Chapter 8: Destiny in Your Own Hands
The safe zone, hidden in the darkness, was silent, as usual, as if nothing had changed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The nights of the Wasteland Age are still very hot, and the heat that remains in the atmosphere is uncomfortable.
But the boy who stood there in front of the corridor in a daze was cold, and he didn't pay any attention to the hot weather warning on his watch. A bone-chilling chill rose from the bottom of my heart and translated into a gentle tremor
He suddenly felt that the curtain of the night was so low that he couldn't breathe.
Some terrible storm is brewing, and even its prophecy has already arrived.
Still holding out a hint of illusion, he turned his gaze to the girl in front of him, as if hoping that what had just happened was just a prank. Even when he woke up from a nightmare not long ago, he expected it, but all this still made him unacceptable.
Human beings will desperately deny and comfort themselves at the moment of accidents and disasters, trying to return their lives to the original world, and this inertia affects them all the time, and finally makes their spiritual defenses collapse instantly when the disaster completely comes.
But the crystal blue light flashing on the girl's chest made him fall to the bottom of despair in an instant, and he really felt the fact that the despair was in front of him.
He never expected that the catastrophe would be so close to him. The cold and malevolent reality told him that this was the Wasteland Age, a time when humanity needed to do their best, struggling under the depths of the sea and mutations in order to keep the race alive. It is no longer the era when humanity dominates the world and occupies the throne at the top of the biosphere.
The boy was silent, he didn't know what words to use to pick up the words of despair.
A dead silence descended on this darkness, and the boy turned his head to look out the floor-to-ceiling window, the calm night scene as peaceful as in his previous life, allowing him to restrain his emotions a little.
Late at night, except for the admirals and ship girls on duty in the Admiral's Mansion in Sin Chew, most of them have fallen into a dream and enjoy such a stable life. The last time the deep sea hit the safe zone seemed to be very far away, people seemed to have forgotten the blood and cruelty contained in the name of the deep sea, and the so-called disaster was only a temporary misfortune.
But the brilliant blue light and familiar aura fluctuations beside him pierced this layer of hypocritical and peaceful skin, and the attack of the deep sea was as elusive as the undercurrent of the sea, so that it was impossible to believe that the official admiral, who had four full fleets and the personal strength of the ship was higher than the average level of the town guard, was completely defeated by the deep sea in a short period of time.
That nightmare-like name, but he had to believe in this reality.
Named the flagship class, the powerful deep sea with a special number and title within the human race, and only this kind of existence can make a commander like Apetos and his fleet almost completely wiped out, and even a ship like Guam escaped from the battlefield with serious injuries.
"Although it is news that I absolutely do not want to hear...... But I still want to thank Miss Guam for telling me this...... Please go to the canal first, there are still some resources at home, which will be regarded as a reward for Miss Guam. After being silent for a long time, the young man said word by word, and after finishing speaking, he turned his head out of the window and no longer looked at Guam.
"Mr. Aritus......" Guam looked at his back as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything when he saw the sad look on the young man's side.
She somewhat understood, the teenager at this time needed some time to digest the news just now, and besides, the injuries on her body had begun to deteriorate, and her special abilities could no longer suppress the continued expansion of the damage.
The ship's mother in the broken state is very fragile, and she urgently needs to go into the ditch to repair the damage she has suffered, and she doesn't want to die yet, at least she hasn't thought about fending for herself before completing the task assigned by the admiral.
Looking at the young man's back, she solemnly put away the crystal ball in her hand, and dragged the tattered ship suit into the special compartment of the bathroom not far away.
Arites looked out the window in a daze, in just one or two days, his parents who had been with him for more than ten years in this life left like this, and the peaceful life of more than ten years was broken in just that sentence, and the reality was even more bizarre than the novel.
He didn't know how he would deal with this situation, the news of his father's death and the destruction of his fleet would soon be known to the Sin Chew Guard, and he, as a member of the Sin Chew Islands, would inevitably need to participate in the war to protect the Sin Continent.
But this was not the choice he wanted, and it was precisely because he knew the strength of the enemy that he felt so powerless and weak. If it is just an ordinary deep-sea attack, it may not be impossible to successfully resist it with the fortifications and defenses of the Sin Chew Islands.
But that enemy is the deep sea called the Flagship, with a special name, a nightmare feared by countless admirals and humans.
They are synonymous with death and blood, destroyers of all life, invincible with a huge fleet formed by the deep sea, the most terrifying existence above the sea.
Alitus did not believe that the Sin Continent Castle Keeper was capable of resisting such an existence, because in the human war against the deep sea, they had already destroyed the Castle on an unknown number of nameless islands.
But what choice did he have? According to the current information, his father should have encountered the deep sea in the sea area on the edge of the Sin Chew Islands, which means that the Sin Chew Islands where he is located have been surrounded by the deep sea.
He didn't know how to get out of this predicament, because the enemies he had to face were too strong.
War and death are never far away, crises and opportunities coexist, and the original social order of human beings has been rewritten, which is no longer the normal world that I understood in my previous life.
Aritaus's expression was extraordinarily pale in the sparse light and shadow, but his stiff face was just a mask to hide his inner emotions, and the objects around him had been unconsciously rejected by him, and even the fiber pads on the floor were torn apart by the powerful spiritual power that was emitted from the outside.
Experiments conducted by the federal government have shown that strong mood swings may be one of the factors that trigger the jump in mental strength, and there was a special period when humans had to use mental stimulation to increase the number of admirals due to the lack of admirals...... Of course, this black history has been buried, but Aritus's state at this time is somewhat similar.
It's not that Alitus is unaware of the change in his mind, but his emotions fluctuate in his heart, and under the impact of resentment and powerlessness, he can no longer turn his attention to the change of mind.
"Mr. Aritus? ......", a voice with a firm mind reached Aritus's ears, so that he no longer let the emotions generated by the impact affect his reason. Guam, who had already finished entering the bathroom drain, stood quietly behind Aritus, looked at the young man's back and asked softly.
At this time, Guam's body was no longer visible with the deterrent ship's uniform, and the original damaged clothes were also repaired with the end of the ditch, and I have to say that many things related to the ship's mother can not be viewed with common sense. For example, ship girls can freely accommodate their own ship equipment, and they can also store a certain amount of resources, and these will not increase the weight of their bodies, according to some ship girls' explanations, ship girls have their own independent subdimensional space, which can accommodate their ship equipment and ship body......
"Well...... Ah, Guam...... I'm sorry I was thinking about something", Arios was silent for a moment, temporarily suppressing the emotions in his heart, remembering what he had just said, and pointing to a corner of the hall
"I still have some resources at home, so Miss Guam can take them away if she uses them." At this time, he had already reined in the surging emotions in his heart and said calmly.
Guam didn't say anything, but took out the crystal ball from his subspace and said to Aritus with a solemn expression:
"Mr. Aritus, this is a relic of Lord Flagship......"
Arantus looked at this crystal ball filled with mysterious blue light, and his body trembled slightly, he naturally knew that this was his mother's relic, and the radiation core that the ship mother had a chance to leave behind after her death.
The boy struggled to control his body, and with trembling hands, he took the mysterious crystal ball with a slightly familiar aura from Guam.
At the moment he took it, he seemed to recall the time he spent with his parents, although it was very short, but it was deeply remembered by him.
He tilted his head and looked at the ceiling, as if he didn't want to let himself cry in front of the girl, but the sad eyes couldn't hide the girl in front of him.
"Mr. Aritus...... I can understand your ......", Guam gently hugged him from behind, as if trying to give him some warmth.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Aritus...... We don't have a father or mother, so we don't really understand your feelings...... But I know the pain of losing an important partner...... Even though she was already desperate, it was still ......", Guam's voice grew quieter and quieter, and even Aritus, who was closest to her, could not hear her next words.
"But pain doesn't change anything, and precious time shouldn't be wasted in this place." Guam's words were a little more resolute, and Aritus was no longer affected by emotions.
"Thank you, Guam. Does the father or mother have anything to say? ", the young man who had really calmed down asked in a loud voice.
"The last wish of the Commander-in-Chief and Mr. Admiral is for me to take Mr. Aritus out of this dangerous place." The girl's words convey the ultimate care of Aritaus' parents.
"Miss Guam, even if you are a prototype ship mother, you can't leave here with an ordinary person like me, and Miss Guam, who is alone in the face of the deep sea, can't protect me. So you don't have to follow this command. Arietes softly denied Guam's words, he didn't want this girl to die for nothing, because he knew that if the girl in front of him left alone, there might be a chance to break through the encirclement of the deep sea.
"No, Mr. Alitus, you are not an ordinary person, but a preparatory admiral who has awakened his spiritual powers." , Guam said with a serious face.
"Whether I'm an ordinary person or a pre-admiral, you can't get me out of here." , Alitus looked at Guam, wondering why she knew she had awakened her spiritual powers. Maybe it was the mental power that was unintentionally released by the overexcitement just now that she was detected.
"I know the situation of Mr. Aritus very well, because Mr. Admiral and the Commander-in-Chief have explained to me." Guam paused and continued.
"It turns out that my father and mother have noticed it a long time ago...... I'm so stupid......", there was a bitter smile on the young man's face, he thought he was hiding it well, now that he thinks about it, how can an official admiral and a battle-hardened ship mother not pay attention to the mental reaction that appears on his child's body?
"Mr. Aritus, remember that the only thing that can fight against the power of the deep sea is the power of the ship. If you want to get out of here, you have to be clear about that. Guam's expression became more serious than ever, and he earnestly expounded this truth.
"I don't know too much." Aritaus shook his head, he didn't understand the underlying meaning of the sentence.
Guam looked at the young man in front of him and stared at him for a long time before he said:
"Mr. Aritus, you weren't born out of a union between Admirals and humans, and you have blood similar to ours flowing through your body." Guam pointed at the boy and then at himself, and said softly.
"Strength comes from oneself, not from others, so that you can control your own destiny. If Mr. Aritus wants to get out of here, he must muster his own strength. Guam looked at the crystal ball that shimmered with a mysterious blue light, as if it was a metaphor for something, and said softly.