In the deepest part of the universe, a war with the greatest disparity in strength ever broke out.
The human army attacked the Zerg's home planet head-on.
These mechas and wingmen are only the products of primary cosmic civilization. They have dimensional weapons and jump capabilities that are far inferior to those of the Zerg in the core areas. The weapons they use are only at the particle level, which is far from the ultimate lethality under string theory.
The Zerg they encountered were completely different from the Zerg swarms responsible for the invasion.
This is the heart of the Zerg, filled with new Zerg that have never been seen or encountered before in the entire interstellar world and do not exist in any data.
"We have met before."
Nie Chi's voice passed through the mecha and turned into a universal photoelectric signal, which was transmitted to the screens of every mecha and wingman, and also fell into the eyes of the leading Zerg King: "We have fought every Zerg here."
The Insect King narrowed his scarlet eyes in disdain.
Their existence has always been top secret. These weak civilizations are tens of millions of light years away. Even if they say these morale-boosting lies, they have never seen the real Zerg.
The Zerg had a rule of deploying their formations before starting a fight. The Zerg King hissed and pounced towards Nie Chi's mecha, but missed.
A diamond-studded, flamboyant wingman swooped out from the side.
Its original coating contained invisible material, so it was always hidden and silent. It jumped out and bit the tail of the insect king. The wingman roared and circled, and its sharp blade wings penetrated into the insect king's abdomen, tearing open the insect king's hard shell.
The Insect King was caught off guard and roared in pain. He turned around to destroy the wingman, but the oncoming mecha had already set up a laser torpedo neatly.
"Give me some little-known scientific knowledge."
Sui Qi whistled and flicked the transmitter: "The old man was killed by him seventy-two times."
The Insect King's eyes widened in shock. It was still carrying countless powerful weapons, but it had not yet used them. The thick beam of light that illuminated the sky had already attacked it.
…
The large-scale Zerg battle simulation system left by Yu Tang provides the most detailed and accurate data for each Zerg species.
The difficulty of fighting against the Zerg increased day by day. After obtaining Yu Tang's consent, Xi Ji brought all the participating legions and artificial intelligence into the storm.
The plan for training soldiers was very simple.
Everyone enters the game in a storm, and Ji Lai controls the Zerg, leaving no trace of their strength, and annihilates the human army.
The time in the storm was stagnant, and no one knew how long they had been training their troops in there.
The only thing that can be confirmed is that after the entire army was annihilated again and again, there was finally one time when the human army managed to save a half-damaged mecha, which rushed into the heart of the Zerg tide and caused an explosion.
The next time, the human army in the simulation system saved three mechas and five wingmen.
The next time, the human army saved a squad.
…
In stagnant time and virtual space, they have simulated this war countless times.
"Everyone here has experienced virtual death countless times."
Nie Chi said: "Everyone has already memorized how to survive."
The Zerg King had no time to explode in incredible rage before he was completely annihilated by the beam. The Zerg let out a sharp hiss of anger and rushed towards the human army who were overconfident.
Nie Chi pressed the control panel of the mecha with one hand, and looked up for a moment in the interval of fierce fighting.
A flash of silver light flashed in the face of the overwhelming black Zerg and then disappeared.
The mission of the Legion is to contain the Zerg and provide opportunities for the assault and sniping teams. The new and old special forces teams are the core of this battle.
The "Book-Crossing Bureau" that was circulated in the confidential information of the alliance's top leaders and was repeatedly calculated, planned, and traded with them was the real target of this battle.
Nie Chi collected his thoughts and was about to throw himself into the battle completely, but he was suddenly startled by a familiar wingman that swooped over from the side.
Zhuang Yu pulled down the transmitter: "Sector A, target number 9, distance 67, correction 0.25, what are you doing?"
Nie Chi subconsciously adjusted the mecha according to the data reported by the observer, and then he remembered to speak: "Captain, why don't you go on the mission?"
"The instructor is here." Zhuang Yu said, "He's taking my place."
Nie Chi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he almost couldn't help asking a few more questions, receiving Zhuang Yu's warning signal, but he couldn't help but suppress the thought completely.
He controlled the mecha, but a faint smile could not be suppressed on his usually serious and stern face: "If you don't go with me, can you bear to worry about me?"
Zhuang Yu laughed in the call channel.
"With Xiaoji here, I don't worry."
Zhuang Yu said: "If we lose, the instructor will kick our butts."
He no longer had the image of the prisoner in the painting, trapped in the special forces barracks. Zhuang Yu pulled back the joystick, and the wingman suddenly descended, half-rolled and turned in front of the mecha: "Follow me."
Nie Chi's shoulders tensed silently, and he drove the mecha to follow, with a bright light flashing underneath.
A brutal battle is about to take place here.
The light recording this battle will take tens of millions of years to reach the galaxy they protect, but if they can win, this battle will be their last.
In this vast cosmic cemetery, they left behind the inscriptions of the survivors.
The bookstore.
Yu Tang came out from the light. In front of him stood a virtual image, which seemed to have been waiting for him for a long time.
Behind the virtual image is a computer room that is exactly the same as the one in every lower-dimensional world.
The system recognized the figure and was horrified: "Host! It's him—"
The figure in front of them was a little hunched, with sparse hair, wearing old-fashioned glasses and a wrinkled gown.
… He is obviously Wen Er’s mentor!
The system read through Yu Tang's memory fragments and clearly remembered that Wen Er's mentor had died in the raging lightning storm. He couldn't help but feel a chill running down his spine: "What the hell—"
"Surprised?" The virtual image pushed the mirror and gave Yu Tang an ambiguous smile, "You can call me 'Professor'."
He walked slowly towards Yu Tang, that strange, unchanging smile seemed to be growing on his face: "Lightning Storm."
The Professor's turbid eyes flashed with greed: "This is really good stuff, it's very well made, much better than the defective product in the terminal..."
The system couldn't help but block in front of the host, but was patted lightly by Yu Tang and put aside.
"You thought you were going to kill me, didn't you?"
The professor stared at Yu Tang and said, "You are very good, but you have only one flaw... You were taught by that human to be naive and stupid, and you always have unrealistic dreams."
"You can't change anything, you can't." The professor raised his head, and the shadows of Zhong San and Wen Er appeared from the corner of the computer room one after another, "You can't do anything at all."
Yu Tang asked, “Really?”
The professor raised his equally sparse eyebrows, and there was almost pity in his expression: "With this attitude, we may have to spend more time."
He raised his hand and pulled out an invisible outline from the air, which gradually solidified in the projection.
Sheng Yi, wearing a logistics military uniform, fell out of the void and landed heavily on the ground.
Having fallen from the pride of the world, learned of the conspiracy, and watched Sheng Tiancheng turn into a Zerg, he was already in a miserable state.
Sheng Yi climbed up using his feet and legs, not looking at Yu Tang all the time. With red eyes, he rushed towards the "professor": "It's you... It's your conspiracy! I remember, it was you who installed the program for me in my dream—"
The professor frowned impatiently and swung his sword casually. The invisible force hit Sheng Yi hard and knocked him into the corner.
Sheng Yi was overwhelmed by the severe pain, but his eyes were still red, and he was struggling to get up.
"How did this thing get in?"
The professor pushed his goggles, as if reading some information, and after a few seconds he suddenly realized: "Is this the shell that the intermediary made for me?"
Sheng Yi didn't understand what he was saying, but he was inexplicably shocked by this sentence and shuddered. He asked in a hoarse voice: "What did you say?"
The professor had no intention of wasting time on him. He pressed the air, and a virtual cage fell down from the sky, trapping Sheng Yi firmly in the ground.
The professor readjusted it, and this time, the gray shadow finally squirmed and condensed in the air.
Its face was blurry, as if it was extremely afraid of light and color. As soon as it appeared, it tried to shrink into the shadow in the corner.
"Useless trash." The professor spat and looked up with disdain. "You are against us, is it for these things?"
Yu Tang unpacked a lollipop and put it in his mouth, then leaned against the wall and folded his arms: "I am against you because you turned the warehouse into my house."
The professor was choked by him and his expression changed slightly.
… It was indeed their mistake.
Their initial understanding of the storm was not detailed enough, and they thought that since they had captured a lightning storm, they would naturally possess the storm. However, they did not expect that there were other particle-level civilizations in this area.
The professor narrowed his eyes and looked at Yu Tang through the lenses.
The lifespan of a particle-class civilization is longer than that of a galaxy, and its growth is extremely slow. They calculated the exact age of this infant lightning storm and found that it should not have developed a clear self-awareness.
It was the goods stored in that warehouse that became the trigger for the evolution of this electric storm.
"I'm not Wen'er's mentor."
Yu Tang said: "Wen'er's mentor is a human being, a fanatical scientific lunatic. For the research he is obsessed with, he can break any bottom line - he can make deals with conservatives, and he can also get what he wants from the Secret Service. The students who admire him the most are just his most obedient research tools."
"He was the first to continuously send signals into the universe, which led to the lightning storm and the book-traveling bureau."
"Oh, I suddenly figured it out." Yu Tang said, "He is also the first person to buy a supernatural card in Chuanshuju."
Lightning Storm seriously underestimated his own strength.
What could cause him to suffer a concussion and lose his memory was not the complete annihilation of a human being in his own domain within 0.75 seconds.
That time, he annihilated an S-level domain that had just devoured a mutant in 0.75 seconds.
- A second before the electric storm was completely enraged and out of control, the first set of data that successfully occupied the human body and quietly sneaked into the human world was about to succeed.
"It seems like a horribly unlucky coincidence, doesn't it?"
Yu Tang said: "What a coincidence, just when we were about to succeed, a crazy lightning storm hit the door."
The professor's face couldn't help but twist. He stared at Yu Tang, and his originally confident tone began to turn gloomy: "You'd better not be too concerned..."
"We were tricked by the minions we chose. They knew how to anger me the most. Wen'er's mentor wanted me to show up at that time. He deliberately led me to that laboratory."
Yu Tang said: "I told you, he is a lunatic - who of us can annihilate whom is the last experiment he wants to do."
The entire projection of the "Professor" began to deform. The anger of being fooled overwhelmed him, and even the space around him began to show extremely repressive distortion and fluctuations: "Do you think you can kill a piece of data?!"
"We can make unlimited copies and backups. What is destroyed is only our attempt to materialize. Our core data will never be truly erased!"
The figure disguised as a human finally began to change. The constantly flowing data cast a huge phantom, staring at Yu Tang coldly: "We can capture that lightning storm, and we can also capture you! You can't escape-"
"no the same."
Yu Tang broke the lollipop into pieces, chewed it into powdered sugar, and swallowed it bit by bit: "Your appearance made me realize one thing just now."
Yu Tang: "I have never devoured a human being."
When he devoured Wen Er's mentor, Wen Er's mentor had already been devoured by his own domain - those life energies had already flowed along the domain and entered the goods warehouse of Chuanshuju.
This was an extremely subtle time difference, and it was also the last bad joke left by the scientific madman who almost harmed the entire interstellar before being swallowed up.
"I have never devoured a human before. The life energy that was scattered was gathered and put into this body."
Yu Tang said, "Do you know what this means?"
The ball of data froze invisibly for a moment, staring at Yu Tang intently, with an uncontrollable tremor emanating from the depths of the vortex of data.
“It means I’m free.”
Yu Tang then broke the remaining lollipop stick into pieces and pinched it into a crooked little stick figure: "I know that from the moment I came in, they have already started to capture me."
The little stickman staggered out under his control, and after taking two steps, it seemed to touch some invisible restraint, and the particles collapsed instantly.
As if triggered by this, the invisible data prison surrounding Yu Tang also emerged.
"The electrical storm that devoured humans has caused the core particle composition to change. It no longer carries the energy of life, so it was captured by them."
"They want to catch me with this." Yu Tang raised his hand and poked the cage formed by the data. "What a coincidence, I also want to be caught by them with this."
Yu Tang: "Do you know what it costs to capture a free lightning storm?"
He opened his arms, and brilliant and mysterious aurora suddenly surged out from his whole body. As soon as the surging waterfall of light came into contact with the data cage, a sizzling smoke rose.
Countless voices rang out in the space.
The countless destinies and identities that were forcibly stripped away and put on the shelves for sale made sounds at the same moment.
This is the mechanical sound source of the terminal.
At the same moment, Yu Tang's sea of consciousness began to vibrate with resonance.
He was still standing there, with changing lights and shadows surging beneath his feet. The energy bodies that had once silently disappeared in the depths of the universe finally let out their long-forgotten cries in response to their companions.
These voices were high and low, bright and dark, with the hoarse voices of octogenarians, the clear and cheerful laughter of young children, the chasing and playing girls, and the crying parents hugging their children. They questioned the higher-dimensional existence that devoured and stripped them of themselves, and their desires and hopes gradually became hoarse, and finally turned into a single epitaph that could not be erased even with thorough formatting.
"Home."
"Home."
…
Countless half-real and half-virtual creatures pulled at Yu Tang. Their consciousness had been completely controlled by data, and they were instilled with endless hatred and unwillingness day after day.
Countless voices, deep and shallow, rang out.
"Planets are being occupied, galaxies are being devoured, and humanity is heading for its end."
"Approaching an electric storm is the beginning of our demise."
“Are lightning storms bad things?”
"Our world is about to be destroyed, all because of that terminal trying to catch the lightning storm!"
"Why would such a harmful thing come to our dimension?"
"It's all because of the lightning storm. It's all because of this scourge. Catch him and hand him over to the Book Bureau. Let them get out..."
…
The system couldn't help but want to refute, but the voices of these humans were too loud. No matter how hard it tried, the sound it made was completely swallowed up by the vortex of sound.
Yu Tang stood among the shadows of countless undead spirits.
His brow remained calm, with one hand drooping at his side, as if he hadn't heard these words at all.
"If humans really hate me that much, I can give their consciousness back to them."
Yu Tang said: "The electric storm of freedom can assimilate anything."
Data can also be assimilated.
"Have you ever seen a black hole? They are the opposite of us. They devour everything and turn it back into the purest energy."
Yu Tang: "This is my first plan, to take you to the black hole."
The ball of data seemed to tremble violently, and the flow began to become more and more hasty and tense.
Just as it was about to forcibly change the order, the entire entity of the Book Bureau suddenly roared and the originally unbreakable shield suddenly shattered.
Low-level human weapons that hardly required special defense broke through their defenses. The blade wings flashed with sharp cold light and drew a bright arc. The beautiful streamlined mecha followed its wingman closely and glided into the engine room.
"The second plan is that I consume 97 percent of our energy here, allowing our interstellar commander to bring his men in."
Yu Tang loosened his grip. His right hand was still tightly holding a button, and his palm was already stained with blood. "Among these people, there is one person who taught me a lot of things."
"I only believe what he says." Yu Tang said, "He said that humans like me."
A figure swiftly swooped down from the Dolphin. The data suddenly condensed and urgently activated the defense function, but strangely, there was no reaction at all.
The data was in complete panic.
If it were an ordinary day, with the combat capability of a low-level civilization like humans, it would be impossible to shake the defense system of the data transmission.
…Outside is the real battlefield!
While they were concentrating all their energy on running the program to capture the electric storm, someone destroyed their defense switch!
Ji opened the wingman's shield, stood up and took off his goggles.
"He said I was a good storm."
Yu Tang raised his hand and pushed aside the airtight data cage. He walked out and buried his head in Zhan Chen's arms: "He said he would pick me up and take me home."