Chapter 90

It's not a good feeling to be alone on a big planet.

Ao Ling always lay next to the gate of Altana and rubbed the safety cabin that once carried Yoshida Matsuyo.

Occasionally, when he heard the wind, he would run around the planet for a while, and when the wind stopped, he would return to the edge of the cave where he could still smell the familiar scent.

For the most part, the planet is in a warm silence.

It's vibrant, but it's eerily quiet.

Ao Ling can hear the sound of blood gurgling in his body, he can hear the beating of the heart that represents the vitality of his life, he can hear the sound of his own breathing, and even when walking, the sound of bones and muscles rubbing and pulling can be clearly captured by him.

It's hard to endure such days, and every minute seems to be stretched to the limit.

There was no alternation of light and darkness, and there was no even telling how much time had passed - after Yoshida Matsuyo left in the spaceship, Ao Ling lost the last criterion by which he could judge the passage of time.

He sat quietly by the Gate of Altana, fingers crossed, guessing the time.

Maybe it's been a whole year, or maybe it's just passed.

Not being able to perceive whether the long and boundless time was still or passing made Ao Ling feel an inexplicable panic, and even the steadily growing strength could not make him get rid of such panic.

In the end, he chose to force himself into a deep sleep by the Gate of Altana.

He seemed to be able to understand why his former teacher was so eager to die.

It's probably because of the loneliness that no one can accompany in the endless time, and the longevity and strength that are completely different from those of the same kind of humans.

Ao Ling was lying on the edge of the Gate of Altana and snoring, occasionally opening his eyes, as if he could vaguely notice that the trees in front of him had become a little thicker.

- Time is moving forward silently.

This realization made Ao Ling breathe a long sigh of relief, turned over and looked up at the light leaking from the branches of the shaking trees, listened to the beautiful rustle of the leaves made by the wind, squinted his eyes comfortably, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

The days of sleeping in a daze with his eyes closed in a daze passed in a daze, until Ao Ling once again received a message from the Night Rabbit Shenwei.

This communicator can only transmit sound, and the style is very similar to that of a walkie-talkie, and the communicator will first report the time and object of the message before confirming the playback of the message.

Ao Ling reached out and took out the communicator, and when he heard the time reported by the communicator, he felt a little confused and couldn't match the number - the only spaceship that could compare the real time passage was gone.

He stared at the black shell in a daze for a while, and his confused mind gradually sobered up.

He touched the small black communicator, saw the flashing red light on it, and pressed receive.

Kamui's voice came out of the communicator from a long distance, and it was terribly distorted.

"I picked up Yoshida Matsuyo in Burn Yang and sent him back to Earth. I heard that you were able to receive a message from here, so I came to tell you that you were safe, but I haven't received anything from you replying to me. ”

"It's been three years since you left when I picked up Yoshida Matsuyo, my mother's health is gradually getting better, I have to say thank you, every year our family goes to Earth to celebrate the New Year with your friends, they are all fine, you don't have to worry too much."

"Kagura likes the earth very much, so I temporarily handed her over to Gintoki Sakata to take care of."

"Yoshida Matsuyo's physical condition is very good, I kind of want to have a serious fight with him, but my mother won't let me."

"Sakata Gintoki said that he wanted to find you, but because he was too poor, he couldn't afford energy and spaceships, so he opened a Wanshi House to take the commission, saying that he wanted to save money to find his lost family dog in the universe, about this, Yoshida Matsuyo has already beaten him hard for you."

"I heard that Sakata Ling is not your real name, and Sakata Ginshi is very angry."

"That's all I can think of for the time being, I'm going to continue to conquer the sea of stars."

At this point, Kamui's chatter is over.

Ao Ling listened to it several times, and after a long time, he heard the voice of others again, and it was like heaven falling into his ears.

In fact, he wanted to say that since Chunyu's communicator could contact him, it would be good to give a communicator to Mr. Songyang or Yinshi.

But his message really couldn't be passed on - until Kamui sent the message again, and it didn't look like he had received a reply at all.

Ao Ling, who was awakened from his slumber by the sound of the communicator, poked the received button.

This time, the background sound was very lively, and you could vaguely hear the sound of Gintoki Sakata and Katsura Kotaro talking on the side, and the owner of the Hoshikai Workshop singing loudly on the side - well, accompanied by the sound of Shinsuke Takasugi playing with the shamisen.

The young man's voice came from the communicator, "This year, Yoshida Matsuyo brought Sakata Ginshi and they came to Sakata Ginshi to celebrate the New Year - oh, Branding Yang is the new home planet that Night Rabbit is looking for, and the environment here is not bad, much better than Wandering." ”

"Yoshida Songyang has been getting quite close to Chunyu recently, but he deliberately bypassed the Seventh Division, and he doesn't know what he is doing, and he has always carried the knife you gave him."

"My master went to the earth to settle down, and now the seventh division is in charge of me."

"By the way, Kagura has set up a tablet for you at home, and every day you burn incense and pay tribute."

Ao Ling: ......

Thank you so much, sister.

Ao Ling lay on the grass with his feet facing the sky, and after carefully listening to the voices of his friends as background sounds, he was satisfied with the communicator, and happily got up and walked around the planet, looking for another Altana Gate - there is not only one Altana Gate on a planet.

Aside from sleeping, his only pleasure is wandering around the planet, finding holes and digging holes.

Rarely, you can dig up Altana's crystalline stones.

The communication from Shenwei was intermittent and irregular, but it was able to allow Ao Ling to judge a little bit of how much time had passed through the date of the message he sent.

This young man, who became the commander of the new division of the Seventh Division of Chunyu, seemed to pour out the attributes of chatter and complaining on him.

For example, I occasionally hear him complain that the recent serialization of "Golden Soul" in "Jump" seems to be for the end, and the content is getting more and more nonsense, and for example, "Naruto" is really focused on spitting bento and dying for 30 years does not make people die well.

You can still hear the boy's resentment and dislike for his father, and he doesn't seem to have given up the idea of scolding his own father head-on.

It's just reassuring that his goal has gone from killing to crushing - and it doesn't seem to be much better.

Ao Ling sometimes feels like he's being treated like a trash can when he listens to these bits and pieces of comments, but it's a good thing for him.

Because after a while, he could hear Sakata Gintoki's energetic voice from the background sound.

Knowing that the friends are all very good, Ao Ling is very relieved.

……

The consequences of the massive loss of power on planet Altana soon manifested themselves on the planet.

The first is the drop in temperature.

When Ao Ling felt that the wind blowing on his body became a little cold, it didn't take long for the skylight that had been bright to gradually dim.

From a warm planet with no dark nights, it gradually became dark and cold.

Ao Ling crouched beside the gate of Altana with the safety cabin in his arms, unmoved.

Occasionally, he would count the time based on the messages from Kamui, and find that he had spent five or six years on this planet alone.

Coupled with the time he took Teacher Songyang away, it should have been seven or eight years on earth.

Shenwei's messages are still being sent in bits and pieces.

"Sakata Gintoki took in a glasses boy who can cook and do housework, and since then he has become a salted fish squatting at home."

"There's a huge dog in Sakata Gintoki's house, but it's white."

"Kagura moved your tablet to the Earth Everything, and they also burned incense and offered you incense every day."

"Afutu said that he was very supportive of my dream of conquering the stars and seas, but why did he keep stuffing me with a lot of papers?"

"I seem to know what Yoshida Matsuyo wants to do, and Takasugi Shinsuke came to me for help."

“……”

"Ling."

Ao Ling was agitated and sat up.

The communicator was Yoshida Matsuyo's voice.

"Thanks to the knife you gave, I killed you."

Ao Ling listened to Yoshida Songyang's words several times, reached out and rubbed his ears, and smirked on a dark planet where only the sound of whining was left.

The days that followed were again the endless chatter of Kamui.

Yoshida Matsuyo stabbed a big basket, and now he is being chased all over the universe by a force called "Heavenly Dao People", if it weren't for the help of the fast reinforcement team sneaking behind his back, it is estimated that he would have died a long time ago. ”

"My stupid master died, in the arms of a woman."

"Takasugi Shinsuke and Katsura Kotaro recently approached me and said that they wanted to join forces to pit a spring rain, and I thought it was very much in line with my goal of conquering the sea of stars, so I agreed."

For a long time after that, Ao Ling did not receive any more news from Shenwei.

It wasn't until he felt that the Altana, which had been devoured, was no longer as adequate, as it had been, that he rose from the edge of the Altana Gate.

- At this time, the black dog's body was as huge as a mountain.

Ao Ling could clearly feel that the power accumulated in his body was blocked by a thin diaphragm, and it could no longer spread throughout his body and even into his soul as quickly as before.

He knew he was on the verge of moving out of his formative years and into adulthood.

Ao Ling didn't know exactly how other monsters needed to reach adulthood and how long it would take, but he could also know that his progress was definitely not normal.

But there is no monster like him, and he has always been escorted by a big monster since he was conscious, even if there is no big monster, he has a powerful onmyoji as a backing.

It will not directly gnaw on a planet at every turn.

To truly enter adulthood, you need to accumulate strength, as well as an instantaneous explosion.

Ao Ling glanced at the deep cave in front of him.

Eventually, he gritted his teeth and jumped into the cave blindfolded.

The overwhelming power surging like a roaring river, the power gushing out around the Gates of Altana was only a spill of the river of life that was rushing beneath the surface.

Ao Ling landed steadily at the bottom of the cave, let out a low roar, opened his bloody mouth, and the demonic power in his body worked, cutting off the Altana that flowed through here, and devouring it without leaking.

Beyond the caves, the flowing rivers and lush forests are withering and drying up at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The entire planet is dying at an extremely fast rate, plunged into an unusually bleak dead gray.

……

Ao Ling devoured the entire planet's Altana, and in one fell swoop, he crossed the adulthood he entered in his infancy.

He opened his eyes to look at the dark cavern, feeling the changes in his body and strength.

- Compared to his childhood, he is much stronger.

If the power of childhood is a little bit of condensed mist, then the power of adulthood is a rushing river, endless and endless.

*'s texture and the toughness of his bones have also changed drastically, and now he dares to say that he can directly face Sesshomaru's poisonous whip without dodging.

The overall strength became condensed, and there was a qualitative leap - even the huge body as a mountain was condensed into the size of an adult wolfdog in an instant.

But the strength of the body is a few notches higher than when it was incomparably huge before.

The most important thing is that the irrepressible hunger pang faded a lot in the moment he stepped into adulthood.

Although I still felt empty in my stomach, I didn't feel cold and tingling in my stomach because of hunger.

He got up and shook his hair, looked up at the dome of rock and dirt above his head, raised his hand and waved his paw lightly from afar, the heavy and hard rock was like tofu cut by an invisible blade, and the earth and gravel rolled down, breaking a hole in Ao Ling's head that led to the ground.

Ao Ling turned back into a human form, touched his waist-length hair, jumped out of the hole, and turned the communicator out by the way.

The red light flashed incessantly.

Ao Ling's ears on the top of his head moved, and after pressing the receive button, he looked up at the direction of a strange sound on this dead planet.

"Spring Rain was served and directly merged into the fast aid team."

"Yoshida Matsuyo has resettled on Earth."

"I'm looking for you."

Ao Ling was stunned after hearing this, and on the gray horizon at the end of his gaze, a spaceship that had changed slightly but was still very familiar appeared.

With his eyesight that has now broken through the sky, he can clearly capture the figure standing in the spaceship.

It's Kamui, to be precise, Kamui that has grown.

It took a lot of effort for Kamui to finally follow the wreckage left behind by those long-lost signal coordinates to touch this planet.

He stood in the spaceship, looking at a planet that was indistinguishable from a dead star, and for a moment wondered if he was in the wrong place again.

It wasn't until he saw the figure standing quietly on the dead planet that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Ao Ling, who felt that he hadn't seen a living person for 10,000 years, opened his legs and rushed towards the spaceship, leaving a series of deep footprints on the ground.

Kamui controlled the ship and landed, having grown into a teenager - perhaps more appropriately called a youth.

The Night Rabbit, who had grown into a young man, opened the hatch and stood at the door, holding his weapon against Ao Ling's head who was about to jump in, and stopping the person outside.

He looked at the ghoul, who had changed a lot from his impression.

Compared with the appearance of the teenager in his memory, Ao Ling has grown a lot.

In my impression, the black hair that just covered the shoulder blades was waist-length, and the way to tie the hair changed from loosely tied to a neat ponytail, and some broken hair that could not be tied fell on the cheeks, swaying with the owner's movements.

The clothes have not changed, but the face shape of the teenager has grown slightly, the pair of round apricot eyes have become slightly slender, and the tails of the eyes are raised, and there is a sharp taste at a glance.

- How to say it, it should be said that he has finally transformed from a beautiful face to a handsome man.

Even the height has risen a lot.

Kamui looked at the change of the ghoul, touched his 10,000-year-old baby face, and felt a slight unhappiness when he thought of his height.

"Long time no see, Kamui!" Ao Ling flicked his tail happily, and moved Shenwei against his umbrella without mind, "Are you here to pick me up!" It just so happened that I just finished eating this planet! ”

"No, I'm just here to make sure you're alive." As for taking him away, it was a complete windfall, and it was not within the scope of Kamui's purpose.

- And after eating the planet or something, it sounds horrible.

"Then take me back by the way." Ao Ling looked up and smiled brightly at the night rabbit standing on the spaceship.

Kamui has no problem with this, in fact, he came to Ao Ling to repay Yoshida Matsuyo for helping his mother.

Of course, if he knew that the road he had come all the way back was so difficult, he would rather repay the favor in another way.

Finding someone is much harder than finding a planet, and it took him more than a year to find this person along the way.

Although there is also the reason why he found the strong man on the planet he passed by and ran out to wave, Kamui still felt that he had lost a lot.

He pointed to a string of pits behind Ao Ling, "You first rein in your out-of-control power, I don't want you to open a hole in the spaceship as soon as you step on the spaceship." ”

Ao Ling turned his head to look at the pit behind him that he stepped on, "It's not my fault, it must be because the ground of this planet is too fragile." ”

As he spoke, he was about to climb up the spaceship.

Shenwei put his umbrella against Ao Ling's abdomen again, blocking the other party's forward pace with all his might, and just as he was about to speak, he heard a "click", and the umbrella in his hand was overwhelmed and folded into two sections.

Kamui: "......"

Ao Ling's face froze: "The quality of your umbrella is too ......"

His words gradually disappeared under the other party's gloomy face, and finally he took two steps back with his head drooping.

“…… I see, I'll control the force first. ”