Dawn Sleep

Black Shark Base.

"Cough cough...!"

The cover of the dormant compartment popped open, followed by the sound of splashing water.

A figure woke up from hibernation, bent over coughing and panting violently, and the veins on the backs of the hands that were holding the edge of the warehouse bulged.

"Cough, huh..." Xie Yuduo's face was pale, panting heavily, and it took a long time for his eyes to focus.

Steady but hurried footsteps sounded, and the dark space was illuminated by approaching light.

Holding the smart suspension light in one hand, Sylph took two steps in three steps, half-kneeling in front of Xie Yuduo: "Major General Xie, please relax, you are now at the Black Shark base."

Xie Yuduo said hoarsely: "It doesn't matter to me, how is the battle going, Crystal Nest..."

When the words came to his mouth, the major general shook his head with his eyebrows pressed together, and first read out the coordinates of the mother core in his memory.

Silph immediately turned on her wrist phone to record, and the micro-communicator hanging by her ear flickered: "Report to the leader! A communication request was sent from the command room, and His Highness Jiang asked about the status of Crystal Nest."

Leader: "Understood, tell me that General Xie is back, please call my wrist phone directly, Your Highnesses."

A few seconds later, the wrist computer projected the virtual images of Jiang Jianming and Ryan.

"Major General Xie," Jiang Jianming leaned forward and spoke quickly, "I'm sorry I don't have time to offer my condolences, but first tell me what happened in the crystal nest?"

Ryan was even more blunt: "How did you die? Did you see the mother core? You can't trust your memory alone, and call over as many as you have come back from death!"

Xi Erfu put a coat on Xie Yuduo, helped the major general stand up from the dormant cabin, and sat on a chair.

Xie Yuduo's spirit has stabilized a lot, and he replied quickly: "Oh, the subordinate committed suicide."

"At that time, the young leader of the lava pierced through the surface of the crystal, and the crystal began to explode like a madman... Hephaestus was directly pierced into a sieve and submerged in the crystal."

"Yin Beidou followed closely to attack, and Xiaguan watched helplessly as a hole-like thing emerged from the crystal. It's not big, just a round hole with two or three people hugging each other."

"There seemed to be a snow-white crystal block deep in the hole, but I couldn't see it clearly. At that time, the crystal particles flowed out..."

"I've never felt that level of oppression. I don't know why. I instinctively felt that it was going to be bad. I just wanted to come back as soon as possible to report the coordinates. Subconsciously, I wiped my neck with crystal bones."

"Others," said Xie Yu, turning his head back, "there should be some of them back, right?"

Just then, he heard a commotion behind him.The members of the base ran back and forth between the dormant cabins, and someone exclaimed: "Boss!"

"The mental consciousness of the 284th base body is abnormal, and the radio waves are chaotic..."

Xie Yuduo was startled suddenly.Sylph turned around suddenly, frowning: "What?"

"Base 284 is confirmed dead!"

"Wait, that's not right... Chief, please come and take a look."

"What's the matter?" Jiang Jianming said in a deep voice, and looked at Ryan again, "Your Highness, something seems wrong, let's go and have a look."

The two figures disappeared in the air, and the communication was cut off.

Xie Yuduo felt dizzy. He turned his head and saw a dormant cabin opened, and the soldier inside was twitching violently, with white foam coming from the corner of his mouth.

The experimenter and the medical soldier rushed forward at the same time, holding down the soldier's body tightly.

"Your Excellency! Your Excellency, please calm down... Can you hear me!?"

"You are fine, this is the base..."

Silf had already rushed over, Xie Yuduo could only see crowds of people in his field of vision, but couldn't see the rescue scene clearly.He barely stood up and walked over there step by step.

Suddenly there was a strange scream, it was the voice of a soldier, and he kept screaming intermittently as soon as he opened his mouth, waving his hands indiscriminately.

The medics shouted at him.The soldier was still screaming, his eyeballs were rolling blankly, and he was carelessly touching his face with his hands like a baby.

"What's wrong with him?" Xie Yuduo's voice was dry.

The major general's voice was drowned in the rising and falling voices.

"Base 934 returns! Substrate 131 returns..."

"Base 8021, 15003, 418, 7324 return..."

"Base 2404, 13990..."

Soon, the cold and oppressive air permeated the laboratory of the Black Shark base.

These base bodies died, and the soldiers who returned to their original bodies were, without exception, in a state of madness or stupidity.

When Ryan and Jiang Jianming arrived, the situation was already serious.Ghosts and wolves were howling in the originally quiet laboratory, as if they had fallen into eighteen levels of hell.

"How's the situation?" Jiang Jianming strode in.His face was icy white, his voice was weak and his voice was hoarse, but the sharpness in his eyes was tempered even more bitterly.

The sharp increase in the concentration of crystal particles has greatly affected him, and now it is to the extent that others would think it is bad at a glance.Ryan followed behind with a sullen face, as if he wanted to eat him.

Sylph, who was looking at the instrument data, slowly straightened up.

She was silent for a long time before she said in a low voice: "...It seems that the crystal nest core has found a way to counter the Matrix plan."

Jiang Jianming pushed away the crystal bone wrapped around his body silently by Ryan, "What?"

Silver: "The crystal nest mother core has released all the power, and now the crystal particles of the entire crystal nest are in a state of extreme hyperactivity and chaos, and human spiritual power cannot resist the erosion of the crystal particles."

"Now the crystal nest no longer kills the matrix of human soldiers, but keeps using crystal particles to destroy their consciousness..."

"When the human consciousness residing in the matrix collapses, the impact brought by the return of memory will also destroy the brain nerves of the original body."

Sylph pursed her lips tightly when she said this.Xie Yuduo put one hand on his forehead, and answered hoarsely: "The returning soldiers are all destroyed without exception. Just now the leader was asking the next officer..."

Xie Yuduo raised his head, his eyes covered by his disheveled hair were flickering with complex light, "Do you want to forcibly end the consciousness projection?"

There was another burst of crying behind him, but it wasn't the lunatics, but the original soldiers who woke up earlier.

"Brother, wake up, look at brother. Be strong, we made an appointment to go home together after the war is won..."

"Wuuu...Xiao Rong, third brother, Lao Pang...how come everyone has become like this, leaving me alone..."

A young recruit knelt on the ground. He hugged the old captain's neck with tears streaming down his face and wailed loudly, "How could this happen? Doesn't it mean that the Matrix project is safe!?"

Tragedy continues.Now, only by forcefully ending the consciousness projection, and the soldiers such as Tang Zhen and Bei Man'er who are still stranded in the crystal nest, can they return safely and wake up in the body of the original body.

"..."

Ryan's eyes suddenly darkened: "No way. Now the crystal nest is disintegrating, and a large number of crystal particles are overflowing. If all soldiers retreat, more riotous crystal particles will directly attack the space station."

The prince raised his head slightly, and the cold light from the base shone on his long platinum stream-like hair, "Soldiers cannot be recalled."

Sylph was slightly startled: "Your Highness, but the current situation..."

As she spoke, she peeked at Jiang Jianming, only to see the black-haired officer sigh and shake his head slightly at her.

The leader's heart sank, and even the commander did not object to this seemingly cold decision, so there was really no other way.

Looking at Xie Yuduo again, the major general looked calm, as if he had expected this result: "Stop talking, leader. Actually, I thought so too."

The Jinrilun space station is still spinning in the depths of the universe, and the wave of crystal particles, like a vast fog or a mighty white night, is getting closer and closer.

"Okay, this trip brought back the coordinates of the crystal nest mother core, thanking someone is considered a complete merit."

Xie Yuduo stood up, stretched his waist, and said with a clear smile amidst the noise of howling ghosts and wolves behind him, "Next, I still have to go back."

He said seriously: "As long as it survives for three days, the Pangu Ax can be restarted. Then it will be handed over to the two Highnesses."

After the general said he raised his leg and wanted to leave, unexpectedly the crown prince stretched out his hand and pressed his shoulder: "Since there are still three days left, there is no need to rush to find death. I will go first..."

As he spoke, Leian looked at Jiang Jianming, a struggle flashed in his emerald green eyes.

In the current situation, he was really worried about being separated from Jiang.Accidents will happen to this crippled human being if he doesn't look well, and it will be even worse after being fused with the memory of his previous life. What if there is something...

But the situation was urgent, Chu Jun finally became ruthless, holding Jiang Jianming's wrist and said in a low voice: "I'll go and test the attack strength of Crystal Nest first, you have to wait for me to come back."

Jiang Jianming raised his eyes suddenly: "Your Highness, observe and observe again."

Ryan: "How to observe? Now that the communication is out of order, the death or madness that is close to the crystal nest should be clear in your heart. I can only go."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left, and heard the people behind him calling "Your Highness" one after another.Ryan walked through the chaotic laboratory without looking back, the smell of drugs was pungent, the automatic door opened in front of him, and the dazzling light shone in——

He took another step, and his vision suddenly flickered strangely, his hands and feet were like puppet limbs out of control, and he couldn't feel them anymore.

"...?" Ryan was at a loss, before he realized what happened, he fell obliquely forward.

Someone behind him called him, almost sternly.

"—Your Highness!!!"

……

Alien Omega, the third fortress of the Silver Big Dipper.

A group of alien creatures with strange shapes roared across the sky of the fortress, and several rows of anti-aircraft guns swept across, shooting through the half-rotted wings.

They fell from the sky with the wind, like a heavy black rain.The corpse smashed on the alloy outer wall of the fortress, and crystal blocks and flesh and blood flew across.More dense alien creatures surrounded the fortress and climbed up along the outer wall.

Emma Lin stretched out her right hand wearing a crystal-resistant glove, and touched the wall of the fortress.Ice-white crystals are growing there.

The concentration of crystal particles increased significantly, and a large number of alien creatures rioted, and crystal creatures that had never been seen before appeared...

The first and second fortresses have successively issued emergency alarms, but the third fortress is too overwhelmed to provide assistance.

Major General Emma is not optimistic.Now she is the only General Silver Beidou who stays behind. The soldiers who have just been transferred to the distant interstellar interstellar do not know how long they can last.

"Major General!"

Someone ran up the city wall, blood dripping down his head and face.

The wounded officer wiped his face, panted and shouted: "Major General, it's almost unstoppable, what shall we do!?"

"What else can I do?" Emma clenched her fist violently and said coldly, "If you can't stop it, you have to stop it, hit me!"

"The riot of alien creatures must be when the crystal nest front is at a critical time. We don't say we can help, at least we are not allowed to hold back."

"Communication Soldiers! Communicate the first and second forts: regardless of the cost, defend to the death!!"

……

In the capital of Aslan, the windows and doors of countless ordinary people's houses were pushed open, and panicked faces were looking around.

It was a cloudy day, and the sky was not bright enough because of the clouds overhead.

But people can still see that fine crystals are beginning to condense between the bricks and tiles of the street, on the trees on both sides, and even the beam cabinets at home.

On the small bed under the curtain, the little girl wrinkled her baby-fat face and hummed, "Mom, mom, baby is so uncomfortable."

Mother repeatedly fiddled with the crystal particle detector on the wall with trembling hands, and the numbers on it were rising rapidly.

Outside the room, the father and son were arguing fiercely.

"What's going on here……"

"Did the front line lose?"

"Hey, you kid, what nonsense are you talking about!"

"Then why not!?" The young man yelled in fear, waving his hands, "Now that the crystal particles are pouring into Star City, isn't it just that the front line has fallen!?"

The figure of a young man is reflected in the window.Across the glass, the city guards were armed with live ammunition and ran quickly through the streets and alleys.

Suddenly, the strong wind blew up fallen leaves and dust, passing over the soldiers' trousers.

The dark clouds overhead were as thick as ink, and a heavy rain was coming.

"Boss, 000's consciousness connection is unstable... almost..."

"...Your Majesty... Keos!"

"Why is he doing this?"

"Mother core... crystal particle riot..."

"It may...be unable to sustain..."

what?

What are you talking about?

There was a commotion all around.Ryan was in a daze, vaguely thinking about the voice Jiang Jianming called him before he fell down.

Chu Jun felt ashamed.Only then did he boast that he was the only one who had the ability to fight Jingchao, but he fell down in the next second, which was too shameful.

He felt distressed again, and he was worried that Jiang Jianming had been frightened. If the stimulation made people get sick again, it would be a serious matter.

He wanted to open his eyes and sit up, put his commander in his arms to comfort him, but his body could not move.

Someone put a finger between his eyebrows, and quickly slid it down the end of his hair.

The sense of hearing gradually became clearer, and Ryan heard Jiang Jianming's faint voice: "Then why am I still fine?"

"My consciousness projection should also be transmitted from the crystal nest through His Majesty's will, shouldn't it?"

……His Majesty.Lean thought to himself, chewing this noble title repeatedly in the depths of his consciousness.

He couldn't help but compare it with the "His Royal Highness" that Jiang Jianming is usually used to address, trying to call which one sounds better and which one has deeper affection.

"There can only be one speculation." Silph whispered, "Kaos is unable to maintain the projection of two people, he... has given priority to you."

! ———

In an instant, a chilling sense of crisis penetrated him.

Ryan held his breath in horror, and the power burst out from nowhere made him suddenly open his eyes!

Clang, boom.

The silver-white Wings of Venus with the spear was blown into the air by the crystal bone, and fell to the ground again.

There was an exclamation in the small room, and several people looked at the prince who was supposed to be unconscious on the bed, "Your Highness! Wake up..."

The black-haired young man standing by the bed turned his head in a daze.

His right hand was still on his waist, where the holster was now empty.With a slight movement of the ring finger, the bright golden ring shone with it.

"... Ryan?"

"Jiang, see, Ming."

Ryan slowly raised his upper body, the corners of his eyes were red and filled with hatred, like the sharpened fangs of a wild beast.

"Just now," he grabbed Jiang Jianming's collar with one hand, and yanked violently, "What are you going to do!?"

How could a disabled human being be able to withstand his brutality? Jiang Jianming was dragged so hard that he almost bumped his head against the corner of the bed.Ryan crossed his arms and shouted angrily: "Say!!"

"Hey, don't, don't," Xie Yuduo was at a loss, and hurriedly persuaded him to fight, "Did your Highness have a nightmare, is it okay just now?"

"It was you who suddenly fell into a coma. Your Excellency was very worried. I asked the leader about your situation."

Ryan laughed back angrily, and clamped Jiang Jianming even harder, "Let him speak for himself!"

Jiang Jianming was silent for a second, then raised his face: "...You misunderstood, Your Highness."

"I'm really not prepared to shoot myself in order to actively end my own mental awareness projection in an attempt to save you."

Xie Yuduo: "..."

Silph looked away, and groaned in pain.

Ryan was already so angry that his voice was trembling: "Then why are you touching the gun!?"

Jiang Jianming defended helplessly: "I did think about the possibility of this, but I haven't prepared to implement it yet... It's because you overreacted, Your Highness."

He paused, raised his eyelashes, and there was an inexplicable coolness in the depths of his black eyes: "Besides, the stupid thing of sacrificing one's life for love, before and now, isn't it all you are doing? "