Advent

The dark spirit that inhabited the ancient bird-shaped sculpture departed briefly.

The huge gemstone placed on the head of the simple sculpture also lost its strange brilliance before.The mellow and fragrant fragrance overflowed in the air, and everything around became more gloomy and quieter.

The whole hall was full of eerie things that would make ordinary people breathless, but the woman was still sitting in her original position, her expression and movements seemed very leisurely.

There was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and she didn't pay any attention to the tragedy and murder that was about to happen between the two close brothers millions of light years away.

She was still immersed in her own thoughts, and her weird eyes glanced at the dimmed sculpture from time to time.With his slender and pale fingers, he tapped the polymer material on the armrest of the wheelchair lightly—to be honest, the wheelchair under her seemed out of place with the stunningly beautiful woman, and even the majestic and eerie altar-like hall .That wheelchair seemed to be the most common and cheapest style, and the materials used were things that could be seen everywhere in the market, and it was visible to the naked eye that the wheelchair had been used for a long time, and there were signs of wear and tear everywhere.

And on the side of the wheelchair was a line of small writing.

[Crimson Rose Senior Mental Sanatorium Medical Material Number: 247624]

If you consider that this wheelchair was originally just an ordinary medical wheelchair in a mental sanatorium...then its cheapness and commonality become very unusual.

But... this kind of ordinaryness fell on a woman, but it became extraordinarily weird.

Even those inside this hidden cult find it difficult to understand why women still keep this wheelchair to this day.

Some subordinates once provided women with more advanced and advanced wheelchairs.But the woman rejected him without hesitation.

Her cheap and simple wheelchair gave her the feeling, after all, in the past few decades, she has been sitting on it, plotting everyone's fate, planning that vast and great conspiracy...

This seat reassures her.

……

From one end of the hall came the sound of a metal door opening smoothly.

The woman turned her head, just in time to see a tall figure walking along the corridor into this hall.

It was a man with a tall figure and a resolute face.It was a face that all the inhabitants of the earth were very familiar with—that man was hailed as the god of war for mankind, the guardian of mankind, the current supreme leader of the military department and the actual person in power, and even... he is also the actual leader of the entire alliance government. controller.

He has a series of titles full of praise...

But here his name is simply Assis.

He walked into the hall step by step. If anyone could see him here, he would be deeply surprised by his appearance.After all, all the information and news prove that he should be undergoing his fourth recuperation in the official residence in the central area of ​​the earth, but now he is here, in the starry sky far away from the earth, on the Star Destroyer Black Swan A weird hall that didn't even appear on the drawings.

Moreover, this man who was extremely majestic in front of everyone and possessed supreme authority acted as humble as a servant when he saw a woman in a wheelchair in a mental sanatorium.

"Bishop Mary..."

As soon as he saw the woman, Yasis bowed humbly, and then he spoke cautiously.

"Is something wrong?"

The woman named Maria looked at him casually, and then asked indifferently.

"I'm just here to inform you that our Star Destroyer is about to enter a superluminal transition state, which may affect your meditation and communication with God..."

Yasis whispered so softly that he didn't even dare to look up.

The woman let out a chuckle.

"...God is everywhere, no matter what the situation is, no matter where I am, my communication with Him is unimpeded. I hope you will remember this, dear Assis."

While speaking, the woman was still staring at the bird-shaped statue not far away from her, and then said.

There was a thin layer of cold sweat on Yasis' back, and he lowered his head even lower.

"I lied.

The empty hall fell into silence for a while, and Assis waited for a long time but did not wait for the punishment he expected.This made him feel relieved, and he realized that Maria seemed to be in a better mood today than ever.

And that means...

"Bishop Maria," Assis's heart was pounding, but he couldn't help asking, "Have we already..."

Maria stretched out a finger and tapped Assis's forehead lightly, and she forced Assis to look up at herself.

The strange, nervous look of the beautiful woman made Yasis break out in cold sweat, but at the same time, the feeling of blood rushing became more intense.

"That's right...we are about to reach the final destination."

Maria admitted Assis's guess with a surprising calmness.

"Of course, before that, we're afraid we'll attract a lot of deaths... Well, let me think about it, how many people are there in the Tianmao human military base? Tens of thousands? Or 10,000+ people... Many of them maybe They are all your former friends, former subordinates... Are you ready?"

Under Maria's reminder, Yasis remembered the "job" he was about to usher in.

This cast a slight shadow over his heart, which was impacted by passion and joy.

But he responded mercilessly after a short pause: "Yes, I am prepared that many people will die, but as you said, all these are inevitable sacrifices ...everyone will have to sacrifice."

"yes……"

Maria giggled.

"You even sacrificed your dearest child."

Assis whispered.

"Everything is for all mankind."

"There will come a day when people will be grateful to us, to their death. Their death is the cornerstone to the throne. Humanity will finally have the great and ancient power, and human beings will also step on the supreme because of everything we have done. Throne... We will no longer care about others, we don't need to worry about any alien races posing threats to human beings, human beings... human beings finally have the freedom they have been looking forward to..."

A hazy female voice kept echoing in Assis's mind. It was the voice imprinted in Assis's mind during countless sacrifices and sermons in the past.

The voice is elegant and beautiful, with a wonderful melody that makes people unable to control themselves.

It's like a song, and it's like something is whispering to him.

A long, long time ago, Assis once thought about fighting against that whisper, but that was also a long time ago, and now he has been completely captured, bewitched by the beautiful, great, and glorious prospect.

Maria watched with satisfaction as Assis' face became blank and his eyes were empty.

Assis's words made her feel satisfied for a while. He listened to Assis's whispers and looked around at the ancient and mysterious altars around him.

It all started a long time ago, long before humans even had time to embark on a journey to the stars.

No, that's not right...it all...started even when humans were just beasts on all fours.

This is a long hunt that has gone through hundreds of millions of years, trillions of years... or even longer...

They need to hunt a star.

An ancient god.

The original creation of the universe.

It has to be said that humans are lucky.

This plan began with a great nation.

They have power and wisdom that humans cannot imagine even now, and they are almost about to become the most powerful existence in this universe...but they failed at the last moment.

And the beautiful results left by them will be captured by human beings in the end.

Even just thinking about what humanity is about to usher in, Maria couldn't help trembling slightly with extreme excitement.

"Drip drip-"

Maria's personal ambulance device detected a series of changes in her body due to excessive agitation, and immediately screamed.

The woman's pupils rolled under her eyelids, and saliva flowed down the corners of her mouth. She began to convulse, and her chest heaved violently because she couldn't breathe.Yasis jumped up. He found the needle tube from the medicine box next to the wheelchair, and then grabbed the woman's head roughly and forced her to expose the back of her neck.

Yasis injected the drug directly into the woman's spine. After more than ten seconds, the woman's body finally relaxed, and her physiological indicators finally returned to normal.

"We will have a true star...we will have energy that will never die...we will harness the oldest, most primitive, most powerful, and original voice in this world..."

The woman lay on Yasis' chest and murmured.

The effect of the drugs made her spirit a little relaxed... The kind of madness that only people with mental problems have appeared in her body.

"We captured it, we had it, and that's enough."

Maria murmured.

Assis's communicator rang in the empty and silent hall. He raised his hand and looked at the message sent to him by the captain. It was an early warning that the Star Destroyer was about to enter the FTL transition state. They will reach their last hunting ground.

The woman seemed to be aware of this too, she smiled and asked Assis to send her back to her original seat.

"Go, Yasis to complete your task..." She stretched out her hand and touched Yasis' cheek lightly, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.

"I will, I won't let you down..."

Assis almost stopped breathing, and then he exhaled heavily.

He promised Maria hoarsely.

……

Virgo Human Military Base

Senior Sheriff's Office.

"Wow, that's great, we're saved..."

"Great, great..."

……

Mark Dom was sitting at his desk. He heard a commotion from outside the office. It was the cheers of the soldiers in extreme ecstasy. Even through the metal door with sound-absorbing effect, he could hear clearly. .

Makdom sighed, and his brows were slightly frowned. In the next second, he put down the pen in his hand, then turned sideways, and connected to his assistant.

"what happened?"

he asked.

The tacit understanding over the years has made it unnecessary for him and his assistants to say anything.

The assistant understood immediately what he was asking.

"Reporting sir, we have detected the force field wave after the successful transition, and also received my communication request - it is the Star Destroyer Black Swan, she has entered our detection range..."

The assistant responded as calmly as possible on the other end of the communicator.But even so, Mark Dom could still feel the ecstasy suppressed by his assistant under his voice.

"Star Destroyer? How long will it take to reach the base?"

Mark Dom continued to ask.

There was a slight pause on the other end of the communicator. Mark Dom could hear the sound of the assistant typing on the keyboard, followed by a small whisper. Obviously, he was confirming the information with the frontline personnel. About ten seconds later, the assistant returned to the communicator the other end.

"There are still 50 minutes or about an hour, the Star Destroyer is very fast, and now the people at the base are clearing the outer orbit—"

Mark Dom hung up the communicator neatly without waiting for the assistant to finish speaking. Unlike his extremely elated colleagues, Mark Dom's mood did not improve at all because of the arrival of the Star Destroyer.

The Black Swan?

Mark Dom chewed the name in his heart.The mood is getting heavier and heavier.

Why did the military department send the Black Swan, the ultimate human weapon, to the Tianmao human military base?

Mark Dom has personally investigated the Black Swan, and he knows very well that the Black Swan is completely different from the ostentation of the Virgo human military base—at least, the high-destructive weapons equipped on her are absolutely not adulterated.

Black swans have always patrolled the outer reaches of the solar system to protect the earth.

That is probably the ultimate life-saving weapon for those trash in the central region of the earth.

In Mark Dom's perception, those guys would not let the Black Swan leave him so boldly...

Was it because of the previous naga attack on the base?Mark Dom was thinking quickly in his mind.

Unlike most ordinary warships, the Black Swan is currently the largest, most sophisticated and efficient warship owned by mankind. Its huge size and exquisite firepower equipment make it called a mobile military base .

It is precisely because of this that only the Black Swan can be equipped with an independent warp effector without the use of the destroyed stabilizer of the Tianmao human military base-she can directly reach this area.

Of course, in terms of benefits... Once the black swan arrives on the battlefield, other people in the base may no longer have to worry about the group of Naga.

Since the second attack came to an abrupt end, the group of Naga people has been hovering outside the firepower network in a way that is incomprehensible to humans. They have never carried out any effective attacks, but they have no intention of leaving.

And there has been no progress in their analysis.

It is precisely because of this that under tremendous pressure, everyone in the base is extremely happy about the arrival of the Black Swan.

But... But Mark Dom always felt that something made him feel very uncomfortable.

His instincts were telling him that something very bad had happened.

After so many years of military experience, Mark Dom knew that he should never ignore his intuition.

So he resolutely sat back at his desk, he recalled the complicated official tasks he had handled in the system during this period, and went through it again.

If his intuition finds something is wrong, it must be because he has vaguely noticed some abnormal information long ago...

Makdom stared at the screen in front of him with a stern face. The flickering information was reflected in his pupils as a flowing blue and white river.

Suddenly, Mark Dom's brows frowned even tighter, and he raised his hand to press a key.

The continuously flowing data on the screen stopped abruptly, and finally froze on dozens of routine material ship transportation applications and the information memorandum for the review and approval of the berthing port of the base.

The person who initiated the application for the delivery of the supply ship was Colas—that damned politician who was also a vampire from countless colonies.

He'd been extraordinarily smug, even cocky, after the naga attack on the base, but he never displayed the generosity to match his attitude.

He was stingy and stingy, and desperately withheld all kinds of supplies from the colony to the base.

However, just over a week ago, the politician seemed to have noticed something, and he suddenly became very generous, and the requests to transport supplies from the colony to the Tianmao human military base became extremely frequent.

Mark Dom's eyes froze on those application records.

He quickly scanned Colas's transportation application. In more than a week, similar material transportation requests were repeated nearly 100 times.

If this kind of material transportation is true, Colas must have gone crazy. He almost emptied his colony's supplies, and then shipped them all to the unlucky ones in the Tianmao military base.

But Mark Dom didn't feel that the material supply in the military base had improved under such frequent material delivery.

The food is still very bad, and fresh water and energy are becoming more and more precious...

Even coffee, the command's daily necessities, has grown scarce.

So why did Colas make so many requests all of a sudden?

While thinking, Makdom stretched out his hand and dialed the communicator with a gloomy expression.

……

an hour later

Rafael was wearing the uniform of the maintenance personnel, standing silently beside his colleagues.

He looked at Sakhir beside him with a bleak face, his face full of despair.

"Do you really think it's okay to do this?"

he murmured.

Sakhir ignored him, he was busy fighting the bloody auto-guard robots in the hallway.

Where they are now is located in the upper part of the human military base.

Unlike the energy shortage in other areas, this should be the only ghostly place in the entire base that has sufficient lighting.The metal wall was even carefully wiped by the robot, and the light was reflected on it, making the entire corridor brighter and brighter, and even the air was cleaner than other places.

This is a special private area that only senior government officials can live in. In a sense, it is even independent of the base.

The authority of the entire area is very high. Under normal circumstances, unless invited or possessing a high-level key, ordinary military officers entering here without permission is equivalent to spying on military secrets.

And the previous owner here was none other than Colas...

With the sound of small-scale explosions and gunshots, Sakhir easily killed the security robots in the entire area.

He bumped Rafael with his shoulder, motioning Rafael to follow him...

It didn't take them long at all to reach the end of the corridor.

There is a metal door standing there, and it can be seen that it is heavily guarded and has strict security facilities just by looking at it.

Sakhir let Rafael come to the door, turned his back and raised his gun to aim at the corridor, in order to deal with the enemies who were likely to appear on the other side of the corridor.

And his hints are also very obvious. While he is responsible for suppressing other possible enemies by force, Raphael needs to use his own ability to open this metal door.

"Hey, buddy, you should know that directly intruding into the living quarters of a senior government official without any authorization, even with the authorization of the Security Bureau, once I am caught, I may go to a military court..."

Rafael's face was almost wrinkled, and he chattered towards Sakhir.

"Don't think so much, now is the time for you to work."

Sakhir said coldly.

The previous fight with the group of automatic robots made him look quite embarrassed, and his temper was also quite bad.Well, another man in a bad mood, Raphael said painfully in his heart.

He closed his lips, trying to find an excuse for himself, but Sakhir interrupted him as if he had already guessed what he was going to say.

"You don't need to say that you can't do it-your hacking skills are good enough to prepare a complete identity record for Raymond and Allen, even the false identity that has that record in the system. With such strength in front of you, no one will believe the nonsense that you can't open a door."

……

Raphael sighed for a long time, he knew... People, once you start making mistakes, your life will snowball all the way down, and you will be burdened with countless troubles.

His fingers lightly pressed a few times on the access control system of Colas' living quarters.

The door swung open more easily than he thought.

The metal door slid open suddenly, and Rafael held his breath.

He had thought that he would be greeted with a hail of bullets, or from the eccentric interrogation of that high-ranking government official, and he had even imagined some poor excuses in his mind to deal with the upcoming troubles.

But when the door opened, Rafael was stunned.

The room is empty.

Not to mention that cunning and treacherous politician, even those luxurious earth brand furniture have been transported away without their knowledge.

Compared to Rafael's astonishment, Sakhir seemed to have expected this. His face remained unchanged, but his eyes were more gloomy than ever.

He tapped the communicator next to his ear, and then reported to Mark Dom.

"Your judgment is right, that guy Klaas ran away..."

After a pause, he spoke softly again.

"Now we're in big trouble...