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Chapter 78 The Final Chapter of Deep Blue (Part 1)
In the real world, there are 13 stations.

Although the scene of Caroline giving a gift to Tiandao on the rooftop was sweet, the little interactions between the two were also quite interesting.

But for some reason, the viewers in the anime/manga world couldn't laugh at all; some even felt like crying.

As the plot has progressed to this point, even a fool would know that it was either Caroline's early gift or Tiandao's half-joking, half-serious final photo.

This is already the only 'heartwarming' moment left in the entire first season of Stellaris: Ember.

Starting tomorrow, Tiandao and the others will leave the Deep Blue Metropolis and return to the Ember Base.

Then judge based on the previous 'flashback' of the Heavenly Dao.

The storyline after the first season of Stars returns to the base will never be as warm and sweet as it is now.

Instead, it is filled with the cruelty of blood and fire, and the separation of life and death.

'A photo of her deceased husband, a necklace to commemorate him... wait, production team, could you be any more contrived?!'

"Brothers, fix bayonets! I think this production team is asking for trouble. We need to teach them a lesson!"

'The sugar coating is gone; all that's left are the cannonballs.'

"Knives in hand, follow me, brothers, let's fight the production team!"

To vent his sadness and anxiety about the future plot of Stellaris.

The anime/manga audience immediately turned their criticism towards the production team of the group.

After all, the characters in anime are 'virtual'.

But the production team in reality is real!
Meanwhile, the viewers were showering the production team with compliments, their mouths practically dripping with honey.

The anime series has entered a silent mode consisting only of background music and character visuals.

The first plot point is the final chapter of Tiandao and his friends' school life.

In the scene, after finishing their last class, Tiandao and the others left this place, a place they might never return to, amidst the reluctant gazes of their classmates.

The setting sun painted the school gate orange-red. Tiandao pushed up his sunglasses, smiled, and waved to the students who were seeing him off.

Outside the school gate, Tiandao and Caroline, who were with him, cast long, narrow shadows in the setting sun.

And this shadow continued all the way to Isabel's feet inside the school gate.

The scene was frozen on Isabel's hesitant expression and the image of Tendou and the others walking out of the school gate.

This also signifies that the campus life of Tiandao and his friends at Triland has finally come to a complete end.

The second scene to appear takes place in the conference room of Tianhai Group.

The long-lost Yunmeng has finally reappeared.

Wearing a rabbit mask, she stood behind Dorian alongside Coral Knight, silently watching the other major shareholders in the conference hall.

Faced with the terrifying pressure brought by the two Level Two Star Envoys, most of the shareholders present finally agreed to Dorian's decision wholeheartedly.

Only a small group of shareholders, led by Bernd, remained hesitant and did not rush to vote.

But then Bernd'an also voted in favor.

The entire conference hall became Dorian's personal fiefdom.

At the end of the story, Dorian leaves Berndyan alone.

After exchanging a few words, Bernd'an left alone, leaving Dorian standing by the floor-to-ceiling window of the corporation's building, overlooking the dazzling neon lights of the deep blue metropolis.

A moment later, Dorian picked up the cigar on the table, lit it, and put it in his mouth.

Amidst the swirling smoke, Dorian's face grew increasingly blurred, but his gaze became ever more resolute.

At this moment, he was like a captain standing in the captain's cabin, gazing at the terrifying storm in the distance.

As the cigar burned out, Dorian stubbed it out completely and walked out of the meeting room without looking back.

This seems to suggest that he will lead the large ship named 'Tianhai' bravely through the fierce storm before him.

Go forth and greet the brilliant dawn after the storm.

The third scene to appear is a solo shot of Tiandao and the others in the villa at night.

And unlike the relatively soothing background music in the previous two storylines.

The background music suddenly turned melancholic, clearly indicating that the production team was hinting at something.

The first thing to appear is the solo storyline of the protagonist, Chen Kong.

In the room where Chen Kong was.

At this moment, Chen Kong was packing his luggage.

The school badges, uniforms, swimsuits, and volleyballs from Triland Middle School.
The farewell gifts that classmates secretly slipped to them included handmade cookies, autographed CDs, and even hair ties for girls.
Chen Kong packed very slowly, as if he didn't want to put these things in his luggage.

Although Chen Kong's experience when he first arrived at Trilan Middle School was not pleasant.

However, with the arrival of the Heavenly Dao in the afternoon...

This brought about a dramatic change in his campus life.

In the bright room light, Chen Kong looked at the luggage, which was still neatly packed despite the long delay, and his expression was very complicated.

Although he only spent a short month at Triland Middle School.

But this month of life on Triland campus was the happiest time he had ever had since the cataclysm.

He even wanted to stay here forever and never go back, if he could.

Ordinary high school life, ordinary college entrance exams, ordinary
For him, the star was never a miracle, but rather more like a curse.

If this world didn't have Star Source, his life might be better.

However, as soon as this dangerous thought popped into his head, Chen Kong hurriedly shook his head and quickly banished it from his mind.

It was as if they were afraid of being affected by this idea.

But often, certain things, once they appear in your mind...

Then it will take root firmly in the soil of your heart, just like a seed.

And it will break through the soil and sprout at a specific time.

Because it is not some empty, unrealistic fantasy at all.

Rather, it is the only 'answer' buried deep within a person's heart.

Inside the room where Dust Star was located.

Unlike Chen Kong's melancholy next door, Chen Xing was sitting cross-legged on the ground, diligently cultivating his star energy with a blank expression.

However, something was wrong with Dust Star at this time.

Her expression no longer held the focus and seriousness she usually displayed.

His tightly closed brows revealed a clear sense of sorrow, making him appear quite absent-minded.

After a short while, unable to enter a meditative state, she finally chose to interrupt her practice and got up to go to her desk. On the desk, there was a delicately crafted gift box that was half-open.

Inside the gift box was a pair of sunglasses that she had specially chosen.

Chen Xing stared at the sunglasses for a moment, then, as if he had thought of something, suddenly picked them up and walked to the trash can next to him, preparing to throw them in directly.

But just as the sunglasses were raised and the trash can was almost within reach, Chen Xing's hand suddenly froze in mid-air.

She turned her head and gazed at her own reflection in the lenses of her sunglasses, her eyes wavering.

Finally, Chen Xing sighed silently, then put the sunglasses back into the gift box and roughly stuffed them into his suitcase.

However, her actions seemed rough, as if she were handling stolen goods.

In reality, she placed the gift box in the very center of the clothing, clearly because she was subconsciously worried that the contents of the gift box would be crushed.

After finishing all this, Chen Xing sat down alone at the desk, gazing absently at the unique underwater night view of the deep blue metropolis outside the window.

After an unknown amount of time, her expression changed.

The initial confusion has vanished, replaced by an unprecedented sense of determination.

If she gave up at the slightest setback, she would have died in the cataclysm years ago and wouldn't be alive today.

Therefore, no matter how difficult the road ahead may be, no matter how many thorns there may be along the way.

She will continue to move forward without hesitation.

Even if she can't see any light called 'hope' on this road, it's the same.

After all, victory is never as easy as a dandelion on a hillside.

Moreover, what Chenxing found even more unacceptable than the hopeless future was that she didn't even have the courage to embark on that path.
Give up?

In Chenxing's dictionary, there is everything, except the word 'admit defeat'.

However, despite this, Chenxing still strangely interrupted his daily cultivation that had been going on for many years.

And there he was, unusually, lost in thought, sitting at his desk in the darkness of night.

Inside Caroline's room.

In the quiet of the night, Caroline lay flat on her bed in the room, scrolling through the photo album on her phone.

A group photo taken at the port when I first arrived in the deep blue metropolis; a little dolphin startled by the heavens in the sunken ship restaurant; myself under the fireworks in the jellyfish amusement park.
Looking at these photos, Caroline's rational, mechanical brain was quickly influenced by these emotional memories.

And it made her quickly forget everything, becoming hopelessly addicted.

This makes her less rational in her judgment compared to other androids.

But it also gave her more of the joy of being 'human' than other androids.

And all of this was given to her by the Heavenly Dao.

For a very long time, as an android, she didn't actually know what happiness or sadness was.

Because at that time, her life at the base consisted of only two things each day.

First, learning.

2. Conduct data analysis in dreams to continue learning.

Although her life had been very dull and boring during this period, she didn't feel that anything was wrong with it.

Because at that time, there were no other people her age in the base besides her.

Therefore, she neither knew nor had any way of knowing what the lives of other people her age were like.

Based on a simple, rational sample analysis, she speculated that her peers were probably spending their days in the same tedious and boring learning environment as she was.

This situation continued until that person appeared.

He's actually two years younger than me.

He clearly had no prior knowledge of stellar energy.

But this guy seems to have been born to defy all common sense.

He not only learned the knowledge that she had spent several years learning in just one week, but also...

Then, in less than half a month, he completely caught up with her achievements in Star Energy.

Upon seeing this situation, as an android known for its rationality, her first reaction was not to compete with the other party.

Instead, we should try to understand him, learn from him, and even surpass him.

Therefore, she took the initiative to contact him and began to seriously do what he said.

For the first time, I gave up studying at night and left the base to take a walk on the beach.

It was my first time jumping into the sea and personally interacting with the baby dolphins that were near the island.

The first time I asked Instructor Yunmeng to help me buy a cute dolphin doll, I asked her to buy it for me.

Although her overall performance in Project Stars declined after doing this for half a month.

But she suddenly experienced many things she had never experienced before.

Something called 'happiness' and 'freedom'.

These things, like Pandora's box that has been opened, can no longer be closed and have taken root in her mind, impossible to eradicate.

Gradually, her brain database, which originally only stored knowledge about star energy, began to contain many things unrelated to star energy in just half a month.

These things always appear late at night when she wants to do data analysis, making it impossible for her to concentrate on 'studying' as before.

Soon, the doctor noticed her unusual behavior.

Subsequently, the doctor, who was also an android, immediately made a decision that she considered very rational.

That means he wants to clear out all the useless human emotions in her mind that only interfere with her.

But just then, that person appeared again.

He not only told himself that human emotions were never useless.

At the same time, he actually managed to persuade the doctor, who in her opinion was the least persuasive person in the world.

From then on, she suddenly had one more thing to learn.

That is, learning how to be a good 'person'.

And all of this was taught to me by that guy called 'Heavenly Fate Master'.

The doctor once told her that the future will definitely change the world, so she must be a good tool of the Heavenly Way and wholeheartedly assist it.

She not only didn't complain at all, but she also did her best to do so.

What the doctor didn't know was that her reason for doing this was never because she wanted to change the world with the will of Heaven.

Rather, it's because the Way of Heaven is his own world.

(End of this chapter)