Dawn Sleep

Moving on is easy to say, but it is by no means easy.

Now they are trapped in the depths of the crystal nest, surrounded by a vast expanse of whiteness, they don't know where they are, and they don't know whether they are one hundred and eight thousand miles away from the mother nucleus.

Jing Zi will launch a violent attack at any time, and he is half sick and half injured.As long as the two people are not in this situation, they will only spend the remaining 15 minutes in prayer at this time.

"You can go in the general direction first."

Jiang Jianming dipped his fingertips on the blood from Leian's injury when the crystal particles pierced in just now, and sketched the orientation map concisely on the crystal.

"The equipment in the Black Shark base is equipped with a positioning system. I just asked about our current coordinates. I also remember the coordinates of the crystal nest mother core. Although there are inevitable deviations, the vague relative orientation can be calculated."

"Soon the Pangu ax will hit the crystal nest directly. If it can destroy the mother core, everything will be fine; if not, the cannon light can also guide us. After firing the cannon..."

Having said that, Jiang Jianming was suddenly taken aback.

He seemed to have thought of something suddenly, looking into Lean's eyes suddenly, his bloodless face turned even paler.

"what happened?"

Ryan's eyebrows stretched, and he looked down at his hands, "Don't you think it's so strange? You can also... put it away."

As he spoke, His Majesty's hands slowly retreated, and soon merged with the red-gold crystalline substance, and now only one head remained.

This scene is horrifying, but also somewhat indescribably joyful.But Jiang Jianming's expression was still blank, he moved his lips, but couldn't say anything.

After a while, Jiang Jianming looked at the crystal with the human head embedded in it, and shook his head: "...it's nothing, I'll continue."

He quickly regained his composure, and looked at the equipment at the Black Shark base, "If this set of equipment can be taken away, it can be used by the base for real-time positioning. But..."

Ryan: "Don't look, I can't hold it."

Normally, his crystal bone could even carry a heavy mecha, so this mechanical equipment is of course not a problem.

But now he's wounded, weak and mentally damaged, beyond his capacity.The remaining physical strength must be used to protect his crippled humans.

"Then stay here."

Jiang Jianming bent down to pick up the military coat that he had just taken off, and it was naturally impossible for him to wear it.

He fiddled with the clanking medals with his fingers, "It's rare that Your Majesty is careful, I'll take one as a souvenir."

With that said, Jiang Jianming took off one of them.

But it wasn't a medal, but an exquisite...diamond ring.

It was tucked under the largest Imperial Order of Glory, pinned to the uniform like some unspeakable affair.

Ryan was slightly startled, and immediately pursed his lips guiltyly.After Jiang Jianming went dormant in his previous life, he secretly put it on for others. He thought he hid it very well. How did Jiang see it?

"Cough... this, I don't know which year I hung up a gadget for you on a whim, I have forgotten."

"is it?"

Jiang Jianming smiled silently, lowered his eyes and put the ring on seriously, "That's what I want."

The ring, the ring finger, he put it on...Lian's heart felt hot when he saw it.In fact, he was so happy that he didn't know what to do, but he put on airs on purpose:

"There are so many medals that symbolize the highest honor, and many of them were only awarded to you. Why does the commander like this?"

While talking, he slowly hugged Jiang Jianming with the red gold crystal bone: "Change to another one, do you hear me?"

He turned into a crystalline state and led the disabled humans to swim through the gaps in the earth like a dragon fish. It was very similar to the scene after the crystal nest swallowed Gaius.

Jiang Jianming: "..."

Ryan was still plausible: "It's not easy to get a ring. When we go back, we'll talk about choosing a better one..."

Jiang Jianming helplessly looked at the crystal nest land that was quickly swept back outside, thinking: You have already carried me out for a thousand meters away, and you want to change it, what nonsense are you talking about.

"Ginger." Ryan blinked, and leaned over to rub against him, "I didn't know your preferences before, so I had to make my own decision. When we go back, let's..."

But before the sweet words could be finished, they were replaced by suppressed muffled hums.

"Lian?" Jiang Jianming raised his eyes suddenly.In sight, a piece of red gold crystal suddenly cracked and fell into the palm of his outstretched hand.

The crystal particle attack from the outside world suddenly became fierce.The shaking of the earth became more and more severe.

The faint sound of shooting seemed to come from the distant sky, it was the starship gun of the human army.

"—Set fire!!"

The brutal war was still going on, and with the roar of the officers, tens of thousands of starships fired in salvo, and the light beams formed a burning waterfall in the universe.

After the last wave of missiles was also smashed into the location of the crystal nest, the bloody army pushed forward against the attack of the crystal particles like an iron wall.

Yes, they are advancing.

At this moment, the space station of the human empire is in a mess.The shell was forced to disassemble in many places, and thick smoke was everywhere.

As for the interior, it has long been filled with countless wounded soldiers and corpses, the smell of blood is lingering, and it is even more difficult to count the scrapped starship mechs.

But it was such a fortress that miraculously advanced instead of retreating.

Just a few days ago, it would have been considered next to impossible to even hold its ground.However, at this moment, the space station is actually moving towards the crystal nest!

In front of the mighty white waves of the crystal particles, a dark and standing mountain appeared.

That is the starship army of the New Human Empire.

A human-shaped mecha rushed forward like a god, and its speed surpassed that of a battleship.

With a silver body and crimson armor wings, she looks like a Valkyrie made of steel.

In the cockpit, Lin Ge's eyes were red, like ghosts and demons, and hatred seemed to be bleeding from those eyes.

She lowered her head and yelled, "Give... me... kill!!!"

The next moment, L-Iron Rose, the only super S-class mech in the empire, suddenly spread out its slender mechanical arm, and swept the laser spear in his hand——

The female emperor's voice resounded through the entire army: "Crystal Nest is approaching, the enemy is approaching!! I see who dares to retreat, and those who are timid will die!!"

The eagle slanted past the Valkyrie's back, which was also a large mecha.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!!"

Old Marshal Chen was exhausted, and shouted loudly from behind, "Your Majesty, take a good look at it. Is this the army retreating!? You are charging too hard, and the big guy can't keep up!"

Chen couldn't get back after calling out twice, so Chen let out a long sigh helplessly.

Okay, the last time His Majesty went crazy was the last time, specifically, it should be when lava was collected...

The old marshal had no choice but to dial the communication of the Black Shark Base: "Your Excellency, Your Majesty is insane, come to persuade him."

At the same moment, Admiral Xilin suddenly raised her head from the command room of Jin Rilun's flagship, and murmured, "Iron Rose... Hai Dongqing... His Majesty the Emperor and Commander Chen are here in person!?"

"How is it possible, the empire has been affected by crystal particles for a long time at this moment, and there is still power..."

How did you do it?Where are the troops allocated?

Commander Aslan's parting words suddenly came to mind. Celine took a deep breath and thought to herself: Could it be... those ordinary people who have never even experienced a battlefield?

When the commander said that, she only thought it was an exaggeration to boost morale.

But the current situation at this moment clearly shows that: those citizens in the rear have indeed provided unimaginable strength in this battle to protect the country!

……

So Crystal Nest was terrified.

The crystal particles released to the distance met with stubborn resistance. The human army rushed in desperately outside. The Pangu Ax was about to fire, and Kaios was approaching the mother core inside.

Even with the fusion of Gaius' consciousness, the Crystal Nest Mother Nucleus could not understand why it failed, and how the livestock that had been implanted by them for hundreds of years turned defeat into victory.

Humans, this race has always been so unpredictable.It was obviously just one person's words, just a gunshot and a splatter of blood...

Or, there are thousands of shouts of thousands of people, thousands of gunshots, and thousands of times of blood flowing into rivers?

But so what.

Only the shadow of doom looms, whether the defeated accept it or not.The mother core trembled and let out a dying scream, and the attack became disorderly and violent.

"……yes."

Inside the red gold crystal, Jiang Jianming raised his head and responded.

"Waiting to go back..."

He picked up what Ryan hadn't finished saying, "Let's pick out rings and dresses together, and let's pick a good day to make it public."

"As for the wedding, it's better to keep it simple, without extravagance... I like a quieter atmosphere. I'm afraid of too many people."

"Don't be afraid." Ryan's face slowly turned into crystals, he lowered his head and kissed Jiang Jianming's brow, and then closed his eyes, "No matter what time, I will be by your side."

Finally, the ruler of this piece of red gold crystal completely lost all human characteristics.

"... Ryan."

The turbulence became more and more severe, approaching a major earthquake.Jiang Jianming stretched out his hand to caress the cracked crystal, feeling the crack expand under his hand, "...I'm very happy."

In the distant sky, a beam of light fell.

"No matter... after today, what will happen to you and me..."

That light is too hot, too dazzling, it seems to be able to penetrate everything.

So even though Jiang Jianming was under the protection of Ryan's crystal, he could still see the ray of night-breaking light.He knew that it was the cannon fire fired by the Pangu Axe, which was... the largest crystal particle annihilation cannon in the empire.

"I consider it complete."

In an instant, the sky and the earth shine through.

The ancient giant raised his ax to split the clear and turbid yin and yang.

……

It was as if everything was over.

It seems to be a brand new start.

When Jiang Jianming woke up, he found himself curled up on the ground of Crystal Nest.

It was eerily quiet all around.Something faint floated past his slack pupils, and flew up and away.

After that blow from Pan Gu's axe, Crystal Nest had completely changed.The storm in mid-air dissipated, and when I looked up, I could see the universe was clear and the galaxy was bright.

The originally transparent and white land is covered with gullies and broken lines, dilapidated.There are crystal particles escaping and disappearing continuously, just like foam rushing to the sun, and like a reverse falling snow rising from the ground to the sky.

"... Ryan?"

Jiang Jianming breathed weakly, trying to support his unconsciously trembling body.He looked around blankly, trying to find a certain landing point.

There was nothing around.

Only scattered crystal particles rolled his clothes.Jiang Jianming staggered and stood up, a lonely figure standing on the damaged crystal nest ground.

"..."

His eyes were dim, and he felt the blood surge in his chest, and his throat was hot.Subconsciously covering her lips, the warm blood stained her five fingers.

The Pangu Ax fired a crystal particle annihilation cannon.

And Lean Keos itself is half human and half crystal.Being affected at such a close distance...

"Lyan..."

Blood dripped from the fingers of the empty grip, Jiang Jianming took a step forward with scattered eyes, panting, "Are you still by my side?"

Fifteen minutes ago, he thought of it.

And Ryan must have realized it before then.

At that time, Jiang Jianming thought a lot during that short silence.

He originally wanted to say, "Your Majesty stay here, I will find the mother core myself."But without Ryan's protection, it would be difficult for disabled humans to move forward; and without his own mental power to comfort him, Ryan would also be in danger of another collapse of consciousness at any time.

So Jiang Jianming realized that maybe this time, it was fate that made them live and die together.

"Lian, you are...cough cough..."

The other side of the earth is collapsing.A descending, circular tunnel-like cavern was exposed, with a dim white glow in the depths.

That's where the mother core is...

Jiang Jianming walked there precariously, a few drops of blood slipped from his right hand, and was left behind.

The diamond ring he wore on his ring finger had crystallized red gold at some point.