[Slow Wear] Assassin System

dirge

Leto's state funeral is mandatory for all people to attend, and the projection of the state funeral will be projected in every corner of Leto's planet in real time, in front of everyone.

But for the three first-level generals and Yashen who presided over the funeral, what they actually faced were cameras, a coffin like a mountain, and countless projections beside the coffin.

The projections on the side of each coffin are the appearance of the deceased. They have different expressions, some are smiling and some are stern, but all of them without exception are looking at the worshipers.

The last eyes of the undead are real and heavy as if they were questioning, which will bring great mental pressure to the mourners.

The three first-level generals have already found their respective positions on the high platform of the memorial ceremony. Miao Xuan now has a good understanding of Leto's personnel affairs. Among the three generals, Vikas Sharma is in charge of the Expeditionary Army. He has the greatest relationship with him, and among the other two, Pema Tsering is in charge of industry, agriculture and internal security, and Kosorov is in charge of medical education and scientific research.

Although they are used for offering sacrifices, these high platforms are actually cylindrical metal creations. The position of sub-gods is different from that of humans. Under the guidance of Miss Cornelia, Miao Xuan stood on a platform in mid-air.

The high platform for the memorial ceremony has the simplicity of Leto style as always, and the only decoration is probably the white flowers on the platform. Miao Xuan also saw large white flowers on the platform belonging to the sub-shen. God holds it in his hands.

[Citizens of Leto, our funeral has begun. 】First-rank general Sharma took the lead, 【Please maintain order and respect heroes with the most serious attitude. 】

At the beginning of the state funeral, according to the procedure, the first-level generals will mourn first, and then the list of victims at the school level and above will be read aloud, and those who have made first-class achievements will be commended and mourned. If the family is not allowed to exist, everything will be empty after death, and "sorrow" will really become mourning.

While listening to the eulogy of the generals, Miao Xuan looked at the countless coffins in front of him, and the eyes of those projections touched him one by one, as if they were still alive and participating in his funeral as the living.

There should be Xuan Tian's children among these people?Even if not, there must be Kong Yue's, or Madalena's. There are only 3000 women in the memorial hall. This possibility is too great.

But when they are facing death...would they think that their future children will be like grass and duckweed?

Maybe, maybe not, but whatever the conclusion, they have no choice.

Whether it is the dead or the living, no one has a happy fate. Probably only when Leto finds a new home, all the tragedies will stop, but where is the new home that can stop people from wandering among the stars?Can everything really get a good result?

The eulogy in his ears disappeared, and Miao Xuan finally came back to his senses.

It's his turn.

Miao Xuan took a step forward, he slowly raised his head, moved his eyes away from the coffins and projections all over the place, and then looked directly at the camera port, and also at the entire Leto.

He began to make a speech: [I am Second Lieutenant Mattes, and I will represent all sub-gods, here mourning the lost heroes...]

The eulogy was written by Ms. Cornelia to Miao Xuan. The whole text was loud and sincere and concise. If Miao Xuan wrote it, he would not be able to reach this level. Because of this, Miao Xuan even suspected that the Asian gods had their own public relations inventory. Then Miss Cornelia is the big steward of the sub-gods...

After such a year, the AI ​​personality of Cornelia gave Miao Xuan a very strange feeling. She was like a servant of Sexta, obviously the mastermind of the entire Leto, but she only obeyed the will of Godfather Ya.

However, the place where the main brain group is placed in Leto is the fourth ring, and the fourth ring is now under the control of Tieuliu, which is roughly equivalent to Sexta's back garden.

[...Heroes are immortal, we will welcome the returning heroic spirits in a hundred years, and all heroic souls will live forever in the sub-shen hall. 】

Miao Xuan finished reciting his full text. When his voice stopped, the surrounding world seemed to have fallen into dead silence. Countless coffins in the square were still watching him silently. They could not hear his insincere condolences. .

At this time, the magnificent music sounded slowly, and the three first-level generals held up white bouquets and walked down the high platform, and all the generals also came out holding flowers, and they put the flowers on the outermost coffin in turn.

There used to be no flower offering in Leto's funeral, but ever since a first-rank admiral in a certain session offered flowers to his deceased lover, this behavior has inexplicably become a customary tradition.

The human beings returned to their respective positions after presenting the flowers, and the position in front of the coffin was reserved for the heroic souls who had returned. Miao Xuan was the last one to step forward according to the procedure, holding the projected Hanlu flowers in his hand.

Perhaps because of the virtual projection, his bouquet is the whitest and most beautiful.

Miao Xuan put the bouquet on the coffin closest to him. The owner of this coffin was a young man who had just grown up, and his appearance was unexpectedly childish.

The moment the petals touched the black coffin, they dissipated like new snow, and as the bouquet of flowers turned into countless stardust, the prelude to the lament was finally played gradually.

The sub-god's singing of lament also has a meaning, which means "the returning sub-god guides the souls of the newly lost heroes with singing", which sounds like a very good expectation, but how many of these dead people can successfully become sub Where is God?Maybe none.

The prelude was getting louder and louder. This elegy was the most solemn and mournful of all the tunes. When the first piano sound sounded, Miao Xuan immediately realized that he should start.

"The passing stars fell into my eyes."

The first line of the lyrics had a vibrato that couldn't be ignored. Miao Xuan took a deep breath and tried to make his voice more stable, "The illusory light now only remains a faint light..."

Countless coffins were placed in front of him, and the heroic souls of the dead were watching him quietly, with eyes of different colors still carrying the brilliance in front of him, and Miao Xuan was standing at the front of these coffins , the projection of the childish young man looked at him, and the young man showed him a vigorous smile.

Looking at this young man, Miao Xuan's voice inexplicably calmed down. He listened to his own singing, as if he had returned to the empty training room.

* "The sky is vast, the stars are shining, the universe is silent, eternal and infinite..."

The stardust transformed from flower petals spread out on the pure black coffin, just like in the lyrics, and gradually diffused around Miao Xuan. At this time, he was gradually infected by the lyrics and tune, and I don’t know which syllable it started from. , Miao Xuan's voice has also undergone subtle changes, so since then his singing has truly and thoroughly blended into the elegy.

Miao Xuan didn't know that he was giving this piece of music a unique soul at this moment, which made this piece of music a completely different new thing from the original score, it was like reinserting the wings of a fallen bird , and send it back to the sky.

The tune became more and more exciting, and when the starlight of the petals flooded over Miao Xuan's waist like a tide, the climax of the song also arrived at the same time.

"Longing for light in the dark universe, spreading my wings and soaring in the land of no one, I will fly to the firm future and beyond, that is... the sky that only I can describe."

When the strings pushed all the beats to the highest point, Miao Xuan's singing and piano sound stopped abruptly at the same time. The crisp ending seems to be different from the sad and melodious song style, but there is no ending that is more suitable for this song.

The sound of music dissipated, and the bouquet completely turned into starlight all over the sky. These bright starlight gradually disappeared in mid-air, like fragments of a beautiful dream, and only the pure black coffin was left in the end.

Everything is like a dream, Leto, the last ark of mankind, will continue to wander among the stars.

Miao Xuan's singing fell, and he quietly looked at the projections of countless black-clothed soldiers in front of him. He wanted to ask them if they could hear it and if they liked the song, but the answer to this question was so obvious and sad and cruel .

Miao Xuan just stared blankly at the black coffin in front of him like a mountain range and field. After some time, he didn't realize until the prelude to the national anthem - oh, it's time to sing the national anthem.

The main tone of Leto's national anthem is also grand and tragic, and the song also uses a lot of elements from the universe. Leto's remaining literary works and song poems are all from more than 2000 years ago. At that time, there were still people who could create. What they create can also stay.

*【Looking at the night sky, the stars are shining, the pendulum is swaying, the wings are trembling...】

The first sentence of the national anthem has already started, and Miao Xuan hurriedly followed, but the strange thing is that he was the only one who sang the song that was supposed to be sung together. , but saw a group of people staring at him blankly behind him.

Miao Xuan:? ? ? ?

And Miao Xuan's turning around seemed to have reminded this group of people, and then the three first-level generals finally stuttered and kept up with Miao Xuan's rhythm.

Since then, everything has finally been on the right track. After the national anthem was mixed with three first-level generals, the rest of the generals also began to sing in a chorus.

Miao Xuan sang mechanically while slowly turning his head back.

So I'm the only one on the tune... what the hell was I worrying about?

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When the national anthem was played, Kong Xingyun's mind was blank.

At this moment, if one had to search for something in Kong Xingyun's mind, he would only be able to find the lingering sound of the elegy.

How could there be such a song in this world?How could such a voice exist in this world?Such music...

Kong Xingyun actually complained that the playing of the national anthem was inappropriate. He even felt that the generals' lead singing was so unpleasant, as if a pure white world had been broken from the outside.

Is that the sub-god's song?Is that... the elegy of Mathes?Can be sent off by such a dirge, even the dead will no longer have any widows—no, no, the dead can’t hear any sound, how pitiful are the people lying in these black coffins, they Even die without hearing such a song, they never know that someone will sing such a song for them.

He presented them with a bouquet of flowers, and the white petals finally scattered into nebulae. All of this was so suitable for this sub-god, like a silver-blue celestial body with a layer of bright halo. In front of all this, even the Milky Way The spiral is nothing more than that.

Shouldn't this be kept on Leto? Do human beings really deserve to be protected by such a god?

People are always attracted by beautiful things, but when these things exceed the limit, it is strange that people often subconsciously associate them with disappearing.

When the stardust passed through the hair of the sub-god, Kong Xingyun actually had the illusion and panic that the sub-god would also be annihilated.

[The pain will never end, the bright stars surround us, and the gravity will make us eternal...]

The national anthem is tragic and passionate. This is the song that all Leto people know. It stands to reason that everyone should be at the same time as the generals at this moment. However, there is no sound in the student's free activity room, and everyone is listening with their mouths shut. The national anthem, they listened to the chorus, looked for that voice in the clutter of voices—and they found it.

[...Blood is thicker than water, hearts are united, and barriers are torn apart, the ark will last forever. 】

The lyrics of the national anthem finally came to an end, but the magnificent orchestral music did not stop. This was the epilogue of the last verse of the national anthem. When people heard it, they couldn't help showing regretful expressions.

But everything has an end, and a national anthem finally stopped.

When there was only an unbearable silence in his ears, Kong Xingyun finally regained his consciousness. He subconsciously looked in the direction of the counselor, but saw that his counselor was still in a daze.

Everyone is still looking at the projection like a sculpture, as long as the silver-blue figure continues to stand in front of the tomb, then they can wait with him until the end of time.

In the projection, the most important moment of the funeral has finally come. Countless black coffins are connected together. They are not just coffins for storing corpses. When they are activated, they will reveal their true colors—this is actually burning corpses. furnace.

Everything happens in the black coffin that people can't see. The first thing to be extracted is the water in the corpse. Water is the simplest inorganic substance that can be extracted. The basic substances will be classified and decomposed. After this round, the mummy will become a skeleton, and the last thing decomposed is the remaining bones.

Kong Xingyun couldn't see all of this from the projection, but he could guess that he had already known about death and rebirth, as well as spiritual power and demigods.

If he can't become a sub-god, he will have nothing after death, even his spiritual power will no longer exist, and if he doesn't make a choice early, he will drift with the tide even during his lifetime, and finally die without knowing why.

Kong Xingyun's eyes only passed over the black coffin, and he still stared fixedly at the Yashen at the end of the black coffin. The stardust had dissipated in the air, leaving only the bouquet of flowers everywhere and his figure.

Those eyes are still the same as Kong Xingyun's memory, it is a dreamy mixture of light blue and green, ethereal like a nebula, everything about him is so perfect, but his eyes are the most depressing , more than his soul and his voice.

What are you looking at?Are you also looking at this black coffin?Are you recalling memories from your lifetime?Or are you pitying or sympathizing with these sacrificed people?

Everything is so far away and beautiful, all Kong Xingyun can do is fantasize and speculate, he can't even stop the dispatcher from turning the camera away.

And those magnificent eyes disappeared from Kong Xingyun's field of vision as the projection angle changed.

The projection moved away, and now the projection is aimed at the three first-level generals, who are talking about the conclusion of the state funeral, and this scene is not attractive to the crowd at the moment.

Kong Xingyun heard the sighs of the companions beside him, but they didn't notice anything, they just couldn't help talking about the singing and sub-gods, they talked about their sighs excitedly, and no one listened to the emotions of others.

None of them realized that—that sub-god, he was paying homage, and he was singing a dirge!

It's like the people on Leto, either there is nothing left for Leto to die pitifully, or they get eternal life and all good things.

Kong Xingyun didn't want to hear the dirge, even though the dirge was so magnificent and surpassed all the sounds he had ever heard, what Kong Xingyun wanted more was to get other songs from that sub-god while he was still alive.

The author has something to say:

*This is not an elegy, it is adapted from the ending song "wish" of the new version of Yinying's film, and the national anthem is not the national anthem, it is the opening song of the new version of Yinying's film "binarystare". I can too).

*Elegy and elegy are actually different themes. Elegy is a work written for the dead, but elegy is a sad work, such as Pushkin’s If life deceives you, it is also an elegy.Both are used in this world to mean dirge.