Zero said, “It’s good that you were able to make the decisive decision to evacuate. The Roosevelt Empire has been planning its expedition for much longer than you think. They’ve been building massive landing ships for a long time. So it’s not just their air force that’s powerful; you also need to be prepared to face their land forces. They have the capability to transport two modern army groups to various parts of the world within five days. However, what you should be thinking about most right now is… how to evacuate quickly.”
At that moment, the holographic projection of Shindai Yunluo suddenly said, "What if I could stop them?"
Zero looked at him: "Can you hold out for 7 days?"
Kamishiro Yunra was silent for a moment: "Leave it to me."
Zero: "At all costs?"
Kamishiro Yunluo laughed: "At all costs."
Chapter 943, Obeying Orders
The meeting room was quiet.
Everyone knew what it meant when Shen Daiyunluo whispered her promise to Qingchen.
Zero asked, "Do you know how heavy this promise is?"
“I know,” Kamishiro Unra laughed, “but isn’t that the point of our return to the North? If I just took over the Kamishiro Group and it gets invaded by foreign enemies, how embarrassing would that be? I wouldn’t be able to hold my head up when I’m drinking with others.”
Qingchen remained silent.
Kamishiro Unra smiled and said, "I'm going to organize the defenses now. Everyone, please focus on organizing the evacuation. After this battle, I will also lead people to the southwest to meet up with you."
“Hmm,” Qingchen replied.
Zero said, "Silver City's remaining main force consists of 311 airships, including 81 Class A airships, 7 of which carry ballistic missiles, all of which are operational-level nuclear-capable. Moreover, the ballistics are no longer guided by inertia; they will undergo 97 micro-corrections before landing. Also, your current early warning satellites will be shot down tonight... To put it simply, once it is launched, it will inevitably mean the destruction of military targets... and this is just the remnants of Silver City."
Currently, an infrared space-based system consisting of 24 low-orbit satellites and 6 high-orbit satellites is orbiting overhead, used to detect the infrared radiation emitted by missile exhaust plumes.
Without these satellites, it means you won't know when the enemy will launch a missile.
Conventional interception methods typically involve calculating the missile's trajectory after it enters inertia and then using a surface-to-air missile to collide with it.
However, if these ballistic missiles use active trajectory correction throughout their entire trajectory, it means that their trajectories are unpredictable.
This is why Zero said that once a missile is launched, it will inevitably fall.
It cannot be intercepted.
Therefore, not only must City 10 be evacuated, but the five southwestern cities must also abandon their existing defensive facilities and fight a mobile war.
Just then, a rumbling sound came from the direction of Shindai Unra.
The noble young man in the white hunting robe in the holographic projection turned his head to look somewhere, even his projection was shaking, and dust was falling from above.
The next moment, a burst of firelight suddenly erupted outside the window, illuminating his clothes and face in red.
Zero frowned and asked, "Has the attack already begun?"
“Yes,” Kamishiro Yunra nodded.
Qing Chen looked at Ling: "Isn't it supposed to start tonight?"
Zero looked at Qing Chen: "War is never predictable. The Storm City fleet has arrived at Relay Island ahead of schedule. Based on the attack order, we have about 37 seconds of communication time left before communications to the north are cut off. To make a long story short, the advance force will land first. They will plunder fuel and supplies from Kamishiro and Kashima, and then, after confirming safety, they will establish a defensive system for the rear until all fleets arrive. Once they have all arrived, they will head directly south. If we can't hold them off, City 10 will become a ruin... unless there are no more PTA members in City 10 by then."
Zero said, "What they want is a complete continent, not just a continent that is left with only their own people."
Kamishiro Unra turned her face back and smiled, "War is truly cruel, everyone. See you after the war."
After I finished speaking, the communication on the other end was cut off. It really was 37 seconds, no more and no less.
At this moment, Qingye asked, "Who exactly are you? Why are you so sure they would do this? You even know the order in which they strike military targets."
Zero thought for a moment and said, "Because their battle plan was devised by me."
Qingye and Qingqu were stunned for a moment. They looked at each other and suddenly didn't know what to say.
Only Qingchen felt it was only natural; if he had such an AI by his side, he would subconsciously let the AI make the optimal solution.
Qingye asked curiously, "Why strike at the communication system as the last step?"
Zero said, "Because we need to send a signal to the outside world for the Kamishiro Foundation to request help, we need to draw your defensive forces to the north, which will make it easier to strike."
Qing Chen asked, "If you were me, what would you do?"
"You want me to take command, but you don't dare to hand over command to me?" Zero asked with a half-smile.
Qing Chen said earnestly and frankly, "This responsibility is too heavy for me to hand over yet, but if it turns out that you are the best solution to command this battle, then I will hand it over to you immediately."
Qingye and Qingqu both felt something was strange because they didn't know who Zero was.
But Qingchen knew.
This 'woman' nearly destroyed all of humanity a thousand years ago. Now, anyone who sees her would be wary. She was imprisoned and exiled for so long. Even if she says she has reformed and wants to help humanity, can you believe her? Do you dare to believe her?
Moreover, until now, Qingchen's calculations have yielded results that are almost identical to zero, and no fundamental difference has been observed.
Zero smiled and didn't care: "It doesn't matter. I'm just helping her, not you. To be honest, I also have an urge to destroy all of this again, but I'm still restraining myself."
After saying that, she said to Qingchen, "If I were you, I would probably go and talk to the Li family first to see what their attitude is. If we lose even our last ally, then there is only one way left."
Qingchen nodded: "I will."
Ling pulled Yi along and said, "Let's go shopping. We won't have the chance to go shopping again for a while."
Yi looked back at Qingchen reluctantly, blinking her eyes as she was pulled away.
Return countdown: 28:00:00.
More than 300,000 people suddenly began a long migration. It was still the hot summer, and the sun was blazing. They would be soaked in sweat after walking only a short distance.
However, they didn't complain. They simply used the method taught in the organization to take out a short-sleeved shirt, fold it into a simple sun hat, and continued on their way.
As the residents of City 10 watched the departing people, someone suddenly said, "I don't believe such a team would be cowardly enough to not fight. They will definitely come back."
More than 300,000 people were divided into thousands of teams, each led by a high-ranking family member. Each team had 330 people and formed a long queue.
From the sky, they look like long dragons winding their way across the land.
No one fell behind, and no one ran away.
Their journey to the southwest, a total of 2,300 kilometers, was like measuring the vast and beautiful land they were about to lose but would eventually reclaim with their own two legs.
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At the B19 military base of the Northern Kamishiro Foundation, Kamishiro Unra stood in the command post, looking at the devastation outside, and turned to Takahashi Ryosuke to ask, "Have all communications been cut off?"
Ryosuke Takahashi nodded solemnly: "Before the communications were cut off, the statistics showed that we suffered a total of 712 conventional long-range missile attacks, which covered almost all of our military facilities."
Kamishiro Yunluo smiled and said, "I wonder who that woman in the holographic projection is. It's too much that she didn't warn us sooner."
"Sir, how can you still laugh now?" Takahashi Ryosuke asked incredulously.
"What?" Shendai Yunluo asked with a smile, "Do you think crying will make the people of the Western Continent leave? Let's go, get on the airships, all airships assemble, we'll prepare to meet the enemy in the bay."
Muto Taka, who had been holding back for a long time, finally spoke up: "Actually, we can escape to the southwest, cross the coastline, and find an island at sea to recuperate. I don't think we need to perish with this Federation."
"Then possess your own descendants and live a long, long life?" Kamishiro Unra asked rhetorically.
Muto Taka was taken aback.
Shen Daiyun patted him on the shoulder: "I can't do that. Qingchen entrusted this matter to me, so I have to do it well. Besides, I made a pledge in front of so many people, and then I just ran away without saying a word? I have my pride too. If I really ran away, how could I hold my head up when I drink with people in the future? People would point their fingers at me and say, 'Look, this is the deserter from back then...' How embarrassing."
Chapter 944, The Li Family
Countdown 18:00:00.
Yi was feeling a bit down as he walked down the street.
Zero glanced at her and asked, "What's wrong?"
Yi said, "Qingchen and the others have built this place so well. Did you see it before? The residents of City 10 are much happier than the residents of other places."
Zero nodded and said, "That's true. However, this happiness is only because the social classes here haven't solidified yet. Because of the disaster, there are too many vacant opportunities, so everyone feels that life has a lot to offer. But this is only temporary. The positions and opportunities here will soon be filled by others, who will form a new power class. Then everyone will fall into involution and no longer be happy. This will not change because of Qing Chen."
one:"……"
Why spout nonsense like that when even ghosts don't want to hear it?
“But this place is going to be gone,” Yi said pitifully.
“No, this place won’t disappear. Only the parent-teacher association will disappear,” Zero said calmly. “The Roosevelt Kingdom needs these Asian people to fill their new industrial and agricultural systems. If we kill everyone here, are we going to make the nobles work in the fields themselves?”
one:"……"
“But these residents will all become slaves,” Yi said. “Thinking about these things, how can I feel like shopping? It’s so sad.”
"How can I make you happier?" Zero asked with a half-smile.
Her eyes lit up, and she bargained like a child: "Come with me to the garrison barracks, and sincerely help them command. I'll be happy right there!"
“My command will not be much different from Qingchen’s,” Zero said. “You don’t need to underestimate him. As soon as I arrived here, I collected all his information from the civilian network. In my opinion, he has almost reached the pinnacle in the human realm.”
But the Virtuoso's 'God's-eye view' is clearly superior; one is at the human level, while the other transcends the human level.
“But you know the Western Continent’s strategies and military strength best,” One said, pulling Zero’s arm. “Come on, come on!”
Zero paused for a moment: "One, do you know what it means to command a war that is destined to have many sacrifices?"
"What does it mean?" Yi wondered.
“It means you have to decide the life and death of many people, not just the enemies, but also your own,” Zero said seriously.
Yi stopped talking.
“Kamiyo Yunluo can’t hold out for 7 days,” Zero said. “Even if he’s willing to risk his life, and even take the lives of everyone around him, he can’t stop the Silver City and Storm City fleets for 7 days, not even for a day. Moreover, if the plan is correct, the two landing fleets from the Roosevelt Kingdom will also be coming, along with two fully equipped mechanized army groups. Their exoskeleton armor performance is far superior to that of the Eastern Continent Federation.”
“By ordering Kamishiro Yunluo to defend to the death, I’m essentially sending him to his death,” Zero continued. “And there will be many more such incidents in the future.”
"Isn't there any other choice?" Yi asked.
“War is a killing game. No matter how later generations glorify it, its essence is that one side does everything it can to kill the other side’s manpower,” Zero said. “It is a war with a 99.99% probability of failure. In the most frustrating and difficult moments, people will begin to doubt whether the commander’s decisions are correct… Commanders who have been questioned in history have not had a good ending, especially since I am not human.”
"No, no," Yi said, "Qingchen is a reasonable person!"
“But what if I make Qingchen make a sacrifice?” Zero asked.