back to Earth

Long, long ago, a group of intelligent races far away from their homeland wandered aimlessly in the universe.

Their hometown has been devastated, and the unimaginable apocalypse destroyed the hometown on which they depended.The remaining surviving lives, with the last remaining technology, took refuge in the depths of the starry sky.

After a long and long raid, they finally found another place where they could survive.An environment with enough to survive, a new home with a never-before-seen alien race.

In the new place of residence, this intelligent race reached an agreement with other life races, and gradually became a part accepted by them.

The exiled race that lost its homeland is dubbed the Rootless People by other beings.While gradually integrating into the new environment, they also lost their ego.

However, what has never been forgotten is the place of origin that once existed, but is now only passed down in memory-the home planet, the earth.

That's where they came from and where they've been dreaming of.

After many years, the earth has become their most beautiful and unreachable fairy tale.

It is the only beautiful fairy tale that can prove that they once had a home.

"I had a home,

somewhere in the sky,

There are our mothers and our hometown.

I used to have a home,

somewhere lost,

Along the long journey home, I found my dream hometown.

I used to have a home,

somewhere in my heart,

Looking back at the hug in the dream, the hometown lost forever. "

The nursery rhymes that every human being is familiar with are read out slowly and carefully by Li Yang.Cheng Zhen didn't know what was going on in his mind for a moment, he just felt that his chest was congested and panicked.

On the other hand, Rhine, who heard this nursery rhyme for the first time, had a rare and heavy expression.

After reading softly, Li Yang looked up at the two of them again.

"This nursery rhyme is about the home planet of our humans. Since thousands of years ago, we can't go back to the place." He paused, and looked heavily at Cheng Zhen. "We treat it as a fairy tale for consolation, and have no delusions about its reality. But if someone tells you one day, the earth is there, somewhere within our reach. What will you do, Cheng Zhen ?”

"Find it." Cheng Zhen said without hesitation.

"Even...you don't know how much you will pay for it?" Li Yang was puzzled. "Is it worth it just for a fairy tale that I don't know if it really exists?"

"It exists. It's there, it's always been there." Cheng Zhen said, remembering the emotion he had vaguely felt when he was experimented. "Our mother, it was forgotten in a corner of the starry sky, no matter whether anyone still remembers it, it has been waiting for us to go back." Thinking, Cheng Zhen paused and said again.

"...wait for us to go home."

Seeing Cheng Zhen's rare depression, Rhine looked at him, and remembered the bold words of the black-haired boy when they first met.He always seems to be like this, even if he knows that there are countless bumps and thorns ahead, he will always choose this path without hesitation.

What is he trying to do by doing this?

Rhine once thought about this question after being rejected by Cheng Zhen for the first time.Unlike other compatriots who have given up hope and are willing to be mediocre, they are not like elites like Reina who have excellent abilities but work for other races, and they don't even have extreme ideas like Sean.

Obviously should be an ordinary human boy living an ordinary life.Where does the obsession come from, what do you want to do for your own race and your compatriots.After getting in touch with Cheng Zhen more and more deeply, the mystery in Rhine's heart became bigger and bigger.It was also undeniable that the more he probed, the deeper his attachment to this boy would be.

As an emperor with all the reputation, strength, and prestige.Seeing a young man from a weak race fight tenaciously over and over again, it felt like a soft feather was touching his heart.

Now, Rhine believes that some of this unsolved mystery has finally been revealed.

Mother Earth.Cheng Zhen whispered the word in a tone of nostalgia and nostalgia.

It is obviously a story that only exists in fairy tales, but Cheng Zhen is so sure of its existence, so determined to find it.Does he think that finding this place of origin of human beings will save something for this declining race?

No one knew Cheng Zhenxin's answer.

He really missed his home planet more than any human being.Because he has lived on that beautiful blue planet for decades, and because he understands the loneliness of this planet.Cheng Zhenxin affirms that if the earth can be found, it will be no less than a desperate rescue for the human beings who are gradually losing their faith.

"You asked me about the home planet, is this related to the news you want to tell?" Cheng Zhen looked at Li Yang, suppressing the thoughts in his eyes.

Li Yang smiled wryly. "It's related. In fact, I just had the mentality of giving it a try. I didn't think it was real. I didn't expect you to..."

"Tell me." Cheng Zhen said. "Whether it is true or not, we can judge after we listen."

Rhine raised her eyebrows, and raised the corners of her mouth slightly because of the "we" in Cheng Zhen's words.

"...Actually, I'm not a prisoner, nor was I left behind when they retreated." Li Yang said slowly. "That person, when he left, once told me that if you want to know the news of the e-virus, you should stay at the base honestly, and then take the opportunity to follow you..."

"Ask you to be an undercover agent?" Cheng Zhen understood that Sean was indeed someone who would act like this. "What conditions did he give you?"

"Tell me how to unlock the e-virus. Melissa and Dona are infected. Their situation is not so good now." Li Yang said bitterly. "He told me how to cure Melissa and Donna as a condition, and let me come to your place to do, do..." Li Yang really didn't have the face to say the following words.

"But if you confess to us, you are no longer an undercover agent." Cheng Zhen smiled and comforted him. "And maybe, we have a cure for them here too."

These words caused Rhine and Li Yang to look up at the same time and stare at him closely.

Cheng Zhen mentioned that he was once experimented with and later became inexplicably immune to the e-virus. Except for omitting the unknown emotion he felt in his dream, he told them everything in detail.

"Since they all admit that I am an immune body, I think my serum may have a therapeutic effect on other infected people." Cheng Zhen said, looking at Rhine. "Those soldiers on the front line who are suffering from the disease may also be able to be cured. Just ask Reina to extract some from me..."

"We'll talk about this later." Rhine frowned, hiding the slight unhappiness in her heart. "You have just broken through the field now, and your own genes are still mutating, so you can't study it as an anti-infection body without authorization."

So that wonderful feeling is called domain?Cheng Zhen was attracted by the key words in Rhine's words, but he also ignored some abnormalities of the emperor.

In the past, when he heard that there was an immune body here, Rhine would have thrown the person to the laboratory long ago without asking for his own opinion.There is also the saying that Cheng Zhen himself delivered it to the door, but Rhine refused to accept it.

Li Yang, who was originally happy when he heard Cheng Zhen's words, saw Rhine's unhappy expression, and quietly concealed the urgency in his heart.Since there is hope, it is better than nothing.

"If it's just like this, I won't bring up that question to you, Cheng Zhen." Back to the subject, Li Yang said solemnly. "The news I'm going to tell you next is not what they told me, but I was vaguely aware of it in that base. Cheng Zhen, do you still remember the group of white-clothed guards who followed the client?"

Those people in white?Cheng Zhen raised his eyebrows.Remember, why don't you remember, he also had a fierce fight with them.

"What happened to them?" the black-haired boy asked.

"They are also all human beings. Probably because I am a compatriot, I was not put under house arrest for experiments like other mercenaries. I still have a certain amount of time for free activities at an appropriate time. It was at that time that I noticed Something is wrong with those people in white clothes." Li Yang frowned as he recalled.

"How should I put it? They are usually like mechanical weapons, faithfully fulfilling the orders of the higher-ups. But sometimes, these people are a little strangely fanatical."

"fanaticism?"

"Yes, it's fanaticism, even madness. I once saw a group of them gather together and sit in the hall as if performing some kind of religious ceremony. It seems to feel that their consciousness is connected to each other. Everyone seems to share the same brain. That feeling is very strange, I can't explain it." Li Yang restrained himself. "And it's during this kind of ritual prayer every day that I hear these people repeating one word over and over again."

When Cheng Zhen heard this, his heart beat faster involuntarily, and he had a vague premonition in his heart.

"Mother."

Li Yang said. "Hundreds of people sat in the hall, repeating the word unconsciously. The scene was unspeakably weird."

Cheng Zhen asked, hiding his excitement. "So you think, what they call 'mother' has something to do with the earth?"

Li Yang nodded. "I can't imagine that hundreds of people will have the same mother, except for our legendary home planet. I dare not ask anyone about this matter, and I only tell you now. Cheng Zhen, do you think it will be them? Over there, we have already grasped the traces of the mother star. Do you remember that when we led the mission and set off, we were going to find an ancient star field?! Could it be——!"

"It doesn't matter whether it is or not. This group of people is not the two of you, nor can you humans fight against it." Rhine interjected coldly, interrupting the excited two people.

It was like being poured cold water face to face, calming down the boiling thoughts of the two of them.

"According to the currently known information, this group of people has mastered a dangerous virus. They have very powerful armed forces and are also related to the unknown group of enemies on the front line. Even, it cannot be ruled out that they themselves have been attacking for hundreds of years. Interstellar 'those enemies'. So far, all of their member races are known to be humans. If this news is leaked, do you know what consequences you and your compatriots will face?" Rhine looked at Cheng real.

Rebellion, interstellar rebels.

Cheng Zhen knows that once the news is leaked out.Human beings will be nailed to this crime nakedly, and they will not even be able to resist.

"But not everyone, most of the human beings didn't participate in this matter at all, this cannot be regarded as a reason to convict us." Cheng Zhen said anxiously.

"The Interstellar General Assembly doesn't care about these things, they just want to eliminate all threats to their lives." Rhine sneered. "Words are always going to get out, and until then, there are two things you can do."

"Contact the leader of your human army, and go to the front with me." The dark golden eyes flickered for a while, and Rhine's tone concealed a trace of cruelty.

"Defeat your countrymen with your own hands."

Kill traitors to prove your innocence, and to prove the innocence of other humans.

Can you do it?Cheng Zhen.