back to Earth

Leiber, as usual, is going back to the White Hall to rest after the extra training and counseling.

Unexpectedly, he was stopped on the way.

Intercepting the chief of the Bertutan tribe on the way, this is not something ordinary people dare to do!

What was even more unexpected was that Leiber also knew the two people who blocked his way.Not only did he know each other, he was even able to pronounce their names clearly.

Misaki, Cassia, and Cheng Zhen are two of the few good friends in the academy.

"What's the matter?"

Seeing these two friends who had been with Cheng Zhen all the time, Leiber stopped and looked at them with a calm expression.

Misaki and Cassia glanced at each other, and then asked. "We came here just to ask about one thing, and we think that the only person in the academy who knows this matter best is you, the Chief of the Golden Clan."

Secretly raised his eyebrows, Leiber said calmly. "That depends on what you're asking."

Cheng Zhen, who went out to perform a secret mission, has not returned for more than a month. Although the academy arranged a reasonable reason for it, it cannot be hidden from other people, and it cannot be hidden from these two people who are closest to Cheng Zhen.It seems that Cheng Zhen has not returned for a long time, which made his two friends suspicious.

Sure enough, I only heard Cassia continue. "We want to know, where did Cheng Zhen go?"

Leiber, who was still thinking about how to speak, heard the gray-haired boy speak out before he could answer.

"Please don't use some excuses to perfuse us."

Those light green eyes were full of persistence, and he couldn't avoid looking straight at Leiber. "He hasn't shown up for more than a month. We don't think it's as simple as the academy said that he is conducting secret training. Chief Leiber, even if you can't tell us the real reason, please don't just create a perfunctory reason."

"Then what do you want?" Leiber looked at Cassia, his metallic eyes looked a little indifferent. "Some things are beyond your knowledge."

Leiber was getting a little impatient.Cheng Zhen accidentally lost contact during his mission. He couldn't rush over to help immediately, and was ordered to continue to stand by in the academy.It was enough to make him bored and anxious.But now seeing Cheng Zhen's two friends asking him for news, Leiber seemed to see himself in miniature from them.

Anxious and helpless.When that black-haired boy was in danger, it was of no use at all!

Cassia and Misaki behind him glanced at each other, and then they said in unison.

"Can you tell us as soon as he comes back?"

Hearing the word "come back", Leiber paused again in his heart.He was captured while performing a latent mission outside. According to past practice, the possibility of being able to return safely is almost zero.He wasn't even sure if Cheng Zhen was still alive.And these two people actually made such a request at this time.

How could they be so naive!When Cheng Zhen's life and death were unknown, how could they say the word "come back" so easily!

The anxiety that had been suppressed for many days filled his heart, and Leiber could hardly control his emotions.But at this moment, what he hated even more was himself.Why are you so weak, why are you not strong enough, why can't you help Cheng Zhen when he is in crisis!

"He's always like this, he's way ahead of us." A wry smile, like a poke in the center, brought Leiber back to his senses.

He looked at Misaqi who said this.The Ryan star who always had a bright smile on his face was now full of bitterness.

"Sometimes I just can't imagine how someone can be so good. This brat is much better than us." Misaqi complained with a wry smile. "He always walks ahead, where we can't reach. Like the last Klein battle, like this time, every time he has to face difficulties we can't imagine alone. And every time, we All I could do was watch him leave."

Leiber was silent, watching the blue-haired Ryan star continue.

"Having such a friend who always makes us worry, I really don't know how many lifetimes of misfortune it has been." Misaqi smiled and looked at Leiber. "So I always say to myself, well, Misaki, since you can't help him on the battlefield. Then there is only one thing you can do—"

"That is, after he comes back safely, give this kid a good beating and give him a good welcome!" As he spoke, Misaqi laughed out loud, gesticulating with his hands and feet in a painful beating. "Therefore, I still need your help, chief lord of the Golden Clan. Tell us as soon as that brat comes back, so that we can 'welcome' him as soon as possible."

"You..." Leiber snorted.

"We promise we won't bother you in the future." Cassia interrupted. "I just beg you to let us know when he comes back."

There seemed to be something deeply hidden in those green eyes, which was unbearable to pierce.

For a moment, Leiber seemed to understand something.

At this moment, Cheng Zhen and the two friends are only guarding the last hope in their hearts.The only choice they can make is to believe.I believe that no matter where Cheng Zhen is, he will be able to come back safely.

"Okay." Leiber said in a low voice. "I will tell you as soon as he comes back."

"Thank you!" Misaki and Cassia looked at each other and smiled.It seems that just this promise can make them feel at ease.

Looking at the two people who were smiling, Leiber couldn't help but look up, looking at the starry sky above his head.

Cheng Zhen, so many people are waiting for your return.

You can't let us down!

Someone is calling himself.

Cheng Zhen turned his head and looked behind him, but found nothing.

As if time had been stopped, he could only watch the passage of time around him.

It was like standing alone at a crossroads, watching the crowds rushing around, people coming and going, but he was the only one standing still in place.

His ears could not hear sounds and his hands could not touch objects.All he can do is just watch the world quietly.

The sun rises again and again, and sets again and again.Night and day alternate almost instantly, and the light and shadow are at a loss.

High-rise buildings rise from the ground, and collapse in the next moment.The people coming and going around changed from group to group, even people who were babies at one moment, and at the next moment, he saw that person turned into ashes and buried in the ground.

He can vaguely feel that the time of things around him is different from his own.His time is static, but the time around him has been accelerated countless times.It was as if an unstoppable fast-forward button had been pressed, and flashed in front of his eyes like a revolving lantern.

I don't know how long it has been like this. In this place where he can't accurately feel the time, he looks at the people around him, the ever-changing world, and his vision gradually becomes blank.

Who am I from?Why do I exist?

He began to wonder.

He knows that he and the world exist together.Unable to communicate with other beings, I can only keep silent and watch the changes around me.

Those who are happy, sad, or angry, live in this world with him.He gradually took observing their lives as a pleasure.

Although he couldn't participate, he seemed to be honored to see every step these beings took with his own eyes, and felt a little happy.

It's like watching your own child grow up.He silently guards the life that lives with him in this world, no matter how much time passes.

Until that moment, the whole world turned into darkness.

The crowds running around disappeared, and the towering buildings turned into barren ruins.The world that was originally full of people coming and going turned into a desert in an instant.He heard desperate cries and saw faces crying for help, but there was nothing he could do.He could only watch helplessly as his children died one after another before his eyes.

He felt his body being torn apart and felt excruciating pain.However, these pains are not even a ten thousandth of the grief he felt when he saw the lives he was watching gradually die.

Many of the children he guarded died gradually, gradually.

Until, the world was dead silent.

Almost all life disappeared in an instant, and only a very small number of lives escaped.However, those who fled never came back.

He was the only one left in the whole world, empty and lonely. This time, there was no sound, no light, nothing.

Lonely, so lonely.

He seemed to hear a voice shouting from the bottom of his heart, and the cold emptiness was about to tear him apart.

Why?Why leave me alone?

Why?Why don't you come back?

Is it because I didn't save you?Are you mad at me?Why don't you come back to see me, why just forget me?

So lonely, so lonely...so sad...ah...

Blue water droplets fall along a sad arc.

Who can hear the sound of a planet crying alone.

The world turned into a deep silence, swallowing the last touch of blue.

who am I?

he asked, but no one answered.

who am I?

"How about this experimental body?"

"Persisted for 10 minutes, consciousness has been assimilated."

"10 minutes?! Even a human being can only last for 5 minutes. How can he, a man of the Vaer tribe with only half blood, last for so long?"

"What's the use? Isn't it still assimilated? Discard it."

"Experiment No. 3019, ready to be discarded."

who am I?

"Prepare to cut off life support."

who am I?

"The waste pool is open."

who I am?

"Ready to discard."

"Confirm the discarding of subject 3019, three, two—"

Who is speaking?

who is it?Who is speaking? !

"Wait! The situation has changed!"

In the blur, there seemed to be the back of a blond man, his voice was cold, but somehow made him feel warm.

"The self-awareness of the experimental subject is recovering! My God, this is simply impossible!"

"Stop Abandoned Work! Reconnect Life Support!"

The black figure gradually moved away and gradually disappeared from sight.

Wait, who are you!Why are you saying this to me!

He stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to grab the figure in front of him.

Wait, don't go!tell me, tell me—

Is the path I chose right or wrong?tell me!Lai——

"Rhine!"

The black eyes opened in an instant, and a hoarse call poured out from his throat.

"The experimental subject has awakened! Hurry up and analyze his mental data!"

"Is the brain wave device connected? Be quick with your hands and feet!"

In the blurred vision, it seemed that someone was running back and forth and shouting.Some noisy sounds pierced his eardrums, and his body was being manipulated wantonly, connecting various instruments.However, at this moment, the young man who likes to be quiet is grateful for it.Movements around him reminded him of the fact that he was alive and conscious.

Looking at the ceiling above his head, Cheng Zhen raised the corners of his mouth slightly.Even if he doesn't have much energy left now.

However, he knew.

He won this bet.

Now that he has survived this experiment, the next plan will be much smoother.