The air in the conference room was quiet for many minutes.

Digesting the huge amount of information, Chu Guang, who was sitting at the conference table, did not speak for a long time.

After a while, he pressed his index finger on the center of his eyebrows, and cleared his mind to speak.

"So...... The Celestials reached out to the Southern Legion through the Enlightenment Society, providing them with a series of trump cards including the 'Death Agent' and the 'Gaia Seed'? ”

"Yes," Qi Liu nodded and said seriously, "It doesn't matter if it's an ace or not, but we have solid evidence to prove that it's not the technology that the Southern Legion has." ”

Chu Guang looked at him incomprehensibly.

"I don't understand, what their motivation is...... Or what exactly do they want to do? ”

Why give this card to Tyr?

Unless—

They didn't want the Wasteland Age to end.

In other words, they hope that the Wasteland Age will completely enter the Doomsday Age and will accelerate to the end.

Only these two explanations remain.

He couldn't think of a third explanation.

Qi Liu was silent for a while and said.

"The Celestials are called Celestials because they don't recognize us as their compatriots, or ...... Having ascended to another dimension, they have already distanced themselves from us. ”

"Of course, the dimension I am talking about here is not a dimension in the sense of space, but a dimension in the sense of existence."

Chu Guang pinched his eyebrows.

"Is there a more direct way to put it?"

Qi Liu went straight to the point.

"Have you ever heard of Thinking Upload?"

Chu Guang reacted immediately.

"You mean the kind of thing from Vault 101?"

In fact, not only Vault 101, but also the Torch Church uses a method similar to distributed computing to disperse and store thoughts in biomimetic chips, so as to build an earthly "heaven" in the overhead "kingdom of heaven".

Other words......

The same is true for celestial beings?

No wonder the Torch Church ran straight there!

Chu Guang had a feeling in his heart that his mouth was suddenly opened.

Qi Liu, who was sitting opposite him, nodded and said in a deep voice.

"In order to complete the expedition to a colony five light years away, many of the people in the expeditionary force gave up their bodies a long time ago."

"It's hard for us to analyze their thoughts with the human mind, but we've gained some useful information after years of observation...... They are not our compatriots, and this is not their homeland. ”

"Their compatriots and their homeland exist in their memories, and they want to go back to the era that belonged to the Union of People, or to that era of infinite prosperity."

"Even if it seems impossible to us, time can only move forward, not go backwards."

Chu Guang took a deep breath.

"So...... Are they going to destroy the planet? ”

Qi Liu shook his head and nodded again.

"Haven't you ever wondered why we didn't use gravity wells to get the garbage out of outer space at the beginning of the Wasteland Age, given that we had mastered gravity well technology?"

Chu Guang's pupils contracted slightly.

"Is it ......?"

Qi Liu nodded.

"We've tried everything we can, including deploying gravity wells, and even the Rip Valley still has a prototype of one to this day. Unfortunately, when we drove the graviton to try to collapse the planet's gravitational field, a force not inferior to ours interfered with our gravity, and that force was at the Lagrange point not far from us. ”

After a pause, he continued.

"It's a pity that there aren't that many ifs in the world, but if we had managed to get that garbage to fall at that time, that radioactive fallout alone wouldn't have been enough to last the cold winter for half a century."

Chu Guang's Adam's apple moved.

"They want to kill everyone on this planet?"

"At least wipe out most of them, or let the surviving ones regress to the feudal dynasty or even the Stone Age, or even simply become animals," Qi Liu said in a calm tone, "Of course, they don't think it's genocide, but 'start over'." ”

Chu Guang: "...... Isn't this the same as the Enlightenment? ”

Qi Liu nodded and said.

"So they can get along with Enlightenment, and they can make do with Tyr, and you still wonder why those celestials gave the 'Gaia Seed' card to Tyr?"

"I'm not surprised, I'm just emotional." Chu Guang sighed and said, "They can obviously use these techniques to do some personnel ......."

However, it must be admitted that they do stand much higher than the Enlightenment Society.

And they also have a deeper understanding of the cleansing, and they don't even want the shelter dwellers who have preserved some of the old fires.

Qi Liu shook his head and said.

"They're not human anymore, so there's no point in you dwelling on this."

After a pause, he brought the conversation back to the question of the "Gaia Seed".

"Your research on Xiao Yu is actually very meaningful, and it is gradually getting on the right track. We don't want you to go astray, so we've withheld the story of the 'Gaia Seed'. ”

"After all, that technology has brought great disaster to us in the old days...... At least in our opinion, you can move towards a better future when you start over. ”

"But it turns out that this time we were superficial. There are some things that are really not suitable for children to play with, but there are some things that are useless even if they are hidden, and you will always use your own methods to discover the secrets hidden behind history, just as we once tirelessly explored the future. ”

"Your little feather is still Tyr of the Southern Legion...... In fact, it is a Gaia-like lifeform, and the latter is most likely born through the 'Gaia Seed'. What should have happened eventually happened. ”

"Dr. Conclusion says the time is up, and so does our CTO."

"Maybe from now on, we should be more honest about the past we have all experienced."

Chu Guang looked at him intently.

"What we need is substantial help, not verbal comfort."

He thought that the academy would keep his mouth shut, but he didn't expect that the next sentence of the director of the investigation department would hold his breath.

"That's what I'm here for."

"From now on, we're going to open up to you all of our graviton research, including anti-gravity technology—"

"Technologies that you, as well as the Corporations and the Legions, have had, but never really owned."

"As for the research ship, don't dismantle it after you find it, there's no point."

……

Deep and dark deep space.

A ruined starship hovered silently in orbit, flotted with debris of various sizes and a fully protected spacesuit, merging with the shattered wreckage around it, forming a man-made asteroid belt.

This is a geosynchronous orbit at a distance of 36,000 kilometers from the equator.

It's also the most remote and hard-to-reach frontier in the azure wasteland.

Due to the distance from the oxidative environment, the years have not left too many traces on the ruins of these old times, and the armbands and insignia of the People's Union Aerospace Force are still clearly visible.

But the glory of the past has long since been dusted, and it is as worthless as the ruins.

Today, however, was different, as a silver-white spaceship slowly approached from a distance, revealing a corner of the coffin......

The cockpit of the research ship.

The expressionless man stared quietly ahead, his pupils reflecting light blue dots.

Looking at the coordinates that were getting closer and closer, he turned on the communication module and said in a calm voice.

“…… This is Luo Yi, I am close to the coordinate position, and I am about to enter the communication obstacle area. ”

After a long pause, a reply mixed with the murmur of electricity came from the distant depths of space.

"Roger, move on."

"Yes."

Without much communication, the man reached out and turned off the communication module, completely entering a state of radio silence, and then opened the throttle valve of the plasma engine, pushing the scientific research ship forward to accelerate.

The light blue plume jet propelled the research ship closer to the dense "artificial asteroid belt" that was close at hand.

The raging metal storm became more and more dense, and the wreckage of metal fragments, large and small, ran in regular or irregular orbits at terrifying speeds.

They collide with each other, break into smaller fragments in a vacuum, or release escaping electrical sparks.

If you enter this realm without protection, even the Titans will have to be beaten into a sieve!

However, when the research ship sailed into the area, something unexpected happened!

I saw that the fragments that were originally rampage seemed to have eyes, and they deviated from their original tracks one after another, and took the initiative to avoid them!

That miraculous scene was like an invisible hand, protecting the surroundings of the research ship, pushing away the deadly orbital garbage and aircraft wreckage for it!

It wasn't some supernatural power, it was a deflection shield at work.

Of course, the use of this power does not come without a price.

At the same time as the speeding fragments were bounced away, the energy on the shield capacitors was also being consumed at a rapid rate!

【Warning! 50% of shield capacitance residual! 】

【Warning! Shield capacitance residual 45%! 】

【……】

The energy gauge is being depleted at a rapid rate!

Although the energy of the reactor is constantly pouring into the shield capacitors, it still can't keep up with the speed of consumption!

The man glanced at the holographic interface, but the expression on his face did not have a trace of waves.

He doesn't seem to care about his own safety at all, and he seems to be confident about crossing this dangerous "water".

And that's exactly what happened.

When the shield's capacitance remained close to 3%, the research ship came to rest next to the broken starship.

Almost at the same time, the number of debris that hit the deflector shield suddenly decayed, and the red warning light that kept beating suddenly turned green!

The energy pouring into the shield capacitors from the reactor gradually made up for the shortfall in the energy gauge, and the man reached out and clicked on the holographic screen, locked the relatively safe access point, switched the plasma engine to breakpoint injection mode, and designed the landing route by the navigation system itself.

The crisis is over.

The research ship slowly approached the access point, like a canoe breaking through a storm and sailing into the harbor, and leaned steadily towards the dock to meet it.

The access point is locked.

The scientific research ship successfully "anchored".

"I've landed successfully."

He didn't choose to report the good news to the space station at Lagrange Point, he just said this silently, and then removed his seat belt and floated out of his seat and went to the buffer cabin.

The inner gate slowly opened, and several corpses, already cold, were quietly suspended in the buffer cabin.

[The buffer bin has been opened, and the outside air pressure is lower than the safety threshold, please wear full protective equipment......]

The man didn't look at the corpses or ignore the safety reminders hovering in front of him, just slung the jetpack on his back, then reached out and pulled the safety cover from the wall, punching the red button.

"Woo——!"

The red siren lights came on, and with a screeching siren, the heavy outboard hatch slowly opened.

The air in the buffer chamber was evacuated in an instant, and the corpses suspended in the cabin were blown out of the buffer compartment in an instant, as if they were being dragged by ropes.

The same goes for the man standing in the cabin.

It's just that he took the initiative to follow the air flow and float out of the cabin, and the moment he left the hatch, he put his hand on the side of the hatch, and turned the direction with the help of a turnover.

The fluid movement was as smooth as a pre-programmed program.

The man standing on the top of the research ship glanced behind him, saw the corpse engulfed in deep darkness, and then looked indifferently at the towering wreck of the starship in front of him.

The shock of looking at this giant object from a close distance is far more profound than when you look at it from a distance.

The inscription on the shell of the armor is still clearly visible and has not faded with time.

Compared to that era of infinite prosperity, the people struggling in the wasteland are as small as cockroaches.

Isn't it a cockroach that feeds on the rotten body of a giant and lives in the dark?

But—

That's almost the end of it.

The man paused for a moment to admire the magnificent monument, then pressed the button in his hand.

"Shhhh

The jetpack spewed out a cloud of white mist, pushing him towards the entrance that was close at hand.

I've kept you waiting.

Comrades-in-arms.

……

[Since the Borneo authorities declared war on cockroaches, the insecticide content of the Yongliu River water has surged. The river is littered with cockroaches and other insect carcasses, causing birds to peck at them, causing serious damage to the ecosystem.

At present, this irrational war continues, and due to the absence of ecosystems, red soil is once again playing the role of decomposer. According to the aerial photography of meteorological drones, the red soil that had stopped expanding in many places in Niuzhou, Xiangzhou, Wolf and Snake has shown signs of expansion again.

In response to the freshwater crisis caused by excessive chemical content in the Yongliu River system, the authorities of the port of Jingallen have introduced seawater desalination plants from the South China Sea Alliance for emergency response, and have interviewed the Borneo ambassador to the port of Jingallen, Anwar, to negotiate the ecological damage.

As laterite expansion has reduced cropland yields due to cropland expansion, analysts fear that this could lead to Savoy's continued war on laterite, triggering an even greater ecological catastrophe.

Mayor Yodu called on the media not to panic, saying that declaring war on the clay was scientifically impossible and absurd, and that the family would never do it for any reason.

But the statement did not seem to have had an effect, but instead fueled the panic, causing the citizens of Golden Gallen Harbor to store water and stock up on food.

—Survivor Daily, Dawning City Edition

】

Dawning City.

On the North Street of Linghu Wetland Park, Chu Guang, who was sitting at a ramen stall waiting for breakfast, was flipping through the newspaper in his hand, but he didn't expect to open the first page to be a big cockroach, and suddenly closed the newspaper with an expression of "old man, subway, mobile phone".

Sitting across from him was Cheng Yan, the alliance's foreign minister.

Seeing the expression on Chu Guang's face, Cheng Yan knew that he must have seen which news, so he quipped.

"There are no fools in Borneo, especially the port of Golden Gallen. I've been there before, and the people there give me the impression that even the newsboys who walk the streets have 10,000 ideas for making a fortune in their heads. ”

Chu Guang shook his head, took two chopsticks from the bamboo tube on the table, and wiped them with paper towels.

"Fools can't go anywhere, I'm afraid that people who are too smart will do stupid things."

It's been a few days since he met with the director of the Academy's Investigation Department that day, and nothing special has happened in the Alliance, and the Daily Survivor, which really has no news to report, has put the little in Tiandu on the headlines.

Maybe it's because Dolly took some people to the Great Desert and Batoya Province to develop, and the level of the editorial department of Dawning City has dropped a lot recently, and it's not easy to pick out this photo, it's actually a mutant cockroach in Qingquan City.

How can Borneo have such a big thing?

However, the "Survivor Daily" is not an official organization of the alliance after all, and it is not good for him to go there again and again.

The last time he went, he was about to cry to the president.

Just as he threw the tissue into the paper basket, the young man with the ramen ran over in a hurry.

"Here comes the ramen! Slow use for two! ”

"Thank you," Cheng Yan nodded with a smile at the energetic young man, then looked at Chu Guang, who had already started to eat noodles, and asked tentatively, "You really don't plan to take care of it?" ”

Pipe ......

It's the word again.

Chu Guang really didn't bother to answer this question, stuffed a garlic and threw it into the noodle soup, and ended the topic in one sentence.

"It will cause an ecological deficit."

Hearing this, Cheng Yan didn't ask any more questions, and changed the topic from the beginning.

"What about prisoners of war? Both the Celestial Capital and the Mammoth Kingdom have offered to hand over Gurion to them, despite the contradictions between them...... But nominally they are all our allies. ”

"Gurion?" Chu Guang frowned, "Isn't that guy in Xifan Harbor?" ”

Cheng Yan said with a wry smile.

"It was there at first, but I don't know if it was Zaid who offended the emperor of the Eastern Empire or something else, and the people of the Eastern Empire stuffed Gurion to the port of Golden Gallen...... Only Akbar was left to them. ”

This slippery head......

Chu Guang smiled and shook his head, seeing through Salen's cleverness at a glance.

This guy wants to play with the idea of killing people with a knife again, and this time he wants to use the Alliance's hand to beat his own puppet.

Absec has been removed from office by the Council, and although Tiandu is still nominally an ally of the Alliance, he and Dawning City are actually at odds with each other.

Anyone can see that the family will be the puppet of the Eastern Empire, including the family association itself.

However, Zeid is not honest, he wants the benefits of the Eastern Empire, and he wants to continue to want the benefits of the alliance.

The federation of Tiandu is almost a corpse, and the fact that he was sewn to the chair of the committee is the best evidence.

Saren knew that he could see this, and that it would be impossible for him to abandon the Mammoth Nation's allies and give Gurion to Tiandu, so he happily handed over the knife.

And if he really handed the knife of Gurion to the Mammoth, the purpose of beating the Borneo country would be achieved, and no matter how cheeky Zaid was, he knew that it was impossible for him to want and be.

As for killing Gurion himself, there is no loss for the Eastern Empire.

Saren is a Willant, but he is also a political animal, and at most he cherishes his feathers for the sake of face, and he will not be like those "Mighty Leftists" who will never abandon every one of his compatriots from the bottom of his heart.

Chu Guang actually had the answer in his heart, but he still threw this question to Cheng Yan.

"You are the foreign minister of the alliance, what is your opinion? There is only one Gurion, who is better to give it to? ”

Cheng Yan said in a very soft voice.

"I heard that among the 800,000 troops under the Borneo 'Iron General' Grove, there are many old units of the Southern Legion, and there are also a large number of weapons of the Southern Legion, some of which they took over from the Eastern Empire, and some of them are prisoners of Operation North Wind."

Chu Guang: "So? ”

Cheng Yan's pupils flickered slightly.

"Grove is currently confronting the Mammoth Kingdom in the north, and if Gurion is handed over to Tiandu, the Mammoth Kingdom may be in danger."

Lassy, who was able to stop Gurion, was dead.

At present, the leader of the Mammoth State is Shawa, the leader of Lassi's stormtroopers, although this person is quite capable and has also been born and died on the battlefield, but after all, he is from an internal affairs background, and he is not a handsome talent.

Although Grove picked up a bargain on the southern front, it can be seen from Operation North Wind that this person also has some real skills, otherwise he would not have been printed on the playing cards by the Southern Army.

"You mean to kill Gurion?" Chu Guang didn't want to listen to him go around in circles, so he asked casually.

Gurion's role is probably equivalent to Griffin, just a war zone commander, whether he should be damned is the Brahman's own business, the key targets of the alliance's liquidation are in Avent City, and at least he has to be a four-star or more captain.

For example, the head of the General Affairs Department and so on.

As for a three-star captain, it would be better for the Brahman to decide for life or indefinitely, he actually didn't want to get involved.

"I didn't mean that, and it's the opposite," Cheng Yan hurriedly shook his head, "There is no doubt that the court in Golden Gallen Harbor will sentence him to death, but it makes no sense for us to kill a bare-bones commander." ”

After a pause, he lowered his pace and spoke hurriedly in a voice that only two people could hear.

"I suggest you put the court where he will be tried in Mammoth...... After all, legally speaking, the survivors of Mammoth City also participated in the war against the Southern Legion, and were the main force on the battlefield. They have the power to judge Gurion, and more so than the heavens do today. ”

Looking at Cheng Yan with blazing eyes, a smile suddenly appeared on the expressionless Chu Guang's face.

"Yes, you don't have to go around in circles with me so much, just say what you think."

Cheng Yan smiled embarrassedly.

"I'm going around in circles...... Just wanted to explain to you why I did this. After all, you can tell that this Gurion is actually a knife handed to us by Salen. If you really can't bear the relationship with Tiandu, you can execute him at the port of Golden Gallen. ”

After a pause, he added.

"Of course, I must warn you that false friendships do not bring any real good. Any sweet words from Zeid will never be fulfilled in the end, and he will only try to get our wool as he can. ”

"A little liar also wants to get my wool, and he's still a little tender," Chu Guang laughed and pushed the empty bowl aside, "Your idea is good, since you already have an idea, let's do it." ”

Cheng Yan smiled slightly, and understood in his heart.

"Understood."

The affairs of Borneo were only part of the post-war order, and Chu Guang didn't really want to play this game himself.

In contrast, Absek, who had met him at the Human Conference, was more interested in the "Abu Space" that he had recently made at the port of fries.

This guy is retired, and he can't help but run out to start a second business.

If this guy succeeds, he may be able to change the opinion of the conservatives of the alliance about the Borneos.

Of course, what he hoped would be that guy could have some positive influence on the Brahminas in the Alliance, so that they could learn self-respect, self-love and self-improvement.

Now that they are all out of the province of Borneo, stop looking for Daddy and Sapo to roll around.

On the other hand, what Chu Guang cares about more is the celestial people.

He would not have been able to sleep well if he had not broken the sword hanging over the Lagrange point.

Especially now that the legion has disintegrated.

The burden that originally belonged to Julius can now only be carried by him.