Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

Levi, wearing a winter coat, stood alone on the surface of Proxima Centauri, looking up at the sky silently.

It was night.

In the cloudless night sky, a little dim flash could be seen sporadically.

He knew that it was the fire from the planetary defense network intercepting the electromagnetic cannon projectile.

There was a rustling sound behind him, and a familiar shout followed.

"Father."

Levi's expression moved slightly, and he turned around and looked behind him.

Aquitas walked out of the hut in front of him wearing a tight winter coat.

That was the entrance to the underground city.

"What's wrong, Aquitas?" Levi waved to his daughter and asked softly.

Aquitas walked quickly to her father's side.

Like her father, she also raised her head to look at the dim firelight that appeared and disappeared in the sky.

After a long time, she asked softly.

"Father, I heard that the Solar System Fleet launched an attack on us?"

Levi was speechless for a moment.

This news is still blocked.

This is to avoid unnecessary panic.

But as his daughter, Aquitas naturally has many ways to get this information.

Levi opened his breathing hole and exhaled a deep breath of hot air.

The water vapor in the exhaust gas condensed quickly, forming a thick white fog in the air.

"Yes."

He lowered his eyes slightly and said softly.

"..."Aquitas fell into silence.

The atmosphere between the two became stiff.

"...So, what should we do?"

After a long silence, Aquitas broke the silence softly.

Levi subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the night sky above his head helplessly. At some point, a dark cloud floated over and covered the faint fire above.

"At least now, we should stay in the underground city."

"After we hear the news from the Academy of Sciences, it will be our turn to drive the spacecraft to participate in the war."

As soon as Levi finished speaking, a rough voice came from the small house behind him.

"Why should we listen to the arrangements of the Academy of Sciences?!"

Levi turned his head again and looked: "Hicks?"

A male Proxima wearing cold-proof clothes and obviously bigger than other Proxima people came out of the house.

"Brother Levi, you are too timid."

"If you ask me, we should just drive the spacecraft out and fight those damn invaders to the death!"

Hearing this, the skin on the top of Levi's thinking organ suddenly showed a complex ripple.

"Then what?"

"We haven't even found the opposite spacecraft now. Are you going to go out and be a live target?"

Hicks' voice suddenly choked.

But after a few seconds, he muttered softly: "No matter what, at least we can't obey the orders of the Academy of Sciences, otherwise, what's the difference from before..."

Levi's expression became a little more serious: "Hicks!"

"I don't want to hear such words again."

"Interstellar war is different from the previous small fights. Without the leadership of the Academy of Sciences, we can't win anyway."

Hicks looked at Levi with surprise, as if he didn't expect him to say such a thing.

"Go back, Hicks." Levi waved at him, and looked up at the huge dark cloud again, trying to see the situation above through it.

"...You have changed, Levi." Hicks' eyes gradually became complicated, "You are no different from those people in the Academy of Sciences now."

After saying that, Hicks turned around with disappointment and walked towards the hut behind him.

Levi didn't speak, but there was a bit of struggle in his eyes.

Has he changed? Become the same as the people in the Academy of Sciences?

Maybe.

But only in this way can he and his family survive.

He opened his mouth and tried to explain to Hicks.

But just as the words came to his mouth, a dazzling light came from a distance, interrupting his action.

Levi narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance.

A dazzling ball of light appeared on the ground in the distance.

At the same time, a mushroom cloud rose slowly.

In the sky, there were also a few small dots with red light rushing towards the ground!

"Run! The defense network has been breached!" Levi was the first to react. He shouted, picked up Aquitas beside him and rushed to the hut.

When passing by Hicks, Hicks was still standing there in a daze, obviously not realizing what had happened.

Levi turned his head and took a look.

The visible shock wave was rushing towards them!

He gritted his teeth, freed one hand, and pulled Hicks hard: "Go! Enter the dungeon!!"

...

A few seconds later.

The shock wave caused by the micro-nuclear bomb swept through the hut.

Inside the cabin, the specially designed elevator shook, and the lights inside flickered.

Aquitus had obviously never seen such a scene before.

She curled up in her father's arms, her body trembling slightly.

"Don't worry, it's okay." Levi patted his daughter's shoulder gently, "This entrance and exit is not afraid of this impact."

Waves of impact and roar came from the outside world.

Obviously, more than one projectile broke through the interception of the planetary defense network.

"Damn...are these invaders crazy?"

"How could they add a nuclear bomb to the electromagnetic cannon projectile?!" Levi cursed in a low voice.

The explosion gradually dissipated.

The lights returned to normal first, and the elevator gradually returned to normal.

Aquitus' mood gradually calmed down.

"Thank you." Hicks said to Levi stiffly, "I, I owe you a life."

Levi waved his hand and reached out to press the button in front of him.

The elevator opened again.

The hut was full of dust.

He glanced at the screen next to him, which showed the radiation value outside.

Fortunately, the radiation concentration was not very high.

It was still within their tolerance range.

Living on a planet 7 million kilometers away from the main star for a long time, the bodies of Proxima Centauri have a high tolerance for radiation.

Thanks to this, the biggest impact of these nuclear bombs on Proxima civilization is the destruction of surface buildings.

Levi walked out of the hut carefully.

In the distance, the mushroom cloud had not dissipated yet, and the fire illuminated the entire sky.

Aquitus' eyes showed some sadness.

She asked softly: "Father, must there be a war?"

Levi was silent for a moment, and nodded gently: "Aquitus, there is no way."

"We will not give up our home planet, and they will not give up their spacecraft."

...

Central Academy of Sciences.

Augustus was venting his anger.

"Vicious invaders!"

"They actually installed nuclear weapons in the projectiles!"

"How much did we lose?" He turned his head and looked at Lyle on the side.

"The impact area lost 10% of the electromagnetic guns and laser guns, and the ground loss was not great, mostly some ordinary buildings, and our giant land-based laser guns did not have any damage."

Augustus breathed a sigh of relief.

But soon, his face looked ugly again.

The observer reported the latest observation results.

"Sir Augustus, no trace of the solar system fleet was found in the direction of the projectile launch. They should have moved their position in advance."

Augustus sat in his chair helplessly.

The scene he was worried about finally appeared.

At the beginning, due to the unbridled linear acceleration of the solar fleet, they discovered the solar fleet by chance while observing the sun.

But since the fleet changed its course and reduced the Hall thruster and radio power as much as possible, even their observation equipment could hardly find their position.

The reason is very simple.

Although their observation technology is advanced enough to observe fleets several light years away, it is the result of checking one by one under the condition of determining the direction.

And now...

Space is three-dimensional, and the fleet can hide in any direction.

Checking any direction will take them a lot of time.

By the time they have checked all the pixels in a certain direction, the solar fleet has already changed its trajectory!