Chapter 1: Spider Fall

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The suspended car with the three-shield logo slowly stopped, and the streamlined black body cast a black shadow, making an elderly Vietnamese couple walking under the orange tree raise their heads in disbelief. A white couple in a corner bakery bake bread with emotion, and the aroma of bread spreads throughout the street. The young black guy in the video store is fiddling with a pair of giant speakers, playing the latest trendy music. The American first mate who returned from going to sea last night had just walked to the door of the house, the door was opened, and the wife and the first mate who were waiting at the door hugged warmly. Not far away, the Chinese writer who stayed up late to work was dissatisfied with his creativity and was interrupted by the stereo downstairs, angrily shouting in Chinese at the black youth downstairs.

Except for the old couple strolling along the cobblestone road lined with orange trees, no one else in the town noticed the expensive Buick custom suspension car.

The hovering car slowly lowered, and the two elderly Vietnamese couples stepped aside, and a little lady dog who was still a minor following them cautiously poked his head out and looked at the black hovering car.

Black leather boots came out of the car, followed by legs in dark blue serge fabric military pants sticking out, which made the husbands of the old Vietnamese couple jump slightly eyelids, the dark blue military uniform is different from the sky blue navy uniform, which is the signature clothing of a new army formed in the past few decades.

The old Vietnamese man muttered: "Sky blue belongs to the ocean, dark blue...... Belongs to the universe. The dark blue military uniform represents the Space Force, the first branch of the military. ”

The occupants of the car had already come down, standing upright, a star shining on his shoulder, and he took off his sunglasses that shimmered with purple arcs, revealing an angular knife-like face.

"Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. Ruan."

"Oh...... You're Su Zhuo's uncle, we've seen you in the photos of Su Zhuo's house. Mr. Ruan took a few steps forward and shook hands with the middle-aged man excitedly. Su Zhuo often mentions you, and you and his father, General Su Zhonghua, are great heroes. ”

"Hehe, his dad is, I'm not." The middle-aged man smiled and said, "I have seen the photo of Mr. Ruan and Mrs. Ruan, Mr. Ruan takes good care of Su Zhuo on weekdays, and I thank you on behalf of his father." ”

"General Su is polite, Su Zhuo, this kid is very well-behaved, we all like him very much." Mr. Ruan said, then he glanced at the two-story building next to him, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen General Su much on weekdays, I heard Su Zhuo say, you stay for a short time every time you come, and today can be regarded as seeing you."

"Hahaha."

After chatting a few more words, Mr. Ruan and Mrs. Ruan continued to take the dog for a walk, while the middle-aged man turned around and walked towards the two-storey western-style building in front of him, which covers an area of 280 square meters.

After scanning his pupils and fingerprints, the door opened, and the middle-aged man entered the small western-style building, the smell of grilled sausages and sweet bread filled the room, mixed with an indescribable taste, and the middle-aged man frowned. He walked slowly, but his brow furrowed more and more.

Plaid shirts, T-shirts, shoes, and smelly underwear were thrown to the ground in a mess. The middle-aged man found the housekeeping robot lying down in the corner, and although his eyes were still shining, the broken tracks made him no longer able to perform his duties.

When he arrived in the kitchen, the smart chef robot had already made sweet bread and baked sausages, and there was a large glass of milk next to it.

The middle-aged man left the kitchen and went up to the second floor through the spiral staircase in the center of the room.

The bedroom door was ajar, but the middle-aged man did not find anyone when he entered, he searched several rooms in a row, and finally found him asleep in the gym, a very young man, except for the traces of perseverance that had not been carved by the years, his face was as handsome as his father.

The fitness room makes the glass made of the porthole of the spaceship, which becomes transparent when the sun rises, and the whole room is filled with sunlight, but there is no summer heat, and the temperature is just right.

At the moment when he saw the young man, the middle-aged man's dissatisfaction with seeing the house so dirty before suddenly disappeared. He whispered the boy's name, but the boy didn't wake up, and the middle-aged man stepped forward and patted the boy, only to suddenly realize that something was wrong.

"Zhuo'er? Zhuoer? ”

The boy's cheeks were flushed and hot, and the middle-aged man reached out to cover the boy's forehead.

Oops, why did you catch a cold all of a sudden? The middle-aged man hurried downstairs, took a pill from the car, and took hot water from the water dispenser in the gym, and then he woke the boy up.

"Uncle...... Well? Uncle!? ”

The young man's eyes were foggy, but then they suddenly opened, and he sat up, "Uncle, why are you here?" “

"Tell me more! Don't you say you can do it alone? The house was a mess and I made myself sick! ”

"The housekeeping robot is broken...... A call has been made to the repair company. Hmm, I'm sick, maybe I went out swimming with a few companions last night and got freezing. ”

"To the sea?"

"Hmmm......"

The middle-aged man gave the young man a helpless look, and the young man named Su Zhuo scratched his head a little sneeringly.

"Drink the medicine."

"Oh."

There have been countless such ordinary summer mornings in the past many years. But still does not prevent some people from nostalgia many years later.

The middle-aged man's name was Su Zhongjun, a rear admiral of the Pacific Fleet. As for the Pacific Fleet...... Su Zhuo, who had recovered a lot from the cold, turned on the stereoscopic TV in the living room.

"At 3 o'clock in the morning of the 17th, the seventh and ninth divisions of the Pacific Fleet, as well as the fourth and fifth divisions of the Atlantic Fleet, rushed to Pluto and appeared near the Spider Girl Meteor. So far, in the vicinity of the Spider Girl Meteorite, more than eight Space Force standard divisions have gathered. Let's take a look at the reporter connection ......"

"I'm on the USS Hawaii, the flagship of the Seventh Division of the Pacific Fleet, and now through the porthole behind me, you can see this meteorite, which has a diameter of 400 kilometers. It was 40,000 kilometers away from Pluto, but Pluto had only captured some of the meteorite debris, and now the Ninth Division and the Second Division of the Pacific Fleet, which was the first to arrive here, had sent landing ships to Pluto to collect the debris. ”

"Colonel Liu, can you reveal the military's plan to deal with this meteorite?"

A middle-aged man in a sky-blue military uniform projected into the living room, his face was serious, "This meteorite is much stranger than the meteorites we have dealt with before, according to the originally speculated orbit, he will miss Pluto a million kilometers away, but in the process of advancing, this meteorite has been correcting his course." ”

The female reporter seemed to be shocked by the colonel's words, and was stunned for a moment before saying, "What, Colonel Liu, you mean it...... It defies the laws of physics, 'autonomous' changes course? ”

Colonel Liu nodded heavily, "And when we scanned this meteorite, we found something strange, in other words...... It may not be as we assumed it was, with no signs of life. ”

"You're saying that this meteorite is likely to have extraterrestrial life?"

"It's possible, so we don't dare to send a landing craft up now, and now our scientists on board are trying to establish contact with the possible life on this meteorite, or even intercept them. I believe that news will come soon. We are also willing to inform the people of the world about this matter as soon as possible. ”

"Okay, thank you, Colonel Liu."

Su Zhuo forgot to eat, and looked at the two virtual figures in front of him in a daze.

"I've already sent someone to fix the robot, and I guess it'll be there soon, huh?" Su Zhongjun walked down from upstairs, saw the picture on the stereoscopic TV, and paused slightly.

"Passing Pluto so closely?" Su Zhongjun muttered, his eyes revealing a trace of solemnity. Hearing his words, Su Zhuo turned his head.

"He's on the front line now, isn't he?"

"Well, your father is a vice admiral of the Pacific Fleet, and he is naturally there for such a big thing."

Su Zhuo seemed reluctant to mention his father too much, and the news was quickly forgotten by the two, and after eating, he went to the bathroom to take a shower, changed into a red T-shirt, and wore a dark blue jeans underneath. When he came out, he saw that the dirty clothes in the room had disappeared, the washing machine in the distance was buzzing, and Su Zhongjun was lying on the sofa, reading a hardcover book called Chronicles of the Kingdoms that he had taken down from upstairs.

Su Zhuo looked at the housekeeping robot that fell in the corner, it was still broken.

"Uncle, haven't you had breakfast?"

"Eat. You're not going to have anything to do today. ”

"Huh? What's the matter? ”

"Come out with me."

"Can you come back before dark?"

"I'm afraid I won't be able to come back."

"Let's go, then."

The uncle and nephew went out, and Su Zhongjun said: "You know the 'K plan'. ”

"Uncle said it."

"I've discussed it with your dad and plan to put your name on the list of this issue of Project K."

On the cobblestone road at the door, there were more people, and when they saw the sky-blue military uniform and a shining star, many people paid attention. Although many people knew Su Zhuo, they never knew that Su Zhuo actually had a relative of a major general of the Space Force.

"Good morning, Su Zhuo, this is ......"

"My uncle." Su Zhuo greeted a few neighbors with a smile and got into the Xuanhei Buick suspended car.

"Uncle, you're too high-profile."

"Things are a bit urgent, so I don't have time to change clothes."

The interior of the suspended car is very spacious, with a space of 10 square meters, and the glass in the upper part is transparent, so you can see the scene outside 180 degrees. In front of the car is the driver's platform, behind is a concave arrangement of sofas, there is a large coffee table in the middle of the sofa surrounding, Su Zhuo walked to the coffee table, poured himself a glass of sweet milk, at this time, the car rose into the air.

Su Zhuo took a sip of milk, and Su Zhongjun also set the suspended car to autopilot, and walked to the back and poured himself a glass of water.

After being silent for a while, Su Zhuo asked, "Is something happening?" ”

"Huh?" Su Zhongjun was stunned, and said with a smile: "How can you ask that." ”

"You usually change into civilian clothes, and you come by plane."

Su Zhuo drank milk and looked out the window.

The sun is scorching over Hawaii, the islands are gradually being left behind by hovering cars, the blue of the rolling sea can melt all people, and in the distance, you can see fishing boats, cruise ships, and patrol boats......

This is where Su Zhuo lived for five years, and since his mother's death, he has moved from Qiantang, China, to this small town in Hawaii and live a life on his own.

The speed of the suspended car is getting faster and faster, and it has gradually reached one-half of the speed of sound.

"If you don't say it, forget it." Su Zhuo drank the milk from the cup and poured himself another glass.

"It's not impossible to say, well, it's like this......" Su Zhongjun thought about it, and decided to tell Su Zhuo something. He pondered his words and said slowly: "You have read the news in the morning. ”

"Spider Girl?"

"Yes, in fact, the matter of that meteorite is far more complicated than what we tell the public. Over the years, we have launched many unmanned exploration spacecraft to explore extraterrestrial civilizations, including one spacecraft, which discovered a meteorite belt 18 billion kilometers away from the earth a year and a half ago. As early as ten years ago, there was a meteorite with a diameter of more than 900 kilometers at that location. According to the data returned, scientists calculated that the meteorite, even if it turned into a small meteorite belt, still lost a large part of the star. And the meteorite that appeared recently, known as the Spider Girl, is about the same size as the one that is missing. ”

Su Zhuo silently took a sip of milk.

"The last image from the unmanned exploration spacecraft is a giant creature that uses its forelimbs to cut through the skin of the spacecraft made of peptide blue alloy, cutting the spacecraft into pieces and sending them into huge mouthparts."

Su Zhuo still pretended to be calm, but the cold silence that he couldn't help but beat betrayed his heart at the moment. Su Zhongjun sighed and patted Su Zhuo's shoulder.

"What's that?" Alien Zerg'? "There are so many such creatures in the movie, but Su Zhuo never imagined that they could actually exist in this world.

Su Zhongjun nodded solemnly, and he took a sip of water, "Similar spacecraft attacks have happened several times, and we have found similar creatures in several directions outside the solar system.

"They are a different mode of life, and the life probes will never be able to detect their existence, but they have terrifying speed and physique, and in space, a creature like that is almost the equivalent of a small space fighter, but in some ways it is more terrifying than a space fighter."

I have to say that Su Zhuo, who is used to living a simple and comfortable life, is not mentally prepared to accept the cold-blooded and ruthless creatures in science fiction movies. He felt his heart beat faster, and his palms were full of sweat, he stood up and took two steps back and forth, Su Zhongjun looked at him like this, and didn't say anything.

"What do those zergs want to do? What are you going to do? ”

Su Zhongjun said: "We also want to know that in the recent year, more than 50 percent of the world's linguists have gathered together to decipher the whispers they emitted. We are facing an enemy who does not know how powerful the backing is, and all we have is a solar system, at a glance. ”

"No one had any hope for a possible war, and the United Nations put the construction of 100 arks on the agenda half a year ago, and now 16 arks have been built. Once war breaks out, the United Nations will select a group of people to board the ark and leave the solar system. In addition, a total of 340 large and small warships in the entire solar system are also ready to fight to the death to buy time for mankind. ”

"Fight to the death......" Hearing this, Su Zhuo was stunned and sat down, "Uncle, you are a senior general, and you will leave with me then, right?" ”

"Maybe." Su Zhongjun rubbed his hair, "I can't bear you either...... It's your father, alas, according to his character, unless we can the Zerg with a good chance of winning, he ......"

Su Zhuo fell silent, Su Zhongjun sighed and looked out the window, "After so many years, don't be angry with your father again...... And, hehe, if the situation becomes bad, I'm afraid I won't be angry for long. ”

The speed of the suspended car gradually slowed down.

Jiuquan Spacecraft Launch Center.

The black suspended car stopped, and two soldiers in dark blue uniforms walked up to the car and stood up and saluted.

Su Zhuo looked out through the transparent car window and saw that there were similar suspended cars coming and going. Not far away, huge metal spaceships reflected dazzling light in the sunlight, lying quietly like dormant beasts. When his uncle Su Zhongjun got out of the car, he saw the core of the Jiuquan spacecraft launch center, where a spacecraft slowly rose into the air against the constraints of gravity. The black shadow cast on the ground gradually streaked across most of the Jiuquan spacecraft launch center, enveloping Su Zhuo's head.

Although they have seen the spacecraft rise countless times, at this moment, everyone still can't help but look at the sky, amazed by the power of human beings.

Su Zhuo also got out of the car and stood behind Su Zhongjun, the two soldiers saluted, Su Zhongjun said a few words, and the soldiers took the two of them inside.

Su Zhuo asked in a low voice, "Uncle, you said that the strength of human beings is so strong, is it ...... Is there no hope for the future? ”

Su Zhongjun turned his head, the young man in front of him had eagerness on his face, as if he hoped that his uncle could give a positive answer, but Su Zhongjun sighed, he himself did not have the slightest confidence in this war, but at this moment, looking directly at Su Zhuo's bright eyes, Su Zhongjun suddenly felt a blockage in his heart.

He bent down, put his warm hands on Su Zhuo's shoulders, and said seriously: "The reason why people can do it is because they believe that they can." Su Zhuo, believe in uncle, as long as you believe that you can, then the future must be full of hope! ”

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