family, a 'prop' used as an experimental subject, and Lyle, that child is just like me, so... I don't know if it is a relationship of sympathy, I always feel a little worried about him Feelings."

"Experimental subject!?" Aban was stunned by these words, "Do you think Lyle is also an experimental subject?"

"He's different from us." Alice frowned slightly, "We are the experimental subjects of the New Army, and he is the experimental subject of the Alliance."

"I don't quite understand what you mean, and how did you know that he was a test subject?" Aban was only surprised. Alice always told some information that he didn't understand, but Aban recently placed an eyeliner in the alliance. , but did not report any information about this to Aban.

"Because... well, let's put it this way, I have seen a list by chance before." Alice touched her chin and recalled, "A list of experimental subjects within the alliance. The children and their detailed information are all registered on the list, and I have seen Lyle's photo on it... To be honest, when I saw Lyle for the first time, although I didn't think of it for a while, but I vaguely remembered it later gone."

I don't know how Alice saw this list, but when Aban thought that Alice was a member of the Okan family, he felt that it was not surprising.

Although the Okan family is indeed one of the funders of the new army, it is still an authoritative family in the alliance on the surface, and it is not uncommon to get some inside information.

Alice continued: "The major families in the alliance, especially the powerful ones, in order to gain a foothold in the alliance government, they think that their heirs must be puppet masters."

Aban nodded understandingly: "I do know that, in the minds of those in the alliance, they think that as long as they can become puppet masters, they can gain fame and status. The emergence of a puppet master can further enhance the social status of the family, so those people have carefully planned to cultivate the spiritual power of their heirs since they were young, in order to be able to cultivate a puppet master in the family in the future."

"Spiritual power is not so easy to cultivate." Alice whispered, "Human spiritual power is actually a kind of will. If there is no such power innately, then if you want to have spiritual power beyond ordinary people, you must It can only be made up for by adopting some cruel methods... Yes, they used their own children as sacrifices, and used some experiments to forcefully improve the spiritual power of these children when they were still babies."

"If you do this, there will be a lot of problems, right?" Aban thought of his shrunken body, which would remain in his childhood appearance forever. This was the sequelae caused by the experiments he had experienced before. Bad fallout.

"There are a lot of problems, and some kids who do those experiments look normal at first, but as they get older, they show signs of 'going crazy'."

"Crazy?" Aban asked.

Alice said: "Because the mental power is unstable, many of these experimental subjects will appear restless, mentally broken, unconscious, and violent. Such a group of puppeteers who look like lunatics will control those even crazier demons." Oh, what do you think it will turn into in the end?"

Aban couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard the words.

"I don't know much about this experiment. I only know that the alliance army is desperately trying to create puppet masters and golems, while the new army wants to adopt other methods to gain stronger combat power. Although the behavior of both sides Both the starting point and the starting point are distorted, but as far as the purpose is concerned, they did do so many things in order to completely defeat the Zerg.”

When Alice said this, she smiled wryly, and Aban could see her side face when he turned his head. Under the brim of her hat, her golden hair was shining in the morning light, and her blue eyes were so bright.

"Are we asking for our own destruction?" Alice seemed to have a feeling, and suddenly asked such a question in a murmur. She didn't know who she was asking, A-Ban, or herself.