Twenty years.

There are not many twenty years in this life.

Su Xia's life, the last twenty years, was spent on a long interstellar journey.

Twenty years later, he finally arrived on that familiar planet.

"It's ......"

Su Xia's eyes were cloudy, looking at the blue planet outside the porthole.

The ship began to land, its hull shook, and the thrusters spewed a stream of blazing flames and slowly landed on a verdant earth.

As Su Xia remembers, this is a living planet.

It's just that there are some things that are different from memories.

"Coral City is here......"

Accompanied by countless fleet members, Susha left the ship.

At this time, he was already one hundred and twelve years old, and he was already unable to stand up, so he could only move slowly with the assistance of exoskeleton machinery.

Dressed in radiation suits, they came to the location of Coral City in Suxia's memory.

There really is a city here.

It's just that the city has long been abandoned.

High-rise buildings have collapsed, factories have collapsed, and there is no human life, only barren ruins and countless weeds on the ruins.

Beside him, several researchers were reporting what was known.

"Master Su, over the years, we have communicated with civilizations in this star field, and one of them has told us about this planet."

"There was indeed a human civilization on this planet, but then the mechanical civilization rose, and the two sides fought for decades, and finally both were destroyed, and this planet became a ruin of civilization."

"After the Great War, the surface of the planet was covered with radioactive contamination."

"The very few lives that survived were saved by people from another civilization."

"Our location, formerly known as Coral City, is a city with a population of nearly one million......"

War, destruction, radioactive contamination......

All of this was the same as what Su Xia saw in front of her eyes.

He walked forward slowly, slowly, dragging his weak body into the city.

The researchers and the guards followed.

After a long time, Su Xia came to the southwest of the city, entered an old street that had become ruins, and stood quietly on the ruins of the pharmacy, silent for a long time.

In the weeds of the ruins, he saw several broken potion test tubes.

"Let's go, let's go to another place."

He sighed softly and turned around.

They entered the southwest mountainous area, crossed the mountains with the help of all-terrain robots, and spent several days to reach the location of Dragon City.

Here, too, there is only a piece of wreckage.

Eighteen small cities in the belly of the mountain were destroyed, and the entire Dragon City was reduced to the ruins of war.

"Is all this a dream, a hallucination, or a real ......?"

Su Xia muttered in a low voice, taking old steps, his body was stiff, and slowly walked into the ruins of City No. 9, walking towards the most central area.

He's going to see that place.

The buildings in the center of the city have collapsed and are no longer visible.

Under Susha's command, the members of the fleet began to dig through the ruins of the central area, and within a few days, a road was cleared leading to the underground area.

Su Xia went underground and saw the familiar elevator.

It's just that the elevator has long been decayed, hanging in the elevator shaft and crumbling, unable to use at all, and the entire underground world is filled with a smell of decay.

"Master Su, there seems to be a space down here." Said the researcher next to him.

"I know, let's go ahead and clean up."

That evening, the elevator shaft was cleared, and the fleet members built a simple lifting device to make it easier for them to get on and off.

And Su Xia, accompanied by everyone, took the lifting device and came to the deepest part of this underground world.

What appeared in front of Su Xia's eyes was the familiar arsenal.

The arsenal was more than half empty, and only a handful remained, as if they had been used in the war.

Su Xia stepped out of the lifting device, walked in step by step, walked to the deepest part of this arsenal, and saw the black door in his memory.

Decades have passed, but he still remembers what happened.

The escort stepped forward and opened the black door for Su Xia.

The space inside the door was dark.

Everyone turned on the bright flashlight, and beams of dazzling light shone into it, allowing them to see this gray space clearly.

"What's that?"

"It seems to be a machine."

"Be careful, don't get close."

They saw that in the center of the space, there was a cylindrical machine, blue-gray in appearance, and the surface was covered with indicators of various colors, which looked very old.

Seeing the machine, Su Xia's cloudy eyes lit up slightly.

Boundary-seeking!

He pulled himself together, braced his tired and old body, and approached the machine step by step.

"Master Su, be careful, there may be danger here!"

The crowd hastened to dissuade them.

But Su Xia just glanced back and shook his head slightly.

By this time, he already had some guesses in his mind.

"You've worked hard......"

His voice was hoarse, and he finally glanced at the staff who had accompanied him all the way to this planet, and a gentle smile appeared on his old face.

Then, he slowly reached out and placed his hand on the strange machine.

Suddenly, a wave of electricity struck.

Su Xia's eyes darkened and fell.

Like last time, the world behind you is not hard ground.

It was as if he had fallen into a cold lake, and he was slowly falling under the wrapping of the lake.

Constantly falling......

Time seems to have lost its meaning, and everything has become a blur.

He didn't know how long he had fallen, it seemed like ten minutes, it seemed like a hundred years, and vague memories flashed through his mind.

In a trance, he seems to have returned to his youth, back on the bed in his bedroom, and heard the sound of several roommates playing games together.

The next moment, he seemed to be sitting in a pharmacy again, and the evening sun was shining, gilding the entire store with a faint layer of gold.

More memories emerge.

In a daze, he saw that he had turned into a cowboy, with a fierce look and fierce eyes, and was engaged in a midday duel with the enemy in the wind and sand.

After another moment, he transforms into a superhero, dressed in black, and fights criminals in the bustling metropolis at midnight.

A period of life experience emerged, as if it all belonged to him, and with a bit of strangeness.

In one memory, he wore a heavy crown and royal robes, sat on a high warhorse, looked solemn, and held a long sword in his hand, pointing directly at the empire in the distance.

In another memory, he took on the role of an evil pirate, unified the archipelago, and led hundreds of pirate ships to face off against the Royal Armadada.

In the next memory, he became a programmer who was busy with his life......

Countless lives, countless experiences.

Thousands of fragmented memories wrapped Su Xia around him, like shimmering crystals, disturbing his thoughts.

Suddenly, with a bang, all the crystals shattered.

Su Xia opened her eyes abruptly and came to her senses.

"Here ......"

He looked up and found himself still standing there, one hand resting on the Boundary Finder.

The Lord of Dragon City was standing next to the Boundary Seeking Machine, his expression calm, and his gaze fell on him.

Su Xia returned to the familiar Dragon City.

Or rather, he never left.

Everything that happened just now, those lives, and that long experience, seemed to be all illusions, but they were full of reality, and he thought in a trance that he had really spent that kind of life.

"Are those experiences real?" Su Xia withdrew his hand and asked the Lord of Dragon City a question.

"Perhaps." The Lord of Dragon City nodded slightly.

"You don't know?"

"I'm just a passerby in this world, just like you."

Su Xia's previous guess was correct, the Lord of Dragon City was indeed not from this world.

He came from another world, in that world, the planet he was on was called "Deep Blue Star", he had a happy and harmonious family, a daughter named Su Xiaoxia, and a stable job.

It's just that, later, all good things were shattered.

His daughter fell ill and died, and his wife became ill with grief and died not long after.

At that time, he was in despair, and he was confused all day long, relying on alcohol to numb himself until one day......

After one drunken experience, he staggered into the river.

When he woke up again, he saw this war-torn world and countless screaming and crying lives.

"The day I woke up, this machine was right next to me." The Lord of Dragon City said calmly, "It's important, there are countless forces in the starry sky looking for it. ”

"Boundary Search...... Are you looking for another world? Su Xia expressed the doubts in her heart.

He saw his countless lives, each of which corresponded to a different world.

Those worlds, are they true or false?

"Perhaps, another world." The Lord of Dragon City shook his head slightly, he didn't know, "The true role of this machine should only be known to those starry sky forces who have been chasing it...... We all want to find a piece of the truth, and when we know what this machine really does, the truth will be clear. ”

"Then you need to go to the stars." Su Xia was silent for a while and said.

"You should have a solution, right?" The Lord of Dragon City asked him.

"Hmm."

Su Xia had a treasure map in his hand, which he had obtained during the mission of [Dragon City Split].

Follow the treasure map to find a complete interstellar survey ship.

But there's still a bit of trouble at the moment.

Even if he found the survey ship, he wouldn't be able to go straight to the stars.

In this process, the mechs will inevitably interfere, such as intercepting, or directly launching missiles to destroy the ships that have risen into the air.

At the end of the day, it's still a fight with the cyborgs.

"We need to gather all our forces and defeat the Robots first." Susha said.

"Yes, do as you say." The Lord of Dragon City looked at Su Xia, "I called you here this time just for this matter, and those people outside should also understand." ”

As the old dean said, this hidden space was previously only accessible to the Lord of Dragon City.

Now, Susha has also come here.

That's a clear signal.

There is no need to deliberately announce anything, those people outside will understand that the Lord of Dragon City has chosen the next City Lord.

Previously, there might have been disagreements on the part of the Academy and the Institute and a request for a general meeting to be convened.

But not anymore.

The name of the north wind has long spread all over the streets and alleys of Dragon City.

Su Xia's heart moved, and he suddenly thought of something, and said, "You already know about the rebellion?" ”

Hearing this, the Lord of Dragon City smiled slightly and nodded: "Yes." ”

"You kept them to pave the way for me?" Susha asked again.

"You can think so."

"I see......"

Su Xia sighed lowly, he still thought that this rebellion was all on his own, if he didn't have it, Dragon City would probably go to a different ending.

But now, even without him, the outcome of this rebellion would not have changed in any way.

Hu Li is too immature after all, how can he fight the Lord of Dragon City?

Perhaps, the Lord of Dragon City is not paving the way for him, just waiting for the right person to appear.

Susha just showed up at the most opportune time.

"Let's go, it's time to confirm your identity." The Lord of Dragon City said gently, "Let's go to a meeting first, and then go with me to meet a few guests." ”

"Guest?"

"From another continent."

The two of them talked as they walked and left this secret space.

Soon, the Lord of Dragon City held a formal meeting to officially recognize Su Xia's status as the Deputy City Lord and transfer more than half of the power in his hands to him.

In this regard, neither the academic school nor the research institute objected and expressed their agreement.

The academic school is still managed by the old dean.

On the research institute's side, Qin Shou, the former number one, has been imprisoned, and now Qiu Hao and Wang Luo are jointly managed.

Wang Luo didn't talk about it, he had a friendship with Su Xia.

As for Qiu Hao, he already knew that Qin Shou and Hu Li planned to use him as a scapegoat, so he was especially grateful to Su Xia.

"I really didn't expect that the two of us would reach an agreement on the issue of the next city lord." The old dean looked at Qiu Hao and Wang Luo with a smile.

"If it were a different person, I might object to it, but after all, it's the north wind." Qiu Hao shrugged his shoulders, this is his savior, if he still opposes, isn't it better to be a pig and a dog?

After the meeting, everyone went to the meeting room.

A guest from another mainland has been waiting in the parlor for a long time.

"The people of the Lion City?" Su Xia's eyes froze, and he saw the blonde and blue-eyed guests.

"Yes." The Lord of Dragon City nodded slightly.

In the living room, there were three guests.

Through the system prompt, Su Xia saw the identities of the three guests.

They are from the conservative, liberal, and youth factions in the Lion City, and they are representatives of these three factions.

Within the Lion City, the royalists are the most powerful, followed by these three factions, and the remaining dozens of factions have no real power.

It's just that the representatives of the royalists did not come.

"Honorable Lord of Dragon City, it's an honor to meet you." The representative of the conservatives, Herbert stood up and held out his hand with a smile.

Several other people also stretched out their hands and shook hands with Su Xia and the old dean.

After a brief introduction, the two sides began to get down to business.

The people in Lion City first expressed their apologies, the previous rebellion in Dragon City was planned by the liberals, and now the person who planned it has been impeached by the parliament.

After the apology, the two sides began to discuss cooperation.

"Respected Lord of Dragon City, we are here with sincerity." Herbert was smiling, soft-spoken, and had an old-school gentleman's feel to his every move.

"You should be able to feel that the cyborg can't sit still, and a big war is just around the corner." Another said.

"Therefore, we need to cooperate."

They showed that everything is negotiable as long as they can cooperate.

The old dean glanced at these guys and said lightly: "That's a nice thing, why didn't you royalists come?" Which faction is the most powerful, right? The three of you can decide what happens in the Lion City? ”

"The royalists are more stubborn, and that's really a problem." Herbert did not deny it, "But, as long as we get results here, when we go back, the three parties join forces to put pressure on them, I think they will back down." ”

"What if they don't budge?" Wang Luo asked seriously.

"You guys haven't solved any internal matters, so you're here to talk to us?"

Hearing this, the three people opposite were silent for a while.

This is a fact, and they can't refute it.

The power of the royalists is too great, and many people in the Lion City hope that the banner of the golden iris will be raised again and fly high in the sky over the Western Continent.

Those people are arrogant and conservative, and they are not willing to cooperate with the outside world at all.

They've always been like that.

If they had known how to cooperate, the mechs would not have pushed the entire Iris Empire over so quickly.

At this time, Su Xia, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke: "Regarding the matter of the royalist faction, maybe you can use this sword to solve it." ”

As he spoke, he pulled out a rotten sword.

This sword was found in the treasure of a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea.

It belonged to the former Iris Empire, a sword of power that symbolized supreme power, and was later smuggled out by a certain prince and finally sank to the bottom of the sea with a large ship.

Seeing this sword, the three people on the opposite side were shocked.

Herbert had an incredible look on his face and said in shock, "This ...... Is this the sword of power? ”

(End of chapter)