After the envoys returned to the solar system, the two sides began to carry out their respective plans.

Devourers build small nuclear drills to attack shelters in rock formations

The drill is solid, which is to prevent humans from destroying its internal structure through the space door.

The drill casts a wide net to find a human refuge, and when it finds its target, it will burrow over it and detonate its own nuclear fusion reactor, which is enough to destroy the human refuge.

Shelters are built so small that a single light bomb can destroy a Vault.

The United Nations, on its part, used the tactic of diversion of seawater into the inner ring through the space gate, which was an efficient slaughter tactic.

At the same time, the two civilizations worked hard to produce the lens, using space gates to transport it to a synchronous orbit between Earth and Sun for assembly.

The lens focuses on the sun's rays, melting the shattered canopy and returning sunlight to the earth.

It's a long process.

The water on the surface has frozen into ice, and the sea water has only submerged a small half of the inner ring, and the main target is the industrial area.

Without the seawater, the humans and Bojiang people, who already have few heavy weapons, would not be able to effectively damage the inner ring.

After that, the two sides engaged in the most primitive tunnel warfare in the huge star ring lithosphere, with the advantage of man-devouring weapons, and the humans and the Bojiang people had a spatial advantage, and no one could get any benefits.

Humans and Bojiang people, who can use the space gate at will, slowly migrate to Mercury during the war.

In the third year after the resumption of the war, the space lens project came to a standstill as the industrial areas on the rings were destroyed.

The two civilizations stepped up the construction of extraterrestrial bases and transferred people.

"Damn, Devourers want to run!"

Under the ice layer several kilometers thick, Jiang Qi cursed in his heart because the sea water ran to the inner ring.

Passing by the sea, he wanted to see if there were any frozen fish, and after searching for a long time, he found no fish, but saw a devouring man.

In front of him, about five kilometers away, there was a factory where transport ships were built.

Jiang Qi secretly regretted to himself: "If only there were bombs, I would have to kill your escape spaceship." ”

"I don't know how many factories there are under the sea..."

Thinking about it, he opened the spatial door and returned to the base, where it was a giant burrowing worm slowly digging through the tunnel.

The cavity of the bug cart carried a few supplies, which were food for the burrowing worms, and in addition to that, there were a few hungry people who fainted.

The burrower slowly digs through the tunnel, its ass followed by a long procession of estimated thousands.

The excavated rock is transported through the space door to the end of the line, blocking the tunnel and intercepting the hot drills.

Jiang Qi walked out of the cavity and ran to the end of the line, where several officers discussed how to solve the drill.

The easiest way to do this is to open a door in its path and send it somewhere else.

But the drill has a self-detonation system, and as soon as it finds that half of its foot has stepped into another space, it will immediately self-detonate.

However, the team is too close to the drilling machine, and the nuclear-level self-explosion will cause the tunnel to collapse, and there will be instantaneous high pressure, which will cause a large number of casualties.

A hungry person on the road asked, "Hey, Jiang Qi, I've been going for so long, have you found any food?" ”

Small bases have been destroyed, nuclear power stations, synthetic grain factories, all are gone, everyone is on the run.

Many people have been hungry for days, and if they don't get anything to eat, they will starve to death.

Jiang Qi nodded and said, "I found it, there are a lot, but it's not easy to take." ”

"A lot...? Forget it, it's better to have food than to starve to death. "Everybody knows what food is.

There was still some distance between Jiang Qi and Jiang Qi heard the voice of the officer talking: "Can you make the driller speed up the tunneling?" Far enough apart, there won't be too many casualties. ”

The technical officer of Bojiang said: "No way, burrowing insects are living creatures after all, and they need to take in a lot of nutrients. ”

"What about moving to other tunnels?"

"It doesn't seem to work, Devourers have set up a lot of rock-like high-sensitivity bombs in the tunnel, which is not safe."

So you can only dig new tunnels, and the old ones have traps and can't be used.

"Jiang Qi! How, did you find anything? Seeing Jiang Qi, someone greeted him warmly.

Jiang Qi told everyone about his discovery.

Commander Li Qian said: "I'll go to the center of the command room to report and see if I can give them a meteorite." ”

The so-called meteorite skyfall is to find a small meteorite moving at high speed and drop it into the sky above the target through the space gate.

The United Nations has used this trick to destroy many factories and cities that devour people, and it has been tried and tested repeatedly.

Later, the devourer also hid in a small tunnel, and this trick didn't hurt much.

Li Qian opened the door and went to the headquarters to report.

Others packed their things and prepared for the hunt.

Through the space gate, they came to a place about five kilometers outside the Devourer shipyard in the blink of an eye to observe the enemy's situation.

Jiang Qi asked the Bojiang people: "Is there a way to determine where they store their grain?" ”

"Wait a minute."

The Bojiang people pulled a few times of sand, dug out some roots, and inserted their hair into the root net.

Then, he shook his head: "It's ruined, you can't see it." ”

"Then hunt the dinosaurs."

The observer took a telescope and looked at it, and said, "They all have exoskeleton armor, and steel spears are ineffective." ”

Human industry has declined to the point of using primitive weapons, and it is no better to devour people, and such an important facility as the dockyard is not equipped with radar, which is indeed a primitive war.

"Space Gate Trap, Fall to Kill Them?"

"It's useless, look at the backpack, the jet."

After a moment of deliberation, everyone suddenly looked at the sky, and a meteorite fell, "It is the wreckage of the moon." ”

Gray, so easy to recognize.

Everyone hurriedly lowered their stomachs to avoid the strong wind.

After the strong wind, the huge dockyard was in ruins.

Li Qian walked out of the door and said, "Start work, don't care about the living dinosaurs, find the corpse and drag it away immediately." ”

Jiang Qi said cautiously: "Be careful, there may be a bomb in the body of the dinosaur, and bringing it back will only kill everyone." ”

The crowd entered the ruins through the space door and searched for useful supplies in pairs.

The carefully selected meteorite, both in mass and speed, was just right and destroyed only the dock.

There was no search value inside, everyone searched the perimeter of the dock, and there were almost no complete corpses, and most of the dinosaurs lost their vital signs, and the bombs planted in their bodies were activated.

Jiang Qi picked up the thick severed limb, pulled out its exoskeleton for scanning, and threw it into the space door without finding any metal, and the food was gathered in a temporary base five kilometers away for a more detailed examination.

"Jiang Qi! Watch the back! Five hundred meters, garbage heaps! ”

Hearing the shouts of his teammates, Jiang Qi reflexively turned around and raised his hand, his eyes locked on the suspicious target to open the door.

Several bullets larger than a fist were fired, the bullet speed was very slow and soft, probably the wire of the electromagnetic gun was affected by the impact of the meteorite, and there was no way to shoot at full power.

One bullet hit Jiang Qi's calf, tearing his entire thigh, and three bullets passed through the door and hit the shooter.

Then, the shooter blew himself up.

The companion ran over, looked at Jiang Qi's stump, and pulled him back to the burrower.

The doctor quickly bandaged Jiang Qi, "Brother, before the end of the war, you can only be disabled." ”

Jiang Qi wiped away his tears silently, although he had expected such a day, but it really happened, it was still a little uncomfortable.

It happened too suddenly, "Doctor, is there any anesthetic?" Give me a shot. ”

"No, bear with me."

The doctor talked about other topics, trying to divert Jiang Qi's attention: "After the war, in which direction do you plan to treat it?" Reconstruct the severed limb with biomedicine, or do you want to be completely or semi-mechanically transformed like Chief Li Qian, leaving only a brain? ”

Jiang Qi said abruptly: "The war is really over, of course I want to be physical and experience the new earth." ”

"Green mountains and green waters, I have only seen them in textbooks."

The doctor also showed a yearning look: "I was born on the moon and have seen the ecological garden, it was really a beautiful thing, but it was destroyed by devouring people. ”

"Our two civilizations will win, but how many of us will survive to the end of the war?"

……

A few dozen minutes later, the hunting unit returned, bringing back food with bad news:

Dinosaur meat is poisonous and cannot eliminate clean toxins, and large amounts of accumulated toxins can lead to death due to heart failure.

Bojiang people try their best to reduce toxicity, eat every day, and probably only live for a year, without losing their mobility, about half a year.

People are dying of hunger, and they have to eat poison, so everyone happily makes a fire and stews meat.

……

The first phase of the space base is gradually being completed, and the synthetic food factory is in full swing to provide food for the people.

At the same time, the space lens project was restarted.

It seems that the defeat of the Devouring Empire has been decided, and with the Great Law of Meteorites Falling from the Sky, they can't even build a spaceship.

However, the turning point came very suddenly, and one day, the staff on the space lens suddenly found that a piece of the canopy had disappeared, not because it was focused and melted, but out of thin air.

On closer inspection, it was discovered that something was devouring the skylight construction spacecraft, and the scientists quickly recognized it as a nanobot.

In the ensuing negotiations, the Devouring Empire used the release of the Nano Scourge to destroy the Earth-Star Ring as a bargaining chip, and demanded that humans and the Bojiang civilization allow the Devouring Empire to build a new generation of spaceships to sail to the stars.

Devourers know that even if they have nanomachines, they can't win, and behind the pan-human civilization is the Pan-Human Council, so all they want is to escape.

And so, the war ended.

It took five years for the Devourers to devour the Star Ring and build a new generation of ships to sail into space.

There was no canopy to obstruct the earth, the sun shone on the earth, the star ring gradually thawed, and the two civilizations began to recuperate and restore the ecology of the star ring and the earth.

Chen Xi sent over the tombstone that was originally given to devouring people and devouring people but was not taken away.

Then, he began to try to connect with the ideal.

(End of chapter)