mayfly era

Everything started with a "borrowed water signal" from the vast universe.

It was a cosmic refugee struggling to express his desire for water, begging, even a bucket, a cup, or even a drop... But human beings did not give any feedback to this—because this signal was considered by the duty commissioner It is "cosmic junk information" dropped by enemy countries to defraud intelligence.

But the real disaster came with the "borrowed water signal".

Three years after the signal was received but there was no response, a tiny "meteorite" crashed into the ocean without a sound, and one-third of the world's seawater disappeared overnight.

It sounded like a wild joke, so when it actually happened, it was like a joke, a joke that resounded through the universe.

The next day, the water disappeared to half its original size and stopped there.

But this is not good news.

The result of the turbulent ocean currents was the rupture of the earth's crust, the fire of dead leaves, and the explosion of pressure caused a large number of volcanic eruptions.After losing the constant temperature ability of sea water, both ends of the planet are plunged into extreme cold, while the belly of the planet is scorching hot like purgatory...

The vast majority of human beings also disappeared the day after the seawater disappeared. As for whether they have died or fled to the universe, the people left behind do not know.

A very small number of humans were left behind, and they had only one task - to guard the fortress and regain the water source.

The tiny meteorite brought a kind of "creature" that ordinary people can't understand. They are translucent, their skin is as rough and crystal clear as a rough crystal, and they are covered with hard and protruding mouthparts. The shape is like... Mo A Möbius strip that can swim and crawl.

After the water is absorbed by it, it is extremely compressed into blue crystal nuclei, which are arranged in order in its body and sparkle, which is an extremely cruel beauty.

The more crystal nuclei, the larger its size and the more mouthparts it has.

Human beings call them "borrowers of water", and behind the "borrowers of water" are unknown cosmic refugees stalking them.In the following ten years, it was a long and cruel war between the "minority" and the "borrowers".

In the desert, under the huge fortress, the bloody female combatants are calling for help.

She suppressed her sobs and calmly explained the situation: "A1332 called urgently, we are in a desperate situation. I have followed the instructions to open that thing, but there is nothing in our situation..."

She couldn't continue, because she saw the sharp mouthparts of the "borrower" pierced into the body of her last comrade-in-arms. The blood of the comrade-in-arms was instantly sucked dry, and he hung on the mouthparts, becoming a mummy swaying in the wind.

And the blood formed a blood-colored crystal nucleus in the torso of the "borrower of water".

Two lines of tears fell uncontrollably from the female combatant's eyes. She knew what the little water would do to her, and she knew that she should quickly wipe the tears away with a mask...but she had lost all desire to survive.

Attracted by the humidity of tears, the extremely sensitive and greedy "water borrower" threw off the mummy and rushed towards her——

"The reinforcements are 3 minutes away, hold on!" The chief's deep voice came from the earphones.

"I...I've already..."

There are only countless sharp mouthparts in her empty eyes, and the mouthparts are stained with the blood of her comrades in arms.

"Di—" a short prompt sounded.

There was a small gap in the semi-circular top floor of the giant fortress, and a figure jumped down from it, about to fall into the densely packed mouthparts of the "Water Borrower".

The "Water Borrower" has only one weakness, that is, its "skin" will relax every 47 seconds, which lasts for about two seconds. , also hard as ore.

The man was wearing the same combat uniform as them, with a booster hanging around his waist. He held a long knife in his hand, and pierced it with incomparable precision at the moment the "water borrower"'s skin relaxed, and then used the waist booster to Flying backwards, it sliced ​​through the body of the "borrower" smoothly.

The "Water Borrower" was cut into two by him. This alien monster has no vocal organs, and it fell silently on the soft sand. The blue and red crystal nuclei fell out of its body and scattered. one place.

The outstanding willpower made the female warrior regain her sanity tenaciously. She stood up, staggered a few steps and fell to the place where the crystal nucleus fell, and quickly put the crystal nucleus into her equipment bag. She grabbed the blue crystal nucleus first. before picking up the red crystal nuclei one by one, tears flowed down her face again.

The blue ones are sea water, and the red ones... are human blood.

The strong female warrior could no longer control her emotions, and burst into tears.

After a while, a gloved hand was stretched out in front of her eyes, she wiped her tears, grabbed that hand and stood up with strength.

Suddenly she saw the serial number on the man's chest, and she was instantly frozen in place as if struck by lightning. The next second, she threw herself into the man's arms, slapped his back hard, and shouted happily: "You are back!"

The man pushed her away.

She raised her head and saw a pair of strange eyes. She had never seen such dark irises in her life, as if the night had condensed in his eyes.

She pursed her lips in embarrassment.

"Take me to your chief." The man spoke with a hoarse voice and a strange tone, as if he hadn't spoken for decades.

The female warrior nodded.

In exactly 3 minutes, a small aircraft appeared in the sky, and the reinforcements and her commander landed immediately.

The man lifted his legs to leave, but suddenly his body shook violently and fell to the ground.

***

The chief of A133 is a strong man with a height of [-] meters. He has to bend his waist to almost ninety degrees to enter the gate of the giant base.

And it was such a man who was kicked out by Shengsheng, and hit the wall with a "bang", almost knocking down the entire giant fortress.

The female soldier stood aside, her mind was very confused now, and her logic was somewhat subverted—the person in front of her who killed the "borrower" with a knife and then suddenly fainted just kicked her officer over.

This man was tall and thin, and he didn't seem to have such strange strength at all.

The officer got up and spat out a bloody tooth.

The man raised his legs and walked over, and he was about to commit violence to her chief a second time.

"Wait!" The officer took out a piece of paper from his pocket and held it out in front of the man.

The man stood still, his eyes fixed on the piece of paper, his expression was hidden in the mask, but anyone could see that his face was twisted to the extreme.

"Because of the shortage of resources, each of us can only print one photo. I typed this...for you," said the officer.

The man was silent for a long time, reached out and took the photo away, then turned and went upstairs.

"Sir." The female soldier handed the equipment bag to her officer, and she took a deep breath to suppress her emotions, "76... There are six blood cores."

The officer patted her on the shoulder, "You are very strong, Jixing, we are proud of you."

"Sir, who is that person?" Ji Xing asked.

The officer sighed, and the top of his head almost reached the ceiling of the first floor of the fortress, making the voice sound very distant and desolate.

After a while he said, "He is a man who lived 600 years ago."

"What?" Ji Xing was shocked.

"I put this giant fortress in the desert with the lowest level of danger just to protect him."

Ji Xing's face turned cold instantly. She thought of those comrades who were brutally killed by the "borrowers", and her heart ached so much that she almost lost her mind.

"Just to protect one person? Just for him, my six comrades-in-arms will become blood cores forever!"

The officer shook his head, "It's not for one person, it's for everyone."

Ji Xing was puzzled, and the sadness, anger, and fear that surfaced again made her grab the officer's thick arm, and her fingertips almost embedded in it.

The officer let her hold her and said calmly, "He is not alone, he is everyone."

"You are... what do you mean?" Ji Xing's face turned pale.

"This is a top secret. I can only tell you one person, but you must swear by your family that you will never betray this secret. You can even betray me." The officer said.

Jixing was even more puzzled, but she still put her hands on her heart and swore in a low voice and sincerely: "I swear, in the name of the dead family members, I will never betray the motherland, never betray humanity, and never betray this secret."

This is the oath they made when they became a "minority", as if engraved in the bone marrow.

"Okay, I believe you, you are an excellent fighter and an excellent human being, otherwise you wouldn't be urgently assigned as a 'minority'."

The chief continued: "That person was the chief of the A600 'balance system' 133 years ago. There is an independent dimension in his brain, which is a different dimension that is absolutely independent of this dimension."

Jixing stared at the officer in disbelief.

"Now all human beings are in his brain, so protecting him is tantamount to protecting all human beings."

"what do you mean?"

"I understand that this is not something that can be easily understood. You can think of it as a 'safe prison', with no entry but no exit."

Ji Xing's lips trembled slightly, "There is no exit, what's the difference between that and death?"

"There is a difference. When people collectively evolve into 'high-dimensional people' in their brains, they can come out of their brains, but 'high-dimensional people' cannot touch the three-dimensional world, so there is still a stage, that is' Degenerate', degenerate into a new three-dimensional human."

Every word out of the officer's mouth was like delirium, Jixing shook her head, she couldn't believe it, her world was suddenly turned upside down - she saw the glimmer of hope, but she couldn't believe it was real hope.

The officer stared into her eyes and said seriously: "We think that since those cosmic refugees can touch our world, we must be in the same dimension. They may be highly intelligent people, but they are definitely not high-dimensional people."

The officer paused, his eyes sparkled, full of passion and hope, "So this plan can not only make human beings temporarily safe, but also cultivate the collective evolution of all human beings. When they come back, everyone will be a fighter." , everyone is a wise man, everyone is a scientist, and the crystal nucleus that we cannot restore can be solved...they will definitely save this dying homeland!"

"But we don't have much time. Space refugees are desperate for their water, so sooner or later we have to take the crystal nucleus across light years." He held Pole Star's hand, and bent his tall body towards the female warrior. Pasted on the back of Jixing's hand, "We have to hold on until that day, Jixing, to see our family and our home."

Even though Ji Xing still couldn't understand this crazy life gambler's plan for a while, she was infected by the officer's emotion and couldn't help nodding her head vigorously.

"I believe you must understand how powerful people can explode in adversity," said the officer.

"Then he...why can he live to this day?" Ji Xing asked.

Why is he alive today.

Chen Yue was lying on a huge metal box, staring at the photo, and after a long time, he kissed it lightly.

Half an hour ago, he woke up in this box, and the alarm sounded like crazy in the room, so he crawled out, put on a set of spare clothes, jumped off the giant barrier, and slashed the monster he met for the first time.

He pasted the photo on his chest, slowly adjusted his breathing, and his body, which had been stagnant for several years, felt pain like a needle prick between every breath.

"Old Yan, what am I, why can't I die?" He said softly according to the photo, a little childish and a little bit wronged.

He picked up that photo again. The people in the photo don’t like to take pictures, so they only left one work photo in his life. Chen Li remembered that he secretly hid the cigarette behind his back, pretended to be serious and raised his face, and laughed again after the photo was taken. , pestered Chen Li to praise him for being handsome.

Chen Li still remembered his funeral, even if he became an old man, he would still be the most handsome old man in Central City.Chen Li looked at his empty fingers, and remembered that their wedding ring didn't recruit craftsmen until the brand closed down... So Chen Li wrapped the small metal stick around his finger, and then leaned against his body that had lost heat.

"Send you a ring, I hope that in that world, we can get closer..."

So he obviously should have died with the bong.

But he didn't die.

The moment he was awakened, he understood that it was Xu Minzhe, and it was never a double bomb implanted in his chest, but strong anesthesia.Then he was frozen, traveled through hundreds of years, and lived in the future world.

He opened his eyes, numbly looking at this doomsday world full of sorrow.He only knew that this was a world without smoking guns. He felt lonely and sad, but not terrible.

"Why are you still thinking about it? Why? Are you going to watch the human race die? Do you still have humanity!" The person who woke him up had tears in his eyes and accused him in grief.

Chen Li looked down at his hands that were frozen to a fish-like whiteness.

"Please, please, this is the only way..." The man cried out of breath and knelt on the ground.

He is a tool, a container, a savior who should have no heart.Born for this.

So he agreed.

Except for the fighters who were selected as the "minority", people from all over the world have entered his "maze". The originally silent "maze" - he has never really locked anyone in in his life, and it instantly becomes noisy.

Just like "Shang Liming", he fell into extreme chaos and wanted to escape uncontrollably. He pierced his chest with something and was locked into the iron box.

Maybe it's just belated anger and unwillingness...

At this time, someone knocked on the wall, interrupting Chen Li's memory.

"Sir."

He didn't want to sit up, and he didn't want to respond.

"I don't know your name, but I think you should be my officer."

Jixing came over, she took out a bottle of water and some high-compression food from her bag, then she sat down on the floor, and looked at this man whom her chief described as miraculous.

He was wearing a full set of combat uniform, except for those dark eyes, even the most basic age could not be seen.

"Now there are only you and me in this giant fortress. The fewer people there are, the lower the water content will be, and the safer it will be," Jixing said.

fortress.Chen Li silently repeated these two familiar words.

"My name is Jixing, and I'm the captain of A1332 Juba." Jixing took a deep breath, suppressing his sadness.

She is the only one left in A1332, so she can only be the captain. When she first entered the giant base, she really wanted to get the honorary title of captain, but now, she would rather not be the captain forever.

"The clothes you are wearing are the clothes of the person I like." Ji Xing said, stretching out his hand to tear off the embroidery label on Chen Li's chest as if angry, "I don't even have a picture of him."

Chen Li moved his view to Jixing's eyes, and he saw a number, and suddenly information popped up in his brain, which coincided with this number.

"The era of mayflies predicted by my aunt has come."

"I've never heard of a specific period for the age of the mayfly."

It turned out that the string of numbers was not a date.

No wonder nothing happened then.

What Chen Ming saw at a glance was the "Era of Mayflies" more than 600 years later, but even the mayflies are almost extinct in this world...

Chen Li laughed softly, the laughter came out from the mask, it was dull and desolate.

"Sir, when human beings evolve into new three-dimensional humans, will we be useless?" Ji Xing hugged his knees and said in a muffled voice, "Everyone of them is a fighter, a wise man, and a scientist...then Is it right that they are going to protect us instead?"

Chen Li turned his head to look at Ji Xing.

Just that light glance made Jixing feel a strong sense of intimidation, even when facing the giant "borrower", she had never felt such a feeling.

A strand of white hair slipped out of Chen Li's hood, and he stuffed it in casually.

Ji Xing thought, he probably wasn't young anymore.

"Who is that person in your photo?" Ji Xing couldn't help asking this question.

When the photo was still in the officer's hand, she caught a glimpse of a handsome silver-haired man with strangely colored eyes.

Chen Li said: "He is my favorite person, I promise to die with him."

Ji Xing's heart trembled, she suddenly felt that this person was very pitiful, there are too many people in this world who can't live, but very few people can't want to die.

"After the evolution of human beings, if my brain is pierced, I can die." Chen Li said it easily, and there was even a bit of yearning in his tone.

Jixing broke into a cold sweat, she grabbed the compressed food and took a bite, the hard taste made her teeth ache.

She pursed her lips and changed the topic, "This is a desert, and you can see stars at night. If you want to see them, you can make the ceiling transparent."

Chen Li asked, "How many monsters like that do we need to kill?"

"This is a desert, and the 'borrowers' would never have come here, but they have." Jixing sighed, "So they have already penetrated deep into the hinterland, and this place is not safe anymore."

"Is its gem important to you?"

"That's not a gem..." Jixing wiped his eyes vigorously, "It's water and blood."

Chen Yue thought of those crystal nuclei shining with the luster of gemstones, such a magnificent thing, it turned out to be so cruel.

He asked "Shang Liming" what it was - when human beings entered the maze, "Shang Liming" collapsed like him. Later, it may be because he slept for too long. "Shang Liming" continued to evolve and was able to accept complicated sounds. Currently It is the teacher of mankind.

"That's a condensation technique, it's very simple." "Shang Liming" answered him.

"How much more can you teach them?" Chen Li asked again.

"Shang Liming" surrounded Chen Ming's head and said gently: "They are too afraid of me, after all, I am a talking head in their eyes."

"Shang Liming" said again: "If you die, I will go home, and return to that barren place of eternal life. Speaking of which, that place is somewhat similar to yours, in the past."

"Ah."

"You have worked very hard, taking on the responsibilities of God in the human body."

Chen Li still doesn't like this word, so he doesn't want to talk to "Shang Liming" any more.

"Shang Liming" is the only object he can communicate with in the "maze", and other people are completely isolated from him, just like the dimensions cannot communicate.

"Old Yan, wait for me." Chen Li said in his heart.

***

For the first time, light appeared in the "labyrinth" of absolute darkness.

The first light trace, the second light trace, the third... Countless light traces spread from top to bottom at a high speed, and the originally indestructible maze was like a biscuit smashed by a child, cracking piece by piece.

At that time, Chen Li had just sent the knife into the skin of the "borrower", and he could no longer control his body. If Jixing hadn't temporarily taken over his booster, he would have become a dead body with mouthparts. Mummy.

He fell to the ground, unable to get up again.

Human beings are reborn on the corpse of the hero, a tragic but happy ending.

If the hero still wants to die, then this is the best ending.

The day has finally come when human beings evolve collectively, break through Chen Li's abnormal brain, and become high-dimensional humans.He knew that "Shang Liming" had already taught people to "degenerate" - just like it spent eight years degenerating, only to find Chenming to come to this world.

But human beings are different. The purpose of degrading from high dimensions is to return to the home of the three-dimensional world. They will still retain the wisdom and thoughts acquired before reaching high dimensions, and will no longer be weak when facing "borrowers" as they used to be. powerless.

But power is the god of saving and killing. Maybe after human beings restore water, they will have to become "borrowers" who extend their hands to the universe in the face of the exhausted resources and the gradually deviating parent star.

Chen Li thought, it doesn't matter.

His mission is to bring about the dawn of humanity, not the dawn of the universe, and all scrambles, whether for greed or survival, have nothing to do with him.

He couldn't do more.

Pole Star threw himself beside him, shaking him vigorously.

He was lying in the sand, laughing as hard as he could, and he was happy, he was really happy, because he could finally die.

With a smile on his face, he murmured words that no one else could hear.

"Old Yan, wait a minute..."

"I miss you so much."

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I will fix the details and hang up. Thank you for your support all the time. The v line is enough, but I think I will v again after a while. Everyone can rest assured to read it. I will say in advance when I enter v~

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