Rib Flower [Ability]

happy New Year to all! !

When the two of them walked to the door of the conference cabin, Nightingale was coming out of it. She was fully equipped, and seemed to be planning to leave the warship somewhere. The mechanical arm was equipped with digging tools—of course, it could also be used to hunting.There was still a lone wolf standing behind her, and it seemed that he was going to walk with him.

These two people are the guys with the highest force value in his team.

"What are you going to do?" Herlo folded her arms, lazily leaning against the door and staring at her, seemingly unintentionally blocking her way.

"I have something that fell into Sayero's lifeboat..."

"Oh—?" He raised his voice, turned his gaze around her backpack, and stretched out a finger to tick it off, "If you didn't carry a hunting net, I would very much like to believe you, Miss Nightingale."

Unexpectedly, Nightingale quickly opened the backpack, and it was empty, except for an electromagnetic wave sensor.She looked at the slightly surprised Helo solemnly, her face was a little ugly: "I have reason to believe that someone else entered Sayero's spaceship with us last night, and deliberately sabotaged it to prevent us from getting important information. the hull."

The "eye" in the gap flashed in front of his eyes, and Herlo twisted the meteorite ring on his ring finger, and his uneasiness was just like the small ball spinning rapidly in his heart.The scene of last night lingered in his mind, he let go of his hand, and connected the mechanical watch to the charger.

Is that really... a human?

"You're right. And that 'person' probably arrived earlier than us. That camera was placed there deliberately, and it captured my image—just a few minutes before I entered Sayero's spaceship .”

This incident was so unbelievable that when Herlo heard the voice of his own words, his hairs stood on end as if attracted by static electricity, and he felt a chill.

"What do you want to say? Then Sayero came here before?" Nightingale pursed her lips, her eyes were as strange as seeing a ghost.

He shook his head.

If it was a person...it could never be Sayero.

"If he's there, why doesn't he come out to see me?" he thought to himself, dismissing the absurd possibility.

"The only thing that is certain is that there are other things on this planet besides us." Nightingale fiddled with her sharp nails, and the mechanical arm made a restless sound of operation.

Helo knew that she might have an itchy hand, and wanted to take the opportunity to make some money.If you catch a live alien creature and auction it on the black market, you can get a fortune of considerable value.Bai Ying suffers from a genetic disease, and is approaching the age of onset, and will be in a wheelchair in a few years. By that time, the miserable situation of the siblings need not be explained.

Although this kind of private hunting is in danger of being punished or expelled, Bai Ying is very likable, and always depends on him like an older brother, making him unconsciously want to protect this boy like Sayero treated himself back then .

"I don't object to your hunting." He stretched out a hand and buckled the laser gun on her waist, raised his eyelids and glanced at the white eagle outside, his naturally stern eyes flashed with a warning edge, "In After finding Sayero and the others."

After speaking, the silver-haired young man softened his gaze a little: "I know the situation of Bai Ying, so you shouldn't take any risks."

"Hey. Thank you for yesterday's incident, Helo. I don't like to owe others things, so I will do as much as I can about Sayero. Trust me, the thing that fell in the warship can help You will find him sooner." The female killer uncharacteristically did not use her usual mechanized tone, and there was a rare touch of humanity in her tone.

Helo chewed out a hint of tension from her words, and her sensitive nerves twitched slightly.

"Only one section of the flight log has been preserved, and the rest have been artificially deleted. I think that was intentional by Sayero. That video--is specially reserved for you."

As she spoke, she pointed to the table in the meeting room, and when Lone Wolf passed by, she nodded to him as a greeting, and the two walked out.

Hero walked into the door of the conference cabin, and saw his watch-type memory on the table next to him-they had already seen the logbook video.Looking past all the team members sitting in the conference cabin, his eyes focused on the huge holographic projector screen in the center of the conference cabin, he quickly pulled up a chair and sat down, grabbed the remote control before he could sit still, and pressed the button player.

The screen flickered a few times, and images of another time and space approached layer by layer from a distance, casting a real space like building Tetris, enveloping them.

In a trance, it was like a dream merged into reality. When the person flickered and appeared one step away from him, Helo unconsciously clasped his knees, resisting not to stand up immediately, to embrace the illusory shadow.

Even though he knew it was just a video, he still had the urge to do so.

"December 25, 55, [-]:[-] p.m. Earth time."

"Today is...the No.16 sidereal day to reach this planet..."

Sayero's mental state looks really bad, he is still so handsome, he is looking at the camera quietly, the knife-like silhouette is clearly engraved into the human body in the light spots of pixels that gather and disperse within the retina.

His skin was as white as lifeless, his eyelids were dark, and his smoky gray eyes were like deep valleys, like a terminal cancer patient.But contrary to that, he tidied himself up again, wearing a mercenary's black uniform and carrying a pulse laser gun on his back, as if he was deliberately waiting for a battle.

Helo's heart was stabbed severely.

After a few minutes, Sayero in the image stood up from the chair.It seemed that his body was not strong enough to support his own weight, and he stood up behind the table with difficulty, and loosened the armor belt on his uniform.

Regardless of the presence of others, Hero also stood up quickly, brought down the chair behind him, and walked erratically like a blind man to the person who didn't actually exist here.

"Sorry... I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to hold on for a few more days."

The distance between them was very close. The man lowered his head as if he was looking at the boy who was only up to his shoulders six years ago. The dim light flowed under the drooping eyelashes, allowing Herlo to distinguish the familiar tenderness in those eyes.

"Hey my bunny. Are you okay?"

Helo grasped the remote control tightly to suppress the trembling of his fingers, and held the opponent's hand in fantasy.

Sayero bent down slightly, and took out a small glass vessel from under the table, which actually contained a silver flying fish, its whole body exuding a bright light.

——'Silver Wing Wanderer', the dead four-dimensional creature they had captured on the beach together.He once begged Sayero to catch another one for him, but such a four-dimensional creature never appeared in the sight of human beings after the last meteorite rain landed eight years ago.

"Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, experience eternity in an hour...Happy birthday, my Helo."

The man looked at him the same way as before.

After these words, the image instantly turned into pitch black.

All the energy in his body seemed to be sucked away by a water pump in an instant, and the young man who was frozen there like a statue suddenly stepped back, fell to the ground, buried his head between his knees, tried hard to make the tears flow back, biting After taking a few deep breaths with clenched teeth, he tasted a sweet and cruel bloody smell that melted from the tip of his tongue.The depression that he had already buried seemed to be spreading from his body like a poison.

"Do you like it, little guy?" The man in memory rubbed his head fondly, "Let it sleep with you every day, so you don't have to be afraid of the dark night."

"But I still want to sleep with you...brother."

"You've grown up, Helo, you have to get used to being alone. I can't... pamper you like this anymore."

The depressive and hoarse voice mixed with the smell of tobacco lingers in the ears and nose, which has not dissipated for many years.

Supporting his trembling body, he took out the small medicine bottle that he hadn't touched for a long time from his pocket, pried open the metal bottle cap with one finger "click", and poured out two octagonal antidepressant pills. The pill, before Ando rushed over to stop him, swallowed it.

I can never get used to it...

Can't get used to a person, can't get used to losing you.

Why are you making me watch this, Sayero?

He gritted his teeth and tortured silently in his mind.Are you leaving a last word?Could it be that after millions of light-years away, all you want to say to me is "Happy Birthday"?

And what I have never said to you, what I want to tell you is—you are the whole meaning of my life.

Sayero... He hugged his arm, his fingers clenched into the flesh, and his knuckles rattled.

Thousands of miles away, Sayero's fingers twitched unconsciously.

He felt that his consciousness scattered and drifted among the intertwined cables and on the cold and hard metal wall, as if being summoned by something, gathered back into the cold body soaked in the liquid one by one, driving him from Break through the boundless and chaotic darkness.

He stretched out his hand curled up like a baby slowly and with difficulty, and the palm touched a layer of thick, tough and sticky shackles that wrapped him up. His heart, which had been silent for a long time, beat weakly.

pounding...

pounding...

"strangeness."

Feeling a burst of rapid heartbeat for no reason, Herlo covered his heart, took a deep breath, and his legs, half kneeling on the ground, felt a little numb.

"Are you all right, Chief Hero?" Langdon, the logistician in charge of medical care, asked with concern.

"Damn, I warned you not to take this again! The side effects are serious!" Ando snatched the medicine bottle angrily, and found that it was empty.This guy had a depression attack after Sayero left. He once suffered from serious drug addiction and self-harm tendency. He would take a needle or cut himself at every turn. Under his treatment, he finally recovered, and now he has a relapse. Three years of hard work may come to naught.

"I'm fine, don't meddle in my own business." Beneath a few strands of silver-white hair, the young man's red eyes slightly raised, and he glanced coldly at the so-called "guardian".

When Ando stretched out his hand to pull him up, he stood up expressionlessly, came to the computer console, and began to try to hack into the internal control system of Sayero's spacecraft to repair the voyage log video.

He Luo was sure that there must be some terrible secret hidden in those deleted voyage log videos.

The author has something to say:

Note: "Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and experience eternity in an hour" comes from the poet Blake's "Innocent Prophecy".

Why did my brother say this to him? It is a metaphor. XD The entanglement and relationship between the two brothers is not as simple as adoption on the surface. All the seeds of cause and effect were planted more than ten years ago, and will be revealed step by step.