Chapter 1 The War of the Universe
(Dividing into volumes to prevent chapter titles from being too long~)
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“Colonel Ryan, the nearby area has lost contact. we have completely lost contact with headquarters now.”
“Mm, I know.”
Sitting in the command room, a man in a military uniform nodded.
His appearance was not imposing, nor was his build sturdy. But even after hearing such terrible news, he did not show the slightest bit of panic: “Proceed according to the original plan, continue to use the force field to delay time. At the same time, activate the emergency storage, and distribute food according to the special plan.”
“Special plan?! I, I understand…”
Standing opposite Colonel Ryan was a slightly younger girl.
She looked to be about seventeen years old, an age when she should still be in high school. However, she had now come to the front line and taken on an important combat role.
And why was the girl so surprised when she heard about the special plan?
This was because the special plan involved activating the high-grade food packs from the warehouse. They used advanced sealing technology, so even if stored for a long time, just a little heating would make them like freshly baked delicacies.
These included grand meals such as large prawns, braised pork, and ribs, making them the most popular food packs among soldiers.
However…
Precisely because the production cost was high, each soldier was only issued one high-grade food pack. This meant that the special plan was generally only activated during decisive battles.
And the fact that today’s meal was a high-grade food pack meant that Colonel Ryan believed that given the current combat situation, they would not survive until tomorrow night.
Perhaps after the meal,
a terrifying catastrophe would strike, destroying this fortress along with the asteroid.
If that were the case…
“C-Colonel?”
“Mm, Secretary Mi. After dinner, take everyone to have some fun.”
“But…”
“Don’t worry, I’ll monitor the situation here. You can all enjoy yourselves.”
After sending the girl away, Ryan sighed slightly.
If they could retreat, he would also want to retreat.
This was because more than three hundred soldiers in the fortress were almost all young men and women in the prime of their lives.
They should have enjoyed the best of lives, but it seemed that everyone’s future was about to end here.
Because…
Humanity had never seen anything so terrifying.
It was like a nightmare from a horror story. Humanity had already repelled the first probing attack from the Supreme civilization and was building a defense framework around the solar system.
But no one expected that suddenly, the Second Fleet would lose contact.
No one knew what had happened. Although from the telescope, they could still see those spaceships drifting, there was no response no matter how headquarters called out.
And then, the asteroid belt located between Jupiter and Mars became the focus of the enemy’s attack.
Nearby fortresses lost contact one after another. At first, people didn’t even know what was happening, only blindly panicking.
But fortunately…
Their sacrifices were not in vain.
When the situation was extremely tense, Ryan and his soldiers successfully discovered the culprit of the attack – a tetrahedral substance floating in space. It was small, but it possessed the ability to infiltrate fortresses at will.
When those tetrahedral invaders approached nearby asteroid fortresses, they would lose contact.
However, although Ryan had made great contributions, his fortress had also completely lost the opportunity to evacuate in order to detect the situation. And after sending out the last piece of information, Ryan knew that their mission was complete.
Soon, that substance would invade here.
And their fortress, x-12, was about to completely fall victim to infiltration, just like those that had already fallen, facing an unknown and terrifying fate.
But…
What of it?
After all, we are not without hope, are we?
Even though we are a backward human race, we are by no means without a chance of winning against an advanced civilization!
Towards the depths of the universe, towards that intertwined future, Ryan slowly extended his palm.
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“Everyone, we have arrived.”
With a sense of being both present and distant, the girls had arrived in space.
However, this was not the universe they were familiar with. Instead, it was from a thousand years ago, at the moment of a decisive battle during the interweaving of epochs.
Looking up at the sky, you could see many meteors falling from the starry sky, and many places flashing with deadly brilliance.
And that azure planet?
It stood in the distance of their field of vision, as tranquil as a small water droplet.
“Huh, is that… is that Earth?”
“Mm, there was some fluctuation in time. To achieve precise targeting at a specific time, I sacrificed some spatial accuracy.”
Siria let out a long sigh, and she now looked drenched in sweat, as if she had lost all her strength.
Beside her, the blonde Alice did not look much better.
Her figure was swaying precariously, like a little puppet about to fall… It was evident that even though the Sun Loli Goddess and the Trickster Demon had sent the power from the future and the girls back to the past, they had almost exhausted all their strength.
“I’m sorry, everyone… Siria and I are temporarily unable to do anything. It will be up to you to handle things from now on.”
“Mm, I’ll take command from now on.”
Elus stepped forward and said very seriously, “Zhisheng Luo, turn on the communicator and analyze signals on all frequencies!”
“Received!”
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With the girls’ concerted cooperation, they had clarified the current situation in just a few minutes.
At this moment, humanity, with the help of Castor and Ruo Hui Gong, had repelled the first wave of invasion from the Supreme civilization, but the second wave of attack had come so swiftly.
The Second Fleet had lost contact, and the outer garrisons stationed in the asteroid belt were almost wiped out. However, at the last moment, they had managed to transmit a crucial message.
“Heretical Structure Evolution Body”
At least, that was how headquarters referred to this square-shaped monster. Everywhere it passed, all human defenses instantly crumbled. People didn’t even know what had happened to their comrades, only that this thing must not be allowed to approach.
So…
After careful consideration, Elus proposed to her companions:
“It seems we haven’t transmitted to the wrong place? The Time Shuttle’s current location is actually very close to the small new asteroid belt. My suggestion is to go directly to the asteroid belt and investigate the origin of the ‘Evolution Body’.”
“Mm, I agree.”
“I agree too… Although it’s a bit dangerous, only we can solve this kind of situation, right?”
The girls nodded one after another, deciding to go directly to one of the asteroid fortresses to find out what had happened.
And that place…
was precisely the x-12 fortress, where Colonel Ryan was stationed.
