Chapter 171
Chapter 171 Fanwai: Little Soldier’s Diary
Chapter 171 Fanwai: Little Soldier’s Diary
Khaki didn’t like the rebels.
The planet he is on has a beautiful name, Crystal Star, a crystal-clear world made of ice and snow, with a maximum temperature of minus 70° and a minimum temperature of minus 200° in winter. The crystal family living on this has become accustomed to such a climate.
Their bodies are similar to ancient humans on Earth, but they are made of ice-blue crystals, which seem fragile, but are actually very tough. It is difficult for metal to leave marks on them. The vitality of the crystal race is also extremely tenacious, even if the entire body becomes It is fragmented and can be reassembled without any sequelae.
Except for stones that become unconscious after their natural life span, they will not die unless the whole is broken into powder and cannot be joined together.
They are natural warriors, but under the rule of the empire, such attributes are not valued.
Their characteristics are just one of the reasons why the tourists of Crystal Star are endless. They not only want to see this beautiful ice and snow world, but also hope to see the characteristics of the crystal family.
Khaki is very accustomed to this kind of life. In the empire, they are treated well. Although they used to be colonial stars, they have also been upgraded to tourist stars. The Crystal Clan has the rights of citizens of the empire, and he has been accepted into the Empire. So I don’t understand why there are often residents who resist the empire on the Crystal Star.
Khaki hated these rebels that broke his peaceful life. After being awakened by the chase of the whole city again, he held his favorite ice pillow and walked to the living room. There, his mother was looking worriedly outside the window with both hands. Making a gesture of prayer.
“Mom, is there any trouble outside again?”
His tone was bored. The lights were bright outside, and the sound of alarms and vehicles dispelled the silence of the night. “It’s really annoying. Why can’t you live a good life? What’s wrong now?”
“Is it all right now?”
There was no light in the living room, and Khaki did not see the expression of his mother who was looking at the backlight. He could only hear her calm tone as always: “Of course it is very good. Our life is peaceful and prosperous. If there were no rebels who made trouble from time to time, it must It will be better.”
He walked a few steps forward, and said as he walked: “Last week, the rebels blew up the venue for the performance. Fortunately, no one was injured because of this. They made trouble everywhere, and the tourism income was less.
I don’t know what is it today…Mom?
What’s wrong with you? ”
When he got close, Khaki could see his mother’s expression clearly. It wasn’t that he was bored with the rebels as he was, but an expression of anxiety mixed with sadness, which made Khaki stand in place somewhat at a loss.
“mom?”
Khaki grabbed the ice pillow in his hand, his mother smiled at him. Although it had the same comforting meaning as before, it made him feel a little wrong, but after seeing the familiar gesture of opening his arms, Khaki rushed into his mother. Embrace.
Mother’s voice is very soft: “Baby, have you been to those performances?”
“No, but I have seen the performers. They wear gorgeous clothes and beautiful makeup on their faces. They look noble and elegant.”
Khaki heard his mother laugh. The laughter was full of emotions he didn’t understand. After a long time, when the noise outside the window was getting closer, he heard his mother say: “The animals we saw in the zoo are also very beautiful. In the eyes of the tourists, they are indistinguishable from those animals. Those performers will take off any part of their bodies to entertain the audience during their performances.”
The gentle female Crystal Clan looked down at her child’s eyes. There was ignorance in her face. She turned a topic: “Baby, do you know the meaning of your name?”
“I know, it means a treasure gifted by ice and snow in crystal language.”
Khaki looked up excitedly and proudly said the meaning of his name, but then he seemed to think of something again, lowered his head a little frustrated, “Mom, many people don’t know the meaning of my name. They say Khaki is in the imperial language and In Common Language, it means piglet.”
Thinking of the laughing boys, he was a little sad. He lowered his head and rubbed his mother’s shoulder: “I don’t care about them. It’s best for my mother to give me a name.”
“That’s why, baby.”
His mother held the child and gently stroked his back: “If we lose our own words, lose our own language, and use the immortal physical characteristics as a tool to please others, then we are the animals that have been raised in captivity. One of countless sad races.”
As the noise got closer, the sharp sirens brought khaki discomfort. He looked up at the outside window, and the rebels fleeing in a speeding car passed by this window. They were fighting with the people behind, but they seemed to be scrupulous. The same, did not increase firepower.
Khaki was a little scared. Although he knew it was rare to see such a scene, his mother insisted that he stare outside: “Baby, remember them, they are never the destroyers of a peaceful life, they are from the Crystal Clan. hero.”
Hero?
The boy forced himself to look out the window without evasive. Just at this moment, the fire flooded the speeding car. The glass resisted the shock wave from the outside world well. Khaki heard a crystal word “Kunza”.
“Mom, what does Quinsa mean?”
“It’s for freedom.”
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“What are you thinking?”
Following these words, someone slapped Khaki’s right shoulder. The visitor sat beside him with a grin, bit the lid of the bottle in his hand, and took a sip: “What the **** do you endure this horrible weather?” ”
“It’s very hot now.”
Khaki was feeling the summer of minus 100°, and he couldn’t understand why they need a constant temperature light brain. However, I heard that there are races in the universe that are intelligently living in 150° magma. This difference is also acceptable.
The man shrugged: “Well, what were you thinking just now?”
“Thinking about when I was a kid, I hated the Resistance.”
Khaki also adjusted his posture, leaning against the wall with his gun, “Extremely annoying, I think life can be better without them.”
The person next to him was almost choked by the wine in his mouth. After he swallowed the drink, he laughed a few times: “Then why are you joining us now?”
“Because I have a great mother.”
Khaki didn’t say more, he opened the light brain in his hand with a gentle smile, and on it was the picture of his still young and beautiful mother.
Strictly speaking, Khaki is already the fifth generation of Crystal Clan under the rule of the empire. When they were born, Crystal Star was under the rule of the empire. He had never breathed the air of freedom. There were many people of his age around him. .
Fortunately, although his mother is the fourth generation, although she has never seen the Crystal Star before colonization, she has never extinguished her yearning for it.
There are many materials and books about the crystal star in his home, and his mother taught him to know the joyful ice and snow kingdom in the past, not the appearance of the broken spine now.
The flames of his childhood reflected in his eyes, in addition to fear, it also left a trace of flames. When Khaki grew up slowly and finally understood the teachings of his mother in the past, he began to suffer and finally understood why his mother was back then. sad.
In a numb world, being sober is always the saddest thing. You can’t be a beast in a muddle-headed manner, begging for mercy to the master who rules them, nor can you change this reality. He met the same sober people in his pain and joined the resistance. military.
This was not the end of his pain, on the contrary, it was just the beginning.
What the rebels have to face is not only the empire, but also the crystal people who have been invaded by the culture of the empire. The people who are accustomed to living nowadays question why they can’t live well and must be a saboteur.
They do not resent the empire that caused the harm, but resent those who resisted.
Khaki has been decadent, confused, and thinks that such a crystal clan is better to perish. He can’t find the meaning of his own practice, and finally understands how sharp his words were when he was young.
But Khaki persisted. From a child who was scared to sleep alone when he watched the explosion of a flying car, he grew into a qualified soldier who dared to fight the empire without changing his face in the sound of the explosion.
You can discuss the past with your comrades-in-arms, laugh at the original naivety, and look forward to a bright future.
The comrades next to him are not even limited to the Crystal Clan, all interstellar rebels are his comrades, and now the newly emerging Free Federation is also their comrades.
Khaki likes every race that fights for freedom. The person next to him is the liaison of the Free Federation, secretly contacting the rebels on the Crystal Star, and wanting to revolt together to overthrow the empire.
Although Khaki felt that such a goal was too difficult, he liked his firm and bright eyes when he talked about it.
“Why do you believe that we will win?”
He once asked the other person this question, and the man smiled: “You should go and see Gerola, she has a magic power that makes you believe that she is the embodiment of victory.”
Gerola, this is a familiar name. Gerola’s previous real name, Cicelli, has also heard about it. The rising star of the Empire’s First Army, they had analyzed this empire soldier from the perspective of the enemy. When they really come into contact, they get along as companions.
Interstellar is too strange, anything can happen, maybe victory will also appear.
The assembly command sounded, and Khaki and the federal messengers arrived at the destination quickly. The little boss was counting the number of people, sending the map to everyone’s light brain, and tirelessly confirming the task of the night’s total attack time.
Khaki looked at all the people in this safe house. They had fought side by side many times. This time it would be the grandest, the fireworks before victory.
After the meeting, they dispersed into a small team, reconfirmed their tasks, and waited for the appointment time.
“May Gerola bless you.”
The federal messenger chuckled softly, patted him on the shoulder, and followed the other pair and disappeared on the other side of the street.
Khaki and his team came to the place where the imperial army was stationed, where bombs were placed in advance, waiting for them to detonate.
When the explosion sounded, Khaki’s mood was very calm, he raised his weapon calmly, without suspicion or fear, the hard ice wall was destroyed during the attack, and the imperial army was caught off guard with only defensive strength. He heard his teammates communicate softly. , The imperial army cursed loudly, and the sound of war rang out everywhere, which made him more calm.
The shell fell in their direction, and Khaki pushed his teammate away, and even threw his surplus weapons to the opponent. He tried to evade, but the speed of the shell was too fast.
He saw cracks in his ice-blue body, scattered on the ground. The special weapons used to kill the Crystal Race could not only do this. His body was slowly turning into sand, and he couldn’t piece it together anyway.
Khaki could no longer stand up, his head rolled aside, and he saw the starship flying in the sky, which was the symbol of the Free Federation. He also saw his comrades attacking the Empire like crazy, but he wondered for no reason whether those people on the speeding car Have the same mood with him.
Mom, will I be your proud hero?
Khaki laughed and shouted, “Kunza!”
In the sight of victory, he ushered in his long sleep.