Tyra, your ancestors are back!

"I'm angry~ If 416 knew, I would comfort the commander who just woke up and was confused about everything is right and wrong—"

"Won't you be more angry?"

"No way~ no way~?!"

"ump45!!!"

It can be seen that, as the number one lioness certified by the 404 team, Miss 416 is really angry, she is going to bite someone!

Watching a certain lioness loosen her grip on the gun, allowing the weapon to be hung on her chest by the gun belt, and lightning began to jump on her fist - that is a sign of the activation of the disintegration position...

Feeling that something was wrong, UMP9 sneaked to the side with Ms. G10, the dormouse who had slept for 11 years and seemed to have not had enough sleep, and watched the impending battle between his elder sister and the vice-captain, Ms. 416.

"If you let Dandelay wake me up just to get mad at me, I'll break one of your legs right now!!!"

It seems that Miss 416 still made a final concession and tolerance——

"If that's what I think—"

But it looks like some people don't appreciate it...?

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"Sister, why are you messing with 416..."

Looking at 45 who had an exoskeleton brace installed on his right leg, UMP9 came over again and cursed.

"Because it's really fun for 416 to be angry, 9—and I just revealed the status of the commander. At that time, 416 who cares about it will definitely cause a lot of [trouble] to the commander~"

"In a sense, this can also pull the commander out of his confused state."

45's expression became a little serious.

"Hey...Speaking of which, we are going to see the commander, Miss 45? Is she okay?"

"It depends on what you think is good—"

The voices of the UMP sisters once again attracted the dispirited Miss 416 to come over...

"UMP45, what happened to her, Commander?"

"If you look at it from the perspective of medical physiology - the commander is in very good condition, and the 10 years of deep sleep has not affected any indicators of her body..."

"According to Miss Dandelai, the intensity of the commander's psionic waveform seems to have increased during the tens of thousands of years of dormancy."

The tactical figure named UMP45 shrugged.

"Emmmm.... Doesn't that sound good, sister? After a good night's sleep, your strength has also improved. Think about what so many people dreamed of achieving back then."

After thinking for a while⑨, I shook my head, with a look that human beings are so complicated that I can't understand...

"⑨Ah, you have to know that the commander itself is very strong. Even if the commander's military strength in the Forerunner Council is not top-notch, he is still an Alpha Plus psyker... When the strength reaches a threshold, what is the improvement? That’s pretty trivial, too.”

"This increase in strength does not bring much happiness, and the commander may not even notice the increase in strength—"

"Because I'm strong, so I won't feel any stronger..."

After thinking about it for a while, ump9 came to such a conclusion.

"Yes."

45 nodded.

"Then sister, you just said that from a physiological point of view, the commander is in excellent condition - what else is there?"

"Of course, from a psychological point of view - our commander may not be in a good state right now..."

"When I was awakened by Dandelai to go round with the commander, I didn't see a person or a human figure like me on the road, not even those autonomous machines that simply operated according to instructions."

"If it is according to the plan specified by the commander and her friends... when the commander is awakened, the entire city in the air will be in operation, and it cannot be as deserted as it is now."

"Although Dandelai has been repeatedly inquiring about the lack of authority to inform me of the specific situation of the plan, but I am saying, "Our plans have almost failed, right? "She didn't mean to deny it."

"You all should understand what this sentence means...?"

45 looked seriously at the team members in front of him.

"All failed?"

The white-haired AR figure first questioned——

"But our commander, Ms. Alice, according to your description, is alive and well, and the air city, which is the refuge of ancient civilizations, has not suffered serious damage."

"416, you need to know...the revival plan to rekindle the fire of human civilization in order to survive the "Dark Age", the executor of it is not just the commander."

".....This is impossible!"

"The other two consuls are on par with the commander in terms of strength alone, and even surpassed in some places—"

"It's not a matter of strength or lack of strength——HK416."

Before the white-haired doll could finish speaking, it was interrupted by UMP45——

"You have to know that the essence of the revival plan is a big dormancy—gathering elites from various fields such as scientific research, military affairs, and administrative planning, concentrating a large amount of supplies, entering the dormant cabin and sleeping to survive the darkest era of this planet."

"What happened to the long slumber no one ever knew - and now the answer has been revealed."

"Vault 1, which is responsible for preserving the main cutting-edge technology, and Vault 2, which preserves most of the population, were damaged as expected - otherwise Dandelai would not have used emergency activation to wake me and the commander up."

"No. [-] Vault - that is, the city below us, the former administrative center. As a comprehensive shelter with no specialization, I can't see a single living person on my life detector... Oh , no... we still have a commander."

"So, we should be thankful that the commander is still alive, otherwise we have to shout that the glory of mankind will last forever, and then go to retake the surface or something?"

Seeing the chattering 45, HK416 choked back angrily.

"Wrong, we should worry about the commander's psychological state now. You have to know that the commander has always regarded everyone in the council and us as family members."

"In the dark age, more than half of the consuls have completely disappeared, and the last three surviving consuls are now two missing. How do you think the commander feels now?"

"So the commander woke us all up to find those two?"

"No, that's for later. Now we are going to invite the commander's guests, or the intruders of the sky city."

"Hmph~ I hope these guests can bring some good news to the commander, otherwise I will throw them all off the empty island~"

45 moved his wrist with a bad expression, causing the visitors who had just got off the transport plane and looked around curiously to suddenly feel a chill on the bridge of their noses.

Chapter 4 Terra's "Billion Dots" Trouble

The "Dark Age"—or the end of the Golden Age, also represents the fall of the human civilization that once roamed proudly above the sea of ​​stars.

The Archons detected some kind of hungry and crazy consciousness at the edge of the Milky Way. It, or rather, they have been drifting for too long and are now longing for a meal, a harvest or an assimilation.

"That's a threat, a danger to all intelligent life."

The parliamentary governors who received the news made a decision with such certainty, but soon discovered that there was nothing they could do about it - even if human beings were at the pinnacle of civilization at this moment, people at that time would not be able to half-encircle the entire galaxy. The great deeds destroyed by the harvesters who hunted them.

Humanity, at least, could not escape unscathed; so a mad plan was proposed by one of the Archons, and finally passed unanimously—

【Authorize the ether phase engine plan, we will use the infinite power in the virtual world to crush all enemies who do not follow. 】

So far, a few stars in the Milky Way have fallen forever.

However, if the accident can be foreseen, it is not an accident...

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"We failed, and we succeeded—"

Alice stood at the top of the parliament building, looking at the slightly illusory starry sky and recovering from the past memories, whispering words that others could not understand.

"You're curious about what happened, aren't you, Dandelay?"

Turning her head to look at Miss Dandelion beside her, her calm expression could hardly conceal the curiosity in her eyes, Alice showed a slightly bitter smile.

"Yes, all the surviving consuls are reluctant to mention this matter, and you even deliberately deleted the record of the last stop in the database-why did the dark age come, and why did the consuls have to prepare so much? "

Dan Delai tilted his head in confusion, looking at Alice in front of him, the artificial intelligence's golden pupils were full of doubts.

"You only gave me three plans, but never explained why you carried out these plans..."

"As I said before... Dandelai."

"We succeeded, we failed...the ether phase engine was successfully activated, and we cleared the entire galaxy, even beyond the river where our fleet has not yet set foot."

"The entire Void fell into dead silence after the engine was started, and the sea of ​​souls removed those shining points that represent human beings—it was bleak."

"We did something that no one had ever done before - mass extinction of intelligent life across the universe."

"In other words, those natural disasters that you call the Flood, Bug Plague, Reaper or other names have been completely wiped out. Our plan has succeeded?"

Dandelai nodded. The artificial intelligence had no feelings about the fact that the creators had exterminated intelligent life in the entire universe.

"Yeah, we succeeded—in a sense, humans have become the only masters of this universe."

The white-haired consul shook his head, his eyes and words were full of mockery——

"It's supposed to be like this—it's supposed to be..."

The women's words carry mourning and lamentation.

"After all, we still underestimated the power of natural disasters. The time and distance gained by countless sacrifices are still one hour away from the preparation of the ether phase engine and the capital's planetary shield."

The white-haired woman spoke, as if she had returned to the battlefield ten thousand years ago—the anti-aircraft positions all over the surface of the planet roared non-stop, covering the only remaining fleet above the orbit.

And led by the consuls.A legion of all psychics stood on the steeple and weaved and swayed all kinds of strange psionic storms against the starry sky—everyone was fighting for the last time when the engine started.

"The technological crystallization that humans are most proud of in the golden age turned into fireworks at that moment, and the wreckage floated in the starry sky, or fell into the land of Terra..."

"But you said, the ether phase engine finally started...?"

"That's right, it started. In the most dangerous and unacceptable way—with the fall of the last battleship above the orbit, we forcibly activated the ether phase engine."

"The hasty and violent start of the etheric phase engine quickly lost our control and entered an overload state. And we can only hope that the doctor's theory is correct, this layer of illusory shield can protect our feet Mother planet.”

"The Doctor made it, right?"

Dan Delai looked at the starry sky that seemed to be covered with some kind of illusory filter, and raised his own question in an affirmative tone.

"That's right...the doctor's theory is correct, we succeeded - but, only a little bit..."

"The shield, or this layer of stance, did protect us from the energy impact erupted by the etheric phase engine...but it also put Terra into a million points of trouble."

Recalling the words of the technical officers who reported the results to her in the past, the corners of Alice's mouth inevitably twitched...

"Billions of troubles...is that a big trouble?"

The artificial intelligence keenly captured the subtle difference in the pronunciation of the "billion point" spoken by the archon.

"That's right, Dandelai - our dear home planet, Terra... was blasted into the "interval zone" between the real universe and the virtual world..."

"This planet is now stuck in the void."

"This....."

Dan Delai showed an incredible expression——

"You mean, our home world is stuck on the edge of reality and fiction at this moment??"

"That's right...but there is at least one piece of good news—the explosion of the ether phase engine that also benefited from overload...the demons and ghosts that existed in the void in the past are completely dead."

"However, to be conservative, the last consuls of the parliament have decided to maintain the operation of this protective position, so as to avoid any unexpected situations in the virtual world in the ten thousand years of time."

"So... Archon?"

"Dandre - the starry sky above this land is false, at least for the successors of our civilization, this starry sky is false..."

"What they see is nothing but the harmless light pollution created by the interlacing of the grotesque virtual world and the real universe after being filtered by layers of protection."

"For them, they have never really witnessed the brilliance of the stars. For us, it has been 10 years away from the bright galaxy in our hands."

"A successor who has never seen the true appearance of the stars and can only wander on the earth, an ancient who longs to dominate the stars again--Dendrei, I am grateful for the possibility of harmony among those "children" A pessimistic attitude—”

"They may not understand our long-cherished wishes, and we may have difficulty accepting many of the ideas of their era..."

"In every era, there will be people who yearn for the sky...it will get better, my lord, everything will get better..."

......

"—About the current situation of the mother planet, Master Alice, you should have a solution, right?"

Dandelai, who also looked up at the starry sky, turned his attention to a serious question-if Terra has been stuck at the junction of the virtual world and reality, will we not be able to get out?

"Yes... But I'm not enough alone, Dandelai - I have a plan, but first we need to find our comrades, as the immortals, the consuls are immortal without any accidents , time does not kill us."

"Let's start by finding her...Kelxi, the executor of the seeding plan."