Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 8 Declaration of War: Seizing the Claim (Additional Update)

"So, then Liu Shaomei is your daughter? No wonder she ignored you. It was me, and I ignored you. I walked away for 20 years without going back once, and I guess you never sent them a message."

Chen Xiaomeng looked at Liu Shaomei, who had always kept a distance from Liu Wenhan and never said a word to him, and suddenly felt some sympathy.

"It's really too much."

Qin Xu said.

"Look, if even this wooden head thinks it's too much, then it's no longer an ordinary excess."

Chen Xiaomeng deeply agreed.

"What I think is excessive is not excessive. I just don't have scientific knowledge and it's not an intellectual defect."

"No, not only do you have no scientific knowledge, but you don't have emotional intelligence, and you don't have intelligence, and you haven't..."

"Oh... I'm sorry for her. So no matter what she does to me now, I won't be angry. I don't have the right to be angry. I hope she can forgive me, but I really hope she can get angry with me and hit me. , you can scold me, you can. The current disregard is what makes me the most painful. Even if I want to do something, I can't do it..."

Liu Wenhan looked at Liu Shaomei, who always kept a distance from him, with mixed feelings in his heart.

"To tell you the truth, if my father dared to do this, I would really ignore him for the rest of my life. But I don't think she would. She might not hate you as much as you think..."

Chen Xiao dreamed and said after thinking about it.

Liu Wenhan glanced at Chen Xiaomeng. Chen Xiaomeng was about the same age as Liu Shaomei, and her thoughts were also the most true. After hearing the first half of Chen Xiaomeng's words, Liu Wenhan felt a sharp pain in his heart. For the second half of the sentence, Liu Wenhan also felt It's all a comfort.

"You don't need to comfort me, this is the punishment I deserve. I just hope I can do something..."

"If she really hated you, she wouldn't take the astronaut test, let alone study hard. Every astronaut is a genius, and it's hard to have two geniuses in a family, so either you are a genius , or she is... But I think she is an astronaut who worked hard to get admitted because she wanted to see her father so much. The diligence behind her wanting to see you may be dozens of times that of others. So I don’t think she really hates you as much as you think.”

After a pause, Chen Xiaomeng said after being silent for a while.

"Or maybe she just wants to experience what it must be like to be a child with a father..."

As if thinking of something, Chen Xiaomeng's eyes were suddenly soaked with water and blurred.

Liu Wenhan suddenly stood up and came to Liu Shaomei's side.

Liu Shaomei still pretended not to see him, but Liu Wenhan didn't care at all and kept talking to himself.

They introduced the functions of rare crystal mines, talked about their excitement when they first boarded the scientific research ship more than ten years ago, and talked about the first abnormal phenomenon they encountered.

He didn't need Liu Shaomei to respond. When Liu Shaomei walked away, he followed her.

Everything is as if there was no such thing as him suddenly running away for 20 years without a letter being answered or sent from home.Just like an ordinary father, telling his daughter everything about him in the past 20 years.

From time to time, like a normal father, he asked about his daughter's current situation, how he felt when preparing for the astronaut exam, and cared about his daughter's affairs.

The only difference is that Liu Shaomei finally didn't walk away all the time. Gradually, she stopped walking back and forth, and just stared at one place, doing work repeatedly.

She didn't say a word, but Chen Xiaomeng already knew that she said everything.

She was telling her father how hard it was for their family after his father left, how irritable her mother became, and how difficult it was to prepare for the astronaut exam.

It was impossible for her to forgive her father's behavior and she could not forgive him.But she still wanted to feel what it was like to be a child with a father, what it felt like, she wanted to know.

So she came, she passed the exam, spent countless days and nights, broke countless pencils, wrote all the papers, and burned out one lamp after another, and finally passed the exam.

All just to see his father, or to know that he is still alive, is enough.Although the person named father had already died in her childhood.

The exploration of the Alpha Planet underground city is still continuing. After coming out of the crystal mine, the relationship between father and daughter is finally not so awkward.

Although Liu Shaomei still didn't say anything, nor did she look at Liu Wenhan.

But when Liu Wenhan approached her, she stopped walking away, and that was enough.

After realizing this, Qin Xu also saw Liu Wenhan hid in a corner and secretly wiped his tears several times. This is the only thing that can make a man cry like this when he is in his 40s.

However, as the scientific research team walked through the streets of the underground city, Qin Xu clearly felt something strange.

This feeling made him feel uncomfortable all over.

Chen Xiaomeng discovered this keenly and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I just always feel uncomfortable. It must be that the environment here is too depressing. Although there is electric lighting, it is just barely enough. No matter the air, sunlight, or openness, it is not as good as the ground. Living here is too It will be very stressful for a long time.”

Qin Xu gave himself a reason.

"That's true. The environment here is not suitable for intelligent creatures to live at all. It is too depressing. Only the indigenous people who have been living here can bear it."

Chen Xiaomeng nodded, but she soon began to doubt her conclusion.

Is it really because I can bear the environment here that I live underground?

Thinking of the overwhelming swarm of insects on the surface, Chen Xiaomeng's body suddenly trembled slightly.

And at this moment, everyone finally felt something uncomfortable... the eyes from the surrounding Alpha Planet people.

"Have you noticed that there are more soldiers here?"

Qin Xu said.

Liu Wenhan also noticed it, turned on the translator and asked the Alpha star guard next to him who was responsible for their investigation of the underground city.

The guard changed his enthusiasm before, and just kept silent when facing the words in the translator. "What happened all of a sudden? We have transferred so many benefits in various transactions. Logically speaking, shouldn't it be more and more enthusiastic?"

Someone in the scientific research team said doubtfully.

"Actually, there is another situation, that is, the more benefits we give, the more the other party will think we are weak..."

Chen Xiaomeng said, and suddenly the communicator on each team member sounded an alarm.

"Alert, the colonial base is under attack. Alert, the colonial base is under attack."

The alarm sound of the communicators on the scientific research team members was like a pebble falling into the water. In an instant, the soldiers wandering among the Alphas made a loud noise and raised their long-barreled rifles to shoot.

Qin Xu reacted the fastest. He pushed Chen Xiaomeng and the nearest people to the nearby bunker, then pulled out his pistol and fired four shots, directly destroying the four guard members who pointed their guns at them. Then he Also hid in the bunker.

At this moment, whether it was the Army soldiers of the Earth United Nations with automatic weapons in the scientific research team, or the Alpha Stars with long-barreled single-shot rifles, they all froze for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, dense gunshots sounded, and the sound of the enemy's guns and one's own guns was continuous.

Qin Xu really didn't have the time to take care of so many people. He could only take care of the few scientific research crew members closest to him. Every time he fired a shot, an Alpha star was shot in the head without any exception.

"Why, why do they suddenly attack us? Why, don't they know the gap between our technological levels?"

Some scientific researchers hid behind the bunker and trembled and asked questions.

"We were too friendly..."

Chen Xiaomeng was very timid, but she didn't know why. Not only was she not afraid when she was close to Qin Xu, but she had time to think and answer other people's questions.

"The scientific research team is calling for reinforcements, the scientific research team is calling for reinforcements!"

An Earth United Nations Army soldier shouted into the communicator.

"Even if there are reinforcements, they won't be able to rescue us first. There are still 200 million civilians on the ground. And we are in someone else's hinterland. It would be good if we don't directly send ground-penetrating missiles over."

Chen Xiaomeng was extremely calm at this moment, and could even calmly analyze that the higher-ups would use ground-penetrating missiles to hit this place.

"Hold!"

After thinking for a while, the army soldier suddenly realized in despair that he really couldn't call for reinforcements at this moment, because their call might really be a ground-penetrating missile.

"Break through, break out, don't wait here, you will either be surrounded by them or be killed by friendly forces!"

Army soldiers yelled at people hiding behind other bunkers.

"Okay, get ready to break out to the south and fight back from the direction you came from!"

"Red Dragon Team, let's go!"

The marines yelled, protecting the scientific researchers and began to break out to the south. More than a dozen automatic rifles fired at full power, suppressing the long-barreled rifle array of hundreds of people on the opposite side in an instant.

However, the further south they broke through and returned in the same direction, the more desperate the team members felt.

The exits between the underground and the ground are originally heavily guarded places. Rows of trenches and barbed wire fences have been pulled up at some point. It is impossible for dozens of fully armed marines to lead nearly a hundred scientific researchers. Break through the defense line.

Thousands of long-barreled spears hid in the trenches and shot at dozens of them, and even the gods could not stop them.

Everyone had to be suppressed by the fire and retreated again.

At such a dangerous time, Liu Wenhan always stayed by Liu Shaomei's side. The two rushed into a bunker, but there was someone behind the bunker.

There was a sharp knife stuck in the head of the long-barreled rifle, and he directly shot Liu Shaomei who rushed in front of him.

"no, do not want!"

Liu Wenhan rushed up like crazy, knocked the Alpha star to the ground, then took out his own pistol and shot the man in the head three times in a row, blood spurted onto Liu Wenhan's hideous face.

When he looked back, Liu Shaomei had fallen into a pool of blood.

Liu Wenhan rushed over, picked up Liu Shaomei, and made her face him. Looking at the pale and bright red cheeks that were soaked in blood, tears flowed down uncontrollably.

"No, it's not like that, no... don't, I have a lot more to say to you, what happened in my 20 years, my travels after I left you, I..."

Liu Shaomei took her last breath, looked at Liu Wenhan's face, and slowly stretched out her hand.

After stroking Liu Wenhan's slightly aged and rough cheek, Liu Shaomei took her last breath, her cold eyes became gentle, and said in a voice as gentle as a mosquito: "Dad...actually I...always, always... I really want to..."

Liu Wenhan was shaking with excitement, and he panicked and held his daughter's hand that was trying his best to touch his cheek, but when he touched it, he found that this hand had no strength at all.

Looking down, Liu Shaomei's eyes had lost their charm, her head was tilted back, and her whole body had no strength at all, drooping like a puppet with its strings cut off.

"Daughter, I miss you too..."

Liu Wenhan buried his head on Liu Shaomei's body, sobbing and trembling like chaff.

It's just that the other party will never hear this daughter's voice.

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