[Rebirth] Alien Royalty

Chapter 57

"Because if you can choose the future you want to go to independently, this space-time machine needs more improvements," Austin said with a helpless smile, "After all, it has been compressed into such a small thing, and its functions are limited."

"Ten years ago, you didn't know how to use the space-time element. It's impossible for you to invent this space-time machine in the five years since then?" Arnold asked.

Austin laughed: "Of course it's impossible! This thing was given to me by others... I can talk about these things afterward, Hein, I still want to know more about you!"

"So many things have happened in ten years, I can't tell you everything one by one."

Austin looked at Arnold with a bitter smile on his lips.

"Ten years...you have changed, Hein."

"Of course, father," Arnold narrowed his eyes, "ten years is enough to change a person."

"...will you resent me?"

"Hate what?"

"Resent me for forcing you into the escape pod regardless of your wishes," Austin looked at him and said softly, "If I hadn't done this, maybe we could still..."

"Maybe with my burden, we will die together on that day ten years ago," Arnold interrupted him and looked away, "You sent me away for me."

"..." Austin's eyes were slightly red, "But after I sent you away, I regretted it. I sent you to a completely unknown and unpredictable future. If I had kept you by my side, I will fight to the death to protect you."

Arnold lowered his gaze and said, "Anyway, I survived, so isn't that all right?"

Austin remained silent and did not answer.

Arnold raised his eyes to look at him, and Austin quickly showed a smile, but it seemed to be forced.

"Well, yes, you survived."

The atmosphere was a little dull for a while.

"I came to you this time because of the space-time element." Arnold said simply.

"Ah, that's right, I once promised you, but now that you are 25 years old, that thing already belongs to you." Austin fumbled from his back pocket and took out a small metal tube.

The metal tube is pure silver, and it is completely impossible to see what it looks like inside.

Austin handed this small thing to Arnold and said with a smile, "Come on, take it, it belongs to you."

Arnold's pupils narrowed slightly, and he quickly stretched out his hand, but stopped just before touching the real object.

He raised his eyes and met Austin's gentle gaze.

There was still some emotion in that gaze, and Arnold felt it.

He put down his hand and said, "Why don't you ask me what I'm going to do after I take this thing?"

Austin was stunned, and said: "I told you once that the space-time element can create miracles, and you must want to obtain it for a certain miracle."

"What about you?" Arnold asked back, "I came to see you just to take this thing, won't you be angry?"

"Angry?" Austin froze for a moment, shook his head with a smile, and said softly, "I haven't fulfilled my father's responsibility, even if you don't regard me as a father anymore, I have no position to be angry... Give this thing to You are our promise, and I'm glad I still have the day to make it happen."

"..." Arnold's eyes fell on the shy smile on the man's mouth, and he closed his eyes, "Really, then you can leave this place with peace of mind, right?"

Austin looked at Arnold, apparently in a daze for a while, then said after recovering, "No...I don't think I...will leave here..."

A trace of surprise flashed across his eyes, and in turn, Arnold's eyes settled down.

Austin scratched his hair, lowered his head, and said with a smile: "Time and parallel worlds are too difficult to say, maybe the world I came from is the one you didn't survive, then I will walk out of here, no Is it because I won’t be able to see you for the rest of my life? It’s impossible for Vera to stay by my side, after what happened on Udulla five years ago, I’m left with only you.”

"...I stay here to wait for you. If the world that belongs to me in reality is a world where you don't exist, then I don't want to go back."

"...Do you know that this is impossible?" Arnold said lightly, "You are the only Austin in this space-time gap, that is to say, in so many parallel worlds, you are the only one who has successfully arrived here with the space-time machine. And I met you with another 'key'. You and I come from the same world."

"..."

Arnold's dark green eyes flickered: "You know I'm not Hein?"

"..." Austin froze.

"How did you find out?" Arnold said slowly, "I don't think there is much difference in appearance between me and Hein, and we haven't seen each other for ten years. Both appearance and personality may change, isn't it? ?"

"No, no, no...stop..." The smile on Austin's face disappeared, and he suddenly squatted down and covered his head.

Arnold looked down at him.

After a while, the shoulders of the man who had been smiling just now trembled, and the metal pipe in his hand fell off.

Arnold squatted down and picked up the metal tube, held it in his hand and looked at it for a moment, then murmured, "Is it a father's intuition?"

Austin's trembling voice sounded: "...I sent him away to let Hein live, but I survived, but Hein didn't...This kind of thing must never happen!"

Arnold didn't speak anymore, just looked at the top of the man's hair closely.

He once told Lu Xiao that if he had the chance, he would like to meet Austin in person, which is indeed true.But when he said that, he didn't think about what to say when he saw Austin.

Pretending to be Hein and pretending to be the other party's child to cheat the space-time elements is a natural development. Arnold never thought of talking to Austin as "Arnold".But now it seems that lies are no longer necessary.

So what's he going to say next?

Hein's pamphlet contains few words about his life in the escape pod.He still had a lot to say, but he didn't have the energy to write after that.

Miracles do exist in the world, but the possibility of miracles happening is one in a billion.For example, Austin met the legendary person who traveled through the vortex of time and space twice, and collected a gram of space-time elements, or a strange soul entered the body of the prince after death, and was separated from him by countless light-years, or countless Meet in the parallel world.

And because he was one in a billion, Hein didn't have that luck.

but……

"In this world, Hein did not survive. But maybe there is a parallel world where he survived?" Arnold was surprised that he was speaking such comforting words.

After a long time, Austin responded.

"...or those parallel worlds where I haven't collected space-time elements at all, then Hein and I won't be separated in that way," Austin raised his head, but a big man's face was full of tears, He tried to smile, but the smile was ugly, "I really regretted collecting such things at the beginning... After all, there is no need to get my own child for such a 'miracle', right?"

Austin looked at the metal can in Arnold's hand with complicated eyes: "But without it in this world, it would be impossible for me and you to meet."

Arnold was taken aback.He didn't expect to hear such words.

Austin stretched out his hand and tried to caress Arnold's cheek: "Although I feel that you are not Hein...you are completely different from him, but you do have Hein's appearance and Hein's appearance. memory."

"I--"

"I don't want to know how you were born," Austin interrupted Arnold, whispering, "I don't want to know what was done to my child."

"..."

"But I thank you."

Arnold's eyes widened.

Austin smiled wryly: "You're not Hein, but you brought Hein's soul to see me, didn't you?"

Arnold was speechless for a moment, Austin hung his head tiredly, and leaned his forehead on Arnold's shoulder.

After waiting in this place for five years, this is the result.The man who was hiding it with a smile just now finally let go of all the strength in his body.

For a few seconds of silence, the faint choking sound in my ear seemed to be a hallucination.

Arnold clenched the metal pipe in his hand, and said, "Are you really not going to leave?"

"No more," Austin straightened up, lowered his head and wiped away his tears in embarrassment, "If there is really a world where Hein survived, then maybe one day I will have a chance to see him here. The one outside Many people in the world are chasing me, even if I go out, I can’t live a good life, it’s better to stay here and never grow old.”

This man is really bound here as Vera said.

Arnold thought in his heart.

Has the place that was supposed to be full of infinite possibilities really become a place without any hope?

"If you really can see Hein one day, are you sure you want to give me this thing?" Arnold shook the metal tube in his hand.

"I also know that the possibility is small. Although I am looking forward to it, I don't daydream," Austin smiled. "To be honest, I have long wanted to be freed from this thing, and I can give this thing to You with Hein's appearance and memory... more or less make me feel that what I did back then is not completely meaningless. As for the people outside chasing me," Austin sighed, "they are enemies, After you get this thing in my hand, you will put me in prison, I will not do such a thankless thing! Speaking of it, you seem to need it very much, and you already have a place to go ?"

"...That's right."

"Then get out of here quickly," Austin sighed and waved his hand, "Hurry up and go to the world seven days later."

Arnold stood up, the world after seven days...

Holding the space-time element and the space-time machine in his hands, he said, "About the machine in your hand... can you tell me who gave it to you?"

"Ah... that was given to me by Wellman!"

"Wilman?" Arnold frowned slightly.He didn't remember this person, did Austin meet this after he separated from Hein?

Austin was stunned, and clapped his hands as if remembering something: "By the way, even Hein is hiding this from me! Wellman is Chad, the legendary Chad! Wellman is his His real name and the information on the Internet are all fake. The year of his death is also fabricated, at least he was not dead when I entered this space-time gap five years ago, so I don’t know what happened to you at that time.”

"This space-time machine was developed by him and some researcher friends. They seem to have established an organization. Wellman volunteered to participate in the experiment at the beginning, so it is not accidental that he entered the time-space vortex and came out of it."

"It was one of their experiments?!" Arnold was a little surprised.

"That's right, it was an organization established by some very powerful people, but according to Wilman, due to some problems in that organization, almost all the people in the organization died except him. And the miniature once developed by them There are only two sex space-time machines left. Wellman gave it to me, I used one myself, and gave Vera one."

That is, no other space-time machine of the same kind exists?

But if he and Lu Xiao want to go to Earth, maybe this version of the space-time machine can't meet their requirements.

Arnold clenched the two things in his hands and said, "I see...Thank you for telling me these things."

Austin bent one leg, looked at him with his chin in his hands, and said with a faint smile, "Are you leaving? Are you a little nervous?"

"..."

"Although you can leave here as long as you push the switch to the end, but many things can happen in seven days. Are you uneasy about the completely unknown future?"

***

in the aircraft.

Lu Xiao came to the control room.A group of people had gathered there a long time ago, and on the big holographic screen in front of them was an aircraft.The craft is drifting in the cosmic background, carrying two members of Black Hawk.

"Am I going to open the hatch?" Fitch confirmed to the people behind him.

Cecil frowned slightly.

***

"Maybe I want to stay in this space-time gap because of this," Austin sighed softly, "At my time, too many things would happen in seven days."

Arnold looked at the pendant in his hand, narrowed his eyes and said, "Many things can indeed happen in seven days...but it's only seven days after all. No matter how bad things happen, I am confident that I can recover them."

Austin showed a smile, vaguely lonely: "Well...that's true."

"Then, I'm leaving." Arnold turned to look at the man, and put his finger on the switch behind the pendant.

"It's nice to meet you, kid," Austin said.

Arnold was stunned, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth: "I'm glad to see you too—goodbye, Austin."

After a while.

In the empty space, clusters of light floated and spots of light floated.

The man sat there alone, and let out a long breath after a long time.

When most people travel through time and space, they only stay in this space-time gap for a moment, so even if he saw someone enter here, he left before he had time to say hello.He thought that the other party probably didn't realize his existence.

Unless you deliberately, there is no way to stay in this place.

The space-time machine that Wellman handed over to him also had the function of stopping him "halfway" after modification according to his request.

Can he still see the child just now?

If there is still a chance, the next time they meet, it will be a few years outside...