nebula story

"No, I'm fine over there." Chesu justified in a low voice, and his mind was distracted for a moment.The vague past events flashed like auspicious feathers in front of my eyes.Yes, although there are hardships in life and sudden injuries, what I recall and remember are all warmth and happiness.

Staring blankly at his gentle expression, the old man of the Lin family suddenly burst into tears.Pulling Chesu into his arms, he let out a mournful voice: "My little grandson!...You stupid child, why don't you know a little bit of resentment and anger! You were sent to that uncle by your own grandfather since you were a child. Going to serve people in a civilized barbaric place, grew up and was murdered by those bastard royals, finally returned home, and still... still..."

Unable to speak any more, the old man remembered the things his daughter told him in tears, and his heart ached unstoppably, and he was out of breath from crying.

Standing quietly behind a clump of bushes not far away, Mrs. Lin listened to the crying of her old father, and grabbed a branch beside her, tears dripping from her eyes in strings.

I don't know how long I cried, but the old man only felt his ears buzzing and his chest was very uncomfortable.At this moment, a very low voice finally came from the ear.

"Grandpa..."

Raising his head tremblingly, Mr. Lin looked at the blurred figure in front of him through his teary eyes.

The boy in front of him was already tear-stained like him.Choking, Chesu pressed his soft forehead against the old man's forehead, a little stiff and trembling.

"Grandpa...Grandpa, don't cry." His dark eyes were soaked with tears, and the corners of his lips were almost bitten with blood, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have made you all... so sad."

Unable to be stopped by his cry, old master Lin suddenly burst into tears, and hugged Chesu tightly, as if grasping the most precious treasure that was lost and found again.

Covering her mouth, Mrs. Lin tightly suppressed the choking in her throat.But it was so difficult, even with the greatest strength, there was still a little bit of weeping leaked out, floating in the lush and quiet flower garden.

Turning his head slowly, Chesu's gaze, who was embracing Mr. Lin, caught a patch of light-colored clothes behind a bush not far away.Getting up slowly, he walked over with difficulty.

Looking up at her slender, handsome and gentle son, Mrs. Lin suddenly found that Chesu, who was almost 20 years old, had the childishness and greenness of a teenager in his eyebrows, but his stature had already grown up.

She missed Chesu's babbling, and missed his adolescence and adolescence. Now that mother and son recognize each other, this suffering child has quietly grown up.

Gently raising his hand, Chesu wiped away the messy tears on Mrs. Lin's face with his soft palm, trembling slightly, he stretched out his arm and embraced his rapidly thinning mother in his arms.

"Mom...Mom." He cried repeatedly with tears in his eyes, as if he wanted to make up for the weight of these days, no, the weight of the past 20 years, "I'm sorry, Mom..."

Fisher's Star, the sky forever clouded with lead.

Occupying the entire Anta Plain, the Imperial Army moved forward step by step with difficulty but resolutely, and moved the temporary wartime command post to the edge of the plain at the forefront, facing the Wenyier Heights that the Federal Army was defending.

Heavy troops approached the city, staring at the federal army. Even the federal sergeant, who was the least familiar with marching troops, could feel the heavy pressure from the increasing number of imperial reinforcements.

His Royal Highness, the crown prince of the empire, did not get any results he hoped to see after publicly publishing the declaration on the federal network.Not only did the Federation still deny the existence of Chesu, but its blind silence also blocked the possibility of a truce.The imperial prince, who was completely ignored, did not try to do any useless actions, but silently began to mobilize all available troops.

——It’s just that this silence is full of anger and madness. No one else knows except for the Royal Guard Chief Wood and his brother Lance next to His Royal Highness Fern.

Standing on the highly detailed satellite topographic map, staring at more and more signs of the underground bases of the Imperial Army, General Xie Zhan was expressionless.

With the help of holographic infrared scanning, the bases of the imperial army are not a secret, but if you want to destroy the solid fortress deep in the ground, you must use too much firepower.

Unless there is a powerful air force to cooperate with the ground attack, the imperial army will gather more and more, vaguely posing the momentum of a desperate battle, and they can only watch helplessly.

"General, at four o'clock this afternoon, the reorganized elite flight battalion will secretly fly to the front line with the first batch of rush-made new federal mechs." The radiant federal general staff stood beside him, reporting the latest military situation.

Several major generals were sitting around, and someone finally couldn't help raising their eyebrows and sneering, "If the imperial people want a decisive battle, then let's fight!"

"Yes, it's a good time to try the latest air power of our Federation!" Someone immediately echoed angrily.

On the unobstructed battlefield of Fisher Star, fighting on the plains is inevitable, and the disadvantage of the air mechs' serious backwardness has continued. Coupled with the inability to guarantee logistics, all the frontline soldiers are suffocating in their hearts.

This breath has been suppressed for more than a year.So much so that after hearing that the Federal Air Combat Mecha had finally made a major design breakthrough, everyone's heart was ignited.

"Pay attention to Colonel Nan Zhuo's whereabouts. Before the first appearance, I never want the people of the empire to know a little bit about our new mecha in advance." General Xie Zhan ordered calmly, "There is no such thing as new cards The most important moment cannot be revealed."

"Understood!" The chief of staff's eyes lit up.

At this moment, a sudden top-secret information prompt flashed in the lower corner of everyone's screen. Everyone watched with bated breath as General Xie Zhan was the first to turn on the authorization device on his wrist, and started reading first.

Staring at the single-angle visual screen in front of him, their frontline commander, General Xie Zhan, looked a little weird.After a while, he lifted the top-secret authority and let the information appear on the light curtain in front of everyone.

"It seems that the decisive battle cannot be fought." He said lightly, nodding his head as a signal.

A simple line of text appeared in front of everyone: "The Emperor of the Empire is seriously ill and rumors are that he is dying. The crown prince Fern has been secretly ordered to return immediately and see you in Lensell."

This information, so fast!

Such amazement welled up in the hearts of all the top generals almost at the same time.Xie Zhan remained expressionless, but his heart was full of emotion.Ordinarily, it is not easy to find out the secrets of the imperial family, but it is not easy to find out the secret order of the crown prince's return journey.

That man has been dormant in the empire for nearly 20 years, and the intelligence network he has deployed is indeed so powerful. Even if he himself has returned to Gotha Star, the network left behind him is still tight and undisturbed.

Tapping the cold table with his fingers, General Xie Zhan stared slightly.He was a little lost in thought as he looked in the direction of the blue-black skyline of the Empire's interstellar line.

"Since the crown prince of the empire is about to return, and he has no time to take care of him, then..." he said word by word, "we might as well press on with all our strength and send him a ride."

That night, the Imperial Space Fleet, which secretly set off to return to the planet Lensell, encountered a completely unexpected sniper attack.The federal army, which had been unable to hold out and was on the defensive, brazenly launched its first main offensive in several months.

Hundreds of small warships drifted silently near the transition point from the empire to the planet Lencel. When the first imperial warship appeared, dense firepower poured out, and a medium-sized encounter battle started without warning.Not being thrown into disarray by this sniper attack, the imperial army launched a counterattack in an instant, and the two huge forces clashed silently in space.

To General Xie Zhan's regret, the imperial crown prince seemed to have anticipated such a possibility, and his thoughts appeared extremely clear and calm.Only a small part of the troops were left to fight, and Fern’s ship quickly retreated to the interstellar transition point under heavy protection. As revealed in the federal intelligence, the emperor’s condition in the Empire’s Lencel Palace, Really can't wait too much.

The huge cosmic fleet has just stopped at the airport of the planet Rencel, and there is already a whole fleet of royal military vehicles waiting solemnly at the port.When the tall figure of His Royal Highness Fern appeared in front of everyone, many people couldn't help but feel hot.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who has personally fought on the front line for more than a year, has no fatigue or tiredness on his resolute and handsome face, only more stern and aggressive than a year ago.

Stepping into the special car quickly, he closed his eyes without saying a word.The head of the guard, Wood, ordered softly: "Drive at full speed and go to the palace."

……

In the quiet Imperial Palace, there was no such thing as the vibrant atmosphere of the past, only a melancholy cloud remained.Although His Majesty's condition has always been kept a high degree of secrecy, after a long time, the servants and guards who served closely have gradually guessed the clue from the heavy faces of the medical officers.

And this kind of worry and anxiety accumulated to the peak at the moment when His Royal Highness Fern's figure appeared. ——The battle on the front line has been tense, what could make His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Fern fly back to the palace in spite of everything? !

"Brother!" Quickly came up, Lance, who had been guarding His Majesty's bedroom, saw Fern at a glance, and there were tears in his red eyes. The bedroom signaled.

"Your Highness, His Majesty the Emperor is waiting for you inside." The chief royal medical officer in white robe bowed to Fern with a sad face, and added in a low voice, "I have to use the refreshing potion."

With his face sinking like water, Fern flew to his father's sickbed.Not long after the start of the war, his father fell ill. After careful examination, the royal medical officers had no choice but to secretly inform the royal family of the worst result: a malignant tumor of the pancreas.

Although there was a successful lesion resection, the disease did not seem to let go of this kind and gentle emperor.However, more than five months later, his condition deteriorated again, and His Majesty the Emperor has been lying on the hospital bed, lingering until now.

And just a few days ago, the rapidly deteriorating condition finally made the best doctor in the empire helpless, and sadly began to hint at some obvious information.His Majesty the Emperor has always asked not to hide his illness from him. When this moment came, he seemed calm and serene.

While waiting for Fern who rushed back from the front line, His Majesty Cromwell summoned Lance and his second son, who was also in poor health, and had a long talk in the bedroom.No one knew what His Majesty the Emperor had explained. The ministers and relatives of the royal family who were waiting outside in grief could only see the tears in the eyes of the two Highnesses when they came out.

The curtains in the bedroom were lowered, as Fern had been familiar with for many years. Even at the last moment of his life, His Majesty's bedroom was still simple and cold.

Kneeling on one knee in front of the hospital bed, Fern suppressed the grief in his heart, stared at his father's gloomy face, and called softly: "Father, it's me... I'm back."

Slowly opening his eyes, a sincere smile appeared on the face of His Majesty, who was extremely emaciated from the pain.Looking at the tall and healthy Prince Fern, there was a gleam of brilliance in his eyes, and there was also some unusually excited reddishness on his cheeks.The powerful injection that had to be used began to work. Looking at the ominous color, Fern felt a burst of fear and grief in his heart.

"Fern, you are back." Repeating his son's words, he smiled, "You have worked hard this year."

"Father, don't say such things." Fern whispered, "Fighting for the empire is the duty of every son of the Cromwell royal family."

Staring at Fern, His Majesty Cromwell, the monarch of this generation, shook his head slightly, his expression a little wandering.

"Fern..." he said softly, "War is not anyone's duty."

Looking at his father in amazement, Fern didn't understand for a moment.

"I know this is difficult for you and Lance to understand." His Majesty the Emperor kindly looked at the outstanding eldest son who made him proud all the time, "The conclusion I have been thinking about for so long in the hospital bed may not be Accepted by you... But I still want to tell you that even if you are a royal family, you are born with different responsibilities than ordinary people, so don't really take protecting certain things too seriously."

"But father..." Frowning at his father, Fern firmly disagreed with his stern brows, "I think there are some things that are worth paying blood and life to protect."

"Like what?"

"For example, the glory of the royal family, the dignity of the Cromwell surname, the survival of the entire empire, and the safety of the people we want to protect. Isn't it?" Fern said firmly.

Listening to his words quietly, His Majesty's face was a little relieved.

"Fern, I'm very glad...to hear your last sentence." His voice was slightly panting, "In my opinion, what you said earlier are all vain things, and when necessary, they... ...you can give it up, you can let it go with a smile."

Smiling wistfully, he looked at the snow-white ceiling above his head. There were no complicated carvings or exquisite lighting decorations on it, but there seemed to be some vague pictures emerging.

"When you reach my age and have time to think about many things in the hospital bed, you may realize... that the most important thing is for everyone to live well."

Listening silently, Fern finally nodded respectfully, and said softly: "I understand, father. I understand your kindness and compassion... I swear, I will do my best to treat the people kindly and try my best to end the war as soon as possible .”

"Yes, the prisoner exchange agreement that you voluntarily issued a while ago is well done." His Majesty the Emperor said softly.

Fern's face was a little gloomy: "But the federal people didn't grab the olive branch I threw away." Finally he couldn't bear the anger and gloom anymore, he gritted his teeth, "They don't even want to hand over a small low-level prisoner of war. !"