Chapter 1: The Eve of the Expedition
"Eighteen!"
At the top of an ancient tree more than 20 meters high, Litian rests his head on his hands, seemingly leisurely, lying on a branch that is only the thickness of his arm.
The branches swayed in the wind, but the sky was as steady as a rock, as if sleeping on a large bed, and the branches did not seem to feel any gravity.
The breeze blew through only the soft rustling of the leaves, reflecting the exclamations of the sky.
Today is a day of different significance for the whole world, for the multipolar community, and for the calendar days.
May 6, 2162 A.D., is the centenary of the War of Annihilation. It was Litian's birthday and his mother's death day.
Through the dense clouds, Li Tian stared at the starlight shining through the gaps, and his heart was full of thoughts.
As the years go by, the environment is already secretly changing. In the past 100 years, this kind of beautiful starlight can only be seen in the legends of the ancestors, and now it is gradually appearing.
Eighteen years ago, my body, which had been ravaged by the harsh environment, was subjected to heavy bleeding after childbirth. The mother, whom she had never met in the past days, left this cruel and gloomy end world sadly, perhaps happily. Left behind the infant Litian and his father, who had no thoughts of life, struggling alone and desperately in the last days.
Six years ago, my father, who missed his mother day and night, finally followed his beloved in pain and helplessness. Twelve-year-old Litian, in the face of cruel competition and extremely harsh environment, actually survived.
I'm afraid that before he died, he gave him endless encouragement and showed infinite expectations, but he didn't expect it!
Li Tian has miraculously survived until now because he has a great father.
My father spent all his life and taught Litian only one skill, which is survival! How to survive in this apocalypse!!
The legacy left to Litian is a hope, an ethereal but incomparably beautiful hope.
It was these two forces that supported Litian, who was only twelve years old at the time, to survive. But I don't know how difficult and unimaginable this is, this is a legend, a miracle.
The stars dimmed, and a white color rose in the east. Li Tian stood up silently, ending the whole night of mourning and memories. Glancing nostalgically at the sky, a few of them disappeared from the ground.
Fifty meters underground, the 31st district of the multipolar complex, the military operations center of the military headquarters. The so-called action center is actually a larger cave at first sight, but it is built more neatly.
Today is the multipolar complex, the most important military operation in history. This is an action at stake for the survival and future of the multipolar complex.
The Multipolar Consortium, or simply the Polypolar Consortium, is a force in the war of annihilation.
Multi-alliance, a joint organization formed by advocating a multipolar world. With the alliance led by the United States, which believed in the single system of the world, there was a war of annihilation.
As a result, the world environment has suffered devastating damage, and it is almost impossible for human beings to survive on the earth. Some of the remaining human beings are struggling to survive in these last days.
Today, not only were torches lit on the walls, but an emergency lamp was also lit and placed on the desk in the center. Although this light is lit up, it does not play a specific role. However, the use of technological items shows the importance of this operation.
As humans moved from the surface to the ground, an energy crisis followed. What used to seem like an inexhaustible source of energy is now extremely precious. The pre-war reserves of resources and the few mineral deposits discovered during the digging became the only small stock of the Federation.
This little bit of resources has naturally become a precious thing, and most of them are used for the basic survival of human beings, as well as a little bit of scientific and technological research.
This is also to preserve the spark of life for mankind and increase the hope of future survival.
Even torches are a luxury on weekdays, because the wood is also extremely difficult to collect, and the ground is too dangerous. These precious resources are really exchanged for fresh lives.
Under the flickering firelight, more than a dozen elite soldiers lined up neatly, like a group of tigers and wolves in the dark, standing quietly in the center of the command center. Litian, who has been replaced by a standard field combat equipment, stands at the forefront of the team. The large command center was as quiet as death, and the atmosphere of suppression and slaughter made people a little breathless.
There was a creaking sound, and a door to the General Staff opened, and two officers, one middle and one old, strode in.
The middle-aged officer was in his thirties, and this man turned out to be a pure Asian face, just like Litian. More precisely, a Chinese, a Chinese with pure blood.
For this remnant of the human race, which has long been devoid of race, it is impossible not to say how rare this is. Just look at the skin color of the other people in the room and you can see that everyone has more or less traces of mixed blood.
In order to perpetuate the flame of humanity, the polyad has long enacted laws that allow both men and women to begin childbearing at the age of 14. Anyone who disobeys will be sentenced to the crime of hindering the reproduction of humanity and will be punished extremely severely.
So after several generations of reproduction, there is hardly any pure blood of a certain race.
It has been proved that the offspring bred by different races have more perfect physical conditions, are more advantageous in resisting radiation damage, and have a greatly increased survivability.
This has made the government departments more vigorously advocate the reproduction of different races. Even most of the sexual intercourse between men and women is forcibly appointed by the government.
In the entire polyad, only Litian, an outsider, an extremely special person, will not be restricted by federal law. This is also one of the conditions that was put forward when the polyad requested Litian to join.
The middle-aged Chinese-American officer, named Han Wu, is the chief instructor of the special operations squad. He is also one of the few people here who can teach something to Litian.
It is precisely because of the existence of Han Wu that Litian gave up the beastly life he had been living since he was born and joined the polyad.
Han Wu, good at ancient martial arts, has been in the army for generations. Martial arts is a tradition that the Han family has never abandoned, and each generation of the Han family is carrying it forward. Before the battle of annihilation, every set of military boxing and fighting techniques was poured into the efforts of the Han family.
"Brothers."
The steady and deep voice is the characteristic of Han Wu, a martial artist, just like his fighting skills.
"Please take a moment, first of all, I will give the floor to General Wilson."
The silver-haired old man came to everyone with a red face. The fulfillment of his wish for many years obviously made the old general a little excited.
Gently stroking his palms and calming down his overly excited mood a little, the old general cleared his throat and said, "Warriors, children. ”
The sharp eyes swept over the murderous soldier in front of him, and he paused slightly on Li Tian and a soldier behind him, and then said slowly: "The significance of today's action, I don't think I need to tell you anymore." The Federation has put the best of the few remaining equipment to use in this operation.
Never forget that this operation is about the survival of the remaining three million people in the Federation and hope for the future. And the precious and sacred task will be done by you people.
You are the most elite warriors in the Federation, I only hope that you will not disappoint the Federation, may the Lord bless you and bless our Federation. ”
The old general's gaze was once again on the young man behind Li Tian, and he paused nostalgically for a moment, then turned to leave.
This young man is the only relative of the old general, his own grandson Jack, who is also the deputy leader of the special operations team.
Before he joined the Federation, Jack was the best soldier in the Federation, and he was the pride of the Federation and the old generals. From the age of fifteen, the first place in the various regular military competitions in the Federation was not left behind until the arrival of the calendar.
In the polyadad, Litian has always been regarded as an alternative person, and many people do not even think that he belongs to the human race.
His mysterious appearance was three years ago.
During a routine expedition by the Federation, the Seeker team discovered that there were traces of human existence on the surface. The news was like detonating a nuclear bomb that caused a violent shock within the Federation.
After the war of the end times, after the cost of more than a billion human deaths, a cruel truth was confirmed. It is simply impossible for human beings to survive in conditions of high intensity of radiation, widespread radioactive fallout, and an average temperature of minus sixty or seventy degrees.
This is also why, all the surviving humans in the polyad turned underground and began a life like rats for nearly a hundred years.
As a result, civilization plummeted and almost returned to prehistoric man.
How many people, only in the legends of generations of ancestors, know the existence of the earth, those once brilliant civilizations.
It wasn't until decades ago that the survivors, who had been in a state of chaos, were once again united by the polyad. The society gradually became formalized, and knowledge education began to exist. It is only then that mankind has systematically begun to understand history and the world we face today.
But there are still very few people who have actually been to the surface. Without a special physique, precise isolation and protection measures, and strict and systematic training, ordinary people simply cannot survive on the surface.
Although a hundred years have passed, the radioactive dust has gradually faded, the weather has gradually warmed, and the climate has improved a lot. However, the various mutated beasts that followed made the living environment on the surface more harsh and dangerous.
Even rabbits and squirrels, which used to be harmless to humans and animals, have become monsters that can kill humans. It can be said that the living conditions are even more dangerous than before.
The Federation's hunting and reconnaissance missions have only begun to be tried gradually in recent years. And only a small area of operation in the vicinity, despite which a large number of personnel were lost.
The ground exit of Area 31 is set on the plain at the edge of the Endless Forest. Every time I go out, I go out to the outskirts of the forest, and that's where I find the sky.
A little exploration into the interior of the forest would be accompanied by a large number of casualties. The closer you get to the interior of the forest, the more powerful the beasts you face, so the interior of the forest has long been federated as a forbidden area
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