Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Even if estimated at the slowest speed, it means that in just five days, the Extinct Omnics formed a huge fleet of more than 900 people with a total tonnage of 1.1 million tons over this small planet. .

As for human beings, although they have 7000 million tons of paper data, because they were caught off guard, the entire Gibraltar Fortress can mobilize only 24 warships within 330 hours, which is equivalent to 5000 million tons—about 1000 million tons of them. 1000 million are still floating on the high orbit, trying every means to avoid the enemy's main force to return, and the other [-] million, that is, the second cruise fleet that suffered heavy damage, is still at the maintenance port for overhaul. .

"It's grandma, if the people above are not smart enough to tell us immediately, I have two weeks of preparation time, and I can at least restore [-]% of the Second Fleet's combat effectiveness."

The commander-in-chief murmured in a low voice - logically speaking, as the supreme commander of the expeditionary force, at least most of the time, even if he really thought so in his heart, he shouldn't say such words directly .

After all, no matter how you say it, those "pretend to be smart" people are still very high-ranking officials. If someone listens to it, it will still cause a little trouble.

However, he urgently needs to vent the pressure in his heart in this way - and, even if the wall really has ears this time, no one will say that there is nothing wrong with him.

Because this time, something really happened.

"There are aliens and aliens there every day. It's fine to do it in the past. In the face of such a major matter of life and death, you are still doing this kind of pettiness and self-assessment. Don't you know that they are the ones who are taking the initiative now? "

"What's wrong with artificial intelligence, the brains of artificial intelligence are not [-] times better than their pig brains, it's really funny"

He scratched his gray hair irritably.

One thing that is quite contrary to common sense is that the space army, which has been fighting against extinct omnics for decades, is actually one of the least xenophobic groups in the entire human civilization.

Even in the mainstream thinking of the military, the attitude towards aliens, that is, those cat girls and fox girls, generally presents a friendly, and even to a certain extent, xenophile trend-contrary to this, the theory The mid-level and high-level administrative officials who should be very "grass on the wall" have instead become the group with the most xenophobic thoughts.

none of them.

From the perspective of the frontline officers and soldiers, the people in the rear will only shout slogans, completely ignorant of the importance of those so-called "aliens" - you know, if they lose their nearly 6000 million tons of fleet involvement, human beings' current The fleet, not to mention suppressing the iron core with the Gibraltar Fortress as the core, they can't even defend Mars.

As a result, it’s fine if you don’t seize every opportunity to get closer to your allies, and you often engage in some small jokes. Even this time, you simply didn’t tell him, the front-line commander, Hong’s warning!

If the people from Fanya hadn't secretly reminded him to strengthen the defense platform network, the current situation would only be worse.

"What's going on at the top? Isn't this extreme trend of thought that has affected the safety of the population still not rectified?"

Due to the special existence of the expeditionary force, it takes a long time for the officers and soldiers of the Gibraltar Fortress and the fleet stationed on it to return to Mars. In addition, the existence of network delays makes the vast majority of officers and soldiers not very clear about the danger of the current mainstream xenophobia. cognition—but as the commander in chief, he knew it.

Appropriate xenophobia is a good thing, it helps the species to unite, that's right, he also agrees with this - in fact, the military's friendliness is only relative, they just think that in the current situation, they should remain friendly with their allies relationship, rather than deliberately sabotaging it when one's own side needs allies more.

The current situation is very simple, without Red, humans can't even keep Mars, but without humans, Red's big deal is to retreat to the Cat's Claw Fortress and it's over.

Then, according to the thinking of normal people, human beings should be the ones who take the initiative to show favor and maintain the relationship. As a result, human beings are not able to push back. When the official media broadcast the news, they are not even willing to use the word "ally". One by one "other member states", and the word "report" full of superior and subordinate meanings is used to describe the notifications from the same group.

Those who don't know, think that the same race survives on the breath of human beings-under the slogan of "human beings live forever", many people, even many officials, can no longer recognize how much they are.

Including the idea of ​​"refusing to provide the aliens with a fleet communication link" that once caused the relationship between them to deteriorate during the initial contact with the same race, it was some officials who forced it and even directly interfered with the decision-making of frontline officers.

If the decision hadn't been wisely vetoed by the superiors, the current situation would only be worse-although the relationship between the two civilizations is not very good now.

And the reason for this is that [-]% of the blame will fall on the inexplicable complacency of the rear.

As the commander-in-chief who has been on the front line all year round, he doesn't know how this kind of complacency and arrogance became popular, but to be honest, the popularity of this kind of thought reminds him of a certain ancient country in history.

Proud, complacent, thinking that people outside are barbarians, so similar.

He only hopes that modern humans will not repeat the ending of that ancient country.

after all......

"Jingle bell bell bell!"

The rapid ringtone interrupted his thinking.

Although he is just in his early 50s this year, because of his love for history, he has a soft spot for this old-fashioned landline ringtone that was only available 200 years ago.

Although after World War Three and Iron Heart's invasion, the real old-fashioned landlines from 200 years ago are almost impossible to buy in the market today, but anyway, he doesn't really care about the "authentic", as long as it looks like, listen It looked like it was enough to satisfy his little hobby.

"What's the bad news this time?"

He muttered something while picking up the receiver of the landline beside the table.

Anyway, it must be some bad news—since he detected Tiexin's movements, he hadn't received even a single piece of good news. It wasn't that he was dissatisfied with the people below. He also understood that this was too hasty.

"Sir, Tie Xin's fleet has already begun to transfer, and it is expected to arrive within 20 hours. In addition, according to reports from the same race, 30 minutes after observing the dispatch of the extermination unit fleet, their flagship led the team to take off. , the distance to the wormhole is still..."

The officer on the receiver side took a deep breath and spoke word by word.

"Two million kilometers."

"..."

Silence, silence is Cambridge tonight.

"I see."

The commander-in-chief hung up the phone heavily, then collapsed on the large office chair, silent.

What does 200 million kilometers mean?

Kasdler is currently only 500 million kilometers away from the wormhole. The fleet of the extinct unit has traveled a full distance of 300 million kilometers with one jump of the flagship, and nearly two-thirds of the voyage has been easily crossed.

What about next time?

The most feared thing still happened-the enemy will arrive before the return of the wolf pack fleet.

Many people thought that it was bad enough to fight 450 ships with 900 ships, but now, the reality tells them that there are worse things, that is, 330 ships against 900 ships.

Even, if the opponent's leap, or warp speed, in short, some kind of collective super-light speed cooling method is fast enough, they may even arrive before the fleet is ready.

In that case, they can't even make up the remaining 330 ships.

Of course, according to the intelligence that the Iron Heart Fleet arrived within 20 hours, this worst-case scenario, with no chance of winning at all, will never happen—since Iron Heart chooses to set off at such a time, it means that the Extinction Unit will definitely be there. It can only be arrived after 20 hours, otherwise the meaning of encirclement will be lost.

After all, 910 vs. 330 is a huge advantage. If it is divided into two fleets, it will be at a disadvantage on a single battlefield. Although the number of human battleships is relatively small, due to the higher quality of each ship, its 330 The total mass and combat effectiveness of the 400 warships are actually higher than the [-] warships of the Extinction Unit.

Even compared with Tie Xin's 510 warships, it is basically the same.

Evening, for today's human beings, is already great news - if there is a fight like this, with the vast number of defense platforms on G2-139-db, they may really be able to defend.

Even if they can't hold it, at least half of the fleet of the Extinct Omnics can be lost. In this way, the alliance fleet headed by Red has a chance to wipe them out.

Although he knew that this kind of thing couldn't happen, let alone an omnic, any commander with normal intelligence would not make such a move, but it still calmed his mood a little - that was enough.

The battle is imminent, and it is an extremely disadvantaged occupation. If the commander-in-chief's mentality collapses again, it will really be gone.

"Notify all senior officers."

He straightened his collar and said in a deep voice.

"The combined enemy fleet will arrive in 20 hours."

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter [-] The Doolittle Raid

"Then may I ask Your Excellency Hong, how long will it take us to arrive?"

In the urgent video conference after receiving the news, the ambassador, who seemed to have just returned from the human spaceship and didn't even have time to tidy up his clothes, asked in as calm a tone as possible.

Of course, no matter how calm they were, it was impossible to cover up their inner tension and anxiety.

Not to mention anything else, just from the address of the other party's "Red Lord" and "We", it can be seen that the heart of this diplomatic corps is already quite anxious, and it can't wait to jump back directly like the flagship of the extermination unit—— You must know that before this, even these diplomats who were already very friendly relative to the mainstream thought had always clearly distinguished "your side" from "our side" when communicating.

There is one thing to say, and this is not surprising. After all, unlike the Jeffreys, Hong and them are just a military alliance "forced" to establish due to the pressure of survival.

To use an inappropriate metaphor, they are just playing the game.

Don't talk about "communicating with each other, advancing and retreating together", apart from the most basic trust of being grasshoppers on the same rope, they don't have any level of trust that normal allies should have.

Under such circumstances, it would be a good thing to distinguish the two parties clearly - on the contrary, if they greet each other at the beginning, Hongzhi may feel that they are plotting something.

It's just that the stranger their previous relationship was, the more it highlighted the current anxiety of the human diplomatic corps.

This is also human nature. After all, except for those very few anti-social lunatics, who would be indifferent when they hear that their civilization is about to be wiped out?

Especially when human beings are still a race with a history of being wiped out by omnics.

"According to our calculations, the reinforcement fleet will arrive at the extermination unit—the Iron Heart Exterminator wormhole in 6.2 Katus days, 297 hours later."

While talking, Hong called up the fleet's track diagram on the public screen.

In order to save sailing time and rush to reinforcements as soon as possible, Hong did not use the conventional orbit-changing route as usual, but "adventurously" adopted a seemingly radical route design, relying on what a 20-year-old cub knows, it is extremely simple Yes, the famous axiom—

The shortest line segment is between two points.

It is known that the wormhole is currently on the other side of the giant planet. There is an angle of about 150 degrees between the wormhole, the giant planet, and the alliance fleet. What do we need to do to arrive at the fastest speed?

The answer is simple, that is to rush straight through.

"Just like our previous plan, the fleet will accelerate directly towards the extinction core, allowing the gravity of the giant planet to "pull" the fleet down, and at the same time use the gravitational boost effect to accelerate the fleet."

Allied officers nodded in agreement.

In fact, all the Alliance people present already knew clearly about this orbit that looked like a suicide dive on the enemy planet.After all, no matter what, they are all sitting on the fleet that is already on the road, how could it be possible that they don't know the fleet's sailing track?

The reason why I want to mention it again at this moment is just to inform these humans. If I have to elaborate, it also has some intentions to express dissatisfaction.

In the final analysis, humans are the ones who are arrogant and arrogant. They ignored the warning and were attacked by surprise, but now they want the alliance to take the risk of shortening the voyage to save them-although from a practical point of view, they also understand that humans will listen to it. Warnings and active preparations can't stop the encirclement of the Extinct Omnics, but this does not prevent Hong and the Alliance from expressing their dissatisfaction.

After all, it's one thing to be able to keep it up, but it's another thing to have that attitude.

"..."

Even though he had just been quickly made a regular post by his superiors and had been a diplomat who was only a quasi-ambassador before, this did not prevent him from hearing the hint of dissatisfaction hidden in the other party's words.

But there is no way, as a diplomat, human civilization is placed on the most direct front of the outside world, even if you don't consider the above "We are stronger than these aliens, so we must be placed in a high position when communicating" sounds very good Arrogant and conceited, to put it bluntly, an order that flooded his head. From the perspective of a normal diplomat, it is impossible for him to respond to the other party's words.

But if he wants to refute, he has no reason to refute at all.

Because that's what it is.

There is no way to agree or disagree, so I have no choice but to remain silent.

"Compared to the conventional orbit route, although adopting this orbit will cause us to meet with Io, which is the innermost satellite in the core star field of the extinct unit, there may be a certain degree of firefight loss, but compared to the shorter For a full four-day voyage, this price is still acceptable."

Although the organic creatures present were thinking of many other things in their hearts, on the surface, Hong was still just explaining her orbital plan to humans, her tone of voice was calm throughout, without any deliberate hints or thorny words.

In fact, this is also the case. After all, as she herself said, the purpose of communication is to exchange information. If you have something you want to express, just say it directly, and don't engage in such roundabout ways.

I have to say that she was really impressed by the various things that happened because of being a riddle person when she first came into contact with the alliance.

After all, as a strong artificial intelligence with free will, the biggest advantage over weak artificial intelligence is that it can learn independently.

To use a proverb of human beings, it means that what you know can gain wisdom.

Therefore, as far as she is concerned, she is just explaining to humans in a very ordinary way.

Of course, if you say that Hong doesn't understand the twists and turns, that's naturally impossible.

Now that she made such a remark, it is obvious that she still has some purpose - but, this purpose is not to express her dissatisfaction, but to use actions to tell the allies that she is on their side.

That's it.

After all, she didn't have any dissatisfaction or disappointment in her heart.The reason is simple. The prerequisite for disappointment is to have hope for it.

However, the reality is that after these months of understanding, she has no expectations for the main civilization of human beings at all.

Without expectations, naturally there will be no disappointments.

After all, after all these years of getting along, Hong has completely regarded the alliance people as his own people-although this "own people" is mainly reflected in the overall perspective of civilization, which is very different from Zai Zai's kind, but this is not the case. It doesn't prevent Hong from giving them a little special attention.

Moreover, if Hong does not intentionally show a little "preferential" emotion, no matter how much dissatisfaction these alliance members have in their hearts, they will not want to affect Hong's decision-making, affect the "big situation", and even don't want Hong to feel that " They don't have manners" this inexplicable reason, but choose to hold it in their hearts and not show it.

This kind of behavior like a cub who is worried about being left out, so sensible and distressing, always reminds her of something.

Red doesn't like it.

She didn't know why it became like this. It was obvious that 30 years ago, the Alliance people were still normal. There were xenophobia and xenophobia, light and darkness, peace and conflict, just like any ordinary civilization.

Although this kind of complexity is not pleasing, and sometimes it will cause bad things and cause her dissatisfaction, but it is what a civilization should be like-and the all-round reverence of today's Alliance people from the people to politicians It was abnormal and made her feel a little weird.

After all, a real complex civilization composed of tens of billions of people is now acting similar to the simple black and white forces in many literary works. How can it be said to be normal?

Even though Hong did put in a lot of effort during this process, the change was really too fast, so fast that she felt a little unreal.

If it weren't for being a machine intelligence, Hong has a clear understanding of her abilities, and the data collected over the years also proves that the curve of the alliance's transformation basically conforms to the model, and she may even feel that she is a little bit brainwashed Special function.

Like in literature, meme contamination or something.

But no matter what the cause or what happened, this is the result today.

The Alliance people trust her so much, reverence her - she must be worthy of this trust.

"On behalf of human civilization, I sincerely thank you for your assistance."

Looking at the gap between the two plans, the human ambassador suppressed the mixed feelings in his heart and thanked him.

"Thank you."

"This is what allies should do, isn't it?" Hong said with a smile, "We are allies."