Under the blue sky, the sea water is crystal clear. In the distance, the sea and the sky are in a line, and volcanic islands are dotted all over. One of the volcanic caves has a large depression in front of the entrance, which is especially obvious from a high altitude.

In this volcanic cave, there is Tia's spaceship that fell to this planet.When she first arrived on this planet, she didn't know where she was, but she must have been far away from the scope of the Federation, because the well-preserved system could not receive any signals, and this planet was like a paradise isolated from the world.

This is not surprising, the aborigines who rescued her were green-skinned mermaids, and held weapons polished with hard shells. Although they were intelligent and advanced creatures, the progress of civilization was extremely slow. "It is impossible to understand anything, let alone a civilian spacecraft with warp speed.In their eyes, this thing fell from the sky, surrounded by the blue-purple light after the electric shock collision, magical and strange, maybe the unreachable stars in the sky look like this.

Through language mapping, Tia learned that this planet is called "Tadusa", the handsome and unsmiling patriarch is "Arosha Inmanti", the fluffy white ball is "Mokom" and so on. , Everything in Tadusa is novel and fascinating, there is no dispute over rights and money, and the mermaids live in a natural society ruled by "magic", which has an extra sense of peace and tranquility.

Their lives follow the rules of tribal unity, there is no concept of money, and the only class hierarchy is patriarchs and commoners.There is only one patriarch, and most of the time he spends his time doing sacrifices. His purpose of existence is not to control the mermaids, but to be a link between the mermaids and the "god", to convey the will of the "god".With such a status, the god-fearing mermaids will respect the patriarch, but they will not be afraid, let alone the desire to seize power, for fear that the "god" will punish them.

But only the patriarchs of the past knew that the so-called "God's will" is just the consciousness left in Mocam's body by the ancestors, and they are commanding and controlling the patriarchs from generation to generation. Dusa has been in a rut around their pace.

Tia enjoys this kind of life without desires and desires. She doesn't need to work hard to survive, and she doesn't have to bow down to anyone for a meal. She feels more relaxed than ever. The fresh air that has never been breathed, even though some mermaids retain hostility towards her, will not affect Tia's desire to stay here.

The sun, the moon, and the stars turned like a shuttle, and in the blink of an eye, a year had passed since she came to Tadusa.After falling in love with Aluoxia Yinmanti, Tia seems to have completely forgotten her past life. She settled down here and has her own blood. A young life formed by blood is waiting for a long incubation period in the hotbed on the seabed.A harmonious and happy life, so comfortable that she would forget all her troubles until that thing appeared again.

It was a small electronic eye, the size of a human eyeball, and the black "pupil" in the middle was a camera, spinning around, as if a line of sight was looking up and down at Tia.It landed quietly when Tia was alone, reflecting the blue holographic light from the pupils, projected in midair, and interwoven into familiar words:

【Got you】

Tia's face was pale, and she picked up the shell and smashed the electronic eye like crazy, pretending nothing happened.A few days later, another electronic eye followed behind her like a ghost, this time with a voice.

"Tia, you should wake up."

At that moment, severe pain began to spread from the cerebral cortex, Tia knelt down in the shell, her brain seemed to be gnawed madly by a bug, itchy and painful, and almost passed out.

"This planet has what we need, and you have to find it."

After the pain subsided, Tia was already drenched in sweat. She sat up again, her eyes glazed over, staring blankly at this piece of paradise that brought her short-term happiness.

At that moment, she finally remembered that she had never escaped from the Federation, nor had she escaped from humans.A pathetic chess piece, wishful thinking to get rid of the chessboard carefully arranged by the ambitious ruler.

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Tia opened her eyes suddenly, panting heavily, sweat was already breaking out on her forehead and the tip of her nose.

What caught the eye was the familiar white roof and elegant silky curtains. The moonlight penetrated into the room through the glass, half hanging at the end of the bed and half falling on the ground.

Putting a hand on her arm, she asked in a low voice, "Did you have a nightmare?"

Tia tilted her head and met a pair of deep blue eyes. She half sat up and said, "Klein, you are back."

Klein nodded, took out a piece of paper and handed it to her: "You look very bad, do you want to drink water?"

"Well, good." She remembered something, and added in a low voice, "It's troublesome."

Klein froze on one side of his body. He didn't know when he and his mother became so strange. It was just such a trivial matter, but he had to say "thank you" personally.Looking back, since his mother came back, because of his inner conflicts and doubts, he has hardly given any good looks.The mother and son used to be close, but now they are walking on thin ice, and they sigh endlessly every time they mention their hearts.

Klein silently poured a glass of warm water, and took the initiative to help Tia up. Tia held the cup, noticed his attire, and smiled: "I wanted to tell you yesterday that I look good in a suit, more and more like a mature man." man."

For some reason, Klein still felt shy when he heard his mother's praise, and hurriedly answered "Got it", then bowed his head and remained silent.

Tia carefully stretched out her hand and touched the top of his head. Seeing that Klein did not resist, she relaxed her strength and stroked the soft silver hair.She hadn't caressed her child like this for several years. No amount of torture could compare to being separated from the flesh and blood. She was imprisoned with nothing to do. She often imagined what Klein would look like when he grew up. This child perfectly inherited her And all the advantages of Aluoxia Yinmanti are the most precious treasures in her life.

After meeting again, Klein's appearance and personality were beyond her imagination.Seeing him excellent, outstanding, handsome, and powerful, Tia felt happy from the bottom of her heart. As long as she could see Klein every day, even if he kept a straight face and a cold attitude, it was the greatest satisfaction for her.

"What nightmare did you just have?" Klein asked in a low voice.

"Dreams about things from the past are all bad memories."

"what?"

Facing Klein's questioning, Tia smiled lightly and did not tell the truth: "It is the memory of living in the Federation before, because it is not good, so I never told you."

Klein turned his head to look at her, and asked tentatively, "Can you tell me about it? Your previous life in the Federation."

before?

Tia's memory drifted far, far away a hundred years ago. Although her memory is not very good, those experiences in her youth have already been engraved in every cell, which cannot be erased at all.

The place where she grew up was Arthur, the most prosperous city in the Federation, where there was the most cutting-edge technology, the most powerful government, the most peaceful law and order, and—the most corrupt slums.

The dungeon is a dead city of devils.

It was built under the sewer, and the only thing that can see the sun is the drainage system that exudes a peculiar smell, and there are only bits and pieces of it, and many children are fighting for it. On the face, it will be regarded as a big happy event, and it can be excited for dozens of days.

Tia is also a native member of the dungeon. Her parents are both human, and they are of ancient Earth European ancestry who have not mixed with foreign blood.It's a pity that not every lineage continued on the ancient earth is noble. Her family had to leave the ground and move underground after generations of decline. Since Tia's father, she has never really seen Arthur. vision.

The entrance of the dungeon is unguarded, and anyone can leave freely, but few residents of the dungeon will do so.For some unknown reason, everyone formed a tacit agreement to be self-sufficient in the dungeon, and never thought of entering the world of Ashena above.Tia also felt very strange at first, when she stood in front of that door one time, ready to muster up the courage to step out, but just opened the door, after a few seconds of astonishment, it was closed silently, and in the following days, she went back to the underground The children of the city guard the daylight life of the drain.

She just glanced out and knew what the taboos were that adults didn't want to touch.

poverty.

Arthur's outside the door is too prosperous, the clean and tidy streets, flying machines wandering around, row upon row of buildings, no matter what it is, it makes people envious and jealous.If you don’t take this step, you don’t know the color outside, maybe you can still live your life in the underground city safely. Once you take this step and understand what the real paradise is, from that moment on, your heart can’t go back to the underground. city.

This kind of fear is real, and it will deepen the inferiority complex and fear in her heart. Tia doesn't have that kind of courage. She retracts her feet and returns to the dirty dungeon.But the bustling outside always haunts her in her dreams. From then on, she spends less time looking at the drain, and goes to the gate more often.

Accidents always come unknowingly. Her father saw her thoughts and entrusted her to a friend to go out to "see the world".Tia is both yearning and afraid. A seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl is leaving home and outside the city for the first time. What will be waiting for her?

Soon she knew that what awaited her was an endless nightmare.The so-called "seeing the world" is to bring her into an organization called "Dark Star". I heard that their ultimate goal is to seize the federal power, so they keep recruiting troops and hoarding power behind their backs. Many people were found in the city to complete some "special tasks".

With a good-looking face, Tia was selected to participate in the "special mission".After a shot of anesthetic, she woke up again, only to feel that her head was heavy, as if there were ants crawling in it, and she wished to scratch her scalp and grab those ants out.

There were still some strange sounds in her mind, at first they were just the sounds of objects, and gradually became clear voices. After a while, she gradually got used to the sudden sounds, and the pain in her head was itchy. Also gradually a lot.The scientists in the organization observed her condition every day and came to the conclusion: the fusion is good, and it is ready to use.

Tia understood in an instant that something had been placed in her mind, but she didn't know what it was.It's like being tied up with a dick and feeling uneasy, not knowing what will happen in the future.

The skins of the girls in the laboratory were branded with a string of dark star codes, and they kept decreasing. Finally, it was Tia's turn. She was taken to put on beautiful clothes, and entered and exited the most exclusive hotels. Information on prominent businessmen and politicians.As long as she disobeys orders a little bit, or has a strange idea, her head will hurt violently, and something in her mind reminds her all the time - as a chess piece, it is best to be manipulated by others, otherwise it will only become a useless chess piece. Make sacrifices for the game.

Soon, Dark Star began to seize power with great momentum, and unfortunately failed after several months.The federal army kept chasing the only remaining battleship of the Dark Star rebels, and kept approaching Sagittarius A*.There is the center of the Milky Way, and it is also a super black hole where no one survives. The whole ship is shrouded in a breath of death. The fear of death makes the remaining members of the organization become manic. Some rebels in the rebel army appear and want to surrender to the Federation , in exchange for a chance of survival.

These people were executed in the battleship, and the closer to Sagittarius A*, the number of Dark Star rebels became smaller and smaller.They no longer have any extra manpower to take care of the captives, Tia gritted her teeth, she would face death in the end, she might as well die freely and happily, be a firework in the interstellar, ignite herself and finally turn into dust.

So Tia snatched a civilian aircraft secretly, and left the battleship desperately. Her position was already on the edge of the black hole, and she kept sprinting forward.The huge gravitational force made her dizzy, and when she woke up again, the aircraft had crashed in Tadusa, and she entered the real heaven from hell.

"I used to live a very hard life in the Federation. Later, when I met your father in Tadusa, my life really began."

All the pain was wiped away by this sentence, and Tia stroked her silver hair with a stroke of her hand, her eyes were gentle: "Klein, your hair is the same as your father's, if you keep it, it should grow to your ankles, Why would it be cut off?"

"Hindering the fight." Klein deeply remembered the moment when Nie Lengyan grabbed his hair.

Tia never thought it would be this reason. The Tadusa family has a very special feeling for hair. They believe that the length of the hair represents the continuation of life. Most mermaids will almost never have a haircut. With a head of neat short hair, I don't know how I will feel.

But last time Nie Lengyan mentioned that Klein was besieged by his ancestors. Compared with joining the Federation, the matter of hair has become insignificant.There was worry on Tia's brows, she was in a kind of love-hate relationship with the Federation.The life in the Federation made her avoid it, and she did not want to return to the human world in this life, so she did not want Klein to return to the Federation. She did not even teach some basic human languages ​​and characters; When the catastrophe came, she had to seek help from the powerful Federation and had to send Klein to the Federation, just because she believed that with the strength of the Star Federation, Klein's life could definitely be saved.

"It's okay to cut it, it's more refreshing and beautiful." Tia was reluctant to put her hand down, her fingers touched Klein's cheek, and she was about to take it back, but was held.Klein held her hand, pressed it against his cheek, and called "Mom" in a low voice.

Tia blinked, and two lines of tears fell down.

She hugged Klein, and the feelings of the mother and child who had been separated for many years burst out, and she almost couldn't cry.Klein felt sad for a while. He had relied on his mother since he was a child, and it was a great joy to recover his loss, but the destruction of Tadusa was like a fishbone stuck in his throat, unable to spit out or swallow, and it pierced his heart Generally uncomfortable.

Can you tell me clearly that the destruction of Tadusa has nothing to do with you?Klein really wanted to ask, but was suppressed by Nie Lengyan, and he never asked.

"Klein... I'm sorry, it's all my fault, I'm sorry!"

Klein was silent, why did he say "I'm sorry"?Where did you go wrong?

With his hands in his pockets, he squeezed the piece of blue rock that he carried with him tightly. After a while, he relieved his strength and let out a sigh.He wiped away Tia's tears, calmed her down, and put the quilt back on.

"Sleep first, I'll watch over you here, Mom."

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