Project Light

By James Hernandez

I have been in love many times in the play, and I want to talk about it once in reality, with you. Any relationship that doesn't involve marriage is a hooligan. This is the story of a stubborn actress and a man who is tough on the outside but warm on the inside.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James Hernandez
• Release date: Jun 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088153185

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Chapter 2 Burning Time

The blinding light in my vision faded and became warm.

Strange….. Am I still awake? It’s like I’m still replaying the scene of being consumed by the bright light.

The sun is a little harsh, open your eyes, the curtains are not fully closed.

The girl rolled into a sitting position and slowly got out of her slightly messy single bed. She went to the window opposite the bed and flung back the curtain. The unique light of the morning sun poured over her face onto her toes.

…

I can’t tell you how powerless she was. She did look like she was awake. But a wash should do it. She was grooming herself in front of the mirror. She’s about 6 ‘6 "tall, and she has something of a hybrid beauty. Her indigo long hair fell below her shoulders. The girl combed it expertly and plaited it into a thick braid from shoulder length. The drooping bangs were also carefully arranged, with one side brushed into a parting and the other side carefully fluffed and trimmed.

Accompanied by the sound of the falling water, the girl quickly wash her face and brush her teeth. Today is her first day in school, but she did not sleep well. Far away from her parents, she went to school in a faraway place, intending to make a good impression on the classmates and teachers she met on the first day. It’s her style to look good in front of people.

The apartment is not big, but it is not far from the school. Her parents would give her regular living expenses, and the amount was quite large, because the girl’s family was quite well-off. Although the small apartment had only been moved in a short time, there were some cardboard boxes piled up in the corner, which looked simple, but I could see that the girl planned to decorate it well.

Yesterday had bought bread and yogurt for breakfast, the girl quickly dressed, took the yogurt mouth chewing bread out of the door.

The elevator on the floor of the community is of good quality and does not encounter too crowded situation. It should be a 15-minute walk to school.

The girl remembered the strange dream all the way, and when she woke up in the morning, she could not forget it. She felt a dull ache in her head. The feeling was so real that she felt a little distant. Even she remembered the touch of the cockpit. But he is clearly just an ordinary high school students, not love fantasy in two diseases.

I never thought I’d dream about flying in a mech.

She laughed at herself and wondered if she was drowsy. In my own memory, she was a generous, educated, excellent girl. Came from a military family. In her previous class, she was a role model for everyone to follow.

The previous class? Oh, and the previous class…… She couldn’t remember anything about her previous class for a while. It’s weird. It was just a holiday ago. She stood there and drank yogurt, almost forgetting that the green light on the other side of the crosswalk had already been lit, or the people behind her urged her to hurry across the road.

What the hell…. There’s something wrong with me today. Slightly embarrassed, she took the last bite of the yogurt and threw the empty box into a passing dumpster. Take out the phone to look at the time, the class is about to begin, she quickened the pace.

She walked quickly into the school gate, the school gate eye-catching vertical New Spring and Autumn City 20 middle school.

Class, this is Qin Yun, who transferred to our class this semester. Just get along.

The headmistress is introducing the girls to the students below by the platform.

Hello everyone, my name is Qin Yun, we have a lot of advice! Qin Yun tried to make her voice full of vitality, slightly to the class bowed.

As expected, she was very welcome. After all, who doesn’t like a girl who has good looks and is dignified? One of the girls in the class raised her hand and invited her to the empty seat next to her, though she seemed a little hesitant when she raised her hand.

Hello Qin Yun….. My name is… My name is Li, Li Jiayi…. That, I just did not have a deskmate…. So…. The girl volunteered to introduce herself, and I could see that she was a little shy. Look carefully, she belongs to the kind of petite and lovely girl, and Qin Yun generous and capable temperament compared, the aura is weak on a big section.

Hello, we are deskmates in the future.

Qin Yun smiled politely at her. Her heart is also relieved, the new campus life, smooth start.

The new campus life is very smooth, a few days down Qin Yun and Li Jiayi familiar up. In the course of science, Li Jiayi showed strong arithmetic ability. Even Qin Yun, who got excellent grades sometimes, had to ask her for help. And when the PE class, Li Jiayi is completely ability to zero, this time Qin Yun’s physical strength let her envy. So it seems that this new friend and their own quite complementary, Qin Yun thought.

At first, Qin Yun thought Li Jiayi was a little timid and shy, but once she talked about computer IT and ACG, she could not stop talking. Whenever this time, Qin Yun is only embarrassed to accompany her smile.

This may be the reason why there is no deskmate around her after she starts school. Qin Yun after only helpless bitter smile.

For a long time, Qin Yun heard a classmate in the aisle privately say she is not a big miss. She just smiled and took no notice. My own home…… It’s not a big family, but at least it gets by.

Speaking of his family is a soldier, the natural condition is relatively favorable. But carefully thought Qin Yun does not have any sense of feeling. Although these days parents and their own phone, but since the strange dream, Qin Yun these days always feel very easy to zone out.

That’s all. The first thing is to have a good rest. Back home Qin Yun turned on the TV and put himself on the sofa. At home, Qin Yun doesn’t bother to keep up appearances, slumping on the couch in a baggy T-shirt and underwear watching soap operas.

At the beginning of the new life, I made a friend of Li Jiayi, but to be honest, she has a little radio. There are lovely places, but you’d better make time to tell her about them. She got up and picked up a can of Coke, her mind wandering back to the day.

Qin Yun, I tell you oh, the latest words of the motor mask updated yo!

Qin Yun and Li Jiayi were on their way to the canteen for lunch between classes. Li Jiayi, as always, opened a chatterbox. Apart from watching robot animation, Li Jiayi is good at IT. Look at her when talking about these things crazy strength, Qin Yun think she might be a genius.

Li Jiayi, she seems to have only one friend Qin Yun. Qin Yun was always good at communication and righteous, shining in the eyes of her classmates. Naturally, there were many people around her who wanted to take the initiative to approach her, including many boys.

However, considering Li Jiayi’s feelings, she did not respond too much to others when Li Jiayi pestered her. Of course, this also makes Qin Yun a little embarrassed to some extent. She even began to hear some classmates who didn’t like Li Jiayi talking behind her back, saying that because nobody paid attention to her in the previous semester, she specially found an excellent transfer student to take her side this time.

I’m just not interested in what happened in the semester before Li Jiayi. Sometimes it’s too much and you should give her a little warning. Give Li Jiayi a little warning the next day at school. After the decision, Qin Yun was immersed in the story.

Such are the trifles in daily life, for Qin Yun, she should be able to cope with more than enough. But the unconventional was creeping up on her.

Thousands of kilometers away from the city where Qin Yun lives, and 15,000 kilometers above sea level, change is happening.

Chapter 3 Dream of a new life

High above, formations of fighter jets patrol, their wings emblazoned with the markings of different countries, but their tails all bearing a common design. It is the symbol of a double snake intersecting in a spiral wound, surrounded by a circle of olive branches. The model of the fighter is today’s most cutting-edge model, the F-35 stealth fighter. There are about 20 of these aircraft in total, one of the largest formations in today’s world military operations.

Report to svarg headquarters. Alpha Team has detected nothing unusual.

The radar was empty, and the pilots, who had arrived on command, circled the airspace as if on the lookout.

It’s fogging up, and the Beta team has no harvest. OVER.

The other formation is reporting.

All units stay on alert. By the chief’s calculations, the target should be in the vicinity soon. A female commander was directing the operation from a command post.

A fog? High in the air? There are no clouds in the stratosphere, so that’s the biggest anomaly. ? The female commander felt something was wrong. Just as I was about to remind, there was a sudden change in the section of the correspondence.

Received….. Aaaah! In the middle of the communication, the pilot shouted, and then the communication was cut off!

Something’s showing up! Pilots are in emergency combat mode! But having never seen such an enemy before, they did not even know how to strike!

A large black figure peeped out of the suddenly spreading fog and seemed to scan the formation of fighter jets patrolling the area with what I don’t know if it’s an eye.

The correspondence was a mess. Even highly trained pilots are not immune to panic when confronted with something beyond common sense. They attacked in a hurry. The monster’s body gradually emerged from the mist. It was huge, its outstretched hand about the size of a fighter jet. But it seems hard to hit the newest supersonic fighter with a single slap. It seems to think for a moment, and suddenly a strange ray shoots out from the position of an eye, and the targeted fighter explodes instantly!

It doesn’t look like they can hold up. A steady male voice came from behind her. Aster, prepare for the next step. I’ll take it from here.

Director? Why are you here? Turning her head, the furrowed brow of the female commander, known as Aster, seemed to relax a little. It seems that the arrival of the middle-aged man known as the Chief will make things better.

I know more about the guys we’re up against than anybody in this room….. Isn’t it?

The chief had gray hair and a conspicuous scar on the right side of his face. He was dressed in a black uniform and stood upright. He could be seen as a good military officer. But unlike many officers, he seemed kind.

I see. Aster gave the director a military salute.

The director nodded to Zi Yuan.

If we don’t succeed, we’ll have to wake her up.

Still echoing in my mind was the director’s parting orders to him. She knew exactly what she was going to do. She went to the garage and started a red sports car. She and the chief both know that if the weapons of this age fail to kill the enemy. You need a backup plan, and that’s something that’s already in the plan.

Early in the morning, Li Jiayi is waiting for her to go to school at the gate of Qin Yun’s community, and her home is just nearby.

Li Jiayi enthusiasm for their own is a good thing, but Qin Yun is ready to talk to her today this new friend, pointing out where she and people need to pay attention to.

Just 15 minutes away, Qin Yun and Li Jiayi are about to usher in the collapse of their calm daily life.

The cacophony of sirens shattered the sparsely normal morning. Random broadcasts from the government come back through loudspeakers on street corners and alleys. People nearby also received evacuation warnings on their mobile phones.

Proceed to underground Street for shelter. I repeat, this is not a drill!

Eh? Ah? ! It was clear that Li Jiayi panicked along with the pedestrians around her. This was a time of peace. Did war or terror suddenly break out? ! Qin Yun also began to be at a loss to rise, but Li Jiayi unexpectedly quickly reacted, pulled Qin Yun began to run up.

Qin Yun, let’s go!

In Chunqiu, citizens are taught various evacuation drills in elementary schools and have special shelters. These things are naturally familiar to Li Jiayi. People around the road quickly reacted and began to run for shelter. It feels like this is a scene the citizens have mastered today. On the contrary, Qin Yun who had just come here showed a blank look.

As the crowds of citizens surged, several squadrons of fighter jets and helicopter gunships flew overhead.

On the outskirts of the city, anti-aircraft guns and tanks have been deployed, their muzzles pointed in the air.

This is…. Qin Yun a little surprised, this is completely a battle, but did not hear his father said. Just then, she and Li Jiayi saw a dark figure in the distant sky, and it grew larger and larger. Several points of light were approaching the shadow with trailing trails. Then there was a violent explosion above the figure.

‘It’s a missile! It was also the first time Ms. Li had seen the weapons outside of television.

But the shadows continued to fall, seemingly without much damage, even as the army’s weapons continued to pummel them. As it drew nearer and nearer to the ground, its thin, twisted, blasphemous human form seemed to be visible to all who ran on it. This kind of monster beyond people’s cognition, let a lot of people running are scared to stop the pace.

Qin Yun also stayed in the middle of the crowd. She pinched her face hard, wondering if she was still in bed and awake today. What a surreal situation!

The monster began to hover over Xinchunqiu City in the shape of a large font. So quietly watching the ground as the human ants. Humans, too, are staring at something suddenly, with no idea what it is going to do.

It’s a pity how the human mind can possibly understand what this blasphemous being is thinking.

A ray from the monster’s head sweeps across the city. Suddenly a violent explosion sent people flying! Qin Yun also flew in the air, a blank brain, surrounded by hot breath! Everything around him seemed to be burning, the relentless flame and heat engulfing the innocent crowd.

For a moment the picture of the dream coincided with the scene clearly.

Li Jiayi held her tightly, then held her in her arms and fell to the ground!

The impact of weightlessness and landing made Qin Yun faint.

Chapter 4 Toward the Abyss

My mind slowly recovered from the blank, but it was still buzzing.

Gradually the hands and feet seemed to recover a little feeling.

It was not easy to recover from the dizzy feeling, Qin Yun barely opened his eyes.

She could feel some warm liquid dripping on her face, but it was so dark that she could hardly see.

She realized she was buried under the rubble.

Before he could think of anything, the rubble around him was lifted.

Some heavily armed soldiers appeared before him.

Master Aster, we have our target.

One of the soldiers to Qin Yun out of sight of someone report.

The appearance fits the profile.

Qin Yun by the light, see lying on his body Li Jiayi.

She used her body to Qin Yun to bear the impact, her face is full of blood, legs were pressed in the reinforced concrete, soaked in blood.

It turned out that the warm liquid I felt before was Li Jiayi’s blood.

"!! Qin Yun wanted to cry out for help to the soldiers in front of her, but she felt her voice blocked and made no sound.

Too much tension made her tense, unable to speak, just gasping.

Shak…. Qin Yun, right?

Female commanders seem to confirm the name of the people in front of the other side, hear each other read out their own name, Qin Yun nodded.

My name is Zi Yuan. I’ve just met you. Just be alive.

A uniformed woman came from behind the soldier, reaching out to pick up the disheveled Qin Yun.

Come with us if you want to live!

Uniform women said to Qin Yun.

Qin Yun confused staring eyes, and tried to hold seriously dying Li Jiayi, with gestures to tell the soldiers in front of the rescue.

Well…. You don’t understand the situation….. It’s just…..

The woman in uniform was Commander Zi Yuan. With a wave of her hand, several soldiers came up with tools to pry the rubble off Li Jiayi’s body.

Then he put her on the stretcher. Qin Yun or a blank face, but since the front of the people rescued their friends, so they also instinctively follow them to go up.

I was sore, but I could move without any problems.

Qin Yun found that the monster ray swept several blocks are littered with corpses, a lot of soldiers and doctors in the running to rescue the wounded, but the people who survived is a minority.

Li Jiayi was loaded into an ambulance, and she was asked to get into the female commander’s red sports car.

I thought I would be sent to the hospital like Li Jiayi, but I did not expect to transport Li Jiayi’s ambulance and his car to go the same way.

Where are you taking me?

Qin Yun finally feel chest blockage feeling a little, she asked difficult opening.

You’ll see.

The female commander signaled that this was not the time for commentary.

The artillery fire around more and more fierce, floating in the air of the monster began to stand up, foot on the ground, the ground sent out a violent vibration, the shock wave made the building glass have broken, the monster as the center of the spread, the buildings in this area of the city gradually collapsed.

More tiny rays began to shoot from its body, dancing in the air and on the ground.

Hold on tight!

Aster slammed on the gas. The engine roared and began to sprint through the flying debris and rubble of the explosion.

Qin Yun felt he was about to be thrown out of the car.

She scrambled to fasten her seat belt.

Unexpected Zi Yuan as a female driver, but has great driving skills.

The car emerged from the collapsed building and the monster’s rays and drove down an underground passage.

! ?

Ziyuan takes Qin Yun to drive the car through a secret passageway and into a huge cargo elevator, which carries the car down.

I don’t know how long it was down before it reopened.

Getting out of the garage, the two of them went down a long escalator.

Qin Yun looked at the scene are silly.

It looks like a tech-savvy base.

Steep escalator with two people slowly down, a layer of the base let Qin Yun look dumbfounded.

But the huge space is only two of them, let Qin Yun feel some hair handstand.

"Where is this?

Always generous and dignified Qin Yun also some timid asked.

svarg headquarters.

The asters answered faintly.

They fell silent again.

Even on the floor there is a conveyor belt, Ziyuan with Qin Yun quickly through a series of automatic doors, came to a large room.

The only light in the large room was near the aisle.

I went a little further.

Suddenly overhead lights switched on and the figure of a man appeared in front of them.

Chief, I’ve brought her here.

Aster made a military salute.

Thank you, Aster.

Director nodded, and then toward Qin Yun walked over.

Qin Yun you came to….. It was a hard journey.

I didn’t expect her name to come out as soon as he opened his mouth.

Qin Yun was surprised and stared again, stunned.

Dad?

The man in front of me was wearing a military cap and the light was a little dim, but as soon as I got closer, I recognized his face.

I know you have a lot of questions, but I want to tell you Yin later, this is an emergency….. Director patted Qin Yun on the shoulder and thought for a while.

There is one thing you must help us all with.

The chief snapped his fingers and all the lights in the room turned on.

This room turns out to be a huge hangar.

A giant white robot with red trim protrudes above its chest, strapped to a stand by stabilizers.

It looks like it’s over 30 meters tall.

Qin Yun, drive it and repel the enemy!

!! ??

Qin Yun felt that he has been a world view was shattered.

She knows her father is a soldier, but suddenly tells her father is some secret service director, or belong to some mysterious organization with a giant robot.

But it was just one night, and it seemed like it was traveling by itself.

She felt her head begin to ache.

Qin Yun, we Yin white you must want to figure out the situation now! But it’s an emergency. Wait until we’ve beaten the enemy back!

Aster tried to encourage.

The friend who protected you is dying….. There are a lot of them out there, and we need you to stop that monster.

… Why does it have to be me? Don’t you have trained pilots?

Qin Yun was very puzzled.

Because only your DNA can turn this thing on.

My father’s answer was a little unreasonable, but it could not be refuted.

Never heard of these…. How much did father keep from her?

Father looked at himself, Qin Yun took a deep breath.

Perhaps the origin of a military family, let Qin Yun did not like some just adolescent boys, rely on the words can’t escape to forcibly encourage themselves.

She instinctively turned white, a command that came not only from her father but from her own heart.

The guy who turned your life upside down, let yourself meet it!

Ok, dad…. I will survive until you give me a reasonable explanation!

Chapter 5 Malice from Heaven

Qin Yun jumped into the cockpit and found that it was a very ergonomic backrest, and a pair of feet adapted to her length. She tried to lean her body against the backrest. The cushion just below the backrest held her hips and seemed to blend in. Safety buckles at the waist and shoulders keep the driver in place no matter how hard he rolls. His feet pushed up, and the arm lever popped up next to him. Unlike any known vehicle joystick, the joystick is more like a sleeve cage into which your fingers seem to touch a half-sphere.

As soon as the hand touched the hemisphere, it seemed to trigger something.

Certified, pilot Shakeya. Enter the neural connections.

The plane’s controls gradually turned on, as did the cockpit’s all-sky screen.

Is that all right? "Qin Yun asked after fixing himself.

Put the neural connector on your head. ‘continued Aster in the correspondence. Lean your head hard against the pillow.

The voice just started up seems to have mentioned it. Qin Yun did so, and a hairpin caught her head behind the headrest, startling herself. This feels so familiar!

Neural connections begin! The system prompts the channel to be played.

Qin Yun’s immediate scenery suddenly changed, it seems that the whole person’s senses suddenly expanded a lot!

Neurosynchrony success! The operations room staff reported. The synchronization rate is stable."

Um…… The chief nodded, a foregone conclusion.

Qin Yun suddenly felt that he was fixed in the launcher above. She tried to move her eyes, but instead of the cockpit in front of her, she saw silos and hangars. Her eyes were now the eyes of the organism. The reason she felt bound to the launch pad was that she was now one with the body.

Star Cluster Federation Tyrone Mobile Regiment reminds soldiers: thousands of tactics, survival first, execution is not standard, drill sergeant two lines of tears. Shakeya, I wish you a happy return. The system beeps in my ear.

What the hell….. Speaking of which, this is the second time the name Shakeya has appeared. Was it the previous pilot? Wondering, Qin Yun suddenly felt a dizzy brain. Images hit her brain.

Huge black shapes of human shapes were surrounding them.

And there are plenty of companion organisms around.

In front of us were falling mechs, even steel bodies destroyed.

…

Shakeya, take it quickly! Go! An anxious voice was heard in the correspondence.

…

So Shakeya, let’s get started!

Blinded by the light, the space around me becomes blank and empty.

Uh…. Call.. Breathe… After several breaths of air, Qin Yun woke up a little.

It was the weird dream that had been bothering me. I don’t know why I still remember the things in it….. What does this have to do with my current situation? !

Some confusion in the brain, but the reality did not give Qin Yun to come back to the room.

"Traum, strike! At the command of Aster, the launch elevator catapulted the body to the ground at great speed.

Qin Yun thought he would bear a great G force and feel uncomfortable, but the reaction did not imagine the intense. Maybe it’s the protection of the pilot suit, the ergonomic bracket in the cockpit that keeps him firmly in place, and the fact that he’s already in sync with the body.

Seconds later, an exit opened on the street in Xinchunqiu and Traum was catapulted from the ground. The body on the support shook violently, if there is no support fixed, it is afraid to fly directly to the sky.

Reach a fixed position and see preta! The staff in the operations room are reporting the procedure methodically.

Qu, that touched a bit.

Qin Yun looked up and saw the humanoid monster standing a few blocks away from her. It was bathed in gunfire all around, but it didn’t seem to have much effect. If you look closely, you’ll find that this monster is remarkably resilient, and gunpowder weapons can’t even do enough damage to repair itself.

The body disconnects, and the bracket begins to fold and recover.

Qin Yun, take back the support, ready to operate the body movement, try….. Aster was prepared to give instructions in the correspondence, but it did not seem necessary.

Traume took a steady step forward.

Qin Yun did not pay much attention to what, just like usual walking, send out the idea of walking, and then try to step.

Ha ha, it seems that you can’t match her. The director smiled at Zi Yuan beside him.

Well… Why was it so hard to train me? "Aster said with a bitter smile.

After all…. It was hers, wasn’t it?

It’s like controlling your body, and Aster was right. It’s easier than driving a car. It’s not so much the driving as the feeling of being the Iron Giant. And when Qin Yun boarded up, the previous sense of fear was gradually suppressed by excitement.

Son of a bitch… You’ve ruined my daily life!

Qin Yun decided to give this guy preta or something a good hello before approaching. Looking at the army fire doesn’t seem to have much effect on it, and hopefully there’s a weapon on the machine that does. As I was thinking about it, something like a list of weapons came into view.

It looks like her body remembers how to do it. Aster found that any subsequent hints from her were superfluous. Originally she was going to teach Qin Yun how to lift weapons insurance and so on. At the very least, when she was supposed to ride the machine, the process was cumbersome. No wonder, then, that it was tantamount to bypassing the body’s own certification system and forcing external operations.

It was hard for you then. The director looked at the aster.

It’s all right. It’s the best thing to find her to drive.

The gunship unit is waved away by a monster known as preta, which is swifter than expected. The plane, which was unable to dodge, was hit by a huge hand and flew out into the surrounding buildings, exploding into balls of fire.

Suddenly a burst of high-energy rays runs through the monster, and Qin uses Traume’s weapon system. The monster staggered and fell to one knee. This ray has a similar power to the one the monster fired before!

The attack worked! Reported the messenger.

The chief smiled and nodded. Sure enough, the weapons on Traum were far more useful than the gunpowder power and chemical weapons currently on Earth.

Strange, I seem to know how to use these….. Aim to lock fire in one go, Qin Yun found himself very talented. And the power of the weapon….. Should win!

Long-range weapons include tracking shockwaves, photonic missiles, and melee weapons include high-energy particle cutlery. Not as many weapons as I thought. But the power is still quite satisfying. Qin Yun did not stand in place station pile shooting, she began to move at high speed reflexively.

Ground and air other troops received Traum attack news, began to enter the Qin Yun aid and protection operations.

As Traum starts to sprint toward the monster, she also completes the lock on the photon missile. Photonic missiles burst from a launcher behind Traume. These photon missiles are not rocket-propelled warheads like current human missiles. They are tiny grains of light that follow dazzling trails, silently and lethally flying at their enemies from all angles.

preta is half as tall as Traum, and its huge, lanky size makes it a target for photonic missiles. If it had previously been able to ignore the bombardment of gunpowder weapons, the photon missile would have been powerful enough for him to drink a pot.

The flash and mushroom cloud of a series of explosions covered the figure of the monster.