Chapter 5: Interlude IV: Ophelia's Harmonica

Leola's sentimentality, Safiel's sharpness, and Cabe's confusion pierced Michelle's consciousness like three swords of different colors. He snorted, this time it was too serious.

He wasn't going to dissolve it immediately, it was better to wait for them to really calm down, and then slowly close the bloody sores.

He sat cross-legged alone in his "meditation room", his loose white robe covering the floor, and the shiny dark green alloy floor formed a dazzling backdrop.

Today, the force fields of the other three people all seemed to be stormy, and the negative spirit waves that were out of control had been flowing into his consciousness.

The degree is so overwhelming, the momentum is so cold, even Michelle is a little unbearable, although he has accepted this fluctuation for nearly two hundred years.

There is nothing to say that his existence turned out to be the most severe suffering for himself.

Since he was a child, he has lived in a high mountain in the border star of the capital planet, the moon of the widow.

As a pampered spirit child, in that elegant little temple, the priests and aunts took good care of him, but Michelle often cried for no reason.

Every time he was asked why he was crying, he couldn't say why, only vaguely felt that his heart was repeatedly scratched by some sharp and brittle substance, leaving bloodless scars.

Due to the passage of time, the scar left behind penetrated into his heart. Only he could not break free, and even the person concerned was already far away from every sad past in transit.

It wasn't until that time, when Master Gisaro, who loved him the most, was walking with him in the mountains that Michelle suddenly felt a large green sad landscape in front of him, and he blurted out unconsciously.

"Is Elle your first love? Her hair color is the green of the nocturnal butterfly that sweeps across the lake? ”

Gisara was taken aback. She flashed for a moment, falling into the memories of parting with her teenage lover, Elle, and stared heartily at the long green hair that fluttered in the breeze as the girl left, like endless green waves.

"How do you know Elle, Michelle?"

But when Gisara asked that sentence, her state of mind suddenly returned to the ancient well like a flat mirror, as if her longing and sorrow for Elle had become a drop of dew in the mirror of all vanity. I saw Michelle's expression become more and more confused, and then he smiled lightly as if relieved.

"Well, don't worry, Sister Gisaro. We're all fine. ”

When they returned to the temple that evening, they heard a great event—the supreme ruler of the Multistar Federation had actually come to this little-known temple. Michelle knew that the negative emotional waves had been almost absorbed by him, but he himself was deeply immersed in distant memories.

That was the day when he first understood the meaning of his existence. For a long time, he unconsciously absorbed all kinds of sorrow, heartbreak, boredom, and loneliness, but he also unconsciously resolved the sorrow for the owners of those emotions, as if they had never had that kind of pain.

It was the negative force wave of all living beings, and negative emotions, including hatred and hostility, were constantly attacking him, and he had no choice but to accept it.

But he couldn't get rid of it, and when Leora told him about his immortality and abilities, Michelle finally broke out uncontrollably.

His eyes gradually dimmed, revealing a strange and soft color, like a melancholy sunset reflected in the sand glass.

Michelle's grief was expanding at the most terrible rate, and he tugged at his hair, knowing that if it continued like this, it would explode

At that time, it was Leora who forcibly transferred his pain to himself. It was the first time in Michelle's life that he let others "accept" his negative force waves.

Then, he and Leora descended the mountain to the planet Shoudu, where they hid in the annex as cold as an isolated bellflower flower.

In nearly two hundred years of time together, Leora has never allowed her negativity to flow into Michelle's consciousness. He protects Michelle with the strongest shield so that other people's negative force waves will not invade.

Of course, they continue to look for companions. With Michelle, the bodily fluids shared by the two of them formed an intense field, making it easier to detect the existence of the same nature.

Safier was brought out of a psychiatric hospital under the name of "Research and Observation"; Cabe is a hidden spiritual healer that Leora inadvertently discovers when she visits the first university on a subplanet.

Then they begin to explore themselves, intending to extend their meaningless wings into uncharted territory.

Michelle didn't know what to seek, but he knew that they all wanted to get into what could be called "the end of the journey" or "hometown".

They are all looking for the power that can neutralize this abnormal existence. It is the true supreme evolutionary species, the eternity after the removal of suffering, that is, "God is all things".

The original hometown, lost and lost

The four lonely figures, like falling buoys, stood on the surface of the water-blue planet that had lost its vitality for nearly 7,000 galactic years. Although there was a thick layer of radioactive fallout, it did not cause any discomfort to them.

After a long silence, they still had no desire to speak, and the intersection of the force field and the broken section sent out an interfering sound wave of butterflies flapping against the glass.

It seems unspeakable to make any noise in the birthplace of this carbon-like species, now covered in blue ice sheets.

Leora's blue eyes began to glow with silver light, and his spiritual waves moved away from the "here and now" time point to return to the most glorious golden age of the earth—from 3050 to 4123, the most technological, mental, and emotional era.

People have learned a lesson from the "revolution in the consciousness of integrated circuits" that has just ended, and they no longer rely on computers with excellent intelligence for everything.

A certain group of migrants returned to their nests and devised ways to improve their minds and the quality of life. It was a reappearance of Paradise Lost, a gorgeous ribbon that could never be looked back on.

Leora's thoughts were transmitted to the hearts of the other three, gently stirring. They sat at the top of the ice field, tapping their fingers to the ice walls, trying to connect with the lost endpoints of space.

Leora's thoughts returned to their original point in time, and he sighed lightly.

"Why not go on, Leora? Why did it lead to such a violent destruction in the future? Cabe was puzzled.

"Because they want to seek immortality beyond the flesh." Leora said, a fringed sigh that betrayed his disapproval.

"After 5,000 A.D., a group of 'magicians' appeared in the scientific community based on ancient religions. They advocated the immortality of the soul and experimented with the physiological organs of the human body, which aroused opposition from the other faction of people, because the results of the experiments were too many futile deaths, but no one could confirm the existence of the afterlife. The controversy led to war, and the resurgence of the originally completely abolished nuclear hydrogen weapons finally evolved into a final collapse.

"As for the opposition scientists, seeing that the situation was so chaotic, they sent a batch of genetic breeding wrapped in faster-than-light bracts to other planets, and carried out desperate efar-range migration, so as to preserve the descendants. We, to put it bluntly, are the mutated offspring produced by that series of beacon battles. ”

Leora's voice echoed through the empty ice walls, and the sound of an iron harp rattled before falling silent again.

Michelle suddenly said: "I can still receive some residual negative force waves, telling me the pain at that time." ”

He frowned: "The energy is still so strong until now, it must have been miserable at that time." ”

"Maybe we can try to cleanse the earth with the toxins of the K-37 galaxy with spiritual waves, so that in a few hundred million years of cleansing at most, new species compounds will begin to split."

Everyone looked at Safiel in astonishment, it was too different from her style.

"This—this doesn't seem to fit your usual style, do you have any plans?" ”

Safiel rewarded him with a vivid white eye. "Don't talk too early or too full, and don't forget that I've always been impatient. This is not a charity for nothing, if I make a mistake to help me get out of the current embarrassment, and can leave interesting genetic information, it will really be a big reward! ”

Only Leora understood where Saphier's feelings came from. For a long time, Safiel had been looking for a way to say goodbye to her soul like a petal. Now this opportunity is the swan song that she has to summon.

He nodded: "It's not easy, we have to radiate all the energy stored in our bodies at the same time - the temperature of the planet's surface rises to millions of times in an instant, and perhaps, even our seemingly indestructible shells will vaporize and volatilize." ”

Everyone nodded, it wasn't their fear.

"Perhaps, if we abandon our bodies, we can attain true eternity?" Cabe's expression was very melancholy and confused, but then he became firm.

Leora wasn't sure about that. He looked around at the other three companions, smiling wistfully and bowing his head slightly.