Advent

Alan and Emperor Bai found a place to sit down casually together.

He also never thought that he would receive a message from Mason again after so many years in such a state.

The airtight room is still filled with the smell of old paper accumulated over the years, but it doesn't smell as bad as before. This may be because Alan is used to it, or it may be because Emperor Bai used his own The pheromones covered Allen - this is an instinctive behavior unique to Alphas, they are always eager to put more scent on their Omega to swear their ownership.

Allen took a deep breath.

The photo ball used the ancient biometric code. Allen verified his iris, fingerprints and DNA, and then the photo ball flickered, casting bright light and shadow in the small room.

A serious-looking middle-aged man flashed in front of Allen.

Allen even felt that his heartbeat paused briefly at that moment, and he stared blankly at "Mason" in front of him.

Since Mason's death, due to severe psychological trauma, Allen has never had any contact with anything related to Mason Passmore, which naturally includes his life records.

That is to say, this day was the first time he faced Mason directly after so many years.

Even knowing that this is just a photo left by the other party many years ago, Alan still feels his body is slightly weak and his heart beats fast.

"Ellen?"

The Emperor Bai held his hand, bringing Allen back to his senses.

"...I'm fine."

Allen said hoarsely.

He turned back and grabbed Emperor Bai's hand.

"I just didn't expect," Allen added softly after a while, "I can still look at him like I am now."

After the initial nervousness, Alan himself was a little surprised at how quickly he regained his composure.

You must know that even his psychiatrist once seriously warned him not to force himself to recall Mason, because that would probably completely destroy his will to survive-the trauma that Mason's death brought to Allen was so It was so big that it even completely shattered his soul.

But now, Allen found that he finally had new courage to face Mason.

And this has something to do with the guy next to him...

Allen could feel that as long as Emperor Bai was by his side, he would feel at ease.

"This is my teacher," although Mason was just an illusory shadow in the projection ball, Alan introduced it to Emperor Bai solemnly, "...for me, he is like a father."

Then, Allen closed his eyes.

After a few seconds, he turned to look at Mason.

The man is like a prophet, he has predicted that Alan will need some time to calm down after many years, and he has been silent for a while when the photo ball started to work.

He was sitting upright in mid-air, gently gazing at his bloodless child through the photo ball.

And Allen suddenly relaxed his extremely tense shoulders, knowing that that person would never be able to see himself now, but he was still a little silly, looked at Mason seriously and said: "...By the way, let me introduce you, This is my partner." He squeezed Emperor Bai's palm, "He is the emperor of the Naga clan."

"You, hello."

Allen thought that he was the only one being stupid at this moment, but he didn't expect that the Emperor Bai beside him seemed to be infected by him.Knowing that the image in the photo ball was nothing but a pre-recorded recording, the Bai Emperor suddenly jumped up and saluted Mason Passmore in a particularly solemn way.

"I...Although I am an alien race...but I will take good care of Alan."

Emperor Bai said, he spoke so seriously that he even looked a little silly.

After finishing speaking, he seemed to have noticed Alan's surprise at this moment, then he turned his gaze to Alan, and then smiled softly: "I know this is just a photo ball, but since he is your most important relative, I still You should say hello to him."

After finishing speaking, Emperor Bai leaned over again and kissed Alan lightly on the forehead.

"I was serious when I said I would take good care of you."

Although it was a silly move no matter how you think about it, Allen still had to admit that it was really useful.

Accompanied by Emperor Bai's slightly cold and dry kiss, the last trace of remorse, uneasiness and pain that was still lingering in Alan's heart because of Mason's death faded away.

The only thing left in my heart is a slight regret.

Allen really hoped that Mason could live to this day and be able to...meet the White Emperor.

If Mason was still alive at that time, if Mason could have become the grand commander instead of allowing that unpredictable Assis to become the leader of mankind, the Naga clan and the people on Earth might not have developed to the present situation at all, and many people would not have needed to do this. In an inexplicable war, innocent people lost their homes and even their own lives.

【"You should have grown up when you saw this message, Alan."】

Mason in the photo ball finally spoke after pondering for a long time. Allen trembled slightly, and immediately restrained all his wild thoughts, and focused all his attention on Mason's message.

["Actually, I don't want you to see this message,"] Mason then continued, speaking in his usual straightforward manner, ["After all, according to the agreement between me and Anderson, if the situation is not serious It has deteriorated to the point of being unmanageable, he will not give you this photo ball, and you will not hear what I am going to tell you next."]

After speaking, Mason sighed.

Allen stared straight at Mason, and now he can be sure that when Mason recorded this message, it should not be far from when he was assassinated—in Allen's memory, that is, Mason at that time Will show such obvious tiredness and struggle.

Allen was still too young at the time, and he always thought that Mason was under pressure because of the campaign, but thinking about it now, maybe Mason knew something at that time, and those things made him fall into a difficult choice. middle.

【"Let's talk about the beginning of the matter. I think Anderson should have told you about the ruins of the ancient Anya people and the damned church of Maria. I don't want to be here anymore I will give you a history lesson, but anyway, I still have to clarify some additional information... Alan, you are the origin of all life in this universe."]

"Mason?"

Allen, who was standing in front of the projection ball, involuntarily asked a confused question after hearing Mason's words.

To be honest, if he was not sure that Mason's attitude was very serious now, Allen would even think that his teacher was joking himself.

I am the origin of all life in the universe, this kind of statement is really a bit...

【"Okay, now you must think I'm joking with you."】

The moment Allen thought this way, he heard Mason say in the photo ball.

There was a bitter smile on the corner of the man's mouth who had long since died.

【"Actually, I also wish I was joking..."】

Mason said slowly word by word.

Alan felt an unusual breath from his tone, he frowned, his stomach felt a little heavy.

And Mason continued.

【"Let's talk about the beginning of it all. Tell me what the hell those ancient Anyars did... We all know that our universe is actually multi-dimensional, like a cluster of soap bubbles clustered together Bubbles, inside each bubble is a universe, and the universes are isolated from each other by special barriers. Just like those human scientists have proved long ago, there are some special civilizations that can use a kind of unknown to us. It means to open the barrier of the universe. From a main universe to a secondary universe, but ordinary people don’t know that long before human beings learned to stand and look up at the stars, such a race had already done such a thing 。】

【"In fact, there has been enough evidence a long time ago to prove that the universe we are in now was probably once a secondary universe, and the ancient Anya people used by the White God Sect came from A special race in the high-latitude universe...]

While speaking, Mason put on glasses for himself.

His fingers moved, as if he was flipping through a book that was not recorded by the photo ball.

【"According to some information we got in the remains of the Anya people, those ancient Anya people called themselves 'the sowers. "】

["...At present, we have no way to know the true purpose of the so-called 'seeders', but according to the carts, we can probably infer that they consider themselves to be the spreaders of life, and they spread the meaning of life in one universe after another. Seeds, let life appear in the silent universe.”]

Next, Allen was a little shocked to hear a story that was more like science fiction.

On the surface, the "Sowers" are not villains—at least in human cognition.

It's just that after those ancient Anya people arrived in the current universe, they discovered that primitive life had already appeared in this universe.

However, life forms in this universe are very rare——

Everything in the entire universe, rules, melody, light and shadow, and even all conditions for the production of life, are bound to the special life form they named Silver Star.

This life body is as magnificent as a star, mysterious and noble as a god.It is beautiful, but also cruel.

Because everything needed for the birth of life is concentrated inside the Silver Star, and the companion creature of the Silver Star, the terrifying monster called the Old God, collects everything spilled from the Silver Star, not allowing Half of its power leaked out.

Even the life that naturally appeared around the Silver Star due to the leakage of power is too rare to reproduce smoothly at all...

So this vast universe has been a dark desert for an incalculably long time...

This kind of emptiness, coldness and silence is naturally unacceptable to the ancient Anya people.

In order to break up the gathered energy and distribute it evenly in the universe, to make the universe glow with its due vitality, for the diversity of life and the balance of the ecology of the entire universe, the "seeders" used their energy from another The special weapons brought by the dimension, under the extremely difficult design and conspiracy, they bound and imprisoned the silver star.

After controlling the Silver Star, the "Sowers" spent hundreds of millions of years to extract the power of the Silver Star bit by bit, disperse and sow it to every corner of the universe. .

Of course, for Silver Star, this is a catastrophe.

Although it is difficult to say how it feels after encountering all these as the only creature, one thing is certain is that from the distant past to this moment, the once supreme existence has been imprisoned in the star box.That is a period of time that has been so long that it is close to eternity.

However, for the universe, perhaps everything began to develop as the "sowers" expected... The chapter of life can finally start to play, and new "flowers" began to emerge in the void.

With the meticulous extraction and "seeding" of the ancient Anya people, the power of the Silver Star gradually transformed into the vitality of the entire universe.

If the plan of the ancient Anya people can go on smoothly, as the power of the Silver Star is gradually extracted and transformed into another form of life, and it will continue to reproduce bit by bit, the existence of the "Silver Star" in this province, As well as its will, it will also be transformed into nothingness in the continuous cycle of life.

It becomes these lives themselves...

However, the accident eventually happened.

According to the records left by the ancient Anya people, just when they were about to completely transform the energy of the Silver Star, that is, at the critical moment when the Silver Star's will collapsed close to the critical point—the companion creature of the Silver Star, the one called The terrifying monster known as the "Old God" broke through the trap designed for it by the ancient Anya people, and forcibly crawled out of the time capsule that was almost impossible to escape.

The ancient gods found the base of the "sowers", and then, the war broke out.

It was a terrible battle that so far could not be expressed in any words, or even conveyed.

The entire war lasted for nearly [-] million years.

During this period, the ancient Anya people with advanced technology and powerful strength were almost wiped out under the attack of the ancient gods. Of course, the same terrible monster itself was also severely traumatized.

It eventually dies.

Its corpse finally collapsed into countless fragments, and its projection of consciousness... so far is still rippling in the deepest part of the universe, constantly howling its pain, despair, madness and darkness.

【"We have reason to believe that the fragments of these corpses have gradually become some of the interstellar monsters we know now. Among them, the Naga people have inherited the most obvious characteristics of the ancient gods. This is the fundamental reason why they are so dangerous."】

Mason said, and then carefully listed a lot of information about the fragments of the ancient gods.

Hearing that Mason mentioned his ethnic group, Emperor Bai raised his eyebrows.He didn't have much expression on his face, but the tentacles hanging down from the back of his head looked in Mason's direction curiously.

However, after touching the illusory light and shadow, the tentacles bounced back instantly and curled up into a small ball.

"You don't look surprised?"

Allen turned his head to look at Emperor Bai when Mason fell into silence again and asked softly.

The Emperor Bai just blinked innocently at Alan.

"I heard some rumors before..." Emperor Bai searched his memory with difficulty, "However, I thought those legends circulating in the ethnic group were all nonsense."

Because of the color of his body, the emperor, who couldn't integrate into the ethnic group until his youth, muttered.

Allen wanted to ask a few more questions, but at this time, Mason continued the complicated lecture on the history of the Anya people.

【"After the war between the ancient Anya people and the ancient gods, the entire universe gradually fell silent. Those lives that were seeded by the Anya people were very lucky to escape the fate of extinction, perhaps because they themselves came from the silver star At least the vast majority of them survived, began to grow little by little, and gradually became the various races of the universe that we know or don’t know today. It’s just that, because of the last of the Anya people Because the annihilation process has not been completely completed, sometimes, the will of the Silver Star will be attached to some special, that is, life groups with more pure 'bloodlines' for a short period of recovery. But..."]

Mason sighed softly.

【"Every time, as long as the will of the Silver Star recovers a little bit, before it has time to remember everything... the fragments of the ancient gods who have completely lost their minds will be summoned. As I mentioned before, those Even if the fragments of the corpse have been transformed into another life in the end, they will still be affected by the projection of the will of the ancient gods. They are always crazy. Once they come into contact with intelligent civilization, they will inevitably lead to the race where the will of the Silver Star is located. The entire family will be wiped out, and the fragments of the Silver Star will be scattered again... Such tragedies are reincarnated over and over again in the universe. No one knows how many times this kind of thing has happened again and again.”]

【"Until... a long time later, there was a life that was seeded by the Anya on the third planet of the solar system and developed into a species called human beings. Yes, that is us. Some people... in the process of exploring space Accidentally found the remains of the ancient Anya people, where they found an ancient laboratory buried deep in the ground that had not been affected by the war.”]

Having said that, Mason rubbed his temples.

He sighed again.

【"I really hope that the first person to find those damned ruins is a normal person, not that damned sect... The reason why that ghostly place survived the war that we have no way of knowing any details, In fact, the reason is very simple, there are the remains of the Silver Star that have not yet been completely decomposed by the ancient Anya people.]

【"Yes, the power of the Silver Star is so powerful... They completely concealed the existence of that relic, but secretly formed a sect. In the next 100 years, they gradually learned the How to use the weapons of the Anya people to extract the power of the Silver Star.]

[And finally one day, those guys unintentionally...transferred the will of Silver Star. 】

[A brand new, complete projection. 】

[A complete power container. 】

Mason raised his eyes and looked straight ahead, Allen held his breath, always feeling that his teacher seemed to have crossed the space and saw himself beyond the boundary between life and death.

Mason stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to touch Allen.

Allen couldn't help raising his hand, but the only thing he could touch was a piece of light and shadow.

After recovering, Allen was stunned for a moment.

[If you can see this log the worst has already happened.Maria has got everything she wants.And you have made up your mind to stop her—]

Mason paused here for a moment, and then spoke with a little jump.

Vaguely, Allen vaguely felt that Mason's tone was mixed with a little hesitation, as if he didn't want to say the next words.

But in the end, he still spoke.

【"I once re-excavated the things left by the White God Sect... and deciphered some of the information. These are some very important materials, but unfortunately those people probably didn't pay much attention to them."] Mason said, his tone getting more and more serious. slow.

【"Fortunately, or unfortunately, in short, the devices left by the ancient Anya people to imprison the Silver Star are not infallible and completely indestructible-the star box has a "key". And the key is the Silver Star's Will. Once the will of the Silver Star is gathered and forms a complete projection, as long as the will touches the container, the natural gravitational force between will and power will directly destroy all barriers, completely releasing the complete body of the Silver Star." 】

【"Actually, if the White God Religion hadn't been overwhelmed by that power, they should have paid attention to this. Why did those ancient Anya people, who are almost comparable to gods and can even imprison planets, live so long after controlling the Silver Star? For a long time, I have been working hard to cut and separate the power of the Silver Star, allowing it to re-grow, multiply, and become another level of life-as long as the ancient Anya are given enough time, when all the consciousness of the Silver Star is cut If it is divided into enough pieces, then this eternal power will be completely integrated into the entire universe..."]

【"If the ancient Anya people had not encountered the attack of the companion life, I am afraid that the sowers have already completed this vast work by now."】

Mason said.

But obviously, the White God Sect didn't pay attention.

They completely ignored all the warnings of the ancient Anyars—they even left the long warning tablets under the ruins, so that the people sent by Mason could get the information.

The consequence of ignoring the warning is that after going through a series of experiments, the people on earth finally achieved what the ancient Anya people tried their best to prevent.

A "key" was born.

That is a complete projection of consciousness.

Although it is still very weak so far, it is enough to release the main body of Silver Star...

Ten years ago——

Mason stared blankly at the working projection ball in front of him.

He pondered for another moment.

If his current performance is seen by his campaign team, those people will probably faint.

Mason thought to himself mockingly in his heart, and then wondered how Alan would feel when he saw his cowardly and hesitant appearance many years later.

Of course, Mason hoped that he could be more wise and powerful one day, and it would be best to be straightforward and tell the next child what to do now.

But he couldn't do that.

In fact, when mentioning Alan's true identity, Mason even felt a pang of heartache.

That is a child played by fate.

Obviously so kind, but inexplicably shouldering such a heavy fate.

And as his elder, Mason should have guided his way forward...

"I don't know if I made the right decision."

Mason lowered his eyes, hiding the sadness in his eyes.

Facing the black photo ball, he spoke slowly.

"...But you are the projection of the Silver Star, and you have the right to make your own choices."

"Any choice."

Mason emphasized it again.