126: Chapter 126 First Front

Mu Xue did not tell you either; your relationship with her is merely that you come from the same planet.

She is now the faith of this entire fleet. You do not know how she views you now, nor are you clear on how you view her in your heart.

However, up until now, you have only seen her once, when you delivered the secret order.

You do not understand the specific situation of Fleet 25220, but without the Human Federation's supply line support, the resources consumed by such a massive fleet every day are an astronomical figure.

The people in the fleet are very respectful toward you.

They do not know if you came because of the Human Federation's death order, for so-called honor, or for something else.

The only thing they are clear about is that you saved them, risking great peril to give them hope for survival now.

The second time you saw Mu Xue was six days ago.

She still had a lollipop in her mouth.

You watched her from afar; she seemed to be conversing with several officers beside her.

While talking, she took the lollipop out of her mouth.

You had always assumed she was holding a lollipop in her mouth.

It was not until she took the candy stick down that you saw it was just a white candy stick that had already been finished, which she had been keeping in her mouth all along.

You do not know how long this candy stick had been in her mouth, but it must have been a long time.

Fleet 25220's escape happened a month later; you broke through the main front-line war zone and arrived at a Spirit Tree Race planet, though that planet was actually secretly controlled by the Human Federation.

This planet was a hidden piece the Human Federation had buried within the Spirit Tree Race, but it was utilized for Fleet 25220.

Here lies the Human Federation's Ten-Galaxy Transport Portal, which connects to coordinates in subspace.

The main purpose of this star was to serve the Human Federation's Third Front, the subspace station line.

The original intention was that after the Human Federation army advanced to this point, they would use this portal to catch the opponent off guard.

However, the advance of the Second Front was slow, so this plan was shelved, but no one expected that today, this portal would be activated in such a way.

Because the Second Front had not advanced to this point, and this place belonged to the territory of the Spirit Tree Race, this meant that this planet could only be used once.

The portal cannot transport many people at one time, only half of the fleet, which means that half of the people have to stay here.

To put it more clearly, only half of the fleet can survive.

Mu Xue's gaze was cold, and she still held that lollipop in her mouth—no, that was just an ordinary candy stick.

Her voice was cold and detached, without a shred of emotion, like a judge calling out names, except she was calling out ships.

In the end, the entire fleet was divided into two parts; this list must have been arranged by Mu Xue after she received the secret order.

"You will die here, but you will not be forgotten. Eventually, one day, I will return here, and then I will come to take you home." Mu Xue took the candy stick out of her mouth and said to the officers who were left behind.

The portal opened.

Naturally, Mu Xue and the others would not leave you here.

Honestly, you did not participate in the battle; you remained in a small room inside the warship the whole time.

They did not restrict your freedom, but they also did not want you to participate in the battle; perhaps they were afraid you would die, maybe.

After Fleet 25220 entered subspace, it would appear directly behind the Spirit Tree Race warships, forming a pincer attack with the Human Federation's warships.

You experienced a head-on war, which ultimately ended in the Human Federation's victory.

Returning to the Human Federation.

You were awarded the Human Federation Starry Sky Cross Medal, which is the second-highest honor of the Human Federation.

You do not know what rewards Mu Xue received, and you have not seen her since returning.

It is wartime now, so the Human Federation naturally would not give you special treatment just because you received the Cross Medal; soon, you were dispatched to the front line again.

This time, it was the First Front.

This place is different from the Second Front; vast swathes of the starry sky are connected by various orbits, and there are no cosmic disasters like black holes, so warships can be said to be unimpeded in this starry sky.

This also means that most of the wars that happen here are head-on conflicts.

The opponent is the Fluorescent Race, a race that is very similar to humans, but their entire bodies emit various kinds of white fluorescence.

Even their warships are like this, giant lightbulbs in this starry sky; wherever they go, it is like countless white points of light moving rapidly.

They have no intention of hiding themselves at all, but there is no need to hide in this starry sky of the First Front either.

The Human Federation's fleet quickly pushed into the Fluorescent Race's territory here, but was quickly pushed back.

Immediately after, the Human Federation pushed forward again, and then the Fluorescent Race pushed back; it continued in this cycle.

Speaking of it might just be two light sentences, but every advance was accompanied by shattering stars and annihilating suns; the entire starry sky was filled with the wreckage of warships from both sides.

The white blood of the Fluorescent Race and the bright red blood of humans mingled in this starry sky, forming a milky white river.

You are lucky; you participated in three battles over several decades, and you successfully survived them all.

You were awarded the Human Federation's highest honor, the Starry Sky Ink Emperor Medal.

However, an accident happened soon after; an officer named Li Xian was airdropped to the front line that time.

You heard others say that he is a confidant of the Human Emperor, and that the Human Emperor only entrusted this advancement mission to him because he trusted him.

Then, the warship you were on fell into a trap set by the Fluorescent Race.

A space collapse bomb was detonated by someone in the very center of the fleet.

You do not know what happened; you only felt your brain sink, subconsciously mobilizing your Spiritual Qi to defend, but your whole body was still pulled in by the collapse.