Chapter 14: Parting
In the distance, a low, drum-like thunder was heard, and the edge of the dim world was lit for a moment by the silver-white arc of light that leaped through the clouds, and then again enveloped by an endless darkness. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The sound of angry waves swept through the mighty waves, distorting the otherwise flat sea, and the agitated waters carried a force strong enough to overwhelm some small ships. But the boy standing on the surface of the sea is as tough as a cliff that has not changed for thousands of years, and he will not move even if the waves sweep away. After the waves, the water scattered in the air fell on the boy's face along with the torrential rain, but he seemed to be unaware.
In the blue pupils, the pale face of the girl in her arms was reflected, and several wounds were all over her waist and abdomen. Although the boy used that unskilled technique to stop the bleeding of the girl, the girl's condition did not improve.
His emergency care was of little use. Because of the life of the ship's mother, even if she loses more than half of her blood, it will not pose too serious a threat to her life. Their real weakness is the same as that of the deep sea, the fragile radiant core.
As long as the radiation core is damaged, the abilities of the ship mother will be greatly reduced, and if the situation is too serious, she will even die on the spot.
At this time, Guam was in such a bad situation. Not only did he lose all the ability to control the ship's equipment, but he couldn't even stand on the surface of the water. The girl's long blue hair seemed to have lost its luster, and there were countless small but fatal scars under the torn clothes.
It was the armor-piercing bullet of the deep sea that hit her just now, and the special energy impact broke through her already weak defensive energy layer, and directly caused a great impact on her core.
Although the boy is not an admiral who has signed a contract with Guam, he has seen the admiral's handbook describe the sinking state of the ship's mother, and the energy escape reaction depicted has been typically presented in front of him.
A faint blue light was being released from Guam's fragile body, and Guam's face became more and more pale, as if he could leave at any moment.
Arantus was well aware of the girl's terrible situation at this time, Guam, who had suffered an overdose of damage, was already in a near-death state, and even with high-energy repair fluids and enough resources, there was only a half-chance of saving her. What's more, he doesn't have that kind of high-energy repair liquid in his hands, and he doesn't have nearly a thousand units of resources to save Guam.
"Guam!! Guam!! The teenager shouted her name loudly, trying to wake up Guam, who had fallen into a complete coma. His efforts seemed to have some effect, and his eyes, which were about to close, opened again.
Her clear, blue pupils had become cloudy, and she seemed to have lost all her divine light, and her pupils were dilated to indicate that she was dying.
"Mr. Aritus......", she reluctantly spat out the field, calling out Arantus' name softly.
"Guam! Hold on a little longer...... Maybe there's a way to find a way ......," Aritus was about to rush out of front with Guam in his arms, but was interrupted by Guam's somewhat cold palms and gentle words.
"Don't lie to me...... Mr. Arrites...... I have also said this kind of thing to my comrades......", at the last moment of her life, her thinking was extremely clear, the images in her memory flowed quickly, and the past was like a dream.
She still remembers the ridiculous behavior of holding the cold body of her comrade-in-arms, constantly comforting her and wanting her to hold on for a while. Guam, who was also in a near-death state, was already certain that she was hopeless, and nothing she could say could change the outcome of her imminent demise. But even so, she insisted on responding to Aritus's words.
"However, I hope that Mr. Aritus will not be too sad. Our destiny is to fight the deep sea until we die. I had expected this outcome for a long time, and I had this determination as early as that day when I encountered the deep-sea of the flagship......", Guam's voice suddenly raised, and the original luster in his eyes reappeared.
"But the task of Mr. Admiral and Lord Commander-in-Chief has not yet been completed, and I cannot die at that time. With this in mind, I escaped and returned to the Sin Chew Town Guard. ”
"And now, Guam has finally completed its mission, death is nothing to fear, loneliness and powerlessness are painful." After the girl finished speaking, there was silence for a moment, and just as Arantus wanted to say something, she was interrupted by her struggle.
The girl struggled to connect to her own subspace, and it took great difficulty to get something out of it.
It was a metal armor that looked like a headdress, and Aritaus recalled it a little and realized that it was a small part of the original Guam head armor.
He was about to stop Guam's struggling actions, but he heard the girl's words in a weak voice:
"It's really nice that this one isn't damaged...... This is a special ship-mounted MK34-type solver that I carry...... Mr. Arytes can use this without accident, and with the help of high-performance radar, it will be easier to get out of here. ", the girl said with a relieved smile.
Normally, it is very easy to think that a shipwhack like her is separating a part of her ship's equipment, but at this time, Guam slowly closed her eyes after doing this.
"Guam! Guam! …… Guam ......", Aritus's voice gradually faded in her ears, a hazy light rose from her eyes, and the familiar scenes unfolded in front of her one by one, as if she saw her own admiral and the chief flagship who had entrusted her with her mission.
That's nice...... It's over...... Guam thought so, indulging in a world of memories.
What appeared before Aritus's eyes was a thrilling beauty, and in the midst of that beauty was the departure of Guam.
As if the container had been broken, azure light flowed out of her cold body without limit, escaping throughout the world. The point of light illuminates the whole world, but with that seeping coldness, the original cold sea water is stained with blue spots, the cold seems to be able to freeze everything, and the whole noisy world is restored to tranquility.
This is the passing of this magical life of the ship's mother, who returns to that mysterious world, as if they were born from that unknowable place.
Standing in the center of the swirl of light, Aritus was motionless, his palms only for the delicate metal headdress and the crystal orb that glowed blue. This is the last thing Guam has left in the world.
Arrites stood here in a daze, silently looking at the crystal ball in his hand that was divided into three layers by the light swirl, and did not say a word, letting the wind and rain blow on his body.
The sound of the rain is gradually fading away, the sound of the surging waves is becoming weaker and weaker, and the dark clouds hanging over the clear sky do not know when they will dissipate. The blazing light shone on his face, but he couldn't feel any warmth.
The wreckage of the deep-sea that had been sunk had fallen to the bottom of the sea, and the waves of water set off by the artillery fire had completely subsided, as if nothing had happened, and the cruel parting and fierce battle seemed unreal.
It was as if there had never been a girl with long azure hair beside him who had broken through the storm with him. The gentle but strong voice was nothing more than an auditory hallucination, and the cold touch was just the rain that chilled his body.
But the heavy crystal ball and metal headdress in his palm let him know that it was all real. He had never accepted such a death in this way, it was like eating and sleeping, natural and terrifying. He still had a little telepathy in the death of his parents, and this girl, who had only known her for two days, seemed to be just a passer-by, hastily taking herself out of danger, and then disappeared.
The girl who had impressed him so much disappeared from the world, and perhaps only Aritus still remembered her.
Once again, Aritus felt the insignificance of man in the face of death and disappearance. For this world, the existence of such a ship girl is nothing. Maybe even the tens of thousands of people in the Sin Chew Islands are nothing to this world.
Perhaps a few days after the nearby human gathering points will release a message: the Sin Chew Islands Town Guard Mansion has fallen. And Atlas's parents who had been killed in battle were just names in passing. No one cared about that, and for Aritus, it was part of his world, quietly torn apart.
A person's world is so small, so small that even if he dies, he will not be cared for. Loneliness is like an invisible monster, gradually devouring him after he loses his comrades who can support him.
Indifferently putting away the radiant energy nuclei left behind by Guam, he turned his attention to the inconspicuous ornament in his hand. This is a new type of solver left by Guam, which not only has the function of radar, but also has the ability to assist in calculations.
After a moment's hesitation, Alitus decided to explore how to use the ship. Since Guam has decided to entrust this to himself, it must have worked for him. He originally had radar and a solver, but he had not used them before, and the detection range was quite short, so he could only use them as a short-range auxiliary detection.
Carefully covering the spiritual power on the metal instrument, the subtle perception ability that was refined countless times by the spiritual power seemed to have touched something.
The tiny wires that originally made up the metal ship's outfit twisted and rotated, and in Aritus's hands, they continued to deform until they became a ball of wire.
Aritus had determined the role of this thing through a vague sense with the ship's equipment. Without hesitation, he pressed the wire ball against the empty seat of the ship's armor behind him, and the metal wire ball disappeared under the combined ability of the ship's armor. A prominent addition has been added to his ship's outfit, the MK34 solver, a special equipment gifted from Guam, has been fully equipped.
Aritus is using his previous experience with short-range rangefinders to maneuver the new ship's equipment to determine his own position and determine if there are other deep-sea radiation reactions nearby.
Ten kilometers, twenty kilometers, thirty kilometers, thirty-five kilometers, the solver of the Envoy of Aritus finally reached its limit, and several faint radiation reactions were presented in the information provided by the solver.
Arrites silently sensed the distance between the deep sea and himself, and when the deep-sea patrol ship came twenty-five kilometers away, there was a sadness in his dark blue eyes, but it was quickly concealed.
He knew he had to get out of here, and the Deep Sea Patrol Fleet might have discovered the death of the Deep Sea Battleship, or maybe they would soon mobilize more Deep Sea to search the nearby seas.
"I don't know...... When will I be able to come back again......", Aritus's voice faded away, and his figure disappeared into the sea that had calmed down again.
In the empty space, nothing seemed to have happened, and all traces were smoothed out by the power of the sea. But the traces engraved in people's hearts can only be erased by time.