Recently, another incident happened in Shurima that has attracted widespread attention.

The space program was launched, and the Space Lab announced the recruitment of astronauts.

They are ready to send people to heaven.

The project plan has been reported to the senior management for the record, and it is the instructions of Azir 7 who personally reviewed and made instructions.

He agreed.

In other words, Shurima is now moving towards the space age.

Perhaps because of the bottoming out caused by perennial repression, people's acceptance of new technologies is getting higher and faster, and even now they are already looking forward to the emergence of more high-tech technologies, even if they can't be announced to the people, they can also cause a period of excitement.

Under Azir's leadership, Shurima ushered in a technological explosion, and the overall social standard ushered in a qualitative leap in a very short period of time.

In the space experiment base, huge flying sand boats whizz overhead, and the square is also full of mechanical engineering vehicles.

Loud slogans echoed on the training ground.

A large number of talents recruited from various branches of the military are gathered here, and they will undergo a period of elimination training here to ensure that the last remaining ones can become qualified astronauts.

The instructor who led the team was taking these soldiers to physical training, he glanced cautiously at the other side of the square, and then turned his head very quickly:

"Pay attention to me! Your Majesty and the Consul-General's Ministers are watching us over there! ”

Even if he didn't need to say it, the dozens of people in the queue were all nervous, Azir was now very prestigious, Asitaya was also the fourth person in Shurima, and these young lads could only meet such a big leader on TV or in a video conference within the army.

Now the mentality of the whole planet has changed, the previous fear is gone, replaced by an endless desire for the starry sky, and this first space mission, among the honorable soldiers, is highly valued.

They all want to be Shurima's first astronaut, and they all want to go down in history.

So everybody trains harder.

However, they didn't know that although Azir and Asitaya's eyes were in this direction, the matter they were discussing was not on them.

"Your Majesty, how sure do you think this space program will be successful?" Asitaya asked with some concern.

"The technology is so good now that the tragedy of that time won't happen again." Azir said firmly.

"So...... To what extent can we reach space technology today? Asitaya asked again.

Azir thought for a moment and said: "With the support of Space Pirates and Kamigawa Technology, the aerospace project is developing rapidly, and this time's spacecraft has also been tested with a matching space folding device, and it is estimated that it can fly to the sun in one breath." ”

Asitaya was a little surprised: "It's come to this point? ”

Azir smiled: "Don't underestimate our scientists, they are very capable. ”

"Sun ......"

Asitaya muttered twice, and then slapped Azir's ass again, "These things are difficult to achieve without His Majesty's participation, no, they can't exist at all!" So it's still your credit. ”

Azir had already heard his ears calloused in response to the compliment, and instead of responding to Asitaya's sycophants, he gestured to the newly built flying machine, where five or six white-robed scientists were now testing and recording data.

"So far, we have launched five space station components, and they are almost ready, and if this space program is successful, I plan to develop Shurima's military forces into outer space."

Azir looked up, even though it was daytime, he could still see the deep darkness hidden by the light curtain, "Without a strong enough armed force, any ambition is empty talk, even those unruly pirates dare to offend us!" ”

Asitaya was noncommittal, he looked at the space base that was now beginning to take shape, and couldn't help but wonder: what era have we reached now?

This is something that he has always ignored, Asitaya has always closed himself in the door of stellar technology research, he doesn't even bother to ask about government affairs now, and the things that used to be evenly distributed on the two of them are now all backlogged on Nasus.

When Asitaya came to his senses, he also felt strange, if it was before, Nasus would have killed him angrily at this time, but he didn't make any movement until now.

"How's the work on Stellar Energy now? Are there any new difficulties encountered at this stage? ”

Since the last time he saw the artificial sun, Azir has been more concerned about the progress of the star project.

Asitaya didn't look at him, lowered his head and said, "It's going well." ”

"If this technology is developed in the future, at that time it will be necessary to make a device that can draw energy from the stars, but not on the ascendants, who have solar disks, so there is no need to worry," Azir said. When we can use the resources of this entire galaxy to develop, we will officially enter a new era! ”

This is an order, but also an entrustment, and Asitaya bows and salutes: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, that Shurima's footsteps will never stop from me!" ”

Azir looked at his emaciated body from the stellar experiment, and his heart suddenly felt a pang of sourness, and he remembered the days when he was studying in Kamigawa, isolated, but even with that breath, he had to learn something that could change Shurima.

Now, he did.

And when Azir returned, with a little intuition that he found impossible, he gave Asitaya a task that was almost impossible in this era.

Perhaps even Azir did not expect that this man could do this, he devoted almost his entire life to conquering stellar energy, all the hard work and hardship, and never told anyone.

It occurred to Azir that this was not the idealist he had been looking for.

"Why did you suddenly become interested in space technology? I thought you'd dive headfirst into stellar technology and never get out again. Azir asked.

Asitaya raised his head, the golden sun shining on his face, finally bringing a little warmth to his gloom, his withered yellow hair was blown by the wind, and his body finally had the breath of long-lost "life".

But for some reason, Azir suddenly felt that he was so sad, and it made people feel that something sad had happened to him.

Asitaya asked in a hoarse voice, "If I ask you to let me participate in this space mission, to go to the real sun, can you agree?" ”

After this question was asked, both of them were silent for a long time, and Asitaya knew that it was impossible, his current body was no longer enough to support him to fly into space again, so his eyes dimmed again.

Azir did not answer him directly, but changed the subject: "Didn't your assistant come with you today?" I remember that no matter where you went, she would follow...... It looks like you look a little like you. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, we are related by blood, and she is my cousin." Asitaya did not say where Credo was, but instead spoke about his relationship with her.

"Cousin?"

Azir was puzzled, of course he didn't suspect that Credo had entered the Academy of Sciences by virtue of his connections, not long ago he had done an assessment of all the scientific researchers, and although he belonged to the youngest group of the Academy of Sciences, Credo's grades were still among the best.

Moreover, she has her own views on genetic technology, and once specifically visited Azir to consult on genetic technology, Azir was surprised that her understanding of genetic technology was far more than that of some famous scientists in Shurima.

It's just that Credo is Ashitaya's cousin, and I only learned about it today.

"We come from the same family." "Her mother, like my mother, died when we were very young. ”

"I'm sorry......"

But Asitaya said something that sounded inexplicable to Azir: "You don't need to apologize Your Majesty, it's bound to happen." ”

According to today's plan, Azir was also going to give mobilization instructions to the soldiers who were being trained, and the soldiers welcomed the leader with loud applause.

Asitaya stood at the edge of the square, the wind suddenly getting stronger, with a faint sand and grit, which hurt on the skin, but the others didn't feel it, they were all basking in the joy of entering a new era.

He looked at the soldiers who were about to give birth to astronauts, who were amused by Azir's speech, their strong bodies standing still in the wind.

Asitaya sighed and left.

At this time Azir noticed his departure and looked at him, and in the wind he walked with great difficulty, like a dead branch, like standing on the edge of a cliff, crumbling, and not knowing when he would fall.

Why did Asitaya keep going?

The gloomy time he had experienced, the gloomy time when there was no hope, made him feel like he was in hell, constantly suffering from the huge gap between reality and ideas, and at that time he thought that maybe he would never be able to see the world he imagined.

Asitaya is an idealist, and he is willing to give everything for Shurima.

Maybe he had been looking for a lighthouse in his previous life to bring light to his ideals, and the appearance of Azir was really like lighting up a lighthouse in the boundless sea of dark sand, and he suddenly had a direction to move forward, how could he not rush with all his might?

In fact, his time was short, and it was a blessing to be able to burn out the candlelight in the last days and add bricks to Shurima's great ship.

His ark of life has sailed on the ideal ocean.

It was already dark when he returned to the lab, and Asitaya sat back in that chair, he dismissed all the scientists in the lab, and there were no lights on now.

There was movement in the cabin in front of me, the roar of something, sometimes powerless, sometimes crazy, but it was like a wail of pain, like a cry.

In order not to alarm it, Asitaya did not turn on the light, as too much light would hurt the creatures in the darkness.

He lit a candle, and under this faint flame, he could see the laboratory in the range of the light in chaos, tables and chairs lying to the ground, some of which had been split in half, and fragments of various experimental equipment mixed with materials covered the entire floor.

It's like being smashed by a bunch of people.

But in fact, there is only one creature responsible for this.

Asitaya brought the firelight close to the chamber, and the light shone through the glass, and in an instant something that had been illuminated shrank into the darkness, as if it had been pricked by a needle.

The moment the long, light-filled thing was illuminated, the armor-like scales reflected the candle's faint light.

That's a tail, a crocodile's tail.

The creepy hind feet were heard again in the cabin, and the noise of it ravaging the walls of the cabin frantically with its claws.

He regretted not listening to Azir.

Two tears flowed from Asitaya's face, and he hugged his head and cried when he was exposed to the light, like a scratch cut by a knife in the darkness.

"I'm sorry...... Credor. ”

In that cabin, in that cage, that crazy, painful monster.

That's his sister.

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