August 6, 2032, 4 a.m.

Pre-aligned with the location of the cosmic monster in the original book, that is, the DG monitoring in the area of Lyra 3-26 detected a large number of WARP-OUT gravitational shock signals with a doppelganger. In just a short period of time after DG notified Jung, received the response, and then notified Kashiwahara and the plane protagonist duo in turn, the number of cosmic monsters that jumped out increased by at least 100 million.

Fifteen minutes later, the Earth Aerospace Force's observatory in Palomar, California, received the same enemy message from a surveillance satellite.

For the monitoring units of the Earth Space Force of ordinary rank, it is normal to lack a specific understanding of cosmic monsters. Therefore, even though the image of the enemy appeared on the retraction radar only five minutes later than the prepared Reincarnation team, the size of the enemy, which darkened the field of view by more than 90%, still made the surveillance satellite side review it for nearly ten minutes before they were convinced that it was really not a false alarm from the instrument.

It dragged on like this, until the Earth Space Force Headquarters summoned all the responsible persons to assemble in the small conference room of the Military Command Department with the highest efficiency, and the wall clock on the wall had already reached 6:20 in the morning.

At this moment, Noriko Takaya has finished her routine morning jogging exercise, and her sister has already finished bathing and changing. Kashiwahara was still at Hakone Hospital, waiting for the nurse to bring the hanging bottle that was to be replaced today. Jung is in his sleep......

Roger himself, who has been in the "spotlight" for several days, still hasn't woken up from his hospital bed.

There was a gloomy fog in the small conference room of the Space Army, and the staff had come in for the third time to replace the ashtray in front of the bigwigs. Then, as expected, no one including Admiral Tashiro, a "veteran" who had personally fought the monsters of the universe, could put forward the slightest constructive opinion.

They weren't to blame for that, if Roger was awake now, he would have been slightly surprised to hear the enemy still spread his wings to 200 AU in a dense formation.

Because he still has a certain memory of the numbers related to the original book, such as the original cosmic monster should occupy 70% of the field of vision, and the width is at most 80 astronomical units. Now this temporary change is ninety percent, 200 astronomical units, how many times has the number of enemies increased, but any junior high school student can easily calculate it, okay?

"Those guys, it's finally here."

After everyone in the small conference room had no choice but to decide to convene a larger, more military-level logistics meeting with the participation of more people involved in the emergency countermeasures, Admiral Tashiro rubbed his increasingly soreness near his temples and muttered this belated and meaningless sentence.

The ad hoc meeting ended.

Noriko Takaya had already gone into the bathroom to take a shower, Kasumi Amano was drying her long hair, Kashiwahara was skillfully stabbing the needle of the hanging bottle into the back of Roger's hand, and Jung was sleeping soundly......

Roger? Didn't you just say that, he was continuing to hang in a coma.

Fast forward to August 7th, and the Earth Cosmos Force held an emergency countermeasures meeting at the Imperial Capital Earth Defense Agency. Although the number of participants was obviously several times larger than the group crammed into the small conference room of the previous headquarters, and some of the scientists under Jung, as well as former front-line combat elites, it still seemed that they could not discuss any reasonable countermeasures.

Except for the occasional recrimination between one or two departments, there was more often silence in the room.

Today's Samsara team and the plane protagonists are not doing their daily training, because Saturday, August 7th is a vacation day for everyone to go to the beach and sunbath together. For this critical period, which is specifically recorded in the original book, Jung spent nearly three days talking about Kashiwahara in Hakone to participate. As for Noriko Takaya and Kasumi Amano, although they were also a little reluctant, they still came as promised for the sake of Exelion's comrades.

Regarding the choice of beach, with the identity of these people, even if they want to find an uninhabited island, it is more than enough, but because the problem of the attack of cosmic monsters has not been solved after all, even Roger has not woken up, so there will always be "alternatives" among the four people who are not very interested and don't even say much.

Okay, in fact, what I said just now is very watery. For example, if there is no detailed description of the so-called original plot, even Jung himself does not want to enliven up the atmosphere before and after. Noriko Takaya has been giggling empathetically, and although her sister is not holding "Human Disqualification" as usual, she is also wearing thick sunglasses. Kashiwahara has to repeat nursing lines such as "it's time to change the coach's dressing" and "it's time to turn the coach over" almost every half hour. I'm afraid that except for DG, who only sent a clone over to feel the atmosphere and make trouble at the same time, no one wants to come to this boring beach party at all.

And this beach party is really strongly advocated by DG, and it also proposes a righteous name "to collect enough sexy photos of swimsuits to promote Roger's recovery after waking up". When Jung first heard this reason, he jumped to his feet and scolded DG for being a fool, but in fact, no one who came on August 7 said anything, even she was wearing a bikini......

The reason why everyone at the meeting was so obedient was that how much was persuaded by DG, how many were right in the middle of the slope and the donkey was downhill, or how many were compared and refused to admit defeat, etc., everyone tacitly did not take it seriously. However, it is probably a little over-the-top that this swimsuit party has led to the current dilemma where no one speaks.

It wasn't until DG pretended to broadcast the stalemate of the countermeasure meeting in the imperial capital live.

It is now clear to both the Plane Heroine and the Reincarnation that at least until 10 a.m. on August 8 (Note 1), these top people from all walks of life will not negotiate any proper resolutions. This is one of the reasons why everyone can still have time to play even after the order to disband the TOP troops has been announced a full day after discovering the cosmic monster.

As for the fact that Roger has not woken up yet, this is not taken seriously, and the reason is here.

Okay, in fact, Jung still thought about the boring question of how much time it would take to "get from Hakone to the imperial capital" at the earliest, but given that Ota was still free to vomit blood in Okinawa on August 6 in the original book, it doesn't seem to matter if he flew over temporarily. As for why the coach in the original book was able to appear directly in a hospital gown, it is even more impossible to think about it in detail - even if Ota was living in the Imperial Capital Hospital at the time, and entered the Earth Defense Agency itself in a hospital gown so swaggeringly...... It's definitely not just a shame issue, right?

In short, the topic is back to the first, the four "people" present now know that Eltreum is unreliable, and even if Roger is really lying in Hakone at that time, it is imperative to manipulate the other puppets and even any of the four to break into the conference room and propose the Exelion black hole self-explosion plan. Therefore, for the current temporary combination of beaches, how to ensure the smooth completion of the escort mission is the focus of everyone's attention.

It is inevitable that the GUNBUSTER crew will attack, and the key plot of Noriko Takaya and Kasumi Amano officially piloting the GUNBUSTER for the first time will definitely not be erased. Relatively speaking, it is more worrying: since the number of enemies has increased N times, can a protagonist machine really fight a bloody way?

And this is still considered as the premise that "the enemy's tactics are still rigid and rigid", assuming that there are some strange evolutions on the side of the cosmic monsters again, such as giving up attacking Exelion, directly based on the relevant information carried by Noriko Takaya and their bodies, directly tracking and then WARP to the vicinity of the earth, then there will be a show.

So this directly leads to the fact that Jung, the strongest combat force at present, must stay on the earth, and Kashiwahara's plan is neither taking advantage of the mobile phone body nor cooperating with other people's tacit cooperation with the "outside" role, and it is obvious that he can only enter the standby state.

It should be noted here that in the original work, the human side deliberately made GUNBUSTER and Exelion rush to the final defense line by direct flight instead of WARP in order to avoid exposing the direct coordinates of the earth (Note 2), which does not mean that Jung and Kashiwahara could not directly use WARP or FLOD to go directly to the battlefield. So this actually means that as long as the enemy is indeed firmly pinned down by Noriko, the Earth Garrison detachment can go to reinforcements at any time.

Although the plan was preliminarily formulated, the heart of the reincarnation team was always a little empty, and if you looked up, Kashiwahara's side was not much better. Amano's face is a little calm, but it seems that the most confident is actually Noriko Takaya, the first heroine of the plane.

Unfortunately, before she could ask why she was so determined, the spiritual link broadcast from DG sounded in the minds of the four people at the same time:

"Roger, wake up."

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Note 1: The white subtitles of the fifth episode start from the imperial capital, and the exact time of August 8 is not actually given, but there is a close-up of the clock on the wall before Ota breaks in. However, because the calendar of Noriko Takaya's room previously stated that she was going to the beach on the 7th, and the conversation with Jung had already appeared in the play, it is currently believed that the emergency countermeasures meeting was still in place on August 8th, but if you follow the wiki's explanation, the cosmic monster was discovered on the morning of the 6th and a meeting of the Military Command Department was held, and the countermeasures meeting was held on the 8th, this inefficient government would still be dead......

Note 2: Of course, there is also a lack of acceleration time and distance, and it is likely that with the conditions of human technology at that time, it is impossible to achieve Exelion's ultra-short distance WARP - in the vast universe, this distance between the orbits of planets within the star system can only be described as "ultra-short" - maybe, but anyway, there is no longer no strange technique in the text to do anything to do the black TOP plane.