Every era leaves behind some iconic people and events.
These people and things will leave profound traces in the years, like the stars in the sky.
Many years later, when the world looks back and surveys the historical Milky Way, the first thing they see is still these little bits of starlight shining brightly in the Milky Way over time, and then they see the background of the entire starry sky near the starlight.
Therefore, how the stars twinkle within a certain era sets the tone for future generations to look back on this period of history.
In the forty years from 2920 to 2960, in what will surely be an infinitely long human history, the two brightest stars must be the "Convention of Destiny" and the "Unknown Fleet."
The Pact of Destiny represents mankind's determination to make key changes in the face of the turning point of civilization. This determination is extremely great and lays the foundation for the development of humankind in the galaxy.
The nameless fleet represents the bravery and fearlessness of human soldiers during this period to advance at all costs.
Zhou Donglai's action policy of "rapid reproduction, expansion of troops, and dispersed advance" is destined to be recorded in history in a controversial manner.
The conflict between personal and collective values has been brought to its extreme in the Unknown Fleet over the past forty years.
This is a great sacrifice for all mankind, but it also ruthlessly tramples on the life choices of young people who have been rapidly cultivated in the past forty years.
In the distant future, there will be people who think they are fair and will say that Zhou Donglai's behavior is despicable, but in a sense, Zhou Donglai's courage to face despicability is great.
But no matter what future generations will say, whenever future generations open up this period of history, the first thing that catches their eyes must be the countless heroic deeds left in this period.
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April 1, 2931 AD.
Team 6322, which has rapidly expanded to 1.07 million people, of which 18,000 are adults and the rest are children, quietly moves forward in the gravity line channel under the cover of the shielding field as usual.
Team 6322 is relatively special among all teams. It was very lucky to encounter a β37-type dark energy filling area, and in a short period of time, it quickly drained the active β37-type dark energy that was easily mined in this area and replenished a large amount of it.
energy.
Moreover, three years after leaving, the staff in charge of education discovered that the intellectual development of human children in the universe who had received beta-37 dark energy radiation was 3% higher than that of ordinary people. This made the children of Team 6322 mature slightly faster
It has sped up a bit, and many gifted children have emerged.
Hundreds of them display very obvious characteristics of super genius.
Today, tens of thousands of children between the ages of seven and ten in Team 6322 have taken up various important positions in advance.
Moreover, 6322 has never encountered a war during its eleven-year voyage, so it has developed extremely fast.
The Unknown Fleet has high hopes for this squad, believing that as long as 6322 can continue to develop like this, it will definitely play an extremely important role in the Unknown Fleet, and some genius children can become the number one person in charge of key projects.
One girl may even be hoping to take over Emerson's mantle.
In view of this, Zhou Donglai and others decided to improve the security level of 6322. Dozens of fleets slightly changed the direction of travel and moved closer to the route of 6322. They could intercept the ambush in advance and be ready to cover them in case of unexpected situations. For 6322
Provides a safety factor second only to the core fleet.
However, the enemy's abilities change rapidly, and it is inevitable that something will slip through the net.
At six o'clock in the morning on April 1, 2931, Major Wang Lei, commander of the 4th Reconnaissance Company of Team 8119, who was responsible for covering Team 6322, got up early as usual and ate the breakfast prepared by his wife while feeding two six-year-olds.
My 5-year-old daughter and three 5-year-old sons explained how to drive a high-speed reconnaissance shuttle.
"Okay, children don't need to be investigators. Dabao Erbao has just passed the B-level scientific literacy assessment and has the opportunity to become a scientific researcher. He doesn't know where he will be assigned yet. Please tell less of your story.
, so as not to bias the children’s personal tendencies.”
The wife patted her husband's shoulder helplessly.
Wang Lei chuckled, "That's not possible. I'm the ace scout in our fleet. I have to train a successor, right?"
"You can throw me down. Counting this month, you have failed the S-class investigator test for the sixteenth time, and you still have the trump card."
Wang Lei said angrily: "That's because I'm too easy to be emotional, it's not that my abilities are not up to par! You have to maintain my glorious image as a father in front of the children!"
The wife looked at her husband's furious look and burst into laughter, "Okay, okay, I was wrong. Please forgive Xiao Ke, our Major Wang."
After finishing speaking, his wife quietly leaned into Wang Lei's ear and said: "Major Wang, today is our wedding anniversary. I have contacted the after-school care center. In the afternoon, the children all went to make up classes after school.
You won't be sent home until ten o'clock in the evening. Let's go have a natural hot pot in the evening? I miss the taste so much."
"OK!"
The couple's five children's gene arousal level has exceeded 50%. Their sharp ears could not hear the couple's whispers, but they did not make any fuss.
They want to leave a little more personal space for mom and dad.
At 7:30 in the morning, Wang Lei and his company comrades completed the equipment inspection, and each flew a super-high-speed reconnaissance shuttle out of the patrol mothership and went to different directions for regular patrols.
At 8:15, the 4th Company and the 3rd Company completed the task handover halfway along the road.
Subsequently, the 108 reconnaissance shuttles of the 4th company left the curvature flight state and entered the original three-dimensional space to conduct jump patrols.
In the next eight hours, these 108 reconnaissance shuttles will carry out the eight-hour wide-area jump patrol of VIT, and will enter the warp flight at the same time around 4 p.m., and will compete with the successor in the gravity line channel.
The 5th reconnaissance company handed over the work and returned to the 8119th branch fleet.
At 8:35 a.m., the deputy company commander captured an abnormal signal.
Wang Lei and seven other comrades who were nearby turned to investigate.
At 8:53, Wang Lei arrived first and lost contact with his teammates.
The experienced Wang Lei has never encountered such a situation.
A moment ago, he was flying normally in the original three-dimensional space at 0.8 times the speed of light, but an instant later all the equipment alarms on his reconnaissance shuttle sounded at the same time, showing that his moving speed instantly dropped from 0.8 times the speed of light to 0, and he was in contact with the quantum of the outside world.
Information links are completely blocked.
In front of him, floated a sea urchin-like object with a diameter of about 150 kilometers to the naked eye.
The tips of countless long needles on this sea urchin are releasing unknown and strange fluorescence to the outside world, changing the nearby space rules within a diameter of 50 million kilometers.
At the same time, Wang Lei's thinking was gradually stagnating.
The experienced Wang Lei quickly judged that this was a new type of compound-eyed soldier.
The energy detector that took effect briefly showed that the energy intensity response inside the sea urchin was comparable to that of a hive ship.
He knew something big was going on.
If he is unable to pass on the information, then his teammates will approach one by one and be controlled one by one, which may even expose the whereabouts of branch fleet 8119.
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly discovered that the light on the sea urchin's long needle began to condense and spread out radially in one direction in space.
"Warning, space-crossing level signal scanning has been detected. The enemy unit is trying to deeply directional scan the energy dissipation index of the gravity line channel within ten light years through the connection between the original three-dimensional space and the curvature space."
Wang Lei was worried. The scanning direction of the enemy ship was exactly the direction of the 6322 branch fleet, and his whereabouts would definitely be exposed!
Before his thinking came to a complete standstill, Wang Lei activated the airborne micro fragmentation bomb on his reconnaissance shuttle and set the detonation frequency of the fragmentation bomb to artificially encrypted information.
8:55.
A small-scale fragmentation bomb explosion caused moderate ripples in the starry sky.
The approaching deputy company commander quickly analyzed the encrypted information carried in this ripple.
"All personnel dispersed and jumped to evacuate, avoiding the K6541 gravity line channel. Notify the fleet commander to strengthen patrol and reconnaissance intensity, activate the overload concealment protection layer to pass through the front, and then terminate as appropriate after a distance of twenty light years."
This is the core message that Wang Lei needs to convey to others.
There is another section next.
"I'm sorry, I can't return. You don't have to wait for me. Please tell my wife for me that I can't eat with her anymore. But I love her deeply. Go forward! Humanity! Go forward!"
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March 2934.
The 173rd branch fleet directly encountered a medium-sized enemy army with 800 large combat units.
Under unavoidable circumstances, a very intense fight broke out between the two sides.
Half an hour after the fighting broke out, Fleet 173 announced to other fleets the powerful performance of the enemy's new combat units, while clearly realizing the disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves, and prepared to start the second level of dispersed evacuation.
After paying the lives of more than 700,000 people, accounting for 56% of the total population, the remaining more than 100 ships finally successfully escaped.
In this battle, a 13-year-old combat genius shone brightly, breaking through from B-level to A-level before the battle, and killed a large number of pursuing enemy planes.
But after successfully evacuating, the young man cried until his eyes were swollen.
Others asked him what was going on.
He was incoherent and could not speak clearly, so he only played a combat video.
On both sides of the video screen are cockpit videos of the boy and his teacher.
His teacher is a 132-year-old middle-aged warrior, Class A, who is one of the few survivors of the decisive battle before dispersion, and is highly respected in the 173rd Branch Fleet.
In the beginning, the master and apprentice worked together tacitly, controlling the high-performance all-round armor to harvest enemy aircraft at extremely fast speeds on the battlefield.
But soon, a fierce dispute broke out between the two.
Because of the outstanding performance of the two, they attracted the attention of the enemy's command, who quietly laid out a siege trap and prepared to focus on attacking and destroying the two masters and apprentices.
When the master and apprentice realized that something was wrong, they were already trapped in a tight siege, and the jump channel had been closed, leaving them with no way out.
The master and apprentice decided in an instant that one of them must take the new S-class enhancement potion that was bound to cause death, launch a strong attack to open a gap in the opponent's encirclement, and cover the other person's evacuation.
After arguing for a while, the young genius decided to take the injection without consulting the teacher.
His reason is that teachers are good at cultivating students. He can die, but the teacher cannot.
Even if he dies, the teacher can bring out more colleges that are as good as him.
But after breaking in, the young genius discovered that he had been deceived. At some point, the S-class drug in his armor was quietly replaced by a non-lethal A-class drug by his teacher.
The young man was so angry that he cursed loudly.
The middle-aged soldier said triumphantly: "Fight with me, you brat is too young. Okay, let's go and follow me."
"No...no...teacher."
The boy's eyes were red.
After all, this was his first time to actually participate in the war, and he lacked some experience. The boy was dominated by his own emotional ups and downs, and his reaction was half a beat slower.
However, the battle situation was changing rapidly, and there was no time to delay. In the next moment, the middle-aged warrior had already activated full overload, and was killed by more than a dozen evolved warrior bees of the same level.
"You bastard, if you don't want me to die in vain, just follow me like crazy!"
The boy finally moved.
"You brat, you see clearly. This is the last lesson I give you. Now, I have surpassed the S level, and I am approaching the normal abilities of a peak warrior. How much you can learn depends on whether you are serious or not.
.”
The teacher deliberately used a flaw and successfully tore two war bees into pieces.
A minute and a half later, the boy successfully escaped, but the teacher's armor had been shattered, leaving only half of his body, and the LifeVite system was also broken.
The broken body of the middle-aged soldier was floating in the universe, with only a tactical helmet used for sending and receiving messages and controlling armor still on his head.
The enemy judged that he had completely lost his combat effectiveness and turned to pursue the boy who was retreating.
The boy continued to flee.
The video recording did not stop.
The middle-aged man spat blood from his mouth, smiled and said: "Little bastard, let's go quickly. I'm here. You still have a long way to go. Although you are only A-level now, I really like you.
I seem to see the shadow of Instructor Tong Ling in you. You will definitely reach the top. By the way, when you go back, help me sort out the relics in the combat readiness cabin. There is a piece of red cloth in the cabinet, which was given by my grandfather.
mine."
Teenager: "Teacher, what kind of cloth is that?"
"My grandpa said it came from a flag. By the way, if my wife asks me what's wrong, tell her that I went back to my grandpa's hometown to have barbecue."
The video footage ended abruptly.
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In August 2939, the 10881th branch fleet was unfortunately defeated, and only a few ships managed to escape.
One of the budding ships, manned by a new corps consisting of only 5,000 recruits aged 10 to 15, escaped by chance.
The other mature warriors in the branch ship had already been killed one after another in the three-week pursuit battle, and all the other children had also been killed, leaving only these newcomers in the entire fleet.
In the previous fierce battle, the rest of the Germination Ships successfully sent out the tanks filled with frozen embryos before being destroyed, and they were successively sent to the Germination Ship that had been specially modified for maneuverability.
At this time, there are a total of 2.06 million frozen embryos stored on this budding ship. This is the only remaining fruit of all the civilization resources created by Fleet 10881 over the years.
The captain of the Germination Ship is a 242-year-old first-generation veteran. This veteran also experienced the previous great escape. However, fortunately, he was severely injured when the war started and returned to the rear ship for treatment early.
, but he succeeded and survived.
Under the leadership of the old captain, he maximized the performance of the high-speed budding ship, and trained these recruits whose average age was less than 13 years old while fighting and escaping.
Under the command of the extraordinary veteran captain, these new recruits grew up rapidly. They used the limited equipment on the budding ship to harass and cover the pursuing enemy forces. Miraculously, they lasted for eleven months and ten thousand people escaped.
More than 300 billion kilometers.
Unfortunately, although the young men and the old captain tried their best, the number of people fighting at the back was getting smaller and smaller.
At the last moment, in addition to the more than fifty essential pilots, including the old captain, there were only sixteen soldiers left.
When everyone was in despair, Tong Ling finally arrived with more than a thousand elite warriors assigned by Zhou Donglai from the core fleet, successfully resisted the pursuing enemy ships, and rescued the two million and sixty thousand frozen embryos.
But unfortunately, the old captain and the other fifteen teenagers did not survive after all.
In order to cover the 100% smooth evacuation of the sprout ship and Tong Ling's special force, the 16-man sprout ship took out large explosive fragmentation bombs from the tail compartment, roared into the enemy's formation, and perished together with the enemy's main ship.
