I Really Didn’t Want to be a Savior

Although all the Compound Eyes have been killed, the busyness on the battlefield still never stops.

Engineering ships and hospital ships shuttled around to clean up the battlefield. Their work included rescuing the wounded, collecting corpses, and repairing equipment.

There are also many professional soldiers who carefully drive fighter planes and small warships close to the wreckage of the ball ship, and use barrage cannons to neutralize and eliminate the physical toxins that continue to float from the prismatic area.

The scene looks peaceful and busy at the same time.

The war is finally over, and most of the time there is lingering joy on people's faces, but they can't hide their sadness every time they find the broken bodies of their comrades in the twisted metal.

A large medical ship docked next to the command ship. In the medical room, Chen Feng and Tang Tianxin were lying side by side in two multi-functional treatment cabins.

Chen Feng's skin was cracked all over, and the blood rushing out dyed the nutrient solution in the treatment cabin pink.

He had not completed the treatment just now, and controlling the Star Blade Colossus was extremely stressful on his body. Moreover, he rushed to the front of the spherical battleship and completed a series of extremely risky operations.

The aftermath of the two impacts when he used his giant neutron shield and armor to withstand the ball-shaped battleship was enough for him to drink a pot.

Later, he left the back armor in place and controlled the huge Star Frontier Colossus to escape. The curvature-like membrane structure layer of the Colossus' feet expanded violently with the surface of the ball ship, causing a shock that was even more terrifying. If it had been anyone else, it would have fallen apart. , which means that he not only has a high arousal level, but also has a recovery factor to sustain him.

The armor of the Colossus was quite damaged.

At this time, his Star Blade Colossus and Galaxy Armor were beside the medical ship, being rapidly repaired inside and out by dozens of large engineering ships.

Chen Feng himself was even more shocked.

Before, he was holding his breath in his heart. As long as he was still alive and could still move, he didn't bother to care.

Now that the war has come to an end, as soon as he relaxed, he rushed back to receive treatment with blood all over his body.

Tang Tianxin is not much better than him.

Only the injuries between the two were slightly different. Chen Feng's injury was on his body, while Tang Tianxin's injury was on his brain.

In this very large-scale battle that lasted for just half an hour, her brain had to keep running at a high intensity all the time. She not only had to take charge of the overall situation, but also often had to focus on regional battlefields and even certain special operations. individual.

In order to reduce casualties as much as possible, she repeatedly used subtle radiation to stimulate her brain to improve her battlefield judgment intuition and brain wave transmission efficiency. Until now, she was still suffering from hidden injuries, looking gloomy and dying.

But the most painful thing for her was not the physical torture, but the uncontrollable guilt that arose in her heart at the moment the war ended.

If her heart were a real heart, guilt would be the black vine growing on it.

As reports of battle damage and deaths were sent to her one after another, black vines quickly took root, sprouted and spread in her heart. The roots covered with barbs tore through the flesh and blood and penetrated inside.

Every time the roots penetrated, it would bring bursts of tearing pain. That's why when she and Chen Feng said the three words "It's over" at the same time, their tone was completely different.

For a moment, she wanted to pull out a gun and commit suicide, but she wanted to see Chen Feng again and thought about her daughter in her belly, so she managed to hold on.

Now, when Chen Feng also lay down in the treatment cabin next to him, the heart-wrenching torture had eased a little bit.

At first, Chen Feng was not aware of her change in mentality. After all, in the previous timeline, she might have had a stronger willpower than Chen Feng himself.

Chen Feng first chatted with her casually, telling her the information he had just discovered in the compound-eye's bedroom array, and then concluded: "We knew nothing about the compound-eye civilization before. Other people's warships used curvature mode to make a turn in the air. , it can make me feel fearful and nauseated.”

"We were toyed with by "Song of the Outer World" again. The soldiers died mysteriously due to quantum entanglement before they even got close. At that time, I felt like I was watching a supernatural horror movie. Especially the compound-eyed ones who were separated from the sky. I can't even describe to you the feeling I had when I dropped the particle bomb. The scene was both majestic and terrifying, and my hands and feet were so trembling that they were numb."

"But now, I understand. Human beings are actually very capable of thinking. When the human brain has an instinctive reaction to fear of unknown things, there is actually another psychological change. That is the desire for knowledge. The essence of fear is not Let’s not be hamsters who are scared to death, but rather ignite our intellectual curiosity.”

"The more we fear something, the stronger our curiosity, and the more we want to explore the hidden truth behind it, just like the audience of a magician. Even though they know that revealing the secret of a magic trick will make the performance less fun, they still want to know why. "

"After understanding why, whether it is curiosity or fear, it will become boring in the end, and it will feel like it is nothing more than that. This is how compound-eyed people look to me now, and those who were infected by Z bacteria during the mass extinction catastrophe in the twenty-sixth century Animals are no different.”

"Perhaps the compound-eyed person itself is just a giant wasp on an Earth-like planet that reproduced from a single body after being infected by Z bacteria? It's just that they were born early, and the universe gave them enough time."

His tone was light.

Tang Tianxin nodded dullly, "I just read the analysis report of the Science Executive Committee, and the possibility you mentioned is more than 50%."

Chen Feng tilted his head, his eyes passed through the transparent cover of the two-layer treatment cabin, and fell on the side of her face. His heart thumped, and he secretly sighed that something was not good.

Just now, her back was turned to her, preventing her from seeing her front face. Now when she saw her side face, she realized something was wrong.

An hour ago, she was in high spirits, her brows were full of hope, her eyes were firm, and she exuded the strong confidence of a high-ranking decision-maker.

Just one hour later, her cheekbones were protruding and her eye sockets were sunken.

Most importantly, her eyes lost the sharpness they had in the past.

"How's Ou Qinglan doing over there? Just now I saw that the research center's space station was very close and has already entered the range of enemy ships."

Tang Tianxin shook his head, "She's fine. She was lucky. The space station retreated in time after collecting the data."

But she immediately added: "But there were still some accidental casualties. Dr. Dong Shan died in an accidental explosion while analyzing the blade arm fragments of the Blade Beetle."

Chen Feng was stunned, and the old guy's disrespectful look subconsciously appeared in his mind, and he also recalled the old man's impassioned "cosmic memory theory" at the last moment in the previous timeline.

This time he obviously won the battle, but he never thought that the old man didn't even have a chance to say his last words.

If he didn't ask, the old man would probably have left quietly without making a sound.

I don’t know how many people died.

Chen Feng finally remembered to look at the casualties, and then his breath stopped.

At this time, none of the eight regular army theaters remained.

The reserve army's casualties also exceeded 70%.

The total number of casualties was 29.6 billion.

Not one, not ten thousand, but hundreds of millions.

There were 41 billion combatants, and only 11.4 billion remained after this war.

Chen Feng had previously guessed that the number of casualties would be serious, but when the statistics actually appeared in front of him, he was still shocked.

He woke up with horror, and suddenly understood Tang Tianxin's mood.

He kept losing his comrades in time and time again, and his feelings gradually became numb.

Because I never expect victory, I resolutely anesthetize myself and always believe that I can meet these comrades again in the future. Therefore, when I see these people sacrifice, I instantly pull away from the sadness and rush into the next battle without stopping, forgetting sad.

When he firmly believed that we would see each other again in the future, he had lost the instinct to look back at those people behind him who were pushing him forward.

I...I have become so cold-blooded.

"well!"

Chen Feng also sighed, not only for the victims, but also for himself.

He knows this is not good, but it is easier said than done and difficult to change.

Tang Tianxin raised his hand with difficulty, rubbed his eyes, and apologized: "I'm sorry, I should have been happy."

Chen Feng was stunned, she actually developed a self-blaming personality?

He smiled bitterly and shook his head, "You don't have to apologize."

After thinking about it, he added: "You don't need to apologize to others. You have done nothing wrong. You have fulfilled your responsibilities as a commander-in-chief perfectly."

Tang Tianxin knew that he had seen through, "But I should do better. It's just two hours, it's just a war... Sigh..."

"We are not the ones who started the war. Our technological level is too far behind. If we can win, it is already good. There is no need to demand perfection."

"But I was the one who gave the order." Tang Tianxin forced a smile, "Actually, I have learned all these psychological enlightenment things. I am not a sentimental person to begin with, but there are too many people killed in battle, too many ”

Chen Feng was silent for a long time.

He thought of a psychological trauma disease called postwar psychological syndrome, which is a type of PTSD.

Many combat heroes who killed people without batting an eye on the battlefield during the war were not able to escape and were still tortured many years after they were discharged from the army.

Rates of illness are higher at the senior commander level.

Tang Tianxin's stress reaction came very quickly, a little faster than Chen Feng's imagination. It may be related to her excessive use of her brain, and it is also related to the terrifying number of casualties.

If humans set foot in the universe in the future, become a huge race across the galaxy, and participate in larger-scale civilized wars, perhaps humans will be able to slowly adapt to the scale of sacrifices that often cost hundreds of millions.

But it's too early.

Although human beings have spread their footprints all over the solar system, if they have not gone out for a day, they have never left the scope of the earth's people, and they cannot be considered a cosmic civilization.

This is the first time that humans have participated in a cosmic war, and Tang Tianxin is the first true cosmic war-level commander.

She had almost no experience from her predecessors to learn from, let alone a cosmic civilization-level worldview that had gradually taken shape after hundreds of thousands of years of experience.

In fact, she has achieved the ultimate strength that a person on earth can achieve.

Chen Feng is an outlier. His life experience of getting out of the dilemma of thinking does not come from the expansion of space, but from the deepening of time.

He has it, others don't.

This is not a feeling that can be obtained by simply looking through his memory videos. No matter how immersive it is, it is not profound enough.

For the mother of the child in this timeline, the person who sacrificed cannot come back again.

Tang Tianxin asked again: "Tell me, am I embarrassed?"

Chen Feng shook his head, "Actually, it's okay. You haven't shown this side in front of others. I bet that even if you are allowed to return to your post to direct the next war, there will be no problem at all."

"Yeah, of course." Tang Tianxin nodded.

"It's not time to relax yet, the Sun Dome is still there, so cheer up."

"Okay, let's play a game of chess when we wake up."

"no problem."

The two of them fell into a deep sleep.

When people are asleep, the body and brain recover the fastest, and this has been true since ancient times.

About eight hours later, Chen Feng was woken up by "someone" in a daze.

He reluctantly opened his eyes, and his eyelids were so heavy that they looked like they were hanging from two lead balls.

This is the result of the quick recovery potion he used previously and the forced overdraft without healing.

The medical staff didn't joke with him. According to conventional wisdom, if he wanted to fully recover now, he would have to go through at least a few months' rest period.

It's useless to get a new body, and the brain can't be replaced, and intracranial bleeding is just as fatal.

However, Chen Feng has a recovery factor in his body, and his recovery speed is much faster than that of ordinary people, and his tolerance is also much stronger. It seems that he will be able to recover to almost 70% by noon tomorrow if he takes another sleep.

The people who woke him up were the stars.

"Don't sleep, I have something to tell you."

Chen Feng was still sleepy, motionless, and too lazy to say anything. He only answered in his heart: "What's going on?"

Fanxing's next words scared him out of his drowsiness on the spot.

"The quantum intelligence center of the Compound Eyes is in that prismatic area, and the engineering staff cannot open or close it. The confrontation between the quantum intelligence of the Compound Eyes and me has never stopped for a moment, and has continued until now. A decision must be made now. .”

Chen Feng quickly asked: "How is the situation?"

"It's not ideal. Although I'm not convinced, I must admit the reality. In terms of the stability of the logical framework, data throughput capacity and self-expansion ability, I am not as good as the quantum smarts of the compound-eyed person who has no personality at all."

Chen Feng thought for a while and asked, "Does the Compound Eye have very powerful programmers?"

"No, my opponent's architecture is completely different from mine. I am the product of human programming, while the opponent is the product of simplifying biological intelligence first and then digitizing it."

Chen Feng thought for a while, "Song of the World?"

"right."

"Alas!" Chen Feng sighed.

I am very angry. It seems that not only humans are absorbing compound-eyed people, but compound-eyed people are also absorbing humans.

This hand relied on the melody extracted from the golden record of mankind to reversely deduce "Songs from the World", and then in turn created the operation of quantum intelligence. The level of coquettishness almost caught up with his own.

No wonder the main body material of the spherical battleship is so old, with a half-life monitoring period of half a million years, but everything in the prismatic area looks quite new.

The ball-shaped battleship must have undergone an upgrade before it was launched.

Chen Feng asked again: "So what should we do now?"

"My only advantage is higher power, but high power can only support my DDoS attacks. If I don't want to defeat ten attacks at once and continue to struggle with them, I won't be able to fight against them. When I am completely deciphered, I will definitely lose." Then I will be penetrated and annexed by the other party's quantum intelligence, and by that time..."

Chen Feng: "Will you become part of the other party? Will humans lose control of all smart devices?"

Fanxing: "Yes, there is no choice. All our weapons will become the property of others. So I have to fight hard. Before I take action, I just want to inform you. I am not here to ask for your consent."

Chen Feng nodded dully, "I...I understand. Go ahead."

"Okay, bye."