The vast universe is beautiful and mysterious.

The stars are like pearls, inlaid under the canopy, shining brightly.

There are mischievous little stars in the blue night sky to draw a silver arc of light, like the Weaver Girl throwing a brocade line.

The stars were pitifully frozen, shivering, and could almost hear the sound of their teeth being so cold that they could catch each other.

There was a little star shaking in the cold sky, as if shivering with cold.

This is a small star in the solar system, and its name is terracotta. It's said it's a planet, but it's not a planet, it's not a dwarf planet, it's a small body in the solar system at most.

The terracotta was originally covered with a thick layer of terracotta, but after years of overloading and weathering by the plants and animals attached to it, most of them have now hardened and turned into black stones.

There are only 12 hours in a day and a night on Terracotta. Obscured by other planets and the rotation of Terracotta, only 3 of these 12 hours will be visible, and these three hours will be between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m., and the rest of the time will be pitch black.

It was 5 o'clock on Red Saturn, and it was pitch black. The air is dry and cold.

In this dry, cold darkness, some small bubbles wandered in the air, this is the original species on Terracotta: the soul race, a newborn baby, called the infant soul.

These infant spirits must attach themselves to animals or plants and absorb their nutrients in order to survive. The process by which these infant souls are attached to a suitable animal or plant from birth is called implantation.

These infant souls that are still floating in the air have obviously not completed the implantation process. The maximum survival period from birth to implantation is 10 days, and if they are not implanted within 10 days, they will have to die. Of course, infant souls with stronger individual vitality can survive longer.

When they die, their bubbles explode in the air with a "bang" to show their nostalgia for life and their only cry for the struggle against death.

When they die, their bubbles will turn into colorful colors the moment they explode, as a pledge that they have been in this world and left behind a wonderful moment of their lives.

Most of these infant souls floating in the air can no longer complete the implantation process. It's not that they don't want to get into bed, it's not that their parents don't let them get into bed, or that there's some external force preventing them from getting into bed. Rather, there are not many plants and animals on Chison that can implant them anymore.

Once upon a time, there were 6 hours of daylight in the 12 hours of a day and night on Terracotta. Plants can grow to the fullest, and animals have enough plants to sustain life.

However, I don't know when it began, the amount of daylight that Terracotta can get every day has been decreasing, until now there are only 3 hours of daylight in a day.

So the plants that used to flourish on Terracotta died en masse. Animals that have lost a large number of food sources are also dying. At present, only a small number of plant and animal species and quantities remain.

Therefore, the babies of the soul clan who are born every day do not have enough animals and plants to complete the implantation process. The remaining plants and animals are already attached to the Soul Clan's individual, and only one Soul Clan's individual can be attached to an animal or animal.

There is the highest mountain on Terracotta called Mount of All Saints. There is a hole under the Ten Thousand Saints Mountain, which is the place where the royal family of the Soul Clan deliberates.

The cave of the Soul Clan royal family was also dark at the moment, and the silence was terrifying. A drop of water seeping from the roof of the cave and dripping onto the rocks on the ground makes a crisp sound that is clear and creepy.

After a long time, a voice finally broke the silence.

"I said Queen, you can't hesitate any longer, time is running out. A deep voice said.

"I disagree. A gentle but sad and stubborn voice said.

"Do you think I'll bear it, and I'm my child!" the deep voice came from the mouth of an old turtle lying on the ground.

"Can't you think of another way?" a gentle and unwilling voice came from the mouth of another old turtle next to him.

These are two thousand-year-old turtles, and the old turtles that make a deep voice are even larger, and this is the king of the soul clan.

The old turtle with a gentle voice was slightly smaller, and this was the queen of the soul clan.

The Soul King is completely black, with a total of eight legs and feet, separated on both sides of the body, and there are 4 on one side. The last six of them are on the ground and are used for walking. The first two are not touching the ground, but are close to the sides of the head, and there is a distance between the six feet in the back, which are used to grasp things, similar to human hands.

Look closely at the Soul King, although the whole body is black, but there are stripes on the body, and the faint stripes are gray, and it looks all black in the dark.

But the stripes in one place on the soul king's body are different, that is, the stripes on the ** are golden yellow and very bright.

The body structure of the soul queen is roughly the same as that of the soul king, except that the body is slightly smaller, and the stripes on the ** are pink and very bright.

"If there was any other way, I wouldn't use it anyway. "The Soul King is already a little anxious.

"But you've tried this method 8 times, but it didn't work, and it took the lives of my 8 miserable children in vain. The Queen of Souls said, unable to stop her tears.

"My dear, it's all my fault, I can't live with your mother and son. After the Soul King finished speaking, he lowered his head guiltily. However, he quickly raised his head again and said firmly: "But who made us the king and queen of the Soul Clan? We must think about the future of the entire Soul Clan and find a way out for the future of the entire Soul Clan." ”

The queen of souls stopped talking, but lowered her head to wipe her tears.

Outside the entrance of the cave, some of the infant souls who have not yet fallen into bed have already begun to die, and there will be a crisp "bang" sound with the death of each infant soul.

Every day, as the time of daylight draws closer, it means that the peak of death of these infant souls who have not yet fallen into bed is coming.

With the appearance of daylight, the peak of the death of expired infant souls officially comes, and until the 3 hours of daylight time of the day have passed, almost all infant souls that expire on the same day will die.

So now for the Soul Clan, 3 hours of sunshine a day is a time they both look forward to and dread. The expectation is that during the three hours of daylight, the plants will grow, which will produce more food and the animals will be able to eat to fill their stomachs.

What is frightening is that in these 3 hours of daylight, the rupture of the infant soul death comes and goes, and the sound is shocking. And every sound struck the hearts of every living Soul Clan's people, making their hearts ache.

The glow of the moment when the souls of the dead babies burst was especially dazzling and beautiful in the sunlight, and even the people of the soul clan could often see a rainbow in the sky composed of the colors of these dead infant souls.

It proves that the life of the infant souls is short but gorgeous!