Chapter 19: The Beginning of War
Night, the void, and the night view of the Earth from the L870 airship is beautiful. It is located above the stratosphere, about 27,000 meters above the Earth's surface, and from this height you can see almost half of Europe below.
Paris, Brussels, Cologne, Frankfurt, Berlin ,..., the dark earth, the urban agglomerations connected by lights are like fireflies strung together, flashing and flashing, as if they will fly away at any time as long as they let go of their hands, and the highway and railway are the silk threads that string the cities together.
Sterling greedily looked at the night scene in front of him, this beauty, in his heart like an eternal lover, never faded in the slightest, just as he had when he first boarded the airship as a lookout, and from then until now, more than two hundred days and nights have passed, and he still does not change this initial enthusiasm. Sometimes he thinks that maybe it was really the favor of heaven that allowed him to board the airship, to be able to immerse himself in this beauty forever without waking up. It really was the most wonderful job in the world for him......
Stirling is an employee of the stratospheric Beidou communication transmission system, and his L870 airship flies in the sky for nearly eight months every year, mainly responsible for the relay transmission of earth network communication signals at high altitudes. Therefore, Stirling and the others are very busy at the same time, they have to be responsible for maintaining all kinds of huge equipment installed on the airship, the total weight of which even reaches thousands of tons, you must know that these are all intelligent devices. It's no easy job to maintain.
Especially recently, the three-monthly Zerg War has started again. At this time, it is the most important basic support for the global network of the earth. The importance of the Beidou system has increased a little more, thinking of this, Sterling couldn't help but take a look at the next few screens, which showed the detection situation inside the star skirt above, specifically to capture the dynamic situation of the Zerg activities in the star skirt, and warn the earth at any time.
In the past two weeks, such warnings have appeared many times, and the Space Force's reconnaissance fleet and the Zerg's vanguard have engaged in countless outpost battles in the inner layer of the star skirt, and the battle is very fierce. Although the Reconnaissance Fleet is a very good unit in the Space Force, both in terms of mobility and combat effectiveness. The equipment has been updated in the past few years, but the progress of the Zerg is also obvious, and the Space Force does not have the upper hand.
Stirling had even witnessed a battle beneath the Star Skirt, where one of the largest tonnage of the Reconnaissance Fleet's new warship, the Brave-class battleship, was besieged by a large group of Zerg, and after a few minutes of stalemate, it finally exploded into a ball of flames above the atmosphere, dyeing the entire sky a terrible orange-red. The wreckage of the battleship fell into the atmosphere and turned into a pile of flying meteors that hit Tokyo in the Toei Islands.
War is brutal, and Sterling could never have imagined what it would be like to fight in outer space with those murderous Zerg. It was a game for the brave, and only warriors had the courage to participate in such a battle, and Stirling might have to make his own contribution to the war on this airship!
Sterling thought as he glanced east. That's the sector where the scheduled Zerg war will take place, calculate the time, it should be about to start!
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The Moon is about 370,000 kilometers away from Earth. At this moment, the Zerg literally turned it into a living thing. The various buildings of the Zerg grow densely on the red carpet, enclosing the mother nest in the center. From a distance, a dark red color almost covered the entire moon. At this moment, all the Zerg buildings are rhythmically moving with the brood, knock, knock, each building is bright red, and the blood is thick as if it is going to be pumped out of it in the next moment. Powerful sound waves travel along the surface of the moon and merge together, making the whole moon feel like it is rising and shrinking.
This powerful rhythm, the rhythm is getting faster and faster, the intensity is getting stronger and stronger, knock, and finally, in the middle of the lunar surface, the Zerg brood surrounded by stars suddenly opened suddenly, and a white light flew out from the bottom of the central circular valley, and flew into space.
At the same time, in the densely packed swarm of insects on the red carpet of the Zerg, countless fat fat protozoa were squeezed out, one by one with round bellies, rhythmically radiating fluorescence, I saw them slowly turn their bodies, put their heads on the ground, and then put their fat butts towards space, and then suddenly, a dazzling strong light was released from their stomachs, and their buttocks opened like trumpet flowers, from which a huge pillar of light was released, flying far into space and towards the earth.
The moon is like a flower growing in the void, suddenly blooming countless rays of light like stamens, these countless rays, each of which is a long-range attack of various Zergs, countless rays of light, converged into a stream of light that is incomparably thick, rushing, passing through hundreds of thousands of kilometers of space, heading towards the earth.
One second, two seconds, three seconds,..., it takes about one and three seconds for the light to fly from the moon to the earth, and this wave of Zerg attacks only flew in space for a few hundred seconds.
The light flow stagnated on the star skirt, and then the star skirt hit a big hole, the earth shook violently, and the star skirt was penetrated, so that the solar and cosmic radiation received by the earth rose to a peak in an instant, and all kinds of electromagnetic radiation increased instantly, and the global network felt this change at the same time.
The war has begun!
Stirling and his L870 airship, as well as all the stratospheric airships flying in the low and mid-latitudes between the 0th and 75th degrees of east longitude, could be seen at this time, and a large hole suddenly opened in space. An incomparably brilliant light illuminated the entire space in an instant.
Taking advantage of this bright light, Sterling could see that the star skirt that usually plagued countless people on the earth was wide open, revealing the space overhead, and outside the big hole where the star skirt was opened, the deep black cosmic space was densely packed with all kinds of zerg, hundreds? Thousands? No, the number should be in the hundreds, millions! Countless Zerg Lords with huge bodies, stretching their whiskers in space, were lining up in an orderly manner trying to pass through the passage that the star skirt was opened, dense, endless, and almost instantly filled the sky.
War! It really started, and Sterling couldn't help but lament again in his heart...... (To be continued......)
PS: Yesterday's chapter, I forgot to post it after uploading, hey! This is not a VIP for a few months, and even the operation is rusty, this is not a break! And today's chapter, send it together!