Chapter 4: Beginnings 4
I guess I was confused about what he meant, but I didn't know what I meant, so I agreed to his stupid condition, and lost myself because of a beautiful woman who came out of the belly of a spider.
Timothy then introduced me to the reddish-skinned crystal head, his son Fernando, who would take me to the Nota system, where the Tribunal of Life is located, where we were the last to be saved, and we couldn't wait for the trial.
"Right away?"
"There's no time to wait, we've wasted some time here." Fernando touched the crystal on his head as his father did. We went out of the room with the father and son, and after going through the third passage and turning the corner, there were many passages in front of us, and Timothy took Ye Yinhuan and Spider Girl to one of them, and Spider Girl kept holding my arm, no matter what I said, she wouldn't let go of me. Timothy had no choice but to take Ye Yinhuan away alone, "Don't forget about us!" Ye Yinhuan shouted before entering the passage. Spider-Woman and I followed Fernando into another passage.
We boarded a small spaceship, and Fernando told me and Spider-Woman to strap on our seats and walk to the driver's seat alone. The ship has a row of windows on the wall, and in front of the driver's seat is a large pane of glass that allows you to see out. It's the first time I've seen the view outside after I don't know how long. I saw that we were floating on a yellow planet, there were some black patches on the yellow planet, I don't know what they were, there were a lot of ships floating on the periphery of the planet, and more of them were warships. I saw that the ship I was holding had a hole in the side, and it was floating feebly over the Yellow Planet, and there were many such broken ships next to it.
"Good luck, soldier Fernando."
There was a mechanized sound from inside the cabin, and then I saw the yellow planet outside the window retreating, the broken ships retreating, and the intact battleships retreating. The speed of regression is getting faster and faster, and soon only glimpses of different colors of light can be seen outside the window, "Accelerating." The mechanized voice came again.
"15 times the speed of light... Prepare to take the leap..."
With a whoosh, all the glimpses turned into streaks of light.
I thought that the court of life would be like the kind of court on Earth, but I was wrong, the whole court is a meteorite floating in space. In addition to me, there were about 481 representatives of the victims who testified in court. There was no jury system, no lawyers, only a presiding judge named Abram. There were three defendants, named Gamma, Lambda, and Ohm, all of whom I had never met. All I needed to do was tell me the whole process of being captured. The last three ended up being exiled to a barren star on the edge of the universe.
It was over so soon, I didn't even expect it to be so simple.
Fernando told me about the whole incident as he took us back to Barnard, where his father was in his fleet.
"The universe we live in is not the only universe, there are five universes in addition to our second universe. These three are descendants of one of the hundreds of pioneers of the Second Universe. They've done something similar before, but it hasn't affected the entire planet, so the evidence found above isn't enough. This time they directly plundered 482 planets, which is too big. ”
I told Fernando that I didn't want to go back to Earth because there was no longer my family there, and even if the Marauders didn't come, I had no hope of living on Earth. Fernando thought about it for a while, and he suggested that I join the army, directly in his father's fleet, and he would ask Timothy for instructions. I thought that if I went to war, I would be the first to die, so I readily agreed.
Generally, it is impossible for a 'native star' citizen like us to directly join the army. Timothy's race is a stellar cult fanatic, they believe that as long as intelligent life grows under the stars, they are all children of the stars, and he is willing to ask someone to teach us all kinds of knowledge in the years when we don't know anything. After that, Spider Girl and I (who had to follow me) both enlisted in the army and became trainees in Timothy's fleet, as for the agreement with Ye Yinhuan, I didn't have it at all, because I needed to learn the lingua franca of the universe first, and I stayed on Barnard Star, and when the earthlings were sent back to Earth, no one informed me, so Ye Yinhuan and I never saw each other again after they were separated on the Marauder battleship.
Spider-Woman and I have a lot to learn, among which Spider-Woman gave herself a name for the first time after learning the lingua franca of the universe - Ridlein.
After officially becoming a recruit, I learned that interstellar wars have been fought, mainly between the six universes, and the fighting is particularly fierce at the edge of the universe, but the C7 star field under Timothy's jurisdiction happens to be close to the center of the second universe, so the war is pitiful. I've fought several battles, and I've been saved by Lideline every time I've been in danger. Not only is her physical fitness not like that of an earthling, but she also has a variety of natural skills, bells and whistles, and according to her own words, although she is currently simulating an earthling, the talents of other races that she has simulated before will also be retained. In layman's terms, I brought an open hanging with me.
I told her several times, "Don't save me anymore, I just want to die before I become a soldier, why do you want to save me?" Every time Lydilyn smiled, "You play with me, I like you." So I kept explaining to her that I wasn't playing with her on the Marauder ship, I was trying to get her to eat me, but she smiled even more. Then we joined Fernando's team, and Fernando seemed to like her, and I told her, "You see Fernando playing with you, you can like him." She brushed her hair and said, "I like him too, but it's not like you."
Then something went wrong with my body, and the doctor on Barnard told me that I was running out of life, and that my age should be around 40 years old. Because I have been traveling to different planets all year round, my body cannot adapt to the ever-changing planetary environment, and my organs have failed.
I think I'm finally going to die, but I'm a little reluctant now, Lydilyn and Fernando and Timothy have been my best friends or family members in my heart for 9 years of cosmic life, but I'm going to die, say goodbye to the eternal universe, say goodbye to them.
In the end, I didn't die.
It was Lydilyn who saved me, I don't know how she did it, she said that she and I have shared life, and if her life is not exhausted, my life will not be exhausted. If I die, she will die, and likewise if she dies, I will die.
I don't know if what she said is true.
After my physical recovery, I proposed to Timothy to be discharged from the army, I wanted a change of life, and he said that he respected my choice. After that, he gave me an old type of battleship that had been obsolete and he hoped that I would have at least some self-preservation ability in this universe, but he couldn't give me a new one. I named this battleship the Qua Father. Lydilyn also discharged from the army with me, and we said goodbye to Timothy and Fernando, and began our aimless wanderings in the Quafu.
While Lydilyn and I were on a gas giant debating where to go, Fernando sent me an email.
I opened the email, and it began with the words - Galaxy Detective Agency Recruitment.