Dawn Sleep

The second he looked at the toads, Jiang Jianming's hair stood on end.

Reflexively, he pulled out the Wings of Venus from his waist, raised his gun and aimed at it, but resisted the urge to shoot on the spot.

The mecha jamming wave launcher was hidden in the belly of that one just now, and it happened to be the last one when it escaped. It was obvious that it was to lure Garcia to chop up...

Jiang Jianming sank his face intently, and thought to himself: These four now have some tricks on them.

His shoulders sank, and Garcia's palm pushed him back: "Don't shoot, get behind me."

"Your Highness." Jiang Jianming tilted his head.

The prince looked up and held his wrist as he passed by.

The mountain wind blows, and a few flakes of fine snow are blown down from the branches and leaves.

The four alien creatures were still lying on the tree trunk, staring at the two people below, their bulging belly slowly rising and falling, and the forest was silent.

Eerie silence.

"There is a voice." Garcia suddenly narrowed his eyes, "Mecha...fold mecha, one."

Jiang Jianming held his breath.

Soon he also heard the humming of the mecha from far to near.

"Chacha...!!"

The sound of flapping wings sounded first.

Countless birds in the forest were startled, singing and flying!

A red mecha rose from the forest, the air flow swept all directions, and the steel crushed countless branches and leaves.

The bright red wings spread out to the sides, casting huge shadows on the ground.A totem that looks like flowing magma and a devil laughing is printed on the fuselage.

"Yu Pirate?" Jiang Jianming's pupils shrank, and he quickly looked at Garcia.

They recognize this mecha... No, it should be said that no one does not recognize this mecha.

Named after the god of fire and craftsmen in ancient mythology, it is the only existing S-class mecha of the Lava Pirates, "L-Hephaestus"!

Garcia raised his arm to block Jiang Jianming behind him, and the strong wind brought by the mecha made the corners of their clothes fly.

In a blink of an eye, the red Hephaestus had already hovered above the forest.

The cockpit was open, and a boy about fourteen or fifteen years old was sitting in it, his eyes were condescending, and his red hair was dancing in the wind like flames.

The red-haired boy propped his forehead with one hand.Innocence and cruelty intertwined in the haughty eyes, and he grinned:

"Hmm, we meet again, His Royal Highness Prince Garcia."

"..."

Jiang Jianming bit his back teeth lightly, and stroked the cold handle of the gun with his thumb.

... Now he is very clear in his heart that this must be a game that has been set up from the beginning.It's just that they didn't expect that the enemies that appeared turned out to be the space pirates that the empire had fought for many years but hadn't been completely killed.

The famous "little devil" of the Lava Pirates - Chilong, the leader of the young group, sat leisurely in the mecha, looking down at the two people on the surface.

He turned his eyes and landed on Jiang Jianming, and said with a smile: "And... Your Excellency. I miss Beta Alien very much."

Jiang Jianming ignored it, and his thoughts turned rapidly: Where did this group of thieves get the technology enough to hack the imperial mecha?

Also, is this kid here alone?

But Garcia is here, even if he loses his mecha, one-on-one won't let anyone take advantage of it. What can he do alone?

Chilong tilted his head, and continued to jokingly say to Jiang Jianming: "However, your mech doesn't seem to be obedient today. Ha, ignore me, are you angry because of this?"

Before the words fell, there was a strange fluctuation in the air.

Chilong's laughing expression sank, and he swung two punches into the void suddenly. The crystal bones pierced out of his wrists were like two iron whips, smashing a row of sharp real crystals pierced instantly!

"Tsk, why does His Royal Highness attack you as soon as we meet? You are less polite than me, a space thief."

"For the defeated opponent," Garcia coldly put down his raised right hand, and the shattered true crystal dissipated and disappeared, "I don't really like nonsense."

"It's a pity." The Chilong in mid-air was not angry, but instead smiled sinisterly and clapped his hands, "Thanks to my consideration for you traveling all the way here, I even prepared a meeting gift for you."

Suddenly, the four eight-legged toads lying on the tall tree trunk moved. They raised their heads at the same time, and let out a series of cooing and cooing noises.

wrong.Jiang Jianming's back felt cold, and he suddenly raised his head, his heart beating faster.

Something is wrong, these alien creatures...

"!!"

They began to inhale heavily, and puffed up their bellies. It seemed that there was something sharp in their bellies, and they swelled bigger and bigger.

Soon, the toad's belly was bulging with blue veins, bloodshot eyes appeared on the skin and flesh, and finally——

Chi la!Chi la! !

There were creepy tearing sounds, and the stomachs of alien creatures were pierced by themselves, and thick blood splashed down from the tall trees.

At the same time, pieces of colorless crystal blocks gleamed, rolled out together with the sticky blood of the big beach, and fell on the snow-covered withered grass.

The swollen stomachs of these alien creatures are actually full of high-grade true crystal mines!

Suddenly, Garcia's eyes were cold.The crystal bone tore through the mountain wind, stabbing towards the real crystal mine like lightning.

"Haha, it's late, Your Royal Highness."

Chilong laughed out loud, and a pair of ferocious crystal bones stretched out from behind the young man, the color of which was as hot and red as his hair.

One step ahead of the prince, his crystal bone rolled up some kind of wonderful crystal particle fluctuations, shattering the true crystal mine between the blood and water!

"...!" Jiang Jianming's eyes trembled.

He took a step back subconsciously, and the snow under his feet made a "squeaky" sound.

True Crystal Mine...

It is the product of condensing a large number of crystal particles.

And if the energy in the true crystal mine is lured out by the crystal bone of the new human being, the consequence will be——

Immediately, the crystal particles turned into a storm and soared into the sky, and the whirlwind that rolled up reached the clouds!

The branches and leaves of the vegetation swayed, and the snow was blown off the cliff by the wind.In front of the mountain forest and on the cliff, the concentration of crystal particles in this area rose crazily.

Garcia's color changed, and he turned around and shouted: "Ginger!!"

... Jiang Jianming stood there, just three or four steps away from the prince, with his eyes open blankly.

However, in less than a second, there was no trace of blood on his face, as if his vitality was suddenly emptied by some terrifying giant claws.

He seemed to want to move, but the body only shook slightly twice, and then lost his balance.

The remnant crystal human beings fell silently to the ground like a withered leaf.

The world is dark.

……

The world is still in a dark age.

In the old empire, that is, the early days of the Holy Human Empire.

Grain tranquilizers have not yet been developed.

At that time, whether it was a new crystal human or a residual crystal human, once the crystal particles in the body got out of control, it would be a terminal illness, and this symptom was called "crystal disorder".

Acute crystal disorder caused by sudden exposure to a very high concentration of crystal particles will kill people on the spot; while chronic crystal disorder caused by staying in an environment with medium and low concentration particles for a long time will eat away at people year after year. s life.

The patient either gradually exhausted and died, or survived until the chronic crystal disorder turned into an acute disorder on a certain day, in short, there was still death.

Today's new empire has developed medical care, and the crystal particle tranquilizer has been developed to the second generation, which can ensure the safety of the people of the empire in most cases.

However, once the concentration of crystal particles exceeds the limit that the human body can bear, it exceeds the range where tranquilizers can work...

"Crystal chaos" is still the deadly poison that is equated with death.

……

In a corner of Alien Alpha, on a cliff in the snowy forest, chaotic crystal particles collide in all directions, and the rage is getting higher and higher!

"Ahahahaha..."

Chilong raised his head exaggeratedly and let out a maniacal laugh. L-Hephaestus quickly lifted into the air and carried him away from this frenzied death of crystal particles.

"How about it, how about it, so many true crystal mines are not a big gift. I even helped you open it with my own hands. Are you happy soon!?"

"Come on, come on, thank me quickly! Hey, why is no one talking, aren't you surprised? Hahahaha..."

it hurts.

Jiang Jianming's consciousness was sunk in chaos.

It's so hot... No, it's so cold... Whether it's hot or cold, the body can no longer tell.

It was as if every organ, every cell in the body was tearing, they were tearing and sticking together, and then tearing apart again.

Blood, darkness, sanity is collapsing... Mottled colors cover the walls, maggots eat carrion, flames burn the wings of moths, and a group of crazy children laugh and tear straws in the sunset.

--Do not!

Jiang Jianming bit the tip of his tongue suddenly, and he broke free from the half-comatose and insane illusion in cold sweat!

The vision changed from blurred to clear, the mountain wind blew all over, and the back soaked in cold sweat shivered with cold.

In front of him was still the snow-covered cliff, the broken mecha smashed the comet, and a scorched mark in the forest... It was the trace left by His Highness when he stopped the out-of-control mecha.

...By the way, Your Highness...

Jiang Jianming's perception had become extremely dull, and only then did he belatedly realize that he was being held in someone's arms.

Garcia hugged him on his knees, his body bent down.Crystal bones appeared on the prince's shoulders again, piercing deeply into the ground.

With the two of them at the center, the golden red crystals spread out like lightning, on the rocks, on the snow, on the trunks and branches... clusters of crystal clusters.

Jiang Jianming suddenly realized: Garcia was condensing the over-concentrated crystal particles in the air into solid real crystals!

Thick and violent crystal particles filled the entire space. When the mecha failed, the tiny human beings seemed to be at the bottom of the deep sea. Even though they knew they would die from suffocation, they had nowhere to hide.

But the prince tried to shake the huge sea with human power, set off heavy waves, and stubbornly wanted to give the crippled human in his arms a chance to survive.

In the distance of the mountains and forests, mechas took off into the sky, and the wings of the mechas were all painted with the logo of the Lava Pirates.

"Boss!" "Did you succeed!?"

The space pirates gathered and surrounded the red Hephaestus in the middle.

Someone saw the red gold crystal clusters criss-crossing between the cliff and the jungle, and shrunk their necks in horror: "Sigh, his grandma's is too scary..."

The red dragon sat lazily on the driver's seat of Hephaestus, and smiled with lowered eyelids: "It's useless, that disabled human being is hopeless, suddenly exposed to such a rich environment of crystal particles, even if he fights Over-sedation is certain death."

"In less than a minute, the chaotic crystal particles in his body will churn his internal organs into a ball of blood."

Chilong raised his hair, cupped his face and said with a laugh: "It's so pitiful, I think His Royal Highness seems to care about him?"

"Hmph, people like Garcia probably haven't tasted failure and loss. Guess, can we see the tears of His Royal Highness today?"

In front of the cliff, the real crystal keeps condensing, but it also keeps escaping, growing and dissipating in an endless loop.

"temple……"

Jiang Jianming spoke hoarsely, and every word he uttered seemed to tear his internal organs again.

His eyes turned black and painful... The pain pierced all the nerves in his body, and he could only rely on willpower to keep his mind clear, looking at Garcia.

Just like before, the finely divided red gold spar crawled all over the prince's cheeks again.

Garcia seemed to have entered a state of insanity, his golden-red pupils were slack, and he didn't even notice that the person in his arms had opened his eyes.

Jiang Jianming, besides being filled with all the sensory pain, actually had a little extra energy to feel the emotion of shock and anger.

...What is this person doing? If he continues to consume so forcefully, even he himself will be in danger of crystal chaos.

He raised his hand with difficulty, and his pale fingers tightened on the prince's arm.

"Your Highness...Your Highness," Jiang Jianming raised his eyes with difficulty, gasped for breath, and tried to speak, "Your Highness...wake up."

After a few seconds of slowness, the golden red color in Garcia's eyes faded a little, and he lowered his eyes blankly, and fell on the pale face of the disabled man in his arms.

Jiang Jianming raised his wrist with difficulty, and touched Garcia with the folded white bracelet of the snow dove.

"Leave... from here, drive the snow dove."

Garcia trembled abnormally, with a look of helplessness on his face.

"No." His voice was low and floating, and he hugged Jiang Jianming even tighter, "Don't talk."

Garcia lowered his eyes in panic, his usually cold and elegant voice trembled undetectably, and murmured in a low voice: "Don't be afraid...be patient, it won't hurt soon."

"After the crystal particles solidify, I will take you away and hold on for a while."

"Quickly, look at me."

... This is stubborn!

Jiang Jianming was so angry that his heart was throbbing and his eyes were blackened. A force of strength came from nowhere and forcibly dispelled the feeling of weakness.

He gritted his teeth and pushed Garcia's arm away, and stood up and shouted: "—It only takes a second for the snow dove to unfold, I can hold it, let's go!!"

L-Hephaestus' mecha cockpit.

"No crystal chaos?"

Chilong straightened his upper body with a worried face.

He muttered to himself: "How is it possible? According to the information, he is indeed a remnant crystal human being, unless..."

Not a single word could be spoken.

A strong wind suddenly picked up below, and the S-Snow Dove took off!

Chilong's eyes were sharp, and he said in shock: "Hey, there is still a folding mecha!?"

Xuejiu's attack power is not strong, but the person who controls the mecha is stronger than any mecha.

Garcia stepped on the outer edge of the cockpit with a cold expression.He steadily maintained a semi-suspended posture, with one crystal bone extending backwards to fit on the control screen of the mecha, and one crystal bone protecting the mecha.

S-Snow Dove galloped towards the snow mountain on the other side of the cliff!

He ignored the lava mechs in mid-air, and the real crystals and crystal bones bombarded them indiscriminately. For a while, the sound of explosions and cracking winds followed one after another.

"...Damn it, this imperial monster!" Chilong cursed in a low voice, the mecha spun in mid-air in a circular arc, and retreated, "Stay away, you little ones, don't confront him head-on! !"

In the cockpit of S-Xuejiu, the intelligent brain Seth Henry controls the seat belt, which is automatically fastened to the body in the driver's seat.

Blood dripped from the corner of Jiang Jianming's lips, he tilted his head, his eyes were misty.

The mecha was taking off, and the Xuelin gradually became smaller.

In the vision that gradually darkened, Jiang Jianming struggled to see the "culprits" who brought the real crystal mine.

The chest was opened and the abdomen was broken, and blood was lost crazily.The four alien creatures quickly lost their lives, they died without struggle or scream.

Before they died completely, the mouths of the four toads curved up strangely——

Like a clown in a circus, that's a big, funny laugh.