Du Qixi once told him that if the first wave of attacks failed, he would use high-yield strategic nuclear weapons. Then this means that the first operation did fail, and humanity used its ultimate strategic weapon.

He was so far away that he didn't know what had happened to the Dao a few hours ago, or how the Dao species had brought out the conventional force of humanity, or how even such a desperate attempt would have dealt a blow enough to inflict heavy damage on those terrible creatures.

But what he did know was that if he could return to Earth safely, that world would not be the world he used to be - this was the first time that mankind had used a nuclear weapon of this scale in actual combat. Many experts and scholars may have studied such topics as "how much nuclear weapons will be used to affect the earth's ecological environment", but it seems that everything is only on paper. Because it is difficult for them to find a real environment to do field research, all conclusions are calculated from theories and one-sided data.

Even the theory of a "nuclear winter", which is now widely accepted by mankind, is still questioned by many experts. Some people think it's "not that serious", while others think it's far more frightening than it can be.

From his personal point of view only - the Earth's atmospheric environment is an extremely complex system. Even weather forecasts are not 100% accurate, let alone in such extreme conditions after a massive nuclear explosion?

However, now he is quite far away from the earth, and no matter how worried and anxious he is, he can only watch from the sidelines.

If this second wave of attacks still fails......

Then you have to rely on that gun.

Li Zhen raised his head slightly and glanced at the moon landing spacecraft beside him through the mask. There's another ego in there. It's the same purpose. He couldn't help but think of the words of "Lucifer" on the seashore.

At that time, he felt that he was "sharp-toothed", and the last one seemed to be "quite unhappy". But then he would often think of some of the other party's words and regurgitate those words in his heart. But instead of his convictions, he occasionally asks himself - what is right and what is wrong?

From the standpoint of human beings, the other side is an enemy who is not a common enemy, and an alien who should be resolutely eliminated.

But if he could take "the standpoint of mankind" for granted, he would not have communicated with him "calmly" as he did back then. In fact, they have always regarded themselves as their kind.

If we abandon all prejudiced positions and think purely from the perspective of rational thinking. Li Zhen felt that he had to admit it with considerable regret......

Species do seem to be creatures far superior to humans.

This does not refer to the heights of civilization that their group has achieved — in this regard. There seems to be no known species that can be compared to humans.

Rather, it refers to the relationship between the individuals of their group.

Lucifer told himself that there was no precedent in history for species to kill each other. Even if the Yellow Emperor killed Chiyou, he only dismembered it. Then it was suppressed all over the land of China. And this kind of behavior has been denounced by Lucifer as an "extremist".

In fact, the most obvious example is. Even at that time, Li Zhen was in serious opposition to it. The other party can still talk to him in that attitude. He felt that this could be done by species, but not by humans.

The Americans made a film before the war. It's called "Avatar". He used to shake his head and sigh because of the position of the "rape" protagonist in the film, but now he feels that he has fallen into the same situation. He felt that he was human, but he couldn't deny the fact that he was closer to the species. Now he and his other self have become rather awkward beings, but he has chosen the human side, and the other one seems to really see himself as a "species".

But that one is not the "species" in Li Zhen's cognition, but a "species" that is also deeply influenced by humans and can kill their own kind without hesitation. In fact, both of them are just fifty steps and a hundred steps of laughter - didn't he kill Chiyou himself?

The earth has become smaller and smaller, and even the slowly spreading "flowers" on the South American continent have gradually become blurred. He stared intently at the planet as he thought about it, until the continent began to be obscured by a thick cloud of mist, and there was no sign of it.

It didn't seem to be a naturally occurring cloud, but rather a build-up of dust from the ground from a nuclear explosion that had accumulated in the atmosphere and turned into a yellowish-brown cloud cover.

There are still more than sixty hours left on the long journey. So Li Zhen turned his eyes, adjusted the position of his body, and looked ahead.

You can see the moon. It's just that it looks a little dimmer than usual, not like the shiny plate you see on Earth, but more like a "planet".

He stared at the moon for a moment, and then noticed a faint light shining in the distance in some cosmic space. It looked like a blurry mass of metal shards, reflecting the sun's light. It seems that because of its proximity to Earth, the light is even brighter than the light reflected from the Moon.

At first he thought it was an abandoned satellite or a probe, but after five hours of observation, he realized that his guess was not accurate.

The thing had grown a little bigger, from a small blob of light to a piece the size of a fingernail.

Li Zhen frowned slightly, and at the same time, a trace of apprehension arose in his heart - he suspected that his spacesuit could not effectively isolate the vacuum radiation, which caused his body to suffer some kind of serious damage, so that he hallucinated.

Because he could see with a vision far beyond ordinary people, the outlines of those things seemed familiar.

And that's not something that should be in space!

He had thought that the journey would be painful and unbearable, but the light had drawn all his attention, causing him to ignore the discomfort caused by the mild lack of oxygen, and even to feel that his body was slightly hot.

So he survived for nearly four hours.

Finally, I can see the original appearance of those things more clearly.

This discovery made his eyes widen in disbelief, and he even leaned forward slightly. It seems that this way you can see more clearly.

That's a fleet.

Bomber swarm.

The Empire's long-range strategic bomber, Sky Fortress!

Probably dozens of bombers formed a formation, and they are still moving. The path of such a formation is almost parallel to that of the moon rocket, but there is perhaps a slight angle between the two - they are not as fast as the moon rocket, but they are moving in a straight line at a uniform speed, like a group of silent air killers.

The silver-white fuselage reflects the light of the sun and keeps moving forward in the vast cosmic space.

Li Zhen held his breath and bit the tip of his tongue hard. A tingling pain came, and he realized he wasn't dreaming.

Again, there is another piece of evidence. Just after another three hours, and the planes became larger and clearer in the field of vision, he noticed that one of them had disintegrated.

That one plane was located on the flank of the entire formation. First, the nose seemed to have been punched hard by something. The whole depression goes in. Then, with the fuselage as the axis, an entire fuselage dissolved into flying metal shards, while the two wings tumbled to the sides, destroying three more planes.

There is no air here. So everything is silent. It's like a silent movie.

Li Zhen was shocked when he noticed the culprit that caused the disintegration of the plane - a group of small meteorites. They brushed diagonally past the flanks of the group. But just one of them triggered such catastrophic consequences.

But the rest of the planes did not maneuver to evade, and still maintained the formation and glided quietly into the deeper void, like a big fish that was constantly being eaten away by some kind of force.

Immediately he realized that his idea was rather ridiculous - how could such an airplane maneuver in a vacuum?

But what is even more ridiculous is the moment. He even thinks there are people alive in those planes!

But how did they end up here?

This kind of thing is more unbelievable than a person attaching himself to a moon rocket for interstellar smuggling, right?!

He watched the group with confusion and shock, until the moon rocket finally caught up with them five hours later, and the distance between the two sides seemed to be no more than a thousand meters.

The chain reaction caused by the disintegration of one plane by impact has stopped, and now there are seventy-one "intact" aircraft left in the fleet, and as many as twelve have been damaged.

So Li Zhen seized this opportunity, locked one of them, and glanced inside the porthole-

He saw two people.

The two men were hideous-looking and floating in the cockpit. Their eyes had already exploded into two bloody stains, and they had been frozen by extreme temperature, turning into ice bumps. Their bodies were wrapped in flight suits, but they could still see oozing blood—all of which had already congealed.

The most impressive thing is their mouths.

What used to be the place of the "mouth" now hangs a mass of dark brown. Li Zhen realized that it seemed to be the lobes of the lungs and the trachea. It was as if these people were suddenly thrown into a vacuum, and the air in the cabin quickly leaked, and then the body pressure formed a strong pressure difference with the vacuum outside, causing the blood to boil, the internal organs to burst, and then to turn out of the mouth.

What he saw was that the cockpit of the plane was illuminated by sunlight, and everything was clearly visible. The two dead and stiff pilots float in the air and keep banging on the portholes because of some slight disturbances, as if they want to break out of the window after they die.

Really...... Li Zhen opened his mouth slightly, it was really the empire's fleet.

The military emblem of the dragon on the fuselage is clearly visible, and the clothes worn by the pilot are also familiar to him.

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and finally as the two passed by at high speed, the group froze on one word as it grew smaller and smaller behind him—the species!

Li Zhen looked at the dozens of ghost bombers moving at a uniform speed in the universe.

He believed that these planes were the same planes that flew to South America for the first wave of bombing missions. As for what they will appear here...... In his mind, it seemed that only one creature could do it.

But doubts immediately surfaced in my mind. For even he was not sure if such a powerful and terrifying force was the work of the species. If they can really do this, why bother to confront humans for so long?

But if not them, what can they be?

Li Zhen was stunned, and then tightened his hands again.

If it's not them......

If it's not them......

Then there is another kind of force. The kind of power that brings people all kinds of incredible abilities, makes the kind of species gradually recover, and makes all the power of the human world be cut off!

Second collision.

Li Zhen couldn't help but open his mouth, feeling that his body was a little numb, as if some unknown and mysterious sense of crisis swept through his body, making him feel extremely cold in such a vast void.

Shen Mu said that in these ten days, the aurora will disappear and the power will be restored for a short time.

But it seems that he, Li Zhen, or everyone else did not realize that this brief respite did not mean the beginning of a happy reunion, but—if his inference was correct—the beginning of an even more terrible period!

Changes in "time" and "space". Li Zhen thought.

He had not heard of or experienced the ability to do with "time". But the ability to have to do with "space" - he himself is an ironclad proof! If he can accept the existence of the "Void" or "other dimensions", then he should also accept what is in front of him as a matter of course - those planes have strayed into a vast space like the "Void" he has created, and then they have been thrown here?

It's similar to where Ueno Kanyanagi sent his heart to somewhere??

If this change is real, large-scale, and global-scale, what kind of disasters will it bring to this world?

He settled down and looked at the group, then at the blue planet in the distance, and sighed slightly in the cosmic space.

Twenty-three hours have passed.

Li Zhen forced himself to throw away the extremely shocked and frightened emotions just now and calm down. Mood swings will increase the consumption of oxygen, and it will consume his precious physical strength. And now he can only do one thing on his own. As for the other worries and speculations, if we can return to that familiar world safely, we can slowly resolve them.

So he ate for the first time. The food is a tube of gum, and the taste is not good or bad. It tasted like tasteless glue, and it took him a few minutes to clean his mouth with his tongue, then closed his eyes, secured his body to the outer bulkhead of the lunar spacecraft with a rope, and fell asleep. (To be continued......)