Chapter 155
Linyang Mountain is not very high, with the highest peak only about 300 meters above the ground; the scenery of this mountain is not outstanding either, with ordinary trees, ordinary flowers, and even the paths in the mountains showing a sense of disrepair and dilapidation. However, its geographical location is very good, and you can overlook most of the capital from the mountain. Moreover, after living in a city of reinforced concrete for a long time, people will naturally yearn for green mountains and clear waters. Therefore, although Linyang Mountain has no remarkable features, it is still the first choice for the people of the imperial capital to go out and play on their short days off.
But today, tourists were stopped halfway up the mountain. In fact, they were used to this situation in the past. There were countless relatives of the Ka family in the imperial capital, as well as nobles and officials of all sizes. Many of them felt that it would be a disgrace to their status if they did not block the road every time they went out. They would encounter road and mountain blockades every now and then.
But since Lin Qingsi came to power, he almost killed all the members of the Ka family, and no longer gave many privileges to noble officials as in the past. Under the threat of the Special Investigation Department, those old and young people in the past wanted to tuck their tails between their legs and pretend that they didn't exist. Even when they occasionally went out to travel, they kept a low profile and didn't show any of their past arrogance.
Perhaps they have been "spoiled" by the equality and justice they have experienced in recent years. When seeing the long-awaited mountain closure, some tourists' first reaction was not to accept it meekly and go home as before, but to immediately shout: "Mountain closure? I haven't heard of such a thing in many years! Do you still think it's still the old times? I tell you, the door of the Special Investigation Department is still open! If you stop me now, don't blame me for turning around and going to the Special Investigation Department..."
The man was about to threaten when his friend suddenly covered his mouth and said in a low and urgent voice: "Shut up! Let's go back!"
"Why?" The man didn't want to lose face in front of his friends, and kept saying, "We all came here with great difficulty, and it took two hours just to get stuck in traffic! In the end, we were chased down before we even got to the top of the mountain? I can't stand this! I must ask them for an explanation! Come on, boy, tell me, who is this distinguished person on the mountain?"
He said the words "honorable big shot" in a sarcastic tone, and his face looked like he deserved a beating. But the young man who was blocking the road just glanced at him calmly, without any more expression.
"Hey, stop talking!" His friend was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly pulled him close to his ear and whispered, "Don't you see? They are from the Special Investigation Department!"
"Special Investigation Division!"
As soon as these three words entered his ears, the man shuddered all over. Although he would use the Special Investigation Department to threaten the unknown nobles, he himself was also very afraid of that mysterious organization. At that moment, all the blood cooled down instantly. Looking carefully at the temperament and expressions of those young people, no one would believe that they were not the Special Investigation Department.
"Oh, could it be that the person on the mountain is..."
The two looked at each other, not daring to say a word, and hurriedly ran down the mountain.
The two young soldiers who blocked the road were somewhat helpless. They were indeed from the Special Investigation Department and were directly responsible for the security and defense of the head of state, Lin Qingsi. They could be said to be the people closest to the young head of state. These soldiers watched the man working hard for the happiness of the people and the stability of the country day and night. He changed many bad habits in the past, allowing the people who had been kneeling for too long to stand up again little by little. He changed people's inherent long-standing outdated concepts like spring breeze and rain. It can be said that they admired him very much. But unfortunately, most people could not see how much the man did for them. They only knew that his hands were stained with blood and they were always afraid of him.
Lin Qingsi on the mountain at this time didn't know that his subordinates were feeling unfair for him, and he didn't care about it. He was sitting alone in the pavilion, and saw the cold wind on the top of the mountain suddenly stop, and then a familiar spaceship seemed to come out of the air, scaring the people around him, and then they raised their arms and cheered.
The door of the spaceship opened, and someone rushed out like an arrow and rushed towards Lacini who was waiting on the side in military uniform. They were Lacini's younger brothers and sisters. They had grown up a lot, and Lacini's mother was standing at the cabin door, looking at them with a smile.
Several people had undergone very obvious changes, and they were completely different from the past. Their confidence, calmness, generosity, and liveliness almost made people forget their alien identity. But at this moment, other people could hardly pay more attention to this long-lost family. Some of them were busy saying goodbye to relatives and friends, some had no worries and boarded the spaceship directly, and some were cautious and careful, with countless questions in their minds, and it was a mess.
Some people left, some came back, but all of this seemed to have nothing to do with Lin Qingsi. He was like watching a silent farce, his eyes were always cold and indifferent.
Until the man got off the spaceship, Lor came up to him and whispered something, then he looked over here.
Lin Qingsi felt his heart suddenly lift up.
Rong Yuan explained something to the people around him, and then walked straight over. Lin Qingsi suddenly grabbed the teacup in his hand, and the veins on the back of his hand were clearly visible.
Rong Yuan walked up to him, smiled faintly, and said softly: "Shall we just take a walk?"
Lin Qingsi was silent for two seconds, as if he was deliberately being reserved, or as if he was trying to calm himself down. Then he stood up, nodded, and said, "Okay."
Some people couldn't help but look back at them, wondering what the two would say.
Rong Yuan walked in front, and Lin Qingsi followed behind. The two of them were walking one in front and one behind. They didn't seem to be walking fast, but they soon disappeared from everyone's sight.
After walking for a while, Lin Qingsi still didn't know what to say.
He knew that Rong Yuan might have guessed his true identity long ago - he was a clone of Rong Yuan, but not a clone in the traditional sense, because he was created using the genetic components of a drop of residual blood through a series of complex and even deliberately inhumane processes.
His birth was the result of a conspiracy by some people who had betrayed Rong Yuan. Most of his brothers died soon after due to gene collapse, or turned into twisted monsters. He was the only successful one among countless experimental subjects. No one knew what kind of coincidence had led to the birth of this miracle. Those in the laboratory had tried their best to replicate the miracle that happened to him, but to no avail. It seemed that his birth was the result of God's accidental favor and mercy, and had nothing to do with humans.
He used to be full of resentment towards Rong Yuan, because it was this man who caused him to be born from the cold nutrient solution and suffered countless cruel treatments as an experimental subject. If he had not been the only successful experimental subject, if he had not shown wisdom far beyond ordinary people at a young age and received special treatment, he would probably have become a biological slice suspended in green liquid.
He had completed studies in many subjects before he was ten years old, surpassing the best teachers the laboratory could provide him in almost all the subjects he was involved in. He began to study independently at the age of ten and even achieved many groundbreaking achievements in just one year.
Because the progress of the god-making experiment has been stagnant, the people in the laboratory had the wild idea of letting Lin Qingsi, the experimental subject, participate in their research. After one, two, and three years, Lin Qingsi has successfully become the main person in charge of the project and has mastered a lot of confidential information from the laboratory. Three years later, the secret laboratory data was leaked, and many of the studies greatly violated the interests of the three major countries. Even the royal family members who had disappeared became experimental subjects in the laboratory. As a result, almost no one in power can continue to tolerate the existence of such a place. The laboratory suffered a devastating blow, and the remaining personnel had to hide deep underground. Even though they knew that it was the escaped experimental subject who caused all this, they dared not act rashly because they had a more deadly handle in his hands.
So a month later, a thin and pale boy suddenly appeared in a small town in the Tulip Country. No one knew his origins or his name. A kind couple adopted him and named him "Lin Qingsi".
Lin Qingsi resented Rong Yuan for the suffering he had endured, but he also knew that his birth was not actually Rong Yuan's own wish. Perhaps to him, he was more like a stain, a sin that should be destroyed.
But at the same time, Rong Yuan was like a father to him. He was born because of him, endured many expectations and hardships because of him, and gained abilities far superior to ordinary people because of him. And because of the latter, he gained freedom and rights.
Expectation, grievance, admiration, resentment...all these emotions mixed together, making him not know how to face it or what to say, but he felt unwilling to let it go.
Rong Yuan glanced at Lin Qingsi who had been silent for a while, as if he could see through his inner struggle and unwillingness. He suddenly grabbed his hand, took a step forward, and the world turned upside down in an instant.
Lin Qingsi was startled and was about to shake his hand away subconsciously, but he was stunned by what he saw.
There was almost black sea water all around them, and there was not a single ray of sunlight overhead. They had no idea how far away from the sea surface they were, but they did not feel the huge water pressure at the bottom of the sea, nor did they feel any lack of oxygen.
There are many large and small fish and shrimps swimming in the sea hundreds of meters deep under your feet. Their strange shapes make them seem like they are in another world. Some ribbon-like plants emit a lavender light, embellishing the surroundings like a dreamlike scene.
This fairytale-like world was irregularly distributed, with a huge circle at their feet as the center, extending in five directions in a cone shape, and even in the sky, one could not see where the end was. From the center to the surroundings of this area, circles of black stripes could be vaguely seen, and those marine creatures that glowed by themselves seemed to be restrained by invisible forces and swam only in limited places, just like humans divided their living places into different functional areas.
After a closer look, Lin Qingsi suddenly felt that... the areas where these creatures swam were connected, as if they were a huge starfish lying prone on the seabed. Although they were not exactly the same as starfish, they had a strange sense of commonality. If you look carefully, you can also see eyes, tentacles, arms and legs, and even bones from those black stripes.
“This is… this is…”
Even Lin Qingsi couldn't help but stutter when he spoke at this moment.
"This is the golden-spotted sea whale, once one of the most powerful creatures on this planet, and it can be said to be the king of the ocean. In terms of individual ability alone, it is actually stronger than the legendary thunder beast and elephant tortoise."
Rong Yuan said: "When it was alive, the entire ocean was its backyard. No creatures on land - no matter whether they were early aliens or later rulers, humans - dared to go deep into the sea and only dared to fish on a small scale on the coast. The current situation of the three kingdoms on Zhongwu Star is also closely related to its existence."
Lin Qingsi nodded thoughtfully and said, "We can now enter space, but our research and exploration of the ocean is still on the surface, and maritime affairs are not well developed. When I was in the laboratory, I heard that there are very terrifying things in the ocean - is this what you are referring to?"
Rong Yuan nodded and said, "What you see now are just its remains. The real golden-spotted sea whale is four or five times larger than what you see now. Someone once accidentally saw part of its body and was frightened to death on the spot."
Lin Qingsi did not feel any fear, but he could imagine how horrified others would be if they saw the creature in front of them. The wreckage he saw now alone covered an area of dozens of square kilometers. If it expanded four or five times, it would probably cover a small town. If such a huge and terrifying creature was still alive, even if it just turned over near the coast, it would probably cause huge losses to the local city. Even with their current level of technology, they did not have a good way to deal with this terrifying creature that could swim in the deep sea.
However, after the death of this ocean overlord, it became a paradise for small marine creatures. The body that was once as huge as a mountain has now become the best nutrient, giving birth to countless lives.
After staying at the bottom of the sea for a while, Rong Yuan took Lin Qingsi and took two steps. In an instant, the world shattered, light and shadows flowed, and in the blink of an eye they had left the deep sea and were standing in the air more than a thousand meters high.
The clouds are like the sea, the fog is like waves, and above the vast clouds and fog, there is a layer of golden sunlight. Through the occasional gaps in the clouds and fog, you can glimpse the world below. Mountains, cities, and farmlands are all miniaturized into a palm-sized piece, as if you can reach out and grasp it.
"Cry——"
With a long cry, the black shadow pierced through the clouds and rushed up like an arrow. It soared towards the sun and shuttled through the sea of clouds, as if nothing between heaven and earth could restrain it.
Without Rong Yuan's introduction, Lin Qingsi also knew what this was - the descendants of Kun Eagle, the Lord of the Sky, one of the four major tribes of Zhongwu Star. It is said that the real Kun Eagle can soar in the universe, but that only exists in legends. Most people know about this blue-black eagle in front of them. They live on the top of snow-capped mountains thousands of meters high, flying on clouds and mist, moving with wind and thunder, and never landing on the ground below the mountain in their lives. When they are so old that they can hardly fly, they will not wait for death in their nests, but will soar in the sky with all their strength until they die of exhaustion.
This is a creature that Lin Qingsi also admires.
He watched the eagle fly and circle in the sky, chasing the sun like a moth to a flame, and diving into the sea of clouds. Whenever Lin Qingsi thought it had exhausted its strength and fell, it would pierce through the clouds and fly into the sky again, emitting a cry that startled the sky and stopped the clouds, and danced to its heart's content as it burned out its last breath.
Lin Qingsi did not see the final outcome of the feathered eagle because Rong Yuan pulled him forward another step.
This time, there was nothing around them, it was empty and desolate. There was nothing above their heads and under their feet, and it even made them lose their sense of direction. But in the distance...
The beauty of that dazzling sea of stars cannot be described in any language, and the vastness and mystery cannot be depicted by all human brushes. No more words are needed, because it is there, attracting people's endless yearning and the urge to pursue.
The star system where Zhongwu Star is located is a remote galaxy, and the night sky here is also very lonely. For a long time in the past, the people of Zhongwu Star even believed that there were only a handful of stars in the sky. Later, although people also knew that there was a more magnificent world outside Zhongwu Star, Lin Qingsi never thought that just a glance at that world from afar would shake people's minds to the point of almost forgetting everything.
"That's the Milky Way."
At this time, Rong Yuan beside him whispered: "My hometown is on an ordinary planet in the Milky Way. There are trillions of such planets in the Milky Way. In fact, Zhongwu Star also belongs to the Milky Way, but its location is too remote, far away from other planets, so you saw so few stars in the past."
Sound cannot be transmitted in the vacuum of the universe, but just like they can breathe freely now, Rong Yuan's voice can be heard clearly by Lin Qingsi. He doesn't know whether they are really standing in space, or Rong Yuan just brings the scenery in space to their eyes, or whether this is just a very real projection or illusion created by the person in front of them. Lin Qingsi doesn't want to delve into this, he just withdraws his gaze from the sea of stars and looks at Rong Yuan beside him.
Looking at the face that was so similar to his own, Rong Yuan was actually not as calm as he appeared on the surface. In the past, he had met people who looked very similar to him, and he had also seen hundreds of identical clones living, socializing, working, competing and even killing each other on a certain planet. But he never thought that such a thing would happen to him one day, and it was so uncomfortable and even weird.
If the person in front of him was not a person, but a skin with a similar appearance cultivated in a container, Rong Yuan would destroy it completely without hesitation, just like the experimental subject in the underground laboratory in the past.
But this is a living person, a life.
A life that was born because of him.
In fact, Rong Yuan did not think that he had to bear too much responsibility for Lin Qingsi's matter, at least not the main responsibility. Although it sounded like something a scumbag would say, he was undoubtedly a victim in this matter. Although there was a blood connection between them, they did not have a real blood relationship or kinship. Therefore, Rong Yuan originally only planned to give Lin Qingsi some help, and did not intend to really communicate with him, nor did he have anything to say.
but……
Looking at the fragility and expectation hidden deep in the eyes of the powerful young man in front of him, and thinking about how his thoughts and attitudes would be nagging him if they were known by someone who loved to worry, Rong Yuan couldn't help but soften his heart and just thought that he had accepted someone's advice and suggestions.
"There are trillions of galaxies like the Milky Way in the universe... maybe even more. And outside the universe we know, there may be even more wonderful worlds - this is what I have been pursuing. No matter how many ties I give up or how many hardships I go through, I will not regret my choice."
Rong Yuan said.
“Because the stars are there.”
Lin Qingsi's eyebrows trembled slightly, and there was a slight ripple in his eyes. He looked at Rong Yuan without saying anything.
"I don't want to preach to you, nor do I want to explain anything to you." Rong Yuan said: "Perhaps I should say sorry to you, because of me, you came into this world, but I was unable to watch you grow up. But I think you don't need these now."
"I didn't help you up when you fell; I didn't comfort you when you were in pain; I didn't protect you when you were in danger; I wasn't by your side when you needed me. You have come to this day on your own, and you are now strong enough to be relied upon by others to keep going."
"So... don't hesitate, and don't let the past become your shackles, keep moving forward! In the future, you will definitely bring more changes to this world and this era."
"I'm looking forward to it."
