Dawn Sleep

"Whether it's to investigate the cause of His Royal Highness's death, or take the initiative to contract chronic crystal disorder, join the army, fight against the crystal sect, and even discover the truth about crystal particles...every step so far has been chosen by him, his life."

"We have tried our best to fulfill our promise to Kaios. No one wants to use the commander, Lin Ge, but you can't get out."

There was a continuous electronic sound coming from the opposite side of the communication.Suddenly, there was some light on the other side of the sky.

Lin Ge raised his face to see the light leaking from the shade of leaves above his head, squinted his eyes: "Really, maybe."

The flickering twilight of dawn rose from the east and fell on the petals of the golden rose, illuminating a few drops of condensed dew.

For example, the dew in the morning has a lot of bitterness in the past day.The empress suddenly remembered this ancient poem.

Aslan has taught her a lot, but she has too little patience, and there is nothing that can really enter her mind. On the contrary, she occasionally thinks of some things over the years.

Lin Ge stretched out a finger, wiped away the few drops of dew, and said in a low voice, "But there's nothing wrong with maintaining the status quo, 'Jiang Jianming' is living a good life, why should he have an extra unfortunate ex-wife? born?"

She whispered dreamily: "In his previous life... what did he have?"

"Is it those unattainable ideals, or the chronic chaos of more than ten years? Is it the love of marriage with others, or the glorious but false name of 'Aslan'?"

Sylph: "That's not the previous life. The Commander-in-Chief hasn't died yet, and you have no right to deny the Commander-in-Chief's past. You've always been like this, and you made him angry so often."

Lin Ge shook his head: "Sylph, don't forget that you once said that if the current Mingming is dead, then the mental load caused by the death of the base body has a probability of nearly half of the sudden death of his original consciousness."

"Even if he survives by luck, with the physical condition of Aslan's original body before he fell asleep, it is absolutely impossible for him to undergo a second projection. Since he will never wake up, what is the difference from death?"

The other side stopped talking.Lin Ge didn't look at Silph's projection, anyway, it was packed tightly from beginning to end, and nothing could be seen.

But she heard a very light metal clash, the sound of those black armors when the leader clenched his fingers.

So Lin Ge thought that Sylph was about to say something, but she still didn't... She would rather hear a rebuttal than such a dead silence.

A noise came, interrupting the stalemate.The leader on the other side of the communication turned his head, and it seemed that someone from the base was knocking on the door of Sylph's room hastily.

Lin Ge sat up straight: "What's wrong?"

Sylph: "Someone is looking for me. Let's talk about this next time."

The hand in black armor turned off the communication.

The black-clothed leader in the depths of the base turned around and stood up—she had congratulated her attire countless times over the years.The black mask and electronically synthesized voice save her from wasting time adjusting the fluctuations in her expression, and she can go straight to work.

The door opened, and there was a young girl in a study uniform standing outside. She had short silver-white hair and misty blue eyes, and shrank timidly beside her: "Chief..."

"Diana?"

Sylph backed away, "Do you need to come in and talk?"

Diana shook her head like a rattle: "No, no need. I came to you... to talk about my brother."

The situation of Audrey Lance is not optimistic.

This is nonsense. In terms of the state when Audrey was rushed in, it was a blessing to be able to successfully freeze and hibernate.But her body is almost impossible to heal, which is why she is in the base instead of a medical research institute.

Diana pinned her hope of "rescuing" Audrey on the spiritual consciousness projection technology under development.

She hopes to be able to project on Audrey. In the future, as long as the technology is fully mature, both personality and memory can be restored to their original state, and the projected base will also be Audrey herself.

however--

The leader shook his head: "As I said, the Matrix Project is only open to soldiers who will cooperate with the White Bird Expedition in the future."

"I understand your feelings, but now resources are scarce, we can't supply matrix for irrelevant personnel, I'm sorry."

"..."

Diana bit her lower lip hard, her eyes flushed.

In the past, as the young lady of the great nobles of the empire, she was favored by Audrey, and she was always in good condition.If she wanted the moon, someone else would send the stars along.

But that is all in the past.

"Since this is the case, why hasn't the No. 001 substrate participated in the overall plan? I don't know who he is now, and I haven't seen his original body..."

She glared at the leader like a cornered rabbit, but her thin voice lacked momentum.

The leader turned around: "I have no obligation to answer. If you have no other questions, please go back to work."

Diana panicked: "Wait, please wait!"

"I still have something to do... this time it's work!"

"This," she frantically called up an electronic document from the base personnel's dedicated wrist phone, "This is me... I wrote it..."

"Your research results? Or a proposal?"

Sylph reached out and asked for Diana's wrist phone directly.She didn't think the document was too long, so she stood straight at the door and read it.

Diana lowered her head nervously, only daring to stare at the leader's feet.This is her painstaking effort after so many sleepless nights, and it is a vision and suggestion for the current research progress... Although in fact, there are many places that are not yet fully grasped.

"Boss, I can," she closed her eyes, and said in a voice like a mosquito, feeling like courage squeezed out of her internal organs, "I can... do more things for the base..."

"So brother, please think again, even if the situation improves, please..."

The leader watched this for half an hour, and Diana's legs were sore from standing.

Finally, the document was closed with a flash, and the specially made pitch-black mask was lifted up and turned in her direction.

Under the leader's mask, the emotionless electronic voice sounded again.What he said was: "It seems that I made a mistake in judging your talent earlier."

Diana's heart skipped a beat, and all the blood on her face disappeared.

"Boss! I, I can still correct—"

"I mean."

Sylph stuffed the wrist phone back into her arms, "I regret not taking you into the base to work a few years earlier—come with me."

Diana was stunned for a few seconds, only to feel a huge stone falling from her chest, and her limbs collapsed for a while.The leader had already turned and walked away, and she hurried to follow.

……

In fact, the interior of the Black Shark Base is not as mysterious and strange as outsiders imagined, and the members are not all scientific perverts holding test tubes and laughing "hehe".

After all, it is a formal scientific research base of the empire. The corridors are bright and clean, and there are blue-green guide lights everywhere on the ground. Through the windows on the upper ground floor, you can also see the beautiful clouds of Omega Aliens.

It's just full of all kinds of automatic doors, smart machines and identity verification procedures, so it's easy to get dizzy while walking.

Under the guidance of Silve, Diana Lance once again came to the top-secret laboratory where the substrates were placed.

After many days, her mentality has changed.

First, he turned on the ceiling light in the laboratory, then bent down, rummaged through a locker for a while, and took out a paper document in a transparent sealed bag.

Diana sharply saw the words "voluntary" and "commitment", as well as the signature and fingerprints at the bottom of the document.

The leader walked to a gray-white airtight chamber and tapped it with a black fingernail: "This is our No. 002, and the base body is the former young master Nagasawa who is now following the two His Royal Highnesses in the far interstellar space."

Diana froze there, not knowing what to say.

In the end, she still chose to raise her right hand, and gave a wordless military salute to the cang body.

"Experimentation on living people is a taboo that has crossed the bottom line of ethics, but it should be done urgently."

The leader took the paper document on the top plane of the warehouse, "Diana, I agree with your thinking. From today onwards, you will have higher authority. You will be responsible for the various experiments on No. 002. I allow you to Under the premise of not endangering his life, adjust the data within a certain range."

Diana stared straight at the signature and red print of fingerprints, and suddenly, she took two steps forward: "I, can I sign this too?"

Leader: "What?"

Diana licked her dry lips, her eyes flashed stubbornly: "This is the letter of commitment for No. 002 to voluntarily participate in the experiment, right? Sign this, and I can use myself to conduct experiments when necessary, And request the assistance of other members of the base?"

"..."

The leader remained silent towards her, and Diana felt as if there were sharp eyes staring at her under the black mask.

Beads of sweat appeared on the tip of her nose, she pinched her fingers, and replied in a mysterious manner: "It's a matter of urgent matters!"

The leader sighed.

She said, "Yes, come to my office tonight and sign."

A smile spread across Diana's face.She nodded like a chick pecking at rice, as if she was afraid that the leader would go back on his word.

"I'll give you another mission. Tomorrow, you will visit someone at the third fortress of Yinbeidou."

The leader said: "He is the general person in charge of the research and development of the imperial military mechas, and he also directly leads the research on the mind manipulation technology of mechas. This overlaps with your field. If you talk more, maybe you can get some inspiration from each other."

Going to visit strangers alone.

Diana's body tensed up. This was something that was impossible for her before. Just thinking about it made her cry with fear.

She pinched her palm with her nails, gritted her teeth and said, "Okay...Okay!"

When the two went out from the laboratory, it was just as the sun was setting on the Omega Alien Star.

Sunlight came in through the polymer glass window in the corridor, and Diana's cheeks were warmed red. She couldn't help asking the leader: "Excuse me... what kind of person is the chief executive I want to see?" ?”

The leader looked back at her and thought for a while before answering.

"He is one of the best mecha masters of this era. He is knowledgeable and an excellent soldier."

"But unlike most Yin Beidou, what he really likes is the lazy and ordinary life, not the gunpowder battlefield. This guy has submitted thirteen applications for retirement to the military department. Angry and funny. Ultimately, the Empire granted his application 22 years ago."

Diana was surprised: "He retired?"

"Yes. Before I left that year, I once..." The leader leaned against the edge of the base corridor, clasping his hands on the window sill.

The glow in the distance reflected colorful halos on her pitch-black mask, and she whispered, "Entrust him with a child."

Diana stood behind the leader, half understanding.

"He didn't ask much, and happily agreed. I still remember the man clumsily and carefully holding the baby. If he hadn't received an emergency recall order from the empire...he would be happy to be a stranger forever retired military officer."

"Receiving an ordinary subsidy, occasionally repairing mechas for others, and doing some business, just live in Zisi in the second galaxy, and accompany that child to grow up."

Purple silk, a nerve seemed to jump in Diana's brain.

She remembered that this was... the Star City where Jiang Jianming was born.

"What's this man's name?" she asked.

"Jiang Sheng." The leader replied.

Diana gasped: "The surname is Jiang..."

The leader raised his index finger and made a "shh" gesture to her.

"Now, he is in charge of the most top-secret plan of the empire, and he can only stay in the third fortress, unable to return home."

"He chattered and babbled, nine out of ten sentences were bragging about his child, and the remaining one was hoping that the war would be won quickly so that he could go home and help his son marry a wife—"

Speaking of this, Sylph seemed to smile a bit: "Few people can stand him, but you can. You will have something in common."

……

After Diana left, the leader still stood alone in the distance.

Maybe everything is preordained, Sylph suddenly thought.

If it wasn't for an outstanding person like Jiang Sheng, how could she trust him to entrust the commander's matrix back then.

But since he is such a person, when the empire and mankind are in danger, even though he is struggling in every possible way, how can he refuse to answer the call?

And Jiang Jianming, who was brought up by people like Jiang Sheng, is like a skilled craftsman in a rough jade, destined to bloom with talents that are not inferior to those in his previous life.

After his adoptive father left, how could he be willing to die in the Star City behind as a "weak and disabled human being"?

Because he is Jiang Jianming, he will inevitably come to the imperial capital Aslan, and will definitely meet the young prince with emerald eyes.

When they meet, they must fall in love.

So now, the two of them are side by side in the sea of ​​stars.

Maybe I didn't do anything wrong, at least not as much as I thought.

As Silf thought about it, the sound of rumbling wind came from a distance.There was some relief in her heart, those clouds were blown away by the wind.

She thought of the day when Ryan brought Jiang Jianming to the base to witness her marriage.

At that time, the leader was already gray-haired, but he was still struck by five thunders, with a sense of despair and powerlessness overwhelming him.

At the beginning, she promised His Majesty Kaios that she would lead a complete life in the bright new empire.

But His Majesty himself has devoted himself to the White Bird Project, and this substrate will inevitably go to the battlefield in the future.

At that time, Sylph looked at the teenagers who didn't know suffering, and saw the end of life and death with just one glance.

All the strength she had built over the years collapsed, she lost her mind, and finally "smuggled" the crown prince into the base laboratory late at night, taking the risk of forcibly calling back the emperor's original consciousness.

She crazily grabbed the young His Majesty's collar and shook it, saying, My Majesty, why did you abduct the commander again? !

And when the young Chujun woke up with the memory of the original body, his face was also pale, and his fingers were pressing on his temples, with an expression of pain.

——It seems to be saying: Yes, why did I kidnap the commander-in-chief again! ?

Looking back now, Sylph just finds it funny.

There is no one around.

She took off her pitch-black mask and laughed alone.

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The author has something to say:

Father Jiang: Hey, if you win the war, you can go home and help your son marry a wife.

Jiang: Thank you. When the war is won, all the loves of the three generations will be together.