Earth Era

Xiao Yun struggled to open his eyes. At this moment, the light in the hibernation room had been specially adjusted to the softest brightness, but Xiao Yun still felt that the light was a bit too dazzling. So after opening his eyes for a moment, Xiao Yun quickly closed his eyes again. After adapting for a long time, Xiao Yun opened his eyes again.

A staff member was standing outside the hibernation cabin, looking at Xiao Yun with a smile. Xiao Yun then said: "Has the... time I scheduled arrived?"

"There are still three months before your scheduled wake-up time, but we received an official letter from the Deep Space Security Investigation Agency to wake you up in advance, so we woke you up." The staff member said.

"Really? An official letter to wake me up in advance?" Xiao Yun struggled to analyze the information in his mind, and it took him a long time to realize: "Oh... So that's it, thank you."

"You're welcome. Get up now. Our staff will help you recover. You will be back to health in about five days." The staff member said, taking Xiao Yun out of the hibernation cabin. Zhong helped him up, and then took Xiao Yun to an external ward.

The people I met along the way, the things I saw, including the layout of the ward, were not much different from those forty years ago. If the number on the timer hadn't been reminding Xiao Yun that this was forty years later, Xiao Yun would have thought that he had just slept in the hibernation cabin for a short time.

The development and subdivision of science and technology have brought huge resistance to the progress of science. The coverage of natural science is too broad, and there are too many things that need to be studied. Even at this moment, there are tens of billions of people engaged in natural science in human civilization. research work, but the progress of science and technology is still very slow. In fact, this is something that is very easy to understand. Just like thousands of years ago, when the earth was still in the age of nations, in just one or two years, the science of human civilization was unable to make a major leap forward. The same thing. For the current human civilization, technological leaps cannot occur in decades or even a hundred years.

This is a slow process. It is precisely for this reason that Xiao Yun is not worried that he will fall behind this era after hibernating for forty years. Similarly, the world after forty years will not change much from the world forty years ago.

Xiao Yun urgently wanted to know the reason why the Deep Space Security Investigation Bureau woke him up early, but the staff of the Hibernation Management Bureau rejected Xiao Yun's request. According to them, when people wake up from hibernation, they must rest peacefully in order to recover as quickly as possible. People at this time are not suitable for contacting external affairs or accepting any more irritating news.

Xiao Yun spent five days in this torture. After Xiao Yun had fully recovered, Xiao Yun couldn't wait to go through the discharge procedures, and then went directly to the Deep Space Security Investigation Bureau.

After forty years, the Deep Space Security Investigation Bureau is still the same as it was before Xiao Yun entered hibernation. Even after Xiao Yun entered, Xiao Yun encountered many faces that seemed vaguely familiar. The layout of the investigation bureau has not changed, and there seems to be no change in the staff.

Forty years have passed by in a hurry, and this period of time seems meaningless. It has not brought any obvious changes to human civilization.

The two investigators were found in that office still fresh in the memory. Xiao Yun got straight to the point and said: "Why did you wake me up early? Has the investigation in the Raqqa galaxy produced any results?"

"Yes, there are results." The investigator said, "But we woke you up early not just for this one thing. There are two things in total. Let us tell you the first thing first."

Another investigator said: "Do you know the firepower assembly and personnel configuration of the "Tarzan" class combat spacecraft?"

The Taishan-class combat spacecraft is the standard equipment in the army of human civilization. It has won the favor of the military with its excellent performance and extremely high cost performance. As a result, it has become the most purchased spacecraft by the military. A Taishan-class spacecraft is a combat unit with a full complement of three thousand people. It is equipped with a large number of heavy weapons and many individual combat cabins. Under ideal circumstances, a Tarzan-class spacecraft can destroy the surface environment of an entire planet in a short period of time.

These are all information that have been made public. Although Xiao Yun is not a military fan, he has heard about these things. So after the investigators asked this question, Xiao Yun immediately told the relevant data.

"It seems that you know the Tarzan-class spacecraft very clearly." The investigator said, "But...the five Tarzan-class spacecraft heading to the Raqqa galaxy, together with a total of 15,000 soldiers on them. And that Thousands of scientific researchers on board a large scientific research ship died within one day of arriving in the Raqqa system."

"There are six spaceships in total. There are more than 20,000 people in total, and they are all dead." Another investigator said quietly.

Xiao Yun stood up suddenly, his mouth wide open but unable to say a word.

"All...all dead? Didn't even escape? In just one day?"

"Yes." The investigator said, "Although this is very unbelievable, it is the fact. If we had not received a distress message from the Raqqa system, we would not even know that they were dead."

"Distress information?" Xiao Yun asked repeatedly.

"Yes." The investigator said, "They sent a distress message to the direction of the solar system with the most extreme information flow, which was transmitted at twice the speed of light. However, the distress message only lasted less than ten seconds and was suddenly interrupted. It was through After analyzing this distress message, we came to the news that they had been completely wiped out."

Xiao Yun covered his forehead feebly: "Then... what kind of monsters are those... Five Taishan-class combat spaceships, more than 20,000 people, if you say they don't exist, they will be gone. This, this... the government What are your next steps?”

"As soon as we received this information, we reported it to the higher-level government. The head of state has held an emergency meeting with military leaders to discuss a response plan for this matter. The specific response results have not yet been released. But according to our guess, the head of state is likely to send an "Earth"-class spacecraft to the Raqqa galaxy to investigate the truth." The investigator said.

Although the Taishan-class spacecraft has superior performance, it is only a standard configuration among the military. Depending on the quality, volume, materials, firepower, personnel configuration, etc., there is also the "Everest"-class combat spacecraft above it." Ocean-class combat spacecraft, and the "Earth"-class combat spacecraft that can be called a mothership.

Earth-class combat spaceships are the most terrifying combat weapons ever produced by human civilization. So far, human civilization has only produced three such spaceships. They not only have the most powerful attack power and defense power, but also have the strongest maneuverability and endurance. These only three Earth-class combat spacecraft have all been deployed by human civilization into the busiest and most important interstellar waterways - those three interstellar waterways used to be the most rampant places for interstellar pirates, but since the Earth-class combat spacecraft After arriving, no trace of pirates has been found there for more than 600 years. The powerful power and intimidating power of the Earth-class combat spacecraft can be seen.

"Send an Earth-level combat spaceship?" Xiao Yun muttered to himself. Although Xiao Yun hated those monsters in his heart and was deeply shocked by the demise of the five Taishan-class spacecraft, even Xiao Yun felt that dispatching the Earth-class spacecraft was a bit of a fuss.

For human civilization, Earth-class spaceships are like spiritual pillars. Originally, Xiao Yun thought that the head of state's willingness to send an Ocean-class combat spaceship was enough to take this matter seriously. However, Xiao Yun never imagined that the human civilized government would pay such attention to this matter and send an Earth-class combat spacecraft. The spaceship goes.

“This is the first time that our human civilization has come into contact with alien civilization in a clear sense.” The investigator said, “Did you know that our human civilization has been preparing for this moment for nearly a thousand years? .”

As the scope of human civilization activities continues to expand, human civilization will encounter alien civilization sooner or later. This is the consensus of everyone. It is precisely with the support of this consensus that human civilization, under the current basically peaceful situation, still spends huge amounts of wealth to maintain a huge military system, and has always regarded weapons development as the top priority of scientific research. .

"Through the analysis of the monitoring data brought back by the Stardust spacecraft, we originally thought that those alien creatures were just low-level creatures, but they have shown abilities far beyond our expectations. Therefore, I do not think that Dispatching Earth-class battleships is an excessive thing. In fact, I heard the news that the head of state originally planned to dispatch two Earth-class battleships, but I estimate that this proposal will not be passed by the plenary voting meeting and dispatch an Earth-class battleship. The battleship is already at its limit.”

Xiao Yun nodded silently.

"Those alien monsters... are no longer the enemy of you alone, they are the enemies of our entire human civilization." The investigator patted Xiao Yun's shoulder, and then said: "The Raqqa galaxy is the enemy of our human civilization. We cannot accept the situation that such an important node is occupied by alien monsters."

"Well... let's not talk about it for now, Xiao Yun, I have a question for you, that is... are you sure that the action range of the alien monsters you encountered was limited to the surface of the planet?" (To be continued) ~^~)