Star Railway: The Pioneer's Journey

Chapter 350 The Past of the Cloud Riders

"—We've already...lost contact with the main force of the Cloud Cavalry."

A sorrowful, powerless voice rang out, and Yunzhi followed Suiyang into this distant memory:

"What follows will be a long and lonely battle."

Hearing that tone and voice, Yunzhi couldn't help but sigh.

As his memory took shape, he looked around.

The vast white snowfield was dotted with the corpses of Bu Liren, their bloodstains resembling blooming spider lilies.

Gu Yun led him forward.

At the end of the road, a young cloud rider collapsed to his knees, exhausted, leaning on a sword that exuded an ominous aura to support himself.

"It's so cold... I didn't feel it during the fight, but now it's freezing to the bone."

His tone still carried a hint of amusement: "As expected of Zhu Mingxianzhou's masterpiece, if you hadn't taken over my hands just now, I'm afraid I would have been decapitated in the battle just now."

...Blessed by the pharmacist, the people of the Immortal Ship can live even if their heads are cut off before the arrival of the demonic forces, as long as they are reattached.

Of course, this is not a commendable ability; for specific examples, see Yingxing.

In his memory, Gu Yun sternly rebuked, "Shut up! Stay alert! The wolf soldiers' hunt will never end!"

The Cloud Rider Swordsman still had the mind to talk to Lone Cloud: "Don't be so serious, let's chat for a bit. It's been more than three hundred rotation days since we were stranded in this world, and the transmitter hasn't made a sound. It seems that contacting the main force is completely hopeless."

It's been over a year since I arrived here?

The Cloud Riders likely ended up here because the Starship malfunctioned or was destroyed in war.

But the inhabitants of this planet still use camel-drawn carts.

Hoping they can repair the starship is clearly unrealistic.

To make matters worse, he landed on a planet occupied by the Bebuli people.

The reproductive and combat abilities of the abundant creatures are so powerful that it is impossible for him alone to kill all the Bu Li people who are entrenched here.

The Cloud Rider Swordsman said he would teach the local inhabitants to take up arms and fight against the monsters.

"It's clear that you didn't think he could succeed at first."

Seeing this, Yunzhi crossed her arms: "He's been asking you to give him your body."

Gu Yun chuckled:

"Killing one is enough, killing two is a huge profit. We in Suiyang don't have as many complicated schemes as humans."

"Therefore you are inferior to humans."

Yun Zhi made a sarcastic remark to him.

Gu Yun's memories continue.

At first, the resistance did not go smoothly.

Yunqi assembled a rudimentary force and led them in fighting against the Buli people for over thirty years.

His appearance has never changed.

But the young people who rebelled with him died one after another.

They can no longer see the beautiful life without the people who walk away.

Perhaps even Yunqi himself can't see it.

Gu Yun said that this world is beyond saving; it has been completely infected by the hunting hordes of the Bu Li people.

To survive, the local inhabitants called the Buli people "Beast Lords." The Cloud Riders cut off the Beast Lords' heads for them, only to be betrayed by them.

How lonely it is to fight alone?

But the Cloud Rider swordsman remembered that his first death was when the Bu Li people cut off his head, but a young man risked his life to sew his head back on so that he could be buried in peace.

There was also food left at the entrance of the cave, patched fur coats, and the oaths they had made before joining his resistance...

He said that the people of Xianzhou have a long life ahead of them, so new young people will join his resistance.

Gu Yun spoke again at this moment:

"The sun feeds on human emotions, but I never want to taste despair again."

Yun smiled.

"He's right, the people of the Immortal Ship have a long life ahead of them."

It grew so long that even despair had to give way to hope.

"Time is a terrible quack doctor; it can always turn a beautiful world beyond recognition and reunite shattered hopes, turning them into driving forces."

It is these small hopes that support the Cloud Riders to continue their fight.

"However, I'm quite surprised that you haven't possessed anyone all these years."

Yun Zhi looked at Gu Yun with a smile in her eyes: "Your owner has certainly not mistreated you."

Gu Yun: "...He is not my owner."

After so many years and through thick and thin, they had long since become friends.

Later, the Cloud Rider Swordsman succeeded.

He led the people of this planet to slay the last wolf demon, bringing true life to the planet.

But he should leave now.

The fate of the Immortal Boatman, the Demonic Yin Body, is about to descend upon him.

In his hazy memories, the Cloud Rider Swordsman instructed the planet's natives to forge a massive stone monument after slaying the last monster, to suppress its remains beneath it.

Not surprising, after all, there's no Ten Kings' Division here to clean up the mess.

Yunzhi crouched down, wanting to touch the Cloud Rider swordsman who had already fallen into demonic possession and was killed by Guyun.

As expected, his hand passed through the Cloud Rider Swordsman's body.

Yun reluctantly withdrew his hand.

"When Suiyang wants to change a person, it often only takes a few minutes..."

But this cloud cavalry changed Suiyang, even though it took him hundreds of years.

Lonely Cloud sighed deeply:

"He wanted to end the fight, and I wanted to help him end the fight... but I couldn't."

The Kalevala people regarded the lone cloud as a symbol of divinely ordained kingship, and in order to obtain it, they waged more wars.

Gu Yun had had enough of this kind of life. In the end, he returned to the stone tablet of the Cloud Rider Swordsman, and from then on, no one was able to pull it out.

Until the silver branch appeared before the stone tablet.

Gu Yun still wanted to send the Cloud Riders back to their homeland.

A massive stone tablet appeared in the space of memory, and beside it, tall golden trees radiated a sun-like light.

"A microcosm of countless things."

Yunzhi commented: "It's really interesting. The stories of the Cloud Cavalry that you Suiyang relayed all describe people like this... No matter what kind of adversity they are in, they still find hope in despair."

However, perhaps only someone like that can change these changing times.

"Your request has been granted."

"But you can rest assured, Zhuyuan will not give the dangerous demonic sword to anyone else."

Yun raised her head and looked at the golden tree.

"As for what will happen to you next... that depends on what that little girl is going to do."