The time was still a month before the great battle.
At that moment, Chai Shao was engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy forces while piloting a spore-class spacecraft, when unexpectedly, a plasma cannon hit the ship's left wing.
The spacecraft then suffered a series of explosions.
Fortunately, the control room of the spore-class spacecraft was located in the lower-middle section of the entire vessel, and it was positioned towards the right side.
Similar to the scenario Bai YuZhi had deduced, the remaining wreckage of the spacecraft was flung towards the outside of the battlefield by the impact force of the explosion.
There was an interval of time between the explosion of Chai Shao's spacecraft and the self-destruction of that Emperor-class spaceship.
During this period, Chai Shao was trapped in the control room, watching helplessly as he drifted further and further away from the fleet.
He kept shouting, but the ship's communication and positioning systems had been affected by the explosion.
Moreover, upon detecting the explosion, the ship's internal intelligent system had sealed off various compartments as a priority measure, after which the intelligent system "shamelessly" went offline...........
Well, it crashed!
Under these circumstances, even his desire to put on a spacesuit and escape the ship became a luxury.
The impact force of the explosion was tremendous, and the wreckage of the spacecraft was drifting into deep space at speeds tens of times the speed of sound.
Chai Shao was in despair. He had considered the possibility of dying in the great battle, but he never imagined it would end like this.
Drifting into deep space, he couldn't even return to his ancestral grave.........
But something even more despairing was yet to come. Just as he had been drifting smoothly for a long distance, to the point where Earth had disappeared from his sight, a huge piece of wreckage caught up from behind!
"Boom!"
This impact made his already slim chances of survival even more remote.
The original wreckage of the spacecraft underwent a second dismemberment, leaving only the control room and two other compartments, drifting alone into deep space at an even faster speed.
He didn't know how long he drifted, but just as the remaining oxygen in the cabin was about to be depleted, he suddenly saw a planet appearing directly in front of him. It was a planet where no other color could be seen except for a dusty yellow.
Chai Shao, in his despair, saw a glimmer of hope, hoping that this planet could allow him to survive, at least until his rescue team appeared.
In the control room of the spore-class spacecraft, there were two micro escape pods. He put on his spacesuit, got into an escape pod, and quietly waited for the wreckage of the spacecraft to fall.
This planet was Mars!
Soon, the wreckage of the spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere.
The high-speed descent and the friction between the spacecraft wreckage and the Martian atmosphere quickly tore apart the remaining wreckage, turning it into balls of raging fire.
(Mars has an atmosphere, and it contains oxygen, although the content is not high.)
The two micro escape pods, passing through the shattered wreckage, descended towards the Martian surface.
Fortunately, the escape pods were not damaged. When they descended to an altitude of about 2000 meters, the thrusters automatically ignited, and Chai Shao landed safely.
The moment he stepped out of the escape pod, he truly felt a sense of surviving a disaster.
However, this feeling did not last long.
The next second, a group of people surrounded him!
These people were also not indigenous to Mars!
They were the extraterrestrials from the first invasion of Earth, the few remaining ones who had been driven away by Fang Er!
Thus, Chai Shao, who had been filled with joy one moment, became dejected the next, like a frost-bitten eggplant.
It wasn't that he was a coward, but he simply couldn't win.......
Damn it, these people had no sense of martial ethics; they immediately went for a chokehold, eye-gouging, and groin-kicking.......
In the blink of an eye, he was carried away on someone's shoulder.
The base in this area was also built by these extraterrestrials. It was very rudimentary, with only a simple oxygen production device and a small amount of food.
There was a language barrier. He couldn't understand what they were saying, and they couldn't understand what he was saying.
As a result, he was held in long-term confinement in the base.
Occasionally, he would see them talking to a strange box, and similar voices would come from the box.
It seemed to be a communication device.
And at this moment, the communicator rang again.
Chai Shao couldn't understand, but seeing that the alien holding the fork temporarily let him go, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The alien chattered something into the communicator, and Chai Shao could clearly see a slight change in his expression.
That seemed to be...
Joy?
"Boom............."
Suddenly, a crashing sound came from outside the base, as if something heavy had fallen from the sky.
Then, the sound of many footsteps quickly approached from outside.
Chai Shao's heart sank to the bottom.
Damn it!
He could guess with his toes that it must be reinforcements for these scoundrels!
His guess was correct. Three dreadnought-class battleships were docked outside the base, along with a dense formation of warrior-class spacecraft.
The entire base was completely surrounded.
One of the dreadnought-class battleships opened its hangar bay, and a large number of extraterrestrials emerged.
These people had the same appearance and wore the same clothing as the extraterrestrials who had captured Chai Shao.
In terms of appearance, they were not much different from humans.
Standing nearly two meters tall, with no hair visible on their bodies, they were completely shrouded in long black robes, revealing only their terrifyingly pale faces.
Moreover, in this place called Mars, they weren't even wearing spacesuits as they walked through the gravel-strewn valley.
For now, let's call these people the Black Robed figures.
Most of the Black Robed figures remained outside the base, while a small portion entered.
As Chai Shao watched them enter, the last shred of hope in his heart vanished.
He looked up at the ceiling with a dejected expression.
It seemed he had no hope of returning to the Great Tang in this lifetime. If his wife knew he had died, how heartbroken would she be.........
And that brat An Zhi, he must be very worried, right?
And my great-grandson, born to be extraordinary........
Suddenly, a person in black took out two circular disks and placed them on his temples. Then, another person spoke.
"Tell me, who holds the spatial technology!"
Chai Shao: ??????
Damn it!
Why could I suddenly understand him?