Chapter 1 Training

After this period of training, Qin Yi was already adept at commanding.

He skillfully used the console to send instructions to various units, communicated current battlefield information with Aeeis, and based on the data provided by Aeeis and his previous command habits, directed the entire human force to act according to his plan.

In the deep space, the human fleet and the Zerg swarm collided densely like fallen leaves in a storm. The planet's surface was swept over and over by the heavy weapons of the spacecraft, but the Zerg would always re-emerge from underground. The main human forces and the special forces performing missions launched offensives from different directions toward the Zerg mother nest, striving to locate the Zerg Queen.

Suddenly, red warnings began to flash throughout the space, and Aeeis's voice seemed to become serious: "Commander, a large number of Zerg are moving towards the command ship."

Qin Yi quickly dragged the perspective on the console and soon saw the swarm of Zerg in the pitch-black starry sky.

This scene felt somewhat familiar.

Qin Yi had made the same choice as the previous commander in a simulated battle, and now it was just the same situation replaying itself.

The war mode between humans and the Zerg was highly similar. Humans needed to rely on ansible communication and Aeeis to ensure that the Supreme Commander's instructions could reach every unit as quickly as possible, completing the fastest and most efficient command. The Zerg, on the other hand, had a hive mind, and the Zerg Queen could directly command any Zerg through telepathy, which was a similar principle to ansible communication.

The scale of the battlefield was too large, the information too much, and the changes too rapid, so traditional human command methods were no longer suitable for war with the Zerg. The command method of one commander directing, artificial intelligence breaking down instructions and directly transmitting them to the grassroots units, and real-time ansible communication became inevitable.

In this situation, for both the Zerg and humans, assassinating each other's commander was an inevitable and optimal choice.

A successful Zerg assassination of the human commander meant that before humans could cultivate a new commander, all commands would be taken over by Aeeis, with no possibility of winning by surprise or developing better tactics. A successful human assassination of the Zerg Queen, on the other hand, could buy some breathing room and eliminate a large number of Zerg forces on a large scale.

So, for Qin Yi, he knew what choice he should make now.

Quickly turning his view, he issued instructions to each unit.

The frontal troops accelerated their offensive, rushing to the top of the new Zerg nest; the fleet on the back of the planet held back the remaining Zerg swarm; after consuming most of their weapons, the escort ships rushed into the Zerg swarm and self-destructed to delay them…

In the snowstorm of information, Qin Yi saw many reinforcement requests from other squads. He did not recognize these people, and had never even heard of the unit numbers.

He could only see that in the dark starry sky, on the surface of the planet and the Zerg nests, countless units were flashing reinforcement requests, reporting the situation on the battlefield, like countless stars twinkling in the sky.

This battle was different from the previous simulated scenarios, but it gave him a sense of déjà vu.

Qin Yi didn't know if this operation would succeed. He was just following his previous training and making what he thought was the most correct choice.

"After I die, will my soul find peace in this starry sky?"

No one answered, only Aeeis's cold voice rang out: "Warning! The command ship is under serious threat. Once the command ship is destroyed, all units will be taken over by Aeeis. Please make corresponding deployments, Commander!"

This time, without Aeeis reminding him, Qin Yi had already made the corresponding arrangements.

He zoomed in, watching the escort ships crash one after another into the densest parts of the Zerg sea, watching the brilliant fireworks light up and go out in the dark night sky, knowing that he would soon become the most brilliant of those fireworks.

"Aeeis, will I be the last commander?"

To Qin Yi's surprise, Aeeis did not answer.

After the remaining few escort ships approached the command ship, Qin Yi pressed the final detonation button, and then closed his eyes with relief.

Strangely, at this moment he didn't feel much, even though it was the last moment of his life.

It was as if he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

He had no way of knowing what would happen next.

Perhaps this decapitation operation would be more successful than the last, the Zerg's vital forces would be severely damaged, and humanity would usher in a crushing victory; perhaps this decapitation operation was just like the last one, giving humanity a brief respite, and another soldier would become the new commander to take over Qin Yi's command and continue this cycle; perhaps the war would ultimately fail, and humanity would perish…

But Qin Yi would not know any of this. He could only do his best and gamble his life to strive for the greatest possibility of victory.

A flash of bright light, the space where Qin Yi was located instantly turned snow-white, followed by endless darkness.

Qin Yi had originally closed his eyes and waited to die, but after two seconds of coldness, he suddenly realized that he was still alive.

In the pitch black, he felt that his consciousness still existed.

Suddenly, the surrounding light lit up again, and the swarm of Zerg and the human fleet disappeared, returning to the quiet starry sky before the war.

Aeeis's voice rang out: "I regret to inform you, Commander, that the final trial mission has failed."

"From an optimistic perspective, everything that happened before was fake, and no one died."

"From a pessimistic perspective, after deduction, the probability of the final battle between humans and the Zerg is zero."

"Even in the best-case scenario, it is only the Commander and the Zerg Queen dying together, and a new commander is selected to prepare for the next final battle."

"But the following battles will only become more and more difficult, because of the existence of the hive mind, the Zerg Queen's wisdom will continue to improve, and the Zerg's ability to replenish troops is also higher than that of humans."

"If a decisive victory cannot be achieved this time, humans are likely to be completely wiped out in a long war of attrition with the Zerg."

Qin Yi's eyes were blank, and he didn't know how to react for a moment.

He had originally prepared himself for a heroic death. For him, he had done his best and made what he thought was the most correct choice based on the battlefield data given by Aeeis.

No matter what the outcome was, since he was already dead, he didn't need to take responsibility anymore.

He could finally get rid of this heavy mission.

But now, Aeeis was telling him that all of this was fake, you didn't die, and this war didn't really happen!

This also meant that Qin Yi was still the commander, and he still had to bear the responsibility for the failure of this war.

Qin Yi was silent for a moment, and said, "What is the situation after this war?"

The surrounding war images reappeared, showing the war scene after Qin Yi's "death."

The plan he left behind before his "death" did not work. The frontal troops failed to reach the planned location in the face of the huge Zerg sea. The fleet held back the Zerg swarm, but the squads performing the decapitation operation were all wiped out deep in the new Zerg nest, with no survivors…

In the end, the remaining human fleet had to retreat in a hurry, returning to the vast starry sky, while the human bases and human troops on the planet were completely wiped out. The Zerg would use this planet as their base to launch a general attack on humans…

After the failure of this battle, the hope of humans defeating the Zerg would be completely extinguished. This is also why Aeeis said that after deduction, the probability of the final battle between humans and the Zerg was zero.

Qin Yi closed his eyes tightly and took a deep breath.

After a long time, he said, "Start over."

The surrounding images began to retreat rapidly, and the scenes of past battles were replayed in front of Qin Yi in reverse.

He began to re-examine every decision he made, and the surrounding scenes were constantly zoomed in, paused, reversed, and slowed down…

But no matter how he racked his brains to analyze and change his strategy, he could not change the fact that the final battle ended in a complete defeat.

Qin Yi was on the verge of collapse. The dark circles under his eyes were getting heavier and heavier, his spirit was getting worse and worse, and he was relying on his faith to hold on, but no matter what tactics he adopted, the final result was a destined failure.

For him, the scariest thing was not death, but that he was shouldering the fate of all mankind, and that fate was destruction.

He didn't know when this day would come, and he didn't know whether what he was insisting on was meaningful. This feeling was like suffering a torture that would never see the future. Even a warrior like Qin Yi, who was used to life and death, could not bear this huge pressure and despair…

…

Lu Zhiyao finished reading the next section of the script and felt the pressure was on again.

The previous section of the script was already full of twists and turns, and Qin Yi's emotions had several obvious fluctuations. In order to perform these emotional differences, Lu Zhiyao had been trying to figure it out every day, and he had finally figured it out almost completely.

Lu Zhiyao originally thought that the next plot would probably be the final battle, Qin Yi sacrificing himself and defeating the Zerg, and then a few sentimental scenes to commemorate the fallen soldiers, and then the movie would end perfectly.

But he didn't expect that all his previous efforts were useless. The final result deduced by Aeeis was a zero probability of winning. No matter how Qin Yi tried, no matter how smoothly the previous battles were fought, according to the current way of fighting, there would only be one result in the final battle: failure.

And in this section of the plot, Qin Yi's emotions also have many changes, and they are different from the previous emotions.

When he learned that the final battle was coming, Qin Yi's reaction was very calm because he had made sufficient psychological preparations. But after learning that he was not dead and that this was just an instant calculation by the intelligent system, Qin Yi did not feel much relief from surviving a disaster. Instead, he felt a little lost because he originally thought that his mission had been completed, but now he found that all of this had not even begun.

And after constantly reviewing and trying, Qin Yi found that he could not win no matter how he tried. He had to bear the fate of mankind's impending destruction alone. Even a warrior like Qin Yi, who had a very strong mental quality, was suppressed to the brink of collapse.

Lu Zhiyao felt that this time, Qin Yi's emotional changes were still a great test of his acting skills. He was afraid that he would have to fight the fully automatic bickering machine for three hundred rounds after returning.