Chapter 86: “I'll take you home.”

The final resolution to ignite the sun a third time was no longer in suspense.

Lu Anji had been in a coma for a full twelve days.

The frequency of conflicts with the Zerg was about once every two days.

The UIF had mobilized the remaining battleships for escort.

For as long as he was unconscious, the higher-ups were on tenterhooks.

Fortunately, nothing had happened in these twelve days.

Lu Anji, after waking up, also gave an explanation.

He was trying to collect data on the sun.

The investigation team tried to pretend they didn't understand.

Lu Anji didn't answer further, but only asked them to take the message back to the command center.

The commander-in-chief would understand.

“I will continue to collect data. It’s up to you to decide whether the plan can be approved.”

“This is the most once-and-for-all method. We have all been mired in war for too long, and have been held hostage by hatred for too long.”

“On the front lines, there are not a few who are hesitant about human survivalism. Fear is an instinct, Commander-in-Chief. I will act according to my instincts.”

“If you think I need a military tribunal, as you wish.”

His voice was gentle, and he looked at the recording device that had been turned on before the conversation.

His black eyes and the black camera lens were in a standoff, presenting a similar yet different kind of deadness.

“I don’t need this war anymore.”

“He lies as easily as he breathes. Little Lu is really…”

The system tutted, “I really wish I had such thick skin!”

Chu Zu didn't have the time to appreciate Lu Anji's insincere performance with the little yellow chicken.

He had gotten himself into trouble.

He had gotten himself into big trouble.

After more than ten days of not eating or drinking, and without the treatment of being hooked up to an IV like Lu Anji, Chu Zu was weak all over when he got up, and his head was also dizzy.

He had to eat a lot to suppress his instinct to find energy supplements.

Chu Zu grabbed the compressed food provided in the rest room and ate it greedily.

He started to dry heave as he ate.

After vomiting, he wiped his mouth, drank some water, and continued to eat.

The little yellow chicken's heart ached.

It pushed the snacks it had bought before forward.

The food in the sea of consciousness was not filling, at most it could be tasted.

Chu Zu put a candy in his mouth and asked how the sun's data collection was going.

“The previous data have all been saved, and I’ve also built a few corresponding models but you’d better connect with the Mother Bug a few more times to update the data.”

As humanity approached, the Zerg's attrition accelerated.

In order to build a final line of defense, the Mother Bug had to speed up its reproduction rate and further extract the sun's meager energy.

She was decaying quickly, and the sun's changes were also rapid.

The problem was here.

Chu Zu sighed: “I can’t contact my mom.”

Before, when he was building a consciousness connection with the Mother Bug, Lu Anji couldn't find him, and vice versa.

His mom had called him for twelve days, but he hadn't gotten through.

At that time, Chu Zu was bravely venturing into the sea of consciousness with Lu Anji.

As soon as the consciousness was cut off, the Mother Bug immediately came to him.

Chu Zu still didn't answer.

The Mother Bug could force a connection, but she never did so, having a kind of "I want to see what kind of trouble you can get into" look.

“My mom isn’t stupid either. She may not have figured out what I’m doing, but she can probably guess that I’m quietly doing something big. If we connect again and she sees some clues, she can directly come and get me.”

Chu Zu had no doubt that the Mother Bug would absolutely do so.

Humans always liked to use their own ecological environment and social habits to interpret other creatures, but Chu Zu would not.

He still didn't think that the Mother Bug's behavior was "maternal love."

After jumping out of the fixed frame to think, perhaps a rather novel logic could be derived.

In this logical framework, Azul could not die.

“She doesn't want me to die, and I don't want her to die.”

Chu Zu swallowed the last mouthful of compressed food of unknown origin and drank a large mouthful of water to moisten his throat, “It just depends on whether little Lu is up to the task. The choice is in his hands.”

The system rarely acted as the atmosphere group.

It put another piece of candy into Chu Zu’s consciousness.

“As long as you follow the original plot…”

It thought for a while and said seriously, “You will get what you want.”

***

In the twelve days that Lu Anji was in a coma, Azul had never appeared on the bridge.

The vice captain had sent someone to knock on the door of the rest room, but no one answered, so they stopped caring.

In what should have been the most orderly place, Azul’s existence was extremely out of place.

No one would like to see a leisurely person when they were at death’s door, especially when he was so fearless.

But after Lu Anji returned to his post, Azul also reappeared on the bridge.

It was as if he knew who could back him up, so he precisely avoided the unfamiliar and unfavorable scenes.

The vice captain silently handed over a joint petition, which had been signed by everyone on the bridge.

“You must restrain him.”

The vice captain insisted, “This ship is full of soldiers who have voluntarily come to the front lines. We rarely act as officers and try to use everything we have learned in our lives to protect the ordinary soldiers who have not received advanced training.”

The vice captain: “Everything we learned at the Allied Military Academy was to be able to stand here and die with composure.”

“You too.”

“But Azul is not. He—”

The captain’s expression made him stop.

Lu Anji hadn't said a word, just looking at him.

The vice captain rarely saw the captain with this expression.

He was always decisive in all his decisions.

This person seemed to not need to think.

He gave orders as a conditioned reflex.

There had been discussions among the crew.

They said that the situation was completely different when they were on other battleships.

Lu Anji had turned the unpredictable battle into a simulation management game, as if the only difference between the two sides was military strength and technology.

He knew the Zerg’s next step, and the step after that.

He just needed to put the right people in the right positions.

The outcome might not be good, but it would definitely not be too bad.

Under his command, a strange sense of security and unease coexisted.

But there was no denying that Lu Anji was a very emotionally stable and outstanding officer who could fully represent hope and light.

Now the captain seemed to be thinking just like the captains on other battleships.

The difference was that other captains mostly pondered during battles, while Lu Anji only needed to decide on a very small matter.

How to deal with Azul.

“You hate his inaction, right?”

Lu Anji said, “You think he hasn’t taken on the responsibility he should have. As a human, he is undoubtedly unqualified, and I am condoning what is wrong.”

Lu Anji: “Do you want me to conduct a fair trial?”

The vice captain did not dare to answer.

Lu Anji’s eyes were very dark, darker than the universe illuminated by the faint light of the sun outside the ship.

He didn't know why Lu Anji always acted "unprofessionally" when it came to Azul.

Being stared at by those black-hole-like eyes, he didn't want to know.

“I will handle it.”

As if sensing the other's anxiety, Lu Anji averted his gaze and calmly looked at the universe outside the ship, “Indeed, he went too far this time.”

“Azul is from the universe, and is very undisciplined. The military academy taught him everything, but there are still many things he doesn't understand.”

He said, “He should take some time to figure it out…”

Lu Anji closed the joint petition on his bracelet and patted the vice captain’s shoulder:

“You come with me.”

***

Azul was locked in the confinement room.

Before being taken away by the soldiers who had rushed in from outside the room, he had just sent all the data on the sun he had collected to Lu Anji’s bracelet.

The next second, Lu Anji took off his bracelet and took a step back.

The others poured in.

“Lu Anji…”

Azul’s eyes widened, “I…”

He took a small, quick step forward, “You.”

“Do you trust me?”

Lu Anji lowered his gaze, his voice very gentle, “It’s almost over. I’ll let you out then. Don’t contact me, Azul. This is a critical period.”

Azul believed him.

Azul curled up in that small iron box, just like when he was a child, curled up in the coffin engraved with Azul-1.

The bed was harder than the one in the rest room.

There was a small toilet in the corner.

The lights would turn on and off at regular intervals.

When the crew came to deliver food supplies, Azul asked about Lu Anji.

The crew said in a business-like manner: “The captain is very busy.”

What could Lu Anji be busy with?

So Azul tucked his tail in and continued to curl up.

He didn't remember what had happened before he was six years old.

It should be about the same as now.

He couldn't talk to his mother, didn't know what was happening outside, and had no partner to see at any time.

He was in the vast universe, but his world was very small.

He just had to wait quietly, and someone would always come and pry open the coffin and let him get his wish.

In this way, he was actually much luckier than most humans.

Azul had no concept of time.

This might have been the first time he had learned to count on his fingers like a human.

One day, two days, three days…

A week, a month…

A month was enough for the sun to have a new cycle.

Lu Anji needed new data, Azul thought, but why didn't he come to him?

Azul knew that Lu Anji was full of lies, lies nested within lies.

Azul himself was also lying.

He didn't know if he should continue to apologize now.

If it was necessary, he would.

If only someone could come and talk to him.

He would apologize, always apologize.

At a certain moment when the lights were off, the door of the confinement room opened.

Lu Anji walked in.

He had a faint smell of blood on him.

He was calmer than usual.

He came to the narrow iron bed and waited patiently for Azul to wake up.

“The pro-Zerg faction has launched an armed coup.”

The life that was resisting the void with hibernation slowly opened its eyes.

Azul's eyes were more adapted to the dim light than the bright light.

His pupils contracted and expanded a few times to adjust the focus.

He looked at Lu Anji and slowly understood the meaning of the words.

Lu Anji waited for him to sit up and played the recording on his bracelet.

“To all humanity.”

“This is the United Human Government of the Underground City, the headquarters of the United International Fleet.”

“I am Lin Xingyu, a representative of the ‘pro-Zerg faction,’ and I am now making this statement to all humanity.”

The familiar voice instantly woke Azul up.

The recording was still playing.

“Compatriots.”

“We do not need the possibility of chaos. We want a habitable and realistic order.”

“We do not need to be deceived by innocence and ignorance. We want to accept the fragility after knowing the truth, understand the limitations of our existence, and the unavoidable death.”

“We will take the initiative to make many sacrifices, but they must be necessary and create a valuable and meaningful reality.”

Due to the influence of the environment, the communication between the underground cities was intermittent.

Lin Xingyu was using an emergency channel to ensure that the communication was not disturbed as much as possible.

Her voice was a little shaky, but she was also very calm, not at all like Lin Xingyu who had been trapped by many problems before.

“The sun will inevitably be destroyed. We have no time to waste on a pointless war.”

“We are going to leave the solar system.”

“I repeat, we are going to leave the solar system!”

The recording ended, and Lu Anji’s sigh was tinged with a smile.

“Your little friend is very capable. She doesn't trust the UIF, but because of your relationship, she chose to trust me. She has synchronized most of the pro-Zerg faction's deployment in the UIF with me.”

“I only just found out that the commander-in-chief who framed Lei Jingan as a human traitor and concealed Serrano’s betrayal was actually a member of the pro-Zerg faction from the very beginning Commander-in-Chief Linton. Oh, he was still a vice commander at that time.”

“They sacrificed a lot of people, defiled the dignity and honor of a lot of people. One person stepped on the corpse of another, countless corpses, and climbed to a high position, just for the day they could completely crush the UIF.”

Azul didn't care about those things.

He hadn't spoken for a long time, and his throat was hoarse: “The sun…”

“We wanted to use them, and they were also using us.”

Lu Anji said, “The most extreme way to make humanity completely give up on the war is to destroy the sun. Your little friend completely supports our cause. She wants to force all of humanity into space.”

Lin Xingyu had said before that she would share the nutrient solution.

Now that she had seen enough, she had given her own answer.

Azul was not sad.

Every life had its own response to the future, and many choices had to be made with stubborn insistence.

He also had no time to be sad.

He only cared about whether the sun had been ignited or not.

Lu Anji still did not respond to the core issue.

“For your sake, I helped her a little.”

Lu Anji helped to push aside Azul’s slightly long hair and stared at his unusually pale face for a moment.

“The UIF has collapsed from the top. All the people on the ship who tried to resist have died at my hands, including the vice captain who had requested for you to be dealt with.”

His blood-tinged voice was low and faintly exuded a chill, “Azul, you are free.”

“I asked you about the sun!”

Azul exploded.

With a loud "thud," Azul flipped over and pinned Lu Anji to the iron bed, his arm pressed against the other’s neck.

The black tail rose behind him, the bone joints fitting together, the tip aimed at Lu Anji’s eyes.

He hadn't eaten properly for a long time and lacked energy supplies, but he was still swifter than an ordinary person.

When he flew into a rage, he was like a cornered beast.

“Do you think I would let Lin Xingyu have her way?”

Lu Anji said coldly, “The stupidest thing she ever did was to trust me. I don’t even need to tamper with the data. The ‘remote control’ has fallen into my hands. Guess what I would do?”

Azul paused.

He let go of his hand, and his tail also drooped.

He leaned against the wall crookedly, his scarlet eyes empty, trying his best to think.

“I can’t figure it out.”

Azul said, “You don’t like Linlin, so you targeted her. She found a new path for humanity. You disagreed, so you definitely wouldn’t destroy the sun…”

“Do you want humanity to continue to kill each other?”

Lu Anji didn't get up.

He lay on his back and looked at him: “Why not?”

Azul: “So you don’t need the data either. You want to let all life enter self-destruction, it seems you never needed me.”

“Aren’t we friends? Why are you doing this to me?”

Azul’s face was blank.

His hair, which had been slightly tidied up before, was now messy and loose again, with only half of his eyes showing.

His pupils were full of bewilderment.

“Will you also apologize to me in your heart?”

Lu Anji’s pupils suddenly contracted.

Also?

“Lu Anji.”

Azul called out.

It was not a question, but a low murmur of his name, “Lu Anji.”

“He looks like he’s about to jump up and strangle you.”

In the sea of consciousness, the system had just checked off the key sentence when it turned its head and saw little Lu’s expression.

He was trying his best to hide his personal affairs, but his fingernails, which were digging into the iron bed, were almost bleeding.

“Who do you think you’re looking down on? If he really jumps up, I’ll be the one to strangle him.”

Chu Zu said.

The system wasn't in a hurry to consult with the author.

The current development should be consistent with the original work.

In the original work, Azul was also in confinement.

He couldn't get any external information in the confinement room.

He slept for a long time and didn't notice if anyone had come to replenish the emergency food.

At this time, the pro-Zerg faction launched a coup.

The spokesperson became Lin Xingyu, which was not a big influence.

Without her, there would be others.

This story was like that.

The role of each life was negligible.

In the face of the universe, there was no individual heroism.

When one person died, another with the same spirit would do the same thing, one after another.

Humanity has always been like this.

And Azul was not human.

Chu Zu had the system pull up the UIF’s deployment in the universe before the pro-Zerg faction launched their coup.

The last time humans had ignited the sun, the launch procedure had been quite complex.

Directly launching a hydrogen bomb from Earth would definitely not work.

In order to induce nuclear fusion inside the sun, they had to "punch a hole" in the sun and then inject energy with a plasma shield or self-repairing metal and other equipment.

From this, it could be concluded that the hydrogen bomb deployment would not be too far from the sun.

Before, the most difficult part was not how to ignite it, but how to escape in time after ignition.

The UIF would not consider so much.

The war would soon be over, and they wished that all the people with medals would die in space.

In wartime, they had to eliminate threats.

After the war, they became threats.

Chu Zu stood in the UIF’s position. With a little thought, he could come to a conclusion:

The hydrogen bomb was definitely pressed on the front lines.

Very far forward, to ensure that this group of people would not survive, and at the same time, it would not affect their command.

“The lines have to be finished, and my mom has to live well. Thanks to my rebellious self-learning of mechanical engineering, I’m now a top-notch chief mechanical engineer, right?”

The system said with difficulty: “Our chief mechanical engineer is in charge of the ship’s overall power, at most with an additional advanced welding…”

“Bypassing the ‘remote control’ to activate the device is another discipline. There is a specialization in every field, Host.”

“What if we manually pilot the ship and crash it directly into the sun?”

Chu Zu said, “I remember my mom dug a lot of holes in the sun. The less energy there is, the more she needs to drill through the crystals, and it’s also very deep just crashing right in.”

The little yellow chicken was stunned.

The host’s reaction was too fast, as if he had been prepared for a long time.

The system didn't say no.

Chu Zu immediately exited the sea of consciousness and, without even looking at Lu Anji, walked out of the confinement room.

The usually bustling ship was unusually quiet.

The bridge was covered in blood, and dozens of corpses were lying on the floor.

There were also quite a few people missing.

They were probably the lurking pro-Zerg faction and had already evacuated.

The ship had activated its autopilot.

In order to find a suitable drilling position, the UIF had provided the battleship with ample fuel.

Chu Zu planned to have the system quickly take over the navigation system, preferably by hacking into all the front-line ships that were currently closest to the sun.

Let’s all blow up together, a big one.

“The Zerg are here!”

The system suddenly reminded him.

As soon as its voice fell, the port side of the ship was hit by a cannon.

The high-energy plasma acid bubbles were highly corrosive, and the automatic repair system failed in an instant.

The frigates on the front lines had lost their functionality after the coup.

The unmanned battleship was a conspicuous target.

The Zerg could completely destroy this ship at any time.

“Stabilize the ship.”

Chu Zu said quickly, “Follow the original plan and plan a course to crash into the sun. All the ships you can control will do the same!”

The system quickly took over according to the host’s instructions.

The Mother Bug was trying to contact Azul.

The biological signal was quite obvious.

Chu Zu still did not respond.

He went back to find Lu Anji.

The system was worried.

It didn't want to spoil things, but the plot was now stuck at a delicate point.

The little yellow chicken was not sure if the host could detect it and react accordingly.

If it really didn’t work then let’s spoil it.

The little yellow chicken could bear anything.

As it was thinking, Chu Zu had already returned to the confinement room.

Lu Anji looked very tired.

The violent shaking of the ship’s hull did not bring him back to his senses.

If only those who needed each other were considered friends.

It wasn’t that he didn’t need Azul, but that Azul didn’t need him.

When he figured this out, Lu Anji could only feel a strong, uncontrollable fear.

He thought of Azul’s many past reactions and couldn’t tell when Azul had changed.

This monster had been watching from the sidelines silently.

Lu Anji also remembered what he had done, which was very similar to when he had been in a straitjacket and struggling desperately on the operating table.

No one cared about the six-year-old Lu Anji, and no one cared about the current Lu Anji.

In the sea of consciousness, Azul was always holding his hand and running in front.

Actually, Azul rarely looked back.

Most of the time, he was staring at those extreme natural phenomena.

He marveled at them, and then continued to run because he couldn't stand the silence.

He was running, always running.

Only Lu Anji was left on the operating table.

In a daze, Lu Anji was wrapped around the waist by a black tail.

He couldn't tell if this was reality or consciousness.

When he looked up, Azul was still with his back to him, only using his tail to lift him up and run out quickly.

It was not until he was stuffed into an emergency escape pod that Lu Anji finally reacted.

The ship’s navigation was very unstable.

The sound that could not be transmitted in space was roaring inside.

Many fragments were flying past the cabin.

A part of them hit the hull, causing a more violent vibration.

Azul’s tail was very long, long enough to buckle his seatbelt and firmly lock his limbs just like that straitjacket.

Lu Anji’s struggle was also very similar to before.

Azul didn’t have anything to gag him with, but just looked at him with an even calmer expression than the doctor in the laboratory.

“You don’t need me anymore. That’s a good thing.”

Azul smiled faintly and said, “I don’t need you anymore either. So you don’t have to die here with me. You can continue to take revenge on all the things you want to take revenge on.”

“Why are you…”

Meeting Lu Anji’s dark red and flustered eyes, Azul said patiently: “Do you know about Zerg evolution?”

“We can’t stay on the same star for too long. The universe forces us to constantly compress our evolution cycle.”

“In just a few generations, the gene sequence in the Zerg’s body has undergone a tremendous change. It’s almost like two independent species.”

“I’m actually about the same, Lu Anji. My mother’s modification of me was not the ‘kinship’ of humans, but just for continuation.”

Azul slowly continued.

“She saw the adaptability that the Zerg needed in humans, and I was born from that.”

“I have the biological functions of the Zerg. I am agile and can survive without consuming a lot of energy.”

“If the Zerg can leave the solar system, I am the biggest possibility, and she will give up everything for my survival.”

This was also what humans had taught the Mother Bug.

Every human had an independent consciousness.

They should be considered a society of countless species, but they would still see each other as their own kind at least most humans did.

They would fight each other for trivial things, but they would also do anything for each other’s survival, thus bursting forth with a vitality that could exist even on the dead Earth.

So why couldn’t the Mother Bug see Azul as her own kind and give everything for him?

This was perhaps a commonality of the society formed by life and life.

It’s just that the Zerg’s society was not large.

They had just begun to try to build a new structure, and in that structure, there were only the Mother Bug and Azul.

Lu Anji’s face was filled with extreme surprise.

His whole body was frozen in the escape pod, his mind in a mess.

He had never doubted the Zerg Queen’s "feelings" for Azul and had always hated those feelings.

And this was all just a wild guess from a human standpoint.

Azul saw it more clearly.

“But I’m not a Zerg.”

Azul showed two canine teeth, just as he had when he was running wildly in the sea of consciousness, “Your summary is more accurate. I am a little monster that even I can't even figure out.”

Azul stood on his tiptoes and gave Lu Anji a big, unsparing hug.

In this warm and tight, even a little suffocating hug, Lu Anji could not hear any heartbeat.

Before Lu Anji could react, Azul pulled out his tail, closed the escape pod’s hatch, and locked the safety.

The sound of banging came from inside.

Lu Anji was going crazy.

“I must die. Only when I die will my mother want to live.”

Azul said, “You are not a friend of a little monster, but you are closer than a friend. I am very grateful to you, Lu Anji.”

He pressed his face against the outside of the transparent cabin and rubbed it.

“You have been with me for a long, long time. I wanted to go back to the sun with you, at least I did.”

The sun had already revealed its huge shape, and its extraordinary gravity began to capture the ship.

Outside the ship, Azul’s hometown was close at hand.

He had been thinking about it for many years and wanted to go back here.

This dim star was his only home.

It was the first homeland he had stepped on after crawling out of the black coffin.

But he didn’t want to go back, and he couldn’t go back.

“Don’t…”

The sound from the escape pod was mostly covered.

Lu Anji’s heartbreaking roar was very light in Azul’s ears.

He seemed to be saying, “Don’t leave me alone…”

Azul was stunned for a moment.

Yes, he also wanted to say that, many times.

That sentence should have followed “come back to the sun with me.”

That would have been complete.

But no one had ever said it to him, and no one had taught him, so he had missed the opportunity to express it accurately.

“Don’t cry.”

Azul said softly, “You came to find me with killing intent. I’ll take you home.”

That tear overflowed from Lu Anji’s pure black eyes, crossing a time longer than the immortal universe, scalding away all the despicable and embarrassing past.

The escape pod popped out, and Azul connected his consciousness with his mother.

The Mother Bug asked: where is he?

Azul came to the transparent bulkhead and greedily stared at the sun.

He apologized in his heart, this time to his mother.

There was a slight deviation in the route, but this was the only ship that would be destroyed before it reached the sun, so it didn't matter.

His mother didn't know that there was something on it that was enough to make Azul’s bones disappear, and he wouldn't let his mother know.

“He’s right next to me.”

Azul said softly.

Going to the human world to study was indeed the right decision.

Humans had still taught him a lot of things, enough to protect the mother he wanted to protect.

The shelling from the Zerg biological battleship accurately hit the ship.

The bulkhead emitted a dazzling light, and the explosion and fire created a clear and shallow ripple in the universe.

The rapidly dissipating air in the ship roared.

The sound died out in a very short time and returned to silence along with the explosion and fire.

The universe was always silent.

Then, a rain of fire fell from the sun.

The dazzling brilliance was like countless lightning flashes and thunder, finally illuminating the entire dark galaxy.

That was the bouquet that Azul had offered to his mother.

***

Chu Zu returned to the sea of consciousness.

The system ran over happily, grabbed the host’s leg and climbed up.

Chu Zu put it on his shoulder.

“Yes, yes, this development is right!”

The little yellow chicken chuckled a few times, “Lu Anji is crying so miserably, and he’s still howling. The key sentence is also completed, no problem at all!”

“I can see you’ve been holding back too. It’s been hard on you.”

Chu Zu said, “Let’s pack up and apply for the settlement.”

The system said awkwardly: “It might have to wait a little while.”

Chu Zu: “...”

Chu Zu: “I remember in my POV, I was completely dead. I couldn’t wait at all.”

“Your POV is like that, but you are the bridge that connects the eight key POVs. Now there’s still one left.”

“Lin Qiuyi?”

The little yellow chicken could finally speak freely and finally satisfied its addiction to spoilers:

“That’s right. Your ending is actually in Lin Qiuyi’s POV!”

Chu Zu: “...No wonder I died so decisively, but I was still scolded by the readers. The original character design was also doing sit-ups, which must have made people so angry that their teeth itched.”

“The times are different now!”

The little yellow chicken was quite confident, “Azul is a likable non-human! There is no one else in this novel!”

The system dragged the subsequent development for the host to see.

In the original work, Azul’s POV stopped when Lu Anji buried his belongings on a nearby barren star.

Now there were no belongings, and no barren star.

But Lu Anji refused to accept the fact that Azul was dead.

Under Azul’s previous reminder, the Mother Bug had quickly realized the purpose of all of this and had frantically extracted the energy from the sun’s core before the supernova explosion.

She had to be fast enough, efficient enough, and spare no effort to ensure that her cocoon could survive.

Even in the Zerg’s biotechnology, this was a crazy gamble, but as long as she could win, the Zerg would undoubtedly be able to continue.

The sun’s brilliance began to gradually extinguish after flickering.

The halo formed by the solar wind also became dim in its flow, and the heat dissipated.

The shockwave from the three ignitions of the sun had overturned everything around it.

Lu Anji’s escape pod was mostly melted.

Fortunately, there was an oxygen helmet and a simple pneumatic propulsion device in the pod.

He did not use this to escape the sun.

He was looking for Azul in the wreckage.

Lu Anji had never been so grateful for the crystal behind his ear.

He tried again and again to connect to Azul’s consciousness.

The other party did not respond, but it was different from death.

Lu Anji couldn't distinguish, but he stubbornly believed that it was definitely different from death.

Azul could not die he could not die!

He didn't know how long he had been looking.

The oxygen reserve of the escape pod was designed according to the preset distance between the two fleets.

The oxygen should be quite sufficient.

The panel of the helmet was malfunctioning and could not show the remaining amount, and the fuel of the pneumatic propulsion device was about to run out.

The universe was really not fair.

It did not respond to the prayers of life.

The only thing that responded to Lu Anji was himself.

If he died in the lonely universe, perhaps it was also the destination of life.

Despair and unwillingness overlapped.

Lu Anji didn't believe in luck, but he hoped that he might be honored.

Suddenly, he saw a quietly floating black tail.

The Zerg were truly a terrifying race.

If it weren't for the fact that they had triggered a nuclear fusion inside the sun, they might not have suffered heavy casualties.

Human technology could not have done that.

The little monster in the center of the explosion had been blown away half of its body.

Its skeleton was still complete, and the charred flesh on it was faintly rising and falling.

Lu Anji stretched out his hand with force, trying to touch his tail.

The thruster could not get any closer.

He couldn't touch it at all.

But the next moment, the tail seemed to have a sense of its own.

Just like before, it stretched out, straightened, and touched Lu Anji’s fingertips feebly.

Lu Anji couldn't describe his feelings.

He had lost most of his reactions.

The long search had made him weak, and his transformed body had allowed him to hold on until now.

And it had allowed him to gently pull the tail over and hold the disfigured monster in his arms.

The tail extended up Lu Anji’s body and wrapped around his neck.

There was no previous strength.

The spike at the end of the tail was pressed against the outside of the helmet.

Lu Anji suddenly recalled that this tail would always lean against the crystal behind his ear.

But this was not Azul’s subjective will.

He could wrap it wherever he wanted leaning against the crystal was more like a subconscious reaction of the creature.

Pinching the tip of the tail, Lu Anji clearly felt the slight suffocation caused by the lack of oxygen in the helmet.

“I have no home.”

Lu Anji said softly.

White mist stained his helmet, and Azul’s miserable state was also faintly visible.

Just like Azul before, he also just repeated his name a few times without any other content.

Azul.

Azul.

Azul.

Then, Lu Anji chose to gamble on something meaningless.

The black crystal behind his ear was rectangular, composed of two nearly triangular black rhombuses.

Lu Anji pierced the center with the spike of Azul’s tail.

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