She packed her things early the next morning and prepared to go home, no matter what, since her parents disappeared on an alien expedition, her current relatives were only summer, and now he was lying in bed due to illness, and she really couldn't leave it alone.

Galaxy Entertainment, the organizer of the "Deathmatch at Sea" Federal Invitational Tournament, provided her with a round-trip ticket by private jet, and there was no time limit, so she got on the plane at five o'clock in the morning.

Tianxia remembered that she had made this plane when she came, and was naturally not surprised by the luxurious interior of this private jet.

"Galaxy Entertainment" is also a leading enterprise in the federal earth e-sports industry, and it is also a subsidiary of "Huanyu Entertainment", a super giant enterprise from other star fields, so it is not surprising that it provides such a super luxury private jet for the contestants to fly back and forth. She was now flying in a plane at a very fast speed over the sea of clouds, through the vast white sea of clouds, she could even see the mountains as small as a child's muddy slopes, the plains between the mountains, the farmland was neatly divided by ladders, like a lattice carpet spread out on the earth, in the distance, a large blue ocean of salty water poured towards her.

Tianxia has long been tired of such landscapes, and sometimes, she wants to visit the famous colonized planets, such as the legendary planet made entirely of machinery and steel--- the world metropolis, or the super livable city with only one island--- the Star of the Sea, the name of the Land of a Thousand Peaks ---- Corolla is also touching. She was quite curious about the other planets of the First United Human Empire, she had been living on a planet called Earth for sixteen years, and she was tired of it.

Suddenly, she felt the plane shake abruptly, the lights in the cabin went on and on, and the things on the table fell to the ground restlessly. She tugged at the corner of her desk in a panic, and the text message came from the voice announcement that they were experiencing an unusual electromagnetic disturbance, telling her to grasp the armrests around her and check that the safety buckle was properly fastened. The tremor lasted for seven or eight minutes, and Tianxia almost thought that he had a delusion. Soon, this little episode passed in a flash.....

As soon as she stepped down from the private tarmac of the Federal Capital Airport, she saw the "three-headed dragon" flag flying high above the Federal Capital Airport, symbolizing the Valian royal family, and an indescribable melancholy welled up in her heart.

Damn the Valenians, it's really everywhere, like cockroaches.

She walked past the airport of the federal capital with an unhappy expression, witnessed the skyscraper that reached the zenith in the distance, and saw the statue of the Mother of the Galaxy, which symbolized the religious symbol of the First United Empire of Mankind, standing in front of the Empire State Building. The past history of the statue of the Mother of the Galaxy told by the history teacher seems to be vivid again.

Fifty years ago, the statue was erected on Earth when the Second Fleet, which belonged to the Fortress of Freedom, first "visited" (textbook wording). At that time, the sudden invasion of alien civilizations made it impossible for the countries of the earth that thought they were still far away from space to adapt, and terrorism was born, anti-conquest revolutions, anti-religious forces emerged one after another, adventurers, conspirators, merchants, pirates, and even the generals who led the Second Fleet from outer space attacked each other incessantly.

The vacuum that arose from above caused huge repercussions around the world.

In order to rectify this situation, the Supreme Council of the First United Human Empire set up a federal government and further formed the first Earth Federation Council.

In order to break this chaos, the first Earth Federation Council has been preparing for 30 years, and finally completed political reform, religious reform, economic reform, cultural reform, and the most magnificent interstellar technological revolution in history, which includes the discovery and mapping of subspace shipping lanes near the earth, the material revolution of spaceships and space warships, high-speed plasma engines, subspace drives, the production of hull particle flow shields, wrist communicators, virtual perception and simulation technology. There is also complex artificial AI research that has spread around the world and has since been urgently listed as taboo scientific research, as well as space port construction technology.

In this great scientific and technological revolution, the establishment of the spaceport is particularly profound, the "Free Federal Port" is the only faster-than-light access port of the Earth Federation to outer space, it is established at the turning point of the subspace channel towards the Earth "Nai Distance" (subspace driving distance), which is enough to accommodate millions of people and hundreds of cargo ships in and out of the port, the establishment of this port means that the Earth is officially included in the First Human United Empire system, and it is also a sign that the Earth has entered the interstellar age.

It was a glorious time, and the Empire State Building, the Milky Way Mother statue, and even the private airport where she landed were all built during that period.

It was also at that time that the metropolis of the Federal Territorial Territory of the First United Human Empire was established, which is the land that is now within the reach of the naked eye.

Now that it has been renamed the federal capital, it has naturally become a global political, financial, and cultural center, and even the transfer spacecraft to the only space port on Earth---- free federal port has taken off here. Her parents were among the first to complete the struggle, and their job was to serve as security advisors and disease management for alien exploration and colonization.

But they had disappeared during an outer space expedition three years earlier, leaving her and Summer behind.

If it weren't for the sake of going to outer space, how could they have disappeared, the thought of this makes Tianxia even more dull, it's all the damn Vallean royalty, the damn fortress of freedom, if it weren't for their expansionist colonial policy, she and Summer wouldn't have become orphans.

Tianxia took a taxi on the airport's apron and left the world's largest airport in just ten minutes, arriving at her home in the federal capital, Room 1, 14th Floor, 32nd Queen Street.

It was the house that her parents left her and the summer, if this suite was sold, she would not worry about food and clothing in her life, but after all, this was the only home for her and her brother, and it was also a relic left to them by her parents, unless it really reached the point where she couldn't get along here, she would never do that. But she felt that her parents could gain a foothold in the capital, so why couldn't she have a house?

She wanted to keep the house, so she knew when she was a child that struggle was the only way out for ordinary people like her. She's not bad at studying, and her talent in games surprised her, so she chose e-sports, hey, it would be nice if she could work as hard as she did in the summer, they should struggle together, but my brother seems to have lost all motivation because of the death of his parents, or maybe he himself is such a person, he is in a mess all day long, although he hasn't fallen behind in learning, but it's not good in other ways, and he's either sleeping at home or hiding in school all day, boys' favorite e-sports games, sports competitions, including federal swordsmanship, He didn't like archery, spearmanship, or Jedi fighting, which were highly social and competitive, not to mention the ones that girls liked, and he couldn't even remember the names of the teachers in his class.

A boy who doesn't even know the basic etiquette of social interaction is his brother, and he has the same appearance as himself, and almost the same voice. He and himself are like two sides of a mirror, sometimes the achievements he has made will be mistaken by others for what his brother did, and sometimes, the mistakes made by his brother will be remembered on his head.

Tianxia suspects that the only two achievements in his life are probably with Ciri. Valéan became a friend, one became her brother, this guy who only relies on women, Tianxia couldn't help but want to whip him when he thought of this cruel fact, he didn't even want to look the same as himself, damn bastard.

Soon, she arrived at Building 32, she hesitated for a moment, and then walked to the hot snack shop next to it, "Boss, bring me two lasagna buns with meat sauce, a fragrant roasted salted pork knuckle and a cup of Saatchi black juice, hot." ”

A middle-aged uncle poked out of it, and he asked happily, "Tianxia, are you back?" ”

Tian Xia Pi said with a smile, "Of course I'll come back, otherwise it's a ghost and you to buy it?" ”

The uncle skillfully picked up a hot roast pork knuckle and a mille-feuille sauce meat bread with an iron clip, and asked a young man hired to mix the juice neatly, during which he did not forget to turn around and joke, "I said, Tianxia, this look is bought for your brother, hehe, I haven't seen him go out for several weeks, I'm afraid these are not enough." ”

Didn't go out for a few weeks....... She had a sense of foreboding, damn bastard. She angrily finished the bill, took the hot food, and rushed upstairs without looking back.

The uncle gloated and yelled from afar, "Tianxia, don't scold your brother too harshly, child, there is always a bit of rebellion, if you scold hard, he will be even more rebellious." ”

“...... Dead lewd uncle" She cursed coldly, viciously swiped her watch in front of the house number, the heavy and sensitive metal door was easily unlocked, Tianxia pushed the door in, a strong smell of instant noodles rushed to her face, making her subconsciously cover her nose.

Damn it, how many days has he not been there and still has an instant noodle cone? Tianxia walked to the living room with a solemn expression, and as soon as he entered, sure enough, there was a row of soaked noodles standing side by side on the dining table, with different tastes.

This bastard is quite good at enjoying it, Tianxia scolded a few more words with a tense face, the voice of his own brother must have heard it a long time ago, but he was still indifferent, did this guy really think that he couldn't come back or what's wrong? She pinched her nose and found a bag, threw the instant noodle bucket into the bag, and then put it in the trash bin that was cleaned up at the door. That's right, you can throw away the instant noodles as long as you walk to the door, but he ....... Summer groaned, my brother was so hopelessly lazy.

She took off her shoes and put them in the shoe cabinet, hurriedly stuffed her socks into the automatic sock washing machine, hurriedly washed her feet a few times, put on her own fiber slippers, and went straight to Summer.

In the past, in order to clean up the room, her brother's door did not set a threshold for herself, so she just stood at the door for a second, and the door automatically opened to both sides.

As soon as she took two steps inside, she noticed that the room was unlit, and there was a dull smell faintly leaking from it. This made her think that she had the illusion that this was really a high-end apartment bedroom in the federal capital, or a sewer sewer pipe? She pinched her nose and walked in, the floor was covered with bread crumbs, leftovers, and paper that I didn't know what to wipe, and there was a fishy, rancid smell on the paper, damn it, what the hell had he done?

She looked at the head of the bed in the summer, and saw that the quilt that was originally as white as snow had become dirty and rotten, and the color of the sheets on the part had faintly turned into some kind of ---- urine yellow? Or is it yellow? She wasn't sure, but she felt a chill in her heart.

She moved her eyes to the head of the bed, only to see that the quilt was bulging to cover her brother, like a wriggling maggot, this guy even covered his head in the quilt, and he was not afraid of being suffocated to death? Tianxia walked straight forward and pulled away the quilt, she thought that she should sleep in the quilt like a dead pig in the summer, but on this bed, except for the pillows and clothes wrapped in a ball, there was no summer figure.

He's out? Impossible, right? Tianxia was full of doubts, and she didn't know what to do, she called the number of Summer's wrist communicator, except for the female voice rereading over and over again, "The user you dialed is not within the signal range", there is no response, not within the signal range? With today's communication technology, what is not within the signal range is either a cave deep in the mountains, a trench beyond the ocean, or a ...... Outer space......

Where will he go? Tianxia walked to her brother's usual virtual game glasses, she put on her glasses, and saw a naked woman opening her thighs to him in the glasses, silver-white hair fluttering in the wind with her buttocks shaking slightly....... Healy. Valen.

“.......”

“.......”

Tian Xia angrily broke the glasses in half, this guy was hiding in the bedroom to play with this kind of thing before he disappeared, and she was especially puzzled and smashed the glasses that were split in half.

There was no trace of her brother, and she didn't bother to pay attention to him, even throwing the hot desserts she bought into the trash, and then lying on the living room sofa in a deflated state. Forget it, maybe he deliberately set up a blacklist for himself.

Tianxia boredly "turned on" the TV with her voice, and what caught her eye was the three sets of satellite TV in the second district, and the host was telling an earlier news in a rich second district language:

"At six o'clock in the morning today, the federal space station detected a set of abnormal electromagnetic fluctuation data from the earth's space, and it is reported that at the same time, someone found a strange anomaly over the federal capital, and the following is the testimony of eyewitnesses......

The scene shifts to a slightly panicked, white-skinned middle-aged man.

The reporter asked, "What is your surname?" “

"Oh, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy every day."

"Sir, we're not doing a federal Social Happiness Survey, we're doing an anomaly of the sky this morning."

He straightened up, "You're talking about that incident at six o'clock this morning?" ”

"Yes, sir."

When he said this, he seemed to be very excited, and even pointed at the sky: "I did see it today, and I can guarantee it, and my colleagues who were traveling with me also saw it, it was an opening that looked like a whirlpool, something that could affect the vision, something that distorted the light, and I saw a frighteningly large black metal pipe...... Something in the shape of a trash can sticks out from there.

Of course, I don't see what the alcohol is attached to it, no one can see it, but it's sure to be a big guy, maybe bigger than our interstellar port. Anyway, all I could see was something starry, oh, and a pitch-black hole, like the other end was connected to outer space. And then there's the point. “

Reporter: "The point? “

"Yes, about ten seconds after the mouth of the tube appeared, a purple light flew from the side of the Empire State Building into the sky, and then, and then ......." The middle-aged man paused, he took a breath, "The metal tube spewed out a golden beam of light, directly scattering the purple light, that purple light, like rain, sprinkled countless points of light in the distance, like meteors, and several of them fell nearby." I thought it was over, and was about to turn around, when something white seemed to shoot out of the metal pipe, and I couldn't see it very clearly, and I certainly didn't know what it was.

Reporter: "What about the direction?" “

Witness: "Direction, from where I'm now, it looks like it's heading east, and then the metal pipe is missing, and it doesn't last more than eight minutes, and I can guarantee that many people have seen it." ”

The middle-aged man was on Tianzi Avenue in the federal capital, and in the direction he pointed, she finally remembered Queen Street, which was the same block as her Queen Street.

"And what do you think it is?"

"I don't know, if I had to guess, it looks like a battleship's launch pad, but the launch pad alone is so big, I don't think even the Empire's largest battleship, the Liberty Fortress, can be a tenth of it, so I think it might be something else, maybe it's some kind of illusion synthesized by light and shadow instruments."

"Yes sir, thank you very much for cooperating with our interview ......."

She was distraught and tuned her TV to other channels, and almost every federal satellite TV repeated the message, and a professor in the "Space Column" pointed out that this was likely to be a distortion caused by a subspace flight, and the data of electromagnetic waves was also 50% consistent with the data of this subspace distortion, and then another expert pointed out his mistake in public in another "Starry Night Talk" column, and the electromagnetic wave data map showed that only before the appearance of the metal tube, the purple beam had not flown out of the channel. Half of the time period was approximately consistent with the distorted electromagnetic field generated by a certain subspace flight, and the rest of the time, the electromagnetic field was disturbed beyond people's expectations, and his conclusions were not supported at all. The other channels do not have any substantive conclusions, and are mostly some tea talk.

This damn celestial anomaly, could it be related to my brother's disappearance? Tianxia "turned off" the TV and walked back to her bedroom, determined to investigate the footage taken by the camera by connecting to the home security network terminal.

In just a flash, the light screen appeared on the wrist communicator.

The video shows that at 5 o'clock in the morning, Summer went out of the bedroom to go to the toilet, his eyes were red, his hair was messy, and he was dirty, obviously staying up late again. At the moment, he hadn't fallen asleep, but simply went to the toilet and walked back. Then, at 6:70, the door that had been tightened was still not opened, and suddenly, a strange electronic disturbance erased the camera picture into a white flower, until 6:20, the screen was in a white state, and at 6:21, the screen returned to normal, and the door was still tight.

Hell, Tianxia watched this video over and over again, but no matter how you got it, it disappeared at 6:7, and so did the other cameras. Someone deliberately interfered with the room, and the building's main control security system didn't have any precautionary alarms, damn it.

It seems that the security facilities on Queen Street are not as immaculate as the strata company claims. Tianxia is determined to call the police......

"Di Di ......." her communicator hit, but it always prompted that she was busy communicating.

Damn, she walked to the window, how could even the federal police station be busy. She looked in a panic as the sun slowly rose from the sea level behind the towering Empire State Building and the Federal Satellite Tower, but it was already morning, why did the sun look so ...... It was dull and blood-stained. Faint dark clouds are born on the distant sea, and there is quite a momentum of mountain rain coming and the wind is full of buildings.

Tianxia stared at the unpredictable stormy day, and a sense of foreboding suddenly swept up from his heart and rushed straight to his head.

It was just a vision, and she tried to comfort herself, after Earth became a member of the United Empire, there were too many ships passing near Earth, and they would always produce some vision, but ....... Thinking of her brother's inexplicable disappearance, a dull cry made her heart skip a beat. He is already his only relative in this world, and after his parents left, he is the only one who depends on him, why should others take him away? How many of her husband's burials she used to have in the past have now disappeared with his brother's disappearance.

In the distance, a spaceship leading to the spaceport was slowly rising from the private apron of the airport. Valen's personal spaceship---- the Maiden. Did she foresee anything, she would leave in a hurry in the morning, thinking about it so much, Tianxia showed a wry smile, even if she foresaw the end of the world? . She had a private spaceship that could go directly into the spaceport, but they ordinary people didn't have the high price tag.

Even if Tianxia was resentful in his heart, he could only watch the girl hovering up. At this time, the sky suddenly darkened, and the sky over the entire capital completely fell into a gray that was not so deep, and gusts of wind continued to blow outside the window, Tianxia could no longer keep calm, she raised her head in amazement, as far as the naked eye could see, there was endless thick black smoke, and occasionally a trace of the sun's light and fire would leak above the rolling black clouds, coming and going hurriedly, fleetingly, leaving only a little light to flicker and struggle in the dark night, and ghostly smoke swirled in front of the earth.

Tianxia looked at the world outside the window, except for the gradually lit street lamps, it was almost pitch black, and the world fell into a deathly silence. For the first time in her life, she felt so longing for the sun, longing for it to banish the despair of the night. In the living room behind her, the hanging clock that dates back to the pre-Federation era was ticking and beating, it was a relic of her parents, the history can be traced back to her grandfather's generation, but at this moment, her heart seemed to merge into the clock, and traveled to the moment when the Second Federation Fleet invaded Earth, and the shadow shrouded in the haze of her heart further tore everything in front of her. Suddenly, the bell rang in the unknown distance, knocking on her heart, and even the ancient trumpet made a strange sound like a ghost crying wolf, which made her creepy.

"What the hell is going on?" She muttered under her breath, unconsciously repeating, "Why is this happening?" ”。

Without warning, a ray of light pierced the night sky, like a sharp blade piercing through the thick darkness of the night, cutting through the ink-stained sky. At this moment, the sun, hidden in the black Heavenly Mother, shot a faint white light through the cracked rift. Seconds later, another ray of light pierced through the dark clouds, slicing another milky white wound across the sky, a purple soft energy spreading through the wound and gently pushing through the mist like a gurgling streak of water.

Together...... Again....... Again....... She couldn't count, about a dozen rays of light, in short, as far as the eye could see, the dozen rays of light, or pure white as flames, or blue as the sea, or green as a forest, or black as ink, they all extended towards the space above the zenith. These dozens of dazzling beams of light were like bamboos, like a dozen fingers stirring up black clouds, and at the end of each finger there was a light purple energy spreading around, these energies were like ocean waves, rolling, merging with each other, and finally, in front of her, all the sky was shrouded by the waves, as if a "cover" was put on.

"Planetary shields?" Tianxia unconsciously shouted, could this god-like thing be the theoretical product of the empire that had only been published in scientific and technological papers?

But to her, it was more like witchcraft. ..... She has studied federal science basic education for more than ten years, and of course understands that witchcraft is just a superstition of the ancient people about the unknown, which is definitely something similar to a planetary shield, but, then again, it is not another superstition about the unknown to believe that it is a mysterious technological product of the planetary shield?