"The flight is about to arrive in Antanya, passengers are asked to sit back in their seats, put away the tables, open the light shields, buckle up and prepare for landing......"

"This flight is the latest model manufactured by Kunpeng Aircraft Company, and in addition to the traditional turbojet engine, it is also equipped with an attitude adjustment engine made according to aerospace standards, and the vertical landing process is very safe. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIf you have a physiological reaction to slight weightlessness, please contact the flight attendant in time......"

Listening to the radio, Zhang Zhicheng twisted his body uneasily. He is still not used to this new airliner, it only takes 4 hours from Haidu to Madagascar, but the pace of take-off and landing is too fast. Just like now, the plane just circled and descended, like a roller coaster that only went down.

Instead of considering the indifferent faces of his partners and government officials around him, he really wanted to call for medical services.

The Earth in 2042 has not changed much compared to the footprint of humans in space. But some details that go deep into life are enough to make people feel a strong sci-fi atmosphere.

The civil airliners in the atmosphere have entered the era of Mach 3 supercruise, and they are all vertical take-off and landing. This is achieved after Starlink has completed the upgrading of the entire industry due to factors such as the materials, intelligent control and engine technology accumulated in space, coupled with the continuous decline in oil prices.

Like a bird, the chubby airliner landed lightly in the airport's landing circle, and the small engine responsible for cushioning under the belly of the aircraft spewed a faint circle of dust and smoke. Zhang Zhicheng pulled up the visor and saw a city that was already full of alien colors.

Antania, a city of less than a hundred square kilometers, is now the most avant-garde city on the planet. Inspired by Scarlet and even the Kimu people, the designers are working tirelessly to dress the city as a gateway to the interstellar age. The multi-layered crystalline streamers surrounding the city are light logistics tracks under construction, and you can vaguely see the style of the Qimu World Tree.

"At my age, I've lived enough to be to the Scarlet Star, Qimuren...... That's Xiao Yue's business", the maglev track car carried Zhang Zhicheng to the city quickly, and the friends of the same group were chatting about the urban gravitational slide transportation technology engaged in by Starlink, and they were all regretting that tear crystals or floating stones were forbidden to be introduced to the earth, and they could not enjoy the convenience brought by gravity technology, and of course, more importantly, huge profits.

When I arrived at the hotel, a group of people were leaving, all with expressions of frustration and even despair on their faces.

The companion gloated: "Poor worm who didn't even get the bidding qualification......"

"It's a pity", Zhang Zhicheng said sincerely, it was a big feast, but there were still losers who were not qualified to enter.

"OK, we're in Antania, but that's just the beginning. We have a relationship between Mr. Zhang and Chairman Xia, and a long-term history of cooperation with SynaCyber, Illusion, and Char Heavy Industries, and we will win! But that's not enough! We have to win as many shares as possible, as many projects as we can, this is our golden age and we have to do our best! ”

The head of the bidding group gathered everyone and held a mobilization meeting in the hotel. At the same time, there are hundreds of similar pledge meetings taking place throughout Antania.

Hundreds of thousands of companies around the world, around Starlink, UNEC and several tenders issued by various countries, are about to start a battle of the century. These bids are not only tens of trillions of Chinese yuan in capital, but also hundreds of millions of jobs, billions of tons of materials transferred, and tens of millions of people flowing. The earth, which was originally separated from the interstellar era by a long distance, is rapidly approaching the new era because of these bids, because of these materials and the movement of people.

"William, I want to see real progress! Starlink will test our solution in real time, real-time, understand? When the time comes, we will not be connected to the Star Network, but to the faster-than-light network of Star Link! If our EGUI is mistakenly selected to Scarlet Mode by a human, or if a Scarlet Operator is mistakenly selected to Human mode, and is not properly alerted and blocked, we are finished! ”

Zhang Zhicheng has repeatedly told his partners that his electronic vision industry has expanded from front-end display devices to systematic information interfaces, and this partner is a biological company engaged in civilian neural extension interfaces.

Starlink's military neural extension interface technology has also been transformed into civilian use over the years. Many companies are engaged in simple vision-based neural interfaces, which provide practitioners in special industries such as engineering, policing, and medical care with synthetic visions that do not rely on AR glasses. Neural expansion technology for the general public has still not been approved by governments, but the corresponding technology is already being developed in special industries. Most soldiers, police, ambulance workers, and doctors have undergone autologous nerve proliferation surgery. This surgery is an abbreviated version of the Star Nerve Proliferation Surgery, which only targets the visual system and does not add much burden to the information processing of the nerves and brain. After undergoing surgery, it is possible to load a variety of different visual information expansion systems, and AR glasses are no longer needed as an aid.

The other party dragged Zhang Zhicheng to the room, and the technicians were still busy: "Mr. Zhang, rest assured, we are communicating online with the Scarlet Man test team of the Star Alliance War Academy, and you also know that our chief engineer is a retired officer of the Star Alliance, and he has a unique advantage in this regard." ”

Starlink's general mobilization plan is not advertised in the world, only UNEC and the senior management of various countries know the whole plan, but various industries can piece together the whole picture of the plan through the unprecedentedly huge orders thrown by Starlink. These orders are multifaceted and are arming an unimaginably large army.

Traditional AR glasses, new vision expansion systems, data terminals, life-sustaining systems, basic power exoskeletons, combat power armor adapted to humans, scarlet people, and Qimu people, individual mecha supporting equipment, basic drugs, medical equipment, and special foods, etc., there are tens of thousands of items on the list.

The companies that went to Antania to bid for the bid were not supplying Starlink on Earth, they were providing design solutions and samples, and if they won the bid, they would deliver at most some parts that could only be produced on Earth, and eventually they would be produced and assembled in the asteroid belt, or the Babel Galaxy, or even the Odd Galaxy, which would also be an unprecedentedly distant industrial chain.

While Zhang Zhicheng and his partners stayed up all night trying to win as many orders for the visual expansion system as possible, thousands of square kilometers of wasteland in Anziranana, adjacent to Antania, east of the city and to the coast, had been turned into a large military camp.

This is a change that has been in place for a few years, when the barracks were empty, and now they are packed. Hundreds of thousands of young men and women from all over the world, with different skin colors, accents and faces, are looking up at the sky.

In the night sky, an officer in a red-and-white Star Wing uniform was giving a lecture, and behind him stood a phalanx of individual mechs. Although the red and white paint is friendly, the circle of scarlet sensors on the head and the black muzzle in the hand give people a strong sense of oppression.

"Who you were originally, you all know very well, unemployed vagrants, protection money, drug abuse, robbery, rape ~ rape, **** You have committed many crimes, and you are all the scum of society! It's just going to rot on the earth day by day! Until one day, he was shot indiscriminately and killed by drugs! You don't have a future! ”

The officer spoke Chinese, and the data terminal assigned to each person spoke the language they understood synchronously in the headphones, and it was also the voice of the officer himself.

"Today is your new life, and you have a new opportunity! You can use your excess energy to vent your anger against your fellow human beings on the aliens, and you have a chance to become heroes! Your past is no longer being held accountable, and everyone just says, hey! Behold, that's the Space Army! They are fighting for humanity in space! ”

"I know that it is impossible to turn you scum into soldiers overnight with enthusiasm and hope alone. What I said just now is only for those whose hearts are not dead. Others, be careful! When you sign the agreement, your life will be the one of the Star Alliance, and you will be slaves of the Space Army! From top to bottom, every hair, every cell, is the property of Starlink! Every thought you have, every minute you do, we're watching! See clearly, what is it? ”

The officer pointed at the muzzle of the mech: "We don't welcome addicts, all people who are addicted to drugs, we will operate on you to make sure that every second of your life is healthy." And those vices that have nothing to do with drug addiction, you can try it, and every little action will be punished! We will not let up until we make you worthy Space Marines and send you to the battlefield to die for humanity! ”

The officer was too young, and his words were actually not much of a deterrent, but in the several areas that the barracks were divided into, the mechs lined up in each area were endorsing every word and word of the officer. Of these hundreds of thousands of people, no one said anything, and those who dared to make noise were all put down and kidnapped as soon as possible.

"As I said, you all have a chance. Train well and try to defeat the enemy on the battlefield and survive to the end. When you can survive the entire war, you can choose a pension job, you can get lifelong medical care, and you can even have life-extension surgery to double the life you once hated! Your children can enjoy a quality education, and you can even start a farm on a new planet......"

On the tower in the center of the barracks, Captain Zhang Yue, the training officer of the Star-United Space Force Support Center, finally finished speaking. After cutting off the projection connection, he said to his applauding companion next to him, "It's your turn next, it's really boring, and how long will it take to hand over this kind of thing to the newcomer." ”

"The next group to join the camp are active naval volunteers from various countries, and I am still worried about what to say," his companion scratched his head in distress.

Zhang Yue said in surprise: "And the navy? I thought the last batch was all there was to it. ”

"What is the use of the Navy now? Even you Huaxia don't want to keep aircraft carriers anymore, those ships of the Coast Guard are enough", the companion shrugged.

"This round of mobilization is great news for the nations, who finally don't have to maintain a large regular army," said another companion, "and I have calculated that the navy alone has drawn more than 300,000 men, almost two-thirds of the number of navies in active service." ”

"The biggest good news is still these people," Zhang Yue pointed downwards: "Tens of millions of minor criminals have just been squeezed out." Whether it is China, Europe or the Americas, government officials and ordinary people are celebrating each other. ”

The companion shook his head: "I can't imagine that this bill can be passed, and human beings can do this......"

The Interstellar Migration Conversion Act, a bill whose name is indiscernible and signed by UNEC and signed by governments, aims to stuff minor criminals as cannon fodder to Starlink, and tens of millions of young adults around the world have become victims.

If it had been 20 years ago, this idea would have been crazy enough just to hear about it, but now that the situation is urgent, how can it take care of so much. And there is also the guise of immigration, which pulls these social dregs into the battlefield, which is also reasonable. All countries have mobilized the state apparatus to do this with great efficiency.

These people nominally had a choice, after all, they signed an agreement, not a verdict. However, a few percent of the agreements were signed by themselves sincerely, which is not clear, and it is estimated that most of them were signed by the police while waving electric batons.

Not only do the police not care, but the Star Alliance doesn't care either, anyway, people are sent over, except for a few who are too addicted to drugs and thrown into drug rehabilitation camps, the others naturally have a whole set of taming methods. Starlink does not need to, nor will it use the means of will engraving or psychological indoctrination to tamper with their three views, but only needs to use sticks, electric shocks, and guns to tell them which behaviors are right and which are wrong.

It's not that no one is against it, many pacifists, human rights activists are complaining about the government, against Starlink, especially Starlink. They say that Starlink has always declared itself a defender of souls and a patron saint of human rights in the past. But now, they are using violence to coerce their compatriots into the battlefield and use violence to change their ideas and lifestyles.

Not many people responded to their denunciations, and they were not the only ones who went to war. In addition to the soldiers drawn from the active military of various countries, there are also millions of volunteers who have responded to their rhetoric. This is the war that will determine the future of humanity, in the past, only the Star Federation led a few people to fight for humanity, and now it is time for all mankind to fight for themselves. If you want to talk about cannon fodder, everyone is.

Of course, it's one thing to be righteous, it's another thing to actually do it. These social dregs, who have committed countless crimes and have been repeatedly taught, naturally cannot be regarded as the core backbone of the Star Alliance. In the newly reorganized Marine Corps of the Space Force, they will be organized into commandos, damage management teams, and other units that are fighting at the forefront of the battle, and they are indeed cannon fodder.

In the barracks, the cannon fodder, who were originally mixed in the streets and lived in the underworld environment, returned to their respective places with a blank look. For them, it was a prison that was countless times tighter than they had ever been in before. Each of them carries numerous criminal records and is equipped with positioning and identification chips, and even without the chips, their every move cannot escape the optical and terahertz instruments installed throughout the area.

But this is not a prison after all, and there is hope for their future. Most people are complaining, scolding, crying, but there are still people who have a longing.

"I can't figure it out, the Scarlet and Qimu have enough infantry, why do we have to gather so many infantry? Robots are enough, these tens of millions of people have passed, and the pressure on the life-sustaining system alone is huge. The companion asked Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue was busy and made a short video call with his father, and he was fluting, and he was also at a loss about this question.

"Maybe it will be like Terran in the interstellar world, opening up a new path for human civilization......"

He said casually, his gaze falling on the menu in his field of vision, which was the scope of his transfer.

He would not be selected for the Marine Corps, although with his qualifications, he could be promoted to major and lead a company, but he did not like those scum soldiers, nor did he like down-to-earth combat.

Battleship troops, this competition is too fierce, his consciousness gyroscope ability is not good enough, and the structure of the new fleet has changed, single battleships are limited to special warships such as reconnaissance ships, and there is no way to fly solo without the qualifications of a single battleship. Generally, the battleships are multi-person warships, and he can only start from the department leader, or even just the team leader.

What's the point of doing support work like manpower logistics......

Seeing the position of "Collaborative Commander", Zhang Yue's heart moved, as the star link node of the cooperative operation network, acting as a commander in the troops of the Scarlet Star and Qimu people, this position is very challenging.

Having chosen this item, he left his signature in the electronic document and sent it out.

"This must be a bigger battle than the previous two Stargate Wars," said his companion.

"Of course, it must also be the beginning of a new era for mankind," Zhang Yue said with emotion. (To be continued.) )