Chapter 343: Countdown

When Qin Hao said this time, the entire Yanhuang Civilization Command Center fell into a deathly silence.

Luo Lao, Zhang Xianzhong, Zhou Shaoqing……

Everyone's faces were filled with solemnity.

Five months,

For a civilization's war preparations, it is short enough to be almost negligible.

"Five months…… How could this possibly be enough time?"

Zhou Shaoqing muttered to himself; he had just felt a slight ease at annihilating the rebel fleet, but now a huge weight pressed on his heart.

"The enemy expeditionary force's scale is preliminarily estimated at over a hundred billion. Even if we count all affiliated civilizations, our fleet is just over ten billion—this war……"

Zhang Xianzhong's fists were clenched tight, his joints whitening from the force.

Of course,

These ten billion have all reached the level of a fifth-level civilization.

Even so, the numerical gap is still too vast.

"What's there to panic about?"

Qin Hao's icy voice interrupted everyone's thoughts.

He scanned the senior officials in the meeting room, his eyes sharp.

"Panic is the lowest emotion; it solves no problem."

"The enemy gave us five months; then we will use these five months to create a miracle."

His words forcibly pulled everyone back from the brink of panic.

"But, the time is too tight……"

Luo Lao said worriedly, "Production lines, resource allocation, personnel training…… each requires time."

"Then compress time."

Qin Hao's reply was simple and brutal.

He directly on the public network announced the full truth to all of Yanhuang Civilization, and even to the entire "Interstellar Civilization Community."

Without any concealment.

That terrifying fleet, gathered in Andromeda, with a scale exceeding a hundred billion.

That existence called the "Sub-body," a fifth-level high-level civilization.

And, the death countdown of several months hanging over everyone's heads.

As soon as the news came out, the entire Milky Way Galaxy exploded.

Panic, like a plague, spread among tens of thousands of civilizations.

Countless planets fell into chaos, and doomsday theories ran rampant.

Although they believed in Yanhuang Civilization's strength, facing such a concrete and terrifying enemy,

and such pressing time, despair inevitably arose.

Just then,

Qin Hao's hologram appeared before every civilization, every planet, every person in the Milky Way Galaxy.

He did not stand in the majestic Command Center, nor in the grand council hall.

He stood on the keel of a "Shenzhou-class" warship under construction, with countless flashing welding sparks in the background,

and engineering robots working tirelessly like worker ants.

"I know you are afraid."

His voice, through the mental network, directly echoed in the minds of hundreds of millions of people.

"Fear is normal, because our enemy is indeed very strong."

"They devour civilizations like locusts, they regard life as food, and they are coming at us with a hundred billion warships."

He did not soothe; instead, he laid bare the cruel reality.

"But!"

His voice suddenly rose, full of power.

"Since our ancestors stepped out of that blue planet, when has our Yanhuang Civilization ever feared a challenge?"

"We have overcome famine, overcome plague, overcome weapons from our own kind, and also overcome enemies from the depths of the star sea!"

"Every crisis only makes us stronger!"

"Now, an unprecedented storm is about to sweep the entire Milky Way Galaxy."

"We can choose to tremble in fear, awaiting destruction, or……"

His gaze swept over the lens, as if looking at each person.

"Or, take up arms, unite, and shed the last drop of blood for our homeland, for our descendants, for the spark of civilization!"

"The enemy gave us five months of time."

"These five months are not for us to despair and weep!"

"Five months are enough for us to sharpen our teeth! Enough to forge our armor stronger! Enough to point our cannons toward home and tell all invaders——"

"This road, no passage!"

"From today on, no day or night, no rest or recreation! All star systems' shipyards, all arsenals, all resource collection points, operate nonstop twenty-four hours!"

"With our will, with our hands, for the Milky Way Galaxy, forge a wall of iron and steel!"

"The future belongs to civilizations that dare to resist!"

"For survival!"

"Fight!"

Qin Hao's speech ended.

The entire Milky Way Galaxy, however, fell into an eerie silence.

Subsequently, a response like mountains shouting and seas roaring erupted in every corner.

Panic was swept away, replaced by the resolve to break the cauldrons and sink the boats, and the frenzied fighting spirit of being driven to desperation!

The production machinery of the entire Milky Way Galaxy began to operate with unprecedented efficiency, running madly!

Qin Hao did not stop.

He returned to the Command Center and directly linked to the system.

"System, I want to mass-produce production lines."

"【Please confirm the production line model.】"

"Using the automated production line of our currently most advanced 'Shenzhou-class' warship as a blueprint, we will optimize for tenfold efficiency."

"【Model optimization in progress... optimization complete.】"

"【Copying 'Super Production Line', each consumes energy units: 1 billion.】"

"Give me a hundred first."

Qin Hao's tone was like buying vegetables at a market.

"【Command confirmed. Consuming energy units: 100 billion.】"

"【One hundred 'Super Production Lines' have been generated, stored in system space, ready for deployment at any time.】"

Qin Hao immediately deployed these production lines onto the planets with the strongest industrial foundations in the First and Second Administrative Districts.

The order was issued.

"Goal: produce five billion Shenzhou-class warships within five months!"

This number made Zhang Xianzhong and Zhou Shaoqing suck in a breath of cold air.

This amounts to recreating half of the Milky Way Galaxy's existing fleet in half a year!

Just as this production frenzy swept across the entire civilization, Qian Yin of the Academy of Sciences also brought good news.

"Report to Qin Consultant! The prototype of the Anti-biological Weapon has entered the final testing stage.

"The first batch of samples of the Dimensional Shockwave Torpedo has also come off the production line! Live-fire testing can be conducted at any time!"

Everything is developing toward a better direction.

However, Qin Hao's ominous premonition in his heart grew stronger and stronger.

Five months...

Will the enemy really give us five months?

At the moment he was pondering this question.

The Command Center rang with the sharpest, most urgent alarm!

A red alert from the outermost deep-space warning station at the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy was directly transmitted to the Supreme Command!

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"Coordinates, outer spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, star sector SG-7749, detected a large-scale abnormal spatial fluctuation!"

"The source of the fluctuation is rapidly approaching!"

"They're here!"

A officer in charge of monitoring shouted with a trembling voice.

"The vanguard of the Devourers... has already entered the outskirts of the Milky Way Galaxy!"