Chapter 210
"I'm sorry, Captain, I...I let you down..."
Liuka...or Drobuk secretly looked at Rong Yuan's expression and said in a low voice.
Rong Yuan 's face was as white as jade, and his light brown pupils were calm. He stood there expressionlessly, which made Drobk feel tremendous pressure.
When Drobuk first met Rong Yuan, he was just a poor kid who didn't even have a single friend. At that time, the Feiyan team members who appeared in front of him seemed to be glowing, especially Rong Yuan, who made him look up to him and admire him, but also felt out of reach.
After joining the Feiyan team, Drobuk felt that all his luck had probably been used up here. For the first time in his life, he felt that he finally belonged. Everyone in the team was very nice to him, and Rong Yuan, as the captain, made him both respectful and a little afraid. Because although the other teammates were also very strong, after getting along for a long time, they would naturally understand each other's weaknesses and personalities. Dunke, who had the best temper, would also get furious, and Barabi, who always acted as a peacemaker, would also yell when he was angry. The venomous Isli would be scared by a fist-sized spider and call for his mother, and the taciturn Nightwing had no resistance at all in front of the weak and cute little animals.
Only the captain, Rong Yuan, Drobuk had never seen him lose control of his emotions, nor had he ever seen him fragile and afraid. He was always so calm and composed, his eyes seemed to have seen through everything, and it seemed that nothing in the world could move him. He was the pillar of the Feiyan team, because of his existence, no matter what situation they were in, they would not fall into despair; no matter what difficulties they encountered, they were always confident and fearless, because their captain was Rong Yuan.
Drobke's admiration and respect for Rong Yuan did not disappear despite their long time together. Instead, it grew deeper and deeper.
Especially now that he was very clear about what he had done over the years... He didn't dare to hope that Rong Yuan would be ignorant of what he had done, let alone lie to him. He didn't even dare to look up, for fear of seeing a pair of eyes full of disappointment.
After a long time, Drobuk heard Rong Yuan say, "How did you survive that year?"
At that time, a supernova exploded in a close distance. Even Rong Yuan would not have survived if Wandou had not desperately protected him, let alone others. Rong Yuan once searched for it with a one in a million hope, but found nothing.
He always thought that he was the only one who survived among all the people who went out on the adventure.
Recalling the horrific scene, Drobuk's body trembled unconsciously, and he subconsciously put his hands on his face. After a long time, he stopped trembling, then he took off his mask and the protective suit on his upper body.
Rong Yuan's pupils suddenly shrank.
No wonder he always has to hide himself behind the protective suit...
The Drobuk in front of him... could hardly be called a human. His skin was burned clean, one eyeball was bulging, and in the other eye socket was a blood-red ball that was spinning. There were only two black holes left in his nose, and half of the flesh where his mouth used to be melted and stuck together, and the other half was filled with hideous teeth. Red, vine-like things were crawling all over his head and neck, making him look more terrifying than the demons in the legends.
The same was true of his upper body, with red blood vessels, muscles and bones crisscrossed in a disorderly manner. In some places, the ribs protruded like armor; in some places, the muscles condensed into clumps, bulging out weirdly, like glaring eyes; some blood vessels were as thin as hair, some as thick as a child's arm, covering the whole body.
Drobuk didn't dare to look at Rong Yuan when he was wearing the protective suit, but when he took off the suit, he stared at him intently. He saw that Rong Yuan was a little shocked at the beginning, but he was the same as always, without any disgust or nausea.
Somehow, he felt a little disappointed, as if he was expecting to scare Rong Yuan with his current appearance. But undoubtedly, Rong Yuan's attitude at the moment made him relax a lot.
Drobuk smiled bitterly and said, "As expected of the captain... I myself... can't even bear to look at myself now."
"Captain, do you think... am I still alive?"
Without waiting for Rong Yuan to answer, Drobk paused for a moment and continued, "When that incident happened, I was in the spaceship... I just happened to look out the window... and my eyes became blind..."
"Then, I only felt intense pain... It was so painful that my whole body felt like it was on fire, but it was thousands and tens of thousands times more painful than that. But for some reason, I couldn't faint and could only passively endure the pain! I even wanted to kill myself, but I couldn't feel my hands at all and I couldn't move. I felt nothing except pain..."
"In that situation, I had no sense of the outside world. So if you want to ask me what happened at that time, I can only say... I don't know..."
"But over the years, I have actually made some guesses and research myself, but I don't know how close they are to the facts."
"Since my adoptive father picked me up thirty-five light years away from the explosion site, I thought that perhaps when the jet of the explosion engulfed the spacecraft, I was drawn into the black hole and was instantly transported to a place thirty-five light years away."
"Logically, I shouldn't have survived... Even if the jet from the supernova didn't kill me, the gravitational difference from the black hole would have torn me to pieces! But at that time, I happened to be carrying a gem that I had picked up near the nebula. At the moment of crisis, the gem somehow merged into my body, causing some strange changes to occur in me."
Drobuk lowered his head and stared at his right hand. A crooked thick blood vessel extended along the back of his hand to the fingertips, forming a small round ball at the fingertips, as if a red head was sticking out from there. If you look closely at the lines on it, you can also make out the eyes, ears, mouth, nose and other facial features.
When the Feiyan team explored near the Pillar of Creation, they would also collect some special things like other adventure teams. Even if it was just a small stone, as long as they could prove that it came from the nebula near the Pillar of Creation, they could sell it for a very high price. The team members could deal with the things they collected by themselves, whether they collected them, sold them, or gave them away. Rong Yuan always let them do whatever they wanted.
The gemstone that Drobuk had was the size of an eyeball. He had picked it up when he was escorting a mecha. He thought the stone was as bright as a diamond, so he picked it up. Before bringing it into the spacecraft, it was also tested in various ways, and it was finally proved to be just an ordinary stone with a beautiful appearance. The radiation value was also so low that it could be ignored, so it didn't matter if he carried it with him.
So Drobuk kept it with him all the time.
After the explosion, he fell into a coma and didn't know how long he floated in space before he woke up again.
When he woke up, he found that everything on his body had been completely destroyed, except for this gem, which had merged into his body from his side abdomen and continued to transmit a strange power into his body, transforming him into a strange shape.
He could see again with the eyes that had been blinded in the explosion ... and not only did he regain his sight, he could see more... more than he had ever imagined.
The whole world seemed to unfold before his eyes, and endless information poured into his mind, even beyond the limit of what his brain could accept. In just a few seconds, he felt severe dizziness and suffocation, and even felt as if he was about to be killed by the world he saw! Fortunately, after a few seconds, Drobk came out of that state.
His vision returned to normal.
He floated in space and was not killed by low temperature, radiation, lack of oxygen, decompression, cosmic rays or hunger and thirst; he saw with his own eyes a small meteorite hit him at high speed, but it passed through his body and flew away without causing him any harm.
Drobk realized that he was in a very strange state, not only because of his physical condition, but also because he was both integrated and isolated from the world. He could see, hear, and feel, but he could not touch the real world, nor could he be touched by the world he was familiar with.
This also means that even if a spaceship accidentally passes by him in the vast universe, the people on board cannot find him, let alone save him. He can only float like a ghost until one day he dies completely.
Drobke could hardly imagine what that state of despair and loneliness must have been like.
He struggled, screamed, yelled, punched and kicked, tried to control external objects with his mind, and even tried to commit suicide several times. It took him an unknown amount of time before he finally broke free from that state of isolation!
Then he was almost frozen to death by the temperature close to absolute zero!
Fortunately, his mutated body gave him more room to struggle. At the moment of death, Drobk successfully put himself into that mysterious state again.
This time, Drobk felt more confident. After some exploration and research, he believed that he had actually entered a higher-dimensional space.
What kind of high-dimensional space is this? Drobuk himself couldn't explain it clearly. After all, he had never done any research on spatial dimensions. He only had a rough understanding of some concepts on Starnet and when chatting with his teammates. He was confused about his own state, but driven by his survival instinct, he still mastered the way to enter and exit the high-dimensional space.
More than a month passed.
One day, while Drobuk was recovering from the damage he had sustained in space, he suddenly saw a small star approaching. A few days later, he realized that it was actually the light of a spaceship.
