024 Hope or despair

Bai Zhongqi quickly flipped out his computer, since the air battle over San Francisco, he was not in the mood to open the game at all. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info He has been playing this game for a long time, although it is a small niche, but he doesn't think there is any difference, he never thought that the battleship that appeared in the game and his unique imperial coat of arms actually appeared in reality, and the fleet with the imperial coat of arms will destroy the earth at any time.

"Is there anything more?" Bai Zhongqi's whole person is in a messy state.

He opened the game and looked for information about the game on the Internet. In the past, Bai Zhongqi didn't like how to communicate when playing strategy games, and liked to explore the gameplay by himself, especially in sandbox games like this, it was very boring to play according to other people's methods. Today, when the warship that should have been in the game stopped in the earth's orbit and had just blown up an unknown number of nuclear weapons launched by the United States, Bai Zhongqi panicked and searched for all relevant information.

And desperately, Bai Zhongqi found nothing. He couldn't even find the web page where he downloaded the game. The content displayed in the search engine is all irrelevant content with similar keywords, and it is not Bai Zhongqi who wants to find the game.

The game opens, but it's not the same as the usual login screen. A background of the original painting that Bai Zhongqi has not seen is displayed in the middle of a few words - updating. Below is the progress bar that is running slowly.

Seeing this scene, Bai Zhongqi had a premonition that it was really like this. He had never seen a game update, and as soon as the mysterious alien fleet appeared, the game was actually updated, which is problematic no matter how you think about it.

After a torturous wait, the game is logged back in, and the entire game has a radical change in graphics. The background image of the main menu looks taller, a mighty warship on an interstellar voyage, with a blue planet behind it. Bai Zhongqi was stunned, this battleship was clearly the appearance of the large battleship announced by the XH Society, and the blue planet, although the outline of the land was not very clear, but nine times out of ten it was the home earth of human beings.

Bai Zhongqi fiddled with the game, and found that there was no option to open a new game in the main interface, only to load the past game saves. And there is only one game save left, that is, the one who created the United Empire of Iridium himself. These changes made Bai Zhongqi more and more sure that the fleet that appeared on the periphery of the earth was most likely the one he lost in the game not long ago. Not knowing what happened, this fleet in the game travels into the world of its own.

Bai Zhongqi had the craziest idea in his mind right now, maybe that mysterious alien fleet really came from the game, and he could control this fleet to avoid a devastating disaster on Earth.

However, after Bai Zhongqi loaded the archive, he found that the game still seemed to be like that. The vast United Empire is still functioning in an orderly manner, and from time to time notifications pop up for him, the head of the Empire, to deal with, including the success of new technology research and development, and the deficit or surplus of the finances of one of the Empire's administrative stars. He was able to control countless imperial warships and mobilize tens of millions of android and android soldiers, but not to mention how to manipulate this fleet that was suspected to be lost in the game, Bai Zhongqi couldn't even find any other information related to this fleet in the game. He kept digging through his game log and found the message that the R19 exploration fleet had disappeared. He even read the tips on the completion of every battleship in the fleet, and the information about the formation of the fleet, but these were useless.

Bai Zhongqi studied every command of the game, and did not let go of things such as save, file reading, setting volume and picture brightness, and after exiting the game save, he looked for something that might be useful in the main menu, but Bai Zhongqi still found nothing. Bai Zhongqi, who did not believe in evil, even quit the game and went directly to the root directory of the game to look for clues. After opening the root folder, Bai Zhongqi was completely confused. The root directory displayed by the game is actually blank, and there is not even an EXE program file. Bai Zhongqi repeatedly confirmed that it was not that any files were hidden, but that there was nothing in the folder at all. Because the size of the right-click folder is 0.00K......

It's impossible!

All the hopes that had just been born were shattered at this moment. Bai Zhongqi once again questioned whether his guess was correct, but all kinds of evidence indirectly pointed out that the lost R19 fleet was the mysterious fleet that was threatening the earth, and it was also a battle cruiser, a heavy cruiser, two light frigates and a colonial base ship. Although the reconnaissance ship did not appear in the news pictures, it stands to reason that the spacecraft should be secretly carrying out reconnaissance missions, and it is normal not to see it.

"Could it be that as the head of the dignified empire, he will be wiped out on earth by a fleet under his command that is not ranked at all?" Bai Zhongqi was full of despair, this was obviously the golden finger treatment of the protagonist of the novel, but he couldn't summon this golden finger, and he became the target of the golden finger's destruction.

No one on the earth knows the operation mechanism of the Iridium fleet better than Bai Zhongqi, as an exploration fleet, and even carries a colony ship, then find a habitable planet, and it is a habitable planet that is weak to the point of the earth, and the fleet will definitely launch an occupation operation. If you are lucky, Bai Zhongqi may survive this colonial war and become an "native" naturalized by the R19 fleet, and if you are unlucky, Bai Zhongqi will probably become a victim of the war directly.

is obviously the master who created everything, but now he is about to be destroyed by creation, Bai Zhongqi's helplessness at the moment is beyond words. However, Bai Zhongqi did not give up completely, he must do everything possible to bridge this possible war. It's not appropriate to call it war, this is unilateral torture and beating, and the earth can't fight back in front of Iridium technology. Bai Zhongqi needed the means to be able to contact the R19 fleet, and he also needed to win the trust of the commander of this fleet. However, there are too many uncertainties. Are there any real humans in the fleet? If there were humans, how would they react if they knew they were in-game beings? Will they even admit themselves as their head of state with nothing special?

Bai Zhongqi didn't have the luxury of expecting at all, he could really have this starfleet that could crush the earth, and all he hoped for was that the earth would be saved from destruction, and mankind would not become slaves of the Iridium.

"No matter what, I'm going to live." Bai Zhongqi was firm in himself, at least he now had a direction, although he had no clue, but he believed that there was no way to the sky, and he would definitely be able to find a way. At the very least, it can save the planet.

Thus, the fate of a planet fell on the shoulders of a twenty-five-year-old young man.

――Cut Lens――

Bai Zhongqi didn't know that the moment he opened the game, it caused a lot of commotion in the Iridium fleet in the earth's orbit!

Suddenly, all normal displays of the Holy Falcon stopped, and the large golden letters appeared on each display, and a sentence was written:

"The Supreme Command has been received, Great Imperial Head, glory and wisdom are with you."

Every warship of the entire fleet received the same message, and everyone could not help but rejoice when they saw this information. On the bridge of the Holy Falcon, all the serving officers rose from their seats, stood up straight, and saluted straight ahead. Disbelief was written all over everyone's face, and pride and excitement were the most common.

Among them, Xu Lanzhou, who was influenced by family education since childhood, was full of reverence for the head of the empire, and even had overwhelming admiration for the fleet commander, who was young and a little hesitant, could no longer hold back her depressed emotions for a few days when she saw this scene, and a clear tear slipped from the corner of her bright eyes full of joy.

"I knew, I knew, even if we traveled to another universe, the Führer would be able to find us, wouldn't give up on us, and would show us the way!"

The staff officer of the fleet, Xian Rong, was also excited, and everyone in the R19 fleet was nervous when they first crossed, leaving their homeland and homeland, and coming to a strange place, not knowing what they were going to face. But when the Supreme Command really appeared, everyone felt dependent. The Führer is the greatest strength of the Iridium people, and his wisdom and wisdom have led the Iridium for thousands of years and created a powerful United Empire.

"Commander, this is the first time I have really seen the Supreme Order, I have always heard the legend of the predecessors mentioning the Supreme Order on the battlefield, but I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes today!" Xian Rong said excitedly.

Xu Lanzhou nodded, her mood was obviously much better, in fact, this was the first time she had received a supreme order, and her excitement was no less than that of others.

Xu Lanzhou took a step forward and said to the AI of the Holy Falcon: "Holy Falcon, announce the Supreme Order, every soldier of the Empire will fight to the end for the Supreme Order!" ”

The battleship AI paused, and then a voice with the smell of a cold machine sounded: "This ship has received the activation information of the supreme order, and the supreme order has not issued a mission to this ship and other ships of the R19 fleet. The ship determined that the supreme order was issued to other space military units or administrative stars. ”

Xu Lanzhou was stunned for a moment: "What? The Supreme Directive did not give us an order? ”

But soon, she reacted to something and said loudly: "Impossible, in the past cases of the Supreme Order, there has never been a situation that has been communicated to the Imperial units that are not related to the mission, if the Führer has not given us instructions, why do we receive the signal that the Supreme Order is activated?" ”

The voice of the battleship AI was still cold, but the content of the reply was human: "Because the supreme order is too close to the ship this time, the ship received the signal of the supreme command when the supreme order was issued." ”

Xu Lanzhou's body suddenly trembled irrepressibly, she looked at the display screen in disbelief, and subconsciously looked towards the blue planet 200,000 kilometers away.

"What do you mean?"

The display suddenly showed an electronic map, a small red dot marked on a location in the city of San Francisco on the west coast of the United States, and the battleship AI explained: "The location of the supreme command has been mastered by this ship, congratulations to Your Excellency Commander, you are the first imperial general in 5,000 years to find the Fuhrer's retreat, and welcome back the soul of the empire for the United Empire." ”

If the people in the bridge were still excited after receiving the supreme order just now, the words of the Holy Falcon at this time directly made them sluggish. In the United Empire, the head of the empire is a totemic being, and everyone is familiar with the history of him leading the Twelve Heavenly Orders Knights to start the empire; Everyone knows that it was the Führer who brought about the take-off of the Empire's technology and created a series of effective organizational structures for the Empire; Everyone knows that the mysterious Supreme Command will guide the Imperials to continue to move forward and explore in the cold and cruel universe at any time; And everyone also knows that the empire does not have a portrait of the Führer, and the statue of the Führer does not have a face, he has existed for thousands of years, has been guarding the Empire, but no one has seen his true face for thousands of years.

Legend has it that the only person who has ever seen the head of the empire is his right-hand man, the Knight of the Twelve Heavenly Mandates. In the early days of the Empire, it was the Twelve Knights directly commanded by the head of the Empire to conquer the initial territory of the Empire, which was the home planet of the Empire - Iridium.

It is precisely for this reason that many historians of the empire have doubted the real existence of such a character as the Führer. Some people even think that the so-called supreme order of the Führer may be a god-level artificial intelligence code, which exists in every imperial machine, constantly giving orders to the Iridium people and creating the current state. And the Iridians are actually enslaved people with a piece of AI code.

Obviously, the existence of the Führer has a great deal to do with the country, determines the legitimacy of state institutions, determines the status of the Twelve Heavenly Mandate Knights and other nobles, and also determines the rationality of a series of military actions by the military. Later, in order to protect these interests, the Imperial Congress specially enacted a law, and anyone who criticized the existence of the Imperial Head of State and shook the foundation of the Imperial State would be directly executed. The conspiracy theories and skepticism that were all over the place had finally come to an end, but even then one could not help but wonder if there was ever a Führer in the Empire. If it exists, will he really live for five thousand years? If so, where is he?

There are no answers to these questions. In the United Empire, the search for the Führer has never stopped, and some believe that the Führer does not want to enjoy the worship and fame of the people, so he has been living in seclusion in a remote corner of the universe, but he has always watched the Empire and guided the Empire. Even the upper echelons of the empire and those in power wanted to find the Führer. On the one hand, it provides legitimacy for their political operations, and on the other hand, people will always have a fear of what they cannot fathom, and what can be seen and touched is always reassuring.

Xu Lanzhou is clear about the above things, and he also fantasizes that he will be able to see the head of state one day. But she never imagined that people could not find the Führer because the Führer was not in the universe where Iridium was located at all, but had taken refuge in another universe on a planet with a very backward level of development.

After thinking about the cause and effect, Xu Lanzhou's eyes were already full of fire, she waved her hand very rarely, and with a woman's eager attitude, she ordered: "Prepare the landing craft, order the ship's 'Night Hunter' flight team to escort it, I will go to the earth in person to welcome back the Führer!" ”