Since then, the war has entered the second major stage.

From 2540 to 2558, the war has been going on for a full eighteen years.

In the early days, humans used to strictly enforce quarantine measures.

But from 2542 onwards, the policy changed.

Although life in space with the assistance of quantum networks already has a considerable degree of social distancing, most people will always have a habitual fear of germs, and take the initiative to reduce social interaction as much as possible, but it has lasted for more than ten years, and more than ten years is still too long.

In the long past ten years, ZS bacteria have quietly latent and spread, and it has never stopped.

Today, the number of successful recruits is so high that it is difficult to recover, at least more than one-third of the total population.

Relying on powerful quantum intelligence, it is possible to quickly trace the source and clearly retrieve the infected person.

It took less than a fraction of a second for the most intelligent brain to accurately locate each suspected infected person and notify them to everyone's smart assistant watch.

But it's too late, it doesn't make sense.

Needless to say, the insidious and ruthless Z bacteria are even more frustrating.

Latent, infiltrated, intensified infiltration, and then to the July 2558 eruption, all in one go.

This is a familiar routine to humans, but the object of effect has changed from animals to themselves, causing a completely different level of threat.

ZS humans have completely retained their original memories, and they also have human intelligence, and even their personalities have not changed much, but the angle from which they think about problems has changed.

Regardless of the angle from which they made their decisions, the final destination changed from preserving the survival of humanity to erasing humanity from the solar system.

The front-line fighters were almost completely wiped out, completely assimilated, the three views were tampered with, and the thinking was controlled.

Other major fields, especially the middle and upper echelons of science, also suffered heavy losses.

At this point, the technological superiority of mankind was gone, and the war went completely to the enemy side of the control of bacteria.

In the following historical materials, Chen Feng slowly "turned" page by page.

Although he only gave orders to Xiaowei with his mind to turn the page and switch videos, Chen Feng still had a feeling of using all his strength.

He already knew the synopsis in Sergei's projection dictation before, and he had already made up a lot of tragic plots in his mind.

He thought that he was mentally prepared and should have been emotionally numb in the constant destruction a long time ago.

But now that he really looked at it carefully, he realized that although he had participated in countless wars of destruction, his brain supplement was actually very pale and weak, and when he really saw it, he still felt heartache.

Defeat and retreat until they perish.

In just eight words, you can summarize the entire history from 2558 to 2589.

But in the process, it is full of countless flesh-and-blood details.

There are many stages of defeat.

The first stage occurs at the moment when the ZS humans tear off their disguises and return the butcher knife to their former compatriots, and the stars give the results of the infected people.

All those who have been in contact with ZS humans and have been included in the list of infected people by the stars, but the ZS bacteria in their bodies have not yet multiplied to a sufficient scale, and can still maintain independent thinking, are instantly faced with the same choice.

Dead or alive?

Most of them chose the same as Ou Mengfeng, who ordered Sergei to kill him.

It's just a slight difference in the speed at which decisions are made.

The decisive one was like Ou Mengfeng, and as soon as he received the news, he first consulted Lai Wenming through his personal relationship.

At that time, Ou Mengfeng asked Lai Wenming, "Xiao Lai, is there a way to treat this bacteria?" ”

Lai Wenming: "Not yet. ”

"How long will it take?"

"I don't know."

"You've been researching bacteria control for years, right?"

"Yes, from the year 2540 to the present, there has been no slack."

"So how long do you think we'll be able to stay awake?"

Lai Wenming: "I don't know. Controlling bacteria is different. It has intelligence, it can remain dormant in the human body for more than ten years without moving, but it may also actively increase its activity, reproduce rapidly and scale. So, you can be taken over at any time. ”

"Can we recover by destroying the body and rebuilding?"

"No, the main place where the bacteria are attached is actually our brain, which is deeply integrated with our neuronal cells in a way that has never been done before. The brain can't be rebuilt. ”

Ou Mengfeng nodded painfully, and the old tears were rampant.

After a long time, he first said to Lai Wenming, "I'm sorry, Xiao Lai, I should support you." ”

Lai Wenming: "It's okay, Mr. Ou, you have your opinion." ”

The two hung up the phone, Ou Mengfeng called all the infected people of the Institute of High Energy Physics to the square, and then said loudly to Sergei, who was at a loss with an evaporation particle gun more than ten meters in front of him, and many security personnel: "From today on, Sergey, you are the president of the Institute of High Energy Physics!" Sergey, your talent is unprecedented, and you can become the culmination of the past! I have high hopes for you. I believe that our death will not be the end, and you can and must continue to walk! Shoot! Kill us! Don't hesitate to shoot! ”

Bang bang bang!

There are also some people who struggle with hesitation and pain for two or three days, and after seeing the ferocity and brutality of the ZS humans, and the sudden loss of control of more and more people who are marked as infected, these hesitants collapse and make decisions one after another.

Someone walked out of the space station and floated in the universe.

Someone jumped into the quark dismantling machine.

Someone drove a spaceship into the sun.

There are also people with high-explosive bombs in their hands, saying goodbye to their families in the quantum network, and then detonating them with a bang.

……

The first stage, which was named "Farewell" by Sergei.

The second stage is "choice".

In order to make up for the lack of combat power caused by the betrayal of a large number of Metroidvania, the fledgling young Sergei crossed several academic levels and joined forces with Lai Wenming to establish the Gene Rapid Breakthrough Program.

The essence of the breakthrough plan is slightly different from that of the God of War and Demon War, which only absorbed part of the system of Z bacteria and Demon War left by Chen Feng, supplemented by the knowledge re-derived by biological giants such as Lai Wenming, and chose to focus more on the exploration of human potential itself, rather than the non-magic war idea of becoming other species.

In just three days, the breakthrough program was completed, and about 20 million people were modified on different space stations, with four million survivors.

The awakening level of these four million survivors quickly exceeded 35%, and they went to the battlefield wearing a new galactic armor with an improved intelligent algorithm by Sergei.

The third stage is "stalemate".

At this stage, the war between humans and ZS bacteria was fought from space to the ground.

Humans have briefly recaptured the earth, but due to the need to maintain a high level of protection on the earth, it is very difficult to move, and the humans have left the earth.

In the course of the entire confrontation, although the productivity of the ZS humans in the early stage was not as good as that of the humans, the main combat units were only the ZS humans of the original Metroid, as well as a large number of alienated animals.

But the ability of alienated animals to reproduce is so amazing that all the planets in the solar system are soldiers.

These vast and extremely difficult to completely destroy the source of troops made up for the disadvantage of the ZS human race in the early stage.

The confrontation that took place on the space station and warship also greatly reduced the military strength of mankind.

Although humans react quickly, the ZS humans are in a swarm, with up to two-fifths of the total population infected, with up to two-fifths of the entire human ship defecting.

The major space stations were also badly damaged.

Humanity has regained control of about two-thirds of the space station, another one-sixth has been devastated, and one-sixth of the space station has been completely mutinied by the remnants of the ZS humans after the humans have been eliminated.

In addition, hundreds of millions of small aircraft have taken off without permission, wreaked havoc on the space station, and then flown away.

This kind of change has allowed ZS humans to successfully pass the early stage.

Since then, the war has entered the fourth stage, "powerless".

With the rapid reproduction and evolution of ZS bacteria alienated animals, biological spaceships based on giant mutant marine animals appeared.

Some large birds and stitched alienated animals have grown into various ZS human individual equipment, as well as various combined war machines.

Chen Feng couldn't ask for the cultivation of battleship technology, ZS bacteria seem to be born with it, but it just needs some years of precipitation, as well as digestion and absorption of human achievements.

Since then, mankind's superiority in space has vanished in an instant.

At this stage of the confrontation, humanity feels a deep sense of powerlessness.

No matter how tireless human beings struggle, they can't compare to the regenerative ability of ZS bacteria.

No matter how quickly Sergei and the others improved their equipment, the ZS Fungus's troops could always quickly stabilize the situation after a short period of panic, and in turn absorb the new technology of the human race.

ZS humans have also shown a high level of literacy in terms of tactics and strategies.

On the frontal battlefield, the ZS human fleet can compete with the human forces controlled by the stars.

On the small battlefield, the ZS humans are even more miraculous, and they are all fearless of death, and their fighting style highlights a trick.

As the war progressed, in another battlefield, Lai Wenming, Sergei and others never stopped studying.

At that time, the division of labor between Lai Wenming and Sergei was very clear.

Sergei is responsible for improving the performance of human weapons of war, while Lai Wenming is responsible for trying to develop a vaccine to control bacteria, a specific drug that may cure and control bacterial infections, and various injection drugs for rapid treatment and ability improvement on the battlefield.

Lai Wenming's workload is both large and difficult, and the latter two items are okay, although they are difficult, but they can always see progress from time to time.

Only the first two items really tortured both his body and his spirit.

The feeling of being empty-handed no matter how hard you try, is too painful.

When Lai Wenming was in his most desperate moments, he hugged his head and cried during a private meeting with Sergei, crying and roaring at the same time.

"Why can there be such creatures in the universe? Why? It's not fair! Why should we be enemies of enemies who can create such creatures? We don't even have the power to do them the slightest damage. The gap between us and them is countless times greater than that of ants and giant elephants. Here's why! ”

Lai Wenming stared at a pair of cloudy old eyes, grabbed Sergei's shoulders and asked.

Sergei thought for a long time, "Probably, because we are human." The philosopher Chen Feng must have thought about this question as well, but I think he must have never been confused. He just accepted this fate, and little by little, tried to move forward, and that's it. ”

In 2589, humanity's highest scientific research space station crashed in the middle of Australia's Great Plains.

Humanity is defeated, ZS bacteria dissipate in space as fireworks, and the solar dome disappears.

The history of human civilization in the solar system in the ninth timeline came to an abrupt end here.

Chen Feng silently closed the scroll.

He slapped himself hard.

This time humanity actually had a chance to avoid tragedy, but made many wrong decisions.

Chen Feng also knew what was wrong.

But at the end of the day, it's all his fault.

He thought that he was mentally prepared to withstand the end of the solar system that he had created with his own hands.

But the feelings of regret, loss and guilt always linger.

He looked up at the ceiling of the reading room and muttered to himself.

"I'm sorry, guys. I will do better next time. Certain. ”

Above the ceiling, the Heroic Spirits of the 26th century seemed to still float, watching him silently, waiting for him in another timeline.

Of course, maybe there will be no next time.

There were so many people out this time, and countless colonies had already been built in Orion's arms.

Therefore, Chen Feng believes that human beings have a certain chance to win.

That's what he wants.

But he still has to observe and choose.

Reason told him that if there was a 1 in 100 million chance, he would still go for it.

But in this way, perhaps the timeline will be over, and the direct descendants of the disappeared solar system civilization will never come back.

Perhaps most likely including the child's mother.

He had this anxiety.

But he can't give up another group of people for the sake of one group.

Chen Feng misses the child's mother very much, and of course he is reluctant to let the child's mother go.

But he also knew that if the child's mother knew that he had given up a free universe for her.

With her character, she won't forgive me, right?

She's the one who likes to sacrifice herself.

Therefore, Chen Feng told himself that I will still strive for all possibilities, but I will also face defeat calmly.