Mecha and God

I was very depressed during that time.I even numbed myself with alcohol, and I didn't do anything on the way back to Stormhaven.

Long Yin didn't say anything.

I finally couldn't help it, and when I was sober occasionally one day, I asked him why he didn't say anything.

Long Yin stopped the action of covering the drunk me with a military coat: "If you want to leave, you will leave, and I don't know how to stop you."

"Are you... just giving up like this?"

"Because no one has a good time in this catastrophe." Long Yin said sadly, "I can't be angry with Michael. On the contrary, I am very jealous of him. He has always been by your side. He is with you alone, with you Watch you die, accompany you to be reborn, and watch you become a completely different person, walking in a completely different age. He can draw a sword for you at all times, life and death are but a knife. And I, I am far away Far away, I don't know that you are alone, I don't know how you are today, I don't even know if you are still there. My memory will always stay on the day I left, and I have waited a long time for that day Hundreds of reincarnations. Maybe I am sitting on the world, but I have never been... happy."

"Always... Haven't been happy?" I murmured.

"I'll forget, I'll start over after every hibernation, maybe fall in love with someone, be with him."

I tried to understand this sentence, but the only thing I could do was to nod my head silly, tears streaming down my face.

"And then at some point, I started remembering the old days, like I am these days, and my mind was filled with important parts of my life that had passed. The older I got, the more I remembered. More and more, time moves forward and backward at the same time, and then one day in the future, I will remember you."

He was crying, but there was a look of happiness on his face.

"I remembered you, and I remembered that there was a boy who was waiting for me to go back [-] light years away. Then my life was suddenly disrupted, and I couldn't live happily with anyone else. I was like waking up from a big dream, and suddenly realized that all these years were just fleeting memories, and my life should be somewhere [-] light-years away."

"Why so stupid? You don't even know if I'm still here."

"But what can I do? No matter how many centuries have passed, I will never forget the way you looked into my eyes and said goodbye on the day I boarded the Morning Star Fleet of Light."

******

We made love that night.

I bit Long Yin's ear and told him, "...it's different."

He quickly understood what I was talking about, pressed my lips and made a shush, then took his hand away and rubbed it against my nose affectionately: "If I am the luckiest one, you don't have to say it."

"Why are you so humble all of a sudden?"

"Because...if I'm not the luckiest one, if... just thinking about this possibility makes me shudder. Can you imagine? Winning time, but not winning the heart of the one you love, the future is as desolate as the past. And For Michael and Lucifer, this is their fate, why should I not bow to them a little bit?"

Long Yin embraced me, and I heard the gentle words from his chest: "Because of you, I am willing to give up other things to them. Anyway, I cannot be luckier and happier."

"Don't." I remembered something and stood up, "Lucifer is going to destroy all human beings."

Long Yin dragged me into his arms again, entangled tightly: "Welcome to come back to reality, Nuo Nuo. But with your little bit of awareness, Lucifer probably succeeded long ago."

I learned from his narration that when I lost consciousness, we forcibly broke through. Instead of saying how tragic it was for us to leave our hometown, it would be better to say that Lucifer let us go.Lucifer ordered all the mechanical soldiers under him to release the attacking posture, and watched us enter the wormhole.The way those machines look at us is like looking at a group of people who have stepped into the grave.

Lucifer gave up on our pursuit and seemed intent on letting us go back to Storm Harbor.Although keenly smelling that all this is like a trap, we have to follow his script. "It's time to gather the spirit of 12 points to deal with the war on Storm Harbor."

"I will."

"But you have lost the weapon system."

"I still have the Holy Grail. If it's in a virtual world, what I rely on is often not a weapon, but authority. Having authority means you can't say what you say."

Long Yin put his hand on my shoulder, his fingers bounced, "That's too dangerous. I only hope that this time, I can protect you."

"Are you still tangling about what happened back then?"

Long Yin avoided talking: "If something happened to me one day, would you drink a lot of wine for me?"

"Didn't you just say that you know yourself the luckiest?"

"But I'm still jealous of Michael." Long Yin gouged me out, "Jealous."

I shook my head: "I won't let anything happen to you."

I thought for a while and said: "In case something happens to you, I won't drink, I will avenge you and die."

"My treatment is really good, but you must not do stupid things, I don't need it." After finishing speaking, Long Yin thought for a few seconds, "But it feels so good to hear such love words... How about it? You lied to me that you were going to die, but actually no, I don’t know if I’m dead anyway, and I’ll feel loved when I’m gone.”

"...You think a lot."

"After all I am a visionary statesman."

"roll."

******

The return journey has become extraordinarily long.On the one hand, it is because, since the outbreak of the war, we have been experiencing transitions at an extremely fast speed, and we feel very uncomfortable with the sudden truce.On the other hand, it may be because none of us want to imagine what awaits us on the other side of the wormhole.

Lucifer's lofty hand scares everyone, including me.Although he used to be my younger brother, but now I can't figure out his temper.He's so moody and surly, I can't imagine the havoc he's wreaked in Stormhaven.He was like a bad boy, he ran to hug my thigh with a smile, and said: Guess what I did?And he is no longer a weak and incompetent child, he is the overlord of the machine empire.

The day before arriving at Storm Harbor, Long Yin received a call from Marshal Gao Tang.The unimpeded flow of electromagnetic waves in high-dimensional space enables the outside world to communicate with us.Chuan Bei verified the other party's identity and connected him to the communication network.The three-dimensional image of Marshal Gao Tang immediately appeared on the bridge.Compared with when we left the imperial capital two months ago, Marshal Gao Tang was much older, his hair was completely white, his eye sockets were sunken, and his once sharp eyes looked cloudy.Although he still maintains the upright military posture of an imperial soldier, it seems that just a little blow will break this old man who has experienced many winds and rains.

"Long Yin, your fleet is rapidly approaching Storm Harbor, isn't it? You need to re-adjust your course and set the exit of the hyperspace transition to wormhole st23520."

Long Yin frowned: "If I remember correctly, it is the edge of the Sagittarius β galaxy, which was radiated to a small no-man's land by the civilization of the empire."

"Yes." Marshal Gao Tang's eyes showed deep sadness. "I suggest that you change the course immediately. As for why, you will understand after you jump out of hyperspace."

After speaking, Marshal Gao Tang cut off the communication.

His visit undoubtedly gave us greater psychological pressure.We are like a group of death row prisoners awaiting final verdict.Long Yin said to me: "I have prepared for the worst."

And I know he doesn't.

I know none of them have.

Otherwise, they wouldn't burst into tears at the starry sky the moment they jumped out of hyperspace.

What was once the capital of the empire is empty.In addition to the eternal overlooking of billions of stars, there are only drifting meteorite belts, mixed with the torn remnants of human civilization, floating aimlessly in the vacuum.

Lucifer came uninvited.

He laughed on the starship silent as a grave, "Look what I left for you?"

He walked up to me happily, as if he suddenly realized something, and let out a long sigh, "I forgot. I left nothing for you."

******

Stormhaven was completely destroyed.Once again what happened in history only in times of extreme barbarism happened before my eyes.The capital of a civilization was torn apart, and the entire planet was torn apart, not even fragments with a diameter of more than one kilometer.The human relics are immediately covered with frost in the cold and scrupled universe, reflecting the bleak starlight.

I don't know how Lucifer did it, and I don't want to know.

I'm just soberly aware that there's no compromise between us.

The vast majority of civilians died in the catastrophe. They thought that the ground was the safest, but they didn't expect that technology and procedures could destroy a planet frantically.The military prepares for a last stand, but escapes by ascending to upper space.Now, those survivors, under the leadership of Marshal Gaotang, landed on the artificial satellite "Noah".This space city, which was originally an outpost of the imperial capital, has now temporarily assumed the role of the imperial capital.It happens to be near wormhole st23520.

When we mourned for the stormy harbor that no longer existed, the ground crew on "Noah" contacted us and guided us to slowly correct the course until we finally parked at the naval port of "Noah".We once again set foot on the city of the Lacedaemonians, but there was no sense of solidity brought by the ground under our feet.

Long Yin, who has already cried for a while, looks the same as usual, but I know how depressed he is now, but he still has to pretend that nothing is wrong, walk in front of everyone, and come forward Marshal Gao Tang greeted him.

"Lucifer is right behind our ass, he will find out here soon, it's just a matter of time."

Long Yin looked out of the porthole while speaking.

In the dark space, there is Lucifer's warship slowly avoiding the rotating meteorite belt, revealing the cold edge of steel.They've spotted us, but they're not acting rashly.Judging from the display map, the mechanical empire is coming in a menacing manner, waiting to complete the final encirclement.Lucifer is right, where are we going to escape?Nothing but a siege, fleeing to another siege.

"Is there any solution?" Long Yin asked.

"Have."

"Call all the officers to the conference room." Long Yin said, turned and left.

But Marshal Gao Tang suddenly knelt down on one knee: "Because His Majesty the Emperor disappeared when the imperial capital fell, the Elector Council has voted to elect you as the new emperor."

Someone at the side had already prepared the crown and put it on Long Yin's head, and the scepter was also handed over to him.

Long Yin smiled wryly: "Now this matter is meaningless."

"Yes." Marshal Gao Tang got up and took out a letter from his arms, "Only when you become the Emperor of the Empire, will your will be obeyed irreversibly. This is the letter you gave to me when you were dormant last time." directive, I think it is time to implement it."

After finishing speaking, he looked at me: "Come here, arrest him."

******

There was still chaos on the bridge as I was shackled and taken to prison.The army that came back from the earth with us was exhausted. They did not expect to face a coup d'état as soon as they landed on "Noah". Therefore, without any power to fight back, they were controlled by the surviving conquerors of Stormport.Long Yin is also among them.He is now emperor, but it seems that he has no energy left to crown me.At the beginning of the chaos, I was taken away by the people of Marshal Gao Tang away from the bridge where a fierce battle could break out at any time.

Even after walking far away, I still heard Long Yin's hoarse roar behind him.

"He...it wasn't like this when he told me about it." Marshal Gao Tang said.

I guessed the passage from a few words: "It's not him, it's him from the previous life, right?"

Marshal Gao Tang acquiesced.

I took a deep breath. "So, what's his plan?"

"If my guess is correct, you are the Messiah, and you are also the legendary savior, thegod. If anyone can stop Lucifer, it is probably you."

I remained silent, looking at the thin piece of paper in his hand.

The old sayings over the years, with a few strokes, have been soaked into yellow by time.

What did Long Yin write on it?

I thought of him writing this letter, entrusting it to his most trusted marshal, then dying, being reborn, growing up, following the script he wrote many years ago, coming to Earth and finding me.

Then, in this moment, let me go and win the war.

Marshal Gao Tang expressed his apologies.He looked out the porthole, and Lucifer's siege was beginning to emerge. "We have opened a wormhole that leads to the heart of the mechanical empire. Will you go, Messiah?"

I was silent for a long time.

"He knew I was going."

He knew I would go.

"Then time is running out." The marshal brought me into the secret operating room, "We have prepared the best pilots for you."

At the last moment when the gate closed, I caught sight of Daedalus' expressionless face.