The secrets and details were hidden deep inside the underground fortress. Naturally, the children who were waiting for the light in the darkness did not know them.
However, from the faces on the news that were more and more lively, the voices that were smoother and more and more relaxed, and the smiles on the teachers, caretakers, and uncles and aunties' faces now and then, they could tell that the last haze of winter was about to disperse, and the good days of spring were coming!
In the first two weeks, the news was still about the battle on the frontline, but in the second two weeks, a new name, Li Yao, gradually popped up.
For the children who were still in kindergarten or elementary school, it was hard for them to understand the meaning of "Vulture Li Yao". They only knew that their teachers all said that he was a super hero, but what kind of person was a "hero", and what kind of hero was a "super hero"?
Could Li Yao fly?
Could he fly higher and faster than other heroes?
Was he better than their dad? Could he break their dad's arms in an arm-wrestling match?
Listening to the teacher's vivid narration of Li Yao's story, the children's little faces were filled with question marks.
In the underground fortress of the capital city, the children of the "Little Swan Kindergarten" were very lucky. One day, they saw "Vulture Li Yao" in real life, not in the headlines of the major websites, not in the most popular interview programs of the Federation, and certainly not in the shadow created by the 3D light beams on the streets. Instead, it was "Great Hero Li Yao" who walked among them in flesh and blood.
The day turned into a grand festival. All the children of the "Little Swan Kindergarten" put on their most beautiful clothes and had a few songs and dances carefully choreographed. It was a lively day.
However, when their parents and other children asked about it later, these children rubbed their big heads and couldn't say why. They only said that he seemed to be an ordinary uncle and didn't look like a "super big" at all. He was also a little clumsy. When Zhao Manman from Class Two peed on him, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He was so flustered that he couldn't even compare to the caretaker auntie!
"He doesn't seem to be as handsome as he is in the movies."
"Did we meet a fake Li Yao?"
"He definitely won't be able to beat Dad."
The children said seriously to their parents.
Therefore, when the children of the "Little Swan Kindergarten" returned to the ground for the first time in a month under the guidance of the teachers, soldiers, and Cultivators, they were no longer interested in the "super" hero, although they knew that Li Yao would show up in the ceremony, too.
Besides, the main character of the ceremony was not Li Yao in the first place, but Ding Ling Dong, a 'super hero' who seemed more reliable and had more prestige in the eyes of the children and young people!
After more than a month of cleaning the battlefield, the debris of the unprecedentedly gory space battle had been basically cleaned up. The names of the victims and the missing had basically been counted, too.
Today was the day to welcome the heroes who had drifted in the cold sea of stars for more than a month and to return their souls to their homeland.
Then, under the watch of the heroic souls and all the compatriots in the Federation, Ding Ling Dong would be sworn in as the new Supreme Speaker of the Xing Yao Federation!
After Li Yao returned with eleven experts from the Ancient Sages Sector and twelve Colossi, Ding Ling Dong would be elected as the Speaker of the Federation without any suspense.
Although the main force of the Black Wind Fleet had collapsed, the Imperium of True Human Beings, the Alliance of the Holy Covenant, the Pangu civilization, and even the newly-emerged extraterrestrial devils … The shadow of war that was as heavy as a mountain was still hanging above the head of every citizen of the Federation.
This was just the beginning of the war. Real peace was far, far away. Right now, the Xing Yao Federation was in dire need of a 'Speaker of War' who could march forward bravely and lead all the people to pave a bloody path in the dark sea of stars!
Although Jin Xinyue did not betray the Federation, she had made a fatal oversight during the implementation of the 'Dim Moon Plan', which almost doomed the Federation forever.
It was impossible for her to become the Speaker of the Federation, at least not right now.
The relationship between the four new Sectors and the three old Sectors, the relationship between the Federation and the Ancient Sages Sector, the relationship between the Federation and the 'government-in-exile of the Star Ocean Republic' on Firefly, and the relationship between the Federation and Heiye Lan, the daughter of the commander-in-chief of the Black Wind Fleet, and the Black Wind Fleet, were too complicated to avoid the 'node' that was Li Yao.
Naturally, it was impossible for Li Yao to become the Speaker of the Federation himself. Then, who else could shoulder such a heavy responsibility except for his wife, Ding Ling Dong, who had been one of the most popular candidates in the first place?
The election of the Federation half a month ago was not postponed because of the war. Instead, the citizens of the Federation were filled with patriotism. The turnout was the highest in the past fifty years. It was no surprise that Ding Ling Dong would lead the Federation to march forward in the next five to ten years.
After a two-week buffer period, today was the day when the new Speaker of the Federation would be handed over.
"Look!"
At nine o 'clock in the morning, when the sun had just turned from crimson to gold, the children had already boarded the floating auditorium. Under the effect of the anti-gravity rune arrays down below, they slowly rose to an altitude of almost a hundred meters and walked among the dense skyscrapers.
The children were clinging to the net that was extended outwards, looking down through the holes in the net rope. Their little faces were flushed red from the sight of millions of people gathered together. Before they could exclaim in amazement, they heard a deafening sound of something breaking through the air above their heads.
When they raised their heads, they discovered that a thousand space shuttles had activated the 'atmospheric assault mode' and descended below the clouds. Together with the most intimidating airwaves, they rushed past and cut the sky into a thousand and one equal parts precisely.
The space shuttles, which were designed for the gravity-free mode in the vacuum, were in fact not suitable for flying in the atmosphere with a high gravity. Other than the serious abrasions on the stealth coating and the defense rune arrays of the space shuttles, they would also raise shrieks and air turbulences a hundred times more intense than those of regular shuttles.
However, at this moment, even if their shrieks were ten times louder, they would not be able to drown out the cheers of the thousands of people down below. Even if the air turbulences were as turbulent as tornadoes, they would not be able to knock down even one of the Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars flags that were everywhere on the street.
On the contrary, as the space shuttles rushed forward, red flags were flying among the skyscrapers in the sky and on the ground!
Many children covered their ears and squatted down. When they turned around again, the space shuttle was nowhere to be seen. All they could see were thousands of colorful 'tails'.
But it did not matter, because a moment later, almost a hundred starships that were a thousand times larger than the space shuttles broke out of the splendid clouds. Surrounded by colorful pillars of smoke, they appeared above them!
"Ahhh …"
The children's necks were almost broken. They could not even say anything. They could only stare at the stomachs of the starships and gasp hard.
They were like a bunch of fish in the deep ocean who were watching countless whales slowly descending from the surface of the ocean in a daze.
The gargantuan starships were almost like tiny planets that carried the most powerful gravitational field and were about to suck them over by brute force.
Many children could not help but open their arms to the sky. There was no telling whether they were trying to hug the magnificent starships or to turn their arms into wings and fly into the starships to become one of the pilots of the behemoths!
The shocking picture of hundreds of starships appearing in the sky of the city at the same time was a hundred times more visually shocking than the galloping space shuttles a moment ago.
Both the children and the adults, all the people of the Federation widened their eyes and held their breath, sensing the determination to fight the universe and never admit defeat.
The enormity of the starships suffocated them, but the Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars emblems carved on the two sides of the starships made them feel proud from the bottom of their hearts. That's our troop!
The hundred starships slowly passed above the city like a dark cloud that was pressing very low. Looking from the ground, the lowest starship was almost brushing against the antenna at the top of the skyscraper. After the main troop passed, it was followed by more than ten seriously twisted, ragged, and dusty starships of the Imperium.
The power rune arrays and the weapon systems of those starships had all been dismantled. The only thing that was still functioning normally was the anti-gravity rune arrays, but they were controlled by the force fields of the ten or so starships of the Federation and dragged forward like captives who had been tied up.
Seeing that the starships of the Imperium, which had been aggressive and intimidating a month ago, had ended up in such a miserable state, all the people of the Federation smiled proudly. Many of them even spat in disdain at the twisted, mottled lightning trident emblem of the Imperium of True Human Beings. "They deserve it!"
"That must be the enemy's flagship. It must be the biggest, biggest, biggest starship!"
The children pointed at an enormous starship more than ten kilometers long and exclaimed.
The flagship was not necessarily the 'biggest, biggest, biggest' starship in a fleet. Black Swirl, the flagship of the Black Wind Fleet, had long been shattered. The most complete fragment was no more than three hundred meters long. It was impossible to reassemble it at all.
It was just a comprehensive mothership of the Black Wind Fleet. It had an enormous appearance and internal space, but its main purpose was to provide logistical support. Its combat ability was not very high.
However, the children were not wrong. The government of the Federation had intentionally arranged such a behemoth to appear in the 'starship parade' for the purpose of bragging, raising morale, and motivating the people.
When the hundred starships all covered the sky of the city, and the spiritual waves triggered by the anti-gravity rune arrays made the sky above the skyscrapers and the golden sunlight twisted and dreamy, the triumph on the ground officially began.
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