225: Chapter 225 We Must Surrender

Chen Ming was very excited right now...

He felt as if two beautiful female robots were waving at him ahead.

The good life was still ahead of him.

Who would have thought that a year ago he was still hauling bricks at a construction site, and a year later, he was piloting a mecha to an alien planet to start purging aliens!

Chen Ming piloted his mecha and crashed straight inside...

At that moment, countless bullets came flying towards him!

Chen Ming looked at the barrage of bullets and cursed under his breath. If these were Antimatter bullets, not even a speck of him would be left.

He hurriedly retreated to dodge...

But dense clusters of bullets still pelted the mecha's carapace.

Boom, boom...

Chen Ming was blasted into a state of regret, yet he was inwardly happy. These weren't Antimatter bullets; with such a small volume, even if they were nuclear bombs, it was no big deal...

It was nothing more than getting a few injuries. Compared to being reduced to nothing, although it hurt now, Chen Ming grew more and more excited.

Although he didn't know what kind of weapons the enemy was using...

But he was no longer afraid.

Because he heard sounds coming from behind him; those were his comrades-in-arms, his companions.

More and more mechas were charging inside through this opening...

No one knew what the situation was inside...

Chen Ming's mecha was damaged, and he fell behind. He wanted to get up, but the mecha was performing a self-diagnostic and undergoing repairs, so he needed some time...

Chen Ming was anxious. Although he was the one who found the entrance, if he didn't go in now, he feared that by the time he did, there wouldn't even be scraps left. Could anyone ever have too much military merit?

Especially military merit for exterminating aliens; in the future, when he had children, he could say he was a hero who helped wipe out the aliens...

"Hurry up..."

"This piece of junk mecha, why run a self-diagnostic now! Just charge in first!"

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Ming heard a beep...

The mecha was ready.

He stood up and was just about to charge inside.

Suddenly, the space before his eyes seemed to warp.

Various high-energy rays surged toward him, and the rock walls of the crater, hundreds of meters thick, began to deform like dough!

Chen Ming was stunned!

He immediately began to evacuate. The coating on the mecha's surface blocked the majority of the high-energy rays for him. When he flew to a high altitude, he saw that more than half of Mercury's North Pole had collapsed...

Obviously, those Mercurians had pulled a major move and trapped his comrades.

He was outside, so it wasn't a big problem for him, but those in the core area had likely been turned into molten iron!

Chen Ming's eyes began to turn red...

In the First Battalion, he was the only one who hadn't gone in.

The other brothers had only gone in because he shouted.

But now he was out, while his other comrades hadn't emerged.

"I'll f*ck your grandmother, I'm going to f*cking kill you all..."

Chen Ming's mecha lunged downward...

Just then, a voice came over the communication channel.

"New Mecha First Battalion, No. 0025 Chen Ming, please return immediately!"

"Why?"

"We are about to launch an all-out offensive!"

Chen Ming looked up and saw thousands of warships standing ready above him...

...

After withdrawing the surviving mechas, Gao Yuan ordered the fleet to destroy this place.

Gao Yuan looked frustrated. He had been an idiot—why bother looking for a base? As long as he determined they were down there, a single volley of nuclear missiles would have finished it... if not, then another volley of Antimatter.

Even Mercury would shake, let alone a small Underground City.

Now, so many soldiers and mechas had been lost for nothing!

Learn from one's mistakes...

In the future, he must never do this again when encountering such a situation.

When you have the advantage, blast them! When you don't, use guerrilla tactics... In short, one principle: resources mean nothing; if the people are dead, everything is lost!

To prevent any remaining Mercurians from hiding, Gao Yuan did nothing else but stay in the Mercury sector for half a month. Whenever he felt like it, he would go and bomb them. Resources were obtained directly from Mercury—taken from Mercury and used on Mercury, no waste at all!

Half a month later, the surface of Mercury was unrecognizable. Tens of thousands of warships had bombed it continuously for half a month, with nuclear bombs being the minimum yield. If anyone could still survive under these circumstances, Gao Yuan would have nothing left to say!

Now, only Venus was left...

When Gao Yuan arrived at the Venus sector...

...he saw a fleet stationed on the outskirts of Mercury from afar.

Mercury was probably the luckiest planet in the Solar System. When the Moon struck Jupiter and the jupiter wind ravaged the Solar System, even Saturn and Neptune were affected.

Yet Venus, this inner planet, was very little affected.

While the jupiter wind raged, Venus happened to have orbited behind the Sun, which shielded it from the winds...

Therefore, Venus suffered almost no damage...

Gao Yuan thought he was about to face a tough battle and was already preparing his formations.

Just then, a tiny warship from the opposite side flew toward them all alone.

Someone requested to open fire.

Gao Yuan did not agree; he wanted to see what the Venusians intended to do.

When the small warship was five thousand kilometers away from the Human Fleet, it stopped. Two people emerged from it, flying toward them with jetpacks.

"What are these Venusians doing?"

"What do they look like? They look so small!"

"What are they here for?"

Gao Yuan also wanted to see what the life forms born on Venus—the planet in the Solar System most similar to Earth—actually wanted to do.

Venus is the closest to Earth in terms of both mass and volume, but its environment is incomparable to Earth's.

Venus is covered by a thick atmosphere, but 96% of it is carbon dioxide, with extremely low oxygen content! The atmospheric pressure on the surface of Venus is 92 times that of Earth!

Without protection, a human would be crushed into a meat patty by the atmospheric pressure on the surface of Venus.

Moreover, the surface temperature of Venus is comparable to Mercury's; temperatures are extremely high during both day and night. It is covered in volcanoes and has very little water. Gao Yuan couldn't help but marvel that a civilization could exist in such a harsh environment.

Soon, the two Venusians flew to the front of the Human Fleet. After being disarmed, they were brought to see Gao Yuan...

To be on the safe side...

Mo Yun had Gao Yuan's stand-in robot meet the two Venusians while he watched from behind the scenes.

Through the robot's perspective, Gao Yuan finally saw the Venusians.

They were very short, about sixty centimeters tall, with somewhat flat heads and thin bodies! They looked like malnourished big-headed dolls!

Wearing protective suits, they met Gao Yuan.

They began to speak...

Gibberish.

Gao Yuan couldn't understand them, so the Universal Translator was brought into play.

Finally, they could communicate normally.

"Under the Fire King of the Second Planet, General Dragon King greets Your Excellency, the Commander of the Third Planet's Fleet!"

Hearing these words, Gao Yuan felt a sense of cognitive dissonance.

These two in front of him were actually generals? And Venus had a king? What era were they in? They had even joined forces with Mercury to launch a sneak attack on Earth before...

"You've come to see me. What do you want?"

"We want to surrender!"

Surrender?