The pain of the flames burning his body seemed to be repeating in his mind, and his past memories became blurry. As he gradually adapted to this new body, the two memories and two souls intertwined and eroded each other, turning into a spiral ring that gradually became difficult to distinguish.
He used to be an Earthling, a 21-year-old motorcycle racer. On his birthday, his motorcycle overturned and exploded, and the flames burned his body. That was his last memory.
He was the third son of the Grand Duke of Planet Watercloud. His mother had died when he was born, and she did not even leave behind her name. He was born autistic and had never left the Duke's Mansion. In fact, other than servants, he had only seen his father once in his life.
A year ago, his father had appeared in front of him for the first time. He had directly given him a request. He already had a fiancée, the little princess of the Star King of Mercury. In order to become a qualified member of the royal family, he needed to undergo genetic enhancement and complete his evolution after the coming of age ceremony at the age of 18.
He was sent to the temple and injected with the strengthening gene from the Sanctuary. The sad thing was that the gene strengthening had failed. His genes were unable to fuse with the strengthening genes, and the intense rejection reaction had almost destroyed his body. For the past few months, he had been wailing in pain every day and every moment. Everyone was just waiting for him to die.
Finally, one day, he died. However, to everyone's surprise, he opened his eyes again. However, when he opened his eyes again, he was no longer the original him.
The intertwining souls formed a brand new self. It was neither the person who died on Earth nor the autistic young duke.
The current him was a soul that did not belong to any place!
The doctor walked in and gave him a routine check-up before injecting the nutrition needle into his body. He silently watched everything the doctor had done and thought of his name, Huo Lian. It was said that this name was decided by his mother before he was born. No one knew the meaning of the name, just like no one knew who his mother was.
After the doctor finished his examination, he happily told Huo Lian that his body had completely recovered. This was a miracle. After the genetic failure, the number of people who could survive was less than one in a million. Unfortunately, the gene strengthening failed. The strengthening gene that was injected into his body was completely eliminated. Those who could not undergo genetic enhancement would only have a lifespan of 200 years. They would not be able to use the sensor and would not be qualified to become a High Noble.
After the doctor left, Huo Lian looked at his own room. In the huge hexagonal room that was more than 100 square meters, other than the holographic projection hanging on the wall, there was only a bed left. Memory crystals that stored information were scattered everywhere. Huo Lian had severe autism since he was young and hated to communicate with anyone. Only by absorbing knowledge was the only joy in his gray life.
Huo Lian picked up a memory crystal and pressed it on his forehead. The information formed a vivid picture in his mind. It was information related to the eight-clawed wolf of Tamike. The characteristics of the species, the birth, hunting, mating, and struggling of the wolves formed a flowing image in his mind.
The memory crystals that were refined by fire were mostly information about the creatures of various planets.
Footsteps sounded as a huge figure walked out of the door. It was the second time in his life that the Grand Duke of Planet Raincloud, the Grand Marshal of the Army, Sade, came to his son's room.
It had a robust body that was close to 2.5 meters tall, and there were many traces of mechanical modification. His left hand had been replaced with a silver alloy arm with the family's Hydra emblem on it. His red cloak fluttered in the wind as he walked. His red hair seemed to be stained with blood, and his lion-like face was covered with a black needle-like beard.
Without any small talk, he lifted his son up and looked at him with disgust as if he was looking at a mouse. "You're really a shameless existence. Why don't you just die obediently? And you want to live to shame me and the honor of the family. The Wang family had already sent over the agreement to dissolve the marriage yesterday. It was really hard to imagine that my son, Sade's son, who had my blood flowing in his veins, was actually such a despicable existence. You made me the laughing stock of the entire galaxy.”
What responded to him was the same cold gaze. In Huo Lian's memories, this person called father had no emotional memories.
Sade really wanted to strangle this son of his to wash away his shame. He couldn't do this to this child who shouldn't have been born. He was a child recorded by the Holy Church. Even if Sade was his father, he had no right to execute him privately.
Throwing him aside, Sade said coldly,""Pack your things today. Tomorrow, you will leave Raincloud and head to the Third Infantry Academy. Before you become an outstanding officer, you are not allowed to return to Watercloud, to the Duke's Mansion. Go to the Holy Church today. Someone wants to see you.”
The Sanctuary…even the most reclusive would know of this place. The Sanctuary was created by the son of the Heavenly Emperor and served as the leader. It was a sacred organization that protected all civilizations in the universe from evil. The Heavenly Emperor was the guardian of all things, the only emperor of the universe, and the existence that ruled over everything. Therefore, only by worshipping the Heavenly Emperor and obeying his orders could one live a healthy life. Deviating from the will of the Celestial Thearch would cause one to fall and be purified by the Holy Church's Judgement Hall.
Huo Lian could not understand why someone from the Holy Church wanted to see him. Despite his doubts, he still walked out of the room. The buoyancy car was already waiting for him in the courtyard. It would take more than an hour to get from the Duke's Mansion to the Holy Church by car.
Buoyancy cars could not fly into the Sanctuary, so they had to turn to the parking lot to enter the Sanctuary on foot.
Among the huge buildings of the Holy Church, this was the only hall that was red. The entire hall was like a huge red dragon that was about to soar into the sky. As soon as they walked in, pillars of fire spewed out, making the hall look like a burning volcano.
However, he did not feel any heat from the fire pillars that were one meter wide and dozens of meters tall. Instead, he felt a sense of familiarity.
At the top of the hall, there was a huge statue that was a hundred meters tall. The man who stood there with a sword and armor had no face or facial features, but he gave off a majestic feeling that no one dared to look at him.
A woman in a red robe knelt in front of the statue. She kowtowed every time she chanted. Every time she kowtowed, there would be a dull sound in the hall. It was as if it was not a human kowtowing, but a huge monster hammering the ground.
Huo Lian did not want to disturb her, so he could only wait quietly. The woman kowtowed three hundred and sixty times before standing up. She turned around, revealing a face that seemed to be carved out of metal, a pair of bright red eyes that had no pupils. She exuded an indescribable sense of terror. When her eyes fell on Huo Lian, he felt as if he had fallen into an icehouse in the South Pole. Even his thoughts were about to freeze.
What kind of monster was this…
"You're afraid, that's wrong. As long as you have a pure heart, you don't need to be afraid.”The voice was clearly pleasing to the ear, but it still made people feel despair and coldness.
"You are…"
" I watched as your mother fell and was punished. I watched as you were born. Now, I will fulfill my promise to your mother and give you what belongs to you.”
"My mother…what do you mean by 'fall' and 'punishment'?”In Huo Lian's memories, there was no information about his mother. There was no memory, no information record, and no one dared to mention it.
The red-robed woman ignored his question and took out a small box from somewhere. When she opened the box, there was a palm-sized flat bug that looked dead. However, hundreds of thin tentacles shot out from its body and pierced into Huo Lian's palm.
An intense pain spread from his palm to his entire body. It was even more intense than the pain he felt when his body was burned in Huo Lian's memories. He wanted to pull his hand out, but he found that his body was completely numb and he could not move.
At this moment, the palm-sized bug melted rapidly, turning into liquid that flowed into Huo Lian's body through the tentacles. Huo Lian's numb body returned to normal.
"What do you mean?"
"Your mother's genes are too strong. Normal gene strengthening won't work on you. This seed of the Universe Flower is proof of your mother's glory. Your mother asked me to give it to you. Now that I've fulfilled your mother's request, you can leave.”
The red-robed woman turned around and knelt in front of the statue again. She touched the ground with her four limbs and forehead as she chanted the scriptures. It was as if there was no longer any fire refinement in her time. After a moment of shock, he left the Sanctuary.
At night, Huo Lian had a strange dream. He turned into a completely barren planet. Then, a flower fell from the universe and swallowed the planet he had transformed into. In the flower, Huo Lian's body was dissolved. Inside his body, there was an inexplicable ring formed by black and white. After the fire was dissolved, it was protected by the ring. Outside the ring were countless insects in the flower, just like the insects in the box during the day... and finally, the insects lost their strength and stopped floating. The black-and-white river worm was sucked into the ring and fused with the fire.
Early the next morning, the servant brought Huo Lian to the starship launch site. Through the rail elevator there, they entered the atmosphere of the space port of Planet Shuiyun. Standing in the transparent rail elevator and looking at the light green planet, Huo Lian was very emotional. How much was this world's civilization ahead of Earth? A thousand years? Ten thousand years?
He didn't have much time to lament about this transport ship that was about 120 meters long. It was about to set off. A soldier came out from inside and brought them into the hibernation cabin. He reprimanded them,"From now on, you are soldiers, glorious starship commandos. Here, the only disgrace was being a coward, a deserter on the battlefield. Now, everyone enter the hibernation pod. I wish you all a good night's sleep, because when you wake up, you will already be in hell.”
After all the youths entered the hibernation cabin, the spaceship started. Another soldier said to the soldier who scolded them,""These poor kids, how many of them do you think will retire alive when they start fighting in a year? Ten percent? Or five percent? Or maybe none…"
The soldier's eyes were no longer filled with cold storage, but with intelligence and sympathy. "Poor thing, they probably don't even know what a starship airborne assault infantry is…Why do you think they gathered death infantry in the capital this year? Not only were they the fiercest elite soldiers, but they were also the number one cannon fodder in the entire army. Only those with a physique with a gene optimization rate of 90 or above could take on this role. In the past, they would go to remote villages to abduct people. Why did they start choosing directly in the capital this year?”
"Don't look down on the cannon fodder troops, they are still part of the starship troops. Their status is not something that the armies of those planets can compare to. In order to become an airborne assault soldier, one had to have the highest quality body with a gene enhancement rate of 90. There weren't many people who could be selected in the galaxy. Besides, the war was tense now. It was said that traces of the Bug Tribe's queen had been discovered on the giant planet. It would take the Chaotic Dead Star several years to arrive. In order to prevent the insectoids from spreading, the parliament had already made a decision. The local army corps would enter the battle first to slow down the insectoids from spreading into the galaxy. In the previous battle, the airborne assault infantry had suffered heavy losses. Before the arrival of the Chaos Death Star, they had to recruit a large number of troops to land on the Giant Planet to engage in a war of attrition. The original remaining military strength was far from enough to complete the mission, so a comprehensive recruitment of new recruits was carried out in the star zone. I heard that the training time for the airborne assault infantry was originally one and a half years, but now it has been reduced to three months. It could be seen that the war on the giant planet was not going well. I heard from the people in the preparation department that there are less than 40,000 qualified airborne assault infantry in the entire starship force.”
"Three months…Can they successfully learn atmospheric parachuting in three months? Is this sending them to their deaths?"
"If we let the Zerg build their nest and spin their cocoon on the Giant Planet, the entire Milky Way will be eaten. Before the Chaotic Dead Star arrives, the only way is to…"
"Maybe we should join the battle too? We are also soldiers. It is really shameful to send children to die to protect us in the face of danger.”
"How do teams fight? As long as the Zergs landed on a planet with a mother, they could spread their race by splitting. Sixty days after the nest was built, it would be able to spit out ion gas in the atmosphere, causing space to distort. All attacks from outside the atmosphere would be ineffective.”
The officer sighed and felt that it was unrealistic. Starship officers, how could they engage in ground attacks like these cannon fodder airborne assault infantrymen? On a starship, using ion beam thermal missiles to control the cosmic fighter jets to fight was the combat method of starship officers. It was a disgrace for a starship officer to fight against terrifying enemies like barbarians on the ground.
The two of them left the hibernation pod, but they never expected that someone in the hibernation pod would open his eyes after they left.
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