Chapter 240-2: Initial Contact, I Am a Calamity (2) |
Upon discovering Earth’s spiritual energy content is thin, invading forces would take their point of descent as the starting point and launch an invasion war sweeping across the world.
There would not even be a chance to negotiate properly.
By the time the invading force realizes something is wrong, the war plus accumulated hatred cannot be halted.
But there are also forces that, in the early stage of descent, first contact nearby Earth races and consider invasion or cooperation after finding out the situation.
Many members of the Earth Alliance now arrived with the idea of invasion in the early days.
But after understanding the Lunar Eclipse race, they all gave up on war and decisively joined the Earth Alliance organization.
It is just that this period of history has basically been altered. The vast majority of the new generation born on Earth do not know in what mindset their ancestors arrived.
Most think their ancestors came with a posture of win-win cooperation.
In truth, it was a capitulation and compromise after realizing they could not defeat the Earth Alliance.
The disparity in strength made massacre the lowest-cost means of conquest while allowing exclusive control over the resources.
Cooperation, on the other hand, contained a great deal of uncertainty. The future could not guarantee whether the native force supported in cooperation would betray them, presenting potential risk factors.
So even if they did not choose slaughter, they would enslave native groups to serve them.
All the more so when the scope expands to race versus race.
And the presence of the Lunar Eclipse race is like an insurmountable mountain standing before all aliens who attempt to lay hands on Earth.
Under absolute military deterrence, a descending force that realizes going to war means annihilation of its race will not dare entertain any ideas.
Then, after several generations, they fully integrate into the big family of the Earth Alliance and forget that they were invaders in the early days.
This is even more so in the eyes of each race’s new generation.
Their impression of their homeland is blurry, just passages in the histories, while their view of Earth is that it is the home that nurtured them, and they identify with it completely.
As for those descending races that choose to launch war, the vast majority are strangled in the cradle.
Very few can initiate a world class war.
In fact, under normal circumstances, the Lunar Eclipse race will not even take action.
But this time is different.
The unknown force that launched the probing attack has the ability to keep a spatial passage open. That alone is a show of strength.
Second, the floating behemoth’s body materials prove the potential invading force’s spiritual material strength far surpasses the spiritual materials used by Earth’s races.
Once this war breaks out, it will inflict unprecedented damage on Earth.
Pollution from the Mechanical War period has still not been fully cleaned up today.
It is hard for the races to imagine what impact this invading force, which masters powerful biotechnology, will have on Earth’s ecology upon descent.
Amid the tension, the No. 1 Governor representing the Lunar Eclipse race walked up to the rostrum. His clothes had changed from the usual governor’s attire to a more formal war uniform.
The design was more streamlined, overall silver-white, with inscriptions unique to the Lunar Eclipse race inlaid at the shoulders.
His voice was transmitted to the ears of the various race representatives through the holographic sound field.
“Fellow governors, the appearance of the floating behemoth can be confirmed as a probing attack. Both the combat data and the materials data are already shown on the screen. Our existing defense system can hardly form an effective means of defense against the other side’s biotechnology.”
“According to test results, the corrosive mucus sprayed by the floating behemoth is a highly active bio-enzyme that can decompose the molecular structure of almost all known materials. The spiritual resources we use have no advantage in front of it.”
After explaining the situation in detail, the No. 1 Governor issued orders in his capacity as the Earth Alliance’s overall war commander.
He called for the establishment of a joint research group, concentrating top scholars of all races to attempt to develop new defensive materials based on the data obtained from the analysis.
Second, to strengthen monitoring and defense of the spatial fissure and deploy more detection devices.
He also initiated an emergency resource allocation plan to ensure that all races have sufficient resource support in future battles.
Finally, the No. 1 Governor stated that he hopes all races will do their utmost to cooperate with the Lunar Eclipse race in deploying for war.
If an emergency arises, all races will be required to send their war reserve resources to the Lunar Eclipse race, which will lead the races in launching a counterattack.
This statement undoubtedly informed all Earth races that in terms of resource utilization efficiency, the Lunar Eclipse race holds an absolute lead.
If the war is at a disadvantage, rather than letting resources remain in each race’s own hands, it is better to send them to the Lunar Eclipse race to build more advanced weapons and equipment.
None of the races spoke.
Because everything the No. 1 Governor of the Lunar Eclipse race said was true.
After the meeting ended, the projections of the races’ governors dissipated, and they began intensive war deployments in their respective cities.
But just 3 hours later, the spatial fissure fluctuated violently again. A new round of probing attacks arrived suddenly.
This time, the descending power clearly escalated.
Three floating behemoths slowly emerged from the spatial fissure. Behind them followed a type of biological weapon that had not appeared before.
Its form resembled an enlarged jellyfish, also capable of anti-gravity flight, with a volume roughly half that of a floating behemoth.
After passing through the spatial fissure, the floating jellyfish’s translucent body refracted iridescent colors under the sunlight, and its tendrils danced in the air like streamers.
The new biological weapon’s mode of action was completely different from the floating behemoth’s.
After the counterattack quickly began, these floating jellyfish did not directly participate in attacks but cruised above the battlefield.
Their tendrils continuously released fluorescent spores that rapidly spread through the air, forming an energy interference field that caused severe instability in the Lunar Eclipse race’s communications systems and energy barriers.
Inside the command center of the Lunar Eclipse race, images on some holographic projection screens began to distort, and the communications channels were filled with harsh static.
Portions of real-time data feedback were also interrupted.
In the sky over the battlefield, the energy barriers released by combat robots began to flicker erratically.
The originally stable energy fields quickly collapsed under interference from the spores released by the floating jellyfish.
All of this was caused by unstable communications links.
Under the interference, it was difficult for the Lunar Eclipse race’s governors to effectively control this area.
At this time, because aerial combat units’ navigation systems were affected, drone swarms flew chaotically and even collided, turning into balls of fire that fell into the sea.
This once again raised the Lunar Eclipse race’s risk assessment of the potential invading force.
Intelligence gathering, signal interference… this proves that their preliminary probing has been effective. They already understand that some of the weapons used by the Lunar Eclipse race are controlled via signals.
And they possess the technical means to respond.
This is clearly experience accumulated through actual combat.
Facing this new type of bio-weapon carrying out an information-gathering operation, the Lunar Eclipse race quickly adjusted tactics.
The No. 3 Governor originally intended to enable the backup communications protocol and use low-frequency pulse signals.
Although transmission speed is slower, it can effectively resist energy interference.
However, the No. 1 Commander stopped it on the spot and issued an order to establish node signals, directly entering level 2 war mode.