People's Federation will live forever

One day, "we" will become one, with only one name.

But before that, I will take the first step to reach that crucial link.Olivia must have seen her goal, and she made all the right moves, but her mind couldn't understand the key to it, and couldn't understand the key message from it...

Layer after layer of earth and rock was smashed, and the giant mouth of the Pandong Beast finally bit through the last layer of obstacles, leading the watcher into a cavity five kilometers underground.And when the last piece of earth and rock was broken, and the Pandong Beast fell vertically according to the gravity of the earth, the originally dark underground space suddenly became bright, as if there was an energy source that continued to emit light here!

The watcher clearly saw the scene below, and the last layer of fog was finally broken—about why Beta has so many zero elements in this barren moon, the watcher has made many assumptions, but none of them are as good as the reality. astonishing.

"Element G, element zero, is actually integrated into the same thing in such a way. Different worldviews come together to have such a chemical reaction."

In a dark cave, the carcass of a giant beast lies quietly in the bottom of the planet.Although it has been eaten by betas a lot, its octopus-like outline can be vaguely seen.

Everything is connected.

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Shall I have a dream, an Emerald Dream adorned with Tiberium?

This green emerald is your food, and this blooming crystallization is your hotbed. Why don't you wander on this deep ocean, stretch your sharp roots to your heart's content, and look for a paradise to take root?

Sing loudly, let the corpses of your enemies bloom like buds of joy, their bones will be entangled with tender roots, and their souls will become nutrients for your growth.We carefully cultivate the molecular level, rearrange the composition of matter, and shape a beautiful world, a paradise for ethnic groups to reproduce.

This is a gift that belongs to us alone, this, the lush garden of Tiberium.

"(Skin language)"

The language of the Scrin is a series of cuneiform characters that read like Morse code, and the beauty of its rhythm is difficult for humans to understand-but why should we understand?

The Scrin are not a civilization in the traditional sense, they are predators, vermin among the stars.For a long time, the People's Federation has been indifferent to the Sijin technology library it has mastered. This may be dissatisfactory, because how much waste would it be to not use such a treasure house of technology?You know, the People's Federation worked hard to climb step by step, and finally became a 1.3-level civilization in the third volume. You climbed to a 1.8-level civilization like the Scrin by yourself. Do you want readers to wait until the sixth volume?

But those who really understand will know the danger of Sijin technology-their technology created Irena, the nano-lifeform that slaughtered hundreds of millions of lives, and they also brought Tiberium, which is as convenient as it is The hazards need no further description.

Looking back at history, holding a technology that is far more advanced than your own is no less than letting a child play with the nuclear button. Caution is a kind of rational judgment, but the problem is——

Should we just keep it in storage?

Six mechanical centipedes wriggled their huge bodies and crawled across the land full of corpses. They were transformed into transport vehicles for underground combat. Black Hand's soldiers and equipment were released from its body, along with a pair of soldiers all over Thailand. A strange device for an alternative treatment of the land of Beria - a strange large chrysalis, when it landed, the many silver threads of its shell began to take root in this land, just like the poem Olivia sang just now, everywhere The Tiberium transformed by beta is continuously transported into the body of the cicada chrysalis along the roots.

So it began to bloom, like an ugly tree from an alien. The dry branches were plump because of Tiberium, and clusters of basketball-sized fruits were produced.

The name hatching pool does not always mean the viscous pools in the imagination... These Sijin monsters transformed by Renlian technology were born in an indescribable biochemical cultivation room. The special feature of Sijin technology is that all equipment is made of Enhanced by cloned creatures, the style is very different from that of humans.Leading such a force is a challenge, and perhaps only a Black Hand who has no humanity at all.

Imagine the shock that a mortal mind could not withstand, and trust and harmony would be torn away, by the sight of a common citizen seeing his leader with an army of such hideous monsters.And technically, while we can reverse engineer Scrin units, how do we maintain control over these monsters?

The fruit will soon ripen, and it will fall to the ground and break its cheek pouch. Then, a half-human-sized "spider" stood up and instinctively looked around with its pointed cone-shaped head—a layer of silver nano-fluid These bio-mechanical properties were endowed, and the vacuum of the moon had no effect on them. On the contrary, after these monsters came out of their shells, they immediately pointed their nozzles at the Black Hand soldiers who were guarding all around, and the faint Tiberium catalytic radiation was about to spew out. .

Blackhand's rifle aimed at the monster first, but soon a mental signal burst out from behind Olivia, activating the instinct imprinted on the biological neurons of Scrin—like the whip of an animal trainer, these hatchlings The monster that came out obediently crawled towards Olivia and Irena beside her.

Olivia stepped aside and stood side by side with Irena.She looked at her younger sister. The little girl was controlling the ant-like crushing walkers with her arms and legs. More and more Scrin creatures crawled out of the hatching pool joined the queue, enriching the strength of the black hand. , and also consumed all the beta-transformed Tiberium in this cavity.

One ebbs and another...

"Are you okay, Irena." Olivia patted her sister's head and said with concern, "There is a limit to what your mind can control, so don't force yourself."

The control of Sijin creatures cannot rely on traditional chip implantation or hypnosis, there is only one way - relying on the spiritual power of superiors to order subordinates!This is an army bred for the pure purpose of killing. Their physiology has been modified to the limit by the Scrin people, and the People's Federation cannot make the slightest correction. This is the difference in the level of technology.But the People's Federation is lucky, because there is a high-level authority right next to Olivia.

"I'm a soul master, sister."

Irena's voice rang directly in Olivia's mind without communication, making the latter helpless.Irena's power is getting stronger and stronger. She can't figure out whether it's good or bad, but she always feels that she can't understand the world more and more.

Anima...what the hell is it?Is there really a soul?Is the world really functioning as I understand it?

Perhaps, the existence of heart energy is a new gift on the road of human sublimation?I am already behind the times, should I catch up?

All sorts of thoughts flashed through Olivia's mind, but time could no longer allow her to relax - the black hand's invasion of this area could not have been noticed by the lair controller, even though the betas acted for unknown reasons Slowly, but right in front of his eyes, the [-]-meter-high door of flesh and blood is wriggling and slowly opening——

"All troops, prepare to meet the enemy!"

The translucent oscillating knife came out of its sheath, and along with Olivia's arm pointed to the "door" that had revealed a ten-meter-wide crack.As the blade pointed, the Awakened strode forward, Blackhand's soldiers gathered around the general at readiness to shoot, mortal armies poised to strike, tactical eyepieces focused on the faint light coming from the doorway, and outlined A giant beast as tall as a mountain.

Fortress level!

Flares hit the sky one after another, and under the light of the oxidizer burning sparks, the giant beast stepped forward and squeezed open the gate, and under its shadow swarmed like a tide of small species.They piled shoulder to shoulder to form a torrent, frantically rushing toward the intruders!

How many thousands of these inexhaustible monsters must be eliminated before they can be completely wiped out?

Olivia was about to give an order, when suddenly, the legion of thousands of smashing walkers moved, and it was also a tide of flesh and blood. These spider monsters rushed towards the attacking beta as if they were ordered, and even a single figure was hard to follow with the naked eye. With a swoop at the speed above, it flew towards the towering fortress hundreds of meters away like a cannonball.

Olivia yelled in the communication angrily, and gave an order regardless of her gaffe, and the soldiers of the black hand returned to the front with beams of high-cold particle beams to provide assistance to their sister of the legion leader—"Irena, Follow my instructions and don't act without authorization!"

"There is no time, sister!" Irena's voice was no more relaxed than Olivia's, "Watcher, I feel him, he has arrived!"

The six mechanical centipedes crashed into the beta tide together with the smashing walkers. They wantonly sprayed the Tiberium solution, corroding flesh and blood, and nourishing Scrin creatures.Ion radiation enough to melt steel was released from Shatterwalker's mouthparts, like microwave radiation. Betas were bathed in this radiation and swelled up like heated water bags, and then "popped", burst into a Group of steam.

The Guards make up for their lack of strength with drones, and the Blackhands now have their own fighting style.With Sijin creatures leading the line in front, the black hand soldiers took advantage of their firepower to focus on shooting those small species that tried to bypass the wide front, come around from the two wings, and from the wall.The narrow underground cavity is filled with fleeting rays of light. Although they never miss, the number of betas is really too much.

The fortress raised its spiked feet and stepped forward, each step was a flash of shattering walker self-explosion.As the largest known individual, the shots of the Black Hands could not stop its progress. On the contrary, the spikes on its abdomen swept across the battlefield like a chain hammer, and every time it smashed a large number of Scrin creatures, and the Black Hands did not prepare too much A heavy weapon capable of killing a monster of this size with one blow.

Of course, the main thing is that it is not necessary.

Because she has already arrived - taking off at a distance of several hundred meters, Irena's child-sized body exploded with enough force to be worth a cannon.It is difficult for us to calculate how much energy an individual composed of trillion-level nanorobots can have. After all, Ensig did not dare to give Irena a medical examination, but we admit one thing.

That is, who is the strongest fighting force of the People's League.

When she jumped in the air, the two arms hanging beside her extended from the fingertips to countless threads with a thickness of only 20 nanometers. These threads cannot be observed, but they form a large and intricate network , and as Irena landed on the ugly head of the fortress class, it was entwined around the whole body of the giant beast.

The 20-nanometer silk thread is not a product of the laboratory, but an extension of Irena itself. With this thickness, apart from the legendary single-molecule material, even an aircraft carrier will be cut for you to see!

And Irena clenched her hands tightly, and the fortress trembled slightly in an instant. The stretched silk thread was tightly entwined due to the walking of the giant beast, and then from the hardest place, those chitin feet began to melt into smooth pieces. slices.

There is no essential difference between the hard feet and the bloated abdomen. There is no suspense. It is not magic but science. This monster that needs a heavy railgun to kill can turn into a sashimi in the blink of an eye. The knife crashed on the top of the small species' head.Massive amounts of blue-purple blood rushed through the line of Shatter Walker like a flood. Irena also fell freely into the insect swarm along with the body parts. Before landing, her body melted into a ball of silver fluid and spread out on the fortress-level corpses. on the block.

Swallowing, copying... For a long time, neither Li Zhi nor Olivia wanted Irena to go to the battlefield. Even knowing how powerful she is, they would rather let regular troops fight. This is not because they treat her like a child , but worried that she would lose consciousness again due to excessive splitting, and become an uncontrollable nano-monster.

Irena knows this better than anyone, but she's always bored by one thing.

"What I want to do, I know better than anyone else!"

The torrent of nanometers crazily spread among the swarms, devouring matter and transforming them into new nanomachines. Flocks of "butterflies", or that more familiar name, flew from this spreading torrent.

Razor swarm.

As thin as a cicada's wing, crystal clear and almost transparent, although they cannot fly in this vacuum, each piece is connected to Irena at the core by a silk thread, forming a deadly cloud around her in a physical way. With the blade shield, all she needs to walk is a road of blood paved with corpses.

Olivia slowly retracted the blade. She looked at Irena of Beta who blocked the entire "door" by herself, and made up her mind.

"Irena will open the way for us, follow her."

PS: Sorry, it was supposed to be updated yesterday, but I made settings in the group.

It's February, dear readers, let's sprint to the fourth volume.

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Darkness is approaching.

The revolution of the moon and Thira maintains a relative balance, and now it has entered another cycle with the revolution of the sun—day, night, these regular rhythms on the ground are no longer regular in deep space, in fact, the guards The soldiers have been fighting for dozens of hours in an environment with a temperature difference of 150 degrees Celsius between day and night and full of various types of cosmic radiation.

But they will still fight, there is no time for sleep, and no room for distraction.At this time, they have the right to envy those wounded who can be transferred to the rear—of course, if they like those military doctors nicknamed "lumberjacks".People's Federation's medicine... IMHO, we in the People's Federation are fraternity style, not very good at restorative treatment, our military doctors are best at amputating people's limbs.

Limb injury?Amputation.Internal organs damaged?removal.Fatal wound?Then keep the brain, and then replace it with a mechanical prosthesis. If you don't like it and are willing to wait for half a year, then you can collect DNA and do cloned organ transplantation.Anyway, being a cyborg is not bad, no matter how many people think about it, they can't pass the "Prosthetic Limbs Management Act". The army welcomes cyborgs because it helps to improve combat effectiveness.

"The ring is calling the Ark. We have cleared the landing site and strengthened the defense. You will not be attacked by the light level. Repeat, area control, this time I promise."

The radio signals intertwined into an invisible big net in the deep space. The sergeant in charge of the call twisted his tired neck in the helmet. After the crisp sound, he jumped forward and stepped on a huge fortress on the paws.This monster had smashed a Scorpio tank before, but now it was torn apart and disemboweled by some powerful weapon, it was too horrible to look at.

Female Pilot: "You'd better be honest, Sergeant... Attention, the 'Valkyrie' is arriving soon, report the status of the wounded as soon as possible!"

"Don't blame me last time, who knew these ghosts would burrow into the ground?"

The sergeant said helplessly, the liquidator armored vehicle rumbled past him, and the reconnaissance drone was ejected from the rear of the vehicle like a rocket.Now these little things no longer have to worry about being shot down, and the meteor shower composed of dazzling missile tail flames can no longer be seen in the sky, and the report of combat on the radio has dropped exponentially. On the contrary, there are more and more blue "control" reports Jumping into the panel, ordinary soldiers can also guess how the battle is going.

"We do have one wounded here, you pick him up as soon as possible." As he said that, the sergeant raised his rifle, jumped to catch up with the armored vehicle and climbed to the rear, "Excuse me, beauty, I have to rush to participate in this patient Closing fireworks show!"

The relaxed chat does not match the chilling battlefield, but as more and more signals marking "area control" appear in the tactical network, a reality has appeared in front of everyone:

The guards have already controlled most of the territory of the dark side, and have completely blocked the Great Rift Valley where the lair is located. The war has come to an end.

The number of people began to increase... On the previous battlefield, because the battle line was too wide, each infantry squad needed to be controlled by a drone team to control a large area. The battle for dozens of hours was like fighting alone, tormenting everyone mind.There is a vacuum on the moon. If you close your eyes, no matter how lively the fight next to you is, it has nothing to do with you.Because of the lack of sound, apart from the difficulty for the author to write scenes, many people were silently killed by the betas who buried them and sneaked in, which put even more pressure on the soldiers.

The extreme environment is destined to cause many people to suffer from "silence phobia" after the war. The anger brought about by this depression is manifested in the almost out-of-control fire calls of the guards on the battlefield.They suspect that every stone and every inch of sand on the moon is a hiding place for Beta. Every beat of the seismic wave detector will hit their hearts. Angry soldiers have marked the map and shouted——

"If you have to turn over the dirt on this broken ball, so be it!"

Does Wei Jun have this ability, and does Li have so many nuclear bombs? Leaving aside, when the Valkyrie transport plane flew over the potholes and craters on the surface of the moon with the red light on, there was still unsolidified lava under this square aircraft. Flowing along the terrain.The moon was tortured, and the guards poured the barrage of the red mercury nuclear bomb on Beta's head without hesitation, as if this was the only way to vent their anger.If it weren't for them not having the right to command warships, another "Red Sun Rising" would be inevitable.

Never in human history has nuclear bombs been used on such a large scale, not in terms of equivalent, but in quantity.In Li's opinion, the behavior of the guards was a bit excessive, but they did pay too much for this war. Seventeen thousand soldiers and millions of drone teams almost emptied all their reserves for half a year , The flames of war burned a hundred thousand square kilometers of land, and they were so eager to win that they were willing to give everything for it.

This feeling is different, different from the orc wars, when humans were forced to die in order to survive.But this time, they are fighting for the future of civilization, so that the road to the stars will not be cut off by a group of ugly alien creatures, even if this future is forcibly imposed on them by Li himself.

Li, who was watching the battle from the sensor of the battleship, thought about the reason, but immediately, a realistic consideration made him wake up——

"The People's Federation...is already a space civilization, and our journey has risen to the level of the interstellar, so we can no longer look at it with the old eyes."

Destiny favors the People's Federation. This war is like a test of a civilization breaking away from the gravity circle. The exam questions we got are beta, and it's a beta.The passing of the test declares that the People’s Federation will be qualified to walk in the starry sky from now on. I will regard this as the promise of fate to mankind——because of this dedication and sacrifice, mankind will be qualified to conquer the galaxies, and our glory will be Shine with the stars and live forever in the world!

And myself, as their leader, is not as clear as these mortals who should be guided by me. I failed to fight with them in the homeland of Sira, but rushed to the earth, why?Just because it used to be my hometown, even if it was just named "Earth", did it arouse my inner selfishness?

who I am?The former earth social animal, or the leader of the Sylah People's Federation?

I have gone too far, but my eyes are looking at the past with nostalgia, but I can't go back a long time ago, and the place called the earth is no longer my home. If the space sinks as expected, then a place like the earth As much as you want, it is just the same name as your hometown, and there is nothing special about it.

My value, my people, and my cause should not belong to one place, but to this existence called Renlian.It's not mature enough, too weak, and needs my own protection. I thought I did it, but I'm not firm enough. Even Olivia and the watcher have done more than myself.

With great power comes great responsibility?No, because the greater the responsibility, the greater the ability must be.

The revolution of the moon finally came to the shadow of Sira, the light of the star was fading, and the outline of the planet Sira pulled away from the horizon like a black curtain, bringing the deepest darkness.

However, the guards marching on the moon turned on the lighting equipment of the vehicle, and fired flares into the sky in rows. Under low gravity, they can be suspended for a long time. The artificial light dispelled the natural darkness, just like the fire of civilization in their hearts Burning.Our warriors do not fear the darkness, instead they march cheerfully toward the Great Rift.

After stepping on the piles of corpses, they were going to see what Beta's lair looked like-these monsters had stopped coming out of the ground since just now. The guard command guessed that there were two possibilities. The first one was that they had already There are not enough numbers to continue fighting after being killed, and the second is for the rest to retreat and stick to the lair, preparing to launch a fatal counterattack against the guards.

After mounting the armored vehicle, the sergeant turned over and stepped on the roof. Looking ahead, the lights were full of steel torrents from the guards, and above the head, the light blue plasma of the space battleship, which was several kilometers long, was even more intense. is clearly visible.

"They'd better die, if they're hiding in their nests..." Similar words were widely circulated among the guards, "That might be the biggest firework show in history!"

The soldiers walked onto this doomed battlefield in anticipation, to draw a full stop like a full moon.They don't think about the future, but a pair of eyes are watching them, assuring them that the future will be full of glory and magic.

Something...was crumbling, shattering like glass in Lee's heart.

Some things are given up not because they are not precious enough, but because they must be given up for the future.And after peeling off the remnants of the past and the softness of human nature, it will reveal new colors.

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fail...

We have never known how beta will understand this word. For humans, this is a war, and for the "mind class" in charge of the lair, this is a job. As far as the current information is concerned, for this galaxy The collection work has obviously entered the stage of failure.

The soft and waxy body hangs down to the core center along the heat conduit, and the thin tentacles wrap around the glowing core, and the information is also transmitted to the logic computing center along with the nerve bundles extending in all directions in the nest, and is known by this boneless creature .

"The number of collection units has dropped to [-]%. Interference factors are spreading to the factory, and there are not enough units to eliminate them."

The crust rumbled, as if a meteor shower had struck the barren moon.The images fed back from the ground unit also reached the monitoring center of the creature—on the moon, four "self-running celestial bodies" were lined up, and "meteorites" with tail flames fell from the metal belly. "It fell to the ground, and then, the flash that could rival the stars instantly annihilated the ground entity that transmitted the signal, and the picture also stopped abruptly.

"The star is frequently disturbed by 'stellar explosions', and the engineering unit is unable to perform tasks...'Interference factors' are destroying the factory, and it is judged to be a first-level situation."

But this is not the worst, the real threat comes from two underground signals—the core is under threat, and a disturbance factor that penetrates the underground is destroying the hatching nest at this moment, and killing itself all the way.

And the other... directly pierced through the factory's heavy defenses from the ground and reached the "bonanza" area, and all efforts to intercept it failed!If it weren't for his not planning to go straight to the core, the brain level would not have the opportunity to think about countermeasures now.

"The collection task failed, the current priority, the core of energy delivery, cannot be destroyed by interference factors!"

The description just now contains too much human subjective thinking, there is no emotion at the brain level, let alone an exclamation mark.They are the most perfect tools of the Creator——where there are workers, there are foremen. The "brain level" in human intelligence is the specialized individual who arranges the collection work, that is, this cuttlefish-like creature that is analyzing information. Specifically, it It is a carbon-based computer that mimics the fundamental nature of silicon, the Creator.

There will only be one brain in a lair, which is the perfect design of the Creator.And when the lair spreads and splits into multiple new factories, the initial brain level will evolve into a heavy brain level, unlocking the restricted ability in the genetic code.

However, before the mind class that came to the planet had time to split, the mission fell into the haze of failure.As the blue-purple tentacle monster sent various instructions to the entire lair structure with spiritual signals, the "vessels" spreading outward with the shining cold fusion furnace as the core also contracted like an electric shock!Layer after layer is like a wrapped onion, and the brain-level soft body also moves up the blood vessels, going to its own position, ready for launch.

The central part of the entire lair is beginning to deform!Such changes can only be seen from the perspective of God. It is necessary to know that the structure of the entire lair is centered on the ground structure, a straight shaft dug down to a depth of several kilometers deep in the earth's crust, and the energy core is at the bottom— —

Like the several-kilometer-long electromagnetic launch track established by the People's Federation on Kada Peak?There are engineering similarities between the two in many designs. The core that has begun to pack is wrapped by layers of tough organic outer walls to form a football-shaped launch capsule, and is sandwiched between the surging and tightened organic structures on the shaft. .These muscle-like tissues squirm morphologically, adjusting their shape for this launch, opening the way, and oozing ━━∑(￣□￣*||━━ fluids that facilitate acceleration.

Unlike Renlian's electromagnetic orbit, the channel is shrinking, and it will "shoot" out of the earth's crust like a rocket with the force exerted by these muscles squeezed in the several-kilometer-long shaft, blasting out at dozens of times the speed of sound!Then, the mind level will use the stored elements to expand the gravity field to reduce its own mass to 0, and the cold fusion core will consume organic working fluid for jet acceleration. When it reaches the speed of light, any interference factors will not be able to stop it!

But before the launch, there's still some work to be done.