Annihilation of the solar system

The sun has been setting below the horizon for some time, but night has not yet fallen. In fact, ever since the two orange-red and faint blue light spots in the sky turned into a "V"-shaped light band that occupies less than half of the sky, night has fallen.

It never really came again.

During the day, if people do not look up at the sky, they can still spend the entire day as if nothing has happened. But this is not possible at night. When the sunset starts to fall toward the horizon with its bloody sunset, the spore groups that have gathered together

And the reflected light from the broken ice belt began to envelope the whole world.

The long, orange-colored blue light silently filled the entire night hemisphere, seeming to tell a cruel reality coldly in everyone's ears. They will arrive on Earth in less than half a month.

The military camp, which used to be bustling even late at night, was now quiet, and not a single light was turned on in the entire camp. This was not because the military camp had lost power, but because the last company commander who stayed here deliberately turned off the lights.

In the past week, Class A troops equipped with heavy combat armor and Class B troops equipped with full-coverage power armor have left their bases and headed for the cities where they are stationed.

In the programming of the EDA Army's combat sequence, Category A and B troops, as the core units of ground operations, will be mixed with Category C troops equipped with anti-aircraft vehicles and rapid-fire armored vehicles. As the main military ground armed force, they will be affected by the theater where they are located.

Unified command of the headquarters.

A sonorous voice echoed in a corner of this empty military camp. Under a barracks, the company commander was giving a final mobilization speech to his more than 300 soldiers. Each of them was wearing a powered exoskeleton.

, compared with a fully covered powered armor, a powered exoskeleton without armor seems a bit crude.

The soldiers stood in a neat queue, and rows of clear shadows were projected onto the ground by the V-shaped light strips in the sky, but no one wanted to take a second look at their own shadows.

"Comrades! The reason why I want to turn off all the lighting fixtures is to let everyone take a good look at the shadows cast by the enemy on us in this dark night sky! This is their letter of challenge to us! Don't do it because we are just D

If you are a similar force, you will be discouraged, let alone take chances.

After the battle begins, the enemy will not distinguish what kind of troops we are. They will use the most cruel method to try to eliminate every human being on the earth. But we cannot let them succeed..."

The company commander's impassioned speech aroused the morale of the soldiers. Under the dim light, the soldiers' eyes were filled with fire and eagerness for battle and victory. Only Zhu Yusheng, who was at the end of the queue, looked calm and unmoved.

He may even be the only person in the company who is happy to be reduced to a D-type unit because he was not equipped with full-coverage power armor. He believes that for him personally, this may be the best outcome.

At the end of the company commander's mobilization speech, several military trucks drove over. The soldiers boarded the trucks one after another. They would go to the train station to transfer to a train, and eventually go to a city in the south, where they would stay until the mission was completed or

Die in battle.

On the afternoon of the next day, Zhu Yusheng's company arrived at the target city. This is the world-famous Oriental Pearl - Shanghai, a coastal super city that coexists with romance and modernity. The iconic Oriental Pearl Tower stands where the Huangpu River meets the sea.

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The wide road is flanked by towering skyscrapers. Even on the Bund, which was once the most favored, the busy and prosperous scene has disappeared. The coastal roads and sidewalks are covered with barricades accumulated with sandbags, anti-aircraft guns, armored vehicles, and combat mechs.

Standing facing the sea, this once happy place is filled with a chilling atmosphere.

Armored vehicles, military vehicles, and deployed soldiers were all speeding past on the roads and lanes. Cars that could serve as barricades were parked diagonally on both sides of the road.

Soldiers who are familiarizing themselves with the terrain can be seen everywhere on the streets. They disperse boxes of supplies and ammunition into shops facing the street or in alleys, and build fortifications at intersections. There are helicopters and cargo drones on the rooftops of many high-rise buildings.

Shuttle, automatic close-in defense cannons have been installed on the rooftops of half of the high-rise buildings in the city, and they are doing the final debugging.

If the former concrete forest was called a city, then now it has become the fortress and position of human civilization.

As a D-category unit, the combat missions of Zhu Yusheng and his comrades are much simpler than those of the ABC-category. They are a combat team of 2-4 people and are responsible for leading the armed citizens in the civil air defense project to provide support for the main force in battle. Although

Combat missions are relatively easy in comparison, but if you look at the number of people under command alone, they are not even less than the regiment leader.

Zhu Yusheng and Xiao Hu took military trucks and parked in front of a residential area. This was their platoon's position. Zhu Yusheng and Xiao Hu were responsible for the leadership and command of nearly 800 people in a building.

Zhu Yusheng was in a good mood. He hummed a little tune and came to the apartment on the ground floor of the building he was responsible for. This was their dormitory. He could finally leave the military camp he had never liked for a long time and return to

The center of civilization.

After getting to know each other briefly with the captain of the Donghao militia who came to meet him, Zhu Yusheng sent him away. He took off his exoskeleton armor and took two bottles of beer and a bag of food from the personal belongings box to fill the room with him.

Xiao Hu, who looked puzzled, said:

"I'm feeling a little motion sick today and I'm not feeling very well. If there's going to be a drill later, you can hold it for me while I go to the rooftop to get some fresh air."

After saying that, without waiting for Xiao Hu to answer, he walked out of the door on his own, leaving Xiao Hu who was at a loss and said "Oh" to his back.

More than ten years of military service have established a strong and special friendship between him and Xiao Hu. Although Zhu Yusheng sometimes shouts at Xiao Hu, he still regards him as his younger brother from the bottom of his heart.

And the simple and honest Xiao Hu also had no doubts about this unusual brother in the military camp.

Zhu Yusheng came to the rooftop. In the center was a two-person high 11-tube automatic close-in defense gun. Its semicircular fire control radar was like a small water tower, and the huge bomb bay under it was enough for a small car.

A car is about the same size.

He sat down with his back against the bomb bay and drank a beer leisurely. Basking in the warm afternoon sunshine in the soft breeze of early autumn, he tried to find freedom and the stability and comfort that the city once brought him.

A rapid and sharp whistle suddenly sounded downstairs. Zhu Yusheng was unmoved and did not even look away from the sky with a few colorful clouds. Because he knew that this was the whistle for a drill assembly. If it was

The combat alarm should be a high-pitched and short sound issued by the urban air defense alarm system.

Sonorous commands came from downstairs. He could imagine Xiao Hu deliberately tightening his cheeks to face more than 800 armed citizens, and hesitantly explaining his whereabouts to the squad leader. He knew that even if the platoon leader reprimanded him violently,

Next time, Xiao Hu would not say that he was hiding on the rooftop to enjoy the afternoon, and he even laughed out loud because of it.

The wine bottles and food bags were empty, and the sky was gradually getting darker. The evening time was wonderful, and the birds were singing and returning to their nests in the cool breeze. Before he joined the army, this was when the city lights first came on.

The nightlife that fascinates him has just begun. Song towns, bars, and barbecue restaurants all keep him entertained.

Zhu Yusheng looked at the blue sky with blurry eyes, trying hard to recall the happy life he once had. But soon, he discovered something was wrong. His heart tightened, and he stood up suddenly, because for a long time

His legs were numb from sitting and he was shaking a little. The residual color of dusk didn't fade away for a long time!

He trembled and turned his head to look at the sky on the other side. The V-shaped light band, which was much larger than the moon, was glowing with orange and blue colors in a strange way. If he looked closely, he could almost see that it was moving slowly.

Flow. Whether it was the evening breeze on the rooftop or the chill in his heart, he shivered several times in a row, and dense goosebumps appeared on his body.

Zhu Yusheng quickly looked away, but the shadow in front of him still reminded him of the existence of the floating light. The cold fear from the bottom of his heart gradually began to surround him, and the deserted rooftop intensified the spread of this fear. He

I stumbled into the stairwell and was still frightened when I returned to the dormitory.

Looking at Zhu Yusheng who was sitting beside the bed with Liu Shen Wu Zhu, Xiao Hu, who had just removed his powered exoskeleton, grinned and handed over a cigarette:

"Brother Yu Sheng, I have dealt with both the squad leader and the platoon leader. Nothing went wrong during the emergency assembly drill, so don't worry."

Zhu Yusheng lit the cigarette and took a deep breath to calm down. Out of the corner of his eye, he involuntarily glanced at the window with a faint blue floating light, and then quickly withdrew his gaze.

He took two hasty puffs of cigarette and threw away most of the remaining cigarette butts. Then he drove the powered exoskeleton armor that looked like a human skeleton specimen in the middle of the living room to the bedside. Xiao Hu didn't understand why he did this and was about to ask questions.

Zhu Yusheng spoke first:

"Don't close the door when you sleep at night, did you hear me?"

"I got it, Brother Yu Sheng!"

Then he sat on the edge of the bed again, staring blankly at the suit of armor in front of him that soon lost interest in him. The floating light coming from the window behind him reflected the faint shadows of him and the armor.

At this moment, he truly understood what Xiao Hu, a new recruit, said a few years ago when he was venting his unknown anger on Xiao Hu outside the laundry room of the barracks.

"We are all comrades-in-arms, the closest comrades, and we will fight together on the battlefield in the future."

Now, whether he wants it or not, he has already stood on the battlefield. And every corner of this planet will become a battlefield, and he has no place to hide. The only thing he can do now is to wait for the dawn.

The glory comes sooner.