The Mother of Talos

T-0779 is a satellite planet without even a name, identified only by a string of numbers. Technology here is so backward that they cannot even build a small docking port.

As a result, even though the rescue forces did everything they could during the golden window for evacuating people ahead of the beast tide, countless civilians were still stranded on the planet.

They watched the rescue ships fly away, then screamed and scattered in terror and despair as the beast tide broke through the atmosphere and descended toward the ground.

No one was coming to save them. They would die on the planet where they had been born and raised.

Several months later, the exhausted frontline soldiers piloted their battered starship to the planet that had been overrun by the beast tide as soon as the first alarm sounded. They had expected to see corpses and severed limbs scattered everywhere, but instead

The planet was teeming with life, and the humans stranded there were laughing and chatting.

They talked, they lived, and they seemed more at ease than the people on the heavily guarded capital planet.

The frontline soldiers who had come to recover their bodies: ...

The soldiers were collectively dumbfounded by what they saw.

The intelligence officer had to use every trick in the book to pry even the tiniest bit of information from the survivors, who were all tight-lipped.

There was one more person on this planet.

A very beautiful young girl.

Everyone on the planet was protecting her, even willing to turn against the army that had come to rescue them.

When she awoke, she remembered nothing except her name: Jiang Chengsang.

She did not remember where she came from, where she was going, or why she had appeared here.

The sky suddenly darkened. Jiang Chengsang looked up and saw strange beasts plunging toward the earth like a torrential downpour.

A deep hunger stirred within her. The lifeless shadow beneath her feet suddenly surged, as if some great terror were swimming within it!

Her blank, pale-purple eyes turned in an instant to the deep blue of the abyss. The girl crouched like a beast and shot toward the endless tide of alien beasts like an arrow loosed from a bow. An even larger, more terrifying shadow burst from beneath her feet, and a strange, uncanny hunt began!

A voice echoed in her soul, telling her: You are the Mother of Talos.

She asked: What is Talos?

The voice said: Your children.

So she asked: Then where are my children?

Shadows roamed across the entire planet, their pitch-black forms covering every hideous creature. A chaotic voice came from depths darker than darkness itself.

They said: We are here, [Mother]. We have always been here.

2025.4.05

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