Jonny calls his mother, and after Joanna's guidance, he finally finds the Taylor family outside the door of Terminal 3, but Steve is no longer among them.

Joanna pointed to one of the space elevators, which was gleaning and rising.

She said to her son with soft eyes, "Your brother-in-law has gone up." ”

"He doesn't want to see you say goodbye at the last minute...... "Mother looked up at the long pipe that had disappeared into the clouds. He said he was afraid that he would cry when he saw you, and that would affect his image in your mind......"

Typical Steven. Taylor-esque thoughts...... Just to maintain the 'image' that probably doesn't match his imagination......

That's not glorious...... Nor is there any element of admiration and longing mixed into it.

It's just affection, real affection, fool...... Jonny hated his selfishness, but he also understood that he was doing it because he was too obsessed and cared too much.

The lost son suddenly noticed that the corners of his mother, Joanna, were a little moist in the corners of her eyes, as if she had just cried.

She was holding her mother, May, and the old lady looked normal, but Jonny could tell that she was actually holding back her grief.

The youngest son of the family is away from home for the first time, and the future is uncertain, and what awaits him is a new world with harsh conditions and unknowns, which makes the Taylor family, including Brandon Sr. sad.

After a long pause, the Taylor brothers and a large family began to hug the two elders back to the airport parking lot, and Jonny walked at the end of the crowd.

For the sake of ideals? He looked up at the sky again, looking at the faint glowing clouds at the end of the space elevator, and felt lost in his heart.

Steven has his true ideals, and for the sake of a shadow that only glimpses in his imagination, he is willing to give up everything that is comfortable around him and have the courage to pursue it.

And what about his most beloved nephew?

What do I want?

……

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…… The stellar Joonrai Mudasin provides the Kanders with the most comfortable environment in all of the Frerell system, but the mother of civilization, which the Kanders call "The Source of Everything", is both a sign of death and a raging tyrant in the world of the Shadowless.

The Shadowless planet Tanatos, known in their ancient language as Annihilation, is the closest planet to a star in the entire Rich Galaxy. The days are long and the nights are short, the heat is scorching all year round, and the hellish flames scorch the surface of the planet almost all the time, leaving no grass to grow.

But it is on this small planet, which could never have formed any climate, that in the complex and intertwined caverns underground, because of the abundance of fluorescent algae, tenacious life has flourished.

After countless generations of painful struggles, the ancestors of these shadowless people have evolved their own genes, and the tissues in their skin and muscles can deflect visible light and most of the stellar lethal rays, so as to effectively protect their brains and internal organs, making the development of intelligence possible.

They evolved into the earliest shadowless civilizations in the dark fluorescence, digging caves, building dwellings, and cultivating a variety of edible algae.

They are not rich, but they are finally able to survive.

With the continuous increase of its population, the consumption of the only remaining resources in the cave has also increased dramatically, and the deteriorating living environment has forced many shadowless people to flee the cave, and continue to struggle to survive in the cracks in the rocks and the cracks in the surface that are tens of thousands of miles deep.

Although polarized tissues can protect them from large amounts of harmful rays, they are still not directly exposed to the irradiation of stars. They died in large numbers, and even those who survived were all lonely souls in the shadows who had no thoughts and were bent on survival, and this was the original origin of the infamous Shadow Man.

(For more information on their influence on later generations, see Travelogue History - Shadowmen's Souls.) ）

…… This ritual of expelling the remaining population from the cave erupts at regular intervals. He effectively protected the survival resources of the Shadowless People, so that the entire ritual inherited the entire Kand years for thousands of years, and almost all the recorded history of the Shadowless People.

…… The incomparably scarce resources made it impossible for the Shadowless people to develop any technological civilization, and they turned to the spiritual world. Death, and the world to which the soul will go after death, becomes the religion and belief of the shadowless people.

Mysticism flourished in a race whose intelligence was far greater than its technological dimension, and this civilizational tendency, which was alien to the entire modern Yinmeng society, did not change really radically until the Kandes completely reversed their worldview with their superior technology......

--- excerpt from the 10th edition of the Travels of Ascudabis, Members of the Mysopudahins System, The Shadowless Man, Chapter 1, compiled by the Cerberus Travel Committee.

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The wall lamps glowing warmly brightly fill the room as if it were daytime, and the central hall of the ship is much quieter.

Although it is located in the center of the entire ship, it is not only close to the ship's only food processing area and main storage room, but also a connection between the living and working areas.

Although a few members come and go here during the day or take a break, during the uniform 'nightfall' period, the team members generally go back to their rooms to rest and rarely move.

In the middle of the hall is a circle of high-end leather sofas and a row of white coffee tables, the masterpieces of one of the factories of a human colony. Hunt animals on developed planets, obtain furs, cut down rainforests, obtain logs, and then produce livelihood products in the form of assembly lines, and sell them to various intelligent race planets of the All-Silver Alliance through sales chains such as "Shuroom Home" or "Haolejia Supermarket".

Eddie was sitting in the corner of the couch, a Holographic Computer designed for Kander Ergonomics by Wonder on his lap, two tentacles on top of his head squilting on his forehead, his eyes glued to the screen, his fingers swiping lightly over the interface, writing the astronautical diary he had to complete every day.

Opposite him, the Shadowless Man is painting in the air with the spirit ring on his finger.

The red beams of death curved and varied, condensing into Add's focused face and then into his listless tentacles, and the Shadowless seemed to be so happy that the energy-stirring life-threatening cables collided and rattled in the oxygen-rich air of the council room.