Chapter 1166 Last Days of the Empire

The sky was a cloudy orange, and the sun seemed to be fixed on one side of the morning and evening line forever, which made people breathless.

There are farmlands all over the mountains and fields, but the crops here seem to be blue. Looking around, layers of waves are stacked, and a piece of blue is like the sea.

Lu Zhou originally thought that the experience this time would be the same as the last time, and it would be the hard core of a hail of bullets. Unexpectedly, what was presented in front of him at this moment was an idyllic scene.

However, this feeling soon came to an abrupt end as his gaze continued upward.

The mountains in the distance seem to have been sliced ​​in half by some terrifying force, and the alloy fracture exposed outside the rock is full of scars.

It can be seen that an extremely tragic battle broke out here.

"It's spectacular, isn't it?" Standing next to him was a Jialan man with a vicissitudes of life. His sharp jaw moved. He squinted his eyes and looked at the distant dusk. He continued, "Long, I heard that Distant Star is your hometown."

Guessing that the man was talking to him, Lu Zhou nodded and said.

"Yes...General Reinhardt."

The difference from the last time was that this time, just as he opened his mouth, a string of strange memories flooded into his mind. The character he's syncing with is a soldier from a colony on a faraway planet, in Gem. After the beacon of death was lit, he joined the rebel army and became a member of the general Reinhardt's guard.

incredible.

Unexpectedly, this Reinhardt... the protagonist played by Lu Zhou in the first memory, actually set off a revolution to overthrow the empire fifty years after the oracle incident?

However, it seems that their situation is not very optimistic.

At least for now, they are presumably on the defensive side, and have been decimated in the previous round of battle.

"I'm sorry that your hometown has become like this. I remember that mountain was once one of the top ten most spectacular sights in the empire. It seems to be called the Gate of Dawn and Dusk?"

At this moment, a man with the appearance of a non-commissioned officer came over.

"General, the fleet of the Empire has issued an ultimatum to us."

Reinhardt was silent for a while before speaking.

"Call the officers above rank five and ask them to wait for me in the staff room. I have important matters to discuss with them."

"yes."

The sergeant turned and walked away.

Reinhardt turned to look at Long standing beside him, which is the role played by Lu Zhou at the moment. I saw his index finger pointing to the sky, where there were streams of brilliant light like shooting stars.

"See those arcs?"

Lu Zhou raised his head and looked in the direction he was pointing.

Without waiting for himself to speak, he smiled and continued.

"That's the tachyon spear of the empire, amazing isn't it?"

Lu Zhou: "...General?"

"Centuries ago, we ended the last war and eliminated most of the armed forces. However, in less than five years, we have re-armed the empire's fleet to the teeth."

"War is indeed a biological instinct. It seems that the empire has not decayed as badly as we imagined... It's because I underestimated those old stubborn people in the chamber."

Saying that, Reinhardt shook his head, with a self-deprecating smile on his face.

But it's also good.

Although it is doubtful whether such a fleet will be effective in the face of the natural disasters in the oracle, at least the current empire is different from the empire five years ago, and it is no longer a sheep lying on the chopping board.

even if.

That too was a sheep armed to the teeth.

"Come with me, Ron."

"For every second we delay, a heroic soldier dies for our cause. In order for their sacrifice not to be in vain, and to give us some hope for our future, I need to do something. If I need courage, Will you lend it to me?"

Not knowing how to answer this sentence, Lu Zhou said after being silent for a while.

"...you are brave enough, General."

"Really?" General Reinhardt smiled and shook his head as if recalling some distant past, and continued in a carefree voice, "Maybe."

...

The staff room will be here soon.

Reinhardt put his hands on the conference table, looked around at the officers present, and said frankly and even indifferently.

"Gentlemen, we are losing this war."

There was no sound at the conference table.

Lu Zhou noticed that many people were holding their breath.

"I'm not afraid of failure. Death is just returning to the embrace of the spirit of the universe. For a warrior, sacrifice is his greatest glory. My commander once taught me this, although he may be very disappointed with me now."

Grinning, looking around at the officers at the conference table, General Reinhardt continued.

"I'm not afraid of failure, but I don't want to end up with all our endeavors turning into pointless resistance."

"At least, in case the worst happens, we have to at least have something left."

The staff room was silent for a long time.

An officer finally broke the silence and spoke.

"But General, what can we leave behind?"

"Leave the fire, or in other words, leave hope," Reinhardt walked to the side of the holographic panel, waved his hand, and switched the combat map to the star map of the entire star system.

Looking at the cantilevered galaxy, his index finger pointed to the center of the galaxy.

"Dr. Ryan's notes have calculated the course of the strange drops, and we know where they are going. If we want to be there, we will go there."

The commander of the Revolutionary Army Fleet showed a bitter expression: "No living body can break through the blockade of the Imperial Fleet, they will definitely check every aircraft that shows signs of life activity, and even 'clean' the entire planet if necessary. Moreover, none of our spacecraft can completely leave the supply station and sail to a strange star field five hundred light-years away. Even according to the lowest energy consumption standard, our spacecraft is at least One hundred thousand light years..."

"Then send the dead things over there!"

A trace of determination appeared on his face, as if such a decision had been made a long time ago, Reinhardt said in an undeniable tone, "Copy my memory in the hardware, and then make my body into a specimen .”

"It would be for the best if our civilization survived."

"If not, we must at least leave something behind to prove that this great empire once existed!"

The memory of the second half is more or less tragic.

When the meeting was halfway through, the impatient Imperial fleet had already started bombing the ground. The hot plasma melted the rock mass, turning the surface into a purgatory. Chemical energy weapons, which are useless in space, have shown unimaginable power in ground attacks on planets in atmospheric environments.

Under the repeated suppression of orbital weapons and automatic ground combat units, the defense line of the revolutionary army gradually disintegrated.

In the underground bunker, Reinhardt saved his memory in the computer, personally set the route of the escape spacecraft, and intelligent cruise AI.

In the end, in the silent farewell of countless officers, he ended his life with a needle containing a deadly virus, and became a specimen to go to the center of the star system.

After seeing the end of the story, Lu Zhou didn't know when it started, so he held his breath.

Although the subsequent 100,000 light-year journey did not appear before his eyes, since this memory has been preserved, the spaceship carrying hope must have successfully arrived at the center of the star system.

Everything about the old universe has been destroyed, but this memory is still handed down and seen by myself in the new universe.

Of course, what really shocked him was not the calmness of the Jialan people in the face of the bombing, but a detail of General Reinhardt before boarding the escaped spaceship.

I saw that General Reinhardt took out a battery cut off in the middle from the collar, prayed silently for a moment, and then put it back.

Lu Zhou recognized that battery!

That battery was exactly the clip of the energy weapon he saw in the first memory.

And it was the one that was pierced by unknown rays under the rain of bullets from drones!

Unexpectedly, this battery was actually worn by Reinhardt as a talisman, and he put it together with his body and sent it to the center of the star system.

Broken batteries, spaceship engines weathered by time, and even a mentally handicapped AI...

Reminiscent of the gift he got from the void, Lu Zhou felt his heartbeat suddenly speed up.

In this way, the gifts he has received from the void so far are likely to come from the wreckage of the Jialan Empire... or cultural relics.

He may, know Xiao Ai's origin...