"You should know about that news this morning, right?"

Tianxia nodded, the steel metal pipe, and the abnormal electromagnetic wave data, and the light afterward, everyone was discussing this matter.

"The metal tube, although for some strange reason witnesses can't take pictures of it with their phones, more than one person has said that there is a sign on the huge tube that resembles a metal launch pad......." Ciri's expression was strange when she said this, it was a feeling that made her wake up from a dream, "Some people said that he had seen a sign of a huge ring around the huge star in the center of the metal tube. ”

Stars around a ring? "Does that mean anything?"

"In some of the older history books, which would not even be accepted by imperial historians, it is a unique symbol of the legendary Galactic Empire, which fell 20,000 years ago, and the legend has it that they created a ring of worlds, a suffocating ring that orbits a huge young star all year round, and even a trillion people live on it, and if not this legend is somewhat true, but their mark is not wrong, the stars around the ring, and more than one person has seen this symbol......," Ciri clenched her fists, her eyes flashing with obsession, "it's a mysterious civilization that is as powerful as spring snow. ”

"I've never heard of such a civilization in the galaxy," Tianxia frowned, "Why would you consider this kind of space story that is no different from rumors?" ”

"You just don't know that the subspace channel is a relic of the Galactic Empire," Ciri explained with certainty, "There are countless nodal coordinates in the subspace channel, which are the most critical channel coordinates that allow us to determine the course in the subspace turbulence, and all of them have star rings on them. ”

How can it be? Tianxia's face was almost surprised to the point of being incomprehensible, the subspace channel, isn't it the common product of countless ancient civilizations in the galaxy? It is said that in the distant era before human beings landed in space, the powerful and ancient civilizations in the galaxy located in the core star field of the galaxy worked together to explore, discover and repair the great subspace shipping lane, since then, the distance between the galaxies has become close at hand, and the subspace shipping channel has also become the only means for many young civilizations who lack interstellar travel materials and faster-than-light travel technology to move faster-than-light. This story has been sung to this day, and who else would not know, but now she actually said that this is a relic of the Galactic Empire......

"So you want to report the discovery of the Galactic Empire relics to the High Council of the Liberty Fortress? Or report it to your family? ”

Ciary nodded in acknowledgment of her conjecture, "Whether it's the launch tube that is far bigger than the Liberty Fortress, or the weird space vortex, or the mysterious "planetary shield" device now, it's hard for me not to think of the Galactic Empire, and even, I suspect that behind the metal tube is a huge starship that has never been seen in the Star Chronicles, more than ten times larger than the largest battleship of the Empire. ”

Ten times bigger than a battleship?

Tianxia vaguely remembered that the battleships of the empire were divided into five classes, namely the Sentinel class, the escort class, the expulsion class, the cruiser class, and the battle column class.

The most well-known Imperial warship is the Empire's flagship battleship, the Liberty Fortress, and she had the pleasure of witnessing the Liberty Fortress's steel hull that is enough to cover the sky in the Imperial News, more than ten times larger...... This is not good news at all.

She is not a royal family of Valle, nor is she a fanatical military fan, so she is naturally not interested in these military things, forget it, what if she understands, she just wants to get out of here now, what good is the truth for an ordinary girl like her, in addition to bringing troubles?

Thinking of the distress, she fell silent, and the topic of her previous conversation with Ciri was put aside, and the two of them hid by the cabinet behind the cash register and closed their eyes in contemplation.

"Ciri," Tianxia asked suddenly, "will your parents come to pick you up?" ”

Ciri looked up at the gradually fading gray sky outside the glass curtain, "They are far away from the second fleet's station, how can they care about this side of the matter, not to mention, Tianxia, that cover is stronger than you think, without a certain amount of time to study, the fleet can't try to find out the flaws." ”

"You...... If your parents brought you back safely to the Fortress of Freedom, could you please help find my brother? ”

Ciri was dumbfounded, "How do I find it?" You don't know how your brother disappeared......"

"There must be a way," Tianxia looked at the princess of Valian deeply, "he disappeared during the appearance of the metal pipe, he must have something to do with the metal pipe, don't you have to report this to your relatives when you go back, help me, Ciri." ”

Ciri sighed deeply, she didn't know what to say, so she comforted, "I'll try to help you," I just don't know if my hands-on bastard relatives are willing to help you find a missing young man.

Summer....... The young man of nineteen....... Or a boy, she had contact with him because of an accident, that guy is always mysterious, and loves to stay at home, speaking of which, she doesn't actually understand his personality very well, but Tianxia helped her after all, for her own self-esteem, she should always return her favor.

In this way, they continued to rest quietly against the counter. The owner and the cashier of this supermarket were long gone, and the door of the supermarket was not even locked, and there was no one else but them in such an empty supermarket, so the sound was frighteningly quiet, and they occasionally glanced at each other in this small place, and then quickly turned away.

After a while, Tianxia, who couldn't stand the awkward atmosphere of each other, spoke again, "Where are we going next?" ”

"There are two army military bases stationed near the federal capital, one is far away on the other side of the federal capital, we can only go to the Changhe military base, I have had several encounters with the commander-in-chief there, and he is also my cousin, and he will definitely take us in."

is worthy of being Valen's princess, and a casual relative from afar can serve as the commander-in-chief of the military base in the capital of the Earth Federation, Tianxia had to secretly pray that the Changhe military base was really solid enough to withstand the inexplicable disaster.

But is this really possible?

If it really could, the army should have entered the city as early as this morning, why didn't there be any movement? More and more doubts made her only feel that her mind was swollen, forget it, sleep for a while, she was tired after an afternoon of traveling.

The sleep was short and peaceful, and she didn't dream, and when she woke up, she found Ciri with her eyes closed.

She wiped her eyes, only to realize that at some point, Ciri's silver hair turned a pure sun-like gold, and even her pupils, which symbolized Valyan's royal family, became blood-red. Oh shit, "What's wrong with you?" Your eyes, your hair, but also your face, and your neck. ”

What's wrong? Ciri casually picked up a supermarket mirror and looked at himself in the mirror, his blood-colored eyes blinking, and his golden sun-like hair erased Valen's long silver hair that had been passed down from generation to generation.

Oh, not only that, but also her face, the skin on her neck, all the visible skin on her body, the skin that should have been as white as frost and snow, now became like a crack covered with spider lines, and through the cracks of this layer, she could vaguely see that in the cracks of her skin, there was some kind of burning liquid that was as strange as a dark red charcoal fire, like boiling hot lava.

What is it? She cried out in surprise.

"You don't know how you've changed?"

"I don't know," Ciri shook his head gloomily, "we Valéan have never had this kind of change, my father, my mother, and even the older generation, no one has had this kind of change, I should have been silver-haired and golden-eyed, could it be because of the changes in my body caused by this apocalypse?" She stroked her skin strangely.

Suddenly, a hurried voice came from a distance outside the door, and someone shouted, "There is a supermarket here." ”

Someone is coming?

"Do I need to lock the supermarket door?"

"There's no need, I'll just cover my face."

Ciri hurriedly picked up the scarves, gloves, masks, earmuffs, hoods and other things in the supermarket and surrounded all the changes in herself, and then went under the cash register with Tianxiaduo.

A young and shrill girl's voice rang out, "The supermarket here is open, we can go in and buy something." “

"Buying something? Do you think that now that everything has become like this, you still need to spend money on these things that no one has? It was the voice of a frivolous young man who laughed at it.

"When order is restored and the shopkeeper calls the police, I'm afraid you'll have to stay in jail then," said another young man, giggling, "I haven't been in jail yet, and I've heard that people in there like chrysanthemums." “

The frivolous man kicked a plastic basket on the ground hard, "Cut, I'll smash all the cameras to see how they check," said this, but in the end, Tianxia didn't hear any smashing sounds.

Immediately after, there was another chaotic voice, and Tianxia heard at least six or seven young people talking, at least four men, two women, and a ladyboy-like voice that couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman. They rummaged through the supermarket for all kinds of food and other tools.

Tianxia approached Ciri, lowered her voice and asked, "What are we going to do?" “

Ciri simply stood up, and this action immediately attracted the attention of a nearby girl.

The girl shouted at her companion, "Look, there's a girl with facial paralysis here, and there's a weird girl who surrounds herself tightly, looking like a battle puppet costume?" ”

Well, everybody notices the change.