Soul of Burning Steel

【--child.

I still remember clearly the moment you were born. 】

In an artificial culture room with a constant temperature of 30 degrees, a huge white egg case is placed in a stable velvet insulation nest, and around this egg case, there are many other similar ones that have dried up, among dozens of brothers and sisters. Among them, only one egg case successfully gave birth to life. Accompanied by the sound of rustling, a strange insect that looked like a young cicada and ant broke through the egg case and crawled out of it. The film on his body has not been peeled off, and he still has no way to look at the world.

In order to obtain more stable and excellent individuals, as well as more universal and powerful wisdom, the Qinya people gave up the excellent fertility of their ancestors, gave up the genes with high mutation rate, and chose to reduce the reproduction speed to be similar to that of ordinary mammals. There is only one price for survival, a stronger body, brain and innate psionic abilities than ever before.

It can be seen that the door of the artificial cultivation room was opened, and the young cicada seemed to be frightened and wanted to retract into the egg case, but two flexible tentacles stretched out and lifted it gently, and the light of the sun lamp shone like the environment , Covering this newborn life with a layer of light golden gauze.

The angle of view was changed, the bright sun lights turned into real stars, and the shining lights turned into too dazzling starbursts in a vacuum, and a complete set of void battleships, although some battleships suffered heavy damage, were generally intact from the universe. Flying through the vacuum.

This fleet is roughly composed of three styles of warships, one is an insect-like battleship with an obvious exoskeleton design style, the other is a plant fruit, which is more like a grown biological battleship than manufacturing, and the other The last type, and the least one, is the ordinary metal battleship. It can be seen that this strange mixed fleet belongs to one banner, and they are speeding in a star system, heading towards the inner ring orbit.

"Beware of the Chaos Familia!"

In the communication channel, an inorganic mechanical sound came. It can be seen that there are a large number of wrecks of warships and strange creatures around the orbit that this fleet passed by. These numerous damaged warships are all in the shape of insect-like exoskeleton warships, and most of the wreckage of strange creatures are different. , they are distorted, malicious, and covered with all kinds of seemingly meaningless but absolutely abnormally dangerous tumors and growths, as if their existence itself represents absolute chaos.

The indifferent mechanical voice came again: "They may still be lurking in the wreckage... All staff are ready-bombard them!"

"yes!"

Complying with this indifferent order, the fleet activated their weapons uniformly, and it could be seen that the muzzles of a series of psionic energy fluctuation guns began to gather light particles, and the high-heat psionic energy flow that was enough to evaporate most of the substances was converging.

The silver-blue brilliance shone, and then, it exploded.

In the mighty, long psychic light beam like a galaxy, the wreckage of battleships and strange creatures turned into nothingness, and the countless chaotic larvae lurking in it also screamed silently in the vacuum, and then annihilated in the void. shine.

【——Time flies so fast, I have already begun to forget the time I spent with you.

But I can only leave, because this is for the stars, for more races, for our world. 】

In the sea-blue sky, a large juvenile cicada that has gradually grown up, that is, a Tanya juvenile is flying in mid-air using psionic energy. He flies wobbly and often makes mistakes, but every time he makes a mistake, there will be a pair of Huge and gentle tentacles stretched out, stabilizing the trajectory of his flight. Soon, the larva learned the basics of flying, and both he and "he" were very happy. The young larva curled up in the arms of the giant tentacles, and looked at the stars in the sky together.

However, in that vast galaxy, the stars were extinguished one by one, visible to the naked eye, and the light of the stars disappeared in the dark universe, just like in a vacuum, those wreckages that were ignited by the main gun of the battleship and then slowly burned up .

The mixed fleet has left the area of ​​the Star Wars battlefield, and they have come to a fortress area that has been breached. It can be seen that in the orbit of the giant gaseous planet, there is a huge trapezoidal armed defense fortress wreckage, with a diameter of 1,400 kilometers, which is a real planetary fortress. According to the conspicuous armor style, and the internal structural style of the fort that can be clearly seen from the damage, it can be easily seen that this fort has the same origin as the insect warship.

"The scout ball came out and started to detect survivors!"

An indifferent mechanical sound rang out, and rows of frigates lined up at the edge of the fleet. There was a groove in the bottom of their ships, and metal balls flew out of it, lighting up the psychic light, and headed towards the Fly to the trapezoidal fortress.

Not long after, answers came from different voices one after another.

"Report, no survivors found."

"They're all dead—this place just fell three months ago, damn it, if only we could have arrived earlier!"

"At least the plague family has been repelled, and the 'Great Roundabout' operation was successful, and they were forced to evacuate from this star area."

Noisy discussion and information exchange appeared on the channel, but the indifferent mechanical sound rang out, covering all the sounds.

"Destroy it."

At the core of the fleet is an extremely huge battleship with a diameter of more than 25 kilometers. It is a huge battleship similar to a G shape. At its front end, there is a sunken psionic condensation groove. On the bridge of the G-shaped battleship, a gray, very old, intelligent life that looked like a giant cicada stood in the captain's position, his tentacles waved, and the indifferent mechanical sound was translated from the crystal on his chest. Released from the player, broadcast to the entire fleet.

"Attack the lower half of the fortress, the 15th area, where the original energy furnace core is located." The Tan Yaren, who was in the late stage of life, repeated: "You can't leave a little chaos, destroy it."

As a result, the light condensed again, bloomed, and turned into a straight light, piercing the core of the original energy furnace in the 15th district.

A moment later, a dazzling light lit up, and an extremely violent explosion was staged silently in a vacuum. The planetary-level fortress disintegrated in the vibration, shattered, and turned into huge pieces of wreckage, and then shattered in the firelight, becoming stars. dust in between.

The fleet was not affected by this small explosion. They are still moving on.

【——I once promised you that I will protect you. I am a great hero and I will definitely return victorious.

everything will get better. 】

The light generated by the explosion of the planetary fortress washed over the fleet like a tide, and the spiritual shield covering the surface of the fleet ships was like a reef, intercepting and crushing the light. The old Tan Yaren stared at the vacuum and the sun , as if returning to more than ten years ago, the old self was walking on the beach with the child on his back, and the two watched the footprints on the beach washed away by the sea water, and the tentacles danced, pure and cheerful.

The way the sun shines on the seawater is just like it is now... The energy tide generated by the explosion travels against the solar wind, stirring up an incomparably bright, dreamlike light mist.

Under the pursuit of light and mist, the fleet continued to move forward, and came to the periphery of a sea-blue planet.

There are more warship wrecks, more corpses of Chaos Familia, and more ruins of fortresses—here, it can be clearly sensed that Chaos has not gone far. Among the dead bodies, there are still a large number of Chaos lurking.

However, following the order of indifference, the marching fleet unfolded a layer of translucent stance—in the area covered by the invisible light named 'order stance', all chaos was temporarily inactive, even the It simply vanished into ashes and turned into nothingness. This advanced technology developed by other advanced civilizations in the star sea and donated to other civilizations for free can effectively curb the spread and spread of chaos, provided that the efficiency of the position generator is large enough.

Captain Tan Yaren walked slowly to the front of the bridge, no one stopped him, and even the staff silently stepped aside, so that this extremely majestic and respectable fleet commander could watch clearly not far away. The sea-blue planet in the sky.

And with the naked eye, the commander of the fleet saw a planet that looked like moldy bread, which looked like sea blue, but was covered with dense dark green mold everywhere.

And the areas where these molds are all over the place happen to be the areas with the most life on this planet.

"...start trying to communicate."

The tentacles danced, and invisible low-frequency ripples mixed with psionic waves reverberated in the atmosphere, and the translator hanging on the fleet commander's chest faithfully translated: "Try all the bands-don't give up, even if it's just one."

The other crew members who heard the order naturally went all out to do it. Suddenly, various noisy calls sounded, filling the originally quiet bridge with all kinds of exaggerated content and meaningless voices.

But different from the lively shouting, Tan Ya Fleet Commander remained motionless. He just stared at the familiar blue planet and those dark green mold spots that were expanding and spreading... As a powerful psychic, He can sense that there is no longer an independent individual consciousness on this planet, and there is no longer any individual spiritual power.

On the side of the planet facing away from the sun, all light is extinguished, whether it is a continent or an ocean.

The light of civilization is extinguished.

No reply from any band.

"commander……"

Gradually, there was no sound of calling in the bridge, and the bands became silent one after another. A humanoid plant life, according to the logo, the plant should be the deputy captain's atrium man hesitantly stepped forward, and came to the side of Commander Tan Ya , he opened his mouth, then paused, and said in a low voice: "There is no reply, and there is no life response... Commander, my condolences will change."

"Qin Ya's mother planet...has been eroded."

【——I swore that I would do my best, even if it cost me my life. I will protect you too.

I swear. 】

Countless fragments of memories rush by in the river of the soul, and the roaring emotions leap up like fish jumping out of the water. Anger, sadness, and despair fall on the river, bringing huge waves of spiritual energy, flooding the soul. ripples. I can recall many things, the first feeding, the first crawling, the first literacy, the first calling mom and dad... and the first flight, the first academic performance in the whole grade for the first time, the first time alone Going to Capital Central College for further study...too many firsts.

I still remember the first time... before leaving, the cicada, who was not much younger than his father, waved its tentacles, and the tentacles on both sides crossed and rubbed against each other, making slight fluctuations.

"I love you, Dad."

That was the first time he said love to his parents. He seemed very shy, so he hastily added: "We must win the battle and come back safely!"

"of course."

This is my own voice. Self-confident and high-spirited, even if there is a little uneasiness, it is suppressed by a huge sense of responsibility and turned into a driving force to keep moving forward: "I am a hero."

silence.

Whether it was the bridge or the communication channels of the entire fleet, there was only silence.

Everyone was silent, the noisy instructions, the bitter jokes, the voices of each captain scolding his crew, all disappeared, and the Void Fleet was suspended on the planet's gravitational balance point.

However, they are silent, but it does not mean that the planet will be silent. It can be seen that those giant molds scattered all over the world suddenly began to shrink and squirm. It can be seen that there are countless extremely small but densely packed green dots spewing out from these mold aggregates... That is the Chaos Familia, the newborn Chaos family.

This is the planet eroded by the evil god of plague—all organic matter is devoured and converted, and inorganic matter is not spared. Chaos erodes all things, but it prefers life as its target.

From the perspective of the psyker, there is an extremely huge cicada-shaped phantom like a planet bound by various molds and tentacles on the planet. It struggles, trembles, and flaps its wings, but But can't escape... This is a collection of psionic energy that has been bound by chaos and has begun to be eroded and transformed. It is the existence of the condensed existence of all intelligent life souls and psionic energy on a planet, as well as all extraordinary forces. And it is the raw material for the plague god to create the 'giant female beast'.

At this moment, the tentacles of Tan Ya Fleet Commander, who had been frozen for a long time, swayed, and a still indifferent mechanical voice came, and he said softly: "The extermination agreement is activated."

"commander……"

Beside the giant worm, the plant-like adjutant of the atrium man raised his hand, he hesitated to speak, but in the end he didn't say anything, just sighed.

In his eyes, the psionic power of Commander Tan Ya has changed from silver blue to blood red.

"Destroy it."

The mechanical sound that was so calm and somewhat sad continued to sound, and Commander Tan Ya remained motionless except for the tentacles: "That is already the territory of chaos."

In the cosmic vacuum, the mixed fleet gradually dispersed, and the huge G-shaped warship moved forward slowly, arriving 'directly above' the planet. It began to deform, transform, and began to stretch the curled up body. The G-shaped shell stretched bit by bit, stretched, and then became straight, turning into a huge inverted cross with a long top and a short bottom.

And the lower end of the inverted cross, the psionic groove of the original G-shaped giant battleship crystal, began to condense, gathering a bright light that was almost limitless.

"Launch."

The light froze, and then burst suddenly—under the command of the indifferent mechanical voice, a long stream of light descended like a galaxy, and sank straight into the ocean of the planet.

Qin Ya's mother star.

above the surface.

along the already polluted coastline.

This place used to be a place for many Tanya people to play and vacation. It used to be full of laughter. Here, there used to be a father and son walking here together, watching the stars in the sky together.

But now, on the once beautiful coast, there are only clusters of filthy and rotten organic condensates that look like seaweed sludge.

And an incomparably bright beam of light hangs down, descending in the middle of the ocean like this.

At first, it was calm.

Then it became louder, heavier, and louder.

——Boom, boom, boom, boom! ! ! !

A super tsunami and water vapor cloud over tens of kilometers erupted from the place where the beam of light fell, and the circulation balance of the entire planet's atmosphere was broken in an instant. The steam is the egg white that flows out and spreads continuously.

Even in a vacuum, the extremely conspicuous ripples spread towards all parts of the world. He discounted the mountains, destroyed the cities, covered the once dense, but now polyp-like primeval forests, and washed away all the remnants of civilization and chaos. net.

Naturally, the ripples also completely engulfed the filthy coast.

Everything is destroyed.

In the vacuum, the planet's core was detonated by the over-condensed special psychic energy beam, and slowly disintegrated into large pieces of star debris. In the next few thousand years, it will continue to disintegrate and subdivide, and finally, God knows tens of thousands Years later, it becomes an asteroid belt that circles the entire orbit.

The mixed fleet has already left this star field, and went to the next mission location-the missions of the Guardians of the Galaxy Alliance one after another, because chaos will not give people any time to rest.

In the gigantic warship that had recovered into a G-shape, Commander Tan Yaren, who looked calm at first, began to tremble slowly. The farther he jumped from the collapsed planet, the more he trembled—— The adjutant from the atrium on the side kept trying to step forward to appease the other party, but was pushed away by a soft spiritual energy. The bloody ripples seemed dangerous, but they were actually gentle.

Tear - the tentacles danced, the old commander tore off the converter on his chest, his tentacles danced violently in mid-air, and the weak waves of psionic energy trembled.

But there was no sound other than the pumping of the air... Without the translator, and with such a distance, no one could understand what the old man was screaming at this time, and no one could tell whether it was anger or sadness. Or maybe both.

But in fact, the old Tan Yaren didn't say anything, and he couldn't say anything at this time.

"Ah, ah..."

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Howling mournfully, it seemed that the owner was vomiting his soul.

This is just a small galaxy, a small civilization, an insignificant battlefield between galaxies-the battlefield of chaos and order.

The field of vision is stretched, jumping out of the star system, and you can see that on the big chessboard called the Milky Way, there are countless lights shining and countless darkness eroding.

The galaxy spins.

Countless anger, despair, countless sorrows, longings, endless resentment and mourning, and endless... love.

Incomparably strong 'emotions', mixed with countless souls and lives, gradually converged into a huge vortex among these rotating galaxies.

This vortex formed by the mixture of spiritual energy and life seems to be echoing something, praying for something, and longing for something.

It is calling.

Calling for 'destruction', or 'hope'.

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