Since then, the war has entered its second major phase.
From 2540 to 2558, the war had lasted for eighteen years.
In the early days, humans strictly enforced isolation measures.
But after 2542, the policy changed.
Although life in space with the assistance of quantum networks already has a considerable degree of social distancing, most people will always have a habitual fear of germs and actively reduce social interactions as much as possible, but this has lasted for more than ten years.
, more than ten years is still too long.
During this long period of more than ten years, ZS bacteria quietly lurked and spread and never stopped.
Today, the number of people recruited has reached an overwhelming level, at least more than one-third of the total population.
Relying on powerful quantum intelligence, infected persons can be quickly traced back to their source and clearly retrieved.
It only took less than a tenth of a second for the smart brain star to accurately locate each suspected infected person and notify everyone's smart auxiliary watch.
But it's too late, there's no point.
Needless to say, Z bacteria are insidious and cruel, ZS bacteria are even more insane.
Latent, infiltrated, strengthened infiltration, and then exploded in July 2558, all in one go.
This is a very familiar routine to humans, but the effective target has changed from animals to ourselves, and the threat level it poses is completely different.
zs Human beings have completely retained their original memories and have human IQ. Even their personalities will not change much, but their perspective when thinking about problems has changed.
No matter which angle they make a decision, their ultimate goal has changed from maintaining the survival of mankind to eradicating mankind from the solar system.
The front-line soldiers were almost completely wiped out, completely assimilated, their views tampered with, and their thinking controlled.
Other major fields, especially the middle and senior levels in the scientific field, have also suffered heavy losses.
At this point, mankind's technological advantage has disappeared, and the war has completely turned to the enemy who controls bacteria.
Chen Feng slowly "turned" the following historical materials page by page.
Although he only used his mind to give orders to Xiaowei to turn pages and switch videos, Chen Feng still felt like he was trying his best.
He already knew the outline from Sergey's projection dictation before, and had already made up many tragic plots in his mind.
He thought that he was mentally prepared and should have been emotionally numb in the constant destruction.
But now he really looked at it carefully and realized that even though he had participated in countless wars of destruction, his imagination was actually very weak. When he really saw it, he still felt heartbroken.
They retreated step by step until they were destroyed.
In just eight words, the entire history from 2558 to 2589 can be summarized.
But this process is filled with countless flesh-and-blood details.
Defeat is divided into many stages.
The first stage occurs when zs humans tear off their disguise, return the butcher knife to their former compatriots, and the stars give out the results of the infected people.
All those who have had contact with ZS humans and have been included in the list of infected people by Fanxing, but who have not yet reached a sufficient scale of reproduction of ZS bacteria in their bodies and can still maintain independent thinking, are instantly faced with the same choice.
Death or life?
Most people's choice is the same as ordering Sergey to kill Ou Mengfeng.
It's just that the speed of decision-making is slightly different.
Ou Mengfeng was the decisive one. As soon as he received the news, he consulted Lai Wenming through personal relations.
At that time, Ou Mengfeng asked Lai Wenming, "Xiao Lai, is there any way to treat this kind of bacteria?"
Lai Wenming: “Not yet.”
"How long will it take to develop it?"
"have no idea."
"You have been studying controlling bacteria for many years, right?"
"Yes, from 2540 to now, I have never slackened off."
"So how long do you think we can stay awake?"
Lai Wenming: "I don't know. Control bacteria are different from the past. They are intelligent. They can remain dormant in the human body for more than ten years without any movement, but they may also actively increase their activity, multiply rapidly and expand in scale. Therefore, you may be taken over at any time.
thinking."
“Can we recover by destroying the body and rebuilding it again?”
"No, the main place where control bacteria attach is actually our brain. It is deeply integrated with our neuronal cells in an unprecedented way. The brain cannot be reconstructed."
Ou Mengfeng nodded in pain, tears streaming down his face.
After a long time, he first said to Lai Wenming, "I'm sorry, Xiao Lai, I should support you."
Lai Wenming: "It's okay, Teacher Ou, you have your own opinion."
The two hung up the phone. Ou Mengfeng called all the infected people of the Institute of High Energy Physics to the square, and then faced the front more than ten meters away, holding an evaporating particle gun, and the helpless Sergey and many security personnel said loudly: "From today on
Come on, Sergey, you are a high-energy person.
Dean of the Institute of Physics! Sergey, your talent is unprecedented. You can become a master who can carry forward the past and open up the future! I have high hopes for you. I believe that our death will not be the end. You can and must continue to go on! Shoot.
!Kill us! Don’t hesitate, shoot!”
Bang bang bang!
There are also some people who struggled in hesitation and pain for two or three days. After seeing the ferocity and cruelty of zs humans and the sudden loss of control of more and more people marked as infected, these hesitant people collapsed and made one after another
Decide.
Someone walked out of the space in the space station and floated dead in the universe.
Someone jumped into the quark disintegrator.
Someone crashed a spaceship into the sun.
There are also people who hold high-explosive bombs, say goodbye to their families in the quantum network, and then detonate them.
…
The first stage was named "Farewell" by Sergey.
The second stage is "choice".
In order to make up for the lack of combat power caused by the betrayal of a large number of Metroid warriors, the fledgling young Sergei crossed several academic levels and joined forces with Lai Wenming to establish the Gene Rapid Breakthrough Project.
The essence of the breakthrough plan is slightly different from that of the God of War and Demon Zhan. It only absorbed part of the Z bacteria and the system of Demon Zhan left by Chen Feng, supplemented by the re-derived knowledge from biological giants such as Lai Wenming, and chose a newer
Focus on exploring human beings' own potential, rather than becoming the non-magic warfare ideas of other species.
It only took three days for the breakthrough plan to be completed. About 20 million people were transformed on different space stations, and the number of survivors was 4 million.
The awakening level of these four million survivors quickly exceeded 35%, and they rushed to the battlefield wearing brand-new galactic armor with intelligent algorithms improved by Sergey.
The third stage is "stalemate".
At this stage, the war between humans and ZS bacteria is fought from space to the ground.
Humanity once briefly recaptured the Earth, but due to the need to maintain ultra-high-level protective measures on the Earth, movement was very inconvenient, and humans left the Earth again.
Throughout the entire confrontation, although the early productivity of the ZS humans was not as good as that of humans, the main combat units were only the ZS humans from the original Metroid Warriors, as well as a large number of alienated animals.
But the reproductive capabilities of alienated animals are so amazing that all planets in the solar system are sources of soldiers.
These vast and extremely difficult to kill completely made up for the early military disadvantage of ZS humans.
The battle that took place on the space station and on the battleships also greatly reduced human military strength.
Although humans responded quickly, ZS humans' latent actions were in clusters. With one-third of the total population infected, as many as two-fifths of the entire human fleet defected.
Major space stations were also severely damaged.
Humanity has regained control of approximately two-thirds of the space stations, another one-sixth of the space stations have been devastated, and one-sixth of the space stations have been wiped out. The remaining human beings as a whole
Rebellion.
In addition, there are hundreds of millions of small aircraft that take off privately, wreak havoc on the space station, and then fly away.
All these changes allowed zs humans to successfully survive the early stage.
Since then, the war has entered the fourth stage, "powerlessness".
With the rapid reproduction and evolution of ZS bacteria's alienated animals, biological spaceships based on giant mutated marine animals appeared.
Some large birds and suture-like alienated animals have grown into various personal equipment for human beings, as well as various combined war machines.
The technology of growing battleships that Chen Feng had been asking for, ZS bacteria seemed to be born with it. It just needed some years of precipitation and digestion and absorption of human achievements.
After that, humankind's advantage in space disappeared in an instant.
In this stage of confrontation, humans feel a deep sense of powerlessness.
No matter how tirelessly human beings work hard, they cannot match the regenerative ability of ZS bacteria.
No matter how quickly Sergey and others improve their equipment, the ZS bacteria's troops can always quickly stabilize the situation after experiencing a brief panic, and in turn absorb new human technologies.
zs humans have also shown extremely high literacy in tactics and strategies.
On the frontal battlefield, the zs human fleet can compete with the human forces controlled by the stars for their fine control capabilities.
On small battlefields, zs humans are even more adventurous with their unique moves, and all of them are not afraid of death, and their fighting style is outstanding.
As the war progressed, on another battlefield, Lai Wenming, Sergei and others never stopped studying.
At that time, the division of labor between Lai Wenming and Sergey was very clear.
Sergey is responsible for improving the performance of human war weapons, while Lai Wenming is responsible for trying to develop vaccines to control bacteria, special drugs that may cure bacterial infections, and various injectable drugs for rapid treatment on the battlefield and improving capabilities.
Lai Wenming's workload is both large and difficult. The latter two are okay. Although it is difficult, he can always see progress from time to time.
Only the first two items really tortured both his body and his spirit.
That feeling of coming up empty-handed no matter how hard you try, is really painful.
When Lai Wenming was at his most desperate, he held a private meeting with Sergey and cried, crying and roaring at the same time.
"Why can there be such creatures in the universe? Why? This is unfair! Why should enemies who can create such creatures be enemies with us? We don't even have the ability to cause them the slightest harm. We and them
The gap is countless times greater than that between ants and giant elephants. Why is this!"
Lai Wenming stared at a pair of cloudy old eyes, grabbed Sergei's shoulders and kept asking.
Sergey thought for a long time, "Probably, because we are human beings. The sage Chen Feng must have thought about this issue, but I think he must have never been confused. He just accepted this fate, and then bit by bit
, trying to move forward, that’s all.”
In 2589, mankind's highest scientific research space station crashed in the middle of the Australian Great Plains.
Humanity is destroyed, ZS bacteria turn into fireworks and dissipate in space, and the sun dome disappears.
The history of human civilization in the solar system in the ninth timeline comes to an abrupt end here.
Chen Feng silently closed the book.
He slapped himself hard.
This time humans actually had a chance to avoid tragedy, but made many wrong decisions.
Chen Feng also knew where his mistake was.
But in the final analysis, the fault lies solely with him.
He originally thought that he was mentally prepared to endure the end of the solar system that he had created with his own hands.
But the feelings of regret, loss and guilt are always lingering.
He looked up at the ceiling of the reading room and murmured to himself.
"I'm sorry, everyone. I will do better next time. I will definitely."
Above the ceiling, those heroic spirits who died in the twenty-sixth century seemed to still be floating, looking at him quietly, waiting for him in another timeline.
Of course, there may be no next time.
With so many people going out this time, countless colonies have already been built in the Orion Arm.
Therefore, Chen Feng believes that humans have a certain chance of winning.
He hoped so too.
But he still has to observe and make decisions.
Reason tells him that if there is a one in 100 million chance, he will still fight for it.
But in this case, perhaps the timeline will end, and the direct descendants of the disappeared solar system civilization will never come back.
It may very well include the child’s mother.
He has this anxiety.
But he cannot give up one group of people for another group of people.
Chen Feng misses his child's mother very much, and of course he can't let go of his child's mother.
But he also knew that if the mother of the child knew that he gave up a free universe for her.
With her character, she will definitely not forgive me, right?
She is the one who likes to sacrifice herself the most.
Therefore, Chen Feng told himself that I will still strive for every possibility, but I will also face failure calmly.
