Advent

Star Calendar 3109

Location: Time undercurrent area of ​​the outer field star field of the φ Virgo galaxy

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Jack Corliss in a Kitty Hawk-class patrol boat K59 started the 170th...or 180th routine patrol.

Through the countless inspection devices installed around the patrol ship, this dark and silent sea of ​​stars was clearly visible in front of him.

It's so desolate, so barren, so uninteresting.

Whenever Jack stared at the screen and looked at the darkness, a strange mood would emerge from the bottom of his heart.

It never occurred to him that in the human world, the legendary battle zone wrapped in legends and brilliance would actually be like this.

It's very dangerous here, and everyone knows it.

This is the land of legends, not to mention that.

Sometimes, Jack would even pass by the wreckage of the ships left over from the "Battle of Kings", and the fragments of the third man-made colony of Virgo are still scattered in this deadly void like stars. middle.

Even the soldiers who died in battle: human, or Naga... Their corpses occasionally flashed past Jack's porthole like jellyfish in the deep sea.

At the very beginning, all this made Jack, who had just arrived in the Virgo theater, extremely excited.

After all, all of these are reminding him that this is the main battlefield of the "War of Regicide" and the key to turning the fate of all mankind.

At that time, Jack would tremble with excitement just thinking of this.

Yes, the battle of regicide - although in the official records, that war was named "Operation Dark Blade".

It can be seen from the name that the Solar System Space Force at that time did not intend to face the Naga head-on. They only planned to launch a lightning raid, just like all the battles before the King Killing War.

This may sound useless and aggrieved, but at that time, human beings did not have many choices.

Naga people...

The monsters that suddenly appeared on the edge of the human space territory are too weird and powerful.

Their existence has completely overturned all human cognition of extraterrestrials for thirty centuries.

They clearly have wisdom and civilization, but they are greedy and tyrannical like the lowest star worms. Their appearance is strange, and it seems that they can hardly be regarded as the same species, but they have a unified will comparable to a bee swarm. They seem to be forever. Not afraid of aging, in fact, their strength is proportional to their age, and they can live without limit...

Worst of all, human weapons can only be described as "moderately lethal" to them at best.

It is precisely because of this that after the end of the "First War" with the Naga, although humans were lucky enough to keep their territory and the integrity of the coalition government, they were no longer able to launch any frontal attack on the Naga.

Until...until that routine raid "Operation Dark Blade" turned into a "King Killing War" by accident.

Human beings killed the emperor of the Naga people——when the "Blackbird" fleet was fighting the "White Emperor" of the Naga people, they happened to break into the time undercurrent area of ​​the φ galaxy in the constellation Virgo.

They were very unlucky to encounter a time void, or a time black hole, or a time well...

Jack has never understood the scientific definition of time void in class, but he knows that everyone knows that once any cosmic creature is pulled into the time void, it will be completely trapped in the infinite loop of secondary time flow, It is no longer possible to return to the upper universe.

It is believed that all members of the "Blackbird" fleet also had the same cognition as Jack, so they made a tragic but extremely heroic move: they forcibly rammed the car of the "White Emperor", and carried the evil The leader of the aliens fell into the time void together.

The "White Emperor" died.

And this is a particularly fatal blow to the Naga who have a hive-like will.

Since then, those greedy and ferocious Naga have been huddling behind the outer space of the Virgo for three years, and never made any attempt to enter the human territory.

Human beings have finally obtained the peace they had longed for.

After the Regicide War, there was no trace of any naga in the outfield of Celestia.According to the analysis of the elite think tank of the headquarters, this may be related to some special habits of the Naga people.

Perhaps it was because the death of the "Emperor" was a huge and tragic pain to their spirits, and they were still afraid of this land of death.

One year, two years, three years...

There are no more changes in the outfield star field.

At the very beginning, Jack would carefully record every cruise, but as time went by, he inevitably became tired and slack like his companions, and even...

"Kind of boring, isn't it?"

Joe's voice suddenly came from behind Jack.

Jack was taken aback by his companion, and almost thought he had accidentally spoken out the complaints in his heart.

"puff……"

Joe was evidently amused by Jack's fluster, who even laughed.

"Take it easy, buddy."

Joe said to Jack.

"Joe?!" Jack endured the slight dissatisfaction that surged up in his heart, and sighed with a hint of helplessness, "You shouldn't have said that word in the war zone."

As a soldier, as long as you are still in a war zone, you should never say something like "boring" or "it's too peaceful today"-this is an old rule that has been passed down in the Space Force for a long time, some Sometimes this kind of rule can even be called superstition, but almost everyone silently abides by similar principles in their hearts.

Of course, there are occasional exceptions like Joe's.

"For God's sake, Jack, your reaction is too exaggerated... I just said it was boring, and you only have that word written on your face. Aren't you a beta? Why do I feel like you sometimes The reaction is slimmer than those crying omega on earth?"

Joe glanced at Jack, then straightened his crooked neckline, he rubbed his brows and muttered.

"...Don't look at me like that, Jack, think about it carefully, is it possible that with just one word, we can summon some magical aliens from this cosmic desert to attack us? That would be too funny. "

Joe sounded very disapproving.

Resisting the urge to argue, Jack pursed his lips and fell silent.

This is of course not because he was persuaded by Joe's nonsense, but because he had given up communicating with Joe.

Joe is a typical Alpha. Although this guy has tried his best to hide it, Jack knows very well that Joe doesn't look down on himself as a beta at all.And this damn alpha chauvinism isn't going to be undone by reasoning.

"I've always thought you were too tense, Jack, although I also know that Beta's physique is relatively weak, but you are a soldier after all, you should be more confident..."

Beside Jack, Joe didn't seem to notice his partner's indifference, and he continued to talk non-stop until Jack had to interrupt him.

"Joe, did you see that?"

Jack stared straight at the detection screen, his voice trembling.

"You know that even omega faces can join the army now, you—wait—"

"...that...that...what is that..."

Joe glanced across the detection screen inadvertently, and the original chatter became stuttering in an instant.

When he saw the huge shadow that gradually emerged, his originally loose body became extremely stiff due to some induction in his instinct.

That huge shadow quietly appeared from above the Kitty Hawk-class patrol ship like that.

There was no sign, no sound, and the way it appeared completely subverted human imagination.

It was as if there was an invisible giant mouth in the boundless darkness, slowly spitting out the food in his belly bit by bit.

At first, it was the smooth and huge bow like a whale's mouth.

Then came the ferocious, ferocious body full of forts...

And even with only one-third of its body, that warship is still terrifyingly huge.

The Kitty Hawk patrol ships are actually medium-sized ships in the space force, but compared with the "monster" above them, they are like a small jack mackerel accidentally intruding into the territory of a whale.

And as the warship finally fully revealed its full appearance, Jack also gradually felt a palpitation-like familiarity.

This warship...

Why does it look so familiar?Familiar as if he'd seen it a thousand times, ten thousand times?

"Black... Black Stork..."

It wasn't until he heard muffled and hoarse whispers pouring out uncontrollably from his parched throat that Jack realized that he had opened his mouth unknowingly.His eyes widened suddenly, and he was startled by his own realization.Yeah, why do you feel familiar?It's very simple, because this warship is so famous, so famous that its magnificent figure will be included in all promotional materials.As an admirer of the "Blackbird" fleet, Jack had already watched those materials and promotional videos over and over again.

"What's the black number?"

Hearing Jack's voice, Joe turned his head and looked at Jack like a madman.

"Are you crazy? How can this be black—"

The next second, Joe's voice stopped abruptly.

The huge warship that suddenly appeared above their heads looked pitch black, like a corpse, with an indescribably old feeling all over its body, but even so, the huge mark inlaid on the hull by Anya alloy was still barely visible.

That is indeed a black stork.

The most brilliant member of the Blackbird Fleet, the largest all-round warship in human history, the ship of heroes that dragged the supreme leader of the Naga people, the "White Emperor", to eternal hell... The Black Stork...

Now, it appeared on top of Joe and Jack so strangely.

When they realized that the warship was really the Black Stork, both Joe and Jack's brains went blank for a moment.In the end, it was the frenzied siren of the patrol boat's system that barely brought the two of them back to their senses.

"Warning—the ship is too close—warning—"

"warn--"

……

"What the hell is this..."

Joe's face was pale, and his voice trembled slightly.

"I have no idea--"

Jack replied almost unconsciously.

And before he could speak, his hands had followed years of training in the army, unconsciously following the procedures and starting to send an emergency signal to the base.

The signal seemed to be disturbed and very weak, but thankfully the comm system on the console was still working.

The base quickly responded to Jack and Joe, but judging from the message, Jack had no doubt that the people in the headquarters probably felt that he and Joe were probably in some kind of space madness.

Jack decided not to blame those people. After all, if it were him, he would probably feel that the information he reluctantly sent back was nothing but a madman's nonsense.

... Or maybe he and Joe were really crazy.

Jack could feel that his sanity was faltering, because just as he was driving the patrol boat and trying to distance himself from the Black Stork, his communication system suddenly received a communication request.

Jack could feel the hair on the back of his neck standing on end one by one, and the fine cold sweat soaked his temples.

"Oh no--"

He could also hear Joe groaning. The guy was staring at the line of writing on the screen so seriously that his eyes seemed to pop out of their sockets.

Jack slowly shifted his gaze to the screen.

There are obviously many other characters on the screen, some are official communication request standard documents, and some are incomprehensible strange codes.

But in that chaotic text, the line [Black Stork Requests Communication] is so clear that it seems to be branded on the retina of a person.

Jack glanced again at the Black Stork above them.

That warship looked so vivid in the expansion pack, and various electronic signal lights made it look like a city of jewels wandering in the eternal night, but now, it is pitch black, even with the naked eye. It can be seen that this warship has completely lost all energy.

If the machine has life...then it is completely dead.

The death was even more thorough than those warship wrecks Jack had ever seen.

But now, someone inside the Black Stork... initiated a communication request to them?

Jack's body was so stiff that it didn't feel like his own. He didn't dare and couldn't press the communication permission.

However, in the next second...

【Communication request connected】

Jack was shocked to hear the mechanical sound of the patrol boat's electronic system.

Immediately afterwards, a high-decibel noise erupted from his communication sound transmission facility.

"ZiZi-ZiZi-"

current sound.

"Hisssssssssssssssssssssssssssss..."

Space noise, or something neighing?

"Zi... Lie flames... Zizi... White star... Zi..."

Then, those strange, strange sounds that could almost scare people crazy suddenly slowly condensed into an extremely vague and noisy sound, but it was barely audible.

Who is that... singing...

The singing became clearer little by little.

"Please lock me up, a birdcage forged of gold and silver..."

"Please love me, carve flowers out of diamonds, weave silk threads out of moonlight..."

"Burning my heart with flames, my soul will become a white star..."

……

"Eternal Love."

Jack slowly pronounced the title of the song.

Then he turned his head and looked at Qiao in blank dismay. Both of them saw deeper fear and fear in each other's eyes.

At this moment, the two humans in the patrol ship would rather hear the neighing of aliens than in a dark universe millions of light-years away from Earth, in a ship that should have disappeared forever. In the shadow of the "ghost ship" of the world, hear an old song that was popular many years ago.

A song from Alan Bracewell, a smash hit star many years ago.

The author has something to say: Gong: Ah, come and listen to my idol's song!Isn't it amazing! ! !