Chapter 600: A Common Man's Blood Splatter

At this time.

Only then did society truly realize that the joint research team's loss of contact was not due to any solar storm, but because extraterrestrial life exists on Mars!

October 11.

That island nation had already completely become a 'meat grinder'; in just two months, humanity's losses approached one hundred million, about 94 million.

Of course, 98% of this death toll were island nation civilians who, due to alien species ambushes and the alien species' dispersed encirclement, could not receive aid and were ultimately consumed.

Meanwhile, the military's losses remained within what the Five Great Nations and the East-West blocs could bear.

Moreover, during that period the alien species were not invincible; at least three-dimensional land-sea-air warfare, especially saturation bombing, was particularly effective against early alien species.

Any carbon-based lifeform, if the caliber and gunpowder are large and numerous enough, will end up reduced to ashes.

But as the alien species consumed the island nation's buildings, vehicles, and various modern technological artifacts, as well as its populace, they evolved from their initial rock-like form to possess human characteristics, becoming swifter and deadlier.

Furthermore, having evolved with building and metal traits, alien species exceeding fifty meters in both length and height no longer fear conventional bombing; they require large air-burst bombs for effective elimination, and some unique individuals even need tactical nuclear weapons.

Thus, the United Human Military, which had originally pushed the front line from near the coast into the island's interior, suffered successive defeats under the alien species' stepwise iterative and evolving counteroffensive, incurring heavy losses.

January 1, 2047.

Because the army could not deploy and mobilize forces more effectively on the island, coupled with the ever-fiercer alien offensive and the fact that the island's interior had long become a forbidden zone for humanity, the high-level officials of the various nations in the United Human Military…

It should be said that, after the high-level officials of the Five Great Nations consulted and unanimously decided, they prepared to complete the withdrawal procedure within ten days and, at dawn on the 11th, drop twenty strategic nuclear weapons onto the island nation, hoping to once and for all resolve the alien species crisis.

But the United Military's withdrawal operation could ultimately not escape the notice of the whole society focused on the island, as well as forces and organizations with ulterior motives.

Finally, surviving island nation civilians unwilling to accept their homeland being completely abandoned posted protest and abuse information online, and after some fermentation it became widely known.

These were not enough to stop the United Military's action, because the Five Great Nations had long planned to use the island as a warning, yet these prematurely exposed the United Military's intention to drop nuclear bombs.

After all, the alien species capable of consuming and transforming naturally, via the island nation's populace being 'swallowed into their bellies', instantly understood human composition and also learned that humanity possesses nuclear weapons.

Furthermore, the alien species could also link into the human network, thereby determining that the United Military was preparing to drop nuclear bombs.

But at that stage, humanity did not anticipate that the alien species would be constantly monitoring the network.

January 1–5.

During this period, the alien species' behavior remained as usual to cause confusion.

January 6.

Before dawn.

The alien species launched a full-scale surprise attack without any warning, causing the United Military's ground forces to become bogged down, unable to complete the withdrawal.

January 7.

Faced with the hopeless retreat of already-deployed ground forces, while the alien species was about to break through the encirclement, seriously threatening other continents, the United Military urgently convened a meeting to discuss whether to preemptively deploy nuclear weapons.

Finally, the United Military, citing 'the minority submits to the majority', and sacrificing the four million ground troops who were still delaying the alien species' breakthrough yet could not withdraw, launched twenty strategic nuclear weapons into the island nation, with a total yield of about 1.2 billion tons of TNT.

January 8, before dawn.

After the nuclear explosion.

Humanity successfully resolved the first alien species crisis, also gaining a relative respite to better study strategies.

August 17, 2049.

The second wave of alien species attacks arrived.

This time, although humanity successfully locked onto the meteorite swarm containing alien species, it was only three minutes earlier, and humanity still could not effectively intercept it.

The meteorite swarm dispersed in near-Earth orbit, respectively falling in the Apennines, Rocky Mountains, and South Cordillera…

Thus, Martian alien species would send to Earth, every three years, a meteorite strike three times more numerous than the previous one.

2049–2069.

Twenty years.

Humanity's population plummeted from a peak of ten billion to around three billion.

Europe, North America, South America, and West Asia nearly fell, with 85% of their territory occupied by alien species; even three of the former Five Great Nations were forced to relocate to relatively safe areas due to the alien species' offensive.

For example, refugees of various skin colors and ethnicities from earlier cities, as well as Shidalā·Buruimier of the Swedish Royal Air Force, etc.

But during these twenty years, the United Human Government (abbreviated as the Human Union) was successfully established.

Furthermore, even though the Human Union chose to shut down the internet to avoid alien species surveillance, the extensive use of mechanical exoskeletons and high-performance mecha still forced humanity's technological rapid development.

In fact, the Human Union already possesses the capability for large-scale interstellar migration, dispatching 200,000 to 400,000 elites to break free of Earth, then escape the Solar System to seek a new homeland.

However, such an action of abandoning the majority would cause morale to waver, and unless absolutely necessary, humanity would never announce it.

Most importantly, the immigration plan's ecological recycling system can last at most 400–450 years, and whether the escape fleet can find and reach a suitable planet before then is a problem, with a success rate not exceeding 5%.

Moreover, among the Human Union's Five Great Nations, Xia—the currently strongest—has consistently adhered to a people-centered approach and the belief that man can conquer nature, holding opposing views on immigration and escape plans.

Rejecting the notion of abandoning one's homeland, the Xia high command generally does not accept it; more directly, even if a new planet is found, would the alien species not follow?

With tens of billions of people at a disadvantage, what about hundreds of thousands?

Only by truly defeating the alien species, and the silicon-based civilization behind them, does humanity have a way to survive.

"Moreover…"

Gao Tiankuo, seeing Yifuleini finish browsing the various data provided by the individual soldier's computer, timely spoke up, saying: 'Our high command, based on all data and materials obtained from Mars' first manned mission, has calculated that the alien creators' 'transfer station' remains on Mars.'

Furthermore, based on our top technical personnel's speculation, the so-called 'transfer station' is very likely a transport device we currently cannot comprehend, or at the very least should be a starship or spacecraft capable of directly reaching their homeworld or important colonies.

Next, Gao Tiankuo shifted his tone, his eyes and demeanor revealing 'ruthlessness' and resolve: 'What reason is there for them to only strike us? We must make them understand what it means for a common man's fury to splash blood five steps.'

And the emergence of your Human Empire can help us achieve our goal more swiftly, delivering a heavy blow to that… the other side.

"Oh?"

Yifuleini's eyes widened slightly; she evidently had not expected that, among the many parallel universes, the 109th universe seemingly needed no intervention from them, already having a plan to deal with anomalous phenomena.

Everyone, sorry for the constant delays.

These days I've written a total of ten thousand characters; I'll upload them all first, and thereafter I'll upload whenever I have time.

During the New Year period, it's not easier than work; seeing relatives, plus making plans to drink with friends and classmates I haven't seen in a while.

But getting sleep feels really refreshing…

Usually I sleep at 1 o'clock, then get up at 11.

After that, as long as I write ten thousand words, I'll release them all at once; updates might be a bit unstable, but I definitely won't abandon it～！

Finally, thanks everyone for your support!

Thanks for subscriptions, recommendation votes, monthly votes, and tips～！

(ps: I dare not look at the comments… hahaha)

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