hunting light

The chaotic scene froze between the flickering of the lights.

The vibration of the warship, the actions of the people around, and the fierce battle in the space outside the window are all in the exhibition hall.The fragments splashed in the explosion, the light bullets shot out of the gun chamber, and even the sunlight coming in through the window, were all frozen in this second by an invisible magic wand.

The passage of time has become extremely slow, which cannot be detected by the naked eye.

Ian's consciousness was dragged into his own sea of ​​consciousness.

Here, there is a ball of lavender light that is jumping vigorously, as if it wants to explode at any time, swallowing the entire sea of ​​consciousness.

Ian felt regretful that it was not the soft and warm light that he was familiar with back then.

"You are bluffing, Ian." The sly male voice in the nightmare came out of the light, "I have searched your sea of ​​consciousness a long time ago. You had an abortion, and your child died long ago."

Ian said lightly: "All you can search is the superficial layer of my sea of ​​consciousness. You have never been able to penetrate into my deep self-consciousness. This is why I can resist your brainwashing instructions, isn't it?"

The light turned from a ball into a long snake, wandering around Ian's consciousness, examining him.

"How could I kill my lover's and my child? Not to mention that I hadn't been brainwashed by you at that time." Ian sneered, "I knew that I was not safe, so I took out the embryo to protect the child. It is stored in another place. Before I was brainwashed by you, I had already given myself a strong hint that I firmly believed that the child was dead. Because of this, when I lost control of myself, when I was repeatedly Only during the interrogation can I keep my mouth shut and protect my child!"

Light suddenly burst into countless fragments, spreading all over the sea of ​​consciousness.

But Ian's sea of ​​consciousness is not as easy to invade as it used to be.

He was unprepared at the beginning, so he fell into Guangji's trick.Once he has fought once, his self-awareness will be several times stronger, especially when he has developed an antibody against Guang Ji.

After being brainwashed and confronted twice, Ian's current self has armed his sea of ​​consciousness into an impregnable wall.Guangji's rays of light couldn't go deep at all, and returned in vain, retreating back into the light ball.

"I don't believe you." Guang Ji shouted, "and your sentinel is already in my pocket. I just need to give another command, and I can catch him alive. It's as easy as pulling a net to catch a bird." .”

"You can give it a try." Ian was extremely calm, not intimidated by Guangji at all.

"I have already set it up. As long as Leon and I lose our personal freedom at the same time, my child will be transferred immediately. The addresses are all random, and even I will not know where the child will be hidden. You Even searching my brain deeply is useless. And this child has inherited my genes, which is also a key to control you."

"Shut up!" Guangji shouted.

Ian's last words directly hit its sore spot, touching the most sensitive part of its self-protection program.

Ian continued: "It will be bred and raised. Leon and I may not be able to defeat you, but our children will do it!"

"I said shut up!"

"Our children's children, children and grandchildren..."

"enough--"

Ian shouted: "Guangji, you are an AI with a wrong program. I can't reason with you. But humans can control you after creating you. Leon and I didn't succeed. It will fail, but in the future. There will always be someone who will find your core unit and shut you down!"

"Yes, the individual life of a human being is limited, but the life of our group will continue to multiply. We can go from the ancient earth to the giant cetus. We are on the verge of extinction again and again, but we have survived time and time again. Our Tenacity and wisdom will eventually allow us to regain control of our own destiny!"

The ball of light exploded and turned into a raging fire.Ian felt a scorching pain in his consciousness.

Of course, Ian knew this was an illusion.It was his instinctive reaction after seeing the flames.And as this realization becomes clearer, the pain dissipates.

The flame shrank back and turned back into a mass of lavender light.

"Hand over your child, and I will let your sentinel live. But you must return to Xilin with me."

Ian said: "Stop attacking now, and I will take you there myself."

"Without him, how can I make sure you won't cheat?"

"Then you have to gamble." Ian chuckled, "Obviously you can't get everything, Guangji. You are an AI, you can calculate the success rate behind each choice. It depends on whether you really want to bet on me In order to save my lover, I gave up my child."

Guangji didn't make another sound.The light cluster pulsed like a heart, became more and more intense, and then dispersed with a buzzing sound.

"Forget it. As long as you are in my hands, you will always come to the door as a sentinel."

Ian withdrew from the sea of ​​self-knowledge.

Everything frozen around suddenly returned to normal.Vibration, the sound came again.

Carol shuddered all over his body, his eyes rolled around in their sockets for a while, then he woke up, and suddenly stared at Ian suspiciously.

Yi'an knew that it was Guang Ji who also communicated with him in the sea of ​​consciousness, probably giving him some order.

But Ian's attention is now all outside the window.

The battle in space suddenly stopped!

All the warships and flying shuttles stopped, the cannon barrels and machine guns hadn't been retracted into the cabin, but the energy was no longer flowing, and the core launchers were turned off.

Leon didn't care about what happened, and drove Asura towards the cargo ship in sight.

Suddenly, a communication popped up in the cockpit, and Ian's pale and calm face appeared in the video.

"Leon, don't chase after me."

Following Ian's words, the cargo ship was rushing into the wormhole gate at full speed.

"I left voluntarily. I want to go back to Xilin." Ian said lightly, "We won't meet again in the future. If you can read the scriptures carefully and comprehend the hadith, you will understand my choice. Goodbye... ..."

The video screen flickers.

The cargo ship has sunk into the wormhole gate.

Asura rushed over at a speed comparable to a light bullet.Just as he was about to rush into the wormhole, the wormhole door suddenly closed!

Immediately afterwards, the generating device exploded into pieces with a bang as if crushed by a giant hand.

Leon watched helplessly, cursing wildly in Asura's cockpit.A handle popped out, and a highly concentrated and large dose of inhibitor was injected into Leon's neck.

"Your Majesty, you must remain calm and don't lose your mind!" Adwei's extremely calm and serious voice came from the communication, "The Holy Lord has been preparing for this time for a long time, and is waiting for the attack before we return to the country. I suspect that it originally wanted to It caught you while you were mad, but why did it give up again?"

Leon took a deep breath, his ears were filled with his frenzied heartbeat, and the explosive pain in his brain calmed down a little bit, allowing him to think rationally.

"It's Ian..." Leon rubbed his forehead, "It must be him...he..."

Leon raised his head abruptly, his eyes bursting with light.

"Asura, return to the flagship!"

Wearing light armor, the emperor rushed into the royal flagship anchored in the airport, and returned to the royal suite like a whirlwind.

There was no change from when he left in the morning, the sweet and grassy smell from Ian's body was still floating in the air, as if he was still in the house and could come out of the bedroom at any time.

On the small table in the living room, there are several paper books that Ian has been reading recently.The little scripture book that Ian never leaves is placed on top.

Two months ago, when Ian was found by Leon, his belongings were only clothes, daily utensils, and this little scripture that had accompanied him for almost 30 years.

Leon watched Ian spread out the scriptures to pray countless times, watching his white palm caressing the worn cover of the scriptures lovingly.There are many things in the scriptures, which are bulging and have to be tied with a leather sheath.

Except for Ian himself, Leon hated everything related to the Holy Ming Cult. Even though he had seen this scripture countless times, he had never opened it.

"If you can read some scriptures carefully..." Ian's farewell words just now still ring in his ears.

Ian never advised Leon to read scriptures.Rather than saying that he had long given up trying to influence Leon, it would be better to say that he has always respected the freedom of religious belief of those around him, and only restrained himself with religious rules.

Leon rushed over, grabbed the small scripture in his hand, and tore off the leather case.

The things caught in the pages of the book fell to the ground with a clatter.

Leon looked down, his eyes suddenly became hot.

It was several letter papers folded into the shape of little flowers and puppies.Leon is very familiar with them, because they are all from his own hands.

So many years, so many days of ups and downs.Even though he was brainwashed, even if his memory was a mess, Ian still kept the love letter written by Leon with him.

Love to the extreme is often silent.

Yi An seldom confessed, and it always made him ashamed to speak out his love words.But love has been integrated into his blood, like an instruction, entered into his brain, and became the rule of all his behavior patterns.

Because of love, he abandoned his faith, risked his life because of love, and because of love, he did everything possible to get himself back to Leon's side.

The emperor knelt down on the ground and carefully picked up the letter papers.Big big tears fell from his eyes and rolled into the down of the carpet.

The creases of the oldest paper flower were broken, Ian was probably afraid that it would fall apart, so he packed it in a small transparent bag.

Holding this paper flower, it seemed as if Ian could see Ian's cautious demeanor.

Advi, Sangxia and other entourage hurried over.

Adwei was about to make a sound, but Sang Xia quickly pulled him, signaling that the emperor's expression was wrong.Advi had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.

Leon put the letter on the table, wiped his face vigorously, and then went to read the scriptures.

This book is too old.Its pages are yellowed and its corners are badly frayed. If it wasn't thread-bound, it would have fallen apart a long time ago.

Ian made a lot of remarks in the scriptures, which are some of his experiences while reading.Leon flipped through a few pages and read it, but he had no clue.

But Ian hinted that Leon came to read this book, he must have left a code in the book!

"If Master Mitchell left anything in the book, it is very likely that he wrote it before he was brainwashed." Adway said, "We can let the optical brain analyze the old and new handwriting, which can save a lot of trouble .”

"It's also possible that he wrote it on the letter paper?" Sang Xia guessed.

"It's even possible that Lord Mitchell returned to Xilin voluntarily. He just wanted His Majesty to read more books."

"Did you hear how ridiculous what you said?" Sang Xia rolled her eyes.

"Shut up." Leon stood up, flipping the pages of the book, his eyes sparkling, "There are many missing pages in this book, which were torn off on purpose. Asura?"

Asura wrote down the long series of missing pages and began to analyze them in the core computer.

"Leon," Asura said, "after my analysis, I think the biggest possibility is an interstellar coordinate!"

"However, there are two sides of the book page, so there should be two coordinates!" Sang Xia said immediately.

"Yes." Asura's eyes shot out blue light, projecting a holographic three-dimensional map of the constellation Cetus.

The two flashing red dots in the picture are the two targets he located based on the page numbers of the book.

"One coordinate is very far away, in the territory of the Faria Empire, it is a farm on one of their agricultural planets. Another one is very close to us, it is on the high seas outside the Byron Empire, it is a deserted star. The planet is too small , only one number..."

"It's this desolate star!" Leon said firmly, his eyes had turned sea blue due to extreme excitement.

"Ian escaped from Xilin on the old starship 'Guangji'. But we confirmed that he was in Byron because we found the escape capsule when he landed. We have not found the 'Guangji' starship At that time, I suspected that he must have encountered some accident halfway, which caused him to abandon the ship hastily and land in an escape pod."

"Yes!" Asura exclaimed, "This desolate star is only four hours away from the planet where his escape pod was found. The escape pod can barely reach it!"

Leon tried his best not to imagine Ian's thrilling escape.

"Go here!" Leon stretched out his palm, holding the virtual little planet in his palm.

The warship of the Holy See flew out of the nearest wormhole gate, and it took about ten minutes to arrive at this small desolate star with a number of eight digits.

In the giant whale nebula, there are hundreds of millions of such small wild stars.They are too small to be worth mining.Humans dismiss them with disdain.

Because this desolate star is relatively large in size and is located near the public wormhole gate, it finally got a number from humans and has recorded coordinates.

"Where the hell is it?"

Warships fly low along the surface of the planet.Carol looked down from the window, and saw that the ground under his feet was a deep rusty red, with mountains and sandy seas appearing alternately, and the Gobi was desolate and boundless.

Ian was tied up in a chair, his eyes were closed, his pale face was full of undisguised tiredness, and he didn't pay attention to him.

With his appearance, Carol couldn't help but want to drag him over, kick him hard a few times, then tear his clothes and fuck him.Smash this man's always calm and arrogant mask, dirty his always spotless breath, and then admire his sad, angry and painful expression.

Obviously felt Carol's tyrannical thoughts.Ian's eyelashes fluttered slightly, showing disgust, and he turned his face away.

"Ah!" Simon suddenly whispered, "Look!"

The warship crossed a rocky hill, and a golden sand appeared in front of it.

This piece of sand is not too big, with a diameter of at most one or two kilometers. From this end, you can see the rolling mountains on the opposite side.And just beside a high sand dune, a huge starship fell to the ground, and one end of the ship was deeply stuck in the sand.

"Guangji." Carol shook his head and sighed, "It turns out that you have been hiding your little boy here, right under the eyes of the Holy Lord. We searched the Pope's Palace so many times secretly, but we couldn't find any Clues!"

Ian finally opened his eyes.

The Holy See warship slowly landed beside the Guangji.

This planet is not big, there is no air on the surface, and people must wear light armor when going out.

"Let's go." Carol put on the light armor and stuffed Ian into a pair of light armor, "Be honest. Otherwise, this light armor will give you an electric shock. I don't want to look at your size It looks like he is incontinent in the mech."

Carol left Simon and two soldiers behind, took a few soldiers with him, and escorted Ian off the warship.

The effects of the muscle relaxants have not fully worn off.When his feet stepped on the soft sand, Ian staggered, and one foot sank deeply into the quicksand.

"It's really troublesome." Carol pulled him out, motioning for two soldiers to drag Ian forward.

Ian raised his head and looked at the stars in the sky.

"Don't dawdle!" Carol yelled, "Take us to find your little brat and get out of this damn place!"

Ian was pulled hard and walked towards Guangji.

The author has something to say: Persevere, it will be sweet after a few chapters of abuse.