In every era, there will be some iconic people and things.

These people and events will leave a deep mark in the years, like the stars in the sky.

Many years later, when the world looks back and looks at the Milky Way in history, the first thing they see is still these little stars shining in the Milky Way of the years, and then see the background of the entire starry sky near the starlight.

Therefore, how the stars within a certain era shine sets the tone for future generations to look back on this period of history.

In the forty years of 2920~2960, in the infinitely long history of mankind, the two brightest stars must be the "Pact of Destiny" and the "Nameless Fleet".

The Pact of Destiny represents humanity's determination to make crucial changes in the face of a turning point in civilization. This resolute and incomparably great has laid the cornerstone of the development of human beings in the galaxy.

The Nameless Fleet represents the bravery and fearlessness of the human soldiers who marched forward at all costs during this period.

Zhou Donglai's course of action of "rapid multiplication, expansion of forces, and dispersion and advance" is destined to go down in history in a controversial way.

The clash of individual and collective values has been at its peak in the Nameless Fleet over the past 40 years.

This is not only the greatness of sacrifice for all mankind, but also ruthlessly tramples on the life choice of young people who have been rapidly cultivated in these forty years.

In the distant future, there will definitely be people who think they are fair and say that Zhou Donglai's behavior is despicable, but in a sense, Zhou Donglai's courage to face despicable is great.

But no matter what future generations will say, whenever future generations will open this period of history, the first thing that catches their eyes is inevitably the countless heroic deeds left in this period of time.

……

April 1, 2931 A.D.

Squad 6322, which has rapidly expanded to 1,070,000 people, of whom 18,000 are adults, and the rest are all children, quietly moved forward in the gravitational line passage under the cover of the shielding field.

Squad 6322 is relatively special among all the detachments, and it was very fortunate to encounter a β37-type dark energy filling area, and quickly squeezed out the active β37-type dark energy that is very easy to mine in this area in a short period of time, replenishing a large amount of energy.

In addition, three years after leaving, the staff in charge of education found that the intellectual development of cosmic human children who had received beta-37 dark energy radiation had increased by 3% compared with ordinary people. This has slightly accelerated the maturation of the children of Team 6322, and many gifted children have emerged.

Hundreds of them exhibited very obvious super-genius traits.

Today, tens of thousands of children between the ages of seven and 10 in Squad 6322 have taken up various important posts ahead of schedule.

And 6322 has never encountered a war in its eleven years of voyage, and it is developing extremely fast.

The Nameless Fleet has high hopes for this squad, believing that as long as 6322 can continue to develop like this, it will inevitably play an extremely important role in the Nameless Fleet, and some gifted children can become the number one person in charge of key projects.

One girl even had the hope of taking up Emerson's mantle.

In view of this, Zhou Donglai and others decided to raise the security level of 6322, and dozens of fleets changed the direction of travel slightly, close to the route of 6322, which could intercept the ambush in advance, and be ready to cover them in case of accidents, providing 6322 with a safety factor second only to the core fleet.

But the enemy's abilities are changing rapidly, and it is inevitable that there will be fish that slip through the net.

At six o'clock in the morning on April 1, 2931, Major Wang Lei, the commander of the 4th reconnaissance company of the No. 8119 squad responsible for covering the No. 6322 detachment, got up early as usual, and while eating the breakfast prepared by his wife, he explained the driving experience of the high-speed reconnaissance shuttle to his two six-year-old daughters and three five-year-old sons.

"Well, kids don't have to be scouts. Dabao Erbao has just passed the B-level scientific literacy assessment and has the opportunity to become a scientific researcher, but I don't know where I will be assigned. Tell less of your story, lest it skew the children's personal tendencies. ”

The wife patted her husband on the shoulder a little helplessly.

Wang Lei smiled, "That's not good, I'm the ace scout in our fleet, why do I have to train a successor?" ”

"You can pull it down. Counting this month, you haven't passed the S-level scout assessment for the sixteenth time, and you're still a trump card. ”

Wang Lei said angrily: "That's because I'm too easy to be emotional, it's not that my ability can't be reached!" In front of your children, you have to maintain my glorious image as a father! ”

The wife looked at her husband's angry appearance and smiled dumbly, "Okay, I was wrong." Please forgive Xiao Ke from our Major Wang. ”

After finishing speaking, his wife quietly leaned into Wang Lei's ear and said, "Major Wang, today is our wedding anniversary, and I have contacted the after-school care center. In the afternoon, the children go to make up for a lesson after school, and they are sent home after 10 p.m. Let's go for a natural hot pot in the evening? I want to die like that. ”

"Okay!"

The couple's five children have a genetic arousal degree of more than 50%, and their ears are sharp, how can they not hear the couple's whispers, but they don't make a fuss.

They want to give mom and dad a little more personal space.

At half past seven in the morning, Wang Lei and his comrades-in-arms of the company completed the equipment inspection, and each flew out of the patrol carrier in an ultra-high-speed reconnaissance shuttle to conduct routine patrols in different directions.

At 8:15, the 4th and 3rd companies completed the task handover halfway.

Subsequently, 108 reconnaissance shuttles of the 4th Company broke out of the curvature flight state and entered the original three-dimensional space to carry out a turnkey patrol.

Over the next eight hours, the 108 reconnaissance shuttles will maintain an eight-hour wide area of warp patrols, and will simultaneously enter the curvature flight at about 4 p.m., handing over work with the successor 5th Reconnaissance Company in the gravitational line channel, and then returning to Branch Fleet 8119.

At 8:35 a.m., the deputy company commander captured an anomalous signal.

Nearby, Wang Lei and seven other comrades-in-arms turned closer to investigate.

At 8:53, Wang Lei arrived first and lost contact with his teammates.

The experienced Wang Lei has never encountered such a situation.

A moment ago, he was still flying normally at 0.8 times the speed of light in the original three-dimensional space, but in an instant, all the equipment alarms on his reconnaissance shuttle sounded at the same time, showing that his movement speed instantly dropped from 0.8 times the speed of light to 0, and his quantum information link with the outside world was completely blocked.

In front of him, a sea urchin-like object with a diameter of about one hundred and fifty kilometers floated with the naked eye.

The tips of the countless long needles on this sea urchin are releasing an unknown and strange fluorescence, changing the rules of space within a diameter of 50 million kilometers in the vicinity.

At the same time, Wang Lei's thinking is gradually stagnating.

The experienced Wang Lei quickly judged that this was a new type of force for the compound eye.

The short-lived energy detector revealed that the energy intensity response inside the sea urchin was comparable to that of a hive ship.

He knew that something was wrong.

If you can't pass on the information yourself, then your teammates will approach one by one and be controlled one by one, and you may even be exposed to the whereabouts of the 8119 branch fleet.

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly noticed that the light on the sea urchin's long needle began to condense and radiate in one direction in space.

"Warning, monitoring space leapfrog signal scanning. The enemy unit is attempting to deeply orientally scan the energy dissipation index of the nearby gravitational line channel within ten light-years through the connection between the original three-dimensional space and the curvature space. ”

Wang Leixin couldn't scream, the scanning position of the enemy ship was exactly the direction of the 6322 branch fleet, and its whereabouts would definitely be exposed!

Before his thinking completely stalled, Wang Lei activated the airborne miniature fragmentation bomb on his reconnaissance shuttle, and set the detonation frequency of the fragmentation bomb to manually encrypt information.

8:55 a.m.

A small-scale explosion of a fragmentation bomb caused ripples in the starry sky of the universe.

The deputy company commander, who was approaching, quickly analyzed the encrypted information carried in this ripple.

"All the staff dispersed and jumped to evacuate, avoiding the gravitational line channel K6541. Notify the fleet commander to intensify patrols and reconnaissance, and open the overload concealment layer to pass through the front until twenty light-years away, and then terminate as appropriate. ”

This is the core message that Wang Lei needs to convey to others.

There's another paragraph.

"I'm sorry, I can't go back. Don't have to wait for me. Please tell my wife on my behalf that I can't eat with her. But I love her dearly. Advance! Mankind! Advance! ”

……

March 2934.

Branch Fleet No. 173 encountered a medium-sized enemy army with eight hundred large combat units.

In the case of no avoidance, the two sides had an extremely high-intensity fight.

Half an hour after the battle broke out, the 173rd Fleet announced to the other fleets the powerful performance of the enemy's new combat units, and at the same time clearly realized the huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, and prepared to start the second stage of dispersion and evacuation.

After paying for the lives of more than 700,000 people, who accounted for 56% of the total population, the remaining 100 ships finally managed to escape.

In this battle, a 13-year-old combat genius shines, breaking through from B-level to A-level and killing a large number of pursuing enemy aircraft.

But after the successful evacuation, the boy's eyes were swollen from crying.

Others asked him what was going on.

He was incoherent and couldn't speak clearly, so he only played a video of the battle.

On either side of the video screen are cockpit footage of the teenager and his teacher.

His teacher was a one hundred and thirty-two-year-old middle-aged warrior, A-class, a rare survivor of Armageddon before dispersion, and was highly respected in Branch Fleet 173.

At the beginning, the master and apprentice cooperated tacitly, manipulating the high-performance all-round armor to harvest enemy planes on the battlefield at a very fast speed.

But soon, a heated argument broke out between the two.

Because of the outstanding performance of the two, they attracted the idea of the enemy's command, and quietly laid a siege trap, preparing to focus on killing the master and apprentice.

By the time the master and apprentice realized that something was wrong, they were already under siege, and the transition had been closed, leaving no way out.

The master and apprentice instantly decided that one person must take the new S-class enhancement potion that was bound to kill him, and launch a strong attack to tear a gap in the opponent's encirclement and cover the other person's evacuation.

After a moment of arguing, the young genius did not discuss with the teacher, and preemptively chose to inject on his own.

His reasoning is that the teacher is good at cultivating students, he can die, and the teacher cannot die.

If he dies alone, the teacher can bring out more academies that are as good as him.

But after punching in, the young genius found out that he had been deceived, and he didn't know when, the S-class potion in his armor was quietly replaced by his teacher with a non-lethal A-class.

The boy was so angry that he scolded.

The middle-aged soldier said triumphantly: "Fight with me, you stinky boy is too tender." Alright, let's go, follow me. ”

"No...... No...... Teacher. ”

The boy's eyes were red.

After all, it was the first time to actually participate in the war, and he lacked some experience, and the teenager was dominated by his own emotional ups and downs, and his reaction slowed down by half a beat.

But the battle situation is changing rapidly, and there is no delay, and in the next moment, the middle-aged warrior has already started a full overload, and he has become one with more than ten evolved war bees of the same level.

"Bastard, if you don't want me to die in vain, just follow me!"

The boy finally moved.

"Stinky boy, see clearly. This is my last lesson for you. Now that I'm beyond the S-rank, I'm infinitely close to the regular abilities of a peak warrior. How much you can learn depends on whether you are serious or not. ”

The teacher deliberately sold a flaw and successfully shredded two war bees.

A minute and a half later, the boy managed to escape, but the teacher's armor had been shattered, only half of his body remained, and the life support system was shattered.

The shattered body of the middle-aged warrior floated through space, and only a tactical helmet for sending and receiving information and manipulating armor was still on his head.

The enemy judged that he had completely lost his combat effectiveness, and instead pursued the boy who was moving away.

The teenager continued to flee.

The video was not interrupted.

The middle-aged man spurted blood from his mouth and said with a smile and a grin, "Little bastard." Let's go. That's all I have to say. You still have a long way to go, and although you're only A-level now, I'm really optimistic about you. I seem to see the shadow of Instructor Tong Ling in you. You're bound to make it to the top. By the way, help me sort out the relics in the combat chamber when I go back. There was a red cloth in the cupboard, which my grandfather gave me. ”

Boy: "Teacher, what kind of cloth is that?" ”

"My grandfather said it came from a flag. By the way, if my wife asks me what's wrong, you tell her that I'm going back to my grandfather's hometown for barbecue. ”

The footage came to an abrupt end.

……

In August 2939, Branch Fleet No. 10881 was routed, and only a small number of ships managed to escape.

One of them, a budding ship operated by a new regiment composed of only 5,000 10~15-year-old recruits, got away with it.

The other mature warriors in the branch had already been killed in the three-week pursuit, and the other children had all been killed, leaving the entire fleet with only these new soldiers.

In the previous fierce engagement, the remaining Sprout ships managed to send out the hatches full of frozen embryos before they were destroyed, and they were successively sent to the specially modified Sprout ship.

At this time, a total of 2.06 million frozen embryos were stored on this germinal ship, which was the only remaining fruit of all the civilization resources created by the 10881 fleet over the years.

The captain of the Sprout is a 242-year-old first-generation veteran, who also experienced the great escape from the previous one, but fortunately he was deeply injured at the beginning of the war, and returned to the rear ship early for treatment, but he managed to survive.

Under the leadership of the old captain, he brought the performance of the high-speed sprout ship to the extreme, and cultivated these recruits with an average age of less than 13 years old while fighting and escaping.

Under the command of the veteran captain who played extraordinarily, these recruits grew up rapidly, and used the limited equipment on the budding ship to harass and cover all kinds of attacks and covers the pursuing enemy army, and miraculously persevered for a full 11 months, fleeing more than 1.3 trillion kilometers.

Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of the teenagers and the old captains, there were still fewer and fewer people fighting in the back.

By the last moment, apart from the indispensable fifty or so pilots, including the old captain, only sixteen soldiers remained.

When everyone was desperate, Tong Ling finally led more than 1,000 peak soldiers from the core fleet of Zhou Donglai to arrive, successfully resisted the pursuing enemy ship, and saved these two million and sixty thousand frozen embryos.

But unfortunately, the old captain and the other fifteen teenagers did not survive after all.

In order to cover the 100% smooth evacuation of the Sprout Ship and Tong Ling's special combat team, the sixteen-person Sprout Ship took out a large martyrdom fragmentation bomb from the tail warehouse, roared and rushed into the enemy formation, and died with the enemy's main ship.