Section 26 The so-called heroes
"We call them Paramounts. Diana said slowly.
Alien?
This word is not unfamiliar to Lance. In fact, since the quantum storm erupted, order on Earth has become increasingly fragile.
A large number of humans died, a large number of monsters were born, and for a while, this beautiful aqua blue planet was enveloped in an atmosphere of panic and gore.
And the death of a large number of human beings has finally been exchanged for the evolution of a few. The order of the chaotic years began to be re-established step by step.
Several of the most outstanding superheroes in human history, such as the god of war Li Tianci, and the establishment of the Aegis Bureau, accelerated the process of reshaping this order.
But the whole process was not smooth.
Before the quantum storm, aliens were nothing more than a conjecture in human science fiction. After all, the universe is so vast, and human space technology is far from reaching the point of visiting other planets that meet the conditions for the birth of life, and whether those visitors from outside the sky have really come to the earth is mostly foggy and ambiguous.
But after that catastrophe, everything changed.
The two alien invasions both had a powerful impact on the already fragile order, and even in the process of the second alien invasion, the order established by the Aegis Bureau and the superheroes almost collapsed, and humanity was driven to the point of extinction. And during that time, it was also the end of mankind, and countless heroes emerged.
It was the sacrifice of these heroes that led humanity to finally wipe out those two invaders one after another.
However, the previous two alien invasions were different from this one.
In Lance's memory. The first alien invasion - the kind of intelligent life that scientists called "red-faced ghosts", when they appeared on Earth, the total number did not exceed sixty. It was an abnormal shipbuilding crash landing, and according to later speculation, the alien spaceship carrying sixty red-faced ghosts should have encountered the destruction of some unknowable force while traveling through the galaxy, and at a critical moment, they made a [jump] of a desperate battle, and as a result, they came to Earth.
This alien creature is very aggressive, and it has more abilities similar to the [alien] in science fiction movies, they are powerful. And it uses humans and other life as bait. Keep incubating yourself.
The spacecraft landed in South Africa, in fact, Africa was the least damaged region after the quantum storm, followed by Asia and North America, and Europe was almost completely destroyed. Only a handful of southern European peoples survived - only when the first report reached the Aregis base. The red-faced ghost group has expanded to more than five hundred.
A small village in eastern South Africa is full of mourning. Not only humans, but all creatures with a sufficient amount of flesh on them will be targeted by such creatures.
The only consolation was that their ship was broken. There are not even basic communication equipment. Otherwise, if they attract more of their kind, humanity will doom.
After the loss of three elite squads, both the Shield and the human heroes were demoralized to the extreme. After all, at that time, human beings still maintained a state of awe and fear for aliens.
And the tentative results of the two sides are also shocking.
Only a B-rank hero can barely compete with an adult red-faced ghost - just a rivalry, mind you. Heroes who can hunt red-faced ghosts one-on-one alone, there will be no more than fifty people on the entire planet.
Horford Isa, then the first director of the Aegis, Diana's father, decided to drop a small nuclear bomb on the area after receiving valuable information from the fourth elite team.
Thankfully, humanity still has nuclear weapons.
By this time, the attitudes of ordinary people, who had hated nuclear weapons because they had suffered from the quantum storm, had finally changed somewhat. Prior to this incident, there had been a lot of talk about the research of nuclear weapons as the source of the outbreak of the quantum storm. The autonomous governments of all regions did not dare to continue to research nuclear weapons against the will of the people, and only the secret bases of the Heavenly Shield Bureau still retained many nuclear weapons before the fall of the major powers.
This nuclear bomb has cleaned up more than ninety percent of the red-faced ghosts for mankind. The remaining monsters were finally eliminated one by one under the separation and fighting of the major powerful heroes.
However, the whole process is much more tragic than it says. At that time, more than half of the superheroes under the command of the Aegis Bureau were killed and wounded, and the B-level heroes were left in less than single digits.
A battle to defend the earth has greatly damaged the vitality of the human race, and the only thing to be thankful for is that the red-faced ghost group should have no follow-up troops. Otherwise, it's time for humanity to consider a retreat plan.
Although they also have nowhere to retreat.
It is worth mentioning that it seems that it was also during this battle that a certain doctor surnamed Huaxia, surnamed Li, who practiced medicine in a small village in South Africa, was killed by a very aggressive red-faced ghost larvae while he was diagnosing a black man parasitized by the larvae of a red-faced ghost. And his two sons witnessed this catastrophe with their own eyes.
The two children did not have any reason to be spared, but soon, Horford, the director of the Aegis Bureau, arrived with an elite team and rescued the two brothers.
In short, the first alien invasion was a nightmare experience for the entire human race on Earth. Although this time the battle only took place in Africa, the humans who survived on other continents also saw the tragic battle through the video of Guò.
Humanity is in a panic like never before.
However, at times like these, not everyone will panic. There are always some people who will explode in a constant panic.
They get used to fear and then turn it into a motivation to move forward, eventually becoming stronger and stronger.
For example, the elder brother of the two teenagers who was rescued by the director.
......
Although Lance has not personally experienced these histories, as a salesman, he can still hear from the mouths of many C-level or quasi-C-rank heroes he has befriended.
As for the second alien invasion, it was more than ten years ago. Lance was a kid at the time, but that scene was for him. But it's still fresh in my memory.
The second alien invasion came even more suddenly. This time, it's a creature called Flange. They are really very similar to humans, with all their limbs and features, the only difference is that they have a pair of gills on their faces, which may have something to do with the fact that they originally lived on a planet with more water.
Their ears are pointed, somewhat similar to the elven figures in Western mythology.
To be honest, even according to human aesthetic standards, every flange is so handsome and beautiful.
But in keeping with their handsome appearance, this creature is a natural weapon of killing. Each flange carries a pet-like creature, with low-level flanged pets able to breathe fire, acid sprays, and the like, while medium-level flange pets can fly. Can do things that many superheroes can't; There are only a few, their pets, whose ability is to turn back time for a period of time - yes, captured by the Aegis. The kind of creature used to study time lapse.
Unlike the red-faced ghost, which is an accidental crash landing. The Francis established a base on the moon. They are purposefully invading the Earth and trying to turn it into their own colony or farm.
Through later research, humans knew that this creature was similar to the existence of a cosmic hunter. They were organized in one with three fleets. Several establishments do not interact with each other. They wander the vast universe in a special spaceship, until one day, while wandering around the galaxy, they accidentally catch the information carried by the quantum storm.
They learned about a part of the earth through that information. In the eyes of the Francis, humans are creatures that should be their captivity by nature.
Three fleets, more than three thousand flanges, are ready to go on the moon.
According to information received by special intelligence officers at the cost of their lives, a special weapon was installed on their spaceship. If the Francois had arrived on the surface in a fleet, it would only take more than a hundred Flanges for them to unleash that weapon, turning the entire Earth into an environment similar to their home planet - full of oceans.
It can be seen that if any of these ships were allowed to reach the surface of the earth, humanity would be doomed.
Therefore, in the post-quantum era, the famous three [atmospheric defense wars] kicked off.
The course of the battle was extremely tragic.
Lance remembers that they hid in the underground base during that time, watching the sky on the screen as people fell, stumps and blood flew all over the sky, but even so, people rushed into the sky. They fly the worst planes, and they have to keep the Francis' fleet out of the atmosphere.
The heroes and the flanges fought to the death, and it was a war that lasted for three months.
Three battles, each more brutal, and at the end, H.I.E.L.D. gathered a heroic counterattack - you know, at that time, the superpowers from all over the world were almost dead and wounded. The remaining heroes who only have support abilities are also obligated to step up.
Because they don't have a choice.
If they retreat, then death will come to their parents, their wives and their children, their fellow citizens.
Human beings are wonderful creatures: apathy and passion, selfishness and selflessness, fear and courage, greed and indifference, aggression and protection...... All of this qiē contradiction is perfectly embodied in human beings.
At the end of the road, many people thought that they would see the ugliness of human nature.
But in the end, they saw the light of humanity.
When all the ordinary people hid in the underground bunkers and watched the heroes on the screen rush desperately to the seemingly impregnable fortress in the sky, only to be hit by missiles and turned into a rain of blood-
Everyone burst into tears.
This is our hero.
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A week later, the Franks retreated. (To be continued......)
PS: Let me explain, because of the theme of this book, I won't write too much about the earth~~ About the world after the quantum storm, in fact, I have a complete set of settings and systems, but limited by space, I can only pick and write. Superpowers and the apocalyptic world are still very enthusiastic, if I have the opportunity, maybe I will write a book in the future, with this world as the background.