When he woke up, Chu Tianjiang felt a mess of paste in his head, like a wastepaper basket stuffed with scraps of paper, full of disorganized information. Most of them are some personal memories, but they are not Chu Tianjiang's memories, and these memory pictures are fragmented and messy.

This made Chu Tianjiang feel that he had a dream, a nightmare that did not belong to him.

Although he felt very bad, Chu Tianjiang did not get lost in this dream, but walked out of this strange dream after his consciousness woke up.

Opening his eyes, Chu Tianjiang saw Gystis, who was sitting next to him.

She also looked at Chu Tianjiang, and her eyes were very strange.

"How long did I sleep?"

"Less than a day." Kistis looked away. "Xie Lu, thank you for saving me."

"I saved you? Looks like you saved me. Chu Tianjiang wanted to sit up, but found that the strength he exerted was much greater than estimated, and he actually stood up.

"The person they want is you, and they must capture you alive, and they don't care if I live or die, so you saved me." Waiting for Chu Tianjiang to sit down, Kystis said again, "You have fused a large number of star cores, and your personal ability has been greatly improved, you have to adapt to this change. ”

Chu Tianjiang nodded, indicating that he understood what Kisstis meant.

"Where did you get those star cores?"

"What do you say?" Chu Tianjiang smiled reluctantly and said, "Although some people want to catch me, there are also people who want me to get out of here. ”

"Iska?"

"No matter what, we're alive and haven't lost our freedom." Chu Tianjiang avoided this question. "Since there is nothing to do anymore, are we ......?"

"A few years ago, I found a ship, an abandoned ship, probably thousands of years old, probably built by a previous civilization. The ship was well preserved, not damaged in the slightest, but the energy had been depleted, and it was using an energy source that we didn't have. ”

"More than a thousand years old?"

Kistis nodded and said, "I've never seen a ship like that, and it certainly wasn't built by us. ”

"Take me around, maybe I can get it moving."

"That way, we can go to the Old World."

Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "I hope so, otherwise we will have to venture to a certain military camp, or swim to the Old World on our own." ”

Kistis smiled and said, "I can't swim, and I can't swim that far." And I thank you so much. ”

"Thank me again?"

"You absorbed too many star cores at once, although you had to do so because of the situation, and you didn't fuse the absorbed star cores in time, so you fainted."

"And then, you saved me?"

"Don't thank me, because it's not just to save you, it's also to save yourself. We're in one place, and if you're finished, I won't survive. What's more, while doing this, I had to swap the mass energy body with you, fusing some of the star cores in your body. ”

Chu Tianjiang looked at Kissis and frowned.

"You've definitely gained some of my consciousness and memories, and while they're not dominant, you can see things, like what I've been through."

Only then did Chu Tianjiang understand that the messy information was the consciousness of Kistis.

"I thank you because through this method, I have obtained a large number of star cores, and my ability has been greatly improved, and your ability is ......"

"It's also a big improvement, and if it weren't for your help, I'd be finished a long time ago, right?"

Kisstis smiled reluctantly and said nothing more.

"Are those memories of you?"

"Some of them are, and some of them aren't."

"What do you mean?"

Kistis bit his lip and said, "The things I did with you are not only about saving yourself and saving people, but also have a very special meaning. ”

"What does that mean?"

"Do you know how we reproduce?"

Chu Tianjiang was stunned for a moment, and after understanding what Gystis meant, he immediately opened his mouth wide.

"After achieving mass energy, our genetic information, that is, genes, is transformed into a pure information, which is stored in our mass energy body. What's more, the impact of genetic information has been minimized and has little to no effect on life forms. As a result of this, the way we reproduce has changed a lot. To put it simply, each of us is no longer the crystallization of the union of our parents on the material level, but the crystallization of spirituality, or consciousness. Of course, the meaning of 'parents' has also changed, not necessarily a man and a woman. It's just that it is traditional, and for the most part, it is still the union of man and woman. In short, when we are born, we already have a part of the consciousness of our parents, and it has become our basic consciousness. As we grow up, this basic consciousness gradually fades into the subconscious, or instinctive. Of course, due to the structural influence of the body, our consciousness is no longer stored in the brain, but is scattered throughout the body. Although I was able to concentrate my consciousness in a certain part so that it would not be damaged, and most people do this, and I was no exception, but in the beginning, I was also weak and didn't have more energy to focus my consciousness on a certain part, so I ......"

"Part of your consciousness has entered my body."

Kistis nodded, and then said, "In order to disperse the star cores in your body, I had to absorb a part of your mass energy body. That is, part of your consciousness is with me. ”

"This ......"

"Of course, because this consciousness of dividing out and disappearing does not dominate, when it is divided, it has already died out automatically, leaving only some of the most basic things, such as memory. That is, there is no adverse effect on subjective consciousness. ”

"And then?"

"No more."

"This ......"

Kistis smiled and said, "Of course, if you want to have children......"

"I don't think so."

As soon as Chu Tianjiang said this, Kisstis didn't say anything more, because he had already made his attitude clear.

"When are we leaving?" Chu Tianjiang changed the subject.

"At least one more day off." Kisstis pointed at Chu Tianjiang's chest.

Chu Tianjiang looked down and found that the color of the chest part was a little pale.

"It's a star core that hasn't fully fused, although there is not much left, it won't lose control, and it will eventually slowly merge into your body, but it will have an impact on your actions, such as not being able to accurately control your body movements. We'll have to wait until you're fully back to normal before we can get out of here. ”

Chu Tianjiang nodded and said, "According to what you said at the beginning, people like you don't have a childhood at all?" ”

"Childhood?" Kistis was stunned for a moment, and then said, "If from the perspective of physiological development, we don't have a childhood, everyone is already a qualitative person when they are born, maybe the body size is small, but there is no difference from other people, and our development mode is not a natural growth, but with the emergence of personal consciousness, gradual maturity, and the control of qualitative bodies, gradually gain more qualitative bodies." If you look at it from the perspective of consciousness growth, it can be regarded as a child, at least until the consciousness matures. ”

"Do you know who they are?" Chu Tianjiang was talking about Kistis's parents.

Kistis shook his head and said, "Although I have some knowledge of them according to the basic consciousness, and can find them based on the basic consciousness, no one has done so, and I have not sought them out. For us, reproduction is no longer a continuation of an individual's life, but a continuation of an entire population. In a sense, reproduction is for everyone, for the whole population. Of course, those who are qualified to reproduce are definitely the best in the population, and they will reproduce a lot of offspring. ”

"This ......"

"Of course, it may be difficult for you to understand."

Chu Tianjiang really couldn't understand it, because in his understanding, reproduction is always an individual behavior, and the continuation of the population is only a concentrated manifestation of this personal behavior.

"Get some rest."

"According to you, there must be a place dedicated to raising offspring." Chu Tianjiang had no intention of ending the topic immediately.

"The Center for Life."

"What?"

"It's on this continent, a base established by the Freedom Defenders, where all the offspring breed and grow up. Of course, the people who come out of there are the elite of the 'Freedom Defenders', because they are absolutely impossible to betray the organization. On the other hand, there are civilians from the cities in the sky. They were not born in the terrestrial realm, so they are more complicated. ”

Chu Tianjiang nodded thoughtfully, he had already thought of this, so he asked.

"You think we should go there?"

"Not now." Chu Tianjiang let out a sigh and said, "However, if I have the opportunity in the future, I will go there and find out the situation there." ”

"Actually, it's a city, the only city in the world on the ground that is still inhabited."

"I know the way, I can imagine it." Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "Rest, when I can act, we will leave here." ”

Kistis leaned a little closer to Chu Tianjiang's side, but he looked a little overwhelmed.

Chu Tianjiang understood, took her hand, and let her lean on himself.

Although Chu Tianjiang didn't understand that feeling, he knew that Kisstis had given everything, even the most secret things, in order to save him. This means that the relationship between the two has changed a lot. More importantly, this relationship made Kisstis develop a feeling of dependence on Chu Tianjiang. Even if he couldn't understand the ways and means of this relationship, Chu Tianjiang could understand this emotion.