The sky was turbid, and the sun seemed to be forever fixed on one side of the dusk line. It was so depressing that people couldn't breathe.
As far as the eye could see, there were farmlands as far as the eye could see, but the crops here seemed to be blue. As far as the eye could see, there were layers of waves stacked on top of each other, and it was as blue as the sea.
Lu Zhou originally thought that this experience would be the same as last time, where he would start with a hail of bullets. He didn't expect to see an idyllic scene in front of him at this moment.
However, this feeling soon came to an abrupt end as his gaze continued to move upwards.
The mountains in the distance seemed to have been cut in half by some kind of terrifying force. The exposed alloy was full of scars.
It could be seen that an extremely tragic battle had broken out here.
"It's spectacular, isn't it?" Standing next to him was a Calan Celestial with a weathered face. His chiseled jaw twitched as he squinted at the dusk in the distance. "Long, I heard that Faraway Star is your hometown."
Lu Zhou guessed that the man was talking to him, so he nodded and spoke.
"Yes … General Reinhardt."
Unlike last time, as soon as he opened his mouth, a string of unfamiliar memories surged into his mind. The character he was synchronizing with was a soldier from the Distant Star colony. After the beacon was lit, he joined the rebel army and became a member of General Reinhardt's guards.
Unbelievable.
I didn't expect this General Reinhardt … who was the protagonist played by Lu Zhou in the first memory, actually set off a revolution to overthrow the empire 50 years after the Oracle incident.
However, it seemed that their situation was not very optimistic.
At least for now, they were probably standing on the defensive side, and they had suffered a lot in the previous round of battles.
"I'm sorry to make your hometown like this. I remember that mountain used to be one of the ten most spectacular sights of the empire. It seems to be called the Gate of Dawn and Night? "
At this moment, a man who looked like a sergeant walked over.
"General, the empire's fleet has issued us a final ultimatum."
Reinhardt was silent for a while before speaking.
"Summon officers above level five and ask them to wait for me in the staff room. I have important things to discuss with them."
"Yes."
The sergeant turned and walked away.
Reinhardt turned to look at Lung, who was Lu Zhou's character. His index finger pointed to the sky, where streaks of light that were as bright as shooting stars were flowing.
"Do you see those arcs?"
Lu Zhou raised his head and looked in the direction he was pointing.
Without waiting for her to speak, he smiled and continued.
"That's the Empire's Spear of Speed. Isn't it amazing?"
Lu Zhou: "… General?"
"Centuries ago, when the last war ended, we eliminated most of the armed forces. But now, in less than five years, we have rearmed the Imperial Fleet to the teeth," Roland said with a sigh.
"War is indeed the instinct of living beings. It seems that the empire is not as rotten as we thought … I've underestimated those old fogeys in the council hall."
Reinhardt shook his head with a self-deprecating smile on his face.
But that's fine.
Although it was doubtful whether such a fleet would be useful in the face of the Oracle, at least the current Empire was different from the Empire five years ago. It was no longer a sheep on the chopping board.
Even if it was.
It was still a sheep armed to the teeth.
"Come with me, Lung."
"Every second we delay means the sacrifice of a valiant soldier for our cause. In order to make their sacrifice not in vain, in order to send a little hope for our future, I need to make some preparations. If I need courage, will you lend it to me? "
Lu Zhou didn't know how to answer this question. He spoke after a moment of silence.
He spoke after a moment of silence, "You are brave enough, General."
"Really?" General Reinhardt smiled and shook his head. He continued in a free and easy voice, "Maybe."
…
They soon arrived at the staff room.
Reinhardt put his hand on the conference table and looked around at the officers present. He spoke frankly and indifferently.
"Everyone, we are losing this war."
The conference table was silent.
Lu Zhou noticed that a lot of people were holding their breath.
"I am not afraid of failure. Death is just returning to the embrace of the spirit of the universe. For a soldier, sacrifice is his greatest glory. My commander once taught me this, although he is probably very disappointed in me now."
General Reinhardt grinned. He looked around at the officers at the conference table and continued.
He continued, "I am not afraid of failure, but I don't want all our efforts to become meaningless resistance in the end.
"At least, before the worst happens, we have to leave something behind."
The staff room was silent for a long time.
An officer finally broke the silence and spoke.
"But General, what can we leave behind?"
"Leave behind hope." Reinhardt walked to the side of the holographic panel. He stretched out his hand and waved, switching the combat map to the star map of the entire star system.
Looking at the Milky Way, he pointed his index finger at the center of the Milky Way.
"In Dr. Lane's notes, we calculated the course of the strange star. We know where they are going. If hope is there, we will go there too. "
A bitter expression appeared on the face of the commander of the revolutionary army fleet. "No life can break through the blockade of the imperial fleet. They will definitely check every spacecraft with signs of life activity, and if necessary, they will even" clean "the entire planet. Moreover, we don't have any spacecraft that can completely leave the supply station and sail to an unfamiliar star system 500 light-years away. Even with the lowest energy consumption standard, our spacecraft is at least 100,000 light-years away from the center of the star system … "
"Then let's send the dead thing over!"
A trace of determination appeared on his face, as if he had made this decision a long time ago. Reinhardt said in an irrefutable tone, "Copy my memory into the hardware, then make a specimen of my body.
"If our civilization survives in the end, that would be for the best.
"If not, we have to at least leave something behind to prove that this great empire once existed!"
The latter half of the memory was more or less filled with a tragic color.
Halfway through the meeting, the impatient imperial fleet had already begun to bombard the ground. The high-temperature plasma melted the rock mass, turning the surface into a purgatory. Chemical weapons that were useless in space showed unimaginable power when attacking the planet with an atmospheric environment.
Under the continuous bombardment of orbital weapons and automatic ground combat units, the line of defense of the revolutionary army gradually collapsed.
In the underground bunker, Reinhardt saved his memory in the computer. He personally set up the route of the escape spacecraft and the intelligent cruise AI.
In the end, under the silent farewell of countless officers, he ended his life with a needle containing a deadly virus, becoming a specimen of the star system.
Lu Zhou read the end of the story. He didn't know when he started to hold his breath.
Although the subsequent journey of 100,000 light-years did not appear in front of him, since this memory was preserved, the spacecraft carrying hope must have successfully reached the center of the star system.
Everything about the old universe had been destroyed, but this memory was still passed down and seen by himself in the new universe.
Of course, what really shocked him was not the calmness of those Calans in the face of the bombardment, but a detail before General Reinhardt boarded the escape spacecraft.
General Reinhardt took out a battery that was cut off from the middle from his collar. After praying silently for a moment, he put it back.
Lu Zhou recognized that battery!
The battery was the energy weapon's magazine that he had seen in the first part of his memory.
And it was the one that was pierced by an unknown ray under the barrage of bullets from the drones!
He didn't expect that Reinhardt would wear this battery as a talisman. He even put it with his body and sent it to the center of the star system.
Broken batteries, spacecraft engines weathered by time, and even some retarded AI …
Thinking of the gifts he received from the Void, Lu Zhou felt his heartbeat suddenly accelerate.
In that case, the gifts he had received from the Void so far were most likely from the wreckage of the Calan Empire … or rather, cultural relics.
He might know the origin of Xiao Ai …
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