The gap between the two sides is too great.

There are now less than sixty defenders left in the town of Hudick, one heavy shield. Such a lineup plus an MF1 can only serve food to the enemy, and Zhao Yu knows this very well.

They had only two choices, leave or die.

"Christine, Gabriel, do you hear me?" Borg opened another line of communication, "According to the pre-plan, we will start the retreat now, the route is from the entrance of the town police station, and the second main road is to leave through the north exit - I'm sure you've already seen the map of this town in the afternoon, so don't tell me that you're lost, if you want to go together, you'd better show up on this route right away, or you can climb on two legs without power armor." ”

"I hate you, sergeant." Christine said in her headphones, "I'm two blocks away from that road." ”

Hunter shook his head: "Prodigy girl, welcome to the Cursed Borg Club, but our captain is really in a bad mood right now. ”

The Deathbringer began to rumble towards the second main road, the town of Hurdick was not large, there were only four streets that could be called the main road, and the spider had crawled to the intersection in only two minutes, by which time Christine was already waiting there, her rifle in hand, and the backpack on her back was obviously her laptop, which she never left.

The spider slowed down a bit, giving Christine a chance to grab onto the handrail and climb up, Borg opened the cockpit door and dragged her into the cabin: "Welcome back." ”

Christine looked at the people in the cockpit: "What about Gabriel?" ”

"He didn't answer us." "But I believe that if there's only one person in this town who survives, it's him." ”

Christine thought for a moment and agreed with the blonde sergeant's conclusion.

"Prodigy, find a place to sit down, we're going to speed up." Hunter suddenly interjected, "I think the fire on the hillside just hit the code generator. ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they all reacted: Lieutenant Li, they no longer have the slightest chance of winning.

The Deathbringer sped up to 60 kilometers and almost rampaged through the town, sprinting towards the northern exit, and behind it was a sea of fire that continued to spread northward.

The pursuers resorted to the most extreme tactics, and they clearly did not intend to capture the prisoners. And Lieutenant Li took the initiative to cut off the communication with the Death Messenger team, and no one knew that there were still a few people in the 472nd Regiment alive, and it was not necessary that the whole army had been wiped out now. Zhao Yu remembered the sergeant named James, the commander of the heavy shield chariot group, who did not hesitate to place his chariot at the southern entrance of the town after the enemy reinforcements appeared, and no matter who had to destroy the chariot to pass.

"I ...... Incomprehensible. Zhao Yu muttered.

Borg glanced at him: "Can't understand what?" ”

"I don't understand why you're fighting the war like this." Zhao Yu looked at the display screen, there was a camera responsible for observing the rear of the chariot, and now that lens showed an apocalyptic scene, "Even if it is a necessary war, is it necessary to fight so fiercely?" Everyone is fighting with their own lives...... Whether it's the West Coast National Army or the Union Army, aren't you all Americans? ”

Borg shrugged: "In the first ten years of the war, everyone thought the same thing. But old man, we are in a race against the countdown to death, all methods have been used, and now we earthlings are only suitable for this extreme way. ”

"And the Great Schism." Christine lazily added, "The twenty years before and after the Great Schism were really crazy...... I listened to my father. ”

Zhao Yu sighed.

Even though he had been on the battlefield for months and had killed more than one person with his own hands, he could only manage not to run away from the war, but not to understand it. It is true that he is not an American and has no sense of belonging to this country, but since he knew about aliens, there is no way to understand this kind of war.

Alien races have come to Earth thousands of light-years to show that they are not hostile, while the earthlings can only use cannibalism to win their own lives...... Who should we hate? Aliens, earthlings, or the so-called fate?

Things have to start with the "countdown to death". It was 2104, five years after the Buttermins were issued, and humanity was just about to start getting by, a near-earth civilization that lived to death, but the Buttermins brought a new bad news: Betelgeuse had an accident.

As a bright and famous star, Betelgeuse can be ranked in the top 10 of the list of "the brightest stars to see from Earth", with a volume of 700 million times that of the Sun, and it can also be ranked in the top 10 of the list of "the largest star ever discovered by man in the universe". It's so dazzling that even in a polluted city in the 21st century, Zhao Yu can still look up and see the star twinkling in the upper left of the constellation Orion on a clear winter night.

Betelgeuse is undoubtedly one of the wonders of the universe, the problem is that the distance between Earth and such a big thing is only 640 light years, which is not a good thing.

As early as the beginning of the 21st century, the Celestial Family observed that the star was shrinking in size, and speculated that the red supergiant was about to reach the end of its life, and that it would explode and become a new bright star that would be brighter than Venus in the eyes of earthlings, and then gradually fade away in a few months or years. There is no doubt that Betelgeuse is terminally ill, but as a planet with a lifespan of billions or even tens of billions of years, even the "dying moment" is long enough for human beings that human scientists cannot determine the time of its death, maybe the next day, maybe 10,000 years later, depending on the mood of this behemoth.

Now the Buttermins have helped the earthlings get the answer: Betelgeuse has exploded in the early 18th century Earth time, and its last light will reach the Earth in the middle of the 24th century, that is, 200 years after Zhao Yu's awakening, and at the same time arrive at the Grim Reaper, Betelgeuse has collapsed into a neutron star, and the axis of rotation is facing the Earth, and the powerful gamma storm that will be accompanied by the jet will carry out a deadly scan of the Earth, which no earthlings can compete with with any existing technology.

Betelgeuse's death process sounds a bit like the supernova observed by ancient earthlings more than a thousand years ago, and now the supernova leaves a trace of the Cancer Nebula, but the Cancer Nebula is 6,500 light-years away from the Earth, and Betelgeuse is only one-tenth of this distance from the Earth, which ensures that the gamma burst it sends when it dies is enough to peel off the ozone layer of the entire Earth, allowing all living beings to receive radiation from various cosmic rays (including the gamma burst itself).

In the face of this storm, the most optimistic estimate is that the earth will not fall into a state of complete extinction of life, will not become a death star, and most plants and lower animals will survive, and even have a chance to mutate. But all the higher life, such as birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals...... Of course, there are also human beings, so they must say goodnight to the universe in advance, and then obediently take the bento and leave.

The most terrifying thing is that this has already happened. The Grim Reaper, dressed as a courier, is on its way, and no one can stop it, not even the Bartmins, even though they have used technology faster than the speed of light to deliver information.

And the Buttermins continue to stubbornly cling to their no-sail orders.

So the earthlings will have to face the reality that there is a fire burning outside the house, and if they don't escape from this room, everyone will become barbecued meat in a few hundred years, but the house is still locked by aliens. For a while, various conspiracy theories came out, and the most popular one was that aliens had bad intentions and planned to watch the destruction of the earth's civilization...... But conspiracy theories don't solve anything.

In this atmosphere of despair, the earthlings erupted.

What started as a competition for a few technologies by a few countries turned into a war that spread across the globe, as humanity finally remembered the most direct way to make rapid technological progress, which was once regarded as a demon by earthlings, locked in a cabinet and not even wanted to look at it, but now it has become the biggest way to outrun the Grim Reaper.

This method is called "war".

The two world wars of the 20th century have created all kinds of scientific and technological achievements that have not been achieved for thousands of years in human history, and now mankind has picked up this trick again, and it is more crazy than ever, no one thinks about the environment and ecology anymore, all kinds of weapons, all kinds of newly developed technologies have appeared on the battlefield.

And what is even more ironic is that the warring parties claimed that the purpose of this war was "to save the future of the earth's civilization", so weapons of mass destruction were banned from the beginning, because a mass killing weapon can destroy a city in an instant, but the contribution to related science and technology is pitiful, so the Fourth World War became a flesh mill, soldiers fought repeatedly in every inch of land with their own blood, using their bodies as a testing ground for new technologies, hoping that one day a scientist would have a flash of inspiration and find the key to escape from the fire.

Until now, humanity has not found this key, but humanity has seen a glimmer of hope for escape.

This hope is slim enough to turn into despair, but humanity has no other choice.

What makes the whole thing even more ridiculous is that the hope is from aliens.

In 2110, the European Community took advantage of the war to develop a result known as "superparticle technology", which did not help humans escape from the earth or protect them from radiation, but the people of Buttermins rarely offered to make a request.

"This technology can be a useful addition to the Commonwealth of Civilizations, albeit only slightly." "We want to get it, in exchange for it -- we can unlock some of the technology for you." ”

Part of the technology related to interstellar flight.

This part of the technology can't make the earthlings fly right away, but it can make the earthlings go crazy right away.

The Fourth World War entered a more intense phase and has not ended to this day.

It can't be over, because humanity has not yet been able to develop the ability to travel on a large scale with alien unlocking technology, and Earth civilization has wasted fifty years.

Now there are still 200 years left for the earthlings...... Or rather, only two hundred years. This is the countdown to death, a nightmare that whips the earthlings all the time, making everyone dare not stop.

"No matter what means we take, we must find a way out for future generations, even if it is to bear all the sins for it!" More than 50 years ago, the then-President of the United States said so.

Just a year after he uttered these words, the United States suffered its most terrible catastrophe.

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Hi all, I'm crawling back...... There's another chapter over the weekend, as it should.

BTW: The description of Betelgeuse is true, except that it has exploded. But who knows, maybe tomorrow night we'll look up and see a super-bright nova.

By the way, 2: The "necessarily" fact that gamma storms will pass over the Earth is true, and the angle between Betelgeuse's axis of rotation and the Earth is about 20°, so it depends on luck......