Stacean LuciusStar Map Draftsman I: Federation War

General Les aside, the journey on the Tekken ship went well. By the time they arrived at Smyrni Planet, the veterans were enthused that they would have another chance to prove their worth to the Ashton Federation. The new recruits, on the other hand, looked conflicted, a sense of happiness of being needed surfacing on their faces, while fear grew deep in their bodies. Sandra presented her father’s token to the old lord and explained her plan to come to Smyrni Planet, which, naturally, was supported. On the way here, they thought that Visadio Planet was still safe in the outer layer, and that Madam Winifred was still negotiating with Carlson to confirm the terms of the Strath people’s retreat, and I heard that Madam Winifred had accepted many harsh conditions. But unfortunately, when Burt arrived at Visadio Planet and Carlson rendezvous, Visadio Planet’s traitors opened the force field shield from the inside, resulting in a gap in Visadio Planet’s defense in a short period of time, Strath people have hit Visadio Planet near the equator. So it seems that Carlson using Lord Winifred to blackmail Madam Winifred to negotiate is just a delaying tactic, in order to let Burt with the army to rendezvous with him to buy time.

“If this is the way things are going, then odds are Ashton Federation won’t be able to hold off the Strath people.” Dawn Lucius said as she sat worriedly on her bed in Smyrni Planet’s lounge, clutching a flexible device with a photo of Stacean Lucius on it.

“That’s what I was worried about.” Sandra said as she sat down next to Dawn Lucius and held his hand tightly.

“I want to go back to Earth first and get my son settled before I do, and subsequently, it’s okay to hide him somewhere in the solar system first.”

“Good.”

“The solar system is so big, even if we can’t resist the Strath people, they won’t necessarily be able to find him in a short time after they hit it, and as soon as the technology is ripe, he’ll wake up.”

“Right.”

“Then I want to move back now.”

“Good.” Sandra stroked Dawn Lucius’ head, and her gentle eyes showed infinite encouragement.

Dawn Lucius walked quickly to the command room, Duncan and the lord heard his concerns, several people also agreed with Dawn Lucius to return to the solar system first, “If the solar system is not safe, take him to Cavnos Planet, my father will protect him.” When parting, Duncan said after calling Dawn Lucius from behind, which made Dawn Lucius feel much more at ease, the lord of Smyrni Planet paid galaxy coin for Dawn Lucius’ homecoming, and he could use Star Bridge to travel many times. As for Sandra, she intended to follow Dawn Lucius, thinking of being attacked on the way to Cavnos Planet, in her words, maybe the rogues of the Ninth Legion were still looking for Dawn Lucius everywhere, she could at least protect him, and so the two of them entered the Star Bridge, and as the sky converged into A point, the stars into a thin line in front of their eyes fast forward, the sky and then from a point into a net, the two of them ship appeared in the vicinity of Mars. Only, the rings of Mars had been blown up, and the tranquility he had seen on his first return was replaced by a chase of firing ships, and even though the sound was inaudible in space, the shockwave from the explosion was propelling Dawn Lucius and Sandra’s ship.

“Not good.” Sandra said after peeking forward and recognizing the logo on the ship. “It’s the Strath people’s ship.”

“We’ll go to Earth first.” Dawn Lucius adjusted the angle of the ship and flew in the direction of Stacean Lucius.

The moon is brighter than ever, probably because it has been abandoned after Earth’s nuclear war, and all traces of humans on the moon have disappeared. the solar system’s armies are deployed near Mars and in the Kuiper belt, and the Strath people are invading the solar system from near Mars, causing all the solar system’s armies to flock there, and no one cares if there are ships flying towards Earth. The ship, Lords gave the two men was a small landing craft that could fly directly to the planet’s surface, and Dawn Lucius flew it to the gates of Project Nv Wa and stopped. He remembered the way Katherine had brought him here, and as he stepped quickly into the elevator, the numbers on the buttons were almost invisible, the thick layer of gray like the embodiment of lost time, and something vaguely unsettling came over Dawn Lucius. He clicked hard on the bottom button, the elevator did not respond, Dawn Lucius with a hard click a few times, but the elevator overreacted and quickly fell down a short distance, stopping for a moment before it began to open normally down. Countless images flashed in Dawn Lucius’s head, Stacean Lucius as a child, a scene like a movie in the heart of the broadcast, he was really afraid that Stacean Lucius is no longer there, afraid to see him no longer.

When the elevator stopped, Dawn Lucius ran towards the glass dome, Sandra was right behind him, the place had fallen into disrepair like a forgotten city, the original inspection craft had disappeared, Dawn Lucius arrived in front of the glass dome, the door was open, he remembered the last time Katherine used her authority to open it, his heart locked up at once. Dawn Lucius ran inside, towards the dormant compartment where his little man lay. The dormant compartment where his little man once lay was empty, Dawn Lucius felt around inside, there was nothing in it except the cold metal walls that came back to him when they touched his skin.

Dawn Lucius rushed into a sea of dormant bins, checking every dormant bin he came across. The more he searched, the more his heart became clogged, each empty dormant bin sucked away a little of his strength, sucked away a piece of his confidence, sucked away an inch of his miss. Dawn Lucius sat on the floor, tears squeezing out of his eyes like pea grains, dripping onto the back of his hands as he began to cry.

“I must have missed something?” Dawn Lucius thought to herself. “If someone removed Stacean Lucius, where did he go? Who removed it?” He couldn’t just give up. He had a story to tell Stacean Lucius, and a promise to pick him a star and bring him back, so he couldn’t just let it go.

“Don’t worry, I’m with you, I’m with you when you look all over the universe.” Sandra patted Dawn Lucius’s back and said.

The two men pass each other a look, then run towards the elevator. Dawn Lucius plans to find Katherine in the Kuiper belt, and will be able to ask what is going on. The elevator went up at breakneck speed, and when it was quite stable, the two creaking steel doors opened with difficulty. Dawn Lucius had just taken his foot off the ground when he was aimed at by countless guns, and a myriad of loaded warplanes floated in front of him, surrounding him in a fan shape. “Right on time.” Dawn Lucius was about to find someone to ask where the people in the dormant silo here had gone, and without stopping, he walked straight towards the people aiming at him.

“Please stop, or we’ll start robbing.” Someone shouted toward Dawn Lucius, dressed in heavy radiation-proof clothing, each looking the same, Dawn Lucius could not tell who it was.

“Tell me, where did the people in the dormant barn go? Where did my son go?” Dawn Lucius continued to walk toward the crowd.

“Please stop.” The crowd began to move back.

Dawn Lucius stopped, there is no point in asking, the people in front of him will only treat him as an invader, or a threat that they themselves can not figure out, open fire or not to Dawn Lucius is not meaningful, not to mention, and the people of Earth to keep the peace to ensure the safety of Stacean Lucius.

“Will your leader please talk to me?” Dawn Lucius looked up and shouted, slowing down for a moment as a protective suit stepped out of the crowd, but he never came close to Dawn Lucius, just that far forward in relation to the group behind him.

“Commander Lucius, what is the purpose of your return to Earth this time?” The protective suit asked.

“Looking for my son? Where is he?”

“Commander Lucius, he’s safe, but I want to ask, are you on our side?”

“What?” Dawn Lucius didn’t understand his question.

“I don’t care if you are still an Earthling or not, but I want to ask you about your position, are you on the side of the Earth?”

“So which other side can I take?”

“Sorry, Commander Lucius, the last time you emerged from the interstellar lanes near Mars, we didn’t worry about it. But this time, you are not the only one who emerged from there, they are attacking the solar system, and we want to ask, are you on our side?”

Dawn Lucius was a little angry by the question, the kind of question that if Dawn Lucius wasn’t on this side, Strath people would have called a long time ago and he spoke up. “I am an earthling, and all I do is protect the earth, protect my son’s home, and let Katherine talk to me.”

“Commander Lucius, that’s not necessary, but this time, you have to stay with your ship to do so.” The protective suit pointed backward to the ship the two were on.

Dawn Lucius did not need to explain, the solar system’s technology is still not much progress, human beings are like busy farmers, the heart aspires to far away, but the behavior is just busy plowing the land in hand, see a high-tech thing and want to stay, not surprising. But his goal is Stacean Lucius, if he does not agree to the demands of this group of people, then even if he turns the earth upside down today, it is just turning over countless uncertain dormant silos.

“Yes, the ship and the technology stay, but you will take me to my son.” Dawn Lucius slowly stepped into the protective suit.

“Commander Lucius, you have to keep your word.”

“No problem, you take the soldiers to the ship, take me to my son, and the ship you will sail away.” Dawn Lucius turned to look at Sandra, and she nodded.

The protective suit froze, he looked back at the people behind him and then turned to look at Dawn Lucius, he waved his hand back and the twenty or so people gathered hastily under Dawn Lucius’ ship. The protective suit reached out and gestured for Dawn Lucius to go ahead, and when he came to the ship, Dawn Lucius turned to the spacesuit and said. “This ship has no name, only a number, N72.”

After Dawn Lucius approached the ship, the energy body built a suspension ladder between the ground and the hull. Dawn Lucius led them all to the cockpit, and after confirming the coordinates of the Mars lab, the ship arrived almost instantly, before the crowd could feel the pull of the Earth’s gravity and the desperation of the engines, they appeared openly over the lab base. There were no military defenses near the Martian labs, and the population of the solar system, even if it was large, could not guard everything, not to mention that they were now busy with Strath people’s ships. Dawn Lucius remembered that the Earth Space Agency had proposed to blow up the two stages of Mars, the glaciers melting at the same time, to form an atmosphere for Mars, then they probably did not think, directly on Mars to build a living area, to design each living area Self-circulating ecosystems are also possible. It was also proposed to build a big glass cover for the outside of Mars, and later the improved solution was a huge ring outside Mars.

The young man in the lead looks to be in his twenties, his chin and cheeks are starting to grow a beard, his features are well defined, and the whole man looks full of ambition. Dawn Lucius turned around and took Sandra’s hand, letting her walk in the same row with him. He didn’t want Sandra to suddenly disappear behind him, or maybe he wanted to look at her for peace of mind. The group walked up to a large gray metal door, the young man in the lead took out a special key, and after a complicated operation to confirm, the door opened a gap, only enough for five or six people to pass through at the same time.

“You’re back.” The person who opened her mouth was Katherine, the first words Dawn Lucius heard upon entering the lab.

“Yes, where is my son?” Dawn Lucius yawned in greeting.

“He was right here, and when the nuclear radiation from Earth couldn’t dissipate and the last of the humans had evacuated, we evacuated to the Mars lab, which is dedicated to genetic technology.” Katherine happily spoke to Dawn Lucius.

“So has this place found a way to wake Stacean Lucius up yet?” Dawn Lucius looked around.

“Not the perfect solution, but we found it.”

Dawn Lucius heard this and his heart, which had just been constricted, suddenly loosened and he almost choked himself.

“And how is my son?” Dawn Lucius asked, grabbing Katherine’s arm.

“Commander Lucius ......,” Katherine spoke up as she broke away from Dawn Lucius’ hand. “You’re hurting me.”

Dawn Lucius pulled back his hand, which was hanging in mid-air, as he said in a rush. “I’m sorry sorry.”

Katherine leans the back of her hand gently against her lips to block the teeth that show when she smiles.

“And this is?” Katherine asked, pointing to Sandra.

“She?” Dawn Lucius replied as he turned to look at Sandra and turned his face to Katherine. “She’s my wife, Sandra, she’s ......” Dawn Lucius paused as he scanned the lab before continuing. “One sentence doesn’t make it clear, where is Stacean Lucius?”

“Nice to meet you.” Katherine and Sandra nodded to each other, and Katherine’s face looked a little different when she looked at Dawn Lucius as she turned and walked in the other direction. “Follow me.”

A few people came to an operating room, through the glass, Dawn Lucius saw five doctors standing inside, and several robot arms were busy on the operating table. dawn Lucius touched the glass cover above the operating table, inside lay his little man, he was still there, dawn Lucius’ heart steadied, tears fled, he laughed out loud, this long-awaited meeting, still Nothing bad had happened.

“Now what is it doing?” Dawn Lucius asked, staring inside the glass bin.

“Commander Lucius, we’re doing the genetic sequence tagging on Stacean Lucius, it’s almost done, after the tagging, we can work on fixing the bad part of his genes and then in rebooting his body.” Katherine replied.

“It sounds like they’re fixing the machine.” Sandra spoke up.

“Right.” Katherine came to her senses as she moved closer to Dawn Lucius and Sandra and continued. “We also discovered in our search for a cure for Stacean Lucius that the principle of genes is that they are like a series of pre-arranged to-do lists, like at a certain point in time it’s time to grow, at a certain point in time it’s time to replace, and that the genes do these things only if the substrate is in a living state, like Stacean Lucius is in now that was frozen, so the genes just suspended their activity. The reason the Earth failed long ago when researching freezing technology was because the matrix was frozen, but the genes were still doing things, which led to the frozen ones getting older as well.”

“And what is your program?” Dawn Lucius asked.

“Intervention genes.” Katherine replied as she stroked her hair from her ear.

“Intervention?”

“Yes, it looks like cheating genes.”

“Cheat the gene?” Dawn Lucius looked at Katherine as he wondered if he could cure his son.

“You understand it this way, genes are like a clock, the end of life is an alarm, and what we have to do is set the alarm later so that the genes will keep the person’s body functioning at a certain stage for a long time, but ...... “Katherine, shaking her head, she put away her smile and continued. “We don’t know yet what the principle of this alarm setting is, or how it can be canceled, so in the experiment, some people’s alarms were brought forward instead, so there are very few people in the solar system who are receiving genetic interventions now.”

“Will that save my son?”

“The chances are slim, but Stacean Lucius is special in that there is only one alarm clock inside his genes that controls his illness, and we have found a way to take that alarm clock out.” Katherine says confidently.

“Thank you, for taking care of him for me.” Dawn Lucius patted Katherine’s shoulder.

“I’m not smart enough to still find a way to get him back.”

“It’s not your fault, we have to have some patience, as long as his body is still intact, there is a chance that he will come back.”

“With all the technology you carry, couldn’t you have saved him?” Katherine asked, pointing to Dawn Lucius’ right arm.

“This?” Dawn Lucius pointed at the right arm and laughed bitterly. “I don’t even know what it really is, Datheon probably doesn’t care about the lives of ordinary individuals, they probably care more about the safety of the entire galaxy, and didn’t consider doing something for ordinary life when designing this sort of thing?”

“Katherine, please make sure my son is cured.”

“Commander Lucius, let me also remind you that using this current technology we wouldn’t be able to do it again, and you have a right to know.”

“I understand.” Dawn Lucius bowed his head as he looked at the silvery gray floor and continued in a low voice. “He’s everything to me.”

“I understand.” Katherine stood up, took a deep breath, and headed off like another room.

“Where are you going?”

“I’m going to work hard, continue to research genetic technology, and help you save your son back sooner.”

Dawn Lucius also stood up, and he owed Katherine a bow. “Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for everything you’ve done for us.”

“You do have to thank me, but yeah, I have to thank you too.”

“Why?”

“My father, Norm Quentin, I’ve been living in his shadow, I wanted to make my life more meaningful, I chased power, but women don’t stand a chance in this system, and after you came along I realized that if I could go save more lives, I’d have the power of life, and that would be more meaningful. After I threw myself into the genetic engineering that I have now, I found it much more real than chasing rights.”

Dawn Lucius didn’t say anything, he smiled and nodded as he followed Katherine toward another lab.

After the last genetic marker was completed, the doctors packed up the operating table and put Stacean Lucius back into the dormant bin. The soldiers arranged for Dawn Lucius and Norm Quentin to be connected, and Dawn Lucius told the whole story, rehashed the Star Map Draftsman thing, and demonstrated how he controlled dark matter, but this dark matter he couldn’t figure out what was going on. So far, the solar system people and zeroed in on the previous scientific observations and research data, for those who have dedicated their lives to scientists, Dawn Lucius’ words are a direct denial of a lifetime of hard work.

“So far, the solar system has been targeted, the solar system to focus on spaceflight, to go far away to find a new home again, do not put energy on top of the internal struggle, the enemy from the outside is not terrible, terrible is the internal, you should know that Ashton Federation so developed civilization, but also can not compete with the internal struggle. ” Dawn Lucius finished his sentence to the camera.

“We in the Norm department will manage things in the solar system, Commander Lucius,” the greasy middle-aged man in the shot says dismissively.

“Well then, we still have to go back to the Ashton Federation to stop the Strath people, if we can’t hold them off over there, the solar system will be Strath people’s after that.” Dawn Lucius looked at Sandra as she spoke back.

“I’m afraid you’re going to need to stay this time.”

“Why?” Dawn Lucius asked with a face full of impatience.

“You, and the technology you brought with you need to stay, the solar system needs such samples to learn from.”

“You can’t catch me, you know that?”

“Not necessarily.” The greasy man was still so confident.

“First of all, the ship is a very ordinary and common ship. I can quickly cross the star river because of Moreth Federation’s Star Bridge technology, you should pay attention to the Star Bridge technology.”

“That’s what the chief scientists told me, but I don’t think they’ve looked hard enough, Commander Lucius.”

“The device on me is called Star Source, I can control dark matter, any weapon does not harm me, on the contrary, I can bring more damage, did you know that?”

There was a moment of silence on the other side of the camera. “Not necessarily.” Still so confident.

“My goal is simple, protect my son and protect the solar system. Your confidence and ‘not necessarily’ is worthless in front of me. I’m not your enemy, I’m your outpost soldier, Norm Quentin, you have enough power, you don’t need to be proving to anyone how capable you are, you just need to keep the solar system running properly.” Dawn Lucius said calmly, pointing her index finger at the camera.

“You don’t have to teach me that, Commander Lucius, just do your thing and cooperate with the solar system, and since you’ve decided you’re still an Earthling, please do your duty and leave the high tech we can learn.” The greasy man had no intention of backing down.

“All right.” Norm Quentin interrupted the greasy man and continued. “Commander Lucius, are there going to be more armies coming to the solar system, and are they all showing up near Mars?”

“Yes, that’s the only place where there’s an entrance and exit to Star Bridge.”

“Can we close it?” Norm Quentin sat forward a bit.

“That’s not known.”

“Looks like we’ll just have to put a heavy guard around there.” Norm Quentin scanned the room.

“Yes, Norm Quentin, it would be better to reinforce the troops around the Kuiper belt as well, and use that as a second line of defense.”

“Understood, Commander Lucius, if your son wakes up, do you still want to leave?” Norm Quentin asked thoughtfully.

Dawn Lucius didn’t answer, he just shook his head, he hung up the video and hurried back to the operating room. Katherine was busy processing the data, Dawn Lucius walked up to her and patted her and spoke. “I’m worried that Norm’s department will hold my son hostage, can you protect him?”

Katherine looked at Dawn Lucius solemnly and said. “Don’t worry, I hold the genetic technology, and more than half of the solar system is on my side, they can’t touch Stacean Lucius.”

“No, I still need to come up with an insurance plan for Stacean Lucius.” Dawn Lucius thought to herself, there was hardly anyone else he trusted now.

Before Dawn Lucius officially set off, he demonstrated dark energy to Norm Quentin, with the help of Star Source, Dawn Lucius was able to gather purple energy body, the ability to gather well, can hold up a soft cotton T-shirt, can move a cup full of water without dripping, can distort the path of light forward, just like a black hole bent through its It can also easily break through any object, including hard spaceship shields, under the impact of dark energy, but also like a piece of paper so brittle. The presentation was broadcast throughout the solar system and Sandra identified herself as a citizen of the solar system, explaining the vastness of the universe and suggesting that mankind should not focus on the solar system, but should look outward, without considering whether technology is advancing or not, and that mankind should do what it has to do, like a gold digger, religiously. After Dawn Lucius and Sandra’s demonstration, the solar system has more confidence, and these seem to have dispelled Norm Quentin’s doubts. He decides that instead of communicating with Dawn Lucius through the camera, he will arrange a real meeting with Dawn Lucius alone. It is not until he gets on the ship to meet Norm Quentin that Dawn Lucius learns that no one in the solar system knows where Norm Quentin is, that the ship is disguised, and that the crew is Norm Quentin’s cronies, they took Dawn Lucius, back inside the Nv Wa project, and walked to the place where Dawn Lucius’s wife was buried, where Norm Quentin was already waiting.

After the two men had greeted each other, Dawn Lucius walked over to his wife’s grave and knelt down, pulling out the weeds that had grown, the posthumous photo showed her with a smile on her face, as she always did, Dawn Lucius wiped the dew off the photo with the back of his index finger, he got up, walked over to Norm Quentin and spoke with an owl. “What is the purpose of our meeting?” I heard that Norm Quentin is almost eighty years old, but Dawn Lucius met at this time, but a middle-aged man who looks the same age as him, Dawn Lucius was wondering if this Norm Quentin is real.

“I suppose your question is that my body doesn’t look right for my age?” Norm Quentin asked with an expressionless face.

“You’re just really Norm Quentin.” Dawn Lucius replied.

“This is thanks to Katherine’s improvements in genetic technology, which allows her to repair her body again even at an older age, which would have been considered unethical in other times when Earth civilization was still around.”

“I prefer to look farther ahead, and what is prescribed on Earth that goes against ethics cannot help us go farther.”

“That’s rather the way Commander Lucius does things, so Commander Lucius has always preferred to leave his family on Earth and go exploring in space.”

“I think you misunderstood.” Dawn Lucius turned to look at his wife’s grave and continued, “I’m exploring into space to find more survival options for my family.”

“Even if your wife doesn’t support you?”

“My wife and I have very different values, she likes to keep on Earth, I look outward to space, there is no support, just that we are pursuing different things.”

“Commander Lucius, is this finding the secret of immortality? If you were on Earth, you would be at least over a hundred years old, and now you look no different than when you left Earth.”

“Norm Quentin, immortality is not my goal, I just want my son to live, I just want to be there for him.”

“Is Commander Lucius so eager to accompany Stacean Lucius that he is making up for his regrets?” Norm Quentin laughed contemptuously.

“Guilt or miss or regret, it’s not about you, it’s about me.”

“Don’t you know? A miss is a miss, and there’s no chance to make it up again.”

“Norm Quentin,” Dawn Lucius continued after a moment’s pause as she sniffled. “I’d like to know what the purpose of our meeting alone is.”

“There is no clear purpose, how about a deal with you?”

“Go ahead.”

“It’s simple, help me along and find a bigger galaxy for the solar system to live in again.”

“How can I help?”

“Here.” Norm Quentin said, pointing to the Star Source on Dawn Lucius’ right arm. “What the mission of this ability, Star Map Draftsman, is I don’t know, but it can be a powerful weapon that can clear a lot of obstacles. At the moment we already know about the existence of Star Bridge technology, and there are people who have helped us to master it, but only I and a few few others know about it, and if everyone in the solar system knew that we had Star Bridge technology, it wouldn’t be long before the solar system would re-emerge into the kind of nuclear war that happened during the time of Earth, and it wouldn’t be long before the solar system would be plunged into darkness. ”

“Looking for a new living space, there is no obstacle, since you can fly out, fly out on the line, like I said, master the Star Bridge technology on the line.”

“There are three major Federations and two secondary civilizations on Orion Arm, and people from the solar system can only belong to any Federation no matter where they go. A little further away we went to the Big Horn system, and hell, either the Ashton Federation or the Moreth Federation came out and said it was their domain. Recently, our exploration team told me that there are two planets in the Pegasus 51 system that are very similar to Earth, in terms of climate and gravity, and they are very suitable for people in the solar system. Don’t you wish Stacean Lucius could live there? But one thing you need to be aware of is that the Pegasus 51 galaxy is a fringe galaxy of the Ashton Federation.”

“Norm Quentin,” Dawn Lucius said as she changed her normal tone, unfolding as if she was talking to a friend. “Thankfully, the solar system has a leader like you, and I suppose you want to use my ability to control dark matter as a weapon, or as an insurance policy to help the people of the solar system find a new home again, which is fine. But, I’ll be honest with you, I don’t know what Star Map Draftsman is, I don’t know what harm this thing actually does, and in the unknown, we’re better off playing it safe.”

“Commander Lucius, now that you’ve said that, I understand your attitude.” Norm Quentin sighed as he turned to look at the tombstone of Mrs. Dawn Lucius and spoke. “The solar system looks like it is counting on not you anymore, never was, I’ll just say one thing hoping for your assurance.”

“Sorry about that, Norm Quentin please.”

“If, in the future, the war in Orion Arm involves the solar system, please just don’t make it difficult for the solar system.”

“Of that, I can assure you.”

After the two talked, Norm Quentin proposed that Dawn Lucius go to the Mars lab to see Stacean Lucius. Katherine sent a new message that they were sure that Stacean Lucius would wake up, which excited Dawn Lucius, who resented Norm Quentin’s slow walk and urged him to go faster in three steps. Dawn Lucius is still blaming Norm Quentin for choosing such a long way to go back, but after Dawn Lucius’ persuasion, Norm Quentin decides to go to Mars with him to witness the moment Stacean Lucius wakes up. When the soldier asks if he needs more troops to protect Norm Quentin’s safety, he refuses. According to the plan, he won’t stay on Mars for long and will need to return to some hidden command center on the Kuiper belt to continue making plans to defend against the Strath people.

“Commander Lucius reminds me of the way I was anxious when Katherine was born.” Norm Quentin said of Dawn Lucius in the waiting area at the Mars Lab.

“I was so anxious when Stacean Lucius was born, and every second was so long and so intense.” Dawn Lucius said with her eyes fixed on the operating room.

“Yes, not everyone is qualified to be a father, and if life gives a man this opportunity, then he should take it.”

“That ......” Dawn Lucius turned his face to look at Norm Quentin, a phrase Dawn Lucius seemed to have heard somewhere, but couldn’t remember, he opened his mouth and asked, “Norm Quentin from where did you hear that?”

“It’s been a long time and I’ve forgotten, so maybe someone important told me about it.” Norm Quentin laughed.

“By the way, is Norm Quentin a descendant of General Quentin? Maybe because your FIRST name is Quentin, so I associate that.”

“That’s not true, my father is also an aerospace engineer, just a very ordinary one.”

“Do I know him?”

“It should not be so, your era is full of heroes, he is as simple as an ordinary father, unlike you ......”

“I wish I was just a normal father too, then I wouldn’t have been gone so long.” Dawn Lucius got sad, he looked towards the operating room, just then Sandra and Katherine came out from inside the operating room, Dawn Lucius and Norm Quentin greeted them, Sandra walked to Dawn Lucius and held his hand. “How did it go?” Dawn Lucius asked in a loud voice.

“The man is awake.” Katherine smiled, the beads of sweat on her forehead moving slowly downward.

“Thank you, thank you.” Dawn Lucius said, and then knelt down toward Katherine, whose hand he held and kept shaking.

“Commander Lucius, don’t do this ......” Norm Quentin and Katherine rushed to help Dawn Lucius up, and from Katherine’s mouth, they learned that Stacean Lucius’ only consciousness level woke up, others have not woke up, need to observe a while, let Dawn Lucius first do not go in to disturb Stacean Lucius rest. Moreover, Katherine told Dawn Lucius to be prepared that even if Stacean Lucius woke up, he might not live to adulthood, and that the Martian lab’s genetic modification techniques were almost always effective, for example, on Norm Quentin, but Stacean Lucius, in Katherine’s words in the words of Katherine, “He has a blank behind his genes.”

“Norm Quentin ......” Just as Dawn Lucius was about to ask what was next, the wounded soldier hurried in, adding breathlessly. “Another force from the Strath people is coming in, the military has recommended abandoning Mars, we need to hold the fortress in the Kuiper belt, most of the men have already evacuated there, you guys hurry up and leave too.”

After the soldier finished, he turned around and flew his warplane into the sky to fight inside, Dawn Lucius briefly thought about it, Strath people fight inside the solar system there are two things to figure out, the first is whether Moreth Federation provided Strath people with the convenience of invading the solar system, Jonathan said that Jonathan said that the Star Bridge technology can not be used to transport soldiers to participate in the war, but now the facts are contrary to what Jonathan said, if Moreth Federation is on the side of Strath Federation, then, Moreth FederationManiya Planet’s governor is not directly involved, or, is not the treasurer gave Strath people to the Strath people. Or, did the treasurer give Strath people permission to use the Star Bridge. Regardless of the extent of Moreth Federation’s involvement, in general, the solar system is in jeopardy. The second thing to figure out is whether Visadio Planet has fallen, Dawn Lucius and Sandra came to Earth when Burt and Carlson had fought near the equator of Visadio Planet, and Madam Winifred in the confrontation, if Visadio Planet fell, then the solar system will Only to fend for themselves.

“Dawn, let’s take Stacean Lucius and retreat to safety, his safety is most important now.” Sandra said as she shook Dawn Lucius’ hand.

“Right, so where do we retreat to?” Dawn Lucius asked, looking at Norm Quentin.

“Either go to the Kuiper Belt, where there are the most soldiers and it’s relatively safe.” Norm Quentin replied.

“No, we go to the place where there are many soldiers instead, we are easy to be attacked.” Katherine said.

“That ......,” Dawn Lucius asked, looking at Katherine. “Is the ship relatively well-stocked?”

“That’s quite sufficient, the Mars Lab ship is the equivalent of a mobile laboratory.”

“Okay, then let’s go to Skyguard.” Dawn Lucius said.

“Skyguard I?” Norm Quentin asked, puzzled.

“Yes, the moons of Uranus, in my day it was detected that it showed that there was soil, it was just that the sun did not shine there, so no plants could grow.” Dawn Lucius replied.

“Why go where?” Katherine asked, also puzzled.

“I promised my son that when he is on vacation, we will go live on the moons of Uranus and change one moon every day ......” Dawn Lucius remembered when he and Stacean Lucius used the telescope to look at the stars, Stacean Dawn Lucius took a deep breath, but tears fell to the strawberries that were scraped off by the wind before they were ripe, Sandra put one arm around Dawn Lucius’ waist, and one hand was smoothing his chest.

“Come on in, you guys.” The doctor in the operating room called out to several people.

Dawn Lucius was the first to rush forward, he ran to Stacean Lucius’ bedside and knelt on the floor to keep his eyes level with Stacean Lucius, his heart was pounding hard against his chest like a beast about to break free, his little man opened his eyes and grinned a big grin when he saw Dawn Lucius, his eyes narrowed to slits. Stacean Lucius reached over to Dawn Lucius, who brought his head up to him, Stacean Lucius first touched the back of Dawn Lucius’ head, then held his ears, and finally touched Dawn Lucius’ nose, and only when he was sure it was a real person did he speak. “Daddy, Daddy, you’re back.”

“Well, Daddy’s back.” Dawn Lucius heard Stacean Lucius speak and the whole thing broke down into sobs.

“Where’s Mom?”

“Mom is going out.”

“What about you? Going out?”

“No, Daddy isn’t going anywhere.”

“You said, you went to pick stars for me, did you pick them?” Stacean Lucius spoke, his whole being still weak.

“This is the star your father picked.” Just when Dawn Lucius was in trouble, Sandra handed Stacean Lucius a planet’s pendant from behind. Dawn Lucius knew this pendant, it was left to her by Sandra’s mother ball, Sandra’s father was always out fighting as a child, in order to figure out which planet her father was on, the mother ball made this pendant for her, telling her Her father was always with her on the planet around her neck. Dawn Lucius shook Sandra’s hand, and he was grateful to her.

“Thank you auntie, it’s beautiful.” Stacean Lucius took the pendant and then closed his eyes after hugging it to his chest.

“Little tiger, are you sleepy?” Dawn Lucius stroked Stacean Lucius’ face, a warmth came to his heart, he looked carefully at every inch of Stacean Lucius’ skin, every hair of his hair, he put his nose on Stacean Lucius’ hair and smelled the smell he gave off.

“Dawn, listen to me.” Sandra tapped Dawn Lucius from behind. Dawn Lucius didn’t turn around, but he already knew in his heart.

Dawn Lucius has discussed life with Sandra before. In some faiths, people believe that the death of a loved one is just a physical disappearance, and that their soul will reunite with the departed loved one in another place, “We can sense their presence, can’t we?” Sandra said, if the loved one disappears after passing away, then why does our heart’s longing not disappear, except that we can’t understand the attachment and measure it yet. dawn Lucius died twice, the first time was the death of his body, that was when he was struck through the chest by an energy object on the Sane ship. This time it was the death of the heart. Stacean Lucius woke up briefly to speak to him and then closed his eyes forever. Dawn Lucius’ heart, had gone with Stacean Lucius, he had no strength to cry, no strength to breathe, no strength to hear the words of those around him, he only felt that Stacean Lucius was beckoning to him, Dawn Lucius closed his eyes when Stacean Lucius invited him to roam in the universe together.

Stacean Lucius was sitting on the lap of Dawn Lucius, who was flying a colorful spaceship. “Look, there’s mommy,” looking in the direction Stacean Lucius pointed, the nebula outside the porthole was cascading, and there was a mushroom-shaped nebula that was smoking hot. At first, the shape of the mushroom was still intact, and as the ship approached, the umbrella of the mushroom looked as if it had been broken by a heavy rain, with small pieces hanging behind it. And this time, the shimmering bright spots became visible to the naked eye. It was like a stellar cradle, with stars gathered by gas spinning fast, and when they had enough gravity and speed, they were free to rush among the stars, they wandered, clashing limb by limb with other stars, until they were captured by a small, stable galaxy. The small galaxy is like an old man who has been through the mill, placing the newborn stars in the right places around him, and as the months go by, the star begins to mature, like a grown man, and it begins to acquire the lost planets, giving them their place and then continuing to give its love, spreading its warmth unstintingly, and these planets like to be taken care of, using their own personalities, re-birthing new little lives inside them. At first, the life is a single cell, they do not feel their existence, they do not feel the presence of other people’s single cell body, later, evolved into a more complex form of life, grew four legs, this is the story that Stacean Lucius likes, he likes Dawn Lucius to tell him the process of the tadpole grows four legs into a frog.

“Dad, I’m old enough not to need you with me anymore.” Stacean Lucius said as he turned to look at Dawn Lucius.

“My little man is growing up, but I can’t leave you alone.” Dawn Lucius pressed his nose to Stacean Lucius’ forehead and he kissed Stacean Lucius’ eyebrows.

“You didn’t leave me, we’re just going to take different paths, we’ll see each other again, I promise.”

“What about when Daddy misses you?” Dawn Lucius opened her hands wide and placed them on Stacean Lucius’ chest and his stomach, trying to hold Stacean Lucius tighter.

“Tell me to the stars when you miss me, they’ll pass it on for me, I’m your sea of stars, remember? Dad.”

“Of course I remember, you’re the only star Daddy has.”

“I’m going to miss Daddy too, I’m going to go find Mommy, I’ll see you on the other side, okay?”

“Wait a little longer ......” Dawn Lucius woke up, he felt as cold as if he had just been fished out of an ice cave, his throat was tight with a burst of pain, he couldn’t swallow no matter how hard he tried to breathe, his lungs couldn’t hold enough air. Sandra helped him to stand up from the bed, Katherine and Norm Quentin are still there.

“Commander Lucius, we’re sorry, we’re sorry about this too.” Norm Quentin walked up to Dawn Lucius and held his hand tightly, tears welling up in his eyes, Dawn Lucius could feel his sincerity, the warmth in Norm Quentin’s hand was so familiar. “I’m sorry we can’t be with you, we’re in orbit on the backside of Mars now, I have to get back to the Kuiper belt, I hope you pull yourself together and join me in guarding this galaxy that Stacean Lucius loves.”

Norm Quentin handed Dawn Lucius a screen containing the video Stacean Lucius had recorded, the one Katherine had shown him the last time he was on Earth. Norm Quentin came up and hugged Dawn Lucius, and he pressed his chin into Dawn Lucius’ shoulder socket, giving Dawn Lucius the illusion that he was Stacean Lucius. After saying a brief goodbye to Sandra, Katherine hurriedly boarded another ship and disappeared from Dawn Lucius’ sight. Dawn Lucius swept a glance at this familiar and unfamiliar star field, he heaved a fresh breath and clenched his fist, not letting go even when his nails sank into the skin of his palm.

Sandra told him that Stacean Lucius’ body had been returned to the Nv Wa project and that he was buried with his mother, and that Norm Quentin had arranged for some of the soldiers to reinforce the supports and gates of Nv Wa, and Dawn Lucius stared at the once-blue planet, where nuclear contamination had not dissipated and the Earth looked like a gray glass bead in the sunlight . After Dawn Lucius and Sandra adjusted their ship, they activated the Star Bridge and, with powerless bodies and mixed emotions, set out for the Smyrni Planet.