Volume 1 Silent Night Wedge – December 653 of the New Calendar
In the silence of the universe, huge orange-red stars rotate slowly, emitting endless light and heat. Eleven planets of various sizes guard the celestial body, named Jhanhua, gliding in an unknowable gravitational plane. A few hundred million kilometers away, densely packed, endless asteroids and cosmic dust together form a white-gray asteroid belt with a width of hundreds of thousands of kilometers and surrounding the entire star system.
The light arriving in the asteroid belt is exhausted and can no longer provide much heat. Therefore, most of the asteroids here are cold and dim, and on a certain bulging rock with no special asteroid with a radius of about seven kilometers, three pairs of miserable white eyes with a radius of more than ten centimeters slowly broke away. With an astonishing 330-degree field of vision, the huge eyeball in the middle of the left side of the eyeball has a wheat-sized pupil aimed at a certain part of the starry sky.
A giant warship was silently and swiftly cutting through the black vacuum. The spindle-shaped starship is eight thousand meters long, and the width and height of the middle part of the battleship are also more than a thousand meters, and the tail jets out a stream of light blue particles that are several kilometers long, blowing away countless interstellar dust. It was incomplete, and several huge breaches in the hull could be seen, and on the other side of it, the most conspicuous was a huge cavity 100 meters long and more than 50 meters wide, with violet-blue electricity and blazing red flames flickering.
Class A battleship – Bear Hunting landing ship. It found such an incomprehensible name from the genetic information, a huge round body buried deep in the rock of the planet without any temperature, trembling slightly, not afraid, but trying to transmit the message with some special organ. Its mission was like this, and all six cold eyes faintly revealed the pleasure of being about to kill. The few genetic information it had made it understand that as long as its message was passed on, thousands of its people would ......
A centimeter-thick, reddish pillar of light silently pierced one of its left eyeballs, and in an instant it was heated to a temperature of three thousand degrees. Even though its special shell has retained its shape incredibly in such heat, the inside has been scorched. It seemed that all three pairs of eyes would never be able to close again.
"Phew, two hours, seven euglena." Letting go of the shooting handle, Lieutenant Wang Ye on duty spat out, "Why are these damn bugs everywhere?" Just this one occupies the galaxy, I'm afraid there are hundreds of thousands of eyeworms hidden, right? Perhaps complaining could not express his indignation, he excitedly shook his right hand, which had only four fingers left. Don't underestimate this scarred hand, even if it loses its little finger, it is the most stable on this starship. It is it that has pulled the trigger again and again, earning Wang Ye, who was born in a barren star, money, status, and the dignity that is scorned by the lieutenant, but incomparably precious, it can be said that it is this man's most trusted partner.
"Lieutenant Wang Ye, the artificial intelligence of the White Dragon Ship reminds you that there are still fifteen minutes left on duty, please stick to your post, and you can leave your post after fifteen minutes." A mechanical female voice emanates from the right side of his gray alloy helmet.
"Got it, got it, bothered it?" Wang Ye muttered impatiently, habitually scratching his head, of course, he could only scratch the hard helmet. And so a new complaint came.
"What the hell is this helmet for? The lowliest-level velocrats can be smashed with one claw, right? What do these mechanics eat? I really want to ......."
Suddenly, he turned his head, his eyes sharp, not at all like that of a veteran who was not even careless on duty.
Behind him, two male non-commissioned officers in black uniforms hurried by, and even when they heard the lieutenant's loud complaints, they did not react, and each of them was neatly dressed and grim-faced. Unlike lieutenants, they are not worthy of military rank, and only have a thumb-sized golden five-star on their left chest. The man who was near turned his head to the side and looked at the lieutenant, perhaps he nodded slightly, but it was a small amount, and the lieutenant was not sure.
The friction of the tall boots against the ground made a clear sound, slowly becoming lighter and inaudible, and it seemed that they were far away.
"Hey, these young men." The thirty-two-year-old vulgar veteran turned around and smiled mockingly, "Even a mecha master who has lost his armed mecha is still so arrogant, it's really laughing to death." It's a pity that a certain emotion revealed in his eyes exposed his duplicity. Stamping his feet, the king also seemed to want to vent some of the emotions accumulated in his heart, as if to dispel the chill at his feet.
Isn't the feeling of military boots stepping on this steel monster like those young people's mecha smashing those stupid insects?
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This war machine, armed with the most terrifying technology of mankind, has clearly experienced some kind of fierce attack, and is at its weakest moment. Even if you count the 1,755 people in the dormant warehouse and the 349 sick numbers in the infirmary, there are only 6,500 people left in the entire ship, and you must know that forty-five interstellar days ago, it carried nearly ten times the number of soldiers and flew out of this galaxy.
The battle-scarred White Dragon reduced its speed, adjusted its angle and slanted into the gravitational field of Zhan Hua Sun. Its target is the space station located outside the fifth planet, and it is impossible for a starship of this size to waste huge amounts of energy into the planet's atmosphere, and all resupply is done through the space station.
"I don't know if I'll be there next time I come back." This veteran ruffian couldn't help but be idle, looking at the artillery radar and talking to himself. "Rest for three days and rush to the warring planet region for a rescue and defense mission, hey......"
The murmuring grew faint, and even if you pricked up your ears, you could only hear the meaningless words of damn bastard.
Wang Ye leaned down, not knowing whether he was going to be lazy or observing the display.
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The silent Zhan Huaxing did not respond to this, as in his previous long life.
Zhan Huaxing, who is only more than 4.8 billion years old, is in the prime of life, or the main sequence star period. If you record the changes of Zhan Huaxing in 10,000 years, you will find that he is still growing. He didn't care, the light and heat that swayed out illuminated the lives of which creatures, just glowing, glowing, glowing. Will the strife and tumult of this moment be remembered by this silent witness in his long life?
And who will be able to witness then?
The White Dragon stabilized and accelerated towards the tiny black space base in the distance.
If you zoom closer, you can see dozens of starships that are similar in shape to the White Dragon, more or less damaged, parked around the base, surrounded by countless small maintenance ships shuttling back and forth. Under their backdrop, the oval-shaped 'Zhan Hua No. 1' space base, which has a diameter of 107,000 meters, is not so small.
And at this moment, the base is running right to the far side of the planet, hidden in the shadow of the huge planet.
The starship flew into the darkness, and a few lights illuminated its course.