The island of Ice and Fire, where the Federal Interstellar Military University is located, is connected to the mainland by a bridge across the sea. At the western end of the bridge, a squad is stationed on duty, which is already a military restricted area, and no one is allowed to enter the bridge without a pass.

When Jiang Ping came here, he was stopped by the soldiers guarding the bridge and asked him to show his pass. Jiang Ping took out the admission notice and handed it to the other party.

The soldier on guard took his admission letter and looked at it a few times, and after confirming that it was correct, he returned the admission letter to him, with some playfulness in his eyes, and said, "It turns out that it is a new student." ”

Jiang Ping put away the admission letter and asked, "Can I go to the bridge now?" ”

The guard soldier smiled and said, "Not yet, if you want to go to Ice and Fire Island, you can only swim there from below." As he spoke, he pointed to the sea under the bridge.

Jiang Ping was stunned when he heard this, thinking that the other party was deliberately making things difficult, and said angrily: "What are you talking about, I am a new cadet of the military academy, can't this bridge still be walked!" ”

At this time, a person who looked like a captain came over and said solemnly to him: "Your Excellency, welcome to you, do you know how to swim?" ”

Seeing the other party's serious attitude, although Jiang Ping felt that the question was inexplicable, he still replied: "Of course I can swim." ”

The captain pointed to the sea below and said solemnly: "According to the rules of the military academy, new cadets who go to the island for the first time must swim over from this sea to report, and now your Excellency, new cadets, you can carry out the order!" ”

Jiang Ping stared at the other party carefully for a long time, and saw that the other party didn't seem to be joking, and couldn't help but start scolding in his heart, what kind of rule-breaking is this, in the cold winter, he actually asked people to swim more than ten nautical miles to report on the island, isn't this purely tricking people.

But the captain's attitude was unquestionable, and in desperation, he had no choice but to carry out this order. He still had some luggage beside him, hesitated for a moment, and said tentatively to the captain: "Can this luggage be stored here first?" ”

The captain glanced at the duffel bag beside him and asked indifferently, "What important things are in your luggage?" ”

Jiang Ping shook his head and said no. The captain said no more, and with a wave of his hand, two soldiers came over, grabbed the duffel bag, and threw it directly under the bridge, and the duffel bag crossed a parabola, fell straight into the sea, hit a few pictures on the sea, and a few bubbles, and in the blink of an eye, they were swallowed up by the waves, and disappeared.

Jiang Ping didn't expect that the other party would throw away his luggage, and he didn't have time to stop it, so he was furious when he saw this, and said, "What are you doing here, you guys are going to return my luggage!" ”

The captain said indifferently: "Your Excellency the new cadet, what are you in a hurry, according to the rules of the military academy, any unnecessary personal belongings are not allowed to be brought on the island, I will not throw them away now, and they will be thrown away when they arrive on the island." ”

Jiang Ping was speechless again, so he had to admit it, no longer paying attention to the other party, slowly walked to the shore under the bridge, gritted his teeth, jumped into the sea, and began to swim forward.

At first entering the water, I was stimulated by the icy water, but soon this cold discomfort disappeared, and was replaced by a warm feeling of freedom, as if in the arms of my mother.

Jiang Ping's sense of thought extended out, and a familiar sense of intimacy surged up again, and he felt the pulse of life in the sea. He is like a fish, quickly chopping the waves on the sea, struggling to move forward, and like a wanderer who has been away from home for many years, returning to the arms of the mother of the sea, galloping freely.

It is this boundless expanse of blue ocean that gives birth to life on Earth. From inorganic molecules to organic molecules, from organic small molecules to biological macromolecules, and biological macromolecules form multimolecular systems, and then evolve into primitive life, these processes are formed in the primitive ocean. …,

The ocean is the source of life for all living things on earth, including human beings.

When he was swimming in the sea, Jiang Ping suddenly felt that there were faint fluctuations of strange life energy in the sea water around his body.

Streams of energy poured in from all directions in the sea, converging towards a certain place in his body, as if a hundred rivers were flowing into the sea. Under his thoughts, he couldn't help but be surprised, the destination of the convergence of the energy surging from these seas was actually the life seed he hid in his arms, Wang Hengxing's ancient vine handed over to him, and continued the life seed of their race!

At this moment, the purple light on the surface of the life seed flashed and flickered, as if some kind of mysterious change was underway, and Jiang Ping could feel that inside, a powerful and incomparable vigorous vitality was constantly growing and growing, eager to break through the cocoon and be reborn, break through the shell, and spit out buds and bloom.

Jiang Ping was taken aback in his heart, and said in his heart: Could it be that this seed of life is going to break through its shell and sprout at this time? This is not possible!

He promised Gu Teng that he would find a suitable living home for this life seed at the right time, plant the life seed, and let the Gu Teng race regrow and grow in the universe.

He promised that he would naturally try his best to do it, but not at this time.

Planting the seeds of life on Earth? This is simply impossible, Jiang Ping can think that once the seeds of life are planted, take root and sprout, and grow vines, then the only result is that they will be discovered by human beings, and raised in captivity, and used as specimens to conduct various scientific research, and from then on, they will be slaughtered, even if they are not extinct, they will completely become human pets, and lose the freedom to live and reproduce freely in the universe.

This is not what Jiang Ping wants to see, and I believe it is not what Gu Teng wants to see.

Jiang Ping's plan is to make a planet suitable for the survival of the seeds of life, in addition to the various climatic and soil conditions of the planet suitable for the survival and reproduction of the ancient vine group, another important condition is that it cannot be discovered by humans. He knew that with the greedy nature of human beings, once they discovered the existence of this alien plant with huge biological power, they would inevitably try their best to control it, carry out endless plunder, demand, and keep it in a cage, and lose the freedom to survive and develop.

This seems to be an irresolvable contradiction. Since he can't be discovered by humans, how can he find such a planet? If he can find such a planet, then other humans will be able to find it, but sooner or later.

Until this contradiction is resolved, he will not consider letting the seed of life sprout out of the shell.

So now after seeing that the seed of life in his arms seemed to be showing signs of breaking through its shell and germinating, he immediately thought of stopping it. His thoughts burrowed into the seed of life in his arms, and he began to try to communicate with the seed of life.

"Seed of Life, can you hear me?" Jiang Ping conveyed his thoughts to the seeds of life through his thoughts.

To his surprise, he soon received a response from the Seed of Life: "I can hear, my friend and benefactor." ”

Jiang Ping was ecstatic in his heart, he didn't expect that the Seed of Life would really be able to have this kind of ideological dialogue with him, just like he had with Gu Teng at the beginning.

When he was in Wang Hengxing, he had a thoughtful exchange with those Wang Heng fungi, and after returning to the moon, he also tried to find some creatures to carry out this kind of thoughtful communication, but all of them failed without exception, and he couldn't feel any response from the other party at all.

He had thought carefully about the reason for this, thinking that it was because the animals and plants he was communicating with on the moon were too young, and the bioenergy field was far from reaching the point where it could communicate with his bioenergy field.

In fact, it has only been 300 years since human beings developed the moon, and before that, the moon was a planet without an atmosphere and without any life. …,

After arriving on Earth, he could feel the presence of some biological energy fields. For example, in the ocean that gave birth to life on Earth, he could feel the presence of the biological energy field around him.

But these biological energy fields are still too weak, at least much weaker than the Wang Heng Bacteria on Wang Hengxing, so that he can only feel the existence of these biological energy fields, but if he wants to communicate with Wang Heng Bacteria in the same way, it is impossible to do it.

But even the exchange with Wang Heng's thoughts is only a simple transmission of a sense of intimacy and goodwill to each other, and it is impossible to have a deeper dialogue.

But now, he found that he could have a thoughtful dialogue with the seed of life, which made him very surprised, he thought, the reason for this may be because his biological energy field itself and the seed of life come from the same source, both come from the ancient vine, there is a tacit understanding with each other, and the convergence point is very high.

Now that you can talk to the seeds of life, things are much easier. He began to convey his meaning to the seeds of life, saying, "Friend, you can't break your shell and sprout buds now, this is not a suitable home for you to survive and reproduce. ”

Then he passed on some information about human greed and plunder to the other party.

Although the seed of life has a very strong vitality and biological energy field, it is still a newborn child after all, and it is still in the naïve stage, although it has inherited some memories of its mother Gu Teng to a certain extent, but it cannot be compared with Gu Teng in wisdom.

I only heard it say suspiciously: "Friend, aren't you also a human being, I can feel your kindness and kindness, and you have no ill will towards us, can't I trust you?" ”

Jiang Ping had to continue to explain to it: "Of course you can trust me, because we are friends, and I have accepted the entrustment of Guteng's predecessors, and I will definitely keep my promise." But you have to know that other human beings will not regard you as friends, but will only treat you as a strange prey, and they will get what they want from you, and in order to satisfy their own selfish desires, they will keep you in captivity, endless plundering and demanding, and you will be trapped in a cage from now on, and you will no longer have the right to live and reproduce freely, do you understand what I said? ”

The Seed of Life realized and said, "Friend, I understand your words, and I obey you." ”

The flickering purple light on the surface of the life seed gradually began to fade, and the throbbing vitality inside also began to subside, and the energy in the surrounding sea no longer converged in this direction, and the surroundings began to calm down again.

It seems that the Seed of Life has accepted Jiang Ping's words and stopped breaking the shell and spitting out the buds.