The sky slowly turned from a deep black to a leaden gray, allowing the brightness to barely stay at a level where things could be seen with the naked eye. Over the next few hours, as the time moved towards midday, this brightness would gradually increase to that of an overcast day before a thunderstorm - yet the light would not get any stronger, this was the brightest natural light this continent could enjoy, as it had been for the previous forty years or so, and would be for at least two decades after that.
The armored command vehicle drove across the muddy road, the commander, a major with a face almost as grim as the sky, was currently frowning at a report that popped up in his helmet panel: "They were still here last night?"
"Yes sir, we've reconstructed the scene and they stayed here until at least five in the morning." A soldier replied over the comm channel, "Judging from the traces at the scene, it should be four MF1s, two heavy shields, and at least 80 mech infantry.
"Matches the numbers in the intel, it's that mixed sixth squad of whatever." The Major muttered to himself as he turned to the others in the command vehicle, "But our planes actually didn't spot them last night?"
-A lieutenant replied a bit awkwardly, "The model foot KF4 unmanned fighter we used off-night, it's only sensitive to heat sources, and if the target hides its heat-generating parts, it's possible to avoid KF4 reconnaissance... The target force could get to this point if they prepared ahead of time.
"The MF1 is fine, the Heavy Habitat will need at least five hours to cool down to avoid the KF4!!! and that group of Mech Infantry ... They've been using the self-circulating system all night? Don't they know that it drains armor power faster? Realize that they won't be able to replenish until they reach the fifth theater!" The Major's voice slowly became higher, "There are five types of fighters we can field and their means of evading KF4 only!!! but they just happened to bet right?!!!! Someone convince me that there really aren't sympathetic guys in Operations who are tipping them off!"
This was a very serious accusation, and several people in the command vehicle looked at each other, and no one ever dared to take this
The major also knew that he was just venting unnecessarily, so he finally shook his head and gave the order, "Continue the tracking."
"But sir..." The lieutenant who had spoken earlier was clearly the only one with a voice on this vehicle, so he raised a question, "That's just a hundred or so remnants, if they're going to the fifth battle zone, the garrison on the road would be enough to take care of them, why do we need to specialize in going to the road?"
Shaoliang's face clouded over two more times: "How should I know? This is a direct order from the top, and we have no choice but to carry it out!"
The two scout SUVs in front of the command vehicle had restarted, and the command vehicle roared once again, the major's voice resounded in everyone's ears: "Remember that we have only one mission, which is to completely eradicate this unit, and never let a single person arrive at the Fifth War Zone!
If in normal times, this order would only be viewed by veterans as a fuss: in the main battlefield of the side, with nearly ten letters of strength and all-round intelligence suppression advantage against an ad hoc group of rabble without even follow-up supplies, but also mobilize other units of friendly forces to assist in the pursuit of this kind of action, what is the suspense to speak of?
But right now, there was a rumor quietly circulating among the soldiers:-"There are mutants in that unit'!"
The "Mixed Special Team 6" stopped at the edge of a small river. Originally, according to Zhao Yu's intention, they should speed up and move forward, but this temporary unit that had been assembled into an army obviously had more complicated relationships to sort out, and the result was that everyone wasted the time to stay here, while the direct chief officers of the various units were having a meeting in the woods next to each other to talk about God knows what.
"You know, old man, some people say you're a mutant." Hunter, who stayed in the cockpit, suddenly spoke up
Zhao Yu was sticking his head out of the roof of the Death Dealer for air, when he heard the voice from the car, he froze for a moment: "Huh? What?" Mutant, old man, what do you think?"
Zhao Yu recalled the concept of "mutant" and shrugged: "I don't have that kind of ability."
The so-called mutants were a new concept that had only appeared in the last two years. Due to the Batmans on the frozen people's transformation inspired "supernormal capabilities", which caused the attention of governments, set off a wave of human potential transformation and development boom, of course, this boom is mainly in the military princely extension, it is said that there are a large number of soldiers were extreme genetic modification, attempting to trigger a stronger ability, however, most of the people failed, the lucky ones did not change, the lucky ones did not change at all. However, most of them failed, the lucky ones didn't change a bit, the unlucky ones lost their lives, and the even more unlucky ones lost their "human" characteristics and were reduced to miserable test subjects.
There is no doubt that this kind of transformation experiment is against humanitarianism, and the Batmans have made it clear that they will not provide technical support for the experiment, but who cares in these crazy times? As long as the "flight restriction" and the "countdown to death" are still in place, this crazy era will continue to do whatever it takes.
However, there is also news that the experiment has a very low chance of producing a "finished product". The so-called "mutants" are not sure which group of genes triggered the potential, with completely beyond the human superpowers, become the treasures of the militaries of various countries, there are also more outrageous news that there are already mutants as a formation of troops appeared on the battlefield.
"Do you think there are any mutants?" Hunter asked.
Zhao Yu shook his head: "I don't know . . in my time, the study of the human body was just starting out, and various fantasy works portrayed the potential of the human body as if anything was possible, but the reality was another matter.
"Compared to the alien guys, we're in our infancy now." Hunter agreed with Zhao Zi's words, "People in this era are genetically tweaked before they are born, and each of us can live to be two hundred years old in good health - if we don't get killed off. The alien guys can't be convinced that they can't even get their technology to work, and the Earthlings can make it on their own? Hey, can you believe that?
Zhao Yu rubbed his head: ''But the Batmings can't figure out the potential of Earth humans either, can they?
"Never trust the words of alien guys, who knows if they say that on purpose to lure humans into doing stupid things?" Hunter said grimly, "If it wasn't for their intentional misinformation back then, how would Earth have come to this?"
"I'd like to think that they ... Forget it, let s not discuss this, I have a generation gap with you." Zhao Shou laughed, "Considering that we still have to fight side by side for a long time this friendship is still good to keep."
"You're right, old man, after all, we're all Earthlings, we can't hurt our feelings for the alien guys.
All Earthlings born in this era hold a grudge against the Batmings, believing that enough of them destroyed Earth's hopes.
After the first interstellar war, the cooperation between the Earth and the Batmans was very successful at first, the aliens generously provided their own technology to the Earth people as a reference, and the Earth was racking its brains to apply these technologies, which were hundreds or thousands of years ahead of its own, to the civilization of the Earth, and the civilization of the Earth from this moment onwards was just like a satellite bundled up in an alien rocket, and it flew forward at a speed that made people stare in amazement, and it was the first time that the Earth's civilization had ever been able to use these technologies.
In 2070, Earthlings, who originally did not even bother to develop the moon, first set foot on Mars.
In 2088, Earthlings set foot on the icy soil of Io, with the ambition to build a base there.
Of course, there is no shortage of high-tech group fights, 2092 to 2094, the third world war fought with a bang, but this time the warring parties use alien technology to fight the cosmic war, actually little impact on the Earth's environment, more ironic is that all the parties involved in the war are the same level of technology, even the weapons manufacturing process and cycle are the same, in the consumption of resources on the difference can be ignored, the war evolved into a long-term stalemate situation, may be a hundred years, and the war is not a good thing. The war grew into a long-term stalemate, and it was likely that a winner would not be determined for a hundred years. After realizing this, everyone wisely signed an armistice agreement.
Peace was restored, technology continued to advance, the Batmans were still responsive, and all seemed well.
The only thing that made the people of Earth feel a little uneasy was the fact that the Batmins seemed to be interested in encouraging the people of Earth to explore space. Since the first cooperation agreement with Earth, they have taken the initiative to open up the qualification of carrying interplanetary spaceships, allowing any Earthling to take their interplanetary spaceships to travel to the vast and boundless universe free of charge, with a fixed route to the star "Tian Yuan IV" in the constellation of Bo Jiang, 10 light years away - where the nearest extraterrestrial civilization is said to be located, and the border of the United Civilizations, which can be used for the purpose of exploring the world. It is said to be the closest extraterrestrial civilization to Earth, and also the border of the United Civilizations, through which we can travel to other civilizations that are more prosperous and developed.
The problem was that the service initially became a convenient way for criminals to escape justice, and it was only when the criminals realized that the trip would take 75 years to freeze, that they would probably never see or hear from their fellow citizens again, and that there would be no return ticket (according to the Batmans, who hoped that the people of the Earth would be brave enough to go out on their own adventures and not enough to stay on their homeland) that they stopped and went into lifelong exile, that they stopped. Only then did they stop, replaced by travelers who had nothing left on Earth, people who had nothing to lose, heavy fans of extraterrestrial civilizations, and so on.
In addition to opening up the routes, the Batmans have also been putting forward the suggestion that Earth's civilization should formulate a plan to leave the solar system and enter the universe as soon as possible, as this would reflect the enterprising spirit of Earth's civilization - this suggestion has of course been met with alarms by the people of the Earth, and many of them have questioned the aliens' motives, bearing in mind that the Earth's civilization has only been entering the space age for a little more than a hundred years, and it is only a rookie in the universe. How can they be so naive as to think that all the neighbors in space are kind and friendly and will not pose any threat to them? With the present technical level of the earthlings, even if they leave the solar system, they will be beaten up in a minute, and they may still be killed by those aggressive civilizations to exterminate them in the solar system....
In short, the people of Earth have made up their minds to move forward one step at a time, those who go to the Bo Jiang constellation of the rash, let's ignore, the main planning of the Earth's civilization must be prudent and cautious, since we have such a good condition, why do not we first develop their own galaxy? Why do we have to be overly ambitious and spy on distant extraterrestrial galaxies?
The Batmans remained silent on the matter.
Until the day called "Judgment Day" by the Earthlings in the later generations.
Zhao Yu stopped thinking about the past, and saw Bogie coming out of the woods, looking as if he had been owed a debt, "What's wrong, Captain?"
"Those idiots, they still have to act on their own." Borg said with a sullen face, "They don't trust me." Zhao Yu froze for a moment and responded, "It's not trusting me, is it?"
"It's also not trusting me." Borg coldly said, "I have repeatedly made assurances for your ability, but they are unwilling to believe it.
"So?"
"Only about a third of them will go with our car." Borg looked around in annoyance, "These fools will only take their own men to their deaths!
Hunter whistled, "Si stupid earthlings..."