Zhao Yu was already completely stunned by the firepower from the opposite side.

Although it solved several defense robots at the beginning, then its companions beat Zhao Yu to the point where he couldn't raise his head with absolutely accurate shots, and the energy of the defensive shield of the bunker dropped to the danger zone almost in the blink of an eye, if it weren't for Christine's temporary call for energy replenishment, Zhao Yu would have turned into a corpse by now.

And now he is in a situation that is definitely not good, so he can only hide behind cover and sweep with machine guns, and the number of damage is currently 12 - all taken by auxiliary machine guns.

"Christine!" Zhao Yu couldn't help but shout loudly, "Is there a more effective way?" I don't think this bunker will last long! ”

"Don't rush! It's useless to rush! Christine didn't even look back, her hands were flying on the panel, "I'm going to recompile the program, do you think it's easy!" ”

"I'm just reminding you of an objective fact!" Zhao Yu poked his head out again and tried to shoot two more shots, the nearest robot wreckage was less than three meters away from the bunker, it was simply face-to-face, but the panel was full of locked alarms and locked target displays, Zhao Yu felt that his auxiliary chip was about to be overloaded, "This is simply a hellish difficulty shooting game!" ”

"Please, how can this be counted, I'll find you a game to let you know what hell difficulty is!"

“…… Private Christine, please do your job! ”

But Zhao Yu is still a rookie on the battlefield after all, even if he has been promoted to a first-class soldier. After a burst of fruitless firing, the bunker line was finally breached.

One bullet exhausted all the energy of the bunker's defensive cover, and then dozens of bullets directly smashed the bunker into a honeycomb, the only thing to be thankful for is that the bunker itself also has a certain defensive function, and Zhao Yu, who was hiding behind, was unharmed for a while, but the two auxiliary machine guns were scrapped in an instant.

"Christine!" Zhao Yu almost screamed.

Before he could finish speaking, two bullets passed through cover and finally hit him.

The first shot was blocked by the defensive shield of the combat suit, and the second shot directly pierced his left arm, and the burning pain came clearly, making Zhao Yu feel that he might really die here - the only strange thing is that it was all tragically like this, and he didn't have the premonition of "this time will be very bad" in the past, could it be that this function has finally disappeared?

"But...... Most of the time was originally picked up...... It's earned, right...... And he can act like a normal person......" Zhao Yu fell to the ground, his thoughts spinning around until he reacted, "Why haven't I died?" That group of robots is not attacking? ”

"Mr. First Class, it's all right." Christine's voice came, and he raised Zhao Yu's left arm, "Ah, don't worry, it's a penetrating wound, the warhead didn't stay inside, just stop the bleeding and bandage." ”

"Solved?" Zhao Yu sat up, and through the broken bunker in front of him, he saw that the robots had stopped moving and stayed quietly in place.

There was a hint of tiredness in Christine's voice: "Well, the original set of orders has been lifted, and the next step is to set new orders for them to deal with the enemies outside...... But before that, I'll have to bandage you. ”

Christine took out a bottle of spray from the cabinet, sat Zhao Yu on a chair, and sprayed the contents of the spray on his wound.

"Hemostatic coagulant...... Did you have one at that time? ”

"It seems to have and it doesn't." Zhao Yu took off his helmet with one hand to let himself breathe, "I'm not a military fan, so I'm not sure if that kind of thing is in reality or in science fiction games." ”

Christine pulled out a roll of white bandages: "So what did you do in your time?" Tourism? ”

"No......" Zhao Yu smiled bitterly, "I was lying in a hospital bed for the last three years, and the medicine of that era couldn't save me." ”

"Ah, I'm sorry, I forgot that most of the people who were resurrected by the Buttermins were hibernating because of terminal illness."

Zhao Yu noticed that Christine was talking about "Buttermins", which was very special. Since joining the army, everyone has referred to this race as "aliens" in a disgusting tone, and it is polite to say "aliens".

"You don't seem to hate aliens?"

"Why hate it?" Christine asked, "My maternal great-grandfather was resurrected by them. ”

"Oh? What year? Zhao Yu was in good spirits, maybe he could meet a "peer"?

"Born? I remember it was 2026. Christine said, "What, and you're in the same era?" ”

Zhao Yu sighed in disappointment: "I'm older, I froze before your maternal great-grandfather was born." ”

Christine laughed twice: "Sometimes I really envy you, at least once had a carefree life. ”

Zhao Yu thought about it and decided not to refute him first.

"Many people are tired of the war, but there is no way, the air restriction order and the countdown to death are still there, everyone can only continue to fight. After talking for a long time, aren't they all stupid things that our ancestors did themselves? …… Ah, not including you. ”

Zhao Yu's face twitched: "Thank you......"

"Flight Restriction Order" and "Countdown to Death" -- the former is a shackle tied to the earthlings, and the latter is a noose around the necks of the earthlings that is constantly tightening.

According to the information obtained by Zhao Yu, the good self-feeling of human beings was broken from the day of the flight restriction order.

That day was December 25, 2099, the last Christmas of the 21st century.

Five years have passed since the Third World War, humanity miraculously did not play the earth badly, everything is moving steadily, but on this day known as "Judgment Day", the Batmins announced one thing.

Earthlings failed the exam.

Beginning 10 days later, on January 5, 2100, Earthlings were forbidden to use any craft containing Buttermins technology to leave Earth, and those already on the Moon and other exoplanetary bases could voluntarily choose to remain on the base or be returned to Earth by the Buttermins, but the Buttermins would no longer be responsible for transporting supplies.

What is the difference between the sudden announcement of a ban on the sudden prohibition of the earth's social uproar - after nearly half a century of rapid technological advances, almost entirely dependent on the technical support of the Buttermins, and the sudden announcement of a ban, and unplugging a patient's oxygen tube? Earthlings have long given up independently developing their own technologies, and more than 95% of new technologies are related to Buttermins! This is forcing the earthlings to withdraw to all outer space bases!

The only one who survived was the Moon, and if humanity regained the technology of fifty years ago, before the arrival of the Buttermins, it would still be able to barely provide supplies for some of the lunar bases......

Of course, the earthlings have to ask the Buttermins, what is it that fails this exam? Why have we never heard of such an exam?

"This is based on the admission rules of the Commonwealth of Civilizations, and the assessment of low-level civilizations must be completely confidential, so that the development tendency of the civilization can be seen." Lake, the ambassador of Bartmins to Earth, replied, "And the civilization of Earth, after observation, we have come to the conclusion that you are not suitable and not keen to develop into space. Based on your propensity, the Consortium has judged you to be a near-Earth civilization, and your control will be limited to your star system. Of course, you can still leave the solar system on your own, but in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, we will not provide technical support in this regard. ”

"Why are we a near-Earth civilization?!" The representative of the earth was shocked, "We have landed on a planet hundreds of millions of kilometers away from our home planet in the past few decades!" We have more development plans in the future! ”

"For the development plan of the solar system, yes, this is the right of near-Earth civilization, and I will not stop you." "But only looking at this star system is the most striking feature of near-Earth civilizations." Remember how many times we encouraged you to march farther into the stars? Remember when we always offered you the opportunity to travel to the Commonwealth of Civilizations for free? Decades is really nothing in many civilized races, but for earthlings, it is already half of the average life expectancy, what have you done? Are you trying to travel beyond the solar system? Even if it's just to make a plan that works? ”

"In the past few decades, haven't there been many earthlings who have also gone to the Bojiang Seat!"

"A lot? No, it's too little, my friend. Lake's answer seemed sympathetic, "According to the standards of the Commonwealth of Civilizations, a civilization should have at least 5% of the total number of people going to the universe to get rid of the lower limit of the standard of a near-Earth civilization and yearn for the starry sky - and how much is Earth?" Your current population has exceeded 10 billion, but in these decades, the number of people who have gone to the constellation Poe, plus those who have left the solar system for the universe by other means, is only 5,261,980. Even if you count the inhabitants of the Moon, Mars, Europa, and all of the space cities, it doesn't reach 50 million...... How do I report to the Consortium that you yearn for the universe? ”

"You should have explained this standard in advance!"

"As I said, I can't reveal the standard to you, otherwise you will only go on an unplanned space trip in order to meet this standard, but this is not your nature, you have always relied on your home planet, you have always been accustomed to stepping on the surface of the planet, you are afraid of going to the vast universe, even with our technology and security guarantees, you are still trembling, you are more enthusiastic than the starry sky, you are more enthusiastic about fighting on your home planet, and you are enemies of your own people. If you don't believe us, it's nothing, but you don't even believe in yourself. Lake's speech marked a sad end to Earth's future - until humanity re-developed its own space technology, earthlings will no longer be able to reach the vastness of space.

But how easy is it to reopen the tech tree? It's not a question of finding a blank piece of paper to redraw it, it's a matter of revising a painting by Leonardo da Vinci to Raphael's style. The technology of the Buttermins has long penetrated into all aspects of human technology, and the first thing to do if they want to develop it independently is to re-strip the alien technology from the earth's technology, but the price is so heavy that the earthlings finally give up their plan to break with the alien civilization, if they don't want their living standards to go back a hundred years.

Then let's do it first, the technology of the Bad Minns people is enough to solve the environment, population, resources, food and other problems on the earth, and the earthlings will first be at ease to do near-earth civilization, develop their own science and technology, and wait for one day to return to space, this day may take hundreds of years, or even thousands of years, but as long as human beings don't play with themselves, they should also wait for that day.

Until then, the great mission of space exploration can only be entrusted to the more than five million compatriots who set off ahead of schedule......

But the earthlings have not even been able to realize this wish to break the can.

A helmet was suddenly handed to Zhao Yu, who was in a daze reminiscing about history, and Zhao Yu recognized that this helmet was what he had just taken off.

"Your commander is looking for you in the communication channel." Christine said, "He seemed to be in a hurry. ”

"Ah......? Hahaha forgot to put on his helmet again...... "Zhao Yu didn't particularly like to fight, and was thinking about taking the opportunity of being injured to be lazy, but he knew Borg's temperament - Borg's own character is more out-of-the-box, and he is more tolerant of his subordinates, since he just knew that Zhao Yu was fighting hard, then there would definitely be no special circumstances that would allow him to take a break."

That is, the trouble came.

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The author is a staunch "our journey must be a sea of stars" faction......