vncnus Chapter 586 The person I miss most is myself.
Chapter 586 The person I miss most is myself.
Chapter 586 The person I miss most is myself.
That's life; everyone has their own dreams.
On the road to pursuing your dreams, you'll inevitably encounter stumbling blocks, waving the banner of "it's for your own good" and forcing you to give up...
It's hard to say whether giving up some unrealistic dreams is good or bad for you.
After all, no one can predict how the story will end.
Well...except for one person.
After Han Fei left, only Meng Lang and a yawning waiter remained in the somewhat secluded coffee shop.
Looking at the time, there was still an hour before Xiaoyu got out of school.
Meng Lang found a comfortable position, then took out his autobiography and, in the quiet afternoon, began a new chapter in his life...
"The Travels of Meng Xiaolang"
Hmm... the title is quite ordinary, but as the saying goes, anything produced by Xiaolang is bound to be a masterpiece. I imagine it must be an epic work that has had a profound impact on the world, similar to "The Travels of Xu Xiake" or "The Travels of Marco Polo"...
Meng Lang looked at the book title and began narrating his own biography.
The plain cover reveals no information, but the photo that comes with the homepage as usual is full of information.
It was a group photo taken outdoors, with willows swaying in the breeze and the sun shining brightly. I stood in the middle, smiling, looking at myself, who had matured a lot, surrounded by many familiar faces.
Xiaoyu, Haitang, Biao Ge, A Xing, Gao Yuan, Hu Yifei, Duan Xian, Zheng Wan, Meng Qingqing, Yan Weiwei...
Yes, almost all the key members and reserve members of the organization are here...
Wait a minute! Meng Lang suddenly paused, Meng Qingqing?
Looking at Meng Qingqing standing next to Yan Weiwei in the photo, laughing carefree, Meng Lang was somewhat bewildered.
What is she doing here?
In this situation... could it be that I'm going to bring her into my life in the future?
While there's nothing wrong with siblings fighting side-by-side, this wasn't part of his plan.
Moreover, Meng Lang discovered that there were two unfamiliar faces in the photo.
One was a stern, unsmiling boy standing beside Xiaoyu, and the other was a little girl being held in Meng Qingqing's arms, with the same carefree smile as Meng Qingqing...
His gaze lingered on the little girl for a moment.
Whose child is this?
Could it be that Meng Qingqing is already married and has a child, old enough to run errands?
To be honest, they do look somewhat alike.
Everyone in the photo looks much more mature. Considering Xiaoyu's age of around fifteen or sixteen, it seems like seven or eight years have passed.
Yes, seven or eight years is enough time for things to change and for a new generation to emerge...
Looking at the little girl, Meng Lang felt an inexplicable sense of closeness.
In my memory, Meng Qingqing was a mischievous girl who spent her days slacking off and stealing bird eggs. I never expected her to become a wife and mother and quietly give birth to a little niece.
But family is family, but this is a very serious salvation organization. Isn't it a bit inappropriate to bring your family along?
Could it be that this little girl is also exceptionally talented, and is training the next generation of organizational leaders?
Her gaze then fell upon the aloof young man who was about the same age as Xiaoyu.
She looked somewhat familiar, but I couldn't remember where I'd seen her before. She stood beside Xiaoyu and offered to hold a parasol for her...
The two seem to have a good relationship?
This guy...could he be Xiaoyu's boyfriend?
While it's perfectly acceptable to date at this age, and he's not exactly old-fashioned, however...
The thought of his beloved daughter being taken away so early made him look at the young man with a hint of hostility, naturally carrying the air of a doting father.
He's not bad looking, but I don't know what his character is like. I'll definitely have to do a thorough investigation of him, inside and out, from his body to his mind, in my autobiography.
Time will reveal all.
If he fails the "political vetting," then he might have to disappear from the face of the earth before he can cause trouble for his own family.
Even if they don't kill them, they should be sent to Africa to mine...
We can ignore others, but Xiaoyu is the chosen one. Early romance doesn't just affect grades, it affects the life and death of human civilization. How can we not take this seriously?
Having made up his mind, Meng Lang memorized the boy's appearance before turning the pages of the book and reading the main text of this "travelogue".
Life is an adventure of continuous exploration.
We need not feel sorry for what has been lost, nor sad for a chapter that has been turned.
Because life goes on, and the future is full of endless possibilities, even if there are occasional regrets...
The person was taken away that afternoon, and the funeral was attended three years later...
When I saw the news report that a famous director had accidentally fallen off a cliff during a race on a mountain road abroad, ending his legendary directing career and his own dreams, I was shocked and saddened.
We always think that by relying on our foresight, we can make endless demands on fate.
They always say things like "I want this, this, and this," or "You can't do this, you can't do that, and you can't do that."
However, they overlooked the fact that the right to choose one's own life is never in the hands of others.
You can confiscate his license, or even revoke his domestic driver's license, but you can't stop a heart that yearns to travel the world in pursuit of its dreams.
Human joys and sorrows are not universal, and neither are traffic laws in different countries...
From then on, I had even greater reverence for life and for fate.
Unlike you, for me life only exists in the present moment.
The rest are either things of the past or uncertainties...
Meng Lang himself: "..."
Han Fei...you little troublemaker, you've practically driven someone abroad to their doom?
That's why people are stubborn; the more you forbid them from doing something, the more they'll try to do it.
Your own brother is right. Even if you can foresee the future, it's still difficult to make choices for others.
If this person is also very wealthy and can travel abroad frequently, then it becomes even more difficult...
Given the current situation, simply revoking the driver's license might not be enough; it seems the passport might need to be revoked as well...
Headache……
He took a sip of milk tea to calm his nerves before continuing to read.
Meeting and parting are the most common things in life's journey.
But this does not include creatures like the Traveling Frog that disappear without a trace.
I remember that day was Yan Weiwei's birthday. To celebrate her birthday, Lin Haitang cooked a table full of delicious food and bought a lot of wine.
After getting completely drunk, Yan Weiwei left a note saying "Go home and inherit the family fortune," and then suddenly disappeared from everyone's world without any warning.
When they met again, three years had passed, and she was accompanied by a little girl who had just begun to babble...
When asked, she only said that Yan Feng adopted the child so that the Yan family could have a successor.
I'm puzzled. If there's a successor... why adopt a girl?
However, it is their private matter, so I shouldn't pry.
Lin Haitang seemed to really like children, and immediately recognized her as a goddaughter. For a while, the little girl came to his house every day.
It just so happened that Meng Qingqing was there at that time, and she turned the little guy into a second mischievous devil, and he became very close to her.
That period was a rare and heartwarming time in my life.
However, I know that these peaceful days will not last long...
If life is an adventure of continuous exploration, then the greatest danger we encounter on the way is undoubtedly that big lizard.
Even the strongest fortress cannot withstand direct destruction from within by the enemy.
No matter how much of an advantage you have on the main battlefield, you can't withstand the enemy directly changing the course of the battle...
So from the very beginning, I set myself the ultimate goal: to find the truth about the "seed," to find a way to eliminate that giant lizard, and to solve this major problem once and for all.
For this reason, I devised two special plans, which I named "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "Journey to the Center of the Earth"!
In 2027, based on the original "Sea Eye" system, we developed the more targeted underwater acoustic monitoring network "Sea Conch", laying out an all-pervasive underwater sonar detection system.
Using the "open code" and "closed code" in our hands, we achieved one-way battlefield transparency against the Night Demon Clan. After the Jinghai Welfare Institute, we successively eliminated three more "Deans of the Ten Institutes," thwarting many of their conspiracies to instigate a world war.
At the same time, we have actively explored and developed various mass-producible deep-sea combat drones, integrated super manufacturing plants, and stockpiled raw materials in advance to prepare for future counterattacks in the deep blue sea.
Meanwhile, we secretly formed a special 'Earth Core Project Team', with Xiaoyu as the chief engineer, to explore the technical feasibility of traveling from the Earth's surface to its core.
The high-temperature, high-pressure radiation environment, the scorching underground magma, and the thick strata thousands of kilometers away place extremely demanding requirements on equipment, communication, and materials.
Exploring the Earth's core is far more complex and difficult than exploring outer space.
Nuclear reactor miniaturization, quantum communication, superalloys, drilling equipment...
With the overclocking potion and the significant acceleration effect of the super AI Zero on civilization's technology, and thanks to the continuous efforts of scientists worldwide and the genius Xiaoyu, the project is gradually moving towards its established goals.
However, the plot's repeated setbacks and the information vaguely revealed by several massive projects still alerted the Night Demons.
They realized that their plans seemed to be leaked in advance every time, so 'Nest' began to frequently change its communication codes to hide itself even deeper.
At the same time, attention was drawn to the 'Wanwu Holdings Group,' which seemed to be on a winning streak, continuously catalyzing the technological advancements of human civilization...
Humanity's rapidly advancing technological and military strength has made it realize that if it continues to wait, humanity's power will completely slip out of its control.
Perhaps before the 'seeds' arrive, they will be helpless against humanity.
The eventual realization of controlled nuclear fusion technology became the trigger for the conflict between the two sides...
In 2035, war arrives ahead of schedule, culminating in an assassination...
The headquarters, R&D building and key data center of Wanwu Holdings were attacked simultaneously, resulting in heavy losses for the group's senior management.
Gao Yuan, who was under special scrutiny, was not spared either!
The enemy left behind hundreds of corpses of assassins and killers.
I didn't expect the other side to expose themselves and launch an operation so early, and I didn't expect that the first thing they would do was target the core departments of Wanwu Holdings instead of military institutions!
The desperate opponent paid a price: they were completely exposed to the human world...
Both sides' first encounter was filled with a sense of haste and lack of preparation.
And so the war between the two sides began, lasting for more than a decade...
Once humanity realized what was happening, the war machine began to operate at full speed. Drones rolled off the production line, satellites were launched into space, and legions were armed to the teeth.
By 2043, the entire world will be engulfed in war.
Japan fell, the peninsula fell, the southeastern island chain fell, and maritime transportation was cut off...
Relying on its enormous war potential and the fortified clusters that gradually formed from large urban clusters, China used heavy artillery and missile barrages to withstand the continuous onslaught of sea monsters, reduced casualties with virtual reality technology, and even had the strength to launch a counterattack in the later stages.
Besides passive defense, coastal fortresses are being swarmed with all sorts of deep-sea robots and self-propelled torpedoes, which are engaged in fierce battles with newly hatched deep-sea monsters in the vast ocean space of 20,000 miles below the surface.
During the decade-long battle, the predation of deep-sea monsters and the constant explosions completely destroyed the marine ecosystem.
Blood stained the entire coastal waters of the western Pacific Ocean, and the ocean floor was littered with the remains of various giant beasts and machines.
Secretly, Xiaoyu and Chao also launched a campaign of mind control and counter-control over humans and sea beasts. Both sides wanted to create chaos within the other's ranks, waging an invisible war.
Beyond the main battlefield, the enemy unleashed even more assassination units, and their assassination attempts against important human figures and key scientists never ceased, with a level of brutality no less than that on the main battlefield.
We are naturally the enemy's primary target...
The world is engulfed in conflict, with the rebellion of artificial intelligence compounded by tensions between nations and a war of civilizations raging on.
However, only I calmly knew the true purpose of the Night Demons.
What they want is not to occupy the earth and conquer humanity, as the outside world claims.
Their reason for launching the war prematurely was simple: to provide cover for the arrival of a "seed"...
'Boom!' Amidst the deafening roar of artillery fire, the fall of Pluto seemed rather insignificant, like a small pebble thrown into a lake, creating ripples.
Only those of us who knew the truth were on high alert and immediately located the other side's landing coordinates.
Since then, the Night Demons seem to have run out of steam, shifting from a full-scale strategic offensive to a strategic stalemate.
Even that 'nest' vanished from our surveillance view as if it had evaporated into thin air.
Aside from the occasional beast tides that prevented humanity from developing peacefully and kept them constantly on edge, the intensity of the war suddenly dropped several levels.
I know they just want to stall us until the seeds hatch...
Little did people know that even during the most brutal years of war, the Earth Core Project team never stopped its research and development efforts.
We are also operating in secret...
Ten years later, the submersible was finally completed!
However, communication remains an unsolved problem when penetrating thousands of kilometers of earth, which means it must be operated by someone.
After seeing off the last spaceship bound for the Mars colony, I boarded the submarine alone.
As your gaze travels from the sun-drenched surface of the sea to the dark depths, then penetrates 7 kilometers of the Earth's crust, enters the magma river of the mantle layer, and journeys through various fantastical and magnificent scenes until you finally reach the Earth's core...
I finally saw with my own eyes the root cause of all this, and heard a heart pounding like a drum.
That seed, from the planet Pluto in outer space, or perhaps it could be called the egg of some kind of cosmic behemoth...
To live together, or to perish together?
However, there was no response. Perhaps they disdained to respond to the provocation of such insignificant humans?
Clearly, the negotiations failed.
As I maneuvered the submarine closer, I opened the flip cover on the control panel, revealing the nuclear button bearing the trefoil logo...
In such a high-temperature, high-pressure, and intensely radioactive environment, it is impossible to launch a nuclear bomb directly. Therefore, the high-yield nuclear bomb at the core of the submarine has no launch device at all.
As I got closer, the giant egg gradually filled my entire field of vision, and at that moment, many things came to mind.
The incubation period spans 24 years, from 2043 to 2067, with a constant temperature of around 5000 degrees Celsius and ample organic and inorganic matter...
I think that in the cold universe, nothing can provide such a warm and constant incubation environment as the core of a terrestrial planet.
As for why Earth?
Perhaps similar planets in surrounding galaxies have all been invaded, or perhaps only Earth can meet its incubation needs...
At that moment, I suddenly understood what the Night Demon had said to me through 'Chao Shu's' body.
Yes, I came here, not to destroy you.
It's all for survival and reproduction...
At that moment, I had mixed feelings, but the smile on my face had vanished.
In the final moments, I took out the photo I had been keeping in my pocket.
The people in the photo are still young, and everyone is so vibrant, yet many of them only exist in our memories.
During the brutal war that lasted for more than a decade, I gained a lot, but I also lost a lot, such as family, friends, and children...
So even if today's operation comes at the cost of countless casualties, I will remain expressionless.
Perhaps... it's hatred, or perhaps it's a numbness to the passing of life...
Looking at myself smiling brightly in the photo.
Of all the people I've lost, I miss myself the most.
Some people might say I've changed, but no one asks me what I've been through.
Maybe after that, I will still be me.
The smiles are gone, replaced by indifference...
'Boom~'
(End of this chapter)