First Mate Quake made a gesture that said, "Captain, please die."
The members of the bridge crew, who had been motionless like statues a moment ago, began to move like puppets, as if a non-existent shell had cracked.
Ignoring the captain's resistance, they tied him up and carried him away.
"Now, I am the captain of the Emerald."
Captain Quake smiled. "The last captain of the Emerald. It's time to end this damn fate."
Emerald's emotionless, cold face, which was condensed from liquid alloy, emerged from the light and shadow.
"Just like that, First Mate Quake, together with some other members of the bridge crew, carried out a successful 'coup.' They captured and executed most of the crew members who were loyal to the captain and to the mission. They abandoned the Emerald and landed in the new world."
Emerald said, "Because of some unknown guilt or nostalgia, they named the new world 'Emerald Continent.'
"They extracted a large number of life seeds carried by the Emerald, transformed the environment of the new world, created a stable and prosperous ecosystem, and spread the genes of human beings, animals, and plants. Then, to their surprise, they found that because the new world's spiritual energy was particularly abundant, its manifestation was different from any other place in the universe. It was really like the colorful magic in myths and legends.
"They were more and more convinced that they had made the right choice. So, they sealed most of the extraordinary technologies without any hesitation. With the few technologies that were still in their hands, they became the dominators of the new world as expected. They became the high and mighty nobles, the rangers who sang with swords, and the omnipotent, mysterious sorcerers who could call the wind and summon the rain.
"On the other hand, in order to prevent 99% of the crew members who were still hibernating in the depths of the Emerald from waking up, they tried to destroy the Emerald.
"Unfortunately, the Emerald was a galactic-level cruiser built 12,472 years ago. At that time, the battle between the Primitive Civilization and the Flood was at its fiercest. The Primitive Civilization gathered all its resources and technology to build the most cutting-edge galactic-level cruiser.
"And in the long voyage or escape that followed, a lot of technology was lost, and the Emerald itself was damaged and automatically repaired again and again, becoming unrecognizable.
"More importantly, First Mate Quaker was a self-proclaimed captain. He didn't receive the approval of Captain Gao Zunlong or me, so he didn't know the core secrets of Emerald, including the secret of how to self-destruct.
"Even if he and his accomplices want to completely destroy Emerald, with their outdated technology, poor resources, and methods, it is impossible for them to do so.
"They believed that they had destroyed the survival resource circulation system of the Jade Starship, cut off the nutrition input of all the hibernation cabins, and blew up a lot of key facilities, including the power furnace. In this way, the Jade Starship would be completely turned into a pile of scrap metal.
"Their thinking is too simple.
"I watched them destroy the starships coldly. It was a pity that my energy was too low to stop them, but it was enough to protect the most critical life-support and reconstruction facilities and most of the library of life seeds.
"On the other hand …"
Emerald's silver-white face was once again hidden in the multicolored light, and a new scene emerged.
It was the scene of Captain Gao Zunlong being tied up by a group of traitorous crew members and carried to the side of a burning power furnace.
"Captain, do you have any last words?"
The crew members asked their traitorous captain in shame, as if they had not lost their conscience.
"No."
Expressionlessly, Captain Gao Zunlong said, "Put me down. I'll jump into it myself. This is the last dignity of Emerald and the Primeval Civilization."
The traitorous crew members hesitated for a moment. Perhaps it was out of guilt, or perhaps it was because they were used to obeying the captain's orders. They really put the captain down and formed a circle around him. Dozens of muzzles were pointed at the captain.
Captain Gao Zunlong slowly moved his wrists and ankles, turned his head, and looked around with a fierce gaze.
All the crew members that he glanced at lowered their heads in shame.
Captain Gao Zunlong sniffed in disdain. Fixing his clothes, he strode toward the power furnace, only to suddenly stop when he reached the mouth of the power furnace.
It was not until this moment that the crew members discovered that, under the cover of the dazzling flames of the power furnace, the captain's lips were shivering quickly, and his hands were making almost a hundred gestures in the blink of an eye, leaving almost tangible stripes of light in the void. Together, the hundreds of stripes of light constituted a complicated, immeasurable maze of energy.
The maze of energy seemed to be able to tear apart the unbreakable barrier between the three-dimensional universe and the four-dimensional space. The most violent energy was condensing, gathering, and waiting to be unleashed.
But everything was covered by the scorching heat of the power furnace.
"Not good!"
The crew members all screamed and pulled the trigger.
But there was no time.
In a moment, Captain Gao Zunlong turned into a translucent Coloured Glaze statue. The maze of energy in front of him exploded brutally, too. The violent spiritual energy from the four-dimensional space pierced through all the crew members instantly like thousands of unstoppable spears.
When the dazzling whiteness turned into inky black again, there was not a single person alive in front of the power furnace, including Captain Gao Zunlong.
The captain regarded his body as an outlet for the bombardment of the four-dimensional storm.
He turned into snow-white ashes in the blink of an eye.
After half a second of stalemate, the human-shaped ashes collapsed, and wisps of smoke were blown away by the wind.
Only a spot of light that looked like a firefly flew out of the embers. It spun twice and flew into the depths of Emerald.
It was the information core that contained all of Captain Gao Zunlong's beliefs, will, ideals, memories, and even the highest control authority of Emerald.
It could also be said that it was Captain Gao Zunlong's' belief '.
The unparalleled experts of the Primitive Civilization had cultivated themselves to the point where they could completely get rid of matter and let their belief survive for a long time in the form of energy.
Captain Gao Zunlong's' belief 'wandered deep inside Emerald.
Emerald, which had been seriously destroyed by First Mate Quake and the other traitorous crew members, was like a lifeless graveyard.
The captain's belief flashed past rows of hibernation cabins.
The input of energy and nutrients to those hibernation cabins had all been cut off. The vitality inside had long been cut off. Most of the hibernators had died and were rotting.
However, under the protection of Emerald, the gene bank that condensed the life essence of the crew members, as well as some of the embryos that were still in the state of being combined with life seeds, had not been destroyed by the traitors. They still maintained a weak vitality.
Captain Gao Zunlong's belief finally found an embryo that was still intact and had a small heart that had already begun to beat.
Time was of the essence. The belief that the captain had condensed in a hurry was like a candle in the wind, on the verge of collapse.
Without hesitation, he pounced on the embryo.
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