back to Earth

"Cheng Zhen, student of the 1076th class, congratulations on your graduation."

On the podium, the class teacher with a warm face handed out the graduation certificate in his hand and smiled.

A young man about sixteen or seventeen stood up from the audience, walked to the front of the stage, saluted, and then respectfully received his graduation certificate.

The head teacher looked at the boy in front of him with emotion. "Cheng Zhen, you are the pride of the school, and you must continue to work hard in the future, and don't disappoint our expectations!" As he said, he patted the boy's shoulder with both hands, which meant a lot.

Cheng Zhen raised his head, looked at the mentor who showed sincere concern, and couldn't help but be slightly moved, and immediately gave a standard military salute, and said loudly.

"Yes, Cheng Zhen, a graduate of the 1076th class, will definitely live up to the high expectations of the teachers!"

The boy's loud and clear voice spread far away, flying to the high and distant sky.

Another class of students is leaving.Standing at the door of the classroom, I looked at the students who formed groups and celebrated their graduation.The middle-aged head teacher couldn't help sighing.

These young people are the future of our humanity.In the near future, this group of fledgling teenagers will face more trials and challenges. How far can they persist?I only hope that one day, an immortal genius will appear to save the declining reputation of the Human Alliance.

Holding the diploma in hand, Cheng Zhen stepped out of the school gate.A pink petal was blown off by the wind, passed his sight, and floated backward.Cheng Zhen then turned around and stared at the very familiar campus after staying for more than three years.

The junior public school in Union No.18 District, today, he will leave from here.

For many civilians, this is the end, from then on, they will go to different jobs, end the carefree life of teenagers, and live a life of obscurity and hardship.

But Cheng Zhen knew that for him, this was just the beginning.

Yes, everything has just begun, and I still have a long way to go.The young man's eyes were firm, and the tips of his black hair were blown up slightly, before he turned around and strode away.

There were not many people at the light-floating station not far from the school. Cheng Zhen casually got on a light-energy car, set the direction and route, and then the car drove out of the platform under the control of the main system.

He didn't intend to go to other places to hang out, and it didn't take long for Cheng Zhen to return home.

This is an ordinary residential area located in the [-]th district. Because Cheng Zhen has many parents and children, he was allocated to a separate small house by the alliance government according to his childbearing contribution.In the eyes of other civilians, this is a welfare that they can't envy.

As soon as he got off the light energy car, a petite figure sprang out of the house, and quickly jumped into Cheng Zhen's arms.

"elder brother!"

The little girl who looked less than ten years old asked with a childish tone. "Congratulations brother for graduating! After graduation, will brother spend more time at home with Emma?"

"Stupid! Big brother doesn't have time to accompany you even if he stays at home." It was an eleven or twelve-year-old boy who answered instead of Cheng Zhen.Like Cheng Zhen, he has short, smooth black hair.Not to be outdone, the boy ran to Cheng Zhen's side and grabbed the boy's other arm. "Brother still wants to teach me martial arts! I don't have time to tell stories with you, stupid Emma!"

"Erol! You are a big villain, my brother will not accompany you, he is mine!"

"Tch, what do you know, my eldest brother and I are boys, you women don't interfere in the world of men!" Hearing such words from a boy who is obviously still a child, people can't help but find it funny.

The two children each occupy a side, and they start arguing across Cheng Zhen.

"Emma, ​​Errol..." Seeing the quarrel between the two holding his arm from left to right, Cheng Zhen didn't feel a little headache.The only thing he can't do with these two younger brothers and younger sisters, maybe he is usually spoiled.

Errol, who had the upper hand, blocked his sister's blushing earplugs with the sharpness of his tongue. When he was triumphant, he only felt a sharp pain in the base of his ears.Then he was pulled away from Cheng Zhen by his ears from behind.

The visitor smiled, and said in a dark voice. "Erol, you are very promising, you dare to bully your sister because of your age!"

"No, second brother, don't pull my ear, it hurts!" Errol immediately lowered his face and begged for mercy when he saw the nemesis coming.

"Go in for me, you will feel better later." Throwing Errol far away, the second brother looked at Yaomei who suddenly became well-behaved. "Emma, ​​brother just came back from school and is already very tired. You go into the house and tell mom to prepare dinner for brother, okay?"

"En!" With Errol's lessons learned, the little girl obediently ran into the house.

Cheng Zhen was visibly relieved that the two demon kings were gone. "Ayu, thank you for your relief."

"Hmph, if I don't watch, you'll spoil those two little debt-collecting ghosts again!" Cheng Yu smiled and didn't care much, and pulled Cheng Zhen's shoulder. "Let's go in and eat, mom has been waiting for you for a long time."

Letting his second brother who was one year younger drag him into the house, Cheng Zhen had a comfortable smile on his face.

This home is as ordinary as any ordinary family.The only difference is that the two older brothers follow their father's Eastern surname Cheng, while the third brother and younger sister follow their mother's Western surname.This is a human family with mixed blood from the East and the West. Maybe that's why the children in this family are all so outstanding in appearance.

At the dinner table in the evening, Cheng Zhen told his family what happened today. Along with a few interesting anecdotes, the family ended the meal happily.After looking at Cheng Yu and giving Errol a little, Cheng Zhen stepped up to the second floor.

The study at the corner of the second floor is his favorite place to stay.

Not long after entering the room to summon the light source, the expected little tail followed.

"Brother~" The little girl smiled flatteringly with a coquettish tone. "Can you tell Emma a story today? Errol is now watched by the second brother, so he won't bother us!"

Looking at the little girl with a face of success, Cheng Zhen sat on the sofa and patted the empty seat beside him.

"Okay, what do you want to hear today?"

Cheering and rushing over, Emma stuffed a somewhat worn-out book into Cheng Zhen's hand. "Emma wants to hear this!"

After seeing the title of the book, Cheng Zhen understood it, squinted his eyes and smiled. "Emma likes this story very much?"

He remembered that this book had been told to his little sister countless times since she was sensible, and the little girl still never tired of listening to it.

"En! I like it!" The little girl nodded vigorously again, as if she didn't express her affection enough. "Brother, tell me~, Emma wants to hear it very much."

Stretching out his arms to hug the little girl in his arms, Cheng Zhen opened the first page of the book and narrated with the clear accent unique to teenagers.

"A long, long time ago, when we humans hadn't established a home in the universe. On a beautiful distant blue planet, our ancestors lived..."

The deep and soft voice seemed to have extra hypnotic power.At first Emma listened with great interest, but the story was too long. By the time Cheng Zhen was halfway through the story, the little girl couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep.

"...In order to avoid the disaster, the surviving human beings started a long journey for tens of millions of years, and finally settled in this universe. However, the long-term migration exhausted people's minds, and no one remembered it long after they settled down. The direction of the beautiful mother star. Everyone has forgotten the way back.”

After reading the entire book, Emma has completely fallen asleep in Cheng Zhen's arms.

Looking at his younger sister who was sleeping soundly, Cheng Zhen smiled dotingly.Carefully picked her up from his lap, laid her flat on the comfortable sofa, then took off her coat and put it on Emma.

After finishing all this, Cheng Zhen picked up the storybook that he had finished reading, and gently stroked its old cover with his hands.

"People from Earth", this is a children's book, and almost every child in the league grew up listening to this story.

Focusing on the first two characters of the title, Cheng Zhen's dark eyes flashed helplessness.

No one would have thought that the earth, the mother of mankind, is now just a legend in a story, existing like a fairy tale. 17 years ago, Cheng Zhen would definitely think it was just a joke, but now, 17 years later, he has admitted this fact with sadness and helplessness like all human beings.

Humanity has lost its mother, the earth.

When he first arrived in this sci-fi interstellar world, Cheng Zhen asked his mother over and over again.He couldn't believe that in the blink of an eye, he came from the past to the future thousands of years later, and this future did not have the earth.

At that time, the young Cheng Zhen was just like Emma, ​​who had a strong attachment to this story and read it thousands of times.The only difference is that Cheng Zhen stubbornly wants to see the flaws in this story and prove that everything is not true. How could the earth disappear from the human world?

For a person who was walking on the streets of the 21st century one second, but was reborn in the future world the next second.This is really an unbelievable fact.

But with the growth of this new body, Cheng Zhen, who has become more and more familiar with the current world, has to admit this reality.

The earth is indeed gone, or no one knows where it is.

In that unprecedented escape in the last days, human beings blindly traveled far in order to avoid disasters.In the end, I don't know how many centuries I traveled, but when I was looking for a new place to live, I forgot the previous route.

Although human beings have survived and even continued to grow, they are like duckweed without roots, floating in the universe without a foundation.

"Da da da." A slight knock on the door interrupted Cheng Zhen's thoughts and woke him up from his memories.

The door was gently pushed open, and a graceful middle-aged woman walked into the room.

She has beautiful and smooth long chestnut hair, and clear and gentle light-colored eyes.This is exactly the same as Emma who is lying on the sofa and sleeping soundly.

"Mother." Cheng Zhen stood up and called softly.

"Hush, Emma is asleep?" the beautiful middle-aged woman asked softly.

The boy nodded silently.

"Okay, Ah Zhen, help me carry Emma into the room to sleep. Then I will go to the living room later, and your father and I have something to talk to you." Noticing the boy's puzzled eyes, the woman suddenly smiled mischievously She smiled, like a girl of seventeen or eighteen.

"It's about your new uniform tomorrow, my sweet little Zhen."

The author has something to say: Like the title, the sci-fi mecha battle article has the ultimate goal of finding Mother Earth.