Chapter 1 Homecoming
The Demon Soul Stone, a wonderfully translucent stone with powerful and almost infinite energy. Legend has it that it has some very subtle connections to the planet Taeho, but few people or organizations have been able to prove whether this is true or not. Some things about Tae-ho in ancient times are also deciphered in an ancient book called "Miracles", but the origin of this book is still a mystery.
Ever since the birth of human civilization in this world called "Taehao", it seems that the Demon Soul Stone has existed. Modern world civilization has used these stones to obtain a huge amount of energy that was never available in the past, and using it, we are now living such a colorful life.
However, the greedy desires of human nature are endless, and the powerful energy possessed by the Demon Soul Stone has caused many undeserved covetousness. Around the controversy and conflict point of "the ownership of the Demon Soul Stone", there have been many large-scale wars and conflicts between various countries and organizations in the world, and the endless wars have scarred the world and destroyed lives, and countless people have sacrificed their precious lives to protect their homeland......
In the end, the war ended, and the ownership of most of the Demon Soul Stones was temporarily settled, and the "Miracles" that recorded Taeho's ancient history had long been divided and divided by various countries. Nowadays, everything seems to be moving towards a peaceful and stable environment, but is this really the case? It's really hard to say...... Human nature is difficult to guess, desires are difficult to fill, and there may always be an undercurrent surging under the stable and peaceful surface, which will overturn all of this at any time......
"Uncle! This is the second time you've told me this story. ”
The Red Phoenix Heroes Cemetery, the resting place of many heroes of the Red Phoenix Empire. On a high ground in the cemetery, a middle-aged man and a young man each faced the tombstone in front of them, and the young man suddenly said.
"Oh? Already twice? How I don't remember. The middle-aged man said with some confusion.
The young man looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, sighed, and said, "Two years ago today, it was the same morning, the same place, we met, you told me at that time, did you have no impression at all?" ”
Hearing this, the middle-aged man stared at the young man in front of him, as if he was thinking about something. After a moment, he suddenly said, "Oh! You're the same guy back then, haha, I said how familiar you are. ”
"I doubt you deliberately couldn't remember."
"Uncle, did you just come back from outside?" The young man saw that the other party had already remembered who he was, so he continued to ask.
"yes. Counting it, it's probably more than ten years......" The middle-aged man looked up at the blue sky, and sighed: "It's been more than ten years, and I haven't come back, and I came back once two years ago, visited my old friends, and left again." ”
"You're coming back this time to visit an old friend? Still not going out? The young man asked.
The middle-aged man replied: "I don't plan to go out for the time being, I'm a little tired of traveling and wandering for more than ten years, and I plan to stay for a long time this time." As he spoke, the man's hand gently stroked the tombstone in front of him.
Looking at the middle-aged man's movements, the young man looked at the tombstone in front of the man, but there was no inscription on it. He asked, "Uncle, is the person you said you loved the most buried here?" ”
The middle-aged man was a little sad and said, "Yes. She's my favorite, but unfortunately I'll never see her again. The young man looked at the man's expression in front of him and said nothing more. It can be seen that the person in the tomb is definitely the love of his life.
After a while, the middle-aged man looked at the young man and the tombstone he had been staring at, and asked, "Who are you?" The last time I saw you, I wanted to ask you if you were here, but I didn't have time. ”
"It's my father." The youth replied. "Uncle, do you know my father?"
"Yao Changkong, famous, the entire Red Phoenix Divine Brave should know it." The middle-aged man said, and then asked, "How did he ......?" ”
The young man lowered his head and said slowly: "They say that my father died in a secret mission and sacrificed his life for the country...... But now I always feel that things are not going to be that simple. But nothing has been found yet. Looking at the somewhat lost young man in front of him, the middle-aged man comforted: "The person is no longer there, let's mourn." As for other things, don't be too obsessed. Maybe they have some unavoidable reasons. ”
"By the way, have you been out there for the past two years to investigate this matter?" The middle-aged man asked suddenly. "You should have just graduated from the academy two years ago, right?"
The young man replied, "Yes...... Not quite, I have some other things that I need to do some research in the surrounding countries. Two years ago, when I left school, I joined the special line department of a logistics company, and they sent me abroad to do some work......"
"And then while you're working, you ask and investigate some things you want to know. Right? Without waiting for the young man to finish, the middle-aged man interjected. Why don't you join the elite alliance, with their strength and intelligence, it shouldn't be difficult to help you find something. ”
"I have asked them for help, but unfortunately I did not get the results I wanted. So, I'll figure it out on my own. Although the process has been long and difficult, I will not give up. ”
Looking at the resolute expression of the young man in front of him when he said this, the middle-aged man smiled, and then touched his body for a long time, and found a stone with a faint colored light and threw it at the young man.
Seeing the small colored stone thrown over, the young man reached out to catch it and looked at the middle-aged man with a confused expression.
"I think we are fated, so I'll give you a gift as a souvenir." The middle-aged man laughed.
Looking at the spherical stone with a faint colored weak light in his hand, no larger than the size of his palm, the young man felt that this strange stone similar to a glass ball was not simple, looked at it carefully for a moment, hesitated slightly, and then put away the stone, untied a pair of jade ornaments from his waist and threw it to the middle-aged man, and said: "Uncle, this is a gift from my mother to our brother, one of them, I will give it to you as a souvenir." ”
"Yours is more precious than my thing, I need to keep it." As the middle-aged man who caught the jade spoke, he carefully put the jade away.
"Uncle, I don't know your name yet."
"You just call me Uncle Long, as for the name, you and I are destined, and we will definitely meet again in the future, and you will know when the time comes."
Looking at the kind middle-aged man in front of him, the young man was also smiling. After a while, he said, "Uncle Long, let's talk to you about it today, I still have something to deal with, so I'll leave first." With that, he turned and left.
"Okay, you go get busy first, I'll stay a while. Bye. The middle-aged man said. The young man gradually left, and waved his hand a few times as he walked with his back to the middle-aged man: "Goodbye." ”
Looking at the young man who had left, the middle-aged man smiled and said to himself, "Yao Yingjie! Twenty-one years old, six reprints of the inner source force. It's terrifying! But...... Seems to be something wrong. This middle-aged man named Uncle Long just saw through Yao Yingjie's strength level at a glance, but he still seemed to see some problems from Yao Yingjie. However, the other party had already walked away, and he didn't say anything more.
Then I saw him turn his head to look at the tombstone engraved with the words "Yao Changkong", and sighed: "Changkong, I really envy you, you have such an excellent little son." Unlike me, I'm a lot older now, but I'm still alone. Then, Uncle Long let out a slightly helpless smile.
After that, the middle-aged man named Uncle Long breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the tombstone on his side, caressed it with one hand, and said: "Tianling, Tianxiong, in the blink of an eye, decades have passed, and everything that happened back then is still vivid and lingering." Sometimes I even think that if we had been more assertive, maybe we wouldn't be what we are now...... Alas! It's useless to say anything now. There is no regret medicine in this world. I've been traveling around all these years, and I've seen all the hustle and bustle of this world, and now I'm feeling a little tired, maybe it's time to come back......"
Standing for a long time, and then turning to look at the city with tall buildings in the distance, Uncle Long said to himself: "Teacher, I haven't seen you for more than ten years...... Are you okay? ”