At the same time, in the dark solar system, in the synchronous orbit of Mars hundreds of millions of kilometers away from the earth, there are dozens of large and small starships suspended in space, the largest of these starships is four or five hundred meters, and the smallest starships are also up to 100 meters, and the weapons installed on the starships are all aimed in one direction: Mars.

From the earth to the federal period, human eyes have set their sights on the deep and vast universe, and a large number of deep space vehicles have set foot on every planet in the solar system, but subject to the restrictions of controllable nuclear fusion, as well as wormholes, faster-than-light travel theory and other technical research, the solar system has become a barrier for human beings to go to space, and in this situation, the development of major planets in the solar system has become the primary task.

A hundred years ago, the Federation's first manned vehicle successfully landed on Mars, and in the following decades, one after another aircraft landed on this uninhabited planet, and established a permanent human laboratory on Mars, opening a new chapter in human extraterrestrial exploration.

However, more than ten years ago, the report on Mars gradually faded from human information, replaced by the construction of a geosynchronous orbit space city, and the federal government gave the explanation that human beings have not yet done a good job of accumulating science and technology to develop other planets......

Is it really what the federal government advertises?

There is also a lot of speculation about this from all walks of life in the federal society, and it is generally believed that the federal government is hiding something from the people, but the federal government has firmly denied it, and the Mars exploration program has been shelved without restrictions.

But in fact, the federal government's exploration and research on Mars has never stopped, but has disappeared from the public eye.

For many years, the federal government has been hiding the truth about Mars from the public, Mars is not a barren land as human beings previously thought, on the originally lonely Mars, the federal government has found a large number of ancient unknown ruins, which have completely subverted the human perception of Mars, so that the federal government feels surprised at the same time, there is also a huge fear, and even an inexplicable sense of crisis.

For a long time, there was speculation that life was once born on Mars, but after countless thousands of years of changes, for some unknown reason, the civilization on Mars suddenly disappeared.

When the federal government excavated the relics of these civilizations, they were frightened by the power of the relics civilization, according to the human cognition of civilization, the relics civilization on Mars has entered the category of fourth-level cosmic civilization, and it is difficult to imagine how such a civilization disappeared from Mars.

The huge gap between the technology of the relic civilization and the human civilization has shocked and delighted the federal government, but also generated a bad premonition .......

It is hard to imagine why a race that has entered the fourth-level civilization has disappeared, what calamities they have encountered, or what irresistible power, these have unintentionally had a huge attraction for human beings who are already about to enter the third-level civilization.

In the process of the federal government's covert large-scale excavation of Martian ruins, an extremely shocking scene was seen from a residual image, peeking into the secret of why the Martian civilization disappeared.

But when the federal government decided to give up excavating the ruins of the Martian civilization, the last thing they wanted to see happened!

Zerg!

Hundreds of millions of years ago from human history, a Zerg mother suddenly broke into the solar system, the Martian civilization and uninvited guests engaged in a century-long war, this war depleted the Martian civilization accumulated tens of thousands of years of resources, the strength of both sides plummeted, and the exhausted Martian civilization finally decided to abandon the solar system, but before leaving, the Martian civilization activated the space blockade instrument in exchange for a higher civilization, and suppressed the entire solar system with this Zerg mother in the solar system.

The hard-hit Zerg mother was unable to break free from the blockade of space, and had no choice but to sleep.

Hundreds of millions of years have passed, the vicissitudes of the sea, the sun and the moon have changed, time can wipe everything out, and everything can be changed, a new civilization has been born in the solar system again, a new civilization has risen on the earth, and the ancient catastrophe has been drowned in the long river of history.

When mankind inadvertently uncovered a corner of history and learned the truth about the disappearance of ancient civilizations, it also ushered in an unprecedented crisis.

That's why the federal government is reluctant to release the truth about the exploration of Mars, not only can't say it, but also tries to cover it up. But the more some things are covered up, the more they can't be covered, and the human exploration of Mars has awakened the mother insect body that has been sleeping for tens of millions of years.

This is a female worm that can fight with a fourth-level Martian civilization for a hundred years, and in the face of a human being who has not yet entered the category of third-level civilization, you don't have to think about it to know what will happen?

Just when the federal government was desperate and frightened, it quietly launched the human escape plan, the future was bleak, and in the face of the irresistible unknown, some informed high-level executives had suicidal thoughts. At this moment, human beings suddenly discovered that the mother worm body is not invincible as imagined, for some reason, and it is not clear what is hidden in this, a Martian civilization video was translated, space blockade is the only technology to weaken the mother worm, according to the Martian civilization's understanding of the Zerg, the mother worm that was blocked in the solar system will become extremely weak after the Martian civilization fled for 200 million years because of the depletion of resources, where the Martian civilization will return to the solar system again to eliminate the mother worm body.

After exploration, the federal government roughly deduced that the time between human civilization and Martian civilization was between 60 million and 70 million years, and a third of the time had passed, and the mother worm body on Mars had entered a long period of weakness, and the overall strength was less than half of the peak of the mother worm.

This is the federal government's opportunity and the last hope for human civilization!

The federal government sent a space army to launch an attack on the mother worm hiding in the interior of Mars......

The attack of human beings was not very smooth from the beginning, before the mother worm, the enemy of mankind has always been themselves, and the war is only limited to the earth's atmosphere, for the battle of outer space and other creatures, or the first ---time that Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, there were mistakes in decision-making one after another, either overestimating the strength of the female worm, or seriously underestimating the ability of the female worm to deal with it, resulting in a long time, the federal government did not even know where the female worm itself was hidden.

However, fortunately, humans have an advantage in space, and the female insect body on Mars seems to have been damaged in some way and cannot get out of Mars for the time being, which makes the federal government breathe a sigh of relief.

Some people in the federal government put forward a negative battle plan, thinking that they should not send troops to land on Mars to fight the mother worm, since the mother worm cannot get away from Mars, it is better to treat Mars and the mother worm as if they do not exist, and the previous tens of millions of years have passed, and then wait for tens of millions of years to consume the mother worm alive on Mars.

However, the federal army and the Academy of Sciences did not agree with such a plan, and at the same time were ridiculed and despised by the top level of the Federation, not to mention that the federal army finally got the opportunity to fight, that is, those scientists, professors, and researchers in the Academy of Sciences saw that the rich relics and technology on Mars could not be explored, and it would be a lie to say that they were not excited.

The original purpose of the war was to eliminate the Zerg Mother, but after scanning the entire Mars, the hiding place of the Zerg Mother was not found, and it was obvious that the Zerg Mother was hiding deep under the surface of Mars, which made the original battle plan of the Federation military stillborn.

Unable to find the Zerg Mother for a while, the federal military formulated a second set of battle plans .......

Destroy the Zerg on Mars, occupy the ruins of Martian civilization, digest and absorb the technology of Martian civilization, and quickly improve the scientific and technological level of human civilization. This is a conservative and prudent strategic idea, and it seems very feasible.

The course of the war was contrary to the original intentions of the Union military.

Facts have proved that the federal military still underestimated the strength of the mother worm, just a few months after the start of the war, the federal military mobilized more than 200,000 space troops, which is also all the troops of the federal military in space, for the federal army that has never fought on another planet, how many troops are needed to land on Mars to fight, there is no standard to measure.

More than 200,000 troops achieved small victories in the early days of the landing on Mars, occupying some relics of Martian civilization, and the combat effectiveness of the Zerg did not cause much casualties to the federal army. On the contrary, the harsh environment on Mars made it impossible for the Federation army to expand the results of the war, so they had to stop attacking the Zerg and urgently develop weapons and equipment suitable for combat on the surface of Mars.

This mistake gave the mother worm more than a year of respite, and when the federal army got a type of Martian combat suit, it was found that the number of Zerg on Mars had increased more than ten times, and in some places it could be described as a sea of insects.

Now the federal military is a little dumbfounded, and the number of Zerg has increased a little faster!

The number of Zerg has not only increased more than ten times in a year, but even the quality of the Zerg has changed, at the beginning, the size of the Zerg is the size of a pig and a cow, and the speed and strength are not much different from normal humans, but soon there are all kinds of insects in the Zerg that are like elephants and are as ruthless as rhinoceros, and the strength of a single Zerg is more than three times that of wearing a Martian combat suit, and the scientific and technological advantage of the human army is suddenly gone.

The quantity and quality of the human army are not as good as the Zerg, and the federal military is completely dumbfounded.

Mars is one of the eight planets in the solar system, the fourth planet in the solar system from the inside to the outside, and is a terrestrial planet, with a diameter of about 53% of the Earth and a mass of 11% of the Earth. The surface area is equivalent to the Earth's land area and is much less dense than the other three terrestrial planets (Earth, Venus, and Mercury). In terms of radius, mass, and surface gravity, Mars is about halfway between the Earth and the Moon: Mars is about twice the diameter of the Moon and half the size of the Earth; The mass is about nine times that of the Moon and 1/9 of the Earth, and the surface gravity is about 2.5 times that of the Moon and 2/5 of the Earth.

Mars is basically a desert planet with sand dunes, gravel and no stable bodies of liquid water. The atmosphere, dominated by carbon dioxide, is thin and cold, with sand and dust suspended in it, and dust storms occur frequently every year.

Such a planet is not suitable for human survival at all, the density of the atmosphere is only about 1% of that of the earth, it is very dry, the temperature is low, the average surface temperature is minus 55 °C, water and carbon dioxide are easy to freeze, and the atmosphere is dominated by carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Humans must wear special spacesuits to land on Mars, and they need to hide in ground bases in peacetime, and the combat time is greatly limited.

On the other hand, the Zerg on Mars, because their body structure is completely adapted to the Martian environment, is the same as humans living on Earth, and there is no such thing as discomfort at all.

The environmental factors on Mars have become the biggest obstacle to the battle of the Zerg by human beings, and the disadvantage of human beings is that the body cannot adapt to the environment outside the earth, not only on Mars, but even outside the earth's atmosphere needs the protection of spacesuits, speaking of which the human body is really fragile!

The war was destined to be an asymmetrical competition from the beginning, and human beings only learned some basic information about the Zerg from the video left by the Martian civilization, and they could not have a clear and complete understanding of the Zerg, but they only knew that the Zerg was a group of single consciousness controlled by the mother, and the harm was far greater than any insect infestation ...... on the human earth.

"General, the fifth batch of reinforcements has successfully landed on the surface of Mars!"

A young female officer walked up to the huge glass window of the starship operations command room, gave a military salute to a senior general standing tall in front of her, and handed over a document with both hands.

"Put it down!"

The senior general's eyes were firmly fixed on the front, and outside the hanging window in front of him, a huge dark red planet was quietly suspended there, and from time to time thick lightning broke through the sky on the surface of the planet, and a sandstorm covering the sky was brewing in the distance.

"What about the casualties at the operating base?"

"Back to the general, the wounded soldiers are on their way back from the operational bases, according to the latest statistics of the various operational bases, the soldiers have lost 6,120 soldiers, and 273 are lightly and seriously wounded, and the fleet is ready to accept it!"

The senior general said lightly, "um", and after dozens of large-scale frontal battles with the Zerg, the federal military painfully found that the number of soldiers killed far exceeded the number of wounded, on the one hand, because the Zerg's individual combat strength far exceeded that of human soldiers, on the other hand, it was subject to the Martian environment, once the space combat suit on the soldier's body was pierced by the Zerg, death was basically unavoidable, which was the biggest disadvantage of humans fighting against the Zerg.

"Connect me to the Great Academy of Earth Sciences!"

The young female officer turned around and walked to the huge hanging window in front of the senior general, this is not an ordinary glass, not only has the function of resisting all kinds of rays in space and explosion-proof, but also an information display screen.

An old man soon appeared on the screen, the old man was sitting on a large sofa, with a smile on his face, holding a cup of hot coffee in his hand, his eyes revealed the light of wisdom, and he looked at the tall senior officer in the light and said: "Lieutenant General Li, you are on the Martian front, how can you think of me, a bad old man, do you suddenly want to agree to the marriage of my unsuccessful grandson and your daughter?" ”

Lieutenant General Li's name is Li Guang, a senior general of the federal military, he has just reached 50 this year, and he has a daughter in his family, who graduated from the Communication University two years ago, not only talented, but also outstanding, regarded as a pearl in the palm of his hand, and the suitors are about to break the threshold, and they don't know if their daughter's vision is too high, or the suitors are not enough, as a result, there is no boyfriend in 20 this year, which can make Li Guang worried.

The emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuch is in a hurry!

This kind of thing is useless even if Li Guang nagged every day, his daughter is older, what is in his heart, even Li Guang, who is a father, is not clear, and he can't arrange a marriage, but as a result, day by day, he becomes a diamond leftover girl.

The old man on the screen is named Zhang Tianyi, one of the academicians of the Federation University, with a very high status, although he does not serve in the federal military, he is in charge of the manufacture and supply of most of the federal military supplies.

"Things between young people, you and I don't count!"

"Yes!" Zhang Tianyi naturally knew that Li Guang was telling the truth, especially Li Guang's daughter had a strong personality, and it was unrealistic to expect her to listen to her parents' baton.

"What? As soon as you arrived at the Martian frontline, you are looking for me as a bad old man, is there any difficulty? ”

Zhang Tianyi looked at Li Guang with a serious face, and sighed secretly in his heart, knowing that Li Guang's current situation would not be very good, and the former two commanders of the Martian front were transferred back because of the unfavorable war. But this is not an opportunity, because the federal military has not had a large-scale war for a long time, and the rank of general has always been vacant.

"What's the news about the Zerg Mother on Mars?" Li Guang said straight to the point: "To what extent has the research of the Zerg been made by your Academy of Sciences, I am under a lot of pressure now, and this matter feels a little wrong?" ”

There are always soldiers on paper, especially after the establishment of the federal government, there has not been a major war for more than a hundred years, and some generals have not experienced real wars at all, and there are obviously problems with the prediction of the strength of the Zerg......

After Li Guang arrived at the Martian frontline, the first-hand information on the front line made him feel that something was wrong, and the opportunity he thought he had earned was now found to be a hot potato in his hand!

"Lieutenant General Li, all the information of the Zerg has not been hidden from you, the Academy of Sciences is now studying the information of the Zerg, you can see ......", Zhang Tianyi spread his hands and said: "Don't worry, so far, the Zerg mother is still in an extremely weak state, due to the poor resources of Mars, it is basically impossible for the Zerg mother to recover...... current ...... Key ......"

A large number of snowflakes suddenly appeared on the screen, and Li Guang and Zhang Tianyi's communication was interrupted!

"What's going on?"

"General, there is a decryption error in the communication line, and the cause is being checked!" The young female officer was in a cold sweat, this situation is not an ordinary person calling, the military communication line equipment is the top, and the call is encrypted, the probability of error is negligible, if the battlefield is the most intense, the command order can not reach the front line, the loss is tens of thousands of soldiers.

Three minutes later, the lines of communication were restored.

"What's going on?"

In the past three minutes, the female officer found that the cause of the communication interruption was not on the Starfleet side, because the communication between the Starfleet and the Martian ground base was not interrupted, so it can be inferred that the problem should be on the Earth's side.

Zhang Tianyi said apologetically: "The geosynchronous satellite was interfered with by sunspots just now, and now it has been restored, and we will continue to talk about ......." ”

Sunspots interfere, lie to the ghosts!

You must know that the communication between the Earth and the Mars front line is the use of quantum entanglement technology communication, which is real real-time communication, okay, such a lame excuse has been used, it seems that the earth doesn't know what happened?

However, Li Guang didn't care about Zhang Tianyi deceiving himself in this matter, since the other party didn't say it, there must be a secret that he couldn't let himself know!

“…… I've seen videos of battles on Mars, and it's an unequal war between humans and zergs, with the environment, individual strength, and so on,...... If you want to win this war, it seems that you must first improve the weapons and equipment of the soldiers, I heard that the Academy of Sciences is developing a low-end mecha, can you transport 10,000 sets to Mars first! ”

(End of chapter)