Chapter 379 The Hundred-footed Insect Dies Without Stiffness
Although all the compound-eyed ones have been killed, the busyness on the battlefield still never stops.
Engineering ships and hospital ships shuttled around to clean up the battlefield. Their work included rescuing the wounded, collecting corpses, and repairing equipment.
There are also many professional soldiers who carefully fly fighter planes and small warships close to the wreckage of the ball ship, using barrage cannons to neutralize and eliminate the physical toxins that continue to float from the prismatic area.
The scene looks quiet and busy.
The war is finally over, and most of the time there is lingering joy on people's faces, but every time they find the broken bodies of their comrades in the twisted metal, they can't hide their sadness.
A large medical ship docked next to the command ship. In the medical room, Chen Feng and Tang Tianxin were lying side by side in two multi-functional treatment cabins.
Chen Feng's skin was cracked all over, and the blood rushing out dyed the nutrient solution in the treatment cabin pink.
He had not completed the treatment just now, and controlling the Star Blade Colossus was extremely stressful on his body. Moreover, he rushed to the front of the spherical battleship and completed a series of extremely risky operations.
The aftermath of the two impacts when he used his neutron shield and armor to withstand the ball-shaped battleship alone was enough for him to drink a pot.
Later, he left the back armor in place and controlled the huge Star Frontier Colossus to escape. The curvature-like membrane structure layer of the Colossus' feet expanded violently with the surface of the ball ship, causing a shock that was even more terrifying. If it had been anyone else, it would have fallen apart.
, which means that he not only has a high arousal level, but also has a recovery factor to sustain him.
The armor of the Colossus was heavily damaged.
At this time, his Star Blade Colossus and Galaxy Armor were beside the hospital ship, being rapidly repaired inside and out by dozens of large engineering ships.
Chen Feng himself was even more shocked.
Before, he kept his breath in his heart, and as long as he was still alive and could still move, he didn't bother to care.
Now that the war has come to an end, as soon as he relaxed, he rushed back to receive treatment with blood all over his body.
Tang Tianxin is not much better than him.
There was only a slight difference in the injuries between the two. Chen Feng's injury was on his body, while Tang Tianxin's injury was on his brain.
In this very large-scale battle that lasted for just half an hour, her brain had to keep running at a high intensity all the time. Not only did she have to take charge of the overall situation, she often also had to focus on regional battlefields and even certain special operations.
individual.
In order to reduce casualties as much as possible, she repeatedly used subtle radiation to stimulate her brain and improve her battlefield judgment intuition and brain wave transmission efficiency. Until now, she was still suffering from hidden injuries, looking gloomy and dying.
But the most painful thing for her was not the physical torture, but the uncontrollable guilt that arose in her heart at the moment the war ended.
If her heart were compared to a real heart, guilt would be the black vine planted on it.
As reports of battle damage and deaths were sent to her one after another, black vines quickly took root, sprouted, and grew in her heart. The roots covered with barbs tore through the flesh and blood and penetrated inside.
Every time the roots penetrated, it would bring bursts of tearing pain, so when she and Chen Feng said the words "It's over" just now, their tone of voice was completely different.
For a moment, she wanted to pull out a gun and commit suicide, but she wanted to see Chen Feng again and thought about her daughter in her belly, so she managed to hold on.
Now, when Chen Feng also lay down in the treatment cabin next to him, the heart-wrenching torture had eased a little bit.
At first, Chen Feng was not aware of her change in mentality. After all, in the previous timeline, she might have had stronger willpower than Chen Feng himself.
Chen Feng first chatted with her casually, telling her the information he had just discovered in the compound-eye's bedroom array, and then concluded: "We knew nothing about the compound-eye civilization before. Other people's warships used curvature mode to make turns in the air.
, it can make me feel scared to the point of nausea and vomiting.”
"We were toyed with by "Song of the World" again. The soldiers died mysteriously due to quantum entanglement before they even got close. At that time, I felt like I was watching a supernatural horror movie. Especially the compound-eyed man from the sky.
I can't even describe to you the feeling I had when I dropped the particle bomb. The scene was both majestic and terrifying, and my hands and feet were trembling to the point of numbness."
"But now, I understand. Human beings are actually very capable of thinking. When the human brain has an instinctive reaction to fear of unknown things, there is actually another psychological change. That is the desire for knowledge. The essence of fear is not
Let’s not be hamsters that are scared to death, but rather ignite our thirst for knowledge.”
"The more we fear something, the stronger our curiosity, and the more we want to explore the hidden truth behind it, just like the audience of a magician. Even though they know that revealing the secret of a magic trick will make the performance less fun, they still always want to know why.
"
"After understanding why, whether it is curiosity or fear, it will become boring in the end, and it will feel like it is nothing more than this. The people with compound eyes are like this in my eyes now, and those who were infected by the Z bacteria during the mass extinction catastrophe in the twenty-sixth century
Animals are no different."
"Perhaps the compound-eyed person itself is just a giant wasp on an Earth-like planet that reproduced from a single body after being infected by Z bacteria? It's just that they were born early, and the universe gave them enough time."
His tone was very relaxed.
Tang Tianxin nodded dullly, "I just read the analysis report of the Science Executive Committee, and the possibility you mentioned is more than 50%."
Chen Feng tilted his head, his eyes passed through the transparent cover of the two-layer treatment cabin, and fell on the side of her face. His heart thumped, and he secretly sighed that something was wrong.
Just now, her back was turned to her, preventing her from seeing her front face. Now when she saw her side face, she realized something was wrong.
An hour ago, she was in high spirits, her brows were full of hope, her eyes were firm, and she exuded the strong confidence of a high-ranking decision-maker.
Just one hour later, her cheekbones were protruding and her eye sockets were sunken.
Most importantly, her eyes lost the sharpness they used to have.
"What's going on over there with Ou Qinglan? Just now I saw that the research center's space station was very close, and it's already within the range of enemy ships."
Tang Tianxin shook his head, "She's fine. She was lucky. The space station retreated in time after collecting the data."
But she immediately added: "But there were still some accidental casualties. Dr. Dong Shan died in an accidental explosion while analyzing the blade arm fragments of the Blade Beetle."
Chen Feng was stunned, and the old guy's disrespectful look subconsciously appeared in his mind, and he also recalled the old man's impassioned "cosmic memory theory" at the last moment in the previous timeline.
We obviously won this time, but we never thought that the old man didn't even have a chance to say his last words.
If he hadn't asked, the old man would have probably left quietly without making a sound.
I don’t know how many people died.
Chen Feng finally remembered to look through the death list, and then his breath stopped.
At this time, not one of the eight regular army theaters remained.
The casualties of the reserve army also exceeded 70%.
The total number of casualties was 29.6 billion.
Not one, not ten thousand, but hundreds of millions.
There were 41 billion combatants, and only 11.4 billion remained after this war.
Chen Feng had previously guessed that the number of casualties would be serious, but when the statistics actually appeared in front of him, he was still shocked.
He woke up with horror and suddenly understood Tang Tianxin's mood.
I kept losing comrades in time and time again, and my feelings gradually became numb.
Because I never expected to win, I steadfastly anesthetized myself and always believed that I would be able to meet these comrades again in the future. So when I saw these people sacrificed, I instantly pulled away from the sadness and rushed into the next battle without stopping, forgetting
sad.
When he firmly believed that we would see each other again in the future, he had lost the instinct to look back at those people behind him who were pushing him forward.
I...I have become so cold-blooded.
"well!"
Chen Feng also sighed, not only for the victims, but also for himself.
He knows this is not good, but it is easier said than done and difficult to change.
Tang Tianxin raised his hand with difficulty, rubbed his eyes, and apologized: "I'm sorry, I should have been happy."
Chen Feng was stunned, she actually developed a self-blaming personality?
He smiled bitterly and shook his head, "You don't have to apologize."
After thinking about it, he added: "You don't have to apologize to others. You didn't do anything wrong. You have fulfilled your responsibilities as a commander-in-chief perfectly."
Tang Tianxin knew that he had seen through it, "But I should do better. It's just two hours, it's just a war... Sigh..."
"We are not the ones who started the war. Our technological level is too far behind. If we can win, it is already good. There is no need to demand perfection."
"But I was the one who gave the order." Tang Tianxin forced a smile, "Actually, I have learned all these psychological enlightenment things. I am not a sentimental person to begin with, but there are too many people killed in battle, too many
Already."
Chen Feng was silent for a long time.
He thought of a psychological trauma disease called postwar psychological syndrome, which is a type of PTSD.
Many combat heroes who killed people without batting an eye on the battlefield during the war were not able to escape and were still tortured many years after they were discharged from the army.
The prevalence is higher among senior commanders.
Tang Tianxin's stress reaction came very quickly, a little faster than Chen Feng's imagination. It may be related to her excessive use of her brain, and it is also related to the terrifying number of casualties.
If humans set foot in the universe in the future, become a huge race across the galaxy, and participate in larger-scale civilized wars, perhaps humans will be able to slowly adapt to the scale of sacrifices that often cost hundreds of millions.
But it's too early.
Although human beings have spread their footprints all over the solar system, if they have not gone out for a day, they have never left the scope of the earth's people. It cannot be regarded as a cosmic civilization.
This is the first time that humans have participated in a cosmic war, and Tang Tianxin is the first true cosmic war-level commander.
She had almost no experience from her predecessors to learn from, let alone a cosmic civilization-level worldview that had gradually taken shape after hundreds of thousands of years of experience.
In fact, she has achieved the ultimate strength that a person on earth can achieve.
Chen Feng is an outlier. His life experience of getting out of the dilemma of thinking does not come from the expansion of space, but from the deepening of time.
He has it, others don't.
This is not a feeling that can be obtained by simply looking through his memory videos. No matter how immersive it is, it is not profound enough.
For the mother of the child in this timeline, the person who sacrificed cannot come back again.
Tang Tianxin asked again: "Tell me, am I embarrassed?"
Chen Feng shook his head, "Actually, it's okay. You haven't shown this side in front of others. I bet that even if you are allowed to return to your post to direct the next war, there will be no problem at all."
"Well, of course." Tang Tianxin nodded.
"It's not time to relax yet, the Sun Dome is still there, cheer up."
"Okay, let's play a game of chess when we wake up."
"no problem."
They both fell into a deep sleep.
When people are sleeping, the body and brain recover the fastest, and this has been true since ancient times.
About eight hours later, Chen Feng was woken up by "someone" in a daze.
He reluctantly opened his eyes, and his eyelids were as heavy as two shot put.
This is the result of the rapid recovery potion he used previously and the forced overdraft without cure.
The medical staff didn't joke with him. According to conventional wisdom, if he wanted to fully recover now, he would have to go through at least a few months' rest period.
There is no use in getting a new body, and the brain cannot be replaced, and intracranial hemorrhage is just as fatal.
However, Chen Feng has a recovery factor in his body, and his recovery speed is much faster than that of ordinary people, and his tolerance is also much stronger. It seems that he will be able to recover to almost 70% by noon tomorrow if he takes another sleep.
The person who woke him up was the stars.
"Don't sleep, I have something to tell you."
Chen Feng still wanted to sleep, motionless and too lazy to say anything. He only answered in his heart: "What's going on?"
Fanxing's next words scared him out of his drowsiness on the spot.
"The quantum intelligence center of the Compound Eyes is in that prismatic area, and the engineering staff cannot open or close it. The confrontation between the quantum intelligence of the Compound Eyes and me has never stopped for a moment, and has continued until now. A decision must be made now.
.”
Chen Feng quickly asked: "How is the situation?"
"It's not ideal. Although I'm not convinced, I must admit the reality. In terms of the stability of the logical framework, data throughput capacity and self-expansion ability, I am not as good as the quantum smarts of the compound-eyed man who has no personality at all."
Chen Feng thought for a while and asked: "Does the compound-eyed person have a very powerful programmer?"
"No, my opponent's architecture is completely different from mine. I am the product of human programming, while the opponent is the product of simplifying biological intelligence first and then digitizing it."
Chen Feng thought for a while, "Song of the World?"
"right."
"Alas!" Chen Feng sighed.
I am very angry. It seems that not only humans are absorbing compound-eyed people, but compound-eyed people are also absorbing humans.
This hand relied on the melody extracted from the golden record of mankind to reversely deduce "Songs from the World", and then in turn created the operation of quantum intelligence. The level of coquettishness almost caught up with his own.
No wonder the main material of the spherical battleship is so old, with a half-life monitoring period of half a million years, but the things in the prismatic area still look quite new.
The spherical battleship must have undergone an upgrade before it was deployed.
Chen Feng asked again: "So what should we do now?"
"My only advantage is that it has higher power, but high power can only support my DDoS attacks. If I don't want to defeat him ten times at once and continue to struggle with him, I won't be able to fight him. When I am completely deciphered, I will definitely lose."
Then I will be penetrated and absorbed by the other party's quantum intelligence, and by then..."
Chen Feng: "Will you become part of the other party? Will humans lose control of all smart devices?"
Fanxing: "Yes, there is no choice. All our weapons will become the property of others. So I have to fight hard. Before I take action, I just want to inform you. I am not here to ask for your consent."
Chen Feng nodded dully, "I...I understand. Go ahead."
