Advent

Star Calendar 2987

Location: No records (exploration period)

Temporarily numbered 3197-k galaxy unknown planet

坐标：2233-19-1-4018,19°23°7139

In the golden-red sky, dozens of red stars glide at a speed visible to the naked eye. Their starlight makes everything on this planet shrouded in a heavy golden-red light that seems to have weight.

On the flat ground that stretches as far as the eye can see, covered with silver and golden deserts, there are dozens of towering, extremely tall light blue stone pillars.These stone pillars together build a special special building similar to a maze, which looks a little...some like a stone "altar".

Of course, it is not accurate to use stones to describe these pillars-because humans have not yet discovered what the actual constituent elements of such pillars are.

Before this day, people had never been exposed to this substance.

It's just that all of this is not too important to the two humans standing on this planet now.

An astronaut wearing a Union uniform stood in front of this magnificent and magnificent monument, looking up at the stone pillar in front of him.

From a distance, the stone pillar was so tall that it seemed to be able to touch the sky, but when he approached, this majestic feeling became more obvious.There has never been any building on the earth that can give an astronaut this feeling, that feeling can almost touch his soul, as if God has come to him invisibly, and the light blue stone pillar standing in front of him , is to give him guidance...

He stared at those stone pillars obsessively.

Although it seems that these special buildings are smooth and hard, their surface is so smooth that there is not even a trace of scratches - but according to the judgment of their measuring instruments, the values ​​show that these stone pillars have probably stood here for nearly [-] million years .

But these stone pillars still look brand new, as if they were just made by extraordinary creators in the last second, and then placed here.

"It's so beautiful..."

The astronaut muttered to himself unconsciously, and when he was talking to himself, some obvious white noise came from the earphones.

The astronaut didn't pay much attention to the call from the mothership, his attention was still on the stone pillar.

When people's sight touches the stone pillars, there will be a flowing water-like texture under those smooth and clean surfaces.

Astronauts always feel that there are some complex symbols vaguely floating under the stone pillars, shaking constantly in people's vision, what information these stone pillars seem to convey.

but……

"John what are you doing?"

A somewhat cold order came, and the astronaut named John shuddered.

Then he came back to his senses, and the astronaut named John looked at the stone pillar in front of him again, but the stone pillar had returned to what they saw before.

An unremarkable smooth inorganic substance.

Silent, cold, lifeless.

Suddenly John felt a cold tyranny welling up in him.

That sudden emotion was about to overwhelm his reason - he felt that the connection between himself and the gods was broken.

Something, an opportunity or... something else... was completely destroyed by his boss, his companion, the chief research director during this long journey.

John involuntarily leaned towards his waist, where hung the ion vertical line generator used to deal with special creatures (often dealing with special parasites called "Martian leeches" that grow in the soil of alien planets) .

The high-power ion rays produced by the generator can easily tear those parasites to pieces, and the same is also very useful for humans.

And at this moment, scenes and scenes of illusions appeared in John's mind: he took out his gun, then cut the supervisor's body into pieces, and let the damned bastards scatter in this boundless and silent golden-red desert. .

It's quiet now.

Everything quieted down.

He can finally concentrate on returning all his attention to the stone pillar in front of him, without any interference, and without worrying about someone intervening in the communication between him and God...

"John...John...reporting you...what's the matter with you?"

The director's voice slowly seeped into John's mind.

John was in a daze for a moment, feeling that the other person came slowly, and then pressed his shoulder.

John's heartbeat was very fast, and the artificial intelligence listed warnings on the screen, telling him that his physiological values ​​were not normal.

The sharp electronic siren raised John's consciousness a little bit, and he was a little surprised at the strong tyrannical feeling he had before.

He raised his eyes to look at his supervisor, and then responded after being stunned for a moment.

"I'm just in a daze, these stone pillars are really incredible..."

John heard himself speaking to his supervisor in a weird voice that even he couldn't hear anything strange, it was almost as if someone had stolen his vocal cords.

But John had no way to resist at all. He turned his head and looked at the stone pillar beside him again.

He always felt that those stone pillars were a little different from what he had seen before, but when he found the images taken with the instrument when he just arrived here, he found that the stone pillar recorder was the same as before.

It hasn't changed in the slightest.

"If you feel unwell, you can go back to the spaceship and rest for a while."

His supervisor didn't realize that John was now in a kind of gap between fantasy and reality, after all, John had been acting normally.

While speaking, the supervisor also raised his head to look at the stone pillar...

"Who could have imagined that?"

John could hear the supervisor muttering in his communicator, it sounded like he was talking to John, but it sounded like he was talking to himself.

"There are still galaxies left in the space gap found after the failed transition, and we also found the remains of the alien civilization here..."

Is it an illusion?At this moment, John could also vaguely feel the imperceptible madness and obsession in the supervisor's voice.

It's hard to describe that feeling in words, John only knew that he had an involuntary shudder.

His cold sweat was getting worse.

For a long time, neither John nor the supervisor said a word.

They stood shoulder to shoulder in front of the egg-blue stone pillar, raised their heads, and looked up at the stone pillar quietly.

This silent relic has stood in this desert for nearly a hundred million years.

as if...

It seems that they are just for this moment, waiting for the arrival of John, waiting for the human civilization to awaken it from its silence...

"I want to go in and have a look..."

Suddenly, John heard the supervisor say this.

John frowned, not knowing why, just thinking that the supervisor would enter the ruins made John feel uncomfortable for a while.

He always felt that this ruin should belong to him, and only he was qualified to enter.

"According to Article 373 of the Federal Act, we have to report to the General Directorate of the Earth and obtain authorization before we can enter, otherwise we are likely to damage the precious relics, or we may inadvertently trigger a trap designed by an alien civilization. Kill," John said.

【"He is obviously not qualified to enter—"】

But at this moment, John heard a small sneering sound, and he suddenly turned his head, but all he saw was a golden-red desert.

And when he turned around, he found that his side was empty.

"Sir?" John exclaimed involuntarily.

However, the supervisor who was by his side just a few seconds ago is nowhere to be seen now.

John took a few steps forward in a trance, and then found that the footsteps captured by the radio device were not quite right when he was walking. John lowered his head, only to find that the officer who was talking to him before was at his feet. It looked like the body had been weathered for a long time.

The helmet, with its head attached, was blown far away by the golden-red wind in the desert.

There is a special smell on the spacesuit around the neck. Human blood quickly oxidizes into a strange blue color after touching the special atmosphere of the alien planet.

Panting for breath, John raised his hand to look at his palm, and found that the high-energy plasma beam generator that he had been hanging around his waist before was now being held tightly in his palm.

The low energy warning light flashes slowly on the handle.

He killed the officer.

John belatedly rang.

The physiological data alerts listed by the artificial intelligence on the screen have become more frequent.

John felt that the scream of the artificial intelligence seemed to come from a very distant place.

He was still thinking about the officer.

Oh, by the way, don't forget this, he killed his own officer.

After the failed transition, the only people alive in the spaceship were John and the officer. They spent many years together in the space gap, and they could even be described as dependent on each other...

Then, John kills each other.

When is it?John found that he couldn't remember clearly, but his friends who had died by his side for many years made John feel nothing at all.

On the contrary, what rushed into his heart at this moment turned out to be an incomparable joy.

Now, he can finally enjoy everything in front of him to himself.

John stared at the stone pillar in a daze.

Without the interference of the officer, this time he can finally see more and more carefully.

The hard work paid off, and under his gaze, a crystal clear and exquisite glass box slowly floated out from the inside of the stone pillar.

The silver itinerary is shining with magnificent starlight in this small palm-sized box.

"Bai...God..."

John's eyes grew brighter and bigger.

He stared at the planet box obsessively, naming the gadget in his own way.

……

The fantasies in my head are becoming more and more real.

John's eyes gradually became hollow, and he slowly...

Slowly walk towards the ruins made of stone pillars

……

……

Star Calendar 3109

现在

Location: Hall of the Gods inside the Black Swan

The flesh of the clone k1380 burst open, warm blood splashed everywhere, and some pieces of flesh also flew out together with the flesh, stuck to Maria's body, and wet Maria's well-cared for expensive clothes. Silk jacket.

It's just that Maria, who has always paid great attention to details, doesn't have the energy to care about this at this time.

Through some special means, Maria's spirit is still connected with K1380 through the blood that keeps flowing out of her wrist, or in other words, the power of the silver star in the blood.

When the mad White Emperor Pu'er unexpectedly tore the pathetic experimental subject into pieces with his tentacles, Maria felt the same pain almost at the same moment.

She screamed uncontrollably, and could no longer maintain the confident mask on her face.

The severe pain even caused dark red blood to spurt out from Maria's eyes and nose.

A spider web-like fissure appeared under her skin, and the next second, it fell to the ground due to severe pain, and a series of extremely vicious curses came out of its mouth.

Almost at the same time, the silver star's light became even more dazzling inside the glass clip that was constantly rotating above Maria's head.

"Damn-"

Maria stopped swearing now, she bit her lip, her eyes were almost bleeding.

Several tentacles struggled to attack Maria, and were picked away by Maria screaming.

Although the injury to k1380 brought great pain to Mailia, at the same time, it also caused the White Emperor himself to suffer a huge spiritual backlash.

All tentacles that were once stained with k1380's blood began to rot.

The outer skin, which was invulnerable not long ago, transformed into a translucent gelatinous mucus, the ganglia and capillaries inside were all exposed, and began to rot at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And within Allen's field of vision, there was once a wonderful gleam of power, and the branch-like energy network infused inside the tentacles and huge body also became extremely dim in an instant.

All visible decay began to take on an unsettling gray aura.Tick ​​tock, semi-melted slime fell on the surface of the altar. Those altars made of special materials began to become uneven and loose immediately after touching the rotten White Emperor, and the metal sheets peeled off, exposing the wiring underneath.

No matter what the White Emperor is secreting now, one thing is certain, that is, the altar is gradually entering a state of collapse...

The glass shelf suspended in mid-air began to flicker like a poor-quality three-dimensional projection, and the silver brilliance in it was so dim that it could no longer be seen.

"no no……"

Maria fell into Assis's arms, her face pale as a ghost.

She was badly hurt, anyone could see that, but all her attention was now on the glass case, as if gaining that power was more important than her own safety.

There was an indescribable pain and despair in Maria's voice. After hearing her painful wailing, Allen finally couldn't help turning his head to look at his mother.

Ah, yes, Maria was his mother.

Allen thought in his heart.

It feels so incredible together.

"Mother……"

Allen murmured silently.

In reality, the relationship between Allen and Maria is not close, at least not as close as people think.

This is understandable. After all, Maria has been living in a nursing home on the edge of a remote galaxy due to mental illness since Allen could remember.

Ellen only sees her on important festivals of the year.

And after he gradually grew up, this kind of meeting even began to stretch to one year, two years or even three years.

Of course, on the surface, isolating Ellen and Maria looks more like the idea of ​​Ellen's greedy father.

At least before today... Allen thought so.

After all, before this, when he was not completely out of his father's control, his father would even use his meeting with Maria as a bargaining chip to threaten him to do something he didn't want to do.Alan has never shown his true feelings in front of his father. Every time he sees Maria, Alan will have a complicated feeling-he can feel that Maria doesn't like him. It's as close as others say, but Maria always pretends to be very good when she meets him: a gentle, sickly and vain woman who always can't distinguish reality from illusion, and she has a deep love for Alan. , Ellen could feel this vaguely, but at the same time she seemed to be pouring all her love into something else.

If I have to say what Maria has done for Allen over the years, it is that Maria will write songs for Allen - those poems that she wrote at random when she was crazy were handed to Allen by the doctor in the nursing home .

That includes one of Allen's most famous songs...

Eternal Love.

...It's just that now Alan looks at Maria and has doubts about everything he has experienced.

Are those strange lyrics with a little fanatical style really the ravings written by Maria unconsciously?Or...was she a song that she specially wrote in order to seduce the avatar of the ancient god?Allen thought in confusion.

What's even more strange is that when Alan found out that his mother turned out to be such a person, he actually felt so relieved.

It felt as if somewhere in the dark, he already knew that his mother was not some sick and innocent woman, but a... a real lunatic...

Allen blinked, and at the same time, the glass box that had gradually turned into a phantom flickered slightly the moment Allen stared at Maria.

The silver light became brighter, and Allen was in a trance, as if he had entered a more wonderful world again.Just because he thought about Maria, he saw it.

He saw Maria, his mother's past.

As early as 30 years ago, Maria... no, Maria's real name at that time was Mike.

He is an ordinary, down-and-out nobleman.

A mediocre Beta, his appearance is ordinary, his qualifications are even more ordinary, and what is even worse is his identity as a Beta male.

Beta is the cornerstone of human society, and at least 10 out of every 9 people are Betas.

And worst of all, he's also male in it, which means he's mentally mediocre and sterile.

In the entire human society, this identity prevents him from being discriminated against, but also does not receive any special treatment.

But he came from a very old and prominent family, which once provided countless outstanding scientists and politicians for the entire alliance government.

It is said that they have also received the gift of God... This gift became the most important content in the bedtime story that Mike's mother told him.

But I'm afraid that even Mike's mother, Alan's grandmother, would not have imagined that the self-comfort of mental paralysis would cause the young boy to have strange delusional fantasies.

He yearns for a higher power, one that has absolutely nothing to do with human technology and politics.

He longs to be a hero to mankind, and he longs for miracles.

This pursuit of mystery made him gradually become a man full of eccentricities and alienated from all relatives.Maybe it was to tease a friend, or maybe it was just so he wouldn't be too annoying.

Many years ago, a certain friend of Mike took him to a rumored secret religious society.

The society was selecting servants of the gods—his friends told Mike.

Then Mike became one of the living sacrifices of a blood sacrifice of that mysterious sect.

No one would think he was special, even... Mike wasn't even considered a sacrifice at the time.

Rather than saying that Mike became a sacrifice, it would be better to say that he was just a side dish used to accompany other sacrifices.

After all, among the sacrifices at that time, there was also a robust Alpha male with mysterious bloodlines, and a certain precious Omega who claimed to be a descendant of the royal family...

However, in that god's ceremony, everyone died.

Except Mike.

On the second day, when the people of the church pushed open the heavy door and decided to routinely clean up the large amount of carrion and blood left by the sacrifices, a half-male, half-female blood man slowly crawled out from among the corpses.

After that, Mike changed his name to Maria,

He has the dual information glands of Alpha and Omega on his body, he can change his form from male Alpha to the most attractive female Omega.

He claimed that he had received the favor of God during that sacrifice, and the glory of God flowed in his blood.

Various visions appeared on him, and this person named Baishen Church quickly accepted Mike.

In the next few decades, Mike—Maria—was promoted at an astonishing speed, and finally became the leader of the White God Church.

She became Archbishop Mary.

【Maria—】

Allen murmured.

With just a glance, he has already seen too much of Maria's past.

He watched how Maria mated with another man in an experimental manner, and had a boy named "Alan".

He saw with his own eyes how Maria ruthlessly revealed her ferocious face behind the mask of "mother". He saw countless failed products and clones that were being frozen. Leah's subordinates are innumerable unexamined, undead who died before they had time to live...

And this is my mother.

As for himself, it was just a bait created by Maria with an experimental nature many years ago.

Just because according to the records of a certain ancient ruins, the aura emanating from an existence like myself can be used to trap the ancient gods wandering in the universe.

……

Distraction made Alan return to human thinking and weak state again.

He watched helplessly as Maria climbed up from Assis' arms with astonishing tenacity after a brief gaffe.

The red light in the altar flickered against Maria's pale and ferocious face, making her look like a ghost...

Because the "mother" system was also used, at this moment, the loud and cold warning electronic sounds that echoed inside the spaceship all sounded so similar.

It's as if the nightmare that once happened in the human military base of the Virgo is happening again.