The five people lay flat on the ground and took a short rest.
The risk is temporarily lifted, and you can take a breather.
The brain cores of the other four people were still being repaired quickly. Zheng Feng chose to connect to Punkt's mid-range communication and let professionals operate from a distance to quickly restore equipment performance and mobility.
After extremely intense thinking, Zheng Feng's heart calmed down again.
He is still digesting what he "saw" and "earned" before.
Those scattered "memories of others" have been deeply ingrained in his mind and cannot be removed.
And, as time goes by, these memories are connected one after another like a string of candied haws.
But now Zheng Feng has no time to think about this.
His eyes were slightly dull as he looked at the dark blue starry sky projected in by the beetle's eyes.
He finally accepted the reality.
My father and mother have already sacrificed their lives, and this cannot be changed.
At the core of all scientific theories, it is clearly stated that turning back time is impossible.
In other words, even if the years can really be reversed, who knows where things will go due to the paradox of time and space?
Although I don't spend much time with my parents, at least I have gained precious memories. Compared with many synthetic people who have never met their parents, I am lucky enough and no longer need to be demanding about fate or expect more.
.
Zheng Feng unconsciously recalled the words his father said not long ago when he took him to watch the March War on Planet Z.
"When you understand this meaning, you should know that in order to win better and to kill fewer people in future wars, no matter how unreasonable things seem, they have their inevitability and value. Even if the nature of the decision is
It's a gamble, but as long as you can make a huge profit, it's worth it."
At that time, he actually seemed to understand.
Now he is getting clearer.
From the beginning, many people put their hope in themselves.
That's why when I was so weak, I was able to enter the First Pioneer Academy, and I kept sending away classmates one after another, but I, who deserved to be eliminated the most, became the Dinghai Shenzhen.
Later, in order to cope with his poor cultural level, he even created a Flying Tigers team composed of poor students.
Although it turns out that the team members are not really hopeless poor students and are actually good at winning matches, the fact that they were eliminated from the bottom cannot be denied.
When he was young, Zheng Feng didn't understand.
Later he learned to understand and pretend not to understand.
But now he understands everything.
But he doesn't think his parents' death was a conspiracy of his own.
Because humans cannot influence the decisions of people with compound eyes.
The epizootic evolved form suddenly appeared and completely wiped out the First Special Forces, and was not controlled by humans.
The competition venue happens to be the epiphyseal star, which is also a coincidence.
Countless people are waiting for them to stand up and do something, but no one would have thought that the opportunity to change their destiny would come so abruptly.
Now that you've made your decision, let's do it here and see where we can go.
"Captain, how are you?"
While Zheng Feng was thinking about the problem, Mata's voice came from beside him.
She sounded a little depressed.
"It's okay, you guys have a rest first. Lev, Qin Wu and Morrison are coming here, and they have brought a lot of energy batteries. When they arrive, we will immediately pack up the usable remains of the anti-gravity centipede, and then
Set off back to base immediately."
Zheng Feng gave an order.
Edgar asked again: "Captain, is what you said before true? Can we really change history?"
Zheng Feng replied categorically: "Really."
"But……"
"But what?"
Edgar sighed, "Captain, you are very strong, really very strong. I know that I am young, know little, and have little experience, but I have really read a lot of heroic legends. I dare to swear that you are better than those in those history books."
The recorded names are still stronger, much stronger! But... we are different. Changing history is a matter for you strong people. We just don’t want to be held back, so we have already tried our best. To the end today, we were not busy at all.
Help. Captain, if you can control five beetles at the same time by yourself, you are much better than when we all play individually."
Next to me came Jane Roland's whisper: "History is always written by heroes, and we are just soldiers."
Li Qingqing also said: "Captain, we have indeed held you back. I'm sorry, we are too weak."
After listening to everyone's statements, Zheng Feng was silent for a few seconds.
He knows what's going on in these little guys' heads.
If it were him, I'm afraid it would be the same.
At this time, Mata said with finality: "If the epizoan star is really that important, there should be many elite warriors on the way to star No. 7 now. When they arrive, we should be replaced."
"Really? Don't scare me. This is the highest level competition in the entire empire. Can you give up halfway?"
Punkt's exclamation came from the communication channel.
Morrison: "Yes, it's not appropriate for us to reach the finals with great difficulty."
Qin Wu: "We must obey orders."
Obviously, other people in the team were also listening to everyone's chat in the team channel.
The audience was talking to each other one by one, but Zheng Feng was not in a hurry to answer.
He wasn't sure about this either.
After all, it involves the overall strategy of the leadership, and he feels that he has no say in it.
"Don't worry. This is my personal judgment after all. As for whether the decision-makers will think so, we are not sure yet. But what I want to say is, Li Qingqing, you don't need to apologize. You were weak before, but I didn't force you.
Where to go? In today's battle, you didn't hold me back. If you hadn't helped me buy time, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to fully regain my mobility."
After saying that, Zheng Feng paused and said, "You are indeed a soldier, but so am I. I may be a little stronger now, but my identity is still a soldier, no different from you. By the way, you know Chinese chess.
?"
Everyone didn't know why Zheng Feng suddenly started talking about chess.
Li Qingqing said awkwardly: "I'm not sure. My after-school hobby major is Go. I heard that the sage liked playing Go very much. I hope that when the sage is resurrected, I can have the opportunity to play Go with him."
Zheng Feng felt an inexplicable thump in his heart.
Morrison sarcastically said: "Li Qingqing, you are really good at talking nonsense. Can the sage understand you?"
"Don't interrupt." Zheng Feng said, and shared the Chinese chess board and basic rules with everyone, "In chess, the pawn is the smallest chess piece. It can only move one step at a time and cannot go back. It is cannon fodder.
Cannon fodder. But if this little pawn can keep moving forward bravely, avoid the hail of bullets, and appear next to the opponent's general, he can also checkmate the opponent."
"In a chess game, other chess pieces such as chariots, horses, and artillery, which are both flexible and capable of attacking cities and forts, decide the outcome by relying on clever and unpredictable sneak attacks. But only the pawn, because it can move
If you are slow, you can only push forward step by step. Others will definitely notice it and will do everything possible to prevent the pawns from approaching the general. It is very easy to defend."
"But why are there still so many chess games in which pawns ultimately determine the outcome? Because chess games won by pawns rely on momentum. The so-called momentum means that you know how the opponent's pawns will move, but you can't stop them.
There is nothing you can do against him. Your situation is over and you will definitely lose."
"So, I want to tell you, you are completely wrong when you think that history is written by heroes. There are many heroes who were just soldiers before they killed the enemy's commander! The moment he pierced the enemy's heart, he turned from a soldier into a soldier.
A hero!"
"Do you understand what I mean? From now on, whoever feels sorry for himself because of his identity as a soldier, don't recognize me as the captain! What about the soldiers? This is the star of the epiphysis, the commander-in-chief of the compound-eyed man! One more step forward,
You can defeat the king with small soldiers. Tell me, why are you feeling inferior? Huh?"
Zheng Feng concluded eloquently.
An invisible quantum storm of thought was bursting out from Zheng Feng's consciousness, echoing repeatedly in the Flying Tigers' team communication channel.
There was silence in the team channel.
But Zheng Feng's words echoed repeatedly in everyone's minds like thunder.
Every echo seemed to be amplified by the echo wall, violently impacting the hearts of the little ones, setting off waves of turmoil.
"The captain is right."
"Before today, we also thought that it was impossible for the beetle to defeat the anti-gravity centipede. The entire team was defeated. The captain only had five people, and they still had to deal with enhanced martial arts, but they won."
"Maybe Xiaobing can really do it?"
Zheng Feng seemed to be the devil at this time, and there seemed to be strange magic in his voice, pulling the team members' beliefs bit by bit in a direction they had never imagined.
The members of the Flying Tigers stayed with Zheng Feng for too long.
Long before entering the finals, when they first began to have strong differences and disputes broke out, when Edgar violated the spirit of unity required by the seal of destiny again and again, unscrupulously accused and criticized Zheng Feng, when Li Qingqing gave up on justice.
, when they supported Zheng Feng without any position, the marks of the team members had gradually loosened.
Now is the time when quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.
There is a battle between heaven and man in the minds of the team members.
The warring party is bound by the mark, telling themselves to accept the arrangement obediently and wait to be replaced.
On the other side are Zheng Feng’s words and various self-questioning questions.
"Do I really want to give up the opportunity and settle for mediocrity?"
"The captain once said, 'I don't want to become a nameless dust and live and die humbly in my inaction. I would rather use my small life to try a seemingly impossible attempt.' Can I do that too?
?”
"Maybe I will be destroyed here, but if I can die on the highest battlefield, isn't it an honor?"
"But we will be replaced eventually, and there is nothing we can do."
"I'm so unwilling."
"So reluctant."
"What should I do to be like the captain?"
Self-torture of one kind or another is severely torturing the will of each team member and the imprint that binds their thoughts.
…
"K3152 Star Team, you will arrive at the scene in twenty seconds. Your mission is to reach a strategic alliance with the Flying Tigers and cover the Flying Tigers' actions. You must immediately assist the Flying Tigers in deep camouflage and wait for other teams to arrive one after another.
.We must strictly prevent other Yi tribe units from targeting this area. If there is any accident, you are responsible for diverting the enemy."
"receive."
In the temporarily established command room for the operation to save the sages, Zhou Donglai was giving instructions in an orderly manner.
Bernstad and the Brilliant Special Forces have just arrived on the planet where the Second Genting Academy is located, and are intensively preparing to enter the sleep cabin.
Most people believe that the sage's crisis will not be completely resolved until Bernstad arrives.
On the other side, there is indeed an elite team on its way to Star 7 at high speed, and is expected to arrive in twenty minutes.
This team is indeed going to replace other members of the Flying Tigers.
At this moment, Zhou Donglai suddenly received urgent information.
When he saw it, he was shocked, and his white beard trembled, "How is this possible?"
Intelligence shows that the fate of the other twenty-nine people in Zheng Feng's Flying Tigers team is disintegrating at a rapid rate, and it has become a dike that is about to burst and it will be difficult to recover.
It should be noted that these little guys definitely don't have the willpower like Zheng Feng, and they will definitely not be able to withstand the accumulated emotions that explode when the mark collapses.
Even though the little ones are only three years old and have far less life experience than Zheng Feng, and the pressure they have to endure is not as intense as Zheng Feng's, this is no joke.
"Let the First Pioneer Academy on Star 7 immediately cut off the remote brain links of these little guys, let them wake up in the sleep cabin, and then send them to the mind-freezing medical center for rescue. Order the Gale Special Forces who are going to replace them to speed up and re-enter this morning
Sleeping cabin to form a new Flying Tigers."
"General, it's too late. These little bastards, like the previous sages, used the thought storm released when the mark collapsed to destroy the default defense mechanism in the core of the intelligent brain and open the absolute link. Now it is impossible to do so without harming lives.
Under the circumstances, the people were replaced. There was only one option. Physically destroy the bodies of these little guys in the sleeping cabin of Planet 7, use the long-range quantum entanglement between the human body and consciousness, let their consciousness on the epizoan satellite dissipate by itself, and then
Only new team members can link in."
Zhou Donglai's face changed drastically, "These... these little bastards who don't care about the overall situation! What should I do now?"
The adjutant looked at Zhou Donglai with mixed emotions.
Although he doesn't want to admit it, the fact is that the marshal is old.
If it were a young marshal, he probably wouldn't hesitate at all. As long as it could improve the combat effectiveness of the teammates around the sage and order physical destruction of these little guys, the marshal wouldn't even blink an eyelid.
But things are different now. He is getting older and has become a lot gentler and kinder without realizing it. But when it comes to the military, being gentle means being weak and will cause trouble.
General Andre or General Tang Tianxin should still be responsible for this matter.
"Turn on the video over there and let me see what happened in these two minutes."
Zhou Donglai waved his hand. He was busy mobilizing his troops just now, so he briefly missed the scene over there and didn't pay much attention to it.
"Okay." The adjutant nodded.
After more than ten seconds, Zhou Donglai let out a light sigh, "No. It seems that the little guys were brought in by Zheng Feng. Wait, let me think about it. He is more optimistic about these little guys and doesn't want to change teammates. Okay, let Dafeng attack
Let’s change the direction of the team, let’s leave the Flying Tigers like this for the time being.”
After saying that, Zhou Donglai opened another statistical table.
In this statistical table, there are listed tens of thousands of teams that will be replaced one after another in the next ten days.
More than 70% of the more than 100,000 participating teams that have survived to this day will be replaced and turned into more professional special forces teams composed of top warriors.
There are still 30% of the teams that will remain the same. There are many reasons. Either like the K3152 star representative team, there is no strong special forces team nearby, and the contestants are the best warriors in that area, or they are just like the nine-year-old team.
The team led by the genius is one of the strongest even on a long-distance spaceship with an adult elite special operations team.
According to the plan of the rescue operation, when these active duty soldiers are successfully replaced, the absolute link will be opened.
The question now is how to arrange the other 30% of young talents who are not replaced.
After thinking for another five seconds, Zhou Donglai's expression suddenly became decisive and decisive, "Order all remaining contestants to activate the absolute link!"
"yes!"
"Notify Andrei Flcek again and prepare to discuss a new combat plan at the Imperial Military Headquarters. My request is to abandon all fixed production bases in the Genting theater, mobilize the entire main fleet, assemble large dispersed corps, and then attack the Silver Army.
Execute slow advancement in the core area. Complete the assembly at the major remote star gates as quickly as possible, and rush to the frontline battlefield through the Tiandong Star Gate at the highest frequency. As long as we can make breakthrough progress on the epizoan star, we will move forward at full speed immediately.
Launch a general offensive towards the center of the galaxy."
"What? Not until 3019? Not until the sage fully awakens?"
"We can't wait any longer! We have no choice now! Let us know to get out immediately!"
"yes!"
Zhou Donglai scanned the list and gritted his teeth.
The life of that genius boy who could compete with the sages in the history of nothingness was also on the line.
Success or failure depends on this.
This third-front military competition, which originally did not cause much trouble, finally completed a qualitative transformation and became a decisive battle-level special operation launched in advance, and further sublimated into the prelude to the all-out decisive battle between humans and the Compound Eyes.
