Chapter 11

In a dark room, the youth was lying sideways on the bed curled up into a ball, the posture that most signifies insecurity. The room was very quiet with only the sound of the youth breathing lightly.

He opened his eyes in the darkness and seemed to be looking at something inside the dark room, but there was nothing in front of him.

After a long time, Miao Te closed his eyes, his hands clenched tightly making deep wrinkles on the pillow.

The young major general lightly spoke a sentence and countless people lost their lives forever….The countless sparks in the starry sky turned countless lives into dust of the universe……And the scene where the flesh and blood of the man with a crooked face exploded while frantically begging……

The youth took a deep breath and tried to empty his mind to calm down.

He was not sympathizing with the pirates.

For those murderers who killed his ‘grandfather’ and for those bastards who held no regard for human life, he thought they should be severely punished and that they deserved what happened to them.

……

He was just scared.

He was just afraid.

When Lieutenant Colonel Via looked at him with eyes looking at a coward and ordered him to return to his room, he could not defend himself.

He could not deny that he was a coward.

On Earth, in that peaceful alliance of the Confederate States, war has been dead for hundreds of years and blood and the flames of war were only in their history and books.

The world around him was very peaceful and beautiful.

Regarding the incident with the pirates last time, he was awakened by the explosion while he was sleeping in the cabin and the pirate who broke in saw him awake and kicked him, then he passed out and when he woke up, he found himself locked up, therefore, seeing nothing.

But now, after experiencing the battlefield in person, he finally saw the chaos and cruelty of this world he was currently in.

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Suddenly coming to this unfamiliar era, Miao Te has never felt that it was real.

He always thought that this might just be a ridiculous and interesting dream, one like the virtual games of his time——until blood and war really appeared in front of his eyes, pouring cold water over his head.

He had been thinking with enthusiasm about learning to fly a spaceship.

He used to think of wanting to drive a ship that belonged to him back to Earth.

It was only now that he finally understood how naive his ideas were.

In the seemingly magnificent starry sky, there are countless dangers and traps, undercurrents, black holes, particle storms, meteorites, and so on. As long as he encounters any of the same kind, he would be killed without burial place.

Even if was lucky and managed to avoid all of the above, there were still countless greedy interstellar pirates hiding in the darkness, and perhaps other dangerous forces too.

Just looking at the calm behavior of those people on the battleship, you can tell that in this chaotic starry sky, war can be seen anywhere so this level of battle was nothing to them.

Miao Te couldn’t imagine how many battles it would have to take before these people could treat war as blandly as eating and drinking.

This is an era of the weak is meat, food for the strong.1

This is an era of iron and blood.

This is an era of brutal war.

Life is very fragile in this endless starry sky.

And here he was, so small……

He continued to take deep breaths, breathing in and out, trying to shield himself from the bloody scene of the man’s eyeballs bursting out before his death. Miao Te tightly shut his eyes.

And after struggling for a long time, he fell asleep amidst the darkness.

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His body was very heavy as if it was being held down by intangible things, the increasing weight made him start to get breathless. He opened his mouth, but couldn’t breathe in even an ounce of oxygen.

His chest seemed to be burning with fire, burning his internal organs along making him feel pain.

So exhausting.

He thought.

So painful……

In the darkness, there seemed to be a faint light spot in the distance, drawing him to that direction.

The weight lessened as he walked towards that direction.

With every step, the burning pain was relieved.

Go there……

He thought.

If I go over there … it won’t be so painful.

He thought about it, and slowly walked towards the place where there was light, his body gradually lightened, and a sense of comfort like being immersed in a hot spring surrounded him little by little.

Go over there …

【Don’t go! 】

Who?

【Come back! I beg you! Don’t go! 】

Whose voice is this?

【Please, don’t go—】

……Mom……

【No, don’t go, please, don’t leave me! 】

Don’t cry, Mom, I won’t go.

I’m right by your side, I won’t go anywhere …

……

As he struggled to open his eyes in a white ward, he saw his mother who couldn’t stop crying beside his father, her face was haggard and covered with tears.

The man who was taller than anything in his mind, hugged his wife who couldn’t stop crying, he watched his eyes flash tears behind his lenses.

He looked at them, his face covered with an oxygen mask, struggling to smile.

Don’t cry, mom.

Don’t be sad, dad.

I won’t go.

I won’t leave you.

I will live on.

He smiled and promised his most important relatives, and then, time and time again, woke up from the darkness. Even though his body was on the verge of exhaustion, he still struggled to open his eyes, again and again.

Even the doctor marveled at his willpower to live, admiring his strength.

He was actually not that strong. He was afraid of pain and it was very hard for him, so he often shed tears in secret.

But he promised his parents, and promised two of his most beloved.

He will live on.

That’s why he was desperately struggling to leave the darkness and go back to reality again and again, to show his favorite smile to both his mom and dad again. But after all that, his willpower was still unable to withstand his physical exhaustion. The doctor announced that his body had reached its limit and the day after the doctor announced this, his parents gritted their teeth and made the final decision.

The living was frozen, sealing his body in absolute zero temperature.

Waiting for the day when the field of medicine had progressed enough to treat his terminal illness to revive him.

There wasn’t much hope.

The researcher responsible for freezing him said so to his parents.

Besides individual willpower, there are many other factors that affect the success rate of waking up after the freeze, which is only one-tenth. The vast majority of people will fall into eternal sleep after freezing, and would no longer open their eyes.

That day, he was naked as they slowly pushed him into the instrument that would freeze him. He opened his eyes and reluctantly wanted to take a final look at the world he lived in, and then at the faces of the two people he loved the most.

He heard their voices in the last second before he lost consciousness.

Live on!

That was the cry of the woman with tears.

It was a man’s heartbreaking roar.

Live on Miao Te!

Even if his consciousness had fallen into darkness the next second, the voices of the two people kept echoing deep in his mind.

Even in the end, what they asked of him was just that one sentence.

【Live on】。

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It wasn’t known how long he slept in the darkness, but Miao Te, who woke up from his dream, slowly opened his eyes, little soft dark brown hair scattered on the white pillow.

The youth’s black pupils glowed slightly in the dark.

He stared at the darkness in front of him quietly, as if looking at a certain distant place through the darkness, in a trance. The room was still quiet, with only the slight breathing sounding softly in the quiet and cramped room.

After a long time, the youth lying sideways in the bed moved.

His body bent into a semi-circular arc, and his hands were gently clenched into fists and were placed on his lips. He closed his eyes and curled up in the darkness like he was praying.

I will live on.

His lips kissed his fisted hands, and he closed his eyes as if kissing the loved ones that he would never see again.

Mom, dad, please don’t worry about me.

I am still alive.

… I will stay alive.

I will keep my promise with you.

No matter where I am, no matter what happens, no matter the means.

I will let myself live.

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In the dark room, the dark-haired boy curled up like he was snuggling in the arms of a non-existent relative and fell asleep again.

After who knows how long, the door of the room suddenly opened automatically and a tall figure stood at the door. The light coming in from outside stretched the person’s shadow on the ground until it fell on the person on the bed.

The man approached the bed and bowed his head slightly. He looked at the boy curled up on the bed. Then, leaning over, he hugged the child horizontally, as he did last night.

He glanced down at the person in his arms.

The youth’s face was still slightly wrinkled into a little childish look, not as calm and relaxed as last night. It didn’t look very good, and his frowning seemed a little like he was wronged. Like a small animal who has lost his way and cannot find a home, it inexplicably makes people feel a little soft-hearted.

The young major general hugged the person in his arms and calmly walked all the way back to his bedroom.

It was late and there were very few people on the way, but the soldiers on duty on each floor were still holding their posts.

Therefore……

“Damn, I just took a nap!”

“…..coincidentally, so did I.”

“And also had a terrible dream!”

“……Ai, I seemed to have one too.”

“……”

“…………What did you dream of?”

“You speak first.”

“You first.”

“I met Lord Major General who walked past with a boy in his arms…… This dream is so horrible that it scared my heart to the point where it’s still beating so hard right now, my mother, scared me to death!”

“… Ai, what a coincidence! Me too ah! I also had this terrible dream ah!”

“…………”

“…………”

Face to face, looking at each other.

The above is a conversation that stunned two young soldiers who watched His Excellency Major General passing by in front of their eyes holding a man in his arms, a dialogue that occurs after a brief blanking of the brain caused by excessive fright.