Chapter 737: Otherworld Journey (Part 7)

Gu Ningyi looked at him for a long time, finally sighed, raised the umbrella over his head, and said, "Let’s go, Dad and Mom are waiting at home."

Growth in adversity is the fastest, but also the most prone to going astray. Even though Gu Ningyi knew that the brother from another plane had nothing to do with him, he still felt a bit worried. Now, after probing a bit, he seems to be at ease.

To be honest, the brothers from the two planes are essentially the same. If his little brother from home could make it this far, then this brother from the different plane could achieve the same...maybe even better... Who can be certain about the future? Only after experiencing it will you know.

Time flies. Gu Ningxuan started as an ordinary soldier in the Alliance, steadily rising through military merits, and in just two years, he became a Lieutenant. The baptism of war made him silent, and his demeanor increasingly resembled Marshal Gu’s.

Many things can happen in two years, for instance, the Alliance has lost four more planets, including one secondary planet. Except for one planet where rescue was timely, the other three were completely overrun because help didn’t arrive in time. Ultimately, the space navigation technology of the Alliance is still too backward! Even if they rush with all their strength, they would still be three to four days late, and by that time, the optimal rescue period would long be missed.

The Insect Race is a species that continues to evolve through energy consumption, the longer the delay, the more hopeless it becomes. The clearance and rescue missions at the front line are intermixed, constantly challenging people’s psychological endurance limits, and Gu Ningxuan has learned to bear them.

That being said, there is some good news. Mind Power Users have indeed strong suppression against the Insect Race, and their fighting capability on the battlefield is remarkable, this matter has formally entered the research and planning. However, given the limited chances of awakening, the Alliance dares not invest too much manpower, because for today’s Alliance, every warrior is extremely precious.

Speaking of telekinesis, Marshal Gu’s telekinesis is also soaring, vaguely neck and neck with Gu Ningxuan.

You must know that Gu Ningxuan’s awakening was forcibly induced during a mental fusion, his starting point of telekinesis was inherently high, while Marshal Gu awakened later, yet their progress speed is almost no different. Actually, thinking carefully is understandable, before reaching Level Five of telekinesis, it can be stimulated and grown by external forces, there’s no bottleneck. It’s not difficult for Marshal Gu to catch up, the hard part is the levels beyond that!

After reaching Level Five, it requires one’s intense emotions to stimulate telekinesis growth. Marshal Gu has seen too many storms; his restraint ability is already beyond human, no matter how big the pain, he can forcibly control his emotions within a certain range, there aren’t many things that can stimulate him.

Whereas Gu Ningxuan has not reached his state, the same things have a greater impact on him than on Marshal Gu, naturally, the growth rate of telekinesis is also different. When Gu Ningxuan informed Marshal Gu of this detail, the latter remained silent for a long time.

Marshal Gu has the right to be silent because with poor control ability, it’s hard to control the stimulation intensity! If inadvertently exceeded, one might go crazy, but if the stimulation is too weak, telekinesis growth will be slow... This thing is really perverse!

In short, in this era, suppression and endurance have also become a kind of fault. Regarding telekinesis, a very useful but obviously with perverse limitations ability, Marshal Gu did not insist on it. Anyway, he wouldn’t deliberately do anything crazy to stimulate himself.

Of course, though there is good news, more so there is bad news, for instance... Second Young Master Gu, Gu Ningzhi’s comrade, was killed in action.

Since the Insect Race disaster broke out, the number of warriors sacrificing and dying is too many to count, even a line of Marshals has died, and those currently on duty mostly just took office within the past decade, and no one knows when they will also be "updated and replaced."

Therefore, the death of Gu Ningzhi’s comrade—Li You seemed not so noticeable. If an Admiral dies in peacetime, it would naturally attract the entire Alliance’s attention, but now... there are only a few lonely flowers left in front of the tomb.

Before the war, Li You was a Lieutenant General, with some fame in the Xilena Star System’s Military Department. Yet in this stormy age full of talents, he seemed a little dim and unobtrusive, coupled with his low-key and unassuming personality, it’s easier to be ignored.

Li You’s circle of friends was not large; some of his subordinates have already died in battle, another part is still rushing around the Alliance, the number of attendees at his funeral was pitifully small. What worried the Gu Family members was that Gu Ningzhi had seemed somewhat dispirited since Li You’s death.

Li You was killed in action, Gu Ningzhi was badly wounded, but luckily he kept his life, whereas the other has already vanished from the world.

"If it weren’t for me, he probably wouldn’t have died..." Gu Ningzhi’s temperament was considered the most lively among the Gu family’s three sons, but after this event, he became the most silent one, "Some things, once you miss them, they are missed forever, there’s no retrieving. While you’re still alive, don’t leave regrets for yourself, otherwise, even if you regret it until you’re blue in the face, it’s of no use."

After recovering, Gu Ningzhi returned to the Military Department, while Gu Ningxuan participated in the war and at the same time sought a way to return.

Time waits for no one, he didn’t want to return to find that he couldn’t see even the few remaining family members... Great-grandfather, grandfather, father, mother, strictly speaking, two brothers that he hadn’t met, two children who hadn’t been acknowledged, and his cherished lover...

However, how absurd it is to travel through planes, he was already very fortunate to have survived the cosmic turbulence and black hole, how could he expect to return?

The longer time passed, the deeper the repression in the heart, the ever-intensifying war and the despair of having no home to return to made Gu Ningxuan extremely weary, three more hurried years passed, yet they felt as long as a lifetime.

Just when he thought there was no way out, he still waited for that moment of unexpected turn, the surprise came too suddenly, he even thought it was a dream. (To be continued. If you like this work, you’re welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets on Qidian (qidian.com), your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)