Boundary Shattered [Interstellar]

Fifty years later, under the leadership of Tang Xi, the head of the scientific research department, the science and technology of the Republic of Tia developed rapidly, and it has been able to detect the cosmic space tens of millions of light years away.

This day is a day of great significance alone.

Because——they detected Gutiya Star!

After humans came to the new star field, for the first time, Gutia star was rediscovered!

Although human beings are flourishing and developing in the Backlight Starfield, after thousands of years, people still feel something is missing in their hearts.And today, they finally found what they had been missing all this time——their roots.

As soon as the coordinates of Gutia Star were detected, the Central Military Headquarters contacted the Glory Legion at the farthest border and sent an advance troop of [-] people to investigate.

At this time, the Legion of Glory is no longer the poor legion with only a few dozen people, but a large army with 20 elite soldiers, filling the dormitories in the updated warship to the brim.Lian Ting received a mission from the Imperial Capital Star, his eyes sparkled brightly:

"Choose 100 people to go to Gutiya Planet with me, those who are interested will sign up..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he was surrounded by layers of people, and the registration form he took out was filled up in an instant.

"Me! Marshal, is there any quota left?"

"Marshal, isn't 100 people a bit small, let's add a few hundred more!"

Over there, Tang Chu came out of the dormitory yawning, still confused about the situation: "...What's wrong? What happened?"

The person next to him told Tang Chu what had happened, and Tang Chu was instantly outraged:

"Marshal! Our fifth team just came back from the mission yesterday, so we didn't catch up because of the rest, so why didn't we have any places!"

Tang Chu rushed to the very center, hugged Lian Ting's arm, and spoke in an aggrieved tone.

Irus yelled at the side: "Marshal's wife is not allowed to use beauty tricks!"

Yu Yue watched the excitement from the sidelines and said, "Marshal, you are the commander of the regiment, so you must be on a warship, or your quota will be..."

Tang Chu said "go" to Yu Yue and Yilusi, then turned his head and continued to feel wronged:

"Are you going to elope with them and leave me?"

Lian Ting: "..."

Lian Ting coughed lightly and said sharply, "Quiet."

The row fell, and the chaotic crowd lined up in an instant, standing neatly in a military posture.

Lian Ting glanced at Tang Chu inadvertently, "Gutia planet has been discovered, and this time I went to collect the current situation of the planet. There will be more opportunities in the future, and the captains of each team can take the team members to take a look during the rest.  … ...This time, the fifth team has just returned from its mission, so this team sent 100 people and me to investigate."

Tang Chu's eyes suddenly brightened, and he jumped up and gave Lian Ting a loud "Bo" on the face.

Immediately everyone sighed.Lian Ting was attacked by surprise, and pulled Tang Chu away by the collar, "Stand still!"

Tang Chu stood up obediently.

Irus kept sighing: "You and the marshal have been married for decades, and they are so sticky every day. Well, I don't need to eat at noon today, I'm full."

The people around said one after another: "I'm full too."

"Me too."

Tang Chu snorted, turned around and said, "We are young, we are not yet a hundred years old, we are young people! You bunch of old bachelors who are two hundred years old and have no friends, go be jealous!"

Irus then yelled: "Marshal, then we will go on vacation next time. This time you and Marshal's wife are going on honeymoon... that is, when recruiting new recruits next time, can you recruit more female soldiers! Or are they white and clean? The male soldiers are also fine. These things..."

He stretched out his fingers and looked around, a group of strong, bearded, sweaty soldiers stared:

"what happened?"

"Tsk, it's not conducive to getting out of the order."

Tang Chu smiled: "Young little soldier? Do you want an old cow to eat young grass? Besides, Irus, you don't need to look for a fair and clean little soldier. You have shaved off your beard, don't you?"

Mengli next to Irus looked at him with a smile in his eyes.

"Then it's settled like this." Lian Ting raised his hand, and everyone quieted down, "The first time I went to Gutia Star again, I didn't have the purpose of playing, but also needed to detect. The fifth team packed up the detection equipment before tomorrow morning, We took the flying ship to the Gutia star coordinates."

At night, Tang Chu touched into Lian Ting's bedroom, and got under Lian Ting's quilt all at once.

Lian Ting was woken up by being licked like a puppy.

He grabbed Tang Chu's cheeks and squinted his eyes: "Don't make trouble, we have to set off tomorrow, take a good rest."

Tang Chu lay down obediently, hugged Lian Ting into his arms, leaned closer, and whispered:

"Lian Ting, can't you resist my beauty tricks during the day, huh?"

Lian Ting grabbed the back of Tang Chu's head and pressed him into his neck, trying to shut him up.

Tang Chu chattered endlessly: "If it's a feast this time, I can finally find my home planet! Are you going back to the Imperial Star to participate in the celebration carnival? It's been three years since I went back, but this year I just cleared a wave at the border. The bug swarm, I just took people to investigate the surrounding star fields, and they are all stable. Let’s take a few days off when we go back? Shall we go on honeymoon?”

Lian Ting finally opened his eyes, and looked helplessly at the person in front of him:

"We've been on our 'honeymoon' many times."

"The two of us travel, how can this be too much. When we retire, we will play all the planets. It is still far away."

Lian Ting pointed at Tang Chu's head, "It's still far from retirement now. And it will be tiring to play all day."

"Then live on each planet for a few months." Tang Chu said, "Such a large star field, you have to visit all of them. Hey, I think Xiaopangpang is not bad. He has been in the army for 20 years and is already a captain. , the performance is very one percent of your demeanor back then. When we poach him from the imperial capital to our legion, we can consider training him. ——By the way, let me tell you something fun."

Lian Ting noticed that Tang Chu seemed to be very excited tonight, and helped him put a pillow, "What's the matter?"

"Just a few months ago, Tang Tao and Shu Min had their second child. When entering their identity information, a blood test showed that he was related to Tang Pangpang. Later, it was determined that Tang Pangpang was lost by Tang Tao. Thanks to Tang Pangpang, who has called Tang Tao his adoptive father for 50 years, Tang Tao did not pay attention to Pangpang's identity certificate and coming-of-age ceremony for Pangpang. A godson is a real son..."

Lian Ting couldn't help laughing after hearing this.

"And Ren Chi, do you remember him?"

Lian Ting nodded.

Tang Chu said: "I haven't seen him for three years. He sent me a message a few days ago, saying that he is no longer on the imperial capital planet, but went to various remote planets to study the planetary shield according to the situation of each planet. We will go to each planet in the future. Maybe you can meet him and the planetary shield he designed and manufactured when you are here."

"En." Lian Ting replied, and then couldn't help yawning.

Tang Chu rubbed his nose, "...you must be sleepy. Go to sleep, don't chat anymore."

"No rush." ​​Lian Ting said.He asked Tang Chu: "Excited? Because you discovered Tia Star?"

Tang Chu nodded lightly and smiled, a very shallow dimple appeared on his cheek.

"Gutia Star has been found...Maybe one day, there will be a four-dimensional space transition technology, and maybe...the Milky Way and the Earth can be found. I will take you to see it then."

"Okay." Lian Ting kissed Tang Chu lightly, "I'm homesick."

"No." Tang Chu buried his head in the quilt, "I just want to go back and take a look if I get a chance, and it's okay if I can't. I just want to see how far they can do it...Go to sleep."

Lian Ting wrapped his arms around Tang Chu's waist and pulled him closer.Tang Chu took a deep breath on Lian Ting's neck, and his breathing gradually eased.

Finding a planet based on the coordinates is very easy with the current level of technology.Along the way, Lian Ting recorded the situation around the route, made four jumps, and took a month to reach the outside of Tia Star.

Everyone in the flying ship was a little surprised and disappointed when they saw the appearance of the long-awaited planet.

Because the planet in front of them is not the blue planet exuding tolerance as they imagined, or the beautiful planet with green vitality that can be glimpsed from the outside.And it is such a gray planet that is slowly rotating or even almost stationary, with no light at all, and seems to be swallowed by the dark universe—it cannot even be called a planet, but a huge rock mass .

Everyone looked at the scene of the planet outside through the windows of the flying ship, and they didn't speak for a long time.

"...Marshal, are you sure it is it? Did you find the wrong planet?" Lin Yi asked.

"That's right." Lian Ting nodded, "The detected image is the same as it, and the coordinates are also accurate."

"That……"

"It's already great." Lian Ting said. "It is already great. It has lost the energy of the planet, and has not disintegrated and dissipated into dust in the universe. Instead, it has persisted for more than 3000 years, waiting here...it is already great."

The flying ship observed around this dusty planet, and the machine was automatically collecting image data of the planet's surface.Suddenly, Lin Xing, who was observing the collection equipment, cried out in surprise:

"Look there!"

I saw that the planet area facing the flying ship now, except for the dark gray lifeless land, seemed to have a hint of green.

Lian Ting walked quickly to the detection screen and said, "Zoom in."

Lin Xing hastily zoomed in on this area. It was originally only a faint green that seemed to be misunderstood, but it was really obvious.On that flat gray ground, green vegetation is really scattered here and there!

Lian Ting was sure he read it right.

"Land down, go down and have a look."

Everyone didn't even dare to stop the flying ship on the planet, but landed outside the atmosphere, and only the equipped people fell on the surface of the planet.According to the coordinates of the positioning, he soon came to the plain where the plants were seen on the flying ship.

Passing through a series of rocks, what you see is a dark green that is completely different from the surrounding gray color.Whether it is the sky above the head, the surrounding rocks, or the land under the feet, they are all dry and cracked gray textures; only the plants are the color of life.

Tang Chu held up the machine to collect air samples, then squatted down to measure the land.When he got the result, he scratched his head:

"It shouldn't be. This planet has no possibility of being able to breed life at all. How can there be plants growing well?"

And, it's not just plants.

Everyone walked into the plain where plants grew, only to find that the greenery seen from above the planet was not grass growing tenaciously in the cracks, but towering trees.

——It is a real towering tree.

It looks like greenery from a distance, but it is completely shocking when you get close.This is a tree that can really be described as "towering". The luxurious canopy can only be seen from a distance, and the sky cannot be seen through the branches and leaves when you approach it.It is at least a hundred meters high, and no one has managed it since it began to grow. The trees grow densely, stretching wantonly, and the entire body is covered by branches and leaves, and the trunk is almost invisible.

Moreover, the star-point greenness seen from the sky above the planet is actually quite a lot.

The plain is very vast, and it seems that you can still imagine the phantom of the traffic and people passing by thousands of years ago, but now there is nothing left.Except for these trees, they are not densely planted, but they cover the whole plain and make it full of life.

Lian Ting scanned the entire plain, "a total of 23 trees."

Tang Chu vaguely felt that this number was very familiar, but he didn't remember it for a while.He asks a question:

"How did these trees grow so big with nutrients? This planet should be almost a dead planet."

Lian Ting said, "Just check it out and you'll know."

So everyone dispersed and began to collect planetary samples.Tang Chu was still interested in those very tall and free-growing trees. Instead of following the crowd to survey the rock quality, he got into one of the dense branches and leaves and got close to the trunk.

This is a tree trunk that is hard to see how thick the whole picture is, and the rough and rough bark gives people a sense of vicissitudes.Tang Chu bent down and picked up a dead leaf from last year that was about to rot on the ground, and put it into the detector, which showed that it was a very ordinary tree except for being extraordinarily tall.

He didn't believe in evil, turned on the detector and climbed up the tree to scan the tree up and down.

Tang Chu climbed to the top of the tree and tested the entire tree until everyone had collected all the planetary samples and assembled.Disappointed that nothing was wrong.

Lian Ting bent over the thick branches, approached the trunk, raised his head and called Tang Chu:

"Down!"

"Hey!"

Tang Chu responded, slid down on the tree trunk a few times, and was taken into Lian Ting's arms.

"Go to collect some data elsewhere, and then we..."

"Wait!" Tang Chu suddenly stared at the detector screen in his hand with wide eyes.

He climbed hundreds of meters of trees without detecting something wrong with the detector, and suddenly detected something.

"...there appears to be something in the soil at the root of the tree."

Tang Chu and Lian Ting looked at each other.

Lian Ting took out the telescopic rod in the backpack, compared with the things on the screen in the detector, and found the right position and went a little deeper.The thing buried in the ground on the screen is a strangely shaped stone, but Lian Ting has a vague feeling that it is more than just a stone.

"found it."

The analyzer at the top of the telescoping rod gave the result quickly.

It was a petrified human bone.

Tang Chu lay on the trunk of one of the trees, looking at the gray sky above his head in a daze.

No stars, no moon, no sun.It's completely different from Earth.

But if the dense fog in the sky is removed, the starry sky outside is actually exactly the same as that on the earth.

When he was drowsy, a person sat next to Tang Chu and pinched his nose affectionately.Tang Chu raised his head and caught Lian Ting's finger, held it in his mouth and bit it.

Lian Ting flicked his forehead: "I didn't wash my hands."

Tang Chu tilted his head, "Are you taking samples?"

"Well, the results are coming soon."

Tang Chu threw himself on Lian Ting, took him down, and fell to the ground.

Lin Yi happened to come to find Lian Ting.

"Marshal, look." He handed the detector to Lian Ting.

The above is the result of detecting things buried under a thousand trees.

Lin Yi: "Thousands of trees were scattered and selected, and there were buried objects under each tree; after detection, the objects under each tree were - fossilized human bones."

"That is to say..."

"That is to say," Lin Yi looked back at the vast plain behind him, "The reason why these trees can grow is because they grow on the graves of people after death."

Tang Chu's heart suddenly moved.

"23..." he muttered, "23...Feng Xing and his group led some survivors to leave Gutia Planet, and there are 23 people who are still staying on the planet. people."

Tang Chu looked up at Lian Ting.

"Go back to the flying ship and enter the atmosphere. I want to see this plain from a high altitude."

Lian Ting felt that Tang Chu was rarely solemn and serious now.He drove the flying ship with a cold gaze, slowly adjusted the altitude, let the flying ship enter the atmosphere, and kept a considerable distance from the surface of Tia Star, so as not to cause more burden on the already crumbling planet.

Others didn't care about sorting out the samples they got from the planet at this time, and they all gathered in the control room.

At this time, Tang Chu, who was driving the flying ship, didn't know what he cared about.

Just want to see.he told himself.I want to take a look.

Then he saw it.

The flying ship flew high on the only huge plain with greenery. At this height, the intoxicating greenness can be clearly seen, which is so vivid and eye-catching in the darkness around it.The trees are not crowded one by one, they are growing separately, standing on the gray land, with the gray sky above their heads.

Tang Chu controlled the flying ship and raised it slightly.

These sporadic shades of green connect.

It is handwriting, a line of slogans made of trees:

"Love you, mother."

"May you return to the earth in spring."

"Children who will be with you forever."

"Goodbye to hope."

"..."

It turned out that it wasn't that the ark couldn't load a thousand years ago, but that no one wanted to leave except the ignorant baby.

I would rather grow green grass and trees on my body after death, as long as the planet on which I was born will not wither.

Although, maybe the planet's energy is exhausted and it is about to perish, to a certain extent, it is precisely because of human development and unsatisfied desires.It was defeated by human greed, but in the face of this situation, will human beings choose to live with it safely?

Tang Chu felt his eyes suddenly sore.He quickly raised his head and looked at the metal above his head.

It turns out...in the last days of the earth, those people...those people who have long since eliminated good thoughts in their hearts and only left with selfish desires, how did they want to bring disaster to their own planet?

Could it be that it was not resentment, but gratitude hidden in desperation?

...Always dissatisfied, always demanding too much, always wanting to fight hard.

To seek the infinite state with limited life, to explore the eternal vastness with the body of mayfly——

So weak, so ridiculous.

But, that's human.

"Let's go." Lian Ting did not know when he stood beside Tang Chu.Tang Chu looked at him, and was surprised to find that the corners of his eyes were red.

He belatedly thought that he might not be much better than Lian Ting now.

Turning his head to look at the others, Tang Chu was horrified. He saw these muscular and unshaven soldiers including Lin Yi looked at the writing outside with tears in their eyes, sniffing and wiping the corners of their eyes.

All of Tang Chu's feelings flew away in an instant, and there was nothing left.

"Go back, go back, really, go out! Go count the samples!" He waved his hands with disgust on his face.

When everyone was kicked out of the control room by Tang Chu, Lian Ting turned his head and asked Tang Chu:

"Leaving?"

"Wait a little longer." Tang Chu said.

He leaned over and pressed a button on the console, and the flying ship took a picture of the planet outside his eyes.

"Go back." Tang Chu said, "Go back, we all remember it."

The flying ship moved away from the gray planet and gradually moved away.

But it seems to be an invisible thread, involving the planet that is about to die, but the dead wood is coming back to life, and is connected to the distance.

Tang Chu found a tape in the space button, which was repaired by Yu Yue. There was a nursery rhyme of Gutia Planet that he thought was beautiful, and he played it.

[Standing on the ground

look at the sea over there

At that time, there was still hope, the blue sky beyond

when he grows wings

fantasy no longer

Become a migratory bird and fly high

look at our land

nest of all hope

keep still even if you go away

never go home

The birds are out in the storm

Goofy's dream is still persistent

You see the sky is vast

is our only home

when we one day

had to throw it away

Banyan tree buds sleeping in the dust

can you remember

our hearts are too big

I can't stop looking back

Time takes us far away

forget our home

Birds trek and can't stop

nothing will protect it

It is the rhododendron in the bird's dream

calling for it

Although the sky and the earth are big

It's right there...]