Dawn Sleep

Xie Yuduo responded, but before he had time to appease the troops stationed in the fort, Sylph's communication rang.

"Boss! I'm Jiang Sheng. His Royal Highness Lai'an just entered the dark room under the Heroic Monument, where Mingming's body is—"

"Now the darkroom has directly collapsed, and this area is covered by His Highness's real crystal, and the crystal is still growing!"

Xie Yuduo and Xi Erfu looked at each other, and it was indeed at the corpse...!

"let's go."

It wasn't daylight yet, but it was getting closer.The two immediately rushed to the Heroic Monument as quickly as possible. Along the way, there were spreading real crystals everywhere, as well as soldiers who were at a loss.

"how so!?"

Xie Yuduo said anxiously, "Your Excellency's matter, isn't it said that there is hope? Why is Your Highness at this time..."

Silver: "I don't know, but Major General, please be prepared."

Even if he was reminded like this, Xie Yuduo was still shocked when he arrived in the dark room.

The surface of that piece of land really collapsed, and there were crystals of red gold everywhere, and flaming crystal bones burned out from the ground, exuding terrifying coercion and heat.

"Boss, Major General Xie!" Jiang Sheng stood there with a blue face, "I tried it, but the automatic door was deformed and couldn't be opened. My crystal bone can't pry this piece of real crystal..."

"Back off." Without further ado, the leader took out a few miniature blasting bombs for Zhenjing from under her black robe.

Xie Yuduo: "No, Your Highness's real crystal, ordinary new crystal weapons can't be exploded..."

Jiang Sheng screamed: "Boss! You can't blow it up, you can't blow it up, my house is still inside!!"

Silver: "I don't expect it to explode, I'm knocking on the door."

"!?"

Before the two could react, the leader threw the explosive bomb with his hands.

After a deafening bang, a scalding gale blows in the face, making people unable to open their eyes.

Looking at it a few seconds later, the crystal bone entrenched there was unscathed, but there was movement as if it had been awakened.

Jiang Sheng couldn't help but widen his eyes... It takes a bomb to knock on the door, how terrifying is the crystal bone of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince...

I saw Sylph yelling "It's me" and "Open the door" twice at the top of her voice, but Crystal Bone didn't respond; Sylph also said that she was just here to confirm the safety of Mr. Jiang, and she yelled several times, and Crystal Bone didn't respond. Cai Boss reluctantly made way for a little gap.

The leader showed his crystal bone and directly lifted the collapsed and deformed automatic door.

The three rushed into the dark room.In an instant, Xie Yuduo and Jiang Sheng opened their eyes wide in disbelief at the same time!

"This……!?"

They doubted themselves first.

Doubt your own eyes and brain, even doubt whether you are in a ridiculous dream.

The darkroom has completely changed.

Everyone who enters will be shocked by the magnificent red gold at the first glance; but if they take a closer look at the second glance, they are destined to feel a chill——

Large flakes of crystalline substance crawled across the wall.The scarlet gold spreads in all directions around a certain point, like a giant piranha in full bloom, the highest point reaches the zenith of the dark room.

A human-like non-human existence, entangled and suspended in the center of this piece of crystalline material.

Ryan's appearance could hardly be called human.

He lowered his head, his face covered by long hair.Red-gold crystals kept growing from the heart and back, the limbs were gone, and the ends were completely crystallized and expanded, spreading wantonly.

Under those clear crystals, one can clearly see the structure of human flesh, blood vessels and bones.

They seemed to be alive, wriggling and rubbing unhurriedly.As a result, the wall was also twisting, and the entire dark room seemed to have become the stomach of some kind of living body.

"temple……"

Xie Yuduo's throat was dry, and he moved his lips twice before he could make a sound, "Your Highness... Your Majesty?"

"What's going on here, then, is that really... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?

Jiang Sheng's eyes were straightened, and he said in a trembling voice: "A couple of hours ago, he was still talking to me?"

——Two completely different life forms are blended together, and the visual effect formed is too disgusting.There are no other words to describe it but heresy or monster.

Sylph slowly closed her eyes, shook her head and sighed.

"Yes, it's really not easy to explain, but it is indeed our Highness Ryan."

Both the glass coffin and one smart light shattered, but the other survived, suspended in midair.

So the faint light shone on the floor, and every shard of glass reflected this eerie scene.

Suddenly, Jiang Sheng changed color and blurted out: "Obviously!?"

Xie Yuduo raised his head upon hearing the sound, only to be surprised to find that there was still a figure in the center, but it was obscured by the strange flesh and bones and Ryan, so it was difficult to see clearly at the first time.

Less scalp numbness.

That was Jiang Jianming's body!

Several red-gold soft crystal bones crossed the young man's waist, shoulders and legs, hugging him in mid-air.

This posture makes the limbs and head of the disabled human being hang down naturally, like a string puppet out of control, and the neck is bent back in a large arc, revealing a fragile Adam's apple like white porcelain.

Under the effect of gravity, the lips unconsciously opened a gap; the crow-like eyelashes were coated with a layer of silver light by the light, the eyelids were also forced to open slightly, and the dilated pupils of the jet-black eyes were faintly visible.

Ryan put his cheek on Jiang Jianming's forehead, expressionless, just leaning quietly like this.

And those strange crystalline bones differentiated from his body are slowly climbing up the limbs of the corpse, swimming back and forth across every inch of skin.

The dark space, the soft white high-tech suspension lights, the broken glass, and the growth of crystals containing flesh and blood...

The dead human beings were delicate and handsome, and they were ignorant of how they were manipulated; while the living monsters were huge and treacherous, greedily devouring the tiny remains bit by bit.

It all intertwines in suffocating silence, presenting a vision of the absurd and perhaps ineffably morbidly beautiful.

Suddenly, a howl broke the silence.

"Leader! Leader!!"

Jiang Sheng shook his hands in grief and indignation, obviously the focus of the Great Mecha Master was different from ordinary people: "No matter how high the crown prince is, you can't ruin my family like this! He, he, leader, look at him—"

Sylph: "...Please calm down, what should be ruined, it was ruined a long time ago. What shouldn't be ruined, His Highness won't do it now."

Xie Yuduo felt his temples throbbing: "Then what should we do now!?"

"There is no way for the time being, do you think you can do anything to this existence in front of you?"

Sylph looked like an old god, and even found a corner of the black robe and sat down: "Knocking on the door proves that you have not completely lost your mind. Please feel wronged for a while, and let His Highness vent for a while. .”

"leader!?"

"You two, please be content. After revealing the prototype, the instinct of such a monster is neither to kill nor to destroy. It just wants to hug another human being for a while... It's already very worry-free, isn't it?"

"That seems reasonable to you—"

... What a ghost!Xie Yuduo almost collapsed, the problem is that it shouldn't be a monster, it should be their Royal Highness the Crown Prince!

Why is the leader not panicking at all, and can still tease them so calmly! ?

At this moment, the leader's communication rang again.

"Sylph...Sylph!"

This time it was the voice of the empress, and Lin Ge was screaming madly: "What's wrong with the little bastard, is he out of control again!? Tell you, the real crystal has grown into the White Jade Palace—now The nine star cities are being affected!!"

"I told you back then not to use the data of 000 to make the base body. You stupid girl insisted on listening to him and not mine. What did you say that he has numbers? I'm pissed, he can have a shit number, he!?"

Sylph: "Are there any casualties?"

Lin Ge: "Not yet, but this is not a matter of casualties! After the truth is revealed, our Highness Lai An does not come back to support the situation. This matter will definitely collapse. I order you to solve it immediately, immediately!"

Silph hung up the communication mercilessly.

Under the indescribable gaze of the two men behind her, she raised her head and looked towards the center of the dark room.

In such a short period of time, Ryan's form changed again.

His face was beginning to melt into a crystalline substance from the place where it came into contact with Jiang Jianming, and his chest cracked even wider, as if he wanted to swallow his lover whole.

He is getting farther and farther away from the concept of human beings.

……

Outside the fortress, the horizon lit up little by little.

On the starship port, Jinrilun is lining up outside the ship, waiting to return to the country with the crown prince.

"Why is there no order yet?"

"His Royal Highness and Your Excellency the leader are not here..."

Time passed anxiously, the soldiers whispered, and the originally neat queue began to loosen.

After the sudden shock, the fortress returned to calm.Major General Xie immediately sent a message saying that it was not an enemy attack and there was no need to panic.But the appearance of the pure gold crystal still made the army uneasy.

Having just lost His Highness Jiang's position, if something happened to the Crown Prince quietly, no one would be able to bear it.

The soldiers didn't know that the crown prince they were worried about had completely changed his appearance at this moment.

In the depths of the underground Heroic Monument.

At this time, nearly an hour has passed since Ryan's alienation.It completely lost its human form and turned into a pool of flesh and blood crystals.

And Jiang Jianming's body has been completely swallowed by the crystalline substance.

After being manipulated and stroked for about an hour, the disabled human finally froze into a semi-curled posture, with eyebrows closed and eyes closed, like a bug sealed in amber forever, or a fetus sleeping peacefully under the protection of its mother.

"His Royal Highness Leian"—that is, those flesh and blood crystals stopped wandering.

It is extremely satisfying to finally be able to protect its fragile lover in the depths of itself.

"This……"

Xie Yuduo and Jiang Sheng looked up at the crystal and the figure inside, sweating profusely.

"However, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince..."

Jiang Sheng's eyes were straightened, and he murmured dumbly: "You can't eat my son just because he is so attractive? Right, Major General Xie?"

Xie Yuduo was equally dumb: "...Your Excellency Jiang, you are silent now and no one will think you are dumb. Otherwise, why don't you try to dig out your Excellency?"

— This is, of course, nonsense.Looking at the entire empire, no one can do anything to the alienated super S-class crystal bone.In the current situation, unless Ryan Ken took the initiative to "spit out" Jiang Jianming's body, and then obediently transformed back into a human body... Otherwise, no one would do anything.

But this is the situation, can it really change back?

That's when.

Sylph glanced at the time on her wrist computer and stood up.

"Your Highness, it is almost dawn, and the army is still waiting for you to lead us out."

There was silence in the dark room.

The crystalline substance did not react in the slightest.

The leader shook his head, "I know Your Highness is sad."

She glanced at the broken wrist phone on the ground.The small machine was also swallowed by the crystal, and the virtual screen that was halfway through the show was still flashing repeatedly between those few frames.

"In the past two days after watching the surveillance, I have been thinking...why the consciousness of the crystal bone ring was not fully awakened until that day."

"Since you have the power to bring the dead back to life, why did your original consciousness have the heart to make your Excellency suffer from chronic crystal disorder for so long, and even let him walk to the brink of death?"

The huge crystal monster in front of him finally reacted.

Crack...Crack.Its chips began to grow again, wrapping Jiang Jianming's core more tightly, and the piercing sound made when rubbing was like weeping.

Sylph: "Just now, I figured it out."

"Crystal disorder can accumulate crystal particles in the human body and keep them highly active. If there is no chronic crystal disorder in the middle stage, there will not be enough crystal particles to nourish the human body."

"Your Excellency's crystal chaos is not to repeat the same mistakes, but to live towards death. You asked him to overcome the suffering to meet you again. He has already done it, and you have done it too."

The leader in black walked towards the monster, she took off her black armor gloves, and pressed her wrinkled palms on the crystal.

"So... try harder and don't despair."

In the dimness, those weird crystals were silent, and through the clear skin, one could see the pulsating flesh and blood vessels inside.

Sylph patted the crystal block under her hands.

She sighed: "Otherwise, do you want to be like this forever?"

"Lyan" slowly protruded a limb.

Under the transparent epidermis, human cells rapidly split and combine to form two strips of meat, which are the vocal cords.

The crystal bone reluctantly assumed the duties of the teeth and tongue, and they vibrated together to make a sound:

"……forever……"

It was a hair-raising voice, but it was somewhat similar to Ryan's original voice.

Silver: "Yes, forever. When the sea is dry and the rocks are rotten, human beings perish, and the stars are turned into corpses. You will also be assimilated by the crystal particles, becoming a cluster of crystals that have lost their feelings and ego, and will sleep forever in the universe with your Excellency."

The crystalline substance is wriggling, and the cells inside are also wriggling.It seems that it is not very good at controlling its own chaos, and it has transformed into two human vocal cords.

The three vocal cords vibrate at the same time, making a bewildered sound:

"……forever……"

More than a dozen crystalline filaments fell like rain, falling on Sylph's face and shoulders, and one even wrapped around the leader's neck.

"Boss!" The faces of the two men behind turned pale.

A shadow enveloped Sylph, and the latter simply reached out and took off the mask, letting it fall to his feet with a "boom".

The huge monster leaned down and approached a little bit.

The three vocal cords turned into distorted sarcoids and were swallowed up by the crystals. The cells re-divided and proliferated, and this time a green, emerald-like beautiful, fist-sized eyeball was born.

Sylph smiled sadly, with pity in her eyes, she nodded slightly: "Yes, yes... I know. It's not easy to love someone, right?"

"Be a human being who can love and hate, be happy, angry, sad and happy..."

"Living such a turbulent, short and involuntary small life..."

"It's not easy, is it?"

Sylph lowered her eyes, letting the years draw fine and gentle wrinkles at the corners of her eyes.

She caressed the crystalline body of "Lyan" like comforting a lost child, and coaxed softly, "But ah..."

"The white pigeon with the colorful flag in the Central Park of Aslan Star City, every soldier waiting for you on the starship port, the name buried in this heroic monument and the starry sky above... Oh, and the alien star four years ago. Zhaoxia, the ring you gave and the person wearing it."

"Could it be that the sum of these can't last forever?"

In the darkness, something flickered.

The monster quietly hid the disabled human being in its body deeper, hiding it in a place where the light could not shine.

But a tear overflowed from its emerald-like eyes, and slid down along the red-gold crystal.

After Jiang Jianming's death, Ryan Kios shed tears for the first time.

He also knew.

Of course he already knew.

The human being who was hidden in his body died, and his death was incomplete and unhappy, but he loved him until the last moment.

Love this illusory and impermanent world like morning dew, love all beings in the world, love the only one among them.

If not human...

Even if eternity is realized, how can he love Jiang Jianming, how can he accept Jiang Jianming's love?

The crystal particles in his body became frenzied, screaming in the depths of his soul.Those noises that polluted the spirit seemed to drag him into the bottom of the chaotic abyss, and countless phantoms and spots flashed before his eyes, trying to corrupt him and assimilate him.

And in this chaos, another faint consciousness whispered to him.

I will not allow you to lose your sanity, love and hate, and become a monster.

——Suddenly, a sharp cracking sound resounded through the ground.

"Leader, be careful!!"

Xie Yuduo rushed forward, and the crystal bones stretched out to protect the leader's head.In the next instant, countless broken chips smashed on the major general's crystal bone.

The piece of flesh and blood crystal entrenched in the dark room suddenly swelled in a circle.Its crystalline skin exploded, blood spilled all over the ground, and sarcomatous growths filled those gaps—at least a hundred or so emerald-colored eyeballs grew out of those bulging sarcomas.

As well as teeth, tongue, fingers, organs or half organs... Various human tissues that ordinary people know or don't know.

Xie Yuduo: "...grass."

leader:"."

"..."

Jiang Sheng's face was already pale, and it was obvious that he had worked hard for a long time to suppress the urge to retch.

His expression was extremely tangled, and he shrank his neck and said cautiously: "Your Highness, although you obviously don't judge people by appearances, this kid is quite handsome sometimes..."

The monster was silent for about half a minute, as if it didn't expect this to happen.

It awkwardly put Jiang Jianming inside itself again, barely controlled the regrown vocal cords, and asked the leader, "How...to be...a human being."

Sylph: "Think about it yourself."

monster:"……"

"Don't stare at me with so many eyeballs, Your Highness. I have never been transformed into this form, and others have no relevant experience. You have to work hard to change back."

"Don't worry, your original body has also experienced it. In theory, there is no problem—in theory."

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The author has something to say:

The innocent little monster just wants to stick with ginger paste too much (?

Silph: It's painfully skilled...I'm talking about myself.