The gap between the two sides was too great.
There were now less than sixty defenders left within the town of Hudik, and one Heavy Shield. Such a formation coupled with a MF1 could only serve as a meal to the enemy, Zhao Yu knew this very clearly.
They only had two choices, leave or die in vain.
"Kristin, Gabriel, do you hear me?" Borg opened another communication line, "According to the prior plan, we are now starting to retreat, the route is from the entrance of the town police station, take the second main road and leave through the exit at the north end - I believe you guys have already seen the map of this town this afternoon, so don't tell me that you're lost, and if you want to go together, you'd better show up on this route right away! If you do, you'd better show up on this route right away, or you'll be crawling on two legs with no power armor."
"I hate you, Sergeant." Kristin said in her headset, "I'm two blocks away from that road."
Hunter shook his head, "Prodigy girl, welcome to the Cursed Borg Club, but our captain is in a real bad mood right now."
The Deathbringer began to rumble towards the second main road, the town of Hudik wasn't that big, there were only four streets that could be called main roads, Spider crawled to the intersection in only two minutes, by this time Kristin was already there waiting, rifle in hand and backpack on her back that was clearly the laptop she never left without.
The spider slowed down a bit, giving Kristin a chance to be able to grab the handrail and climb up, and Borg opened the cockpit door and yanked her into the hatch, "Welcome back."
Kristin looked around the cockpit, "Where's Gabriel?"
"He didn't answer us." Borg said, "But I believe that if there is only one person in this town who could have survived, it would have been him."
Kristin thought for a moment and agreed with the blonde sergeant in that conclusion.
"Prodigy, find a place to sit, we're going to speed up." Hunter suddenly interjected, "I think the fire from the hillside just hit the encoder generator."
The crowd froze in unison at first, then they all reacted: there was not a single chance that Lt. Lee and the others would ever win again.
The Deathbringer accelerated its speed to 60 kilometers and practically barreled through the town, barreling toward the north end exit, while behind it was a sea of fire that stretched out and was spreading northward.
The pursuers had adopted the most extreme tactics, and they evidently had no intention of taking prisoners. Lieutenant Li, on the other hand, took the initiative to cut off the communication with the Death Bringer's caravan, no one knows how many of the 472nd Regiment's men are still alive right now, it might not be certain that the entire army has been wiped out by now. Zhao Yu recalled that Staff Sergeant James, the commander of that heavy shield vehicle group, who had not hesitated to place his chariot at the southern entrance of the town after the enemy reinforcements had appeared, and no matter who it was, they had to destroy this chariot in order to pass.
"I ... can't understand it." Zhao Yu grunted.
Borg looked at him, "Can't understand what?"
"Can't understand why you guys are fighting the war like this." Zhao Yu looked at the display, there was a camera that was in charge of observing the back of the chariot, and now that camera was presenting an apocalyptic scene, "Even if it's a necessary war, is it necessary to fight it so gruesomely? Every man is fighting with his own life ah ... Whether it is the West Coast National Army, or the Union Army, aren't you all Americans?"
Borg shrugged, "That's what everyone thought for the first ten years of the war. But old man, we're in a race against the countdown to death, all methods have been used, and now it looks like we Earthlings are only suited for such extremes."
"And the Great Schism." Kristin added lazily, "It was the twenty years before and after the Great Schism that was really crazy. ... I heard it from my father."
Jo Yu sighed.
Despite the fact that he had been on the battlefield for months and had already killed more than one man with his own hands, he could only manage not to run away from the war, but could not understand it. Admittedly, he was not an American and had no sense of belonging to this country, but ever since he learned about the aliens, there was no way to understand this kind of war.
Already alien races had crossed thousands of light years to Earth, showing themselves to be without hostility, while the Earthlings were left to win their own survival by killing each other ... Who should they really hate? Aliens, Earthlings, or fate?
It all started with the "Countdown to Death". It was 2104, the fifth year after the Batmans' flight restriction, and the human race was just about to start living and dying as a near-Earth civilization, when the Batmans brought new bad news: something had happened to Samsara.
A bright and famous star, Samsonite ranks in the top ten of the list of "brightest stars visible from Earth", is 700 million times the size of the Sun, and ranks in the top ten of the list of "most massive stars discovered by humans in the universe". It's so bright and eye-catching. It was so bright and eye-catching that even in the heavily polluted cities of the 21st century, Zhao Yu could still look up every clear winter night and see this star shining in the upper left part of Orion.
Samsara IV is undoubtedly one of the wonders of the universe, the problem is that the distance between Earth and such a big guy is only 640 light-years, which is not a good thing.
Back in the early part of the 21st century, astronomers observed the star shrinking in size and speculated that the red supergiant was coming to the end of its life, that it would explode, become a new bright star brighter than Venus to Earthlings, and then fade away over the course of months or years. There is no doubt that Cepheus IV is terminally ill, but as a planet with a lifespan measured in billions or even tens of billions of years, even the "dying days" are long enough for human scientists not to be able to say for sure when it will die, perhaps the next day, or perhaps 10,000 years from now, depending on the mood of this huge thing.
Now the Batmans have the answer for the Earthlings: Samsara exploded at the beginning of the 18th century in Earth time, and its last rays of light will reach the Earth in the middle of the 24th century, that is, 200 years after Zhao Yu's awakening, and at the same time there is also death - Samsara collapsed into a neutron star, and the rotation axis is facing the Earth. It is facing the Earth, and the powerful gamma storm that accompanies the ejection will make a fatal scan of the Earth, which cannot be countered by any technology available to the Earthlings.
The death of Samson IV sounds a bit like the supernova observed by ancient Earthlings more than a thousand years ago, which is now traced by the Crab Nebula, but the Crab Nebula is 6,500 light-years away from the Earth, while Samson IV is only one-tenth of that distance from the Earth, which ensures that the gamma storms sent by Samson IV during its death would be enough to strip the ozone layer of the entire Earth, exposing all living creatures to all kinds of cosmic rays (including gamma rays themselves), and would also be a great help to Earth. of cosmic rays (including the gamma storm itself).
The most optimistic estimate in the face of this storm is that the Earth will not fall into a state of total extinction of life, that it will not turn into a Death Star, and that most of the plants and lower animals will survive, and even have a chance to mutate. But all higher life, such as birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals ... and, of course, humans, will have to say goodnight in advance to the universe and then dutifully collect their poop and retire.
The scariest thing is that this has already happened. The Grim Reaper dressed as a courier is on his way, and no one can stop it, not even the Batmings, despite the fact that they've used technology beyond the speed of light to deliver their message.
And the Batmings continue to stubbornly insist on their flight restrictions.
So the people of Earth are faced with the reality that there is a fire burning outside their house, and if they don't get out of the house, they'll all be barbecue in a few hundred years, but the house is still locked up by the aliens. A time a variety of conspiracy theories came out, the most popular is that the aliens have bad intentions, intend to watch the demise of civilization on Earth ... but conspiracy theories do not solve any problem.
In this atmosphere of despair, the people of Earth exploded.
What started out as a competition between a few countries over a few pieces of technology has evolved into a global war, as mankind has finally remembered the most direct way to make rapid technological progress, a method that was once regarded as evil by the people of Earth, locked away in a cupboard and not even wanting to look at it, but has now become the greatest weapon in the race to beat the Grim Reaper.
This method is called "war".
The two world wars in the 20th century created various technological achievements that had not been achieved for thousands of years in the history of mankind, and now mankind has picked up this tactic again, and it is more frantic than ever, no one thinks about the environment and ecology any more, and all kinds of weapons and all kinds of newly-developed technologies are all present on the battlefield.
What's even more ironic is that all the warring parties claimed that the purpose of this war was "to save the future of the earth's civilization", so weapons of mass destruction were banned at the very beginning, because a single shot of mass murderer can certainly destroy a city instantly, but the contribution to the related science and technology is pitifully small, so the Fourth World War turned into a mill of blood and flesh, soldiers Soldiers fought repeatedly with their own blood on every inch of land, using their bodies as a testing ground for new technologies, hoping that one day a scientist would have a flash of insight and find the key to escape from the fire.
Until now, mankind has not found that key, but mankind has seen a glimmer of hope for escape.
It's slim enough to turn into despair, but mankind has no other choice.
What makes the whole thing even more absurd is that this hope comes from aliens.
In 2110, the European Community took advantage of the war to develop what they called "super-particle technology", which would not help humans escape the planet or protect them from radiation, but in a rare move, the Batmans offered.
"This technology could be a useful addition to the United Civilizations, albeit a very small one." The Batmins ambassador said, "We would like to have it, and in exchange - we can unlock a portion of the technology for you."
A portion of technology related to interstellar flight.
This part of the technology doesn't allow the Earthlings to fly right away, but it does allow the Earthlings to go crazy right away.
World War IV thus entered a more intense phase, and to this day it has not ended.
It can't end because humanity hasn't been able to develop mass interstellar voyages with the aliens' unlocked technology, and Earth's civilization has wasted fifty years.
Now the people of Earth have two hundred years ... or rather, only two hundred years left. This is the countdown to death, the nightmare that whips the people of Earth all the time and keeps everyone from stopping.
"No matter what means are taken, we have to find a way for future generations to live, even if we have to bear all the sins for it!" More than fifty years ago, the then President of the United States stated this.
Just one year after he uttered these words, the United States was struck by the most terrible disaster.