Six Hundred and Forty-Two, the Motherland Needs You

Mid-December 2025.

It has only been more than half a month since the end of the second Jupiter warship, and the second fleet has embarked on the return journey. Nine spaced apart warships are lined up, sailing in the dark and lonely space.

A beam of laser light from the earth irradiates the fleet, and after flying over a distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers, the laser inevitably spreads in a large area, and the energy density is greatly reduced.

But this laser beam still activated the receiving equipment, and the high-frequency flashing laser was quickly converted into binary data. Several indicator lights were lit on the dead bridge first, and then several equipment started to work by themselves.

In the hibernation cabin, Gao Kai was injected with a sleeping pill. After a while, Gao Kai's consciousness rose from the abyss. After regaining consciousness a little, he found that he was the only one awake in the hibernation cabin, and immediately realized that something unexpected had happened.

Although he hadn't fully recovered yet, Gao Kai couldn't wait any longer. He put on his clothes and rushed to the bridge as quickly as possible.

The bridge was brightly lit but empty, and Gao Kai, who floated into the bridge, grabbed the back of the chair and sat in neatly, fastened his seat belt habitually, and then turned on the communication equipment.

There is an unread file in the communication directory, which contains a document and a video. The sending time was one and a half hours ago, and the receiving time was half an hour ago.

At present, the expedition fleet is about 7.5 astronomical units away from the earth, and it takes an hour for the light signal sent from the earth to reach the fleet.

Gao Kai couldn't help muttering, didn't quantum communication have been successfully tested long ago, when will the fleet be officially equipped?

Tap the file with your fingertips, enter the password on the digital interface that pops up to open the file, tap the video, and Qiu Tianning appears on the screen with a serious face.

"Are you ready?" Qiu Tianning asked nonchalantly on the screen.

The voice-over sounded: "Okay!"

Qiu Tianning looked directly at the camera: "Gao Kai, I'm Qiu Tianning. I just discovered something new. Although you have completed the mission excellently, observations have revealed that Europa is only damaged on the surface, and there are still a large number of aliens hiding inside. The underground city of a group of aliens, just a few days ago, several jets appeared on the back of Io Zero"

"Through observation and calculation, it is found that Jupiter is moving to a higher orbit, which is not the slow orbit change before. A few hours ago, the space telescope discovered that the jet on the back of Jupiter disappeared, although no one has been found yet. Credible evidence, but we have reason to believe that Jupiter is leaving Jupiter, and after leaving Jupiter, it is not leaving outward, but flying to the inner solar system!"

Gao Kai's pupils shrank,

Inner solar system? What do aliens want to do?

The so-called inner solar system refers to the part between the sun and the asteroid belt, which is under the protection of Jupiter and can be said to be the safest area in the solar system.

Qiu Tianning on the screen continued: "At present, we still don't know the purpose of Zero Jupiter. The worst inference is that aliens intend to use Zero Jupiter to hit the earth to completely destroy human beings. Zero Jupiter itself has the ability to maneuver, and with our current Military strength, it is very difficult to change the orbit of Jupiter, once Julius enters the impact orbit, the consequences will be disastrous..."

"Gao Kai, I know your situation is very bad, but apart from you, there is no human fleet near Jupiter. I need...no, the motherland needs you to return to Jupiter to completely destroy Jupiter, at least destroy Jupiter." The thrusters... please!"

Qiu Tianning on the screen stood up, bowed at ninety degrees, and then straightened up after a pause for a few seconds. His piercing gaze seemed to penetrate the screen and penetrate deeply into the bottom of Gao Kai's heart.

Gao Kai was in a state of confusion, he raised his head and stared at the light above his head in a daze, after a while, he let out a long sigh and lowered his gaze.

Closing his eyes and taking a few deep breaths to calm down his turbulent mood, Gao Kai turned on the camera equipment: "Chief, I am Gao Kai. You must already know the current situation of the fleet. Our warships need maintenance and personnel need supplies. Weapons need ammunition. There is not a single missile or cannonball left in the entire fleet. The only remaining shipborne weapons are laser cannons. It can be said that the ammunition is exhausted. There are only a batch of missiles for carrier-based aircraft, but they have used so many None of the shells or missiles destroyed Europa, and I don't think the rest of the missiles would be of much use, and there's no way aliens would let us get close to Europa easily."

"As a soldier, I shouldn't have said these things, but the fleet has many difficulties and is very realistic. If the fleet turns around, the only way to destroy Io Zero is to hit Io Zero like Yunhai... Io's damage is very serious, I don't know if I can destroy Io by continuing to collide, even if I hit the last battleship..."

"Chief, to tell you the truth, from the day I joined the expedition fleet, I put life and death aside. Since I wear this clothes and eat this bowl of rice as a soldier, I can't be a coward. We can't afford to lose that person... There are nine warships, I don't know how many times to hit Zero to destroy Jupiter, but I will keep doing it until I destroy Jupiter or the entire army is wiped out... Chief, if I die, please take care of my family, this It's my only request."

After finishing the last sentence, Gao Kai fell silent.

At this moment, he had countless words in his mind to say, but he didn't know where to start, so he stopped talking at all, and saluted the camera with an unusually standard military salute, then turned off the camera, and sent this video back to Earth .

Gao Kai sat quietly for a while, and waited for his mood to calm down completely before manipulating the equipment and injecting sleeping pills for the captain, first officer, and marines on board.

Half an hour later, the fourteen marines on the Kunlun, plus Ye Han, a non-staff member, gathered in the conference room.

After Gao Kai briefly introduced the situation, he said: "Going back to Jupiter is not a battle. There is no need for everyone to go back. I need you to gather everyone on the Kunlun and let the Kunlun take you back to Earth. I will take a few Personally drive the battleship back... If the collision is useful, eight battleships are enough, if it doesn't work, it's no different to have one more Kunlun... Time is limited, act."

Fifteen marines headed by Ye Han immediately put on power armor, while Gao Kai returned to the bridge and commanded the Kunlun to approach the Penglai. The two warships flew side by side with a distance of more than 100 meters.

The retractable bridge slowly explores the Penglai, and finally fixes on the Penglai, connecting the two warships together. A group of marines enter the Penglai through the bridge, and rush to the hibernation cabin at the first time, where they will be in a hibernation state The crew was sent to the landing craft in the bilge, and sent back to the Kunlun after it was full.

Every crew member has a complete set of hibernation equipment, no matter how they are moved, the safety of the crew will not be affected. This is the basis for implementing the plan.

Another group of marines flew the landing craft on the Kunlun into the Penglai. The four landing craft on the two warships came and went, slowly transferring the crew from the Penglai to the Kunlun.