Chapter 307
So Close Yet So Far
Not in the palace?
Upon hearing this, Firefly immediately looked at AR-36541 and asked, "Did they say where Brother Sam is?"
AR-36541 shook his head: "I don't know, they came to the capital planet later."
"They said they heard it from others."
"The only people who know... are probably the Queen's personal guards, right?"
"But now the royal guards have already entered the palace to sleep with the Empress..."
"I see..." Although Firefly was somewhat disappointed that there was no news of Sam's whereabouts, at least she now knew that Sam was not in the palace.
Firefly looked at AR-36541 and said, "Thank you, AR-36541."
AR-36541 scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed: "It's alright, but Captain, are you going to continue the search?"
Firefly nodded: "That's right, I must find Brother Sam."
"He's no longer capable of fighting. Now that the Iron Cavalry has disbanded, Grammer is in danger without their protection. I need to find him and protect him."
"And you?"
"I heard that the remaining swarms of insects from outside the capital planet have attacked. The military is preparing to mobilize the Iron Cavalry to resist them. We're getting ready to go."
Firefly paused for a moment: "Are you... prepared to continue participating in the war?"
AR-36541 and the other team members exchanged glances, then smiled and said, "Although Her Majesty the Queen says we are free... we don't know what freedom means."
"And didn't Her Majesty the Queen say that we can do whatever we want?"
"We are iron cavalry born for war."
"Besides eliminating the insect swarm for Her Majesty the Queen and Grammer, is there really nothing else we can do?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Ying fell silent.
If it weren't for finding Sam's brother.
She... probably thinks the same way, right?
This is them... no, this is the Grammer Cavalry.
The Grammer Cavalry existed solely for Grammer, solely for Her Majesty the Queen.
Liu Ying took a deep breath and nodded: "Then be careful. I'll come find you after I find Brother Sam."
AR-36541 and the rest of the team nodded and smiled, then stood at attention, clenched their fists in front of their chests, and shrugged them twice: "For Grammer, for Her Majesty the Queen."
Fireflies returned the salute in the same manner: "For Grammer, for Her Majesty the Queen."
After the squad members left in the direction of the military headquarters, Firefly turned around and continued running in another direction.
She's going to go find it.
Since they are not in the palace.
Even if she had to search every inch of the capital planet's ruins, she was determined to find him!
that's it.
The girl's anxious departing figure.
And that corpse, lying quietly against the stone pillar, unattended.
So far away.
But... they will never see each other again, whether in life or death.
……
"Aa ...
Seeing this, the extraterrestrial network went completely insane.
Countless viewers were tormented by the sense of destiny of being so close yet forever missing each other, and let out frantic wails.
【No!!!!!!!!!】
Turn around! Turn around!!!
Why?! Why didn't you let her recognize you?!
[Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! I'm going crazy! I'm really going crazy!]
[Damn you, SkyCover! Why did you make Sam take off his mask?!]
I...I fucking...I can't catch my breath...I'm really going to be stabbed to death...
This is a million times worse than being stabbed! Screenwriter, you have no heart! You have no heart at all!
I can't take it anymore... I really can't take it anymore...
The entire universe of comments went completely crazy the moment Liu Ying turned around.
Countless viewers were tormented by the sense of destiny that made them so close yet destined never to meet again.
They could only watch helplessly as the fireflies brushed past the person she longed for.
That feeling of powerlessness, that feeling of madness, almost consumed their reason.
They could only clutch their hair, pound their chests, and let out desperate cries like fireflies.
Luofu, Changletian.
March 7th and Xing were crying so hard they couldn't speak; they could only hug each other's shoulders and tremble uncontrollably.
Walter sighed.
This is fate... no.
Is this what Sam... Lu Li wanted?
……
at the same time.
On the pavilion not far away.
"No...no..."
The firefly looked at itself in the sky, and just like that... it brushed past him.
They missed their only chance to find him.
She missed the face she had longed for day and night, the face she had only just caught a glimpse of.
She missed... the person she had always wanted to find.
They were so close, yet so close.
But in the past, she acted like a fool... turning a blind eye.
"Ah...ah ah..."
An indescribable, excruciating pain shot through my heart.
The tears that had already dried up started flowing again like a flood bursting its banks.
She knelt on the ground, clutching her clothes tightly to her chest, her nails digging deep into her flesh without her noticing.
Because no matter how much pain I feel... it can't compare to even a fraction of the pain in my heart right now.
hatred!
She hates it so much!
I hate that foolish, ignorant version of myself.
I wish I could travel through time and go back to the past to slap myself hard!
Make her turn back!
Let her see clearly!
The person she searched the whole world for but couldn't find.
Actually, he had been there all along, quietly waiting for her.
Look at her...
……
In the sky.
Fireflies wandered through the ruins like soulless puppets.
These days, she has searched every corner of the inner city.
Laboratories, bases, streets...
She even examined each of the piles of corpses.
But...no.
There isn't anywhere.
That familiar figure was nowhere to be seen.
That familiar white lab coat wasn't there.
That familiar white mask was not there.
She doesn't understand.
Why?
Why is this happening?
Everything was perfectly fine before she left...
Sam...brother...
The fireflies, lost and bewildered, stumbled and staggered.
Ultimately... without realizing it.
She went to the place where they last met, the place where she parted ways with Sam.
Military flight platform.
This place has also been reduced to ruins.
The massive platform broke and collapsed, leaving only half of the former command tower as a wreckage.
Firefly walked numbly on the broken ground, her feet crunching on the cold metal fragments.
And just then...
"Click—"
The firefly stepped on a hard object.
She lowered her head.
A white object, covered in dust and dried bloodstains, lay quietly among the rubble.