Dawn Sleep [Interstellar]

After Garcia appeared in front of the public, it became dangerous to continue staying in the dormitory of the Golden Sun Wheel. After careful consideration, Jiang Jianming instructed His Royal Highness to carry the pile of New Year goods, and they went to the White Jade Palace together.

 

The New Year couldn’t be celebrated well, and the scene of the two of them spending a warm holiday together had also been overshadowed.

 

Meal was hastily ordered from the restaurant, and Jiang Jianming ate only half full before conscientiously rolling inside the treatment cabin.

 

The double exhaustion of body and mind made him sleep deeply. The feeling of exhaustion all over his body made him sleep until the silver moon was high in the sky and the night was dotted with shining stars.

 

When he opened his eyes, Garcia was sitting next to the treatment cabin, staring at the pulsing vital signs with dull emerald eyes, and touching his forehead with his hand.

 

The surroundings were extremely quiet, and the unique rose fragrance of the White Jade Palace was faintly drifting in from the window, permeating every corner around the two of them.

 

It was a familiar scene. Garcia had sat like this next to the treatment cabin many times before.

 

But only this time, a difficult-to-express sourness surged in Jiang Jianming’s heart, and the stars in the sky outside the window seemed to turn into raindrops, falling mistily into those pitch-black pupils.

 

Jiang Jianming held Garcia’s wrist and whispered softly, “Your Highness, life is born in this world and always has to perish. Just like the meeting and parting of a life and another life, don’t you think so?”

 

As he spoke these words, the distant nebulae were still hovering in the depths of the universe, and perhaps the snow had fallen on the Alpha Alien Star’s fortress again, while the Empire’s three-star system was barely maintaining its stability.

 

Arranged in close order within the Aslan Star City, one street lamp after another lit up the night sky.

 

The White Jade Palace was very high, and from a bird’s-eye view, the glowing clusters of light throughout the Star City shrank and reflected in the windows, making it easy to feel drowsy after staring at them for too long.

 

“…You know,” Garcia gazed deeply at the pale young man lying in the treatment cabin and said hoarsely, “you poured your heart and soul into loving the crown prince of this kingdom, but you never got to become the legitimate crown princess, let alone the empress of this empire.”

 

“You have outstanding talents that surpass thousands of people, but you never got to become a legendary disabled human officer, let alone the highest military commander of this empire.”

 

The prince lowered his curled eyelashes, and his Adam’s apple rolled under his fair neck skin. “Now you’re going to die.”

 

Human life was not worth mentioning in terms of the length of the universe, and human knowledge also appeared humble in terms of the width of the universe.

 

However, beyond reason, faith and love persist.

 

If two people love each other until death, death will freeze that love, and romantically speaking, they will love each other until the end of the universe.

 

On the contrary, if a person dies with regret, that regret will also become eternal. Even if the universe cycles millions of times, the soul that dissipated in regret cannot return.

 

Unfortunately, life is full of twists and turns, and there are many unfulfilled desires.

 

“Don’t,” Jiang Jianming smiled gently, “I’m just an ordinary person. Empress, commander… It’s like winning the lottery. How could such a good thing happen in the world?”

 

“He doesn’t love you,” Garcia’s face was as dark as an iron plate. “He only gave you pain and illness.”

 

Jiang Jianming fell silent. He realized that the chronic crystal chaos seemed to have dealt a severe blow to the prince. This person became completely decadent, and even his voice was low and hoarse.

 

Like what… like a withered golden rose. Jiang Jianming thought to himself with a headache.

 

He propped himself up with his elbow and tried to sit up. Garcia quickly hugged his back and neck from behind. “Slow down. I’ll make dinner. You don’t have to do anything.”

 

Jiang Jianming looked frightened and asked hesitantly, “Wha-”

 

Garcia: “?”

 

Jiang Jianming looked strange and asked, “Little Highness, but, can you cook?”

 

Garcia pursed his lips and said with a stern face, “I’ll give it a try. No good?”

 

Jiang Jianming said, “No good! These are the ingredients I bought with my money.”

 

Garcia: “.”

 

Jiang Jianming said bluntly, “Forgive me for saying this, but you have a face that can’t even distinguish soy sauce from vinegar. If you want to help, just wash the vegetables.”

 

At least they had some liveliness in their argument. Jiang Jianming slowly made a simple dinner, and the two of them ate at the table.

 

Midway through, Jiang Jianming also received a report from Zheng Yue, which was nothing more than the casualty statistics and follow-up measures of the church turmoil, as well as a disturbing piece of news –

 

The mastermind behind inciting the crowd to gather at the cathedral, the prime suspect of this internal turmoil, Gerhard Laurent, had not been found yet.

 

But this was not within their scope of duties for the time being. With Jiang Jianming’s physical strength, it was impossible for him to get out of the mecha and chase after the real culprit. He just instructed Zheng Yue to be careful and report any suspicious activities as soon as possible, and then hung up the communication.

 

After dinner, Garcia sat in the driver’s seat of the Snow Dove and stuffed Jiang Jianming into the built-in pressure relief chamber of the mecha, and put an oxygen mask on him.

 

Jiang Jianming, through the mask, said in a muffled voice, “Are we going to the Black Shark Base? The secret you mentioned last time, the place you wanted to take me to is also…”

 

Garcia avoided the question and said, “I’m going to give you anesthesia. Close your eyes.”

 

Jiang Jianming closed his eyes and soon lost consciousness. He was carried by the mecha Snow Dove and completed two high-dimensional jumps in a state of drowsiness until his senses returned.

 

At that time, the mecha Snow Dove had already landed on the ground of the Omega Alien Star.

 

It was spring on the alien star, and it was evening. Jiang Jianming was pulled out of the mecha by Garcia, and the moist and warm wind blew on their faces. The first thing they saw was the colorful clouds in the sky.

 

It was the sunset.

 

Half of the sky was purple-red, and the other half was orange-red. The clouds rolled in varying thicknesses, with brighter shades of pink like flower petals and golden like wheat, and darker shades approaching inky black, like a gorgeous brocade woven from colorful threads swaying in the gentle breeze.

 

At the end of the sunset was a plain, and on the plain stood the silhouette of a fortress, reminiscent of the witch’s cottage in a fairy tale.

 

…The climate on the Omega Alien Star was suitable, and the species were diverse. Unlike the scenery of the first and second fortresses, the third fortress seemed to be located in a dream.

 

“You’ve been here before,” Garcia glanced at the person beside him.

 

“My former lover proposed to me here,” Jiang Jianming looked up at the sky, speaking frankly, “but at that time we were watching the sunrise.”

 

Garcia snorted contemptuously and grabbed Jiang Jianming’s hand again. “Come with me. If you feel uncomfortable, just speak up.”

 

In the Omega Alien Star, the Black Shark Base and the fortress were integrated, with the base’s technology being applied in the fortress while also receiving protection from the fortress.

 

Garcia led Jiang Jianming in through the main entrance of the base. The intelligent system here was very advanced, and the prince with permission had unimpeded access.

 

Garcia: “This way.”

 

The directional lights under their feet emitted a faint blue-green light, and they walked deeper and deeper through layers of specially made mechanical doors.

 

Occasionally, base personnel passed by, not surprised to see the prince bringing a stranger in, and calmly bowed and went about their business.

 

Finally, Garcia stopped in front of a huge mechanical door deep underground.

 

The iris recognition automatically unlocked the door, and the prince turned around. “Do you insist on going forward?”

 

Connecting with various aspects of the day, this sentence had a pun on it.

 

“…Yes.” Jiang Jianming felt that Garcia was a bit tense. He realized something and wanted to hold the person’s fingers, but Garcia pushed open the door and walked in first.

 

The room inside the door was quiet and dark.

 

It seemed like no one had been here for a long time.

 

The overhead light was off, and countless precision instruments were sleeping in the darkness. Jiang Jianming squinted and could vaguely see a horizontal prism-shaped object in front of him.

 

Their footsteps echoed on the floor. Garcia didn’t turn on the light, instead, he went to press the switch of an instrument.

 

A blue light appeared, illuminating the spacious room. The horizontal object also became clear. It looked somewhat like a glass coffin, and also like a treatment cabin or pressure relief chamber. Its shell was transparent and covered in dust, with several strange thin tubes hanging inside.

 

Jiang Jianming unconsciously pressed his chest. His heart was beating too fast, so he adjusted his breathing.

 

“You asked me why I didn’t want to admit that I am Ryann Kaios.”

 

Garcia turned his face, his figure illuminated by the blue light, and his face cold. A huge shadow cast forward from behind, enveloping Jiang Jianming’s pale cheeks.

 

“Because I was born here… inside this.”

 

“I am a creation of the Black Shark Base.”

 

Jiang Jianming listened in silence.

 

Garcia pointed to the wide glass container. “This is the base’s biological cultivation chamber. At that time, I woke up here.”

 

“The first thing I saw with my eyes was countless white-clad base members crowding around me. Their eyes were fanatical, and they were saying ‘it’s a success,’ but at that time, I didn’t know what it meant.”

 

“I knew nothing, my memory was blank. The leader called me ‘Ryann,’ and I agreed. She taught me knowledge and taught me how to fight, and I learned. Other than that, I didn’t know anything else in the world.”

 

“…until later.”

 

Later, he began to understand this world.

 

It turned out that a normal life should start with a mother’s painful childbirth, crying loudly, drinking milk, sucking fingers, babbling, being loved by loved ones, and gradually growing from an infant to a teenager and young adult.

 

It turned out that memories should be personally experienced and not “told” about from a past.

 

He was a person born alone in the shadows, and the “Ryann” who walked in the light, surrounded by teachers, friends, and loved by the people of the empire, was too far away for him.

 

“I hate being manipulated by others, so I left the Black Shark Base. You know everything that happened later on.”

 

Garcia’s indifferent face and platinum long curly hair were reflected in the blue light of the instrument. His personality determined that he rarely spoke such emotionally revealing words, but today was an exception.

 

…It’s really wilting. Jiang Jianming thought painfully to himself.

 

Jiang Jianming glanced at the large biological cultivation chamber and whispered, “I know Your Highness is not someone at the mercy of fate.”

 

“But have you ever thought that it is possible that the base only created the physical body, and you and Ryann are essentially the same person… I mean on the level of consciousness or soul.”

 

Garcia saying these words, Jiang Jianming was not very surprised.

 

Because he had seen the large amount of dark red in the mecha Crown of Golden Dawn, and at least in Jiang Jianming’s understanding, it was almost impossible to save a living person with such a terrifying amount of bleeding.

 

Garcia shook his head. He took out a chip from his pocket and inserted it into a precision instrument next to the cultivation chamber. A row of densely packed data immediately appeared on the screen window.

 

Jiang Jianming leaned over to take a look, and his vision went black. He couldn’t understand the scientific terms and numbers, but he recognized the first row of large characters: Generated data file, 000th base body – Ryann Kaios.

 

“I didn’t want to show it to you, didn’t want to say so much.”

 

Garcia supported Jiang Jianming’s shoulders from behind, as if afraid that he couldn’t bear it and would faint. “But now you have already……sacrificed your life for Ryann.”

 

“Therefore, I want to tell you, although I don’t know if Ryann is a normal human being or a creation, as long as this data exists, Ryann Kaios can be manufactured…..or replicated countless times. Same goes for Garcia.”

 

“If so, Jiang Jianming, what existence do you love?”