Earth Era

After General Emerk issued the order, Xiao Yun suddenly felt a little ashamed. Because Xiao Yun knew that everyone in the war conference room at this moment believed that this order should be issued, both emotionally and intellectually, but... no one was willing to express these judgments. Including Xiao Yun.

Regardless of the motivation for making this decision, whether it is to preserve the strength of human civilization or to prevent robot groups from stealing human technology, no matter how upright the reason is, there is one fact that no one can avoid. What cannot be erased is that...the people in the Earth-class spacecraft sacrificed the rest of the spacecraft to save their own spaceship.

There is a simple and direct causal relationship between saving your own spaceship and sacrificing other spaceships. No one can deny this. So, from another person's point of view, why should he think that you are doing it for those noble reasons? , instead of making this decision to save his own life?

This is an indefensible contradiction. Because of this, everyone in the combat conference room remained silent, because no one wanted to wear this hat, so everyone passed the responsibility to General Emerk, letting General Emerk take on all this. It is precisely because of this that Xiao Yun feels guilty.

But after all, there is no way to pursue this matter in detail.

No one could have predicted that things would develop to this point. With the ambivalence in their hearts, everyone in the combat conference room began to work silently.

"Order, the Blue Mountains move to the following coordinates, the Yunhai spacecraft formation occupies the left wing, and the Aurora spacecraft occupies the right wing..."

Orders that seemed a little baffling to the other ship commanders were issued from the Earth-class spacecraft. Although I was confused, the order had to be carried out after all, so the formation of the human fleet slowly changed. The Earth-class spaceship moved from the core to the periphery, and the Blue Mountain spacecraft occupied the core of the formation, and was heavily attacked by the fleet next to it. Protect.

It only took less than three minutes to complete this series of spacecraft mobilization. After the fleet mobilization was completed, General Emerk issued a new order: "I order the Earth-class spacecraft to move towards the Y area. The intensity of the firepower... …Fifty percent, 60 percent speed.”

"Order, the Seawolf spacecraft moves in the direction of P85, use full firepower, and break through with all your strength."

"Order, the Storm spacecraft moves in the direction of H428, use full firepower, and break through with all your strength."

"Order, all ships in the Blue Mountain spacecraft formation move to Area R, use full firepower, and break through with all your strength."

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Under the instructions of these orders, the fleet's combat status has completely and completely changed. The Earth-class spacecraft and the remaining Ocean-class spacecraft no longer had any escort warships around them. They broke away from the large force and charged toward the robot ocean ahead like warriors charging to the death in the face of thousands of troops. The new core of the fleet, the Blue Mountain spacecraft, took most of the fleet's power to break through in the other direction.

After making all the arrangements, General Emerk turned his head and said to Xiao Yun: "I have made the arrangements according to your ideas. Next...just start waiting."

Xiao Yun nodded silently.

Without the protection of the surrounding battleships, the pressure on the Earth-class spacecraft suddenly increased a lot, and the battle damage index also began to increase crazily at an unprecedented rate. Xiao Yun knew that once the battle damage index rose to 80%, everything would be irreparable. At that time, there would be no other way except self-destruction.

There are still many robots gathering on the periphery of the battlefield. It is obvious that they are preparing to launch a new round of attacks whose principles are not yet clear. A moment later, this attack launched by three clusters of robots at the same time came to the Earth-class spacecraft. With the earth-class spacecraft shaking, the battle damage index suddenly jumped by nearly half a percentage point.

In the past, if this happened, a large number of other spaceships would inevitably come to escort the Earth-class spacecraft. But at this moment, there are no other warships around the Earth-class spacecraft, and naturally there are no spaceships coming to escort it. . At the same time, after being attacked, the Earth-class spacecraft not only did not evade, but accelerated its speed again, rushed forward crazily, and then fell into the siege of the robot group the next moment.

Without any escort spacecraft, without any tactical defense, without any tactical evasion actions, the Earth-class spacecraft seemed to have gone crazy, only caring about killing among the robot groups, and everything else... was ignored.

Under this situation, the battle damage index also began to increase crazily. In just one minute, it increased from 60% to 70%. It was also during this period that the warships in the Blue Mountain spacecraft formation launched the most stringent protection of the Blue Mountain spacecraft in accordance with General Emerk's order.

When faced with a massed attack, the other spaceships would rather block the attack path than allow the Blue Mountain spacecraft to be attacked. When faced with the siege of the robot army, the other spacecraft would rather choose extremely dangerous close combat than to let the Blue Mountain spacecraft be attacked. Ken lets a robot get close to the Blue Mountain spacecraft.

Under this slightly weird battle mode, the robot group's attack mode has also changed accordingly. Xiao Yun clearly saw that in the next few minutes, the frequency of mass attacks on the Earth-class spacecraft dropped from at least five times per minute to only one. In the end, there was no attack at all. The large number of surrounding robot troops also gradually gave up on the containment of the Earth-class spacecraft and began to move towards the Blue Mountain spacecraft.

The soaring battle damage index also gradually stopped after jumping to 73%. It took a long time to jump, and later it even stopped moving at all. So Xiao Yun knew that... his judgment was correct, and his arrangement had achieved results.

Even so, Xiao Yun didn't feel the slightest bit excited in his heart. Not only Xiao Yun, General Emerk, and all the staff officers in the combat conference room did not look happy at all. Everyone was just working silently. Except for necessary information reporting and discussions, no one in the combat conference room spoke.

The robot group's attention is no longer focused on the Earth-class spacecraft, so with the mobility, defense and attack capabilities of the Earth-class spacecraft, it is only a matter of time before they escape from the encirclement. Although the number of robots besieging the Earth-class spacecraft in front is still tens of millions and billions, it is now almost negligible compared to before. Such a small number of robots cannot stop the Earth-class spacecraft.

Ahead is the way to survive, and ahead is the vast and empty space. Once there, the Earth-class spacecraft will be free.

Along with the Earth-class spacecraft, several Ocean-class spacecraft and a dozen Everest-class spacecraft escaped. Even in the most optimistic scenario, the total number of spaceships that the human fleet can escape is only this small, not even twenty, leaving nearly three thousand spaceships... destined to be buried in the Lage 728 system. among.

"Order...Seawolf, Storm spacecraft...to move to the following coordinates, the Earth-class spacecraft will also move to these coordinates, and we will meet there." General Emerk issued a new order.

After this order, a staff officer suddenly stood up and said: "Report to the general, Major Lin, commander of the Seawolf spacecraft, requests to speak to you."

General Emerk nodded, and Major Lin's slightly anxious voice came from the combat conference room: "General, what happened? Why didn't the robot group stop our breakout? Also, we We have converged at that coordinate, but what about the other battleships still left in the robot group’s encirclement? What should they do?”

General Emerk remained calm and did not give any explanation for Major Lin's question. He just said slowly: "Major Lin, execute the order."

General Emerk's voice was low and gentle, but his words contained an irresistible power.

The call with Major Lin was immediately cut off. The dozen or so surviving spaceships also strictly followed General Emerk's orders. They came to the Earth-class spacecraft as quickly as possible and guarded the Earth-class spacecraft again. A new order was immediately issued from the Earth-class spacecraft to these dozen spacecraft: "Escape from the Lage 728 system as quickly as possible along the following route."

"General! Major Lin requests to speak to you again!" the staff officer shouted again. General Emerk still said slowly: "Refuse to call. Tell Major Lin to execute the order. At the same time, report the following information to the guard: If the spacecraft commander refuses to execute the order, the commander can be killed on the spot and the deputy commander will serve temporarily. Commander’s position.”

The staff officer gritted his teeth and replied General Emerk's order word for word.

After a moment of twists and turns, the Earth-class spacecraft and a dozen or so surrounding spacecraft turned on the engine power to the maximum and began sailing to the edge of the galaxy in a conventional way. Xiao Yun knew that once out of the gravitational influence of the star, the fleet would immediately enter the super-light speed sailing mode and the sailing would not stop until it reached a safe area.

All orders have been issued, and silence has returned to the war conference room. General Emerk stood quietly on the command podium, silently looking at the three-dimensional image of the battlefield, his eyes full of complexity.

The image still shows the fierce battle situation inside the Lage 728 galaxy. Violent flashes of light kept erupting in the image, and General Emerk knew that that flash of light meant the destruction of a human spacecraft.

"General..." Xiao Yun called out hesitantly, his heart full of worry. General Emerk did not look back, he just turned his back to Xiao Yun and waved weakly, his voice full of fatigue: "Don't worry about me, I'm fine."

A staff officer hesitated and said: "General, we received a public broadcast message from within the galaxy. The message was not encrypted in any way... According to analysis, this message was sent by more than a hundred spacecraft including the Blue Mountain and the Aurora. from."

"Oh, let's play it." General Emerk waved his hand lightly, and then, a slightly deep young man's voice spread throughout the combat conference room: "General Emerk, the decision you made we It's understandable, and at the same time...we don't hold any grudge against the decision you made."

Xiao Yun's mood became even more depressed. Xiao Yun knew that the spaceship still trapped in the robot group's encirclement, as well as the soldiers on the spacecraft... must have known the reason why General Emerk did what he did, and also knew that General Emerk wanted them to die. .

"If we can retain a little more combat power for our human civilization, our civilization will have a little more hope... It is better to escape from a dozen spaceships than to be wiped out here. We can die, but the Earth-class spacecraft cannot be lost. At the same time, , as the only commander with experience in fighting against the robot group...General Emerk, you cannot die here."

"We have no hope of escaping, so... after this message, we will detonate our spaceship and destroy our spaceship in the most thorough way, so that those robot bastards will not be able to obtain any technological information from us. .”

"We have only two requests. The first request is, General Emerk, you must not feel guilty for the decision you made. We understand your situation and know that the decision you made is the most rational one." Yes, we will not bear the slightest grudge against you. The second request is...to avenge us, kill all these robot bastards! Remove them from this universe!"

"Goodbye, General Emerk. If there is another life, we will still be happy to fight against the enemies of our civilization under your command!"

After this message was played, Xiao Yun saw an unprecedented violent flash of light suddenly erupting from the battlefield image. Xiao Yun observed carefully and saw that this flash of light was actually made up of thousands of small flashes of light gathered together.

Xiao Yun knew that the spacecraft that was still surrounded by the robot group exploded at this moment...

General Emerk's expression remained calm, but his hands kept trembling and could not calm down. General Emerk suddenly turned around and walked towards the lounge next to him. However, when he was halfway there, he suddenly spat out a large mouthful of blood and then fell on his back.

A guard nearby rushed over immediately and supported General Emerk before he fell to the ground. The combat conference room was also in chaos at this moment.

The military doctor rushed in at the next moment to provide first aid to General Emerk. The staff members also gathered around General Emerk anxiously. The conference room was noisy, and Xiao Yun's heart seemed to be pressed by a big stone. , I just feel extremely heavy, and even breathing is a bit difficult. (To be continued ~^~)