Chapter 435: Return to Titan
The world will never be transferred by human will, regardless of whether the current status quo is what Shi Chen wants, but things still happened after all, Elizabeth couldn't resist the ambition to regain power after all, and it is difficult for Shi Chen and Lia to achieve their original goals through high-level personal negotiations.
Although the upper-level administrative power of the federation has reached a high degree of centralization through the overhead integration of the past two years, the federation is a federation after all, and it can never be compared with the imperial centralization of the millennium.
What is even more undeniable is that when the class contradictions in the country reach a certain level, war is the best and easiest way to divert the contradictions.
Now that this state apparatus has been successfully promoted by Elizabeth's will, if it is to stop it in the middle of the way, it will only be ruthlessly crushed by this huge and heavy wheel, and even if Elizabeth intervenes, it is very likely that this fragile machine will be thrown into an extremely violent and uncontrollable situation.
Liya looked at Shi Chen calmly: "It seems that you have a good impression of my mother, after hearing this news, are you just a little disappointed in her?" ”
"Yes, having ambitions and desires is not an incomprehensible thing to me, but I am an ordinary person like me, but more often than not, we call them ideals and aspirations. Many people use their own abilities as a reference to define their corresponding desires, and some people use their own ambitions as coordinates to improve their abilities. And your mother belongs to a third party, she does not lack the corresponding ability, just need a suitable opportunity, to be able to maximize her ambitions and ambitions. And I only provided that opportunity when she needed it most, and even I believe that with her ability, even without me, I am afraid that she could create this opportunity on her own, just like the Silver Cross War back then. ”
Shi Chen looked at Liya's eyes and said, a little dry: "To some extent, your mother's ability to govern. It's much higher than the legislators who are on a vegetarian diet. Seriously, if it weren't for this trip to the Empire, I think I'd be a loyal fan of your mother. Because at that time, I must have believed that the Federation would be better under your mother's rule, at least for me, the people at the bottom. ”
Leah shook her head, "She will only drag the Federation into the abyss, in the quagmire of war, and sink." And then destruction. ”
Shi Chen's face froze, knowing that to some extent, what Lia said was true, Elizabeth may be an excellent ruler, but the war machine of the Federation is still too fragile after all, and in contrast, although the empire has been falling apart, if the war situation of the Federation against the empire reaches a certain critical point, Shi Chen believes that the vassal kings of the empire will not be stupid to continue fighting, and they will also choose to temporarily put aside their contradictions and fight. Unanimously turn the spearhead at the Federation.
The Confederation may be able to defeat the Empire on a local battlefield, but it will never be able to annex the other side as the Empire did back then, at least, not the current Confederation.
The empire is simply too big. The population is also too large to be eaten by a federation that has not yet recovered after self-castration.
As Leah said, such a war in the later stages will only drag the Federation into a never-ending quagmire. Especially after entering the territory of the Empire, the Union soldiers have to face not only the Imperial soldiers on the battlefield, but also the Imperial civilians who are driven by hatred and madness to do anything.
It's about facing this reality. Shi Chen could only remain silent.
Maybe Elizabeth has her next thoughts and plans, but the large-scale biological mecha approved by her is her trump card, and it is also a deadly time bomb.
Although the federal authorities have claimed to have developed antibodies to the same virus as in Piazza Lensa, who knows if the Reich will compete for other means of this weapon? After all, when it comes to the prototype of the biological mecha, the Imperial is the ancestor of the War Apostles, and God knows how far they have secretly developed this biological weapon, and whether there will be any similar secret weapons.
In the face of Shi Chen's silence, Leah withdrew her gaze and refocused her attention on Shi Chen's problematic chromosomes and gene chains.
"Then shall we go directly to Earth next?"
Shi Chen actually wanted to go back to the Capital Star Circle first, he really wanted to see those familiar faces that he hadn't seen for a long time, calculate the time, Qianlin should also go to preschool, and I don't know if she is well-behaved, whether she listens or not, and thinks about herself.
Liya held the test tube's hand in the air for a slight pause, looked at Shi Chen behind her through the reflection of the test tube and said: "Maybe we have to wait a little, let's go back to the Titan first, although the quality of this Apocalypse is very good, it combines the top resources and peak technology of the previous generation of human beings at that time, and many of the performance is not much better than your father's Icarus built by United Airlines, but we still need to prepare a lot of materials and equipment, that damn place may be more terrifying than you imagined, Otherwise, the place would have become a tourist mecca or a paradise for speculators. ”
"Oh? How so? "Although Shi Chen has heard a lot of rumors about the birthplace of the human race, for some reason, in the data of the Federation, the information on the earth is blank, as if it has been erased out of thin air under the will of some people, or is this the result of the so-called traitors of the empire?
"Ever since the Sun turned into a red giant under the action of the curvature apparatus, Mercury has been swallowed up directly, and the Earth has become a veritable hell, with daytime temperatures often maintained around 296-423 degrees Celsius, and once it turns into night, it will suddenly drop to more than minus 80 degrees, or even lower, and because of the huge temperature difference between day and night, the cyclonic storms there are more terrible than you see in disaster movies, and you won't survive more than three minutes there without some special spacesuits and protective devices. Moreover, I doubt that even in such an environment, the biochemical monsters left behind in the catastrophe were not completely extinct, and to some extent, they were the real devils. ”
Shi Chen opened his mouth slightly, although he had expected it in his heart, but when he suddenly heard this kind of information, he still felt an inexplicable shock, and it was really difficult to connect this hellish environment with the birthplace of human beings.
At the same time, he also felt a little puzzled, so he asked: "If this is the case, it should not be too dangerous to choose to land at the time of the night, about minus eighty degrees, as long as you leave before the sun rises, but why has the Federation never organized a decent exploration team?" ”
"The investment is too high, the risk is too great, and the investment is completely disproportionate to the return. At least the material requirements of the spacecraft alone are not something that ordinary consortiums can do. Not everyone has the madness and courage of your perverted father. And most importantly, some people in the Federation know what's left there. ”
Leah raised her head and said with some solemnity: "And compared to those, the most terrifying thing is the frequent flares in the recent days, and the accompanying coronal mass ejections are enough to disrupt or even destroy any mechanical and electronic system of the human race." So the only slightly safe time to make a landfall is the sunspot quiet period every 11-13 years. Your father's two trips to Earth followed this time, and he was lucky. Our luck seems to be good, too, and according to the observers I left in the solar system, the Sun's flare eruptions in recent days are on the verge of curtailing, and will enter a quiet period for the next four months. That's when we'll be able to land. ”
Shi Chen nodded knowingly.
Three months later, like a shark in the deep sea, the Apocalypse silently bypassed the Canglan defense line and swam into the territory of the Federation since the road of Suya Yayan entering the Suyue Galaxy, and after a long journey, finally returned to the star field where Shi Chen looked up at the starry sky countless times.
Leah hid the Apocalypse in Saturn's meteorite belt, and then piloted a small craft into stealth mode, bypassing Titan's infrequent and even lax air defense alert scanning.
After nearly five years, Shi Chen returned here again, back to his first hometown, Titan. (To be continued......)