Puppeteer [Interstellar]

The news of the fall of the front line flew back to the Central Alliance like wings. The military that first got the news originally planned to conceal the bad news, and evacuated all the inhabitants of the colonial planets in the galaxy near the front line, and at the same time sent all the troops that could be mobilized to the Central Alliance. Full support from the frontline.

However, this bad news leaked out halfway, and soon someone privately posted the news that the Zerg broke through the No. 2 front line and quickly marched towards the alliance base camp on the Internet. A video of the frontline soldiers driving the spaceship to fight the Zerg, but was finally overwhelmed by a large number of Zerg.

As soon as the news was revealed, another earth-shaking turmoil was set off again. Before the turmoil caused by the news of Lei’s death due to illness had not yet passed, another heavyweight bomb directly blew up in everyone’s ears, and then, chaos began. .

Some people began to post large-scale chaos-causing remarks on Starnet:

"Bugs have breached the defenses! Does that mean they've gotten in?"

"My parents are still in the Yas galaxy, which is very close to the front line! What should I do!?"

"Is the alliance eating shit? Why is there no response at all? Couldn't someone stand up and explain the situation to us!?"

"General Rain is no longer here! Oh my god! Did those bugs premeditate? Just pick this kind of timing?"

As this rhetoric escalated, various conspiracy theories emerged:

"Was General Lei Yin's death intentional? The general's health has always been good. How could he just say he was sick? He'll be gone after a while!"

"What's even more frightening is that once the general died, those bugs rushed out towards us as if they had gotten wind of it."

"The general's son Al also died. I really suspect that the general's second son did it."

"There is no one else but him. Such a person can control the Hawke family. He really has face! Why don't you die!"

"Yes! That guy named 'Lyle Hawke', he is the culprit who caused the destruction of mankind! If he hadn't killed the general, how could those bugs have the guts to rush through the defense net? Zerg have always been afraid of thunder Because of the general's intimidating power, they kept their own place, and now that General Rain is gone, what should the alliance do!?"

"What should the alliance do?" Clarence read out the comments made by various people on the Star Network to Lyle one by one, and Lyle sat on a chair in the study and listened to Clarence's words in every possible way.

Lyle smiled and said, "Oh, there are really a lot of guys who hacked me on the Internet."

"I suspect that the president hired the navy." Clarence said, "Post a large number of unfavorable remarks on the Internet to minimize your reputation in the alliance, coupled with the relationship between the Zerg invasion... In the minds of these mindless people, they think that as long as there is no Rein, the alliance will not be able to defeat the Zerg, and you are the one who killed Rein, and they will also blame you for the reason for the "inability to defeat the Zerg" .”

"Can the alliance really beat the Zerg?" Lyle sat on the chair dangling. He was sitting on a swivel chair. He supported the table and made a big circle on the chair. lock up.

Clarence frowned and thought for a while, and it seemed that there was no way to give Lyle a definite answer. At this time, the adjutant Daryl responded beside him: "I can't beat it. According to the information from the front line, the number of insect swarms is around [-]." Above, if this amount of worms is dealt with head-on, no matter how elite the troops are, even if the first, second, and third legions are all assembled, even if there are all the puppet masters and golems in charge, we have no chance of winning at all."

Daryl paused for a moment, then continued: "We can only find a way to separate the swarms and eliminate them one by one. If they keep gathering together, they will drown everything along the way, destroy and devour them. Everything, that is, the real gods block and kill gods, and the Buddhas block and kill Buddhas."

"It's not just for this reason." Hearing Daryl's words, Lyle added: "The situation has become so dangerous that the people on the president's side are still willing to find the trolls to hack me on the Internet and guide It's really interesting that the people point their fingers at me, does he think that at such a critical juncture, regardless of the political struggle will be more important than saving the country and the people?"

Clarence said: "He may think this is a good opportunity to get rid of you. As long as everyone spurns you, resists you and even tries to murder you, then those families that originally cooperated with the Hawke family will gradually seek self-protection. If you choose to abandon the Hawke family, the Hawke family will automatically disintegrate without a single soldier."

"And the reputation of the President of the Union will start to upgrade in comparison with you as a villain, and he will receive more support and assistance. He probably feels that as long as he has these support and assistance, it will be effortless to eliminate these bugs."

Daryl continued to interject from the side: "Even if he has all the support, he can't defeat this group of Zergs. Now the alliance's military strength is too scattered, because there is more than one front line, and it is impossible for him to call all the soldiers on the other front lines." Come back to resist the Zerg, if the other front lines also fall, more Zerg will rush in, and at that time, it is really hopeless."

Lyle did not continue to sit on the swivel chair and turned around. He seemed to be contemplating on the chair and said, "Gentlemen, it seems that we have encountered a very huge problem."

Then Lyle looked at Daryl: "Is there really no way to eliminate this group of bugs?"

"Unless they directly destroy their queen." Daryl said, he has rich experience, he has been with Rain for a long time before, and he is very familiar with how to fight the Zerg.

"It's very rare for the Zerg to gather together and move forward in a straight line without stopping. Generally speaking, they like to disperse and search for food and patrol together with one or two, so unless their queen orders them to spread out like this action, otherwise they would not have come together like this."

"But destroying the Queen is an almost impossible plan." Clarence also said beside him. As a researcher of puppet, he will naturally have research on the Zerg, "I think it's luck that Rain was able to coerce the Queen to force the Zerg to retreat. The Zergs underestimated humans at the time, thinking that food was impossible to resist, which made Rein so easy to reverse the form, but it is different now, they will be [-] times more cautious than before!"

"And to be honest, I don't think it's a coincidence that these Zergs choose to attack humans at this stage." Clarence added one after thinking.

Lyle was puzzled by his words: "What does this mean?"

Clarence said: "Didn't you tell me that you have that 'queen'? You can't just make something like a queen. According to the ecological system of the Zerg, there will only be one and only one in their population." A queen, when a new queen is born, the old queen will face death."

Lyle suddenly understood what Clarence wanted to say, and he said in horror: "You mean, I have a new queen, and the old queen will realize that her death is approaching, and she will soon realize that the new queen is gone. Now, she will soon realize that the new queen is in the hands of humans. When she realizes this, she has to make a decision for the sake of the population, and her decision is to send out all the Zerg to attack humans? "

Clarence nodded and said, "That's right, that's what it means."

Lyle shook his head helplessly: "So, I really am the culprit in destroying mankind, as those sailors who hacked me in the Star Network said."

Clarence disagreed: "How can this put the blame on you? You have to blame those who made this new queen. Even if this new queen doesn't fall into your hands, it will fall into someone else's one day." In hand, no matter how you look at it, the ending is the same.”

Lyle frowned and thought for a long time, and finally said: "It seems that we also have to make some decisions and choices."

……

Through Daryl's operation, the soldiers of the First Legion stationed on Earth retreated, but before retreating, they contacted the Lost Army Base on Earth through the information given by Lyle, and then the soldiers Surrounded the base of the Lost Army aggressively, and asked the branch leader of the Lost Army, Aban, to bring his younger brother and some people who were named to the alliance.

Aban, who was named, saw that his base was besieged by people, so he had to agree to the request. He took his brother and a group of people on the spaceship to the Central Alliance. During the rapid space flight across several wormholes, They arrived at the central planet within two days and were sent to Lyle.

Seeing that it was Lyle, Aban was also taken aback: "Lyle!?"

"I think you should have thought of me before you were brought here." Lyle squinted his eyes and looked at the short child sitting on the chair in front of him, and couldn't help but began to recall the scene when he first met Aban. After recalling it for a moment, he immediately came back to his senses and continued to say to Aban: "Alice is in your hands, right?"

Aban was silent for a moment, then said: "She is indeed here with us, but how do you know?"

Lyle smiled at him: "Of course I know, because I asked Heidi to deliver her to you."

Ban said, "I don't understand what you mean, Lyle, and I'm still confused."

"Don't think too much, you just need to trust me." Lyle said with a smile after consideration, "Should you also bring Alice here this time?"

"Yes, that guy named Clarence just took her away."

"Aban, actually I brought you here this time because I have some problems, and I hope to get your help." Lyle lowered his head slightly, as if hesitating, but he only hesitated for a while before raising his head He said firmly, "Or, with the help of the entire Lost Army, I need you to get out of the earth, out of that barren planet, and show your existence to the world again."